The first major milestone occurs when Li Mo recounts his first incarnation as the Thunder Demon during the chaotic dawn of the Archon War. In this sequence, he is an ordinary boy who shields the infant sisters Baal and Beelzebul from a demon's flames, getting charred nearly to death. The turning point of this node is not just survival, but his reckless defiance of the gods. When Celestia answers his curses with eighty bolts of divine lightning, the boy's sheer will to protect the infants triggers a mutation. He fuses with the dark Electro energy, transforming into the fearsome Thunder Demon. He defeats the ancient Tengu chieftain to secure the healing Feather of the Divine, but the real emotional gut-punch lands when the infants are burned a second time years later. Realizing humans cannot survive this era without divine power, the boy commits the ultimate act of sacrifice—he carves open his own chest, pulls out his mutated Electro Vision, and splits his own heart in two to place the pieces inside the dying sisters. This act of self-mutilation saves the girls, setting them on the path to becoming the invincible Twin Electro Archons, while the boy dies and enters the cycle of reincarnation. The emotional payoff is immediate as the listening Raiden Shogun, sitting in the corner of the inn, realizes the legendary origin of her power and her beloved brother's sacrifice, weeping openly as the first crack in her stoic facade appears. This emotional breakthrough triggers Li Mo's first system reward, but it also alerts the other archons in the room that this storyteller possesses knowledge that should be buried deep in the soil of Inazuma.

The story momentum carries directly into Liyue's ancient history as Li Mo begins his second tale, focusing on his life as a white-haired old man who studies forbidden talismans. He adopts a nameless orphan girl, naming her Qiqi after the bitter Qixing flowers she gathers for him. The core conflict escalates when the war between the adepti and demons reaches their quiet coastline. When a demon attacks their home, the old man uses his final life force to unleash his untested preservation arts, mending his own wounds but exhausting his soul. In a desperate bid to save her dying master, Qiqi runs to the cliffs to gather more herbs, only to slip and fall into the crossfire of the main battlefield. Crushed beneath a massive boulder, her intense desire to return home and save her master awakens a Cryo Vision, unleashing a freezing wave that helps the adepti defeat the demons. The emotional climax of this milestone is a double tragedy of mutual sacrifice. The adepti carry the dying Qiqi back to her home, where her master is also breathing his last. Refusing to let his disciple perish, the old man uses his final breath to write a life-sealing talisman, pressing it onto Qiqi's forehead to preserve her as a zombie, while he dies of exhaustion. This milestone lands with devastating force because Qiqi, sitting in the audience, begins to remember the sweet taste of the honey-coated Qixing flowers and her lost master, prompting Li Mo to use his system points to buy a pill that restores her decaying soul. This act of healing confirms the storyteller's divine power to the watching Geo Archon, raising the stakes as the boundary between past myth and present reality completely dissolves.

The consequences of his past lives ripple outward as Li Mo transitions to Mondstadt's history, revealing his reincarnation as the black dragon Durin. Born from the void alongside Dvalin, Durin's tragedy is orchestrated by the alchemist Rhinedottir, who corrupts his body with dark poison while telling him it is a blessing to share with the world. The core reversal of this node is Durin's complete innocence. He flies to Mondstadt not to destroy, but to find the beautiful green dragon Dvalin and the bard Venti whose songs he heard on the wind. When Dvalin attacks to protect Mondstadt, Durin believes the claws digging into his chest and the fangs in his neck are a warm, brotherly embrace. He dies without resisting, apologizing to the world for the poison his body unwittingly spread, and uses his final breath to bless the frozen mountain, turning his toxic blood into the warming Scarlet Quartz. This revelation completely shatters Dvalin and Barbatos, who are listening to the tale. Dvalin roars in agony outside the inn, realizing he slaughtered his own brother, while Barbatos weeps for the friend he misunderstood. The tension escalates to a fever pitch when the system rewards Li Mo with a complete Wish, which he immediately uses to resurrect the deceased Electro Archon, Raiden Makoto. The sudden eruption of Electro energy and Makoto's physical reappearance outside the inn shocks the gathered archons, proving beyond a doubt that the storyteller is not merely reciting history, but actively manipulating the laws of life and death.

The story reaches its emotional peak when Li Mo recounts his fifth life as a half-adeptus boy in Liyue, who befriends a young, black-haired Shenhe. The conflict turns monstrous when Shenhe's father, driven mad by grief over his wife's death, seals his own daughter in a cave as a sacrifice to a demon. The reversal in this milestone lies in the subversion of the famous legend of the Divine Damsel of Devastation. Shenhe did not bravely conquer the beast alone—she was a terrified child who was nearly devoured. It was the young Li Mo who moved the massive boulder, threw himself before the demon's claws, and lost his arm and shoulder to protect her. To save the dying Shenhe, the boy asks Cloud Retainer to transplant his half-adeptus heart into her chest and erase her memories of the trauma so she can live a happy life. Shenhe's hair turns white as she forgets her savior, while the boy is buried in an unnamed stone grave at the foot of Mount Aocang. This milestone lands with unparalleled emotional force because the adult Shenhe, sitting in the audience, finally recovers her lost memories and weeps for her forgotten protector. When Li Mo slips out of the inn at night to visit the old notice board, Shenhe confronts him under the moonlight, forcing him to admit his identity. Their secret reunion cements their bond, but with the three Electro sisters and Barbatos still watching his every move, Li Mo must prepare to tell the story of Orobashi, knowing the next revelation will force the Raiden Shogun to confront her own blood-stained hands.