Chapter Summaries

Li Qiuzhi improved his swordsmanship and reached level thirty-one while Lumine and Paimon made a cake. The next morning, Amber delivered Flight Licenses and said Acting Grand Master Jean had instructions for him, while Eula came to test his swordsmanship.

• Li Qiuzhi raised his Rhein One-Handed Swordsmanship to level ten, fused it with Favonius Royal Swordsmanship, and gained Royal One-Handed Swordsmanship with three extraordinary traits.
• Li Qiuzhi spent three thousand Experience Points to reach level thirty-one.
• Lumine accidentally broke a bowl while using Anemo to whip egg whites, then spent the afternoon making a cream cake with Paimon and Li Qiuzhi.
• Amber arrived with Eula, delivered Li Qiuzhi's Flight Licenses, and said Acting Grand Master Jean had instructions for them.
• Eula said she had come to see whether Li Qiuzhi had been slacking off and to test his swordsmanship.

Li Qiuzhi trained with Eula, who proved his swordsmanship had nearly reached her level but defeated him with her greater strength. After she also beat Lumine, Li Qiuzhi invited Eula to help find Venti and return the Holy Lyre der Himmel, and she agreed.

• Amber asked Li Qiuzhi to return the Holy Lyre der Himmel to Mondstadt Cathedral, and he agreed to look for Venti.
• Eula joined Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon for breakfast, then took Li Qiuzhi to the backyard to test his swordsmanship.
• Li Qiuzhi impressed Eula with his speed and skill, but she overpowered him and pinned him with a wooden sword.
• Eula sparred with Lumine and defeated her after a prolonged exchange.
• Li Qiuzhi explained that the Fatui might threaten Venti and invited Eula to help retrieve the Holy Lyre der Himmel, and she agreed.

Diluc told Lumine that an Abyss Mage had said she resembled the Abyss Order's leader, the Prince, giving her a possible lead on her brother. The group found Venti at Anemo Archon Statue Plaza and asked him to return the Holy Lyre der Himmel to the cathedral.

• Charles told Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, Paimon, and Eula that Diluc wanted to see them upstairs at Angel's Share.
• Diluc said he had investigated Li Qiuzhi and Lumine, then revealed that an Abyss Mage had compared Lumine to the Abyss Order's leader, the Prince.
• Lumine decided to watch for the Abyss Order, and Eula offered to capture and question its members if she encountered them.
• The group found Venti playing the lyre for children at Anemo Archon Statue Plaza, and Lumine asked him to return the Holy Lyre der Himmel.

Li Qiuzhi and the others returned the restored Holy Lyre der Himmel to Barbara, and Lumine asked Venti about the god who took her brother. As Venti struggled to answer, a wave of frost froze everyone but Paimon, and a woman approached.

• Li Qiuzhi, Venti, Lumine, Eula, and Paimon went to Mondstadt Cathedral to return the Holy Lyre der Himmel.
• Eula greeted Barbara, who revealed that she had told Jean the lyre had not been returned.
• Venti gave Barbara the restored lyre, and Barbara thanked the group.
• Outside the cathedral, Lumine asked Venti whether he knew the god who had taken her brother, but he could not recall anyone matching her description.
• A wave of frost swept over the group and froze everyone except Paimon as a woman in a black-and-white dress approached.

La Signora froze Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Eula before taking Venti’s Gnosis, but Li Qiuzhi wounded her and Eula forced her to retreat. Venti explained that he had let her take the Gnosis to stop the Fatui from troubling Mondstadt over it.

• La Signora froze the group and approached Venti while Li Qiuzhi and Lumine tried to break free and Eula worked to shatter the ice around her legs.
• La Signora took Venti’s Gnosis, and Li Qiuzhi shot her with a Pyro-infused arrow that struck her forehead through her mask.
• La Signora threatened Li Qiuzhi and gained negative feelings toward him, but Eula broke free and attacked her with her claymore.
• Eula damaged La Signora’s shields and summoned a Lightfall Sword, prompting La Signora to vanish before the fight could continue.
• Li Qiuzhi freed Venti from the ice, and Venti explained that he had allowed La Signora to take his Gnosis to prevent further Fatui trouble in Mondstadt.

Venti explained that losing his Gnosis would only weaken him, while the long-term erosion affecting gods could alter their personalities. He directed Lumine toward Liyue and its Geo Archon, then Kaeya arrived to address La Signora’s attack, leaving the Knights preparing to surround the Goethe Grand Hotel.

• Venti explained that a Gnosis granted elemental authority and that losing it would not harm him, while time and distress could cause gods to suffer erosion.
• Venti said long periods of sleep could slow erosion and told Lumine that Rex Lapis might know who had taken her brother.
• Venti estimated that the Rite of Descension would take place in about two months, and Lumine agreed to prepare for the journey to Liyue.
• Kaeya arrived with Knights of Favonius, and Eula told him that a Fatui Harbinger had attacked and fled.
• Kaeya warned that the attack could become a serious diplomatic issue, and Venti urged him to prevent war between Mondstadt and Snezhnaya.
• Kaeya asked Eula, Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and the others to accompany him to surround the Goethe Grand Hotel.

The Knights of Favonius confronted the Fatui at the Goethe Grand Hotel after La Signora attacked a knight and stole an item from Mondstadt. La Signora had already fled with the Anemo Archon’s Gnosis, leaving the Knights with no choice but to seek a warrant while the Fatui denied responsibility.

• Eula endured the citizens’ insults, and Kaeya had the Knights disperse the crowd outside the Goethe Grand Hotel.
• Anastasia denied that La Signora had attacked a knight, claiming the Harbinger had left Mondstadt the day before.
• Kaeya led the Knights inside the hotel to search while Li Qiuzhi, Eula, and Lumine guarded the entrance.
• The search found no trace of La Signora, so the Knights left and planned to issue a warrant over the attack and damage to the cathedral.
• Paimon complained that the Fatui had escaped accountability, while Venti said he had tried to contact the Tsaritsa about the Gnoses but received no response.

Venti gave Li Qiuzhi a dragon scale containing an Ultimate-level Anemo archery technique, and Lumine planned to leave for Liyue the next day. After buying supplies for the journey, Li Qiuzhi went to the Adventurers' Guild to find Fischl and tell her about Venti's gift.

• Venti gave Li Qiuzhi Dvalin's scale, which contained the Ultimate-level technique Divine Era Archery.
• Lumine said she would set out for Liyue the next day, while Li Qiuzhi asked her to bring him there after finding a Teleport Waypoint.
• Eula invited Li Qiuzhi, Lumine, and Paimon to lunch at the Cat's Tail Tavern, and gained 200 Friendship points with Li Qiuzhi.
• After lunch, Eula returned to the Knights of Favonius, and Li Qiuzhi and Lumine bought supplies for the Liyue journey, spending 200,000 Mora.
• Li Qiuzhi went to the Adventurers' Guild to ask Katheryne where Fischl was so he could tell her about Venti's gift.

Li Qiuzhi accepted a commission to help Livingstone The Doctor clear monsters at Dadaupa Gorge and waited at the Adventurers' Guild for Fischl. After sharing a dragon-scale archery technique with her, he kissed her and invited her to join him on the commission, leaving her flustered but insisting he was only an attendant she was a little closer to.

• Katheryne told Li Qiuzhi about Livingstone The Doctor's commission to clear monsters near the Sword Cemetery Seal, and he accepted it.
• Li Qiuzhi asked where Fischl was, then waited at the Adventurers' Guild until she returned from an investigation with Oz.
• Li Qiuzhi gave Fischl a Stormterror scale containing an advanced archery technique and asked for her help learning it.
• Li Qiuzhi held Fischl's hand and kissed her, and she stamped on his foot to make him stop.
• Li Qiuzhi invited Fischl to accompany him to Dadaupa Gorge the next day, and she denied that they were lovers, calling him an attendant she was a little closer to.

Li Qiuzhi learned to infuse his Dull Blade with Anemo and prepared to investigate the Sword Cemetery seal with Fischl. After Lumine and Paimon left for Liyue, he met Fischl and traveled with her toward Dadaupa Gorge.

• Li Qiuzhi invited Fischl to join him on a commission to undo the Sword Cemetery seal, while Lumine declined because she planned to travel to Liyue.
• After dinner, Lumine taught Li Qiuzhi to infuse his Dull Blade with Anemo, and he learned to maintain the infusion for ten seconds.
• Li Qiuzhi's Character Panel recorded Anemo Control Lv. 1, though he lacked enough Experience Points to raise it.
• The next morning, Li Qiuzhi saw Lumine and Paimon off at the city gate as they departed for Liyue.
• Li Qiuzhi met Fischl and Oz at the Adventurers' Guild, and the group traveled toward Dadaupa Gorge.

Li Qiuzhi and Fischl cleared Hilichurls from the road through Dadaupa Gorge, and Li Qiuzhi learned the basics of Divine Era Archery from the Stormterror Scale. They reached the sealed Sword Cemetery, where they met Livingstone The Doctor, who had been waiting for someone.

• Li Qiuzhi and Fischl defeated the Hilichurls blocking the road, with Fischl and Oz taking out the archers and shamans.
• Oz revealed that Fischl had practiced archery from the Stormterror Scale, and Li Qiuzhi discovered that its techniques were transmitted through memories.
• Li Qiuzhi learned Divine Era Archery at Ultimate Lv.1 after studying the Stormterror Scale.
• Li Qiuzhi and Fischl arrived at the sealed Sword Cemetery and found Livingstone The Doctor pacing nearby.
• Li Qiuzhi greeted Livingstone The Doctor, who introduced herself and asked who they were.

Li Qiuzhi, Fischl, and Oz accepted Livingstone’s commission to activate three Elemental Monuments inside nearby Hilichurl camps and break the Sword Cemetery Seal. After finding the Good Sleep Clan’s camp full of sleeping Hilichurls, they planned to have Oz activate its Electro Monument and cautiously approach the Eclipse Clan.

• Li Qiuzhi introduced himself, Fischl, and Oz to Livingstone, who explained that activating three Elemental Monuments would break the Sword Cemetery Seal.
• Livingstone told them the monuments were inside the Good Meat Clan, the Good Sleep Clan, and the Eclipse Clan camps, and advised them to visit the southern camp at night.
• After dinner, Livingstone stayed behind at camp while Li Qiuzhi and Fischl crept up to the Good Sleep Clan’s fence.
• Fischl used Oz’s shared vision to confirm that the Hilichurls were asleep and locate the Electro Monument by the pool.
• Li Qiuzhi proposed having Oz activate the monument from a safe distance before they approached the Eclipse Clan cautiously to check for the Cryo Abyss Mage.

Li Qiuzhi and Fischl worked to undo the seals at Dadaupa Gorge by activating the Elemental Monuments without alerting the Hilichurls. After Oz spotted a Cryo Abyss Mage at the Eclipse Clan camp, they prepared a long-range Pyro shot, leaving the arrow in flight.

• Fischl and Li Qiuzhi climbed the cliff quietly, and Li Qiuzhi accidentally knocked Fischl down before kissing her and helping her up.
• Oz reported that he had activated the Electro Elemental Monument, undoing one layer of the seal.
• Li Qiuzhi asked Oz to scout the Eclipse Clan camp, where Fischl saw the Cryo Abyss Mage that had escaped from Lisa.
• Fischl identified the camp's Elemental Monument as Pyro and estimated it was at least seven hundred meters away.
• Fischl and Li Qiuzhi moved within about five hundred meters of the monument and released a Pyro-infused arrow together.

Li Qiuzhi and Fischl lit the Pyro Elemental Monument while avoiding the Cryo Abyss Mage, undoing a second layer of the Sword Cemetery seal. After resting at camp, they set out toward the Good Meat Clan’s camp to reach the final monument.

• Li Qiuzhi carried Fischl away after Oz spotted the Cryo Abyss Mage approaching, and the mage failed to find them.
• Oz confirmed that the Pyro Elemental Monument had been lit, and Li Qiuzhi and Fischl returned safely to camp.
• Livingstone The Doctor celebrated that two layers of the Sword Cemetery’s seal had been undone and agreed the group should rest before heading north.
• Li Qiuzhi tried to share Fischl’s tent, but she refused, so he pitched his own tent beside hers.
• The group packed up the next morning and headed toward the Good Meat Clan’s camp, where Fischl sent Oz to scout ahead.

Li Qiuzhi and Fischl distracted the Good Meat Clan Hilichurls so Oz could use the Mist Flower to deactivate the final seal at the Sword Cemetery. They returned to Livingstone The Doctor and claimed the Luxurious Chest as their commission payment.

• Li Qiuzhi attacked the Hilichurl Mitachurls from hiding, killing one with Hydro and Pyro arrows, then picked off other Hilichurls with Anemo arrows.
• Fischl asked whether Li Qiuzhi would love other girls, and he admitted he would not reject them; he kissed her before they continued their plan.
• The enraged Hilichurls left the arena to search the camp, giving Oz a chance to carry the Mist Flower to the Cryo Elemental Monument.
• Li Qiuzhi and Fischl retreated to the Sword Cemetery and found that its final Energy Barrier had disappeared.
• Livingstone The Doctor examined the ancient battlefield, and Li Qiuzhi reminded her that the Luxurious Chest was their agreed payment.

Li Qiuzhi and Fischl opened the Sword Cemetery’s Luxurious Chest, and Fischl let him keep its Primogems and Claymore Billet. After using the Primogems to reach level 40, Li Qiuzhi gained the chance to choose a new racial specialty.

• Oz returned the Mist Flower to Fischl while Livingstone examined the rusted weapons in the Sword Cemetery.
• Li Qiuzhi and Fischl opened the Luxurious Chest and found 100,000 Mora, ten Primogems, two Four-Star Artifacts, Anemo Sigils, and a Northlander Claymore Billet.
• Fischl agreed to let Li Qiuzhi keep the Primogems and Claymore Billet in exchange for future Electro ascension materials.
• Livingstone asked to photograph the Sword Cemetery, and Li Qiuzhi agreed to wait while she made her records.
• Li Qiuzhi used the Primogems to raise his level from 31 to 40 and received a choice between Psychic Tentacles, Overload Function, and Healing Blood.

Li Qiuzhi chose Psychic Tentacles as his new racial specialty, strengthened Anemo Control, and tested both new powers while waiting at the Sword Cemetery. After returning to Mondstadt with Fischl and Livingstone The Doctor, he invited Fischl to dinner and planned to ask Wagner about forging a four-star claymore.

• Li Qiuzhi chose Psychic Tentacles, which let him project weak invisible tentacles within one meter, and spent 3,000 Experience Points to raise Anemo Control to Lv.3.
• Li Qiuzhi tested Wind Bullet and Wind Blade, then used his psychic tentacles to steal Fischl's eyepatch and got his shoe stepped on.
• Livingstone The Doctor finished photographing the Sword Cemetery's research materials, and she, Li Qiuzhi, and Fischl left the site.
• At Mondstadt's city gate, Livingstone The Doctor thanked Li Qiuzhi and Fischl and departed with her discoveries.
• Li Qiuzhi invited Fischl to dinner and said he wanted to ask Wagner whether he could forge a four-star claymore; Oz advised him that Knights of Favonius craftsmen might offer better terms.

Li Qiuzhi ordered a Moonlight Greatsword from Wagner’s Blacksmith and spent the night with Fischl after they prepared dinner together. The next morning, Fischl chose to rest at Li Qiuzhi’s home while he went to earn Mora for his weapon.

• Li Qiuzhi learned about the Blacksmith’s forgeable four-star claymores, chose the Moonlight Greatsword, and left a claymore billet with Schutz as a deposit.
• Li Qiuzhi and Fischl shopped for ingredients, returned to his home, and prepared dinner together.
• Li Qiuzhi kissed Fischl and they spent the night together at his home.
• The next morning, Li Qiuzhi prepared breakfast while Fischl decided to rest for two days and stop taking Adventurers’ Guild assignments.
• Li Qiuzhi agreed to cook for Fischl and planned to take a commission to save Mora for his weapon.

Li Qiuzhi met Albedo, Sucrose, Timaeus, and Kaeya at the Alchemy Table, where Albedo was studying Rifthounds and Sucrose was developing a healing ointment. Sucrose asked Li Qiuzhi to help her find a Blooming Mushroom near the Whispering Woods, offering to pay him.

• Li Qiuzhi visited the Alchemy Table and told Kaeya and the others that he had obtained a Claymore billet for a weapon.
• Albedo explained that his painted Rifthound lacked anything he could study and that ordinary restraints and sedatives could not contain the real Monsters.
• Albedo said he had begun researching a way to counter Rifthound corrosion and had made progress on treating wounds caused by their attacks.
• Sucrose revealed her new Biological Alchemy research topic: a fast-acting healing ointment made with Blooming Mushrooms.
• Sucrose asked Li Qiuzhi to accompany her to the Whispering Woods to find a Blooming Mushroom and offered to pay him.

Li Qiuzhi accompanied Sucrose to the Whispering Woods to search for blooming mushrooms, but a level-50 Windbell Bird attacked when he tried to pick one. They decided to retreat, though Li Qiuzhi planned to retaliate once they had gained some distance.

• Li Qiuzhi agreed to accompany Sucrose near the Whispering Woods, and Sucrose gained 200 Friendship points with him.
• Li Qiuzhi and Sucrose searched the woods until they found a vine bearing a blooming mushroom high in a tree.
• As Li Qiuzhi reached for the mushroom, a Windbell Bird struck the branch with a powerful Wind Blade, and he dodged to the ground.
• Sucrose identified the level-50 bird and suggested they abandon the mushroom and retreat.
• Li Qiuzhi agreed to withdraw but intended to attack the Windbell Bird from farther away.