Like some of us have been repeatedly and fruitlessly stating. Ling Qi is ridiculously sneaky. She's successfully hiding against a Bronze 2 kitted out with Perception talismans and Perception arts, who needed to activate a special condition tracking buff AND double team with her perception buffing spirit to catch her.
Further investment in stealth is diminishing returns because the only people in the Outer Sect with a reasonable chance of finding Ling Qi outside of a fluke are:
-Sun Liling
-Bai Meizhen
-Cai Renxiang
We don't really need a further stealth art(much as it would be very nice), once we breakthrough even Sun will have difficulty.
Still hoping for a Larceny Wind Spiritual Attack art. Breathstealer anyone?
Ling Qi also failed stealth against two Late Yellows that weren't even paying attention at the time... Let
that sink in.
The huge range of potential outcome due to the dice nature of the quest means her stealth can be both extremely high(ie: sun interrupt, last elder trial), or low enough that random dude can see her (ie: rolling a 4... again).
Moreover,
diminishing returns would only be the case if we had actually invested significantly in it in the first place. All Ling Qi has stealth-wise right now is a partial Art and mundane skill.
Getting one dedicated Stealth Art after green breakthrough might go up to
doubling her total stealth bonus (depending on quality and focus of the art obviously).
Consider: we get more bonus towards Music, Speed, Defense or even
Archery than we do towards Stealth.
Really, Ling Qi just needs to make it clear to CRX that supporting our cultivation is a requirement for earning our loyalty. That should deal with any problems.
It's not. All she needs is to look pretty and make the thread go awwww.
Meizhen has the loyalty of the thread and didn't do much as support. Information is
nice, but mechanically all she gave is 5 dice bonus training actions.
Mmmm... the increased difficulty in gaining Sect arts and resources with the Renxiang vassalship bothers me quite a bit - neither we nor Ling Qi knows just how comprehensive the sect's library is (both proper "sect arts" and what they've picked up) and, while Shenhua is indeed a powerful duchess... she's also a recent riser and her family may not actually have access to a broad enough library for Ling Qi to have plenty of choice in her chosen areas.
I don't know how much Ling Qi might be able to learn in a year - if that's long enough for her to grab more or less all she'd want from the sect, then great! I mean, it could be that arts beyond Green are extremely difficult to get in the sect (rarity and/or having to work really hard to get access), or Cyan+ arts are really a matter of individual cultivation and development than anything else. Or the Moon might have some things to offer at that point (you could see Ling Qi as belonging to two "sects" in that sense - the Argent Sect and "children of the Moon").
But if these aren't the case, picking Renxiang (especially so early, before the extent of Sect support and conveniently available resources is known) might actually be detrimental to Ling Qi's future.
A better question would be to ask what exactly would be the "Sect support" in the 8 years of military service.
For exemple, i very much doubt Ling Qi will have access to the Sect Library when stationed half a province away...
Meizhen is 15 years old now.
Aww, did we miss a birthday ?
Heck, did we miss
Ling Qi's birthday ??
