Qi Observation

Seeing the system prompt before her, Ali immediately understood.

[System Prompt: You have successfully changed class to Qi Practitioner. Relevant class equipment has been placed in your backpack. Please check it yourself.]

Sure enough, after successfully changing class into an official Qi Practitioner, Ali found Qi Practitioner-related equipment in her backpack.

Opening her backpack, she found a Taoist robe belonging to the Qi Practitioner class, a refined iron sword, and a skill book.

She clicked on the Taoist robe and equipped it.

A neatly folded Taoist robe appeared in Ali's hands.

This was a good time to talk about the game's equipment system. There was currently no one-click equip function in the game. Apparently, implementing one required learning a related skill. As for weapons, a warrior class could use a staff to activate warrior skills, but the damage would be rather pitiful, and they would have to level up their proficiency with the staff all over again.

Jiu Yue watched Ali stand there foolishly while holding the robe and said to her, "Traveler Ali, why don't you come into my carriage?"

"Okay." Ali scratched her cheek and nodded somewhat embarrassedly. Back when she streamed online, the jokes people made had been far more outrageous.

Perhaps because the game was too realistic, Ali felt as though people were watching her every time she changed clothes.

As Ali climbed into the carriage to change her equipment,

the others began chatting with the merchant Jiu Yue.

From Jiu Yue's words, they learned the general situation in Mondstadt and Liyue, as well as why Jiu Yue had wanted Ali to become a Qi Practitioner.

According to Jiu Yue, the Liyue Foxfolk cultivated Charm Arts. Not every foxfolk member could successfully cultivate them; only those born with exceptional beauty could master them. The moment Jiu Yue had seen Ali that day, she had been certain that Ali was perfectly suited to the foxfolk's cultivation method.

What Jiu Yue regretted was that the foxfolk cultivation method could only be practiced upon reaching the Core Formation stage. It was not something a little Qi Refining fox like Jiu Yue knew.

"So it really is a hidden class." Young Mistress said enviously.

Qi Lin nodded in agreement. "I wonder why Ali's charm is so high. If it were Ali in real life, I could understand her having such high charm, but why is it so high in the game too?"

Qi Lin could not figure it out no matter how hard she thought. Could this game somehow be synchronized with reality? How could that be possible? Qi Lin instantly tossed that absurd thought to the back of her mind.

Dun Qu Qi Yi curiously asked after hearing Qi Lin's words, "Officer Qi Lin, do you know Ali?"

"How should I put it?" Qi Lin thought for a moment, then opened the system's friends list and sent both Young Mistress and Dun Qu Qi Yi a screenshot from one of Ali's real-life livestreams.

Pictures like that were easy enough to find. Besides, while Ali was not a major internet celebrity among streamers, she was still somewhat well-known.

Young Mistress opened the picture Qi Lin had sent. When she saw the real Ali, her heart skipped a beat. The first name that surfaced in her mind upon seeing Ali in real life was, "Daji."

If fox spirits truly existed in reality, Ali would be a real-life Daji.

"If..." Young Mistress had grown up overseas and was fairly open-minded about relationships between women. Without realizing it, her thoughts veered off in another strange direction.

Meanwhile, Dun Qu Qi Yi looked strangely at Young Mistress, who had suddenly blushed. She turned back to look at the picture Qi Lin had sent and thought in confusion, Ali is very pretty, but why is she blushing?

In Dun Qu Qi Yi's eyes, the real Ali was indeed beautiful, but that depended on who she was compared with. After all, Dun Qu Qi Yi had the great Elf Skadi and the Mother Goddess Cheng Jue, goddesses like them, right beside her. Even the more distant Elves were no less beautiful than Ali.

While Dun Qu Qi Yi was still confused, Qi Lin understood what was going on. Do not ask how she understood.

She had Liu Chuang and those hooligans who were constantly getting arrested to thank for that. They were never honest while giving statements, always spouting filthy nonsense, so even Qi Lin, who took their statements, had picked up some strange knowledge.

While the three of them were thinking about all sorts of nonsense, Ali finished changing in the carriage. Dressed in a Taoist robe and holding a refined iron sword, she lifted the carriage curtain and stepped out with graceful poise.

"Gasp!" Qi Lin, Young Mistress, and Dun Qu Qi Yi rubbed their eyes and looked at Ali again, saying in unison, "The change is way too drastic."

If Ali in her mage robe had previously given off a somewhat seductive feeling, then Ali in a Taoist robe now felt like a sheltered young lady from a respectable family, raised with strict discipline.

It was not just her style that had changed. It was like she had become a completely different person, wasn't it?

Jiu Yue watched Ali emerge from the carriage and nodded in satisfaction. "It seems the effect is quite good. Traveler Ali, it looks like you are well suited to my foxfolk's arts."

"If you are interested, once you reach the Core Formation stage, you can come find me or head into the mountains of Liyue. Foxfolk will naturally be there to receive you."

After agreeing to find Jiu Yue once they reached the Core Formation stage, the group left Jiu Yue's side.

After leaving Jiu Yue, everyone noticed that Ali would occasionally raise her head to look above their heads. She looked at Dun Qu Qi Yi most often of all.

She must have activated some sort of Qi Practitioner skill.

Do not ask why they were so certain. Every time Ali activated a skill, brownish-gold light flickered within her pupils.

This was probably some kind of Qi Practitioner skill. It did not seem to be an attack skill, but rather an auxiliary one.

Ali came back to her senses and found Young Mistress, Qi Lin, and Dun Qu Qi Yi all looking at her curiously.

Ali smiled awkwardly. Seeing their expressions, she explained, "That skill just now was my Qi Practitioner's awakening skill, [Qi Observation]."

[Skill Name: Qi Observation]

[Required Level: Level 10 Official Qi Practitioner]

[Description: Qi is the foundation of the world's existence. Whether living beings or objects, all possess qi. Qi Observation can examine the approximate resources of an area and the Hidden Attributes of individuals. The quality of resources and attributes will be displayed in black, white, gray, green, blue, red, and gold under different circumstances.]

[Effect: Using Qi Observation allows you to view up to gray indicators. Note: Gray indicators represent an attribute below one hundred points, or gray resources produced in an area. Usage cost: HP is deducted according to the result of each use.]

"I see. Then what were you looking at just now?" Young Mistress was not angry after hearing Ali's explanation. Everyone had already revealed their Hidden Attributes earlier, so they all knew each other's situations. There was nothing to mind.

Ali did not hesitate. "I was curious, so I took a look at everyone's fortune."

"What did you see?" Qi Lin asked curiously as well.

"Everyone's fortune showed white. Only Xiao Yi's fortune was gray," Ali explained. But what she was thinking was that when she had just started observing Dun Qu Qi Yi's fortune, it had seemed to flash with golden light, as though the outer gray fortune were a layer concealing it.

Yet when Ali tried to look more closely, the golden light disappeared, as though it had never existed.

Could I have seen it wrong? Ali could only think that way and did not pursue the matter further.

After going through so much, night was almost falling, and their game characters' fatigue levels were about to reach their lowest point. Ali and the others needed to return indoors to rest.

This house was one Ali had bought again from Young Mistress. Houses in this game were far better than the cramped apartments in Tianhe City.

Before entering the house, Ali looked curiously at the great Elf Skadi in the distant square and activated [Qi Observation].

A streak of golden light flashed through Ali's eyes.

In the distance, the great Elf Skadi frowned. She felt someone staring at her without restraint, so Skadi followed that feeling and looked back.

[System Prompt: You have died.]

Ali said, "Meow! Meow! Meow! What happened? How did I die?"

In the square, Skadi wore a stunned expression. I did not even see who it was. It was probably that Traveler who had just become a Qi Practitioner again.

Skadi rubbed her brow helplessly. "How many Travelers have stared themselves to death today?"

There was nothing she could do. The Mother Goddess had told her to look after these Travelers.

Inside the room, Ali had just revived on her bed, still completely bewildered, when she heard Skadi's voice transmission. "Do not casually use Qi Observation, especially on people much stronger than you. The backlash will be severe."

Ali listened silently. Just from Skadi's tone alone, Ali could guess that she was not the only one who had done this.

Thinking of it that way, Ali instantly felt much better. At least she still had four revivals left.

Lying on the bed in her room, Ali clicked to log out of the game.