"Beneath the Crystal Rock" is the first world quest from the quest chain " Shadows of the Mountains " V Genshin Impact. In this guide we will tell you how to help Titus lower the Shadow Needles into the ground and get achievement "Okay, enough of the corny jokes..."
Walkthrough of the world quest "Beneath the Crystal Rock"
How to start
Since this is a plot-important quest, not only does it not require any special conditions to start, but it is also marked on the main map. Under the flat mountain near the Sulfur Veins, we can meet a guy with a backpack who mutters something strange under his breath. We approach him and start a dialogue to start the quest.
The young man introduces himself as Titu, a storyteller from the Children of Echo tribe who watches over this place. He tells us about the Stone Pillar, which has become unstable lately and cannot hold back the Abyss, and the Shadow Needles that have surfaced, which can release the evil that slumbers underground. Titu asks for our help in lowering the Shadow Needles underground again and holding back the Abyss that is rushing to the surface.
Head to the Lesser Shadow Needle With You Titu
The rays of light coming from the Stone Column will help you quickly find the Shadow Needles. We run a little forward from the teleport, fight the mobs so that they do not interfere with us, and go into the cave on the side. Titu tells us to touch the golden figure hanging in the air. He will tell us that these are rainbow inscriptions left over from the time when dragons ruled Natlan. Now they help contain the Abyss.
Restore the inscription
Now our new friend will ask us to touch the rainbow inscription under the needle. We will need to turn into a tepetlizaur and interact with the object to start the test. Using the saurian's eshka, we go underground, our goal: to destroy the transparent crystals so that the solid phlogiston again becomes a rainbow inscription.
Be careful: you need to act quickly before the dark power on the scale above absorbs the power of the rainbow inscription. Avoid the spikes with dark power!
When the scale is full, Abyssal monsters will come out onto the ground. Fight them, after that a cutscene will start, the Shadow Needle will go underground again. After that we will have to go to the second Shadow Needle.
Find the second Shadow Needle
From the cave we were in, we turn right, cross a bridge of huge crystals, ending up in a crevice between two flat mountains. Using the giant spine of an ancient creature as a guide, we go down to the end of the remains, fight two mobs, and blow up the wall to open a passage.
Inspect the small shadow needle
We go down to the hidden underground teleport. We see a golden inscription and interact with it, but the golden sides have flown away somewhere. We need to look for them - during the cutscene you can see a large pile of fragile stones, we head towards it to break it, behind it there will be a molten crack.
We jump into it in the form of a tepetlizaur, it will take us to a cliff, where we will need to fight a group of hilichurls. From them we run into a tunnel, painted with arrows indicating the direction, we get into a small cave and see more hilichurls who are digging something.
Find a way to get down
After them, there will be a hole in the ground. We move into the saurian again and go underground, circles will appear on the surface, which we will need to break until we find a rainbow inscription. After that, the soil will fall down, forming a tunnel.
Keep moving forward
We jump into it, finding ourselves in an underground river. Now we move into the coholosaurus to swim faster with the current. In the cave we will come across a rainbow inscription, but here's the problem - at that very second the cave will be flooded with water. We look for a way to get rid of it.
Try touching the inscription
Explore the cave to find a man-made entrance where a Hilichurl is digging. The scoundrel pulled the lever and the cave was flooded. We deal with the monster and activate the mechanism. The water begins to recede, but it breaks from old age. We need to find another way.
Opposite the small cave with the mechanism, you can see a niche with spiky crystals. We swim to it and see accumulations of phlogeston. It is enough to touch them so that they launch a chain of explosions that will break the walls, and the water will go away completely. The path to the rainbow inscription is free.
Note: You can get an achievement here "Happiness is not repeated..." , if it is not already open for you.
Follow the sign to the Lesser Shadow Needle
We jump down and touch the inscription, it activates and a spiritual path appears, which we need to enter as a coholosaurus. The path will lead us to ruins with a luxurious chest, there on the steps we can also find a certain Red Metal Key. We continue to follow the inscription, which will lead us to the Shadow Needle through familiar places.
Complete the sealing Ritual
We touch the inscription, it returns to its place. We move into the tepetlizaur and again destroy the phlogiston crystals as quickly as possible, before the dark force absorbs the power of the rainbow inscriptions. When the test is passed, a cutscene will begin, the needle will go underground, and Titu will heartily praise us.
Head to the last minor Shadow Needle
According to ancient traditions, all the needles must be in the ground, so Titu calls us to check the last needle.
It can be reached from the teleport at the Sulfur Veins. We go down and see that it is deep in the ground. The narrator is incredibly happy about this and says that he can take over the shift with peace of mind. He tells how the Caenri'ah disaster affected Natlan, destroying their defenses and letting the Abyss into these lands. And the needles and the Pillar are the heroic feat of the leaders of the past, who sacrificed their lives to seal the Abyss.
Suddenly the earth starts shaking. Something went wrong even after all the rituals, the shadow of the Abyss became stronger. We run to the place under the Stone Column, where we are attacked by the hounds of the rupture.
We fight them, after which a cutscene begins. The stone column falls down, into the void that was hidden under it, from where we hear a terrible voice. Titu says that these are the souls of the fallen soldiers of Kaenri'ah, and now we must go down into the resulting hole to stop something that has awakened.
This completes the first quest in the "Shadows of the Mountains" chain, we get 400 adventure experience, 50 primogems, 30,000 mora, 5 Hero's Experience books, 4 Magic Enhancement Ore and the achievement "Okay, enough banal jokes...", which gives another plus 5 to the source stones. We will also have access to the next quest in the "Peace to the Slumbering" line.
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