Arc 16Chapters 378–402
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Li Qiuzhi brought Barbara and Rosaria to the avalanche site, then found and captured the fake Albedo, who had caused the avalanche while practicing alchemy. He reunited the fake Albedo with the real Albedo and learned that Albedo wanted his help reaching the Abyssal Rift, but refused to enter a corrosive spatial rift himself.
Li Qiuzhi and Albedo tested whether a Rifthound skin suit could protect an avatar from Corrosion, then used Abyssal Rift Bears to guide the avatar into the Beast Realm. Li Qiuzhi explored the barren territory and secretly killed monsters for Experience Points, leaving him close to level ninety.
Li Qiuzhi left Snow Mountain Camp after helping Albedo’s team find a route to the Abyssal Rift, then escorted Barbara and Rosaria back to Mondstadt. At home, he reached level 90 and chose the Spirit Rank racial specialty, which let him gather spirituality from stories about his deeds and eventually grant special traits.
Li Qiuzhi gained the Spirit Rank, which began gathering spirituality earned through his celebrated deeds, and returned to Inazuma to continue traveling with Yoimiya. He proposed a faster way to reach Inazuma City and prepared to demonstrate his Sword-Driving Technique.
Li Qiuzhi flew Yoimiya to Inazuma City, where he met her family and treated them before returning to the renovated Wonderland. After teasing and kissing the girls there, he teleported to Lisa’s quarters for the night, while La Signora remained in Inazuma City carrying out the Fatui’s plan.
Lisa arranged for Li Qiuzhi to join her and Jean in the bathroom, and the three spent the night together. The next morning, Li Qiuzhi discovered that reaching maximum Friendship with Lisa had granted him the Rose Witch's Hourglass, an ability that manipulated time.
Li Qiuzhi tested Lisa’s new time-control skill, then questioned Rosalyne about the Fatui’s plans in Inazuma before joining Lumine and Paimon to explore the city with Yoimiya. When they learned Thoma had been captured as the one hundredth Vision bearer, they headed to the Thousand-Armed, Hundred-Eyed Statue to see what was happening.
Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, Paimon, and Yoimiya attended Thoma’s Vision Hunt Ceremony, where the Raiden Shogun noticed Li Qiuzhi’s unusual eyes and questioned him. Li Qiuzhi explained that they were Liyue adventurers with valid Travel Permits and revealed that his Eyes of Condemnation could identify the Raiden Shogun’s weakness, which he believed was Raiden Ei.
Li Qiuzhi withstood the Raiden Shogun’s Musou no Hitotachi by repeatedly stopping time and draining the strike’s power. The Shogun pardoned him and summoned him to Tenshukaku in three days, leaving Li Qiuzhi and his companions to seize a chance to rescue Thoma.
Li Qiuzhi helped Thoma escape after enduring the Raiden Shogun’s Musou no Hitotachi, and he and his companions left the ceremony safely. As they discussed his upcoming meeting with the Raiden Shogun, Yoimiya asked Lumine what being in love felt like.
Yoimiya developed feelings for Li Qiuzhi but denied liking him, then became too busy with a custom fireworks order to show him and his companions around Inazuma City. Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon went to Komore Teahouse to meet Thoma, where they were admitted after agreeing to order something.
After rescuing Thoma, Li Qiuzhi and his companions agreed to meet the Yashiro Commission the next day, then explored Inazuma City before returning to Wonderland. There, Li Qiuzhi discovered that his fully charged Spirit Rank could grant special traits to things he owned or to others with their consent.
Li Qiuzhi gave the Spirit Rank trait to Fairyland of Dreams, only to find that it granted the redundant trait “eternal spring.” The next morning, he and his companions brought Thoma to the Kamisato Estate, where they were admitted to meet the young lady of the Yashiro Commission, though she received them from behind a screen.
Kamisato Ayaka asked Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon to infiltrate the Kujou Clan and find evidence of its collusion with the Fatui so the Vision Hunt Decree could be challenged. After arranging to return to Inazuma that night, Li Qiuzhi went to the Knights of Favonius and found Klee trying to sneak out with Noelle.
Li Qiuzhi gained the Golden Vault attribute for Wonderland, which let it expand by holding valuable treasures, and gave Klee fireworks before playing hide-and-seek with her and Noelle. After inspecting Wonderland’s growth, he returned to Inazuma and prepared with Lumine and Kamisato Ayaka to search Kujou Takayuki’s home for evidence of his collusion with the Fatui.
Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon infiltrated the Tenryou Commission and recovered documents showing Kujou Takayuki’s dealings with the Fatui. Yae Miko and Kujou Sara intercepted them outside and invited them to Yae Publishing House to discuss the evidence and the Vision Hunt Decree.
At Yae Publishing House, Yae Miko helped Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon expose the Kujou Clan’s collusion with the Fatui and explained how Raiden Ei and the Shogun puppet were connected. The group agreed to seek a peaceful bargain with Ei over Li Qiuzhi’s time-stopping ability, while keeping Miko’s plan to confront her as a backup.
Kujou Sara confronted Kujou Takayuki over his collusion with the Fatui and went to report the evidence to the Shogun, while Li Qiuzhi learned that the Fatui planned to keep infiltrating Inazuma. He began plotting to take the Gnosis from Scaramouche in Sumeru and arrived at the Kamisato Estate seeking Kamisato Ayaka, where he also met Kamisato Ayato.
Li Qiuzhi reported the evidence against the Tenryou Commission to Kamisato Ayato and Ayaka, then joined Lumine and Paimon at the Grand Narukami Shrine to prepare for confronting the Raiden Shogun. He granted Lumine a new trait and promised Paimon one the next day, while Yae Miko grew more favorably disposed toward him.
Li Qiuzhi prepared with Lumine, Paimon, and Yae Miko for his meeting with the Raiden Shogun, granting Lumine and Paimon powerful Spirit Rank traits. After his renown advanced him to Legendary Adventurer, he entered Tenshukaku to meet the Shogun.
Li Qiuzhi met Raiden Ei in the Plane of Euthymia, where she asked him to help research his time-stopping ability in exchange for a reward. He requested that the Vision Hunt Decree be abolished, and Ei agreed, but the Raiden Shogun demanded that he prove his power could advance eternity.
Li Qiuzhi proved his time-reversal ability to the Raiden Shogun in a spar, earning her approval and securing the abolition of the Vision Hunt Decree. Back at the Grand Narukami Shrine, he told Lumine, Paimon, and Yae Miko what happened, and Yae Miko offered him a reward.
Li Qiuzhi received a five-star artifact from Yae Miko, then told Kamisato Ayaka that the Raiden Shogun had agreed to abolish the Vision Hunt Decree. He and Lumine reached Watatsumi Island to share the news with Sangonomiya Kokomi.
Li Qiuzhi and the Travelers told Sangonomiya Kokomi that the Raiden Shogun had abolished the Vision Hunt Decree, and Kokomi gave them the Deep Palace's Plume in thanks. The next morning, Li Qiuzhi headed to Tenshukaku for work as Inazuma celebrated the Shogun's abolition of both the Vision Hunt and Sakoku Decrees.
Li Qiuzhi helped Raiden Ei study the power of time, then joined Lumine and Paimon in settling into a rented home in Inazuma City and visiting Yoimiya and Yae Miko. The chapter ended with Yae Miko gaining a powerful Spirit Rank trait and giving Li Qiuzhi a kiss on the forehead.