The Islands' Stirring Strings is Xinyan's Event Domain in the Summertime Odyssey event of Genshin Impact 2.8. Here you can find guides for the quest, puzzles, treasure chest and phantasmal conch locations, and the phantom realm domain here!

Xinyan Domain Quest

Summertime Odyssey III - Blazin' Trails

Blazin' Trails Quest Guide

Xinyan Domain Puzzles

Puzzle Guides
Clear the Water Veins	Blazin' Trail Quest Puzzles

Xinyan Domain Treasure Chests

For Xinyan's Quest Domain, you can find a total of 18 Treasure Chests inside.

All Xinyan Domain Chest Locations

Quest Part 1 Treasure Chests

Chests in this section was obtained from doing the Blazin' Trails main quest.

Chest & Location
Common Chest - Before the first locked door, after a cutscene.	Exquisite Chest - Includes a Key near a Melodic Harp and Melodic Pedals puzzle.

Door 1 Treasure Chests

Chest & Location
Common Chest - On the platform with the second Melodic Pedals puzzle.	Exquisite Chest - Reward after lighting up all four Pyro Monuments in order.
Common Chest - After lighting up all four Pyro Monuments, touch the crane once again until it leads you to a common chest.	Exquisite Chest - Open this chest outside a door from Chest #5 with a Melodic Harp to obtain the Reverberating Key.
Exquisite Chest - Open the Mirage Door with the Reverberating Key, and complete the Time Trial challenge to get the chest.

Door 2 Treasure Chests

Chest & Location
Common Chest - Will lock once you go near it, and you'll have to defeat opponents that appear to unlock it again.	Common Chest - Unlock it by removing the note-thorns lock with a Melodic Harp.
Precious Chest - After fighting hordes of Hilichurls and Lawachurls, the chest behind them will unlock.	Common Chest - Follow the crane through the door until it stops and give you the chest beside the second drum.

Door 3 Treasure Chests

Chest & Location
Exquisite Chest - From the left path, make your way until you see the Large Geo Slime guarding the chest.	Exquisite Chest - Complete the Time Trial challenge. The chest will spawn near the other island's Door of Resurrection.
Exquisite Chest - On the last area near the Echoing Conch. You'll need the Harp to unlock it.

Backtracking - Chests from the Outside

From hereon, chests can be obtained by backtracking the previous doors so that the thorns blocking the Exquisite Chest and Melodic Harp as a result of hitting the Drums can be accessed.

Chest & Location
Precious Chest - From Chest #14, find a Crane on a lone island down the left path, and follow it to a Pyro Monument and a drum that you must hit.	2 Exquisite and 1 Luxurious Chests - Exit Door 2, hit the second drum at the end, go back to the Door 2 entrance with the Melodic Bloom. Use the Melodic Harp outside of Frozen Soul's area and go up the path.

Xinyan Domain Phantasmal Conch

Found in the Blazin' Trails - Phantasmal Tales

You can get the Phantasmal Conch in Xinyan's domain by picking the door to the left and going through the path of puzzles until you get to an island with a large rock, where the Echoing Conch would be located!

Xinyan Domain Conch Guide

Xinyan Domain Conch Walkthrough

	Objective
1	Complete the Blazin' Trails quest and then go back inside the domain. Make sure to enter the Phantasmal Tales Mirage.
2	From the Frozen Soul Flower, turn around and go down the path. Head immediately to your left where you will find a door. Open the door and head inside.
3	Make your way through all the Harp puzzles. There is no need to adjust any Allegro Bloom, you just need to hit 'Perform' on the guitars.
4	Defeat all enemies in the final area, where you will find a purple Crane that will act like an Electro Seelie guide.
5	Follow the purple Crane into the door, where you can keep following it to get to a drum.
6	Hit the drum to create a bridge, which you will cross to get to a second drum that you must hit. This will lead you to another door.
7	Once inside, go to the left path and hit the drum to arrange the floating platforms into a bridge.
8	You can follow the path of Allegro Bloom puzzles until you get to the final area, where a Door of Ressurection and a locked Exquisite Chest is located.
9	Position the center-most Bloom to face the biggest Bloom, and use the instrument to summon a Wind Current. Ride the Wind Current to the top of the rock where you will find the Echoing Conch!

All Phantasmal Conches Locations

Xinyan Domain Phantom Realm

Recommended Characters

Initial Exploration & Direct Strike Characters
Razor	Kaeya	Xingqiu	Diona

A Geo or Physical team comp works well against all enemies in Xinyan's Domain. Geo's and Claymore characters can deal with those pesky shields without needing to rey on domain mechanics.

Other Recommended Characters

Main DPS
Sub DPS
Support

All shielded enemies here can be easily dealt with by using the Tremolo Floret (The big flower with the symbol on it), so you have lots of flexibility to use your most powerful units!

How to Beat The Island's Stirring Strings

Activate Allegro Blooms and Do Plunging Attacks

Gliding using the wind currents from Allegro Blooms and then using plunge attacks emit a small AoE shockwave that deals DMG. This is a good way to cheese enemy HP.

Use the Tremolo Floret to Remove Shields

The Tremolo Florets found in Xinyan's Domain deal minor Physical DMG in a straight line once activated. What makes this flower increadibly strong is that it will destroy all shields in its path. Not even the Stonehide Lawachurl's shields are a match against it!

Phantom Realm Information

The Island's Stirring Strings Phantom Realm
Rewards	Iredescent Flotsam x200 (Limit: 1200)
Conditions	Initial Exploration: Stage 1-2: Defeat enemies within 120s. Stage 3: Defeat enemies within 5 minutes. Direct Strike: Defeat enemies within 5 minutes.

How to Buffs Work in Xinyan's Domain

	How the Beneficient Summation Works
1	Activate Allegro Blooms (the ones that look like guitars) will activate certain mechanisms in the arena.
2	One mechanism activates a flower on the ground, which will enable wind currents that go up. Using the windcurrents and then using a plunging attack will cause a small AoE around your character.
3	One mechanism activates a Tremolo Floret, which sends out a wave of Physical DMG in front of the flower.

Initial Exploration Enemies

Stage	Objectives & Enemies
Stage 1	Geo Slime x1 Rock Shield Hilichurl Guard x2 Hilichurl Shooter x2
Stage 2	Large Geo Slime x2 Rock Shield Hilichurl Guard x2
Stage 3	Large Pyro Slime x2 Pyro Hilichurl Shooter x4 Fatui Skirmisher (Geochanter Bracer) x1 Geo Samachurl x1 Large Geo Slime x2 Geo Slime x2 Ruin Guard x2 Stonehide Lawachurl x

Direct Strike Enemies

Wave	Enemies
Wave 1	Large Pyro Slime x2 Pyro Hilichurl Shooter x2
Wave 2	Fatui Skirmisher (Geochanter Bracer) x1 Geo Samachurl x1 Large Geo Slime x2 Geo Slime x2
Wave 3	Ruin Guard x2 Pyro Hilichurl Shooter x2
Wave 4	Stonehide Lawachurl x

The Island's Stirring Strings Rewards

All Xinyan Event Domain Rewards

Objectives	Rewards
Complete Initial Exploration in ''The Islands' Stirring Strings''.	x30 x20000 x2
Complete ''The Islands' Stirring Strings'' a total of 3 time(s).	x30 x20000 x2
Complete the final challenge, using Tremolo Florets to hit opponents enhanced by elemental buffs or shields 6 times.	x20000 x4
Complete the final challenge, hitting opponents with shockwaves from Allegro Bloom-buffed Plunging Attacks 12 times	x20000 x4

The Islands' Stirring Strings Information

Phantom Realm and Phantasmal Tales

The Islands' Stirring Strings is part of the Summertime Odyssey Event! You can unlock this domain by completing the Blazin' Trails Event Quest!

The domain is divided between Phantom Realm, the battle challenge, and the Phantasmal Tales which is about exploration.

Summertime Odyssey Event Guide

Genshin Impact Related Guides

Summertime Odyssey Event Guide

Summertime Odyssey Phantom Realm

Phantom Realm Guides
Misty Hills, Foggy Vales	The Islands' Stirring Strings
Immernachtreich Keep	Temple of the Star Latitudes

Summertime Odyssey Quest Guides

Summertime Odyssey Main Event Quests
The Golden Apple Vacation Returns!	As the Courtyard in Spring Once Appeared Treasure Chests Guide
Blazin' Trails Treasure Chests Guide	Immernachtreich Apokalypse Treasure Chests Guide
The Ancient Azure Stars Treasure Chests Guide	Like Rhyme and Song, the Summer Reverie

Other Summertime Odyssey Guides

Summertime Odyssey Guides
Surfpiercer Event Guide	All Character Locations

2.8 Archipelago Puzzle Guides

2.8 Pudding Isle Puzzles
Pressure Plate Puzzle	Three Seelie Puzzle
Time Trial Puzzle	Relay Stone Puzzle
Fire Totem Puzzle	Electro Totem Puzzle
Anemo Totem Puzzle	Geo Totem Puzzle
2.8 Broken Isle Puzzles
Broken Isle Animals	Broken Isle Pyro Monuments
Clear the Water Veins	3 Precious Chests
Broken Isle Conch	Melodic Harps Pedals
2.8 Twinning Isle Puzzles
Nightwatch Contracts	Night Raven Puzzles
Save Leon
2.8 Minacious Isle Puzzles
Starlight Coalescence	Torch Puzzles
Domain Astral Puzzles	Island Astral Puzzles
Elemental Totem Puzzles

Other 2.8 Golden Apple Archipelago Guides

2.8 Archipelago Quest Guides

Summertime Odyssey Main Quest Guides
The Golden Apple Vacation Returns!			As the Courtyard in Spring Once Appeared
Blazin' Trails			Immernachtreich Apokalypse
The Ancient Azure Stars			Like Rhyme and Song, the Summer Reverie
Limited-Time World Quest Guides
Bake-Danuki Wanderlust			Treasure Voyage
The Final Treasure			The Misplaced Photo
A Misplaced Conch			The Discarded Insignia
Drama Phantasmagoria Quest Series
Prologue		Interludes		Finale
The Treasure of the Four Skerries Quest Guides
Treasure Clue: Minacious Isle			Treasure Clue: Broken Isle
Treasure Clue: Twinning Isle			Treasure Clue: Pudding Isle
Where the Treasure Dwells
Thus Was the Work Done in Vain Quest Guides
Secret Chamber			Ruins on the Ocean Surface
Lake Island Notes			Hints & Sweet Madame
Sea Salt-Crusted Key

2.8 Archipelago Map Features

2.8 Archipelago Map Features
Phantasmal Conches	Old Insignia Item
Silver Pocket Watch Item	Misplaced Conch Item
Broken Isle Drum	Minacious Isle Star Platform
Pudding Isle Maple Tree	Waypoint Locations
Cloudleisure Steps
Fatui in the Archipelago
Broken Isle Mirror Maiden	Broken Isle Hydrogunner
Minacious Isle Electrohammer	Starting Area Geochanter
All Fatui Locations

Golden Apple Archipelago 2.8 Rerun Guide

All Genshin Impact Events

List of Events