Recaps

Xiao fought on against the evil creatures attacking Liyue Harbor, determined to protect the city despite knowing his karmic debt would consume him. Zhongli, Ganyu, and Madame Ping watched without intervening, believing death would be Xiao’s release, while Keqing and Yanfei struggled to accept his fate.

• Xiao continued fighting the evil creatures with his failing body, determined to keep them from reaching Liyue Harbor.
• Zhongli watched from Pavilion Tower and recalled Xiao’s long service, but chose not to save him because he could not free him from his suffering.
• Keqing demanded that Ganyu help Xiao, but Ganyu explained that intervening would disrespect his contract and his wishes.
• Yanfei pleaded with Madame Ping to save Xiao, but Madame Ping said his accumulated karmic debt made survival impossible and death his best release.

As Xiao lay near death during the Lantern Rite, he chose to let his karmic debt turn him into a puppet that would slaughter only evil creatures. Before it consumed him, he heard the people of Liyue Harbor rally to protect him.

• Grievously weakened, Xiao lost his Primordial Jade Winged-Spear when it shattered blocking an enemy's blow, and he fell unable to rise.
• As he faced death, Xiao regretted not cherishing his time with Ei...leen and remembered how protecting Liyue had once brought him peace.
• Xiao resolved to resist surrendering to his karmic debt and to make his body a relentless weapon against evil creatures, giving Liyue one last peaceful Lantern Rite.
• Just as Xiao closed his eyes, the people of Liyue Harbor and the Millelith shouted that they would fight to protect him.

As Xiao lay helpless beneath the weight of his karmic debt, the people of Liyue rushed to protect him from the evil beings. Their gratitude and resolve restored light to Xiao’s eyes as they charged into battle together.

• Millelith and civilians charged from Liyue Harbor, declaring that they would protect Xiao.
• An ordinary man carried Xiao to safety near the city gate before charging back into battle.
• Xiao tried to stop the people from risking their lives, but they pressed on to protect him.
• Keqing thanked Xiao for protecting Liyue and led the people in a charge against the evil beings.
• Xiangling, Xingqiu, Chongyun, Hu Tao, Exorcist Adepts, and people from across Liyue joined the fight and spoke of Xiao’s past kindnesses.
• Hearing the people’s gratitude and seeing their resolve, Xiao felt hope return as the good karma he had sown came to fruition.

Liyue’s people charged into battle to protect Xiao, and their gratitude and love dispelled his karmic debt and bloodlust, bringing him redemption. Ganyu, Madame Ping, Yanfei, and Zhongli blessed the fighters as the people and Adepti protected one another.

• Liyue’s people remembered Xiao’s protection and rushed toward the evil creatures to defend him.
• The crowd’s gratitude and willingness to protect Xiao filled him with love, dispelled his karmic debt, and calmed his bloodlust.
• Ganyu channeled her adeptal energy to bless the people fighting the evil creatures.
• Madame Ping and Yanfei joined their adeptal energy to bless the fighters.
• Zhongli laughed with pride and quietly used his power to protect the people in battle.

After Liyue’s people helped Xiao overcome his karmic debt, Ellin carried him away to recover. At Pervases' Temple, Xiao told Copper Tusk what had happened, and Copper Tusk asked where he would go now that his burden was gone.

• The people of Liyue defeated the evil creatures and protected the exhausted Xiao, whose karmic debt had been shaken by their gratitude.
• Zhongli praised Ellin’s gamble to bring Xiao before the people and let their thanks help free him from his karmic debt.
• Xiao fell asleep after the battle, and Ellin carried him away for treatment while the people celebrated the Lantern Rite.
• At Pervases' Temple, Copper Tusk noticed that Xiao’s karmic debt was gone and listened as Xiao recounted what had happened in Liyue Harbor.
• Copper Tusk reflected that the people of Liyue had grown strong enough to protect their former guardians, then asked Xiao where he would go next.

After his karmic debt was lifted, Xiao asked Ellin what he should do with his newfound freedom, and she urged him to live fully and witness what his sacrifices had made possible. At the Lantern Rite, he resolved to keep looking after Liyue’s land and people in memory of those who had protected it.

• Ellin explained that she had sensed Xiao’s call from Mondstadt and came to help him, then recited the scripture he found comforting.
• Xiao told Ellin he did not know what to live for now that his karmic debt was gone and Liyue’s people could protect themselves.
• Ellin pointed to prosperous Liyue Harbor and urged Xiao to see what his fallen comrades’ sacrifices had achieved.
• Ellin gave Xiao a replacement Primordial Jade Winged-Spear and encouraged him to begin a new life.
• At Pervases' Temple, Xiao watched the Skybracer fireworks with Copper Tusk and vowed to look after the land for those who had died protecting it.

Ellin woke to find Fischl, Sucrose, and Noelle admiring her appearance, which had changed dramatically as her elemental power grew. After dressing up and visiting Liyue Harbor to look for Zhongli, she encountered Hu Tao outside the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor.

• Ellin realized her growing Cryo and Anemo powers had intensified her body's evolution, making her hair longer and whiter and her appearance more striking.
• Fischl, Sucrose, and Noelle dressed Ellin in a pink-and-white hanfu and styled her hair before she left the Serenitea Pot.
• Ellin heard that Xiao had been traveling through Liyue with a calmer heart, reconnecting with people and enjoying the world after his karmic debt dissipated.
• Ellin went to Liyue Harbor hoping to invite Zhongli to watch Yun Jin's opera, but the undertaker told her he was out.
• As Ellin turned to leave the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, Hu Tao excitedly recognized her as the immortal maiden.

Ellin befriended Hu Tao at the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and agreed to accompany her to a client meeting at Anshi Teahouse. Childe, assigned to handle a property sale for Northland Bank, and Granny Shan arrived there too, setting up a mix-up between the funeral consultation and the property purchase.

• Ellin met Hu Tao outside the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, and the two quickly became friends.
• Hu Tao invited Ellin to join her at Anshi Teahouse for a client meeting, and Ellin agreed.
• Childe recovered from his injuries and accepted an assignment to meet a Northland Bank property buyer at the teahouse.
• Granny Shan set out to consult the funeral parlor about a burial plot and funeral arrangements, while Chen Jun sought to buy a home in Liyue.
• Hu Tao mistook Chen Jun for her client and ushered him into Anshi Teahouse.
• Childe mistook Granny Shan for the property buyer and invited her inside.

Chen Jun mistook Wangsheng Funeral Parlor’s burial services for ordinary housing and discussed buying a plot with Hu Tao, while Childe struggled to explain funeral arrangements to Granny Shan. The chapter ended with Chen Jun reassured about his future plot’s quiet surroundings and Granny Shan hearing about the Parlor’s multi-level rosewood coffins.

• Hu Tao asked Chen Jun whether he was buying a burial plot for his parents, and Chen Jun said he wanted one for himself as a place to settle down in Liyue.
• Hu Tao praised Chen Jun’s supposed open-mindedness, while Ellin was surprised by his attitude toward death.
• Hu Tao quoted Chen Jun 400,000 Mora for a plot near Qingce Village and Wuwang Hill, and Chen Jun asked about the location’s feng shui and noise.
• Childe asked Granny Shan whether her purchase was for herself or her children, and Granny Shan angrily said it was for herself.
• Childe explained that the coffin options cost over four million Mora and came in upper, middle, and lower levels, which Granny Shan mistook for a high-rise design.

Hu Tao and Childe each mistook a customer’s questions about a burial plot for a house purchase, leading to angry complaints. The Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and Northland Bank later cleared up the mix-up, and both customers placed their orders again.

• Chen Jun asked Hu Tao about security, rooms, nearby shops, and transportation while considering a burial plot, and Hu Tao and Ellin grew suspicious of him.
• Childe tried to sell Granny Shan a house, suggesting she rent it out or live there with her family, and Granny Shan threw tea on him before storming off.
• Chen Jun left the teahouse angrily after Hu Tao refused to sell him the plot when she thought he had unfulfilled wishes.
• Granny Shan complained to the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor that Childe had cursed her descendants, while Chen Jun sent a milder complaint to the Northland Bank.
• The Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and Northland Bank discovered the misunderstanding, called both customers back, and received their orders after the mix-up was explained.

Ellin heard how Snezhnayan merchants had bought up land near Stone Gate and demanded exorbitant prices and compensation, threatening a planned Liyue-Mondstadt free-trade zone. She proposed a solution, and the two nations announced permanent military exercises at Stone Gate, ordering everyone uninvolved to leave.

• Keqing told Ellin that Liyue and Mondstadt planned to establish a free-trade zone at Stone Gate to benefit merchants and the public.
• Keqing explained that Snezhnayan merchants had bought the nearby land, built rudimentary houses, planted trees, and demanded five hundred million Mora plus demolition compensation.
• Jean revealed that Snezhnayan merchants had also bought land on Mondstadt's side and that Mondstadt could not afford their demands.
• Ellin devised a plan, and Jean, Keqing, and Ningguang agreed to carry it out.
• The Knights of Favonius and Liyue's Ministry of Civil Affairs announced permanent military exercises at Stone Gate, beginning in three days, and ordered uninvolved people to leave.

Ellin used her power to blast a massive opening through the cliffs at Stone Gate, allowing Mondstadt and Liyue to begin a joint land-reclamation project. The Snezhnayan merchants who had bought the surrounding land remained confident that the nations would eventually pay them for it.

• Jean, Keqing, and Ningguang led forces to the borders while Ellin hovered above Stone Gate.
• Ellin unleashed a huge pillar of Anemo that ground through the cliffs separating Mondstadt and Liyue.
• The Knights of Favonius and the Millelith cheered as sunlight passed through the new opening, and Keqing launched the land-reclamation project.
• At the Goethe Grand Hotel, a merchant asked Charvinsky about a loud noise from Stone Gate.
• Charvinsky dismissed the noise and claimed the nations would have to pay the merchants for their land unless the Anemo Archon appeared to remove the mountain barriers.

Ellin split the mountain at Stone Gate and helped the Knights of Favonius and Millelith reclaim land, alarming Charvinsky and the Snezhnayan merchants who hoped to profit from selling their property. The merchants decided to wait rather than lower their price, unaware that the reclamation was a ploy to make them hold out while Ellin, Ningguang, Keqing, and Jean prepared their real scheme.

• Charvinsky and his partners learned that Ellin had cut a route through the mountain at Stone Gate and rushed to see the reclamation work.
• At the construction site, the merchants watched Ellin create rubble and compact the filled land with enormous boulders while Kaeya and Keqing directed the workers.
• Charvinsky persuaded the merchants that the reclamation might be a bluff designed to make them lower their asking price, so they agreed to wait.
• Ellin, Ningguang, Keqing, and Jean revealed that the reclamation was a trap to keep the merchants holding out for Stone Gate.
• Ellin announced that the Military Exercise would begin the next day and told Jean to bring Klee.

Ningguang concluded that small-time Snezhnayan merchants had bought up the Stone Gate land, while Ellin’s bombs helped break the dispute’s deadlock. At the joint military exercise, Klee demonstrated her bombs to the Knights of Favonius and the Millelith, who began testing them under a contract restricting their use to defense.

• Ningguang told Ellin that small-time merchants had bought the Stone Gate land out of greed and a lack of vision.
• Ellin and the others completed the land-reclamation project, and Jean and Keqing began a joint military exercise between the Knights of Favonius and the Millelith.
• Ellin brought Klee and a large supply of bombs to the exercise grounds.
• Klee demonstrated a bomb’s power, and Keqing announced that the two forces would adopt bombs for military use.
• Ellin made Jean, Keqing, and Ningguang agree that Mondstadt and Liyue could use the bombs only for defense.
• Klee enthusiastically guided the Knights and Millelith as they set off bombs together.

Ningguang waited for the Snezhnayan merchants to run out of money while Liyue and Mondstadt cooperated on Klee’s bomb research. After two weeks, the merchants’ alliance collapsed and they tried to sell their Stone Gate land at a discount, but Ellin answered with a cannon blast.

• Ningguang told Ellin that Liyue and Mondstadt could afford to wait until the Snezhnayan merchants’ funds ran dry.
• Keqing and Jean agreed that Mondstadt would provide bomb-making talent and Liyue would provide funding, making Klee chief engineer of bomb design and development for both nations.
• Klee and the selected researchers used the military exercise grounds and an abundant supply of materials to develop many kinds of bombs.
• After fourteen days without further inquiries from Liyue or Mondstadt, the Snezhnayan merchants blamed Charvinsky and broke up their alliance.
• The merchants tried to sell their Stone Gate land at a twenty-percent discount, but Ellin refused to let them cut their losses; a cannon blast broke the early-morning quiet.

Ellin and the leaders of Mondstadt and Liyue used a permanent military exercise zone and mass shell testing to make the Snezhnayan merchants’ Stone Gate land impossible to sell. After the merchants’ complaints failed, Ellin escalated the pressure by firing more than two hundred shells toward Stone Gate.

• The Snezhnayan merchants panicked when Mondstadt and Liyue no longer needed Stone Gate, but their plan to sell the land at a discount attracted no buyers.
• Klee and her team designed various bombs, and thousands of Knights of Favonius and Millelith produced tens of thousands of shells in fourteen days.
• Ellin launched the joint military exercise, and troops from both nations practiced firing the new weapons across the testing grounds.
• Shellfire scared off prospective buyers, and the merchants failed to sell their land even after cutting its price in half.
• The merchants complained to Kaeya, who pointed out that they had refused Liyue and Mondstadt’s offer to buy the land and that no shells had left the exercise zone.
• Ellin hurled more than two hundred shells toward Stone Gate, spreading them across the area.

Ellin and the Liyue and Mondstadt authorities outmaneuvered the Snezhnayan merchants after she bombarded their land at Stone Gate. The merchants sold the property at a steep loss, only to discover that Keqing, Jean, and Ellin had arranged to buy it and clear the area.

• Ganyu stalled the Snezhnayan merchants’ first complaint at the Ministry of Civil Affairs while Ellin bombarded Stone Gate again the next morning.
• Ganyu told the merchants that Liyue could not enforce its laws against Ellin, an adeptus, and suggested they confront her themselves.
• The merchants went to Mondstadt, where Kaeya said the Knights of Favonius could not punish Ellin unless a god or Archon intervened.
• Unable to find a buyer for the bombarded property, the merchants sold it to Diluc for twenty percent of its original value.
• The Millelith and Knights of Favonius withdrew their exercise and began clearing the land, revealing that Keqing, Jean, and Ellin had arranged the purchase.
• Ellin thanked and mocked the merchants, several of whom fainted from anger.

After resolving the Stone Gate incident, Ellin spent a month enjoying Liyue with Hu Tao and learned that the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor secretly helped lingering souls move on. Hu Tao explained how the parlor honored neglected graves, and the two headed home.

• Stories of Ellin’s heroism and mortal origins spread through Liyue, making her even more beloved and inspiring some cultivators to worship her as their founding master.
• Ellin flew Hu Tao above Liyue, then mischievously dropped her before catching her during a thrilling fall.
• Ellin and Hu Tao spent a month traveling around Liyue, sharing playful adventures and joining funeral processions.
• Hu Tao revealed that the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor helped souls with lingering attachments pass on and sometimes received hidden treasure as thanks.
• Hu Tao explained that the parlor tended neglected graves so the dead could retain their dignity, then she and Ellin went home.

Hu Tao asked Ellin to attend the funeral of Granny He, a kind woman Ellin had once saved in Qingce Village. At the funeral, Ellin noticed Zhou Lian’s oddly cheerful demeanor and Jing’er’s grief; days later, Hu Tao showed her Zhou Lian staggering through Liyue Harbor, ragged and drunk.

• Hu Tao told Ellin that Granny He had died and invited her to help give the devoted worshipper a dignified funeral.
• Ellin recalled saving Granny He and agreed to accompany Hu Tao to Qingce Village.
• At Granny He's funeral, Ellin noticed that Zhou Lian performed the rites carefully while faintly smiling, and that Jing’er mourned despite having no blood relation to Granny He.
• After the funeral, Ellin returned to the Serenitea Pot, but a few days later Hu Tao pointed out Zhou Lian staggering through Liyue Harbor, drunk and dressed in rags.

Zhou Lian, devastated by his mother's sudden death, drank and withdrew from everyone until he tried to take his own life. Hu Tao learned of his danger from Granny He and Jing'er, and Zhou Lian ended up at his mother's grave after someone stopped his hanging.

• Zhou Lian mourned his mother, whose lifelong work had supported and raised him, and left Qingce Village for Liyue Harbor after her death.
• Hu Tao told Ellin that Zhou Lian showed warning signs of suicide and explained that Granny He and Jing'er had asked her to help him.
• Zhou Lian wandered into the wilderness, tied a makeshift rope to a sunsettia tree, and tried to hang himself.
• The rope snapped, and someone grabbed Zhou Lian, carried him away, and threw him down in front of his mother's grave.

Ellin brought Zhou Lian face-to-face with his mother’s spirit, and Granny He persuaded him to abandon his suicidal thoughts and live well. After Zhou Lian promised to care for himself, Granny He urged him to confess his feelings to Jing'er.

• Ellin slapped Zhou Lian and told him she had come to help because she had once saved his mother.
• Ellin let Zhou Lian see Granny He's spirit, and his mother scolded him for trying to take his own life.
• Granny He explained that living well and carrying on their family's legacy would keep her memory alive, and Zhou Lian promised not to harm himself.
• Granny He teased Zhou Lian about liking Jing'er and urged him to tell her how he felt.

After Granny He approved Zhou Lian and Jing'er's marriage, they married with the Qingce Village villagers' help and said farewell as her soul departed. Guided by Ellin's white light, Granny He reunited with her husband in Liyue's Yellow Springs, and they entered reincarnation together.

• Ellin protected Granny He's soul with white radiance and returned to Qingce Village.
• Zhou Lian told Jing'er about his mother's final wish and confessed his love, and Jing'er agreed to marry him.
• The villagers prepared a wedding overnight, where Zhou Lian and Jing'er bowed to Granny He and Ellin before exchanging bows as husband and wife.
• Granny He blessed the couple, said goodbye, and vanished in white light.
• Granny He reached the Yellow Springs, reunited with her husband, and entered reincarnation with him.

After helping Zhou Lian and Granny He, Hu Tao brought Ellin to Wuwang Hill to offer food and wine to the spirits who lingered there. She told Ellin how her grandfather’s peaceful death taught her to live fully and take up her duties, leaving her determined to help Zhou Lian cope with grief.

• Ellin and Hu Tao left Qingce Village for Wuwang Hill after settling Granny He's affairs.
• Hu Tao summoned the hill’s spirits and arranged food, fruit, rice, and wine for them.
• As the spirits gathered around the offerings, Hu Tao reflected on their attachments and on Zhou Lian’s grief.
• Hu Tao told Ellin that she had become director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor after her grandfather died when she was thirteen.
• Hu Tao recalled seeking her grandfather at the boundary between life and death, then accepting that he had departed without regrets.
• Hu Tao explained that Zhou Lian reminded her of herself and that she wanted to help him keep living after losing someone he loved.

Ellin comforted Hu Tao by embracing her and affirming how fully she lived, and the two became dear friends. After returning Hu Tao to the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, Ellin saw Zhongli looking after her, while Lumine and Paimon heard about Ellin in Inazuma.

• Ellin reflected on Hu Tao’s childhood, her grandfather’s influence, and her commitment to living without regrets.
• Ellin embraced Hu Tao and told her she hoped to make Hu Tao’s wonderful life a little more wonderful, and Hu Tao hugged her back.
• The system rewarded Ellin with a Pyro Vision and unlocked inventory slots; the new Vision fused into an incomplete Pyro Archon Divine Core that strengthened her demon god core.
• Ellin brought Hu Tao back to Liyue Harbor, where they met Zhongli, who welcomed Hu Tao home and urged her to reassure the parlor’s worried consultants.
• At the Komore Teahouse, Lumine and Paimon spoke with a blue-and-white-haired girl who admired Ellin and hoped to meet her.

Ellin arrived in Inazuma by flying over the thunderstorms and met Thoma in Ritou, where she gave him flowers and Dandelion Wine from Mondstadt. Thoma was touched by the gift but grew wary of how much Ellin seemed to know and how easily she had reached Inazuma.

• Ellin flew above Inazuma's storm clouds and arrived in Ritou, where she confirmed the Teleport Waypoint had been recorded.
• Thoma approached Ellin and revealed that Kamisato Ayaka had sent him to meet her.
• Ellin recognized Thoma and gave him windwheel asters, dandelions, and Dandelion Wine.
• Thoma accepted the gift, moved by the reminders of Mondstadt and his growing homesickness.
• Thoma noticed the flowers were freshly picked and wondered how Ellin had brought them to Inazuma, then grew wary of her abilities and knowledge.