Weeping Creek Valley
The first region of the story, a dark valley of cliffs, bridges and a great waterfall. Its ink map names the spots where Peng Meng, the Axemaster, is held and falls, a Sha-Chi tower you climb floor by floor, a camp of archers and a field of Flesh Lilies.
By Edwin Galibert · Updated
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All regionsPlaces named on the map
- The Beginning
- The Lady's Rift
- First Meeting with Yu'er
- Broken Puppet Valley
- Red Thread Barrier
- Rustblade Pavilion
- Weeping Creek Lóng Pillar
- Outpost
- Outpost Courtyard
- The Axemaster's Holding Cell
- The Axemaster's Fall
- Ruthless Archer Camp
- Creek Valley Plains Entrance
- Valley Sha-Chi Tower 1st Floor
- Valley Sha-Chi Tower Summit
- Lóng Pillar Overlook
- Crimson Manor
- Waterfall Bridge
- Great Waterfall
- Flesh Lily Fields
Known locations
Bells
All bells →The Beginning
The first bell of the story, in a grassy clearing below a waterfall on the river path at the southern end of the valley. Its menu offers only Train Abilities, Save and Leave on the first visit.
Nearby: Sanguine Twin, Hunter's Insight
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The Lady's Rift
Bell on the west bank, where the creek drops into the gorge: a post wrapped in red thread by a broken fence.
Nearby: Aberrant Three-faced Puppet (boss)
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First Meeting with Yu'er
Bell at the foot of the cliff stairs, east of the creek, by a broken wooden fence. The second bell of the story, and the first whose menu offers Traverse.
Nearby: Sanguine Twin, Battle Wraps
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Broken Puppet Valley
Bell below the wooden scaffolds of the central gorge, in a clearing strewn with red threads.
Nearby: Sha-Chi Amber Shard, Jagged Steel (boss)
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Red Thread Barrier
Bell beside the red threads drawn across the cliff path.
Nearby: Battle Wraps
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Rustblade Pavilion
Bell on the eastern cliff, below a pavilion.
Nearby: Sha-Chi Amber Shard
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Outpost
Bell at the outpost the Mandate holds, west of the gorge.
Nearby: Sha-Chi Amber Shard
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Outpost Courtyard
Bell inside the outpost walls, north-east of the Outpost bell.
Nearby: Outpost bell, Sha-Chi Amber Shard, Blackstone Shard
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The Axemaster's Holding Cell
Bell outside a thatched hut and a tiled gate, at the western edge of the valley.
Nearby: Boulderguard
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Creek Valley Plains Entrance
Bell at the way into the plains, named Creek Valley Plains Entrance on both the map and the rest screen.
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Ruthless Archer Camp
Bell in the archers' camp on the northern heights, west of the Sha-Chi tower.
Nearby: Token of Pursuit, Blackstone Shard
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Valley Sha-Chi Tower 1st Floor
Bell in the stone courtyard at the foot of the Sha-Chi tower, by barrels and cart wheels.
Nearby: Deadly Betrothed (boss)
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Valley Sha-Chi Tower Summit
Bell on a plank platform at the top of the tower, where the friendly Shadow Warden waits.
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Flesh Lily Fields
Bell in the red field of Flesh Lilies at the northern edge of the map: it hangs from the arm of a red-wrapped wooden cross in front of the wedding shrine where Hua, Deadly Betrothed is fought.
Nearby: Deadly Betrothed (boss)
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Waterfall Bridge
Bell east of the Sha-Chi tower, on the way to the Great Waterfall.
Nearby: Great Waterfall bell
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Great Waterfall
Bell at the north-east end of the valley, by the Great Waterfall.
Nearby: Lingran's Pendant, The Hunt (boss)
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The Axemaster's Fall
A Crane Bell: a bronze crane statue holding the bell in its beak, among blue flowers at the edge of Peng Meng's arena, on the western slopes below The Axemaster's Holding Cell. The first rest there after Peng Meng plays Zuo Shang's memory Twenty-three Years Ago.
Nearby: The Axemaster's Holding Cell bell, Peng Meng (boss)
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Crimson Manor
Bell in the stone courtyard of a manor with red lacquered pillars and red lanterns, on the eastern side of the valley by the great water wheel, south-west of Waterfall Bridge. The manor itself stays shut at first: its door is a puppet-shaped lock missing its tongue, and the quest Crimson Manor asks you to find another way in.
Nearby: Waterfall Bridge bell, Ancient Armor Fragment
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Lóng Pillar Overlook
A Crane Bell under a wooden lookout roof, south-east of the Valley Sha-Chi Tower, cliffs and pines beyond the railing.
Nearby: The Gold-Masked One (boss)
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Valley Sha-Chi Tower Base
An ornate bronze bell post on the plank floor of the tower's red-lit base hall, reached through the camp gate the Sha-Chi Tower Base Camp Gate Key opens. On the map it sits just south-west of Valley Sha-Chi Tower 1st Floor. Its menu offers Traverse, Upgrade Equipment, Store, Train Abilities, Save and Leave.
Nearby: Valley Sha-Chi Tower 1st Floor bell, Reflex Device, Vessel Restorative (Medicine)
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The Lady's Cave
Bell on the western edge of the valley map, north-west of The Lady's Rift bell. Launch-day guides put Shenji's Ring and a Colorful Pinwheel at the cave's exit.
Nearby: The Lady's Rift bell, Shenji's Ring
Show on mapWeeping Creek Lóng Pillar
Bell at the foot of the Lóng Pillar, the stone dragon head with a red eye on the east side of the valley, where its trial begins.
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One more is in the region's tracker but not located yet.
Weapons & Phantom Edges
All weapons & phantom edges →Sanguine Twin
On a weapon rack by a small waterfall, on the river path between the bells The Beginning and First Meeting with Yu'er.
Nearby: The Beginning bell, First Meeting with Yu'er bell
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6 more are in the region's tracker but not located yet.
Accessories & Potions
All accessories & potions →Hunter's Insight
On a blood-stained plank platform on the river path, between The Beginning bell and the spot where the game teaches Mind's Eye. Increases damage dealt and Sha-Chi depletion against attacking enemies by 7%.
Nearby: The Beginning bell
No map position yetBattle Wraps
Dropped by a Shadow Warden on the cliff path between the bells First Meeting with Yu'er and Red Thread Barrier. An Offensive accessory: increases damage dealt to enemies by 5%, or 10% once polished to +1, its maximum.
Nearby: First Meeting with Yu'er bell, Red Thread Barrier bell
Show on mapToken of Pursuit
In a red and gold chest with a skull on its lid, on the plank platforms of the Ruthless Archer Camp. An Offensive accessory: increases damage dealt to Guard-Broken enemies by 7%.
Nearby: Ruthless Archer Camp bell
No map position yetAncient Armor Fragment
A golden glow on the ground in the garden beside Crimson Manor, by a twisted pine and a stone balustrade, close to the great water wheel. A Defensive accessory: the higher your HP, the more damage it blocks, up to 20% at full HP. Its card says it lay buried for ages beneath the valley's Sha-Chi Tower.
Nearby: Crimson Manor bell
No map position yetFocus Pill (Medicine)
In a red and gold chest on the plank walkways of the Mandate outpost. Reduces Sha-Chi consumption by 30% for 15 seconds and restores 30% HP over the same time; 3 uses.
No map position yetReflex Device
In the second Sha-Chi furnace control box, on the red-lit floor at the base of the tower next to the Valley Sha-Chi Tower Base bell. Removing it takes the Sha-Chi Furnace Inspection Crank. A Support accessory: increases the timing windows for Parry and Perfect Dodge by 15%.
Nearby: Valley Sha-Chi Tower Base bell
No map position yetBoulderguard
In the hamlet near The Axemaster's Holding Cell: read the note Fragments of the Mandate there, then dig the dirt mound in the yard to uncover a Stone Axe Talisman. A Defensive accessory: reduces damage taken by 15% while not Guard-Broken.
No map position yetMedicine Case
Yu'er's reward for the three medicinal herbs of Apprentice Healer: bring them to her by the forge at the Mandate outpost. A Defensive accessory: increases healing from Medicine by 20%, or 30% with Super Armor once polished to +1.
No map position yetLingran's Pendant
In a chest across a gap you can only cross with the Hunter's Chain Sickle, at the far end of the first area of the valley. The Hunt drops the sickle at the Great Waterfall, so this one waits for a trip back. A Support accessory: Sha-Chi Combos cost 15% less Sha-Chi.
Nearby: Great Waterfall bell, The Hunt (boss)
No map position yetShenji's Ring
Launch-day guides put it at the exit of The Lady's Cave, with a Colorful Pinwheel. A Support accessory: blocking with L1 costs 20% less Sha-Chi.
Nearby: The Lady's Cave bell
No map position yetVessel Restorative (Medicine)
Launch-day guides put it at the top of the ladder near the Valley Sha-Chi Tower Base bell. Restores 70% HP and speeds natural Sha-Chi recovery by 50% for 5 seconds; 2 uses.
Nearby: Valley Sha-Chi Tower Base bell
No map position yetTreasure Basin
The pre-order bonus accessory, already equipped when the valley opens; players without the pre-order find it later in normal play. A Support accessory: raises Remnant Dust gains by 10%. Its card says it lay at the bottom of Meigu Lake until repairs to the White Serpent House brought it up.
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Challenge Locations
All challenge locations →Lóng Pillar trial (The Gold-Masked One)
A giant stone dragon head with a red eye, on the east side of the valley; a scholar's inscription lies on a stele by the pond in front of it. Its trial takes you to a burning palace with its own bell, Lóng Pillar, whose menu adds a way back to the valley, and to the fight with The Gold-Masked One. It is the first of the five pillars of the quest Bloodline Awakening.
Nearby: The Gold-Masked One (boss)
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Sha-Chi Amber Fragments
All sha-chi amber fragments →Sha-Chi Amber Shard
In an iron chest with a violet glow, in a courtyard of wooden scaffolds strung with red threads near the Broken Puppet Valley bell, once the threads blocking the mountain path vanish.
Nearby: Broken Puppet Valley bell
Show on mapSha-Chi Amber Shard
Dropped by an enemy on a grassy slope at a cliff edge, on the way from the Rustblade Pavilion bell to Outpost Courtyard. The pickup reads Sha-Chi Amber Shard (2/4).
Nearby: Rustblade Pavilion bell, Outpost Courtyard bell
Show on mapSha-Chi Amber Shard
Dropped by an enemy inside the Mandate outpost, close to the Outpost bell: on the bamboo-grove stone stairs up to the outpost, past the chained gate the Dread Axe breaks. One build's pickup reads Sha-Chi Amber Fragment (3/4).
Nearby: Outpost bell
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One more is in the region's tracker but not located yet.
Blackstone Shards
All blackstone shards →Blackstone Shard
Dropped by an archer on the plank platforms of the Ruthless Archer Camp, beside the red and gold chest that holds Token of Pursuit. The Broken-String Bow for the Feather Bow lies at the same spot.
Nearby: Ruthless Archer Camp bell
Show on mapBlackstone Shard
On the floor of a barred cell in a fern-covered nook, down stone stairs from the outpost's lower gate, nearest the Outpost Courtyard bell. The door opens with the Cell Key, looted from a body on the upper floor of the outpost.
Nearby: Outpost Courtyard bell
Show on mapBlackstone Fragment (3/4)
Dropped by one of the burning, orange-robed monks in the furnace workshop at the base of the Sha-Chi Tower, the room of gourds, braziers and alchemy gear behind the Tower Base camp gate. The note Mystery of Transcension: Instructions for the Sha-Chi Furnace lies in the same room.
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One more is in the region's tracker but not located yet.
More about Weeping Creek Valley
Spots that need a Phantom Edge are marked on the map automatically, and a marker turns green once you own the matching one: here, a Ranged-type Phantom Edge and the Hunter's Chain Sickle.
The Feather Bow, from the Old Archer at the outpost, covers the first; The Hunt drops the sickle at the Great Waterfall.
One of the sickle's passages sits between the Creek Valley Plains Entrance bell and the Sha-Chi tower, and a door near the tower is marked Does not open from this side.
A red key marks a door that stays shut until you find the Cell Key; behind it is a Blackstone Shard. Later the map also tracks a Rusted Loong Key as a usable item, just east of the Sha-Chi tower.
On the east side stands the Lóng Pillar, whose trial starts the quest Bloodline Awakening. Peng Meng drops the Dread Axe, which breaks the iron chains across some paths, starting with a Chain Barrier on Against the Flow.
Its collection tracker counts 23 bells, 7 weapons and Phantom Edges, 11 accessories and Medicines, one challenge, four Sha-Chi Amber Fragments, four Blackstone Fragments and a single Memory Flower remnant.
Bosses here
- The HuntThe Order's hunter and one of Soul's former comrades, fought twice.story
- Jagged SteelJagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute, is the third boss of the story, fought during the chapter Against the Flow in a wide stony riverbed of Weeping Creek Valley.story
- Peng MengPeng Meng, the Axemaster, is the fourth boss of the story, after Jagged Steel: a hulking fighter with a giant axe in Weeping Creek Valley.story
- Deadly BetrothedHua, Deadly Betrothed is an optional boss of Weeping Creek Valley: a bride in a torn red veil, waiting at a red wedding altar in a clearing of red spider lilies at the north of the valley.optional
- The Gold-Masked OneThe Gold-Masked One guards the trial of the Lóng Pillar in Weeping Creek Valley, the first of the five pillars of the quest Bloodline Awakening ("Find all five Lóng Pillars and complete their trials").optional
- Aberrant Three-faced PuppetAn optional boss you can reach very early, just past The Lady's Rift bell near the start of Weeping Creek Valley.optional
Weapons found here
- Jagged SteelDefeat Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute, the third boss of the story, in a riverbed of Weeping Creek Valley past the Broken Puppet Valley bell. Bosses give up their signature weapon on defeat.Weapon
- Sanguine TwinOn a weapon rack at the foot of a small waterfall, beside the ladder that climbs to the First Meeting with Yu'er bell, on the river path up from The Beginning in Weeping Creek Valley.Weapon
- Sanguine ReachOn a weapon rack behind Forge's smithy, inside the Mandate outpost by the Outpost bell in Weeping Creek Valley. You reach it after Jagged Steel and before Peng Meng; its card appears with the prompt to equip the new weapon.Weapon
- Wooden SanguineCarried from the start of the prologue. It sits in the first main weapon slot when the Present Day chapter opens, with Sanguine in the second.Weapon
- Scarlet WraithbladeBeat Hua, Deadly Betrothed, the optional boss in the red lily clearing at the north of Weeping Creek Valley, by the Flesh Lily Fields bell. The blade's card appears as she falls, with 9,000 Remnant Dust. Her hidden trophy carries the blade's name.Weapon
- Dread AxeDropped by Peng Meng, the Axemaster, in Weeping Creek Valley: its card appears as soon as he falls. The next step of the main quest Against the Flow is to break the Chain Barrier with it.Phantom Edge
- Hunter's Chain SickleBeat The Hunt in the rematch at the foot of the Great Waterfall, at the end of Weeping Creek Valley, during the main quest Steel and Steam. Its card appears when he falls, and a tutorial then explains how it pulls Soul across gaps. The fight also pays 20,000 Remnant Dust.Phantom Edge
- Feather BowKill the corrupted archers at the Ruthless Archer Camp in Weeping Creek Valley for the Broken-String Bow, then take it to the Brooding Old Archer on a rooftop of the Mandate outpost (side quest Purge the Sect). He repairs it and gives it back as the Feather Bow.Phantom Edge
By Edwin Galibert · Last checked Oct 29, 2026 · How we source · Report an error