Chapter Summaries

Aether fought two reviving Bathysmal Vishaps, defeated them, and broke the Heavenly Principles’ seal to reach the Mechanical Heart. As he prepared to destroy its chains, the recently revived Snake God appeared and told him to carry on.

• Aether fought the two Bathysmal Vishaps, killed one temporarily, and lost a foot when it revived and struck him with a water cannon.
• Aether unleashed a powerful Sword Energy attack that destroyed both Vishaps, then cut off their heads to ensure they were dead.
• Aether checked the time and unraveled the seal that the Heavenly Principles had placed on the entrance.
• Aether followed the passage to a vast pit containing a beating Mechanical Heart held by dimmed luminous chains.
• The Snake God appeared behind Aether and claimed he was only there for a stroll, while Aether locked onto him and prepared to strike.

Aether confronted the Snake God at the Mechanical Heart while trying to free Pride’s Heart, which the Snake God wanted for himself. The Mist Demon God’s return complicated the standoff, and the two Demon Gods failed to break the seal as they negotiated with Aether.

• Aether broke the chains binding the Mechanical Heart but left two intact, anticipating an attack from the Snake God.
• The Snake God attacked Aether, but Aether emerged unharmed and nearly pierced the Snake God with the Skyward Blade.
• The Mist Demon God appeared and used black mist to save the Snake God from Aether’s strike.
• The Snake God demanded that Aether help remove the seal on Pride’s Heart, but Aether refused.
• The Mist Demon God tried to tear apart a chain and was battered by its runes until the Snake God intervened.
• The Snake God explained that Pride’s Heart was suppressing the seal in response to Aether’s presence.

Aether fought the Snake God and the Mist Demon God, using the Heart of Pride to protect himself while searching for an advantage. When Enkanomiya's Helioscope went dark and the seal vanished, the heart lost its power, but Zhong Baiye awakened and regained control of his body.

• The Snake God showed Aether a photograph of Lumine and Keqing tied up, then attacked him alongside the Mist Demon God.
• The Snake God and the Mist Demon God combined their powers, and their dark blast wounded Aether despite his attempt to block it with the Skyward Blade.
• Aether drew the attackers toward the Heart of Pride, whose pulse destroyed their attacks and let him hold them off within its range.
• Aether severed the Snake God's tail when it probed the heart's defenses, while the Snake God and Mist Demon God searched for a way to defeat him.
• The Helioscope went dark, an earthquake extinguished the chains' glow, and the Heart of Pride lost its vitality.
• Zhong Baiye's consciousness awakened, and he regained control of his body.

Zhong Baiye regained control of his body and joined two revived Bathysmal Vishaps to defeat the Mist Demon God. The Snake God escaped underground while the Vishaps turned on Zhong Baiye, leaving him to fight them.

• Zhong Baiye used the Sigil of Permission to awaken while Aether controlled his body, then reclaimed it as Pride's Heart shut down and fled from the Snake God and Mist Demon God.
• Two Bathysmal Vishaps revived and attacked the Demon Gods, giving Zhong Baiye an opening to fight alongside them against the Mist Demon God.
• The Snake God remained incapacitated while he fought the Raiden Shogun's lingering will in his mind, and Zhong Baiye and a Vishap defeated the Mist Demon God.
• The Snake God awakened, bored a tunnel underground, and escaped while Zhong Baiye prepared to stop him.
• The two Bathysmal Vishaps attacked Zhong Baiye, preventing him from pursuing the Snake God, and Zhong Baiye resolved to kill them.

Zhong Baiye defeated the revived Bathysmal Vishaps, found the Heart of Pride, and was unexpectedly recognized as its master before it shut down. He left with the heart and began searching for a way out of dark, monster-ridden Enkanomiya, following marks he had placed on two Abyss Heralds.

• Zhong Baiye used a Spatial Rift and a timed strike to kill both Bathysmal Vishaps together, then watched their bodies to ensure they did not revive.
• Zhong Baiye approached the Heart of Pride and learned that Pride was a Khaenri'ahn war machine whose heart embodied her consciousness and had already chosen a master.
• The Heart of Pride identified Zhong Baiye as its master, but Pride soon detected conflicting commands and entered Sleep Mode.
• Zhong Baiye kept the Heart of Pride after it shrank and followed him, packing it into a small box as he set out to leave Enkanomiya.
• Zhong Baiye reached Enkanomiya's dark surface, sensed the agitated monsters, and headed toward the marks he had left on the Electro Apostle and Pyro Apostle.

Zhong Baiye confronted two Apostles in Enkanomiya and discovered that both looked like the Heavenly Principles. The Pyro Apostle began describing her origins in the Abyss, leaving Zhong Baiye questioning where the Apostles came from.

• The Pyro Apostle and the Electro Apostle found a glowing shard in Enkanomiya, but neither elemental nor Abyssal power affected it.
• Zhong Baiye appeared behind the Apostles, and the Electro Apostle knelt while the Pyro Apostle tried to escape through a portal.
• Zhong Baiye shattered the Pyro Apostle's portal, struck her down, and broke most of her mask.
• Zhong Baiye saw that the Pyro Apostle resembled the Heavenly Principles and ordered the Electro Apostle to remove his mask, revealing the same face with purple hair.
• Zhong Baiye asked where the Abyss Heralds came from, and the Pyro Apostle described the Abyss as a chaotic place without light, darkness, sky, or earth.

Zhong Baiye questioned the Pyro Apostle about Aether, the Original Sins, and the Abyss Order’s plans, learning how Aether intended to obtain Pride’s heart in Enkanomiya. When Zhong Baiye asked the forbidden question that had erased the Electro Apostle, the Pyro Apostle explained that Apostles could neither say nor even think about certain things, then suddenly looked terrified.

• The Electro Apostle vanished as he began to answer Zhong Baiye’s question about whether Apostles had always looked as they did.
• Zhong Baiye forced the pretending-to-be-unconscious Pyro Apostle to get up and questioned her about why the Abyss Heralds obeyed Aether.
• The Pyro Apostle revealed that Aether had rescued the Apostles and that the person they freed in the Chasm was Greed, one of the Original Sins.
• The Pyro Apostle explained that Aether planned to break the seals on the Original Sins to restore Khaenri'ah’s glory and had arranged events in Inazuma to merge with Zhong Baiye and obtain Pride’s heart.
• When Zhong Baiye asked the question that had preceded the Electro Apostle’s disappearance, the Pyro Apostle refused to answer and explained that Apostles could not speak or think about certain things.
• The Pyro Apostle abruptly looked terrified, as though she had seen something horrifying.

Zhong Baiye studied the strange membrane that had protected the Pyro Apostle and discovered that it could absorb fire and move across his body. When his test with a devastating Elemental sphere made it flee as a butterfly, he caught it and prepared to test its limits.

• Zhong Baiye found the Pyro Apostle reduced to ashes, apologized, and picked up the glasslike shard that had briefly shielded him.
• Zhong Baiye cut his thumb on the shard and used Elemental Sight to find a Colored Membrane preventing the wound from healing.
• After the shard crumbled, Zhong Baiye moved the membrane onto his hand, where his wound healed and the membrane absorbed a 3,000-degree fireball.
• Zhong Baiye charged a powerful Electro and Pyro sphere and touched it to the membrane, causing the membrane to flee as a colorful butterfly.
• Zhong Baiye caught the butterfly with his power, hid behind a boulder, and pushed the sphere toward it to test its limits.

Zhong Baiye discovered that the membrane shielding the floating island was a fragment of a world crystal wall, and his Visions consumed it to grant him a new teleportation ability. He mapped teleportation points across Enkanomiya before exhaustion forced him to stop.

• The orb of light struck the butterfly, but a mysterious membrane prevented the blast from destroying the floating island.
• Zhong Baiye found the weakened membrane, and his Geo, Pyro, and Electro Visions tore it apart and consumed it.
• Zhong Baiye learned that the membrane was a fragment of a world crystal wall and that the Visions had gained spatial laws from it.
• Zhong Baiye discovered he could create stable teleportation passages only between places where he had connected with a crystal wall projection.
• Zhong Baiye connected with projections throughout Enkanomiya and tested more than a hundred teleports before stamina loss forced him to stop.
• Zhong Baiye found that teleportation costs varied by location and that the easiest points seemed to match the original game's waypoints.

After the wounded Snake God attacked Watatsumi Island and slaughtered its people, Sangonomiya Kokomi sent Gorou to seek help from the Raiden Shogun. The Shogun and Yae Miko could not leave Narukami Island because they were suppressing Pride, so they opened the gates to refugees while Kokomi remained behind to hold off the Snake God.

• The Snake God ravaged Watatsumi Island, devouring the resistance forces and civilians as Sangonomiya Kokomi and Gorou watched helplessly.
• Kokomi told Gorou to ask the Raiden Shogun for help, then transformed into a fish and charged the Snake God to buy him time.
• Gorou raced to Narukami Island, collapsed at its gate, and pleaded with the guards to protect the people of Inazuma from the Demon God.
• The guards sent messengers toward the Grand Narukami Shrine, but the Raiden Shogun said she already knew what was happening and ordered the gates opened to refugees.
• The Raiden Shogun and Yae Miko remained on Narukami Island to suppress Pride, while gathering storms and lightning surrounded the island.

Kokomi offered her life to stop the Snake God, but her attack barely damaged him. He gave her a chance to save Watatsumi Island by defeating a puppet made from one of his scales, and their battle ended with the puppet dodging her powerful spell but exhausting itself.

• Kokomi offered her life in exchange for the Snake God sparing Watatsumi Island, then attacked him when he refused.
• The Snake God took Kokomi's attack without dodging, and it knocked off only a nearly detached scale.
• The Snake God created a Serpent Puppet from the scale and promised to spare the remaining people if Kokomi defeated it.
• Kokomi lured the Serpent Puppet into a Weak Water Trap and prepared a powerful Hydro spell while it struggled to escape.
• The Serpent Puppet broke free and dodged Kokomi's water sphere, but the burst of speed left it panting after only a few meters.

Kokomi battled the Serpent Puppet, first exploiting her carelessness and then stalling her transformed body until the Snake God intervened. After using the Puppet’s caution to place a pearl, Kokomi prepared to awaken Orobashi’s memories through a shrine maiden ritual.

• Kokomi’s pursuing water sphere struck the Serpent Puppet and began dissolving her, but the Puppet drew on a golden scale and transformed into a giant serpent.
• Kokomi ran circles around the serpent monster until the Snake God sent purple light to empower her and restore her ability to shift forms.
• The Serpent Puppet charged at Kokomi, who ran straight toward her and tricked her into changing into her tiny puppet form.
• Kokomi used the brief opening to place a pearl beside the Serpent Puppet, setting up a ritual to awaken Orobashi’s memories.

Kokomi completed a ritual that awakened Orobashi’s consciousness and helped him suppress the Dark Snake God controlling his body. Orobashi regained control and looked toward Watatsumi Island.

• Kokomi revealed that she had secretly created a Hexagram Formation with ground pearls and began a dance to activate it.
• The formation protected Kokomi with the Snake God’s power while awakening Orobashi’s memories and disrupting the Dark Snake God’s control.
• Orobashi and the Dark Snake God’s struggle revealed how Orobashi had accepted a bargain for power to protect his people, only for the Dark Snake God to betray him and kill the priestesses.
• Kokomi completed the ritual, and the pearl’s power helped Orobashi suppress the Dark Snake God and regain control of his body.
• Orobashi transformed the Serpentine Monster into a ring, stroked Kokomi’s head, and looked toward Watatsumi Island.

After the dark Snake God devastated Watatsumi Island, Orobashi brought Kokomi to Enkanomiya to pass his Demon God power to her and make her the next Snake God. Zhong Baiye arrived and learned of the transfer, while Kokomi accepted that Watatsumi Island needed the power to protect itself.

• Orobashi admitted responsibility for Watatsumi Island’s devastation, and Kokomi urged him to flee before the Raiden Shogun arrived.
• Orobashi revealed his eight-headed serpent form, took Kokomi through the whirlpool to Enkanomiya, and temporarily lit the Helioscope.
• Zhong Baiye teleported to Orobashi and warned that he would intervene if Orobashi’s actions endangered ordinary people.
• Orobashi told Zhong Baiye that he intended to transfer his power to Kokomi, and Kokomi recognized that Watatsumi Island needed a Demon God’s power.
• Orobashi declared that he would make Kokomi the next Snake God to protect Watatsumi Island.

Orobashi passed his power to Kokomi, who immediately endangered herself by using it to light the Helioscope before her body had adapted. Zhong Baiye suppressed the rampaging power with his own, but Kokomi woke during a prolonged kiss, leaving their relationship awkward and Zhong Baiye arguing with Aether.

• Orobashi told Kokomi that Zhong Baiye could help her with problems beyond her ability, and Zhong Baiye promised to assist her.
• Kokomi sat beneath the Helioscope as Orobashi merged with it and transferred his power to her.
• Kokomi lit the Helioscope despite Zhong Baiye's warning, causing the newly inherited power to run wild and damage her body.
• Zhong Baiye kissed the unconscious Kokomi to transfer his power and calm the rampaging inheritance.
• Kokomi woke during the kiss and struggled against Zhong Baiye, who continued until he had suppressed the power.
• Zhong Baiye apologized, but Kokomi remained dazed, and Aether's laughter prompted Zhong Baiye to slap himself and threaten him.

Kokomi revealed that the Abyss Order planned to target the First-Generation Raiden Shogun’s remains beneath Narukami Island, which the Heavenly Principles had preserved as the source of Inazuma’s Ley Lines. After Zhong Baiye and Kokomi returned to Watatsumi Island and found its people nearly wiped out, Yashiori Island sank into the sea, leaving them to confront a potentially catastrophic tsunami.

• Kokomi told Zhong Baiye that the Abyss Order had helped resurrect Orobashi and intended to attack the First-Generation Raiden Shogun’s remains hidden beneath Narukami Island.
• Kokomi explained that the Heavenly Principles had preserved the First-Generation Raiden Shogun’s remains as the source of Inazuma’s Ley Lines, though the current Raiden Shogun did not know this.
• Zhong Baiye and Kokomi returned to Watatsumi Island, where they found almost everyone dead, and Zhong Baiye apologized for letting Orobashi escape.
• Yashiori Island suddenly sank beneath the sea, and Kokomi recalled that the Heavenly Principles and Pride had once sunk a similarly large island during the Archon War.
• Kokomi went to save people while Zhong Baiye prepared to calm the immense tsunami forming around the sunken island.

Zhong Baiye and the Raiden Shogun worked to suppress the tsunami threatening Inazuma, and Zhong Baiye ultimately used a fragment of his soul to control elemental barriers beyond his sensing range. After the tsunami was reduced to harmless waves, two Apostles retrieved his soul fragment.

• Zhong Baiye reached Yashiori Island and found the Raiden Shogun gathering Electro to confront the tsunami.
• The Raiden Shogun struck the tsunami with a wave of Electro pressure, reducing its height before she lost her strength and fell toward the sea.
• Zhong Baiye caught the Raiden Shogun, then formed rings of fire and Electro pressure and realized he needed a soul fragment to control them beyond his sensing range.
• Zhong Baiye cut off part of his soul and attached it to the rings, which caught up with the tsunami and suppressed it to ten meters above the sea.
• The rings dispersed after the danger passed, and two Apostles retrieved Zhong Baiye's soul fragment.

Zhong Baiye and Kokomi investigated Yashiori Island after rescuing stranded people, and discovered the Abyss Order had stolen a ley-line intermediary and used a massive ritual to sacrifice the island. Kokomi concluded that someone comparable to a Demon God must have joined the Abyss Order.

• Zhong Baiye joined Kokomi in rescuing people stranded at sea after Yashiori Island sank, and the survivors worshipped Kokomi as the Human God Shrine Maiden.
• Kokomi warned that the sinking could signal the Abyss Order's plans, and Zhong Baiye told her that the Abyss Mages on Watatsumi Island had disappeared.
• Kokomi used the Snake God's power to track the Abyss Mages, learned how Yashiori Island sank, and led Zhong Baiye beneath the sea to inspect it.
• Kokomi showed Zhong Baiye that the sunken island was missing its center, where a village and an object connecting the ley lines had once been buried.
• Kokomi revealed a gigantic ritual array across Yashiori Island and explained that it had been used to sacrifice the island to the Abyss.
• Kokomi concluded that the Abyss Order had stolen the ley-line intermediary and sacrificed Yashiori Island, suggesting a Demon God-level being had joined its ranks.

Kokomi and Zhong Baiye uncovered the Abyss Order’s plan to break the seal beneath Narukami Island and discovered that Kannazuka was hidden by an illusion. After revealing the island, they confronted the Mist Demon God and Greed, leaving Zhong Baiye fighting Greed while Kokomi moved to destroy the sacrificial array.

• Kokomi explained that the Abyss Order had planned to sacrifice Watatsumi Island before the Snake God disrupted its incomplete magic array, and that their next goal was freeing Pride beneath Narukami Island.
• Kokomi and Zhong Baiye flew to Kannazuka, where Zhong Baiye recognized an illusion concealing the island’s true condition.
• After their repeated attacks dispersed the illusion, the Mist Demon God appeared, recognized Zhong Baiye, and tried to flee.
• Greed intercepted the Mist Demon God and ordered him to oversee the ritual, while Kokomi and Zhong Baiye resolved to destroy the array and stop him.
• Zhong Baiye attacked Greed with the Skyward Blade, but the strike left no mark, and he narrowly dodged Greed’s counterattack.

Kokomi used a bluff to keep the Mist Demon God from attacking her at the Sacrificial Magic Array, while Zhong Baiye stalled Greed elsewhere. The Mist Demon God revealed a hidden Abyss Mage, whom Kokomi killed, leaving her facing the remaining threat.

• Greed retreated and tried to persuade Zhong Baiye to surrender, while Zhong Baiye questioned him and stalled for time.
• Kokomi reached the Sacrificial Magic Array and faced the Mist Demon God alone.
• Kokomi pretended an ordinary pearl contained Zhong Baiye's full-power strike, frightening the Mist Demon God into backing down.
• The Mist Demon God spotted an Abyss Mage hiding in the grass and signaled Kokomi.
• Kokomi struck down the hidden Abyss Mage.