My health recovery is incredibly fast.

After mastering the Sands of Time, one can understand the meaning of spacetime coding.

Moreover, the language barrier did not prevent Xia Zuo from using the second skill of the Sands of Time, [Time Manipulation].

When Xia Zuo accelerates the time flow of an object, the object's reference time in its spatiotemporal encoding will be different from that of other objects around it.

When Xia Zuo stops accelerating the flow of time, the Sands of Time in the environment will actively reduce the frequency with which they pass through the object, correcting the object's reference time and eventually making the object's reference time consistent with that of other objects around it.

This method of time manipulation only changes the base time and does not affect the spatial coordinates of the target.

But the Sands of Time's third skill is different.

It is called "time cavitation".

Xia Zuo can infuse his Sands of Time with attribute-neutral energy to expand them into a bubble-shaped time container.

Objects located outside the time container are normally affected by the laws of spacetime.

Objects located inside the time container will be temporarily in a time-abnormal state. Their base time flow rate will change according to the time container's settings, and their spatial coordinates will become a string of unintelligible gibberish.

When Shazo retrieves the time container, the objects that were originally inside the container will immediately be affected by the natural laws of spacetime. Their reference time will either accelerate or decelerate until it matches the reference time of the surrounding environment.

Krestor demonstrated this kind of time-space magic that could modify time on a large scale when the alchemists in the Outer Temple were studying the baby deep-sea turtles.

At the time, Xia Zuo mistakenly believed that the time he spent inside the time container would deduct from his lifespan, but now it seems that this is not the case.

Lifespan is calculated based on a unified benchmark time in nature.

Within the time container, the flow rate of the baseline time can be significantly slowed down. This is equivalent to exchanging attribute-free energy for lifespan.

This method of extending lifespan comes at two costs.

One is a large amount of attribute-less energy, which will occupy a lot of elements.

The other is the lifespan of the time container holder.

After acquiring the Sands of Time, Shazo could no longer enter any time capsule, including his own.

If he releases a time container to help others handle a large number of tasks in a short period of time, he will still be affected by the laws of spacetime, and his base time will not be paused.

Besides altering the flow of time, time containers have another function.

Shazo can use a time container to capture the sands of time in the environment.

Each grain of sand in time is a spacetime encoding recorder.

Whenever a grain of sand passes through an object, it records the object's spatiotemporal code.

By placing the Sands of Time into the Time Container, you can view the spacetime code recorded by that Sand of Time.

By observing changes in spatiotemporal encoding, it is possible to roughly reconstruct what happened in a certain object or space.

For example, if Shazo wanted to see what happened in the underground alchemy chamber when he traveled there.

He first needs to use the [Time Horizon] to read the spatial address of the underground alchemy chamber, then find the spacetime code with the same address based on the spatial address, and finally find the Sands of Time that record these spacetime codes and put them into the time container to reconstruct what happened in the underground alchemy chamber at that time.

The two most difficult steps in the entire process were finding the spatiotemporal codes that share the same spatial address, and storing the sands of time that hold these spatiotemporal codes.

Um..

It's okay if you can't find them all.

The event sequence reconstructed within the time container will be incomplete, much like playing a damaged video file.

Having suddenly grasped a small part of the laws of spacetime, Xia Zuo sat at his desk for a long time before coming back to his senses.

He extended his right hand, palm facing up.

The grain of sand of time hidden beneath the skin appeared in the palm of the hand and floated to a height of about ten centimeters above the palm.

Xia Zuo focused his mind on the Sands of Time and channeled attribute-less energy into them.

The Sands of Time in his palm slowly expanded, turning into a hollow bubble.

Within the [Time Horizon], Xia Zuo clearly saw that the Sands of Time in the environment were blocked by the bubbles and could not pass through them.

It is obvious that Xia Zuo personally created a small area of ​​time anomaly.

He continuously fed energy into the bubble, eventually expanding it to the size of a chair.

This is Xia Zuo's current limit. If the bubble were any bigger, the power of the non-attribute element would not be enough, and it would need to accommodate some more elements.

Xia Zuo calculated that 150 points of attribute-free power could construct a time-stop space of nearly two cubic meters in size.

When Krestor demonstrated her spacetime magic, she encompassed a multi-functional alchemy lab spanning over 200 square meters. How much elemental power would that require?

At least 1.5 or more.

Thinking about it this way, the time-stopping space within the temple, specifically used for handling emergencies, was likely created by several inner temple mages who mastered the laws of spacetime.

Otherwise, it would be too outrageous for one person to possess 1.5 elemental powers.

Xia Zuo glanced at the wall clock; it was 4:30 PM.

He put his pocket watch into the time container and observed the flow of time inside and outside the container.

Half an hour later, when the wall clock pointed to 5 p.m., Xia Zuo stopped outputting energy, retrieved the time container, and picked up his pocket watch to check the time.

The pocket watch showed 6:30 p.m.

Outside the time container, 0.5 hours had passed from 4:30 PM to 5:00 PM.

Inside the time container, the hands of the pocket watch moved from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., 1.5 hours had passed.

The pocket watch ran for an hour longer than the wall clock.

In the past, when Xia Zuo came out of the time container in the temple, he would manually adjust the time on his pocket watch to the local time in Poseidon.

Now he knows he doesn't have to do that anymore.

In the [Time Sands Vision], the frequency of time sands passing through the pocket watch in nature has decreased slightly, the second hand on the pocket watch has slowed down its sliding speed by a little bit, and the number of time sands passing through the pocket watch per second has decreased from 1000 to more than 900.

The pocket watch's spatiotemporal encoding is being repaired.

A little calculation makes it easy to conclude that even if Xia Zuo doesn't manually adjust the pocket watch, the time on the dial will synchronize with the wall clock after 10 hours.

"This is really interesting..." Xia Zuo looked at the pocket watch and shook his head. "Is the law of spacetime something man-made, or is it something that comes with nature? Or is it that even nature itself is man-made?"

Xia Zuo chuckled self-deprecatingly, "No wonder so many scientists end up turning to theology."

He put away his pocket watch, took out his secret message ring and sent a secret message to Christo, and then began his daily meditation.

With the Sands of Time in hand, the investigation into Vans cannot be rushed.

Because collecting spacetime codes with specific spatial coordinates is too time-consuming, Xia Zuo plans to wait until he has an elemental body and his physical body can finally lie down before slowly investigating.

Chapter 15 The Monsters Escape

My health is recovering incredibly fast.

The next morning.

Xia Zuo arrived at the test flight platform and installed auxiliary modules on his tower.

He bought three expensive modules from the outer temple.

The first is the [Beam Energy Field Expander]. Its function is to increase the energy density of the beam energy field. It expands the capacity of the beam energy field by about 10%, increasing it from 360 million points of elemental energy to a total capacity of 396 million points. This is to accommodate a future beam energy field with a 3600 million energy shield.

The second is the [Stress Deflection Shield Generator].

When facing projectile threats, you can either rely on armor plates and energy shields to withstand them, or have the tower mage personally cast [Reflect Projectiles] and [Deflect Projectiles] to deal with them.

However, if the incoming projectiles are too dense, it is better to use the Stress Deflection Shield Generator. It integrates both rapid response and automatic response functions and can help the Tower Mage block 99% of projectile attacks.

The third module is interesting, hehe, Xia Zuo is very satisfied with it.

This is a camouflage outfit that can disguise Shazo's tower as a stone building, making it look no different from a normal tower.

The current appearance of Xia Zuo's tower is a colorful building with blue lines as its outline and various solid-color squares as its fill. It is very unconventional and is an inevitable result of the extensive use of beam energy fields.

With the camouflage suit, Xia Zuo's tower would no longer be so conspicuous.

When the Starry Sky Demon sees his tower again, he will only treat it as an ordinary tower.

The Starry Sky Demons will attack what they perceive as weak points, unaware that Xia Zuo's tower is entirely composed of a self-repairing binding energy field, leaving no weak points whatsoever...

After installing the auxiliary modules, it's time for the exciting testing phase.

Xia Zuo eagerly started the test, completing all the projects, big and small, and unsurprisingly leveled up once more.

..

[Level] lv.41→lv.42

[Experience] 12000/36000

[Strength] 46

[Agile] 46

[Endurance] 46

[Vitality] 480

[Perception] 46

[Willpower] 46

[Mental State] 71

【Charm】46

[Free Attribute Points] 46

..

With this, the construction of the tower was successfully completed.

He can apply for promotion to **master.

More than half a month had passed since Xia Zuo received the auxiliary module from Beatrice, and he stepped into her study again.

Beatrice was manipulating six hands made of silver sand to write words, while her desk and bookshelves were filled with official letters awaiting processing.

Sure enough, whenever something major happened in the kingdom that the nobles couldn't control, Beatrice would step out of retirement, take over the reins of managing the kingdom's affairs, and throw herself back into her busy official duties.