Chapter Summaries

A mysterious screen appeared throughout Teyvat, giving its inhabitants user profiles and a shared discussion area. As gods and mortals reacted and tested its features, Lumine wondered whether her brother could see her messages.

• A mysterious screen appeared before intelligent beings across Teyvat, and Zhongli found that he could neither understand nor probe it.
• Zhongli discovered his five-star profile while Alice, Klee, Jean, Yae Miko, and Sangonomiya Kokomi began discussing the screen.
• Arataki Itto tried to recruit gang members, Kuki Shinobu rebuked him, and Hu Tao advertised Wangsheng Funeral Parlor while Zhongli cringed.
• Furina posed as a senior Hydro Archon in the discussion, and Nahida greeted her as the Dendro Archon, making Furina privately nervous.
• Alice asked others to share their user ratings, and Ningguang questioned why Keqing was five-star while she was four-star.
• Lumine posted in the discussion after wondering whether her brother might be using the screen too.

A system began showing Teyvat residents Genshin Impact videos and quizzes, and its first video revealed the story of the boy who helped Barbatos overthrow Decarabian. Barbara won a bottle carrying the Anemo Archon's aura, while Venti discovered that his cider had vanished.

• Alice joked with Jean and Klee before the system announced daily videos, quizzes, rewards, and punishments.
• The system played “The Boy and the Whirlwind,” prompting Mondstadt residents to suspect that the bard Venti was Barbatos and to recall the boy's rebellion against Decarabian.
• Kaeya arrived at Angel's Share to summon Diluc to the Knights' headquarters as the system displayed a question about the tyrant's name.
• Barbara answered Decarabian correctly and received a bottle containing the Anemo Archon's aura, which turned out to be cider marked with last year's production date.
• Venti fled to Windrise with cider from Angel's Share, then found his hands empty and wondered where his wine had gone.

The screen showed a fan-made video in which Cyno became the Cryo Archon through his painfully cold jokes, leaving Teyvat’s viewers confused and Sumeru’s people embarrassed. Cyno won the next quiz question and received a Mora that Zhongli recognized as his own, while Dori quickly traded Cyno for it.

• The screen played a fan-made video depicting Cyno freezing Sumeru with his jokes and receiving the Cryo Archon’s chess piece from Celestia.
• Tighnari, Nahida, Lumine, Nilou, and others debated the video, while the Fatui questioned its meaning and Lumine jokingly claimed Nilou as her wife.
• Zhongli concluded that the screen’s unseen operator could make mistakes and suspected it was still learning which videos to show.
• Cyno buzzed in first and correctly answered that his job title was Great General Mahamatra, winning a Mora personally handled by the Geo Archon.
• Zhongli realized the Mora had vanished from his desk, then joined Hu Tao in planning how to use the screen for Wangsheng Funeral Parlor advertising.
• Ningguang and others offered to buy Cyno’s Mora, but Dori traded him an out-of-print Genius Invokation TCG card for it.

Keqing became fascinated by Rex Lapis’s Mora as Ningguang proposed that Teyvat’s participants share basic information, and Furina publicly endorsed the plan. The third video revealed hints about Lumine and Aether’s past and showed Mondstadt’s crisis with the Dragon of the East, leaving the Knights of Favonius to reconsider how they would respond.

• Keqing regretted missing the chance to obtain the Mora that Rex Lapis had personally handled and envied Dori for receiving a divine keepsake.
• Ningguang proposed that participants exchange basic information, and Furina publicly committed Fontaine to the cooperation plan.
• The third video began with Aether’s voice and showed the twins amid flowers as Dainsleif spoke about an ongoing war and usurpers.
• Lumine recognized Aether in the video and joked that he might have been abducted, while Aether watched secretly from the Abyss and chose not to reveal himself.
• The video introduced Mondstadt’s story and showed Diluc confronting the Dragon of the East; Jean said Mondstadt would handle the crisis without Fatui intervention.

A mysterious video revealed ominous claims about the Archons of Liyue, Inazuma, Sumeru, Fontaine, and Natlan, provoking alarm and arguments across Teyvat. As the Natlan segment began, La Signora and the other gods reacted to the Pyro Archon's rules of war, while viewers noticed the on-screen figure resembled Bennett.

• Zhongli contacted the adepti to prevent them from reacting violently to the video's claim that Rex Lapis had been murdered.
• Liyue's leaders and citizens argued over the alleged assassination, and the Millelith raised their readiness as the Fatui came under suspicion.
• The video showed Kamisato Ayaka and questioned what the god pursuing eternity had seen in the world's eyes.
• The Sumeru segment described wisdom, knowledge, and folly as scholars including Tighnari and Alhaitham speculated about its meaning.
• Furina declared that she would judge injustice in Teyvat, and Barnabas replied that the Harbingers could change their order.
• The Natlan segment described the rules of war, and viewers remarked that the figure onscreen resembled Bennett.

The Travail PV revealed Snezhnaya’s plan to rebel against the Heavenly Principles and introduced Khaenri’ah, while Lumine concluded that Aether was the game’s chosen protagonist. After the video ended, the screen posed a question about which nation had not followed the PV’s script.

• The PV showed The Rooster and revealed that the Fatui hoped to support the Tsaritsa when she rebelled against the Heavenly Principles, alarming Teyvat’s rulers and leaders.
• The PV introduced Khaenri’ah and showed Dainsleif declaring that humanity would use power from beyond the world to deny its laws.
• The PV showed Aether challenging the narrator to prove himself worthy of rescuing Lumine and reweaving fate.
• Lumine reasoned that Aether was the game’s designated protagonist, and Alice suggested that Lumine would resolve the problems introduced for the Seven Nations.
• Lumine decided to enter Mondstadt after Amber offered to help her find Aether, while the screen began a buzzer question asking which nation had not followed the Travail PV’s script.

After Arataki Itto’s wrong answer earned him a month of potentially dangerous soy products, Nahida correctly identified Sumeru and received a bucket of milk that could remove all negative status effects. The Doctor suggested Nahida’s ability to manipulate Irminsul might let her alter Teyvat’s supposed “script,” leaving everyone unsettled by what that power could mean.

• Albedo and Lumine reasoned that Genshin Impact was probably a game and that events beyond its opening script were unlikely to have happened yet.
• Arataki Itto answered Inazuma, but the system marked him wrong, eliminated that option, and sentenced him to randomly receive soy products in his meals for a month.
• Kuki Shinobu explained that Itto was severely allergic to beans, prompting others to offer medical help as the system reduced the question’s difficulty.
• Nahida answered Sumeru correctly and received a bucket of milk that could remove all negative status effects when consumed in one sitting.
• Albedo, Lumine, and others explained why Sumeru had seemed the likeliest answer, while the Sumeru sages worried about Nahida’s newfound recognition and reward.
• The Doctor proposed that Nahida could have changed the script through her authority over Irminsul, and Teyvat’s inhabitants wondered whether she could secretly alter the world’s course.

Nahida considered whether her milk reward could reveal Eleazar’s source or help Sumeru’s patients. The fourth video began with Lumine facing the Raiden Shogun in Inazuma, then shifted to Kazuha as his friend’s Vision began to glow before the impending clash.

• People across Teyvat discussed Nahida’s authority and the milk reward’s possible power to treat Eleazar.
• Nahida studied the milk and considered whether it had been chosen to help her investigate Eleazar’s source.
• The screen began a video titled around Kazuha blocking the Electro Archon’s blade, prompting Inazumans to question how a mortal could face the Shogun.
• The video showed Lumine and Paimon leaving Tenshukaku as the Raiden Shogun appeared behind them, while Ei and others discussed the scene.
• The footage revealed Gorou and then Kazuha, whose friend’s Vision began glowing as he prepared to confront the Shogun’s attack.

The video showed Kazuha’s friend dying in a duel before the throne and Kazuha awakening his friend’s Electro Vision to block the Raiden Shogun’s strike. In the present, Kazuha recovered his friend’s Vision, and the chapter ended with him correctly answering a question about his sword.

• The video revealed that Kazuha’s friend had challenged the Raiden Shogun’s power and died in a duel before the throne, prompting Kazuha to rush to Tenshukaku.
• Kazuha reached his friend’s body as the Raiden Shogun prepared to enforce the duel’s outcome, and his friend’s dim Electro Vision began to shine.
• Kazuha used the power of both Visions to block the Raiden Shogun’s strike and briefly drive her back before she sent him flying.
• After the video, Kazuha picked up his friend’s Vision, while the Raiden Shogun allowed him to keep it and regarded him as a future challenger.
• The system asked which sword Kazuha held, and Kazuha answered “Fillet Blade” correctly, winning a Teyvat Fried Egg.

Kazuha used the system’s Teyvat Fried Egg to revive his executed friend, revealing that the reward could restore the dead and stirring hopes across Teyvat. The screen then began its fifth video, “The Final Feast,” which opened on a flame burning on a Liyue fire starter.

• The system explained that the Teyvat Fried Egg could revive its consumer and restore 100 HP, and Kazuha immediately fed it to his friend after the Raiden Shogun executed him.
• The revived swordsman’s wounds healed, and Raiden Ei left Tenshukaku while Kujou Sara ordered the Shogunate troops to withdraw.
• Lumine explained that the game might contain revival and healing foods, while users compared their punishment exemptions and considered ways to raise their privileges.
• The screen began the fifth video, “Genshin Impact” story teaser: “The Final Feast,” after viewers discussed the reliability of official promotional videos.
• The video’s opening logos faded, revealing a small flame burning on a Liyue fire starter.

The video revealed that Bosacius had fought alongside Boyang and Yelan’s ancestor in The Chasm five hundred years earlier, where they helped seal an underground threat. As Bosacius’s memories and strength failed, the discussion members resolved to investigate the weakening seal and honor those who had died.

• Bosacius appeared in the video, and Liyue’s adepti and Xiao identified him as the missing leader of the five foremost yakshas.
• The video showed Boyang speaking with a confused Bosacius, while Xiao and Yelan connected them to the battle in The Chasm and Yelan’s ancestor.
• Boyang urged Bosacius to stay underground and protect the seal, and Xiao explained that Bosacius had sent him away to spare him from karmic debt.
• Bosacius remembered that he was a yaksha who had come to fight, and Keqing suspected the old seal in The Chasm was weakening.
• Boyang supported the gravely wounded Bosacius, and the discussion members proposed visiting The Chasm to investigate and commemorate the fallen.

Boyang and Bosacius confronted their final moments beneath the Chasm, and Bosacius remembered his name as the video revealed the yakshas’ tragic fates. After Liyue’s leaders promised to honor the fallen, the screen posed a quiz about the team that uncovered their story, and Tartaglia answered first.

• Boyang admitted that he wanted to go home, while Bosacius struggled to remember his family and collapsed.
• Ningguang ordered the Liyue Qixing to discuss commemorating Bosacius and the other heroes who had sacrificed themselves.
• Bosacius saw the other yakshas, remembered his identity, and declared his name before dying as the video ended.
• Ningguang, Keqing, and Ganyu discussed preserving the heroes’ stories and planning a Lantern Rite commemoration.
• The screen asked which team had unearthed Boyang and Bosacius’s story, and Tartaglia chose answer E.

Tartaglia guessed incorrectly about how the group discovered the adepti incident in The Chasm and received a yearlong ban on initiating combat, while Arataki Itto correctly guessed and won a year's supply of tonkotsu ramen. The screen closed for the day, leaving Teyvat's users chatting about its channel and Alice promising Klee a summer surprise.

• Tartaglia guessed that he, Zhongli, the Traveler, and Paimon would uncover the incident in The Chasm, but the system marked his answer incorrect and barred him from initiating combat for a year.
• Tartaglia offered to treat the Traveler and Paimon to Liyue food, while Pantalone grew suspicious of his rising reimbursement claims.
• Arataki Itto guessed that he would join the group in The Chasm and discover what happened, and the system awarded him unlimited tonkotsu ramen for a year.
• Kuki Shinobu and Yanfei speculated that Itto and Shinobu might reach The Chasm alongside the Traveler and Paimon in a future after Inazuma's isolation ended.
• Kazuha mentioned that his revived friend's health needed restoring, prompting Baizhu and Xiangling to offer medical and dietary help.
• The system ended the day's quiz, and Alice told Klee she had a surprise planned for her that summer.

After the videos revealed secrets across Teyvat, the nations’ leaders and factions scrambled to respond, from Liyue’s emergency meeting to Inazuma’s clashes with the Fatui. In Mondstadt, Jean and the others assessed the Stormterror crisis and Fatui threat with Lumine, while Venti drank nearby and Dvalin had withdrawn to Stormterror’s Lair.

• Jean coaxed the sleepy Klee to bed, while intelligence operatives and other participants kept their thoughts to themselves or gathered privately to discuss the day’s revelations.
• Zhongli revised his plans for the trial, and Ganyu explained them at an emergency meeting of the Liyue Qixing, where Ningguang redirected discussion toward honoring Liyue’s unsung heroes.
• Sumeru’s scholars and sages maneuvered over the revelations about Cyno, Lesser Lord Kusanali, and Irminsul, while Inazuma’s Kujou Sara led a fight against the Fatui and Yae Miko visited the Raiden Shogun.
• Diluc hosted a meeting at Angel’s Share, where Jean, Lisa, Kaeya, and others discussed Dvalin and the Fatui with Lumine and Paimon; Lumine described the Fatui as a major enemy running through the story.
• Jean promised that the Knights would protect Lumine from the Fatui, while Venti drank cider and Dvalin remained at Stormterror’s Lair after the video’s revelations had prompted him to reflect.

Venti explained that Lumine could purify Dvalin’s corruption, and Jean organized the Knights to gather the dragon’s tears and restore the Holy Lyre der Himmel. As the observation screen came back online, its first video began, prompting a dispute over whether the Anemo Archon would bless or fool people.

• Kaeya teased Jean for worrying about the Fatui, while Diluc stopped Venti from taking Dandelion Wine without paying.
• Venti said Lumine could purify Dvalin’s corrupted tears, and Lumine purified an ominous crystal into a tear filled with Anemo energy.
• Jean assigned Diluc, Eula, and Amber to search for dragon’s tears, tasked Kaeya with Fatui negotiations, and planned to borrow the Holy Lyre der Himmel.
• The system announced that the video observation station was online, and people across Teyvat chatted while the hour before the videos began passed.
• Dori sold the Mora from Rex Lapis to Ningguang, who signed the purchase contract as Keqing watched enviously.
• The first video, “May the Anemo Archon fool you,” began, and Barbara, Jean, Rosaria, and La Signora argued over its title and Barbatos.

Venti watched a video in which he restored the damaged Holy Lyre der Himmel, confirming to viewers that he was Barbatos. The video left Barbara apologizing to Venti for failing to recognize him and for her on-screen behavior.

• Venti ignored Alice's teasing and considered the consequences of his identity being exposed, including how he might hand his Gnosis to La Signora.
• The video began with Jean, Barbara, Paimon, Lumine, and Venti at the Cathedral of Favonius vault, where Lumine explained that they were seeing a gacha game's dialogue scene.
• Barbara asked whether they had brought the Holy Lyre der Himmel, and Paimon awkwardly revealed that it had been damaged.
• Lumine presented the battered lyre, and Venti restored it with Anemo energy while Barbara watched in shock.
• Barbara recognized Venti as Lord Barbatos and apologized for her on-screen self's rude behavior, while Venti told her to keep watching.

Venti pretended to repair the Holy Lyre der Himmel and led Lumine and Paimon away from the cathedral, where La Signora and Fatui Debt Collectors ambushed them. The footage left Mondstadt furious at the Fatui, while Jean still expected Venti to reveal his true power.

• Venti admitted that his apparent repair of the Holy Lyre der Himmel was an unreliable illusion, and Barbara insisted that Lord Barbatos had truly repaired it.
• Venti led Lumine, Paimon, and Jean out of the cathedral, and Paimon called him a tone-deaf bard.
• Two Fatui Debt Collectors ambushed Venti outside the Cathedral of Favonius, and Lumine sent them flying before La Signora trapped Venti's legs in ice.
• La Signora appeared as the Eighth Seat of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers, prompting Jean to demand an explanation for the attack on Mondstadt's god.
• La Signora denied the accusation, while Jean and the people of Mondstadt grew angry and Jean vowed to keep a close eye on her.

Viewers across Teyvat watched La Signora humiliate Venti, seize his Gnosis, and reveal the Fatui’s goal, prompting Jean to expel the delegation from Mondstadt. After the video ended, Kaeya noticed Venti had staged his apparent defeat, and the room turned toward the Anemo Archon as he tried to sneak away.

• La Signora mocked Venti and slapped him in front of Mondstadt’s cathedral while Venti pretended to be powerless.
• Jean left the Angel’s Share to stop Barbara from attacking the Fatui delegation, as viewers reacted angrily to the video.
• La Signora revealed that she had taken Venti’s Gnosis, exposing the Fatui’s pursuit of the gods’ chess-piece-like objects.
• Jean formally ordered La Signora’s delegation to leave Mondstadt, and La Signora accepted that her mission there had failed.
• After the video ended, Kaeya pointed out that Venti had flown away before La Signora’s kick touched him, and the room caught Venti trying to slip out.

La Signora received Venti’s Gnosis and, determined to obtain the others for the Tsaritsa, chose the wrong answer to the system’s question. Her punishment forced her to relive Rustam’s death, while the others continued guessing how many Gnoses she would collect.

• Venti appeared before La Signora, offered her his Gnosis, and vanished after urging her to look toward the future.
• La Signora ordered the Fatui to return to Snezhnaya and declared that she would obtain all six remaining Gnoses for the Tsaritsa.
• La Signora chose F, and the system punished her by making her repeatedly relive Rustam’s death for 24 hours.
• The discussion participants connected Rustam’s death to La Signora’s hatred of Venti and learned that she had not used her exemption.
• Xianyun ruled out the answer that La Signora would obtain all six Gnoses, while Zhongli noted that his deal with Barnabas made his Gnosis’s transfer certain.

Furina continued her performance as the nations debated how the Fatui could obtain the Gnoses, while Venti and Yae Miko revealed that the Electro Gnosis was in her hands. Tartaglia’s confident answer was wrong, and he accepted a punishment that would make him personally pay Zhongli’s expenses for three months, unaware the other Harbingers were letting him serve their plan to obtain Rex Lapis’s Gnosis.

• Furina kept up her act in the Opera Epiclese while the audience discussed whether the Fatui could simply be given Gnoses.
• Kokomi pointed out that the question did not say the Gnoses had to be seized, and Cyno reminded everyone that Venti had willingly handed his over.
• Venti said Gnoses were not especially important to The Seven, and Yae Miko revealed that she currently held the Electro Gnosis.
• Tartaglia chose option A, reasoning that La Signora had only obtained one Gnosis, but the system marked his answer incorrect and charged Zhongli’s next three months of expenses to Tartaglia personally.
• Tartaglia refused to use an exemption and accepted the punishment, while the other Harbingers privately saw him as a sacrifice that could help them obtain Rex Lapis’s Gnosis.