GA: Chapter 173 – A Simulator? An Existence Different from a Transmigrator
Ordinary Group Owner: "So he learned the Minor Formless Skill before coming down the mountain?"
Ordinary Group Owner: "Huashan shouldn't have any connection to the Carefree Sect…"
Child of Nature: "Since you know to ask that—why not just ask the chat group?"
Child of Nature: "I was genuinely only curious why Dongfang knew the ability Linghu Chong was mimicking came from an inner method specifically."
Child of Nature: "What are you waiting for?"
Ordinary Group Owner: "I…"
Su Yunqing was briefly at a loss. She couldn't exactly admit she had forgotten.
"Chat group—tell me whether the Linghu Chong in Dongfang Bai's world is a transmigrator."
"Give me a definitive answer!"
Su Yunqing said it fiercely, eyes full of anticipation and barely contained hope.
If he really was a transmigrator, that would be wonderful. A wuxia world like Smiling Proud Wanderer—her current strength could hold its own there. The Angel Fruit had been developed reasonably well. Dealing with a martial arts master shouldn't be a problem.
After all, Smiling Proud Wanderer wasn't a high-martial world like Storm Riders or the Qin's Moon.
"Ding—detecting Group Owner inquiry. Conducting scan of the Smiling Proud Wanderer world where group member Dongfang Bubai resides."
"Ding—scan complete. No transmigrators are present in this world."
The chat group's voice rang in Su Yunqing's ears—and left her staring at nothing with a massive question mark on her face.
???
What?
No transmigrator?
Linghu Chong was this blatantly overpowered and he wasn't a transmigrator?
It couldn't actually be that Smiling Proud Wanderer fan fiction re-write she'd speculated about, could it?
"Ding—Linghu Chong is a Simulator from an unknown simulation world. He is not a transmigrator."
A Simulator?
Su Yunqing stared blankly. What on earth was a Simulator?
"Ding—detecting Group Owner inquiry. Providing explanation."
"A Simulator possesses the ability to traverse worlds and replace individuals within those worlds. By altering the original trajectory of the replaced person and producing influence on the world, the magnitude of that influence determines the rewards they receive."
The chat group sensed Su Yunqing's confusion and explained.
"So it's just a transmigrator with a different name. Except this one's replacement seems more thorough—probably started from infancy."
"No wonder he has the Minor Formless Skill. He must have simulated someone in the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world at some point."
"Just don't know who he replaced."
Su Yunqing nodded.
"Ding—the subject is a Simulator."
The chat group seemed to be trying to add more, but Su Yunqing cut it off.
"Yes, yes, Simulator, got it."
"Now—is there a mission? If there is, send it quickly."
"…"
"Ding—Simulators do not inherently possess [Rule-Level Items]. The simulation device itself is not located in this world."
"The Smiling Proud Wanderer world is a low-martial world with cultivation limitations. Therefore, no mission is issued."
Hearing the chat group's response, Su Yunqing rolled her eyes. Her face said everything.
Back in the chat group:
Ordinary Group Owner: "I asked—apparently he's something called a Simulator. Probably some new system genre. Must have emerged after I transmigrated, because I've never come across it."
Ordinary Group Owner: "But it sounds basically like a transmigrator. The difference is this one starts each simulation very early—probably at infant stage."
Ordinary Group Owner: "That explains the Minor Formless Skill and how he can already challenge the world at such a young age. He's probably simulated people from quite a few worlds before."
Uchiha Dance King: "A Simulator?"
Uchiha Dance King: "Replacing a person in another world and living as them."
Uchiha Dance King: "Interesting."
Lighthouse Tycoon: "Interesting? I find it horrifying. If he replaced me, under that kind of power I'd have no means of resistance whatsoever."
Lighthouse Tycoon: "And someone in my world might already have been replaced—I just wouldn't know."
Someone replacing him and living as him—just thinking about it repulsed him.
It was replacing yourself at the most fundamental level.
Ordinary Group Owner: "Horrifying? What's horrifying about it? Transmigrators do the same thing."
Ordinary Group Owner: "If you were going to be horrified you should have been horrified from the start."
Ordinary Group Owner: "You don't think all transmigrators arrive the way Mo Rong did—fully formed with their original golden finger, do you?"
Ordinary Group Owner: "Both Bai Xuan and I transmigrated from birth."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Honestly, I wasn't always sure whether I had replaced someone and was living their life—I used to feel guilty about it. But after joining the chat group and learning I was a character someone created, I actually felt relieved."
Ordinary Group Owner: "Because that author probably never even thought about that question."
Ordinary Group Owner: "As for whether the world is real or not—the chat group exists, so even if it was fictional before, it's become real now. Maybe someday I'll even be able to go back to my original world."
There had never been any concealment of the fact that everyone in the group was a character from anime or other creative works. They all knew they had been created.
But that didn't make them afraid. It didn't make them confused about their lives.
Because regardless of what they once were, right now they were all living a new life that no one could have predicted. Every word they spoke, every choice they made—none of it matched the original story anymore.
Their worlds were works of fiction. But now those worlds had become real—had become part of the infinite expanse of existence.
Someday they would be able to reach the world that created them. Meet the people who had created them.
The Most Ancient God Slayer: "The only thing I want to know is whether there's a mission!"
The Most Ancient God Slayer: "Transmigrator, Simulator—doesn't matter what they're called. As long as there's a mission, that's all I need!"
He had no interest in the subject's identity. For him, anyone who could trigger a mission and earn rewards from the chat group was a worthy opponent.
Only someone like that was worthy of stirring his desire.
These past few days, he and Luo Hao had fought.
Losing was inevitable, and not just because Luo Hao was stronger—the chat group's combat arena had no Idealism, so both sides fought only with their actual base strength. He hadn't beaten Luo Hao in any of their previous fights either.
But this time—it had been an absolute and total suppression.
Before, Luo Hao could defeat him, but the gap was visible and tangible.
Now, he couldn't even tell what height Luo Hao stood at anymore.
Using martial arts alone, without drawing on a single grain of authority—he had been killed effortlessly.
The power of a single casual palm strike had been no lesser than any authority in full use.
This kind of power—wasn't this exactly the kind of power he longed for?
Between the strong and the weak, this was how the gap should look.