Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng learned from Venti that Dvalin was still recovering from Durin’s Abyssal poison and would likely awaken soon, leaving the Mondstadt dragon disaster unlikely to occur. Meanwhile, Lumine carefully tended her unusual fishing rod before heading into tense Liyue Harbor with Paimon to seek commissions.

• Lin Feng tended his power-infused vegetables, then met Venti and walked with him toward Bubu Pharmacy.
• Lin Feng asked about Mondstadt’s Elemental Dragon, and Venti explained that Dvalin was asleep while purifying Durin’s Abyssal blood.
• Venti said Dvalin’s recovery was nearly complete and that he had stayed in Liyue because the dragon’s condition was stable.
• Lin Feng concluded that the dragon disaster was unlikely to happen and agreed to visit Dvalin with Venti after it awakened.
• Lumine watered and sunbathed the strange fishing rod Lin Feng had given her, sensing that it seemed to need care.
• Lumine and Paimon decided to get breakfast and look for commissions through the Akasha system as they entered a tense Liyue Harbor.

Lumine and Paimon explored the Akasha mission system and Paimon impulsively accepted a Special Mission. Meanwhile, Zhongli explained how Lin Feng could help restore Azhdaha by recovering the dragon’s memories and using Dendro power to counter Erosion, then proposed visiting places tied to their past.

• Lumine and Paimon reviewed the available missions and learned that Special Missions could offer rare rewards but were unusually difficult.
• Paimon announced that she had accepted a Special Mission, surprising Lumine.
• After breakfast, Lin Feng confirmed to Zhongli that their main task was to gather Azhdaha’s memories from the ley lines and return them to his consciousness.
• Zhongli explained that restoring the ley lines would help Azhdaha’s memories flow back and that Lin Feng’s Dendro power might repair the damage caused by Erosion.
• Zhongli proposed visiting places where he and Azhdaha had left traces, both to gather memories and to prepare Lin Feng to contain the upheaval when Azhdaha was released.

Lin Feng arranged for Lumine and Paimon to search for relics connected to Azhdaha while Zhongli prepared Liyue for the dragon king’s release. Lumine accepted the task, joined the Adventurers' Guild, and then encountered an opera-dressed woman who had fallen beneath a tree branch.

• Zhongli planned to raise Liyue's alert level, evacuate people from the wilderness, and let Azhdaha release his pent-up anger during the effort to free him.
• Lin Feng used the Akasha system to assign Lumine and Paimon a task to find Azhdaha's scale or ancient weapons from the Yun Clan, Kun Clan, and Han Clan.
• Paimon accepted the task and explained its clues and variable reward to Lumine, who planned to look for the forging families after completing simpler work.
• Katheryne invited Lumine to join the Adventurers' Guild, and Lumine accepted without taking a test.
• Lumine and Paimon heard someone fall and found a black-haired woman in a phoenix crown sitting beneath a tree branch.

Lumine and Paimon met Yun Jin, who revealed that she belonged to a Liyue forging family and pointed them toward Guili Plains and Qingce Village for clues about the Geo Dragon King. Meanwhile, Tartaglia decided to investigate the rumors himself and prepared to travel to Guili Plains.

• Lumine and Paimon helped Yun Jin after she stumbled, then joined her for breakfast at Wanmin Restaurant.
• Yun Jin revealed that she was from the Yun Clan, a forging family, and explained that the Dragon King’s existence and history were uncertain.
• Yun Jin told Lumine and Paimon about rumors of the sealed Geo Dragon awakening, as well as the tense atmosphere and strange monster projections in Liyue.
• Yun Jin suggested that Guili Plains and Qingce Village might hold clues, and offered to ask her father to mark out a search area after her performance.
• Tartaglia heard reports about the rumors and decided to head to Guili Plains the next day to verify them and seek a powerful battle.

Lin Feng entered The Chasm’s Ley Lines to retrieve memories tied to Azhdaha while Zhongli prepared Liyue for their coming operation. In Guili Plains, Lumine tested her new weapon against a Ruin Guard and discovered it could cut the machine in two with ease.

• At Fuao Vale, Zhongli asked Lin Feng to separate Azhdaha’s memories from The Chasm’s Ley Lines, and Lin Feng agreed before entering them.
• Zhongli promised to prepare Liyue for the coming battle and said Lin Feng could contact him through the Akasha system if anything unexpected happened.
• Lumine and Paimon traveled through Guili Plains to investigate a Ruin Guard, and Lumine explained that she had received the Forest Regalia from Lin Feng.
• Lumine activated the Ruin Guard with Geo Elemental Power while Paimon hid nearby, then charged it with her sword instead of using ranged attacks.
• The Forest Regalia effortlessly cleaved the Ruin Guard in two, leaving Lumine and Paimon stunned.

Liyue prepared for the release of Azhdaha by evacuating residents, restricting travel, and mobilizing the Millelith, while Ningguang learned that the threat was a future disaster Rex Lapis had chosen to confront now. In the Guili Plains, Childe ignored a nearby explosion and led his advance party into newly exposed ruins.

• At Heyu Teahouse, merchants and scholars discussed the travel ban and feared a conflict involving the legendary Dragon King, and Brother Zhang agreed to keep his caravan out of restricted areas.
• Ningguang received reports that merchants and residents were being evacuated and the Millelith had taken defensive positions, then ordered her secretaries to hasten the notifications.
• Ganyu told Ningguang that Azhdaha had once fought Rex Lapis and that Rex Lapis was confronting a disaster that might otherwise erupt centuries or millennia later.
• Ningguang accepted Ganyu's explanation and hoped the merchant guilds would obey the warnings rather than risk entering the battlefield for profit.
• In the Guili Plains, a Ley Line tremor exposed a ruin entrance, and Childe led his advance party inside while leaving a nearby explosion unexplored.

Lumine and Paimon uncovered an ancient underground ruin while investigating a strange sound, as Yelan tracked Fatui movements nearby. Tartaglia reached the ruin’s core alone and challenged Lumine and Paimon to a fight over the treasures.

• Lumine defeated a Ruin Guard with a powerful sword and followed Paimon toward the source of a strange sound, while Paimon urged her to improve her use of Elemental Power.
• Yelan sent her subordinates the Treasure Hoarders’ location and went to investigate the strange sounds herself.
• Lumine and Paimon triggered an ancient mechanism, fell into an underground ruin, and chose to explore it before it collapsed.
• Tartaglia ordered his Fatui squad to leave, then broke through the blocked passages alone and reached the ruins’ core.
• Tartaglia saw Lumine and Paimon beside the treasure and challenged them to fight.

Lumine fought Tartaglia in the underground ruins while Paimon watched and Yelan prepared to intervene. When Tartaglia knocked away Lumine’s weapon and tried to knock her unconscious, Lin Feng’s lingering power erupted from her earpiece and blasted him into the rock wall, leaving Lumine armed with Lin Feng’s powerful fishing rod.

• Tartaglia introduced himself as the Eleventh Fatui Harbinger and challenged Lumine to a fight while Paimon hid nearby.
• Lumine used her Geo power to strike Tartaglia, but he activated his Delusion and transformed his Hydro blades into an Electro spear.
• Lumine met Tartaglia’s charge head-on, and the collision blasted apart the hall’s ceiling and sent her dagger flying.
• Yelan sensed a vast presence pass through the ruins and reassured Paimon that Lumine was not in greater danger.
• Tartaglia reached for Lumine’s nape, but the emerald phantom beside her ear flared and hurled him into the rock wall.
• Lin Feng briefly checked the fight through the ley lines as Lumine picked up his fishing rod and swung it at Tartaglia.

Lumine defeated Tartaglia with the fishing rod Lin Feng had given her, and Yelan took charge of the aftermath. The Travelers claimed the altar’s spoils while Yelan arrested Tartaglia for endangering Liyue’s security.

• Tartaglia activated his Foul Legacy Transformation, but Lumine’s strike with the fishing rod unleashed overwhelming Dendro power and buried him in the ruins.
• Lumine calmed the Dendro energy before it could kill Tartaglia, and Yelan arrived to pull him from the pit and treat him.
• Lumine told Paimon that Lin Feng’s gifts had helped them survive, and they agreed to bring him a gift after finishing their task.
• Yelan offered Lumine and Paimon the altar’s spoils and promised to conceal their identities by blaming the damage on the Fatui.
• As Lumine and Paimon opened the altar mechanism, Yelan shackled the recovering Tartaglia and formally placed him under arrest.

Lumine and Paimon recovered the Geo Dragon King's scale from the ruins after discovering that it fit into a scene depicted on ancient ritual tablets, then left with Yelan and Tartaglia. In Liyue Harbor, Lumine reflected on the gods' departures and set out to submit the quest item at the Sumeru Office, hoping its reward would help her understand the gods and lead her toward Scholar Lin Feng.

• Lumine used the Akasha system to confirm that the scale met the quest's requirements, but she and Paimon could not lift it from the altar.
• Lumine and Paimon pieced together nine ritual tablets and found a carving of a festival attended by gods and ordinary people in Guili Plains.
• Yelan offered to take Lumine and Paimon back to Liyue Harbor, and Lumine used the tablets to draw the scale into a matching recess in the carving.
• Yelan promised to arrange Lumine's quest reward and limit the incident's fallout before leaving with the bound Tartaglia.
• Lumine wondered why only the Geo Archon remained commonly remembered among Liyue's gods and considered how that might relate to her missing brother.
• Lumine and Paimon headed to the Sumeru Office to submit the scale, and Lumine planned to seek more information from Scholar Lin Feng.

Lin Feng finished collecting Azhdaha’s memories from Liyue’s ley lines and learned how Erosion was gradually destroying the Geo Dragon’s memories, emotions, and reason. Meanwhile, Lumine and Paimon completed a lengthy reward survey and received two reward options to choose from.

• Lin Feng examined the offering Aether had recovered, recognized its powerful memories, and postponed deciding on a suitable reward until he left the ley lines.
• Lin Feng completed his search and concluded that Azhdaha’s Erosion worked through withering, stripping away his memories, emotions, judgment, and instincts until only destructive behavior remained.
• Lin Feng considered how Erosion could force Zhongli to choose between Liyue and his old friend, then left the ley lines and steadied himself by feeding Xiao Bai.
• Lumine and Paimon discussed their mission, and Lumine requested protective equipment and greater access to information about gods rather than information about her brother.
• The Akasha system offered Lumine and Paimon a choice between a Sumeru residence, Mora, and rare ingredients, or a Divine Power Crystal and priority access to god-level missions.

Lumine and Paimon chose a Divine Power Crystal as their reward, then tried to find a gift for Lin Feng and ended up tangled in ribbons after taking Ying'er's advice. Lin Feng found them and invited them to ask him questions, leaving Lumine with a chance to learn more about his concealed identities.

• Lumine read that the Divine Power Crystal could protect its recipients from attacks on a god's level, and she and Paimon chose the reward focused on learning about gods and staying safe.
• Lumine and Paimon searched for a gift for Lin Feng, and Ying'er offered to demonstrate her wrapping technique using Paimon as the model.
• Paimon retaliated by wrapping Lumine in ribbons, and Lin Feng arrived just as they were tangled together and joked about declining that kind of gift.
• Lin Feng hosted the embarrassed pair for tea and explained that their sentiment mattered more than the gift itself.
• Lin Feng invited Lumine and Paimon to ask him questions before he left the next day.

Lin Feng explained his connection to Sumeru’s god and the divine power in Lumine’s fishing rod, then agreed to train her in using elemental power. After demonstrating how flexibly Dendro could be wielded, he began remedial Geo training on an island.

• Lumine asked Lin Feng about Sumeru’s god and why the fishing rod he had given her was so powerful, and he said he had received power from the Dendro Archon.
• Paimon asked Lin Feng to correct Lumine’s battle habits, and he agreed to teach her elemental control.
• Lin Feng teleported Lumine and Paimon from Liyue Harbor to an uninhabited island for training.
• Lumine demonstrated her Geo attack, and Lin Feng realized she knew only one rigid combat technique.
• Lin Feng demonstrated using Dendro for shielding, healing, strengthening, and cutting targets, then began teaching Lumine basic Geo defense and enhancement.

Lumine and Paimon received their quest reward while Lin Feng and Zhongli prepared to release Azhdaha by repairing Liyue’s ley lines. The restoration awakened the Geo Dragon King and stirred monsters and ancient enemies across the region, leaving Liyue’s settlements under threat.

• Lumine and Paimon met Laramoth, the messenger carrying their crystallized divine power reward.
• Lin Feng asked Zhongli about the giant tree at Azhdaha’s Lair, and Zhongli explained that Azhdaha’s true body remained sealed in a domain while years of leaked power had transformed the tree.
• Zhongli asked Lin Feng to restore Liyue’s damaged ley lines and merge Azhdaha’s separated consciousness back into his body after the seal was released.
• Lin Feng reconnected the ley lines from The Chasm to Blackcliff Valley, triggering tremors beneath Azhdaha’s Lair and causing the sealed Dragon King to begin awakening.
• Black clouds and ley-line monster projections spread across Liyue as the Millelith defended settlements, while ancient enemies re-formed in the wilderness and moved toward Liyue Harbor and Qingce Village.

Liyue’s defenses held against waves of projected monsters as the Millelith and their allies prepared for Azhdaha’s awakening. Zhongli and the three Adepti withdrew the seal, and Azhdaha emerged beneath Mt. Tianheng, roaring at Morax.

• Aranara teams calmed panicked residents across Liyue Harbor, while Ruoxin comforted Xiao Liu in Qingce Village about her father Jiayi.
• A Millelith commander reported approaching Archon Residue, and Xiao and Ranbirika destroyed it after the exorcist formation held it back.
• Mountain Shaper told Zhongli that the protective barriers were ready, and Lin Feng promised to contain the battle’s effects.
• Zhongli ordered the Millelith, Xiao, and Ganyu to withdraw, then instructed the three Adepti to open the realm and release Azhdaha.
• The seal’s power receded, the earth split across Mt. Tianheng, and Azhdaha emerged, roaring at Morax with fury and resentment.

Azhdaha escaped his seal in a dream and rampaged across Liyue, while Lin Feng secretly controlled him and Zhongli prepared to face his old friend. The chapter ended with Zhongli standing before Azhdaha in his divine robes, asking him to wake from the dream.

• Azhdaha broke free from beneath Mt. Tianheng and attacked Zhongli, blaming him for his imprisonment and suffering.
• Azhdaha drew power from the ley lines and unleashed a devastating elemental attack, then continued toward Liyue Harbor and destroyed the city in the dream.
• Lin Feng revealed to Zhongli that he had repeatedly controlled Azhdaha and explained that Erosion had erased the dragon’s understanding of his condition.
• Zhongli and Lin Feng decided that Zhongli would resolve Azhdaha’s final resentment while Lin Feng restored his memories and protected him from further Erosion.
• Zhongli descended before Azhdaha in his divine robe, took up a Stone Spear, and told his old friend it was time to wake from the dream.

Lin Feng and Zhongli restored Azhdaha’s memories by letting him battle Zhongli, whose full strength stirred the past he had lost. Azhdaha remembered his old life and welcomed Zhongli as Morax again.

• Azhdaha awoke from his nightmare and challenged Zhongli, while Tartaglia anxiously worried in his Liyue prison.
• Zhongli fought Azhdaha near Mt. Tianheng as Lin Feng used Dendro power to return the dragon’s memories and emotions.
• Lin Feng explained to Mountain Shaper and the other Adepti that battle could awaken Azhdaha’s memories of the years he had lived alongside Zhongli.
• Zhongli unleashed Planet Befall, and Azhdaha recognized the attack and recalled the words associated with it.
• Lin Feng released the suppressed memories, restoring Azhdaha’s clear golden-red eyes as vines and trees covered his body.
• Zhongli welcomed Azhdaha back, and Azhdaha answered that he had returned.

After Zhongli and Azhdaha reunited, Lin Feng helped secure Liyue and dealt with the battle’s aftermath, including animated plants and remaining monster projections. Dottore witnessed the projections being destroyed and abandoned his mission in Liyue, setting sail for Mondstadt instead.

• Lumine and Paimon discussed the battle, their Divine Power Crystal, and a masked figure with test tubes that Lumine had spotted among the monsters.
• Mountain Shaper mourned the destruction of his abode, and Lin Feng explained that his control over Dendro had caused animated plants to appear near Mt. Aocang.
• Lin Feng gave the animated plants to Mountain Shaper to guard his rebuilt abode, then went to clear the remaining projected monsters across Liyue.
• Dottore watched the projected monsters turn to ashes and, remembering a vanished segment in Sumeru, abandoned his plans to enter Liyue.
• Dottore boarded a mechanical ship and set course for Mondstadt, leaving the imprisoned Eleventh Seat behind.

Lin Feng restored Azhdaha’s sanity, reunited him with Zhongli, and returned the Geovishaps he had rescued. He then used the Dendro Authority and the Akasha to restore Azhdaha’s place in Liyue’s memories, leaving the ancient dragon poised to be remembered by the world again.

• Azhdaha transformed into a human form and learned from Zhongli and Lin Feng about the centuries he had missed and Liyue’s losses during the Abyss invasion.
• Lin Feng revealed that he had gathered the surviving Geovishaps and transferred them into Azhdaha’s domain.
• Azhdaha thanked Lin Feng, gave him a crystal containing rock-dragon origin power, and promised to help him learn the Geo Authority.
• Lin Feng told Azhdaha that his Erosion had also caused the world to forget him and asked to reverse that effect using memories stored in the Ley Lines.
• Lin Feng activated the Dendro Gnosis and the Akasha to share Azhdaha’s forgotten history with Liyue’s people and create a vivid dream of the past for its living beings.

Lin Feng reversed the effects of Erosion on Liyue’s people, allowing them to begin recalling Azhdaha’s forgotten history and deeds. After explaining his plans to awaken Geo Authority and train to control it, Lin Feng invited Azhdaha to stay in Liyue Harbor with him and Zhongli.

• Lin Feng’s power caused Liyue’s living beings to briefly witness fragments of their history and loosened the subconscious influence that had made them overlook Azhdaha.
• A Millelith captain and soldier realized they had previously known about Azhdaha but had been unable to recall the records during the operation.
• Azhdaha sensed that his emptiness had faded and that he had regained former believers, while Lin Feng explained that he had merely uncovered memories Azhdaha had left behind.
• Zhongli asked when Lin Feng would awaken Geo Authority, and Lin Feng explained the process to a bewildered Azhdaha.
• Lin Feng decided to practice controlling Geo with Zhongli and Azhdaha before assembling the Authority, and Azhdaha offered advice based on his own experience.
• Lin Feng invited Azhdaha to stay in Liyue Harbor while a new dwelling was arranged, and Azhdaha accepted.