Chapter Summaries

Li Yue challenged Ningguang’s attempt to control access to the new Geo Archon and publicly welcomed Lumine as his friend in Liyue Harbor. After the meal boosted Lumine’s standing and weakened Ningguang’s reputation, Li Yue returned to Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and found Ganyu waiting.

• Li Yue explained to Zhongli that Ningguang had used Lumine’s request to test the new power structure, then decided to meet Lumine publicly and reduce Ningguang’s influence.
• Li Yue, Zhongli, and Nahida went to Wanmin Restaurant, where they reunited with Lumine, Paimon, and Xiangling; Li Yue explained that Lumine could contact him through Zhongli instead of Ningguang.
• Li Yue invited Lumine and Paimon to eat with him, and Venti joined them at the restaurant.
• After the meal, Li Yue publicly named Lumine as his friend and asked Liyue’s people to help her, raising her standing while Ningguang’s reputation declined.
• Li Yue returned to Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and found Ganyu there.

Li Yue convened Liyue’s leaders over a Sumeru diplomatic letter demanding Nahida’s return, then argued that its silence about the Dendro Archon proved Lesser Kusanali never existed or had died. He claimed his rescue of Nahida and discovery of a dead experimental subject were evidence, leaving the assembled leaders shocked and Nahida confused.

• Ganyu brought Li Yue a Sumeru Akademiya letter asking Liyue to hand over Nahida as a wanted criminal, and Li Yue ordered a meeting of Liyue’s leaders.
• Li Yue explained that Sumeru’s letter had likely been sent before news of Nahida’s appointment as a Liyue general could reach the Akademiya.
• Li Yue told the assembled leaders that the letter’s failure to mention Sumeru’s Dendro Archon suggested Lesser Kusanali was dead or had never existed.
• Keqing challenged Li Yue’s conclusion, and Li Yue claimed he had rescued Nahida from imprisonment in Sumeru and later found a dead woman used for experiments.

Li Yue proposed installing Nahida as Sumeru’s Dendro Archon and won support from Liyue’s leaders, then sent Yelan to investigate the Akademiya’s crimes. After Yelan departed, Li Yue reopened the Chat Group for its monthly arrival of new members.

• Li Yue argued that the Akademiya secretly supported human experimentation in Sumeru and claimed Nahida could take the place of the unrecognized Lesser Kusanali.
• Zhongli, Venti, the Adepti, Ningguang, Keqing, and Tian Shu supported Li Yue’s plan to return Nahida to Sumeru, while Yelan was assigned to gather evidence and conduct reconnaissance.
• Li Yue reassured Nahida that he wanted her to return to her homeland and promised she could run freely across Teyvat with him behind her, prompting her to call him her father.
• Yelan left for Sumeru by merchant ship to investigate the organization, while Li Yue reopened the Chat Group on the day new members were due to join.
• Li Yue, Aizen, Kazuma, Madara, and the woman in black stockings began chatting as they waited for the new members.

Li Yue welcomed two new members to the chat group: Red-Haired Shanks and Subaru Natsuki, whose identities he gradually recognized. Their conversation turned to reincarnation and other worlds, and Shanks asked Li Yue how he knew the members came from different worlds after learning that Li Yue could travel between them.

• Kasumigaoka asked Li Yue to send her and Aizen information about the other members' worlds, while Kazuma complained about his teammates and Madara argued with him.
• So Arrogant and Give Me Some Face joined the chat group, and Kazuma welcomed them as their senior.
• Shanks introduced himself during a feast aboard his ship, while Subaru enthusiastically discussed how he would thrive if transported to another world.
• Li Yue identified Give Me Some Face as Shanks after joking that he had bet his left arm on the new era, and recognized So Arrogant as Subaru Natsuki.
• Kazuma and Subaru explained reincarnation to Shanks, and Li Yue said that everyone in the group came from a different world because he could travel between worlds.
• Shanks asked Li Yue whether he could really travel to other members' worlds.

Li Yue visited Shanks aboard the Red Force, demonstrated his Geo Element power, and learned that Shanks was heading to warn Whitebeard about Ace pursuing Blackbeard. Shanks and Li Yue reached the Moby Dick, where Shanks clashed with Whitebeard before they began discussing his missing arm.

• Li Yue entered Shanks's world and joined the Red-Haired Pirates' party, introducing himself as Li Yue and demonstrating his ability to create a Heavenly Star.
• Shanks told Li Yue that he was heading to meet Whitebeard so he could warn him that Ace was pursuing Blackbeard.
• Shanks and Li Yue approached the Moby Dick, where Shanks's Conqueror's Haki knocked out the ship's newcomers.
• Shanks and Whitebeard clashed with their weapons, then sat down and began talking.
• Whitebeard asked Shanks about his missing left arm, and Shanks began to explain that he had bet it.

Li Yue assassinated a Celestial Dragon on Sabaody while disguised as Aokiji, then returned to Teyvat and discussed the Pirate King world with Aizen. He learned that Liyue merchants were trapped and mistreated in Inazuma, and called a meeting to decide how to respond.

• Shanks failed to persuade Whitebeard to intervene over Blackbeard and Ace, then Li Yue parted from Shanks and set an anchor point at Sabaody.
• Li Yue disguised himself as Aokiji and killed a Celestial Dragon and the guards accompanying him.
• Sengoku learned of the assassination, and the Gorosei ordered him to send the surviving attendants to Mary Geoise and eliminate everyone else who knew about the killing.
• Li Yue told Aizen about the Pirate King world's powers and promised to take him there for an explanation.
• Ganyu told Li Yue that Liyue merchants trapped in Inazuma had been oppressed and had asked Liyue for rescue; Li Yue called a meeting with Liyue's leaders and the Archons.

Li Yue decided that Liyue would challenge Inazuma’s closure to protect foreign trade, and volunteered to confront the Raiden Shogun himself. He departed for Inazuma aboard Beidou’s ship, The Crux, with Zhongli, Nahida, and Venti remaining in Liyue.

• Ningguang explained that Inazuma’s closure and the Kanjō Bugyō’s abuses had trapped Liyue merchants, and Li Yue pointed out that Beidou could bring them home when she delivered their letter.
• Li Yue argued that Inazuma’s closure threatened Liyue’s foreign trade, won unanimous support for a campaign to end it, and declared he would deal with the Raiden Shogun.
• Li Yue prepared to travel alone to Inazuma while Zhongli stayed to guard Liyue, and Ningguang, Nahida, and Venti saw him off.
• Li Yue boarded Beidou’s The Crux, reassured the captain that he would protect the ship if danger arose, and the crew set sail for Inazuma.

Li Yue reached Inazuma, found Makoto Raiden’s consciousness inside the Sacred Sakura Tree, and extracted her with Enma’s Blade and the Hōgyoku. After returning openly to the shrine and pretending to be a visitor, he touched the tree and collapsed, leaving Yae Miko worried that Liyue would blame Inazuma.

• Li Yue sailed with Beidou’s crew to Rishou Island, then traveled in disguise to Narukami Island and flew up to the Grand Narukami Shrine.
• Li Yue asked Aizen for the Hōgyoku, used Enma’s Blade to locate Makoto Raiden within the Sacred Sakura Tree, and pulled her consciousness free.
• Li Yue returned through the shrine’s main entrance, where Yae Miko mistook his arrival for a chance to play along with the young Vago Monarch.
• Li Yue told Yae Miko that a woman’s voice had led him to the Sacred Sakura Tree, then touched it and collapsed.
• Yae Miko concealed Li Yue in a guest room and worried that his collapse could provoke conflict between Liyue and Inazuma.

Yae Miko investigated why Li Yue had collapsed after touching the Sacred Sakura Tree, while Li Yue discovered Makoto Raiden’s consciousness inside it and brought her into his Inner World. Makoto woke among the gathered gods, learned that Li Yue was the new Geo King, and left her identity and circumstances to be explained further.

• Yae Miko found Li Yue breathing normally but unable to wake, then touched the Sacred Sakura Tree herself and felt nothing.
• Li Yue told Morax that the Adepti had made him Geo King and that Zhongli handled Liyue’s affairs as Grand Governor.
• Li Yue explained his plans for Nahida to become Sumeru’s Dendro Archon and described Venti’s absence from Mondstadt.
• Li Yue said he had found a woman inside the Sacred Sakura Tree, and Enma’s Blade pointed out Makoto Raiden as she woke in his Inner World.
• Makoto Raiden mistook Morax for a dead acquaintance, then introduced herself as Makoto while Morax, Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, and Andrius used false names.
• Li Yue explained that Makoto had been inside the Sacred Sakura Tree and asked about her identity after she recognized Morax.

Makoto Raiden revealed herself to Li Yue as the Electro Archon’s servant and lent him her power so he could confront Ei over Inazuma’s lockdown and Vision Hunt Decree. Meanwhile, Makoto reunited with Yae Miko at the Grand Narukami Shrine and explained that her consciousness had been preserved in the Sacred Sakura Tree and now resided in Li Yue’s body.

• Li Yue mistook Makoto Raiden for an Electro Archon servant who had sacrificed herself five hundred years earlier, and Makoto confirmed his guess.
• Li Yue described Inazuma’s lockdown, oppression, and conflict with Watatsumi’s resistance, prompting Makoto to lend him her power to teach Ei a lesson.
• Yae Miko encountered Makoto at the Sacred Sakura Tree and embraced her, convinced that her return was real.
• Makoto told Yae Miko that she had died five hundred years ago, remained asleep within the Sacred Sakura Tree, and now inhabited Li Yue’s body.

Makoto told Yae Miko that she had awakened inside Li Yue, Liyue’s new Geo Archon, and asked her to show him what Inazuma had become under Ei’s rule. As Yae guided Li Yue and the Kamisato siblings through the islands, he witnessed the suffering caused by the Sakoku Decree and the damage wrought by the war, then asked why the war had begun.

• Makoto told Yae Miko that she had seen several gods within Li Yue and had secretly borrowed his body while he was unconscious.
• Li Yue told Yae Miko he had come to Inazuma over the Sakoku Decree and intended to challenge the Raiden Shogun to a duel before the throne.
• At Yae Miko’s request, Sayu brought Kamisato Ayato and Kamisato Ayaka to help guide Li Yue around Inazuma.
• Li Yue and his guides visited Konda Village, where villagers described their hunger, heavy taxes, and inability to sell Lavender Melons under the Sakoku Decree.
• The group saw the dangerous leak at the Mikage Furnace and the Shogunate Army blocking a Fontaine man from repairing it.
• At Musoujin Gorge, Li Yue learned that the storm over Yashima had begun after the war and asked why the war had started.

Li Yue challenged the Kamisato siblings’ account of Inazuma’s rebellion, condemning the Raiden Shogun’s isolation while arguing that people who lost Visions still kept their wishes. After using Makoto’s power to clear Yashima’s storm clouds, he drew the Raiden Shogun to him, and she appeared before the group.

• Ayaka explained how the Vision Hunt Decree had led to war, and Ayato concluded that revoking it could restore peace.
• Li Yue called the Electro Archon a god who had failed her duty, then challenged Ayaka’s claim that losing a Vision made people lose their wishes.
• Ayaka admitted she would not abandon her own goals if her Vision were taken, and Ayato recognized that Li Yue had defeated her argument.
• Li Yue ended the group’s tour of Inazuma and said his battle with the Electro Archon would continue.
• Li Yue used Makoto’s power to disperse the resentment-born storm clouds over Yashima.
• The Raiden Shogun appeared before Li Yue, Yae Miko, Ayaka, and Ayato, prompting Ayato to fear they would be caught in the coming fight.

Li Yue and Yae Miko revealed to Ei that Makoto’s consciousness survived and now resided within Li Yue, while Miko warned Ei that Makoto was furious about Inazuma’s condition. Ei tried to shift the blame for her policies onto the Raiden Shogun as Li Yue brought the Kamisato siblings into the discussion.

• Li Yue recognized Ei as Makoto’s twin, and Yae Miko led Ei aside to explain what had happened to Makoto.
• Yae Miko told Ei that Makoto’s consciousness remained in the Sacred Sakura Tree before entering Li Yue’s body, alongside the consciousnesses of Morax, Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, and Boreas.
• Yae Miko warned Ei that Makoto was angry about Inazuma’s state and might confront her when Li Yue fell asleep, making Ei fear Makoto’s reaction.
• Ei introduced herself as Raiden Ei and claimed she and Makoto were retainers of the Electro Archon, leaving the Kamisato siblings stunned.
• Li Yue and Yae Miko agreed that Ei had only followed the Raiden Shogun’s orders, and Ei insisted the Shogun was responsible for Inazuma’s policies.

Li Yue reminded Ei that she had neglected the Shogunate Army, prompting her to lead its soldiers against the resistance army. As Ei struck Sangonomiya Kokomi’s camp, the resistance army faced imminent destruction, while the assembled Shogunate troops rallied behind their returning leader.

• Li Yue told Ei that her failure to lead the Shogunate Army had cost soldiers their lives, and Ei admitted the Raiden Shogun had neglected her duty.
• Ei refused to return with Li Yue and flew to Kujou Encampment to deal with the resistance army before nightfall.
• Sangonomiya Kokomi wondered how Watatsumi Island could reconcile with the Shogunate as patrol soldiers reported that the Shogunate Army had withdrawn from Yashima.
• Ei appeared above the resistance camp and unleashed a massive lightning strike toward Sangonomiya Kokomi.
• Ei ordered Kujou Sara to gather the Shogunate soldiers, then led them toward the resistance army from the front as their morale surged.

Ei destroyed the Resistance’s main camp and left Kujou Sara to capture Sangonomiya Kokomi and advance on Watatsumi Island. After returning to Inazuma City, Ei told Li Yue she had acted to reduce the Shogun’s burden, and learned that he planned to meet the Shogun the next day.

• Ei struck the Resistance camp with lightning, leaving Sangonomiya Kokomi badly wounded and the main force destroyed.
• Ei left Kokomi alive and handed the camp over to Kujou Sara, who ordered her soldiers to inspect it and prepared to take Kokomi to Watatsumi Island.
• Kokomi asked Kujou Sara to spare the elderly people and children on Watatsumi Island and promised to persuade them to surrender.
• Ei returned to Inazuma City and joined Li Yue, Yae, and the Kamisato siblings for dinner at Komore Teahouse.
• Ei enjoyed Tricolor Dango and Dango Milk, then told Li Yue she had dealt with the Resistance and asked what she should do next.
• Li Yue said he would meet the Shogun the following day, leaving Ei surprised.

Li Yue accompanied Ei to her room, where Makoto awakened through the Dream of One Heart and reunited with her sister. Makoto explained how her consciousness survived and hinted that Ei needed to understand Inazuma’s people before she could fully awaken the blade’s power and plant the Sacred Sakura Tree.

• Ei insisted on accompanying Li Yue to his room, and he rested with his head on her lap while she watched over him.
• Makoto awakened through the Dream of One Heart, and Ei embraced her in disbelief and relief.
• Makoto explained that a higher power had preserved her consciousness and the Sacred Sakura Tree’s seed within the Dream of One Heart.
• Ei learned that Makoto’s consciousness could awaken only when she fully unleashed the blade’s power, but Makoto said Ei first needed to experience something for herself.
• Makoto told Ei that she would plant the Sacred Sakura Tree, leaving Ei surprised.

Makoto explained the Sacred Sakura Tree’s time-spanning origins and revealed that she and Lady Kitsune could return through Li Yue’s power. She then confronted Ei over Inazuma’s suffering, leaving Ei accepting responsibility for the decrees that had enabled the Fatui and corrupt commissions to exploit the nation.

• Makoto told Ei that Ei had planted the Sacred Sakura Tree in the future, where it had grown in the past through Istaroth’s power over time.
• Makoto explained that her consciousness had slept within the Sacred Sakura Tree and that Lady Kitsune could also be restored with Li Yue’s help; Yae Miko overheard and joined them as a fox.
• Makoto questioned Ei about Inazuma’s condition and spanked her for the Sakoku Decree, the commissions’ abuses, and the harm caused to the people.
• Makoto explained that the Kanjō Bugyō and Tenryou Commission had worked with the Fatui to secure profits and advance Delusion experiments by manipulating Ei into issuing the Sakoku and Vision Hunt Decrees.
• Ei believed Makoto’s account and felt guilty that her decisions had brought suffering and death to Inazuma’s people.

Makoto reunited with Ei, then revealed how the Tri-Commission had betrayed Inazuma and urged Ei to handle the crisis carefully. After Makoto returned to Li Yue’s body, Ei told Li Yue her identity and invited him to challenge her at the Tenshukaku.

• Makoto apologized to Ei for leaving her with the burdens of ruling Inazuma, then confronted Yae Miko about aiding the Kamisato clan and the resistance.
• Yae Miko confessed that the Kamisato clan had secretly supported the resistance, and Ei learned that all three commissions had become entangled with opposing factions.
• Makoto explained that Li Yue had learned Inazuma’s secrets through Greater Lord Rukkhadevata’s power, while Yae Miko persuaded Ei not to kill everyone involved without considering the consequences.
• Makoto told Ei that she would return to Liyue with Li Yue, then left his body and urged Ei to prepare for Li Yue’s challenge.
• After Li Yue woke, Ei revealed that she was the Electro Archon and declared that she would await his challenge at the Tenshukaku.

After the Resistance surrendered, Li Yue arrived in Inazuma and publicly challenged Raiden Ei, prompting her to make their fight a contract. Their battle began with Ei’s blade striking Li Yue’s unshaken shield.

• Kujou Sara returned to Inazuma City with the captured Resistance after Watatsumi Island surrendered to the Shogunate Army.
• Ei summoned the Tri-Commission and waited before the Statue of the Omnipresent God as Inazuma’s residents gathered.
• Yae Miko brought Li Yue before Ei, and Li Yue declared that Ei was the challenger before the crowd.
• Ei demanded that Li Yue remain in Inazuma if he lost, and Li Yue accepted the contract.
• Ei attacked Li Yue with Grass Cutting Gleam, but his golden shield blocked her strike.

Ei fought Li Yue above Inazuma, first with her transformed Raiden Shogun and then with her ultimate slash, while Li Yue countered using Makoto’s power. After Li Yue stopped the resulting tsunami and revealed a wooden spirit resembling Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, he fused it with Takemikazuchi’s lightning armor, leaving Ei facing a much larger combined opponent.

• Ei transformed the Raiden Shogun and struck Li Yue with the Blade of Lightning, but he escaped into the sky and summoned Takemikazuchi using Makoto’s power.
• Ei and Li Yue exchanged lightning attacks over Narukami Island, then moved their battle over the sea to protect ordinary people.
• Li Yue’s Takemikazuchi blocked Ei’s attacks and kicked her away when she attempted a surprise slash.
• Ei unleashed her ultimate slash, and Takemikazuchi met it with an equally enormous blade; Ei’s Authority of Thunder overwhelmed Li Yue’s lightning form.
• Li Yue froze the tsunami created by their clash, summoned a wooden spirit resembling Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, and covered it with Takemikazuchi’s lightning armor.