Chapter Summaries

Istaroth explained that Heavenly Principles’ rules required the Seven Gods’ order to remain stable until a critical time point, and Jiang Lianqiu decided to explore Natlan before seeking a way into the future. He followed Vichilin to Citlalli’s home, where she prepared to challenge the legendary shaman.

• Istaroth said Jiang Lianqiu’s cultivation method could disrupt the Seven Gods’ order before the critical time point and cause Heavenly Principles’ rules to backlash.
• Jiang Lianqiu guessed that Heavenly Principles might be trying to save herself and asked Istaroth to send him to the future, but she said he would need to travel through the Sea of Embers himself.
• Jiang Lianqiu learned that Marivik had thrown herself into Natlan’s Sacred Flame, then headed toward a nearby tribe.
• Jiang Lianqiu overheard Vichilin say she expected to lose to Citlalli again and followed her toward Citlalli’s home.
• Vichilin painted Citlalli’s doorstep and had Little Claw knock until Citlalli opened the door.

Jiang Lianqiu watched Citlalli duel and spend the afternoon with Vichilin, then followed Citlalli into her home after she sensed an unseen presence. Citlalli tried to capture the supposed ghost with a ritual, but Jiang Lianqiu effortlessly stopped her and finally answered her challenge from the unseen.

• Vichilin challenged Citlalli to a duel, and Citlalli won despite being distracted by Jiang Lianqiu's presence.
• Citlalli sensed someone nearby and changed the picnic location, then searched the area after Vichilin left.
• Citlalli drank with Vichilin and complained about being called Grandma and not inheriting an Ancient Name.
• Jiang Lianqiu followed Citlalli into her home and watched as she went to her ritual basement.
• Citlalli cast a spell to trap Jiang Lianqiu, but he destroyed the paper charms and suspended her in midair.
• Citlalli demanded that the unseen presence stop hiding, and Jiang Lianqiu replied that he was not hiding.

Jiang Lianqiu discovered that Citlalli could sense him across time because of her connection to Remembrance, and explained that she would live for centuries without aging. After Citlalli confided her fear of outliving everyone she knew, Jiang Lianqiu offered to teach her to perceive beyond time, and she began exploring her unusual longevity among Natlan’s people.

• Citlalli failed to see Jiang Lianqiu, mistook him for a star demon, and eventually touched his military uniform while searching for him.
• Jiang Lianqiu realized Citlalli could sense him because Remembrance let her perceive beyond the usual limits of time, and he told her she would remain young for centuries.
• Citlalli was shocked by the revelation, hurt her toes while reacting, and asked Jiang Lianqiu to explain how Remembrance affected her.
• Citlalli worried that she would be left alone as Vichilin and the people around her grew old, and Jiang Lianqiu reassured her that she would eventually become a respected elder.
• Jiang Lianqiu offered to teach Citlalli to use Remembrance to see beyond time, and Citlalli eagerly asked whether she could see the future.
• Citlalli went to a butcher’s stall, where the butcher was startled to see her.

Citlalli learned that people thought she had an imaginary companion, then spent the evening with Jiang Lianqiu before sensing an Abyss invasion at the Flowing Springs Tribe. She rushed there to help and arrived as the tribe faced devastating casualties and an injured warrior was threatened by a Beast Realm Hound.

• Citlalli learned that the butcher and others believed she spoke to an imaginary companion, then froze his stall after he advised her to find a companion.
• Citlalli and Jiang Lianqiu returned home, where she drank wine, asked for another story, and promised to make woven cloth recording his adventures.
• Citlalli sensed an Abyss invasion near the Flowing Springs Tribe and set out to help while the Yanmi Tribe arranged to warn other tribes.
• Jiang Lianqiu told Citlalli that the ancient pillars she had painted were Teleport Anchors that could potentially be reactivated.
• Citlalli arrived above the burning Flowing Springs Tribe and saw its people fighting amid heavy casualties as a Beast Realm Hound prepared to attack an injured warrior.

Citlalli and Jiang Lianqiu joined the Flowing Springs Tribe as the Abyss launched a massive invasion from the sea, and Natlan’s warriors struggled to reach the Abyssal Tumor. As the battle worsened, Jiang Lianqiu stopped Citlalli and said he needed to borrow her body for a moment.

• Citlalli and her Star Demons rescued a couple and froze Abyssal monsters while she hurried toward the Flowing Springs Tribe’s front line with Jiang Lianqiu.
• Citlalli and Icatl assessed the sea-based invasion, and Icatl explained that the tribe lacked enough equipment to attack across the water.
• Reinforcements from the other tribes arrived, and Vichilin told Citlalli about her memory-maze secret art before Citlalli returned to battle.
• Jiang Lianqiu concluded that the invasion had leaked out from the Sea of Embers and decided he could not remain in Natlan.
• The Feathered Flower Society’s chieftain proposed gathering Vision holders for an assault on the Abyssal Tumor after her aerial forces suffered heavy losses.
• Jiang Lianqiu stopped Citlalli and said he might need to borrow her body, startling her during the battle.

Jiang Lianqiu lent Citlalli his Earth Authority, allowing her to raise land from the sea and attack the Abyssal Tumor. Morax sensed a similar but unfamiliar Geo Authority from Natlan and hurried there, while the Yanmi Tribe’s leader was left stunned by Citlalli’s power.

• Jiang Lianqiu embraced Citlalli and lent her power, clearing up her questions about Remembrance and revealing his true appearance to her.
• Citlalli used Earth Authority to raise a vast stretch of land from the sea, scattering Abyssal monsters and creating a battlefield near the Abyssal Tumor.
• Citlalli commanded the raised earth to pierce the Abyssal Tumor as the Natlan tribes watched in amazement.
• In Liyue Harbor, Morax learned about Merchant Hu’s ties to Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and considered looking after the family.
• Morax sensed a Geo Authority from Natlan that resembled his own but felt different, then left Liyue Harbor to investigate.
• The Yanmi Tribe’s leader and the other tribal leaders struggled to understand how Citlalli could command the earth.

Citlalli destroyed the Abyssal Tumor and helped Natlan gain the upper hand, but Jiang Lianqiu told her he had to leave because the Sea of Embers was resonating with him. After he promised to return in roughly three to four hundred years, Morax appeared and questioned Citlalli about the Geo Authority she carried.

• Citlalli raised stone spears to destroy the Abyssal Tumor, then ordered the Yanmi Tribe's leader to organize the remaining fighters.
• Citlalli sensed the Ancient Name's complex emotions while Jiang Lianqiu warned her not to overstrain herself.
• Citlalli pulled Jiang Lianqiu away from the battlefield and learned he planned to leave Natlan temporarily because the Sea of Embers was affecting him.
• Jiang Lianqiu said he expected to return in roughly three to four hundred years, and Citlalli hugged and bit him in distress.
• Morax emerged from hiding, asked Citlalli why he sensed Geo Authority upon her, and Jiang Lianqiu caused golden light to flow around her.

Morax reunited with Jiang Lianqiu through Citlalli and learned that Jiang existed outside time, while Istaroth teased them and pointed him toward Alice’s mysterious gift. After Morax departed, Citlalli spent her final night with Jiang before he left, and she woke to find every trace of him erased by time.

• Jiang Lianqiu explained to Morax that Abyssal creatures had followed his scent to Natlan and that he had lent Citlalli power to fight them.
• Morax offered to help Jiang, but Istaroth rewound his timeline mid-sentence; she then teased Jiang about Nana’s dowry and urged him toward a critical period where Alice had prepared a gift.
• Morax identified the Witch’s Association and Alice for Jiang before leaving Natlan, and Jiang told Citlalli that the woman she had asked about was the Death Archon, Ronove.
• Citlalli took Jiang home, confessed she did not want to regret their separation, and spent the night with him.
• Citlalli woke alone the next morning and realized Jiang’s presence had left no lasting traces because he existed outside time.

Five hundred years after Citlalli became a light-novel addict, Aether emerged from his imprisonment beneath Mt. Yougou, driven nearly insane by absorbing Ley Line filth. Yae Miko realized she had buried him and fled his wrath until Jiang Lianqiu intervened, then let Aether chase her through the cavern.

• Citlalli discovered cultivation manuals and light novels left behind and became a drunken, nocturnal light-novel addict.
• Yae Miko complained about Yae Publishing House submissions while Editor Hirayama explained why no one dared write about Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei together.
• An explosion shook Mt. Yougou, and Kuki Shinobu told Yae Miko the tremor came from inside the mountain.
• Yae Miko remembered she had buried Aether there five hundred years earlier, and she found him surrounded by Abyssal energy after he broke free.
• Aether attacked Yae Miko in a rage, but Jiang Lianqiu caught his fist and then allowed him to chase her.

Jiang Lianqiu subdued Aether’s Abyssal rampage, confronted Yae Miko over burying him for five hundred years, and brought the pair back to Tenshukaku. As he explained that Teyvat was nearing the end of its life, Raiden Makoto worried about how the coming upheaval would affect Inazuma.

• Jiang Lianqiu knocked Aether unconscious and quelled the Abyssal power within him, then warned Yae Miko about burying him beneath Mt. Yougou for five hundred years.
• Jiang Lianqiu made Yae Miko transform into a fox and held her while the Electro Archons arrived at the mountain hollow.
• At Tenshukaku, Jiang Lianqiu teased Kamisato Ayaka by calling her “Kame Kame,” while Raiden Makoto and Raiden Ei learned that Yae Miko had buried Aether in the ground.
• Jiang Lianqiu told Raiden Makoto that he had arrived through the Sea of Embers and had come to take Aether with him.
• Raiden Makoto warned that Teyvat could not withstand too much upheaval, and Jiang Lianqiu told her the world had reached the end of its life.

Jiang Lianqiu warned the Electro Archons about the world’s eventual decay, then helped Aether learn what he could about Lumine and offered to travel with him to Mondstadt. Before leaving Inazuma, he cautioned Raiden Makoto that local threats and Fatui schemes still needed attention.

• Jiang Lianqiu explained that the universe might be decaying and promised he could move the planet to a safer universe if necessary.
• Aether entered the hall, learned that Jiang Lianqiu knew about the god who had taken Lumine, and heard that she might be in Mondstadt.
• Jiang Lianqiu offered to travel with Aether to Mondstadt, and Aether happily accepted.
• Raiden Makoto said the Fatui were trying to sow discord between Narukami and Watatsumi Island.
• Jiang Lianqiu warned Raiden Makoto about potential unrest and dangerous sites across Inazuma, prompting her to ask how he knew so much about the region.

Jiang Lianqiu left Inazuma with Aether and Yae Miko, then brought them to a beach near Mondstadt while searching for a trace of Aether’s sister. He had Aether fish and unexpectedly hooked Paimon, while Miko remained trapped in fox form.

• Raiden Ei lent Yae Miko to Jiang Lianqiu after tasting a pastry that seemed to increase her power.
• Jiang Lianqiu departed Tenshukaku with Aether and Miko, and Raiden Ei admitted she would miss the lively gathering and the pastry.
• At a beach near Stormbearer Point, Jiang Lianqiu sensed a trace of Istaroth and asked Aether to fish before they went to Mondstadt City.
• Aether hooked a Dodoco, threw it into the sea when it began heating up, and its explosion blasted Paimon into the air.
• Jiang Lianqiu caught the unconscious Paimon while Miko was struck by a falling fish and remained unable to transform back.

Jiang Lianqiu led Aether, Paimon, and Yae Miko through Whispering Woods, where Aether resonated with the Statue of the Seven and gained Anemo power. After Jiang Lianqiu showed him how to sense and guide elemental energy, Aether crossed the lake with a strengthened leap, while a searching girl appeared in the forest.

• Jiang Lianqiu and Aether rescued Paimon, who woke up and mistook Yae Miko for a monster before slapping her.
• Paimon shared Sunsettias with the group, and they saw Dvalin fly over Whispering Woods.
• Jiang Lianqiu told Aether that touching a Statue of the Seven could loosen Asmoday’s seal, and Aether resonated with the statue to gain Anemo power.
• Jiang Lianqiu formed Anemo energy into a butterfly and taught Aether to sense and guide the flow of elemental power.
• Aether used Anemo to leap across the lake, noticed that his seal had loosened, and the group headed toward Mondstadt as a girl searched the forest.

Amber met Jiang Lianqiu, Aether, Yae Miko, and Paimon while searching Whispering Woods for Klee, and Jiang Lianqiu offered to help find her. They discovered Klee attacking Dvalin and an Abyss Mage with explosives, leaving Amber convinced that Mondstadt was in trouble.

• Amber searched Whispering Woods for Klee after learning the child had gone missing from Mondstadt.
• Amber questioned Jiang Lianqiu, Aether, Yae Miko, and Paimon, then explained Klee's disappearance and her urgent mission to find her.
• Jiang Lianqiu spread his spiritual senses through the area to locate Klee.
• An Abyss Mage tried to corrupt Dvalin while Venti arrived, but Venti vanished when Klee appeared and threw a Bouncy Bomb.
• Klee bombarded Dvalin and the Abyss Mage until the Abyss Herald rescued the mage and brought it to Lumine.
• Amber heard the explosions and cried that Klee had gone berserk.

Klee’s bomb-throwing turned the Whispering Woods into a wreck before Jiang Lianqiu stopped her and learned that Alice had left a gift for him. After Klee showed Albedo’s potion for restoring the forest, Jiang Lianqiu healed the woods with his power.

• Klee bombarded Dvalin with Bouncy Bombs until he fled, while Amber rushed to stop her.
• Jiang Lianqiu silenced a giant Bouncy Bomb, caught Klee, and learned that Alice had left a box for someone he might be.
• Amber made Klee recite the Knights of Favonius Survival Rules, and Klee revealed Albedo’s potion for restoring the forest.
• Klee picked up Yae Miko and sniffed her belly before Amber rescued the fox and apologized.
• Jiang Lianqiu returned the potion to Klee and used his authority over the earth to restore the Whispering Woods.

Jiang Lianqiu spoke with Lumine in Mondstadt, where she explained that she would focus on restoring Khaenri'ah rather than reuniting with Aether. In Fontaine, Furina learned that Sandrone had joined the Fatui, then Clorinde and Navia sensed an approaching threat.

• Jiang Lianqiu revealed himself to Lumine and told her that he had brought Aether to Mondstadt after hearing she was there.
• Lumine refused to meet Aether for now, saying she had chosen to restore Khaenri'ah and would seek Jiang Lianqiu's help if needed.
• Navia told Furina that Sandrone was the Fatui Harbinger Marionette, and Furina asked the Adventurer's Guild to contact her.
• Clorinde stepped in front of Furina with her sword and gun, while Navia guarded her blind spots against an unseen threat.

Lumine reunited with Furina in Fontaine and told her she had seen the man who once shared Furina’s body. In Mondstadt, Jiang Lianqiu’s group met the Knights of Favonius, and Klee’s account of her birth left Jiang Lianqiu wondering how Alice had become a mother without a father for Klee.

• Lumine reunited with Furina, who scolded her for staying away for hundreds of years and demanded to know where the man who shared her body was.
• Kaeya welcomed Jiang Lianqiu, Aether, and their companions to Mondstadt, then tried to send Klee away while the adults met Jean.
• Aether offered to help Jean with Dvalin’s rampage, while Yae Miko asked whether the Knights could contact Alice.
• Klee returned to ask Jean for the Dodoco Communicator so she could speak to Alice and open the treasure chest her mother had left.
• Klee told Jiang Lianqiu she had been born without a father, and explained that Alice called her a treasure fate had given her.

Jiang Lianqiu learned that Alice was Klee’s mother and that Frost Moon had made Alice pregnant five hundred years earlier. Meanwhile, Columbia reunited with Alice in Snezhnaya and received a mysterious energy-restoring cube; the chapter ended with Jiang Lianqiu asking Alice a question through the Dodoco Communicator.

• Yae Miko told Jiang Lianqiu that Frost Moon had ambushed Alice beyond the Fake Sky five hundred years ago, leading to Klee’s birth.
• Sandrone confronted Columbia about singing outside her home at night, then watched Columbia happily greet Alice when the witch arrived.
• Alice gave Columbia a blue cube from another world that could replenish energy and transform into Kuuvahki.
• Alice contacted Jean through the Dodoco Communicator, and Klee asked her for the password to a treasure chest left for Jiang Lianqiu.
• Jiang Lianqiu told Alice he was not Barbeloth’s disciple and suggested that Klee’s extraordinary luck was natural to her.
• Jiang Lianqiu asked Alice to answer one question truthfully.

Jiang Lianqiu revealed that he had helped Alice survive the Frost Moon’s activation and learned that Klee was his daughter. After Klee embraced him and he confirmed clues about her unusual powers, Alice agreed to come to Mondstadt, but Columbia stopped her to discuss Klee’s connection to the Frost Moon.

• Jiang Lianqiu revealed that he had intervened during the Frost Moon’s unrest five hundred years earlier, and Alice recognized him as the father of her child.
• Jiang Lianqiu confirmed that Klee was his daughter, while Alice denied his claim and demanded that Jean keep Klee away from him.
• Klee called Jiang Lianqiu her daddy and clung to him, delighting him and leaving Alice distressed over their instant bond.
• Jiang Lianqiu asked Klee about her starry dreams and unusual good fortune, then explained that the Ley Lines could not record her because her power came from beyond Teyvat.
• Alice accepted Jiang Lianqiu’s claim enough to agree to meet him and asked him to care for Klee, then prepared to return to Mondstadt.
• Columbia stopped Alice and reminded her that Klee was connected to the Frost Moon.

Alice told Columbia she would investigate the mysterious man connected to Frost Moon before Columbia went looking for him herself. In Fontaine, Furina set out to find someone with Clorinde and Navia accompanying her, while Jiang Lianqiu took Klee on a tour of Mondstadt and confronted a Fatui Debt Collector who wanted to clear out their hotel.

• Sandrone concluded that someone mysterious was connected to Frost Moon, then hurried away to investigate; Columbia admitted she planned to seek the moon and remembered hearing the man's voice before.
• Alice urged Columbia to wait, left her a Dodoco Communicator, and departed; Columbia hummed while holding the Mind Cube Alice had given her.
• Furina tried to sneak out of Mouton Palace, but Clorinde and Navia caught her and agreed to accompany her on her journey.
• Klee woke Jiang Lianqiu and Paimon early to ask them to blow up fish, but Jiang Lianqiu offered to show her around Mondstadt instead.
• A Fatui Debt Collector demanded the hotel be cleared for a Fatui Executive, and Jiang Lianqiu told him to have Rosalyne make the request herself.