Chapter Summaries

Li Qiuzhi defeated the level 92 Green-Eyed Raven leader and cleared much of its nest, gaining enough Experience Points to reach level 91. He returned to the Demon Bear Territory, told Kaeya and Albedo about the ruins of Albedo’s master’s laboratory, and gave Albedo the records he had found before setting out to explore again.

• Li Qiuzhi wore down the Green-Eyed Raven leader’s Corrosion Power with repeated attacks, then killed it when its defenses failed and earned 125,973 Experience Points.
• Li Qiuzhi drove off or defeated many other Green-Eyed Ravens, raising his total Experience Points to over 1.2 million, though some escaped.
• Li Qiuzhi spent 900,000 Experience Points to advance from level 90 to level 91, more than doubling his strength and range.
• Lumine’s Sword God returned to the Demon Bear Territory, where Li Qiuzhi told Kaeya about new discoveries and met with Albedo.
• Li Qiuzhi revealed that he had found the ruins of Albedo’s master’s laboratory and gave Albedo the experimental records from the ruins.

Li Qiuzhi used the adjustable-gravity training ground to get Amber to fall into his arms, and Amber gradually began considering him as a potential partner. Eula found them lying together and demanded to know what they were doing.

• Li Qiuzhi took Amber to the training ground and raised the gravity while pretending to exercise.
• After Amber grew exhausted and fell against him, Li Qiuzhi caught her and pretended he was too tired to get up.
• Amber suspected Li Qiuzhi had engineered the fall, but stayed on top of him and developed romantic feelings for him.
• Amber gained friendship points, and Li Qiuzhi took her hand while they lay together.
• Eula arrived, saw them pressed together, and demanded to know what they were doing.

Eula misunderstood Li Qiuzhi and Amber’s closeness, then got caught up in an increasingly intimate struggle with him while Mona and Amber tried to help. After enduring their tickling, Li Qiuzhi kissed Eula, leaving her stunned.

• Eula entered the Gravity Training Ground, broke her heels under the stronger gravity, and fell onto Amber and Li Qiuzhi.
• Eula left with Amber and sulked through lunch, while Mona joined them and teased Li Qiuzhi for taking liberties with everyone.
• Li Qiuzhi pinched Mona’s and Amber’s cheeks, then carried Eula to the sofa and held her until she agreed to forgive him and remain his maid.
• Mona and Amber tried to free Eula by tickling Li Qiuzhi, but he endured the attack by spending Experience Points.
• After Mona and Amber stopped from exhaustion, Li Qiuzhi kissed Eula before she could react.

Li Qiuzhi deepened his relationships with Eula and Amber, then brought the Raiden Shogun, Lumine, and Paimon to test his Gravity Training Ground. He left the Shogun training Lumine under tenfold gravity and began leveling his new swordsmanship, hoping to fuse it with his other max-level techniques.

• Li Qiuzhi kissed Eula until she gave in, then kissed Amber, and both women reached Friendship level nine with him.
• Li Qiuzhi returned to Tenshukaku, where Raiden Ei made progress researching the power of time and gained Friendship points with him.
• Li Qiuzhi brought the Raiden Shogun, Lumine, and Paimon into his Wonderland Space to test the Gravity Training Ground; Paimon struggled at 1.3 times gravity and left after losing their wager.
• Li Qiuzhi raised the training ground to ten times gravity, and the Raiden Shogun continued sword practice with Lumine, who found the increased gravity challenging.
• Li Qiuzhi brought Eula and Amber to watch the lesson, then spent Experience Points to level up his Thousand-Shadow Yunlai Swordsmanship.

Li Qiuzhi fused three Ultimate-level swordsmanship skills into a Divine Realm skill and combined his concealment arts, then agreed to mediate peace negotiations between the Shogunate Army and Watatsumi Island. The next day, he and Kujou Sara reached the Kujou Encampment, where he was to help both sides find an agreement.

• Li Qiuzhi fused Lumine's Sword God, Origin Swordsmanship: Complete Transmission, and Thousand-Shadow Yunlai Swordsmanship into Lumine's Authority: Divine Realm, then combined three concealment skills into Ninja Art: Hidden Domain.
• The Raiden Shogun asked Li Qiuzhi to accompany Kujou Sara to the peace negotiations with Sangonomiya Kokomi, and he agreed to try to mediate.
• Li Qiuzhi returned to the Wonderland Space, gave Fischl supplementary instruction about the Abyssal Rift, and went to Tenshukaku early the next morning.
• Li Qiuzhi brought the Raiden Shogun to train Lumine, then met Kujou Sara and set off with her for the front.
• Kujou Sara used her Red Feather Fan to speed their flight, and they arrived at the Kujou Encampment before the negotiations.

Li Qiuzhi visited Kujou Sara and Sangonomiya Kokomi to learn each side’s conditions for peace between the Shogunate and Watatsumi Island. Kokomi proposed two years of tax exemption in exchange for fulfilling Watatsumi Island’s duties, and Li Qiuzhi returned to Kujou Sara to seek agreement.

• Kujou Sara gave Li Qiuzhi the Shogunate’s demands, including disarmament, supervision of Watatsumi Island, and disputed tax terms.
• Kujou Sara asked Li Qiuzhi to discuss a compromise with Sangonomiya Kokomi before the formal peace talks.
• Li Qiuzhi used Spatial Traversal to reach the Watatsumi Army camp and met Sangonomiya Kokomi and Gorou.
• Sangonomiya Kokomi rejected Shogunate supervision and proposed complete autonomy, normal taxes after two years of exemption, and Watatsumi Island fulfilling its duties to Inazuma.
• Li Qiuzhi agreed to take Kokomi’s proposal back to Kujou Sara for discussion.

Li Qiuzhi helped Kujou Sara and Sangonomiya Kokomi negotiate and sign a peace agreement between the Shogunate and Watatsumi Island. After returning to Inazuma, he learned that Raiden Ei wanted to study the eternal, soul-nourishing power of his Portable Space, and she agreed to leave Musou Isshin in his care while she researched there.

• Li Qiuzhi carried proposals between Kujou Sara and Kokomi until they agreed on limits to Watatsumi Island's military expansion and supplies.
• Li Qiuzhi watched the armies sign their peace agreement, then attended both sides' celebrations before returning to Inazuma City with the Raiden Shogun.
• In the Plane of Euthymia, Ei asked Li Qiuzhi about the Portable Space that had nourished her consciousness and shielded it from erosion.
• Ei decided to study the Portable Space's power of eternity and agreed to leave Musou Isshin with Li Qiuzhi while she researched.

Li Qiuzhi returned to the Wonderland Space after securing peace in Inazuma and gained powerful abilities from reaching maximum Friendship with Amber and Eula. The next morning, the Raiden Shogun agreed to let him keep Musou Isshin if he gave her a way to retrieve it whenever needed.

• Li Qiuzhi told Paimon and the others that the Shogunate and Watatsumi Island had signed a peace agreement, and Lumine suggested exploring Inazuma after learning Musou no Hitotachi.
• Amber and Eula grew closer to Li Qiuzhi, and Amber reached maximum Friendship, granting him the explosive Baron Bunny: Special Custom Version.
• Li Qiuzhi and Eula became intimate, raising her Friendship to maximum and granting him the Hard-Ice Lightfall Sword.
• The next morning, the Raiden Shogun told Li Qiuzhi that Musou Isshin could stay in his Portable Space only if she could retrieve it whenever needed.
• Li Qiuzhi gave the Raiden Shogun a Beacon that would let her teleport into his Portable Space to retrieve Musou Isshin.

Li Qiuzhi gave the Raiden Shogun and Raiden Ei Beacons, and Musou Isshin expanded the Wonderland Space and granted it the ability to collect wish power. He then went to the Grand Narukami Shrine to warn Yae Miko about the Fatui, where the Doctor and two other Harbingers arrived to negotiate for the Gnosis.

• Li Qiuzhi gave the Raiden Shogun a Beacon, and she tested its teleportation by traveling to Lumine in the Wonderland Space.
• The Raiden Shogun brought Musou Isshin into the Wonderland Space, which gained a wish-granting trait and expanded to 308 square meters.
• Raiden Ei emerged from Musou Isshin, accepted a Beacon, and asked Li Qiuzhi to arrange a quiet meditation room for her.
• Li Qiuzhi traveled to the Grand Narukami Shrine and warned Yae Miko that the Fatui Harbingers were coming to trade for the Gnosis.
• Li Qiuzhi and Yae Miko met the Doctor and two other Harbingers in the shrine courtyard, and the Doctor insisted they had come in good faith.

Yae Miko negotiated with the Fatui Harbingers and agreed to lend them Ei’s Gnosis in exchange for substantial payments, investment, and technology for Inazuma. After Li Qiuzhi told Ei about the deal, Ei showed little concern, and the next morning she took Li Qiuzhi and Lumine into the Plane of Euthymia.

• The Doctor explained the Tsaritsa’s plan to gather the Gnoses and challenge the Heavenly Principles, while Yae Miko questioned his claims and refused to hand over the Gnosis outright.
• Yae Miko agreed to lend the Gnosis to the Fatui, negotiating annual payments worth tens of billions of Mora, investment in Inazuma, and free technology.
• The Fatui Harbingers left the Grand Narukami Shrine with the Gnosis after the negotiations concluded.
• Yae Miko thanked Li Qiuzhi for helping prevent a fight and explained that Ei had allowed her to trade away the Gnosis if necessary.
• Li Qiuzhi told Ei about the deal, and Ei said not to get involved in the Tsaritsa’s affairs.
• The next morning, Ei pulled Li Qiuzhi and Lumine into the Plane of Euthymia.

Li Qiuzhi and Lumine entered the Plane of Euthymia to learn Musou no Hitotachi from Raiden Ei, but Ei’s demonstration turned into a prolonged duel with the Raiden Shogun. With Li Qiuzhi’s wish subtly increasing Ei’s chances of understanding Musou Isshin, Ei unlocked the blade’s hidden power and narrowly defeated the Shogun.

• Raiden Ei agreed to demonstrate Musou no Hitotachi, then asked Li Qiuzhi to spar when she could not summon the right spirit against empty air.
• Li Qiuzhi suggested that Ei fight the Raiden Shogun, and the two began a duel while the girls in the Wonderland Space watched.
• The battle continued from morning until night, and Li Qiuzhi used Many Wishes to increase Ei’s chances of understanding Musou Isshin’s hidden power.
• During the duel, Ei sensed Musou Isshin’s hidden power and gradually learned to accept and use it.
• Ei unleashed a stronger Musou no Hitotachi and narrowly defeated the Raiden Shogun, who called the victory a cheap trick.

Raiden Makoto emerged from Musou Isshin and was reunited with Raiden Ei, but her fading consciousness could not endure long. Li Qiuzhi brought her into his Portable Space, where its Soul-Nurturing effect began restoring her, and Ei stayed with her while Makoto prepared to advise her on governing Inazuma.

• Raiden Makoto appeared from Musou Isshin and explained that she had left a fragment of her will inside the blade for Ei to find.
• Raiden Makoto prepared to give Ei the Sacred Sakura seed, but Li Qiuzhi interrupted and offered a way to preserve her consciousness.
• Ei, Lumine, Paimon, and Li Qiuzhi left the Plane of Euthymia, and Makoto found that Li Qiuzhi's Portable Space was strengthening her soul.
• Ei promised to remain with Makoto while she recovered, and Makoto asked Ei to explain Inazuma's situation so she could advise her.
• Li Qiuzhi left with Lumine and Paimon, planning to return to Liyue and learn invisibility skills from Yelan.

Li Qiuzhi visited Ningguang in Liyue, learned that her researchers had built a prototype steam engine, and explained electricity and electromagnetic cannons to her. Ningguang sent him to The Chasm to find Yelan and investigate its danger, with Ganyu accompanying him, and the chapter ended as they woke Ganyu at her desk.

• Li Qiuzhi returned to Liyue and learned from Baixiao that Ningguang was inspecting the newly built steam engine.
• Ningguang praised the researchers and rewarded them, then invited Li Qiuzhi to Xinyue Kiosk.
• Li Qiuzhi explained electricity and electromagnetic cannons, and Ningguang decided to have someone test the weapon idea.
• Ningguang told Li Qiuzhi that Yelan was on a mission in The Chasm and gave him a resonance gemstone to contact her there.
• Li Qiuzhi agreed to investigate The Chasm, and Ningguang arranged for Ganyu to go with him.
• Li Qiuzhi and Ningguang entered Ganyu's office and startled her awake while she was dozing at her desk.

Li Qiuzhi and Ganyu traveled to the Chasm to investigate its dangerous changes and reunited with Yelan, who had uncovered a suspicious Ruin Serpent deep in the underground mines. The three prepared to work together, while Li Qiuzhi gained the basics of Ganyu’s archery.

• Ningguang sent Ganyu and Li Qiuzhi to investigate the Chasm, and Ganyu agreed to ask Shenhe to help with her workload.
• Ganyu and Li Qiuzhi entered the underground mines, used Ningguang’s gemstone to contact Yelan, and practiced archery while they waited.
• Yelan investigated the spreading dark mud and discovered a powerful Ruin Serpent that could summon it, then headed back after sensing the gemstone’s signal.
• Li Qiuzhi learned the basics of Ganyu’s Ultimate-level Flowing Heaven Archery as Yelan arrived.
• Yelan met Ganyu and Li Qiuzhi and asked whether Ningguang had sent them to help; Ganyu asked her to explain the situation.

Li Qiuzhi, Yelan, and Ganyu traveled through The Chasm while discussing stealth techniques and clearing black mud and monsters. They reached the Ruin Serpent, and Li Qiuzhi’s Sword God manifestations opened the fight by cutting through its reinforced body.

• Yelan told Li Qiuzhi and Ganyu about a large creature she suspected was responsible for the black mud, and they followed her toward it.
• Li Qiuzhi demonstrated his invisibility skill, and he and Yelan exchanged insights about stealth while traveling.
• Li Qiuzhi fought monsters near black-mud leaks and found that elemental power could clear the mud temporarily, though the Ley Line breaches remained.
• The group reached the Ruin Serpent’s cavern and agreed that Ganyu would apply Cryo, Yelan would attack with Hydro, and Li Qiuzhi would deal damage from a distance.
• The Ruin Serpent hurled black mud at Li Qiuzhi’s Sword God manifestations, but they dodged and struck it with golden Sword Energy that cut through its body.

Li Qiuzhi, Yelan, and Ganyu defeated a Ruin Serpent that had been using dark mud, then found its energy cores were contaminated. Li Qiuzhi suspected the dark mud originated in the Ley Lines, and the group planned to report their findings to Ningguang and have researchers investigate.

• Li Qiuzhi held the Ruin Serpent in place while Ganyu and Yelan froze it, and he destroyed its energy core to defeat it.
• Yelan and Ganyu examined the Ruin Serpent, and Li Qiuzhi explained that he hoped its technology could be studied and reused.
• Li Qiuzhi opened the Ruin Serpent and found that dark mud had contaminated all four of its energy cores.
• Li Qiuzhi proposed that the dark mud came from the Ley Lines, and the group destroyed the cores but saw no change in the surrounding mud.
• Yelan agreed to report the findings to Ningguang and request Ley Line researchers, while Li Qiuzhi offered to leave Sword Intent incarnations to clear the mining area.

After reporting their findings from The Chasm, Li Qiuzhi accompanied Ningguang to the Ministry of Civil Affairs to collect the Primogems she had gathered for him. Ningguang paid him with the gems for his work, while their flirtatious exchange left him set to accompany her as an attendant the next day.

• Li Qiuzhi, Yelan, and Ganyu returned to Liyue Harbor and reported the possible Ley Line problem in The Chasm to Ningguang.
• Yelan left, and Ningguang asked Li Qiuzhi to wait while Ganyu went home to rest and she finished her work.
• Ningguang caught Li Qiuzhi looking at her, teased him, and told him to serve as her attendant and accompany her to meet business rivals the next day.
• Li Qiuzhi made a Hydro umbrella for Ningguang as they walked through the rain, and Ningguang held his arm as they headed to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
• Ningguang collected 122 Primogems for Li Qiuzhi and counted them as payment for investigating The Chasm; he declined her offer to stay by her side for Mora.

Li Qiuzhi collected Primogems and expanded his Adventurers’ Guild commissions, then spent Experience Points to raise Lumine’s Authority to its maximum level and unlock the Myriad Stars of the Sea Imaginary World. The next morning, he met Yelan at Yanshang Teahouse to continue learning her invisibility technique.

• Li Qiuzhi collected twelve Primogems in Liyue and commissions’ proceeds in Mondstadt, then arranged for the guilds in Liyue, Mondstadt, and Inazuma to seek rare materials, artifacts, and treasures.
• Li Qiuzhi counted 845,076 Experience Points and spent 450,000 to raise Lumine’s Authority from Divine Realm Lv. 1 to Lv. 10, unlocking Myriad Stars of the Sea.
• Li Qiuzhi spent the evening teasing Sucrose, Fischl, and Mona before they all slept together in Wonderland Space.
• Li Qiuzhi met Yelan at Yanshang Teahouse, where she had reserved the rooftop so they could discuss her invisibility technique without interruptions.

Li Qiuzhi learned Yelan’s invisibility technique, upgraded and fused it into an Ultimate skill that let him shift between layers of space, then visited Ningguang to discuss expanding the Sweet Flower Merchant Guild’s business. The chapter ended with Ningguang accepting his golden Beacon so she could travel to other nations for negotiations.

• Li Qiuzhi and Yelan exchanged invisibility techniques, and he learned Wandering Guest of the Entwined Abyss while Yelan gained new insights into his technique.
• Li Qiuzhi upgraded Wandering Guest of the Entwined Abyss, chose Deep Dive, and fused it with Hidden Domain to create the Ultimate skill Abyssal Sea Phantom.
• Li Qiuzhi tested Abyssal Sea Phantom and shifted from surface-layer space through shallow-layer space into deep-layer space before returning to the real world.
• Li Qiuzhi met Ningguang at Yuehai Pavilion and learned that the Feiyun Commerce Guild, Jinhua Commerce Guild, and Moonchase Chamber of Commerce wanted distribution rights for the Sweet Flower Merchant Guild’s products.
• Li Qiuzhi offered to use his connections with Mondstadt’s Knights and Inazuma’s Hiiragi Clan to help the guild expand abroad, then gave Ningguang a golden Beacon for travel.
• Ningguang accepted the Beacon and her affection for Li Qiuzhi increased.

Li Qiuzhi explored the Abyssal Rift, helped Raiden Makoto strengthen her soul, and discovered that the God of Salt’s lingering will was recovering. After a week of training and exploration, he prepared to leave Inazuma for Sumeru with Lumine, while the God of Salt neared awakening.

• Li Qiuzhi explored an oasis pool in the Abyssal Rift, defeated its serpent-like Rifthound Monsters, and found a powerful leader among them.
• Li Qiuzhi gave Raiden Makoto a Spirit Rank affix that improved her cooking, then learned from her that the God of Salt’s will had become detectable in the storeroom.
• Li Qiuzhi sensed Havria’s recovering consciousness in the Divine Salt and placed a Command Spell on her to prevent her from harming him or those around him.
• Over the following week, Li Qiuzhi cleared monsters in the Abyssal Rift and The Chasm, learned the basics of Musou no Hitotachi from Raiden Ei, and helped Raiden Makoto gain an affix that doubled the effects of healing.
• Lumine planned to leave for Sumeru after mastering the basics of Musou no Hitotachi, and Li Qiuzhi planned to travel with her as the God of Salt neared awakening.