A Disciple's Unanswered Questions

A Disciple's Unanswered Questions
Hidden Exploration Objective Type	Quest-Like
Starting Location	Mt. Aocang, Liyue
Characters	Traveler

A Disciple's Unanswered Questions (unofficial name) is a Hidden Exploration Objective that takes place in Mt. Aocang.

Steps

1. Interact with the first Ruins Treasure east of the Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern domain.

   

   Location

   

   Additional Context

2. Follow the elemental trail using Elemental Sight.
3. Defeat the enemies along the trail:
   • Wave 1:
     • Large Anemo Slime ×1
     • Anemo Slime ×2
   • Wave 2:
     • Large Anemo Slime ×1
     • Anemo Slime ×2
   • Wave 3:
     • Large Anemo Slime ×3
     • This rewards an Exquisite Chest.
4. Interact with the second Ruins Treasure nearby, south of the Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern domain.
   • Objective: Reach the target location within 60 second(s)
   • This rewards an Exquisite Chest.
5. Interact with the third Ruins Treasure beside the lake at the top of Mt. Aocang.

If two or more questions were answered with "Yes":

6. (Optional) Interact with the third Ruins Treasure again.
7. Interact with the fourth Ruins Treasure at the center of the lake.
   • This rewards an Exquisite Chest.

If two or more questions were answered with "No":

6. Interact with the third Ruins Treasure again.
   • Objective: Defeat all enemies within 90 second(s)
     • Stonehide Lawachurl ×1
   • This rewards an Exquisite Chest.

Dialogue

(Interact with any Ruins Treasure out of order)

Ruins Treasure: To the one who views this monument: Seek ye first the monuments in the mountain, and only then return to the one erected here.

Ruins Treasure: Any who earnestly seeks to resolve my perplexion should seek first the monuments in the mountain, and view them in order.

(Interact with the first Ruins Treasure)

Ruins Treasure: My fellow disciple and I trained in the martial arts from childhood. Our quest was to fight the forces of evil and protect all that is sacred in this world. But this was no easy task without the aid of a Vision.

Ruins Treasure: We two sought refuge here to train ourselves further and to seek the Visions that we desired. We erected this monument in testament to our endeavors.

Touch the monument

Leave for Now

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(Interact with the second Ruins Treasure)

Ruins Treasure: Visions... They truly hail from a realm beyond. People say that they are a gift from the divine, but none can say who will receive one and why.

Ruins Treasure: Ancient texts hold that the divine looks down with compassion on the mortal realm, and bestows Visions upon the worthy to help them fight against evil and protect the world. But I... I no longer burn with a desire to banish monsters. I just want to communicate with them. To understand them.

Ruins Treasure: This Vision... It is of no use to me.

Touch the monument

Leave for Now

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(Interact with the third Ruins Treasure)

Ruins Treasure: I was fortunate enough to receive my Vision. But still, there was doubt in my mind: Is it truly within the power of mere mortals to one day cleanse the world of the monsters that have long plagued it? And how different from mankind are these monsters to begin with, save in outward appearance? Is it not so that just like us, they, too, speak; they, too, build; and they, too, feel love and hate, joy and grief...

Ruins Treasure: I hereby inscribe my mind's greatest perplexion onto this monument. O, reader in the far-flung future, will you be the one to resolve this riddle?

Ruins Treasure: Are monsters truly evil by nature?

No

Yes

Ruins Treasure: Are mortals and adepti truly good by nature?

No

Yes

Ruins Treasure: We who would protect our way of life, are we but making blind judgments on good and evil based on what our small minds can conceive?

No

Yes

(If the player answered two or more questions with "Yes")

(Interact with the third Ruins Treasure again, optional)

Ruins Treasure: Future reader, I know not whether you bear the answers to my questions.

Ruins Treasure: Anyone who reads these words must surely be of the same nature as I.

Ruins Treasure: If it is of interest to you, I have buried what few treasures I own by the pool. Retrieve them with my blessing.

Ruins Treasure: But please never forget these questions three. I pray that there will come a day when you are equipped to answer them.

 

(Interact with the fourth Ruins Treasure)

Ruins Treasure: These preceding questions three, I approached my fellow disciple and asked them of he. But he chastised me, accusing me of abandoning my duty, and marched off furiously. May the true answers to these three questions bring peace to the world. In my time, I have sought the wisdom of ancient texts from all corners of the world, I have hidden myself here in quiet meditation, and I have studied the language of monsters; all this I have done in the hope of understanding their true nature. I erect this monument to be my witness when the one comes who can resolve these questions once and for all.

Touch the monument

(If the player answered two or more questions with "No")

(Interact with the third Ruins Treasure again)

Ruins Treasure: Monsters wreak havoc all across this world, and we who seek to protect it would do well to remember: Monsters deserve nothing more than the merciless slaughter they will get!

Touch the monument

(A Stonehide Lawachurl appears)

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