Recaps

Ellin and Venti soothed Mondstadt’s uneasy audience with music before opening a grand concert featuring Barbara, the nuns, and Xinyan. Late that night, Ellin, Jean, Klee, and Barbara returned to perform “Let the Wind Tell You,” bringing the concert toward its close.

• Ellin played the Soul-Cleansing Bell and chanted Taoist melodies while Venti accompanied her, calming the audience and filling them with a vision of the Anemo Archon’s compassion.
• Ellin announced the start of the concert, and Barbara, Venti, Jean, and Ellin launched it with a song as Klee’s fireworks lit the sky.
• More than a hundred nuns performed a choral piece wishing Mondstadt prosperity and happiness for its people.
• Xinyan performed fiery rock music, winning the audience over with her passionate spirit of resistance.
• After eleven, Ellin, Jean, Klee, and Barbara returned to perform “Let the Wind Tell You,” with Klee and Jean singing while Xinyan and the nuns joined the accompaniment.

Mondstadt’s concert brought the city together as Jean, Barbara, Ellin, and Klee performed while Diluc and others kept the festivities safe. As Barbara’s song reached its halfway point, the lights went out and the Anemo Archon appeared above the city, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Amber, Eula, Albert, Fischl, Sucrose, Hermann, Bennett, Jean and Barbara’s mother, and Noelle’s orphanage children cheered for the performers.
• Diluc defeated an Abyss Mage on the city wall, and Kaeya persuaded him to stop and watch the concert with him.
• Albedo watched the fireworks and performance, then wondered whether he could become a real human and admitted he did not dislike the noise.
• As Barbara grew anxious about the mysterious singer who was meant to take over, all the lights in the plaza suddenly went out.
• The Anemo Archon appeared amid teal light as Mondstadt’s bells and Statues of The Seven glowed, prompting people across the city to pray.
• At Wuwang Hill, an old man burning offerings looked toward Mondstadt and wondered what the Anemo Archon was doing.

The Anemo Archon appeared during Mondstadt’s concert, performed with the Holy Lyre der Himmel, blessed his people, and departed with the Sky Dragon. Afterward, Barbara told Ellin how her childhood wish to surpass Jean had become a desire to support her sister through healing and song.

• The Anemo Archon revealed himself, played the Holy Lyre der Himmel, and joined the sisters and performers in Let the Wind Tell You.
• Jean, Klee, Barbara, Lumine, Paimon, and the crowd resumed the performance, while Stanley fervently cheered for the Anemo Archon and Ellin.
• The Anemo Archon encouraged Mondstadt’s people to pursue their future, then flew away on the Sky Dragon and left the restored Holy Lyre der Himmel behind.
• Jean led the people in crying “May the Wind Lead!” as the concert ended and the Knights of Favonius guided the crowd out.
• Barbara thanked Ellin and explained that her wish to support Jean had led her to become a priestess and an idol who could heal people through song.

Barbara and Jean finally overcame the distance between them and embraced as sisters after Ellin helped them reconnect through their concert rehearsals. Ellin left them together, then kept the Hydro Vision and stored the cracked Anemo Vision labeled “Jean” before heading home.

• Barbara thanked Ellin for helping her perform with Jean and said the rehearsals had been the happiest days of her life.
• After Barbara left, Jean emerged from the changing room and told Ellin she had heard Barbara’s words and had long wanted to grow closer to her.
• Jean explained that she had taken on the Gunnhildr family’s duties to protect Barbara and regretted that they had grown distant.
• Barbara appeared in the doorway, heard Jean call her a wonderful little sister, and ran into her arms crying.
• Jean hugged Barbara and told her to keep calling her “Sis,” while Ellin quietly left them alone.
• Ellin hung the glowing Hydro Vision at her waist, labeled the cracked Anemo Vision “Jean,” placed it in her inventory, and headed home.

Ellin struggled to control the Wind God's Divine Core after two Anemo Visions shattered and strengthened it. With Venti's advice, she went to Wolvendom to face a powerful opponent and train.

• Ellin's Anemo power burst out and blew her blanket across the room.
• Feng'er suggested Ellin's mortal body could adapt into a demon god body by absorbing elemental energy and fighting powerful enemies.
• Ellin questioned how Feng'er knew about demon god bodies, but Feng'er claimed she had deduced it from Ellin's game memories.
• Ellin asked Venti for advice, and he agreed that fighting strong opponents could help her master the core's power.
• Venti directed Ellin to the Trial Ground in Wolvendom, where she challenged the Ruler of Wolvendom.

Razor showed Ellin how much his combat skills had improved before she entered Andrius’s trial for another prolonged battle. Andrius finally stopped the fight early, leaving Ellin disappointed and the King Wolf exasperated.

• Razor used his lightning Stand, [Platinum Star], to smash a large tree, and Ellin praised his progress while advising him to develop new electro skills.
• Ellin entered Andrius’s trial grounds, and the King Wolf recognized her and angrily complained that she had returned again.
• Ellin attacked Andrius with her Skyward Blade, and they fought with elemental powers for over an hour.
• Ellin broke through Andrius’s freezing storm with her Storm Slash and prepared to attack again.
• Andrius jumped back and called off the trial, while Ellin complained that their fight had ended sooner than usual.

After fifteen days of sparring with Ellin, Andrius refused to hold any more trials, though he recognized her strength and learned her name. Ellin taught Razor two techniques before leaving Wolvendom, unknowingly setting him on a path to become its future guardian and foiling a future Abyss Order plot against Andrius.

• Andrius explained that Ellin had challenged him twenty-three times over fifteen days, growing stronger and learning techniques while exhausting his remnant soul.
• Andrius refused to hold any more trials for two years, and Ellin thanked him for sparring with her.
• Andrius recognized Ellin's strength and asked her name; Ellin introduced herself and patted him under the chin before he vanished.
• Outside the Trial Ground, Ellin taught Razor [Stellar Restoration] and [Dragon Claw], techniques he would later use as Wolvendom's guardian, the [Lightning Fang Wolf].
• Ellin left for Mondstadt, unaware that her frequent challenges would cause the Abyss Order's future trap for Andrius to fail when he refused to appear.

Ellin agreed to help Lumine meet her brother by arranging a plan that would lure him out. Aether dismissed the first report of Lumine’s wedding as a trap, but the Abyss Herald’s account of wedding preparations at Dawn Winery left him shaken.

• Ellin decided she might leave Mondstadt to see more of the world, then met Lumine and Paimon and accepted Lumine’s invitation to eat.
• Lumine reminded Ellin that she had promised a way for Lumine to meet her brother, and Ellin whispered a plan that embarrassed Lumine.
• Ellin and Lumine went to discuss their plan with Jean and Diluc.
• An Abyss Mage overheard two Knights of Favonius say that Lumine would marry at Dawn Winery and reported the rumor to Aether.
• Aether dismissed the rumor as a trick to lure him out, then heard the Abyss Herald report that Dawn Winery was being decorated for a wedding.

Lumine and Ellin staged a wedding at Dawn Winery to draw Aether out, while the guests reacted awkwardly and Aether watched from hiding. The ceremony reached its vows, but Jean’s request for the groom to kiss the bride stunned everyone.

• Jean opened the wedding as Lumine and the masked groom entered, with Klee scattering petals and Paimon holding Lumine’s train.
• Fischl, Noelle, Sucrose, Jean, Barbara, Hermann, his wife, Bennett, Kaeya, Diluc, Eula, and Venti reacted to the unusual wedding in different ways.
• Aether watched from a hidden corner and wanted to stop the wedding, but the Abyss Mage warned him that it might be a trap.
• Lumine sensed Aether nearby, and Ellin urged her to keep up the act so they could force him out.
• Barbara gave the couple a blessing, and Jean asked Lumine and the groom to exchange vows.
• Jean called for the groom to seal the vows with a kiss, leaving the couple frozen and the guests in an uproar.

Lumine and the groom reached the point of a wedding kiss, prompting Aether to abandon his hiding place and rush out to stop it. Just as Fischl stood to object, someone else shouted first, and Aether appeared before the guests.

• Jean explained that the wedding guide called for a kiss, and Lumine decided to continue the plan to draw out her brother.
• Aether mistook Lumine’s hesitation for proof that the wedding was a ruse, then panicked when she closed her eyes and prepared to kiss the groom.
• The groom lowered her mask and leaned toward Lumine as the guests watched tensely.
• The Abyss Mage tried to restrain Aether, but Aether kicked the mage aside and charged out to protect Lumine.
• Fischl stood up to object, but a furious young man who looked like Lumine shouted first, interrupting the wedding kiss.

At a fake wedding, Lumine reunited with her brother Aether, who revealed his war against the Heavenly Principles and urged her to finish her own journey. Aether escaped, and Lumine took comfort from Ellin before returning to the banquet as Ellin prepared to travel across Teyvat.

• Aether burst into Ellin and Lumine's staged wedding to object, but Venti revealed that Aether was connected to the Abyss.
• Ellin removed her mask and revealed that the groom was herself, exposing the ruse that had drawn Aether out.
• Aether warned Lumine not to oppose the Abyss and said he could not go home with her until he finished his war against the Heavenly Principles.
• As Ellin and the others closed in, Aether promised to reunite with Lumine at the end of her journey, then fled through a portal.
• Lumine worried about Aether and the Heavenly Principles, but Ellin encouraged her to continue her journey, and Lumine returned to the banquet with her.
• Ellin's family and friends gathered at Dawn Winery to celebrate her before she traveled to explore other parts of Teyvat.

At her farewell banquet at Dawn Winery, Ellin reassured her friends that they could still visit her through the Serenitea Pot as she prepared to leave Mondstadt. Jean wished the Sun Knight well, and Ellin shared parting moments with the gathered friends, though Eula left her puzzled by an accusation about taking responsibility.

• Ellin thanked Jean and Diluc for arranging the banquet, and Diluc admitted he had also used it to gather information about Aether.
• Ellin teased Diluc before she and Jean joined the farewell gathering at Dawn Winery.
• Ellin reassured Fischl and the others that Realm Dispatches would let them visit her in the Serenitea Pot after she left.
• Ellin asked Sucrose and Noelle to care for their Wonderland, comforted Klee, and gave Barbara a Realm Dispatch for practicing singing.
• Jean thanked Ellin for her help and saluted her, wishing the Sun Knight well on her travels.
• Ellin gave Eula a Realm Dispatch, and Eula accused her of leaving after making a bold promise before storming off.

Ellin said goodbye to Mondstadt after making plans with Lumine and sharing an emotional farewell with her parents. As she set out for Liyue, a masked youth fought monsters in the black miasma near Stone Gate.

• Ellin offered Diluc, Kaeya, and Bennett Realm Dispatches, but they refused them; Venti kept his and secretly hid another bottle of Dandelion Wine.
• Ellin invited Lumine to travel to Liyue with her, but Lumine chose to remain in Mondstadt and meet her at the Rite of Descension, which had been postponed by two months.
• Ellin told Hermann and his wife that she had left them a million Mora and gave Hermann a Cool Steel sword to replace the one he had sold for his family.
• Ellin spent the evening at a farewell party with her family and friends, then left Mondstadt the next day, floating barefoot above the ground.
• Near Stone Gate in Liyue, a masked youth with a green spear charged into the black miasma and fought the mutated monsters.

Xiao fought through a massive outbreak of archon residue in Wuwang Hill, but the battle exhausted him and unleashed the karmic debt accumulated over a thousand years. As hatred overwhelmed his mind and he prepared to die, a blue figure approached with a ringing bell.

• The chapter explained how archon residue formed dangerous monsters and how the Guardian Yakshas fought to contain it, leaving Xiao as the last survivor.
• An outbreak of archon residue filled Wuwang Hill with black fumes and more than a thousand monsters, so Xiao charged into the battle.
• Xiao fought through the night, repeatedly dispersing monsters as they re-formed from the lingering resentment.
• After the battle, Xiao used up the strength he had reserved to resist his karmic debt and collapsed beside Dihua Marsh.
• As hatred surged through Xiao's mind and he prepared to die, a blue figure appeared in his blurred vision with a ringing bell.

A mysterious girl used a Soul-Cleansing Bell, an incantation, and Anemo and Hydro to soothe Xiao’s karmic afflictions and restore his strength. After waking at sunset, Xiao tried to leave to protect her from his curses, but she opened her eyes and teased him for leaving without a word.

• Xiao struggled against his karmic afflictions and urged the approaching girl to leave before he lost control.
• The girl rang the Soul-Cleansing Bell, chanted an incantation, and sent a drop of Anemo- and Hydro-infused water into Xiao’s mind.
• The girl’s power drove the resentment from Xiao’s mind, soothed his suffering, and restored his strength as he fell asleep.
• Xiao woke at sunset with his mind clear and recognized the girl’s aura as godlike, though he did not know who she was.
• Xiao stood to leave, fearing his karmic afflictions might harm the girl, but she woke and teased him for leaving after sleeping beside her.

Ellin pressured Xiao into repaying the debt he owed her for saving his life by invoking Rex Lapis's name. She asked Xiao to teach her spear techniques and midair combat, and he agreed to let her follow him despite warning her of the danger.

• Xiao tried to leave without thanking Ellin, but Ellin and Feng'er challenged his manners.
• Ellin asked Xiao for a mask, and he refused to give her one.
• Ellin invoked Rex Lapis's name to make Xiao stay and ask what she wanted in return.
• Ellin requested lessons in spear techniques and midair combat, surprising Xiao with how simple her request was.
• Xiao warned Ellin that following him would bring misfortune, then walked away as she followed.

Xiao reluctantly took Ellin to Jueyun Karst for combat lessons, but she caught up with him in flight and unsettled him by revealing a pristine Primordial Jade Winged-Spear and several Visions. The chapter left Xiao furious and embarrassed as he attacked Ellin, who dodged and continued teasing him.

• Xiao told Ellin to stay at Wangshu Inn, then arrived the next morning and challenged her to keep up with him to Jueyun Karst.
• Ellin used Anemo to catch up with Xiao in flight, surprising him with her speed.
• At the training ground, Xiao tried to leave because Ellin had no spear, but she summoned a new-looking Primordial Jade Winged-Spear.
• Ellin revealed her Visions to prove she had seven eyes, while Xiao mistakenly thought she was exposing herself.
• Ellin teased Xiao for blushing, and he angrily swung his spear at her as she dodged.

Ellin sparred with Xiao to show him her fighting style, using multiple weapons and the overpowering stench of her Fried Fish Greatsword to overwhelm him. Xiao ended the match and concluded that Ellin should keep her unconventional methods rather than learn spearwork.

• Mountain Shaper and Moon Carver left Cloud Retainer's Abode with Cloud Retainer and Shenhe after helping Shenhe with her cultivation.
• Cloud Retainer and the others found Xiao being teased by Ellin, who provoked him until he drew his Primordial Jade Winged-Spear.
• Xiao asked Ellin to demonstrate her fighting style, and she attacked with elemental weapons, a brick-like catalyst, and her foul-smelling Fried Fish Greatsword.
• Xiao called off the spar after the Fried Fish Greatsword made him nauseated, and Ellin wondered how Zhongli would react to its smell.
• Xiao advised Ellin to keep her effective, improvised fighting style instead of learning spearwork.

Xiao taught Ellin the Skyward Freedom Technique after explaining that her unorthodox fighting style was already an advantage. Ellin mastered the adeptal art immediately and used it to lounge in the air, then followed Xiao after their contract ended, questioning whether he was fit to leave in his current mental state.

• Xiao told Ellin that learning formal spear techniques would limit her free-form fighting style and demonstrated how to use Anemo to walk through the air.
• Ellin copied Xiao’s method and learned the Skyward Freedom Technique after watching it once.
• Ellin used the technique to make a chair and bed of wind, annoying Xiao by treating his combat art as a way to relax.
• Xiao left after declaring their contract fulfilled, but Ellin followed him half an hour later.
• Xiao threatened Ellin with the Primordial Jade Winged-Spear, and Ellin calmly asked whether he could leave while in his current mental state.

Xiao refused Ellin’s offer of help and flew away, despite knowing that his damaged inner sanctum left him vulnerable to the resentment in his mind. The adepti discussed Ellin’s unusual influence over him and hoped she could help him, while agreeing to keep his loss of composure secret.

• Ellin asked Xiao if he could safely leave in his unstable condition, but Xiao insisted he needed neither pity nor help.
• Xiao warned Ellin that anyone who came near him would suffer misfortune, then flew away.
• Mountain Shaper and Moon Carver discussed how Ellin had saved Xiao and brought out emotions he usually suppressed.
• Moon Carver urged Cloud Retainer not to tell anyone about Xiao losing his composure, and Cloud Retainer agreed.

Ellin reflected on the origins of Xiao’s karmic debt as he endured its worsening effects while fighting monsters across Liyue. Xiao remained close to collapse, but he continued to hold fast to his duty as Liyue’s last Guardian Yaksha.

• Ellin stayed with Xiao for fifteen days, helping him fight monsters in the wilderness and keeping his karmic debt from endangering people near Wangshu Inn.
• Ellin understood that lingering Archon resentment contaminated people and monsters, while generations of yakshas had fought the resulting threats until Xiao was the last one left.
• Ellin connected Xiao’s karmic debt to the guilt he carried for the innocent lives he had been forced to take and the dreams he had devoured.
• Ellin recognized that centuries of Archon contamination magnified Xiao’s guilt, leaving him tormented by the cries of those he had harmed and close to collapse.
• Xiao continued to endure his suffering and hold to the yaksha way of protecting Liyue.

During a rainy night in a cave, Ellin coaxed Xiao into eating her grilled tiger fish and reflected on the trust and affection growing between them. Xiao, unsettled by feelings he had never experienced, asked why she treated him so well, and Ellin challenged his assumption that kindness required an ulterior motive.

• Ellin offered Xiao grilled tiger fish, and he initially refused because he disliked mortal food.
• Ellin summoned the foul-smelling Fried Fish Greatsword, prompting Xiao to accept the fish and eat it.
• The grilled tiger fish reminded Xiao of an old friend, and he considered how Ellin had fought beside and supported him for fifteen days.
• Xiao realized he had begun to trust Ellin and felt an unfamiliar flutter in his heart.
• Xiao asked Ellin what she wanted from him, and she asked why he thought she needed a reason to be kind.

After Ellin questioned Xiao’s distrust, he convinced himself she was the Anemo Archon, Barbatos, and treated her with newfound respect. When the rain stopped, they set out to gather supplies for Xiao’s plan to punish Wang Ping'an, arriving at a ruined Yaksha temple where a man in red recited poetry.

• Ellin asked why she would need something from Xiao to treat him kindly, leaving him unable to refute her.
• Xiao reflected on Ellin’s powers and weapons and concluded that she was the Anemo Archon, Barbatos.
• After the rain eased, Ellin reminded Xiao that he had to help find the censer and lamps for the Dreamwalking Through Realms Technique.
• Xiao agreed to go with Ellin, who brought an extra grilled Chi Tiger Fish and led him toward a place where they could find the supplies.
• Ellin and Xiao arrived at a ruined Yaksha temple, where a man in red was reciting poetry.

Xiao reunited with the spirit of his old friend Copper Tusk at a ruined temple, where they shared grilled Chi Tiger Fish and spoke of Xiao’s karmic debt. After Copper Tusk asked Ellin to help Xiao, she said she had found a way to save him and left determined to act.

• Xiao realized Ellin had deliberately brought him to Copper Tusk and sat with his old friend at the ruined temple.
• Copper Tusk and Xiao shared Ellin’s grilled Chi Tiger Fish and reminisced about their friendship and Copper Tusk’s death.
• Copper Tusk raised concern about Xiao’s karmic debt, but Xiao refused his pity and left to fight evil stirring at night.
• Ellin met Copper Tusk after Xiao departed and acknowledged that Xiao was close to collapse under his karmic debt.
• Copper Tusk asked Ellin to help Xiao, and she said she had found her answer and would not let Xiao’s story end in tragedy.
• Copper Tusk watched over Liyue and hoped Xiao’s story would end well.

Ellin concluded that care and companionship could ease Xiao’s karmic burden after she arranged his reunion with Pervases. Xiao quietly listened to her chanting that night, while Ellin continued to offer him comfort without calling attention to it.

• Ellin returned to Xiao and cooked the grilled Chi Tiger Fish he requested.
• Ellin reflected on how Xiao’s meeting with Pervases had eased his negative emotions and confirmed her belief that love and care could help save him.
• Xiao ate the fish while remembering Pervases and their comrades.
• Ellin went to the mountain summit to ring the Soul-Calming Bell and chant, while Xiao secretly listened from halfway up the mountain.
• Ellin sensed Xiao listening and let the bells and chanting soothe him without exposing him.