Chapter Summaries

Li Qiuzhi agreed to gather suggestions for Nahida and the Akasha Internet while Nahida planned to appoint him and Lumine as Sages. After training with Raiden Ei, he interviewed Alhaitham at the Akademiya and recorded a proposal for searchable digital books.

• Nahida asked Li Qiuzhi to collect useful feedback on the Akasha Internet, and set the Sage appointment ceremony for the next day.
• Li Qiuzhi returned to the Wonderland Space and trained with Raiden Ei until noon.
• Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon returned to the House of Daena, where Lumine and Paimon joined Nahida to design software while Li Qiuzhi began his survey.
• Li Qiuzhi interviewed Alhaitham, who suggested uploading the House of Daena's books to the Akasha Internet with a search and reading function.
• Li Qiuzhi praised Alhaitham's suggestion and recorded it for Nahida.

Li Qiuzhi surveyed Akademiya scholars about desired Akasha Internet features and met the exhausted Layla, whom he helped after she stumbled and fell asleep. After Layla recognized him as the Traveler who saved four nations, he asked her about the Akasha Terminal and offered to help her find research materials, delaying his other plans.

• Li Qiuzhi asked Alhaitham and several House of Daena scholars for Akasha Terminal suggestions, including better interface controls, study reminders, and online Genius Invokation TCG.
• Li Qiuzhi caught the sleep-deprived Layla when she stumbled, gathered her scattered thesis pages, and woke her by warning that her thesis was due.
• Layla thanked Li Qiuzhi, recognized him from The Steambird as the Traveler who saved four nations, and introduced herself as a Rtawahist scholar.
• Li Qiuzhi surveyed Layla, who wished the Akasha Terminal could write her thesis; he suggested adding a research-material search function instead.
• Layla said she needed to find materials for her thesis, and Li Qiuzhi offered to help her search the House of Daena, putting off his other errands.

Li Qiuzhi helped Layla find astrology references in the House of Daena, promised to arrange a chance for her to meet Mona, and used his harmonization energy to relieve her fatigue. He then gathered feedback about the Akasha Internet while heading to a Genius Invokation TCG shop, where he met its new owner, Dori.

• Li Qiuzhi discussed the Akademiya's schools with Layla and offered to let her meet Mona, whom Layla hoped to see at the House of Daena in three days.
• Li Qiuzhi used psychic power to fetch astrology books for Layla, then sent her harmonization energy that removed her fatigue.
• Li Qiuzhi left the House of Daena and collected Akasha Internet suggestions from Sumeru City residents, many of whom insisted that Lesser Lord Kusanali's design had no flaws.
• Li Qiuzhi reached a Genius Invokation TCG-themed shop and met its owner, Dori, who introduced the store's cards, customizations, and match tables.

Li Qiuzhi arranged for Dori to negotiate a license to put Genius Invokation TCG online in exchange for paid advertising on the Akasha Internet. On his way back to the Akademiya, he met Dunyarzad and Dehya, who mistook him for a threat before recognizing him and inviting him for a drink.

• Li Qiuzhi asked Dori to help him find the creators of Genius Invokation TCG and negotiate a license for an online version.
• Dori revealed that Gavivitā and Gulab created the game and offered to handle the licensing in exchange for advertising on the Akasha Internet.
• Li Qiuzhi agreed to offer Dori a paid advertising opportunity, and Dori promised to settle the licensing the next day.
• On his way back, Li Qiuzhi encountered Dunyarzad and Dehya, and Dehya confronted him for watching them.
• Dunyarzad recognized Li Qiuzhi as the Legendary Adventurer who had rescued Lesser Lord Kusanali and saved Sumeru, and Dehya realized her mistake and offered to buy him a drink.

Li Qiuzhi explored Sumeru’s Grand Bazaar with Dehya and Dunyarzad, then reunited with Lumine, Paimon, and Nahida to attend a performance at Zubayr Theater. Dunyarzad tearfully thanked Nahida for helping her recover, and the show began with two acrobats.

• Li Qiuzhi accepted Dehya and Dunyarzad’s invitation for tea and agreed to visit the Grand Bazaar to see Nilou perform.
• Dehya and Dunyarzad showed Li Qiuzhi around the Grand Bazaar, where Dunyarzad bought a wooden Fungus carving for Dehya.
• Li Qiuzhi invited Paimon through the Beacon, and Paimon brought Lumine and Nahida to the Grand Bazaar.
• Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon ate snacks before meeting Dehya and Dunyarzad at Zubayr Theater.
• Dunyarzad and Dehya were surprised to see Nahida, and Dunyarzad tearfully thanked her for encouraging her during her illness.
• The audience filled the theater, and the performance began with two acrobats.

Nilou performed the Dance of the Goddess of Flowers and became friends with Li Qiuzhi, who agreed to escort her on a desert trip. After returning to the Wonderland Space, Li Qiuzhi asked Mona to meet Layla at the Akademiya, and Mona agreed.

• Nilou closed the Zubayr Theater's show with the Dance of the Goddess of Flowers, then met Dunyarzad, Dehya, Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon.
• Li Qiuzhi offered to take Nilou on Adventurer commissions, and Nilou asked him to escort her to the desert so she could find inspiration for a new dance.
• Dehya said she would travel to Aaru Village in five days, and Nilou, Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon agreed to join the desert trip.
• After dinner, Li Qiuzhi returned to the Wonderland Space and asked Mona to visit the Akademiya to meet Layla, and Mona agreed.
• Li Qiuzhi stayed with Mona in her research room and began massaging her while she worked on the Astral Track Calculator.

Li Qiuzhi spent the night with Mona in her laboratory, then learned more about how the girls might become gods and went to Sumeru City to pursue his online-game plans. Nahida explained that Greater Lord Rukkhadevata could extend the Akasha system into Wonderland Space by hosting a backup subsystem, but she was still too weak to do so.

• Li Qiuzhi interrupted Mona's work, and they spent the night together in the laboratory.
• Mona reached level ninety, and Li Qiuzhi reflected on how the girls could gain divine authorities and become Demon Gods.
• Li Qiuzhi washed Mona at the Hot Spring Bathhouse, then went with Lumine and Paimon to Sumeru City to discuss licensing Genius Invokation TCG with Dori.
• At the House of Daena, Li Qiuzhi discussed online games with Nahida, Lumine, and Paimon and asked how Wonderland Space could use Akasha Terminals.
• Nahida said Greater Lord Rukkhadevata could host a backup Akasha subsystem in Wonderland Space, but her recovery was still years away.
• Li Qiuzhi left to handle the game business and planned to seek a stronger soul-recovery Affix for Greater Lord Rukkhadevata.

Li Qiuzhi secured a license for Genius Invokation TCG and worked with Nahida, Lumine, and Paimon to launch several games on the Akasha Internet. As the games attracted thousands of players, he considered how to develop his skills and eventually get past the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles.

• Li Qiuzhi negotiated with Gavivitā and paid eighty million Mora for an installment-based license to Genius Invokation TCG.
• Li Qiuzhi promised Dori the first Akasha Terminal social-feature advertisement, then bought Genius Invokation TCG cards and several Liyue games to bring back to Nahida.
• Nahida created online versions of the games, and Li Qiuzhi, Nahida, Lumine, and Paimon set prices and safeguards against gambling and addiction.
• Li Qiuzhi announced the games with a free one-week trial, and their player counts quickly rose above ten thousand.
• Li Qiuzhi reflected on funding future research and improving his strength, then considered raising Abyssal Sea Phantom to the divine realm level to help him evade the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles.

Li Qiuzhi delayed extending the Akasha system through Wonderland Space until Greater Lord Rukkhadevata could recover, then strengthened the space’s soul-nurturing property with a Spirit Rank affix. With the new enhancement improving their recovery, he planned to wait a few months before asking her to run the system and turned to learning new skills for reaching beyond Teyvat.

• Li Qiuzhi asked Greater Lord Rukkhadevata to extend the Akasha system’s coverage, but she explained that doing so would slow her recovery, so he agreed to wait and playfully tussled with her and Guizhong.
• Li Qiuzhi tried several Spirit Rank affixes on Wonderland Space’s soul-nurturing property, first receiving an irrelevant Greatsword Arts affix and then an ineffective Soul Enhancement affix.
• Li Qiuzhi rolled Enhanced Effects, which greatly increased the soul-nurturing property’s effects and made Greater Lord Rukkhadevata and Guizhong recover several times faster.
• Li Qiuzhi decided to let Greater Lord Rukkhadevata recover for a few months before running the Akasha system, and their affection for him increased.
• Li Qiuzhi called Havria, Raiden Makoto, and Raiden Ei to the library to learn skills related to invisibility and explore ways to reach space beyond Teyvat.

Li Qiuzhi learned and maxed out five concealment skills from Havria, Raiden Ei, Guizhong, Raiden Makoto, and Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, then fused them with Abyssal Sea Phantom into a Divine Realm skill. The new skill might let him break through the False Sky’s blockade and leave Teyvat to discover why the Heavenly Principles had sealed the planet.

• Havria taught Li Qiuzhi Lightless Salt Domain, and Raiden Ei taught him Dreamlike Bubble Body.
• Guizhong, Raiden Makoto, and Greater Lord Rukkhadevata taught Li Qiuzhi Hidden in Wind and Dust, Dreams' True Concealment, and Breath of Nature.
• Li Qiuzhi spent Experience Points to raise all five concealment skills to max level and gained powerful traits from each.
• Li Qiuzhi fused the five skills with Abyssal Sea Phantom and obtained the Divine Realm skill Objective Illusory Shadow Domain.
• Li Qiuzhi realized the new skill might help him pass through the False Sky’s blockade and investigate why the Heavenly Principles had sealed Teyvat.

Li Qiuzhi mastered his Divine Realm skill and explored a strange dimension of shifting projections before emerging into outer space, though he could not tell where he was in relation to Teyvat. He returned to Wonderland Space to help Noelle prepare lunch, then offered to improve her strength while they had a little free time.

• Li Qiuzhi raised Objective Illusory Shadow Domain to its maximum level and discovered its barrier made everything within it absolutely unobservable.
• Li Qiuzhi traveled beyond deep-layer space into a chaotic dimension of unstable projections, where his coordinates shifted unpredictably as he explored.
• Li Qiuzhi rose into surface-layer space and found himself in the dark, airless universe, unable to identify his location or find Teyvat by sight.
• Li Qiuzhi returned through Wonderland Space and helped Noelle prepare lunch in the kitchen.
• Li Qiuzhi stopped Noelle from tidying up and offered to help improve her strength before the others returned.

Li Qiuzhi spent the day being kissed and cuddled by Noelle and the other girls in the Wonderland Space before taking Mona to the Akademiya so Layla could meet her. Layla spotted Mona but was too shy to approach, so Li Qiuzhi secretly asked Mona to come over and arrange a chance encounter.

• Noelle and Li Qiuzhi practiced together in the kitchen, then Fischl confronted him at lunch and kissed him as punishment.
• Fischl, Lisa, and Amber spent the afternoon with Li Qiuzhi, and Jean, Eula, Ningguang, Shenhe, and the others joined them that evening.
• The next morning, Li Qiuzhi took Mona to the Akademiya and waited for Layla to arrive; Layla gained Friendship points after he told her Mona was still there.
• Li Qiuzhi led Layla to the astrology section, where she saw Mona but declined to introduce herself because she did not want to disturb her.
• Li Qiuzhi secretly contacted Mona and asked her to approach Layla, while Mona warned him not to blame her if their planned meeting was exposed.

Li Qiuzhi introduced Layla to Mona, and the three spent the day discussing astrology and Akademiya research at the House of Daena. Layla grew comfortable with Mona and earned enough Friendship to reach Level 8 before returning home to work on her thesis.

• Li Qiuzhi brought Mona over to meet Layla and revealed that Mona was his girlfriend.
• Mona and Layla discussed Akademiya studies and astrology while Li Qiuzhi stayed nearby and browsed the Akasha Forum.
• Li Qiuzhi contacted Nahida through the Beacon to discuss advertising on the Akasha Forum.
• After lunch, Mona recognized Layla's talent and decided to keep mentoring her, while Layla found a direction for her thesis.
• Li Qiuzhi removed Layla's fatigue before she left, and her Friendship with him rose to Level 8.
• Li Qiuzhi returned to the Wonderland Space with Mona and continued cultivating, reaching 731,242 progress.

Li Qiuzhi took Mona into the universe to use astrology to search for nearby planets and determine which direction Earth lay in. Mona improved her reading of the unfamiliar, dust-obscured stars with help from her research instruments, leaving them ready to interpret the clearer divination.

• Li Qiuzhi explained how he had escaped Teyvat’s False Sky and brought Mona from Wonderland Space into the universe inside his Unobservable Barrier.
• Mona began divining for nearby planets and Earth, but the cosmic dust made the reflected stars too dim to interpret clearly.
• Mona asked Li Qiuzhi to retrieve her Astral Track Calculator and Star Chart Positioning Assistant so she could work backward from the blurry reading.
• Mona sat on Li Qiuzhi’s crossed legs while she calculated stellar parameters, and he held her as she worked.
• Mona adjusted the parameters and performed another divination, producing a clearer starry reflection for her to interpret.

Mona divined that Li Qiuzhi and she were inside the stomach of an enormous Cosmic Beast, and Li Qiuzhi collected its blood for Lisa, Sucrose, and Greater Lord Rukkhadevata to study. While they researched it, Li Qiuzhi prepared to escort Nilou into the Desert and met her and Dehya at their agreed meeting place.

• Mona used the Hydromantic Dish to identify their location as the stomach of a gigantic creature, and Li Qiuzhi measured its wall at about two hundred kilometers away.
• Li Qiuzhi returned with Mona, later cut the creature's stomach wall to collect blood, and isolated it in a laboratory for Lisa, Sucrose, and Greater Lord Rukkhadevata to examine.
• Lisa and Sucrose began researching the blood overnight, while Li Qiuzhi arranged to wait for their findings before challenging the Cosmic Beast.
• The next day, Li Qiuzhi checked on the research, then traveled to Sumeru to meet Nilou for their trip to the Desert.
• Nilou arrived before the agreed time, and Dehya joined them just as the appointed time arrived.

Li Qiuzhi took Dehya and Nilou from Sumeru City to Caravan Ribat by flying, where they learned more about efforts to improve life in the desert. As they prepared to travel onward to Aaru Village, Li Qiuzhi secretly healed an injured mercenary.

• Li Qiuzhi flew with Dehya and Nilou from Armna Pool to Caravan Ribat, and Dehya explained that she planned to donate Mora and visit friends in Aaru Village.
• Li Qiuzhi asked Nahida about the desert, and she explained that King Deshret’s remaining authority affected its environment and asked him to look for remnants of that power.
• Nilou enjoyed seeing Apam Woods from above, and her increased affection for Li Qiuzhi raised her Friendship level to Lv.6.
• The group rested in Caravan Ribat and then prepared to walk toward Aaru Village rather than fly the rest of the way.
• After a bloodied mercenary was carried through the gate, Li Qiuzhi used Golden Sword Intent to heal him, earning praise from Dehya and Nilou.

Li Qiuzhi, Dehya, and Nilou traveled into the desert, where an Eremitic Windworm ambushed them and destroyed Nilou’s boots. Li Qiuzhi prepared to face the worms’ companions, but the chapter left them surrounded by a much larger group than expected.

• Li Qiuzhi shaded the group with a Hydro mist as Dehya guided them toward a dune overlooking Caravan Ribat.
• Nilou stepped into an adhesive sand trap, and Li Qiuzhi freed her by removing her boots and carrying her away from an Eremitic Windworm.
• Dehya attacked the worm, but it burrowed away; she warned that it would bring its companions, while Li Qiuzhi chose to wait and fight them.
• Li Qiuzhi formed replacement boots from Hydro for Nilou, and she gained more goodwill toward him.
• Li Qiuzhi sensed fifty-six Eremitic Windworms approaching and raised a water barrier around the group.
• The worms erupted from the sand and surrounded Li Qiuzhi, Dehya, and Nilou.

Li Qiuzhi, Dehya, and Nilou fought their way through the desert and camped overnight on their journey to Aaru Village. After Lisa and Sucrose found that Cosmic Beast blood could be made into powerful nutritional potions, Li Qiuzhi planned to steal more of it, and dawn arrived with Nilou sharing the night watch.

• Li Qiuzhi killed a swarm of Eremitic Windworms, gaining around 130,000 Experience Points, and the group continued toward Aaru Village.
• Dehya defeated a pack of Desert Wolves that attacked their campsite, killing the Wolf King and driving the others into the flames.
• Li Qiuzhi, Dehya, and Nilou agreed on a night-watch schedule, and Dehya posted a starry-sky video that quickly received over a thousand thumbs-ups.
• Li Qiuzhi learned that Lisa and Sucrose had made Super Nutritional Potions from Cosmic Beast blood and considered stealing more to produce a steady supply.
• Dehya finished the first watch, and Nilou joined Li Qiuzhi for the second as the night gave way to dawn.

Li Qiuzhi, Nilou, and Dehya arrived at Aaru Village, where Candace welcomed them and arranged their lodging. Dehya stayed to discuss her donation for the village’s children, while Li Qiuzhi accompanied Nilou around the village.

• Li Qiuzhi and the others reached Aaru Village and entered after Dehya greeted the guard Alei.
• Dehya explained that rumors about Candace controlling sandstorms were exaggerated, then introduced Nilou and Li Qiuzhi to Candace.
• Dehya told Candace about her donation for the village’s children and asked her to arrange lodging and provide a map of nearby oases.
• Candace took them to the village’s best inn, where Nilou insisted on paying for their stay.
• Dehya remained with Candace to discuss how to use the donated funds, while Li Qiuzhi accompanied Nilou around Aaru Village.

Li Qiuzhi gave Nilou a pair of desert boots, and the gift left her wondering whether her feelings for him had grown romantic. After breakfast, they flew from Aaru Village toward Abundance Oasis and arrived within sight of its grove.

• Li Qiuzhi bought Nilou ankle boots, and she accepted them as a gift between friends.
• Nilou recalled her intimate moments with Li Qiuzhi, blushed, and hurried to end their outing.
• The next morning, Nilou revealed she had slept poorly after staying up thinking about Li Qiuzhi.
• Li Qiuzhi and Nilou ate breakfast, then set out for Abundance Oasis southwest of Aaru Village.
• After flying for less than an hour, they reached the oasis and saw its grove amid the desert.