Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi forced the Feiyun Commerce Guild to contribute money and materials to Liyue after learning that an organized group was targeting people blessed by the gods. On the journey back, Xingqiu approached him, and Lin Yi surprised him by revealing his pen name and offering to tell him a story.

• Xing Changguang told Lin Yi that members of several guilds had gone missing and that the attackers specifically targeted people capable of wielding elemental power.
• Lin Yi demanded thirty percent of the Feiyun Commerce Guild's revenue from the past four quarters and an unconditional supply of materials, and Xing Changguang agreed.
• Lin Yi let Xing Changguang take the hundred-odd surviving members back and offered him the chance to name Liyue's first industrial facilities.
• Xing Changguang told Xingqiu that the guild's apparent loss had opened new opportunities, while Lin Yi's monster-clearing policy began drawing powerful parties to the Guili Plains.
• Xingqiu approached Lin Yi on the journey back, and Lin Yi revealed that he knew Xingqiu's pen name was Zhenyu before offering to tell him a story called "Douluo Continent."

Lin Yi returned to Liyue Harbor and reunited with Ningguang, whose surprise at his unusual strength led to a kiss and a violent fight. After leaving her a rare weapon and a loving note, Lin Yi disappeared, leaving Ningguang afraid she had lost him.

• Lin Yi brought Xingqiu and the others into Liyue Harbor, where Keqing knocked Xingqiu out so he could rest.
• Lin Yi reunited with Ningguang and revealed that his stats were far beyond what his level should allow.
• Lin Yi kissed Ningguang, but she retaliated with a Star Dust Explosion that injured him and damaged the Jade Chamber.
• Lin Yi left a Solar Pearl and a note for Ningguang before going out into Liyue Harbor.
• Ningguang found the gift and note, then searched for Lin Yi in a panic when she could not find him.

Lin Yi visited the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, then found Ganyu unconscious in the street and carried her away to take her to Cloud Retainer. Childe saw him with Ganyu and hurried to tell Ningguang, who had been waiting for Lin Yi at the Jade Chamber.

• Lin Yi visited Hu Tao at the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and persuaded her to explore Guili Plains to earn rewards clearing monsters.
• Zhongli returned to the parlor, but Hu Tao put him to work before he could speak with Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi found Ganyu unconscious in the street and carried her toward Cloud Retainer's home.
• Childe saw Lin Yi carrying Ganyu and assumed he might be cheating on Ningguang, so he rushed to the Jade Chamber.
• Ningguang opened the door expecting Lin Yi, but found Childe, then changed clothes and welcomed him inside.

Ningguang panicked after Childe reported that Lin Yi had left Liyue Harbor with a woman, while Lin Yi carried the sleeping Ganyu to Mt. Aocang and mistook Shenhe for a ghost. After Shenhe pinned him down and they cleared up the misunderstanding, she watched him silently as Ganyu fell asleep beside her.

• Ningguang worried about Lin Yi after throwing him out, and Childe told her he had seen Lin Yi leave Liyue Harbor carrying a woman.
• Ningguang shattered her teacup in shock when she heard Childe's report.
• Lin Yi carried the sleeping Ganyu to Mt. Aocang and rested in a pavilion without noticing Shenhe was there.
• Lin Yi mistook Shenhe for a ghost, and Shenhe pinned him down before Ganyu woke and identified him as the Geo Archon.
• Shenhe explained that her Secret Art concealed her presence, and Ganyu fell asleep against her shoulder while Shenhe silently watched Lin Yi.

Lin Yi prepared to launch the Guili Plains Land Reclamation project while trying to understand why Ningguang was avoiding him. Zhongli warned that something was wrong in the plains, forcing Lin Yi to rush there before the project began.

• Lin Yi left Mt. Aocang after spending the night there, while Shenhe watched him go and wondered if he was the person she had been waiting for.
• Lin Yi announced Liyue's upcoming policies, and Keqing reported that organized teams were taking over monster hunting in the Guili Plains.
• Lin Yi planned to begin land reclamation after the weaker monsters were cleared and kept his secretly established association and construction plans hidden.
• Lin Yi visited Zhongli, who warned him to suspend the project because the Guili Plains were not as simple as they seemed.
• Zhongli told Lin Yi that Xiao and Venti were waiting in the Guili Plains, so Lin Yi set out at once and sent Ningguang a Geo Artifact set.

Lin Yi left Liyue with a large procession of construction materials, while Shenhe returned to the city hoping to see him. After learning he had gone to the Guili Plains, Shenhe went to the Jade Chamber and was mistakenly handed a gift from Lin Yi addressed to a beautiful lady.

• Lin Yi sent his materials escort toward the Guili Plains and declined Keqing's offer to visit Ningguang before leaving.
• Shenhe arrived in Liyue, asked Tian Tie Zui about Lin Yi, and learned that he had departed for the Guili Plains an hour earlier.
• Shenhe wandered to the Jade Chamber, where a deliveryman mistook her for someone from inside and handed her Lin Yi's gift.
• Shenhe read the note on the gift box and wondered whether Lin Yi had known she was coming.

Lin Yi reached the Guili Plains and summoned Xiao, who brought him to meet Cloud Retainer and Madame Ping. Madame Ping revealed that she had found unsettling traces of the long-dead Guizhong, and Lin Yi suddenly asked where Venti was.

• Lin Yi and his exhausted convoy reached the Guili Plains, unloaded their materials, and settled into a temporary factory compound.
• Lin Yi summoned Xiao, who led him to an abandoned courtyard where Cloud Retainer and Madame Ping were waiting.
• Xiao explained that Madame Ping had stayed behind to investigate the Guili Plains and had recently saved a girl who became her disciple.
• Madame Ping told Lin Yi that she had found traces of Guizhong, though Guizhong had died long ago before Morax.
• Lin Yi asked where Venti was, remembering that Zhongli had said Venti was there.

Lin Yi organized a search for Venti after realizing he was missing, while Venti fled from a strange pursuer in a hidden underground space. Lin Yi suspected the Guili Plains concealed a vast underground area and returned to camp to prepare a device that could dig.

• Lin Yi asked Xiao to contact Venti, then decided they needed to search for him because he could be in danger.
• Lin Yi woke the workers, divided them into search teams, and ordered Keqing and Xiangling to guard the camp.
• Venti ran deeper into a hidden underground space while a glowing, floating figure followed him with eerie mechanical clacks.
• Lin Yi sensed another unusual Anemo life-form beneath the Guili Plains and recalled that the area might contain deep underground spaces.
• Lin Yi and Xiao tried to detect hollow ground with elemental power, then returned to camp so Lin Yi could use the Land Reclamation Device to dig.

Lin Yi completed his first-stage breakthrough, draining the elemental energy from the Guili Plains, and defeated a squad of Abyss Mages who ambushed him. In the Dark Sea, a white-haired girl watched the battle and sent Abyss monsters to stop Liyue from occupying the Guili Plains.

• Lin Yi postponed building the reclamation device and went alone to a secluded area to attempt his first-stage breakthrough.
• Lin Yi’s breakthrough unlocked levels 10–20, while the Geo energy he absorbed astonished Cloud Retainer and Madame Ping.
• After a hidden attacker’s elemental projectile nearly struck him, Lin Yi fought back and discovered a squad of blood-eyed Abyss Mages lying in ambush.
• Lin Yi trapped and killed the Abyss Mages, suspecting someone had manipulated them to attack him.
• In the Dark Sea, a girl in white watched Lin Yi’s battle, wondered about his otherworldly aura, and ordered Abyss monsters to go to the Guili Plains and stop Liyue from occupying it.

After ascending, Lin Yi used the system to build the Land-Breaking Divine Machine, a vehicle that could produce concrete and excavate underground. When the search teams failed to find Venti, Lin Yi suspected he was beneath the Guili Plains and activated the machine’s excavation ability.

• Lin Yi completed his ascension, tripling his strength in the eyes of the others, and then announced that he would build the machine.
• Lin Yi named the project the Land-Breaking Divine Machine and used the system to construct it before the assembled onlookers.
• The machine took the form of a loader and cement mixer hybrid, producing concrete from Geo energy and gaining three uses of excavation and exploration capability as an achievement reward.
• After the search teams returned without finding Venti, Lin Yi concluded that Venti and the evil spirit might be underground in the Guili Plains.
• Lin Yi activated the machine’s excavation ability, and its elemental-energy drill began boring into the ground.

Venti was cornered underground by a ghost monster that targeted his blood, but Lin Yi blasted it with the Heavenly Motion Ammunition before Venti could explain it must not be killed. The ghost monster vanished, Xiao rushed off alone after sensing something, and Lin Yi found Venti asking to borrow his powerful black shell.

• Venti fled the pursuing ghost monsters into a fluorescent mineral cavern, where the female ghost cornered him.
• The ghost monster scratched Venti, seized his blood, and announced that its mission was successful before trying to kill him.
• Venti guessed that the ghost was a Fatui operative from Snezhnaya, provoking it to attack him.
• Lin Yi fired the Heavenly Motion Ammunition through the cavern and apparently erased the ghost monster, despite Venti warning that it could not be killed.
• Xiao sensed something and left alone to pursue it while Keqing stayed with Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi teased the battered Venti, who asked to borrow Lin Yi’s black shell.

Lin Yi learned that the ghost on the Guili Plains was a disguised person and spent a week using the Land-Building Vehicle to level the plains with Geo-Cast Cement. Meanwhile, Ningguang sought answers from the Daoist Chongyun, and she emerged from their meeting in tears.

• Venti told Lin Yi that the Guili Plains ghost was a disguised person, while Xiao pursued the suspect.
• Lin Yi began a major construction project, using Geo-Cast Cement and the Land-Building Vehicle to fill the Guili Plains' pits and expand its perimeter.
• After exhausting his Geo energy, Lin Yi took a Geo Treasure Tablet from Xingqiu, who joked that such pills were needed when partners shared an element.
• Ningguang arrived at a remote Cave Abode and found Chongyun alone in a thatched cottage.
• Ningguang asked Chongyun to divine an answer for her, and she emerged an hour later with red eyes and tear tracks on her face.

Ningguang agreed to help Chongyun find Shenhe and prepared for a second divination on their journey back to Liyue. Meanwhile, Lin Yi laid out plans to build housing and industries on the Guili Plains, then saw an opportunity to promote Liyue through Xingqiu’s new story.

• Chongyun asked Ningguang about his aunt Shenhe, and Ningguang invited him to return to Liyue with her to search Mt. Aocang.
• Ningguang and Chongyun joined a merchant caravan, and Chongyun prepared to perform a more thorough divination using her token.
• Keqing questioned Lin Yi about the cement-covered Guili Plains, and he showed her plans for villas and high-rise housing to attract workers and newcomers.
• Lin Yi explained that industries based on the Guili Plains’ luminous minerals would support the new district and its growing population.
• Xingqiu brought Lin Yi a manuscript for a story called “Fighting the Rocky Firmament,” inspiring Lin Yi to consider using it to promote Liyue.