Chapter Summaries

Billions of sea creatures battered the Geo Sword and mountains holding Osial, loosening his Seal and forcing Liyue to prepare for disaster. Zhongli revealed that he had allowed events to unfold because he hoped the crisis would give Ellin the chance to become Liyue’s new god.

• Billions of fish, shrimp, and sea beasts sacrificed themselves against the Geo Sword and mountains while Beisht joined their assault, and Osial struggled to break free.
• Keqing ordered the Millelith to abandon Guyun Stone Forest and led them to safety as earthquakes and collapsing mountains shook the area.
• Ningguang, the Immortals, Keqing, and Beidou organized Liyue’s evacuation and prepared for battle as civilians fled and troops and artillery gathered.
• Azhdaha asked Zhongli whether he had foreseen the crisis and would intervene, and Zhongli said Morax would not return unless there was no other choice.
• Zhongli explained that he hoped the people of Liyue would accept Ellin as their new Geo Archon and wanted to see how she would respond to Osial.

Osial broke free of his seal and prepared to destroy Liyue Harbor, leaving Ningguang, Keqing, and the others facing a battle for Liyue’s survival. Keqing committed Liyue’s secret stockpile of rapid-fire rocket launchers to the coming fight.

• Zhongli considered the danger of killing Osial, whose Archon Residue could poison Liyue’s waters for generations, and wondered what choice Ellin would make.
• Fish and shrimp sacrificed themselves to destroy the mountains and Geo Swords sealing Osial beneath Guyun Stone Forest.
• Osial emerged in his enormous whale-like form, furious after thousands of years of confinement and intent on destroying Liyue Harbor.
• Ningguang prepared to sacrifice another Jade Chamber, while Keqing and the Millelith readied themselves at the docks.
• Keqing revealed more than three hundred Rapid-Fire Anti-Aircraft Rocket Launchers, and Liyue committed its reserves to the battle.

As Osial unleashed a massive wave toward Liyue Harbor, Shenhe chose to face it to protect the children at the Academy and the people Ellin loved. She untied her red cords as she advanced toward the wave.

• Keqing ordered the Millelith to bombard Osial with cannon and rocket fire, but the attacks only enraged him.
• Osial raised a three-hundred-meter wave that threatened to destroy Liyue Harbor and everyone fleeing there.
• Liu Qingyi led the Academy children to safety while Shenhe carried several children and comforted them.
• Shenhe set the children down and told them to go with Liu Qingyi before heading toward the wave.
• Remembering Ellin's love for Liyue and its people, Shenhe decided to protect what Ellin treasured and untied her red cords as she walked toward Osial.

Shenhe reflected on how Ellin and her friends had given her a home and a reason to cherish the world, then charged toward Osial’s towering wave to protect Liyue Harbor. She froze the wave and saved the city, but collapsed from exhaustion as falling ice threatened to crush her.

• Shenhe remembered the friendships and happy experiences that had made her feel she belonged in the world.
• As Osial raised a colossal wave over Liyue, Shenhe walked against the fleeing crowd, determined to protect the city and what Ellin cherished.
• Shenhe removed her Red Ropes and unleashed her full power, crossing the sea on ice to confront the wave.
• Shenhe hurled a Frost Talisman at the wave and froze it into a vast wall of ice, which shattered and spared Liyue Harbor.
• Shenhe collapsed unconscious on the ice, directly in the path of enormous chunks falling from the breaking wave.

Shenhe froze Osial’s enormous wave to protect Liyue Harbor, and Zhongli rescued her as the adepti joined the battle against Osial. Deep in the Ley Lines, Ellin awakened with a powerful new aura and reached the place where all the Ley Lines converged.

• Shenhe froze Osial’s wave but collapsed, and Zhongli carried her to safety in Liyue Harbor.
• Zhongli and Azhdaha discussed Shenhe’s potential to become a god and expected Ellin to return from the Ley Lines.
• Cloud Retainer, Mountain Shaper, Moon Carver, Madame Ping, and Xiao attacked Osial, who struck back and sent several of them flying.
• Moon Carver restrained Osial’s tail while Ganyu froze the sea, letting Madame Ping and Ganyu land heavy blows on him.
• Ellin opened her eyes in the Ley Lines, sensed her power had grown, and recognized that all the Ley Lines converged there.

Ellin reached the end of the Ley Lines and learned that Teyvat’s civilizations were repeatedly destroyed to prevent them from exhausting the world’s finite resources. She left with a clearer understanding of the cycle but still wondered who Feng'er was and what she was doing.

• Ellin found an ancient withered tree at the convergence of the Ley Lines, surrounded by prayer circlets left by priests.
• Ellin touched the tree and learned that the universe destroyed civilizations when they grew powerful enough to consume its finite resources.
• Ellin saw that Teyvat’s world erased its own advanced civilizations before the universe could destroy the unstable world itself.
• Ellin learned that each prayer circlet marked a priest who discovered the truth and chose not to tell their people.
• Ellin considered the conflict between humanity’s drive to progress and the world’s need to protect itself, then resolved to return to Feng'er for the remaining answers.

Ellin left the Ley Lines with a newly unified demon god core and returned to Liyue when its people called for help. She defeated the crisis by promising to protect Liyue as its god, and the people’s bow made her the new Geo Archon.

• Ellin completed her journey through the Ley Lines, uniting the power of all seven demon god cores into one pure-white core.
• The Immortals fought Osial for an hour, protecting Liyue Harbor but becoming badly wounded and exhausted.
• Ellin answered the people’s calls and appeared above the battlefield as the Immortals neared defeat.
• Ellin promised to watch over Liyue and grant its people a peaceful, free nation if they accepted her as their god.
• Led by the Liyue Qixing, the people bowed to Ellin and sealed the contract that made her the new Geo Archon.

After Liyue’s people accepted Ellin as their new god, she entered the battle against Osial and overwhelmed him with her strength. She stopped his attacks and dispersed the enormous waves threatening Liyue Harbor.

• The people of Liyue knelt to accept Ellin as their New God, sealing the contract and bringing about the birth of the Archon of Humanity.
• Ellin appeared on the battlefield, healed the immortals, and took over the fight as they withdrew.
• Osial attacked Ellin with a mountain-sized tail strike, but she blocked it with her raised wrist.
• Ellin tore apart Osial’s Water Blade Storm with anemo and struck him with an electro-and-pyro punch that sent him crashing into the sea.
• When Osial’s impact sent towering waves toward Liyue Harbor, Ellin stopped them and made them collapse with a single command.

Ellin overwhelmed Osial with her fused elemental power and moved to kill him, but Beisht intervened and Osial unleashed a desperate spacetime attack. The vortex vanished with Ellin inside it, leaving her fate unknown as Zhongli explained Osial’s last-resort technique.

• Ellin used a lightning spear to pierce Osial, then froze the sea and trapped him in the ice.
• Ellin struck Osial with Elemental Shockwave and prepared to crush him with a Geo Sword.
• Beisht appeared to shield Osial, and Ellin refused to spare them despite her admiration for Beisht’s devotion.
• Osial broke free of the ice and used his power as the God of the Vortex to drag Ellin into a spacetime vortex.
• Zhongli explained to Azhdaha that Osial’s technique cast an enemy into a temporal eddy at great cost.

Osial’s spacetime vortex sent Ellin to the past, where she arrived at Yaoguang Shoal and met Alice. Zhongli sensed Ellin’s arrival and recognized her as Liyue’s future Geo Archon, while Alice welcomed her as a destined best friend.

• At the Pavilion Tower, Zhongli reassured Azhdaha that Osial’s vortex would only send Ellin briefly into the past and would not harm her.
• Ellin appeared above Yaoguang Shoal and realized that Osial was still sealed at Guyun Stone Forest, confirming she had traveled back in time.
• Zhongli sensed Ellin’s immense aura, recognized the Geo Archon’s power and Osial’s lingering vortex energy, and chose not to approach her.
• Alice called Ellin her best friend and explained that her divination had predicted Ellin would arrive from the future.
• Ellin introduced herself to Alice and questioned her about astrologists divining their own fortunes, prompting Alice to dismiss the restriction.

Alice learned that Ellin would return to her own time after eight days in the past, which would amount to only eight seconds in her present. Ellin decided to spend the time with Alice, but after they flew to Celestia, the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles attacked and Ellin fled with Alice.

• Alice examined Ellin and said the power holding her in the past would fade in at least eight days, while only about eight seconds would pass in her own time.
• Ellin agreed to treat her stay as a vacation and traveled with Alice from Yaoguang Shoal to Mondstadt.
• At Windrise, Alice asked Ellin to take her to Celestia, and Ellin agreed after becoming excited by the idea.
• Ellin carried Alice above Celestia, where they looked around the floating island.
• The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles appeared and attacked Ellin and Alice, so Ellin chose to flee.

Ellin escaped the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles with Alice, then used her Geo Archon powers to give Alice Mora. In Mondstadt, Ellin saw young Sucrose grieving over her absent playmates and secretly left her an alchemy book, inspiring her to create Wonderland.

• Ellin teleported with Alice to Watatsumi Island, explained how teleportation worked, and then returned with her to Mondstadt.
• Alice told Ellin she had spent her money on Zhongli’s seven-day tour of Liyue, and Ellin created Mora with her Geo Archon powers to help her.
• After sharing a meal, Ellin spotted young Sucrose sitting alone and learned that her playmates had left Mondstadt.
• Ellin borrowed Alice’s book about biological alchemy and left it on the grass for Sucrose to find.
• Sucrose read the book and decided to create her own Wonderland so she could have good friends and no longer feel lonely.

A lonely girl who called herself Fischl tried to make friends in Mondstadt by imitating the heroine of her favorite fantasy novel. After the children challenged her to prove her invented powers, she led them outside the city and was left unable to keep up the lie.

• Fischl ran to Mondstadt’s plaza, hoping to find children who would play with her.
• She introduced herself as the Prinzessin der Verurteilung, but the children called her strange and began to leave.
• Fischl defended the name and described her supposed powers, including the ability to pluck stars from the sky.
• When the children asked her to demonstrate, Fischl led them to a hillside outside Mondstadt.
• Unable to prove her powers, Fischl stammered as the children pressed her to show them.

Ellin secretly used Planet Befall to make Fischl’s childhood wish come true when other children mocked her, leaving Fischl with a treasured memory of a mysterious white-haired girl. Years later, Fischl met Ellin at the Adventurers’ Guild and felt compelled to become her friend.

• Outside Mondstadt, children mocked Fischl for promising to pluck a star from the sky and threw dirt at her.
• Fischl removed her eyepatch and called down the stars, while Ellin used Planet Befall from a distant cliff.
• A meteor crashed into Cider Lake, frightening the children into fleeing and convincing Fischl that a god had saved her.
• Fischl treasured her memory of the white-haired girl, though over time she began to doubt whether the incident had really happened.
• Years later, Fischl approached Ellin at the Adventurers’ Guild, and Ellin answered her dramatic introduction with one of her own.

Ellin and Alice explored the underwater Seal at Guyun Stone Forest and discovered Beisht had spent thousands of years waiting beside her imprisoned husband, Osial. As they watched the creatures gather around the Seal, Ellin reflected on what she had seen, and the chapter ended with her and Alice appearing before Beisht.

• After spending several days in Mondstadt, Alice asked Ellin to take her to see the Seal beneath Guyun Stone Forest.
• Ellin concealed her aura and brought Alice underwater, where they saw Rex Lapis's eight Geo Spears forming a Barrier around the enormous, sleeping Osial.
• Alice noticed Beisht beside the Seal, and Ellin explained that she was Osial's wife.
• Ellin and Alice watched the area for eight hours as fish, shrimp, and sea beasts gathered around the Seal and mourned for Osial.
• Beisht continued waiting for Osial to wake, until the seawater churned and Ellin and Alice appeared before her.

Beisht defended Osial’s seal from Ellin, who questioned her and promised to spare them if Beisht could persuade Osial to abandon his hatred. Afterward, Ellin and Alice watched the sunset at Yaoguang Shoal as their time together came to an end.

• Beisht attacked Ellin when she appeared at Osial’s seal, but Ellin halted and restrained her.
• Ellin asked Beisht about her vigil and her hopes for life with Osial, and Beisht said she wanted peace and would try to dissuade him from revenge.
• Ellin promised Beisht a chance at survival and freedom if she could persuade Osial to let go of his hatred.
• Ellin and Alice returned to Yaoguang Shoal, where Alice noted that Osial’s power sustaining Ellin was nearly exhausted.
• Ellin and Alice watched the sunset beside the Statue of the Seven, and Alice thanked Ellin for their time together.

Ellin met a young Ningguang on Yaoguang Shoal and offered to fund her ambitions as a merchant. Ningguang accepted the investment and vowed to repay Ellin generously if she became wealthy.

• Alice told Ellin she planned to name her future daughter Klee and make Ellin the girl’s godmother.
• Ellin spotted a barefoot, struggling Ningguang selling fish on Yaoguang Shoal and revealed herself as an Adeptus.
• Ningguang explained that she had failed to sell any fish on her first day trying to earn startup money for a business.
• Ellin praised Ningguang’s principles and offered thirty thousand Mora for the fish plus two hundred and seventy thousand Mora as an investment.
• Ningguang accepted Ellin’s money and declared that she would give Ellin a generous return if she made a fortune.

Ellin shared a farewell evening with Ningguang and Alice before returning to her own time. Ningguang later remembered the fairy sister who encouraged her, and Alice kept their photograph as she said goodbye.

• Ellin grilled Chi Tiger Fish for Ningguang and Alice, then flew Ningguang home and encouraged her to believe she would become a remarkable merchant.
• Ningguang promised to work hard and watched Ellin fly away, inspired by the experience of seeing the world from above.
• As Ningguang rose to prominence, memories of Ellin shaped her view of the Adepti and helped motivate her to join the Liyue Qixing in hopes of meeting her again.
• Ningguang eventually recognized Ellin when she tasted the familiar grilled Chi Tiger Fish made by the Clear-Bell Flower-Butterfly Fairy.
• Ellin returned to Alice, promised to look after Klee in the future, and vanished into a time vortex while Alice kept their photograph.

Ellin returned to the battlefield and offered Osial and Beisht a choice: submit to her and stop harming humans or perish. Osial let go of his hatred, and Ellin healed the couple, made them her familiars, and blessed them to live freely in the sea; the story was left ready to move into its finale arc.

• Zhongli sensed Ellin return and realized she was the future Geo Archon he had once met and hoped would succeed him.
• Ellin reflected on Beisht’s devotion and the sacrifices of Osial’s sea creatures, then offered the couple survival if they submitted and abandoned their war against humanity.
• Beisht wept and shielded Osial, prompting him to remember his people’s sacrifices and recognize that his old war had lost its meaning.
• Osial and Beisht lowered their heads and submitted to Ellin, who healed them, made them her third and fourth familiars, and warned them not to harm humans.
• Ellin melted the ice and blessed the couple to live freely in the sea; they took human form, swore loyalty to her, and bowed together.

After Ellin resolved the Osial crisis with both righteousness and mercy, she met Ningguang in the Serenitea Pot and asked her to help govern Liyue. Their reunion ended with Ningguang urging Ellin to make more Mora as the Golden House’s reserves dwindled.

• Ellin let Osial and Beisht leave after placing her power within them, and they pledged loyalty to her and went to protect the waters between Liyue and Inazuma.
• People celebrated the crisis’s end, and Ellin cast the enormous Geo Sword into the sea as a landmark.
• Four days later, Ningguang met Ellin in the Serenitea Pot and acknowledged her as Fairy Sister.
• Ningguang reflected on how far she had come and admitted she had searched for Ellin to show her that her investment had succeeded.
• Ellin asked Ningguang to help govern Liyue, and Ningguang accepted before pointing out that the Golden House was running out of Mora and demanding that Ellin make more.