Chapter Summaries

The Sky Screen explained the dangers Ronava unleashed by destroying the Sky Nails and outlined the challenges the Tsaritsa must solve to replace the Heavenly Principles. The chapter ended with Layla warning that changing Teyvat’s rules before finding a way to contain the Abyss would be extremely risky.

• Apep celebrated Ronava’s destruction of the Sky Nails as holy landification, while Dvalin and Azhdaha questioned what it meant.
• The Sky Screen explained that the Sky Nails had made Teyvat suitable for humans, and Azhdaha and Dvalin argued that the Abyss would overwhelm Teyvat without the Heavenly Principles’ protection.
• Sandrone considered the dangers of the Tsaritsa’s rebellion, while Rosalyne maintained her faith that the Tsaritsa had a plan.
• The Sky Screen outlined three problems the Tsaritsa must address: holy landification, Abyssal incursions, and replacing the False Sky and its role in anchoring fate.
• Layla explained to Rongrong and the others that the Tsaritsa sought to overthrow the Heavenly Principles and warned that Teyvat remained under constant threat from the Abyss.

The Sky Screen explained that soil sanctification was the return of destructive light realm energy, which made land barren and threatened human survival. The revelation left Teyvat’s inhabitants facing the danger of Snezhnaya’s Sky Nail being removed, while Apep’s hope for the Dragon Sovereigns was challenged by the looming threat of the Abyss.

• Layla remembered that Greater Lord Rukkhadevata had sacrificed herself to resolve the Withering Zones, and the Archons wondered who might pay the price if the Abyss returned.
• The Sky Screen explained that soil sanctification occurred when light realm energy made soil barren, and that Sky Nails suppressed it.
• The Sky Screen described how Watatsumi used Bloodbranch Coral to purify its soil, Natlan recovered with the Song of Resurrection, and Ronava canceled Snezhnaya’s Sky Nail suppression.
• Qian Renxue and Dori considered how soil sanctification could destroy food supplies and disrupt human survival and trade.
• Apep celebrated the prospect of the Dragon Sovereigns reclaiming Teyvat, but Azhdaha and Dvalin warned that defeating the Heavenly Principles would leave the Abyss as a greater danger.

The Traveler and Paimon arrived at Yilong Wharf for Liyue’s Moonchase Festival, where Xiangling introduced the International Food Street in place of the usual cooking championship. Lan Yan and Ningguang explained the event’s origins and revealed that the Millelith were coordinating with the Lan Family because malevolent energy was making monsters more dangerous.

• The Traveler and Paimon received Xiangling’s invitation and traveled to the busy Yilong Wharf for the Moonchase Festival.
• Xiangling and Escoffier told the Traveler and Paimon that the festival featured an International Food Street with representatives from Mondstadt, Fontaine, and Sumeru instead of a cooking championship.
• Lan Yan and Ningguang explained that Chenyu Vale’s guilds had organized the event and that Moonchase customs had grown from traditions among ordinary people.
• Ningguang told the Traveler and Paimon that she was coordinating the Millelith and the Lan Family because evil spirits were stirring up trouble and making monsters more dangerous.

Ningguang explained that the Millelith and Lan Yan’s Fangshi family were joining forces to repel evil spirits during the festival, then left Lan Yan to guide her to the clan elders. As the Traveler and Paimon explored Yilong Wharf, they reunited with Lan Yan and asked why she had returned so soon.

• Ningguang told the Traveler that the Millelith traditionally worked with Fangshi to protect Liyue from evil spirits, and declined the Traveler and Paimon’s offer to help.
• Ningguang left with Lan Yan to meet the Fangshi clan head, while the Traveler and Paimon stayed to enjoy the festival.
• Lan Yan appeared in a moonlit scene that impressed Xiao Wu and the others watching the Sky Screen, and Xiao Wu considered getting similar clothes made.
• Paimon recalled past festivals with the Traveler, and the Traveler reassured her that they would never change.
• The Traveler and Paimon found Lan Yan and learned she had only shown Ningguang the way to the clan elders, since a junior like her would be in the way at the meeting.

Lan Yan explained that she chose to study mystical arts as a hobby and showed Paimon and the Traveler around Yilong Wharf for the Moonchase Festival. Her research into a spell that could help swallows return to nest had stalled, while Zibai hinted that the Sky Screen might reveal more about the Lan family’s ancestor, Mad Lan.

• Lan Yan told Paimon that she had slipped away from a formal family gathering and offered to show Paimon and the Traveler around the festival.
• Lan Yan explained that she chose to study mystical arts at her own pace rather than train under a master in the main family.
• Bone Douluo, Sword Douluo, and Ning Fengzhi discussed the Lan family’s willingness to teach mystical arts to outsiders and contrasted Liyue’s cooperation with the Douluo Continent.
• Zibai told Guizhong that Lan Yan reminded her of Mad Lan, the Lan family ancestor also known as Yongzhen Fengjiao Lingguan, and Zhongli suggested the Sky Screen might show him.
• Lan Yan described researching a mystical art to help swallows return to Chenyu Vale and admitted that she had hit a bottleneck in the spell formula.

During the Moonchase Festival, Lan Yan, the Traveler, and Paimon encountered a strange man who insisted the festival and Liyue had changed. Lan Yan discovered that he was a lingering soul bound to a Vine Puppet by the Lan Family’s Soul-Seizing Art.

• Venti praised Lan Yan’s free-spirited nature, while Zhongli explained that Visions appeared in response to wishes and suited their bearers.
• Lan Yan, the Traveler, and Paimon found a man muttering that the Moonchase Festival should not be like this, and Zibai recognized him as Mad Lan.
• The man complained that the festival’s food customs and Liyue were unfamiliar, and Lan Yan led him away from the busy street to talk.
• Lan Yan confronted the man about not being human and used a talisman to reveal that he was a lingering soul imprisoned in a Vine Puppet through the Soul-Seizing Art.

Lan Yan discovered that the soul remnant trapped in a vine figure was bound by a powerful restriction, and the man proposed finding the Moonchase Festival he remembered to resolve his obsession. Paimon and the Traveler agreed to help, and Lan Yan identified the White Horse Inn as the place to seek someone who could guide them.

• Lan Yan failed to undo the Soul-Seizing Art's restriction, while the man insisted that he could recognize the spell and that even an adeptus would struggle with it.
• Zibai called the man Mad Lan and teased Zhongli about a nickname he expected the Traveler to use.
• Lan Yan and the others sat down for tea, and the man explained that finding the Moonchase Festival he remembered might resolve his obsession and undo the restriction.
• The man said Lan Yan's spell had stabilized his soul remnant, and Lan Yan invited Paimon and the Traveler to join the search.
• Lan Yan reasoned that the remembered festival predated Ancient Guili's migration to Liyue Harbor and said someone at the White Horse Inn could help them.

The Traveler and Paimon searched for Zibai and learned she had gone to meet Zhongli at Tian Tie Zui’s place. As Zibai discussed the Moonchase Festival’s origins with Zhongli, the chapter left the Three Moon Sisters eager to enjoy its food and festivities.

• Guizhong asked Morax and Zibai about the lingering obsession that had left behind a fragment of soul, and Zhongli said Heavenly Eye would reveal the answer.
• Venti explained that Rex Lapis’s stone spears, hurled to pin a sea fiend, had weathered into Guyun Stone Forest, while Dori told Qian Renxue of his immense power.
• The Traveler, Paimon, and Lan Yan learned at the White Steed Inn that Zibai had gone to find an old acquaintance at Tian Tie Zui’s place.
• Zibai and Zhongli discussed how the Moonchase Ceremony had become a mortal festival centered on food, wine, the moon, and gathering with loved ones.
• Sonnet and the other Moon Sisters recalled their past antics and agreed they could enjoy the Moonchase Festival even if it was not held in their honor.

Paimon, the Traveler, and Lan Yan consulted Zibai about Lan Junming’s imprisoned soul remnant and learned that he had deliberately used the Soul-Seizing Art on himself. They resolved to find the Moonchase Festival he remembered as a way to undo the spell’s restriction, and Zibai asked when that festival had taken place.

• Zibai revealed that she knew Zhongli as an old acquaintance, while Zhongli explained why he kept his identity as Morax hidden from most people.
• Zibai recognized Lan Junming as an old acquaintance called Mad Lan, and he recalled his name and title as Yongzhen Fengjiao Lingguan.
• Zibai explained that Lan Junming’s soul remnant could not rest and warned that forcibly breaking its spell restriction might destroy it.
• Zibai deduced that Lan Junming had cast the Soul-Seizing Art on himself and added the restriction to preserve his remnant for a purpose.
• Lan Yan explained that Lan Junming wanted to celebrate a Moonchase Festival from his memories, and Zhongli suggested fulfilling that wish to undo the restriction.
• Zibai asked whether the festival Lan Junming remembered dated to before the people of Ancient Guili migrated south.

Lan Junming agreed to attend a moon-viewing party at Wangshu Inn with the Traveler and Paimon to help him remember the Moonchase he sought. The Sky Screen then showed Columbina falling into Moon's Reflection and confronting a dark presence as memories of her loved ones gave way to the Wild Hunt.

• Zhongli suggested that Lan Junming's Moonchase might be connected to Liyue's old moon-viewing parties, and he agreed to join the event at Wangshu Inn in two days.
• Lan Junming asked Lan Yan not to alert the clan elders, and the Traveler and Paimon offered to accompany them.
• Xiao told Bonanus that he knew the All-Manifestations Wind-Horn Spirit Officer but did not know why the man had left behind a fragment of his soul.
• The Sky Screen showed Columbina searching for her white dove before she fell into Moon's Reflection and resolved to act again.
• Columbina recalled Lauma, Alice, Sandrone, and others as she sang and skated through memories of their bonds.
• The ice shattered beneath Columbina and Sandrone, and members of the Wild Hunt emerged, including a transformed Sandrone from Columbina's memories.

Columbina escaped the cage with help from her friends, reunited with them on the moon, and watched a behind-the-scenes reel of the performance. The Moonchase Festival celebration then resumed, as Lan Junming reflected on the possibility that breaking the seal would end his time in the world.

• Columbina saw Tholindis and Moon Hunter Raelir reconcile, and their love drove away the Wild Hunt and restored Raelir.
• The Traveler and Columbina's friends lent her their hopes, which became a feather that gave her wings and let her escape the cage.
• Columbina reunited with the Traveler and her friends, then shared a meal with them on the moon and healed an injured dove with Kuuvahki.
• The Sky Screen showed outtakes of Columbina and the others falling during the performance, prompting jokes and praise from the audience.
• The Traveler and Paimon met Lan Yan at Yilong Wharf, where Lan Junming said he wanted one last look before the seal's breaking might return his remnant soul and end his stay in the world.

Lan Junming agreed to travel slowly through Chenyu Vale with Lan Yan before reaching Wangshu Inn, then encountered Gaming and his companions and mistook Chongyun for a successor to a nonexistent school. After Lan Yan and the Traveler explained the situation to Hu Tao, she recognized Lan Junming as Yongzhen Fengjiao Lingguan, one of the Eight Wonders.

• Lan Yan suggested that Lan Junming take the mountain walkways toward Wangshu Inn and enjoy Chenyu Vale’s scenery, and he agreed.
• The Traveler, Paimon, Lan Yan, and Lan Junming met Gaming, Hu Tao, Xingqiu, and Chongyun at Dihua Marsh after Gaming’s shipment had been attacked by monsters.
• Lan Junming mistook Chongyun for an heir to the Tianheng School, and Xingqiu explained that Chongyun belonged to the Guhua School.
• Hu Tao suspected Lan Junming’s puppet was being controlled and pointed her Staff of Homa at him, but Lan Yan, the Traveler, and Paimon explained what had happened.
• Hu Tao and the others recognized Lan Junming as Yongzhen Fengjiao Lingguan, and he linked Hu Tao’s techniques to an old acquaintance he called the red runt.

Lan Yan and the others joined Gaming on the road to Wangshu Inn and devised a plan to drive evil spirits from the monsters without damaging his cargo. After the group succeeded, Lan Junming praised Lan Yan’s skill with the Vine Puppet and reflected on his forgotten past.

• Lan Yan invited everyone to travel with Gaming, and the group agreed to help protect his fragile cargo from possessed monsters.
• Xingqiu explained that defeating possessed monsters alone would not suffice because their evil spirits could possess other nearby monsters.
• Lan Yan proposed a coordinated plan using a banner and her Vine Puppet, and the group set it in motion.
• The group defeated the monsters while Lan Yan used the Vine Puppet to drive the released evil spirits away.
• Gaming thanked everyone for their help, and Lan Junming praised Lan Yan’s self-taught technique before wondering about his own forgotten past.

Xiao and Jiangxue helped the Traveler’s group after they dealt with monsters near Wangshu Inn, and Jiangxue revealed his connection to the Yunlai Fishing Sage. The group headed to the moon-viewing gathering at Wangshu Inn, where Xiangling served them, while Xiao’s old companions teased him from the Douluo Continent.

• Xiao and Jiangxue arrived and helped the group after the Traveler’s party defeated the nearby monsters.
• Lan Junming recognized Jiangxue as Fish Basket, and Jiangxue identified Lan Junming as the successor of Mad Lan.
• Jiangxue revealed that Fish Basket was the Yunlai Fishing Sage and told the Traveler to find Huai'an before the last gathering table was taken.
• Lan Yan invited everyone to a feast, but Jiangxue declined because his ancestor had warned him to avoid Mad Lan.
• Xiao’s old companions teased him about the nickname Xiao Fairy and his willingness to attend a banquet for the Traveler.
• The group gathered at Wangshu Inn, where Xiangling served the dishes and agreed to join them after finishing.

At the moon-viewing gathering, Lan Junming explained how the Eight Wonders first met and reflected that modern Liyue no longer suited him. As the group tried to find a way to help him fulfill his final wish, the Sky Screen dimmed, and Zibai questioned Zhongli about Paimon's origins.

• On the Sky Screen, Xiangling introduced Guoba to Lan Junming, while Dori told Qian Renxue that Guoba had once been the Stove God of Liyue.
• Lan Junming praised Xiangling's cooking and explained to Gaming that the Eight Wonders had first gathered by chance at a roadside tea stall.
• The group joked about forming new Liyue groups, but Lan Junming said the comparisons did not fit and that it was time for him to pass away in peace.
• Everyone began thinking of a way to help Lan Junming fulfill his wish, and the Sky Screen dimmed.
• Zibai asked Zhongli whether he knew Paimon's true background, and Zhongli said he both did not know and did not wish to say.

The Sky Screen showed Khaenri’ah’s prosperity before the Abyssal catastrophe and the devastation that followed, while the Archons and viewers learned that the catastrophe had been even worse than depicted. The chapter left the people of the Douluo Continent terrified at the possibility of a similar disaster reaching their world.

• The Sky Screen portrayed Phanes, the Seven Archons, and the nations under their protection before revealing the prosperous underground kingdom of Khaenri’ah and Lumine’s arrival there.
• The narration recalled how Khaenri’ah’s catastrophe had harmed all seven nations, claiming many lives and leaving lasting damage.
• The Sky Screen showed Abyssal corruption transforming Khaenri’ah’s people as Rifthounds and other monsters overwhelmed the kingdom and spilled onto the surface.
• Guizhong asked Zhongli whether the catastrophe had truly been like the scene, and Venti said the Sky Screen showed only a fraction of its scale.
• Xiao Wu and others on the Douluo Continent feared what would happen if an Abyssal catastrophe struck their world.

The Sky Screen showed the Abyssal disaster devastating Khaenri'ah and the Archons mourning their losses, leaving everyone shaken by the memories. The next Teyvat Chat Group segment revealed a picture of Aether dressed as a shrine maiden, to everyone's astonishment.

• The Sky Screen showed Greater Lord Rukkhadevata healing an Aranara, Bosacius fighting beside the Millelith, and Durin's attack on Mondstadt as the song recalled the disaster.
• The Archons fought the Abyssal invasion of Khaenri'ah, where Raiden Makoto, Venti, and Zhongli battled the monsters and Zhongli spoke with Guizhong and Zibai.
• Khaenri'ah fell, Caribert became a Hilichurl, Raiden Ei mourned Raiden Makoto, and Greater Lord Rukkhadevata used Egeria's remains to form the Sea of Amrita.
• Lumine began a journey with Dainsleif as the Sky Screen showed the world recovering, and Raiden Makoto comforted her grieving sister after the footage ended.
• The Teyvat Chat Group discussed Aether dressing as a girl, and Yae Miko shared an image of him in a shrine maiden outfit.
• Yae Miko admitted she had tried to get Aether into women's clothes, surprising Kitsune Saiguu.

Aether’s gender-swapped appearance sparked teasing and matchmaking across the Sky Screen chat, drawing reactions from the Kamisato siblings, Cloud Retainer, Xiao, and Ei. The joking turned toward Scaramouche, who angrily rejected Nicole’s offer to try on women’s clothes.

• Kamisato Ayato joked about inviting Aether to dinner if he turned into a girl, while Kamisato Ayaka teased her brother and said she would not mind Aether’s transformation.
• Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei discussed the Kamisato siblings and laughed over the chat, while Cloud Retainer celebrated the prospect of her disciples enjoying Aether’s appearance.
• Paimon, Xiao, Hu Tao, Zhongli, and Venti joined the teasing, and Xiao’s fellow yakshas ribbed him about inviting Aether to make almond tofu.
• Ei joked that Scaramouche could change between a boy and a girl, prompting Yae Miko to tease him and Raiden Makoto to consider meeting her nephew or niece.
• Scaramouche grew angry when Nicole praised his appearance in women’s clothes, and Nicole offered to let him and the others try on outfits.