Chapter Summaries

The five sages betrayed Kandria by turning a ritual meant to purify Kong’s Abyss Power into a scheme to devour it and become gods. The chapter leaves Dainsleif helping stabilize the ritual, unaware that the sages have revealed their true intentions.

• The sages raised their power to destroy Kong while Dainsleif stood frozen, torn between reason and anguish.
• The Light Screen showed Kandria’s last king, Ilmin, facing the kingdom’s imminent collapse as Dainsleif and the five sages returned, promising a final solution.
• The sages persuaded Dainsleif to stabilize a ritual and brought the unconscious Kong to its center.
• Dainsleif poured his power into the ritual array, believing it would save Kandria by purifying the Abyss Power within Kong.
• Tang San and Ji Dong recognized that the ritual was devouring Kong’s power, and the five sages admitted they intended to seize it and become gods.

The Five Sages betrayed Kandria’s king, devoured Kong’s Abyss Power, and left Dainsleif trapped beside the dead monarch. A new scene began showing the Black Tide tearing through Kandria, where Huo Yuhao sensed a chaotic force that threatened to consume everything.

• The Five Sages drained Kong’s power while Ilmin watched, and the betrayed king died after seeing his last hope disappear.
• Dainsleif struggled against the ritual formation as the Five Sages took their stolen power and vanished, leaving him with Ilmin’s body and the unconscious traveler.
• The Light Screen introduced “The Elegy of the Nation Without Gods” and showed Kandria’s underground mechanical civilization.
• Black fissures tore through Kandria’s Earth Vein, and a destructive Black Tide poured out, rusting machinery and dissolving rock.

The Black Tide and its monsters overwhelmed Kandria, transforming its people into hilichurls as Knight Marshal Anfotas led the surviving knights in a desperate defense. Dainsleif resisted the Curse with sheer will, confined it to his arm, and joined the fight to protect his homeland.

• The Black Tide swept through Kandria, turning its people into monsters, and Gu Yuena identified it as a Curse from the Heavenly Principles.
• Anfotas formed the Salvation Council and led the surviving knights in a counterattack against the Black Tide.
• The Curse spread across Dainsleif's arm, but his will stopped it from consuming the rest of his body.
• Dainsleif took up a longsword and fought alongside the knights, fulfilling his duty as the Sword of the Last Light.

The Abyss spread from Kandria through Teyvat’s Earth Veins, poisoning the world and corroding the laws of nature. As the chapter ended, Abyss Power tore through space and turned mountains into ravines, leaving Douluo’s observers questioning how anyone could resist a threat that was everywhere.

• Dainsleif stood alone against an endless horde of Abyss Monsters as rifts spread from Kandria across Teyvat.
• Huo Yuhao probed the Black Tide with the Eye of Destiny, but its destructive malice struck back and nearly overwhelmed him.
• Tang San identified the underground source of the corruption, and the Heavenly Curtain revealed Abyss Power spreading through Teyvat’s Earth Veins from Kandria.
• Tang Wulin compared Teyvat’s Abyss to the Abyss Plane that had threatened Douluo Star, while Gu Yuena sensed the world’s origin being corrupted.
• Abyss Power tore open space across a mountain range, collapsing and erasing peaks as Tian Hen explained that it was corroding the Space Laws.
• Zhou Weiqing, the Deities, and the mortal Emperors feared they could not resist an enemy contaminating the ground, air, and energy around them.

The Abyss corrupted Teyvat’s Earth Veins and began breaking the seals on ancient Demon God remnants, leaving the world on the brink of destruction. The Light Screen then showed Kandria fighting an Abyss Invasion and revealed the badly injured Phanes awakening and issuing a Divine Decree.

• The Black Tide reached the cavern sealing the Demon God remnants, weakening its golden runes and stirring the creatures within.
• The Heavenly Curtain showed Teyvat overwhelmed by the Abyss, while Tang San, Huo Yuhao, and Tang Wulin watched in despair.
• The Light Screen shifted to Kandria, where monsters pouring from the Earth Veins fought the nation’s armored soldiers.
• Phanes awoke on a shattered Golden God Seat, and the Light Screen identified the figure as the Maintainer of Heavenly Principles.
• Phanes issued a Divine Decree.

Phanes ordered the Seven Archons to purge Kandria and commanded Death Regent Ronava to curse its people with eternal undeath, revealing a divine plan of calculated extermination. Phanes then ordered the repair of the damaged False Sky, leaving the observers questioning whether their own world’s sky was false.

• Phanes ordered the Seven Archons of the Mortal World to go to Kandria and purge its filth.
• Phanes commanded Death Regent Ronava to inflict the Undying Curse on the people of Kandria.
• Observers from the Douluo World and other realms recoiled as they realized the curse would condemn Kandria’s survivors to eternal torment.
• Phanes ordered the damaged False Sky repaired, shocking Tang San, Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, Tang Wulin, and the Dragon God.

The Light Screen revealed that the six Archons answered a call from the Heavenly Principles and gathered their powers to punish Khaenri'ah. The chapter ended with the God Kings and mortals confronting the scale of the coming Divine Punishment, while its cause remained unknown.

• Golden text revealed that the Archons were answering a call from the Heavenly Principles, shocking Tang San, Ning Rongrong, and Zhou Weiqing.
• Barbatos halted the winds across Mondstadt and raised a colossal tornado into the sky.
• Morax summoned enormous Rock Spears above Liyue as the other Archons' powers rose across Teyvat.
• Hai Long, Ji Dong, Lie Yan, and Rong Nianbing assessed the Archons' power, while Huo Yuhao searched for their destination.
• The Light Screen marked Khaenri'ah for Divine Punishment, and Longbow Wang, A'Dai (Mandun), and Gu Yuena wondered why the Gods had condemned it.

The Light Screen showed the Great Compassionate Tree King staying behind to purify the World Tree’s roots before the six Gods destroyed Kandria. Death Regent Ronava and Void Regent Asmoday then descended, and Ronava began twisting the surviving Kandrians’ lives into monstrous forms.

• The Great Compassionate Tree King chose to remain behind and purify the roots of the World Tree, prompting Tang San, Ye Yinzhu, and Zi to reflect on her choice.
• Barbatos unleashed a storm of wind blades on Kandria while Morax dropped a blazing starstone that reduced the Royal Capital to a wasteland.
• Death Regent Ronava and Void Regent Asmoday descended through separate rifts, and Huo Yuhao and Tang San recognized their overwhelming authority.
• Rong Nianbing sensed that Ronava could manipulate and desecrate the concept of life, while Lie Yan and Ji Dong watched in alarm.
• Ronava raised her hand and covered Kandria with an eerie force that twisted wounded survivors, including a soldier and a young mother, into aggressive, beastlike beings.

The chapter revealed that Ronava’s curse trapped the people of Kandria in undying bodies while their souls and minds were destroyed. Asmoday sealed the capital and its Abyssal rifts inside an inescapable spatial prison, leaving the transformed people trapped forever.

• The Light Screen explained that Ronava’s Undying Curse preserved the victims’ bodies while imprisoning and eroding their souls, horrifying Ning Rongrong, Ning Tian, and the others watching.
• A'Dai recognized that the curse corrupted the victims’ soul imprints and permanently denied them reincarnation.
• Asmoday manifested golden chains of Law and sealed Kandria, its inhabitants, and its Abyssal rifts behind spatial barriers.
• Tang San and the other observers recognized Asmoday’s absolute control over Space and realized no one could escape without surpassing her power.
• The view revealed Kandria as a sealed tomb containing countless suffering monsters, while Ronava and Asmoday regarded their creation without emotion.

The Light Screen showed the Gods fighting an endless Abyssal invasion, with the Regent of Life sacrificing her Life Origin to hold back a vast rift. Raiden Shogun True and Elysia fell in battle, but a supreme golden radiance then descended and began destroying the Abyssal Monsters.

• A transformed Khaenri'ahn knight lost his final lucidity as the Light Screen revealed the Abyssal War.
• The Gods watched footage of Abyssal Monsters overwhelming the battlefield while Raiden Shogun True and Elysia struggled to fight them off.
• The Regent of Life used her Life Origin to hold back a gigantic Abyssal rift at the edge of the world.
• A colossal Abyssal Giant Beast struck Raiden Shogun True, and Elysia was swallowed when her water domain collapsed.
• A golden radiance descended, melting the Abyssal Monsters and drawing the exhausted Regent of Life's attention.

The Light Screen showed Phanes repairing the false sky at the cost of his Origin Power, while the Great Compassionate Tree King erased her existence and the Regent of Life shattered after the Cataclysm. After the scene revealed that the Ice Empress declared war on the Heavenly Principles, a new warning about world-scale Abyss Power and five Descenders shocked the Myriad Worlds.

• Phanes hurled the Spear of Creation into the false sky and used his Origin Power to close its rifts, stopping the Abyssal monsters.
• The Great Compassionate Tree King erased her own existence to save the World Tree, leaving Huo Yuhao stunned.
• The Regent of Life’s divine body cracked and shattered after she released the burden of holding on at the world’s edge.
• Phanes used up his remaining light, fell to earth, and entered a slumber after the war ended.
• The Light Screen revealed that the Ice Empress declared war on the Heavenly Principles after the Cataclysm.
• The Light Screen warned that five Descenders could wield world-scale Abyss Power and bring about a catastrophic disaster, alarming Tang San and the other observers.

The Light Screen revealed that five Descenders could fuse with worldwide negative energy and become beings of destructive Abyss Power, alarming figures across several worlds. Gu Yuena identified their power as Finality, and the chapter left gods, rulers, and mortals fearing the coming catastrophe.

• Ning Rongrong, Tang San, Huo Yuhao, and the others concluded that five mature Descenders could erase a world rather than merely wage war.
• Tang Wulin suffered under the power’s pressure, and Gu Yuena called it Finality that was meant to end the world.
• Rong Nianbing warned that Descenders could corrupt World Laws, while A'Dai sensed that their souls carried annihilation beyond ordinary death.
• Lei Xiang, Chang Gongwei, Ye Yinzhu, and Zi recognized the Descenders as a threat to the order of their universes.
• Ji Dong vowed to stop the Descenders at the Gate to the Earth's Core, while Emperor Xue Ye and the Shrek Seven Devils were left in shock.

The Light Screen explains that Descenders are outsiders capable of contending with a world, either born with the status or forged by surviving their world's destruction and wandering the universe. It then reveals a vast interstellar civilization, leaving the audience stunned by its scale and technology.

• The Light Screen defines Descenders as outsiders whose fate is not bound by the rules of the Teyvat World and who can contend with it.
• The Light Screen explains that some Descenders possess the status from birth, while others earn it after surviving their world's destruction and enduring exile across the universe.
• Gu Yuena, Tang Wulin, A'Dai, and others react to the burden and tragedy carried by survivors of destroyed worlds.
• The Light Screen shows a star-spanning civilization with enormous starships and orbital cities, astonishing He Caitou and Ning Tian.

The Light Screen revealed that Phanes was the sole survivor of an interstellar civilization erased by the Abyss, and that his trauma led him to seek a stable, eternal world in Teyvat. The chapter ended with Gu Yuena grieving that Phanes, too, had lost his home.

• The Light Screen showed the Abyss erasing Phanes's civilization, leaving him as its sole survivor in an escape pod.
• The crowd learned that Phanes carried his civilization's knowledge and hope as he wandered the universe, grew in power, and eventually arrived in Teyvat.
• The Light Screen revealed that Phanes wanted to make Teyvat a perfect, unchanging cradle for humanity, safe from conflict and the Abyss.
• Tang San and Huo Yuhao questioned whether Phanes's pursuit of absolute stability would turn the world into a prison.
• Phanes spread his Light Wings over primordial Teyvat, and Gu Yuena closed her eyes and mourned that he had lost his home.

The Light Screen revealed Rheindott, codename “Gold,” as a Kandrian alchemist who helped destroy her nation by combining Abyssal power with the Black Soil Technique. It showed her creations devastating Teyvat, leaving the Divine Realm’s onlookers horrified by the monsters she had made.

• The narration identified Rheindott as one of the Five Great Sinners responsible for Kandria’s destruction, and the onlookers wondered what crime she had committed.
• The narration explained that Rheindott pursued forbidden Abyssal power and combined it with Kandria’s alchemy, prompting Gu Yuena and the Dragon God to recoil from the Abyss.
• The screen showed Demon Dragon Dulin, whose poisonous blood corrupted the land and transformed living things into monsters, and Tang Wulin condemned it as a blasphemy against the Dragon Clan.
• The narration revealed that Rheindott had also created Bakunawa, Deep Sea Dragon Lizards that could devour elements and mimic what they learned.
• Bei Bei and the others reacted with alarm to Rheindott’s ability to create dangerous monsters through alchemy.

The Light Screen revealed that Rheindott sought to create a perfect life-form capable of becoming a second Heavenly Principles, and that her creation was Albedo. It then showed Rheindott unleashing an Abyssal monster calamity on a city-state, leaving Xue Ye and the others horrified.

• The Light Screen revealed that Rheindott's experiments were steps toward creating a Primal Person and a second Heavenly Principles.
• The Divine Realm's gods reacted with shock, and Huo Yuhao asked whether Rheindott had succeeded.
• The Light Screen showed Albedo, Rheindott's artificial human creation, and revealed that forbidden knowledge had driven her close to madness.
• Albedo questioned whether he might be black soil rather than chalk as the scene shifted to a bleak, corrupted land.
• A horde of Abyssal monsters surged toward a wind-swept city-state, and Xue Ye turned pale at the scale of the man-made disaster.

Rheindott unleashed Durin, a corrupted dragon, on a city, forcing Barbatos and Tvalin to fight it. They defeated Durin at great cost, but its corruption remained in Tvalin and poisoned the mountain where its body fell.

• Rheindott revealed herself beside the monstrous creations she had made and sent Durin to attack the city.
• Gu Yuena, Tang Wulin, and the Dragon God recognized Durin as a corrupted, desecrated dragon rather than a true member of the Dragon Clan.
• Barbatos and Tvalin confronted Durin, battling its destructive breath and overwhelming strength.
• Durin's blood polluted the land, and its claws inflicted spreading corruption on Tvalin.
• Barbatos and Tvalin pierced Durin, which fell onto a snow-covered mountain, but its corruption remained in Tvalin and transformed the mountain into a polluted wasteland.

Rheindott regretted unleashing the corruption and took Albedo to the Heart of Naberius, hoping to purify it. The Light Screen then revealed her struggle to create a defense against the Abyss, ending as she entered a guarded chamber containing a heart-like crystal.

• Rheindott looked upon the devastation she had caused and confessed that the corruption had defiled her gold, resolving to find a way to cleanse it.
• Rheindott took Albedo with her to witness the final purification and led him across ruined lands to the Heart of Naberius, the remains of the Regent of Life.
• Rheindott reached toward the Heart of Naberius with corrupted, trembling fingers as the Light Screen named her Golden Rhinedott and introduced her story.
• The Light Screen showed Rheindott facing the Abyss and researching ways to suppress or transform its corruption through a higher-order life energy.
• Rheindott entered a guarded chamber where a green, heart-like crystal floated and filled the space with life energy.

Rheindott merged with the Heart of the Regent of Life, balancing its will against the Abyss and using the Authority of Life to seal the Abyss’s power within herself. The transformation cost her the passions and purpose she once had, and she ended the chapter heading to Sky Island to take up her post as the new Regent.

• Rheindott touched the Heart of the Regent of Life and endured a violent clash between the Regent’s will and the Abyss’s power.
• Rheindott rejected both wills and anchored herself with her desire to live on her own terms.
• Rheindott gained the Authority of Life and sealed the Abyss’s power within herself, becoming a new kind of being between God and human.
• Rheindott lost her former passion for creation, closed her growth chambers, sealed her research, and erased most traces of herself.
• Rheindott walked alone toward Sky Island in response to the Heavenly Principles’ summons.

The Light Screen began a review of Khaenri'ahn Sage Hroptatyr, revealing that he was one of the Five Great Sinners and had fused Abyss Power with his pursuit of wisdom. The revelation that he could connect to Teyvat’s World Tree and steal the world’s memories left the assembled gods stunned.

• Rheindott shed a golden tear as she disappeared into Sky Island’s light, and the Light Screen prepared to begin a new review.
• The Light Screen identified the subject as Khaenri'ahn Sage Hroptatyr and named him one of the Five Great Sinners.
• The Light Screen revealed that Hroptatyr had stolen Abyss Power and fused it with his pursuit of wisdom.
• The Light Screen disclosed that Hroptatyr could use Abyss Power to connect to Teyvat’s World Tree and steal the world’s memories and information.
• Tang San and the other gods realized Hroptatyr could uncover the world’s secrets, leaving them shaken by the scale of his power.