Chapter Summaries

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.

Xiu Yuan took Ningguang to Wanmin Restaurant, repaired her home, and cooked her a warm dinner. The meal brought Ningguang’s grief and loneliness to the surface, and she sobbed in Xiu Yuan’s arms as she finally felt she had someone to rely on.

• Xiu Yuan took Ningguang to Wanmin Restaurant and encouraged her to order a more substantial meal.
• Xiu Yuan hired workers to repair Ningguang’s house and bought supplies for their home.
• Xiu Yuan cooked dinner while Ningguang helped prepare the ingredients, and they shared a warm meal.
• Ningguang remembered her lonely childhood and began crying as Xiu Yuan kept putting food in her bowl.
• Ningguang told Xiu Yuan about her suffering and said that meeting him had restored her hope and warmth.

After comforting Ningguang, Xiu Yuan took her to Liyue Harbor and sparked her interest in learning by demonstrating how he spotted and caught a thief. Ningguang eagerly asked him to teach her about reading microexpressions and body language.

• Xiu Yuan comforted Ningguang through the night, and she fell asleep in his arms.
• Xiu Yuan took Ningguang to a teahouse and asked her to observe the people passing through Liyue Harbor.
• Xiu Yuan confronted a thief, caught him trying to flee, and returned the stolen wallet to its owner.
• Xiu Yuan explained that observation, microexpressions, and body language helped him identify the thief, and Ningguang eagerly asked to learn.

Ningguang found an empty Vision in Liyue Harbor, accidentally activated it, and reluctantly accepted it after Xiu Yuan explained its significance. Xiu Yuan then told Zhongli he planned to leave on a journey alone and asked him to help Ningguang become Tianquan of the Liyue Qixing.

• Ningguang found an empty Vision near the docks and accidentally activated it, disappointing her because she could no longer sell it for Mora.
• Ningguang brought the Vision to Xiu Yuan at the teahouse, where Zhongli explained that resonating with an empty Vision meant she had earned a god's recognition.
• Xiu Yuan asked Ningguang to investigate several fleets returning that day, and she left to do so.
• Xiu Yuan told Zhongli that he wanted Ningguang to become Tianquan and lead Liyue, then revealed that he had to leave on an unknown journey alone.
• Xiu Yuan asked Zhongli to watch over Ningguang and help her join the Liyue Qixing, calling it repayment for the tea he had bought; Zhongli froze in surprise.

Ningguang secretly bought Xiu Yuan a gift to mark one year since they met. She gave it to him at home and thanked him for saving her from despair and giving her a second life and a loving home.

• Xiu Yuan called Ningguang home, but she asked to stay and play longer before deciding to leave on her own.
• Ningguang went to the teahouse and negotiated the price of a rare item down from fifty thousand Mora to twenty thousand.
• Ningguang returned to their warmly lit home with the box and gave it to Xiu Yuan as a gift for their one-year anniversary.
• Ningguang told Xiu Yuan how he had taught her to live with dignity and helped her find purpose, warmth, and a second home.

Xiu Yuan realized that the anniversary of meeting Ningguang marked the end of his time with her, and he struggled with the pain of leaving. After sharing dinner and tea with her, he left a final letter and quietly departed, promising to return.

• Xiu Yuan suffered an attack of grief and told Ningguang that his illness was acting up before going to the roof to meditate.
• Xiu Yuan recovered enough to thank Ningguang for her tea set, and they shared dinner and tea together.
• After Ningguang fell asleep, Xiu Yuan wrote his final words and tucked her blanket around her.
• Xiu Yuan took the tea set, closed the door, and left, apologizing and promising Ningguang he would come back.