Weeping Creek Valley

The route at a glance

1. The Beginning and Yu’er
2. Rustblade Pavilion: Jagged Steel
3. Outpost: Peng Meng and the Dread Axe
4. Flesh Lily Fields: Hua, Deadly Betrothed
5. Sha-Chi Tower summit: The Hunt and Primal Stone 1
6. Lóng Pillar 1 and the Chapter 2 backtracks

1–6 · The route at a glance · What you can miss · Bosses in this chapter · All 24 Bells · Chapter 1 full cross-reference index (bosses · quests · equipment · collectibles · achievements) · Questions

1 · The Beginning and Yu’er

Clear the Prologue (Diverging Paths and Reckless Pursuit) and you wake at The Beginning, the valley’s first Bell.

Talk to Yu’er behind the campfire rock to start Flesh Lily. The cracked statue of the Lady next to the Bell belongs to Triple Threat; you cannot open it yet.

2 · Rustblade Pavilion: Jagged Steel

Follow the creek upstream to Rustblade Pavilion and beat Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute.

You get: Jagged Steel and a Sha-Chi Amber Fragment

3 · Outpost: Peng Meng and the Dread Axe

At the Outpost Bell, Yu’er by the smithy gives Apprentice Healer and the old bowyer on the left-hand roof gives Purge the Sect.

Beat Peng Meng, the Axemaster. His last letter starts Four Fierce Axes. Use the Dread Axe at once on the iron chains behind the Outpost (Festering Secret), clear the yard for a Sha-Chi Amber Fragment, then get the order from the captain at the village gate.

You get: Dread Axe

4 · Flesh Lily Fields: Hua, Deadly Betrothed

Clear Ruthless Archer Camp and hand it in at the Outpost for the Feather Bow.

Go down to Flesh Lily Fields at the base of the Sha-Chi Tower and beat Hua, Deadly Betrothed. The Flesh Lily is on the body in front of the main table; take it back to Yu’er.

You get: Scarlet Wraithblade, Feather Bow

5 · Sha-Chi Tower summit: The Hunt and Primal Stone 1

Climb to Valley Sha-Chi Tower Summit and beat The Hunt, Sixfold Scythe.

Talk to the friendly Shadow Warden by the summit Bell (A Severed Mindseal). Climb down the ladder for the Furnace Peephole Switch and the book that starts Pillars of Kunlun, take the first Primal Stone out of the furnace at the bottom and bring it back to him. The Camp Outer Gate Key opens the gate down to the valley plain (Deep in the Valley).

You get: Hunter’s Chain Sickle, Primal Stone 1

6 · Lóng Pillar 1 and the Chapter 2 backtracks

In the house by Lóng Pillar Overlook, give the captain’s order to the swordsman in blue for Gu Lingran’s letter, then touch the first Lóng Pillar to fight Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó (Bloodline Awakening).

Come back twice from Chapter 2. Before Bai Chilian, Lady of the Twin Serpents: talk to the frightened disciple in the house by the bowyer at the Outpost, then search the stable grave through the small door by the The Axemaster’s Holding Cell Bell for the Boulderguard (+2% map). After Bai Chilian: the Outpost opens a new path with the broken-bridge chest, a Blackstone Fragment and a Memory Flower.

You get: Boulderguard (+2% map completion)

What you can miss

• Hand the first Primal Stone to the Shadow Warden on the tower summit before you leave the valley (A Severed Mindseal).
• Boulderguard: after Peng Meng, the Axemaster and before Bai Chilian, Lady of the Twin Serpents, talk to the frightened disciple at the Outpost, then search the stable grave at The Axemaster’s Holding Cell. Miss it and the map stops at 98% (map guide).
• Finish Apprentice Healer before you fight Jing Ye, the Outlaw in Chapter 2.

Bosses in this chapter

All 24 Bells

Weeping Creek Valley has 24 Bells in the game’s fast-travel list.

Chapter 1 full cross-reference index (bosses · quests · equipment · collectibles · achievements)

Across the launch game’s data tables, Weeping Creek Valley connects 24 Bells, 9 boss codex entries, 15 quests starting in this region, 4 quest-rewarded weapons and Phantom Edges, 43 books and pages, and 6 achievements:

• Bosses (9 codex entries): Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute, Peng Meng, the Axemaster, Hua, Deadly Betrothed, The Hunt, Sixfold Scythe, The Gold-Masked One / Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó, The Puppet Scavenger, Aberrant Three-faced Puppet, and Acolyte Hansui.
• Quests starting in Weeping Creek Valley (15): Story: Against the Flow, Steel and Steam; Mysteries: The Crimson Manor, Whence the Weeping, Deep in the Valley, Bloodline Awakening; Tales: A Severed Mindseal, Apprentice Healer, Festering Secret, Purge the Sect, Triple Threat, Four Fierce Axes, Flesh Lily, Leave None Alive, and Pinwheel.
• Weapons, Phantom Edges & Accessories: Quest step rewards: Dread Axe (Four Fierce Axes / Festering Secret), Feather Bow (Purge the Sect: Give the Broken-String Feather Bow to the Old Archer at the outpost), and Hunter’s Chain Sickle (Steel and Steam: Settle the score with the Hunt!); plus regional pickups and drops Jagged Steel, Scarlet Wraithblade, Sanguine Twin, Sanguine Reach, and the Boulderguard accessory.
• Collectibles & Lore Items (43): 43 books and pages recorded in the valley (see Collectibles guide and the Weeping Creek Valley 98% map guide).
• Connected Achievements & Trophies (6, see Trophies & achievements guide): The Axe’s Grudge (Defeat Peng Meng, the Axemaster), Scarlet Wraithblade (Defeat Hua, Deadly Betrothed), Nothing Goes to Waste (Defeat The Puppet Scavenger), Phantom and Blade (Complete Bloodline Awakening), Spectral Blade (Complete A Severed Mindseal), and The Healer’s Legacy (Complete Flesh Lily, Apprentice Healer, and A Healer’s Mercy).

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