Recaps

Wei Zhenzu and Varka defeated Dvalin’s defenses and tore the Golden Bough from his back, but its removal released a hidden Abyssal force. Dvalin transformed into the Final Judgment Heavenly Demon, which announced that its court was in session.

• Wei Zhenzu destroyed the poison-blood spikes aimed at the exhausted Kaeya with the Stake of the Hanged Man.
• Varka launched Wei Zhenzu onto Dvalin’s back, where Wei Zhenzu endured the Abyssal poison blood and tore out the Golden Bough.
• After the Golden Bough was removed, a hidden emotion within the poison blood broke free and filled the tower with whispers and haze.
• Dvalin’s body distorted into a gigantic monster as Wei Zhenzu warned everyone to retreat and avoid its eyes.
• The transformed Dvalin declared that the court was in session as the Final Judgment Heavenly Demon.

The transformed Dvalin, now a judgmental Heavenly Demon, overwhelmed Kaeya, Varka, and Wei Zhenzu with mental erosion and poisonous attacks. Wei Zhenzu advanced the Ninefold Execution Protocol to seven, but the chapter left him badly wounded in a crater beneath the raging blood storm.

• Dvalin appeared as the masked Heavenly Demon, declared that he had been forgotten, and unleashed mental erosion that made Kaeya collapse unconscious.
• Varka attacked the Heavenly Demon with two sword beams, but the creature's Final Judgment Storm broke through his gale and hurled him into a wall.
• Wei Zhenzu formed several weapons from the Oracle Terminal and attacked the Heavenly Demon's noose, wing, and Judgement Bird eyes.
• Wei Zhenzu announced that the liberation count had reached seven, with two commands remaining.
• The Heavenly Demon unleashed a repulsive force that smashed Wei Zhenzu into a deep crater as poisonous blood stormed across the ruins.

Wei Zhenzu unlocked three Golden Bough permissions as the Heavenly Demon prepared to destroy Stormterror’s Lair. A scarlet-lit figure arrived, split the attack, and addressed him as Dante.

• The Golden Bough’s resonance interrupted a seductive voice and unlocked the Abnormality Containment Unit, Bus Projection, and Tree of Light Sapling Ability permissions for Wei Zhenzu.
• A golden spatial rift opened aboard Mephistopheles, and Faust identified it as a portal to Wei Zhenzu’s battlefield.
• Don Quixote tried to charge through the portal, but Vergilius stopped her and warned the sinners not to enter without permission.
• The Heavenly Demon summoned a judgment spear that pinned Varka and threatened to destroy Stormterror’s Lair.
• A scarlet-lit man split the falling attack in two, stepped between Wei Zhenzu and the battlefield, and called him Dante.

Wei Zhenzu used the Golden Bough to invoke the law of [Mud], suppressing the Final Judgment Heavenly Demon’s oppressive power and restoring the others’ strength. With Vergilius opening the way, Wei Zhenzu attacked the demon, but it retaliated with its Final Judgment Storm.

• Vergilius arrived as Wei Zhenzu struggled to hold out against the Final Judgment Heavenly Demon.
• Wei Zhenzu drove the Golden Bough into the ground and invoked [Mud], equalizing the battlefield and suppressing the demon’s mental pollution.
• Varka regained his strength and dispersed the poisonous mist, while Kaeya recovered and prepared to fight.
• Vergilius told Wei Zhenzu to cut through the demon’s defenses and carry out the sentence.
• Wei Zhenzu reshaped his liquid-metal weapon into a blade, spear, and hammer as he climbed the demon and struck its exposed core.
• The Heavenly Demon condemned the fighters and unleashed its Final Judgment Storm.

Varka and Vergilius wounded the Heavenly Demon, but it summoned a colossal judgment array and prepared to crush them with a falling sphere of poisonous energy. The battle remained unresolved as the Final Judgment descended upon Wei Zhenzu, Varka, and Vergilius.

• Varka broke the balance-beam horn on the Heavenly Demon's mask and stabbed its violet hollow, but its mental shock blasted him out of the air.
• Vergilius stopped the Heavenly Demon's bone noose, manifested his full power as the Vermilion Gaze, and severed the noose with his blade.
• Vergilius carved a massive gash into the Heavenly Demon's abdomen, making it crash into the ruins and lose its balance.
• The wounded Heavenly Demon vowed to make Mondstadt suffer and declared itself the guardian of the sky and their executioner.
• The Heavenly Demon rose into the sky, trapped Wei Zhenzu, Varka, and Vergilius with a gigantic judgment array, and sent a sphere of poisonous energy crashing down.

Wei Zhenzu unlocked the Oracle Terminal’s final protocol and unleashed Furioso-Requiem Mass-Crescendo against the Heavenly Demon. He destroyed Dvalin and the poisonous-blood meteor, but his right arm burst apart in the process.

• Wei Zhenzu completed the ninth stack, unlocking the Oracle Terminal’s protocol and triggering Furioso-Replica.
• The Oracle Terminal shattered and its liquid metal formed nine instruments of torture as Wei Zhenzu charged at the poisonous-blood meteor.
• Wei Zhenzu used Furioso-Requiem Mass-Crescendo to attack the meteor and Dvalin, cycling through eight transforming weapons.
• Wei Zhenzu turned the liquid metal into a massive war hammer and struck the Heavenly Demon’s chest.
• Spatial compression destroyed Wei Zhenzu’s right arm, but his hammer obliterated the judgment formation, Dvalin, and the poisonous-blood meteor.

After Wei Zhenzu and his allies defeated Dvalin, Venti soothed the dragon’s remnant soul and sent it into the winds of Mondstadt. Wei returned to the Mephistopheles, where an unexpected transmission introduced a mysterious man who addressed him as a manager from another planet.

• Wei Zhenzu collapsed after shattering Dvalin’s core, leaving only the dragon’s faint cyan remnant soul.
• Venti borrowed the Holy Lyre der Himmel from Wei Zhenzu and sang Dvalin farewell, dispersing the remnant soul into the winds of Mondstadt.
• Wei Zhenzu received a special personality overwrite opportunity and a Forgotten Cyan Dragon Scale, while Venti healed the group’s injuries.
• The Mephistopheles arrived, and Wei Zhenzu reunited with Charon and the sinners aboard the bus.
• The bus’s central screen received an unknown signal, and a well-dressed man appeared and greeted Wei Zhenzu as a manager from another planet.

Argalia used the energy from Wei Zhenzu’s battle to open a rift connecting Teyvat and the City, and the City’s laws briefly warped Mondstadt’s sky. After the danger passed, Wei Zhenzu and the others prepared to return home, while Argalia revealed that he had paid a heavy price to advance his plan to keep Angelica’s elegy going.

• Argalia thanked Mr. Color and the Manager, then announced that the doors between the City and Teyvat had been opened as an eerie azure light engulfed Mondstadt’s sky.
• Vergilius warned Wei Zhenzu not to die too soon before Mephistopheles departed through a rift in space.
• Paimon emerged from hiding, and Wei Zhenzu scolded her for failing to help during the fight.
• Venti used the Holy Lyre der Himmel to create wind currents that carried the injured group down from Stormterror’s Lair.
• In the Abyss, Argalia explained to Pluto that he had used the Sapling of Light’s residual energy to connect the City and Teyvat, then vowed to continue Angelica’s elegy.

After returning to Mondstadt, Wei Zhenzu and the Knights found Timmie transformed into a mechanical monster, the Lord of the Birds of the Bridge. With his Lunacy balance at zero and the others refusing to fight, Wei Zhenzu faced the threat until Venti offered him a guaranteed three-light Identity ticket.

• Varka led the Knights of Favonius back toward Mondstadt after they escaped the ruins.
• Varka and Wei Zhenzu found the city gates open and Timmie waiting on the bridge among mechanical pigeons.
• Timmie revealed his enormous mechanical pigeon form and attacked with explosive fowl missiles formed from his tears.
• Wei Zhenzu called on the Knights to help, but Varka, Kaeya, Jean, and Eula retreated or refused, leaving him to face Timmie alone.
• Wei Zhenzu discovered he had no Lunacy to summon an Identity, but Venti gave him a guaranteed three-light Identity ticket he had found in the ruins.

Wei Zhenzu used a guaranteed ticket to draw the Sunshower - Heathcliff Identity, only to discover its power depended on his despair. When his attack failed against Timmie’s mechanical pigeons, one pecked him in the knee.

• Wei Zhenzu complained about receiving a gacha ticket while Timmie prepared to attack him and Venti.
• Wei Zhenzu crushed the ticket and drew the Lobotomy Corporation E.G.O::Sunshower - Heathcliff Identity.
• Wei Zhenzu realized the Identity’s strength relied on negative coins and that his good mood made it ineffective.
• Timmie ordered his mechanical pigeons to fire steel feathers at Wei Zhenzu.
• Wei Zhenzu rolled heads on all three coins, reduced his clash power to zero, and weakly struck a pigeon with his umbrella.
• A mechanical pigeon pecked Wei Zhenzu hard on the knee, making him scream.

Wei Zhenzu was struck by Timmie's giant mechanical Ruin Guard pigeon and thrown into Cider Lake. Timmie's rage then triggered a bizarre Hell's Chicken transformation at Mondstadt's bridgehead, turning the mechanical pigeons into crispy fried birds as he launched another attack.

• Timmie sent the giant mechanical Ruin Guard pigeon spinning toward Wei Zhenzu.
• Wei Zhenzu activated Skill 3, but all three coins landed heads, and the Ruin Guard struck him into Cider Lake.
• Wei Zhenzu climbed out, cursed at Timmie, and ranted about frying the mechanical pigeons for KFC.
• Timmie's fury over the fried chicken remarks triggered the residual influence of Hell's Chicken, transforming Mondstadt's bridgehead.
• Timmie's tears turned to hot sauce, and the mechanical pigeons became golden, crispy flying birds as he prepared to attack.

Wei Zhenzu reached the erosion threshold and destroyed Timmie’s giant Ruin Guard pigeon, ending the Distortion over Mondstadt’s bridge. The next morning, he joined Varka, Jean, Kaeya, and Diluc for a briefing about strange creatures and effects that had appeared around the city.

• Timmie’s chicken-missile barrage drove Wei Zhenzu’s Sanity Points to the erosion threshold, awakening his destructive Sunshower Heathcliff state.
• Wei Zhenzu cleaved the giant Ruin Guard pigeon in two with his broken umbrella, ending Timmie’s Distortion and leaving Timmie crying on the bridge.
• Paimon ate the scattered fried poultry while Jean ordered the knights to take Timmie home and clean up the bridge; Venti enjoyed a roast chicken leg.
• Wei Zhenzu collapsed from exhaustion as his raincoat dissolved and he returned to his usual form.
• The next morning, Wei Zhenzu met with Varka, Jean, Kaeya, and Diluc at Knights of Favonius headquarters, where Diluc reported that strange creatures and effects had appeared after an azure flash.

After the Stormterror crisis, Wei Zhenzu was made an Honorary Knight and settled into a room at the Knights of Favonius headquarters. He told Paimon he dreamed of opening a restaurant in Liyue, then prepared to examine the three new functions he had unlocked.

• Diluc reported that Timmie and his gear-feathered, many-eyed pigeons had been contained, and Varka announced that Wei Zhenzu would become an Honorary Knight.
• Jean arranged a dorm room for Wei Zhenzu, who returned there after spending the day exploring Mondstadt with Paimon.
• Wei Zhenzu told Paimon that he wanted to open a restaurant in Liyue rather than Mondstadt and imagined building a home near Yujing Terrace.
• Paimon fell asleep beside Wei Zhenzu, who then closed his eyes and focused on inspecting his three newly unlocked functions.

Wei Zhenzu activated the Abnormality Containment Unit and was transported to a facility modeled on Lobotomy Corporation. Malkuth explained how it worked and showed him a contained projection of an abnormality.

• Wei Zhenzu touched the new Abnormality Containment Unit icon and was pulled into a strange facility.
• Wei Zhenzu found himself in a corridor marked Welcome to Lobotomy Corporation (Pseudo).
• Malkuth introduced herself as the Control Team head and offered to guide Wei Zhenzu.
• Malkuth explained that the facility used Golden Bough energy to create containment projections of analyzed abnormalities and that more energy could awaken the other librarians.
• Malkuth showed Wei Zhenzu a containment unit holding a charred little girl surrounded by falling sparks.

Wei Zhenzu unlocked new Hell's Kitchen abilities after visiting the containment units, including concept cooking, monster consumption, and cookware transformation. While recovering at the Knights of Favonius, he tested his new cleaver on a carrot and accidentally split the chopping board and kitchen table in half.

• Wei Zhenzu and Malkuth inspected the contained Scorched Girl and Fairy Gentleman, then found Dvalin's calm soul remnant in a special containment unit.
• Touching Dvalin's containment glass triggered a Golden Bough resonance that unlocked Concept Cooking, Gluttony Hunt, and Cookware Liberation for Wei Zhenzu.
• Wei Zhenzu transformed his iron pot into a heavy bone cleaver and considered using contained Abnormalities as ingredients.
• Several days after the battle at Stormterror's Lair, Wei Zhenzu recovered in his Knights of Favonius dormitory while Paimon complained of hunger.
• Wei Zhenzu tested the cleaver on a carrot, but its stroke cut through the chopping board and split the kitchen table in two.

After ruining his cooking equipment, Wei Zhenzu searched Mondstadt for a savory meal and met the hungry astrologist Mona. Mona read his stars and revealed that his fate pointed toward Liyue, but he could not afford the journey.

• Wei Zhenzu accidentally wrecked his table while handling a bone cleaver, then assured Jean that he was safe.
• Wei Zhenzu and Paimon searched Mondstadt for food, and he rejected the city's sweet dishes and fled when Flora offered Sweet Flowers.
• Wei Zhenzu ordered chicken-mushroom skewers from Sara with extra pepper and no honey sauce.
• Wei Zhenzu offered his untouched skewer to hungry Mona, who accepted it and ate it.
• Mona used astrology to tell Wei Zhenzu that his path led south to Liyue, but his empty wallet left him unable to pay for the trip.

Wei Zhenzu woke in a peaceful modern city on April Fools’ Day, where he found Paimon alive and joined her for a day of food. As they wandered, they saw Sancho setting off on an amusement-park adventure with Don Quixote and Heathcliff shopping happily with Catherine; Wei Zhenzu and Paimon then entered a hot pot restaurant, where a clash sounded at the next table.

• Wei Zhenzu woke beside Paimon in a modern city where the City and the real world appeared to have merged, and decided to enjoy the April Fools’ dream with her.
• Wei Zhenzu bought churros and hot chocolate, then saw Sancho head to an amusement park with her father, Don Quixote.
• Wei Zhenzu and Paimon saw Heathcliff carrying shopping bags for a living, smiling Catherine, and Heathcliff complained while accompanying her.
• Wei Zhenzu followed the scent of hot pot to Red Chamber Boiling with Paimon, where a fierce clash sounded from the neighboring table.

On April Fools’ Day, Wei Zhenzu watched people from different worlds enjoy ordinary moments of family warmth in the city. The dreamlike night ended with him promising Paimon a feast, while the story left the nature of the miracle—and Paimon’s knowing gesture—unexplained.

• Hong Lu and Jia Xichun fought over wagyu at a hotpot restaurant until Wei Zhenzu treated them to more food.
• Ryoshu won a claw-machine plush for childhood Araiya after Lei Heng and Lioen stopped her from attacking the machine.
• Argalia and Roland argued over clothes until Angelica reassured them, and the three headed home together.
• Wei Zhenzu wrote a wish in his notes for the long night to last and for suffering souls to find their way home.
• Wei Zhenzu told Paimon he would cook her a feast, and Paimon wished him a happy April Fools’ Day with a mysterious gesture.

Wei Zhenzu and Paimon decided to travel to Liyue for its food, but they had no money for the journey. When they asked the Knights of Favonius for travel funds, Varka gave Wei Zhenzu an honorary banner instead, citing the costs of damage caused during the battles.

• Wei Zhenzu searched Mondstadt for familiar seasonings but found only basic local ingredients at Blanche's store.
• He avoided Angel's Share after spotting Venti entertaining drinkers and feared being left with the tavern bill.
• Hungry, Wei Zhenzu declared he would go to Liyue for its spicy dishes, and Paimon eagerly agreed.
• Wei Zhenzu realized they were penniless and took Paimon to ask Varka for travel money.
• Jean explained that battle damage, Timmie's distress, and the care of mutated pigeons had strained the Knights' finances, so Varka gave Wei Zhenzu an honorary banner instead of money.

Wei Zhenzu went to the Adventurers' Guild with Paimon to find work, but Catherine's name triggered Heathcliff's violent grief over his lost love. After suppressing Heathcliff, Wei Zhenzu tried to prove Catherine was an artificial receptionist by overwhelming her with absurd prompts, and she crashed in a puff of smoke.

• Wei Zhenzu and Paimon went to the Adventurers' Guild because they lacked enough Mora to travel to Liyue.
• Catherine introduced herself, and Heathcliff erupted inside Wei Zhenzu's mind, mistaking her for his lost Catherine and trying to break out.
• Wei Zhenzu cut off Heathcliff's perception of the outside world and calmed the disturbance by force.
• Wei Zhenzu challenged Catherine to hand over the Guild's Mora and dance, but she said she had no dance module and could not access the funds.
• Wei Zhenzu gave Catherine an impossible CAPTCHA and contradictory questions, causing her to overload and emit smoke.

Wei Zhenzu accepted a commission to clear a Hilichurl camp near the Whispering Woods so he could earn money for food and travel supplies. After boasting that the task would be easy, he set off with Paimon, leaving his confidence ominously untested.

• Catherine malfunctioned while warning Wei Zhenzu about unauthorized questions, and he smacked her forehead to reboot her.
• Catherine resumed her receptionist duties and offered Wei Zhenzu an adventure commission.
• Wei Zhenzu rejected easier commissions and accepted a 40,000-Mora task to clear Hilichurls near the Whispering Woods.
• Wei Zhenzu and Paimon left Mondstadt, and he transformed his iron pot into a bone cleaver.
• Wei Zhenzu dismissed Paimon's concern about his injuries and promised to defeat the Hilichurls in three minutes.

Wei Zhenzu attacked a Hilichurl camp, only to be outmaneuvered by the enemies’ coordinated formation and elemental attacks. Battered and furious, he called on the system to connect him to [Sovereign of Hongyuan] so he could destroy the camp and woods.

• Paimon looked forward to roasting Sunsettias while Wei Zhenzu approached the Hilichurl camp with his bone cleaver.
• Wei Zhenzu found the Hilichurls arranged in a disciplined formation, with shield-bearers, flaming crossbow shooters, two Samachurls, and a Blazing Axe Mitachurl.
• The Hydro and Cryo Samachurls froze Wei Zhenzu, and the Mitachurl shattered the ice with its flaming axe and knocked him into the mud.
• The Hilichurls repeatedly used their formation and coordinated attacks to wear Wei Zhenzu down, scorching his suit and cutting his face.
• Wei Zhenzu called on the system to connect him to [Sovereign of Hongyuan] so he could blow up the camp and woods.

Wei Zhenzu failed to summon an Identity, fled the Hilichurls with Paimon, and discovered they had only fifteen Mora left for food. As they despaired beside a great oak, he heard someone sighing and crept around the trunk to investigate.

• Wei Zhenzu’s system refused to provide an Identity against the low-level Hilichurls, so he grabbed Paimon and ran from their explosive barrels and attack.
• Wei Zhenzu reached a stream with Paimon, where he lamented being beaten by Hilichurls and worried that his reputation was ruined.
• Wei Zhenzu and Paimon counted their money and found they had only fifteen Mora, leaving them unable to afford a meal.
• Wei Zhenzu heard a melancholy sigh from the other side of a great oak and crept around the trunk, where he saw a young man sitting by Cider Lake.

Wei Zhenzu mistook the wealthy, melancholy Charles Torolfo for a fellow victim of the wilderness and offered him Paimon’s half-eaten Sunsettia. Charles revealed that he was neither poor nor attacked, then introduced himself as the head of the Charles Family.

• Wei Zhenzu watched Charles feed almonds to a bird and assumed he had been robbed or attacked by monsters.
• Wei Zhenzu approached Charles, offered him Paimon’s bitten Sunsettia, and asked whether Hilichurls had attacked him.
• Charles calmly denied being attacked and said he did not know what dried noodles were.
• Paimon pointed out that Charles’s expensive handkerchief showed he was wealthy, leaving Wei Zhenzu embarrassed.
• Charles introduced himself as Charles Torolfo, head of Mondstadt’s Charles Family and descendant of the Supreme Saint of France-Roland.

Wei Zhenzu met Tuoerfu, who lamented his luxurious life and his inability to draw his family’s ancestral sword, driving the impoverished Traveler into a sanity-breaking fit of envy. The chapter ended with Wei Zhenzu demanding 50 Mora from Tuoerfu and threatening to distort into a lemon spirit.

• Wei Zhenzu recognized Tuoerfu’s reference to Roland and excitedly praised the legendary knight of Charlemagne’s Twelve Paladins.
• Tuoerfu embraced Wei Zhenzu as a kindred spirit and described his family’s tragic glory, while Paimon asked whether Roland’s ivory horn could hold apple cider.
• Tuoerfu complained about his enormous villa, diligent maids, and younger sister Bei'erta’s thirty-dish breakfasts, saying his life lacked meaning unless he drew his family’s broken sword.
• Wei Zhenzu compared Tuoerfu’s complaints with his own poverty and broke down as his sanity fell to zero and Distortion began.
• Wei Zhenzu vented his despair in strange sayings and demanded that Tuoerfu apologize to the poor and send him 50 Mora.