Beneath the Crystal Rock is a World Quest in Genshin Impact. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the Beneath the Crystal Rock World Quest.
Beneath the Crystal Rock automatically unlocks after completing the Pilgrimage of the Return of the Sacred Flame Archon subquest.
Region: Natlan
Area: Sulfurous Veins
Quest Giver: Automatically available after completing the Pilgrimage of the Return of the Sacred Flame subquest
Requirement: Automatically available after completing the Pilgrimage of the Return of the Sacred Flame
Recommended Level: 45
Reward: 50 Primogems, 34,000 Mora, 5 Hero’s Wit, 4 Mystic Enhancement Ore
Mission Description: Investigate upheavals of rock that come from the Abyss.
Objectives:
- Talk to ???
- Go to the Lesser Shadow Pin with Titu
- Touch the golden inscription
- Repair the inscription
- Go to the Lesser Shadow Pin with Titu
- Examine the Lesser Shadow Pin
- Repair the inscription
- Find the inscription(s) scattered in other locations
- Find a way down
- Follow the inscription back to the Lesser Shadow Pin
- Complete the sealing ritual
- Go to the last Lesser Shadow Pin
- Investigate the area beneath the canyon
- Defeat the opponents
Starting Location: Natlan
Talk to ???
You come across a storyteller named Titu. He tells you about rock pillars that come up from the Abyss, which sits below the ground surface. You offer to help find ways to deal with these upheavals.
Go to the Lesser Shadow Pin with Titu
Follow the dirt path northwest until you reach a cave. Walk into the cave.
Touch the golden inscription
A glowing rune stands between you and the large, rotating crystal, or Lesser Shadow Pin, further in the cave.
Interact with the inscription. The inscription changes shape before moving toward and into the Shadow Pin. In order to actually fix the rune you applied, you need to destroy more pins to influence the Shadow Pin.
Repair the inscription
Right next to Titu is a golden icon that looks like your new Geo companion. Press L1 +Square to turn into a Tepetlisaur.
Interact with the inscription sitting by the Shadow Pin.
This begins an event. It’s worth knowing that you can fail this event if you do not move quickly enough. So, read ahead to get a feel for what to expect.
A progress bar appears at the top of the screen with two different progressions. The dark color is what will stop you, and the red bar is your progress. If the dark progression reaches yours, then you fail the challenge. You fill your progress bar by destroying pins. Just keep moving and attacking the pins to keep ahead.
Also, in order to use the Tepelisaur Elemental Skill, you need to keep your Phlogiston bar filled. You do this by picking up molten colored diamond-shaped chunks. They look similar to the Geo shards that come from using Geo abilities in combat.
Run around the Shadow Pin, destroying the smaller pins as you go.
When you go one full rotation around the Shadow Pin, a Molten Fissure opens up at your feet. Interact with it.
You automatically enter the ground and flow your way up the wall, destroying other small pins in your path.
Eventually, you end up on a higher ledge. Move to the pins on that ledge and destroy them with attacks.
Climb up onto the wall and continue destroying pins.
You soon find four pins situated into a diamond on the wall. When they’re destroyed, the wall behind them breaks out, revealing more pins.
Destroy those pins to complete the event.
Three rounds of rifthounds attack you. You can beat them while as the Tepetlisaur, but that takes a long time. To switch back to your characters, hold the Triangle button.
Once you beat those rifthounds, the Lesser Shadow Pin lowers into the ground.
Go to the Lesser Shadow Pin with Titu
The next location is further into the cave to the southwest, taking you through a different opening than the one you used to enter the cave.
When you go into an open area, a large crystal falls in front of you, creating a bridge across the gap. Use it to cross.
Soon, you enter a cave that flows along the spine of a large creature.
At the base of the rocks are barrels with crystals in them. Attack them to clear the rubble and open the path.
Examine the Lesser Shadow Pin
Continue down the linear cave. Be sure to unlock the Teleport Waypoint you come across.
This waypoint overlooks the next Lesser Shadow Pin.
Repair the inscription
Go to the right side and jump down one level but not all the way to the ground floor. There, you find the inscription.
Before interacting with the inscription, defeat the Hilichurl Rogue guarding it.
This time, though, the pins don’t pop up for you to attack.
Find the inscription(s) scattered in other locations
Keep this room in mind.
Look down to see another golden node in the shape of a Tepetlisaur. Use it to transform into a Tepetlisaur.
Use R2 to burrow into the ground and climb up the wall.
Remember this exact spot. There’s a gate at the top of this wall that requires a Red Metal Key. You find that much later on in the quest.
Then, head left. Attack the rock rubble to reveal a Molten Fissure.
If you need to fill up on Phlogiston, stand next to the open flame fixture situated next to the rubble you just destroyed.
Interact with the Molten Fissure to take you to the next area up.
Follow the path south. When the path forks, go southwest until you find an open area.
Find a way down
While as a Tepelisaur, use your Elemental Skill. On the ground in the middle of the area are ripples.
Go down to them and attack until the floor falls out from underneath you.
In this new cave, follow the river against the flow of water.
When you reach an open area, you find the inscription. Unfortunately, when you approach it, the open area fills with water.
To your right is a new symbol. Interacting with it turns you into a new Saurian, a Koholasauri.
Turn around to see another room with a hilichurl standing next to a lever.
Operate the level to lower the water a bit. Feel free to ignore the hilichurl if you wish.
Head straight out of the room to the opposite side of the cavern. This goes through a path underneath several sharp crystals.
A ledge follows to the right, with small explosive pockets of Phlogiston. Trigger them by walking on them. This makes the water drain from the pool by you. Jump down into the new cavern.
Climb the broken wall and follow the linear path behind it until you reach a wall of rubble.
Attack the explosive crystals nearby to blow up the wall.
This takes you back out to the large cavern with the water drained enough for you to interact with the inscription. Interact with the inscription.
Follow the inscription back to the Lesser Shadow Pin
If you switched to your characters, transform back into the Koholasauri. Then, approach the golden ball at the base of the new golden path to surf it.
When you get back on land, go up the stairs in front of you and interact with the golden spot at the top of the stairs.
Here, you pick up a Red Metal Key. You use this on a gate in the same area you found the second Lesser Shadow Pin.
Then, head forward through the inscription to the room where you broke out the floor.
You cannot proceed back to the Lesser Shadow Pin as the Koholasauri, so hold Triangle to turn back to your characters.
Continue following the rune down the linear path until you reach the Lesser Shadow Pin.
At the wooden ledge, interact with the inscription.
Complete the sealing ritual
Jump down tot he bottom of the Lesser Shadow Pin to find an inscription in front of it.
Click Repair. This initiates a similar ritual from the first Lesser Shadow Pin.
Turn into the Tepelisaur and use the Elemental Skill to move faster. This time, the first pin is on your right on a short step up. Then, the next one goes left.
After that, the pins follow a pattern around the Lesser Shadow Pin. After one time around, the ground starts to fall out from around you. Explosive crystals also appear in spots. Avoid the explosive crystals and keep moving to avoid falling with the crumbling ground.
When the path force you onto a wall, a Molten Fissure appears soon after.
You then return to the ground for a bit and ultimately get forced back onto a wall, revealing a second Molten Core. This one takes control and finishes the event.
Head to the last Lesser Shadow Pin
Activate the Elemental Skill, then head down the linear path.
You eventually come across a Molten Fissure. Use it to get to the top of the cliff.
Head out into the open clearing straight ahead until you reach the third Lesser Shadow Pin.
Thankfully, this Lesser Shadow Pin is properly in place.
Investigate the area beneath the canyon
After the conversation, head west into the large canyon.
Defeat the opponents
When you reach the canyon base, another round of rifthunters attack you. Take them out.
Then, two rounds of spirit warriors attack you.
Finish the following cutscene to complete the Beneath the Crystal Rock World Quest.
Next quest: Peace to the Slumbering
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