All Phantom Blade Zero Bosses in Order, With Rewards

Phantom Blade Zero boss order

#	Boss	Region	Where	Reward
1	Zuo Shang, the Order's Shadow Sovereign	Prologue	Prologue, Sixteen Years Ago	Not shown yet
2	The Hunt, Hunter of the Order	Weeping Creek Valley	Reckless Pursuit, on a wagon in the rain; the rematch at the Great Waterfall, fight 5, closes Weeping Creek Valley	Hunter's Chain Sickle
3	Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute	Weeping Creek Valley	Weeping Creek Valley, a riverbed past the Broken Puppet Valley bell	Jagged Steel
4	Peng Meng, the Axemaster	Weeping Creek Valley	Weeping Creek Valley, by The Axemaster's Fall bell	Dread Axe
6	Hua Qianxiao, the Sword Fanatic	Crimson Forest		The Fanatic's Broken Blade
7	Jing Ye, the Outlaw	Crimson Forest		Outlaw Warblade; The Banyan's Heart
8	Stone Hand Iron Fever	Crimson Forest		Iron Gauntlets
9	Bai Chilian, Lady of the Twin Serpents	Crimson Forest		White Serpent & Crimson Viper, with the Resonance Talisman and the Broken Illusory Pipa
10	Zhuo Bi, the Gatekeeper	Village of Lu		Bastion
11	Master Bi Yuan of the Tianxuan Sect	Village of Lu		Tianxuan Bronze Sword
12	Master Bi Hai of Kuye Temple	Village of Lu		Kuye Temple Prayer Beads
13	Yuzan, No. 3 Musician Puppet	Village of Lu		Heartrend Pipa, with 16,200 Remnant Dust
14	Mu Xiaokui, Young Mistress of the Order	Village of Lu		Wild Oriole Sword, on the dock right after the fight; Puppet No. 44's Eye
15	Iron Fiend, Young Mistress's Guardian	Village of Lu		Fiend Saws; Fist Fragment; Puppet No. 44's Eye
16	Blaze, Shadow Warden Captain	Pangzhen		Fire Meteor; Crimson Fresh Lily
17	Cavalrybane, Elite Shadow Warden	Pangzhen		Armybreaker
18	Wu Xuan, the Fallen General	Pangzhen		Not shown yet
19	Gu Wanyue, the Wailing Wraith	Pangzhen		Not shown yet

The early fights are seen in the game; from Village of Lu on, most ranks come from launch-day guides.

These fights have a known region but no rank yet:

Region	Boss	Reward
Village of Lu	Jade Dancer	Not shown yet
Pangzhen	Flame, the Mask-Bound Lion Dance Grandmaster	Not shown yet
Pangzhen	Soulclaimer, Elite Shadow Warden	Not shown yet

Placed by launch-day guides, not yet checked in footage.

Crimson ForestBells seen in footage: Pangzhen Bridge Overlook, Outlaw Trap, Mirrorwood Entrance, Threadbound Great Tree. Bai Chilian ends it
Village of LuMu Xiaokui, Young Mistress of the Order, ends it; examine her five ribbons (Young Mistress) first and Iron Fiend and the Jade Dancer join as her third phase
PangzhenSoulclaimer guards the way to Meigu Lake
Meigu Lake, Mirage Estate, Mount SoulrendHeartpiercer, Yuding, Lei Dang, The Crusher and the Saw, Leng Tu, then Meng Hua, the final boss

Numbered bosses have a known place in the story: our launch footage shows the early ones, launch-day guides give the later ones. The director counts at least 50 in all. Launch-day guides that call Jagged Steel Boss 1 start their count after the prologue duel and the wagon fight, so their numbers run two behind ours.

Not yet placed: the other 22 bosses below, from the demos, trailers and launch reviews. Each joins the order once its spot in the story is shown.

All 43 bosses

How boss fights work

The list above holds the ones seen in official footage and the demos, each named as on its health bar. Some are optional: sparing one can change who you fight at the end of a questline.

Bosses follow the same rules as every other fight: parry blue attacks, dodge red ones, and empty a boss's Sha-Chi to Breach it. A perfect parry costs you no Sha-Chi and drains the boss's, so the safest damage often comes from defending well.

Long fights are split into phases, each with its own name on the health bar: the Lion Dance Grandmaster's second phase is called The Lion Dance Grandmaster's Final Dance.

Previews of the 2025 demo reported that dying in a later phase restarts the fight from that phase, not from the start.

Every weapon comes from a boss

The director has said that each of the game's weapons, around 30 primary weapons and twenty-odd Phantom Edges, is taken from a boss. Beating Hua Qianxiao, the Sword Fanatic, gives you The Fanatic's Broken Blade, a sword that wakes up when Soul drinks.

Some weapons are also answers to particular bosses. In the 2025 demo, Ink Cut dealt extra damage to Huangxing and stunned him, and a boss may say a line when you fight it with a weapon tied to it.

Optional bosses and choices

Not every boss is on the main path. The Red Wraith is a side-quest boss you can kill or escape.

Escaping brings her back in the questline's final fight and earns an extra Memory Flower, which raises max HP and stats. Side quests like hers also decide which of the endings you get.

The Aberrant Three-faced Puppet can be reached early in Weeping Creek Valley, just past The Lady's Rift bell. After a first try the quest Triple Threat begins, and Soul says it is best avoided.

Bosses on harder difficulties

On Hellwalker, bosses change how they fight rather than just hitting harder: they have no fixed patterns and adapt to your habits. 66 Days keeps Hellwalker's rules and limits you to 66 lives for the whole run.