I am a male god in Liyue

"Ok."

Xia Zhi walked over.

Then there is no more then.

If I really want to say it, the mints are very moist.

Half an hour later, Shen He tidied the messy bed, said good night, and went back satisfied.After all, she is actually a girl who is easily satisfied.

Xia Zhi sat back at the table, took out the [Enhancing Crystal] and the [Hourglass of Time], and performed daily strengthening as usual.

"Do you want to use [Enhancing Crystal] on [Hourglass of Time]? Please note that this item is a platinum item, and there is only a 1% chance of successfully improving its quality."

"Yes."

The crystal in his hand suddenly cracked and turned into countless bright spots that merged into the hourglass.

"Evolution is successful, [Hourglass of Time] has been upgraded to diamond quality."

Xia Zhi was stunned for a moment, then a look of relief appeared on his face.

It has been almost two months since he obtained the [Hourglass of Time] at the Moon Festival. He has strengthened it at least five or six times a day, three to four hundred times in total, and finally successfully evolved.

However, the successful evolution this time should be due to the significant increase in his luck value.

Luck and charm are indeed worth investing in.

Chapter 226 Time Rules

The hourglass in front of me became more delicate, more primitive, and more compact.

Xia Zhi put it into the inventory and checked its new item attributes.

【Hourglass of Time】

Quality: Diamond.

Type: Special Equipment.

Characteristics: time lag, time return, speed.

Effect: It can cause a surrounding area to fall into a state of time stagnation or reverse time; it can control a surrounding area to enter a state of time acceleration or time deceleration.

Hidden effect: Understand the rules of time and be immune to time erosion.

Xia Zhi found that its type had changed.

The original [Hourglass of Time] was a regular item, but now the [Hourglass of Time] has become a special equipment.

In terms of characteristics, there is a new [speed], which allows him to control the acceleration and deceleration of time at will.

As for the original time lag and time return effects, they have lost the limitations of the inverted hourglass.

The most intuitive enhancement should be its hidden effect, which has changed from the original eternal youth to one that understands the rules of time and is immune to the erosion of time.

After Xia Zhi read it, he directly equipped it to the character panel.

Then, just like when he became a god, he automatically understood a new talisman of rules in his mind and mastered the power of rules related to time.

At the same time, the system's beep sounded in his heart.

"The host already has the characteristic: time return."

"The trait of [Hand of Shadow] has been lifted from the cooldown time limit and can be activated at any time."

This is the second time that features have been combined with features.

The last time was the combination of the feature [Air Breaking] and the feature [Stealing Master], which allowed [Stealing Master] to lift the contact restriction and activate it through the air.

This time, the characteristic [Time Return] is combined with the characteristic [Stealing Master], so that [Stealing Master] can remove the cooldown limit and activate it at any time.

In the future, you don’t have to worry about missing the opportunity to secretly learn skills.

It’s just that the characteristic [Time Return] originally existed on the platinum quality [Hourglass of Time]. Why were these two characteristics not combined before?

Xia Zhi was a little thoughtful.

Is it because the item must be diamond quality to meet the minimum requirement for "characteristic combination"?

However, the [Mirror of Illusion] obtained by opening the diamond treasure chest yesterday did not trigger any prompts.

Is the compatibility between the features not good enough?Or in addition to diamond quality, items of the "special equipment" type must be worn by him on the character panel in order to trigger this set-like combination effect with each other?

Xia Zhi thought for a while, but still couldn't come to an accurate conclusion.

The answer to this question needs to wait until he obtains more extraordinary items of diamond quality and above in the future.

Xia Zhi picked up a dried flower petal from the table, which is a spice from Xumi.

He activated [Time Rewind] on it.

Time begins to flow backwards on your fingertips.

The dry petals suddenly become bright and vivid.

Xia Zhi put it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and could still smell a fragrant scent.

Compared to the rules of light, the rules of time are even more incredible.

Xia Zhi put down the flower in his hand and drew a strange and complex symbol in the air with his fingers.

This is the regular symbol that represents time.

It is also more complicated than the regular talisman that represents light.

He used his finger to draw another strange and simple symbol next to this strange symbol.

This is the Word of God that represents time.

Xia Zhi observed carefully and found that there were many similarities between the talisman of rules representing time and the word of God representing time.

This situation seems to confirm his previous guess: the words in the divine words are all derived from the talismans of rules.

"I don't know who created the Divine Word... Maybe it's a combination of gods who have mastered different rules... Or maybe it's a certain god who has mastered the power of all the rules..."

Xia Zhi couldn't help but think of the supreme god in the void.

How much power of rules does he have?

Or is there a more original power above the power of rules?

Xia Zhi thought for a while, then took out the [blazing incense burner] and put a portion of the prepared spices into it.

Cover the stove lid and align the patterns on it.

[Blazing Incense Burner] starts working.

Under normal circumstances, this incense refining will take about 10 minutes to complete.

Xia Zhi stretched out his hand and performed [Time Acceleration] on the [Blazing Incense Burner].

A few seconds later, a familiar and strange fragrance wafted out of the [blazing incense burner].

The fragrance is done.

Xia Zhi opened the stove lid and poured out a perfect piece of incense from the stove.

Items refined by time acceleration are no different from items refined normally.

Xia Zhi threw the incense into the air and performed [Time Slowdown] on it.

The incense seemed to have lost its original weight, falling slowly and lightly like a feather.

Xia Zhi looked at it for a while, then stretched out his hand to borrow it.

The greatest use of [Time Slowdown] should be in combat.

When he was fighting Ocell before, if he applied [Time Slowdown] to Ocell to slow it down, he could easily poke out its eyeballs with his light gun.

Xia Zhi tested the effect of [Hourglass of Time] for a while, took a look at his consumed mental and divine power, and tried to cast [Time Rewind] on himself to see if he could restore his mental and divine power.

No effect.

Maybe it's because he's immune to time erosion, or maybe the system isn't affected by the rules.

Xia Zhi felt a little pity, packed up the things on the table, and went to bed.

When I arrived at the dream world, I picked up Shen He. The two played games together for a while and went outside to pick mushrooms.

The next afternoon, after business ended, Miss Ningguang came to the store with her life secretary.

Xia Zhi gave her a massage.

Miss Ningguang was lying on the small bed with a happy look on her face.

"Mr. Xia's craftsmanship is more comfortable."

"Miss Ningguang, are you very tired from work these days?"

"Yes, there are a lot of things left in Guyun Pavilion that we need to deal with seriously."

"Thanks for your hard work."

"Thanks to Miss Shen He, otherwise Qianyan Army's losses would not have been huge."

"Is Shen He so powerful?"

"Well, Miss Shen He directly froze a tsunami at that time, otherwise..."

"That's a good thank you."

"I'm also a little worried. I don't know how to thank you. Does Mr. Xia know what Miss Shen He likes?"

"She... likes to eat sweets."

"sugar?"

"Ah."

"This...I can prepare a portion of all the types of candies in Liyue for her, but it's just some candies, and it doesn't seem to be enough."

"Shen He doesn't care about this, just feel grateful."

"That's what I said, but I can't do it. Let me think about it again... By the way, I will hold a banquet at Qunyu Pavilion next week and ask Mr. Xia to show his respect."

"Am I alone?"

"Of course everyone is together."

"Alright."

Chapter 227 The Great Loving Tree King

Today is Thursday.

As per summer shop tradition, it was another crazy day.

So, after enjoying the massage, Miss Ningguang got a meal of fried chicken in the store.

She actually doesn't like eating greasy food.

But no way.

Mr. Xia's chicken was so delicious that she couldn't refuse it.

After eating, Ningguang thanked him, took Baishi and left.

Returning to Yuehaiting's office, Ningguang sat on a chair and rested lazily for a while.

Suddenly, she opened her eyes and said to her life secretary: "Bai Shi, ask Bai Xiao to come over."

"Yes, Lord Ningguang."

Baishi responded softly and went out.

After a while, her personal housekeeper Bai Xiao walked into the office from outside.

"Lord Ningguang, what are your orders?"

"The store next to the summer store doesn't belong to us yet, does it?"

"No, the shops in that area are too close to the Hall of Purity. The previous business was not very good, so they are not included in our acquisition plan."

"You go talk to those stores and acquire all the stores in that area. You can take your time with other stores, but you have to hand over the deed of the store next to the summer store to me before tomorrow afternoon."