Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lianqiu learned that March 7th had recovered her memories and that the other consciousness would be called Changye Yue, who promised to watch over March and the Trailblaze. After the Remembrance space collapsed and a blue stream entered Jiang Lianqiu, Furina woke in an unfamiliar room and met Focalors in a mirror, who began explaining Fontaine’s prophecy before Jiang Lianqiu appeared in Furina’s place.

• Changye Yue revealed that March 7th had recovered her memories and promised to protect her and watch over the Trailblaze.
• Changye Yue transformed back into March 7th as the Remembrance space vanished, and a blue stream of light entered Jiang Lianqiu.
• Furina woke in a lavish bedroom, approached a mirror, and met Focalors, who was startled by Furina’s appearance.
• Focalors told Furina that Fontaine’s prophecy would come true, and Furina recalled that its people would dissolve into the sea.
• Focalors began explaining that she had sought Furina as a miracle, but saw Jiang Lianqiu appear in the mirror instead.

Furina met Focalors in a mirror and learned she needed to impersonate Fontaine’s Water God to save its people, but a mysterious power inside her made her summon a firebird that destroyed the palace roof. The chapter ended when a man’s laughter echoed in their minds, frightening Furina.

• Focalors questioned Furina about a strange presence in her body, but Furina felt nothing unusual.
• Jiang Lianqiu realized March 7th had linked Furina’s five senses to him, and an unknown force prevented him from ending the connection.
• Focalors told Furina to impersonate the Water God so she could save Fontaine, and Furina agreed despite her doubts.
• Furina imagined how a god should act and accidentally conjured a blazing firebird that blasted through Mouton Palace’s roof.
• Furina claimed she was testing her divine power, and the people outside accepted her as Fontaine’s new Water God.
• A man’s laughter suddenly sounded in Furina and Focalors’s minds, and Furina jumped onto the bed in fright.

Jiang Lianqiu connected with Furina and revealed to her and Focalors that he came from another world and knew about Focalors's plan. After Focalors removed Furina's curse, she prepared to bring Neuvillette to Fontaine while Jiang Lianqiu agreed to look after Furina.

• Jiang Lianqiu took control of Furina's body, introduced himself to Focalors, and explained that he came from another world.
• Jiang Lianqiu told Focalors that her plan would succeed in five hundred years, and Furina confirmed that he was telling the truth.
• Jiang Lianqiu asked Focalors to remove Furina's curse, and Focalors agreed after Furina vouched for him.
• Furina began sensing Jiang Lianqiu across worlds, and they discovered that time passed at different rates in Teyvat and the Honkai: Star Rail Universe.
• Focalors asked Jiang Lianqiu to look after Furina while she went to find Neuvillette to help manage Fontaine.

Furina took on the role of Fontaine’s new Water God and delivered her first public address with Jiang Lianqiu’s guidance. After winning the crowd’s awe and loyalty, she announced that she would grant her people a divine blessing.

• Focalors told Furina to pose as the Water God, appoint Neuvillette Chief Justice when he arrived, and save Fontaine’s people.
• After Furina’s nightgown caused her to scream, palace staff mistakenly declared that the Water God had been assassinated and sealed off the scene.
• Jiang Lianqiu advised Furina to appear powerful during her inaugural address, and helped her create an overwhelming sense of divine pressure over the crowd.
• Furina declared that she was the demon god Focalors and would rule Fontaine, then proclaimed that she could judge even the gods before the cheering crowd.
• Jiang Lianqiu urged Furina to promise her people a divine blessing, and Furina announced that she would reward their loyalty and yearning for justice.

Furina’s public inauguration succeeded after Jiang Lianqiu used his power to heal Fontaine’s people, and he urged her to cultivate so she could eventually act without him. He then took control of Furina’s body to visit Elynas in Erinnyes Forest, where they discussed the aftermath of the Khaenri’ah Cataclysm.

• Jiang Lianqiu caused a healing rain to fall over the Opera Epiclese, curing injuries and illnesses and earning Furina cheers as Fontaine’s Water God.
• Furina celebrated her successful inauguration, while Jiang Lianqiu explained that he might not remain linked to her and taught her a Zelo race meditation technique to develop Psionic Energy.
• Jiang Lianqiu took control of Furina’s body and flew from Mouton Palace, drawing excited speculation from the people of the Court of Fontaine.
• Jiang Lianqiu and Furina reached Erinnyes Forest and saw Elynas’s enormous corpse, as Jiang Lianqiu recalled the dark calamity and the events that would lead to the Melusines’ birth.

Jiang Lianqiu, controlling Furina, visited Egeria’s resting place before traveling to Sumeru and freeing Nahida from imprisonment. The chapter ended with Furina introducing herself to the newly freed Grass God.

• Jiang Lianqiu and Furina reached Erinnyes Forest, where Zurvan confirmed Egeria’s consciousness had disappeared and told them the Blonde Traveler and Dainsleif had left for the rainforest.
• Jiang Lianqiu promised the Pari protection from Fontaine and continued toward Sumeru City.
• At the Sanctuary of Surasthana, Jiang Lianqiu identified himself as Fontaine’s Water God, forced open the doors, and bound the Akademiya crowd with water.
• Jiang Lianqiu broke the barrier imprisoning Nahida, and Furina took control of her body after Nahida awoke.
• Furina lifted Nahida, praised her, then set her down and introduced herself as the Queen of Waters, All Directions, and All Laws.

Jiang Lianqiu met Nahida and explained that Greater Lord Rukkhadevata’s Abyssal infection was behind Sumeru’s lingering problems, then helped Nahida reach the World Tree’s consciousness space. There, Jiang Lianqiu appeared separately from Furina, and Nahida quietly began to suspect Furina was human rather than a god.

• Nahida sensed Jiang Lianqiu’s consciousness inside Furina and spoke with him after Furina let him take over.
• Jiang Lianqiu told Nahida that Greater Lord Rukkhadevata had been infected by the Abyss while protecting the World Tree, and Nahida asked him and Furina to help purify her.
• Jiang Lianqiu taught Nahida a meditation technique, which she quickly mastered and used to bring them to the World Tree’s consciousness space.
• Jiang Lianqiu manifested separately from Furina in the consciousness space, and the group set off toward the World Tree.
• Nahida noticed Furina’s interest in Jiang Lianqiu and privately suspected that Furina was human, not a god.

Greater Lord Rukkhadevata reunited with Nahida after Furina and Jiang Lianqiu helped free her, then appeared before Sumeru and ended Vidyadhara’s conspiracy. Buer remained beside Nahida as she continued as Grass God, and she revealed that the blonde Traveler, Lumine, had reached Inazuma.

• Nahida reunited with Buer beneath the World Tree and told her they had come to save her.
• Vidyadhara’s allies remained restrained outside the Sanctuary of Surasthana while Shahryar and mercenaries helped identify and detain conspirators.
• Buer emerged with Nahida, and the people of Sumeru recognized and welcomed Greater Lord Rukkhadevata.
• Buer asked Furina to release the restrained people so they could be judged under Sumeru’s laws, and the conspirators surrendered to uninvolved Mahamatras.
• Buer explained that clearing the Abyssal corruption had ended Eleazar and Marana, while Nahida kept the position of Grass God and the Gnosis.
• Buer told Jiang Lianqiu that the blonde Traveler was a woman named Lumine and had traveled from Khaenri'ah through Sumeru to Inazuma.

Jiang Lianqiu’s experiment with Buer and Nahida caused them to share senses through his connection with Furina, and he suspected Istaroth was behind the time difference between worlds. He arrived in Inazuma seeking Istaroth and confronted Yae Miko, who blocked him from entering Ei and Makoto’s consciousness space.

• Buer and Nahida used Furina’s body through the Void Terminal, but their overlapping senses made all three collapse with dizziness.
• Jiang Lianqiu discovered that his connection could reach Buer and Nahida’s senses, and he and Buer suspected Istaroth explained the time difference between their worlds.
• Jiang Lianqiu arrived in Inazuma and found Yae Miko near the entrance to Ei’s consciousness space.
• Jiang Lianqiu told Yae Miko he wanted to enter the space to find Ei, Makoto’s remaining consciousness, and power left by Istaroth.
• Yae Miko refused and darted in front of the torii gate, demanding to know who Jiang Lianqiu was.

Jiang Lianqiu convinced a despairing Raiden Ei that Raiden Makoto could still be saved and entered the consciousness space with her and Yae Miko. There, he drew Makoto’s remaining consciousness from Musou Isshin and prepared to use a new ability to restore her.

• Raiden Ei attacked Jiang Lianqiu, but he stopped her blade and offered to bring Raiden Makoto back in exchange for entering the consciousness space and obtaining a seed of Istaroth’s power.
• Raiden Ei agreed to Jiang Lianqiu’s deal and led him and Yae Miko through the torii gate into the space where Makoto’s final consciousness was preserved.
• Jiang Lianqiu introduced himself as a Descender from Outside the World and explained that Makoto’s consciousness also remained inside Musou Isshin.
• Raiden Ei gave Musou Isshin to Jiang Lianqiu, who drew a pink orb containing Makoto’s consciousness from the sword.
• Jiang Lianqiu warned Raiden Ei not to touch the fragile orb, then summoned the Divine Light of Abundance as he prepared to test his new ability.

Jiang Lianqiu restored Raiden Makoto’s consciousness with the powers of Abundance and Remembrance, then followed the Sacred Sakura Seed’s time loop to pursue Istaroth. He passed through an opening in the river of time and arrived in space above a beautiful planet.

• Jiang Lianqiu used Raiden Ei’s memories and Abundance power to gather and nourish fragments of Raiden Makoto’s consciousness until she returned.
• Raiden Ei reunited with Raiden Makoto, while Jiang Lianqiu explained that Makoto could recover enough to manifest outside a consciousness space.
• Raiden Makoto revealed that Istaroth had given her the Sacred Sakura Seed to protect Ei, and Raiden Ei planted it in the consciousness space.
• Jiang Lianqiu sent Furina and himself into the Sacred Sakura Tree to travel upstream through time and trace Istaroth’s power.
• Jiang Lianqiu passed through an opening in the river of time and found himself in space above a beautiful planet.

Jiang Lianqiu met Istaroth beyond Teyvat and learned that the Abyss had contaminated time during the Khaenri'ah Cataclysm. Istaroth asked him to help stabilize the river of time and revealed that she hoped to send a Descender to the God's Seat, while admitting the Sustainer was nearing death.

• Jiang Lianqiu and Furina encountered Istaroth in the starry realm outside Teyvat, where time was tangled and Istaroth was exhausted.
• Istaroth explained that the Abyss had corrupted the river of time and warned Jiang Lianqiu not to travel upstream because his presence could disrupt Teyvat's timeline.
• Jiang Lianqiu agreed that stabilizing time would help him and mentioned his five-senses connection with Furina; Istaroth recognized Focalors's plan.
• Istaroth proposed sending someone forward through time, and Jiang Lianqiu guessed she had sent the Traveler five hundred years into the future; Istaroth denied it.
• Istaroth realized the Sustainer was dying and explained that the Four Shades could not surpass the Heavenly Principles' rules, then suggested a Descender might reach the God's Seat and break those rules.

Jiang Lianqiu met Istaroth, who tried to recruit him to disrupt Teyvat’s fate and help save the world from Abyssal corruption. He rejected godhood but agreed to her plan to isolate an uninhabited Dark Sea island from the contaminated river of time, then returned to Mt. Yougou with the unconscious Aether.

• Istaroth explained that Jiang Lianqiu and Furina were untouched by time and the Ley Lines, then tried to tempt him with the God's Seat and with Ruonava.
• Istaroth proposed using an uncontaminated place and time to protect it from the Abyss, and she chose an uninhabited island in the Dark Sea.
• Istaroth said she needed time to prepare and left the unconscious Aether with Jiang Lianqiu, explaining that he would remain asleep until five hundred years had passed.
• Jiang Lianqiu returned to Mt. Yougou and told Furina, Raiden Ei, Raiden Makoto, and Yae Miko what had happened.
• Yae Miko suggested leaving Aether where he was, while secretly forming a wicked plan.

Jiang Lianqiu spent time with Ruan Mei, Trigger, and Sirius before joining the girls at a vacation port, where Stelle's antics disrupted the beach gathering. The chapter ended with Stelle falling from the sky toward Jiang Lianqiu.

• Ruan Mei explained that human instincts had nothing to do with Jiang Lianqiu, then invited him to call Trigger over after she left.
• Jiang Lianqiu called Sirius over and told Trigger to join her; afterward, Ruan Mei left while Trigger and Sirius lay recovering together.
• Radiance and Victory prepared afternoon tea at the ocean port while the Cat Cakes and yellow chicks helped maintain it.
• Silver Wolf called Stelle ashore to apply sunscreen to Kafka, but Stelle pounced on her and licked her foot before Kafka kicked her away.
• Himeko described several of Stelle's past schemes to Kafka and said that her behavior was the Trailblaze.
• Jiang Lianqiu arrived at the beach and saw Stelle falling from the sky toward him.

Furina, controlled by Jiang Lianqiu, stopped Lumine and Dainsleif, then confronted Rene over his experiments on Jakob. She healed Jakob and Carter, ordered Rene and his companions to stand trial, and left for the Court of Fontaine with the unconscious Lumine while Dainsleif wondered about the Water God's secret.

• Furina invented laws to detain Lumine and Dainsleif, but Lumine tried to flee after learning she faced compulsory labor.
• Jiang Lianqiu took control of Furina, caught Lumine, knocked her unconscious, and made Dainsleif surrender.
• Jiang Lianqiu confronted Rene about his experiments on Jakob and confirmed that Rene had sought a way to prevent the world's Destruction.
• Alain offered his contributions to help Rene, but Jiang Lianqiu insisted that Rene go on trial at the Opéra Électrique.
• Jiang Lianqiu removed the Abyss power from Jakob and healed him and Carter, earning the group's gratitude.
• Dainsleif reflected on the Water God's concern for humanity, and Jiang Lianqiu flew toward the Court of Fontaine with Lumine while ordering the others to turn themselves in.

Furina appointed Neuvillette as Fontaine’s Chief Justice and made Lumine serve as her maid for five years while cleansing Abyss pollution. More than half a month later, Furina watched Rene’s trial, and Lumine had begun to see through Furina’s grand public image.

• Furina returned to Mouton Palace and appointed Neuvillette as Fontaine’s Chief Justice, handing routine government affairs over to him.
• Lumine woke in a maid outfit and learned that Furina had suppressed her powers and required her to stay in Fontaine for five years to cleanse Abyss pollution.
• Lumine agreed to clean up Abyss pollution in Fontaine and the other nations, and Furina told her that her brother would likely appear in five hundred years.
• More than half a month later, Furina attended Rene’s trial at the Opera Epiclese with Lumine serving beside her as a maid.
• While watching Furina at the trial, Lumine recognized that Furina was lazy, timid, fond of sweets and entertainment, and eager for attention.

Furina faced Rene’s trial and then said goodbye to Jiang Lianqiu as he left her body, asking Lumine to protect her. Jiang reunited with Istaroth, while Furina’s linked senses revealed that several people were touching him in his home in the Honkai: Star Rail universe.

• Neuvillette sentenced Rene to one year of volunteer work at the Court of Fontaine, and Rene vowed to follow Furina.
• Furina learned that Jiang was leaving and assured him she would manage on her own until he returned.
• Jiang took control of Furina’s body, asked Lumine to protect her for five years, and offered Lumine help with the Loom of Fate before disappearing.
• Jiang met Istaroth on the isolated desert island and confirmed that time there had synchronized with his original world.
• Furina sensed through their linked senses that several people were touching Jiang as Himeko, Artoria, Sirius, Stelle, March 7th, and Firefly gathered around him at home.

After Firefly squeezed Jiang Lianqiu unconscious, Black Swan investigated the mysterious power Changye Yue left in his consciousness and was swept into a vision of Teyvat and a dangerous knight. Jiang Lianqiu woke with his Five Senses Link to Furina restored, having noticed new details through Black Swan’s vision, while the others wondered whether he had lost his intelligence.

• Hanabi teased Firefly, Stelle, and March 7th about Jiang Lianqiu being squeezed unconscious, while Kafka asked Silver Wolf what had happened.
• Stelle explained Changye Yue’s effect on March 7th, and Black Swan used a tarot card to investigate the Remembrance power in Jiang Lianqiu’s consciousness.
• Black Swan was pulled into a vortex and saw visions of Teyvat, including a pitch-black knight who noticed her across space.
• Black Swan woke in a cold sweat and told the others that a madman had made the strongest impression on her.
• Jiang Lianqiu woke as his Five Senses Link with Furina returned, thanked Black Swan for revealing details he had missed, and asked why everyone was gathered around him.
• Stelle concluded that the girls had squeezed all of Jiang Lianqiu’s intelligence out of him.

After Furina returned from Istaroth’s domain, she angrily vowed to have Jiang Lianqiu punished for what she had experienced through their shared senses. Days later, Ruan Mei studied the Abyssal power Jiang Lianqiu brought back and proposed that its corruption and the universe’s black fate might be artificially designed.

• Furina returned to the Opera Epiclese, where Lumine asked about Jiang Lianqiu and Furina called him a bastard and threatened to seek a new crime and death penalty for him.
• Jiang Lianqiu gave Ruan Mei Abyssal power, and she created and examined an Abyssal lifeform in the Research Hub laboratory.
• Ruan Mei explained that Abyssal power distorted cognition, making beings perceive evil and ugliness as good and beautiful, and Jiang Lianqiu connected this to Durin and the Melusines.
• Ruan Mei identified traces resembling the power of Destruction in the Abyss and suggested that the universe’s inevitable black fate was an artificially accelerated form of entropy increase.
• Ruan Mei argued that the opposition between black fate and the Radiance of the Universe bore signs of deliberate design, and she described how opposing sides depended on each other to sustain their existence.

Jiang Lianqiu spent an intimate interlude with Ruan Mei, Trigger, and Sirius before joining the Ship Girls at their ocean-world Port. He caught the falling Stelle on the beach.

• Ruan Mei recalled how Jiang Lianqiu had inspired her to care for the life-forms she created, then shared an intimate encounter with him.
• Ruan Mei suggested Jiang Lianqiu call Trigger, and he brought Sirius into the encounter as well.
• At the Port, Radiance and Victory prepared afternoon tea while Kafka, Silver Wolf, and the others relaxed on the beach.
• Stelle rushed to put sunscreen on Kafka, pounced on her, and was kicked away after licking Kafka's foot.
• Kafka protested Stelle's behavior, and Himeko listed several of Stelle's past antics to reassure her.
• Jiang Lianqiu arrived at the beach and caught Stelle when she fell toward him.