Chapter Summaries

Ellin, Barbara, and Jean organized a concert to lift Mondstadt’s spirits, with Noelle spreading the news across the city and beyond. As preparations continued, Ellin went to seek sponsorship from Diluc at the Angel’s Share.

• Ellin and Barbara agreed to make their concert unforgettable, and the Knights of Favonius and the Church supported the preparations.
• Lisa and Kaeya teased Jean about performing, then took over her duties so she could rehearse and spend time with her family.
• Noelle used her connections to spread news of the concert, and a girl in Liyue decided to travel to Mondstadt to attend.
• Jean, Amber, and the others sought advertising sponsors, but Diluc repeatedly refused the Knights’ requests for Dawn Winery support.
• Kaeya told the group that Ellin might persuade Diluc, then watched as Ellin arrived at the Angel’s Share to speak with him.

Ellin secured Diluc's sponsorship for the concert, then recruited Venti to debut as an idol by threatening to stop him from telling stories about her. Venti accepted and left with Ellin, abandoning his audience at a cliffhanger.

• Ellin explained the concert's purpose to Diluc, who agreed to donate five million Mora as repayment for her earlier favor.
• Kaeya teased Diluc about supporting Ellin, and Diluc charged Kaeya five hundred thousand Mora for his drinks.
• Venti drew a large crowd in Mondstadt by telling dramatic stories about Ellin's heroic deeds.
• Ellin confronted Venti and demanded he become an idol with her or face a ban on telling her story in the city.
• Venti accepted, left his audience waiting for the next installment, and ran off with Ellin carrying his tips.

Ellin enlisted Klee and Albedo to develop fireworks for the concert, while her friends arranged a new outfit and completed the event preparations. With one day left, a Mondstadt organizer invited Xinyan to perform, bringing the concert lineup together.

• Ellin asked Klee to make fireworks, and Klee agreed to work on them with her.
• Ellin and Klee visited Albedo on Dragonspine, where he helped them develop several fireworks and promised to return for the concert if he could.
• The Knights of Favonius began mass-producing the fireworks, while Barbara and Jean helped choose Klee's costume and Ellin's friends sought materials for a new outfit.
• Lumine said she had recently cut down a Cryo Regisvine with Xiangling, and she and Paimon offered to help make Ellin a new concert outfit.
• With the concert one day away, a Mondstadt organizer met Xinyan and invited her to perform her rock music onstage.

Barbara performed at Mondstadt’s concert, but her song failed to lift the audience’s spirits, so Ellin agreed to take the stage alone. Ellin appeared in a striking outfit made by her friends, and the crowd fell silent in astonishment.

• Mondstadt celebrated the concert with decorated streets, busy stalls, and a packed audience.
• Barbara performed in the Sunflower Dress her mother had given her, but she left the stage disappointed that the audience remained subdued.
• The audience called for Ellin, though Jean and the others had prepared no solo performance for her.
• Ellin agreed to perform alone and promised Barbara she would get the crowd to listen to her voice.
• Ellin walked onstage wearing a blue dress and accessories crafted by Fischl, Noelle, Sucrose, Lumine, Paimon, and their friends, leaving the audience speechless.

Ellin overcame her lack of a prepared solo performance by using the Soul-Cleansing Bell to accompany a chant set to Mondstadt’s ancient verses. Venti joined her with his flute, and their music soothed the vast concert crowd.

• Diluc decided to attend Ellin’s concert, claiming he wanted to watch for possible threats.
• Ellin took the stage alone and, unsure what to sing, chose to chant Mondstadt’s ancient verses to the Bu Xu Melody.
• Ellin rang the Soul-Cleansing Bell, whose chimes calmed the spectators and drew astonished reactions from Venti and the others backstage.
• Ellin channeled Anemo and began chanting, creating an otherworldly melody that quieted the crowd.
• Venti joined Ellin with his flute, and their combined music carried calm through the audience.

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.