Recaps

Xiu Yuan surprised Shenhe with a wedding ceremony he had secretly prepared with Jean and Yuna, and they exchanged vows and rings. Jean pronounced them husband and wife, and Xiu Yuan and Shenhe sealed their marriage with a kiss.

• Xiu Yuan and Shenhe found the wedding venue decorated with handmade stuffed toys, lights, balloons, and candles.
• Jean appeared, and Shenhe realized Xiu Yuan, Jean, and Yuna had tricked her into thinking the wedding was scheduled for the next day.
• Xiu Yuan told Shenhe how beautiful she was and recalled their past together.
• Xiu Yuan and Shenhe each vowed to love, cherish, and remain faithful to the other for life.
• Xiu Yuan and Shenhe exchanged rings as Jean guided the ceremony.
• Jean pronounced Xiu Yuan and Shenhe husband and wife, and they embraced and kissed.

After three years of marriage, Xiu Yuan and Shenhe set out to travel the world before having a child, rediscovering the quiet beauty beyond everyday bustle. In Liyue, they met Hu Tao and agreed to book a funeral ceremony with the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor.

• Xiu Yuan and Shenhe decided to travel together before trying to have a child, then left home the next morning.
• In Liyue, they slowed their journey to admire the scenery and found peace in a golden-lit alley as children played and residents enjoyed the evening.
• Hu Tao stumbled toward Xiu Yuan and Shenhe after jumping from a roof, then offered them a discounted funeral ceremony.
• Xiu Yuan agreed to book the ceremony, explaining that death was a natural fate, and Shenhe accepted as well.
• Hu Tao asked their names, and Shenhe and Xiu Yuan introduced themselves.

Xiu Yuan and Shenhe visited the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor to arrange joyful funerals, and Xiu Yuan bought an iron shovel so he could dig his own grave beside Shenhe’s. After they left, Hu Tao and Zhongli watched them go and hoped to speak with Xiu Yuan again.

• Hu Tao brought Xiu Yuan and Shenhe to the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, where Zhongli welcomed them.
• Hu Tao explained funeral options, and Shenhe chose a joyful funeral because she hoped to meet Xiu Yuan in another life.
• Xiu Yuan asked to buy an iron shovel and explained that he planned to bury Shenhe, then dig his own grave beside hers and hold a joyful funeral.
• Hu Tao gave Xiu Yuan a shovel, and he reassured Shenhe that he would stay behind her and protect her.
• Xiu Yuan and Shenhe paid for their arrangements and left, while Hu Tao and Zhongli remarked on how much they liked speaking with Xiu Yuan.

After five years of traveling across Teyvat, Xiu Yuan and Shenhe encountered Abyss Monsters whose infectious virus had forced Mondstadt and Liyue to seal their borders. Xiu Yuan helped defeat the monsters in Liyue, leaving Zhongli to wonder how powerful and mysterious Shenhe’s husband truly was.

• Xiu Yuan and Shenhe spent nearly half a year exploring Liyue, then traveled through Teyvat’s seven nations over five years.
• Xiu Yuan and Shenhe encountered Abyss Monsters, and Xiu Yuan killed them while warning that their appearance troubled him.
• Eula told Xiu Yuan and Shenhe that the monsters spread an infection that turned people into hostile purple creatures, then had them checked before they entered Mondstadt.
• Xiu Yuan and Shenhe learned that Mondstadt had sealed its gates and Liyue had sealed its borders, so they hurried back to Liyue.
• Shenhe moved to join the Adepti and Ganyu fighting Abyss Monsters, but Xiu Yuan killed the nearby creatures with Earth Spikes.
• Zhongli watched from a teahouse roof and suspected Xiu Yuan had defeated the monsters, reflecting that he could not sense or understand Xiu Yuan’s power.

Xiu Yuan and Shenhe went to the Chasm after a huge crash, where they found Morax fighting an Abyss-infected Azhdaha. Xiu Yuan returned Morax to his Archon War peak, and the chapter ended with him introducing himself as Shenhe’s husband.

• Cloud Retainer and Moon Carver welcomed Shenhe and Xiu Yuan back and warned them about the growing monster threat and its fast-spreading infection.
• A crash came from the Chasm, and Xiao stayed behind to protect Liyue Harbor while Xiu Yuan and Shenhe went to investigate.
• At the Chasm, Shenhe and Xiu Yuan found Morax battling Azhdaha, who had been infected and had become a mindless threat.
• Xiu Yuan used his power over time to restore Morax to his peak during the Archon War.
• After Morax’s shield withstood Azhdaha’s lightning, Xiu Yuan introduced himself as an ordinary man and Shenhe’s husband.

Xiu Yuan and Shenhe joined Morax in The Chasm, where Xiu Yuan freed Azhdaha from the barrier and knocked him unconscious with a single blow. Though he tried various methods to cleanse the Abyss from Azhdaha, Xiu Yuan told Morax that nothing worked and Azhdaha might never recover.

• Xiu Yuan carried Shenhe into The Chasm after Morax subdued Azhdaha, and Shenhe discovered that Xiu Yuan could fly.
• Xiu Yuan examined Azhdaha and found that the Abyss resisted his power over time.
• Xiu Yuan asked Morax to remove the barrier, and Shenhe reassured Morax that she trusted Xiu Yuan.
• Morax lowered the barrier, and Xiu Yuan knocked Azhdaha unconscious with one blow.
• Xiu Yuan tried to cleanse the Abyss from Azhdaha but told Morax that he could not heal him.

Xiu Yuan discovered that the Heavenly Principles had fled Celestia and inherited her position, restoring his powers as the Abyss spread across Teyvat. After empowering Shenhe and promising to return, he set out to confront the world’s growing chaos.

• Xiu Yuan told Morax he could not save Azhdaha and urged him to seek the Heavenly Principles on Celestia, then went to Snezhnaya to retrieve Morax’s Gnosis.
• Morax returned from Celestia, accusing Xiu Yuan of lying because he had found no Heavenly Principles there.
• Xiu Yuan searched Celestia with Shenhe and learned that the original Heavenly Principles had fled, though he could inherit her position and regain [Life], [Death], and [Space].
• Xiu Yuan used Celestia’s power to discover that Abyss monsters and corrupted, unsealed Demon Gods were overrunning Teyvat.
• Xiu Yuan strengthened Shenhe until her power was second only to the Seven Archons, then created his Four Shades and left to face the spreading chaos.

Xiu Yuan saved Liyue and the other nations from the demon gods, then reunited with Shenhe as the Abyss spread across Teyvat. He warned the Seven Archons that infection was incurable, while monsters continued to overwhelm every region outside his Protective Barriers.

• Xiao charged out of Liyue's failing Protective Barrier to face five demon gods, but Xiu Yuan appeared and destroyed them, then restored the barrier.
• Xiu Yuan rescued Morax from the twenty-eight infected demon gods surrounding him and eliminated the remaining attackers without answering Morax's questions.
• Xiu Yuan raised Protective Barriers over the central regions of the six nations and returned safely to Celestia, where Shenhe embraced him.
• Xiu Yuan told Shenhe that Azhdaha could not be cured and said her safety mattered more to him than anything else.
• Xiu Yuan warned the Seven Archons to avoid fighting Abyss Monsters because infection meant certain death, while his clones patrolled the nations.
• Abyss Monsters continued rising from the earth and overran all of Teyvat outside the protected areas.

Xiu Yuan moved the Seven Nations to a vast new continent to protect them from the rising Abyss, buying himself twenty-seven years to find a solution. After explaining the crisis to the Seven Archons, he returned to Shenhe, who promised to wait for him.

• Xiu Yuan discovered that the Abyss rose one meter each day and could not be stopped, so he created a vast continent while it spread beyond sea level.
• Xiu Yuan transferred the Seven Nations to the new continent and surrounded it with seawater and a Protective Barrier against the Monsters.
• Xiu Yuan told the Seven Archons that the Abyss crisis left them twenty-seven years and asked them to keep their people calm.
• Morax and Zebu questioned Xiu Yuan about the Abyss, the former Heavenly Principles, and why he had chosen to remain in this world for Shenhe.
• Shenhe told Xiu Yuan she would wait for him to return, no matter how long it took.

Xiu Yuan continued toward the Imaginary Tree, hoping to save Teyvat, while Shenhe waited for him on Celestia. Ten years after he left, Shenhe still held on to their memories as Jean visited her with food and stories from her travels.

• After learning that Teyvat was sinking, Xiu Yuan flew toward the Imaginary Tree, but after five years without getting closer, he chose to keep going despite the uncertainty.
• Shenhe remained on Celestia, refusing to leave because she wanted to be the first to notice Xiu Yuan's return.
• In Abyss Era year ten, Jean visited Shenhe with food from Sumeru and asked her for advice about traveling to the Fire Nation.
• Jean and Shenhe looked at photographs from Xiu Yuan and Shenhe's travels, and Shenhe said that whatever Xiu Yuan's identity, he was still himself.

After twenty-seven years without Xiu Yuan, Shenhe finally welcomed him home. He revealed that he could save a small part of Teyvat by creating a world he would have to support for the rest of his life, and Shenhe accepted the sacrifice.

• The Seven Archons visited Celestia for years seeking news of Xiu Yuan, while Shenhe continued to believe he would return.
• In the twenty-seventh year of the Abyss Era, the Seven Archons gave up hope, but Shenhe held onto her faith as she looked at their photographs.
• Xiu Yuan returned and embraced Shenhe, and she wept with relief before comforting him when she saw his despair.
• Xiu Yuan explained that he could create a small world encompassing the Guili Plains and Liyue Harbor, but he would have to remain its support and could never leave.
• Shenhe accepted that they might never see each other again and called sacrificing himself for the world a rare kind of romance.

Xiu Yuan erased Teyvat to spare its people the suffering of the Abyss, then comforted Shenhe as she struggled with the loss and her guilt. He reassured her that he loved her without expecting anything in return.

• Xiu Yuan told Shenhe the Abyss would reach the surface in less than two days and raised his hand to end the people’s suffering.
• Xiu Yuan used the power of time to make the continent vanish and turn time back ten thousand years, revealing that the Abyss had consumed all of Teyvat except Celestia.
• Shenhe was shaken by the silent loss of her master, friends, and the world she and Xiu Yuan had traveled together.
• Shenhe apologized and told Xiu Yuan she understood the pain and burdens he had carried alone, while wishing she had supported him more.
• Xiu Yuan wiped Shenhe’s tears and told her that love was not a transaction and that he loved her simply because he wanted her to be happy.

After Shenhe and Xiu Yuan shared a final morning together, Xiu Yuan killed her at her request and broke down in grief. He gave her a joyful funeral, buried himself beside her, and ended his life as a mysterious guidance process began.

• Shenhe and Xiu Yuan embraced and spoke of their love and her regret that they had never had a child.
• Shenhe asked Xiu Yuan to kill her, and he used his power of death to end her life before burying her in a grave.
• Xiu Yuan wept for seven days as the rain fell and the Abyss reached Celestia, then remembered Shenhe's wish for a joyful funeral.
• Xiu Yuan created magpies and held a joyful funeral for Shenhe, singing and reciting memories of their life together.
• Xiu Yuan apologized to Shenhe and the magpies, buried himself beside Shenhe, and used a rock spike to end his life.
• A message appeared saying that guidance was in progress.

After discovering he could observe multiple versions of Teyvat, Xiu Yuan realized the system had tested him through his reincarnations and decided to create a new system bearer. He brought a grieving firefighter from Earth into a new reincarnation, hoping to save Teyvat and return to Shenhe.

• Xiu Yuan begged the system to bring Shenhe back and learned that he had to save Teyvat to reunite with her.
• Xiu Yuan observed Teyvat and Earth but found he could not interfere directly with either world.
• Xiu Yuan discovered nine versions of Teyvat and realized the system had offered him a choice after his ninth lifetime to see whether he would choose to save Teyvat.
• Xiu Yuan searched Earth for a kind, intelligent adult man who loved Genshin Impact and found a firefighter consumed by guilt over a child's death.
• After the firefighter attempted suicide, Xiu Yuan erased his memories and brought him to the system, which announced that he would receive the Nine Reincarnations System.

Xiu Yuan manipulated another version of himself through nine reincarnations so he could break the curse and reunite with Shenhe. After the other Xiu Yuan chose to remain in the ninth lifetime and recreated Teyvat, Xiu Yuan joined the reborn Shenhe, while the author explained that both endings were happy.

• Xiu Yuan warned the firefighter that ending reincarnation early would send a new personality through the remaining lives, so the man continued into his fourth lifetime.
• Across later reincarnations, Xiu Yuan took away the man's acquired resources and skills, leaving him the Tranquility Mantra and guiding him through his seventh and eighth lives.
• After the ninth lifetime, the man considered whether to stay or begin a tenth reincarnation, then chose to remain in the ninth lifetime before the system self-destructed.
• When the Abyss devoured Teyvat thousands of years later, the man escaped the Sea of Quanta and used One Thought, Three Thousand to create a new Teyvat.
• Xiu Yuan received notice that the reincarnation curse was broken and Shenhe had been reborn, then reunited with her in the new Teyvat.
• The author explained that Xiu Yuan had become the system and that the endings were happy because he manipulated another Xiu Yuan into saving the world while reuniting with Shenhe.

The chapter presented reader-written poems and character summaries about Xiu Yuan’s reincarnations and the people whose lives he changed. The accounts ended with his sacrifice during the Abyss’s invasion and his bond with Shenhe.

• Mo Linghan’s poems described Xiu Yuan sacrificing himself for Hu Tao, Qiqi, Shenhe, and Xiao across four lives.
• Unbreakable Machine-Doll’s verses recounted Xiu Yuan’s first five lives, including his service to Hu Tao, care for Qiqi, marriage to Shenhe, brotherhood with Xiao, and mentorship of Eula.
• The finale poem expressed Xiu Yuan’s wish to spend his remaining years with his beloved and meet her again through future lives.
• Tian Lingzi summarized how Xiu Yuan affected Hu Tao, Qiqi, Shenhe, Xiao, Eula, and Kazuha across his reincarnations.
• Tian Lingzi described Zhongli as Xiu Yuan’s younger brother and said Xiu Yuan died lifting the continent to protect Liyue from the Abyss.

The chapter recapped Xiu Yuan’s fates and relationships with Genshin Impact characters, ending with summaries of their farewells and losses. The author announced that the book was finished, said they would take a break, and hinted at a future Genshin Impact novel.

• The chapter revisited Xiu Yuan’s journeys with Hu Tao, Shenhe, Qiqi, Xiao, Eula, and Kazuha, recounting their bonds and partings.
• A further recap described the grief and changed fates of characters including Hu Tao, Shenhe, Xiao, Eula, and others.
• The summary recalled Xiao’s lingering regret, the sinner’s search for her teacher, and the losses faced by other characters.
• The author announced that the journey and book had ended and that Old Spoon would take a break.
• The author said the next book would also be about Genshin Impact, though its start date was undecided.