Chapter 10: Mirage Estate walkthrough

The route at a glance

Twelve stretches, each ending at a Bell. The estate runs from the rear gate in the north-west, east past the Opera House to the Training Grounds, then to Leng Tu’s rooms and the Perfect Vessel Pond in the south. Stretches 6 and 12 end at a Bell you have already lit.

1. How do you get into the Mirage Estate?
2. Where is the Feather Fan Plume?
3. Where is the Nuo Mask Fragment: Sorrow?
4. Where is Quick Hand Zhang in the Mirage Estate?
5. Where is the Wrath fragment, and the Executioner’s Headscarf?
6. How do you beat Yuding and get the Opera Ticket?
7. What is inside the Opera House?
8. How do you beat Qiu Feng?
9. How do you reach the Mirage Estate Lóng Pillar?
10. Where is the Joy fragment, and how do you make the Nuo Mask?
11. How do you find the Perfect Vessel?
12. How do you beat Lei Dang and blast the wall?

1 · How do you get into the Mirage Estate?

Finish The Four Serpent Houses: put the red tongue, black fang and white eye into the serpent mechanism at the Green Serpent House in Pangzhen. The door opens onto a long stairway hung with red thread. The front gate of the estate is too well guarded to get in.

In the courtyard before the stairway, Inanis warns you and gives two choices: “There’s still unfinished business. Return later.” and “No turning back now. Forward it is!” One player guide says the first sends you back and you are not asked again. Climbing on completes “Enter the Mirage Estate”.

From that moment snow falls on the Crimson Forest. Eight Memory Flowers that grew there are gone: the six Resonant Strings flowers and Stone Hand Iron Fever’s two. Whence the Weeping is cut off at its two Shrine steps on the Mountain of Imprisonment, so finish it first. The snow also opens new ground, including the way to the Crimson Forest Sha-Chi Tower.

Some guides say entering costs you the best ending. The game data says otherwise: the ending is decided only on Mount Soulrend, by Secrets at the Heart of the Lake and Bloodline Awakening, and both can still be done after you come in.

After a short scene, light the Estate Rear Gate Bell over a short stone bridge and up the steps. Open the red gate between the two dragon statues; one player guide warns that a Shadow Assassin and a half puppet jump you the moment it opens. A Memory Flower is in the hall straight ahead. One player guide says to keep to the right-hand buildings and steps from here: two more Memory Flowers are on the way, and the Nuo Mask Altar Bell is at the top of the right-hand steps.

An Old Beggar sits by the altar. He has nothing for you yet: come back with the three Nuo mask fragments (stretch 10).

You get: three Memory Flowers

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2 · Where is the Feather Fan Plume?

One player guide gives this route. Go back down from the altar Bell and take the area on the right to a tall tower. Climb the rocks up to the top: an iron chest there holds a Blackstone Shard.

Jump down from the tower, slide down the rope to the bottom and go through the door. The orange pillar of light on the floor is the Feather Fan Plume, which raises Ice, Fire and Lightning damage by 20%.

Leave the building: the Below the Fire Tower Bell is straight ahead.

You get: Feather Fan Plume, Blackstone Shard

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3 · Where is the Nuo Mask Fragment: Sorrow?

From the Below the Fire Tower Bell, grab the iron chain and swing across. Go through the door ahead: the Back Hill Bell is there. An iron chest a little west of the Bell holds a Tainted Crystal Shard.

Follow the path to a few wooden bridges. One player guide says to cross the right-hand bridge to a building, then the left-hand one: the Nuo Mask Fragment: Sorrow lies just past it, next to an iron chest with a Sha-Chi Amber Shard.

The same guide continues: go back to that building and take the left-hand stairs down: the Shaded Bamboo Path Bell is on your left. Drop down from the Bell and climb the steps on the left for another Memory Flower.

You get: Nuo Mask Fragment: Sorrow, Sha-Chi Amber Shard, Tainted Crystal Shard, a Memory Flower

Stretch 3 ends at the Shaded Bamboo Path BellNearest Bell: Shaded Bamboo PathApproximate: distances are estimated from the game data, and the map painting is not to scale.Open this spot on the map →

4 · Where is Quick Hand Zhang in the Mirage Estate?

One player guide continues from that Memory Flower: go through the buildings into a courtyard and take the steps up on the left: the Zhang’s Hideout (Mirage Estate) Bell is there.

Go into the cave. If you have met Quick Hand Zhang at his five earlier hideouts, he gives you the Maintenance Oil, a Soul Tempering material for the Goldblaze, and the Lost Treasures of the Mirage Estate: three treasures to find in the estate for Quick Hand’s Request.

Leave the cave and head for the water: the Opera House Bell is on your right, by a shallow pond of lotus leaves and floating river lanterns. One player guide says a Halberd War Puppet guards the pond, so fill your flasks at the Bell first.

You get: Maintenance Oil, Lost Treasures of the Mirage Estate

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Stretch 4 ends at the Opera House BellNearest Bell: Opera HouseApproximate: distances are estimated from the game data, and the map painting is not to scale.Open this spot on the map →

5 · Where is the Wrath fragment, and the Executioner’s Headscarf?

This short detour is worth it. Player routes agree on its shape: left from the Opera House Bell, up two flights of steps, then a drop to an altar. Facing the Opera House Bell, keep going left and climb two flights of steps. You come to a carved screen wall by a small red shrine: jump down behind it. The Nuo Mask Fragment: Wrath is on the altar below, among a pile of red masks.

Before you jump, one player guide says the building up the steps holds an iron chest with a Sha-Chi Amber Shard. Drop down once more and a small hut on the left holds a Blackstone Shard.

Go back, climb over the fallen tree trunk, jump into the river and go into the small cave: the Ritual Wine is on the altar inside, in a red glow.

Then climb the stairs on the left: a gold chest on the veranda holds the Executioner’s Headscarf, which cuts the cooldown for switching your main weapon by 1 second after you execute an enemy.

Make your way back down to the water and on to the Training Grounds Bell. Players describe the way down differently (a rope in one guide, a chain swing in another).

You get: Nuo Mask Fragment: Wrath, Executioner’s Headscarf, Ritual Wine, Blackstone Shard, Sha-Chi Amber Shard

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Stretch 5 ends at the Training Grounds BellNearest Bell: Training GroundsApproximate: distances are estimated from the game data, and the map painting is not to scale.Open this spot on the map →

6 · How do you beat Yuding and get the Opera Ticket?

Fill your flasks at the Training Grounds Bell and climb the stone steps to the parade ground. One player guide says five waves of puppets come first, and only when the last falls does Yuding, No.12, Crescent Blade Puppet step in; if you die, the waves you cleared stay cleared.

She swings a very heavy crescent blade; one player guide says she often sweeps two or three times in a row. Players agree on two things: dodge when the blade glows red, and near the end of the fight watch for the grab, where she hooks the blade around your neck and forces you to your knees for an execution. Get out of the way as soon as it starts. One player guide adds a spinning sweep that leaves a green ring on the ground (step out of it, do not circle behind her), a jumping slam, a green burst up close and a green blade wave along the ground (step sideways).

She drops the Crescent Blade. Straight ahead of the arena, cross the parade ground and climb the red-carpeted steps between the stone lions: the Opera Ticket glows on the altar table at the top. A Memory Flower is up the steps on the right of the arena.

One player guide gives the rest: take the right-hand steps to another courtyard and turn left twice into a dead end for an iron chest with a Sha-Chi Amber Shard. Back in the courtyard, the first room on the right in the big building on the left has a jade chest with the General’s Bronze Mirror, one of Zhang’s three treasures. Two more Memory Flowers are upstairs, on the balcony and over a bridge.

Then go back to the Opera House Bell with the ticket.

You get: Crescent Blade, Opera Ticket, General’s Bronze Mirror, Sha-Chi Amber Shard, three Memory Flowers

Stretch 6 ends at the Opera House BellNearest Bell: Opera HouseApproximate: distances are estimated from the game data, and the map painting is not to scale.Open this spot on the map →

7 · What is inside the Opera House?

From the Opera House Bell, cross the lantern pond to the red double doors hung with horned red and green masks. Use the Opera Ticket and the doors open (“Use the Opera Ticket to unlock the Opera House”).

Through the courtyard and the red-curtained hall, a jade chest between the painted screens in the study holds the Gold-And-Silver Sachet, the second treasure.

Follow the long corridor to a second pair of red doors. One player guide walks through what comes next: a shadow play of eight lanterns, each showing one scene and lifting a wall of mist. The first five are on foot; for the sixth and seventh you row a boat from the end of a jetty (the seventh lantern only prompts when you are within a few metres, so row round the statue’s feet); the eighth stands on a rock island with a red lantern. The same guide says there are no enemies inside.

On that last island, a few steps from the red lantern, the Jade Mask, a Soul Tempering material for the Seamless Death, burns on the ground as a golden flame. One player guide says to pick it up before you light the eighth lantern, because that lantern ends the play. Another warns you cannot get back into the theatre afterwards.

The play ends in a red cave full of broken puppets. Climb the steps: the Mourning Hall Bell is on your left. Most player routes go through the Opera House, but one walkthrough marks the ticket and the play as optional; we have not checked whether another way leads to the Mourning Hall.

You get: Gold-And-Silver Sachet, Jade Mask

Stretch 7 ends at the Mourning Hall BellNearest Bell: Mourning HallApproximate: distances are estimated from the game data, and the map painting is not to scale.Open this spot on the map →

8 · How do you beat Qiu Feng?

Rest at the Mourning Hall Bell. One player guide says to take the stone steps beside a long white banner up to a red double door with knockers. Behind it is a long hall hung with white cloth, and Qiu Feng, the Crimson Boneblade walks towards you from the altar at the far end: the fight starts as soon as you are in.

One player guide is our only source for his moves. A red flash and then a heavy smash with the mask staff: dodge, do not block. A blue flash and then a jump at you: block. When he spins with a red ring around him, or bursts black and red streaks in every direction, get away from him. The game’s own codex says that when the fight turns against him he draws a long blade from his own head and swings it like a storm; no guide describes that phase yet.

He drops the Wraith Mask: after a Parry or Perfect Dodge sets off Ghoststep, three wraith masks appear and attack the enemies around you.

A Memory Flower of the Aberrant Three-Faced Puppet is on the altar table at the end of the hall, one of its three in the estate for Triple Threat, which ends with a fight in the snowy Mirrorwood; one player guide puts another in the building up the steps on the left, and the Covered Corridor Bell beside the stairs straight on from there. One player guide says a Blackstone Shard is in the next area, down the steps on the left and over the bridge.

You get: Wraith Mask, two Memory Flowers, Blackstone Shard

Stretch 8 ends at the Covered Corridor BellNearest Bell: Covered CorridorApproximate: distances are estimated from the game data, and the map painting is not to scale.Open this spot on the map →

9 · How do you reach the Mirage Estate Lóng Pillar?

This is optional, but it is one of the five Lóng Pillars of Bloodline Awakening, one of the two quests that decide your ending.

From the Covered Corridor Bell, walk the long corridor of red lanterns to a cliff edge. Grapple across to the wooden platform on the other side, follow the path and grapple once more. At the very end is the Mirage Estate Lóng Pillar Bell, with the dragon statue of the pillar just past it.

The challenge here is Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó. Players agree that the last Lóng Pillar you finish gives the Bastion of Mó Mask, a Soul Tempering material for the Sanguine; the game data does not say whether it is tied to this pillar or to the fifth one you do.

You get: Bastion of Mó Mask (fifth pillar)

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Stretch 9 ends at the Mirage Estate Lóng Pillar BellNearest Bell: Mirage Estate Lóng PillarApproximate: distances are estimated from the game data, and the map painting is not to scale.Open this spot on the map →

10 · Where is the Joy fragment, and how do you make the Nuo Mask?

One player guide says to take the zip line from the Lóng Pillar back to the courtyard and go down the steps: the Willow Pavilion Bell is on the left.

Follow the path to a building. A Memory Flower is on the right; inside, the Nuo Mask Fragment: Joy lies on the altar table of a red hall. Players reach the same hall from the other side too, from the Leng Tu’s Study Bell into the building on the right.

In the courtyard ahead a scene plays and puppets pour in. Clear them for the Eye of Insight, a Soul Tempering material for the One-Eyed Bow. One player guide adds a Memory Flower behind the central tower and an iron chest with a Sha-Chi Amber Shard. Through the gate is the Leng Tu’s Study Bell.

With all three fragments, travel to the Nuo Mask Altar Bell and talk to the Old Beggar: he puts them together into the Nuo Mask. With it, Summon-type Phantom Edges cost one less Remnant Spark, and what they summon goes berserk.

You get: Nuo Mask Fragment: Joy, Eye of Insight, Nuo Mask, Sha-Chi Amber Shard, two Memory Flowers

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Stretch 10 ends at the Leng Tu’s Study BellNearest Bell: Leng Tu’s StudyApproximate: distances are estimated from the game data, and the map painting is not to scale.Open this spot on the map →

11 · How do you find the Perfect Vessel?

Go into the building of Leng Tu’s study and use the painted scroll on the wall: it opens a hidden passage. Two player guides describe it the same way.

Follow the passage past a curtained shrine and up into a great hall. One player guide lists what is there: the Primordial Chaos Vessel on the floor to the left (Soul Tempering for the Freezing Chaos), the Alloyed Steel in the middle (for the Armybreaker), the Perfect Vessel Estate Bell on the right with a Blackstone Shard on the floor beside it, and behind the central statue a jade chest with the Golden Cloud-Moon Hairpin, the third treasure.

Leave the hall: the Perfect Vessel Pond Bell is straight ahead, on a platform under a willow ringed with red candles.

Now is a good time to take the three treasures back to Quick Hand Zhang at the Zhang’s Hideout (Mirage Estate) Bell (“Deliver all the treasures from Mirage Estate to Quick Hand Zhang”). He gives you the Thundermoon Lantern and the Quick Hand’s Manual. One player says handing them in at another hideout may not give you the lantern.

You get: Golden Cloud-Moon Hairpin, Primordial Chaos Vessel, Alloyed Steel, Blackstone Shard; from Zhang, Thundermoon Lantern and Quick Hand’s Manual

Stretch 11 ends at the Perfect Vessel Pond BellNearest Bell: Perfect Vessel PondApproximate: distances are estimated from the game data, and the map painting is not to scale.Open this spot on the map →

12 · How do you beat Lei Dang and blast the wall?

Rest at the Perfect Vessel Pond Bell, then climb the wide stairs hung with red lanterns behind it. At the gatehouse at the top, Yu’er hangs over the door and Lei Dang, the Tiger Cannon crouches on the steps. If you die, it is about 60 metres back from the Bell; one player guide says the scene does not play again.

He has two health bars. In Lei Dang, the Tiger Cannon, one player guide reads his cannon like this: a red aiming line across the arena means a long shot with a fireball where it lands; thin red-orange lines fanning out mean a volley; a heavy swing followed by a side-step leads into a pin and a point-blank charged shot, so do not stay close after it. In Lei Dang, One-Armed Tiger he drops the cannon and fights with one arm. Players agree he hits hardest with leaping slams in this phase: dodge more than you block, and use the ground to get out of the way. The game’s codex says you can only escape his leap by using the terrain.

He drops the Tiger Cannon, and beating him unlocks the achievement All Return to Dust. You do not need to equip it to blast loose rock walls, here and in regions you have already visited.

Back on the arena, talk to Yu’er on the red carpet. One player guide says one of Leng Tu’s Memory Flowers then appears beside her; another says it only appears after you have been to Mount Soulrend, so look again later if it is not there. The first guide also puts another of Leng Tu’s Memory Flowers by the body on the arena steps after the fight.

The quest now tells you to go back to the Mourning Hall and find the way to Mount Soulrend (“Continue until you find a wall you can blast open”). Lift the wooden bar on the tall red gate, cross the lantern-lit stone bridge into a dark red hall, and at its end blast the cracked rock wall with the Tiger Cannon (“Blast through the wall with the Tiger Cannon”). Pick up the Soulrend Mountain Gazetteer by the opening and follow the snowy valley on: the chapter ends with the achievement Blood Heralds the Dawn, and a scene takes you to the Mountain God Temple on Mount Soulrend.

Players disagree on whether you can come back once you are through the wall, so pick up everything in the estate first.

You get: Tiger Cannon, Leng Tu’s Memory Flowers, Soulrend Mountain Gazetteer

Stretch 12 ends at the Mourning Hall BellNearest Bell: Mourning HallApproximate: distances are estimated from the game data, and the map painting is not to scale.Open this spot on the map →

What you can miss

• Before you enter: eight Memory Flowers in the Crimson Forest disappear, and Whence the Weeping is cut off at its Shrine steps on the Mountain of Imprisonment. Do both first.
• The Jade Mask: on the last island of the shadow play. Pick it up before you leave; one player guide warns you cannot get back in.
• The Thundermoon Lantern: find the General’s Bronze Mirror, Gold-And-Silver Sachet and Golden Cloud-Moon Hairpin and bring all three to Quick Hand Zhang’s hideout in the estate.
• The Nuo Mask: the three fragments are at the Shaded Bamboo Path, below the screen wall past the Opera House, and near Leng Tu’s study. Take them to the Old Beggar at the Nuo Mask Altar.
• Everything in the estate before the wall: players disagree on whether you can come back after you blast the wall by the Mourning Hall.

Bosses in this chapter

The boss codex files 4 entries under Mirage Estate, on 3 boss pages. The codex sorts them by map, so you may meet some later in the story.

Qiu Feng, the Crimson Boneblade

Codex group: Maskwalkers.

Yuding, No.12, Crescent Blade Puppet

Codex group: Puppets.

Lei Dang, the Tiger Cannon

Codex group: Masters. Codex entries: Lei Dang, the Tiger Cannon · Lei Dang, One-Armed Tiger.

Other quests and rewards here

Every other quest with an objective in Mirage Estate, with the objectives that take place here and what the quest log says they give.

Collectibles in this chapter

The game’s item table files these under Mirage Estate.

Whose Memory Flowers are in this chapter?

• Patron Gao’s Memory Flower
• Thread-Binding Disciple’s Memory Flower
• Yu’er’s Memory Flower
• Memory Flower of the Aberrant Three-Faced Puppet
• Leng Tu’s Memory Flower

Where every Memory Flower is

Book pages (9)

All 15 Bells

The game’s Bell table files 15 Bells under this chapter, in Mirage Estate.

Questions

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