The Purging of Evil
Last updated 2025-07-03
The Purging of Evil is the third part of Xiao's Story Quest, Alatus Chapter: Act I - Butterfly's Dream.
Steps
- Use Elemental Sight to track down the hilichurls with the evil aura
- Head to the karma-heavy cavern
- Enter the Quest Domain: Karma-Heavy Cavern
- Clear the cavern of the hilichurls with the evil aura
- Rewards:
Vayuda Turquoise Fragment ×1
Adventurer's Experience ×2
Mystic Enhancement Ore ×2
Mora ×10,000- Precious Chest ×1
Dialogue
Quest DescriptionStarsnatcher's ability to purge evil stems from the Sigil of Permission.
After an unforeseen mishap, you chase to a group of hilichurls with an evil aura...
After an unforeseen mishap, you chase to a group of hilichurls with an evil aura...
- (Upon approaching the hilichurls with the evil aura, already slain at Xiao's hands)
- Paimon: Oh, it's that Conqueror of Demons again. No wonder! Paimon was just wondering who could've made such short work of these hilichurls.
- Paimon: Let's see what a real adeptus has to say about all this.
- (Talk to Xiao)
- Xiao: It's you... I remember you.
- Xiao: I was purging some living beings that had been tainted by the demonic. It would appear that I have caused you some trouble.
- Paimon: (Huh? he isn't usually this polite, what's going on...)
- Paimon: But you were exorcizing demons, how is that causing trouble?
- Xiao: That is because the changes that occurred in these monsters stem from me — or more precisely, from the karma I have accumulated.
- Paimon: Mutations, karma... Does that mean...
We read about that in the book...- So Xiao is the final yaksha?
- Paimon: Yeah. Paimon remembers that Xiao is also called the Vigilant Yaksha, isn't he?
- Paimon: So... so that means... Aww...
- Paimon: *sniff* P—Poor Xiao...
- Xiao: ...?
- We read about your past in a book.
- We were just reading a book called "Yakshas: The Guardian Adepti."
- Xiao: I see. You must mean that piece of literati fan fiction from a few hundred years ago.
- Xiao: Hmph. All things are impermanent, and to exist is to suffer. We yakshas have no need of sympathy or tears.
- Xiao: My comrades who have passed on would see your tears as a stain on their legacy.
- Paimon: Oh, uh... Paimon's sorry...
- Xiao: It matters not. In any case, I am on my way to purge a cavern of demonic influence, so we shall part ways here.
- Paimon: W—Wait! Take us with you! We'll be a big help, Paimon promises!
- Xiao: No need. I am used to fighting alone, and in any case these mutations originated from me to begin with...
- Paimon: Well then... Oh! Consider it Paimon's penance for being accidentally rude just now! ...Please?
- Xiao: ...
- Xiao: ...Come on then.
- (If walking in the wrong direction)
- Paimon: Hey! This isn't the right way! We're lucky that Xiao even let us tag along, so let's at least keep up with him!
- (Follow Xiao)
- Paimon: So Xiao... You've been suffering from the bad karma all this time?
- Xiao: Suffering is my price to pay for eons of endless slaughter... I have come to accept this.
- Xiao: But in recent years, other living things have suffered, when the burden should be mine alone to bear... I must reflect on this.
- (Talk to Xiao again, optional)
- Xiao: Finish your preparations, and we shall enter — we should not leave those monsters be for too long.
- (Upon entering the karma-heavy cavern)
- Paimon: Ooh, this place gives Paimon goosebumps!
- Xiao: I will use the ritual known as the Bane of All Evil to relieve this place of its karma.
- Xiao: You must remain calm. Do not allow yourself to be affected by the lingering wrath of bygone gods.
- (A Tutorial appear)
- Karma-Heavy Cavern
Quest-Specific Effect: As a result of the buildup of divine karma in the area, Xiao will have Bane of All Evil permanently activated, and will constantly lose HP. Additionally, the effects of that divine karma will allow Xiao to regenerate HP when he deals DMG to opponents.
- (After clearing the first platform)
- Paimon: Bane of All Evil... That must be the power you got for being a Vigilant Yaksha, right?
- Paimon: Paimon's just realized that you only wear your mask when you're fighting the bad guys. But that Starsnatcher guy wears his mask the rest of the time, too...
- Xiao: Starsnatcher? ...I am aware of no adeptus by such a name.
- Paimon: So, he IS a fraud! Well! We'll continue this discussion later, you should focus on your battle for now.
- (After clearing the domain)
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- Xiao: It is good that we came here. An unusual number of living things had fallen under infernal influence. Had we not arrived in good time, the consequences would have been unthinkable.
- Xiao: Now. This "Starsnatcher" you speak of. What is the situation?
- Paimon: Ooh, Paimon'll tell you!
- Xiao: An adeptus who grants wishes... To think that people could be so easily deceived by such blatant lies...
- Paimon: As an adeptus, do you have the power to grant wishes, Xiao?
- Xiao: The Liyue of yesteryear would never ask the adepti for boons unearned.
- Xiao: Millennia ago, the ancestral people of Liyue asked for nothing more than the strength to defend the land they called their home.
- Paimon: Ehh... To be honest, an adepti who grants people's wishes is probably more appealing to people nowadays...
- Xiao: However feeble people nowadays may be, they are not my concern. I concern myself only with following Rex Lapis' original decree.
- Paimon: Whoops... Paimon spoke without thinking again...
- Paimon: Oh, ah, one more thing! That fake adeptus has a Sigil of Permission. It's what he uses to exorcise demons!
- Xiao: Wait, truly? Hmph. Fool. Exorcizing demons without exterminating them — it is no wonder they have been congregating here.
- Xiao: If this continues, things may spiral out of even my control... We must confiscate his Sigil of Permission.
- Confiscate? Is that all?
- I think I'd also like to teach him a lesson.
- Paimon: Great minds think alike! Paimon agrees, we've gotta show that trickster what you get for trying to fool us!
- Paimon: And it just so happens that we've got a real adeptus with us too! If Xiao were to teach Starsnatcher a lesson, you can bet he'll never dare to pose as an adeptus ever again!
- Xiao: No. I only slay demons — I do not kill mortals.
- Paimon: ...Who said anything about killing him!?
- Xiao: ...
- Xiao: It would certainly benefit Liyue if we could convince him to cease his wicked ways.
- Xiao: I possess an art called Dream Trawler. It is normally used to separate the soul from the body, that one might cultivate oneself in a waking dream...
- Xiao: But it can also be used to call forth the spirits of others.
- Paimon: Whoa, now that's a real adepti art for ya!
- Similar to "gifting dreams and visions"?
- You'll scare him out of his wits for sure.
- Xiao: A ritual must be performed for this art to be used. Assist me in gathering a few items... a censer, seven lamps, and something to reduce the temperature.
- Paimon: Reduce the temperature... Oh, some Mist Flowers will probably do, right?
- Paimon: But as for the censer and the seven lamps... Hmm... Probably not the kinds of things we're gonna just stumble across in the wild.
- Xiao: Do you know of the two yaksha statues that stand guard beside a merchant road on the southern face of Mt. Tianheng?
- Xiao: The ancestors of the people of Liyue built shrines there to honor the yakshas. You should still be able to find some ceremonial items there.
- Xiao: Once you have found them, meet me at the yaksha statues after nightfall, and I will teach you how to use this art.
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name | Literal Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| English | The Purging of Evil | — |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 靖妖祓恶起傩舞 Jìng Yāo Fú È Qǐ Nuó Wǔ | Starting the Nuo Dance to Pacify and Purge Evil |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 靖妖祓惡起儺舞 Jìng Yāo Fú È Qǐ Nuó Wǔ | |
| Japanese | 靖妖儺舞、悪祟払い Seiyou Nabu, Akusui Harai | Nuo Dance of Evil Conquering, Purging of Evil Curses |
| Korean | 악을 물리치는 나자의 춤 Ak-eul Mullichineun Naja-ui Chum | Dance of Naja Which Refuse The Evil |
| Spanish | La purificación del mal | The Purification of Evil |
| French | La purge du mal | The Purge of Evil |
| Russian | Истребление зла Istrebleniye zla | The Purge of Evil |
| Thai | ระบำพิชิตมารกำจัดปีศาจ | |
| Vietnamese | Vũ Điệu Xua Đuổi Tà Ma | Dance of Evil Purging |
| German | Die Austreibung des Bösen | The Explusion of Evil |
| Indonesian | Membersihkan Roh Jahat | Cleansing the Evil Spirit |
| Portuguese | A Purificação do Mal | The Purification of Evil |
| Turkish | Kötülüğü Kovmak | |
| Italian | Estirpare il male |
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