Recaps

Li Qiuzhi discovered a Cryo Abyss Mage hiding in Mondstadt and prepared to attack, but Diluc struck it down first. Mistaking Li Qiuzhi for a possible intruder, Diluc questioned him, and Li Qiuzhi introduced himself as an adventurer and explained why he was there.

• Li Qiuzhi found a Cryo Abyss Mage hiding in the bushes and suspected it had entered Mondstadt through the Abyss Order's teleportation network.
• Li Qiuzhi approached the mage in stealth and prepared to draw his Dull Blade, but a flaming Favonius Greatsword struck the mage from above.
• Li Qiuzhi recognized the masked attacker as Diluc, the Darknight Hero, and feared Diluc would mistake him for a Fatui agent.
• Diluc ordered Li Qiuzhi to reveal himself, then asked who he was and why he was in the city.
• Li Qiuzhi claimed he was an adventurer, offered Katheryne and Amber as references, and said he had been about to deal with the monster.

Li Qiuzhi reunited with Fischl and Bennett after they shared what they had done over the past few days. When they heard that adventurers had discovered a Petrified Tree in the Domain, the three hurried inside to compete for its rewards.

• Diluc said he would confirm Li Qiuzhi's background, then left with the Favonius Greatsword.
• Li Qiuzhi packed his Elemental Potions and arrows, then spent two days preparing and completing commissions near Mondstadt.
• Li Qiuzhi met Fischl and Bennett at the Adventurers' Guild, where Bennett described celebrating his dads' birthday and Fischl talked about reading martial arts novels.
• Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Bennett learned that adventurers had found a Petrified Tree in the Domain at the Temple of the Thousand Winds.
• Li Qiuzhi and Bennett followed Fischl into the Domain to compete for the Petrified Tree's rewards.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Bennett reached a busy encampment on the Domain’s second floor, where Li Qiuzhi bought two Primogems. When Adventurers discovered a Petrified Tree in the Eastern Swamp Area, the group prepared to join the Guild-supervised effort to clear the Monsters around it.

• Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Bennett arrived at the second floor and found a crowded passage lined with Adventurers’ tents and stalls.
• Li Qiuzhi bought two Primogems for ninety-five thousand Mora each and asked Bennett to save any he found for him in the future.
• Bennett offered to sell Li Qiuzhi Primogems, while Fischl claimed he could take some from her palace gardens.
• An Adventurer announced that a team had discovered a Petrified Tree in the Eastern Swamp Area, prompting the gathered Adventurers to mobilize.
• Bennett eagerly prepared to go, and Li Qiuzhi decided the group should join the Guild-supervised Monster-clearing effort.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Bennett joined the adventurers fighting monsters around the Petrified Tree in the Domain’s Eastern Swamp Area. After the adventurers defeated the monsters and arranged a fair distribution of the tree’s rewards, the trio explored briefly before returning to Mondstadt.

• Li Qiuzhi spotted Aron, a Vision holder and leader of the Dark Adventuring Team, defeat a Large Hydro Slime with a Pyro attack.
• Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Bennett joined the battle, using Electro-Charged and Vaporize reactions to help defeat the monsters.
• The adventurers defeated the last Hilichurl Mitachurl and agreed that the Adventurers' Guild would distribute the Petrified Tree’s rewards according to each team’s contribution.
• Li Qiuzhi gained Fischl’s friendship twice, reaching Lv.6 (50/600), and earned over two thousand Experience Points during their further exploration.
• Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Bennett returned to Mondstadt City around noon.

After exploring a Domain with Bennett and Fischl, Li Qiuzhi upgraded his swordsmanship and level before Lisa confronted him about overdue library books. Lisa made him help collect other late books, and their search ended with the discovery that Funi had taken his book to the novice Adventuring Team Verdant Wings.

• Li Qiuzhi parted from Bennett and Fischl after their Domain exploration and spent Experience Points to max out Favonius Swordsmanship: Royal and reach level twenty-four.
• Lisa visited Li Qiuzhi over his overdue books, forgave the delay, and made him carry books while she collected others.
• Lisa and Li Qiuzhi visited Schutz and Margaret, then gathered several more overdue books from other borrowers.
• At the final address, Funi's grandmother said he had gone away for closed training with Verdant Wings.
• Lisa sensed that Funi's borrowed book was not at the house and set out with Li Qiuzhi to retrieve it.

Lisa and Li Qiuzhi went to Verdant Wings Adventuring Team’s headquarters to retrieve Funi’s overdue library book and discovered the team was hiding something. They found Funi’s diary, which revealed Verdant Wings claimed it could help ordinary people obtain Visions.

• Lisa and Li Qiuzhi visited Verdant Wings’ headquarters, where two Adventurers tried to prevent them from meeting Funi.
• When Lisa used lightning to test their reaction, the two Adventurers and two others attacked her, and she knocked all four unconscious.
• Lisa and Li Qiuzhi entered the headquarters and defeated two more Adventurers in the reception hall.
• Lisa and Li Qiuzhi found the borrowed book in Funi’s room, along with his diary, and Li Qiuzhi read it aloud.
• Funi’s diary said he joined Verdant Wings after hearing it could help ordinary people obtain Visions, and that Captain Sara had shown him a dull-colored Vision and conjured water with it.

Li Qiuzhi and Lisa discovered that the Adventuring Team’s promise to grant Visions likely involved Fatui agents, then caught a Fatui Debt Collector who had been stalking them. Li Qiuzhi wounded the agent, Hesden, forcing him to consider retreating.

• Li Qiuzhi read a diary describing an Adventuring Team assessment that would lead to a secret wilderness outpost and a promised Vision.
• Li Qiuzhi asked Lisa whether Visions could really be granted, and she warned him that using such power could be fatal.
• Lisa electrocuted a stealthed Fatui Debt Collector who had crept up behind Li Qiuzhi.
• The Debt Collector attacked, and Li Qiuzhi blocked his strikes and cut his throat despite the agent’s Pyro-infused blade.
• Hesden, Inspector General of the Fatui Debt Collectors, assessed Lisa’s threat and decided he needed to find a way to retreat.

Lisa gave Li Qiuzhi an Electro blessing that strengthened his sword, allowing him to defeat Debt Collector Inspector General Hesden. Lisa took Hesden’s Delusion and planned to bring him to the Knights of Favonius for interrogation.

• Lisa infused Li Qiuzhi’s Dull Blade +20 with lasting Electro through her Thunderlight Rose blessing.
• Hesden tried to escape through a window, but Li Qiuzhi blocked him and resumed the fight with his Electro-infused sword.
• Hesden used his Delusion to add Pyro to his blade, but Li Qiuzhi overwhelmed him with refined Favonius Swordsmanship: Royal and knocked him unconscious.
• Li Qiuzhi received 1,223 Experience for defeating Hesden, and Lisa gained affection for him.
• Lisa took Hesden’s Delusion for research and said they would bring him to the Knights of Favonius for interrogation.

Li Qiuzhi helped Lisa expose the Verdant Wings Adventuring Team’s cooperation with the Fatui and then assisted her with library work. As they left the library, they saw Kaeya reporting to Jean, and Lisa realized she might be asked to work overtime.

• Lisa explained that the recovered Delusion could drain its user’s life force, then kept it to study ways to reduce its side effects.
• Lisa arranged for the Knights of Favonius to be notified while Li Qiuzhi tied up the unconscious members of the Verdant Wings Adventuring Team.
• Kaeya arrived with Knights of Favonius, took custody of the captives, and said he would interrogate them about the Fatui’s Delusion experiments.
• Lisa brought Li Qiuzhi and the books back to the Knights’ library, where she persuaded him to help organize the shelves by offering him a share of the Delusion if her research succeeded.
• After the library work ran late, Lisa and Li Qiuzhi saw Kaeya reporting to Jean, whose eyes met Lisa’s as they passed the Acting Grand Master’s open office.

After a Fatui operative died during interrogation, Jean, Lisa, and Kaeya struggled to find the hidden base where rookie adventurers were being held. Li Qiuzhi revealed his contact with Christie, giving the Knights a new lead, and Jean led the group to act on it.

• Kaeya told Jean and Lisa that the captured Inspector General had killed himself and that only the Verdant Wings Adventuring Team’s leaders knew the hidden base’s location.
• Lisa and Kaeya suggested searching adventurer commissions, but Jean worried the missing rookies could not wait for results.
• Li Qiuzhi recalled Christie, a Debt Collector he had defeated, and explained that Christie had given him a way to make contact.
• Lisa briefly scolded Li Qiuzhi for letting Christie go, then praised his timely information, while Jean agreed the contact could help them capture the Fatui operatives.
• Jean led Li Qiuzhi, Lisa, and Kaeya to use Christie’s rendezvous code and pursue the lead.

Li Qiuzhi, Kaeya, Jean, and Lisa captured Christie and the Fatui operatives at the Flower of Flame and learned where the Fatui were holding the Verdant Wings Adventuring Team. Kaeya led the Knights to rescue the novice Adventurers while Li Qiuzhi returned home, pleased with Jean’s friendship points and pondering how to spend his Experience Points.

• Li Qiuzhi and disguised Kaeya entered the Flower of Flame, where bartender Sculaciman recognized their code phrase and went upstairs to fetch Christie and another Debt Collector.
• Kaeya sensed Sculaciman’s malice, and Li Qiuzhi went outside to alert Jean and Lisa before the Fatui returned to find the tavern surrounded.
• Christie and the other Debt Collector tried to escape, but Kaeya froze a window, Lisa’s lightning incapacitated Christie, and Li Qiuzhi stopped Sculaciman with an arrow.
• Jean, Lisa, and Kaeya questioned the captured operatives separately and learned the location of the Fatui’s hidden base and the captive Verdant Wings Adventuring Team.
• Jean ordered Kaeya to lead Knights of Favonius to rescue the novice Adventurers, while Li Qiuzhi stayed behind and later earned Jean’s friendship points.
• Li Qiuzhi ate at the Good Hunter, returned home, and considered how to spend the more than nineteen hundred Experience Points on his Character Panel.

Li Qiuzhi collected Mora for clearing the Domain and discovering it, then returned his borrowed books to Lisa and learned how the raid on the Fatui’s hidden base had ended. Lisa told him that the captured adventurers, Verdant Wings leaders, and Fatui were in jail, and asked him to put the books back on their shelves.

• Li Qiuzhi improved Favonius Swordsmanship: Fundamentals and practiced it in his room.
• Li Qiuzhi collected five hundred thousand Mora and priority purchasing rights for the Domain’s treasures from the Adventurers’ Guild.
• Katheryne gave Li Qiuzhi another two hundred thousand Mora as the reward for discovering the Domain.
• Li Qiuzhi returned his borrowed books to Lisa and asked about Kaeya’s raid on the Fatui base.
• Lisa told Li Qiuzhi that rookie adventurers wearing Delusions had fought the Knights alongside the Fatui and Verdant Wings leaders, and that they were all jailed.
• Lisa asked Li Qiuzhi to return the books to their original shelves, and he agreed.

Li Qiuzhi visited the Knights of Favonius library, borrowed a swordsmanship manual, and asked Fischl to exchange archery techniques so he could learn her Sin-Cleansing Arrow. Fischl defended her skill enthusiastically, while Oz revealed she had told her parents about their recent adventure.

• Lisa asked Li Qiuzhi to return two books, and he agreed.
• Li Qiuzhi spotted Fischl reading with Oz, returned the books, and borrowed Rhein One-Handed Swordsmanship.
• Li Qiuzhi decided to learn Fischl’s Sin-Cleansing Arrow to advance his archery.
• Fischl welcomed Li Qiuzhi’s request to exchange archery insights, gaining Friendship points with him.
• Oz praised Li Qiuzhi’s humility, and Fischl protested that her Sin-Cleansing Arrows could shoot down the World Beast.

Lisa caught Li Qiuzhi and Fischl talking loudly in the library and playfully punished them with a cheek pinch and an Electro shock. After they escaped further teasing, Li Qiuzhi checked out a swordsmanship book and went with Fischl to the Knights of Favonius training ground so she could teach him the Sin-Cleansing Arrow.

• Lisa appeared through a purple magic circle and caught Fischl and Li Qiuzhi talking in the library.
• Lisa pinched Fischl’s cheek, then shocked Li Qiuzhi as a playful warning; Li Qiuzhi pretended to suffer, but Lisa saw through his act.
• Fischl and Oz teased Li Qiuzhi about his performance before Lisa returned to the reception desk.
• Li Qiuzhi checked out “Rhein One-Handed Swordsmanship” from Lisa, who warned him to return it on time.
• Li Qiuzhi went with Fischl to the Knights of Favonius training ground, where she agreed to teach him the Sin-Cleansing Arrow.

Li Qiuzhi learned Fischl’s Sin-Cleansing Arrow and used his archery insight to help her improve it. Ellin arrived at the Training Ground and explained that she wanted wilderness experience, but her father would not let her go alone; Li Qiuzhi heard her out.

• Li Qiuzhi and Fischl practiced archery at the Training Ground, where he quickly learned Sin-Cleansing Arrow.
• Li Qiuzhi pointed out flaws in Fischl’s technique and guided her through improvements, earning her affection.
• After the young Knights of Favonius left, Ellin arrived with a wooden sword and greeted Li Qiuzhi.
• Ellin told Li Qiuzhi that her father had refused to let her venture into the wilderness alone, though she believed real experience would help her grow and pass the knight selection.

Ellin hired Li Qiuzhi and Fischl to take her into the wilderness so she could gain adventuring experience. They accepted a suitable commission to recover stolen cargo near Starfell Valley, and the chapter ended with Ellin’s father seeing them off and asking them to protect her.

• Ellin asked Fischl and Li Qiuzhi to take her adventuring and offered them her saved Mora as a commission fee.
• Li Qiuzhi and Fischl agreed, then asked Katheryne for a suitable commission for an inexperienced junior.
• Katheryne assigned them to find Hilichurls near Starfell Valley who had stolen a gathering team’s cargo and transport balloon.
• Ellin arrived with her father, Herman, who asked Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Oz to look after her.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Ellin traveled to Fallen Star Valley to investigate a Hilichurl robbery, and Ellin gained confidence after defeating two Cryo Slimes on her own. They reached the gathering team’s meeting point at noon and learned that the captain had already found the Hilichurl camp.

• Herman held Ellin back with reminders before she left Mondstadt with Li Qiuzhi and Fischl.
• At Starfell Lake, Ellin lured two Cryo Slimes onto dry land and defeated them without help.
• Li Qiuzhi praised Ellin’s fighting and told her to collect the Slime Condensate before they continued.
• At Fallen Star Valley, two gathering team members told Li Qiuzhi and his companions that their captain had tracked the Hilichurls to their camp.
• Fischl told the gathering team member to lead her and her attendants to the camp.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Ellin tracked the Hilichurls who had stolen the gathering team’s supplies and launched a surprise attack on their camp. After Li Qiuzhi killed their leader and Oz disrupted the camp, Ellin fought the remaining Hilichurls, with Fischl stepping in to save her and gaining friendship with Li Qiuzhi.

• Li Qiuzhi and his companions followed the Hilichurls’ footprints to their camp with the gathering team, while Oz scouted ahead.
• The gathering team captain showed them the stolen supplies and watched as the Hilichurls cooked the gathered food over a Small Pyro Slime.
• Li Qiuzhi declined the captain’s offer of help and silently killed the Mitachurl leader with an Armor-Piercing Arrow.
• Oz blasted the Pyro Slime, triggering an Overloaded explosion that injured the other Hilichurls, and Li Qiuzhi sent Ellin to fight them.
• Ellin killed one Hilichurl but got her Dull Blade stuck; Fischl shot another Hilichurl before it could strike Ellin, and her friendship with Li Qiuzhi increased.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Ellin defeated the Hilichurls who had robbed a Gathering Team and shared the commission fee with Ellin. While searching the camp for treasure, they found a little Seelie and decided to follow it.

• Ellin defeated the remaining Hilichurls after Li Qiuzhi and Fischl had weakened them and killed the Mitachurl.
• The Gathering Team recovered nearly all its cargo and paid Li Qiuzhi and his companions sixty thousand Mora for completing the commission.
• Li Qiuzhi gave Ellin a share of the fee, and she thanked him and gained positive feelings toward him.
• Ellin suggested searching the Hilichurl camp for treasure, but the group found no chest nearby.
• Fischl pointed out a wooden crate in the shack, and Li Qiuzhi cut it open to reveal a little Seelie.
• Ellin suggested following the Seelie to find treasure, and Li Qiuzhi agreed.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Ellin followed a Seelie across Mondstadt to a dark cave, collecting the chest it revealed along the way. They decided to investigate the cave cautiously, and Fischl sent Oz ahead to scout it.

• Ellin touched the Seelie, which floated onto a Hilichurl hut's roof, and Li Qiuzhi touched it again to guide it toward a cliff.
• Fischl used Oz to carry her up the cliff, while Li Qiuzhi and Ellin climbed it themselves.
• Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Ellin followed the Seelie for over an hour until it reached a dark cave and returned to its Seelie Court.
• A Common Chest appeared beside the Seelie Court, and Ellin opened it to find Mora and two one-star Artifacts.
• Fischl ordered Oz to explore the cave and search for its secrets.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, Ellin, and Oz explored a damp cave and found elemental ore alongside Geo and Hydro Slimes. Li Qiuzhi planned to defeat the Slimes and gather the ore, hoping Wagner could use the Hydro Ore to make arrows that dealt Hydro damage.

• Oz scouted the cave and found three unlit campfire stands above a dark depression.
• Fischl led Li Qiuzhi and Ellin into the cave, where a falling water droplet startled her.
• Ellin lit the campfires, revealing Crystal Ores and White Iron Chunks, three Geo Slimes, and Hydro Ore beside three Hydro Slimes.
• Oz identified the aqua-blue ore as Hydro Ore, and Li Qiuzhi realized it might let Wagner craft Hydro-damage arrows.
• Li Qiuzhi asked Ellin to light the remaining campfires so they could defeat the Slimes and mine the ore, and Fischl volunteered to handle the enemies.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Ellin defeated Hydro and Geo Slimes in a damp depression, with Fischl earning Li Qiuzhi’s affection and Ellin gaining more combat experience. After Fischl revealed her exploration tools, Li Qiuzhi began digging up the valuable Crystal Ore.

• Fischl used Electro attacks to weaken the Hydro Slimes, and Li Qiuzhi finished off the large one with an Armor-Piercing Arrow.
• Fischl summoned Oz to shatter the Geo Slimes’ stone armor, while Li Qiuzhi defeated the large Slime before Fischl could charge another attack.
• Fischl complained that Li Qiuzhi had stolen her prey, then felt affection for him when he said he was easing her burdens.
• Ellin defeated the remaining small Geo Slimes and collected the Slime Condensate.
• Fischl produced a shovel, and the group went down into the depression to inspect the Crystal Ore.
• Li Qiuzhi began digging beside the ore cluster with the iron shovel.

Li Qiuzhi and Fischl collected Crystal Ore while Ellin retrieved Slime Condensate from the freezing pool. Li Qiuzhi then struggled to find a way to harvest the Hydro elemental ore until Fischl revealed a chilled Mist Flower that could do the job.

• Ellin waded into the cold pool, collected the Slime Condensate, and went to warm herself by the Bonfire Stand.
• Li Qiuzhi dug out a lump of Crystal Ore with his Iron Shovel, and Fischl stored it in her Vision.
• Fischl accepted Li Qiuzhi's reassurance that her worn Iron Shovel could be replaced and gained 90 Friendship points with him.
• Li Qiuzhi realized the Hydro elemental ore required Cryo to harvest, but he had no suitable tool or potion.
• Fischl produced a chilled Mist Flower, and Oz explained that its cold should be enough to harvest the Hydro elemental ore.

Li Qiuzhi and Fischl used a Mist Flower to gather Hydro Ore and uncover an Exquisite Chest. Inside, they found a map marking a route from the Nameless Cave to the Windwheel Aster Garden, where Fischl suspected treasure awaited.

• Li Qiuzhi warned Fischl that carrying the freezing Mist Flower into the pool could leave him frozen.
• Fischl sent Oz to use the Mist Flower to break loose and collect all three pieces of Hydro Ore.
• The pool drained after Oz gathered the ore, revealing an Exquisite Chest.
• Fischl asked Li Qiuzhi to hold up her skirt while she opened the chest, earning his affection and raising their Friendship level.
• Fischl unfolded a map that marked a route from the Nameless Cave to the Windwheel Aster Garden, and she predicted there was treasure there.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Ellin left the cave but were caught in a hurricane from the passing Stormterror. Li Qiuzhi shielded the two girls from the impact and, as they thanked him, wondered why Stormterror had appeared there.

• Li Qiuzhi and Fischl decided to leave the cave with Ellin as the sun was setting.
• Oz spotted a huge flying creature, and Li Qiuzhi recognized it as Stormterror and urged everyone to run back into the cave.
• Stormterror swept overhead, and its hurricane hurled Fischl and Ellin toward the cave wall.
• Li Qiuzhi protected Fischl and Ellin from the impact, but was slammed against the wall and hurt his back.
• Fischl and Ellin helped Li Qiuzhi up and thanked him, raising their Friendship levels.
• Li Qiuzhi wondered why Stormterror had appeared there.