Recaps

After Ningguang, La Signora, and Barbara suffered the quiz’s mysterious massage punishment, the contestants faced another round. Xiao guessed correctly, won a bottle of Pure Sprite Dew, and drank it, causing blue light to surround him.

• Ningguang and La Signora screamed during the punishment, while Ganyu and Fatui guards kept others away.
• After the quiz resumed, Barbara and Xiao were randomly selected to answer when nobody in the Elite Livestream Room buzzed in.
• Barbara chose option 3, was marked wrong, and cried out for Jean as the punishment began.
• Xiao chose option 4, answered correctly, and received a bottle of Pure Sprite Dew.
• At Zhongli’s suggestion, Xiao drank the reward, and blue light radiated from his body.

Xiao expelled much of the karmic debt afflicting him after drinking the mysterious liquid, leaving him feeling lighter and in far less pain. The livestream announced its quiz winners and prizes, then began a draw for rewards that prompted a bidding war over a miniature beam cannon.

• Xiao burned away the purple and black fumes from his body, which Zhongli explained were karmic debt caused by demons’ resentment and curses.
• Xiao told Zhongli that the liquid had cleansed much of his karmic debt and reduced his pain by more than half.
• The livestream announced Blanche, Mondstadt Katheryne, and Millelith as the regular room’s top contestants and awarded them prizes.
• Katheryne greeted viewers from the Adventurers’ Guild, while Tian Tie Zui lamented being assigned forty laps in seven days.
• The livestream announced prizes for its Elite Room draw, including a miniature beam cannon, and Ningguang, Tartaglia, and Diluc offered to buy it.

Qiqi, Kaeya, and Beidou won prizes from Xiangling’s red bean bun draw, receiving a bottle that improved Qiqi’s flexibility, a potion that doubled Kaeya’s strength and speed, and a powerful miniature beam cannon. Beidou accidentally wrecked Wanmin Restaurant while testing the cannon, then Ningguang offered to buy both it and Beidou.

• Qiqi won third prize and drank a mysterious bottle that made her feel more flexible.
• Kaeya won second prize, drank a physical enhancement potion, and showed off his increased strength and agility by leaping across rooftops and punching through a wall.
• Beidou won first prize and received a miniature beam cannon that unfolded into a large mounted weapon.
• Beidou fired the cannon toward Guyun Stone Forest, blasting apart Wanmin Restaurant’s roof and destroying a distant peak.
• Ningguang asked Beidou whether she could buy her along with the cannon.

After the regular livestream ended, twelve participants were teleported to Musk Reef for a group punishment: clearing monsters from three Spiral Abyss floors within half an hour. Kamisato Ayato urged everyone to cooperate as they began forming teams.

• Beidou accepted the livestream’s powerful weapon and paid compensation for the damage to Wanmin Restaurant.
• The livestream transported Arataki Itto, Paimon, Kamisato Ayato, Kujou Sara, Xiangling, Sucrose, Fischl, Rosaria, Yun Jin, Hu Tao, and Ei to Musk Reef.
• Kujou Sara tried to attack Arataki Itto, but a golden blast knocked her back, and the livestream warned that fighting was forbidden.
• Ei recognized Musk Reef as a place tied to Khaenri'ah and her sorrow from five hundred years earlier.
• The livestream ordered the group to clear the First, Seventh, and Ninth Floors of the Spiral Abyss within half an hour, or face a terrifying punishment.
• Kamisato Ayato called on everyone to work together and begin forming teams.

The twelve contestants entered the Spiral Abyss in three teams, but the first team was cut off from the others and unaware that their time had been reduced. As Rosaria, Sucrose, Xiangling, and Yun Jin explored the first floor, ten slimes appeared.

• Kamisato Ayato assigned Ei, Kujou Sara, and himself to the ninth floor, Rosaria, Xiangling, Sucrose, and Yun Jin to the first, and Hu Tao, Arataki Itto, Xingqiu, and Fischl to the seventh.
• The three teams entered their gates, while the others watched the livestream from safer locations.
• The contestants discovered that the first floor's opening prevented communication with the outside, leaving the other teams unaware that their time was limited.
• Rosaria led her team through the dark green space and warned them to be careful as purple energy rose from the ground.
• Ten slimes appeared before Rosaria, Sucrose, Xiangling, and Yun Jin.

Rosaria, Xiangling, Sucrose, and Yun Jin defeated the first wave of demonized Slimes, only to face a larger ambush. They coordinated their elemental attacks against the new wave as more Slimes continued emerging.

• Rosaria, Xiangling, Sucrose, and Yun Jin fought the first ten demonized Slimes, with Rosaria helping Yun Jin finish them in five minutes.
• Purple gas erupted from the ground, and thirty more Slimes surrounded the four women.
• Rosaria struck the clustered Slimes with her Rite of Termination, while Sucrose drew them together with her wind module.
• Yun Jin empowered her teammates and shattered the Geo Slimes’ armor as Xiangling and Guoba attacked with fire.
• Rosaria and Xiangling cut down Slimes as Yun Jin and Sucrose supported them, and the four women’s coordination improved while more Slimes appeared.

Xiangling, Yun Jin, and Sucrose cleared the Spiral Abyss First Floor, and Arataki Itto, Hu Tao, Xingqiu, and Fischl began the Seventh Floor. After defeating a wave of corrupted Hilichurls, they were surrounded by Mitachurls and launched into a second battle.

• Xiangling, Yun Jin, and Sucrose cleared the First Floor and appeared on the livestream, where others praised their performances.
• Arataki Itto led Hu Tao, Xingqiu, and Fischl into the Seventh Floor and charged at a wave of corrupted Hilichurls.
• Arataki Itto drew the enemies' attention while Fischl and Oz attacked the archers, and Hu Tao and Xingqiu combined their powers to defeat the Hilichurls.
• More than thirty corrupted Mitachurls surrounded the group, prompting Arataki Itto, Fischl, Xingqiu, and Hu Tao to begin another fight.

Hu Tao, Xingqiu, Arataki Itto, and the others continued their collective punishment in the Spiral Abyss, where the Raiden Shogun effortlessly helped clear the ninth floor. The twelve completed their penalty in time, received food rewards, and Ei began eating Red Bean Buns alongside the flustered Kujou Sara.

• Hu Tao, Xingqiu, and Arataki Itto cleared the seventh floor with only minutes remaining before the punishment deadline.
• Kamisato Ayato and Kujou Sara attacked the ninth floor’s Ruin Guards while Paimon dodged their homing missiles.
• Ei appeared and destroyed seven Ruin Guards with a single ordinary slash, then quickly defeated more enemies alongside Kamisato Ayato and Kujou Sara.
• The twelve cleared the ninth floor in under two minutes, completing their penalty and earning gift boxes of Red Bean Buns, while Arataki Itto received glutinous rice treats.
• Ei sat down to eat her Red Bean Buns, and Kujou Sara joined her with a reddened face.

After the livestream, Mao Cai Gong’s reputation collapsed and his business partners and staff abandoned him, while other characters faced lingering consequences and comic attention. The chapter ended with Tian Tie Zui continuing his tale about greedy people forced to drink water until they cried, “I’m drowning!”

• People across Teyvat discussed the livestream punishments, and Mao Cai Gong’s partners, employees, and the Northland Bank cut ties with him.
• Tartaglia expelled Mao Cai Gong from the Northland Bank, and Changhu and the others were also rejected by everyone.
• Keqing sold beef offal on the street and had already earned over 600,000 Mora after three days.
• At the Wanmin Restaurant, Xiangling offered a traveler Qingxin stir-fried with Slime condensate, and he praised it and suggested additions.
• Xingqiu hurried to the Wanwen Bookhouse after passersby teased him about his clothing.
• Tian Tie Zui continued his story about greedy people forced to drink water, ending with Old Sun crying, “I’m drowning!”

As Stormterror's attacks unsettled Mondstadt, Venti joined Lumine and the others to help resolve the crisis while they prepared to gather Stormterror's tears. The next livestream began with the topic of dreams and lightning as a strange purple-black liquid seeped from a canyon watched by Eula's reconnaissance company.

• Kujou Sara ordered the Tenryou Commission to keep order at Yashiro Commission events and secured two fake Visions in the warehouse.
• Sangonomiya Kokomi told Gorou to prepare to seize the opportunity to ask questions during the upcoming livestream, while Ei fretted over her ranking and summoned Kujou Sara.
• Venti met Lumine and Paimon and said he wanted to resolve the Stormterror situation.
• Diluc, Jean, Venti, and Lumine planned to gather Stormterror's tears, with Diluc's network seeking information and Jean preparing to stall the Church.
• Eula halted her reconnaissance company in a canyon to camp and keep watch, where purple-black liquid seeped from the rock wall.
• The livestream began under an overcast sky with the topic of the enduring beauty of dreams and lightning.

The livestream shifted its focus to Inazuma, where Paimon and Lumine met children searching for the Great Bake-Danuki. The quiz asked viewers to predict what Paimon and Lumine would say, leaving the Elite Livestream Room to choose an answer.

• Yoimiya entered the Elite Livestream Room, where viewers discussed events in Mondstadt and Itto's lavender melon debt.
• The livestream showed Inazuma City, Tenshukaku, and Kujou Sara before focusing on children outside the city.
• Paimon and Lumine learned that Matsuban, Ayaka, and Iwao were looking for the Great Bake-Danuki, a creature their parents had described to keep them from wandering.
• The livestream presented four possible replies from Paimon and Lumine and warned that incorrect answers would lead to the Haunted Mine.
• Yae Miko and other viewers reasoned that the Great Bake-Danuki was a story told by adults, while the group prepared to buzz in.

Kaedehara Kazuha chose the wrong answer in the livestream and was forced to perform as Ye the Heavenly Emperor. After terrifying penalty recipients in the Haunted Mine, the livestream made Kazuha challenge the Anemo Archon and then the Raiden Shogun.

• Kaedehara Kazuha picked answer three, incorrectly identifying Paimon as polite, and was assigned the performance penalty.
• Huffman, Tieshan, and Naoe Hisamasa led the group into the Haunted Mine but were quickly terrified, and the other seventeen were forced inside by the livestream.
• Kaedehara Kazuha began his penalty aboard the Alcor, demonstrating his swordsmanship and declaring himself the new Anemo Archon.
• Venti praised Kazuha's performance while Barbara scolded him for disrespecting Barbatos, and Jean warned him to be careful near the Church.
• Kazuha remained under the livestream's control and declared to the Raiden Shogun that his name was Ye the Heavenly Emperor.

After Kazuha’s remark about the Raiden Shogun earned him her attention, Chongyun won a quiz and received Naruto’s three signature techniques. He demonstrated the Shadow Clone Technique and Rasengan before revealing the third technique, which left Teyvat stunned.

• Kazuha’s punishment ended, and Ei warned that she would remember him after he was called Ye the Heavenly Emperor.
• Chongyun won the chance to answer and selected option two after Xingqiu and Diluc encouraged him.
• Chongyun received Naruto’s three signature techniques and created a dozen shadow clones at Wanmin Restaurant.
• Chongyun formed a Rasengan and destroyed a large rock in the restaurant’s backyard.
• Chongyun used the third technique, Smoke Screen, and revealed the Sexy Technique.

Chongyun’s transformation into a seductive female form caused mass nosebleeds across Teyvat before he collapsed in embarrassment. The livestream then continued with Yoimiya giving children slips of paper and presenting viewers with a quiz about what was written on them.

• Chongyun transformed into a woman, and viewers across Teyvat suffered nosebleeds from the sight.
• Chongyun returned to normal, broke down in embarrassment, and received teasing and reassurance from the livestream audience.
• Paimon told Ayaka and the children that the Great Bake-Danuki did not exist, but Iwao insisted it was real.
• The children went to Yoimiya, who comforted them and gave them slips of paper to take home to their parents.
• The livestream asked viewers what was written on Yoimiya’s slips, while people from Inazuma were barred from answering.

The livestream contestants tried to identify the code phrase for collecting fireworks, while Qiqi, Tartaglia, and Kaeya suffered punishments for wrong answers. Lisa chose correctly and won the Soul-Calming Life Fluid, while Kaeya was assigned the Balala the Fairies Transformation.

• Qiqi and Tartaglia chose wrong answers and were sent into the haunted mine, where Tartaglia screamed in terror at the zombies.
• Kaeya and Lisa secured chances to answer in the next round.
• Kaeya chose answer 2, and the system marked it wrong and assigned him the Balala the Fairies Transformation.
• Lisa chose answer 3, and the system marked it correct and awarded her the Soul-Calming Life Fluid.

Lisa drank her reward and had the Abyssal corruption on her hands purified, restoring the lifespan she had lost. Kaeya then completed his punishment with a magical-girl transformation performance that stunned viewers across Teyvat.

• Lisa drank the dark green reward, and its power purified the corruption on her hands and restored her lost lifespan.
• Jean congratulated Lisa as she admired her clean, fair hands.
• Diluc offered drinks to viewers watching Kaeya's punishment, including deliveries to Inazuma.
• Kaeya performed a Balala the Fairies transformation, becoming Little Magic Fairy Kaeya and striking a final pose.
• Viewers across Teyvat reacted with laughter and shock to Kaeya's cross-dressing performance.

Yoimiya explained that she had shaped the children’s version of the Great Bake-Danuki into a harmless, lovable figure, and urged people not to casually destroy children’s dreams. A livestream quiz asked whether the Bake-Danuki existed, and after three Inazumans claimed the answer slots, Itto confidently chose that it did.

• Kaeya continued posing in women’s clothes after his punishment, earning applause from Mondstadt locals and amused comments from viewers.
• Yoimiya told Paimon that she and the children’s parents had made up the Great Bake-Danuki, but she had described it to the children as cute and harmless.
• Children watching the livestream questioned their parents, while Yoimiya argued that stories gave children dreams and recalled Inazuma’s painful past.
• The livestream asked what was true about the Great Bake-Danuki, and Gorou, Thoma, and Arataki Itto claimed the three answer slots.
• Arataki Itto chose option one, declaring that the Great Bake-Danuki existed and that he had wanted to defeat it since childhood.

Arataki Itto earned his first correct answer by choosing that the Great Bake-Danuki existed, winning five cartloads of snacks. Gorou, Thoma, and more than ninety others were sent into the Haunted Mine, where Qiqi dragged out people who had fallen asleep and Tartaglia emerged terrified but eager to answer again.

• Gorou chose option 3 and Thoma chose option 2, but Arataki Itto chose option 1 and correctly answered that the Great Bake-Danuki existed.
• Arataki Itto received five cartloads of children's snacks and celebrated with the Arataki Gang while children watching the livestream envied his prize.
• Gorou, Thoma, and more than ninety other contestants entered the Haunted Mine and screamed despite trying to stay together.
• Qiqi emerged from the mine dragging a blanket with several sleeping people on it and explained that she had brought them out so they would not get cold.
• Tartaglia stumbled out of the mine, insisted he was not scared, and said he would buzz in for the next question.

Qiqi entered the Haunted Mine to rescue the unconscious people in exchange for Coconut Milk, while the livestream continued with Yoimiya and a quiz about who had appeared at her home. The chapter ended as the quiz buzzer opened and the viewers prepared to answer.

• Qiqi learned that rescuing everyone from the Haunted Mine would earn her two cases of Coconut Milk, then went inside to drag them out.
• Yoimiya invited Paimon and Lumine to the Naganohara Fireworks show and brought them to meet Naganohara Ryuunosuke.
• Yoimiya discovered that the ore materials for the fireworks had not arrived, then heard someone suddenly speak.
• The livestream asked viewers to identify the person who had spoken, and Kamisato Ayaka, Sangonomiya Kokomi, and Kamisato Ayato helped eliminate possible answers.
• Amber explained that Yoimiya's tone suggested the speaker was not a guest or delivery person, and the livestream began its countdown for viewers to buzz in.

Venti, Eula, and Ei all answered the quiz correctly and received their rewards, while people across Mondstadt, Liyue, and Inazuma were forced to call strangers “Dad” and those who insulted the livestream were punished with long runs. Eula then revealed her reward, a fairy-like companion, at the reconnaissance company's camp.

• Ei asked what to choose, then followed Kujou Sara’s advice and picked answer 3 despite Yae Miko’s teasing.
• Venti, Eula, and Ei all chose 3 correctly, earning a wine-producing flask, Gardevoir, and Recovery Divine Liquid, respectively.
• People across the three nations slid to their knees and called passersby “Dad,” while the head of the Kujou Clan did so before his subordinates.
• Mao Cai Gong and others who insulted the livestream were ordered to run twenty laps, and Marvin struggled through his laps as Mondstadt residents watched and taunted him.
• Venti showed off his Moonlit Drunkard’s Flask, and Eula stood at the reconnaissance camp beside the fairy-like companion she had received.

Eula welcomed her new Pokémon, Gardevoir, while Ei drank a mysterious liquid that reversed some of her physical erosion. Zhongli explained erosion to the others, and Ei sensed that he knew more about her than he let on.

• Gardevoir appeared, greeted Eula, and became her Pokémon partner.
• The others admired Gardevoir and hoped to get Pokémon of their own.
• Ei drank the white liquid and found that it had reversed some of her bodily erosion.
• Zhongli explained that erosion affected the body, strength, memories, and minds of humans, Adepti, and Archons.
• Ei asked Zhongli whether they had met before, and he hinted that she might already have new thoughts about eternity.

Yoimiya and Lumine helped Sakujiro gather supplies and arrange a boat as he struggled to return to Inazuma under the Sakoku Decree. They reached the Amenoma forge to have the ore processed, where a delay left Yoimiya anxious and Acho caught between his work and the approaching fireworks show.

• Sakujiro thanked Yoimiya for helping him, and she promised to find him an alternative to fleeing Inazuma by boat.
• Yoimiya and Lumine collected their commissioned boat from Kouichi, who warned them that the Tenryou Commission scrutinized boats under the Sakoku Decree.
• Morihiko gave Yoimiya the ore she needed, and she put its cost on his account for future fireworks.
• People throughout Inazuma City greeted Yoimiya, and she and Lumine went to the Amenoma forge to have the ore processed.
• Acho asked them to wait because weapon orders had piled up, while Old Mr. Amenoma warned that rushing the forging process would disturb his concentration.

Arataki Itto and Ei both answered the livestream quiz incorrectly and received punishments. Itto began crawling across Yashiori Island, while Ei was sent to cook two dishes and chose six people to taste them.

• Arataki Itto reasoned through the quiz choices and selected the wrong answer, earning a punishment to crawl on his belly across 85% of Yashiori Island.
• Arataki Itto began crawling and encouraged Bennett, while Kujou Sara said she would arrest him after he finished.
• Ei chose the wrong answer and was assigned to cook at least two dishes within thirty minutes.
• Ei selected Kujou Sara, Yae Miko, Kamisato Ayato, Kamisato Ayaka, Yoimiya, and Zhongli as taste testers, and they were teleported to the island.
• Ei admitted that she did not know how to cook as the taste testers watched helplessly.

Ei struggled to cook under a timed challenge, while Zhongli, Yae Miko, Kujou Sara, Kamisato Ayaka, and others tried to guide her. With the first dish scoring only 20, they rushed to prepare two stews, but Ei added every seasoning she could find, leaving the tasters worried about the punishment.

• Ei tried to chop firewood but cleaved open part of the island and sea, then cut the wood into even pieces with her restored strength.
• Kujou Sara and Kamisato Ayaka guided Ei as she lit the stove, and she blackened her face while blowing on the fire.
• Ei made a Teyvat fried egg, but it burned at first and earned an adequacy score of 20 after she prepared another.
• Xiangling suggested vegetable and meat stew and radish, vegetable, and meat soup, and Kamisato Ayato chose the two dishes.
• Ei hurried to cook both stews, ignored advice about peeling the potatoes, and poured every seasoning into the pots, alarming the people watching.

Ei struggled through a cooking challenge and produced two barely passing dishes that looked alarming, while the other participants tried to avoid tasting them. The chapter left Kujou Sara volunteering to eat first after the livestream ordered everyone to finish a bowl of each dish.

• Tartaglia mocked Ei's cooking, and La Signora claimed she could cook well.
• Ei struggled to follow the instructions while juggling two stoves, as the others discussed their limited cooking skills.
• Qiqi dragged Gorou out of the Haunted Mine, and exhausted Thoma collapsed after walking out on his own.
• Ei finished a purple radish, vegetable, and meat soup scored at 45 points and a black vegetable and meat stew scored at 40 points.
• The livestream required all six participants to eat a bowl of each dish, and Kujou Sara volunteered to go first.