The Way Forward in Phantom Blade Zero: chapter 7 step-by-step walkthrough

Chapter summary

After going through the Green Serpent House, Soul enters the Mirage Estate, a compound of pagodas, courtyards and a theater full of puppets. There are new enemies, such as the electric puppets that teleport and the groups linked by purple threads. The chapter has an optional detour that the game does not announce, the frozen forest, and it ends with Lei Dang and the road to the last region. It is your last chance to complete Mo Yuan’s duel and Zhang’s relics.

Step by step

1. Enter the Mirage EstateFollow the only path to the Estate Rear Gate bell. Cross the first two courtyards and go up the stairs on the right to the Nuo Mask Altar bell.
2. Frozen forest (optional)It opens without warning. From the Crimson Forest’s Mirrorwood Entrance bell you go through frozen versions of the bells, such as Burial Grounds (2) and Threadbound Great Tree (2), up to the fights against Yucong, No. 34 Twisted Puppet. Details in the next section.
3. Perfect Vessel: the pagodaDo not use the chain at first: go around the railing and climb to the top for a chest. Go down to the Below the Fire Tower bell and pick up the Feather Fan Plume. The first electric puppet appears: break its guard quickly.
4. Back Hill and bambooBack Hill and Shaded Bamboo Path bells. Along the way is the Nuo Mask Fragment: Sorrow. The third electric puppet comes with company: be careful.
5. Zhang’s Hideout (Mirage Estate)Go up the stairs that are not the red gate. Talk to Zhang to activate Quick Hand’s Request (5) and buy his whole inventory: you receive the Maintenance Oil, which tempers Goldblaze.
6. Opera HouseOpen the red gate and activate the Opera House bell. The door at the back is blocked: go in through the skating puppet’s door.
7. Opera TicketAlong the way are the Ritual Wine, the Executioner’s Headscarf and the Training Grounds (2) bell. Defeat Yuding, No. 12 Crescent Blade Puppet, who arrives after several waves on the stairway: he gives the Crescent Blade and the Opera Ticket.
8. Square of the purple threadsSouth of the Opera House, the main enemy takes no damage while there are enemies hooked to its threads: take them out first. On the north side is the General’s Bronze Mirror, a Zhang relic.
9. The opera and the Mourning HallOpen the opera door; inside is Zhang’s Gold-and-Silver Sachet. Interact with the lanterns until you receive the Jade Mask and activate the Mourning Hall bell. Next to it is a rock wall that you cannot break yet.
10. Defeat Qiu FengQiu Feng, the Crimson Boneblade, on the stairs next to the bell. He gives the Wraith Mask.
11. Lóng Pillar and Mo YuanThrough the Covered Corridor bell you reach Mirage Estate Lóng Pillar. Interact with the pillar and defeat Mo Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mo (Long Pillars). He gives the Bastion of Mó Mask, which tempers the Sanguine.
12. Willow Pavilion and Leng Tu’s StudyWillow Pavilion and Leng Tu’s Study bells. Interact with the altar at the back to open a hidden door. According to players, if you leave the area after opening it, it can stay closed: read the warning.
13. Perfect Vessel EstateActivate the bell. Next to the monolith is Zhang’s last relic in the estate, the Golden Cloud-Moon Hairpin: take it to him to close his errand and receive the Thundermoon Lantern.
14. Defeat Lei DangPerfect Vessel Pond bell, the last one in Pangzhen. Lei Dang, the tiger cannon, and in his second phase the One-Armed Tiger. He gives the Tiger Cannon, which opens weak stone walls. Afterwards, examine Yu’er’s body at the top of the steps.
15. Travel to Mount SoulrendOpen the shortcut to the Mourning Hall, but do not break its wall yet: first use the Tiger Cannon on the optional walls (see items). Then break the wall next to the Mourning Hall and climb: A Soul’s Worth begins.

The frozen forest (optional)

Book and petal titles are translated from the Spanish version of the game; the in-game English wording may differ.

From Burial Grounds (2) you go south through the forest and the cliff to Parting Mists (2) and Mirrorwood Depths (2), crossing the frozen lake. In the old labyrinth is the Chaos Ring. Past the Threadbound Great Tree (2) bell you fight Yucong three times: in the second phase you need the Blazing Edge, because without it you do not move on to the third. Afterwards, a cave south-southwest of Burial Grounds leads to the chest with the Frostward and to the Crimson Forest Sha-Chi Tower (Gate, 6th Floor and Base bells). In the furnace at the base is the last Primal Stone for A Severed Mindseal, and on the roof, the Supreme Order Token, which tempers the Wild Oriole Sword. At the top are Mu Xiaokui and her bodyguards, with two tales.

Chapter bosses

Mandatory or optional according to Vandal’s boss lists, which put Mo Yuan and Yucong among the optional and secret ones.

Tales and purple quests in this chapter

Collectibles and key items

• Weapons: Crescent Blade (Yuding) and Freezing Chaos (Yucong).
• Phantom Edge: Tiger Cannon (Lei Dang).
• Accessories: Chaos Ring, Frostward, Feather Fan Plume, Executioner’s Headscarf and Wraith Mask.
• Medicine: Ritual Wine.
• Nuo Mask: the Sorrow, Anger and Joy fragments are in the estate; the old man at the Nuo Mask Altar gives you the Nuo Mask (Vandal leaves it for after the ending).
• Zhang’s relics: General’s Bronze Mirror, Gold-and-Silver Sachet and Golden Cloud-Moon Hairpin (Zhang’s relics).
• Walls the Tiger Cannon opens (tempering): Pigeon Feed (Weeping Creek Valley, Long Pillar bell), Song of Parting (Crimson Forest, Cliffside Lodge), Border Poems (Village of Lu, Hidden Passage to Pangzhen) and Golden Ammunition (Meigu Lake, next to the Shallows Dock), which tempers the Tiger Cannon.
• Collectibles: petals such as Struggle, The Anomaly, Frost and Chaos, The Perfect Vessel, Three Souls in One and Bone Rift (Memory Flowers).

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