Chapter Summaries

Citlalli flew to Olorun’s courtyard after reading a newspaper report about Jiang Lianqiu, reunited with him, and shared a meal and wine. She told him that the Pyro Archon’s gathering had addressed the panic caused by his public revelation, leaving their conversation focused on the fallout.

• Citlalli read a photograph of Jiang Lianqiu in The Steambird, alternately scolding him and admiring his appearance.
• Citlalli spotted Jiang Lianqiu at Olorun’s home, leapt from her cushion, and landed in his arms, knocking Olorun into the vegetable garden.
• Citlalli kissed Jiang Lianqiu, then sent Olorun away with Mora so she could eat and drink with him in private.
• Citlalli told Jiang Lianqiu that the Pyro Archon had summoned Natlan’s leaders to discuss the Pilgrimage of the Return of Sacred Fire and the commotion he caused.
• Citlalli showed Jiang Lianqiu the newspaper and warned that his revelation had spread across Teyvat and left people panicked.

Jiang Lianqiu reunited with Citlalli in Natlan, teased her by reading her thoughts, and spent the afternoon with her before preparing to take her to meet the Ancient Name. Their conversation revealed that Nicole, a member of the Witch's Association, had contacted the Ancient Name, while the chapter ended by contrasting Natlan's deadly War of Burnt Fire with Liyue's origins.

• Jiang Lianqiu told Citlalli that he understood Teyvat's rules well enough to read her thoughts and tease her about them.
• Jiang Lianqiu and Citlalli returned to her home and spent the afternoon together, then bathed and discussed their plans to meet the Ancient Name.
• Jiang Lianqiu told Citlalli that Nicole, a member of the Witch's Association, had contacted the Ancient Name and had retained her human form but lost her voice as punishment.
• Citlalli prepared to meet the Ancient Name that night, and Jiang Lianqiu said he could take her directly to the Night God's Country.
• The chapter explained how Bona became Taodu and established Liyue's border between life and death, then noted that Natlan had suffered far more from the War of Burnt Fire.

Jiang Lianqiu and Citlalli entered the Night God's Country, where Jiang purified Abyss-tainted souls and joined Nicole in repairing the damaged Totem Pillars. After easing the pressure on the Ancient Name and Natlan, they prepared to meet it and learn what Marivik had asked.

• Jiang Lianqiu used his power to cleanse Abyssal pollution from the ghostly souls, while Citlalli learned that the oldest souls had lost memories and recognizable forms.
• Jiang Lianqiu and Citlalli encountered Nicole, who explained that Abyssal damage to Totem Pillars and soul-holding spaces had made it harder for the dead to reach the Night God's Country.
• Nicole told Jiang Lianqiu that Witch b had sent her apprentice to Festering Desire, and Jiang Lianqiu agreed to visit the child later.
• Jiang Lianqiu stopped Nicole from taking them straight to the Ancient Name and insisted on repairing the contaminated Totem Pillars first.
• Jiang Lianqiu purified the Totem Pillars and nearby land, then helped settle the cleansed souls in the restored areas.
• Citlalli realized that Natlan's Pyro Archon, Marivik, had revived in this era because the Night God's Country and the land above were in danger.

Jiang Lianqiu met the Ancient Name in Night God's Country and heard its concerns about how the coming reconstruction of Teyvat's order could affect its future. After learning how overworked Ruonava was, he proposed giving the Great Spirit part of the authority over death, and Ruonava eagerly agreed.

• Nicole offered to explain ancient techniques for improving the Pyro Archon's plan, but Jiang Lianqiu stopped her rambling by pressing a finger to her lips.
• Jiang Lianqiu and Citlalli reached the Great Spirit's Totem Pillar, where the Ancient Name thanked him for purifying its consciousness and asked how Night God's Country would fare under a new order.
• Jiang Lianqiu called Ruonava, who complained that she was overwhelmed by Teyvat's Ley Line troubles and the dead consciousnesses leaking in from another world.
• Jiang Lianqiu suggested that the Great Spirit take on part of the authority over death and maintain it as a natural law throughout Teyvat.
• Ruonava appeared beside Jiang Lianqiu and immediately agreed to the burden-sharing proposal, while the Great Spirit protested inwardly that its workload would soar.

Jiang Lianqiu reassured the Night God and Ronove that others could help reshape the cycle of life and death. The next morning, Xilonen visited Marivik to complain about her wrecked vehicle, then fell asleep at her home and woke in the Night God's Country alongside other Ancient Name holders, where they reunited with Citlalli and Olorun.

• Jiang Lianqiu told the Night God she could recruit willing Seelies from Festering Desire to help, and considered involving Xiadie in expanding the rules.
• Xilonen confronted Marivik about a Wheeled Vehicle she had repaired overnight after Marivik used it as a weapon, then fell asleep at Marivik's house.
• Marivik noticed Xilonen's consciousness being drawn toward the Night God's Country as her Ancient Name glowed, and Xilonen woke there.
• Xilonen followed the call of her Ancient Name and met Mualani and Kachina, who had also been summoned; the three concluded that other Ancient Name holders were affected too.
• The group encountered Olorun speaking with Capitano, then Citlalli suddenly appeared and struck Olorun before scolding him for talking to strangers.

Citlalli led Capitano and the others through a Totem Pillar, while in Liyue Hu Tao discovered deathly aura gathering around Taodu and was saved by the Death Archon. Jiang Lianqiu explained that he was rebuilding Teyvat’s order of death, recruited Hu Tao to help, and took her to a strange secret realm.

• Citlalli transported Capitano and the group from a purified Totem Pillar along the Ley Lines.
• Hu Tao entered the Netherworld and found Taodu alive but filled with dense deathly aura; her attempt to purify it provoked the aura to surge toward her.
• The Death Archon stopped the deathly aura from reaching Hu Tao and drew it back into Taodu, then Jiang Lianqiu arrived and scolded Hu Tao for acting alone.
• Jiang Lianqiu explained that the Death Archon was connected to Wangsheng Funeral Parlor’s ancestral duty and that he was reconstructing Teyvat’s order of death using Natlan’s Night God's Country.
• Hu Tao negotiated an exchange of future favors with Jiang Lianqiu, who took her to a secret realm beneath a starless blue sky.

Jiang Lianqiu completed the preliminary embedding of the new life-and-death rules in Night God's Country and gathered with Ronove, Marivik, Capitano, and the Natlanian heroes. Marivik explained her five-hundred-year plan to save Natlan, while the group prepared to face the remaining Abyssal threat and the Fire Dragon King.

• Hu Tao saw the crimson new moon and learned from Jiang Lianqiu that it was the repaired Rainbow Moon, while Ronove showed them a flower-filled Night God's Country.
• Xilonen, Capitano, and other Natlanians appeared in Night God's Country, where Marivik promised to return their consciousnesses and explained that the new rules had been embedded.
• Jiang Lianqiu explained why Olorun and Capitano had entered Night God's Country in their true bodies, and Capitano offered to help him and Marivik.
• Jiang Lianqiu asked Capitano to help Marivik fight the Abyssal enemies and the Fire Dragon King, and Mualani and other Natlanians volunteered to join the battle.
• Xilonen demanded to hear Marivik's plans, and Marivik revealed her original scheme to die, awaken five hundred years later, and use the six heroes to defeat the Abyss.

Jiang Lianqiu changed the Resurrection Poem’s cost from a death of equal weight to unconditional conscription, with Ronove modifying the rules of death to allow it. Natlan’s Ancient Name holders agreed, and Jiang Lianqiu declared that they would serve under him as Commander.

• Ronove explained that reviving the fallen through the Resurrection Poem required a death of sufficient weight, and Jiang Lianqiu offered to change the rule.
• Jiang Lianqiu learned that the Resurrection Poem traded the lives of the fallen for an equivalent death, which Marivik had expected to pay with her own life.
• Jiang Lianqiu replaced the death requirement with unconditional acceptance of conscription, and Ronove agreed to modify the rule.
• Chasca asked about the enemies they would face, and Jiang Lianqiu said they included the Abyss and greater threats beyond it.
• Citlalli and Kachina spoke in favor of conscription, and the other Ancient Name holders agreed without objection.
• Marivik accepted the change, and Jiang Lianqiu said he preferred to be called Commander.

Jiang Lianqiu stopped Lumine from entering the dangerous ruins of Gurabad, where she hoped to recover memories of Khaenri'ah. After learning she had completed the Loom of Fate, he questioned her plans, and Lumine tried to persuade him to help her rebuild Khaenri'ah.

• Lumine hired Nefer to locate Khaenri'ah memory fragments and read them, then led her to the Ruins of Gurabad.
• Lumine entered an Abyss Gate to reach the sealed ruins, but Jiang Lianqiu pulled her back out before she could enter the Abyss-tainted area.
• Jiang Lianqiu warned Lumine that the weakened seal and Forbidden Knowledge made the ruins deadly, and Lumine explained she needed memories to use her completed Loom of Fate.
• Jiang Lianqiu examined the Loom of Fate and guessed Lumine intended to find a space for a recreated Khaenri'ah, possibly Night God's Country.
• Lumine claimed Aether had entrusted her to Jiang Lianqiu and kissed his cheek to persuade him to help, but he remained unconvinced.

Lumine offered Jiang Lianqiu a secret about the Abyss in exchange for help, but he sent her to search Khaenri'ah's ruins and upgraded Nefer's Secret Casket. Jiang Lianqiu left for Sumeru City after giving Lumine a phone, while Lumine stayed behind with Nefer.

• Lumine offered to reveal a secret about the Abyss if Jiang Lianqiu helped her, and he agreed only if she herself became part of the deal.
• Jiang Lianqiu learned about Nefer's commission and Secret Casket, then used his authority to let it read memories from dead objects, with ten uses available.
• Jiang Lianqiu told Lumine to find information in Khaenri'ah's underground ruins and said he was going to Sumeru City because something seemed wrong in the City of Gurabad.
• Jiang Lianqiu gave Lumine a phone so she could contact him, and Lumine tried to hide it in her cleavage but dropped it into the sand.
• Jiang Lianqiu vanished before Lumine could hit him with sand, leaving Nefer laughing as Lumine glared at her.

Jiang Lianqiu arrived in Sumeru City and discovered that Vision holders were suffering from abnormal exhaustion, then found Nahida teaching the Akademiya forbidden knowledge. The story then shifted to the Far East, where a gray-haired woman drove toward a magnificent building complex.

• Jiang Lianqiu entered Sumeru City, received a Void Terminal, and met Nilou, who was unusually dizzy and mentally drained.
• Jiang Lianqiu encountered Layla and relieved her fatigue, then learned that several Vision-holding students had recently suffered similar sleepiness.
• Jiang Lianqiu went to the Akademiya and found Nahida teaching forbidden knowledge to a packed lecture hall.
• Nahida resumed her lesson on energy tiers and hyperdimensional energies after Jiang Lianqiu told her to continue.
• A gray-haired woman drove through the Far East suburbs and arrived at a magnificent complex of buildings.

Cheng Lixue arrived at St. Freya Academy and reunited with Cecilia, now its principal and a mother to Kiana and Bianka. Cecilia offered Lixue a history-teaching job, and Lixue accepted as Cecilia prepared her unusually generous contract.

• Cheng Lixue visited St. Freya Academy and saw how its students differed from the Valkyrie candidates she remembered.
• Cecilia welcomed Lixue in her office, where Lixue saw a photograph of Cecilia with her daughters, Kiana and Bianka.
• Cecilia noticed Lixue's tension, comforted her, and asked about her upbringing under Fu Hua on Mount Taixuan.
• Cecilia offered Lixue a general education teaching position, and Lixue chose to teach history.
• Cecilia gave Lixue a contract with an eight-figure annual salary and said the academy could afford it because it used the commander's money.

Cecilia showed Cheng Lixue around St. Freya Academy, where they found Theresa neglecting her logistics work to sleep among her manga and games. The chapter then shifted to the Northern Territory, where Cocolia learned Colonel Zaychik planned to name his unborn daughter Bronya and asked to become her godmother.

• Cecilia complained that Jiang Lianqiu rarely visited her or the children and changed the subject when Cheng Lixue asked about her relationship with Cocolia.
• Cecilia led Cheng Lixue to the Logistics Department and pulled Theresa out from beneath a heap of otaku goods.
• Theresa admitted she had been avoiding her work and fetched the keys so Cecilia could take Cheng Lixue to her dormitory.
• Cecilia and Theresa argued, and Theresa fled after making a teasing remark about Cecilia and Cocolia.
• In the Northern Territory, Cocolia asked Alexei Zaychik about his pregnant wife and learned they planned to name a daughter Bronya.
• Cocolia told Alexei she wanted to be the unborn child's godmother, leaving him astonished and overjoyed.

Cocolia investigated a meteorite impact in Siberia, where a sudden Honkai outbreak began and Schicksal identified a Second Great Eruption. As Sandrone prepared Bronya to respond, the story shifted to Cecilia returning home to Kiana and Bianka, while Cheng Lixue noted the twins’ birth date.

• Cocolia reached the meteorite site with Alexei and sent soldiers into the crater, but a sharp rise in Honkai energy forced her to call them back.
• A Schicksal satellite detected abnormal Honkai energy in Siberia, and Sandrone and Bronya recognized the outbreak as a likely Second Great Eruption.
• Sandrone learned that thousands of high-level Honkai beast outbreak sites had appeared across Siberia and asked Bronya to suppress the Herrscher’s control.
• Bronya agreed to try while Sandrone arranged reinforcements, noting that the Northern Territory lacked enough powerful fighters.
• Cecilia returned to St. Freya Academy and embraced her daughters, Kiana and Bianka, as Lin Zhaoyu and Cheng Lixue looked on.
• Cheng Lixue recalled that Kiana and Bianka were twins born on December 7, 1998.

Cecilia and Cheng Lixue were summoned to Siberia to respond to the Second Eruption, leaving Lin Zhaoyu to care for Kiana and Bianka. Kiana then revealed a new power that made her vanish, though she immediately got stuck nearby.

• Cecilia explained that she had chosen to give birth to and raise Kiana and Bianka rather than let them grow in cultivation pods.
• Schicksal issued an emergency summons after the Second Eruption began in Siberia, and Cecilia and Cheng Lixue left to provide support.
• After Lin Zhaoyu put the girls to bed, Kiana woke up and planned to sneak out to fight monsters, while Bianka questioned how she would get to Siberia.
• Kiana demonstrated a power she had recently learned, vanished in a burst of black light, and called out that she was stuck.

Bianka and Kiana escaped their bedroom using Kiana’s spatial ability and ended up inside a ventilation duct on the airship carrying Cecilia and Cheng Lixue toward Siberia. As the Siberian battlefield collapsed under the Honkai invasion, Cocolia arrived and began to unleash her ice-blue Vision.

• Bianka pulled Kiana out of a wall, and the two decided to sneak away together to find Jiang Lianqiu.
• Kiana activated her spatial ability and transported them out of their bedroom, but they became stuck inside an airship’s ventilation duct.
• Kiana sensed that Cecilia was nearby and guided Bianka through the duct to spy on their mother.
• Cecilia and Cheng Lixue learned that Honkai had spread across much of Siberia, and Cecilia prepared to use Abyss Flower to save infected civilians despite the danger to herself.
• The Honkai overwhelmed the Russian forces, trapping Alexei Zaychik and other Soldiers amid the collapsing defenses.
• Cocolia entered the battlefield and activated the ice-blue Vision on her chest.

Cocolia froze the Honkai Beasts attacking her troops and led the retreat, but the meteorite awakened as a Herrscher of the Void, unleashing a massive Honkai outbreak across Siberia. Schicksal mobilized to respond: Fu Hua headed for the Herrscher, while Cecilia set out to defend Plesetsk from an assault threatening its nuclear arsenal and doomsday weapon.

• Cocolia used her ice powers to freeze the nearby Honkai Beasts, ordered her soldiers to withdraw toward C3 Heights, and stayed behind to cover them.
• The meteorite shattered, and an ice-blue Herrscher emerged, causing Honkai energy to surge across Siberia and empowering the Honkai Beasts.
• Sandrone briefed Kallen and Fu Hua on the Herrscher's appearance; Fu Hua set out to investigate while Kallen took responsibility for the Honkai Beast crisis.
• Cecilia learned that Honkai Beasts were attacking Siberian cities and military sites, with Plesetsk at particular risk because it held strategic nuclear warheads and a doomsday weapon.
• Cecilia left with an elite Valkyrie squad to defend Plesetsk, while Cheng Lixue stayed behind to reinforce a nearby city.

Kiana and Bianka secretly left the airship, following Kiana’s strange intuition toward the military base, while Jiang Lianqiu rescued Sirin from Babylon Laboratory and changed the fate of her world bubble. Jiang Lianqiu and Sirin then arrived at a ruined base, where Sirin sensed a hostile Herrscher nearby.

• Kiana and Bianka slipped out of the airship, and Kiana led them toward the military base by following her intuition.
• Jiang Lianqiu comforted Sirin as they left the burning ruins of Babylon Laboratory, while Yao Guang realized he had changed the fate of the world bubble.
• Jiang Lianqiu explained that he could temporarily stabilize Yao Guang’s spacetime by anchoring her to himself, but she refused because she needed to return to Hatobia.
• Yao Guang asked Jiang Lianqiu to look after Stelle and the others before spacetime expelled her from the world bubble.
• Jiang Lianqiu took Sirin to meet someone, and they appeared at a devastated military base filled with frozen bodies and dense Honkai energy.
• Sirin sensed a disgusting presence nearby, as the two Herrschers of the Void reacted with hostility to each other.

Jiang Lianqiu and Sirin entered the blizzard to investigate the new Herrscher, while Bronya arrived in time to save Kallen from its attacks. At Plesetsk, Cecilia led the defense against the Honkai Beasts as the battle for the base’s buried destructive power continued.

• Jiang Lianqiu sent the dead victims’ phantoms back to the Ley Lines, then took Sirin toward the blizzard after sensing the Herrscher of the Void.
• Kallen fought an ice-crystal Herrscher with the Authorities of Void, Death, Flame, Wind, and Thunder, while Fu Hua was missing after being exiled into Imaginary Space.
• Bronya raised a steel bulwark to stop the Herrscher’s killing strike and restored Kallen’s vitality, then joined her in fighting it.
• Cecilia directed the Valkyries and regular forces at Plesetsk, stabilizing the defense line as the Honkai Beasts began to retreat.
• Cecilia recalled that the base held destructive power capable of reshaping Siberia and resolved that the Honkai must not seize it.

The Pseudo-Herrscher of Flame devastated the human defenses until Cocolia arrived with an armored force and joined Cecilia’s counterattack. Meanwhile, Sandrone coordinated the response to four Pseudo-Herrscher threats, Jiang Lianqiu promised to handle the fake Second Herrscher with the real Sirin, and Bianka found herself riding a Honkai Beast with Kiana.

• The Pseudo-Herrscher of Flame appeared and erased a wide channel through the human defensive line with a single slash.
• Cecilia attacked the Pseudo-Herrscher of Flame, but its counter sent her flying backward.
• Cocolia led an armored force onto the battlefield, rallied the troops, and joined Cecilia in charging toward the Pseudo-Herrscher of Flame.
• Sandrone learned that four Pseudo-Herrscher were active and dispatched Theresa, Su Mei, Qin Suyi, Wushuang Sword, and Ranxiang Sword to respond.
• Jiang Lianqiu contacted Sandrone with Sirin and said he would handle the fake Second Herrscher.
• Bianka found herself riding a giant Honkai Beast while Kiana crawled ahead of her like a rider.