Chapter Summaries

Lin En met Venti on a rooftop in Mondstadt, where Venti offered to teach him Anemo so he could grow stronger before Ronava faced Phanes. After a day of training at Windrise, Lin En asked Ronava to let him keep practicing, and she revealed she was gathering power to negotiate with the God of Ice.

• Venti told Lin En that Phanes had defeated Nibelung and warned that Ronava's chances against her were low, while Lin En insisted he wanted to become strong enough to help.
• Venti gave Lin En an emerald-green bead and invited him to learn Anemo at Windrise the next morning.
• Ronava sensed Venti's visit but let Lin En meet him, and Lin En went to Windrise after discussing it with her.
• Venti taught Lin En to feel and control the wind, and Lin En learned to create a small current of air by the end of the day.
• Lin En asked Ronava if he could train every day, and she explained she was gathering strength to negotiate with the God of Ice before settling accounts with Snezhnaya.
• Ronava said she would accompany Lin En to Windrise the next day and revealed she already knew about his training with Venti.

Lin En practiced guiding Anemo at Windrise with Venti while Ronava waited nearby. Istaroth stopped time to return Ronava’s spear, give Lin En an Anemo Vision, and warn that Snezhnaya knew Ronava was alive, leaving Lin En aware that a battle was approaching.

• Lin En practiced forming and sustaining wind vortices under Venti’s guidance while Ronava sensed something beneath the great tree.
• Istaroth froze time, appeared before Ronava and Lin En, and identified Lin En as a Descender outside Teyvat and the Heavenly Principles’ laws.
• Istaroth returned Ronava’s black spear and transformed Venti’s green bead into an Anemo Vision for Lin En.
• Istaroth took Lin En’s bell, warned Ronava that Snezhnaya had discovered she was alive, and then released the frozen world.
• Ronava denied Istaroth’s visit when Venti questioned her, while Lin En returned to training and worried about the battle ahead.

Lin En and Ronava traveled from Mondstadt to Liyue Harbor and boarded a ship to Inazuma with Lumine, Paimon, and the little dragon. A sea monster attacked the ship, and Ronava told Lin En to let Lumine face it first.

• Lin En completed a week of wind training with Venti while Ronava studied her spear and grew closer to the little dragon.
• Lin En and Ronava left Mondstadt and reached Liyue Harbor, where the little dragon reunited with Lumine and Paimon.
• Lin En explained the little dragon’s origins to Lumine, who agreed to take it to Natlan after visiting Inazuma.
• Lin En and Ronava boarded a ship to Inazuma, and Lumine and Paimon joined them just before it departed.
• A sea monster attacked the ship, and Ronava stopped Lin En from intervening because it was targeting Lumine.

Lumine fought a sea monster attacking the passenger ship while Ronava revealed it was a pseudo-demon god created by Rhinedottir. Lin En and Ronava destroyed its control device, then flew toward Inazuma as Lumine stayed behind to help the crew.

• Lumine deflected the sea monster’s tail and endured its breath attack, wounding it with her Sword of Descension.
• Ronava spotted a mechanical device on the monster’s neck and explained that Rhinedottir had created the pseudo-demon god.
• As the monster crushed the ship, Ronava told Lin En to attack the device; he cracked it with an Anemo wind blade, and Ronava pierced it with her spear.
• The monster’s body fell apart after Ronava’s black energy filled the device.
• Ronava picked up Lin En and flew toward Inazuma, leaving Lumine and Paimon to help the crew, who found black barriers sealing the holes in the hull.

Lin En and Ronava waited for Yae Miko at the Kamisato Estate, where Yae teased them about their supposed romantic bond before asking why they had come. Their real purpose remained unrevealed.

• Ronava flew Lin En to a forest near Inazuma City, and they decided to wait at the foot of the mountain for Yae Miko.
• Lin En suspected the Traveler had informed Snezhnaya about Ronava, but Ronava said Snezhnaya was occupied and she could not cause trouble while injured.
• Kamisato Ayato found Lin En and Ronava on the mountain path, invited them to the Kamisato Estate, and told them Yae Miko was in the city.
• Ayato arranged for Yae Miko to be invited in, and she arrived about an hour later.
• Yae Miko teased Lin En and Ronava with a love fortune, then asked what they had come to see her about.

Ronava agreed to investigate the disappearances on Tsurumi Island in exchange for Yae Miko giving her the token sealed beneath Tenshukaku. As Ronava and Lin En prepared to leave, she explained her goals and admitted she had chosen to keep him close, telling him not to die.

• Ronava asked Yae Miko for the token Phanes gave Raiden Makoto, and agreed to investigate Tsurumi Island in return.
• Yae Miko arranged a boat for the next morning after explaining that three teams sent to Tsurumi Island had vanished amid worsening fog.
• Lin En and Ronava stayed at Ayato’s residence for the night, and Lin En urged Ronava to eat dinner.
• Ronava showed Lin En how to compress Anemo around his shortsword, helping him form a sharper, nearly transparent wind film.
• Ronava told Lin En that she wanted power both to oppose Phanes and to negotiate with Snezhnaya, then admitted she had chosen him because he wanted to remain in this world and had once taken a blow for her.
• Ronava told Lin En not to die, and the two prepared to leave for Tsurumi Island.

Lin En and Ronava arrived on Tsurumi Island, where thick fog and a strange force weakened Lin En’s Elemental Energy. After encountering Lumine and Paimon, they continued around a mountain and discovered a cave with gravel pushed out from within.

• Lin En and Ronava crossed the fog-covered sea and landed on Tsurumi Island, where they held hands to avoid getting separated in the dense fog.
• Ronava examined an altar and warned Lin En not to touch its jars, but Lin En accidentally broke one, spilling foul-smelling red liquid.
• Lumine and Paimon emerged from the fog and questioned Lin En and Ronava, who then continued deeper into the island.
• Lin En noticed his Elemental Energy weakening as he and Ronava navigated the slippery mountain base, and Ronava told him to conserve his power.
• Lin En spotted a large cave entrance with gravel arranged as if something had pushed it out from inside.

Lin En and Ronava navigated a space-warping Geo formation and reached its formation eye, where Ronava discovered it was drawing power from the Ley Lines and sending it north across a sea. The chapter left them in the chamber as they began to uncover the formation’s purpose.

• Lin En and Ronava realized the passage looped back on itself, and Ronava identified a Geo formation that folded space.
• Lin En used Zhongli’s talisman to absorb Geo and guide them to hidden openings while Ronava broke through the formation’s barriers.
• After nearly an hour of advancing through the warped passages, Lin En and Ronava reached a stone chamber containing the formation eye.
• Lin En weakened by the talisman’s absorption of Geo, and Ronava caught him and told him to rest while she examined the chamber.
• Ronava sensed that the formation eye was drawing power from the Ley Lines and sending it north to a destination beyond a sea.

Lin En and Ronava destroyed the array on Tsurumi Island, but its final signal alerted whoever had built it, and purple haze spread through the island. They sheltered from the fog, where Paimon found them after becoming separated from Lumine, and Ronava agreed to help search for the Traveler under strict conditions.

• Ronava shattered the array's five pillars and core, triggering a final beam of dark red light that warned the array's creator of their presence.
• Lin En and Ronava decided to spend the night in the cave because the fog had thickened and darkness made travel dangerous.
• Rifthounds gathered outside the cave, and Paimon fled into it after being separated from Lumine in the purple haze.
• Ronava drove off the pursuing Rifthounds and explained that the haze was Ley Line power leaking from the damaged array's transmission channels.
• Ronava agreed to look for Lumine if Paimon promised not to interfere in their affairs or reveal their location to the God of Cryo, and she told Lin En he owed her a favor.

Lin En, Ronava, and Paimon crossed a narrow mountain path and fought a monstrous creature with rapidly healing wounds. Ronava destroyed it with a powerful attack but collapsed, and Lin En caught her as they fell into the abyss with Paimon.

• Ronava led Lin En and Paimon along a narrow path above a cliff, and Lin En held her hand while Paimon clung to his clothes.
• A huge monster covered in scarlet eyes attacked them, and Ronava and Lin En struck it while its wounds rapidly healed.
• Lin En severed a row of the monster’s eyes, giving Ronava time to gather black energy and unleash a wave that destroyed the creature and part of the mountain.
• Ronava lost consciousness and fell, and Lin En caught her as Paimon tried and failed to slow their descent.
• Lin En gathered Anemo beneath them to cushion their fall while Ronava’s fingers moved and clutched his clothes.

After falling into a ravine, Lin En and Ronava survived but were badly injured and trapped; he sent Paimon to find the Traveler. Ronava woke and stabilized Lin En’s broken arm as they waited for rescue.

• Lin En checked that Ronava was breathing, gave her a healing pill and candy, and realized they were trapped without food or water.
• With his remaining Anemo, Lin En sent Paimon up the cliff to find the Traveler, then collapsed unconscious.
• Ronava woke and confirmed Lin En had broken his arm and ribs after taking the impact for her; Zhongli’s talisman had shielded him from a fatal injury.
• Ronava used her recovering power to stabilize Lin En’s arm, and he told her he would not die before repaying his favor.
• Lin En wondered how long Paimon would take to return with help.

After surviving the monster in the ravine, Lin En and Ronava waited for Paimon while recovering from their injuries, and Ronava admitted she had feared the monster would hurt him. Paimon returned with Lumine, who helped them escape the ravine, and they decided to head back rather than continue up the mountain.

• Lin En and Ronava rested in the ravine, and Ronava said she had spent several thousand years alone.
• Lin En asked why Ronava had stayed to face the monster, and she admitted she was afraid it would hurt him.
• Paimon returned with Lumine, who checked on Lin En and brought medicine and bandages.
• Ronava treated Lin En's wounds and climbed the cliff, while Lumine carried Lin En up with Anemo.
• Lumine offered to accompany them back because the purple haze and Rifthounds might still pose a danger, and Lin En agreed.

A storm forced Lin En, Ronava, Lumine, and Paimon to shelter in an abandoned cabin on a small island. While they waited for the rain to ease, Ronava kissed Lin En and told him she did not regret having him follow her.

• A sudden storm drove the boats toward a small island, where Lumine led everyone ashore to find shelter.
• Lumine started a fire in an abandoned cabin, and the group waited out the rain while Lin En and Ronava talked about their journey.
• Ronava checked Lin En's injured arm and said it should heal in a few days.
• Ronava kissed Lin En, then told him she did not regret having him follow her.

After returning from Tsurumi Island, Lin En and Ronava reported their findings to Yae Miko and received a mysterious bell connected to Phanes. The chapter left them resting in Inazuma, with Lin En considering taking Ronava to Arataki Itto’s upcoming Onikabuto tournament.

• At dawn, Lin En took Ronava’s hand, and she let him hold it after their kiss the previous night.
• Lumine and Paimon left to report a commission while Lin En and Ronava traveled to the Grand Narukami Shrine.
• Ronava told Yae Miko that the missing people on Tsurumi Island were dead, the monster had been cleared, and six transmission lines remained across Teyvat.
• Yae Miko gave Ronava a dark-gold bell, which Lin En recognized from an illusion on Dragonspine where Istaroth had taken it.
• Ronava said Istaroth might have sent the bell through time because it would be useful on their journey, though she did not know how.
• At an inn in Inazuma City, Lin En heard Arataki Itto announce an Onikabuto tournament in Konda Village and thought he might take Ronava to see it.

Lin En entered Arataki Itto’s Onikabuto tournament with a tiny gray bug that had been perched on his head and unexpectedly defeated Itto’s much larger Red Whirlwind. The chapter ended with Lin En holding the injured but living winner in his palm.

• Arataki Itto challenged Lin En to a match after spotting him in the crowd, and Lin En discovered a tiny Onikabuto on his head.
• Lin En placed the gray Onikabuto in the arena against Itto’s Thunderbolt Invincible Red Whirlwind.
• The gray bug endured Red Whirlwind’s attacks, climbed onto its back, and bit it before returning to face it again.
• The gray bug stood its ground, twisted Red Whirlwind’s horn, and toppled it onto its side.
• Lin En picked up the wounded bug as Paimon and Itto stared in surprise at its victory.

Lin En and Ronava spent the day in Inazuma City after Lin En won Itto’s beetle match, and they learned that Tsurumi Island’s fog had cleared. The day ended at their inn, where Ronava treated Lin En’s nearly healed arm and went to sleep on the floor.

• Lin En released the beetle that beat Itto’s Red Whirlwind, but gave it to Itto when he asked to keep it.
• Lin En and Ronava walked through Konda Village toward Inazuma City and stopped at a food stall, where Lin En bought Ronava the last skewer of Tricolor Dango.
• Lin En and Ronava read the Shogunate Army’s notice that Tsurumi Island was safe again and its missing persons were under investigation.
• Ronava told Lin En that Inazuma had changed greatly since she last visited, when the country was closed off and its people struggled to survive.
• At the inn, Ronava applied medicine to Lin En’s nearly healed wound and lay down on the floor before he could object.

An Abyss invasion struck Inazuma City, and Aether and Asmoday arrived at Tenshukaku to retrieve something before escaping through a portal. Ronava revealed that Asmoday was the Ruler of Space, created alongside her by Phanes, while Lumine was left behind after her brother’s departure.

• Lin En and Ronava rushed toward Tenshukaku as Abyss monsters poured through rifts and the Shogunate Army fought to protect Inazuma City.
• The Raiden Shogun split the dark red rift with her attack, but Aether emerged and shattered the giant eye behind her.
• Aether recognized Ronava as the Ruler of Death, then tried to leave after saying he had what he came for.
• Ronava attacked Aether, but Asmoday blocked her spear and revealed herself as the Ruler of Space, aligned with the Heavenly Principles.
• Asmoday and Aether escaped through a golden portal, leaving Lumine on the roof as the Abyss forces retreated.
• Ronava told Lin En that Phanes had created her and Asmoday together, then wondered what Asmoday was trying to do.

After recovering a small portion of the power from Tsurumi Island’s Celestial Nail, Ronava and Lin En set their sights on Sumeru, where Ronava knew someone who owed her a favor.

• Ronava told Lin En they would return to Tsurumi Island, and they left Inazuma City by boat on the fourth morning.
• Lin En and Ronava reached Tsurumi Island and entered the mountain through a crack left by Ronava’s earlier attack.
• Ronava drew a small portion of power from the Celestial Nail and explained that the nails also sealed Teyvat to keep it habitable for humans.
• Ronava said they would go to Sumeru to meet someone who owed her a favor.

Lin En and Ronava reached Sumeru, where Nahida warned them about a device and danger near the Celestial Nail in Mount Damavand. Ronava accepted a leaf to guide them to the sealed ruins, and the pair settled into an inn in Sumeru City before heading to the desert.

• Lin En found a red longsword Ronava had brought back from near Inazuma's Celestial Nail; it transformed into a bracelet when he touched it.
• Lin En and Ronava sailed to Port Ormos and traveled onward to Sumeru City, where Nahida was waiting for them.
• Nahida told Ronava that people had recently entered Mount Damavand and set up a device near the Celestial Nail, which also restrained Apep and Forbidden Knowledge.
• Nahida gave Ronava a leaf that would guide her through the barrier sealing the ruins, then said Ronava had changed for the better.
• Ronava told Lin En she had helped and taught Nahida after Greater Lord Rukkhadevata fell, but stopped herself from saying something about Lin En.
• Lin En and Ronava decided to rest for a few days at an inn in Sumeru City before going to Mount Damavand.

Lin En and Ronava spent a peaceful day climbing a mountain north of Sumeru City, sharing fruit and enjoying the view. They returned to the inn hand in hand, and Ronava said she had enjoyed the day too, before their planned trip to Mount Damavand.

• Lin En woke to find Ronava on the balcony, and they decided to climb the mountain north of Sumeru City.
• Lin En and Ronava walked through the misty forest, where Ronava admired the flowers and challenged him to guess what she liked.
• At the summit pavilion, Lin En and Ronava shared sour wild fruit, and Ronava admitted she had lied about its taste to make him smile.
• Lin En wove Ronava a flower wreath and placed it on her head, but a Sumeru scholar warned them that picking flowers incurred a fine.
• Lin En and Ronava ran through the flowers, then held hands on the walk back to the inn as the sun set.
• Before sleeping, Lin En asked when they would go to Mount Damavand, and Ronava said she had enjoyed the day too.