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What Shape Does the Self Hold Quest Guide

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Genshin Impact - What Shape Does the Self Hold Quest Guide

What Shape Does the Self Hold is Part 2 of Nahida's Act 2 Story Quest in Genshin Impact 3.6. Check out how to unlock the quest, how to complete it, and all rewards here!

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How to Unlock What Shape Does the Self Hold

Complete Where Lies the Path Home

Genshin Impact - Where Lies the Path Home Quest Guide

What Shape Does the Self Hold can be unlocked after completing the prior quest: Where Lies the Path Home

Where Lies the Path Home Quest Guide

Complete Perils of the Dark

Genshin - Perils in the Dark Quest

Completing the Perils in the Dark World Quest is required to play through the second part of Nahida's Act 2 Story Quest.

Perils in the Dark Quest Guide

What Shape Does the Self Hold Walkthrough

What Shape Does the Self Hold Quest Guide
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Genshin - What Shape Does the Self Hold Step 1 - Go to the deepest part of The Chasm
Head to the deepest part of The Chasm and press forward. Be sure to equip the Lumenstone Adjuvant before anything else.
2
Genshin - What Shape Does the Self Hold Step 2 - Defeat Rifthounds and Oozing Concretion
Afterwards, make your way to the western part of the area to spot an Oozing Concretion surrounded by Rifthounds. Eliminate them and use the Lumenstone Adjuvant on the Oozing Concretion for another cutscene.
3
Genshin - What Shape Does the Self Hold Step 3 - Go to the Desert of Hadramaveth
After the cutscene, go to the west of The Sands of Three Canals the Desert of Hadramaveth for relatively short cutscene. Then, make your way east through the path ahead of you until you reach a clearing.
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Genshin - What Shape Does the Self Hold Step 4 - Meet Apep and Defeat its Elemental Beings
Nahida and the Traveler will be transported to talk to Apep, the Dendro Dragon. Defeat the Elemental Beings it will summon to progress further.
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Genshin - What Shape Does the Self Hold Step 5 - Teleport to Cave where Apep
Once you're finished, make your way to a cave in the north of the Sands of Three Canals.
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Genshin - What Shape Does the Self Hold Step 6 - Go to Heart of Oasis
The party will be transported to the Heart of Oasis, where Nahida and Paimon are separated from the Traveler. Press forward to the clearing ahead.
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Genshin - What Shape Does the Self Hold Step 7 - Prepare for Boss Battle
More cutscenes will ensue. Afterwards, defeat the Guardian of Apep's Oasis.
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Genshin - What Shape Does the Self Hold Step 8 - Head to the Marked Area
After the boss battle, head to the area at the south of Sumeru City to complete the Story Quest.

What Shape Does the Self Hold Rewards

Total Rewards

Quest Rewards
Genshin - Primogem Icon Primogem x60 Genshin - Mora Icon Mora x53900 Genshin - Guide to Ingenuity Icon Guide to Ingenuity x5
Genshin - Hero Hero's Wit x6 Genshin - Mystic Enhancement Ore Icon Mystic Enhancement Ore x12

What Shape Does the Self Hold Information

Part Two of Nahida's Act 2 Story Quest

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What Shape Does the Self is the second half in the second act of Nahida's Story Quest: Homecoming.

Nahida Story Quest Act 2 Guide

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