[Ding, reward settlement completed. The host can choose five of the following rewards.]
[Purple Talent: Five Elemental Spirit Body.]
[Purple Talent: Alchemy Prodigy.]
[Cultivation: Peak of Nascent-Soul {Supreme Foundation with Five Elemental Energy.}]
[Experience: Marrow-Cleansing {Five Elemental Dragon Spirit Body (Purple): Locked}, Combat exp, Muscle memory, Technique proficiency {Great Burning Heaven Technique (Crimson Dragon Flame), Five Elements Sutra (Origin: Limit), Myriad Poison Arts (2000+ poisons consumed), Blood-Devouring Demonic Technique (consumed many beasts' blood within your own body), etc.} Practicing experience {mastered many 8th grade recipes, Flame Law Level 5, Flame Sword Law Level 5, Law of Five Elements (Gold, Fire, Water, Wood, and Earth), Spear Intent Level 9, etc.}]
[Resources: 280.7 million Spirit Stones, Five Elemental Robe, Bloodline Heart Bead, The Ring of Wealth, Heavenly Tribulation Pagoda, System Origin, many other cultivation resources, etc.]
[Detailed memory of everything you saw.]
Just when Lin Chen's eyes were wandering over the reward list, subconsciously his mind stopped at the Five Elemental Dragon Spirit Body, which was still a Purple talent. This surprised him a bit, and he asked the system, "System, why is it still a Purple talent?"
[Ding, Host, there are three tiers in which the same level of talent is divided. First, Low-tier. Second, Mid-tier. And third, Top-tier. The Five Elemental Dragon Spirit Body is a Top-tier talent within the Purple grade.]
After listening to the system's explanation, Lin Chen understood the reason, but another question appeared in his mind that he directly asked: "System, will the side effect of the physique remain?"
[No, Host.] the System replied.
After getting the response, his thoughts began to linger on other rewards, and he thought of the limit of the Proficiency Panel toward the Five Elements Sutra.
About it, he asked the system, "System, why is Origin the limit of a Cultivation Technique on the Proficiency Panel?"
After asking the question, he didn't have to wait long and got the response in no time.
[Host, you answered it yourself. Because it is a Cultivation Technique, there is a limit for it after reaching the Origin Stage. And it isn't like the normal spells or methods that can be upgraded and become magical powers.]
(Note: Magical powers are like the innate abilities of beasts, and you have various ways to get them, like inheritance, chosen successor, etc.)
When Lin Chen got the answer, he felt relieved.
And about the many beast blood he had gathered within his own body using the Blood-Devouring Demonic Technique—their purity was too low to be mentioned. In this simulation, he also learned that if he wanted to increase the purity of other devoured bloods, he had to practice the Blood-Devouring Demonic Technique on them from the starting point, and the current proficiency wouldn't be of any use.
In this simulation, he also discovered that the Proficiency Panel cultivated an alchemy method individually and only showed proficiency related to the recipes practiced.
And about the Bloodline Heart Bead, he knew that it could only be introduced by the system after he chose the rewards.
This time, just like in the previous simulations, he chose the Talent, Experience, and Resources as rewards. With the last option that remained, he chose Cultivation, and within the cultivation choice feature, he chose the extreme of Qi-refining realm as his cultivation level.
Just as he chose the rewards, various insights related to the Five Elemental Law, Alchemy, Flame Sword Law, Spear, and Five Elements Sutra began to take place in his mind. Along with them appeared a Crimson Flame in his body that took place in a corner and was watching the fight between Extreme Yang True Flame and Nine Netherworld Mysterious Flame.
He directly ignored all this and asked the system to introduce the features of the Bloodline Heart Bead, which he was most excited about.
[Bloodline Heart Bead: A treasure that allows its host to possess the entire sum of talent, aptitude, proficiency, cultivation, luck, soul strength, physical qualities, and special physiques of every member of his own clan.
It even allows the host to forcefully condense the Supreme Foundation without the corresponding resources.]
"And here I thought it was all because of being late that I wasn't able to get the benefits, and I had already decided to collect it earlier than him in this simulation. But if this was the case, there is no need to do it." Lin Chen sighed with emotion.
The Bloodline Heart Bead not working on him clearly indicated one thing—that he was the one and only, the sole survivor of the Lin family. But that was all.
And he wasn't excited to spread his clan at all, at least not for the next simulation.
After all, if he wanted to use the Bloodline Heart Bead, he had to make a harem and have many children, which he didn't want to do in the next simulation. He just wanted to increase his proficiency as much as possible.
And within the next simulation, he—hehe.
[Host, do you also want the introduction of the Ring of Wealth?]
[Reminder: its features aren't as you thought.]
At this moment, the system voice sounded and pulled him out of his own thoughts, and he quickly responded: "Oh, then what are the actual features? Introduce it." Lin Chen said.
[Ring of Wealth: After being activated, it will generate one Spirit Stone for a thousand years, and from then on, it will generate one low-grade spirit stone every hour for the next ten thousand years. Just like this, its efficiency will decrease and decrease until it becomes useless.]
[Reminder: The thousand years' period will remain for the next 920 years.]
When Lin Chen learned the feature, he was disappointed, but everything has a source, so he didn't question it. Lin Chen opened the Storage Space.
When Lin Chen saw the system origin within the Storage Space, a question appeared in his mind and he asked the system, "System, can you tell me what kind of System he possessed?"
Even though he knew what kind of system it might be, confirming it would be better.
[Ding, Host, Su Ming had the system named Target Bound System, from which he could get 10× of the bound target, be it cultivation, technique, adventures, items, etc.]
"So, he also got the Bloodline Heart Bead and already knew of its features, and this is the reason why he chose to marry." Lin Chen speculated.
"But, System, why didn't he know about the Sword Law, even though I merged it with the Flame Law?" Lin Chen asked the question he didn't understand.
[Because he will only gain something if you put any effort into it. Take an example of Flame Sword Law, in which comprehension you didn't put any effort and it was directly merged with Flame Law. Because of this, he didn't know that you had even comprehended the Sword Law.]
[And when you were consuming the Healing Pill after his death and he also began to heal—but when you were healed by Jiang Qingyu, it was as if you didn't put any effort into it, so he died silently.]
"System, can you answer me why he wanted to kill me?" Lin Chen asked the question that troubled him the most, thinking, Is the Time Travel Alliance trying to assassinate me because I killed Mo Tianxuan?
[Because his system gave him a task—that before the contract with the current target ended, he had to kill the current contractor and would get 100× of the next bound target.] the system replied.
"Justified." After getting a genuine reason, Lin Chen gave a slight remark, thinking; maybe if he was on Su Ming's place, he would also do this.
At the moment, even though he looked calm on the outside but there was a storm brewing inside him and he was questioning himself. 'Why is my luck in finding brothers so bad?'
"System, let's start another simulation." After getting all the answers to his questions, Lin Chen started another simulation.
[1 Spirit Stone consumed. The value of remaining currencies: 28 billion Spirit Stones.]
[Ding, Simulation start. Talents are being drawn...]
[...In the 168th year of simulation, just when you were silently cultivating, a figure appeared outside your secluded cave. His clothes were disheveled, his injuries so serious that it looked as if he would die the next second.]
[When he saw you, he directly attacked you and injured you severely. Just from his one attack, your situation became much worse than his.]
[But it wasn't enough. Just at the moment you were severely injured, the unknown soul that you had appeared in your body attacked you, wanting to capture your body, and you slowly began to lose your ground.]
[Just when you were about to lose your consciousness totally, you heard a voice, and with it, a figure appeared behind the person who had just attacked you and killed him with a sword strike.]
[After killing him, he looked at you, whose consciousness was slowly disappearing, while saying, "Oh-ho, I seem to be a little late at the scene, sorry." At that moment, even though he apologized to you, from his voice you didn't think he felt guilty at all.]
[But you couldn't do anything.]
[And just before your consciousness was totally wiped out, it was replaced by the soul residing within your body. But it wasn't without any benefits, and because of soul merging, you got his special technique at the last minute before your consciousness was wiped out.]
[Because of your death, this simulation ends.]
———
Within the simulation, after Lin Chen's death.
"Hahahah, I finally won against him." The soul that had successfully captured Lin Chen's body was laughing madly, and from his actions it seemed he didn't know anything about his own surroundings.
Just when he was laughing in joy, he suddenly felt a sword intent from behind, which was very familiar to him.
Just when he felt that sword intent, his scalp began to tingle and he said in a voice filled with fear, "Tian Jian Imm...ort—." Just before he could finish his words, that figure directly cut his throat, annihilated his thoughts, and wiped out his consciousness. And all this happened within just one sword.
"You talk too much." These were the last words emitted by that figure before leaving this place.