Chapter Summaries

Li Qiuzhi helped the Alcor escape the waters where the giant beast had died, then spent the following month balancing monster hunting, time with friends, and business plans. Ningguang began establishing a laboratory to develop his proposed steam engine, while preparations for the Sweet Flower Merchant Guild’s first products advanced.

• Beidou ordered Hailong to rouse the crew and speed the Alcor out of the bloodied waters, while Kaedehara Kazuha, Li Qiuzhi, and Lumine used Anemo to fill the sails.
• Li Qiuzhi left a summoned copy of Lumine’s Sword God near the giant beast’s corpse to draw monsters for Experience Points.
• Over the following days, Li Qiuzhi visited his friends in Mondstadt and Liyue, brought meals to Mona, and hunted the many monsters at sea.
• Li Qiuzhi checked on the Sweet Flower Merchant Guild’s production: game and toy preparations were complete, while bicycle factories and production lines were still being set up.
• Li Qiuzhi explained steam engines to Ningguang, who began organizing a research laboratory to develop them.
• A month passed, bringing considerable changes to Li Qiuzhi and the people and things around him.

Li Qiuzhi’s relationships and strength developed during the month-long voyage, while Lumine completed an ascension with his Harmonization energy. As the Alcor approached Inazuma, Beidou ordered the crew to prepare for the dangerous thunderstorm zone, where sudden winds threatened to overwhelm the ship.

• Li Qiuzhi spent time with the Mondstadt and Liyue girls, raising several Friendship levels, while Jean, Sucrose, Lumine, and Fischl also grew stronger.
• Lumine used Li Qiuzhi’s Harmonization energy to ascend after exhausting her stored energy, then recovered and continued training with Fischl.
• After sailing for over a month, the Alcor reached the waters near Inazuma and approached its thunderstorm zone.
• Beidou ordered the crew to furl the sails as the Alcor neared the storms, and Kaedehara Kazuha remarked on the wind’s unusual quality.
• Beidou interrupted Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, Paimon, and Kaedehara Kazuha’s conversation when the wind suddenly strengthened and ordered them to help furl the sails.

As The Alcor approached the thunderstorm zone, Li Qiuzhi used his Psychic Tentacles to secure the sails and sent a flying sword ahead to scout for Electro monsters. After slaying a Mystic Thunder Giant Alligator Snapping Turtle, he spotted a Level 91 Thunder Manifestation concealed in the storm clouds.

• Li Qiuzhi used his Psychic Tentacles to furl The Alcor’s sails, earning Beidou’s favorable impression as she ordered the crew below deck.
• Beidou warned that Electro monsters inhabited the storm, and Li Qiuzhi sent “Lumine’s Sword God” ahead to scout.
• The flying sword found a Level 68 Mystic Thunder Giant Alligator Snapping Turtle, which Kaedehara Kazuha identified as a deep-sea monster drawn by the dense Electro.
• Li Qiuzhi decapitated the turtle with the flying sword and gained 8,083 Experience Points.
• A flash of lightning revealed a purple, bat-like creature in the clouds, and Li Qiuzhi recognized it as a Level 91 Thunder Manifestation.

Li Qiuzhi strengthened himself while the Alcor waited outside the thunderstorm zone, then sent Lumine's Sword God to challenge the Thunder Manifestation. The Thunder Manifestation spotted it and dove toward it to attack.

• Kaedehara Kazuha explained that the Thunder Manifestation might have been drawn to the storm to absorb Electro, so Beidou stopped the Alcor and waited for it to leave.
• Li Qiuzhi spent Experience Points to raise his level to 86 and improve Myriad Style Swordsmanship and Chihayaburu.
• Li Qiuzhi gained the Flowing Maple, Autumn Fields status, which increased his speed, flexibility, and reaction speed while reducing stamina consumption.
• Li Qiuzhi controlled Lumine's Sword God to confront the Thunder Manifestation in the thunderstorm zone.
• The Thunder Manifestation noticed Lumine's Sword God and dove toward it without hesitation.

Li Qiuzhi battled the Thunder Manifestation through his Lumine Sword Intent clone, but its speed, Electro attacks, and rapid healing wore down the clone’s shield. As the shield neared collapse, he decided he would have to join the fight himself.

• Li Qiuzhi’s clone wounded the Thunder Manifestation, whose shriek carried across the sea to the Alcor.
• Lumine and Paimon heard the cry, and Lumine realized Li Qiuzhi had attacked the creature.
• Beidou told stories of her sea-monster battles while teaching Lumine to steer the ship.
• Li Qiuzhi continued attacking, but the Thunder Manifestation healed quickly and evaded his Sword Energy while striking back with Electro and lightning.
• The clone’s golden shield began to fail, and Li Qiuzhi concluded he would need to enter the battle himself.

Li Qiuzhi joined Lumine’s Sword God in fighting the Thunder Manifestation and used Taixu Sword God to drive it into the sea. The Thunder Manifestation was defeated, and Li Qiuzhi gained 92,035 Experience.

• Li Qiuzhi told Lumine and Paimon to stand by while he flew into the thunderstorm to support his avatar.
• Li Qiuzhi reached the battlefield and found Lumine’s Sword God contending with the Thunder Manifestation after her golden shield had broken.
• The Thunder Manifestation struck Li Qiuzhi with Electro, but his defenses reduced the damage, and he used tentacles to briefly bind it.
• Li Qiuzhi and Lumine’s Sword God launched Taixu Sword God, sending the Thunder Manifestation into the sea.
• Li Qiuzhi received 92,035 Experience for defeating the powerful enemy.

Li Qiuzhi defeated the Thunder Manifestation, and The Alcor carried him, Lumine, and Paimon through the Thunderstorm Zone to Inazuma. In Ritou, Thoma met them and began guiding them through the landing procedures, while hoping they could help change Inazuma’s course.

• Li Qiuzhi defeated the Thunder Manifestation and returned to The Alcor, clearing the way through the Thunderstorm Zone.
• Beidou resumed the voyage, and The Alcor sailed through a day and night of dangerous weather before reaching Inazuma’s waters.
• The Alcor arrived at Ritou, where Kaedehara Kazuha stayed aboard to avoid trouble with the Shogunate Army and Beidou introduced the travelers to Thoma.
• Thoma welcomed Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon, intending to enlist their help against Inazuma’s Vision Hunt and Sakoku Decrees.
• Thoma led the travelers to the inspection station, where receptionist Yingshan asked them to state their identities and reason for coming ashore.

Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon completed their landing formalities in Ritou with Thoma’s help, then went to apply for residency. The clerk demanded an exorbitant fee, and Thoma stepped in to negotiate.

• Yingshan asked Lumine and Paimon to explain their purpose and show business permits, but Thoma presented their prepared landing documents instead.
• Yingshan approved the documents and welcomed the group to Ritou.
• Thoma led Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon to the Foreign Affairs Office to complete residency paperwork.
• Yurihua confirmed their landing permits and demanded three million Mora for the three applications.
• Thoma told Yurihua that Li Qiuzhi and the others were his friends.

Thoma helped Lumine, Li Qiuzhi, and Paimon obtain residency permits in Inazuma by bargaining their processing fee down to six hundred Mora. After learning that Lumine wanted to meet the Raiden Shogun, Thoma revealed that he had connections that could help.

• Yurihua agreed to lower the permit fee to four hundred thousand Mora per person because Thoma asked, and Li Qiuzhi hoped Thoma would bargain further.
• Thoma persuaded Yurihua to accept six hundred Mora for all three permits and offered to pay the fee and treat her to a meal.
• After the group received their residency permits, Thoma explained that officials pocketed the invented fees and described the difficulties foreigners faced under the Sakoku Decree.
• Lumine said she still intended to meet the Raiden Shogun, while Li Qiuzhi suspected Thoma had been waiting for them on Ritou deliberately.
• Thoma admitted that he had connections that could help them gain an audience with the Raiden Shogun.

Thoma asked Lumine, Paimon, and Li Qiuzhi to help his friend Kurisu, the International Chamber of Commerce president, with a tax dispute involving the Kanjou Commission. They reached Kurisu’s office and learned that he had also been dealing with corrupt officials, leaving the details of his trouble to be explained.

• Thoma offered to arrange an introduction to the Raiden Shogun in exchange for help with his friend’s problem.
• Thoma told Lumine, Paimon, and Li Qiuzhi that Kurisu was being troubled by taxes and directed them to the International Chamber of Commerce.
• Thoma warned the group not to use their Wind Gliders in town and left to meet them later at a sake bar.
• Lumine, Paimon, and Li Qiuzhi traveled to the International Chamber of Commerce to speak with Kurisu.
• Kurisu welcomed the visitors and asked whether the Foreign Affairs Office had overcharged them.
• Li Qiuzhi said they had avoided that trouble by meeting a local friend.

Kurisu explained that the Kanjou Commission’s crystal marrow tax and Werner’s monopoly were threatening the International Chamber of Commerce’s businesses, so Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon agreed to investigate. The next morning, they followed Werner after a sale, hoping to discover where he obtained his supply.

• Kurisu told Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon that the Kanjou Commission had imposed excessive taxes payable in crystal marrow, which Werner monopolized and sold at rising prices.
• Li Qiuzhi proposed investigating Werner, and Kurisu said the merchants usually met him beneath a tree by the sea in Ritou.
• Kurisu treated the Travelers to dinner, and Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon later activated two Teleport Waypoints around Ritou while leaving the Statue of the Seven for another day.
• Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon spent the night in Wonderland, then set out the following morning to watch Werner’s meeting place.
• After Werner sold crystal marrow to waiting merchants, Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon secretly followed him to find the source of his supply.

Li Qiuzhi and the others caught Werner and two corrupt Shogunate soldiers conspiring to profit from the crystal marrow tax scheme, but Kurisu urged them to spare the men so the International Chamber of Commerce could obtain the hidden crystal marrow. Suspecting the Kanjou Commission might be linked to the Fatui, Li Qiuzhi decided to visit the Commissioner and play the villains to investigate.

• Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon followed Werner and discovered him handing his earnings to Ashigaru and Keijirou, who supplied him with crystal marrow.
• Li Qiuzhi seized Werner and the two soldiers, and Werner agreed to testify about their scheme to overcharge merchants and sell the stolen crystal marrow back to them.
• Kurisu asked Li Qiuzhi to let the culprits go in exchange for their hidden crystal marrow, explaining that the International Chamber of Commerce could not afford to lose the supply.
• Li Qiuzhi recalled that crystal marrow was used to make Delusions and suspected the Kanjou Commission was colluding with the Fatui.
• Li Qiuzhi told Lumine and Paimon they would visit the Commissioner and act like villains to investigate.

Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon snuck into the Kanjou Commission to reach its Statue of the Seven, where Lumine gained Electro and grew much stronger. As they prepared to find the commissioner, someone discovered them.

• Paimon bought a tanuki mask, and Li Qiuzhi chose masks for himself and Lumine before playfully bumping Lumine with his mask and getting his ear twisted.
• Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon climbed into the Kanjou Commission grounds under Form Concealment after the main gate remained closed.
• The group decided to visit the Statue of the Seven before searching for the commissioner and walked through the grounds toward it.
• Lumine touched the Statue of the Seven and gained Electro, raising her level from 72 to 76 as her strength continued to grow.
• A voice behind the group demanded to know who they were and why they had broken into the Kanjou Commission.

Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon were discovered sneaking into the Kanjou Commission, where Hiiragi Chisato revealed that La Signora had pressured her father to detain the Traveler. Li Qiuzhi then forced Hiiragi Shinsuke to disclose the location of the Fatui's Delusion Factory.

• Hiiragi Chisato discovered Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon in the Kanjou Commission courtyard and recognized them as the Traveler's party.
• Li Qiuzhi asked Hiiragi Chisato why the Kanjou Commission had changed taxes from Mora to crystal marrow, and she said she knew little about the policy or where the crystal marrow went.
• Hiiragi Chisato recalled that La Signora had visited her father months earlier and instructed him to delay the Traveler if they appeared in Ritou.
• Li Qiuzhi concluded that the Fatui were behind the crystal marrow demand and decided to target their Delusion Factory.
• After agreeing with Hiiragi Chisato to keep their visit secret, Li Qiuzhi broke into Hiiragi Shinsuke's residence and forced him to reveal the factory's location.

Li Qiuzhi learned from Hiiragi Shinsuke that the Fatui received Crystal Marrow near Yashiori Island, and he planned to reach the island by boat with Lumine and the others. Back in Wonderland, he teased Mona until she gave him her first kiss, while her research into the stars continued.

• Li Qiuzhi threatened Hiiragi Shinsuke and learned that the next Crystal Marrow delivery to the Fatui near Yashiori Island would happen in half a month.
• Li Qiuzhi decided to find someone to build a small boat so the group could travel to Yashiori Island and search for the Delusion factory.
• Li Qiuzhi returned to Wonderland and told Lumine, Paimon, and Mona about the plan, while Mona insisted on continuing her astrological research for a few more days.
• Li Qiuzhi held Mona and teased her until she agreed to kiss him in exchange for him stopping.
• Mona kissed Li Qiuzhi, and her Friendship level increased to Lv.8.

Li Qiuzhi commissioned a small enclosed boat at the Ritou Shipyard while Mona, Lumine, and Paimon continued their plans for Wonderland. After several days, Thoma left for Inazuma City to prepare introductions, while Li Qiuzhi and the others still needed travel permits to follow.

• Lumine caught Li Qiuzhi with Mona, stopped him, and later allowed him to sleep with her and Mona in his arms.
• Li Qiuzhi chose a Waverider-like boat at the Ritou Shipyard, paid a deposit, and arranged for it to be built in three days.
• Mona continued studying the starry sky, while Lumine and Paimon returned to Mondstadt to shop with Fischl and furnish Wonderland.
• Li Qiuzhi told Thoma that the International Chamber of Commerce's crystal marrow troubles had been resolved, but kept their plan to destroy the Delusion Factory secret.
• Thoma asked Li Qiuzhi and the others to obtain travel permits and meet him in Inazuma City, where he would prepare introductions to the Raiden Shogun.

Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon picked up and tested their new Waverider at Ritou Shipyard, then set off across Inazuma’s Inland Sea. Mona joined them and divined the route to Yashiori Island, leaving Li Qiuzhi ready to steer toward it.

• Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon inspected the shipwright’s maple-wood Waverider and agreed to take it.
• Li Qiuzhi tested the boat, paid the remaining balance, and piloted it away from Ritou’s dock.
• Lumine grew tired of operating the propeller, so Li Qiuzhi used Hydro to propel the boat instead.
• Li Qiuzhi summoned Mona from Wonderland before they headed for Yashiori Island.
• Mona used her Hydromantic Dish to divine the island’s direction, and Li Qiuzhi saw that she was level 72.

Li Qiuzhi and his companions sailed toward Yashiori Island, relying on Mona’s divinations and Li Qiuzhi’s powers to speed and protect their boat. After a day of teasing, lunch, and sailing, they fought off a school of dangerous fish monsters, leaving their journey underway.

• Mona divined the direction to Yashiori Island, and Li Qiuzhi propelled the boat across the sea with his Abyssal Vortex while Anemo protected its hull.
• Lumine took the helm with Paimon, and Li Qiuzhi used Harmonization to help raise Lumine’s strength as they sailed.
• Lumine teleported with Paimon to fetch hot food from Mondstadt, and Mona later corrected their course with another divination.
• Lumine and Mona kept Li Qiuzhi from mischief that afternoon, so he discussed ways to use Elemental Power with them.
• Li Qiuzhi and his companions encountered blade-finned fish monsters, and Lumine reinforced the boat with Geo.
• Li Qiuzhi trapped the fish in a Hydro vortex and shredded them, gaining Experience Points.

After defeating a swarm of sea monsters, Li Qiuzhi leveled up and continued sailing with Lumine, Paimon, and Mona. While Li Qiuzhi and Paimon hunted monsters underwater, their attack revealed a strange spatial rift behind a coral reef.

• Li Qiuzhi spent 86,000 Experience Points to reach Level 87 after the sea monsters earned him roughly 50,000 points.
• Mona used her Hydromantic Dish and saw a star pattern depicting a giant fanged serpent, but her divination showed no danger to the group.
• Lumine and Mona returned to Mondstadt City to prepare dinner, while Paimon stayed aboard with Li Qiuzhi.
• Li Qiuzhi built a Hydro shell and two water cannons around the boat, then raced Paimon to defeat underwater monsters, with feasts as the prize.
• Paimon's shot struck a blue fish monster and shattered nearby coral, exposing a dark spatial rift with golden edges.

Li Qiuzhi destroyed an underwater Spatial Rift and its hidden Rifthound Monsters, then reached Yashiori Island with Lumine, Mona, and Paimon. Mona divined the Delusion Factory’s location, and Li Qiuzhi planned an attack with Jean and Lisa’s support while keeping Jean hidden in Wonderland.

• Li Qiuzhi warned Jean and Hu Tao about the growing number of Spatial Rifts, then used Lumine's Sword God to kill the serpent-like monsters guarding the underwater rift and severed a King Beast’s psychic power as it reached through.
• Li Qiuzhi reached level 88 after collecting experience, and Lumine and Mona returned with dinner as Paimon won their monster-hunting competition.
• Li Qiuzhi asked Mona to locate the Fatui’s Delusion Factory, and she used repeated divinations, aided by energy from his Charging Body, to find its location on Yashiori Island.
• Li Qiuzhi proposed attacking around midnight and bringing Jean and Lisa to strengthen their side, while Paimon warned that Jean’s involvement could provoke retaliation against Mondstadt.
• Li Qiuzhi explained that Jean could remain inside Wonderland while its doorway stayed open, allowing him to use Land of Dandelion without exposing her participation.