Genshin Impact has just unleashed its first live event for update 5.1, The Rainbow Destined to Burn. It’s called Aphid Treasure Trace and it sees you team up with Xilonen to cleanse a mysterious Abyssal corruption from the local Aphids.

The event ends on October 22, so you don’t have long to beat it. So we’re going to provide a few tips and tricks to in our Aphid Treasure Trace guide to help you beat it a lot more efficiently. Given that you don’t have a bunch of time, we guarantee you will need it.

Step One: Recharge Your Insect Net

So, the first stage in our Aphid Treasure Trace guide: you need to recharge your insect net. This involves collecting Shackleberries within the open world. These either appear as plants or are available within barrels that you can break. Either way, collect enough until you fully charge your net.

Next up, head to the specific location that the quest sends you to. Here you have to find the corrupted Phlogiston Aphids. These are a lot faster than the regular versions, so we recommend that you use a speedy Natlan character to catch up to them.

Step Two: Break the Aphid’s Ward

When you find one, you have to attack them to break their corrupted ward. You will find a new bar underneath their HP bar, which you have to reduce in order to progress to the next step. Any attack will reduce the bar, but Nightsoul attacks have a much greater effect.

You can also launch your insect net to knock a considerable chunk off the bar. Where this really comes in handy though, is in preventing the Aphid from escaping if it attempts to make a quick getaway.

It will attempt to escape if you’re too slow in breaking down the Ward. You can launch the net to slow down its escape, then once again to prevent it from escaping.

Step Three: Cure the Abyssal Corruption

Once you break the Ward completely, you can start depleting the Abyssal power to cure the corruption. Yet again, any attack will achieve this but Nightsoul attacks are the most impactful.

Reduce the Abyssal power to zero and you can capture the Aphid. Rinse and repeat this process to complete the Treasure Trace event.

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