Day 43 of the game.
After contacting Tulan, Yu Xunge silently counted the time, added a few jewelry recipes to the "Brilliance" world section, then contacted Tulan again.
[Yu Xunge]: How much time has passed in Zai Jiu?
[Tulan]: 4 minutes and 22 seconds.
4 minutes and 22 seconds?
A full five minutes had passed on Yu Xunge's end.
Was it a margin of error? No. Having been checking the time with Tulan all these days, Yu Xunge trusted her calculations.
The flow of time had started falling out of sync on Day 40.
She reached out to [Cat's Ideal], and that seemingly boundless map unfolded in her mind again. There were now over a hundred illuminated World Docks on it.
Yet at that moment, she seemed to see clocks floating over those densely packed World Docks, each keeping its own time, some fast, some slow.
Just like this River of Time: chaotic and disorderly.
Could gods interfere with time?
They probably could.
Back when she had temporarily returned from Astralana, the flow of time had changed, just as the game notification had said: adjustments made to ensure fairness.
Before she returned to Zai Jiu, the time ratio between Zai Jiu and Isolated Island had been roughly one month to one Star Sea Year. But during her temporary return, one day in Zai Jiu had corresponded to one Star Sea Year on Isolated Island.
That change in the flow of time must have had something to do with her, but the scope and authority the gods had to make changes were definitely very limited.
Because, through one incident after another, she had sensed the gods' helplessness.
If there was Fragrant Branch among the gods, there had to be other races too.
She had listened to so many World Sighs. Among