Recaps

Azhdaha escaped his seal and reunited with Zhongli in Liyue Harbor after a thousand years. Meanwhile, Ellin received the Geo Archon’s divine core, strengthening her demon god core ahead of the coming Inazuma storyline.

• Azhdaha recognized Morax’s seal, undid it, and left Nantianmen to see Liyue Harbor and his old friends.
• Zhongli listened to a storyteller recount Azhdaha’s creation and remembered their pact and painful separation.
• Azhdaha appeared beside Zhongli, offered him Osmanthus Cake, and reunited with him as his old friend.
• Zhongli and Azhdaha shared tea and listened to stories together, recalling their first meeting.
• Ellin received the Geo Archon’s divine core, which merged with her demon god core and made it larger and closer to pure white.

Azhdaha told Zhongli that Ellin had broken a breach in his seal and quietly watched over him when he returned to Liyue Harbor. Zhongli realized Ellin had given him the happiness and recognition he never expected, and her friendship notification confirmed that he and Azhdaha had reunited.

• Azhdaha recognized Ellin as the fairy who had blasted open a breach in his seal and explained that she had watched him in Liyue Harbor to protect its people.
• Zhongli reflected on all he had sacrificed for Liyue and realized Ellin had ensured he received a reward and happiness in return.
• The teahouse proprietor told Zhongli that Ellin had paid for him and Azhdaha, and Zhongli thanked her from afar.
• Ellin received a notification that she had become close friends with Morax (Zhongli) while picnicking with Fischl and the others at Windrise.

Ellin returned to Watatsumi Island with her friends and learned that its people’s worship had created the wish power reaching her. The island and its Resistance faced starvation, attacks from the sea beast Shanqi, and advancing Shogunate forces, leaving the people praying for divine rescue.

• Ellin brought Sucrose, Fischl, Noelle, Shenhe, and Klee to Watatsumi Island, where Shenhe enjoyed building sandcastles with Klee.
• Ellin discovered that the people had turned her Geo-built vacation house into a shrine and that their sincere worship had connected her to their wishes.
• Watatsumi Island suffered severe food shortages after Narukami Island cut off trade, while Shanqi kept fishermen and supply ships from going to sea and battered the coast.
• Sangonomiya Kokomi recalled Gorou from the front to fight Shanqi, but his months-long campaign failed to defeat the beast and kept him from leading the Resistance.
• Kujou Sara returned to command the Shogunate Army, which pushed the underfed Resistance back while Gorou remained occupied with Shanqi.
• Facing crises on the island and at the front, Watatsumi’s people prayed for a god to save them, believing Ellin had once answered their wishes.

With Watatsumi Island facing starvation and destruction, Gorou lured the sea beast Shanqi into shallow waters, but Shanqi launched himself toward the island. The chapter ended as Ellin, swept awake by the waves, stood on the beach and clenched her fists.

• Gorou led three cannon ships in an attack on Shanqi and struck the beast with Geo-charged arrows.
• Gorou drove Shanqi east toward Watatsumi Island, where the shallow water prevented the beast from escaping underwater.
• Shanqi thrashed in the shallows, creating enormous waves that battered Watatsumi Island and frightened its people.
• Shanqi launched his massive body toward the island, prompting the people to cry out for divine help.
• The waves swept Ellin, her drying clothes, and her Shrine away, and Ellin stood up on the beach with seaweed on her head.

After a massive wave wrecked her beach nap and shrine, Ellin flew into a fury and intervened as Shanqi threatened Watatsumi Island. She knocked the sea beast into the ocean with one punch and cleaved the sea with a sword strike.

• Ellin woke after a wave washed away her clothes and shrine, then charged toward Shanqi in anger.
• Shenhe rescued Noelle, Fischl, Klee, and Sucrose from the collapsing shrine, and Fischl told Shenhe that Ellin had once pierced a dragon's wing with an arrow.
• Shanqi leaped toward Watatsumi Island, leaving Sangonomiya Kokomi and the island's people helpless as it descended.
• Ellin arrived beneath Shanqi and struck it with a Geo-powered punch, shattering its skull and sending it flying into the sea.
• Ellin summoned the Skyward Blade and used Heavenly Glimmer to slash the ocean, leaving a vast fissure nearly ten kilometers long.

Ellin slew the sea beast Shanqi and saved Watatsumi Island, prompting its people to worship her as their goddess. Gorou visited her new home to offer thanks, where Fischl and Noelle greeted him.

• Ellin split the sea with one sword stroke and killed Shanqi, and the people of Watatsumi Island cheered for her as their divine lady.
• Sangonomiya Kokomi watched Ellin with reverence and made a determined decision, while Gorou became an ardent fan of her strength.
• The people of Watatsumi Island discussed Ellin as the deity who had answered their prayers, and they wondered how to invite her back.
• Gorou arrived at Ellin's New Geo bungalow with subordinates to thank her, and Fischl greeted him with her theatrical introduction.
• Gorou mistook Fischl's grand title for a sign of her exalted status, then met Noelle and took her to be Ellin's trusted right hand.

Gorou sought Ellin’s help for Watatsumi Island’s Resistance Army, while Fischl invented a grand divine title for her and promised she would help. When Ellin emerged from the Serenitea Pot, Sangonomiya Kokomi, Gorou, and the gathered islanders hailed her as their goddess, leaving her bewildered.

• Noelle told Gorou that Ellin was resting, then served him cakes and gave him ingredients to share with his underfed soldiers.
• Gorou asked Fischl for Ellin’s honorific title, and Fischl invented “Sunlit Heaven-Clearing True God Ogosho,” which Gorou and his men took as proof of Ellin’s divine stature.
• Shenhe warned Gorou’s group not to harm Ellin, then clarified that she considered Ellin her goddess.
• Gorou explained Watatsumi Island’s Resistance Army’s plight, and Fischl promised Ellin would help.
• Ellin emerged from the Serenitea Pot to find Sangonomiya Kokomi, Gorou, and a crowd kneeling and hailing her as the Sunlit Heaven-Clearing True God Ogosho.

Ellin became Watatsumi Island’s god and the Resistance Army’s strongest combatant, agreeing to help them fight the Raiden Shogun and protect Inazuma’s people. After proclaiming herself the Sunlit Heaven-Clearing True God Ogosho, she led the islanders to carve up Shanqi and share the meat.

• Ellin realized Fischl had helped Sangonomiya Kokomi and Gorou declare her Watatsumi Island’s god, and she accepted the role.
• Ellin planned to support the Resistance Army, hoping to reduce casualties, end the war sooner, and help Ei turn away from her obsession with Eternity.
• Sangonomiya Kokomi asked Ellin to address the islanders, explaining that they needed her as a spiritual pillar.
• Fischl reminded Ellin of her full title, Sunlit Heaven-Clearing True God Ogosho, and explained its meaning.
• Ellin promised the islanders victory, happiness, peace, and stability, then invited everyone to bring carts and baskets to carve up Shanqi for meat.

Ellin helped Watatsumi Island by killing Shanqi and providing its people with a vast supply of meat, then warned Sangonomiya Kokomi that the Fatui were offering supplies to manipulate the Resistance Army. Kokomi decided to refuse, but Ellin urged her to take the Fatui’s free money.

• Ellin promised Sucrose Shanqi’s skeleton, then carved up the beast so Watatsumi’s people could haul its meat back to the island.
• Sangonomiya Kokomi thanked Ellin and, after Ellin invited her to use her name, began explaining the Resistance Army’s food shortages and current situation.
• Kokomi told Ellin that mysterious people had offered to supply the Resistance Army for free if it fought the Shogunate Army with all its strength.
• Ellin identified the Fatui as the likely suppliers and explained that they wanted to fuel the civil war and create an opportunity to seize the Raiden Shogun’s Gnosis.
• Kokomi declared that she would refuse the Fatui’s support, but Ellin told her not to turn down their money.

Sangonomiya Kokomi felt relieved that Ellin had taken on the role of Watatsumi Island’s guiding light, leaving Kokomi free to advise her. After Kokomi submitted her first proposal, Ellin declared one part unsatisfactory and increased its budget from thirty million Mora to three hundred million.

• Ellin advised Kokomi to ask the Fatui for money rather than supplies and said she would handle purchasing the supplies.
• Kokomi felt freed from the burden of leading Watatsumi Island because she trusted Ellin to guide its people.
• Kokomi drafted a plan and nervously submitted it to Ellin for review.
• Ellin praised the proposal overall but changed its requested budget from 30,000,000 Mora to 300,000,000 Mora.
• Kokomi was stunned to realize Ellin’s dissatisfaction meant she wanted Kokomi to ask for more money.

Ellin taught Sangonomiya Kokomi to use the Fatui’s need for the Resistance Army to demand more funding. Kokomi demanded six hundred million Mora, and the Fatui began negotiating as she asserted that they were the ones asking for help.

• Kokomi worried that Ellin’s proposed three hundred million Mora was excessive, but Ellin explained that the Fatui needed the Resistance Army and could afford to pay.
• Kokomi warmed to Ellin, then left to negotiate while hiding her true self from everyone else.
• Kokomi demanded six hundred million Mora from the Fatui emissaries, who refused and were stunned when she started to leave.
• The Fatui called Kokomi back and reluctantly opened negotiations, and she reminded them that they needed the Resistance Army’s strength.

Sangonomiya Kokomi negotiated six hundred million Mora from the Fatui by offering to procure supplies for the Resistance Army herself and invoking Watatsumi Island's new god. After Ellin praised her for changing the agreement, Kokomi admitted how exhausting her duties were and fell asleep in Ellin's lap.

• Sangonomiya Kokomi told the Fatui that Watatsumi Island could secure its own supplies and that its new god's protection strengthened the Resistance Army.
• La Signora agreed to provide six hundred million Mora after weighing the Fatui's manpower shortage and Kokomi's offer.
• Sangonomiya Kokomi confessed to Ellin that she had altered the agreement and apologized for going against her wishes.
• Ellin praised Kokomi for her negotiation, and Kokomi relaxed enough to collapse from exhaustion.
• Kokomi explained her energy system and how her responsibilities forced her to hide her personal preferences.
• Ellin cradled Kokomi in her lap, stroked her hair, and let her rest until she fell asleep.

Ellin used the Fatui’s funding to solve Watatsumi Island’s supply shortage, then exposed their plan to distribute Delusions among Resistance soldiers and confiscated nearly all of them. After learning one Delusion was missing, Ellin identified Teppei on the soldiers’ list.

• Ellin bought supplies in Mondstadt and Liyue and brought them to Watatsumi Island, winning the soldiers’ admiration.
• Ellin told Kokomi how the Fatui used Delusions to exploit soldiers and arranged for her followers to pose as vulnerable recruits.
• The Fatui gave Delusions to the disguised soldiers, and Ellin ordered the inspection team arrested and the Delusions confiscated.
• Kokomi reported that 183 Delusions had been distributed, but the soldiers had turned in only 182.
• Ellin reviewed the list of 320 soldiers and realized that Teppei was the one who had not turned in a Delusion.

Ellin confronted Teppei after learning he had secretly kept the last Delusion, and pressed him to admit why he wanted its power. Teppei acknowledged his mixed motives but defended his willingness to risk his life for the Resistance, leaving Ellin’s rebuke unresolved.

• Teppei kept a Delusion instead of turning it over, hoping to gain battlefield power while telling himself no one would discover it.
• Ellin visited Teppei and confronted him, saying she knew he had hidden the last Delusion.
• Teppei admitted he wanted to help end the war and spare his comrades, but Ellin challenged whether that was his only motive.
• Teppei recognized that he also wanted fame, admiration, and recognition, and Ellin called him selfish.
• Teppei argued that his selfish motives did not change that he was sacrificing himself and helping the war effort.

Ellin confronted Teppei over his use of a Delusion and challenged his belief that dying in battle would make him a hero. Kokomi helped him see that Ellin had always cared for him, and the chapter ended with Teppei resolved to do better while Ellin examined a dimmed Dendro Delusion.

• Ellin rebuked Teppei for using a Delusion to pursue a glorious death, confiscated it, and told him to reconsider whom his sacrifice served.
• Kokomi explained that mortals without Visions were valuable and that Ellin had come to reprimand Teppei because she cared about him.
• Teppei admitted he had been selfish and cowardly, thanked Kokomi, and resolved to work hard to become worthy of Ellin's gaze.
• Ellin asked Kokomi whether she had been too harsh, and Kokomi said Teppei had needed both reprimand and comfort.
• Ellin breathed a sigh of relief that the Delusion incident was over and looked down at a dimmed Dendro Delusion on her desk.

Ellin purified eight Dendro Delusions to gain the ability to control Dendro Elemental Energy, though the work left her exhausted and wary of Archon Residue. Feng'er briefly reappeared, warned Ellin to clear the residue from her body, and then returned to her own urgent affairs.

• Ellin examined a Delusion and used six elemental powers to separate its Dendro energy from the harmful Archon Residue.
• After an hour, Ellin had purified all eight Dendro Delusions and gained the ability to channel Dendro Elemental Energy.
• Ellin decided against absorbing the remaining Delusions because purifying their residue was exhausting and could harm her or those nearby.
• Feng'er appeared and asked Ellin about the evil aura she sensed, then advised her to use the Skyward Freedom Technique to drive out the Archon Residue.
• Feng'er said she had urgent matters to handle and dissolved back into Ellin's sea of consciousness.

Ellin continued supporting the Resistance Army without fighting, worried that her growing popularity would make people abandon Ei, and wrote the fourth chapter of her novel. Yae Miko received the manuscript but failed to identify its elusive author, who answered Miko’s update request with a defiant note.

• Ellin left the Resistance Army’s battles to Sangonomiya Kokomi and Gorou, and worried that her status as a second god would turn Inazuma’s people against Ei.
• Ellin began writing chapter four of The Domineering Electro Archon Falls for Me! to find a way to help Ei.
• Yae Miko heard the author arrive after months of waiting, smashed through her door, and found the new manuscript but missed the author.
• Yae Miko questioned Sayu, who said the author had appeared in dazzling holy light and frightened her before leaving.
• Yae Miko found the author’s reply to her update request: “The Cliffhanger Emperor has never bowed to anyone!”

Yae Miko read and published chapter four of Three Civets’ popular novel, which showed Ei traveling with Ailin and witnessing the harm caused by confiscated Visions and neglected crises. After the chapter exposed Inazuma’s problems, Ei confronted a subordinate and left Tenshukaku to act.

• Yae Miko read Three Civets’ cliffhanger-filled fourth chapter and arranged for its expedited printing.
• In the novel, Ei disguised herself and traveled with Ailin, witnessing Vision bearers lose their ambitions, compassion, and memories.
• Ei and Ailin restored the wards on Yashiori Island, clearing its thunderstorms, and later Ailin recognized Ei in an old portrait revered as the Raiden Shogun.
• After reading the chapter, Ei questioned a subordinate about the depicted events and angrily rose from her seat.
• Ei stepped through the doors of Tenshukaku for the first time in several hundred years.

Ei investigated the suffering described in Ellin’s novel, then ordered reforms across Inazuma before returning to the Plane of Euthymia. As the novel’s sales soared, Ellin visited Yae Miko and introduced herself as Watatsumi Island’s new god.

• Ei left Tenshukaku and followed the novel’s route, witnessing the people’s hardships and disasters across Inazuma.
• On Yashiori Island, Ei questioned her pursuit of Eternity, then ordered officials held accountable and crises in Tatarasuna and Yashiori Island brought under control.
• Ei recalled Shogunate Army troops to clear pirates and bandits, while Inazuma’s people connected her reforms to the latest update of Ellin’s novel.
• Ellin’s novel tripled in sales, and Yae Miko celebrated Ei’s newfound willingness to confront Inazuma’s problems.
• Ellin approached Yae Miko, identified herself as the Sunlit Heaven-Clearing True God and new god of Watatsumi Island, and withdrew her aura after Yae challenged her intentions.

Ellin persuaded Yae Miko to support peace talks with Ei, then left after warning that an opportunity would come soon. At the Kamisato Estate, Lumine and Paimon convinced Kamisato Ayaka that Ellin wrote the popular novel by pointing to Fischl’s signature on its illustration.

• Ellin told Yae Miko she wanted to end the Vision Hunt Decree and civil war and asked her to help arrange peace talks with Ei.
• Yae Miko teased Ellin, who began to leave, so Yae Miko hurried after her and invited her back to discuss things over tea.
• Ellin explained that she wanted to help Ei and that their goals aligned, and Yae Miko agreed to help despite warning she had not seen Ei in centuries.
• Ellin left the shrine after saying an opportunity would come soon, and Yae Miko called out “Three Civets” but got no reaction.
• At the Kamisato Estate, Kamisato Ayaka asked Lumine and Paimon whether they wrote the novel, and they denied it.
• Lumine and Paimon showed Kamisato Ayaka Fischl’s signature on an illustration in the novel as evidence that Ellin was its author.

Kamisato Ayaka reflected on her loneliness and her admiration for Ellin, whose freedom and heroic deeds embodied the life Ayaka longed for. After learning Ellin had secretly helped Inazuma and written a novel, Ayaka hoped to meet her, and a warm voice called out to her from afar.

• Lumine and Paimon explained that Fischl’s signature and the name Ailin confirmed Ellin had written the novel.
• After Lumine and Paimon went to rest, Ayaka sat alone with the novel and thought about the responsibilities and loneliness of being the White Heron Princess.
• Ayaka recalled following Ellin’s rise from an ordinary girl to a celebrated hero through reports Thoma brought from Mondstadt.
• Ayaka learned Ellin had arrived in Inazuma, written a novel, and secretly helped resolve crises in Tatarasuna and Yashiori Island.
• Ayaka hugged the novel and wished to meet Ellin soon, when a warm voice called, “Hi, Ayaka!”

Ellin reunited with Kamisato Ayaka, brought her foreign dishes, and spent a happy day with her on a mountain peak. Ayaka agreed to help Ellin and her brother seek a peaceful resolution to the conflict, and the two watched the sunset shoulder to shoulder.

• Ellin arrived by flying to meet Kamisato Ayaka, who was delighted and flustered to see her.
• Ellin carried Ayaka to a peak near Mt. Yougou and brought out signature dishes from Liyue and Mondstadt.
• Ellin encouraged Ayaka to eat freely, and the two shared a relaxed meal together.
• Ayaka told Ellin that she and her brother would do their best to help resolve the conflict peacefully.
• As the sun set, Ayaka moved close to Ellin, and they watched the sea of clouds shoulder to shoulder.

Ellin arranged with Ayato and Ayaka to act after chapter five, then sent the manuscript to Yae Miko, whose alarming contents prompted her and Ei to investigate. The chapter revealed a Sacred Sakura cleansing ritual and ended with Ei sensing an old friend in a shrine maiden named Hanasato.

• Ellin visited the Kamisato estate, gave gifts to Ayato, Ayaka, Thoma, Paimon, and Lumine, and agreed with Ayato and Ayaka to act after chapter five was released.
• Ellin prepared chapter five and sent it to Yae Miko, who read it and decided its claims warranted investigating with Ei.
• Yae Miko brought the manuscript to Tenshukaku, and she and Ei read chapter five before deciding to go see for themselves.
• The chapter explained how the Sacred Sakura purified filth from Inazuma's ley lines through a ritual performed by shrine maidens.
• In Konda Village, Ei and Ailin encountered the masked shrine maiden Hanasato, and Ei sensed an old friend's presence in her.

Ei reunited with Hanasato, who was a remnant of Kitsune Saiguu’s memories, and helped complete the Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual. After Hanasato disappeared, Yae Miko confronted Ailin and demanded that he leave Ei’s side.

• Ei and Hanasato reunited before the fox statue and agreed to perform the Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual together.
• Ei, Ailin, and Hanasato purified the Sacred Sakura’s roots at every location, leaving only the final underground space.
• Ei apologized for not returning five hundred years earlier, and Hanasato explained that Kitsune Saiguu had died without regrets while protecting Inazuma.
• Hanasato revealed that she would disappear to complete the ritual, then turned into cherry blossom petals as Ei said goodbye.
• Yae Miko appeared beside Ailin and demanded that he leave Ei’s side.

Ei and Yae Miko helped Hanasato complete most of the Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual, but Ei stopped her from dissipating and persuaded her to acknowledge her past as Kitsune Saiguu. The three friends reunited beneath Mt. Yougou, where Ei began recounting the past five hundred years.

• Ei and Yae Miko found Hanasato in Konda Village and persuaded her to join the Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual.
• The three cleared the defilement at several locations and reached the final step beneath Mt. Yougou.
• Hanasato prepared to dissipate, but Ei angrily asked why she still refused to acknowledge them.
• Moved by Ei and Yae Miko's sorrow, Hanasato removed her mask and revealed herself as Kitsune Saiguu.
• Kitsune Saiguu comforted Ei, and Ei began telling her about the past five hundred years while Yae Miko added details.