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Heartless Remnant walkthrough: the Village of Lu boss route
Heartless Remnant follows Snake's Reflection. It is set in the Village of Lu, where you work through a run of bosses from Zhuo Bi to Mu Xiaokui. Reported· Game8
The short version
No guide has a full step-by-step page for this chapter yet. This page puts together Game8's boss pages, Fextralife's Village of Lu guide and PowerPyx's route. Where they differ we say so, and the boss order below comes from one route guide.
Heartless Remnant at a glance · sources
Where
Village of Lu: Old Man Gen's hideout, Statue Grounds, Smuggler's Tunnel, Puppet Testing Grounds
Heartless Remnant follows Snake's Reflection and comes before Town of Death, which Game8 lists as chapter 7 and Game Rant puts under Pangzhen. Game8's Snake's Reflection page also names Heartless Remnant in its next-quest slot.
Game8 spells the chapter Heartless Remnant. Game Rant and Fextralife's Village of Lu guide write Heartless Remnants. Game Rant's chapter table has a Region column, so Village of Lu there is the region and not a separate quest. We use the singular as the page name and have not checked the in-game text.
Game8, 28 Oct 2026 Phantom Blade Zero Story Walkthrough and List of All Chapters Chapter list: Heartless Remnant is chapter 6, after Snake's Reflection.
Game Rant Phantom Blade Zero: How Long To Beat & Chapter List Region / Chapter table: Village of Lu is the region, Heartless Remnants the chapter.
Fextralife Village of Lu - Phantom Blade Zero Wiki Quick location guide in route order.
Game8 lists Zhuo Bi, Master Bi Yuan, Master Bi Hai, Yuzan, Iron Fiend and Jade Dancer and Mu Xiaokui as main story bosses of Heartless Remnant, and files Acolyte Yanru and Dusk the Puppeteer as optional. Fextralife's boss list calls Yuzan and Dusk main bosses and Zhuo Bi, Master Bi Yuan and Master Bi Hai minor bosses. We list all of them and do not pick a side.
Game8, 28 Oct 2026 List of All Bosses - Phantom Blade Zero Boss table with chapter, region and reward per boss.
Fextralife Bosses - Phantom Blade Zero Wiki Lists Yuzan as a main boss and Zhuo Bi, Master Bi Yuan, Master Bi Hai as minor bosses.
What follows
The next chapter in both chapter lists is Town of Death, set in Pangzhen. Game8 puts the bosses Blaze and Cavalrybane there.
Reported· Game8 Zhuo Bi, the shield-bearing gatekeeper, is the first chapter boss. He waits in the area just west of Old Man Gen's Hideout Bell, and defeating him gives the Bastion. His arena has a Blackstone Fragment chest, and the gate above it leads on to the Young Mistress ribbon trail.
Zhuo Bi's big shield is the fight: break his guard with heavy hits (Game8 suggests a charged Dread Axe) and strike while he is staggered, and stay behind him, since most of his moves only cover the front. Dodge sideways through the slow shield slams, interrupt or dodge the shield slides, and block the early hits of a slam string so you can parry the last one. Reported· Game8
Reported· Game8 Master Bi Yuan of the Tianxuan Sect is fought in the Statue Grounds, up the stairs past the Statue Grounds Entrance Bell. He drops the Tianxuan Bronze Sword, and the arena has The Lady Grounds Bell.
Master Bi Yuan is a patience fight. He blocks often and counters when you keep swinging, so stop attacking as soon as he blocks, and never hit into his parry stance. Parry the one blue-glint vertical slash, which has a clear wind-up, and dodge the red-glint leap slash right after the flash, then counter. Reported· Game8
Reported· Game8 Master Bi Hai of Kuye Temple is fought in the Smuggler's Tunnel, in a stream-side arena past the Wounded Thief. He drops the Kuye Temple Prayer Beads. Fextralife says he must be beaten to reach Pangzhen.
Master Bi Hai summons three bronze figures and a protective bell. Use heavy Guard Break attacks to wear the bronze down, keep moving so you are not surrounded, and kill the last figure far from the bell, because it explodes. Dodge his slow ethereal fist sideways and time the red-glint shout dodge a beat late. Reported· Game8
Reported· Game8 Yuzan, a musician puppet, guards the Puppet Testing Grounds beneath the Village of Lu well. Fextralife places the fight past the Beneath the Well Bell. Beating her gives the Heartrend Pipa, and the arena has a Puppet Testing Grounds Bell.
Yuzan fights from range with a pipa. When she sends out glowing orbs, hold block so they bounce back and hurt her, then dodge the fast red shot that follows. Back off and use ranged throws to break her area burst, and dodge each pair of slashes after a blue then red spark. Parrying her blue sound blades also sends them back. Reported· Game8
6. Do the Young Mistress trail before the last boss
Reported· Fextralife The Young Mistress side quest is a ribbon trail through the Village of Lu: a red ribbon on a tree past the Zhuo Bi arena starts it, with later ribbons by the Temple of Blue Fireflies, on the covered bridge and at the Lady Grounds Bell, and a last one on a bridge post beyond the Beneath the Well Bell. PowerPyx marks finishing it before the elevator to Mu Xiaokui as missable.
7. Fight Mu Xiaokui
Reported· Game8 Mu Xiaokui, the Young Mistress of the Order, closes the region. PowerPyx reaches her by an elevator from the Puppet Testing Grounds area and calls her the region's final boss. Defeating her gives the Wild Oriole Sword, which lies on the dock afterwards; pick it up before you leave, because the elevator breaks.
Reported· Game8 A secret third phase pits you against Iron Fiend and Jade Dancer, two of her guards. Game8 and PowerPyx both say it only appears if you have finished the Young Mistress side questline before the fight. Rewards listed for it are Fiend Saws, Fist Fragment: Core and Puppet No. 44's Eye.
Iron Fiend and Jade Dancer fight as a pair. Keep both in view with directional dodges, focus the more aggressive Iron Fiend first, and when Jade Dancer's blades glow purple, block the first two hits of their combined combo and parry the final blue-glint hit. Dodge the four red-glint grabs, especially Iron Fiend's fast surprise kicks. Reported· Game8
Optional: Acolyte Yanru and Dusk the Puppeteer
Reported· Game8 Two optional fights sit in the village. Acolyte Yanru is a challenge fight at a scarecrow on the Terraces and drops Yanru's Blazing Mask. Dusk the Puppeteer is in the Broken Puppet Pit and drops the Puppeteer's Bell; PowerPyx says the fog in the shrine that leads there needs all six Firefly memory flowers.
Boss rewards in this chapter, as the guides list them: Bastion (Zhuo Bi), Tianxuan Bronze Sword (Master Bi Yuan), Kuye Temple Prayer Beads (Master Bi Hai), Heartrend Pipa (Yuzan), Wild Oriole Sword (Mu Xiaokui), and Fiend Saws, Fist Fragment: Core and Puppet No. 44's Eye from the secret phase.
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