This article will guide you to complete all objectives of the world quest “Capturing Light and Shadow” in Genshin Impact 3.8.
Explore the mysterious cave
Teleport to the “Overgrown Valley, Veluriyam Mirage” waypoint as shown in the minimap down below. Go up the stairs and then drop down to a larger area to find a Hydro Eidolon.
Follow the Hydro Eidolon
Interact with the Hydro Eidolon and start following it.
Read the diary fragment
Hydro Eidolon will take you to a common chest. There you will also find some diary fragments to read.
Take the Choo-Choo Cart to the destination
Keep following the Hydro Eidolon and it will take you to a Choo-Choo Cart. Board the Choo-Choo Cart and start riding it.
Break the seal on the Streaming Projector
after the ride interact with the Hydro Eidolon again to break the seal on the Streaming Projector.
Unseal the remaining three Streaming Projectors
Now you need to unseal three more streaming projects.
1) Streaming Projectors
Jump down into the cave as shown in the screenshot below, and Paimon will tell you ‘Oh no! The Water Droplet over there is surrounded by hilichurls!’. Drop to the bottom and fight all the hilichurls surrounding Water Droplet.
After helping Water Droplet, follow it to go deeper into the area and you will see a Choo-choo cart. Take the stairs to head to the Cart and start riding it. This will fix the first Streaming Projector.
2) Streaming Projectors
After the Choo-choo cart comes to a halt, you will return to the starting location with the mural. Proceed to the left where you will find a cave entrance. Head inside until you encounter a Water Droplet.
To help the Water Droplet, you will need to Extinguish the Fire around it by using Hydro, Anemo, or Cryo and then start following it.
Continue to follow the Water Droplet until it reaches a locked gate. Utilize the fallen pillar to ascend as this will lead you towards the Droplet’s location.
Extinguish two torches near the Water Droplet to make it teleport through a gate that you cannot go through. Proceed to climb up the wall to the spot where you previously descended and continue advancing further into the area.
Defeat all the enemies you will encounter and continue to follow the water droplet along the path until you see the Choo-choo Cart. Ride the cart to fix the second Streaming Projector.
3) Streaming Projectors
Look to your right from the location where you completed the Second Streaming Projector to find another Water Droplet. Go to the location and start to follow the Water Droplet.
Once the Water Droplet comes to a halt, utilize a Hydro character to illuminate two water monuments. One of the monuments will be situated behind a locked gate. Afterward, interact with the Droplet and select the option “Please help” to activate the final monument.
keep following the Water Droplet to the next location. Defeat all Hilichurls and any other enemies that spawn.
While following the Water Droplet, you will reach an area with three Monuments: Cryo, Pyro, and Hydro. Lighting all three simultaneously within a brief timeframe can be challenging.
However, you can seek assistance from the Water Droplet by interacting with it and requesting to check the Hydro monument. In this way, you only need to illuminate the Cryo and Pyro monuments.
Afterward, the gate will open, but the Water Droplet will remain stationary. Your next step is to enter the area and collect the common chest. Then, return to the Water Droplet and guide it toward the Choo-choo Cart and ride it.
Restore the mural in the cave
After unlocking all four Streaming Projectors in ‘Capturing Light and Shadow’, you now have to restore the damaged murals. Use the Streaming Projector to enter the Preprint and start solving the puzzle.
As the puzzle starts, just walk to the right and interact with both glowing items to collect them. Then jump to climb the middle structure and head to the left to grab the other two murals.
There are four round symbols with a four-leaf clover on the wall. These symbols indicate where you should place the collected murals.
- The kingdom shape corresponds to the top right position.
- The Flower of the Valley mural should be placed in the bottom right spot.
- The Central Hub mural belongs in the middle position.
Once you’ve restored the Central Hub mural it’ll open a rainbow passage to the top left mural spot. That’s the final mural to restore to complete the objective.
