Recaps

Lumine underwent a strengthening ceremony at the Throne of the Sacred Flame, where six blazing flint ores awakened her Wayfarer’s Seat constellation. After remembering her journey and reaffirming that it was not over, all six Constellation Nodes lit up, and her appearance began to change.

• Theresa led Lumine and their companions to the Dragon Ruins, where the Captain, Capitano, rested at the Throne of the Sacred Flame.
• Mavuika brought out six pieces of blazing flint ore, and Theresa told Lumine to present them to the Captain while recalling her adventures.
• The flint ores rose from the box and sent phlogiston beams into Lumine as the Captain’s words guided her through memories of her journey.
• Lumine’s Wayfarer’s Seat constellation formed, and its first five Constellation Nodes lit as she remembered her home, farewells, friendships, hardships, and determination.
• Lumine decided that her journey would continue beyond finding her brother, and the sixth Constellation Node lit.
• All six Nodes shone, and Lumine’s appearance began to change.

Lumine awakened golden-red Sourceflame power, gained wings, and discovered she could fly. After showing off her new strength in the sky, she overused the power and needed to rest.

• Lumine's Phlogiston changed to golden-red Sourceflame, and fiery wings formed behind her as part of her sealed power broke free.
• Ajaw recognized the trace of the Pyro Dragon King's power in Lumine's flames and grew jealous, while Kinich and Himeko teased him.
• Lumine felt her strength had increased dramatically and told Paimon she could fly, then activated her Sourceflame enhancement and flew around the sky.
• Stellaron Essence joked about Lumine being a lighter girl, while Theresa noticed Himeko's longing and Paimon's envy of Lumine's ability to grow stronger.
• Lumine descended in a burst of fire after overusing her new power, and Mavuika reassured everyone that she only needed to rest.

Kachina encountered Natlan warriors assimilated by the Abyss, and Lumine rescued her as the Abyss began a covert counterattack across Teyvat. Old Yang explained that the Abyss had grown stronger and that Sumeru, Inazuma, and Snezhnaya were especially affected.

• Kachina found the warriors at a dark camp acting strangely before they transformed into Abyss monsters and attacked her.
• Lumine cut down the monsters, flew Kachina through the mist, and brought her back to the Sacred Flame Stadium.
• Mavuika sent hot-air balloons to search for survivors, and shaken people returned to the stadium.
• Old Yang explained that changed fate had amplified the Abyss's power and that abnormalities were appearing across Teyvat.
• Old Yang said Sumeru, Inazuma, and Snezhnaya were suffering the worst incursions, with Irminsul under attack and the Lesser Jade Grass King requesting help.

Zhong Li returned to Liyue as the others coordinated aid across Teyvat, while Theresa purified the Night Lord and strengthened her authority. The Night Lord went to cleanse her kingdom, and Theresa began purifying Natlan’s Abyss corruption with the Holy Light of Order.

• Zhong Li sensed that Liyue was in danger and flew back there, while the others discussed how the Stellaron Hunters were helping Nod-Krai, Inazuma, and Sumeru.
• The Night Lord emerged severely corrupted by the Abyss, and Theresa purified her with the Power of Binding, transforming her into a cat-eared girl and greatly strengthening her authority.
• The Night Lord discovered she could control souls, cleanse their Abyss contamination, and send them into the Ley Lines, so she went to cleanse the Night Lord Kingdom.
• Himeko reported that March 7th and Changye Yue had reached Sumeru to protect Irminsul with the Lesser Jade Grass King and the Great Tree King of Abundance.
• Theresa raised the Oath of Order and spread platinum light across Natlan, dissolving the haze, Impostors, and Abyss monsters and sending purified spirits to the Ley Lines.

Theresa purified Natlan’s Sacred Flame Stadium and the surrounding area, while the nations used their defenses to resist the Abyss. Gustot abandoned its assaults elsewhere and gathered nearly all the Abyss Power in Natlan to create a powerful enemy, setting the stage for a decisive battle.

• Theresa’s Power of Binding purified the Abyssal monsters around the Sacred Flame Stadium, and she deliberately spared Natlan’s corrupted warriors.
• Liyue, Inazuma, Sumeru, and Fontaine used their allies and special powers to limit the Abyss’s invasions.
• Mavuika rallied Natlan’s tribes to gather at the Sacred Flame Stadium and prepare to counterattack.
• Gustot used Ley Lines’ memories to imitate Kuxiuteer and concentrated nearly all of Teyvat’s Abyss Power in Natlan’s extinct volcano.
• Theresa raised a statue of Order in Natlan, blessing the gathered warriors as they prepared for the decisive battle against the Abyss.

Theresa’s Power of Binding empowered Natlan’s warriors and their allies, while Paimon transformed into a temporary muscle-bound fighter. Theresa then revealed that Gustot had gathered the Abyss’s power at Tulan Sacred Mountain to revive Dragon King Xolotl, and Mavuika led the strongest fighters to stop it.

• Theresa’s blessing greatly increased the strength of Mavuika, Old Yang, the Stellaron Hunters, and Paimon.
• Paimon’s power-up transformed her into a two-meter-tall muscular woman, and she chose to keep the temporary blessing and try out her strength.
• Theresa read the Ley Lines and discovered that Gustot had concentrated the Abyss’s power at Tulan Sacred Mountain and invaded Xolotl’s corpse.
• Mavuika ordered Natlan’s warriors to defend the tribes and led the strongest fighters toward Tulan Sacred Mountain to prevent Xolotl’s return.
• The Stellaron Hunters judged that even an Abyss-controlled Dragon King would initially be no stronger than a High-tier Pathstrider.

Mavuika and the others traveled to Tollan's Great Volcano to confront Gustot, the will of the Abyss, which was preparing to revive a knockoff Dragon King. Deep inside the Ancient Sacred Mountain, they encountered Kukulkan, whose Phlogiston body was half-corrupted by Abyss Power.

• The group chat discussed Gustot's plan, and Cyrene explained the Abyss and unchosen fate to the newcomers.
• Mavuika led the assembled fighters to Tollan's Great Volcano while Natlan's other warriors stayed behind to defend their tribes.
• The group passed through the Dragon Ruins and reached the lava-filled depths of the mountain.
• Theresa placed binding shields around everyone when Paimon struggled with the heat.
• Kukulkan appeared before them, his body half-fused with Abyss Power and his expression shifting between pain and agitation.

Theresa and the others met Kukulkan, the Sage of Stolen Flame, who was being corrupted by the Abyss Will occupying his elder brother Xolotl’s remains. Theresa purified him and used dragon blood and the Path of The Permanence to transform him into a Dragon Maiden, leaving the group surprised by his rebirth.

• Kukulkan questioned the group and Mavuika identified him as the legendary Sage of Stolen Flame, who revealed that his true name was Kukulkan and that he was a familiar of the fallen Dragon King Xolotl.
• Kukulkan lost control when he spoke of the Abyss Calamity, so Theresa bound his anger while Secret Source Dragon Statues emerged from the ruins.
• Lumine and Mavuika told Kukulkan about the Abyss’s invasion of Natlan, and he explained that the Abyss Will had defiled Xolotl’s remains and was corrupting him.
• Kukulkan asked the group to kill him, drive out the Abyss Will, and gain the highest access to the ruins, but Theresa refused and began purifying him.
• Theresa infused Kukulkan with dragon blood and the Path of The Permanence, transforming him into a Dragon Maiden of the Vidyadhara Dragon Clan.

Theresa's power transformed Kukulkan into a Dragon Girl and freed him from the Abyss, while the Hunt made him a Pathstrider sworn to kill Gustot. The group agreed to let Kukulkan deliver the final blow, then followed him to Gustot, who had taken control of the Dragon King's remains.

• Theresa realized her power of order had likely caused Kukulkan's transformation while purging the Abyss from him.
• Kukulkan became a Pathstrider of The Hunt, chose the Abyss-Slaying War Spear, and asked to kill Gustot to avenge Xolotl.
• Theresa, Lumine, Stellaron Essence, Old Yang, Himeko, and Mavuika agreed to support Kukulkan and let him have the final kill.
• Kukulkan and the group traveled deep underground to the cavern where Gustot was hidden.
• Kukulkan charged Gustot, who controlled Xolotl's remains and casually swatted at him with a dragon claw.

Kukulkan, Mavuika, Stellaron Essence, and their allies attacked Gustot, exploiting its vulnerability to Abyss Power and slowing it with Old Yang’s Path ability. After the Astral Express knocked Gustot from the sky, Lumine trapped it in a Flawless Dome and began firing ricocheting crystal arrows.

• Kukulkan pierced Gustot’s claw with the Abyss-Slaying Battle Spear, and Gustot formed two greatswords from Sourceflame and Abyss Power.
• Mavuika shielded herself with the Power of Preservation while Stellaron Essence taunted Gustot into attacking.
• Old Yang slowed and wounded Gustot, allowing Kukulkan to pierce through both of its Abyss Power eyes.
• Mavuika struck Gustot’s neck with the Thousand Blazing Suns, but Gustot blocked her and took to the sky to gather power.
• Stellaron Essence summoned a blue Astral Express that struck Gustot and knocked it out of the sky.
• Lumine trapped Gustot in a Flawless Dome and fired crystal arrows that ricocheted inside it, forcing Mavuika and Kukulkan to retreat.

Welt, Himeko, Stellaron Essence, Lumine, Mavuika, Kukulkan, and Theresa combined their powers to defeat Gustot and destroy the Abyss will within it. Kukulkan finally avenged his elder brother, Xolotl, and Theresa confirmed that the Abyss could now act only on instinct.

• Welt trapped Gustot in a Quasi-Black Hole, holding it long enough for the others to prepare their attacks.
• Stellaron Essence empowered the group, while Lumine drew on the Flame-Chaser imprints and her Elemental Energy to ready a powerful arrow.
• Himeko's satellite cannon blasted away Gustot's lower body, and Stellaron Essence's Astral Express projection struck its head.
• Lumine crystallized Gustot's body, Mavuika severed its head, and Kukulkan destroyed the Abyss Power within the dragon's skull with his spear.
• Gustot's remnant Abyss will lunged at the group, but Theresa's Binding Barrier held it in place and her divine light annihilated it.
• Kukulkan explained how the group had countered Gustot's powers and declared that he had avenged Xolotl.

After Gustot’s defeat, Kukulkan chose to revive his brother Xolotl despite the risk that he might not remember her. Theresa began the resurrection, and Xolotl’s remains absorbed divine blood, volcanic fire, and the power of Order as the chapter ended.

• Mavuika asked what everyone planned to do after Gustot’s defeat, and Kukulkan said she wanted to protect her brother’s remains.
• Theresa offered to revive Xolotl or turn his bones into equipment, and Himeko warned that he might no longer be the brother Kukulkan remembered.
• Kukulkan decided to revive Xolotl and agreed to leave Natlan with him to keep the peace.
• Theresa gathered Xolotl’s remains and used her divine blood to begin the Dragon-Transformation Technique in human form.
• The Ancient Sacred Mountain erupted, and Xolotl’s bones absorbed its magma and Theresa’s divine light as she called for him to revive.

Theresa used the Dragon-Transformation Technique to revive the Dragon King Xolotl, but he emerged from the egg as a dragon girl who quickly grew into a mature woman. The newly reborn Dragon Maiden recognized Kukulkan as familiar, while he struggled to accept what had happened to his elder brother.

• Theresa reshaped the Dragon King's remains with a Seed of Abundance and the powers of life and death to create a bone egg.
• The Rulers of Life, Death, and Void watched Theresa's work, and the Ruler of Void considered stealing the egg before deciding against it.
• The bone egg cracked open, and a little white-haired dragon girl with pink horns emerged as Kukulkan recognized Xolotl's aura.
• The hungry dragon girl ate the eggshells, grew into a mature Dragon Maiden, and approached the stunned Kukulkan.
• Kukulkan cried that he was her younger brother, while Himeko joked that the Dragon King was now his bustier sister.

Xolotl and Kukulkan accepted their new lives and agreed to leave Natlan rather than interfere in human and dragon affairs. After a feast and farewells, the Stellaron Hunters departed with the two dragon sisters, planning to visit Sumeru next.

• Xolotl recovered fragments of her memories, learned that she and Kukulkan had been revived, and accepted their new female bodies and transformed weapons.
• Mavuika explained her agreement with Kukulkan that the sisters would leave Natlan once revived, and Xolotl agreed that the age of dragons had ended and they should live for freedom.
• Theresa invited Xolotl and Kukulkan to travel with the Stellaron Hunters, and Mavuika hosted a feast at the Sacred Flame Stadium.
• Xolotl and Mavuika became legendary drinking champions at the feast, while the dragon sisters concealed their horns and adopted false names.
• The Stellaron Hunters said goodbye to Natlan, received gifts from Kinich and the others, and set off with the dragon sisters toward Sumeru.

Citlali and Mavuika received gifts before the Astral Express departed Natlan, carrying Lumine, Paimon, and the others away. Onboard, Himeko served her infamous coffee, which put Xolotl and Kukulkan to sleep while the others tried to avoid drinking it.

• Citlali gave Theresa and Lumine handmade Masters of the Night-Wind charms, and they thanked her with hugs.
• Theresa gave Citlali and Mavuika collections of Skyward Route: Rongrong comics, while Laigushi and Prometheus rejoined the group.
• Theresa launched the Astral Express, and Mavuika and the people of Natlan watched it depart along a multicolored star rail.
• Mavuika said she hoped to see the worlds beyond Teyvat after Natlan defeated the Abyss, and Citlali took Ororon back to the Masters of the Night-Wind.
• Himeko offered coffee aboard the train, and Xolotl and Kukulkan drank theirs before promptly falling asleep.

Himeko’s coffee put Lumine and several others to sleep, while Himeko and Theresa forced Old Yang to try it. Himeko secretly changed Old Yang’s coffee into liquid chocolate, and the group settled down as Kukulkan wondered how the Astral Express could be so terrifying.

• Lumine drank Himeko’s coffee and promptly fell asleep, so Himeko carried her to the sofa.
• Himeko tried to pass her coffee to Theresa, but Theresa and Himeko cornered Old Yang when he attempted to escape through a spatial rift.
• Theresa’s chains and Himeko’s Black Hands captured Old Yang, who agreed to drink if Himeko had to drink alongside him.
• Himeko used the Authority of Corruption to turn her and Old Yang’s coffee into liquid chocolate, and Old Yang pretended to enjoy it.
• Theresa let Old Yang and Himeko avoid another cup while she and Himeko drank their coffee, and Kukulkan complained to Himeko about life aboard the Astral Express.

After recovering from Himeko’s coffee, Lumine and the others shared a meal aboard the Astral Express before arriving near Sumeru City the next day. Theresa led Kukulkan and Xolotl toward familiar faces, while Stellaron Essence contacted March 7th and Changye Yue, who were studying alchemy at the Akademiya.

• Lumine woke after the coffee and noticed that her resistance to abnormal conditions seemed stronger.
• Pam served the passengers cosmic jellyfish, oversized Rock-Dwelling Crab and lobster, and his signature Pom Pom Pie.
• The Astral Express arrived near Sumeru City the next day, and Himeko and Old Yang stayed aboard with Pam.
• Xolotl sensed the Dendro Dragon King, but Theresa led the group toward familiar faces before they headed into the desert.
• Stellaron Essence contacted March 7th and Changye Yue, who said they were studying alchemy in Spantamad at the Akademiya.

The Stellaron Hunters reunited with March 7th in Sumeru, where she was brewing a potion to make herself smarter. After Theresa supplied the last ingredient, March decided that a strand of Theresa’s hair would complete the recipe, leaving her poised to make the potion.

• Himeko learned that March 7th and Changye Yue were behind the Akademiya, and the group headed there with Nahida guiding them.
• Nahida told the group that people had recently gone missing in Sumeru, then led Lumine and Paimon away for a private conversation.
• March 7th explained that she was developing a potion to become smarter and needed a Rukkhashava Mushroom to finish it.
• Theresa used a portal to fetch a Rukkhashava Mushroom and gave it to March 7th.
• March 7th decided to ask Theresa for a strand of hair as the potion’s final ingredient and walked toward her.

March 7th made a potion meant to increase intelligence with Theresa’s cat-tail hair as an ingredient, and Lumine volunteered to test it. After Lumine felt warmth and mental clarity but no visible changes, Kaveh asked to try the potion while Alhaitham warned him against it.

• March 7th asked Theresa for a hair to use as a catalyst, and Theresa gave her a glowing hair from her tail.
• March 7th brewed three pinkish-white potions and announced that they were supposed to make drinkers smarter.
• Lumine volunteered to test the potion after March 7th revealed that it contained Theresa’s hair, while a Dottore-like scholar watched from the crowd.
• Lumine drank a bottle and felt warmth and mental clarity without noticing any other changes.
• Kaveh asked March 7th to let him try the potion, and Alhaitham advised him against it.

Kaveh drank March 7th’s experimental potion, gained sudden insights, and transformed into a catgirl. He fled home with Alhaitham while Dottore’s segment stole the remaining potion and left Sumeru City.

• Kaveh ignored Alhaitham’s warning and drank March 7th’s experimental potion, which briefly made him feel smarter.
• Kaveh transformed into a short, blond catgirl with cat ears, and he panicked as Alhaitham tried to comfort him.
• Dottore’s segment secretly replaced March 7th’s potion with his sleeping potion and took the original, while Theresa secretly marked it with the power of Elation.
• March 7th gave the remaining potion to Stellaron Essence, who planned to use it on Cyrene, and Kaveh fled home under Alhaitham’s cover.
• Dottore’s segment left Sumeru City for a secret base with the stolen potion.

A kind-hearted Dottore segment investigated a strange potion in his Sumeru laboratory, unaware that Theresa had secretly altered it. After drinking the spiked water, he woke transformed into a catgirl and feared what the other segments would do.

• The young adult Dottore returned to the secret base, where the teenage and middle-aged segments mocked him and threatened to dissect him.
• The young adult Dottore analyzed the potion and found strange cat-eared cells among its ingredients.
• Theresa used the Power of Joy to guide the potion into the water by Dottore's bedside.
• Dottore drank the altered water, fell asleep, and dreamed of being assimilated by dancing cats.
• Dottore woke as a white-haired catgirl and feared the other segments would cut him apart.

Dottore discovered that a magical potion had transformed him into a catgirl and resolved to escape the segments by becoming Domirei, someone who would bring others joy. Aha and Mao Die granted her powers and a witch class change, and a brilliant pillar of light erupted from her underground laboratory.

• Dottore reviewed the laboratory footage and saw the potion form a cat head, enter his drinking glass, and cause his transformation into a white-haired catgirl.
• Dottore concluded that he needed the Descenders to reverse the potion and began planning how to escape the segments without revealing his appearance.
• Mao Die appeared in Dottore’s mind and asked what he truly wanted, prompting him to reject the name Dottore and choose Domirei.
• Domirei resolved to bring people joy and stop the segments from hurting anyone, awakening the Power of Joy and attracting Aha and Theresa’s attention.
• Aha and Mao Die granted Domirei powers, while Theresa’s influence transformed her outfit and unlocked the witch class change.
• Domirei pulled her mask over her face, releasing a dazzling pillar of light through the laboratory and into the sky over Sumeru.

Domirei fought the Dottore segments with bizarre powers and powders that transformed several of them into humiliating, deranged figures. When Cyno, March 7th, and the others arrived, they found the laboratory in chaos and were horrified by the spectacle.

• The Dottore segments discovered Domirei hovering in the ruined laboratory and attacked her with a firearm and a giant robot.
• Domirei used Phantom Hissing Technique to evade the attack and covered the teenage segment with Ultimate Itch Powder, which made him bald and transformed him into Wu Ke.
• Wu Ke chased the other segments with a blinding flash from his scalp while Domirei injected the middle-aged segment, turning him into a Muscle Aniki.
• The Muscle Aniki grabbed another segment and trapped a fleeing segment with his Thunderous Butt Slam.
• Cyno, March 7th, Collei, and the others arrived and stared in shock at the chaotic scene.

Aniki Dottore’s bizarre advances horrified Cyno and the gathered men until Domirei, a catgirl who had escaped the underground laboratory, drove him off. After he reappeared and nearly kissed Cyno, Domirei struck him into the sky, leaving Cyno in shock.

• Aniki Dottore ogled Cyno and the other men, prompting Cyno to demand that he leave Sumeru while the fighters hesitated to engage him.
• Aniki Dottore’s antics repulsed March 7th and Paimon, and his gaze drove Old Yang to flee.
• Domirei descended to confront Aniki Dottore and said she had escaped an underground laboratory and become a Pathstrider.
• Aniki Dottore burrowed away, and Cyno ordered the remaining Dottore segments taken for questioning.
• Aniki Dottore returned, grabbed Cyno, and nearly kissed him before Domirei struck him into the sky.
• Cyno crouched and screamed in shock, while Stellaron Essence remarked that Aniki Dottore caused severe mental damage.

After the Dottore segments were captured and brought back to Sumeru City, Kaveh fretted over being trapped in a catgirl’s body while Alhaitham struggled to hide his attraction to him. The chapter ended with both of them blushing and unsure how to handle their changed relationship.

• The Corps of Thirty tied up the Dottore segments after the white-haired catgirl sent their dangerous creation flying.
• Theresa and the others returned to Sumeru City, where scholars took the segments’ research results for the Akademiya to review.
• Kaveh asked Alhaitham to find a way to change him back and worried that his thoughts and feelings were changing along with his body.
• Alhaitham considered forcing a surgical correction or asking the Stellaron Hunters for help, but he privately found Kaveh’s catgirl form appealing.
• Kaveh confronted Alhaitham when he stayed silent, and both blushed before turning away from each other.