Chapter Summaries

Li Qiuzhi learned that the dangerous domain he had discovered was full of Ruin Machines, and the Adventurers' Guild planned to explore it tomorrow. He decided to find teammates and sign up, and the chapter ended as Bennett arrived to join the expedition.

• Li Qiuzhi invested experience points in Stealth Assassination Art, reaching level four and gaining ten minutes of Stealth Invisibility.
• Li Qiuzhi visited Katheryne at the Adventurers' Guild and learned that an investigator had found his domain and reported many kinds of Ruin Machines inside.
• Katheryne told Li Qiuzhi that Guild Master Cyrus would organize a preliminary exploration tomorrow and that participants needed teammates.
• Li Qiuzhi decided to seek Noelle and find backup teammates so he could join the exploration, while worrying that Jean might object to bringing Noelle.
• Bennett arrived at the guild and told Katheryne he wanted to sign up for the domain exploration.

Li Qiuzhi offered to team up with Bennett and promised to find a third adventurer, then went to the Knights of Favonius headquarters to look for Noelle. He learned that Noelle had been assigned to watch Klee, leaving Li Qiuzhi to seek her there.

• Katheryne refused Bennett's request to adventure alone, and Li Qiuzhi offered to join him.
• Katheryne said their team needed at least three members, so Li Qiuzhi volunteered to find the last teammate.
• Li Qiuzhi and Bennett agreed to meet at the Adventurers' Guild at four, while Bennett went to ask adventurers at the tavern for help.
• Li Qiuzhi went to the Knights of Favonius headquarters and asked Virag whether Noelle was there.
• Virag told Li Qiuzhi that Jean had assigned Noelle to keep Klee from sneaking out on another adventure.

Li Qiuzhi found Bennett at the Angel's Share, where Bennett had recruited Fischl as a teammate for an expedition. The three registered with Katheryne and learned they would depart for the Temple of the Thousand Winds at six the next morning.

• Li Qiuzhi searched for Noelle but could not find her, so he went to check on Bennett.
• At the Angel's Share, Li Qiuzhi found Bennett speaking with Fischl, who had agreed to join his team.
• Li Qiuzhi joined the group and played along with Fischl's dramatic manner of speaking, earning her favor.
• Bennett, Fischl, and Li Qiuzhi registered with Katheryne, who explained that Fischl was an investigator assigned to examine the domain.
• Katheryne told the adventurers to meet Guild Master Cyrus at the city gate at six the next morning and prepare for an extended expedition with supplies and medical support.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, Bennett, and Oz joined the Adventurers’ Guild expedition to explore the ruins domain at the Temple of the Thousand Winds. After entering the domain, they reached a fork in the paths and began deciding which route to take.

• Li Qiuzhi met Fischl and Bennett at the city gates, and the three set out with the Adventurers’ Guild expedition led by Cyrus.
• The adventurers established a temporary supply camp at the Temple of the Thousand Winds and began exploring the domain.
• Bennett was struck by a falling pebble after passing through the Domain Portal, so Li Qiuzhi moved him out of the way of more falling stones.
• Fischl and Oz scouted ahead and found a fork in the domain’s paths, where Li Qiuzhi considered the routes and glanced at Bennett.

Li Qiuzhi guided the group toward a promising route through the Domain, where they found an Exquisite Chest sealed by four Ruin Guards. As the group prepared to fight, Li Qiuzhi asked Bennett whether he could use his elemental burst.

• Li Qiuzhi asked Bennett which direction seemed most likely to contain treasure, then used Bennett’s instincts to argue for taking the path on the right.
• Fischl ordered Oz to scout ahead, and he found an Exquisite Chest in a large pit.
• The group hurried to the pit, where Bennett tripped and fell before they saw the chest surrounded by four dormant Ruin Guards.
• Li Qiuzhi explained that defeating the Ruin Guards would break the runic seal on the chest and considered how to limit Bennett’s bad luck during the fight.
• Li Qiuzhi asked Bennett whether he could use his elemental burst.

Li Qiuzhi and Bennett battled the Ruin Guards protecting a sealed Exquisite Chest in a Domain, while Fischl and Oz drew their attention. After defeating several guards, Li Qiuzhi spent his Experience Points to greatly improve his archery, leaving him close to mastering it.

• Li Qiuzhi asked Fischl and Oz to draw the Ruin Guards’ attention while Bennett prepared his Elemental Burst.
• Oz flew toward the Ruin Guards, awakening them, and Bennett’s Fantastic Voyage strengthened Li Qiuzhi.
• Li Qiuzhi disabled four Ruin Guards with Armor-Piercing Arrows, and half the runes sealing the Exquisite Chest lit up.
• Li Qiuzhi gained enough Experience Points to raise Hunter’s Archery to level eight, becoming a far more capable archer.

Li Qiuzhi, Bennett, and Fischl opened a chest after defeating its seal, but Bennett’s bad luck caused the ground to collapse beneath them. They landed in a dark hidden passage with the chest, and Li Qiuzhi reassured Bennett as they prepared to continue.

• Oz praised Li Qiuzhi’s archery, and Li Qiuzhi credited Bennett’s elemental burst for helping him.
• Fischl, Bennett, and Li Qiuzhi approached the Exquisite Chest, but the ground broke apart as Fischl reached for it.
• Bennett used his Wind Glider and grabbed Li Qiuzhi, who caught the falling chest while Fischl and Oz glided nearby.
• The group landed in a dark passage below, where Fischl and Oz identified their surroundings as a hidden passage.
• Bennett blamed his bad luck for the collapse, but Fischl and Li Qiuzhi encouraged him and praised his resilience.

After recovering their spirits, Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, Bennett, and Oz explored the chamber they had fallen into and opened an Exquisite Chest. Li Qiuzhi obtained Fischl’s permission to buy its valuable Primogem, which he hoped to use for experience points.

• Bennett asked where the group had landed, and Fischl and Li Qiuzhi decided to explore beyond the barred iron gate rather than send Oz for help.
• Li Qiuzhi opened the Exquisite Chest and found Mora, a one-star pocket watch Artifact, a two-star circlet Artifact, and a Primogem.
• The group stored the chest’s just over 9,700 Mora in Fischl’s Vision, and Oz and Bennett explained that Primogems were rare and worth at least 100,000 Mora each.
• Li Qiuzhi asked to buy the Primogem after his Character Panel offered to absorb it for experience points, and Bennett agreed to sell it.
• Fischl gave Li Qiuzhi permission to take the Primogem.

Li Qiuzhi used a Primogem to gain experience and raised Hunter's Archery to its maximum level, gaining the Shadowless and Silent trait. While searching for a way to open the iron door, he used Bennett's Pyro and his silent arrows to light a Torch Mechanism, impressing Bennett and Fischl.

• Li Qiuzhi absorbed the Primogem, gained 3,000 experience points, and raised Hunter's Archery to level 10, unlocking Shadowless and Silent.
• Bennett, Fischl, Oz, and Li Qiuzhi searched the room for a mechanism that could open the iron door.
• Li Qiuzhi found a Torch Mechanism high in the wall, and Bennett and Fischl soon found one each.
• Bennett lent Pyro to Li Qiuzhi's arrow, which silently struck and lit the Torch Mechanism without losing its flame.
• Bennett and Fischl praised Li Qiuzhi's archery, and Fischl gained affection for him.

Li Qiuzhi, Bennett, and Fischl found and lit the fourth Torch Mechanism hidden in the rubble, but lighting it summoned a Ruin Hunter. The machine nearly struck Fischl before Li Qiuzhi tackled her out of its path and helped her retreat.

• Li Qiuzhi and his companions found that lighting the first three Torch Mechanisms had caused nothing to happen, so Fischl sent Oz to search for another.
• Oz searched the chamber but found no Torch Mechanism, and Fischl suggested it might be hidden in the rubble beneath the broken dome.
• Bennett fell among the rubble and accidentally exposed the fourth Torch Mechanism between two fragments.
• Bennett used Pyro to light the final Torch Mechanism, but the iron gate remained shut.
• A Ruin Hunter appeared above the group and charged at Fischl, so Li Qiuzhi tackled her backward and pulled her to safety.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Bennett fought a Ruin Hunter in the Temple of the Thousand Winds and destroyed it by breaking its exposed core with a Pyro-infused Quenched Arrow and an Overloaded reaction. After the machine fell, the iron gate behind them opened.

• The Ruin Hunter nearly struck Li Qiuzhi and Fischl, but Fischl escaped injury and gained Friendship with him after he protected her.
• Fischl and Oz distracted the Ruin Hunter while Bennett’s Pyro-infused sword triggered an Overloaded reaction that briefly slowed it.
• Li Qiuzhi and Fischl recognized that the Ruin Hunter would expose its core when its targets moved out of range, so they retreated with Bennett toward the iron gate.
• Fischl recalled Oz, and the Ruin Hunter rose into the air and exposed its core as it prepared to fire missiles.
• Li Qiuzhi struck the core with a Pyro-releasing Quenched Arrow, causing an Overloaded reaction that broke it and sent the Ruin Hunter crashing down.
• The iron gate opened shortly after the Ruin Hunter fell.

Li Qiuzhi and his companions explored the passage beyond the opened iron gate, found a chest, and chose a route through the ruins. When they heard voices ahead, Li Qiuzhi used the Debt Collector’s stealth art to scout while the others waited.

• Li Qiuzhi collected a chaos circuit from the defeated Ruin Hunter before the group entered the passage.
• Fischl spotted and opened a wooden chest containing Mora and two Artifacts, which the party stored away.
• Bennett chose the left route, so Li Qiuzhi and the others went right and eventually heard voices ahead.
• Li Qiuzhi stopped Fischl from sending Oz to scout and used Stealth Invisibility to vanish.
• Li Qiuzhi told Fischl, Bennett, and Oz to wait while he went ahead to investigate.

Li Qiuzhi discovered that the Abyss Order had manipulated people into entering the Domain, then returned to Bennett and Fischl with the news. The group decided they could take on the monsters themselves, and Li Qiuzhi prepared to use stealth against the Pyro Abyss Mage.

• Li Qiuzhi secretly approached a room and overheard two Abyss Mages boasting that the Abyss Order had lured people into the Domain by manipulating the seal.
• Li Qiuzhi saw the Pyro and Cryo Abyss Mages surrounded by Hilichurls, but withdrew before his invisibility ran out.
• Li Qiuzhi reunited with Bennett, Fischl, and Oz and told them what he had learned.
• Li Qiuzhi proposed retreating to report the conspiracy, but Oz argued that the group could defeat the monsters themselves.
• Bennett offered to fight the Cryo Abyss Mage, while Fischl and Oz planned to handle the Hilichurls; Li Qiuzhi realized he could use stealth to attack the Pyro Abyss Mage before it raised its shield.

Li Qiuzhi ambushed and killed the Pyro Abyss Mage, but the Cryo Abyss Mage and its Hilichurl forces attacked before he could escape. Bennett and Fischl helped counter the assault, and Li Qiuzhi brought down two Hilichurl Shooters as the battle continued.

• Li Qiuzhi rested, then used Stealth Invisibility to approach the Abyss Mages and kill the Pyro Abyss Mage with a Quenched Arrow.
• The Cryo Abyss Mage teleported in front of Li Qiuzhi and prepared an ice-spike attack, but Bennett interrupted it with Passion Overload.
• The Cryo Abyss Mage ordered the Hilichurls to attack, while the Anemo Hilichurl Shaman summoned tornadoes and the Hydro Hilichurl Shaman tried to heal it.
• Fischl used Midnight Phantasmagoria to strike the nearby Hilichurls with lightning and weaken the Cryo Abyss Mage's shield.
• Li Qiuzhi fired Armor-Piercing Arrows at the Electro and Cryo Hilichurl Shooters, bringing both down after two shots each.

Li Qiuzhi, Bennett, Fischl, and Oz defeated the Cryo Abyss Mage and its Hilichurl forces in the Domain. They spared the stunned mage to question it about why it had been luring people there, and it tried to bargain for its safety.

• Fischl and Oz defeated the Anemo and Hydro Hilichurl Shamans while Li Qiuzhi and the others fought the remaining enemies.
• Li Qiuzhi used Quenched Arrows to weaken the Cryo Abyss Mage's shield, while Bennett unleashed Fantastic Voyage and rallied the group against the Hilichurls.
• Li Qiuzhi shattered the Cryo Abyss Mage's shield with another Pyro arrow, then helped defeat the two Hilichurl Mitachurls.
• The group surrounded the stunned Cryo Abyss Mage and prepared to question it about the Domain's kidnappings.
• The Cryo Abyss Mage woke, lost its nerve, and asked what it could do for the humans.

Li Qiuzhi and his companions learned that the Abyss Order had lured adventurers into the Domain to awaken the remains of a god and threaten Mondstadt. Li Qiuzhi suspected the remains were nearing extinction, and the Cryo Abyss Mage's silence suggested his theory had struck a nerve.

• Li Qiuzhi questioned the Cryo Abyss Mage, who revealed that an Abyss Herald had opened the Domain portal and assigned the Abyss Order to lure adventurers inside.
• The Cryo Abyss Mage explained that the Domain contained the remains of a god hostile to humans, which would awaken after many people entered.
• The Cryo Abyss Mage admitted that the Abyss Order intended to use the awakening remains to threaten Mondstadt City.
• Oz proposed closing the portal, but the Cryo Abyss Mage warned that the Herald had reinforced it and that adventurers trapped inside would be endangered.
• Li Qiuzhi reasoned that the god had long been dead and its remains might be fading, with their awakening representing a final flare before extinction.
• Bennett, Fischl, and Oz welcomed Li Qiuzhi's theory, while the Cryo Abyss Mage fell silent.

Li Qiuzhi and his companions learned that the Abyss Order planned to use dangerous god remains, then headed toward the Domain’s third floor to investigate. They discovered a Stonehide Lawachurl guarding the passage and planned to test it with ranged attacks.

• Li Qiuzhi exposed the Cryo Abyss Mage’s evasions, and it revealed that the god remains were on the Domain’s third floor and that the Abyss Order’s leader was called the “Prince.”
• Li Qiuzhi and his companions killed the Cryo Abyss Mage, then sent Oz ahead to scout the route to the third floor.
• Fischl and Oz spotted a Stonehide Lawachurl guarding the passage, and Bennett recalled nearly being killed by one before.
• Fischl, Oz, and Bennett discussed the Lawachurl’s Geo armor and their lack of Geo attacks or Claymores.
• Li Qiuzhi proposed testing the Stonehide Lawachurl with ranged bow attacks before deciding how to proceed.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Bennett provoked a Stonehide Lawachurl guarding the Third-Floor Entrance, but their attack barely hurt it and it chased them. As the monster closed in, Li Qiuzhi spent all his Experience Points to reach level 14, then picked up Fischl and Bennett to carry them while running.

• Fischl and Li Qiuzhi hit the Stonehide Lawachurl with Electro and Pyro arrows, triggering an Overloaded blast that only briefly startled it.
• The enraged Stonehide Lawachurl charged after Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Bennett as they fled.
• Li Qiuzhi spent all 5,573 Experience Points to raise his level from 10 to 14.
• When the Lawachurl continued to pursue them, Li Qiuzhi switched places with Fischl, lifted her and Bennett, and ran with both of them in his arms.

Li Qiuzhi proposed using himself as bait so Fischl and Bennett could reach the third-floor entrance while Oz sought reinforcements. After drawing the Stonehide Lawachurl away and vanishing with his Stealth Assassination Art, Li Qiuzhi reunited with Fischl and Bennett at the staircase down.

• Li Qiuzhi carried Fischl and Bennett away from the Stonehide Lawachurl, and Fischl praised him despite complaining that he had handled her roughly.
• Li Qiuzhi and the others decided Oz would fly to the Adventurers' Guild for reinforcements while they tried to reach the third floor.
• Li Qiuzhi shot the Stonehide Lawachurl with an Armor-Piercing Arrow to lure it away as Fischl and Bennett slipped inside.
• Li Qiuzhi used his Stealth Assassination Art to evade the pursuing Stonehide Lawachurl and reached the third-floor staircase, where Fischl and Bennett were waiting.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Bennett found the God remains beneath the ruins and destroyed them before they could fully awaken. The remains vanished, leaving Li Qiuzhi disappointed that defeating them earned only 121 Experience Points.

• Li Qiuzhi rejoined Fischl and Bennett, and the three descended toward the third floor while avoiding the Stonehide Lawachurl.
• Bennett sensed that strange power on the darkened floor was confusing their thoughts, so the party followed drifting dark mist to its source.
• The party discovered the God remains gathering mist into a sphere and saw the three-eyed monster-like figure within it.
• Fischl and Bennett attacked the God remains, while Li Qiuzhi supported them with Quenched Arrows.
• Li Qiuzhi’s final attack destroyed the God remains, and his Character Panel awarded him only 121 Experience Points.