Reading the note her mother left behind, Yan Qi felt a surge of emotion. Knowing that her parents had gone out together to buy groceries, she could sense the warmth and care in her mother’s words.
But as soon as she recalled what had happened yesterday morning—how her hesitation and fear had nearly cost her parents their lives—a wave of guilt washed over her.
“I have to speed up my reputation farming. Only then can I exchange for the Six-Star Servant Transformation Card from the system shop and give Mom and Dad supernatural abilities to protect themselves.”
“And I also need to figure out how to let my original body use supernatural powers. That way, if something like this happens again, I won’t have to risk exposing my identity by transforming—I can defend myself as I am.”
Steeling her resolve, Yan Qi took a deep breath and set the note aside. She headed to the kitchen, reheated the egg drop soup from the fridge, and cooked herself a steaming bowl of noodles.
After finishing her meal and cleaning up, she returned to the living room, plopped onto the couch, and opened her system panel—something she hadn’t checked all day.
The moment the panel appeared, her eyes locked onto the reputation points counter in the top-right corner. Her jaw nearly dropped.
The number displayed was a staggering nine digits long.
“What the—? Yesterday, it was only six digits! How did it skyrocket like this overnight?”
Baffled, she immediately pulled up her reputation gain log.
[Host’s cumulative reputation points: 201,000,000. Yesterday’s reputation gain: 200,800,000.]
[Host used ‘Daoist Empress’ to eliminate abyssal monsters during a live broadcast, leaving an indelible impression on 20,000,000 viewers. Reputation gained: 20,000,000.]
[Topics related to the Daoist Empress repeatedly trended on social media, with videos widely shared online, making 180,000,000 people aware of her existence. Reputation gained: 180,000,000.]
[Host used ‘Daoist Empress’ to rescue civilians attacked by abyssal monsters in Lobster Nation, leaving a deep impression on locals. Reputation gained: 20,000.]
[Host used ‘Digital Diva’ to upload songs imbued with supernatural power, earning widespread praise and attention. Reputation gained: 3,000.]
After going through the log, everything finally clicked.
“Oh! When I saved Mom and Dad, those cultists’ livestream was still running. No wonder I got so much reputation all at once.”
Now that she understood, she did some quick calculations. Since reputation points could be harvested for seven consecutive days from people who became aware of her through a major event, she realized that in a week, she’d have a total of 1.4 billion reputation points.
*”Only 1.4 billion? That’s not enough to exchange for three Six-Star Servant Transformation Cards—one for Mom, Dad, and my older sister in college.”*
Knowing that a single Six-Star Servant Transformation Card cost 1 billion reputation points, Yan Qi couldn’t help but feel frustrated.
But she quickly shook it off.
“There’s still time. I’ll earn enough eventually.”
With her mindset adjusted, she accepted that she’d have to wait until Saturday—five days from now—to gather the 1 billion points needed for her first card.
For now, she turned her attention to her current transformation cards, opening her inventory to review them.
[Six-Star Transformation Card: ‘Daoist Empress’]
★✩✩✩✩✩ (1170/100,000 EXP)
Skills:
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All-Seeing Eye
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Daoist Sword Art
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Samadhi True Flame
Talents: -
Swordsmanship (Master)
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Daoist Arts (Master)
[Six-Star Transformation Card: ‘Digital Diva’]
★✩✩✩✩✩ (0/100,000 EXP)
Skills:
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Digital Dive
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Enchanting Voice
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Encouragement Boost
Talents: -
Singing (Master)
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Digital Control (Master)
[Five-Star Transformation Card: ‘Fox Loli’]
★✩✩✩✩ (0/50,000 EXP)
Skills:
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Cure All Ailments
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Deadly Poison
Talents: -
Medicine & Toxins (Expert)
Looking at the three cards with their varying EXP progress, Yan Qi sighed.
“Out of these, only the Daoist Empress is combat-ready. The other two—support and healing types—can’t directly fight abyssal monsters.”
The problem was, leveling up transformation cards required EXP, which could only be earned by:
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Killing abyssal monsters, or
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Spending reputation points on gacha pulls.
Since the Digital Diva and Fox Loli couldn’t fight, they couldn’t farm EXP the first way. And with Yan Qi saving up for her family’s cards, she couldn’t afford to splurge on gacha right now.
“Once I’ve exchanged all three Six-Star Servant Cards, I’ll use the gacha to level you two up. Just hang in there.”
Making this silent promise, she was about to close the system panel when she suddenly remembered her earlier idea—giving her original body supernatural powers.
Pausing, she focused on the Daoist Empress’s talents, particularly “Daoist Arts (Master).”
After a moment of contemplation, she murmured:
“With master-level Daoist Arts, could I—while transformed—develop a cultivation method that my normal self could use to gain powers?”
The idea seemed plausible. Excited, she closed the panel and hurried upstairs to her room.
Then, she transformed into the Digital Diva and dove straight into the internet.
Ignoring the flood of posts about the Daoist Empress, she began scouring the digital ocean for anything related to cultivation techniques.