Recaps

Amber brought Eula to meet Li Qiuzhi and help him find an affordable rental home. Eula warmed to him despite her clan’s reputation, and she offered to show him an unused Lawrence Clan house on Valberry Street.

• Li Qiuzhi welcomed Amber and Eula to his room, and Amber explained that Eula could help him find a house to rent.
• Eula grew fond of Li Qiuzhi when she learned he was Amber’s friend, though she insisted she would remember being kept waiting outside.
• Amber defended Eula against the lingering blame directed at the Lawrence Clan, and Li Qiuzhi agreed that Eula should not be held responsible for her ancestors’ actions.
• Eula struggled to find a suitable house because the Lawrence Clan had no dwelling poor enough to match Li Qiuzhi’s modest request.
• Eula remembered an unused house on Valberry Street and invited Li Qiuzhi to inspect it, while Amber offered to help him move.

Li Qiuzhi moved out of the Knights of Favonius relief station and viewed a private courtyard home on Valberry Street with Eula and Amber. Eula offered it to him for one hundred thousand Mora a month, and Li Qiuzhi agreed to rent it as they prepared to clean the overgrown property.

• Amber asked Li Qiuzhi whether he needed to buy household necessities, and the three of them stocked up on supplies along the way.
• Li Qiuzhi saw the walled house and worried that its upscale appearance meant he could not afford it.
• Eula explained that foreign merchants avoided the Lawrence Clan’s property and offered Li Qiuzhi a discounted monthly rent of one hundred thousand Mora.
• Eula opened the gate by freezing a key inside its padlock, and Amber noted that the overgrown courtyard needed cleaning.
• Li Qiuzhi accepted the rental, and Amber eagerly suggested they start cleaning the house.

Li Qiuzhi moved into the rented courtyard after Amber and Eula helped clean and furnish it, then invited them to dinner to thank them. As they began cooking together, he considered studying his Elemental Potion formulas to gain more ways to fight monsters.

• Amber burned the overgrown weeds from the courtyard while Eula kept the fire under control.
• Eula opened the house, and Li Qiuzhi and his friends finished cleaning and setting up the rooms.
• Li Qiuzhi invited Amber and Eula to stay for dinner, and they agreed to try his Liyue cooking.
• Li Qiuzhi bought Wild Forest Boar ribs, Great Lake Shrimp, Black-Backed Bass, vegetables, and seasonings from the Mondstadt Department Store.
• Amber and Eula helped Li Qiuzhi prepare dinner, and he thought about studying his Elemental Potion formulas.

After dinner with Eula and Amber, Li Qiuzhi studied unstable Elemental Potion recipes and considered asking Sucrose for help. He spent the night learning Favonius Swordsmanship, then practiced its basic movements in the courtyard the next morning.

• Li Qiuzhi shared dinner with Eula and Amber, who enjoyed his cooking and gained friendship points with him.
• Eula and Amber said goodbye, and Li Qiuzhi paid Eula one hundred thousand Mora for the month's rent.
• Li Qiuzhi studied Pyro and Electro Elemental Potion recipes, then considered asking Sucrose to help stabilize them in exchange for monster bones.
• Li Qiuzhi read Favonius Swordsmanship: Fundamentals through the night.
• Li Qiuzhi practiced swordsmanship in the courtyard with a scimitar and corrected his movements using the book.

Li Qiuzhi mastered the basics of Favonius Swordsmanship and received the keys from Eula, who offered to teach him more that afternoon. After Eula left, he prepared to visit Sanborn to collect his commission.

• Li Qiuzhi practiced swordsmanship until he mastered the basics of Favonius Swordsmanship, which appeared on his Character Panel.
• Eula brought Li Qiuzhi the keys and criticized him for practicing Favonius Swordsmanship with a scimitar.
• Li Qiuzhi explained that he was testing his aptitude before buying a proper sword, and Eula offered to give him pointers at one o’clock.
• Li Qiuzhi accepted Eula’s offer, and she told him to call her Eula before leaving.
• Li Qiuzhi planned to visit Sanborn’s Fishing Tackle Shop to collect his commission.

Li Qiuzhi learned that Sanborn’s longtime friend Lucaer had been raising fishing tackle prices without the factory’s approval. Rather than expose him, Sanborn asked Li Qiuzhi to investigate what had driven Lucaer to do it, and Li Qiuzhi set out to find him.

• Li Qiuzhi visited Sanborn’s Fishing Tackle Shop to discuss the commission Sanborn had offered.
• Sanborn showed Li Qiuzhi invoices revealing that prices charged to his shop had risen sharply, while the Tarn Fishing Tackle Factory’s original prices had not changed.
• Sanborn explained that Lucaer, his friend and a sales manager at the factory, had blamed the increases on monster attacks on shipments.
• Sanborn asked Li Qiuzhi to investigate Lucaer’s circumstances and help him if possible, rather than confront or humiliate him.
• Li Qiuzhi agreed and learned that Lucaer lived at 86 Dandelion Street or could be found at the Tarn Fishing Tackle Factory.
• Li Qiuzhi left the shop and headed toward the factory, reflecting on how useful a gliding license would be.

Li Qiuzhi visited the Tarn Fishing Tackle Factory to find Supervisor Lucaer, but learned that Lucaer was away and had been looking haggard. He then went to Wagner’s blacksmith shop to ask about stronger arrows and learned of elemental Quenched Arrows, leaving him asking their price.

• Li Qiuzhi arrived at the Tarn Fishing Tackle Factory and asked Gaspar for Supervisor Lucaer.
• Gaspar told Li Qiuzhi that Lucaer had gone out to discuss a project and had been looking haggard lately.
• Li Qiuzhi decided to visit Lucaer at home that evening and went to Wagner’s blacksmith shop to buy arrows.
• Wagner recognized Li Qiuzhi as an Adventurer and asked Schutz to show him stronger arrows.
• Schutz described Armor-Piercing Steel Arrows and Pyro-infused Quenched Arrows, and Wagner explained how he made the latter.
• Li Qiuzhi, interested in the elemental arrows, asked Wagner how much they cost.

Li Qiuzhi bought arrows, an Adventurer's Hunting Bow, and a Dull Blade before arriving at the Knights of Favonius Training Ground to learn swordsmanship from Eula. Eula assessed his awkward execution of the Favonius Swordsmanship fundamentals and approved of his effort.

• Li Qiuzhi bought twenty tempered arrows, fifty armor-piercing arrows, an Adventurer's Hunting Bow, and a Dull Blade from Wagner.
• Li Qiuzhi tested his new bow in his courtyard, then cooked lunch and went to the Training Ground at one in the afternoon.
• Li Qiuzhi found Eula teaching Ellin, who was practicing for the knight selection exam, and waited while she sent Ellin to train against wooden dummies.
• Eula asked Li Qiuzhi to perform the Favonius Swordsmanship fundamentals, and he awkwardly completed the sequence with his Dull Blade.
• Eula praised Li Qiuzhi for grasping the basics through practice from a book.

Eula offered to teach Li Qiuzhi her personal Favonius Swordsmanship, which combined basic sword forms with steps from the Dance of Sacrifice. She began teaching him the dance’s footwork and correcting his movements, while Li Qiuzhi considered asking her to test his strength.

• Eula explained how she had combined Favonius Swordsmanship with the Dance of Sacrifice and offered to teach Li Qiuzhi her style.
• Li Qiuzhi accepted, and Eula told him he first needed to learn the dance steps used in her swordsmanship.
• Eula demonstrated the steps, and Li Qiuzhi quickly memorized and imitated them.
• Eula praised Li Qiuzhi’s memory but pointed out that he still needed to learn how to coordinate his body’s strength.
• Eula corrected Li Qiuzhi’s movements by hand as he practiced, and he considered asking her to test his strength.

Li Qiuzhi learned to combine the Rite of Progeniture with Favonius Swordsmanship and asked Eula to assess his strength. After Eula left, Ellin invited him to spar, while Li Qiuzhi prepared to finish Sanborn’s commission later that evening.

• Eula praised Li Qiuzhi’s progress in swordsmanship, and he gained friendship points with her.
• Li Qiuzhi asked Eula to test his strength, and she caught his full-power punch before comparing it to a Mitachurl’s axe swing.
• Eula told Li Qiuzhi he would need to become ten times stronger to challenge her at arm wrestling, then left to prepare for her Reconnaissance Company’s assignment.
• Li Qiuzhi spoke with Ellin at the Training Ground and explained that he was learning swordsmanship with Eula as a friend.
• Ellin said she had never fought anyone and asked Li Qiuzhi to spar with her.

After sparring with Ellin, Li Qiuzhi collected his share of the monster-material sales from Ver and asked her about Lucaer. Ver revealed that the Tarn Fishing Tackle Factory had borrowed a large sum from the Northland Bank, and Li Qiuzhi set out for Lucaer’s home that night, wary of a possible Fatui connection.

• Li Qiuzhi sparred with Ellin, lost to her swordsmanship, and gained progress in his Favonius Swordsmanship skills.
• Ver gave Li Qiuzhi sixty thousand Mora from selling slime materials and Chaos Devices, then agreed to answer his questions about Lucaer.
• Ver told Li Qiuzhi that the Tarn Fishing Tackle Factory had recently borrowed a large sum from the Northland Bank, and she let him have the information for free.
• Li Qiuzhi returned to his room, bathed, and went out at night with his bow and Dull Blade to visit Lucaer.

Li Qiuzhi followed Lucaer and overheard him negotiating with the Fatui Debt Collector Mr. Krishti over a loan and Tarn’s new fishing net. When Lucaer tried to attack Mr. Krishti and was beaten, Li Qiuzhi realized he had to intervene before anyone was killed.

• Li Qiuzhi followed Lucaer into a dead-end alley and spotted Mr. Krishti, a Fatui Debt Collector, waiting there.
• Lucaer pleaded for more time to repay his loan, while Mr. Krishti demanded Tarn’s fish-trapping net in exchange for covering the debt.
• Lucaer refused to give up his dividend rights, and Mr. Krishti agreed while secretly planning to kill him afterward.
• Lucaer attacked Mr. Krishti from behind, but Mr. Krishti disarmed him, threw him against a wall, and approached with his ritual blade.
• Li Qiuzhi watched from the rooftop and realized he had to stop Mr. Krishti before Lucaer was killed.

Li Qiuzhi intervened when Christie threatened Lucaer, then defeated the Debt Collector and knocked him unconscious. He took Christie into the alley to question him about his stealth technique, with Lucaer still there.

• Christie raised his Ritual Blade to frighten Lucaer, but Li Qiuzhi shot the blade from his hand with an Armor-Piercing Arrow.
• Christie entered Stealth Invisibility and rushed toward Li Qiuzhi on the rooftop, dodging one arrow before another shattered his mask.
• Christie attacked Li Qiuzhi with his Ritual Blade, but Li Qiuzhi caught his wrist, twisted his arm, and forced him to his knees.
• Li Qiuzhi struck Christie unconscious and gained 435 experience points.
• Li Qiuzhi carried Christie into the alley, saying he would question him about his stealth technique before handing him over.

Li Qiuzhi saved Lucaer from Christie, then brought Lucaer to Sanborn to explain his deception and looming debt. He bound Christie and persuaded him to cooperate, then asked how to use his invisibility technique.

• Li Qiuzhi rescued Lucaer from Christie and learned that Lucaer had deceived Sanborn because Northland Bank was pressuring him for repayment.
• Li Qiuzhi took Lucaer to Sanborn's Fishing Tackle Shop so he could explain himself before going to prison.
• Li Qiuzhi tied up Christie, woke him, and convinced him to agree to help when needed without betraying the Tsaritsa.
• Li Qiuzhi began untying Christie and asked him how to use his stealth technique to turn invisible.

Li Qiuzhi obtained the Fatui Debt Collector Christie’s Stealth Assassination Art in exchange for letting him go, then returned to Mondstadt and began studying it. By one in the morning, he had learned its basics and spent all his experience points improving the skill.

• Christie agreed to write down the Stealth Assassination Art for Li Qiuzhi and explained that Pyro-coated blades belonged to higher-ranking agents with elemental weapons.
• Li Qiuzhi obtained the written instructions, asked Christie for a way to contact him, and let him leave.
• Li Qiuzhi returned to Sanborn’s Fishing Tackle Shop, where Sanborn confirmed Lucaer had done wrong and paid Li Qiuzhi fifty thousand Mora for completing the commission.
• Li Qiuzhi ate at the Good Hunter, went home, and studied the Stealth Assassination Art.
• Li Qiuzhi practiced the art until one in the morning, learned it, and used all 719 of his experience points to improve it.

Li Qiuzhi learned that the dangerous domain he had discovered was full of Ruin Machines, and the Adventurers' Guild planned to explore it tomorrow. He decided to find teammates and sign up, and the chapter ended as Bennett arrived to join the expedition.

• Li Qiuzhi invested experience points in Stealth Assassination Art, reaching level four and gaining ten minutes of Stealth Invisibility.
• Li Qiuzhi visited Katheryne at the Adventurers' Guild and learned that an investigator had found his domain and reported many kinds of Ruin Machines inside.
• Katheryne told Li Qiuzhi that Guild Master Cyrus would organize a preliminary exploration tomorrow and that participants needed teammates.
• Li Qiuzhi decided to seek Noelle and find backup teammates so he could join the exploration, while worrying that Jean might object to bringing Noelle.
• Bennett arrived at the guild and told Katheryne he wanted to sign up for the domain exploration.

Li Qiuzhi offered to team up with Bennett and promised to find a third adventurer, then went to the Knights of Favonius headquarters to look for Noelle. He learned that Noelle had been assigned to watch Klee, leaving Li Qiuzhi to seek her there.

• Katheryne refused Bennett's request to adventure alone, and Li Qiuzhi offered to join him.
• Katheryne said their team needed at least three members, so Li Qiuzhi volunteered to find the last teammate.
• Li Qiuzhi and Bennett agreed to meet at the Adventurers' Guild at four, while Bennett went to ask adventurers at the tavern for help.
• Li Qiuzhi went to the Knights of Favonius headquarters and asked Virag whether Noelle was there.
• Virag told Li Qiuzhi that Jean had assigned Noelle to keep Klee from sneaking out on another adventure.

Li Qiuzhi found Bennett at the Angel's Share, where Bennett had recruited Fischl as a teammate for an expedition. The three registered with Katheryne and learned they would depart for the Temple of the Thousand Winds at six the next morning.

• Li Qiuzhi searched for Noelle but could not find her, so he went to check on Bennett.
• At the Angel's Share, Li Qiuzhi found Bennett speaking with Fischl, who had agreed to join his team.
• Li Qiuzhi joined the group and played along with Fischl's dramatic manner of speaking, earning her favor.
• Bennett, Fischl, and Li Qiuzhi registered with Katheryne, who explained that Fischl was an investigator assigned to examine the domain.
• Katheryne told the adventurers to meet Guild Master Cyrus at the city gate at six the next morning and prepare for an extended expedition with supplies and medical support.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, Bennett, and Oz joined the Adventurers’ Guild expedition to explore the ruins domain at the Temple of the Thousand Winds. After entering the domain, they reached a fork in the paths and began deciding which route to take.

• Li Qiuzhi met Fischl and Bennett at the city gates, and the three set out with the Adventurers’ Guild expedition led by Cyrus.
• The adventurers established a temporary supply camp at the Temple of the Thousand Winds and began exploring the domain.
• Bennett was struck by a falling pebble after passing through the Domain Portal, so Li Qiuzhi moved him out of the way of more falling stones.
• Fischl and Oz scouted ahead and found a fork in the domain’s paths, where Li Qiuzhi considered the routes and glanced at Bennett.

Li Qiuzhi guided the group toward a promising route through the Domain, where they found an Exquisite Chest sealed by four Ruin Guards. As the group prepared to fight, Li Qiuzhi asked Bennett whether he could use his elemental burst.

• Li Qiuzhi asked Bennett which direction seemed most likely to contain treasure, then used Bennett’s instincts to argue for taking the path on the right.
• Fischl ordered Oz to scout ahead, and he found an Exquisite Chest in a large pit.
• The group hurried to the pit, where Bennett tripped and fell before they saw the chest surrounded by four dormant Ruin Guards.
• Li Qiuzhi explained that defeating the Ruin Guards would break the runic seal on the chest and considered how to limit Bennett’s bad luck during the fight.
• Li Qiuzhi asked Bennett whether he could use his elemental burst.

Li Qiuzhi and Bennett battled the Ruin Guards protecting a sealed Exquisite Chest in a Domain, while Fischl and Oz drew their attention. After defeating several guards, Li Qiuzhi spent his Experience Points to greatly improve his archery, leaving him close to mastering it.

• Li Qiuzhi asked Fischl and Oz to draw the Ruin Guards’ attention while Bennett prepared his Elemental Burst.
• Oz flew toward the Ruin Guards, awakening them, and Bennett’s Fantastic Voyage strengthened Li Qiuzhi.
• Li Qiuzhi disabled four Ruin Guards with Armor-Piercing Arrows, and half the runes sealing the Exquisite Chest lit up.
• Li Qiuzhi gained enough Experience Points to raise Hunter’s Archery to level eight, becoming a far more capable archer.

Li Qiuzhi, Bennett, and Fischl opened a chest after defeating its seal, but Bennett’s bad luck caused the ground to collapse beneath them. They landed in a dark hidden passage with the chest, and Li Qiuzhi reassured Bennett as they prepared to continue.

• Oz praised Li Qiuzhi’s archery, and Li Qiuzhi credited Bennett’s elemental burst for helping him.
• Fischl, Bennett, and Li Qiuzhi approached the Exquisite Chest, but the ground broke apart as Fischl reached for it.
• Bennett used his Wind Glider and grabbed Li Qiuzhi, who caught the falling chest while Fischl and Oz glided nearby.
• The group landed in a dark passage below, where Fischl and Oz identified their surroundings as a hidden passage.
• Bennett blamed his bad luck for the collapse, but Fischl and Li Qiuzhi encouraged him and praised his resilience.

After recovering their spirits, Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, Bennett, and Oz explored the chamber they had fallen into and opened an Exquisite Chest. Li Qiuzhi obtained Fischl’s permission to buy its valuable Primogem, which he hoped to use for experience points.

• Bennett asked where the group had landed, and Fischl and Li Qiuzhi decided to explore beyond the barred iron gate rather than send Oz for help.
• Li Qiuzhi opened the Exquisite Chest and found Mora, a one-star pocket watch Artifact, a two-star circlet Artifact, and a Primogem.
• The group stored the chest’s just over 9,700 Mora in Fischl’s Vision, and Oz and Bennett explained that Primogems were rare and worth at least 100,000 Mora each.
• Li Qiuzhi asked to buy the Primogem after his Character Panel offered to absorb it for experience points, and Bennett agreed to sell it.
• Fischl gave Li Qiuzhi permission to take the Primogem.

Li Qiuzhi used a Primogem to gain experience and raised Hunter's Archery to its maximum level, gaining the Shadowless and Silent trait. While searching for a way to open the iron door, he used Bennett's Pyro and his silent arrows to light a Torch Mechanism, impressing Bennett and Fischl.

• Li Qiuzhi absorbed the Primogem, gained 3,000 experience points, and raised Hunter's Archery to level 10, unlocking Shadowless and Silent.
• Bennett, Fischl, Oz, and Li Qiuzhi searched the room for a mechanism that could open the iron door.
• Li Qiuzhi found a Torch Mechanism high in the wall, and Bennett and Fischl soon found one each.
• Bennett lent Pyro to Li Qiuzhi's arrow, which silently struck and lit the Torch Mechanism without losing its flame.
• Bennett and Fischl praised Li Qiuzhi's archery, and Fischl gained affection for him.

Li Qiuzhi, Bennett, and Fischl found and lit the fourth Torch Mechanism hidden in the rubble, but lighting it summoned a Ruin Hunter. The machine nearly struck Fischl before Li Qiuzhi tackled her out of its path and helped her retreat.

• Li Qiuzhi and his companions found that lighting the first three Torch Mechanisms had caused nothing to happen, so Fischl sent Oz to search for another.
• Oz searched the chamber but found no Torch Mechanism, and Fischl suggested it might be hidden in the rubble beneath the broken dome.
• Bennett fell among the rubble and accidentally exposed the fourth Torch Mechanism between two fragments.
• Bennett used Pyro to light the final Torch Mechanism, but the iron gate remained shut.
• A Ruin Hunter appeared above the group and charged at Fischl, so Li Qiuzhi tackled her backward and pulled her to safety.