Recaps

As the Sabzeruz Festival dream exposed the Akademiya’s plot to create a god, Yucheng and Nahida began building an alliance against the Sages. The God Project advanced with Scaramouche wielding the Gnosis, while Nahida was rescued through the mysterious scroll and arrived in an unfamiliar green domain.

• Merchants, the Inazuma delegation, and the Zubayr Theater moved Nilou’s performance to the delegation’s compound, where Dunyarzad enjoyed the festival and Yucheng temporarily eased her symptoms while explaining that Eleazar remained incurable.
• The Inazuma delegation offered to support the Zubayr Theater, and Nilou performed the Dance of the Goddess of Flowers before Dunyarzad weakened and the theater considered leaving Sumeru.
• Azar used the Akasha to trap Sumeru City in the Sabzeruz Festival samsara and harvest dream energy, while Yucheng used the loop to master Senjutsu and Lumine and Paimon uncovered the Akademiya’s scheme.
• Yucheng helped Lumine, Paimon, and Nahida identify Nilou as the dream’s host, and Nilou’s final dance for Nahida ended the loop after 152 cycles.
• After waking, Yucheng and Nahida revealed the Sages’ plan to create a god with the Fatui, and Yucheng offered Nahida an alliance while Lumine and Paimon set out to gather support from Tighnari and the desert.
• The Doctor put Nahida into a deep unconsciousness with a strange scroll nearby, while Yucheng reassured Nilou that he had supported her dancing and asked her to perform for him in the future.
• Alhaitham devised a plan against the Sages as Azar, the other Sages, and The Doctor tried to force power from the Electro Archon’s Gnosis for the God Project.
• Nahida signed the scroll with her blood and vanished with it through a spatial rift, while The Doctor confirmed that Scaramouche had drawn the Gnosis’s power and the Sages began pursuing Alhaitham and the canned divine knowledge.
• Nahida arrived in a lush green domain beside a wooden villa, where an unseen speaker warned her not to touch qingxin planted by their beloved.

Yucheng helped Nahida reclaim Sumeru, defeat Scaramouche, and resolve the crisis threatening the city, while Nahida traded the Gnoses to The Doctor for knowledge. The arc ended with the former sages disgraced and imprisoned, and the Akademiya facing a struggle to fill its vacant leadership posts.

• Yucheng restored Nahida in the Kamui Dimension as the Akademiya searched for her, while Alhaitham, Cyno, Dehya, Lumine, Paimon, and Nilou prepared a rescue.
• On the Sabzeruz Festival, Nilou’s performance and a staged escape drew away the guards, allowing Nahida to escape her cage and Cyno to arrest Azar’s accomplices.
• Nahida asked Lumine to help defeat Scaramouche, who had become Shouki no Kami and challenged her for the Dendro Gnosis.
• After Nahida used a dream of 152 battles to prepare Lumine, Yucheng emerged from Nahida and disabled Scaramouche’s Mecha before overwhelming him with Susanoo.
• Scaramouche’s final attack damaged the supports beneath Sumeru City, and Yucheng used Deep Forest Emergence to hold the city up while Nahida reclaimed the Electro Gnosis.
• The Doctor negotiated with Nahida for the Electro Gnosis in exchange for erasing his Segments, then traded knowledge about Teyvat for Nahida’s Dendro Gnosis as Yucheng watched.
• Yucheng tracked The Doctor to Devantaka Mountain and fought his Archon Residue creations, but The Doctor handed over both Gnoses and used Yucheng to deliver them to a ship at Port Ormos.
• Nahida took control of the Akademiya, dismissed and sentenced the former sages to hard labor, and their public humiliation left the institution facing a contest to fill its vacant leadership posts.

Nahida reformed Sumeru’s Akademiya and began the Western Support Plan with Yucheng’s help, while the group worked to end the Art Ban and establish ties with Inazuma. In the desert, Yucheng and Nahida confronted Apep, restored its inner world, and secured its agreement to a Summoning Contract as the conflict with the Heavenly Principles came into focus.

• Nahida shut down the Akasha and reformed the Akademiya, appointing Alhaitham Acting Great Sage as Setaria’s accusers were exposed for stealing her thesis and arrested.
• Nahida put Setaria in charge of the Western Support Plan, promising support for desert education and development despite the scholars’ doubts about its feasibility.
• Yucheng demonstrated that he could grow forests in the desert, and Nahida and Yucheng discovered that the third Skyfrost Nail’s power was draining the Land of Lower Setekh.
• Nahida and Yucheng encountered Apep, who rejected Nahida’s offer of help and declared its hostility toward Sumeru and the Seven Nations.
• Yucheng summoned Azhdaha to face Apep, and Nahida persuaded Apep to let them restore its Heart of the Oasis despite Apep’s defiance.
• Yucheng protected Nahida as she revived Apep’s inner world, healing the dragon and bringing renewed life to the desert.
• Apep revealed its connection to Nab-Malikata and the forbidden knowledge that destroyed Akhmar’s kingdom, then discussed opposing the Heavenly Principles with Yucheng.
• Apep agreed to sign Yucheng’s Summoning Contract if he helped find its surviving subjects, and Nahida sent the Aranara to search for them.

After learning Shenhe was pregnant, Yucheng returned to Inazuma and began arranging their wedding alongside an international festival. As visitors arrived and Charlotte interviewed him, Yucheng outlined Inazuma’s military standing and called the Uchiha a cursed family.

• Apep signed a Summoning Contract with Yucheng, extending his lifespan, and Yucheng later learned from Sayu that Shenhe was pregnant and canceled the Fontaine trip to return to Inazuma.
• Yucheng returned to Inazuma, reunited with Shenhe, and announced that Nahida had agreed to establish a limited Akasha network there.
• Yucheng planned a lavish wedding with Shenhe and proposed a month-long international festival, asking Ei to represent his family and Zhongli to officiate.
• Kuki Shinobu persuaded Kamisato Ayato to have the Yashiro Commission organize the celebration, and the wedding and festival were publicized across Teyvat.
• The Adepti arrived and chastised Yucheng before accepting that Shenhe was well treated, while friends and delegations from Liyue, Mondstadt, and Sumeru traveled to Inazuma.
• Klee and Yoimiya accidentally fired experimental cannons at Jean’s ship, but Jean forgave them after Yoimiya accepted responsibility and Klee apologized.
• Yucheng gave Ningguang and other visitors aerial tours of Inazuma in Susanoo, while Charlotte sought an interview with him at the Regent’s Office.
• Yucheng told Charlotte that God-level fighters helped deter rival nations, revealed Snezhnaya had four such figures, and described the Uchiha as a cursed family.