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#Genshin Impact: Cleansing Defilement complete quest guide

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Cleansing Defilement is the third sub quest of the Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual world quest in Genshin Impact. The quest is a bit lengthy and can be complicated for some players. That is why we are here to guide you step by step through the process. Ready? Let’s dive in.

Three shrines in total will require purification. We will guide you through each of the locations and puzzles that you need to solve to complete it.

Genshin Impact’s Cleansing Defilement complete quest guide

1. Cleansing Defilement: First Ritual in Chinju Forest

Go over to Chinju Forest with the teleport waypoint. Once you are in the forest, you will hear a strange voice. Following the voice will lead to the statue of a big Tanuki.

Genshin Impact Tanuki statue — Courtesy of ZaFrostPet

You will find multiple Hilichurls surrounding the statue. Fend them off before interacting with the Tanuki.

Upon talking with the Tanuki named Ioroi, he will ask you to play hide and seek with three little Tanukis. The Tanukis will disguise themselves as objects you will need to discover. They will hide as a torch, a barrel, and a place between three unlit torches.
Finish playing and go back to the big Tanuki statue. When your interaction is finished, he will provide you with his ward.

With the ward, travel to the designated spot pointed in the yellow circle.
Upon reaching the area, a Tanuki will magically open up a chamber in the cavity of the rocks.

Guide inside the chamber

You will find a tree, a Torii gate, and multiple small shrines in the chamber. Inserting the ward inside the first shrine will reveal a pattern below the gate. The pattern is used to solve the puzzle in the area.
Looking at the gate from the front, you will need to set the symbols on both upper shrines as two. You will also need to adjust the shrine on your left as three and the one on your right as four. This should solve the puzzle.

Once the puzzle is done, it will summon a powerful samurai titled Ochimusha. Take it down; you are one step closer to completing the quest.

2. Cleansing Defilement: Second Ritual in Araumi

Araumi Narukami Island — Screengrab Courtesy of ZaFrostPet

Travel to Araumi within Narukami Island, located just North of the Grand Narukami Shrine. The place is shown with a blue circle in the picture above.
Next, you will find four electro pillars marked on the map with red circles.

Activating electro pillars Genshin Impact — Screengrab courtesy of ZaFrostPet

Activate the electro pillars with the help of a character who wields electro vision. After activation of all four pillars, it will unlock a mechanism.

Genshin Impact Mechanism — Courtesy of ZaFrostPet

Head over to this mechanism near the ruins and press Start. This will grant you access to the destroyed tower.

Go into the demolished tower as marked by the blue arrow. Next, you will find three small Kitsune statues inside it. Observe them through the Memento Lens.
Doing so will reveal three mechanisms behind each of the statues. Go near them and press Start to open the access to the cavern below you.

Guide inside the cavern

Below is another small statue you should observe with the lens. This task will summon an Electrogranum tree. Pick up the Electrogranum and go through the electric barrier behind you.

Genshin Impact Kitsune statues — Courtesy of ZaFrostPet

Behind the barrier, you will find some tall Kitsune statues. Use the electro element on them to get a scroll-shaped ward.
Place the ward at the shrine in front of the Torii gate.
Two small kitsune statues will be on the tree behind the Torii gate. These disguises can be uncovered by looking at them through the lens. The statues will turn into small shrines that you need to adjust.

Genshin Impact Cleansing Defilement — Screengrab courtesy of ZaFrostPet

Placing the ward into the shrine will pop up a pattern below the Torii gate. Solve the puzzle by looking at the pattern and then adjusting the number of symbols on the shrines accordingly.
When facing the gate, the two shrines behind it should have two symbols, and the two shrines in front of it should have three. While the one you put the ward at should have one symbol that is not changeable. Adjusting the shrines as so will solve the puzzle.

Completion of the puzzle will summon a strong enemy called Ochimusha. You will need to defeat it. Vanquishing this adversary will mean that you have completed the second section of the quest.

3. Cleansing Defilement: Third Ritual near Kamisato Estate

Genshin Impact Cleansing Defilement Map — Courtesy of ZaFrostPet

Go to the north of Kamisato Estate, labeled in blue on the map above.
You will find a small Kitsune statue near a tree. Look at it through the Memento Lens. This will unveil a taller Kitsune statue that you will activate using electro. The statue will grant you another ward. This time, its appearance is like a key.

Next, you must call up a Waverider through the waypoint (marked in blue) and travel to a nearby island (marked in red).
On the island, you will find another small Kitsune statue. Repeat the process with your lens, exposing a path to an underground cave — head inside the cave for progression.

Guide inside the cave

You will take constant damage inside the cave that will gradually drain your HP away. You can use the Electrogranum present inside to shield yourself from the damage for a limited time.

Inside you will find an area identical to the ones before. It will have a similar Torii gate and multiple small shrines with the same puzzle.
This time the two shrines at the front and back of the gate should be set to 2 symbols each, while the two shrines at the left and right should be adjusted to 3 symbols each. The main shrine at the center will have one symbol by default. You can get an idea from the pattern above.

For your fight this time, the game will summon two Ochimusha bosses. Defeat them for the cleansing ritual and complete the third and last portion of the quest.
Meet up with the NPC named Kazari to start the next quests.

We hope this guide helped you clear this challenging quest in Genshin Impact. If you have trouble clearing this quest, let us know in the comments below.

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