Chapter Summaries

Anqi separated Kiana from the Cocoon of the Finality and sent her through a spatial rift, then allowed the Cocoon to draw her in. Anqi approached it prepared to seek its answer, carrying one more reason she could not fail.

• Anqi and Kiana returned beneath the Cocoon of the Finality with their hands clasped.
• Anqi tore Kiana free from her restraints and severed her connection to the Cocoon.
• Anqi pushed Kiana into a spatial rift despite her protests.
• Anqi let the Cocoon draw her toward it and reflected on Kiana's persistence.

After humanity defeated the Honkai, Kiana reunited with Anqi on the moon and learned that Anqi had become Finality, a godlike power who planned to guide humanity’s future. A month later, representatives of Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, and World Serpent gathered in Anqi’s garden to decide the course of the new era.

• The celebrating survivors realized Anqi had not returned, while Yae Sakura later brought Kiana a Herrscher Core and said Anqi was waiting on the moon.
• Kiana used the core to open a portal, and she and the others found Anqi in a lush lunar garden.
• Anqi explained that she had taken control of the Cocoon of the Finality and discussed its limits and the civilization that created it with Mobius and Vill-V.
• Anqi said she would remain on the moon to adjust to her power and decide how to help humanity, then toasted the victory with everyone.
• A month later, Anti-Entropy, Schicksal, and World Serpent representatives brought proposals to Anqi’s garden to determine humanity’s future.

Anqi and the leaders of the three major organizations established how civilization would govern and use the Herrscher Authorities now under her control. The meeting ended with Anqi urging everyone to support one another as they continued working for humanity.

• Yae Sakura said that only Anqi herself could constrain her, and Cocolia argued that friendships might help Anqi retain goodwill toward humanity.
• The leaders agreed that qualified people would apply to Anqi for Herrscher Authority, and she would decide whether to delegate it.
• Cocolia proposed cultivating additional Herrscher candidates, including Bronya, Anna, and Chen Tianwu, and Schicksal and World Serpent supported the idea.
• The meeting established Anqi's status and authority, divided responsibilities among the organizations, and set civilization's development as its guiding principle.
• Anqi asked everyone to help one another, and Yae Sakura led the group in pledging their support for the world, humanity, and everyone.

Delta took Wendy out for training so Wendy could share the burden of controlling the Authority of Wind, while Kiana reunited with Anqi and Bronya and caught a fleeting glimpse of Sirin. As Anqi reflected on the peaceful new era, another Anqi crashed into an unknown world.

• Delta complained that emergency work kept interrupting her time with Wendy, but she still took Wendy out to track disasters and train with the Authority of Wind.
• Kiana finished her test paper and watched a movie with Anqi and Bronya, though she fell asleep during it.
• Kiana spotted a purple-haired figure and asked Anqi whether Sirin was happy; Anqi said she believed Sirin had found a happy life.
• Sirin watched Kiana and the others from a rooftop before asking Tachibana Yuki and Benales for both chocolate ice cream and milk tea.
• Anqi wondered whether the European seals exiled to the Sea of Quantum had survived, while a different Anqi fell from the sky into an unknown world and lost consciousness near a winged statue.

Anqi fought Heavenly Principles after being prevented from leaving Teyvat, then escaped and went to Mondstadt. She found work and temporary lodging at Cat's Tail Tavern, establishing her first identity in the world.

• Anqi tried to escape through the world membrane, but Heavenly Principles blocked her and forced her into battle.
• After several hours of fighting, Anqi crashed into a grassland, then concealed herself and slipped away.
• A few days later, Anqi applied for a waitress job at Cat's Tail Tavern in Mondstadt City.
• Marguerite hired Anqi, offered her a room for a few days, and advanced her some Mora for necessities.
• Anqi left the tavern cheerfully, pleased with her new identity in Teyvat.

Anqi planned how to study Teyvat and find a safe way to leave, then explored Mondstadt for information. After catching Amber when she fell during an unauthorized flight, Anqi obtained an application for a Wind Glider license and promoted Cat’s Tail Tavern.

• The Sustainer received a warning from the Heavenly Principles not to pursue or approach Anqi, whom it identified as a source of danger.
• Anqi outlined goals to study the world’s energy system and False Sky, and to find a safe way out of the country, then went to sleep.
• Anqi cleaned Cat’s Tail Tavern and spent the morning helping people around the city while seeking information.
• Anqi caught Amber as she fell from the sky and asked how to apply for a Wind Glider license.
• Amber gave Anqi an application form, and Anqi handed Amber a tavern flyer; Amber decided to invite Eula for a drink.

Anqi began working at Cat's Tail Tavern and asked Diona to teach her bartending, quickly showing extraordinary skill. Amber and Eula arrived at the tavern, where Amber introduced herself and her friend to Anqi.

• Anqi explained that she wanted to repay Marguerite by running the tavern well, and Diona agreed to teach her basic bartending movements.
• Anqi mastered a complicated shaker trick almost immediately, leaving Diona astonished by her claim that she had never learned mixology.
• Diona gave Anqi a drink recipe and hoped it would help undermine Mondstadt's wine industry.
• Anqi performed an elaborate bartending routine and poured two glasses of clear liquor.
• Amber arrived with Eula, introduced herself as the Knights of Favonius' Reconnaissance Captain, and introduced Eula as her best friend and the Spindrift Knight.

Anqi charmed Marguerite with a dramatic pledge of loyalty and worked at the tavern until evening. She left before closing because she still had other things to do.

• Anqi told Marguerite she was willing to become her subordinate.
• Marguerite laughed, welcomed Anqi to work under her, and promised promotions, raises, and good food and drink.
• Anqi worked at the tavern until evening and left before closing under the adjusted working hours.

Rosaliya questioned Anqi about buying rental information from an illegal intelligence dealer and ordered her to remain in Mondstadt under surveillance while she investigated. After Rosaliya and Diluc left, Anqi secretly tested her ability to copy Cryo power and planned how to create low-cost avatars without attracting the Heavenly Principles.

• Rosaliya questioned Anqi about her purchase and learned she had paid 20,000 Mora for rental information near Cat's Tail Tavern.
• Rosaliya confiscated Anqi's hidden sand pouch, then ordered her to stay in Mondstadt, pray at Favonius Cathedral twice daily, and assist with the investigation if needed.
• Anqi agreed to Rosaliya's conditions, returned to Cat's Tail Tavern, and went to bed while Rosaliya and Diluc watched from across the street.
• After the lurkers left, Anqi created and dismissed an ice crystal, confirming that she could copy Rosaliya's use of Cryo Elemental Power.
• Anqi decided to research making practical avatars with limited Honkai Energy and considered joining the church for its Mondstadt credentials.

Anqi chose an inexpensive house beside Eula’s and received Barbara’s help and blessing before leaving the cathedral. Barbara then confronted Rosaliya for teaching Anqi the wrong name for Barbatos, but Rosaliya confused Barbara until she disappeared.

• Anqi showed Barbara the house she had chosen, and Barbara explained that it stood next to Eula’s home and was cheap because people avoided the neighborhood.
• Barbara encouraged Anqi not to worry about Eula’s family background and offered to help if she ran into trouble.
• Anqi thanked Barbara, misnamed Barbatos while praying, and left after using up her ten minutes.
• Barbara prayed for Anqi, then spotted Rosaliya hiding behind a pillar and asked why she had taught Anqi the wrong name for the god.
• Rosaliya repeatedly mispronounced Barbatos, leaving Barbara confused, and vanished before Barbara could correct her.

Amber showed Anqi around the Knights headquarters and brought her to the library she had been eager to visit. There, Anqi met a charming purple Witch at the reception desk.

• Amber took Anqi around the Knights headquarters and introduced her to its personnel.
• Anqi met guards, a passing Cavalry Captain, and Mondstadt citizens seeking help.
• Amber led Anqi into the library.
• The purple Witch welcomed Anqi and explained that she could read there as long as she followed the library rules.
• Anqi swallowed nervously as she looked at the Witch.

Kaeya joined Diluc at the Cat's Tail Tavern for lunch, where both tried Anqi's cooking. The chapter ended with Anqi refusing Diluc's request to talk unless he paid extra.

• Kaeya arrived at the Cat's Tail Tavern and asked to try its food, trading barbs with Diluc about the Knights and the tavern.
• Diluc and Kaeya sat together at the same table despite their apparent tension.
• Anqi served Diluc and Kaeya a table full of dishes.
• Diluc asked Anqi to stay and talk after he tried her cooking, but she refused because she was a cook, not a conversation companion.
• Anqi said that chatting would cost extra, and the tavern employees applauded her business sense.

Anqi mastered alchemy in half a month and amazed Lisa by refining materials perfectly on her first attempt. Lisa embraced her as a potential student and brought her into the Knights’ circle, while warning her that pursuing forbidden truths could lead to madness and disaster.

• After half a month of studying alchemy, Anqi used a public alchemy bench to refine materials rapidly and flawlessly, leaving apprentice Timotheus stunned.
• Lisa checked Anqi’s results, confirmed her extraordinary talent, and gave her books, materials, and Mora as rewards and further study assignments.
• Lisa rushed to Jean’s office and insisted that Anqi was a valuable talent who should remain in Mondstadt, then arranged help to carry her supplies.
• Lisa invited Anqi to seek her guidance and offered to help with work and study, while explaining that pursuing ultimate truths could bring deadly madness and disaster.
• Anqi firmly took Lisa’s hand, and Lisa continued walking with her.

Anqi continued watching the Fatui while Amber questioned her, then advanced rapidly in alchemy under Lisa’s guidance. Lisa made Anqi her disciple and persuaded Jean to grant her the highest level of support as a Mondstadt alchemist.

• Anqi secretly watched the Fatui with Amber, who tried to learn why she was keeping an eye on them.
• Lisa told Anqi that her studies had reached a bottleneck and encouraged her to pursue independent research, while recommending Albedo as a future guide.
• Anqi asked to call Lisa her Master, and Lisa eagerly accepted her as a disciple.
• Lisa took Anqi to Jean’s office and demanded the highest alchemist qualifications, salary, laboratory, equipment, funding, and study-abroad support for her.
• Jean agreed to Lisa’s request and approved special treatment for Anqi.

Anqi decided to transform some of her power into Demon God Power so her first avatar could pass as a native demon god and avoid detection by the Heavenly Principles and the Seven Archons. She prepared to reveal her hidden power to Andrius, accepting that she might have to flee Mondstadt if her disguise failed.

• Anqi weakened her aura after realizing it had frightened Andrius, who urged her to fight to the end.
• Anqi explained that she needed to reclaim some of her power before they could fight at full strength.
• Anqi recalled the approaching Stormterror Twallin incident and worried that the God of Wind could expose her outsider identity.
• Anqi decided to create a native demon god avatar by transforming the Heavenly Principles' power into Demon God Power.
• Anqi resolved to flee Mondstadt and hide elsewhere if her disguise failed to fool the gods.

Wendy discovered that the fragments of the Heavenly Principles had fused with the Herrscher of Wind’s authority, allowing her to access the Thousand Winds’ information. After refining that power to conceal her weaknesses, she and Anqi sensed the Sky Curtain and Wendy resolved to obtain more fragments.

• Andrius returned to slumber after wondering whether Wendy was trying to trick him into fighting the Fatui.
• Wendy realized the Heavenly Principles’ fragments had fused with the Herrscher of Wind’s authority and summoned the Thousand Winds across Teyvat.
• Overwhelmed by the information flooding her mind, Wendy extracted the winds’ records about Anqi and the Lucky Thieves’ Guild.
• Wendy altered the wind consciousnesses so they would be difficult to find or decipher, then celebrated that even Barbatos could no longer discover her weaknesses.
• Wendy and Anqi looked toward the Sky Curtain, and Wendy decided to tear off more fragments of the Heavenly Principles for research.

Lisa, Amber, Razor, and Anqi traveled with the wolf pack toward Wolvendom after learning that the Northwind Wolf King was involved in a strange event. The wolves stopped at Wolvendom’s edge, where Razor explained that the Wolf King had ordered them to stay away.

• Razor explained the situation and Mondstadt’s offer of support to the wolf pack, then relayed their answers to Lisa’s questions.
• Anqi insisted on joining the trip to study the possibility of a joint human-wolf unit, and Lisa agreed on the condition that Anqi stay close and flee if danger arose.
• Lisa, Amber, Razor, and Anqi rode the wolves through the mountains toward Wolvendom while Anqi took notes on their abilities.
• At Wolvendom’s edge, the wolf pack stopped, and Razor told Lisa that the Wolf King had ordered them to keep their distance.

Lisa stepped onto the altar with a lantern powered by a purple thunder core, revealing her strength as both a scholar and a fighter. A wolf howl then echoed from within the altar.

• Anqi gave up trying to change Lisa’s mind and stood at the edge.
• Lisa stepped onto the altar and produced a lantern containing a pulsing purple thunder core.
• The narration described Lisa as a powerful scholar and a well-rounded fighter with countless finishing moves.
• A wolf howl echoed from within the altar.

Anqi persuaded Andrius to consider an alliance between humans and wolves, proposing that the Knights of Favonius build the conditions for wolves to serve alongside them. Andrius agreed to a trial wolf knight troop, leaving Jean to face both a potential boost to Mondstadt’s forces and more work.

• Andrius reflected on his past with Barbatos and the Four Winds Guardians, and on the old bonds between humans and wolves, before deciding to hear Anqi out.
• Anqi outlined a voluntary partnership in which humans supplied food and support while wolves provided combat skill and scouting, with equal rights and suitable provisions.
• Anqi proposed starting with wolf-friendly rations, lodging, and equipment, then forming an experimental wolf knight troop with Razor as its coach and intermediary.
• Andrius tentatively agreed to the plan, and Anqi shook his paw as Lisa photographed their agreement.
• After Anqi left, Andrius privately reassured himself that the Knights had to prove their promises and gleefully resolved to call Barbatos “Bartobas.”

An Abyss Mage cautiously crept into the depths of the Ruins of the East Wind Dragon, expecting to find a dragon. It discovered that the dragon was missing.

• The Abyss Mage reached the world of Teyvat.
• The Abyss Mage crept into the depths of the Ruins of the East Wind Dragon.
• The Abyss Mage looked for the Dragon of the East Wind and found that it was gone.