Recaps

Xiu Yuan helped Eula make sense of prejudice and question the strict upbringing she had endured in the Lawrence Clan. He invited her to treat his home as her own, leaving her to consider where she belonged.

• Xiu Yuan explained to Eula that prejudice grew from experience and could be challenged when people encountered new evidence.
• Xiu Yuan asked Eula to set aside her clan's formal etiquette while visiting him and said that a home should be a place to relax.
• Eula remembered how the Lawrence Clan had made every part of her life a lesson and realized it had never felt like a home.
• Xiu Yuan told Eula that his home could be hers if she wanted.

Xiu Yuan helped Eula begin learning to enjoy life while teaching her swordsmanship, then went to the market and found an antique he wanted but could not afford. The seller planned to take it to Liyue, and Xiu Yuan worried Zhongli would buy it first.

• Xiu Yuan cooked Tomato and Egg Noodles for Eula and told her that learning to enjoy life was an important lesson.
• Eula gratefully washed the dishes, and Xiu Yuan decided to help her gradually unlearn the harmful habits her family had instilled in her.
• Xiu Yuan taught Eula swordsmanship by the seaside, praised her quick improvement, and listened as she talked about how much she liked the waves.
• Xiu Yuan went to the market and found an exquisite little cylinder priced at fifty thousand Mora, far beyond the little over two thousand Mora he had.
• The seller said he might take the cylinder to Liyue, and Xiu Yuan feared Zhongli would buy it before he could.

Xiu Yuan risked his old body to earn enough Mora to buy Eula a Bone Whistle, then returned injured after being gone for three days. Eula treasured the gift and suspected the truth, but Xiu Yuan sent her away before she could inspect his wounds.

• Xiu Yuan bargained with a shopkeeper to reserve a Bone Whistle for thirty-five thousand Mora and left home to earn the money.
• Xiu Yuan fought Hilichurls in the mountains while Eula stayed home, cooked noodles, and waited for him to return.
• After Xiu Yuan failed to return for two days, Eula planned to search for him the next morning.
• Xiu Yuan returned on the third morning wearing oversized clothes, and Eula noticed the smell of blood and questioned him.
• Xiu Yuan gave Eula the Bone Whistle, which produced the sound of waves, and she embraced him, making him wince in pain.
• Eula tried to inspect Xiu Yuan while he slept, but he warned that he would test her Bone Whistle practice, so she hurried away.

Xiu Yuan returned with enough Mora to buy mineral for a Bone Whistle, and a shopkeeper helped craft it as a gift for his student, Amber. Amber came home unexpectedly and met Eula, leaving Xiu Yuan to greet her and ask how she had behaved while away.

• Xiu Yuan returned to the shop badly wounded and paid the shopkeeper thirty-five thousand Mora for a piece of high-quality mineral essence.
• Xiu Yuan explained that he wanted to make the mineral into a Bone Whistle for his student, and the shopkeeper lent him clothes and tools.
• The shopkeeper crafted the Bone Whistle for Xiu Yuan, finishing it on the third day.
• Amber came home and found Eula in Xiu Yuan's house, then introduced herself and wondered about Eula's Lawrence name.
• Xiu Yuan welcomed Amber and asked whether she had caused any trouble while staying with her uncle and aunt.

Amber returned and quickly befriended Eula, brightening their time together with her lively chatter. After watching Eula perform the Dance of Sacrifice, Xiu Yuan suggested combining it with the Favonius Swordsmanship he had taught her, leaving Eula to consider the idea.

• Amber returned to Xiu Yuan and proudly said the Knights of Favonius enjoyed having her around.
• Eula distracted Amber so Xiu Yuan could rest, and the girls soon became friends and spent the day playing together.
• At dinner, Amber shared stories about Mondstadt and the Knights of Favonius while Eula listened.
• Xiu Yuan took Amber and Eula to the seaside, where Eula demonstrated her swordsmanship and Amber asked to learn too.
• During a break, Eula performed the Dance of Sacrifice, captivating Amber.
• Xiu Yuan asked Eula whether she would combine the Dance of Sacrifice with his Favonius Swordsmanship, and Eula paused to think.

Xiu Yuan taught Eula to combine the Dance of Sacrifice with swordsmanship, then reassured her that her happiness was his greatest reward. Eula played the Bone Whistle for him and Amber, and blushed when Xiu Yuan praised her.

• Xiu Yuan guided Eula in blending her dance with greatsword attacks to create a graceful, personal fighting style.
• Amber tried wielding Eula’s greatsword but quickly tired and gave it back.
• Eula worried that she had given Xiu Yuan nothing in return for the Bone Whistle, and he told her that seeing her live freely and happily was his greatest reward.
• Eula played the Bone Whistle, imitating the sound and force of crashing waves for Xiu Yuan and Amber.
• Xiu Yuan promised to get Amber a Bone Whistle too, then praised Eula’s skill, making her blush.

Xiu Yuan’s recurring nightmare and karmic debt attacked him while he treated his wounds, and Eula discovered how badly he was injured. After he reassured her and urged her to choose her own path, Eula decided she wanted revenge.

• Xiu Yuan woke from a recurring nightmare and went outside to disinfect his wounds.
• Karmic debt assaulted Xiu Yuan’s mind as he treated himself, and Eula witnessed his injuries.
• Eula cried and urged Xiu Yuan to return the Bone Whistle and seek treatment, but he comforted her and insisted she keep his gift.
• Xiu Yuan told Eula to think for herself and choose how she wanted to live.
• Eula reflected on his words, wiped away her tears, and declared that she wanted revenge.

Eula received a Vision and grew more certain of her resolve to confront her family and Mondstadt on her own terms. She left Xiu Yuan’s home, entered Mondstadt despite the hostility she faced, and challenged the Knights of Favonius.

• Eula showed Amber and Xiu Yuan her newly appeared Vision, and Amber added it to her Adventurer’s Notes.
• Eula and Amber raced during their morning run, and Amber won.
• Eula told Xiu Yuan she was going out and left without Amber.
• A guard reluctantly let Eula enter Mondstadt, where residents insulted her for her aristocratic heritage.
• Eula reached the Knights of Favonius headquarters and challenged the Knights in the name of her family.

Eula challenged Acting Grand Master Jean and briefly gained the upper hand before losing when Jean exploited an opening. Jean offered Eula a place in the Knights of Favonius despite the crowd’s objections, and Eula accepted while joking that she would infiltrate the Knights as a mole.

• Eula challenged Acting Grand Master Jean, declaring that she would become Acting Grand Master if she won and accept Jean’s judgment if she lost.
• Eula’s unusual Claymore style caught Jean off guard and pushed her back, but Jean adapted and eventually defeated Eula with a strike at her neck.
• Eula acknowledged her defeat, and Jean offered to let her join the Knights of Favonius because she respected Eula’s strength and character.
• The crowd protested Eula’s recruitment because of her aristocratic ancestry, but Jean asked the people of Mondstadt to trust her decision.
• Eula took Jean’s offered hand and accepted, joking that she would infiltrate the Knights as a mole and return to take revenge.

Eula joined the Knights of Favonius after Jean invited her, then returned home with medicine for Xiu Yuan. As she treated his wounds, Xiu Yuan urged her to follow her own path and said he felt lucky to have her as his student.

• Eula asked Jean for a month's Mora in advance to buy medicine for her ill teacher, and Jean let her collect the medicine she needed.
• Jean welcomed Eula into the Knights of Favonius, while Eula insisted she would still seek vengeance on Jean someday.
• Eula returned home and told Xiu Yuan and Amber that she had joined the Knights, and Amber eagerly asked to accompany her to Mondstadt the next day.
• During training, Xiu Yuan sensed a faint, familiar presence when Eula blew the Bone Whistle.
• That night, Eula applied medicine to Xiu Yuan's back wounds, and he told her to live freely and said he felt lucky to have her as his student.

Xiu Yuan investigated the mysterious presence he had sensed by the shore, while Eula began her first day at the Knights of Favonius and Amber stood up for her against Mondstadt’s prejudice. That evening, Eula’s Bone Whistle drew the presence out again, and Xiu Yuan recognized something unsettling about it.

• Xiu Yuan watched Eula and Amber leave for Mondstadt, then searched the beach for the elusive presence but sensed nothing after two hours.
• Amber defended Eula from citizens who called her a sinner’s descendant, and Grandma Lin kindly gave Eula a sweet jujube despite the Lawrence Clan’s past treatment of her.
• Eula and Amber went to the Knights of Favonius, where Eula received a welcoming ceremony, learned about the organization, and had a room prepared by Amber.
• Xiu Yuan prepared dinner for the girls, then returned to the beach with them and asked Eula to play the Bone Whistle.
• When Eula played the Bone Whistle near the wildest waves, the familiar presence appeared, and Xiu Yuan caught it and reacted with a furrowed brow.

As the presence of a god grew stronger, Xiu Yuan traveled alone to Liyue Harbor and found evil spirits gathering around the site where Osial was sealed. Eula followed him, and they witnessed Osial begin to rise as a barrier concealing the god's presence shattered, alerting all of Liyue.

• Xiu Yuan sensed a god's presence strengthening as Mondstadt's people gradually accepted Eula, and he predicted the god would revive near the end of his mission.
• Before dawn, Xiu Yuan left his knight's insignia at the Knights of Favonius headquarters and traveled alone to Liyue Harbor.
• Xiu Yuan found the harbor crowded with evil spirits and fought them as the sea began to churn.
• Eula revealed she had followed Xiu Yuan and joined him in fighting the evil spirits.
• Osial rose from the sea, and the barrier hiding the god's presence shattered, causing chaos in Liyue and drawing the adepti to the harbor.

Xiu Yuan revealed his past in Liyue and offered to use Xiao’s karmic debt to stop the God of the Vortex. As Osial neared freedom, Xiu Yuan prepared to sacrifice his body and soul, leaving Eula desperately trying to stop him.

• Xiu Yuan told Ningguang he had once been a mercenary commander from Liyue who joined the Knights of Favonius after surviving a monster attack.
• As Osial’s power surged and more of his serpentine bodies emerged, Xiu Yuan told the adepti to trust him and asked Xiao if he did.
• Xiu Yuan asked Xiao to lend him his karmic debt and explained that he could wield the power of evil spirits.
• Xiao warned that unleashing a thousand years of karmic debt would destroy Xiu Yuan’s body and soul, and Xiu Yuan accepted the cost.
• Eula clung to Xiu Yuan and begged him not to sacrifice himself, but he told her that some things had to be done by someone.

Xiu Yuan absorbed Xiao’s karmic debt and unleashed the Demonbane Slash at Osial, sacrificing himself to protect Liyue. As he began to disappear, Eula was left grieving the teacher who had given her and Amber a home.

• Eula begged Xiu Yuan to return to Mondstadt with her, but he told her to learn to let go and asked her to care for Little Bai.
• Xiu Yuan took Xiao’s hand and drew the karmic debt into himself and the Demonbane Sword while Eula tried to stop him.
• After channeling the debt, Xiu Yuan invoked his past as a man of Liyue and unleashed the Demonbane Slash at Osial.
• Osial sensed the strike’s power and withdrew his four serpentine bodies into the depths.
• Xiu Yuan smiled as his body broke into scattering particles, while Eula remembered the lessons and gifts he had given her.

After Xiu Yuan drove the Primordial Archon back into the sea and disappeared, Liyue mourned the mortal who had saved it. Eula danced to honor her teacher as the people thanked Liyue’s hero.

• The people of Liyue realized that a forgotten hero had forced the Primordial Archon to retreat, while Ningguang and Keqing reacted to the miraculous slash.
• Qiqi, Hu Tao, and the white-haired woman at Jueyun Karst felt unexplained grief and shed tears as the morning sun rose.
• Zhongli thanked Xiu Yuan for protecting Liyue and preserving his name as the God of Contracts.
• Xiao realized Xiu Yuan had taken away his karmic debt and asked Eula for his name; Eula told him it was An Xiu Yuan.
• Eula played her Bone Whistle and performed the Dance of Sacrifice at the docks as Liyue’s people gathered and bowed to thank their hero.

After Xiu Yuan sacrificed himself to stop the demon god from reviving, Eula told Amber he was gone, and the two grieved together. Months later, Liyue honored Xiu Yuan with a statue, where Eula and Amber remembered him as the Fifth Generation ended.

• Eula returned home and told Amber through tears that Xiu Yuan was gone.
• Amber found Xiu Yuan’s note and handmade doll, then asked Eula how he died.
• Eula explained that Xiu Yuan gave his life to stop the demon god from reviving, and she and Amber wept together.
• Months later, Liyue erected a statue of Xiu Yuan beside the harbor, and its people brought offerings in his honor.
• Xiao joined Eula and Amber at the statue, where Eula played the sound of the waves and they remembered Xiu Yuan.

After completing his fifth reincarnation, Xiu Yuan chose the Mind-Calming Mantra to resist Xiao’s karmic debt and began his sixth life in Liyue. He encountered young Ningguang while struggling to meditate, and the Millelith arrived as Ningguang tried to protect him.

• Xiu Yuan selected the Mind-Calming Mantra, fearing that Xiao’s karmic debt would turn him into a killing machine.
• The system assigned Xiu Yuan the mission of helping Ningguang become the wealthiest person in All of Teyvat and transported him to his sixth life.
• Xiu Yuan arrived in the road overcome by karmic debt, frightened young Ningguang, and struck the ground to regain enough control to meditate.
• The Millelith surrounded Xiu Yuan with spears while he struggled to suppress the evil spirits overwhelming him.
• Ningguang told Captain Yong'an that Xiu Yuan was her sick distant cousin from Mondstadt City and pleaded with him not to take Xiu Yuan away.

After Xiu Yuan suppressed the Evil Spirit, he thanked Ningguang for helping him and offered to buy all her Mora Meat on credit. He then set up a stall in Liyue Harbor to resell it with free divination, while Ningguang watched.

• Ningguang convinced the Millelith to give Xiu Yuan time to calm himself, and Captain Yong'an left after Xiu Yuan explained his condition.
• Xiu Yuan thanked Ningguang for helping him and agreed to buy all eight pieces of her Mora Meat on credit for 2,500 Mora.
• Xiu Yuan borrowed Ningguang's basket and took her Mora Meat to Liyue Harbor's busiest spot.
• Xiu Yuan put up a sign offering free divination with each piece of Mora Meat, priced at 1,000 Mora, and began meditating beside his stall.

Xiu Yuan used zodiac-style readings and psychological tricks to sell all eight Mora Meat and earn a crowd’s trust. Ningguang, impressed by his success, offered him half of her future earnings in exchange for learning from him, and he accepted.

• A man bought Mora Meat and asked Xiu Yuan for help with his relationship, drawing a crowd of curious spectators.
• Xiu Yuan described the man’s marital frustrations and urged him to consider his wife’s perspective, convincing him and impressing the onlookers.
• Xiu Yuan sold all eight Mora Meat through readings, then paid Ningguang three thousand Mora for the food and basket rental.
• Ningguang asked to stay with Xiu Yuan and learn his methods, but he said three thousand Mora could not buy his techniques.
• Ningguang offered him half of everything she earned in the future, and Xiu Yuan accepted the deal.

Xiu Yuan helped Ningguang improve her Mora Meat sales by buying her clean clothes and teaching her to offer samples to harbor sailors. Ningguang sold all twenty sandwiches and earned nineteen thousand Mora, while Xiu Yuan began explaining the art of selling.

• Ningguang worried she would not sell the twenty Mora Meat sandwiches Xiu Yuan had asked her to prepare.
• Xiu Yuan spent his remaining Mora on clean clothes and shoes for Ningguang, calling the purchase an investment.
• Xiu Yuan cut a sandwich into samples and taught Ningguang to offer them to customers and charge a thousand Mora per sandwich.
• Ningguang went to the harbor at dawn and sold all twenty sandwiches to sailors, earning nineteen thousand Mora.
• Xiu Yuan credited Ningguang for the success and explained that clean, presentable clothes helped customers trust her food.
• Xiu Yuan began explaining the second point of selling to Ningguang.

Xiu Yuan explained Ningguang’s successful Mora Meat sales, accepted his agreed share, and urged her to rest instead of handing him all her earnings. That night, he brought snacks to the docks and offered the children some in exchange for gossip about the harbor.

• Xiu Yuan explained why Ningguang had sold Mora Meat so quickly and took 12,000 Mora from her earnings, leaving her 7,000.
• Ningguang offered to keep only enough Mora for ingredients and give Xiu Yuan the rest in exchange for more lessons, but he told her to keep her money and get proper rest.
• After Ningguang left, Xiu Yuan meditated through most of the day to avoid being seen in his physical state.
• That night, Xiu Yuan and Ningguang returned to the docks without Mora Meat or a sign, carrying snacks instead.
• Xiu Yuan offered the children snacks in exchange for useful things they had heard around the harbor, and they eagerly began sharing stories.

Xiu Yuan learned about Ningguang’s difficult childhood and the poverty she had endured after her father died. After borrowing her savings, he asked to stay in her home, and Ningguang welcomed him.

• Xiu Yuan learned that a fleet would begin buying Qingxin in bulk the next morning and asked Ningguang to lend him all her Mora.
• Ningguang led Xiu Yuan to her dilapidated home and gave him her 13,580 Mora.
• Ningguang told Xiu Yuan how her father’s illness and death had left her alone and struggling to earn enough Mora for medicine.
• Xiu Yuan asked to stay with Ningguang, and she agreed to let him move in.

Xiu Yuan bought nearly all of Liyue’s Qingxin on credit, planning to sell them the next day, but a nightmare of his past lives and karmic debt interrupted his sleep. He woke to Ningguang’s father, who thanked him for protecting Ningguang and confessed his guilt over failing to care for her.

• Xiu Yuan pledged his Long Spear and Demon-Slaying Blade and used his Mora and Ningguang’s borrowed Mora to buy a huge supply of Qingxin.
• Xiu Yuan told Ningguang they would sell the Qingxin the next day, though she doubted they could profit so quickly.
• Xiu Yuan dreamed of a powerful life surrounded by women, then saw Qiqi, Shenhe, Hu Tao, Eula, Xiao, and Amber confronting him with memories of their bonds.
• Xiu Yuan woke as the karmic debt’s voices demanded his destruction and used the Tranquility Mantra to calm himself.
• Ningguang’s father appeared and thanked Xiu Yuan for protecting her, then described his illness, his helplessness as Ningguang sold their belongings for his treatment, and his remorse.
• Ningguang’s father knelt and kowtowed to Xiu Yuan, who tried to support him but could not touch his ghostly body.

Xiu Yuan comforted Ningguang after she awoke grieving for her dead father, then used information gathered from children to try to sell all of Liyue’s Qingxin at a steep price. He explained how information and human weaknesses could be used in business, leaving Ningguang to reflect on the lesson while the buyers searched for more Qingxin.

• Ningguang woke in tears after her father’s tear fell on her hand, and Xiu Yuan comforted her as she mourned an important loss she could not name.
• Xiu Yuan and Ningguang brought their Qingxin to Liyue Harbor and offered it to a buyer for 1,000 Mora apiece, warning that the price would rise every hour.
• The buyer sent his crew to search Liyue’s shops and restaurants for Qingxin before the price increased.
• As they walked around Liyue, Xiu Yuan told Ningguang that he had learned of the fleet’s demand by befriending children and explained how people’s assumptions could make children useful sources of information.
• Ningguang considered Xiu Yuan’s lesson about information, trust, and human weaknesses.

Xiu Yuan sold his Qingxin for several hundred thousand Mora and invested twenty thousand Mora in Ningguang. He warned her not to mistake wasted effort for hard work and urged her to keep her kindness as she learned to grow wealthy.

• Xiu Yuan sold all his Qingxin to the waiting buyer for several hundred thousand Mora.
• Xiu Yuan paid the innkeeper for storing the flowers and gave Ningguang twenty thousand Mora as an investment.
• Ningguang reflected on how information had earned Xiu Yuan far more Mora than her past hard work had earned her.
• Xiu Yuan explained that effort mattered when applied well and that his earnings came from experience he was sharing with Ningguang.
• Xiu Yuan told Ningguang that kindness was her foundation and warned her never to abandon it for wealth.
• Ningguang solemnly accepted Xiu Yuan's advice.