Chapter Summaries

Little Griseo learned that Anna imagined a cool, handsome girl as her ideal partner, while the chapter reflected on why Himeko and many Valkyries did not pursue romance. It left Anna considering whether she should try falling in love.

• The narrator explained that Himeko had once avoided romance because she was dying and did not want to hurt someone else.
• After being resurrected, Himeko lived a peaceful daily life with Himiko, Fu Hua, and friends instead of seeking romance.
• Little Griseo asked Anna what she wanted in a partner, and Anna shyly said she wanted a girl as cool and handsome as Durandal.
• Little Griseo concluded that many Valkyries admired women and described Cecilia, Durandal, and Otto as objects of admiration among Schicksal Valkyries.
• The chapter noted that many Valkyries lived in the moment because of their service, lifespans, and the dangers of battle.

Little Griseo told Anna she might accept a confession from a beautiful girl, regardless of who she was. Anna secretly considered confessing, then came to tell Little Griseo that Ark was nearing its destination and she was wanted in the command center.

• Little Griseo explained that she saw the people around her as real and believed people should cherish their present lives.
• Anna asked whether Little Griseo wanted to fall in love, and Little Griseo said she was content either way but enjoyed being doted on.
• Little Griseo said she would accept a beautiful girl's confession, no matter her identity or origins.
• Anna reacted with shock and secretly kept her thoughts about Little Griseo to herself.
• Anna came to tell Little Griseo that Ark was nearing its destination and Miss Ark had summoned her to the command center.

The Ark prepared to arrive in the Genshin Impact world, with Miss Ark guiding Little Griseo toward Celestia’s core region. The Ark had locked onto its destination, and the three-day voyage continued as everyone readied themselves for the exploration.

• Miss Ark announced the Ark’s impending arrival in the Genshin Impact world to everyone aboard.
• The Ark’s passengers prepared to carry out their plans while keeping their conduct in check under Miss Ark’s watch.
• Miss Ark locked onto the coordinates of Celestia’s core region and focused on looking after Little Griseo.
• Miss Ark chose a three-day journey instead of an instantaneous jump, giving everyone more time to prepare.

Little Griseo and Miss Anna traveled to Celestia, where they found it deserted and sensed a faint presence in its depths. They headed toward the innermost area to discover the condition and identity of Lady Heavenly Principles.

• Little Griseo received coordinates from Miss Ark and decided to bring Miss Anna along as her nanny.
• Little Griseo and Miss Anna arrived in Celestia, a vast, silent place filled with ancient Greek-style buildings.
• Little Griseo sensed a faint aura deep inside Celestia and concluded that Lady Heavenly Principles was probably still alive.
• Little Griseo led Miss Anna toward Celestia's innermost area to see Lady Heavenly Principles for herself.

Little Griseo and Anna entered the main hall and found the Heavenly Principles asleep on the throne. Little Griseo recognized her and sensed that, despite her uninjured appearance, the Heavenly Principles was suffering from severe internal damage.

• Little Griseo and Anna crossed the courtyard and entered the innermost main hall.
• They found a white-haired girl floating asleep on the throne, and Anna was immediately captivated by her.
• Little Griseo recognized the girl as the Heavenly Principles and noted her resemblance to Kiana.
• Little Griseo sensed that the Heavenly Principles was in great pain and that something vile had hollowed out her insides.

Little Griseo speculated that Lady Heavenly Principles had sacrificed her strength to preserve Teyvat and might be preparing Lumine to become the next Heavenly Principles. As she studied the weakened Lady Heavenly Principles, Little Griseo sensed that her underlying power was still greater than an entire world.

• Little Griseo told Miss Anna that Lady Heavenly Principles had once fought dragons, Nibelungen, and the Abyss while maintaining Teyvat, giving up her strength for humanity.
• Little Griseo guessed that Lumine might become the next Heavenly Principles after gathering all seven elements, while Brother Kong was no longer suited to take that role.
• Little Griseo reasoned that the Void Sustainer had sealed the siblings rather than killed them because they might someday help save Teyvat.
• Little Griseo sensed that Lady Heavenly Principles' true essence remained immense despite her weakened state.

Little Griseo explained that Heavenly Principles was a higher-dimensional being named Lady Phanes, who had descended into the broken world bubble and replaced its World Will. She reassured Anna that she could handle Lady Phanes, who remained unconscious before them.

• Anna realized Heavenly Principles was a higher-dimensional existence and worried about whether they should still save her.
• Little Griseo assured Anna that Heavenly Principles was no match for her.
• Little Griseo recognized the world as a broken world bubble abandoned by the Imaginary Tree and threatened by the Sea of Quantum.
• Little Griseo understood that Lady Phanes had devoured the incomplete World Will, become Heavenly Principles, and given the world hope.
• Little Griseo concluded that Lady Phanes had already been a Descender and was the strongest among several Descenders.

Little Griseo explained that Lady Heavenly Principles had focused on threats from beyond the world, especially the Sea of Quantum, rather than taking the world's inhabitants seriously. She used her stored colors to help Lady Heavenly Principles recover, leaving her poised for a rebirth after the crisis.

• Little Griseo assessed that even the Abyss, the ancient dragons, and the Cryo Archon could not match Phanes if she were not near death.
• Little Griseo reached toward Lady Heavenly Principles and used her stored colors to cleanse and nurture her, helping her move toward rebirth.
• Little Griseo told Miss Anna that Lady Heavenly Principles had viewed the world's people as children and had focused on the world and the outside instead.
• Little Griseo explained that Lady Heavenly Principles's true enemy was the Sea of Quantum.
• Little Griseo described Venti's strength and the long-lasting divine effort he had spent transforming Mondstadt and maintaining the Grand Ode of Thousand Winds.

Little Griseo explained that Lady Phanes was enduring immense strain to maintain False Heaven, which concealed and protected Teyvat from the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quantum. The chapter left Phanes’s ability to sustain this costly barrier uncertain.

• Little Griseo compared Barbatos’s and Morax’s erosion and exhaustion with the burden Lady Phanes faced.
• Little Griseo explained that False Heaven both imprisoned Teyvat’s inhabitants and shielded the world from outside forces.
• Little Griseo described how False Heaven concealed Teyvat from the Imaginary Tree and kept the Sea of Quantum’s erosion at bay.
• Little Griseo said Phanes had to maintain False Heaven with her own power because the Ley Lines were already operating at a deficit.
• Little Griseo explained that Phanes could draw only a tiny amount of power from the Imaginary Tree without risking discovery or Honkai.

Little Griseo treated Phanes and reflected on how constant struggles inside and outside Teyvat had drained her strength. She blamed Phanes’s isolation and the repeated crises for leaving her unable to protect the world, and said she would deal harshly with troublemakers aboard her own Ark.

• Little Griseo carefully treated Phanes’s injuries and removed traces of the Abyss, forbidden powers, and quantum and imaginary forces.
• Little Griseo considered how Phanes had fought the Dragon Kings and Nibelungen, faced the fairies’ betrayal and Abyssal corruption, and dealt with gods formed from the Primordial One’s fragments.
• Little Griseo recalled Cana’s recklessness as the final blow that forced Phanes to spend her remaining strength suppressing the chaos.
• Little Griseo concluded that Phanes’s pride and lack of trusted allies had left her isolated, with only the Void Sustainer remaining among the Four Shadows of Heaven.
• Little Griseo said she hated ungrateful troublemakers and would be even harsher than Phanes if someone caused chaos aboard her Ark.

Little Griseo finished restoring Lady Phanes, who woke and realized that Little Griseo was a higher-dimensional Descender who had saved her. Phanes's gratitude marked the end of her long sleep.

• Anna watched as Little Griseo's efforts seemed to bring life back to Phanes.
• Little Griseo finished her work and waited for Phanes to awaken.
• Phanes slowly woke, saw Anna and Little Griseo, and wondered if she had been replaced by a successor.
• Phanes sensed Little Griseo's immense power and recognized her as a higher-dimensional Descender.
• Phanes understood that Little Griseo had saved her and looked at her with gratitude.

After awakening, Phanes understood that Teyvat’s anchor was nearing collapse, but she focused on Little Griseo and offered to help her. Phanes learned that the vessel and visitors in Morax’s territory belonged to Little Griseo, then paused when Little Griseo stopped her from acting on a miniature Teyvat.

• Phanes assessed the failing anchor between the Imaginary Tree and the real world and realized she could only prolong its life, not fix the underlying problem.
• Phanes thanked Little Griseo for saving her and offered to help whenever Little Griseo needed it.
• Phanes asked Little Griseo to clean the courtyard if she planned to stay and play in the world.
• Phanes sensed the vessel outside the world, and Little Griseo admitted it was hers and that the visitors in Morax’s territory had come with her.
• Phanes summoned a miniature Teyvat, but Little Griseo stopped her and asked what she was planning to do.

Little Griseo persuaded Phanes not to punish Snezhnaya with a nail and to give the Seven Archons a chance to address their nations' problems. Phanes agreed and sent Void Sustainer Asmodeus to bring the Archons before her.

• Little Griseo realized Phanes had been considering using a nail to punish the Abyss and the area around Snezhnaya.
• Little Griseo argued that Snezhnaya's people should not be punished collectively and proposed warning the Seven Archons instead.
• Phanes agreed to summon the Seven Archons and let them deal with their nations' internal problems before deciding whether to punish them.
• Phanes summoned Void Sustainer Asmodeus and ordered her to bring the Seven Archons to her.

Little Griseo told Phanes that she traveled across countless worlds aboard the Ark, helping when she encountered problems she could not accept. She also explained that the Ark was both her avatar and true body, and that it carried people and even entire worlds from many places.

• Phanes explained that she needed to retrieve the surviving shadow of Istaroth, her other half.
• Phanes took Little Griseo and Anna to a garden to drink tea and ask about Little Griseo's circumstances.
• Little Griseo said she wanted to save Phanes's world and other parallel worlds as well.
• Phanes considered how her power and understanding of parallel worlds differed from Little Griseo's.
• Little Griseo explained that the Ark was both her avatar and true body, and was equivalent to a super-universe.
• Little Griseo said she traveled among myriad worlds, helping where she chose and gathering people and even worlds aboard the Ark.

Little Griseo explained how she collected worlds and offered to help Phanes save Teyvat without demanding a reward. Phanes agreed to go with her and take the entire Teyvat Continent along.

• Little Griseo told Phanes that she had come to the world after hearing the wishes of Furina and Furina.
• Anna explained that Furina and Furina were Egeria's successors and the new Hydro Archons, and Phanes realized she could not commission Little Griseo now that she already knew the world's coordinates.
• Little Griseo described how she rescued worlds, respected the wishes of their World Wills, and avoided interfering more than necessary.
• Anna told Phanes that Little Griseo had saved many Honkai worlds, and Phanes marveled that she had kept her original intentions despite her power.
• Phanes agreed to go with Little Griseo and take the entire Teyvat Continent with her.

Little Griseo accepted the world's gratitude without reservation, while Asmoday summoned Barbatos to Celestia to meet her awakened master. In Liyue, Zhongli admired and bought several statues of Rex Lapis, charging them to the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor.

• Little Griseo accepted the people's gratitude and trust, feeling happy even though she did not understand why they were so devoted to her.
• Asmoday discovered that several Gnoses were in the wrong territories and decided to bring the Archons to Celestia as her master had requested.
• Asmoday ordered Barbatos to come to Celestia and pay respects to her awakened master, alarming the people of Mondstadt.
• Venti recognized Asmoday's presence while at the tavern, where Diluc had already limited his daily wine allowance.
• Zhongli praised a jade statue of Rex Lapis and bought it on the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor's account, then asked to see more statues.

Zhongli had settled into life after the Rite of Descension, but Asmodeus’s sudden summons to Celestia revealed that his past as Morax had not stayed buried. Her voice also reached all of Liyue, leaving its people questioning whether Rex Lapis was truly dead.

• After the Fatui were blamed for the Osial incident, Childe fled Liyue and the Northland Bank shut down, leaving Zhongli to rely on Wangsheng Funeral Parlor.
• Zhongli discussed the Martial God Formation Diagram with a shopkeeper.
• Zhongli sensed a presence, went outside, and saw Asmodeus in the sky.
• Asmodeus called Zhongli Morax and ordered him to come to Celestia to pay his respects to the awakened Sovereign.
• Asmodeus’s voice spread throughout Liyue, and its people wondered whether Rex Lapis was still alive.

A summons from the awakened Heavenly Principles unsettled the gods and leaders of Teyvat, while Lumine recognized the voice as the one that had separated her from her brother. In Inazuma, Raiden Ei and Yae Miko worried about how the summons and the nation’s turmoil would affect the Electro Archon.

• The Adepti and Liyue Qixing reacted gravely to the order for the immortals to appear before the highest authority.
• Thoma invited Lumine and Paimon to meet Kamisato Ayaka at Komore Teahouse before arranging an audience with the General.
• Lumine recognized the Heavenly Principles’ voice as the one that had taken her brother, and Paimon trembled at its sound.
• Raiden Ei hesitated over whether to answer the summons, while Raiden Shogun offered to take control of the body.
• Yae Miko considered what to do with the Gnosis and worried that the summons could worsen Inazuma’s unrest and endanger the Electro Archon.

Yae Miko considered how the Heavenly Principles’ summons might affect Inazuma, while Nahida and Furina faced crises after being called to Celestia. The chapter left Sumeru’s scholars debating whether to release Nahida and Furina unsure how to answer the summons for the true Hydro Archon.

• Yae Miko reasoned that Inazuma was unlikely to be the Heavenly Principles’ first target and decided to wait and watch.
• A voice summoned Nahida to Celestia, alarming her and the Akademiya scholars who had imprisoned her.
• Azar raged that the summons came before Sumeru’s new god could appear, while the Doctor’s segment remained silent.
• A voice summoned Furina to Celestia, leaving her frantic because she was not the true Hydro Archon and did not know where the real one was.
• Furina wondered how she could even reach Celestia and whether she was expected to ride Neuvillette there.

The Seven Archons gathered at Celestia after Lady Heavenly Principles awakened, while Furina and the Tsaritsa feared the consequences. When the Archons arrived, they found Lady Heavenly Principles smiling beside a little girl and an increasingly uneasy Maiden.

• Furina reassured Fontaine’s people that the Archons’ return heralded a new era, then trembled inside the Instrument of Judgment and prepared to say goodbye to Furina in their consciousness space.
• The Tsaritsa ordered the Fatui Harbingers to flee with her people, hoping to buy them time after Lady Heavenly Principles awakened before their plan could succeed.
• The Seven Archons arrived at Celestia, nervous and reluctant, and were stunned to see Lady Heavenly Principles standing amiably beside a light-blue little girl and an uneasy Maiden.
• Lady Heavenly Principles greeted the Archons with indifference, leaving them kneeling under the pressure of her presence.