Chapter Summaries

The convoy traveled across the lush Guili Plains as Collei explained the many titles used for Lin Feng. When hundreds of Treasure Hoarders ambushed the group and disabled the lead machine, Lin Feng ordered the convoy to defend itself and prepared to join the rescue.

• Layla and Dehya admired the transformed Guili Plains, and Collei explained the origins of Lin Feng’s titles to Paimon and the others.
• Paimon suggested setting up camp, but the driver reported hundreds of concealed Treasure Hoarders ahead.
• Lin Feng recognized that the ambush involved devices interfering with the machines and allowed the convoy to approach.
• The lead autonomous machine was disabled and surrounded, prompting Lin Feng to order the rear machines to tighten formation and deploy their defenses.
• Lin Feng announced that he would enter the encirclement with combat-trained security team members to rescue the trapped companions.

Lin Feng and his reinforcements reached the Scholars’ besieged convoy after Jasiwal led a group of Treasure Hoarders to attack the unguarded teams in the rear. Lin Feng sealed the battlefield by detonating valuable Elemental Crystals, leaving Lumine and himself to face the trapped attackers.

• Jasiwal judged the main siege too disorganized and led his men to intercept the Scholars’ rear teams instead.
• Kaeya struggled to defend the autonomous mechanism while Klee, Amber, and Venti fought the Treasure Hoarders; a scholar called for engineering machinery to assist.
• The Treasure Hoarders shattered Kaeya’s ice wall with elemental flasks, but Lin Feng and his reinforcements arrived and Rice Ball shielded the defenders.
• Lin Feng told Amber and Klee to rest, assigned Dehya to protect the exhausted fighters, and sent Lumine to fight freely.
• Lin Feng threw Elemental Crystals around the battlefield, triggering explosions that formed a trench and blocked the Treasure Hoarders’ escape.

Lumine and Lin Feng fought the Treasure Hoarders, with Lin Feng demonstrating extraordinary control over several elements while claiming to use less power than Lumine. As the front battle neared its end, a second mercenary squad arrived and gave the Akademiya Scholars an excuse to deploy their Perpetual Mechanical Array.

• Lin Feng told Lumine to fight while he limited himself to the strength of an ordinary Vision holder, and warned that poor results would earn her extra training.
• Lumine shielded herself from the Treasure Hoarders’ barrage while Lin Feng caught their elemental bottles in a green domain and reshaped their energy into powerful elemental spears.
• Dehya praised Lin Feng and Lumine’s fighting, Klee cheered them on, and Kaeya wondered how Lin Feng could wield multiple elements and fight with such precision.
• As the remaining Treasure Hoarders were subdued, Jasiwal’s mercenary squad approached from behind and fired an arrow at the autonomous mechanism.
• The Scholars eagerly prepared to deploy their Perpetual Mechanical Array against the new mercenaries, treating the arrow as justification to join the battle.

Lumine, Paimon, Lin Feng, and Kaeya helped capture a large force of Treasure Hoarders using Sumeru’s powerful construction machines, then arranged for most of the prisoners to be handed over to the Millelith. After Lin Feng explained how a gift from the Geo Dragon King let him draw on ley line elements, the group reached Mondstadt.

• Lumine and Paimon found the scholars’ construction machines had overwhelmed the Treasure Hoarders attacking the rear.
• Kaeya thanked the group, promised to seek rewards for them, and agreed to send most of the prisoners to Liyue for rehabilitation work.
• Amber contacted a Millelith outpost, and its captain accepted the captured Treasure Hoarders.
• Paimon asked Lin Feng how he used multiple elements, and he explained that the Geo Dragon King had granted him power connected to the ley lines.
• Lin Feng grabbed Paimon to tug her cheeks after she admitted she mostly wanted elemental powers for convenient food and drinks.
• After a night at Wangshu Inn and two days of travel, Lin Feng and the group arrived outside Mondstadt City.

Lin Feng, Lumine, and Paimon arrived in Mondstadt, where Kaeya arranged accommodations for the Akademiya scholars and directed them to meet Acting Grand Master Jean. Paimon summoned Noelle with the famous call, while Jean, exhausted from overwork, collapsed in her office before their meeting.

• Kaeya arranged rooms for the Akademiya scholars, took the captured Treasure Hoarders for interrogation, and sent Lin Feng and the others to the Knights of Favonius headquarters with Amber.
• Amber guided Lin Feng, Lumine, and Paimon through Mondstadt and explained the city's relaxed way of life.
• Paimon called Noelle's name, and Noelle arrived to offer help.
• Jean considered rewarding the travelers for capturing the Treasure Hoarders and reflected on Mondstadt's precarious situation while working through the night.
• Jean stood up to fix her hair, became dizzy, and collapsed before she could answer a knock at her office door.

After Lin Feng helped Jean recover from collapsing at her desk, Jean thanked the visitors and rewarded Lumine for helping capture Mondstadt’s Treasure Hoarders. Lumine accepted a Gunnhildr Family residence and the title of Honorary Knight, while Jean turned to consider how to compensate Lin Feng.

• Lin Feng sensed that Jean had worked herself unconscious, and Amber hurried into the office to find her collapsed at her desk.
• Lin Feng used a fast-growing, fatigue-relieving plant and Dendro Elemental Power to help Jean wake and recover.
• Jean thanked Lin Feng and the others, then explained that the Treasure Hoarder arrests had left the Knights short-handed and increased her workload.
• Jean offered Lumine Mora and a Gunnhildr Family property in Mondstadt as additional rewards; Lumine accepted the residence.
• Jean offered Lumine the title of Honorary Knight, and Lumine accepted while promising to help Mondstadt in the future.
• Jean turned to Lin Feng and began considering additional compensation for his treatment and assistance.

Lin Feng and Jean finalized expanded land and cooperation agreements between the Akademiya and Mondstadt, while Jean thanked him for treating her and offered to connect him with Albedo. Jean praised Lin Feng’s devotion to Sumeru, leaving him speechless.

• Jean offered the Akademiya a permanent office and expanded land for its branch campus, citing the benefits of education and security for Mondstadt.
• Lin Feng accepted the offer on the Akademiya’s behalf and agreed that its personnel would help capture fleeing mercenaries and Treasure Hoarders and support local education.
• Jean thanked Lin Feng for treating her, and he asked her to introduce him to Albedo so he could learn about the Chief Alchemist’s techniques.
• Jean explained that Albedo welcomed students of alchemy but that few people could understand his methods, and Lin Feng said the opportunity could benefit talented scholars in Spantamad.
• Jean praised Lin Feng’s dedication to Sumeru, and he was left speechless by her unexpected admiration.

After finishing negotiations in Mondstadt, Lin Feng suggested that Lumine visit a Statue of the Seven and practice using Anemo to control groups of enemies. Meanwhile, Dottore planned an operation involving the Dragon of Anemo and took a questioning Fatui recruit to his laboratory.

• Jean arranged a place for Lin Feng and Lumine to stay and promised to help search for Lumine's brother before Amber and Noelle made her rest.
• Lin Feng explained to Paimon that Mondstadt's leaders had kept an outdated system of personal governance, and he suggested that a Divine Decree from the God of Anemo might change it.
• Lin Feng urged Lumine to visit a nearby Statue of the Seven and learn to gather enemies with Anemo before her award ceremony.
• At an underground Dragonspine base, Dottore dismissed the captured Treasure Hoarders and discussed his plans to seize the power of the Dragon of Anemo.
• Dottore promised a Fatui recruit a reward for asking why the base was so remote, then dragged him toward the laboratory.

Lisa learned that a scholar had revived Jean after she collapsed, and became curious about his abilities and possible connection to the gods. At Windrise, Lin Feng explained that Lumine’s unusual resistance to Elemental Power could let her learn to fly, giving her hope as she approached the Statue of the Seven.

• Amber interrupted Lisa’s afternoon tea to report that Jean had collapsed from exhaustion but had awakened and wanted to keep working.
• Lisa learned that a scholar accompanying Amber had helped revive Jean and wondered whether rumors about the scholar being favored by a god were true.
• Lin Feng, Lumine, and Paimon reached the Statue of the Seven at Windrise after dealing with Slimes along the way.
• Lumine asked whether gaining Anemo Elemental Power could help her regain her ability to fly, and Lin Feng explained that most humans could not fly through elemental control alone.
• Lin Feng told Lumine that her resistance to Elemental Power was exceptional and that she could learn to fly if she mastered the right method.

Lumine awakened Anemo Elemental Power at Windrise, and Lin Feng gave her training materials before staying behind to meet Venti. Venti asked Lin Feng to help restore Dvalin and, after gathering seven elements and three Archon Authorities, alter the essence of the Mondstadt region.

• Lumine resonated with the Windrise statue and gained Anemo Elemental Power, which also strengthened her Geo Elemental Power.
• Lin Feng gave Lumine guides to Anemo control and elemental healing, then stayed at Windrise while Lumine and Paimon returned to Mondstadt.
• Lin Feng summoned Venti by threatening to uncover the wine he had buried, and Venti asked him to use the power released by awakening Anemo Archon Authority to help restore Dvalin.
• Venti revealed that his true commission was for Lin Feng to gather all seven elements and three Elemental Archon Authorities, then use them to alter the essence of Mondstadt.

Lin Feng agreed to help Venti change Mondstadt’s climate at its roots by altering the ley lines, after learning that Venti had spent thousands of years using his power to keep the region warm. Venti realized the plan would involve studying Abyssal Power, while Xiao Bai was away delivering something for Lin Feng.

• Venti asked Lin Feng to help use several Authorities to alter Mondstadt’s laws and climate, explaining that maintaining the region’s warmth consumed too much of his power.
• Lin Feng explained that Mondstadt’s natural climate was bitterly cold and that the snow mountain’s conditions were normal, while Venti’s Anemo power had made the rest of the nation habitable.
• Venti recalled being warned away from studying the ley lines and asked Lin Feng to help free him from the ongoing burden of maintaining Mondstadt’s climate.
• Lin Feng agreed to try changing the climate at its root, and Venti celebrated by retrieving and drinking wine he had buried five hundred years earlier.
• Venti asked where Xiao Bai had gone, and Lin Feng said he had sent him to deliver something to a friend that would help with the plan.
• Lin Feng showed Venti a sphere of pure Abyssal Power and explained that understanding the Abyss was a prerequisite for altering the ley lines, leaving Venti worried about the work ahead.

Aether received a request to help study Abyssal Power and considered how it might help defeat the Heavenly Principles. In Mondstadt, Lumine and Paimon received their new home from Old Goth, while Dottore prepared to capture Dvalin, confident the injured dragon would be an easy target.

• Aether read a letter asking to use the Abyss Order's knowledge to study Abyssal Power and decided to consider how to show its value.
• Lumine and Paimon met Old Goth, who verified their documents and gave them the keys to a Gunnhildr Family property.
• Old Goth explained that Fatui members had remained in Mondstadt after The Doctor subdued Ursa, and that Pantalone had booked the Goth Grand Hotel indefinitely.
• Dottore learned that Dvalin's temple had been located and announced preparations to capture the dragon.
• Dottore dismissed Klober's warning about Dvalin's strength and planned to divert outside attention while he dealt with the supposedly wounded dragon.

Layla began choosing an office for the expanded Akademiya branch in Mondstadt, while Lin Feng dealt with Venti, who had come to discuss the Fatui and Dvalin. Venti proposed restoring Dvalin’s power so the dragon could regain the people’s recognition and respond to The Doctor’s interference, leaving Lin Feng alarmed by how much the plan resembled his earlier actions in Sumeru.

• Layla worried about overseeing the Akademiya’s newly expanded land and decided to explore Mondstadt to choose an office site.
• Lin Feng returned to his room and found Venti waiting with a drink, then threw the trespassing bard into Cider Lake.
• Venti told Lin Feng that unrecorded Fatui had disturbed his barrier near Dvalin and asked to awaken Lin Feng’s wind Authority and restore Dvalin’s power within two days.
• Venti explained that Dvalin’s return could help the dragon regain the people’s recognition while giving Mondstadt grounds to keep the Fatui in check.
• Lin Feng realized Venti’s plan resembled the scheme he had carried out in Sumeru and wondered how he had ended up repeating it in Mondstadt.

Barbara witnessed the Skyward Harp respond to Venti’s Divine Decree, which announced that he was welcoming an old friend and bringing an extraordinary visitor from Sumeru to Mondstadt. As Lin Feng set out to explore the city, Lumine and Paimon arrived at Angel’s Share and came face-to-face with him.

• After the morning service, Barbara found the Favonius Scripture turning its pages beside the floating Skyward Harp and recognized it as a sign from Barbatos.
• Venti’s Divine Decree said he had borrowed the Skyward Harp to welcome an old friend and had brought an extraordinary new friend from Sumeru, warning Mondstadt residents not to panic over changes.
• Lin Feng questioned Venti about leaving Mondstadt’s problems to him, and Venti looked forward to retiring once Lin Feng had adjusted the environment.
• Lin Feng left his lodging to look for familiar Mondstadt foods, while Lumine and Paimon set out to find an affordable place to eat.
• Locals recommended Angel’s Share to Lumine and Paimon, who discovered it was a tavern and went inside looking for food.
• At Angel’s Share, a blond young man in black opened the door and froze when he saw Lumine.

Dainsleif met Lumine at Angel's Share, bought a meal for her hungry companions, and questioned her about her journey and views on Sumeru. He left after warning her that Sumeru's god might be the original master of the world and a danger to its living beings.

• Dainsleif blocked the tavern entrance before stepping aside and inviting Lumine and Paimon to share a meal with him.
• Paimon and the Rice Ball ate enormous quantities of food while Dainsleif introduced himself and asked Lumine why she was traveling.
• Lumine said she believed a powerful god was key to a nation's defense and predicted Sumeru's growing power would create a vast gap between it and other nations.
• Lumine defended Sumeru's god as friendly, but Dainsleif called her naïve and explained that he was traveling to destroy the Abyss.
• Dainsleif paid for the meal, said he and Lumine would meet again, and warned her to be careful of Sumeru's god, whom he suspected was the world's original master.

Lumine and Paimon discussed Dainsleif’s warnings about Sumeru’s god and the world’s original master, while Lin Feng arranged for Aether and the Abyss Order to help Venti’s plan in Mondstadt. The chapter ended as Aether stayed behind at the Temple of the Thousand Winds to meet Dainsleif.

• Lumine told Paimon that Dainsleif seemed exceptionally powerful and had spoken as if he knew her, while Paimon suspected his warnings about Sumeru’s god were true.
• Lumine searched the Akasha for ancient history but found no useful records, then resolved to investigate the world’s earlier inhabitants later.
• Lin Feng explained that Venti wanted Abyss Mages to help The Doctor’s plan by obstructing the Knights of Favonius after the plan was exposed.
• Aether accepted the commission, and Lin Feng promised there would be no casualties and that he would enhance the participants with Abyssal Power.
• Lin Feng left to get food, while Aether remained at the temple to meet Dainsleif.

Aether met Dainsleif at the ancient temple ruins, where they discussed Lin Feng’s mysterious power and the Abyss Order’s changed aims. Dainsleif left convinced Lin Feng was the returned King of Dragons and warned that dragonkind would soon challenge the Heavenly Principles’ order, while Aether remained unconvinced.

• Aether met Dainsleif without bringing the Abyss Order, and explained that the Order no longer planned to oppose him.
• Dainsleif warned Aether that Lin Feng was dangerous and might betray him, while Aether argued that Lin Feng could be an ally against the curse and the Abyss.
• Dainsleif questioned whether Lin Feng was truly a Descender, suggesting he might instead be recovering the power of an ancient dragon.
• Dainsleif described Natlan’s records of a King of Dragons who returned from beyond the world and argued that Lin Feng fit the clues.
• Dainsleif predicted that the Elemental Dragons would awaken and unite under their king to challenge the Heavenly Principles, then left Aether with a warning.
• Aether considered Dainsleif’s theory but dismissed it as unlikely, reasoning that Lin Feng’s past requests had nothing to do with dragonkind or the world’s order.

After lunch at Good Hunter, Lin Feng examined a strange tooth Xiao Bai had found and learned from Venti that it belonged to Durin. Venti planned to take Lin Feng to Old Mondstadt the next day to help restore the Anemo Authority and search for any remaining power of Decarabian.

• Lin Feng enjoyed Good Hunter's food, considered improving the Akademiya cafeteria with Guoba's help, and then left to find Venti.
• Xiao Bai gave Lin Feng an enormous tooth, which Lin Feng sensed carried traces of the Abyss and alchemy.
• Venti identified the tooth as Durin's, explained Durin's nature and Dvalin's past exposure to its poisonous blood, and offered to take Lin Feng to see Durin after Dvalin recovered.
• Lin Feng returned the tooth to Xiao Bai after shrinking it and judging that it no longer posed a danger.
• Venti said he would take Lin Feng to Old Mondstadt the next day, where the active Anemo elements would make deciphering the Anemo Archon Authority easier.
• Lin Feng agreed to search for any remnants of Decarabian's Authority and prepare further before Dvalin faced Dottore.

Mona woke in Mondstadt and agreed to begin searching for the heir and entrusted box after playing with Klee. Meanwhile, Lin Feng tried to awaken Anemo power in the Old Mondstadt Ruins, but his attempt produced a colossal tornado that left the city fearing Decarabian had returned.

• Mona considered ignoring her master's task but decided to search for its target after meeting Klee to dig up a treasure.
• Lin Feng and Venti arrived at the Statue of the Seven in the Old Mondstadt Ruins, where Lin Feng prepared to draw on the remnants of Decarabian's power.
• Lin Feng connected to the Gnosis and Statue of the Seven, gathering Anemo energy and awakening an immense storm vortex.
• Venti worked to contain the tornado with a barrier while the storm darkened the ruins.
• Mondstadt citizens saw the tornado, feared the King of the Tower had returned, then recalled Barbatos's warning not to panic and speculated that he had invited a god from Sumeru to help.

Jean and Lisa learned that the gods were handling the Anemo anomaly, while Venti helped Lin Feng complete the awakening of the Anemo Elemental Authority. Lin Feng briefly merged the seven elements and gave Venti a crystal that could grant Dvalin temporary Divine Throne Authority to help defeat The Doctor.

• Lisa told Jean that the anomaly’s power resembled that of an unknown god, but the distant tornado posed little danger to Mondstadt because the gods were present.
• A breeze carried the gods’ reassurance through Mondstadt, and Sumeru Scholars explained to Sara that they trusted the gods and were accustomed to major changes in Sumeru.
• As the black vortex dispersed, seven elements gathered above the Old Mondstadt Ruins but collided and failed to merge into a lasting crown.
• Lin Feng thanked Venti for helping awaken the Anemo Elemental Authority and said the resulting power could help Dvalin recover.
• Lin Feng formed an Anemo Elemental Crystal that could temporarily share Divine Throne Authority with Dvalin, giving it a chance to swiftly defeat The Doctor.