Chapter Summaries

Sucrose tested her accidental plant-growth ointment with Li Qiuzhi and discovered that it triggered a dangerous transformation in a Sweet Flower. The chapter ended as a Cryo Whopperflower burst from the soil.

• Sucrose asked Li Qiuzhi to accompany her on field experiments to investigate the ointment’s effects and side effects.
• Li Qiuzhi gave Sucrose the Interstellar Travel ability, and she noticed that its other users were mostly girls with close ties to him.
• Li Qiuzhi visited Draff in Springvale with wine, but Diona chased him away for bringing her father alcohol.
• Sucrose applied the ointment to a growing Sweet Flower, which burst from the ground as a Cryo Whopperflower.

Li Qiuzhi and Sucrose tested her Healing Ointment in Springvale and discovered it could strengthen plant Monsters, prompting them to consider whether Monsters could be controlled. After Li Qiuzhi brought Sucrose to meet Lumine and the others, Shenhe wondered how so many of his companions had learned spatial transportation and went to question him.

• Li Qiuzhi discovered that Sucrose’s Healing Ointment had raised the Cryo Whopperflower’s level from 32 to 34, then restrained it when it attacked Sucrose.
• Sucrose realized the ointment could strengthen Monsters, and she and Li Qiuzhi discussed studying ways to make Monsters docile or control them.
• Li Qiuzhi spent the afternoon helping Sucrose experiment in Springvale, and Sucrose asked him to find more rare-creature materials for her research.
• At dusk, Li Qiuzhi brought Sucrose to his home to meet Lumine and the others, who greeted them with disapproval after guessing the two had become a couple.
• Shenhe noticed Sucrose’s sudden arrival and wondered how Li Qiuzhi’s companions had mastered spatial transportation, then followed him to the kitchen to ask about it.

Li Qiuzhi shared his Interstellar Travel ability with Shenhe while they prepared dinner, and her affection for him grew despite the others catching him flirting. After dinner, he took Sucrose back to her laboratory and stayed with her while she organized her research, planning to fuse Lumine’s Sword Intent with some of his skills.

• Li Qiuzhi offered to share his Interstellar Travel ability with Shenhe, and she agreed so she could visit Lumine and the others after returning to Mt. Aocang.
• Li Qiuzhi pressed a golden Beacon into Shenhe’s lower abdomen, and Shenhe offered to let him keep touching her after noticing his interest in girls’ bodies.
• Lumine, Fischl, and the others saw Li Qiuzhi and Shenhe in the kitchen and left after silently disapproving of his behavior.
• The group ate dinner together, and Sucrose’s presence made the gathering livelier.
• Li Qiuzhi flew Sucrose back to her laboratory, stayed while she organized her Experimental Records, and opened the Character Panel to fuse Lumine’s Sword Intent with some skills.

Li Qiuzhi fused several skills into Lumine's Sword Intent, advancing it into the Ultimate skill Lumine's Sword God, then shared his strength with Sucrose and raised her level. After spending another day in Mondstadt, he joined Lumine and the others in Liyue as the Rite of Parting approached.

• Li Qiuzhi fused Gale Blade, two archery skills, Concentration Technique, and his Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst into Lumine's Sword Intent, preserving their abilities through Sword Intent.
• Lumine's Sword Intent advanced into the Ultimate skill Lumine's Sword God and awakened Ardent Resolve, which let its attacks wound anything, including gods and rules.
• Li Qiuzhi kissed Sucrose and used Harmonization to raise her from level twenty-five to level thirty-two, earning Friendship points and bringing her to Friendship Level 9.
• Li Qiuzhi spent the next day accompanying Sucrose in the laboratory but failed to gain more Friendship.
• On the third day, Li Qiuzhi and the others left Mondstadt for Liyue as the Rite of Parting approached.

After the Rite of Parting, Ganyu brought Li Qiuzhi and his companions to Yuehai Pavilion, where Ningguang thanked them and offered rewards. The group received supplies and help with their plans to travel to Inazuma, while Li Qiuzhi gained Liyue's Outstanding Citizen title and its defensive benefit.

• After the Rite of Parting ended without incident, Ganyu found Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, Paimon, and Shenhe and invited them to Yuehai Pavilion at Ningguang's request.
• Ningguang offered the group rewards, and Li Qiuzhi and Shenhe requested Primogems while Lumine asked for help finding passage to Inazuma.
• Ningguang agreed to arrange a place for Lumine aboard a friend's fleet sailing to Inazuma in half a month and told her secretaries to prepare the requested rewards.
• Ningguang awarded the group the Outstanding Citizen of Liyue medal for their service to Liyue.
• Li Qiuzhi's Character Panel granted him the Outstanding Citizen of Liyue title, which increased Liyue people's favor toward him and reduced all damage he took by ten percent while in Liyue.

After receiving Ningguang’s gifts, Li Qiuzhi and his friends agreed to attend Yun Jin’s free opera performance at Heyu Teahouse. They found the teahouse packed with people, and just as Xingqiu offered to sneak them to reserved seats, a Wangsheng Funeral Parlor Consultant asked to join them.

• Ningguang gave Paimon, Li Qiuzhi, and Shenhe boxes containing Mora and Primogems, and confirmed that bicycle prototypes were being made for trials.
• Paimon found five one-million-Mora coins in her gift box, while Li Qiuzhi absorbed the forty Primogems he and Shenhe had received.
• Xingqiu and Chongyun returned from training, shared Mora recovered from treasure chests, and invited everyone to hear Yun Jin perform at Heyu Teahouse.
• Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, Paimon, and Shenhe agreed to attend the opera and arrived to find a huge crowd blocking the teahouse.
• Shenhe suggested driving the crowd away with her spear, but Xingqiu said Yun Jin had saved them seats and offered to sneak them inside.
• A Wangsheng Funeral Parlor Consultant overheard the group and asked to join them as they headed up.

Li Qiuzhi and his companions used his Form Concealment to bypass the crowd and reach their reserved box at Heyu Teahouse, where they watched Yun Jin perform an opera about the Geo Archon defeating the Overlord of the Vortex. The performance impressed the group, and Paimon realized that the famed performer called “Master Yun” was a woman.

• Paimon, Xingqiu, and Li Qiuzhi encountered Zhongli, who said he had come to watch Yun Jin perform.
• Li Qiuzhi used Form Concealment to lead the group around the crowded entrance and up to the third floor of Heyu Teahouse.
• Xingqiu found Yun Ning, who escorted the group to their reserved private box.
• Zhongli identified the opening opera as the Geo Archon subduing the Overlord of the Vortex and commented on the props depicting the battle.
• Yun Jin performed the opera, and Zhongli and Paimon praised her skill.
• Paimon wondered why Yun Jin was called “Master Yun” when the performer was a woman.

After Yun Jin learned that her opera The Divine Damsel of Devastation described Shenhe’s real childhood, she apologized and offered to help Shenhe revisit the village where she had lived. Shenhe looked to Li Qiuzhi as she considered the proposal.

• Zhongli left to meet Cloud Retainer and the other adepti, while Xingqiu led the group backstage to thank Yun Jin.
• Yun Jin recognized the heroes who helped repel the Overlord of the Vortex and began recording their story for a new opera.
• Paimon recounted the battle, and Yun Jin described The Divine Damsel of Devastation, whose heroine had been abandoned by her father in a cave with a demon.
• Chongyun recognized the opera’s story as what Shenhe’s aunt had endured, and Shenhe revealed that it described her own childhood.
• Yun Jin apologized to Shenhe and suggested visiting her former village to help her face her painful memories, and Shenhe turned to Li Qiuzhi.

Shenhe agreed to visit the village where she had lived as a child with Li Qiuzhi and Yun Jin, but Lumine instead chose to investigate Stormterror's Lair with Fischl for clues about her brother. Li Qiuzhi and Shenhe teleported to Hu Tao, who asked to join their outing after her prank on him failed.

• Shenhe looked to Li Qiuzhi for advice, and he supported Yun Jin's offer to visit Shenhe's childhood village.
• The group agreed to go the next day, then returned to Li Qiuzhi's room, where Shenhe's feelings for him grew as she wondered about marriage.
• At breakfast, Fischl reported that Oz had found Abyss Order monsters in Stormterror's Lair, and Lumine chose to investigate with her instead of visiting Shenhe's village.
• Li Qiuzhi and Shenhe teleported to Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, where Hu Tao tried to prank Li Qiuzhi by waiting for him to fall into the stream.
• Li Qiuzhi appeared behind Hu Tao, took her hat, and returned it; Hu Tao then asked to join their adventure.

Li Qiuzhi took Shenhe, Hu Tao, and Yun Jin on several Adventurers' Guild commissions, including clearing monsters from a road in Lisha Suburb. A well-meant attempt to protect Hu Tao accidentally drew the monsters around her, but the group defeated them together, and Hu Tao realized Li Qiuzhi had only been worried about her.

• Li Qiuzhi accepted commissions to clear monsters from a road, a tree farm, and a river, and Sister Lan asked him to watch for the Sword of Descension.
• Li Qiuzhi and the others flew toward Lisha Suburb, where Hu Tao spotted Hilichurls guarding a transport route and dove toward their Watchtower.
• Li Qiuzhi used Psychic Tentacles to throw an Explosive Barrel away from Hu Tao, but its blast alerted the monsters and left her surrounded.
• Yun Jin joined Hu Tao to block the Hilichurls' attacks, and Li Qiuzhi and Shenhe helped the group defeat the monsters.
• Hu Tao confronted Li Qiuzhi about the barrel, then accepted Shenhe and Yun Jin's explanation that he had acted out of concern and apologized.

Li Qiuzhi and his companions completed their commissions in Lisha Suburb and reached Shenhe’s abandoned childhood village. They learned that Shenhe’s father had summoned a demon from Archon Residue, and Shenhe grew closer to Li Qiuzhi as they discussed her past.

• Li Qiuzhi found a book about Minghai Qixia, the True Lord, and learned that the adeptus had an abode rumored to hold rare treasures; Shenhe offered to search for it using Adepti Arts.
• Li Qiuzhi, Hu Tao, Yun Jin, and Shenhe completed commissions by clearing Slime Monsters from a tree farm and defeating water snake Monsters in a river.
• The group reached Shenhe’s abandoned village, where Shenhe recalled that it had still been inhabited a few years earlier.
• Hu Tao read a notice explaining that villagers had gradually left after one resident summoned a demon formed from Archon Residue while trying to save his wife.
• Shenhe confirmed that the villager was her father and recalled fighting the demon as a child; Li Qiuzhi praised her, and she asked him not to wish to see her ferocious side.
• Shenhe developed affection for Li Qiuzhi, reaching Friendship Level 5.

Li Qiuzhi and the others visited Shenhe’s former home, where she read a regretful note from her father and left with a calmer heart. On the way to find the Secret Flower Stone, Shenhe detected an adeptus’s concealed abode, and a Seelie appeared to guide them toward it.

• Hu Tao found a tattered note from Shenhe’s father, and Shenhe read it before deciding to leave her former home.
• Li Qiuzhi found the book Mountain and Stone Anecdotes and learned where to search for the Secret Flower Stone.
• Li Qiuzhi led the group toward the lake south of Mt. Tianheng, where Shenhe sensed adeptal energy from an abode.
• Shenhe removed the spell concealing the abode, and Yun Jin spotted a Seelie nearby.
• Li Qiuzhi suggested that the group follow the Seelie toward the adeptus’s abode.

Li Qiuzhi, Hu Tao, Shenhe, and Yun Jin entered Narusaki Qixia Cavern after scouting its defenses and battled the awakened adeptal mechanisms. Just as they prepared to destroy the formation core, the formation disappeared and sent them plunging through the clouds.

• A Seelie led Li Qiuzhi and the others to the entrance of Narusaki Qixia Cavern, where Shenhe identified an adeptal teleportation formation.
• Li Qiuzhi used a small golden “Lumine's Sword God” to scout the cavern and discovered dozens of powerful adeptal mechanisms waiting inside.
• Li Qiuzhi, Hu Tao, Shenhe, and Yun Jin teleported into the cavern, where Hu Tao, Shenhe, and the Sword God fought the mechanisms while Li Qiuzhi guarded Yun Jin.
• The group defeated the adeptal mechanisms, and Li Qiuzhi gained experience and Hu Tao's affection.
• As they approached the formation core, the formation vanished beneath them, and the group began falling through the clouds.

Li Qiuzhi and the others fell into a strange realm where chaotic elements prevented them from using their powers, but Shenhe’s Adeptal Energy and Li Qiuzhi’s Psychic Tentacles saved them. After a demon’s voice injured Shenhe, Li Qiuzhi sent Lumine’s Sword God to investigate and found a level 90 monster sealed inside a formation.

• Hu Tao and Yun Jin discovered that their Wind Gliders and Visions would not work as they fell through a hole, and Shenhe used Talismans to slow their descent.
• A terrifying voice shattered Shenhe’s Talismans and disrupted her Adeptal Energy, but Li Qiuzhi caught the group with Psychic Tentacles before they hit the ground.
• Li Qiuzhi used Lumine’s Sword God to heal Shenhe, restoring her Adeptal Energy, and the group suspected that a sealed demon had attacked them.
• Li Qiuzhi sent Lumine’s Sword God down a dark passage, followed drifting black smoke, and found a gigantic toad-like monster sealed in a formation.
• Li Qiuzhi used the Eye of Condemnation to identify the monster’s level as 90.

Li Qiuzhi discovered that Lumine's Sword God could strike the purple toad demon through the sealing formation without breaking it. He attacked the demon's weaknesses, leaving it badly injured and roaring in pain.

• The purple toad demon mistook Lumine's Sword God for a human and offered treasure in exchange for help breaking the seal.
• Li Qiuzhi realized the formation sealed the space around the demon, allowing attacks to pass through and hit it directly.
• Li Qiuzhi chose to attack the demon rather than release it, fearing its accumulated power and malice.
• Lumine's Sword God grew to the demon's height and sliced away one of its eyes and part of its scalp.
• Lumine's Sword God repeatedly struck the demon's head and eyes with golden sword energy, breaking through its defenses.
• The wounded demon unleashed its Psychic Power and shouted for the human to die.

Li Qiuzhi fought the Purple Toad Demon through “Lumine's Sword God,” but the demon's Red Poison Light injured her and its desperate Psychic Power attack drained his energy. He asked Shenhe, Hu Tao, and Yun Jin to replenish him with their Elemental Power, then suggested they hug him to improve the transfer.

• The Purple Toad Demon fired Red Poison Light that pierced “Lumine's Sword God,” and the Windwheel Aster Barrier could not heal her corroding wound.
• Li Qiuzhi enhanced Hand-to-Hand Combat to Lv. 10 and gained the Subtlety trait, but it did not help “Lumine's Sword God” recover.
• Li Qiuzhi shielded “Lumine's Sword God” from another Red Poison Light and attacked the Purple Toad Demon with nine streams of sword energy.
• The Purple Toad Demon overdrawed its soul to unleash a powerful Psychic Power attack, forcing Li Qiuzhi to spend his remaining energy and stamina.
• Li Qiuzhi asked Shenhe, Hu Tao, and Yun Jin to channel their Elemental Power into him, but most of it dispersed before reaching him.
• Li Qiuzhi suggested that Shenhe, Hu Tao, and Yun Jin hug him to increase the area of contact and improve the Elemental Power transfer.

Li Qiuzhi drew Elemental Power from Shenhe, Yun Jin, and Hu Tao to keep “Lumine's Sword God” fighting until it killed the purple toad demon. After discovering that the sword could cut away demonic Karmic Debt, he teased Hu Tao about failing, and she bit his ear and tackled him.

• Shenhe, Yun Jin, and Hu Tao hugged Li Qiuzhi so he could absorb their Elemental Power and sustain “Lumine's Sword God.”
• Li Qiuzhi ignored the toad demon's pleas and offers, and “Lumine's Sword God” killed it, earning him 86,009 Experience Points.
• Li Qiuzhi noticed the demon's resentment clinging to “Lumine's Sword God” and suspected it was Karmic Debt.
• Li Qiuzhi tested the sword's Ardent Resolve trait and confirmed it could strike Karmic Debt without harming the person beneath it, so he planned to help Xiao.
• Hu Tao asked whether Li Qiuzhi had defeated the demon, and he falsely claimed they had failed; she accused him of taking advantage of them and bit his ear before tackling him.

After Hu Tao accidentally activated Li Qiuzhi’s Harmonization ability by swallowing his blood, he shared it with her, Shenhe, and Yun Jin. The group finished exploring Minghai Qixia’s abode, collected its treasures, and returned to Liyue Harbor, where Yun Jin accepted a Beacon from Li Qiuzhi before they parted.

• Hu Tao bit Li Qiuzhi after he teased her, then learned that swallowing his blood had linked her to his Harmonization ability.
• Li Qiuzhi gave Shenhe and Yun Jin the ability as well, and the three women gained Friendship points with him.
• The group inspected the sealed demon, collected its poisonous blood, and found treasure throughout Minghai Qixia’s abode, including a huge Mingxia Floating Stone they left behind.
• They found the Secret Flower Stone, returned to Liyue Harbor, turned in their commissions, and divided the day’s rewards evenly.
• After dining at Liuli Pavilion, Li Qiuzhi gave Yun Jin a Beacon, and she accepted it before returning home.

Li Qiuzhi and his companions camped at Stormterror's Lair, where they learned that Lumine’s brother Aether led the Abyss Order’s plan to capture Dvalin. Over the following half month, Lumine and Fischl grew stronger, and Li Qiuzhi gained Sucrose’s Constellation ability, Fairyland of Dreams.

• Li Qiuzhi and Shenhe joined Lumine, Fischl, and Paimon at Stormterror's Lair, where Fischl asked Li Qiuzhi to help them bathe and later helped punish him for getting too playful.
• Li Qiuzhi spent 161,000 Experience Points and rose from level eighty to level eighty-two while keeping watch overnight.
• Oz found a Teleport Waypoint on a broken bridge, and Li Qiuzhi and the others captured a Cryo Abyss Mage whose account confirmed that the Abyss Order's Prince was Aether.
• Lumine grew determined to find her brother and reached level sixty with Li Qiuzhi's help, while Fischl reached level fifty-one.
• Li Qiuzhi raised Sucrose's Friendship to its maximum by giving her a demon's Purple Blood and helping in her laboratory, gaining the Constellation ability Fairyland of Dreams.

Li Qiuzhi gained access to Sucrose’s 118-square-meter Fairyland of Dreams, then met Beidou in Liyue Harbor as Lumine and Paimon boarded the Alcor for Inazuma. After Ningguang discussed the bicycle’s promising market tests, Li Qiuzhi and Shenhe headed toward Mt. Aocang, where they encountered Mona waiting beside the road.

• Li Qiuzhi explored the Fairyland of Dreams, an eternal pocket world that could also be used for training and storage.
• Half a month later, Li Qiuzhi, Shenhe, Lumine, and Paimon met Ningguang and Beidou at the harbor as Beidou prepared to sail the Alcor to Inazuma.
• Li Qiuzhi stayed behind with Shenhe, who planned to return to Mt. Aocang, while Lumine and Paimon boarded the ship.
• Ningguang told Li Qiuzhi that Liyue Harbor’s tests showed the bicycle had strong market potential and invited him to discuss cooperation at Yuehai Pavilion.
• Li Qiuzhi and Shenhe set out toward Mt. Aocang and spotted Mona sitting on a rock near Mt. Tianheng.