Phantom Blade Zero Boss Order: Key Fights and Rewards

Follow the main boss route from the opening pursuit to Mount Soulrend. The table covers key encounters and their rewards, with detours for bosses locked behind Memory Flowers, Tales or Lóng Pillars. Late-game boss names appear below.

Use this regional route to place the fights below. Within a region, a side fight can open on a later visit.

1. Opening pursuit and Weeping Creek Valley. The first Hunt encounter happens on the cart. Later in the valley, clear Jagged Steel and Peng Meng, then fight The Hunt again at Great Waterfall.
2. Crimson Forest and Village of Lu. Work through the forest to Bai Chilian. In Village of Lu, the two sect masters clear the seals on the well, opening the way to Yuzan.
3. Pangzhen and Meigu Lake. Blaze is an early city fight. Soulclaimer guards the route out toward the lake. Heartpiercer is a story fight at the White Serpent House.
4. Mirage Estate and Mount Soulrend. Yuding and Lei Dang are story fights in the estate. The Saw and the Crusher and Meng Hua are on the final stretch.

Mandate Encampment, Mountain of Imprisonment and Crimson Manor contain side-route fights. Work them into your run if you are following the linked ending checklist. See the regional boss index y trophy roadmap for more encounters.

Patch 1.0302256. S-Game reduced Hua, Deadly Betrothed’s grab frequency on Wayfarer and Pathbreaker. The studio says the other difficulty settings are unaffected. Official patch notes.

These are selected encounters, grouped by their area. The reward column highlights useful drops. A Tale can change what becomes available during or after an encounter.

Village of Lu and Meigu Lake flower sets

Collect all six Firefly Memory Flowers in Village of Lu to lift the barrier at the Temple of Blue Fireflies. Drop down beyond the shrine to reach Dusk. He drops the Illusory Pipa Head.

For Yan Qiansui, collect all six of Yan’er’s Memory Flowers around Meigu Lake and return to the opera house by Meigu Songhouse Dock. She drops the Illusory Pipa Strings. Pick up the Backplate beyond the last fight in Mandate Encampment to finish the set. Pipa route with in-game screenshots.

Challenge Rift and the return to Mirrorwood

Enter the Challenge Rift by The Lady’s Rift bell in Weeping Creek Valley for the Aberrant Three-Faced Puppet and its Three-Headed Doll. Yucong is a later fight tied to Triple Threat. Follow the Tale’s Mirage Estate objectives, prepare the Soul Tempered Sanguine Reach, then return to the Threadbound Great Tree in Crimson Forest. Triple Threat quest objectives.

Mount Soulrend finale

The Final Battle route adds Zuo Shang’s True Lóng form. For that route, check the purple Tales, Secrets at the Heart of the Lake and Bloodline Awakening, plus the two Blade Masters, Zhu Yuan and Commander Bi Feng. Reports differ on whether Quick Hand’s Requests are a separate requirement. True-ending checklist and cutoff warnings.

Bloodline Awakening tracks five completed Lóng Pillar trials. Check the counter in your journal. You can visit accessible pillars in a different order while the encounters follow their own sequence, as described in the trophy roadmap.

The five sites are Weeping Creek Valley, Crimson Forest, the eastern island in Meigu Lake, the Phantom Illusionist Ruins and Mirage Estate. The ruins require the Acolyte masks. The estate pillar becomes accessible during that part of the story.

Counterstrike Bracers and Miraculous Scabbard are the first two clear rewards. A documented run obtained the Scabbard at the snow pillar in the ruins and reached Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó, on the fifth trial. Treat reward order and map location as separate fields when planning the route. Trial counter and reward screenshots.

KeenGamer lists 62 rows and All Things How lists 74 entries. One fighter can produce several entries across repeat encounters or forms. For example, the two Hunt fights occur at different points in the story, and All Things How also separates Yucong’s forms. Use the counts as the scope of each list. A studio total remains unverified.

For Crimson Forest rewards, the in-game reward evidence supports The Fanatic’s Broken Blade from Hua Qianxiao and Outlaw Warblade from Jing Ye. See the Fanatic’s Broken Blade pickup y Outlaw Warblade reward screen.

• Finish Apprentice Healer before fighting Jing Ye.
• Before Bai Chilian, complete A Healer’s Mercy, deliver the Flesh Lily to Yu’er and accept Secrets of the Baishan Sect from Lanlan if you want those Tales.
• Keep a manual save before Mirage Estate. Review the purple Tales then and check the five trials and two Blade Masters before committing to the finale.

Trophy and Tale cutoff checklist.

Sources and Confidence

• S-Game patch notes covers Hua’s difficulty-specific change.
• KeenGamer’s encounter index y PowerPyx’s trophy roadmap provide regional order, optional fights and cutoffs.
• PC Gamer’s Pipa route, PC Gamer’s ending route y the recorded Lóng Pillar trials provide unlock steps and reward evidence.