Chapter Summaries

Ningguang prepared Liyue’s forces to face an army of puppet Abyss Mages, while the Dark Sea’s leader Lumine watched from behind an Anti-Elemental Barrier. Lumine ordered her followers to delay Lin Yi’s plans for the Guili Plains, leaving her motive and connection to the photograph of two blonde-haired people unresolved.

• Ningguang organized Liyue’s forces into defensive groups and sent Mountain Shaper and Moon-Carver back to guard Liyue Harbor.
• Liyue’s scouts reported that the enemy had entered the battlefield, and thousands of Abyss Mages appeared before the Geo Army.
• Ningguang suspected the Abyss Mages were being controlled and wondered whether the enemy was targeting the New District in the Guili Plains.
• The Dark Sea’s leader concealed her army behind an Anti-Elemental Barrier and told her followers to wait before attacking Liyue.
• Lumine killed a subordinate who called her by her Forbidden Name, then declared that Lin Yi must not take possession of the Guili Plains.
• Lumine watched a photograph of a little flying humanoid sprite and two blonde-haired people.

Keqing challenged the Dark Sea’s forces, and the confrontation escalated into a battle between them and the Millelith. Lin Yi returned to the battlefield and identified several powerful enemies below.

• Ningguang allowed Keqing to challenge the Dark Sea’s forces while Liyue waited to learn their intentions.
• Keqing wounded a burly Hydro Delusion user, but an enemy archer’s sneak attack let him break her lightning shield and injure her ankle.
• Ningguang ordered the Millelith to charge, and Liyue’s troops clashed with the Dark Sea’s forces as Keqing fought the burly man.
• Lin Yi arrived in the air, declared that the Dark Sea’s forces would not leave, and located several powerful enemies.

Lin Yi returned to the battlefield and crushed the Dark Sea forces with a recreated Memory of Dust, though their leader resisted with a Matrix that absorbed its power. After Lin Yi and Xiao shattered the device, Lin Yi approached the leader to negotiate, but she insisted he could not take the Guili Plains.

• Lin Yi summoned a recreated Memory of Dust and sent it crashing down on the Dark Sea leader's position.
• The leader activated seven Delusions to empower a Matrix, then ordered her subordinates to drop their barrier despite the danger.
• The Matrix absorbed the Memory of Dust's power, but Lin Yi and Xiao combined their attacks and shattered it, releasing a blast of stored energy.
• Lin Yi and Xiao pushed into the enemy camp, where Lin Yi defeated soldiers and approached the leader to talk.
• The leader sat opposite Lin Yi and told him he could not take the Guili Plains, and Lin Yi challenged her authority.

Lin Yi confronted the Dark Sea’s leader over their occupation of the Guili Plains, but she refused to reveal her purpose and ordered him to leave. After the Dark Sea forces withdrew, Lin Yi sensed the leader preparing to fight and stayed behind to face her himself.

• Lin Yi questioned the leader about the Dark Sea’s interest in the Guili Plains and warned that Liyue could meet their forces in battle.
• The leader revealed her blond hair, activated her Delusions to destroy the table, and threatened Lin Yi, but ordered her subordinates to let him and Xiao leave.
• The leader reflected that fighting Liyue would expose the Dark Sea’s plans and her concealed identity, then ordered her army to withdraw.
• Lin Yi told the Millelith to clear the battlefield, sent Xiao away, and claimed the approaching enemy as his own opponent.
• A powerful aura erupted from the Dark Sea’s camp, and Lin Yi prepared to fight while Xiao withdrew.

Lin Yi faced Mie, the Dark Sea’s leader, and used his Geo defenses and growing strength to counter her attacks. Their battle stalled as Mie refused to reveal why she wanted the Guili Plains, until news arrived that something had happened to her brother.

• Xiao and Zhongli watched Lin Yi prepare to fight Mie, while Venti and informants from Inazuma and Sumeru observed from farther away.
• Mie attacked Lin Yi with a torrent of elemental energy, but his Geo Shell absorbed it and his Geo Ring extinguished the remaining force.
• Mie weakened Lin Yi with Quicken and tried to strike from behind, but he caught her by the throat before her Delusion let her escape.
• Lin Yi strengthened himself with Geo buffs and Divine Authority, while Ningguang worried that his aura was declining as his Artifact buffs wore off.
• Mie avoided closing in and demanded that Lin Yi stop occupying and developing the Guili Plains, while he pressed her to explain what was there.
• A messenger told Mie that something had happened to her brother, and she demanded to know what had happened to him.

Lin Yi battled Mie, who used Geo and Electro attacks to push him into a difficult fight. Their final clash left Mie injured and worse off, while both recognized the other's strength.

• Lin Yi exploited Mie's distraction and attacked her with Stone Spears, but she evaded harm and broke through his Stone Protection.
• Lin Yi and Mie fought at close range, matching each other despite Lin Yi judging her speed and strength superior.
• Mie shielded herself with rocks that resisted Lin Yi's Stone Slash, then launched Electro-infused rocks and detonated them with Thunderstone Burst.
• Lin Yi used Stone Forest to suppress the explosions and protect the surrounding area.
• Lin Yi summoned Stone Dragon Twister, and Mie stopped it with a punch, but the collision left her fist injured and elemental energy and Divine Essence inside her body.

Lin Yi tried to bluff Mie into backing down, but his weakening strength left him unable to keep fighting. Ningguang sent him to recover and confronted Mie herself, ending the chapter as she raised her Jade Screen to meet Mie's attack.

• Lin Yi realized his buffs had weakened and that he could no longer defeat Mie, but he kept up his confident act to discourage her.
• Mie rejected Lin Yi's offer to stop fighting and prepared to attack him.
• Ningguang left her formation and joined Lin Yi, sensing how much his strength had faded.
• Ningguang sent Lin Yi toward the rear to recover, then turned to face Mie as she attacked.
• Ningguang formed a Geo domain and unfurled her Jade Screen, leaving Mie shocked and unable to retreat.

Ningguang fought Mie and undermined the Dark Sea army’s morale while Lin Yi prepared an ambush. Zhongli and Venti intervened to stop the duel, but Lin Yi and Ningguang demanded a convincing reason before letting the invaders leave.

• Ningguang recognized that Mie’s true strength was restrained and fought her with support from Lin Yi’s earlier attacks.
• Ningguang warned the Dark Sea forces that they would die forgotten, shaking their resolve as they saw their wounded abandoned to monsters.
• Lin Yi kept his Gatling ready while Ganyu and Keqing waited with flanking forces to encircle the enemy.
• Zhongli and Venti arrived and blocked Ningguang and Mie; Venti whispered to Mie, who appeared to accept his proposal.
• Zhongli told Ningguang she could not continue fighting and could not defeat Mie, prompting Lin Yi and Ningguang to demand an explanation.

Zhongli and Venti persuaded Mie to withdraw the Dark Sea from the Guili Plains, ending the battle before Liyue’s forces could press their advantage. After the retreat, Lin Yi suspected Mie was Lumine, while news spread across nations and he and Ningguang stayed together in the Guili Plains New District.

• Lin Yi stopped Ningguang from continuing the fight, and Zhongli intervened to secure the Dark Sea’s release.
• Venti convinced Mie to abandon the Guili Plains, and she ordered the Dark Sea to withdraw once its teleportation device activated.
• The Dark Sea vanished in a pillar of light, leaving weapons behind as spoils, and Lin Yi asked Zhongli whether Mie was really Lumine.
• News of the battle reached other nations, and the Guili Plains New District resumed work the next day.
• Ningguang stayed with Lin Yi in the district, and she scolded him when he tried to take their intimacy further.

Lin Yi and Ningguang enjoyed a day off in Liyue Harbor disguised as ordinary citizens, then discovered that a Lucky Fish Catching stall was cheating its customers. Lin Yi prepared to challenge the stall owner's king fish with a single net while Ningguang watched closely.

• Lin Yi and Ningguang strolled through Liyue Harbor in casual clothes and agreed to enjoy the day as ordinary people.
• Ningguang spotted the Lucky Fish Catching stall, and Lin Yi took her there after reassuring her that their outing would not be spoiled if they were recognized.
• Lin Yi and Ningguang saw Chongyun spending more Mora on nets while Xingqiu quietly watched and paid for him.
• The stall owner urged Lin Yi to buy more nets, but Ningguang revealed through voice transmission that the nets were made of rice paper and would tear in water.
• Lin Yi stopped Ningguang from shutting down the stall and announced that he would challenge the king fish with just one net.

Lin Yi challenged a traveling merchant’s legendary Fish King after learning that success would also earn him a secret map of Inazuma. The Fish King proved to be a once-in-a-millennium golden Fomaro Ray, and the system revealed that capturing it would grant Lin Yi a powerful constellation.

• Lin Yi challenged the vendor’s Fish King, and the vendor demanded proof of his financial means before bringing it out.
• The vendor revealed that a Pyro Vision bearer had given him a map of hidden passages in the Raiden Shogun’s and Kamisato Clan’s residences.
• Ningguang used her Geo thread to compel the vendor to explain the map’s origins, then showed him a jade ring worth ten million Mora as proof of wealth.
• The vendor led Lin Yi, Ningguang, and the crowd to a Glazed Heavenly Pool outside Liyue City, where the golden Fomaro Ray appeared.
• Lin Yi’s system identified the ray as a Primordial Archon Creature and announced that capturing it would grant his first constellation, Rock Golden Body.

Lin Yi attempted to catch the Fomaro Ray, hoping to gain the Golden Body of Geo constellation and unlock the fish’s extraordinary potential. The Fomaro Ray broke his net, attacked him with water arrows, and revealed that it could speak, calling itself the Golden Body Demon God.

• Lin Yi learned that the Golden Body of Geo constellation could grant invincibility and double his stats, and he resolved to catch the Fomaro Ray.
• Ningguang helped clear space for Lin Yi, while Chongyun and Xingqiu watched anxiously from the crowd.
• The stall owner lent Lin Yi a sturdier net, and Lin Yi used his enhanced vision and the system’s fishing assistance to scoop at the Fomaro Ray.
• The Fomaro Ray snapped the net, returned to the water, and sent water arrows toward Lin Yi that pierced a palm trunk.
• Lin Yi heard a mysterious voice identify itself as the Golden Body Demon God and realized the Fomaro Ray was speaking.

Lin Yi tried to persuade the weakened Fomaro Ray, who called himself the Golden Body Demon God, to come with him rather than catch him with his last scoop net. When Lin Yi revealed his Geo energy and Divine Authority, the ray recognized him as the god who had defeated him during the Archon War.

• The Fomaro Ray boasted about being a demon god and mocked Lin Yi’s attempt to catch him, while Lin Yi considered whether the ray’s remaining power made him dangerous.
• Lin Yi teased the ray about being captured, prompting him to explain that a woman had destroyed his home with a bomb and forced him to come to Liyue.
• Lin Yi sensed the ray’s fading demon-god power and decided he would rather persuade it to submit than continue the challenge.
• Lin Yi assured Ningguang they would take the ray home, and she left to prepare a tank while he stalled and spoke with it.
• Lin Yi showed the ray his Geo energy and Divine Authority, and the ray remembered that Lin Yi had defeated him during the Archon War.

Lin Yi used his Geo Divine Authority to frighten the Fomaro Ray into agreeing to jump into his landing net, but the fish hid underwater and the stall owner claimed Lin Yi had lost. Lin Yi revealed his Geo Vision and restored Rex Lapis’s imposing aura, calling for the fish to take the hook.

• The Fomaro Ray recognized Lin Yi’s Geo Divine Authority and begged him for mercy, fearing him as Rex Lapis.
• Lin Yi held out his landing net and threatened the Fomaro Ray until it agreed to jump in.
• The Fomaro Ray dived underwater, and the stall owner declared Lin Yi had lost and demanded payment.
• The owner’s supporters backed him, and burly men surrounded Lin Yi to prevent him from leaving.
• Lin Yi challenged the owner’s rules, then revealed his Geo Vision and restored Rex Lapis’s aura.
• Lin Yi called to the fish to hurry up and take the hook.

Lin Yi caught the Fomaro Ray, discovered it was a demon god, and received his level twenty ascension quest. He returned to the Development New District, where Klee told him that she and Yaoyao were running out of gunpowder.

• The Fomaro Ray grew huge and willingly landed in Lin Yi’s net, making him the winner while the owner admitted defeat and handed over blueprints for important Inazuma buildings.
• The owner left Liyue with his employees, and Lin Yi learned that his reward would be available from the system inventory in three days.
• Lin Yi celebrated his first constellation with Ningguang, then discovered his ascension quest required him to peek at her bathing, with a hidden quest to bathe with her for doubled stat increases.
• The next day, Lin Yi told Ningguang the Fomaro Ray was a demon god whose abilities he had sealed, and she accepted his explanation.
• At the Development New District, Lin Yi found Klee and Yaoyao playing with Yuegui, and Klee said they were running out of gunpowder.

With gunpowder supplies dwindling, Lin Yi planned a factory to secure Liyue’s supply and assigned Klee and Yaoyao a teacher while demolition was paused. He then went with the construction foreman to inspect the flat land Klee had cleared.

• Lin Yi explained that the Chasm’s buried niter was difficult to recover and decided Liyue needed a gunpowder factory to ensure a steady supply.
• Klee told Lin Yi she could create gunpowder with her Vision but did not know how to manufacture it herself.
• Lin Yi summoned a teacher from Liyue’s Listening and Knowing House and placed Klee and Yaoyao in his care for lessons.
• Klee resisted studying, but Yaoyao agreed to learn and persuaded Klee to join her.
• Lin Yi left the courtyard and followed the construction foreman to inspect the land Klee had leveled.

Lin Yi accidentally embraced Shenhe in the rain, mistaking her for his wife, Ningguang, and hurried away after apologizing. Shenhe was left with new feelings for him, while Lin Yi decided to ask Ningguang about her meeting with Shenhe and keep the mishap secret.

• Lin Yi negotiated with the Land Planning Group for more land as development on the Guili Plains continued.
• In the rain, Lin Yi mistook Shenhe for Ningguang and embraced her, calling her sweetheart.
• Lin Yi realized his mistake and panicked, but Shenhe told him she understood and brushed rain from his cheek.
• Lin Yi apologized and left in a hurry, while Shenhe reflected on her feelings and held a length of red cord.
• Lin Yi wondered what Shenhe and Ningguang had discussed and decided to find Ningguang, hoping to keep the embrace a secret.

Lin Yi asked Ningguang to arrange a meeting with gunpowder merchants, then arrived to negotiate with them in Liyue. The merchants were surprised when Rex Lapis appeared dressed in dusty, plain clothes.

• Lin Yi visited Ningguang, affectionately reassured her after mentioning his private conversation with Shenhe, and asked her to contact gunpowder merchants.
• Ningguang warned Lin Yi that gunpowder supplies were tightly controlled and that some merchants had powerful factions backing them.
• Three days later, gunpowder merchants gathered at the Cloud Pavilion Opera House in Liyue to hear Yun Jin sing while waiting for their negotiations.
• An attendant announced Lin Yi, Rex Lapis of Liyue, and the merchants welcomed the chance to meet him in person.
• The merchants were dumbfounded when Lin Yi arrived in plain clothes covered with mud and dust.

Lin Yi met visiting gunpowder merchants in Liyue Harbor dressed in dusty, casual clothes, then used Yun Jin’s performance to mock their pretensions while preparing for negotiations. After the song, Yun Jin learned that a letter from Sumeru had arrived for her and ordered her assistant to throw it away.

• Lin Yi arrived late to meet the lavishly dressed merchants and introduced himself as Liyue’s Geo Archon despite their doubts about his identity.
• Wang Erhu questioned whether Lin Yi was really His Lordship, and Lin Yi confirmed that he was Lin Yi, Liyue’s Geo Archon.
• Yun Jin performed “Too Happy... to Miss Home,” a song Lin Yi had taught her, while the merchants mistakenly took its meaning as praise of their visit.
• Lin Yi recognized the song’s veiled mockery and privately considered how he had already put the merchants under his thumb.
• An assistant told Yun Jin that Northland Bank had delivered a letter from Sumeru, and Yun Jin ordered the assistant to throw it away.

Lin Yi hosted the gunpowder merchants at Wanmin Restaurant, where Dorge Thaliga’s absence and the merchants’ deference to him angered Lin Yi. A letter revealed that Dorge’s son Muyun was coming to Liyue to pursue Yun Jin, and Lin Yi learned that Dorge expected him to personally receive his ship at the harbor.

• Yun Jin found a letter from Muyun promising to visit her in Liyue, unaware that he was already on his way.
• Lin Yi brought eight of Ningguang’s gunpowder suppliers to Wanmin Restaurant and noticed that Dorge Thaliga had not arrived.
• The merchants waited for Dorge until Lin Yi’s divine authority pressured them to start eating.
• A letter accidentally landed in Lin Yi’s soup, and he discovered it was Muyun Thaliga’s love letter to Yun Jin.
• Lin Yi’s guard reported that an important passenger aboard a Vanguard Ship expected Lin Yi to meet him personally, and Lin Yi resolved not to indulge the demand.