The Qiao Empire is a place where cultivation separates the remarkable from the forgotten.
It's where a bigger fist is the law, and falling behind means staying behind, forever.
Du Yuan is behind. On paper.
Bamboo spends years underground before it rises faster than anything else in the forest.
Du Yuan is a reincarnator. Earth's knowledge has quietly been turned into leverage.
He has a seat to take over, a clan to expand. A future already meticulously mapped.
Then the Simulator arrived.
It made him question the understanding of the world, that took over 16 years to build.
It grants cheats and golden fingers from who knows where.
It runs possibilities he has lived yet hasn't lived and hands him power drawn from their outcomes. It speaks of other versions of him as casually as one speaks of the weather.
He has survived a reincarnation on skepticism and patience. He doesn't plan to change any time soon.
Nonetheless, His original plans need some serious modifications.
The roots, however, aren't going anywhere.
