Recaps

Chen Xu survived White Orchard’s dangers, learned smithing and combat skills, and left after Sethis and Penny killed Willis and the settlement’s soldiers. In Velen, he reached Crow’s Perch, killed the mutated Chosen Zhaotian Zhi, and joined Geralt and Fringilla as they pursued Ciri and met the Bloody Baron.

• Chen Xu arrived in White Orchard, became Willis’s apprentice after solving the arson, and rejected Gaunter O'Dimm’s offer despite receiving a curse that reduced his fortune to zero.
• Chen Xu forged masterwork swords, killed six drowners to retrieve Moonblade, and learned first aid and alchemy while helping Tomira and meeting Geralt and Vesemir.
• Chen Xu drove the deserters away from Tomira, chose the Master detective class, and fought off Sethis and Penny when they attacked him at Woesong Bridge.
• After escaping Penny’s Charm and the Chort, Chen Xu found that Sethis and Penny had massacred the Nilfgaardian soldiers and villagers, including Willis, and buried his master before leaving White Orchard.
• Chen Xu rode into Velen, survived a villagers’ ambush, met Anna at the Trail of Treats, and reached the Bloody Baron’s castle at Crow’s Perch.
• At Crow’s Perch, Chen Xu revealed that he knew where the baron’s wife was, competed with Yoana by designing armor, and narrowly avoided Zhaotian Zhi’s cannon blast.
• When Zhaotian Zhi broke free and fought the garrison, Chen Xu and Geralt helped stop him, and Chen Xu killed him while Fringilla held him in an illusion.
• Chen Xu improved his abilities and joined Geralt and the Bloody Baron after Fringilla’s portal flooded the reception room, where he dodged the drunken baron until the man injured his hand.

Chen Xu helped Geralt lift Anna’s curse, killed the Crones who attacked them, and survived a costly battle with Imlerith’s forces. Back at Crow’s Perch, he advanced his skills and equipment, confronted Bong Chigurh, and prepared to face new challenges as Fringilla and Geralt departed.

• Chen Xu and Geralt learned from the Baron that Anna was in the swamp, then convinced him to help rescue her from the Crones.
• Chen Xu and Geralt fought the Botchling’s summoned monsters, and Chen Xu killed Randall after he attacked over the battle’s spoils.
• Geralt and Chen Xu followed the lead about Ciri to the Crones, who agreed to lift Anna’s curse if Geralt destroyed the dark power at Whispering Hillock.
• Chen Xu killed Tree Heart and later killed Weavess, while Fringilla and Geralt helped defend Anna and the orphans from the Crones and their monsters.
• Imlerith and Caranthir intervened, but Chen Xu collapsed a portal with a dimeritium bomb, and the army drove the invaders back before they escaped.
• Chen Xu refined potions and advanced his abilities, then joined Guan Chuan and Annisha to drive Bong Chigurh away.
• Chen Xu won the Velen championship challenge, recovered Gretka’s shattered emerald and arranged money for her, then forged Wyvern armor and a dragon horn bow.
• Fringilla left with Geralt, while Chen Xu kept Geralt’s medallion as a regional monster-hunting permit.