Chapter Summaries

Li Qiuzhi, Ver, and Noelle gathered usable ammunition and decided to test the Treasure Hoarders’ repeating crossbows against the Ruin Guards at the Temple of the Thousand Winds. They destroyed one guard with a coordinated volley, and Li Qiuzhi turned his attention to the remaining machines.

• Li Qiuzhi asked Ver and Noelle to collect usable arrows and bolts so they could test whether repeating crossbows could defeat a Ruin Guard.
• Ver agreed to help aim the crossbow after Li Qiuzhi pointed out that she wanted to verify the Treasure Hoarders’ report about a domain, while Noelle offered to protect them.
• The three divided the remaining bolts, then used ruins and broken pillars as cover to ambush a lone Ruin Guard without alerting the others.
• Li Qiuzhi and Ver fired ten bolts into the Ruin Guard’s exposed core, damaging it until the final shots extinguished it and brought the machine down.
• Li Qiuzhi gained 422 Experience Points and, seeing that the other Ruin Guards remained unaware, looked forward to taking them on next.

Li Qiuzhi and Noelle worked together to defeat the last Ruin Guard, with Li Qiuzhi earning the finishing blow and more Experience Points. The Ruin Guard fell, leaving Li Qiuzhi with 522 additional Experience Points.

• Li Qiuzhi spent 1,500 Experience Points to reach Level 9 and felt his physical abilities improve.
• Li Qiuzhi proposed a plan in which he would draw the Ruin Guard's attention while Noelle struck its core, and Noelle agreed.
• Li Qiuzhi and Noelle approached the Ruin Guard, which turned and attacked him before he could evade its fist.
• Noelle leaped onto the Ruin Guard and struck the core on its back with her Geo-infused Favonius Greatsword, partially disabling it.
• Li Qiuzhi jumped onto the Ruin Guard and finished it with his scimitar, gaining 522 Experience Points.

Li Qiuzhi, Noelle, and Ver explored the ruins, found a Domain Portal, and returned to Mondstadt without entering it. After turning in their commission, they decided to report the domain to the Adventurers' Guild.

• Li Qiuzhi, Noelle, and Ver entered the passage beneath the ruins and found instructions for breaking a seal beside a stone doorway.
• The three discovered an empty chamber and a Domain Portal, but Li Qiuzhi persuaded Ver not to enter it before the Guild's investigators arrived.
• Li Qiuzhi, Noelle, and Ver returned to Mondstadt with captured Treasure Hoarders and divided the materials they had collected.
• The three handed the Treasure Hoarders to the Knights of Favonius, declined commendations and rewards, and split the commission payment at the Adventurers' Guild.
• Li Qiuzhi, Noelle, and Ver decided to give the Adventurers' Guild information about the Domain Portal.

After completing his first commission and reporting the newly discovered domain to the Adventurers' Guild, Li Qiuzhi reviewed his combat weaknesses and received a new character specialty. The chapter left him eager to learn what the specialty, Maiden Rescuer, could do.

• Katheryne promised to report the domain discovery to Cyrus, and Li Qiuzhi gained friendship points with her.
• Ver left to contact buyers, and Noelle returned to the Knights after Li Qiuzhi thanked her and suggested visiting again.
• Li Qiuzhi walked back through Mondstadt, reflecting that his bow was inadequate against monsters and deciding to begin learning Favonius Swordsmanship: Fundamentals.
• Li Qiuzhi's Character Panel recounted his adventure and awarded him the character specialty Maiden Rescuer.
• Li Qiuzhi considered why the adventure had earned him a specialty and prepared to inspect its effects.

After becoming a new adventurer, Li Qiuzhi met Sanborn, who asked him to visit the Fishing Tackle Shop about a problem with his supplies. Back at his lodging, Li Qiuzhi welcomed Amber and met Eula, who said she would remember his making them wait.

• Li Qiuzhi read the effect of his Maiden Rescuer specialty, spent 900 experience points, and raised his level to ten.
• Li Qiuzhi told Sanborn that he had become an adventurer and learned that Sanborn wanted help with rising prices from a supplier.
• Li Qiuzhi agreed to visit Sanborn's shop the next morning to hear what he needed.
• Amber arrived at Li Qiuzhi's lodging with Eula, who said she would remember him for keeping them waiting.
• Li Qiuzhi took Eula's grudge as a sign she had remembered him, and Amber gained affection for him.

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.