Chapter Summaries

At the ball, Jiang Lianqiu learned how Furina’s clashes with Arlecchino began and saw the two continue their verbal feud. He then asked Arlecchino to open a passage to the Crimson Moon so he could obtain its moon marrow and gain control of Teyvat.

• Columbia invited Jiang Lianqiu to dance, and Arlecchino dragged Furina away to discuss their private matters.
• Navia danced with Jiang Lianqiu, injured her ankle, and explained how Furina’s conflict with Arlecchino began over Lyney and the House of the Hearth.
• Jiang Lianqiu found Furina and Arlecchino trading insults while Sandrone and Columbia shared tea and desserts.
• Jiang Lianqiu asked Arlecchino to open a passage to the Crimson Moon and explained that he needed the Rainbow Moon’s moon marrow to combine with the Frost Moon and Constant Moon marrow and take control of Teyvat.
• Arlecchino grew grave as she questioned Jiang Lianqiu’s reason for seeking the moon marrow.

Jiang Lianqiu explained his plan to gather the Three Moons’ Moon Marrow and overturn the failing Heavenly Principles, then used Frost Moon’s authority to free Furina’s bedroom from Teyvat’s fate-bound order. He reunited Furina with Focalors, who revealed her plan to destroy the Hydro God’s Seat and save Fontaine, while Jiang promised to give her a new body.

• Jiang Lianqiu told Arlecchino and Sandrone that he planned to gather the Three Moons’ Moon Marrow and reshape Teyvat’s order, but Arlecchino asked for time to consider helping him.
• Jiang Lianqiu said he would investigate Fontaine’s phantom incident and resolve the prophecy crisis, then revealed that Dottore was also pursuing the Three Moons’ authority.
• Jiang Lianqiu used Frost Moon’s authority to summon Focalors through Furina’s mirror and temporarily free the bedroom from the Order of Heaven.
• Focalors confirmed that her plan was to destroy the Water God’s Seat, return the Ancient Dragon’s Authority to Neuvillette, and sacrifice herself to deceive the Heavenly Principles.
• Furina learned that Focalors had planned to die and protested, while Jiang Lianqiu assured them that the Oratrice’s stored Indemnitium could be used to give Focalors a new body.
• Focalors left Furina and Jiang Lianqiu, saying she would wait inside the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale for his good news.

After spending the night with Jiang Lianqiu, Furina struggled with her appetite before approving Navia’s request to reopen two investigations. At the Tower of Ipsissimus, guards learned from The Steambird that Furina had officially announced a lover, then spotted someone approaching across the water.

• Jiang Lianqiu carried Furina to bed, while Focalors suffered from the sensations linked to Furina through the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale.
• Clorinde and Navia learned that Jiang Lianqiu had stayed in Furina’s bedchamber, then found Furina at breakfast recovering her taste for Little Cakes.
• Navia asked Furina for permission to access sealed files for the Serial Girl Disappearance Case and the Lesi Smuggling Case, and Furina approved her request.
• At the Tower of Ipsissimus, Antoine told the guards that a mysterious big shot had cured him, and they speculated about his closeness to Navia.
• The guards read The Steambird’s report that Furina had announced her lover and recognized Jiang Lianqiu as the man who had saved Antoine.
• A guard spotted someone approaching across the water, prompting the others to ready their weapons.

Jiang Lianqiu and Skirk entered the Tower of Ipsissimus and found Rene and Jakob trapped as Hydro Eidolons. Jiang Lianqiu freed them, removed the Abyssal power from their bodies, and rebuilt them with Primordial Seawater, leaving them to choose new faces.

• Fontaine guards recognized Jiang Lianqiu and let him and Skirk enter the Tower of Ipsissimus with Furina's token.
• Skirk told Jiang Lianqiu that she had found an abnormal space beneath the tower, and they descended through its barriers.
• Jiang Lianqiu and Skirk found Rene and Jakob bound inside enormous Hydro Eidolons, and Rene explained why he had founded the Narzissenkreuz Ordo to seek a way to save the world.
• Jiang Lianqiu destroyed the rune chains, stripped the Abyss from Rene and Jakob, and reshaped their bodies with Primordial Seawater.
• Rene and Jakob discovered they had no faces, struggled to design new ones, and used Jiang Lianqiu's phone to generate their appearances.

Jiang Lianqiu learned from Rene that Teyvat’s growing anomalies traced back to an expanding connection with another world, linked to events surrounding Hyperborea and Nibelungen’s return. After Rene and Jakob emerged from the Tower of Ipsissimus, Belfast sent Amagi to help Jiang Lianqiu investigate the passage.

• Jakob embraced Jiang Lianqiu’s encouragement to rebuild Rome, and Rene explained how his and Jakob’s Ley Line research revealed escalating anomalies in Teyvat.
• Rene traced the anomalies to the last princess of Festering Desire glimpsing an outside threat and explained how an Outworld Traveler’s actions in Hyperborea had prompted Nibelungen’s return.
• Rene said a growing passage connected Teyvat to the source of the crisis and gave Jiang Lianqiu a formula for locating its entrance.
• Jiang Lianqiu brought Rene and Jakob out of the Tower of Ipsissimus, where Fontaine guards and reporter Charlotte greeted them.
• Belfast reported that the Observer had analyzed Rene’s formula and sent a specialist to Jiang Lianqiu.
• Amagi arrived through a portal and asked Jiang Lianqiu to introduce her to their enemy.

Jiang Lianqiu met Amagi, whose Mind Cube damage left her with a sickly appearance, and she led him and his companions to a silver-white tree in an underground cavern connected to her homeland. Before Amagi could contact the Sakura Empire’s Sacred Tree, Jiang Lianqiu paused the plan because the link might let Abyssal contamination invade both worlds, and he decided temporary protection was needed.

• Amagi arrived and explained that her sickly appearance was only a superficial effect of her Mind Cube’s recorded data, then agreed to guide Jiang Lianqiu’s group to a place connected to her homeland.
• Amagi led Jiang Lianqiu, Skirk, Rene, Jakob, and Charlotte across the sea to the ley-line convergence near the Tower of Ipsissimus.
• Rene recognized the site as the core point of his grand array, and the group followed him underwater through a cavern and a water curtain into a dry underground hollow.
• The group found an enormous silver-white tree, and Amagi confirmed that her Mind Cube could sense the Sakura Empire’s Sacred Tree from there.
• Jiang Lianqiu stopped Amagi from establishing contact, warning that the connection could admit Abyssal contamination and invade her homeland, and said he needed temporary protections first.

Jiang Lianqiu entered the Azur Lane World in his real body and found Nagato trying to protect Sakura Empire’s dying Sacred Tree from an attack by X. After meeting Nagato and confirming that he alone could intervene, he rose toward the front line to deliver a strike.

• Jiang Lianqiu used the Silver White Ancient Tree to help Amagi establish a brief connection with the weakened Sacred Tree in Sakura Empire.
• Nagato ordered Mutsu to lead the retreat while she stayed behind to sustain the Sacred Tree, then performed a kagura dance that restored its vitality.
• Jiang Lianqiu arrived beside Nagato in his real body, activated a Trailblaze Anchor Point, and learned that interference from the destroyed main world line disrupted communications.
• Nagato recognized Jiang Lianqiu as her Commander and rushed into his chest, while Amagi explained that only he could fight in this world.
• Jiang Lianqiu summoned a longsword and rose above the battlefield, where Sakura Empire Ship Girls were fighting X.

Jiang Lianqiu arrived at the Sakura Empire battlefield, drove back the X forces with a massive flaming sword strike, and began restoring the Sacred Tree. As his time in the world ran short, the Sakura Empire Ship Girls reunited with Amagi and gathered beneath the tree.

• Jiang Lianqiu ordered the Ship Girls to fall back and unleashed a flaming sword wave that annihilated the X army and exploded in space.
• Amagi told Jiang Lianqiu that his sword strike had halved the time she could maintain the passage, leaving about twenty minutes.
• Jiang Lianqiu began treating the Sacred Tree, restoring its vitality and bringing cherry blossoms back to the Port.
• Hiei arrived beneath the tree, recognized Jiang Lianqiu, and stopped when Nagato warned her not to disturb him.
• Amagi explained to Hiei that she and the others were projections communicating from another world, while Charlotte introduced herself.
• Akagi arrived, saw Amagi, and cried out to her sister in shock and joy.

Akagi and Kaga reunited with Amagi while Jiang Lianqiu discovered the Sacred Tree’s connection to the Void Realm and began supplying it and the Ship Girls with limitless energy. His declarations transformed the Sakura Empire’s Ship Girls and reached the embattled Royal Faction, where Elizabeth and her allies began changing as they prepared to retreat.

• Amagi explained to Akagi that she could not be touched, then greeted Kaga, who worried about where she belonged as Akagi’s sister.
• Jiang Lianqiu traced the Sacred Tree’s power to the Mind Cube and the influence of the Void Realm, then began giving the tree and the Ship Girls a safe, abundant energy source.
• Jiang Lianqiu’s declarations caused the Sakura Empire Ship Girls’ Mind Cubes, rigging, and appearances to transform without triggering META.
• As the Royal Faction’s Ports fell under an endless enemy assault, Warspite and Prince of Wales urged Elizabeth to retreat to the European mainland.
• Jiang Lianqiu’s declarations reached the Royal Ship Girls, surrounding Elizabeth and her allies with blazing light and restoring Prince of Wales’s broken ceremonial sword as her rigging changed.

Jiang Lianqiu’s arrival empowered the Royal Faction to counterattack, then the Sakura Empire Ship Girls overwhelmed him with an affectionate reunion before his projection began to fade. Back in Fontaine, Furina woke from a long nap to find Columbia waiting for her to have lunch.

• Jiang Lianqiu’s declaration restored the Royal Faction’s strength, and Elizabeth ordered a counterattack as Warspite and the fleet blasted the enemy ships with plasma weapons and missiles.
• Yuudachi recognized Jiang Lianqiu, and the Sakura Empire Ship Girls swarmed him until Akagi and Atago competed to get him away from the crowd.
• Jiang Lianqiu’s projection began to fade as Amagi’s ability neared its limit, and he warned Atago to worry about facing the angry girls who had chased her.
• Furina slept through the morning after breakfast, then woke at noon to Columbia humming beside her bed and saying they were waiting for lunch.

At lunch, Arlecchino agreed to help Jiang Lianqiu obtain the Crimson Moon's Moon Marrow in exchange for help with her worsening, Abyss-tainted power. Jiang Lianqiu returned with Amagi and revealed that Rene and Jakob had escaped their predicament, then prepared to examine Arlecchino at the House of the Hearth's Fontaine base.

• Furina, Columbia, Sandrone, and Arlecchino discussed Jiang Lianqiu's trip to the Tower of Ipsissimus and the Narzissenkreuz Ordo's World Formula.
• Arlecchino recalled a Crimson Moon Dynasty ritual and suspected that Khaenri'ahn traditions and technology might connect to Lemuria.
• Jiang Lianqiu arrived with Amagi and told everyone that Rene and Jakob had regained their bodies and needed to re-register in Fontaine.
• Arlecchino explained that her Abyss-tainted flame power was eroding her body and had spread to her collarbone, worsening from the day Jiang Lianqiu cured Columbia.
• Jiang Lianqiu suspected the Frost Moon had affected the Crimson Moon and arranged to examine Arlecchino; she agreed to help him obtain the Crimson Moon's Moon Marrow.
• Arlecchino brought the group to the House of the Hearth's base, where Furina threatened to send the Gendarmerie of Fontaine to raid it.

Jiang Lianqiu examined Arlecchino’s Crimson Moon corruption and used his powers to purge the Abyssal contamination from her body. Arlecchino recovered from the ordeal, but Jiang warned that the corruption would return if she used the Crimson Moon’s power again.

• Lyney welcomed Furina, Jiang Lianqiu, Arlecchino, and the others, then led them through a hidden passage to an underground suite.
• Furina negotiated intelligence and evidence from Arlecchino in exchange for sharing the House of the Hearth’s information with Navia.
• Arlecchino exposed her corrupted body so Jiang Lianqiu could examine the erosion, and they discussed how the Crimson Moon ritual granted its followers a temporary legitimate identity in Teyvat.
• Jiang Lianqiu used Abundance Divine Power to protect Arlecchino and destructive flames to burn away the Abyssal contamination as she endured intense pain.
• After the black patterns vanished, Arlecchino collapsed into Jiang Lianqiu’s arms, and he warned her that using the Crimson Moon’s power would bring the erosion back.

Jiang Lianqiu learned that the Primordial Sea was surfacing and set out with Columbia and Sandrone to obtain the Crimson Moon's Moon Marrow, which could help him change Teyvat's fate. They entered the Crimson Moon's sealed space, where a mysterious voice recognized Jiang Lianqiu as someone who transcended the world and fate.

• Freminet reported that he, Navia, and Clorinde had discovered seawater containing Primordial Sea water in an underwater cavern.
• Arlecchino agreed to help Jiang Lianqiu obtain the Crimson Moon's Moon Marrow so he could try to replace the Order of Heaven and change the prophecy's outcome.
• Arlecchino used the Fire of Two Worlds to open a passage to the Crimson Moon's sealed space, while Amagi and Furina stayed behind to guard the passage.
• Jiang Lianqiu entered the passage with Columbia and Sandrone, and Arlecchino warned them not to heed anything they heard along the way.
• A mysterious voice spoke of death and rebirth, then recognized Jiang Lianqiu as one who transcended the world and fate as the three reached a strange space beyond the vortex.

Jiang Lianqiu, Sandrone, and Columbia reached the Rainbow Moon’s Moon Marrow and learned how the Rainbow Moon had been shattered and corrupted by the Abyss. As Jiang Lianqiu burned away the Dark Will, he recognized it as the despair of dead universes cut off from rebirth, then sensed something unexpected.

• Jiang Lianqiu protected Sandrone from the Abyssal atmosphere and took her and Columbia to the shattered far side of the Rainbow Moon.
• Columbia froze the Abyssal monsters while Jiang Lianqiu broke the barrier beneath the moon and burned away the Abyss, revealing the Rainbow Moon’s Moon Marrow.
• The Rainbow Moon’s consciousness told Jiang Lianqiu that Nibelungen had shattered her after she and the others entrusted the world’s protection to Phanes.
• The Dark Will hurled moon fragments at the group, but Jiang Lianqiu cut them apart and resisted the Abyss engulfing the Rainbow Moon’s corpse.
• Jiang Lianqiu ignited the Rainbow Moon’s corpse, causing it to shine and purify the surrounding ruins of Abyssal corruption.
• Jiang Lianqiu recognized the Dark Will as the despair of universes unable to return to the Void Realm, and then noticed something unexpected.

Jiang Lianqiu discovered that pollution from the dead Azur Lane worldline had accelerated Teyvat’s decay, and he began planning to use March’s authority to repair the world and sever Fontaine’s fate. After Marcel was convicted and Callas’s name restored, Jiang Lianqiu refused to resurrect Callas, explaining that he had already been reborn, then prepared to reveal the truth behind Fontaine’s prophecy.

• Jiang Lianqiu traced Teyvat’s premature decline to pollution from the destroyed Azur Lane worldline and planned to use experimental sites to restore some of Teyvat’s lost lifespan.
• Jiang Lianqiu took the Rainbow Moon Marrow and said he could use it to rebuild Teyvat’s Ley Lines and sever the bonds between fate stars and living beings.
• Furina teased the immobilized Arlecchino, who chased and struck her after Jiang Lianqiu, Columbia, and Sandrone returned.
• Neuvillette announced Marcel’s guilty verdict and restored Callas’s honors, while Navia wept with relief and the crowd reacted to the trial’s revelations.
• Jiang Lianqiu told Furina that Callas could not be resurrected because he had returned to the world as another person, and he agreed that Fontaine’s people should hear the truth about the prophecy.
• Furina prepared to address the people of Fontaine as Jiang Lianqiu said he was ready to break their fate and resolve the prophecy crisis.

Furina revealed Fontaine’s original sin and declared that Jiang Lianqiu could save its people, while he began using the Moon Marrow and Hydro Gnosis to turn Teyvat’s fate and pardon their sins. Nicole and Barbeloth sensed the change, and Barbeloth identified the one outside fate as the person who had begun acting.

• Furina explained that Fontaine’s people were descended from water familiars and that their original sin made them vulnerable to the Primordial Sea.
• Furina named Jiang Lianqiu her Prince Consort and promised that he would pardon the sins of all Fontainians and grant them freedom.
• Jiang Lianqiu rose above the Opera Epiclese, summoned rain, and joined with Columbia as she transformed into the Frost Moon’s Moon Marrow.
• Jiang Lianqiu absorbed the three Moon Marrow pieces, perceived the threads linking Teyvat’s inhabitants to the Fake Sky, and began turning the world’s fate as he declared all Fontainians’ sins pardoned.
• Nicole sensed the wheel of Teyvat’s fate turning and asked Barbeloth what had happened; Barbeloth said the one outside fate had begun to act.

Jiang Lianqiu severed Fontaine from its predetermined fate, then flew into the storm to mend the sky as Fontainians watched. Focalors reunited with Furina and revealed the Water God’s division to the people, while Skirk found the All-Devouring Narwhal in the Primordial Sea.

• Barbeloth explained that fate-reading could not detect Jiang Lianqiu and left Mona with Nicole, after Mona discovered her fate was becoming inaccurate.
• Mona found that the threads of her fate connected to Fontaine had snapped, and Barbeloth explained Fontaine had broken away from Teyvat’s predetermined fate.
• Jiang Lianqiu realized severing Fontaine’s fate had weakened the Fake Sky and flew upward through the storm to mend it.
• Furina told the gathered Fontainians that Jiang Lianqiu was mending the sky, and Focalors appeared and embraced her.
• Focalors explained that the Water God had divided herself to deceive fate, and she urged Furina to share the role of Water God with her.
• Skirk searched the Primordial Sea for the All-Devouring Narwhal and found it.

After Jiang Lianqiu resolved Fontaine’s prophecy crisis, the water receded and Fontainians learned the truth about their origins and salvation. Days later, he told Charlotte about Teyvat’s wider danger and future plans, while his playful closeness with Focalors and Furina sent the reporter fleeing in embarrassment.

• Skirk captured the All-Devouring Narwhal as Fontaine’s water level began to fall and submerged land reappeared.
• Fontaine’s officers announced that Furina and Jiang Lianqiu had resolved the prophecy crisis and pardoned the Fontainians’ original sin.
• Fontainians read Furina’s official notice, learned they had been transformed from pure Hydro Eidolons, and celebrated as the waters receded.
• Arlecchino told Lyney and Lynette she was returning to Snezhnaya and said they could contact her or find their Mother through Katheryne.
• Jiang Lianqiu told Charlotte about the Fake Sky, Teyvat’s crisis, and his salvation plan, then teased her by kissing Furina and touching Focalors until Charlotte hurried away.

After the Heavenly Principles’ death became known, Raiden Makoto ordered Tsurumi Island evacuated as signs of other worlds appeared, while Buer sought Apep’s help in protecting the Ley Lines and World Tree. Apep agreed to aid anyone who would bring down the Heavenly Principles’ order, and Buer insisted she had only fulfilled her duty.

• Stelle, Klee, and their companions kept Tartaglia tied up and beat him in the Golden House, while Rosalyn revealed that Skirk approved of the punishment.
• Rosalyn told Tartaglia that Skirk had appeared in Fontaine with Jiang Lianqiu, making Tartaglia junior to nearly everyone present.
• Kamisato Ayaka reported sightings of strange sea monsters near Tsurumi Island, and Raiden Makoto ordered the settlers withdrawn after learning that other worlds were beginning to seep in.
• Buer met Apep in the desert and explained that she had cleared away the Abyssal contamination Apep suffered after devouring King Deshret’s legacy.
• Buer asked Apep to help protect the Ley Lines and World Tree as the old order collapsed, and Apep agreed to oppose the Heavenly Principles’ order.

Buer asked Apep for the Forbidden Knowledge she gained from devouring King Deshret, while Jiang Lianqiu arrived in Natlan and reunited with his grandson Olorun. The chapter left Jiang Lianqiu at Olorun’s home as Citlalli approached.

• Buer asked Apep to give her the Forbidden Knowledge she obtained after devouring King Deshret.
• Citlalli told Marivik and Natlan’s leaders that an angel had contacted the Ancient Name and was at Festering Desire, then reacted angrily to a Steambird photo of Jiang Lianqiu with Focalors and Furina.
• Jiang Lianqiu visited Olorun, who recognized him as his grandfather, and met Kachina, who called him “Big Brother” after he rejected “deadbeat grandfather.”
• Olorun showed Jiang Lianqiu his home and explained that he had moved away from Citlalli after her battles repeatedly destroyed his vegetable garden.
• Jiang Lianqiu gave Olorun a Universal Household Robot to help with his home, garden, and bees, and Olorun offered to cook lunch.
• Jiang Lianqiu sensed Citlalli approaching Olorun’s home.