Walkthrough, part 2: camp, lake, mountain, estate

The Mandate Encampment

Part 2 opens with the camp you have been circling since the valley. The outer-gate key sits in a well beside a Bell before the camp entrance - pick it up before walking up to the front door. Inside, the camp is built around a training ground, an arena, and the gate Wan Jun holds.

After the chapter’s main fight, the camp’s Three-Eyed Puppet portal waits near the exit - the second of three, the first having stood near the end of the Village of Lu. Side Tales seeded in the camp include Daughter of the Dark Sect, Xue Admirer of Heroes, and Bai Xue. If you are carrying The Undying Heroic Spirit from Pangzhen, revisit the purple-robed “Wolf” leader after the Chief Disciple fight to push that Tale forward and receive Shattered “Hero’s Courage”. Reported

One caution on 100% runs: the camp’s map tracker counts sixty collectibles, while the walkthroughs that document the camp list fifty-seven. The missing three are not placed anywhere we would cite - treat a stubborn 97% there as the guides’ gap, not necessarily yours. Reported

The Illusory Pipa assembly line

Three instrument pieces, three fights, three regions. The restored pipa is the key to the Mountain of Imprisonment, and it is the spine of this entire stretch of the game.

With all three pieces, take the instrument to Myst at the Pangzhen tavern - she restores the Illusory Pipa, and every mist barrier you have walked past since becomes a door. One sourcing note: some write-ups attribute the back plate to the camp’s chapter boss rather than the training-ground fight. The training-ground route is the one every detailed walkthrough documents, and both descriptions are true if Yubi sits at the end of the camp - this page treats Yubi as the source. Reported

Meigu Lake

The lake is the game’s boat hub. The Sha-Chi Powered Boat quest turns the water into a ring of islands you sweep in whatever order you like, and nearly everything on that ring feeds the true-ending chain. Sail the whole circle before pushing the story.

The lake also holds the game’s second mass of mist-locked routes. Once the pipa is repaired, sail back to the Meigu Songhouse dock and the village: the barriers there hide tempering materials and Blackstone shards that the boat alone cannot reach. Reported

The Frozen Mirror and the Phantom Illusionist’s realm

At the lake’s northwest, a frozen mirror blocks the region’s biggest secret. It opens with all four Acolyte Masks - three from the scarecrow bosses scattered through the earlier regions, the fourth from Crimson Manor below. Before you step through, ring the Four Guardians’ Mirror Bell beside the mirror: it drops a fast-travel point at the entrance, and the fight inside is not one you want to walk back to.

Inside the Phantom Illusionist’s realm: wooden walkways, cliff paths, the fourth Long Pillar (clear it while you are here - it counts toward Bloodline Awakening), and at the end Blizzard Blademaster, who drops the Whiteshadow weapon. After the fight, place both Crystal Puppet Eyes in the puppet statue. You are moved to a ritual site; cut down the puppet monks to end the ritual. That closes Secrets at the Heart of the Lake, one of the two great questlines of the true-ending chain. Reported

Onward: Weeping Mistgate

The exit from the lake is not a road but a performance. Sail to Weeping Mistgate, the island at the lake’s northeast, stand before the waterfall of mist, and play the restored pipa. The mist parts, the cutscene runs, and you wake in the Mountain of Imprisonment. Everything you left undone on the lake stays reachable, but the true-ending checklist only shrinks from here - the exploration guide tracks what closes when.

The Mountain of Imprisonment

Two stops here matter more than the bosses. The third and last Three-Eyed Puppet portal stands after this region’s chapter fight - with all three visited, The Herald’s Illusion completes and points you at Crimson Manor. And when the region ends, an item called the Puppet’s Tongue opens the manor gate beneath the Sha-Chi Tower back in Weeping Creek Valley - the tower you cleared in part 1. Reported

The Crimson Manor detour

Crimson Manor is the back half’s best-hidden area: beneath the Sha-Chi Tower in the valley you cleared hours ago. The hidden boss at the manor’s base drops the fourth and final Acolyte Mask together with a Crystal Puppet Eye - the other eye is picked up in the Mountain of Imprisonment stretch, and late-game guides now agree on that split. Which eye carries the [Yin] label and which the [Yang] rests on thinner sourcing, and it changes nothing about the reward. Clear the manor before the estate: its mask is the last piece the Frozen Mirror needs. Reported

Mirage Estate - the first point of no return

The estate is Pangzhen’s hidden face, and the last region where the chain can still be completed. Its fights:

Before leaving: double back near the Willow Pavilion for the fifth pillar - a scythe-swing route off the path behind it - and collect the estate’s three Quick Hand Zhang relics, the last of his seventeen. Close any purple-icon quest still open. This is the last chance any of them get. Reported

Mount Soulrend - the last region

The final climb has one required fight on the way up - The Saw and the Crusher, who drops the Bonesaw weapon - and then the game’s last checkpoint: The Last Chance bell. Ringing it commits you to the final sequence; after the final boss falls, the whole world reopens for cleanup, so the bell is less a cliff edge than a one-way door into the ending.

Before the bell, talk to Inanis and listen. If she tells you there is nothing more she can do to prepare you, your flags are set. If she warns you about unfinished business instead, that is the game telling you the Perfect Ending is still reachable - turn back and finish it. Reported

Then the ladder: Leng Tu, Herald of the Veil, and after him the story’s final boss, Meng Hua, the Merciful Lady of the Blossom Veil, who drops The Lady’s Fan weapon. What happens next depends entirely on the chain you built:

After the credits, the completed save reopens the world for cleanup, and speaking to Inanis starts New Game+ - your weapons and Phantom Edges carry over, and you can re-pick the difficulty. Reported

The perfect-ending checklist

Each row’s deadlines and edge cases are tracked in detail on the exploration guide.

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