After Li Qi dies suddenly in the real world, he unexpectedly transmigrates to Teyvat, where his soul merges with “Aether” just as Aether is rescuing Paimon from the sea. Faced with a floating Emergency Food and the unfamiliar power of the gods, he's thrilled to have the “prophet's” advantage of knowing the Genshin Impact storyline, yet terrified by the pain of real flesh and blood in battle. Dvalin's roar can rupture eardrums, and the Abyss Order's blades can slice through bone and sinew.
He decides to use the “script” to change his fate: he snatches up Anemoculi ahead of time to strengthen his elemental powers, stocks up on boar meat in the Serenitea Pot to keep Paimon's stomach happy, and guides Acting Grand Master Jean to lead an expedition during Mondstadt's dragon crisis. He then teams up with Kaeya to surround Abyss Order infiltrators and uncover clues about the “Princess.” At the Liyue martial arts tournament, he plays the pig to eat the tiger, pinpointing the up-and-comer's martial arts bottleneck with a single finger. But after he lets slip a joke about how “Beidou's charms won't work on me,” Paimon punishes him by yanking his hair.
But when he confidently heads for Fontaine, hoping to solve a string of girls' disappearances with his “foresight,” the world suddenly twists out of shape. An experimental subject who should have died transforms into an “anomalous gravity water body” and devours the Research Institute. Furina even authorizes him to wipe out the Fatui, while the Primordial Sea, which should still be dormant, erupts ahead of schedule. The threads of fate in Teyvat snap at his fingertips, and every plotline spirals out of control. Only then does he realize: he isn't a transmigrator at all. He's a **correction program** generated by Irminsul to eliminate “anomalies.” If he can't find Aether's true self before the seven nations fall, he and Teyvat will plunge into nothingness together.
