Recaps

The Light Screen showed Heulia betrayed and killed by the people she had tried to protect, while Tang San concluded that the Heavenly Principles’ rules corrupted their minds. The scene then shifted to a verdant plain where Morax and the Wind Demon God stood together after defeating a monster.

• Dai Hao, Xue Ye, Ning Rongrong, and the others condemned the Archon War’s ruthless rules and the endless suspicion they caused.
• Heulia went out to comfort the refugees gathered outside her Temple, but they attacked her and pleaded for her forgiveness as they betrayed her to survive.
• Morax watched in shock as Heulia crumbled into Salt Dust and vanished, while the people who had attacked her claimed they needed her as a Token of Allegiance.
• Xiao Xiao wept, Ji Dong erupted in rage, and Tang San explained that the Heavenly Principles’ Divine Decree had twisted the people’s minds by amplifying their fear and greed.
• The Light Screen shifted to a lush plain, where Morax and the Wind Demon God stood together with their followers after driving back a monster from the Earth Vein.

The Light Screen showed how the Heavenly Principles’ Rules turned former Demon God allies into enemies and warped love and protection into excuses for slaughter. Tang San recognized that the Rules made perpetrators believe their atrocities were justified as Teyvat descended into ruin.

• The Wind Demon God and Rock Armor Demon God abandoned their friendship to fight for land and a divine seat, destroying their cities and killing their people before the Rock Armor Demon God killed his friend.
• The God of War destroyed Cloud City and slaughtered the Goddess of Dreams and its sleeping inhabitants after she refused to surrender her Authority.
• Rong Nianbing, Zhou Weiqing, Ji Dong, and Lie Yan reacted with revulsion to the God of War calling his possessiveness love.
• Tang San concluded that the Heavenly Principles’ Rules made betrayal and murder seem justifiable to those who committed them.
• The Light Screen showed Demon Gods devastating Teyvat, while Huo Yuhao sensed a vast mass of polluted spiritual energy formed from the suffering of its people.

The Light Screen revealed that the Heavenly Principles treated Teyvat as prey and that the Archon War would last a thousand years. It then showed Salt Demon God Heulia trying to protect her people through peace, only to be stabbed by the human administrator she trusted.

• The Dragon God identified the Heavenly Principles as a predator that treated all living beings as disposable pieces.
• The Light Screen introduced Heulia, whose salt Authority let her feed her people and shelter refugees.
• A former ally led an army against Heulia’s city, and Heulia offered to surrender her land to avoid war.
• Heulia’s people rejected her retreat, fearing they would lose their home and be forced to wander again.
• The administrator Heulia had raised stabbed her in the back with a rune-marked dagger, which Huo Yuhao perceived as a curse born of fear and desperation.

Heulia was betrayed and killed by the mortal Monarch she had trusted, and her uncontrolled power turned the city-state into a Salt Tomb. Her death pushed the Demon Gods into the Archon War, where a Rock Demon God and a Water Demon God fought without restraint.

• Heulia realized the mortal Monarch had betrayed her and died with sorrow rather than hatred.
• Heulia's Authority ran amok, turning the Monarch and the city-state's people into salt statues and creating the Salt Tomb.
• Tang San, the Dragon God, and others condemned the corruption that made weakness seem like a sin and forced protectors and mortals into betrayal.
• The Light Screen declared that Heulia's death ended any hope of neutrality or peace and drove the Demon Gods toward the Archon throne.
• A Rock Demon God tore up a hundred-mile mountain range and swung it like a whip at a Water Demon God, who summoned the four seas into a massive tornado.

The Light Screen showed the War of Gods devastating the world and killing mortals caught between the Demon Gods. It then revealed a bloodied human facing a monstrous creature with an iron sword, before shifting to a frozen land.

• A distant human city-state was swallowed by an earthquake and tsunami caused by the Demon Gods' battle.
• A Wood and Grass Demon God and a Flame Demon God fought savagely, destroying the forest and the lives within it.
• Huo Yuhao sensed the despair and sorrow behind the Demon Gods' madness as the Light Screen showed the war's devastation and the deaths of mortals.
• The Light Screen showed a human with an iron sword standing against a mountain-sized monster to protect the Survivors behind him.
• Huo Yuhao said the man was proving that humanity was still alive, and Zhou Weiqing reconsidered his judgment.
• The human, the Survivors, and the monster disappeared as the Light Screen shifted to a frozen land.

The Divine Realm watched Decarabian protect his city from the blizzard with a Wind Barrier that trapped his people in relentless inner gales. When he mistook their pleas for praise, the observers condemned his failure to understand the suffering caused by his protection.

• Decarabian used his Authority to surround the city with a Wind Barrier that kept the blizzard out.
• The scene revealed that violent winds inside the barrier made daily life miserable and left the people yearning for freedom.
• A man begged beneath the High Tower for the wind to stop, but Decarabian sensed his people's emotions and mistook their cries for hymns of love.
• Tang San, Ji Dong, Lie Yan, and the others recognized that Decarabian's protection had become a cage because he could not understand his people's suffering.

As the people beneath Decarabian’s High Tower suffered under the Wind Wall, a boy’s silent lyre-playing drew the attention of a wind spirit. The spirit vowed to help him break free, leaving the boy with his first ally and a glimmer of hope.

• The people carved birds into the High Tower and held ceremonies, but Decarabian mistook their actions for worship and strengthened the Wind Wall.
• A boy played a battered lyre in a sheltered alley, and Ye Yinzhu, Zi, and Huo Yuhao recognized his music as an expression of resistance and freedom.
• A green light appeared beside the boy, and Rong Nianbing and Tang San identified it as a pure wind spirit opposed to Decarabian’s oppressive wind.
• The wind spirit told the boy it had heard his song, and he shared his longing to see the world beyond the High Tower.
• The wind spirit called the High Wall a cage and asked the boy to guide it with his song and wish as they prepared to tear it down.

A boy and the Wind Spirit briefly broke Decarabian’s storm, awakening defiance among the High Tower’s people before the gray gale returned. The rebels then sought help from Andrius, the Ice Demon God, and reached his frozen territory.

• The boy played his lyre in the High Tower’s plaza, and the Wind Spirit’s power carried the music to the oppressed people.
• Decarabian mistook the gathering for praise, but the Wind Spirit struck his storm and opened the sky to sunlight for an instant.
• The Wind Spirit was swallowed by the storm, yet the people’s brief hope became defiance, and Tang San called it a seed of resistance.
• The rebels secretly joined forces and decided to seek the power of Andrius, the King Wolf of the North Wind.
• The rebels crossed a blizzard and reached an ancient arena among the frozen ruins of Andrius’s territory.

Amos braved the blizzard to confront Andrius and challenged his pride by calling his North Wind weak for allowing Decarabian to imprison Mondstadt. Andrius accepted her challenge and sent an army of ice wolves to attack the High Tower, warning that the freedom afterward would be harsh and that he would not rule the people.

• Andrius rejected the rebels’ pleas for help, condemning their submission to Decarabian’s walls.
• Amos journeyed alone through blizzards and wolf packs toward Andrius’s North Wind Throne.
• Amos challenged Andrius to defend the North Wind’s honor against Decarabian’s tyranny and mocked him for letting his fangs grow blunt.
• Andrius accepted the challenge, declaring he would destroy the High Tower to defend the Glory of the North Wind.
• Andrius summoned an army of ice wolves, which surged toward the storm barrier around the High Tower.

Amos and the last rebels found a weakness in Decarabian’s Wind Wall, allowing Andrius to crack it, but Decarabian retaliated with a storm that slaughtered the rebels. Andrius then unleashed his full power against the tower, and his Laws of Winter began freezing Decarabian’s wind barrier.

• Niu Tian, Tai Tan, Emperor Xue Ye, and the others watched as the Ice Wolf Pack battered Decarabian’s Wind Wall while Azure Light Spears struck the wolves down.
• Amos led the remaining rebels around the battlefield to a weak point in the Wind Wall and gathered their defiant will before firing an arrow through it.
• Andrius struck the faltering point with a colossal ice claw, cracking the barrier for the first time.
• Decarabian raged and unleashed a storm over the Royal Capital, killing many rebels and leaving Amos wounded.
• Andrius challenged Decarabian and blasted the tower with his full-power breath of ice and snow.
• Decarabian encased the tower in an Azure Sphere, but Andrius’s Laws of Winter began freezing the wind barrier.

The young man with the lyre toppled Decarabian’s High Tower and became the Wind God Barbatos, ending the thousand-year confinement of Old Mondstadt. As the people celebrated their freedom, Barbatos invited them to share apple cider.

• Andrius shattered the Wind Barrier, but Decarabian drew power from the runes of the High Tower and declared himself invincible while it stood.
• A young man with a lyre appeared at the tower’s base and used his music to extinguish its runes and crumble the tower into dust.
• The wind crowned the young man Barbatos, and he asked the freed people if they wanted apple cider.
• The survivors emerged from hiding, felt the free wind, and cheered as they recognized that they were free.

After Barbatos defeated Decarabian and freed Mondstadt, the people embraced him as their god, moved by gratitude and hope rather than coercion. He declared that the new Mondstadt would have no monarch, while Andrius's final words affirmed that freedom should not be ruled by a king.

• The people voluntarily knelt before Barbatos and shouted his name, filling the Royal Capital with heartfelt faith.
• Observers in the Douluo God Realm and on Douluo Continent debated Barbatos's rule and his unusual path to godhood through freedom and faith.
• Barbatos lifted the kneeling people with a gentle breeze and said he would rather see their free smiles than their submission.
• The Light Screen announced that the new Mondstadt would have no monarch and that its citizens would be free to sing their own poems.
• As Old Mondstadt lay in ruins, Andrius's soul faded into the wind after declaring that thrones brought restraint and freedom's wind should bear no king's name.

After Andrius defeated Barbatos’s false freedom and won the divine throne, he gave up the God Heart, allowing Barbatos to become the God of Freedom. The choice stunned the Douluo God Realm and deeply affected Tang Wulin, who saw his own burdens reflected in Andrius’s rejection of a throne.

• Andrius relinquished his claim to the divine throne, and Barbatos received the God Heart and became the Wind God, the God of Freedom.
• He Caitou, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, Xiao Xiao, and Tang Ya struggled to understand why Andrius rejected the reward after winning.
• Dragon God condemned Andrius’s choice, while Tang San explained that Andrius had opposed Barbatos’s attempt to impose freedom through a prison and had refused to rule in its name.
• Other gods debated Andrius’s rejection of Authority, while the Dragon Prince mocked Barbatos and called him a thief.
• Tang Wulin felt a painful kinship with Andrius’s words about thrones and shackles, and Gu Yuena took his trembling hand.

The God of Destruction explained that Andrius had rejected the divine throne to preserve his Way of freedom and pride, leaving Tang San shaken by the idea of a powerful being who disdained godhood. The Light Screen then began reviewing Morax and the Archon War in Liyue, where countless Demon Gods fought over the seven divine seats and devastated the continent.

• The God of Destruction said Andrius had given up the throne rather than compromise its Way, and Tang San reconsidered what godhood meant.
• The Light Screen introduced Liyue and the God of Geo, Morax, showing a prosperous harbor before shifting to the Archon War.
• The screen showed Demon Gods battling across a ruined Teyvat, killing a goddess who had tried to protect her followers.
• The narration explained that Demon Gods fought across the continent for the seven divine seats and that Liyue was the war's most brutal battlefield.
• Xue Ye rose from his throne, horrified by the destruction, and said the scene was beyond any war he had witnessed.

The Light Screen showed Morax ending the Archon War in Liyue by slaughtering and sealing the rival demon gods with a rain of rock spears. His victory revealed the cost of kingship, and the chapter left Ning Tian understanding why Andrius had given up the throne.

• Dai Hao identified the Archon War as a selection in which gods destroyed their rivals for the throne, while Rong Nianbing, Ji Dong, and Lie Yan sensed its vast suffering and the destruction of divine Laws.
• Chang Gongwei questioned the price of the seven positions, and Tang San wondered whether becoming a king had to be the only destination.
• The Light Screen revealed Morax, who rained rock spears across Liyue and ended the war by piercing, crushing, or sealing the demon gods still fighting.
• Dai Hao admired Morax as the kind of king he believed in, while Gu Yuena and Tang San were stunned by his power and Tang Wulin reflected on the burden of protection.
• The Light Screen showed Morax building Liyue Harbor with the surviving Adepti, and Ning Tian said she understood why Andrius had given up the throne.

As the Light Screen rewound to the beginning of the Archon War, it showed Morax witnessing the suffering across Liyue and realizing that his strength alone could not protect everyone. He established the first contract and invited the Adepti to join him in bringing order and protecting all life.

• The Light Screen rewound to the chaotic start of the Archon War, where Archons destroyed tribes and innocents across Liyue.
• Morax watched the devastation and tried to shelter the displaced and guide floods, but could not protect everyone.
• After seeing a child mourn beside their dead parents, Morax decided that lasting peace required shared strength and firm order.
• Morax declared a contract, promising to suppress unrest in exchange for others joining him to protect Liyue's living beings.
• Zhuyue, Zhuyang, Yi Xiao Dao Tian, the Immortal Crane, and the other Adepti answered Morax's contract.

Morax used the contract binding him and All Immortals to coordinate a sweeping counterattack against the Demon Gods’ forces across Liyue. As the immortals cleared threats, he raised mountains and redirected rivers to shelter the people, leaving Emperor Xueye to recognize that Morax was building them a protected home.

• Tang San praised Morax’s contract for uniting and restraining him and All Immortals, as Liyue began its counterattack against the Demon Gods.
• Morax surveyed Liyue through his Rock Element and issued precise orders that sent All Immortals to eliminate threats across the land.
• Bei Bei, He Caitou, Xu Sanshi, and Huo Yuhao marveled at the scale of Morax’s coordination, while Rong Nianbing sensed that the contract synchronized the immortals’ convictions.
• After the threats were cleared, Morax pressed his hand to the earth and commanded mountains to rise and rivers to flow around sheltered regions.
• Emperor Xueye realized that Morax was creating protected homes for Liyue’s citizens even before the war had ended.

Morax continued his campaign to reclaim Liyue, turning conquered land into safe havens for its people. When he faced a towering Skeletal Demon God, he blocked its attack in human form and countered with a barrage of Rock Spears.

• Gu Yuena and Tang Wulin reflected on how Morax used his power to protect mortals and create a safe haven amid war.
• Tang San, Lie Yan, Zhou Weiqing, and Huo Yuhao recognized how Morax coordinated the Adepti to cleanse Liyue and establish protected zones.
• The Light Screen revealed a thousand-meter Skeletal Demon God made of countless bones and filled with corrosive resentment.
• Morax appeared before the Skeletal Demon God in human form, and it attacked him with a torrent of dark-green resentment.
• Morax raised a Jade Plate Shield that dissolved the attack, then summoned Rock Spears and launched them at the demon.

Morax destroyed the Skeletal Demon God by dragging a star down from the heavens, then used a binding contract to seal its surviving resentment beneath the earth. The onlookers in the Douluo God Realm were left shaken by his absolute command over the Laws and his use of rules to govern even his enemies.

• Morax's Rock Spears pierced the Skeletal Demon God and purified its resentment, but the creature rapidly regenerated its body.
• Morax invoked the Heavenly Movement Eternal Treasure and commanded a star to fall from the sky, vaporizing the Skeletal Demon God and the land beneath it.
• The Skeletal Demon God's body disappeared, but its concentrated resentment remained in the crater, prompting Rong Nianbing to warn that it could spawn another monster.
• Morax bound the resentment with Contract Runes and drove a Rock Spear into it, sealing it underground forever.
• Tang Wulin, Chang Gongwei, and the others recognized that Morax had enforced a binding contract through his control of the Laws, and the observers reacted with awe and wariness.

Morax taught humanity practical skills and established contracts, then trained mortals to defend themselves rather than relying on his direct intervention. When the Thousand Rock Army used a formation to stop a God-level monster, the Douluo Gods realized their contract drew on Morax’s power and authority.

• Morax taught humans to forge tools, farm, build homes, treat injuries, and establish trade through contracts and Mora.
• As monsters began attacking human settlements, Morax trained capable young people to fight together and formed the Thousand Rock Army.
• The Thousand Rock Army linked their shields with golden contract runes and formed a golden barrier against a God-level monster.
• The army stopped the monster’s attack, and Huo Yuhao and Tang Wulin recognized that its formation drew on Morax’s authority and power sealed deep within the earth.

The Thousand Rock Army defeated a skeletal monster using the power granted by Morax’s contract, earning the cheers of Liyue’s people while Morax left without claiming credit. As a Demon God’s minions unleashed a colossal tsunami against Liyue Harbor, the army held its formation and stopped the wave with a golden barrier.

• Chang Gongwei explained that Morax’s contract let the Thousand Rock Army use divine power as long as they protected Liyue, and the God Kings recognized Morax’s intent to let mortals defend their own civilization.
• The Thousand Rock Army shattered the skeletal monster with golden Rock Spears, and the people of Liyue cheered for the mortal defenders as Morax quietly departed.
• A gigantic vortex formed offshore, and several Flood Dragon-like heads emerged as Osial’s followers sent a towering tsunami toward Liyue Harbor.
• The Thousand Rock Army stood firm as its commander called for them to protect Liyue, and the soldiers joined their power to raise a golden barrier.
• The tsunami crashed against the barrier, but the Thousand Rock Army stopped the wave and held its defensive line.

Morax intervened when the Thousand Rock Army’s barrier was about to fail, using a colossal Rock Spear to suppress Osier's Kin and end the threat. The observers recognized him as both a guide who empowered mortals and a guardian who remained ready to protect Liyue.

• Osier's Kin battered the Thousand Rock Army’s golden barrier while the soldiers held their ground despite their injuries.
• Ji Dong judged that the mortal defenders could not withstand the Demon God much longer, and A'Dai looked toward Morax for help.
• Morax summoned the power of the earth, formed a vast Rock Spear, and hurled it through Osier's Kin, pinning the Demon God to the seabed.
• The sea parted around the spear, leaving its tips above the water as the formations that would become Guyun Pavilion.
• Tang San and the other observers reflected that Morax had empowered mortals to defend their home while retaining the responsibility to face threats beyond their strength.

Morax freed a warrior from a Demon God's control, destroyed the Demon God, and named the warrior Yaksha, granting him a place among the Adepti as his protector. The warrior accepted the contract and began his new life serving Vago Rock, the Geo Archon.

• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena recognized that a Demon God was forcing a tormented warrior to fight against his will.
• Morax descended, sealed the Demon God in stone, and destroyed it by invoking the Rock Devouring Punishment.
• Morax told the freed warrior that he had not chosen the killing but would need to purify his resentment as a protector.
• Morax named the warrior Yaksha, granted him a place among the Adepti, and gave him a mask and a mission to purge evil spirits.
• Yaksha accepted the contract, donned the mask, and was healed and purified by adeptal power.

The gods of the Douluo God Realm reflected on Morax’s approach to guiding the Yaksha, then watched a new scene set in an early Liyue flower sea. There, a gentle goddess told Morax that his strength could protect people, but wisdom also needed protection.

• The gods praised Morax for giving the Yaksha a path of redemption and responsibility instead of demanding loyalty or imposing punishment.
• The Dragon God and Gu Yuena considered how Morax’s approach differed from rule by force and wondered what it might have meant for their own worlds.
• The screen shifted to an early Liyue plain filled with blue flowers and a developing city, where a gentle female god appeared.
• The female god told Morax that humans feared and fought because they were frail, and that strength alone could not protect the Spark of Wisdom.

Guizhong invited Morax to form an equal alliance, and together they founded Gu Li Ji as the first foundation for Liyue Harbor. Their covenant left the watching gods reflecting on another path to unity, while Gu Yuena grieved over the alliance humans and Soul Beasts might once have made.

• Guizhong proposed joining forces with Morax to build a nation through strength and wisdom, and Morax asked what her wisdom would bring.
• Guizhong described a vision of prosperity, education, and culture, and Morax agreed to the alliance.
• Guizhong and Morax named their united nation Gu Li Ji and merged their tribes under a covenant of equals.
• The gods watching the scene considered how Morax combined force with culture and how equal alliances could unite different peoples.
• Gu Yuena wondered whether an alliance between humans and Soul Beasts could have prevented the Dragon God War and her long suffering.