Chapter Summaries

Saigō left Inazuma and met Barbatos in Mondstadt after Decarabian’s fall, then asked the new Wind God to take him to the Thousand Winds so he could meet Istaroth. As Barbatos described the tragic uprising against Decarabian, Saigō waited for the Time Archon to appear.

• Ei departed Grand Narukami Shrine, while Makoto mourned their parting in Tenshukaku.
• Saigō watched Sangonomiya teach a young girl on Seirai Island, then set out to meet Istaroth in Mondstadt.
• Saigō arrived as Decarabian’s rule ended and Barbatos became the new God of Wind.
• Saigō told Barbatos that he wanted to meet the Thousand Winds and explained his interest in the dualities of life and death, time and space.
• Barbatos agreed to lead Saigō to Istaroth in exchange for stories about Liyue and Inazuma.
• Barbatos recounted how Amos, La Signora, his nameless friend, and he had opposed Decarabian, whose people had bowed from fear rather than love.

Saigō met Istaroth in the Temple of Thousand Winds after Barbatos led him there, and revealed that he wanted the power of the four Archons of Life, Death, Time, and Space. Istaroth was astonished by his request, and the chapter ended before she answered.

• Barbatos told Saigō how Guanhild and her followers had gained the protection of the Wind Spirit, then led him to the Temple of Thousand Winds.
• Barbatos waited in the temple while Saigō sensed the flow of time and Istaroth appeared within its turbulence.
• Istaroth stopped the wind and asked Saigō whether he was the Third Throne, while he questioned her about the Principles and the Archons' powers.
• Saigō asked Istaroth to give him the origin of time and any other Archon powers she possessed, offering to take the Crown of Reason and help the Primogenitor raise the throne again.
• Istaroth asked why Saigō wanted the Archons' power when he was already so strong.

Saigō gave Istaroth the four Archons’ power aggregates and left the ruined temple after warning her about the cost of interfering in Mondstadt’s history. He kept his promise to Barbatos by sharing stories of his time on Teyvat, then departed as Barbatos turned his tale into a song.

• Istaroth gave Saigō four power aggregates representing Life, Death, Time, and Space, which he absorbed.
• Istaroth explained that she had influenced Mondstadt’s history through Barbatos to oppose Decarabian, and Saigō warned her that her actions carried a price.
• Saigō left the temple and met Barbatos, who asked him for stories about the world beyond Mondstadt.
• Saigō produced wine for Barbatos, who traded apples and a song for the drink.
• Saigō recounted his experiences across Teyvat, and Barbatos composed them into a song before Saigō departed.

Barbatos changed Mondstadt's landscape at great cost, while Morax prepared Liyue to stand without him and Ganyu learned that Saigō had left Teyvat. Saigō returned to the Void Temple to study new powers before heading to Little Garden, where Black Rabbit prepared for her tenth-birthday naming festival.

• Barbatos drank alone, sang to the wind, and used his power to clear the snow from Mondstadt's mountains, after which he fell toward a long slumber.
• Morax sensed Saigō had left Teyvat and resolved to let the people of Liyue and the Liyue Qixing guide the nation's future, while worrying about erosion and remembering Guizhong.
• Fánàn told Ganyu that Saigō had gone to a distant place and that she would no longer need to visit Inazuma; Ganyu felt both sorrow and comfort that he had remembered her.
• Saigō returned to the Void Temple and planned to study the powers of Life, Death, Time, and Space before traveling to Little Garden.
• In Moon Shadow City, the Moon Rabbits prepared to celebrate Black Rabbit's tenth birthday and naming festival, while Black Rabbit shyly questioned the outfit chosen for her.

Black Rabbit celebrated her tenth birthday with the Moon Rabbits in Moon Shadow City, unaware that Saigō was awakening nearby. After breaking the seal on his Divinity of "Malice," Saigō descended into the Lower Layer and revealed himself as one of Zoroastrianism's Six Great Devils.

• Black Rabbit's mother dressed her in ceremonial clothes and told her she would receive a name of her own the next day.
• Moon Rabbits gathered in Moon Shadow City to celebrate Black Rabbit's birthday as she prepared to perform before the shrine.
• Saigō used his Divinity of "Malice" to locate its seal and watched for decades to confirm it was in a Sixth Rank Outer Gate in the Lower Layer.
• Saigō summoned the power of his Divinity of "aging" to erode the seal, then broke free and reclaimed his power of "Malice."
• Saigō's demonic aura engulfed Moon Shadow City and the Lower Layer as he emerged in the form of a colossal Three-headed Dragon.

Saigō broke free from his seal as a Great Demon Lord, and the aftershock devastated Moon Shadow City, home of the Moon Rabbits. Black Rabbit escaped and was saved by a Vampire Knight, while Canary began gathering communities to oppose Saigō; the Star Sea Dragon King warned that the new enemy might be more terrifying than the Sealed World.

• Saigō took human form after breaking his seal, sensed a conspiracy involving hundreds of communities, and prepared to face them.
• Canary ordered Leticia to go to Saigō and summoned the communities of the Arcadia Grand Alliance to campaign against him.
• Moon Shadow City collapsed under the lingering flames of Aging and aura of Malice, and Black Rabbit's mother urged her to escape with Indra's Gift.
• Black Rabbit opened a brief passage out of the city, fled into the forest, and was rescued from a giant snake by a golden-haired Vampire Knight.
• Saigō recognized Moon Shadow City as the Moon Rabbits' homeland and contained his remaining power around the Outer Gate region.
• Canary visited Salamandra and asked the Star Sea Dragon King to respond to the Great Demon Lord's arrival; he warned that Saigō might surpass the Sealed World in terror.

Canary rallied the Lower Layer’s communities against the newly arrived Demon King, while Saigō confronted Leticia and provoked her with knowledge of her past. The chapter ended with Saigō restraining Leticia and telling her that the poets who spread rumors had caused her sister’s tragedy and the vampires’ downfall.

• Canary persuaded the Star Sea Dragon King to lead Salamandra into battle, then secured the Griffin of the Dragon Horn and Avalon communities’ support.
• Laplace's Demon told Canary that White Night Yaksha had been summoned to the Upper Layer and identified the Demon King as a manifestation of Absolute Evil, though his origins remained unclear.
• Leticia encountered Saigō near Moon Shadow City, and his Malice nearly caused her suspended Demon King Gift Game to resume.
• Saigō revealed Leticia’s past and taunted her about Lamia, driving Leticia to attack him with a shadow sword.
• Leticia’s attack barely pierced Saigō’s skin, and he caught her sword before telling her that the poets who spread rumors had caused the vampires’ tragedy.

Saigō used his Demon King’s Gift Game and persuasive words to unsettle Leticia, but Kasugabe Takaaki arrived and interrupted him with an attack. Saigō turned the Golden-Winged Great Peng’s Sun Wheel Flame into a massive explosion, and the group watched the smoke clear, bracing for what came next.

• Saigō declared himself Zarathustra and summoned the Gift Game Thus Spoke Zarathustra, whose participants had to defeat Evil through force.
• Saigō argued that Upper Layer gods and Buddhas were responsible for Little Garden’s suffering, drawing Leticia toward his Demon King’s cause.
• Kasugabe Takaaki arrived as the Golden-Winged Great Peng and warned Leticia not to listen to Saigō.
• Saigō touched the Sun Wheel Flame, causing it to explode and devastate the primeval forest and surrounding ground.
• Leticia shielded Black Rabbit and the Lion of Heaven from the blast, while Kasugabe Takaaki apologized for nearly hurting them.
• As the smoke began to clear, Kasugabe Takaaki and the others watched Saigō’s position tensely.

Saigō faced Kasugabe Takaaki and the assembled Arcadia Grand Alliance, revealing power that led Canary to identify him as an ancient Humanity’s Final Trial. As Saigō unleashed a horde of dragons against the alliance, the battle began with the Heavenly Army still absent.

• Kasugabe Takaaki ambushed Saigō, but Saigō struck him through a mountain and easily knocked away the Lion of Heaven.
• Leticia recognized Saigō’s banner as belonging to the vanished Zoroastrian pantheon, while Saigō identified Takaaki as the Arcadia Grand Alliance’s leader.
• Saigō shattered Croix Baron’s Boundary and exposed the army of more than a hundred thousand communities gathered under Canary.
• Canary recognized the sacred banner of Zoroastrianism and concluded that Saigō was one of the oldest Demon Lords and a Humanity’s Final Trial.
• Saigō formed dozens of Giant Dragons from his blood and ordered them to attack the alliance before turning his attention to Canary.

Saigō’s Hvarena devastated the battlefield, and the Knights of Avalon sacrificed themselves to protect the Arcadia Grand Alliance before he defeated their Community. Canary continued fighting Saigō while Leticia and Takemi prepared two Solar Sovereignties, leaving the battle poised for their counterattack.

• Saigō unleashed Hvarena, forcing the Tuxedo Demon King to shield Canary and suffer the loss of half his body.
• Leticia and the assembled Communities fought Saigō, but he badly injured Leticia and overwhelmed their attacks.
• Saigō sent Hvarena back toward the battlefield, and the Knights of Avalon sacrificed themselves to weaken the returning light.
• Hvarena nearly annihilated Avalon, and Saigō collected the defeated knights’ Divinities as their banner fell.
• Canary challenged Saigō again, then called for Leticia and Takemi as Ophiuchus and the Great Sun Golden Crow appeared overhead.

Canary’s alliance nearly sealed Saigō with the Star Sea Dragon King’s Simulated Star Creation Chart, but a Weak Great Demon appeared and fatally poisoned the dragon king, freeing Saigō. Canary identified the attacker as Zoroastrianism’s corruption-themed Gaia Hypothesis, while the Star Sea Dragon King explained that only a Solar Sovereignty might counter its poison.

• Leticia and Kasugabe Takaaki fired a solar-charged arrow at Saigō, who caught it but injured his hands.
• At Canary’s call, the Star Sea Dragon King revealed his identity as the Calamity Star and unleashed the Simulated Star Creation Chart: Void Star: Tai Sui to seal Saigō.
• Canary and Takemi pierced the restrained Saigō with a spear, but Saigō broke free after a butterfly-shaped Weak Great Demon struck the Star Sea Dragon King.
• Canary recognized the attacker as Zoroastrianism’s Weak Great Demon, the Gaia Hypothesis, whose Star Spirit Poison caused the dragon king’s body to decay and disabled his chart.
• The Star Sea Dragon King told Sarah that a Solar Sovereignty might counter the poison, but refused to take Leticia’s, and Canary connected the demon’s corruption to humanity’s environmental predicament.

While the Arcadia Grand Alliance faced Saigō and the Gaia Hypothesis in the Lower Layer, White Night Yaksha tried to return from the Upper Layer to join the battle. Indra explained why the gods and Buddhas were holding her back, then promised to delay the coming war.

• Canary explained that the Gaia Hypothesis was an incomplete Humanity's Final Trial, while Saigō claimed the Arcadia Alliance had no options left.
• White Night Yaksha learned that the second Demon King had turned the battle against the Arcadia Grand Alliance and left the Star Sea Dragon King near death.
• White Night Yaksha tried to travel through Trāyastriṃśa to Moon Shadow City, but Indra and the Twelve Guardian Devas stopped her.
• Indra explained that the gods and Buddhas feared the return of Zoroastrianism and the possibility that the Dual Goddesses might transfer their ownership of White Night Yaksha.
• Indra said the Upper Layer had chosen to prioritize containing the Decadent Wind and promised White Night Yaksha that he would use his own way to delay the fated war.

Indra descended to the Lower Layer with the Twelve Guardian Devas as Saigō waited for the Upper Layer’s forces. When Christianity’s million-angel army attacked, Saigō unleashed the Third Perpetual Mechanism and destroyed it, leaving the gods and Buddhas questioning his nature and origin.

• White Night Yaksha watched Indra lead the Twelve Guardian Devas through the Boundary Gate of Trāyastriṃśa, then decided to speak with the Great Sage, Equal to Heaven.
• Saigō waited in Moon Shadow City while the Arcadia Grand Alliance recovered, knowing the Upper Layer’s forces were the real threat.
• Uriel and Sariel arrived with a million angels, and their army’s holy fire and Evil Eye immobilized the battlefield.
• Saigō invoked the Third Perpetual Mechanism and punched through the angels’ attack, destroying Uriel, Sariel, and the entire army.
• Ancient beings in the Heavenly Realm questioned how Saigō could wield the Human Original Text, then recognized that he was a second-generation Zoroastrian demon.

Saigō defeated the Star Sea Dragon King and seized control of Salamandra, making himself the Northern District Ruler and threatening the Arcadia Grand Alliance with collapse. As the old dragon neared death, he expelled Sarah from Salamandra and urged her to live, grow stronger, and defeat Saigō without seeking revenge.

• Saigō explained that his Human Original Text and the threat of the Decadent Wind would keep Little Garden’s Domain Holders from moving against him.
• Saigō defeated the Christian angel army and declared that he would target Indra while rampaging through the Lower Layer.
• Saigō used the Demon King’s game to claim the Star Sea Dragon King’s authority over Salamandra and the Northern District.
• Canary realized Saigō’s takeover could force the Arcadia Grand Alliance to destroy Salamandra or risk the alliance falling apart.
• The Star Sea Dragon King expelled Sarah from Salamandra and entrusted her to the Griffin of the Dragon Horn.
• The Star Sea Dragon King urged Sarah to survive, gain strength, and defeat Saigō for her own sake rather than for revenge.

Saigō defeated the Arcadia Grand Alliance and captured Moon Shadow City, then summoned the Twelve Guardian Devas by threatening Black Rabbit. He revealed that he possessed Zoroastrianism’s true Avesta worldview, forcing Indra to recognize that Saigō had inherited the Divine Group’s full legacy.

• Saigō killed the Dragon king and overwhelmed the Arcadia Grand Alliance, but Laplace's Demon escaped by splitting into tiny demons.
• Saigō sealed Moon Shadow City inside 'Simulated Star Creation Chart: Void Star Tai Sui' and tried to bargain with Black Rabbit for the Moon Rabbits’ lives.
• The Twelve Guardian Devas descended in their true bodies, and Indra persuaded Black Rabbit to leave Saigō and join Canary.
• Saigō demanded that Indra return the Divinity of 'Treason,' but Indra refused, fearing Saigō would become impossible to restrain.
• Saigō unfurled twenty-one ancient scrolls and declared himself Zarathustra, revealing Zoroastrianism’s true Avesta worldview.
• Indra admitted that Saigō had inherited the Mother of Evil Gods’ legacy, while Prithvi Mata and the other Guardian Devas questioned his earlier assessment.

Saigō revealed the genuine Zoroastrian Pantheon Worldview, Avesta, and used it to create a realm where good and evil opposed each other. The Twelve Guardian Devas struggled against powers drawn from their pantheons’ enemies as Saigō continued wielding Avesta.

• Saigō reflected that he needed to reclaim Indra’s Treason Divinity to perfect his evil.
• Brahma asked Indra what the Zoroastrian Pantheon Worldview, Avesta, could do, and Indra warned that its power depended on how far Saigō had developed it.
• Saigō unfolded the genuine Avesta, creating a chaotic world in which good and evil separated and the Twelve Guardian Devas’ worldviews were replicated.
• The Twelve Guardian Devas attacked Saigō with their Organizer’s Authority, but he blocked their strikes with the Void and turned their enemies’ powers against them.
• The Twelve Guardian Devas recovered from the surprise and continued battling their old foes as Saigō kept using Avesta to replicate opposing worldviews.

Saigō used the “Avesta” and the power of Zoroastrianism’s four Great Demons to overwhelm the Twelve Guardian Devas, while Indra’s Brahma-Indra Spear failed to penetrate the Void. Indra explained the “Avesta’s” powers and revealed that only the Human Worldview could break the Void, leaving Canary as the sole possible human opponent despite her condition.

• Saigō summoned the four Great Demons, transformed his spine into a dragon sword, and attacked the Twelve Guardian Devas inside the chaotic universe.
• The “Avesta” copied the Warrior Gods’ Worldviews and protected Saigō with the Void, forcing the Twelve Guardian Devas onto the defensive as several were injured.
• Indra hurled the Brahma-Indra Spear at Saigō, but its power was exhausted against the Void and Saigō cut it down.
• Indra explained that the Void separated good from evil and that only a Worldview belonging to neither side could break it.
• The Twelve Guardian Devas realized that only the Human Worldview could pierce the Void, but Kasugabe Takaaki had lost his human identity and Canary was too depleted to fight.
• Indra described the “Avesta’s” Second Three Thousand Years, which copied other Divine Group Worldviews, leaving the Twelve Guardian Devas with few options as their Divinities eroded.

Saigō and Indra reached a stalemate, so Saigō suspended their Gift Game and left while Indra remained in the Lower Layer to restrain him. The Arcadia Grand Alliance faced ruin, and Indra weighed the upheaval that reclaiming his former Divinity would bring as the chapter revealed the origins of Vedic Mythology.

• Saigō withdrew Avesta, acknowledged that neither he nor Indra could defeat the other, and suspended their Gift Game indefinitely before teleporting away.
• Saigō planned to claim a domain in the Northern District, restore the four Great Demons’ Divinities, and develop Avesta while waiting for Indra’s power to erode.
• The Arcadia Grand Alliance saw Saigō unharmed and the Twelve Guardian Devas injured, while Canary assessed the devastation to Avalon, Salamandra, Laplace’s Demon, and the alliance.
• Eleven Guardian Devas returned to the Upper Layer, but Indra stayed in the Lower Layer to keep Saigō in check despite the erosion of his Divinity.
• Indra considered reclaiming his former Divinity and deploying the Rigveda, but feared that doing so would trigger a pantheon war and destabilize Little Garden.
• The chapter revealed that Aryans destroyed ancient Indian civilization, established the Vedic Pantheon under Indra, and later saw its Divinity split by Buddhism and the Puranas.

After the Arcadia Grand Alliance suffered devastating losses in its battle against the Zoroastrian Demon King, Canary asked Indra about the enemy’s origins. Indra revealed that the Demon King came from the future and that their Human Original Text might help identify them.

• Indra apologized to Black Rabbit for failing to save the Moon Rabbits, while Canary asked whether the Demon King had truly offered to trade their lives for Indra’s Fallen divinity.
• Canary and Kasugabe Takaaki tended to the wounded and assessed the Alliance’s losses; Leticia and Baron Croa also described their injuries and exhaustion.
• Canary and Kasugabe Takaaki spent several days arranging aid for the damaged Communities as news of the Twelve Guardian Devas’ defeat spread panic through Little Garden’s Lower Layer.
• Canary found Indra at Arcadia headquarters and asked about the Demon King’s origins.
• Indra told Canary that the Demon King had been born in the future and that their Human Original Text offered a direction for investigating them.

Indra explained to Canary how Zoroastrianism’s fall shaped other Divine Groups and how its gods might have hidden worlds beyond Little Garden’s observation. Meanwhile, Saigō reached Salamandra in the North District, realizing the Mother of Evil Gods had sent him beyond Little Garden to grow safely and inherit Zoroastrianism.

• Indra told Canary that Zoroastrianism had fallen through the conflict between good and evil, and that its concepts had influenced later religions and Divine Groups.
• Canary proposed that the Mother of Good Gods and the Mother of Evil Gods might have been twin sisters who jointly hid worlds beyond Little Garden’s observation, and Indra considered the possibility.
• Saigō arrived at Salamandra’s headquarters after claiming the Star Sea Dragon King’s authority, shutting the North District’s Boundary Gates and trapping its residents.
• Saigō concluded that the Mother of Evil Gods had caused his apparent death and sent him to worlds beyond Little Garden’s reach so he could grow without attracting the gods’ attention.
• Saigō accepted his role as Zoroastrianism’s Great Demon and the future Zarathustra destined to restore its glory.