Recaps

Xingsu supported Navia after Callas’s execution, then traveled to Liyue to rescue Fatui children stranded in the Chasm. He found Nikolay and brought Tighnari to treat him, while promising Collei he would cure her Eleazar before they met again.

• Xingsu comforted Navia after Callas’s execution, and she took over the Spina di Rosula and vowed to clear her father’s name.
• Xingsu returned to the House of the Hearth, then traveled to Liyue and reunited Teucer with Tartaglia before arranging Lumine’s help to search the Chasm.
• Xingsu found the stranded Ninth Company, identified himself as a head of the House of the Hearth, and learned that Nikolay had gone missing while drawing monsters away from the others.
• Xingsu made a deal with Yelan to find Nikolay and withdraw the Fatui survivors from Liyue, then carried the feverish boy back and treated his infected wound.
• Xingsu left the Ninth Company to seek aid and encountered Collei and Tighnari, whom he brought to the Chasm so Tighnari could treat Nikolay.
• Xingsu told Tighnari that he served Arlecchino willingly and protected the House of the Hearth’s children, then promised Collei he would cure her Eleazar before they met again.

Xingsu reunited with Arlecchino and prepared to oppose Dottore’s god-creation project, while Lumine and Paimon joined the Sabzeruz Festival in Sumeru. The festival became a repeating dream powered by the people’s memories, and Xingsu ended the stretch trapped in the loop as Nahida appeared.

• Xingsu accepted Zhongli’s contract to remember the lives and experiences that official histories would leave out, then learned from Madame Ping that Guoba was the Stove God Marchosius.
• Xingsu reunited with Arlecchino, learned the Tsaritsa wanted to meet him, and publicly reprimanded Dottore, Pulcinella, and Pantalone for abusing their authority.
• Xingsu returned to Sumeru and revealed that Dottore and Grand Sage Azar were close to completing a plan to create a god, while Collei struggled with her Eleazar and his Fatui affiliation.
• Xingsu introduced Lumine and Paimon to Dunyarzad and Dehya, helped fund the Sabzeruz Festival, and brought them to meet Nilou at the Grand Bazaar.
• Azar threatened the festival organizers, and Xingsu agreed to suspend the celebration after Nilou and the others signaled him to stop.
• Xingsu told Lumine and Paimon that the festival was repeating in a dream, while Scott’s twisted memories allowed him to test his abilities within the loop.
• Xingsu discovered that the Akademiya was using people’s memories and dreams to power its god-creation project, but his attempts to expose the truth and erase Scott failed as the loop reset.
• Xingsu saw Dunyarzad growing frailer as the dream deteriorated, then decided to go to the Akademiya before Nahida appeared.