Agnihotra Sutra (Gandha Hill Aranara from Aranyaka) – Genshin Impact

In this guide, I will share with you the first part Agnihotra Sutra of the Aranyaka quest line.

Upon completing this quest, you will be able to obtain the currency to buy the blueprint for new Sumeru craftable weapons.

Teleport to the statue of the seven east of Gandharva Ville and jump down the cliff to start the agnihotra sutra quest line.

Go probe the Eremites

After the dialogue, you will get a new gadget, the Kusava seed.

Equip the Kusava gadget and use it on the broken elemental monument to restore it.

Use the dendro element on it, then enter the cave.

Apply dendro to the onion to go up towards the next broken elemental monument.

Lower the water level in the cave

Use your Kusava gadget again to restore it, then activate the elemental monument with a dendro attack to lower the water level.

Swing yourself towards the stone statude3 in the middle and use your Kusava gadget o restore the last elemental monument.

After activating it, it will unlock the bottom part of the cave.

Jump down to the bottom and activate the onion to swing yourself towards the yellow quest marker at the southwest exit of the cave.

Leave the cave and follow the path until you arrive at the next broken elemental monument.

Use your Kusava gadget to restore the monument, then activate it to open the exit.

Go to the cave where the Zohrah Mushroom is located

Head west, activate the waypoint, then head north toward the next quest marker.

Talk to the people who are blocking the entrance

After Paimon notices the people, turn right and talks to them.

Enter the cave behind them and follow the path until you arrive at an open area.

Lower the water level in the cave

Use the onion again to swing yourself toward the dendrograna.

Glide down towards the northeast platform and restore the broken elemental monument.

Activate the monument to lower the sea level and reveal the Zohrah Mushroom.

Investigate the Zohrah Mushroom

Glide down towards the Zohrah mushroom.

After the cutscene, swing yourself towards the northeast platform and jump down on the other side to get to the next broken monument.

Use your Kusava gadget to restore it and activate it to lower the water level completely.

Jump down and walk towards the north until you see a sealed rock.

Use your Kusava gadget on the two broken stones in front of it, then interact with them to activate them.

Get the nearby dendrograna and perform a charged shot onto the big stone to destroy it.

Follow the opened path and use your Kusava gadget to repair the third broken stone.

Interact with the third stone and defeat the two Eremite assassins.

Head south and swing yourself back up towards the Zohrah mushroom.

Obtain the Zohrah Mushroom

After the cutscene, swing yourself up towards the north upper exit and follow the path.

Watch out for traps as you make your way toward the yellow quest marker.

Get the Zohrah Mushroom back from Lunja

Activate the onion with a dendro attack and use the bouncy mushrooms to get up even further until you see breakable rocks.

Destroy the breakable rocks by shooting one of the nearby bombs and exiting the cave.

Continue heading north until you get into a cutscene.

Find Aragaru

Next, teleport to the waypoint north of Sumeru city and head north towards Aragaru.

After talking to Aragaru, head into the Chatrakam cave.

Explore the cave

Destroy the big boulder by using your green Kusava gadget and head further into the cave.

Defeat the Fungi and interact with the runes behind them on the wall.

Continue looking for runes (0/3)

Walk up the stairs on the right side and continue heading forwards until you see a big grassy rock on the right, similar to the earlier one.

Break it by using your green Kusava gadget and interact with the runes on the wall behind.

Continue looking for runes (1/3)

Next, head west until you see another grassy rock again.

Continue looking for runes (2/3)

Destroy it and interact with the second set of runes.

Walk up the roots next to you to get to the last grassy stone.

Like before, destroy the stone using your green Kusava gadget and interact with the runes on the wall behind.

Continue heading southwest towards the exit of the cave.

Talk to Aragaru

Follow the tunnel and destroy the grassy rock blocking the path with your green Kusava gadget.

Go to the cave where the Barsam Flower is located

After exiting the cave, head northwest towards the next quest marker.

Jump down the hole in front of you, then head west after you reach the bottom of the cave.

Continue the path until you see a big open area with a green barrier in the background.

Use the Kusava to break the seal on the Barsam Flower (0/3)

Follow the seelie at the northwestern part of the area into a small cave.

Activate the two elemental monuments, then use your Kusava gadget to destroy the grassy stone on the left side.

Activate the third elemental monument, collect the two chests on the way and continue following the seelie further into the cave.

Destroy another grassy rock on the way and touch the revealed stone to break the first seal on the Barsam Flower.

Walk further, destroy another grassy rock and activate the elemental monument underneath it to remove the vines blocking the path.

Use the Kusava to break the seal on the Barsam Flower (1/3)

Follow the seelie towards its destination, then head southwest towards the second seelie.

Similar to before, follow the seelie through another small cave.

Destroy the two grassy rocks by using your Kusava gadget and interact with the stone that’s hidden underneath the second one to break another seal.

Use the Kusava to break the seal on the Barsam Flower (2/3)

Continue to destroy two more grassy rocks on the way to reveal an elemental monument, which will remove some path-blocking vines again.

Finally, bring this seelie home too in order to break the big dendro barrier.

Go into the passage that was blocked before and start following a new seelie on the way.

Defeat the enemies and break the grassy rock at the side to reveal an elemental monument.

Activate the monument to remove some vines and continue to follow the seelie until you reach a room with a ruin grader and two ruin sentinels.

Defeat the enemies and break the grassy rock behind them to reveal another touchable rock.

Interact with the rock to remove the final seal on the Barsam flower.

Pick the Barsam Flower

Continue following seeile and activate another monument hidden underneath a grassy rock to remove some more vines.

Bring the seelie home and exit the tunnel.

Turn left and get back onto the platform in the middle to pick the Barsam flower.

Go to the Mawtiyima Forest

Teleport to the waypoint southeast of the Palace of Alcazarzaray and head northeast into the Mawtiyima forest.

Activate the onion by applying dendro element them and swing yourself through the area for faster movement.

Talk to the Aranara

Talk to Aranara to start the next part of the quest.

Go with aranaga to look for the Yajna Grass

Teleport to the waypoint northwest of Mawtiyima forest and glide southeast towards the Yajna grass on top of a mushroom tree.

Use the Kusava to break the seal on the Yajna Grass (0/3)

Again, we need to break 3 seals before we can collect the plant.

Swing north towards the top of a mushroom tree that has a green barrier at its center.

Summon a dendrograna and perform charged shots at the three spinning dendro objects to remove the green barrier.

Use your red Kusava gadget at the platform to raise it up, then interact with the stone on top of it to remove the first seal.

Use the Kusava to break the seal on the Yajna Grass (1/3)

Teleport to the waypoint in between the Palace of Alcazarzaray and Mawtiyima Forest and head north.

Again, use your red Kusava gadget at the platform to raise it up, then jump onto the platform and interact with the stone to remove another seal.

Use the Kusava to break the seal on the Yajna Grass (2/3)

Head southeast and glide towards the third sunken platform on top of a mushroom tree.

Defeat the enemies, then use your red Kusava gadget again to raise the platform and swing yourself on top of it in order to interact with the stone and remove the final seal on the Yajna grass.

Pick the Yajna Grass

Teleport to the waypoint northwest of Mawtiyima forest and glide southeast towards the Yajna Grass on top of a mushroom tree.

Pick the Yajna grass, then glide down north and talk to Aranaga.

Talk to Aranaga

Change the in-game time and talk to Aranaga again to perform the Arahaoma ritual.

After the cutscene, talk to Aranaga again, then swing yourself up the north trees towards the quest marker.

Go to Mawtiyima

Jump down the hole and follow the dendro selfie through the tunnel until you reach a big open area.

Clean up the pollution caused by The Withering (0/3)

Use your green Kusava gadget to destroy the grassy rock on the left side.

Glide towards the northwest platform and use yellow Kusava gadget to restore the broken stone and touch it.

Then head to the west side, destroy the grassy rock with green Kusava gadget and touch the rock.

Finally, summon a dendrograna and perform a charged shot at the withered plant to clean up the first area.

Clean up the pollution caused by The Withering (1/3)

Proceed to follow the Seelie towards the next withered area.

Defeat the fungi and use the gold Kusava gadget to restore the broken stone and touch the stone.

Use a red Kusava gadget to raise the platform inside the hollow tree trunk and interact with the stone.

Fire another dendrograna-powered charged shot at the withered plant to clean up the second area.

Clean up the pollution caused by The Withering (2/3)

Follow the seelie towards the last withered area.

Destroy the grassy rock with green Kusava gadget, interact with the stone, then head to the sunken platform in the back.

Raise the platform with red Kusava, interact with the stone and clean up the area by shooting the third withered flower with a dendrograna-powered charged shoot.

Go to clear the last Withering Zone

Jump down and head north towards the final withered flower.

Defeat all enemies and interact with the big withered flower to clean up the entire cave and receive a precious chest.

Talk to the Aranara

Swing north upwards the platform in the air and talk to Aranara to finish the quest.