I'm a male god in Liyue

Features: None.

Effect: This is a textbook that introduces various basic alchemical techniques.

Hidden effects: None.

Price: 1 points.

[Basic Alchemy Materials Guide]

Quality: Black Iron.

Type: Books.

Features: None.

Effect: This is an illustrated guide to various alchemical materials.

Hidden effects: None.

Price: 1 points.

Both items are perfect for summer and are very affordable.

However, these are just ordinary books, requiring Xia Zhi to spend a lot of time and energy studying them.

Xia Zhi flipped through the pages again and found the experience book versions of these two items.

The price has doubled; it costs 2 points.

Xia Zhi has 2 points left.

If you buy the book version, you'll have just enough points; if you buy the experience book version, you'll be 2 points short.

Although he doesn't have any treasure chests to recycle, he can use the [Calming Pill] to make [Calming Incense] for recycling.

One pill can make about 10 servings of incense.

This choice is not difficult to make.

Having considered this, Xia Zhi first bought the experience book "Basic Alchemy Materials Illustrated Guide" and chose to use it.

A moment later, his mind was filled with knowledge of various low-level alchemical materials, some of which were from the Teyvat continent, and others from other worlds, with all sorts of strange appearances and effects.

"Slime slime... Slippery nectar... Flame flower stamen... Ice mist flower... Glass pouch... Serenity... Ponytail... Glass lily... Rainbow flower..."

Xia Zhi muttered a long list of alchemical materials. He had never seen most of them in Liyue Market. He figured that the only way to collect them was to go out into the wild and post collection requests on the Adventurers' Guild.

Just like when he first arrived in Liyue, he accepted a quest from the Adventurers' Guild to deliver five slime.

Among them, the glass lily and the rainbow flower do grow in the Jade Capital Terrace, but it is a place where important people live, and the Thousand Rock Army guards it very strictly, so he cannot go there to pick them indiscriminately.

However… Xia Zhi turned his gaze towards the direction of Bu Bu Lu outside the shop. With this knowledge from the illustrated guide, he could try to collect items in the mountains outside the city and perhaps bump into Qi Qi along the way.

"Boss!" Zhu Zi came out of the kitchen. "The water's boiled, go take a shower."

Xia Zhi stood up and said, "Okay."

After going upstairs to get her pajamas, Xia Zhi entered the bathroom, where steam was rising and the wooden tub had already been filled with hot water by Zhu Zi.

Xia Zhi put his hand into the bucket to test the water temperature, and it felt just right.

At this moment, Xia Zhi heard Zhu Zi standing outside the bathroom door, gently knocking on the door and saying, "Boss, please put your clothes in the bathroom later. I'll help you wash them after I've finished showering."

"Need not……"

"It's okay. You can't see, so it's inconvenient for you to wash clothes. You don't even know if they're clean or not. I have to wash clothes anyway, so it's not a hassle."

"Well... okay, thanks."

Xia Zhi paused for a moment, then could only say thank you.

Zhu Zi smiled and went to the kitchen to boil water for her bath later.

While taking a shower, Xia Zhi couldn't help but sigh to himself.

Are all girls in Inazuma this gentle and considerate?

That's great.

Such a sensible shop assistant, even 10,000 Mora a month seems like too little.

After showering, Xia Zhi left her clothes in the bathroom, only taking her underwear with her. She didn't want to bother washing it, to avoid any embarrassment.

"Boss, are you done washing?"

"Okay, I'm going upstairs now. Remember to lock the shop door later."

"Ok."

"There's not much to do at the shop tomorrow, so you can sleep in a little later."

"Ok!"

"Good night."

"good night!"

Xia Zhi returned to his room, closed the door, took out the [Blazing Incense Burner] and spices, and made two [Calming Incense] based on his experience last night.

He put them into his inventory, and sure enough, the option to recycle them appeared.

Choose to recycle and you will receive 2 points.

Xia Zhi then bought another book, "Introduction to Basic Alchemy," and chose to use it.

Immediately, a wealth of knowledge related to alchemy filled his mind.

Steaming, blending, calcination, elemental reactions...

Xia Zhi rubbed his temples, digesting the complex information, and felt that this purchase was well worth it.

If you buy a book just to save a point, and try to understand it on your own, it might take you several months to finish it.

Now that he has these alchemical skills, he has a new understanding of making incense. He no longer simply mixes the spices and throws them all into the incense burner as before.

While that method can still produce incense, and even force a perfect incense production by utilizing the hidden effect of the incense burner, it actually involves a certain degree of waste and luck.

Xia Zhi prepared another batch of ingredients, this time changing the order in which they were added to the incense burner. He added the [Slime Slime] first, and only added the [Soothing Pill] ingredients last.

Once the [Blazing Incense Burner] was finished being refined, Xia Zhi lifted the lid, and poured out a piece of regularly shaped, crystal-clear incense.

He added it to his inventory and noticed that its description had changed.

【The Perfect Soothing Incense】

Quality: Black Iron.

Type: Consumable.

Features: None.

Effects: This special incense, made with a heated incense burner and containing some calming ingredients, can soothe the mind and please spirits.

Hidden effect: Burning duration increased by 30%, calming and stabilizing effect increased by 30%.

Buyback price: 1 point.

The new incense has the prefix "perfect" in its name and also has a nice hidden effect.

But it's just black iron...

Does this mean that any "perfect" extraordinary item, regardless of its quality, can acquire hidden effects?

Xia Zhi thought for a while, then took the incense out of his inventory and lit it in the ordinary incense burner on the table.

The delicate fragrance wafted out, quickly calming his mind.

Xia Zhi took out paper and pen and continued writing the novel manuscript she had been working on.

After a while, he heard someone coming up the stairs outside the door.

It is Zhu Zi.

She seemed afraid of disturbing him, so she deliberately walked very quietly.

Then came the sound of the door being gently opened, followed by the sound of it being locked from the inside.

This sister-in-law is quite vigilant.

Xia Zhi shook his head and continued writing his manuscript.

As night deepened, Xia Zhi felt sleepy, so he put down his quill pen and went to bed.

At one moment, a slender white shadow passed through the wall from next door and floated directly to the table, bringing its head close to the incense burner and eagerly inhaling the smoke.

"It's...delicious...even better...than yesterday's..."

Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Correct Use of Incense

The incense in the incense burner is burning slowly.

A white shadowy figure lay lazily on the table, its face filled with blissful intoxication.

This fragrance.

Awesome.