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Weeping Creek Valley guide: Bells, bosses, collectibles and missable tales
Weeping Creek Valley is the first of eight regions. Reported· Gamersky It is where Against the Flow and Steel and Steam are set, and several of its side tales fail if you leave it too late. Reported· Game8
A sunlit bamboo boardwalk, from the official media gallery. Atmosphere only; the shot is not matched to a named spot in Weeping Creek Valley.Image: S-GAME / official website media gallery
Quick answers
Where it starts: by the destroyed carriage, after the Prologue and Reckless Pursuit. Reported· Game8
Collectibles: 59 on PowerPyx's count, but only one Memory Flower, and Fextralife prints the same totals. Reported· PowerPyx
Do not miss: Apprentice Healer, Purge the Sect and Festering Secrets all fail later, in Crimson Forest. See the deadlines below.
The key unlock: beat The Hunt, take the Hunter's Chain Sickle and use it on the Sha-Chi Tower to open the lower valley. Reported· PowerPyx
This is a launch-day page. The guides are only hours old, so each claim carries its source and single-source claims say so.
Against the Flow is the main quest that follows Reckless Pursuit. It is set in Weeping Creek Valley: you travel upstream past a waterfall to a Mandate-held outpost, fight two bosses on the way and finish by leaving a destroyed village.
Steel and Steam is the main quest that follows Against the Flow, still in Weeping Creek Valley. You cross the stone bridge, work through the Ruthless Archer Camp and the Valley Sha-Chi Tower, go down to fight Hua, then face The Hunt at the Great Waterfall and leave through a cave.
Sources disagree on what comes next. Game8 lists Snake's Reflection as the next quest (Chapter 4). Game Rant's list puts Crimson Manor between Steel and Steam and Crimson Forest. Fextralife says interacting with the manor door during Deep in the Valley unlocks a quest called Crimson Manor.
Game8, 28 Oct 2026 Steel and Steam Quest Walkthrough and Rewards Next quest: Snake's Reflection; list goes from Chapter 3 Steel and Steam to Chapter 4 Snake's Reflection.
Game Rant Phantom Blade Zero: How Long To Beat & Chapter List Order: Steel and Steam, Crimson Manor, then Crimson Forest and Snake's Reflection.
Fextralife Steel and Steam (Phantom Blade Zero Wiki) Crimson Manor quest unlocked at the manor door in the Deep in the Valley section.
How we handle it: Crimson Manor may be an optional quest that Game Rant lists inline. We do not have a walkthrough page for it yet.
Bells that matter
The valley has 23 Bells by count; both guides name 22. These are the ones with something to do. Ring them as you go, as saving and fast travel explains.
Bells · reported
Bell
What is here
The Beginning
The game gives you this one automatically; it is where the valley starts.
The Lady's Rift
A statue beside it opens the Triple Threat tale. You are too weak for its boss on a first visit.
First Meeting with Yu'er
Up the ladder by the waterfall, where you meet Yu'er and the Flesh Lily tale begins.
Rustblade Pavilion
Beside the arena of the Jagged Steel fight.
Outpost
The camp's hub: Forge's smithy is next to it, and Yu'er, the Peddler and the Brooding Old Archer are close by.
Creek Valley Plains Entrance
Next to a small gate. The archer camp is up the hill, and the gate is what the Sha-Chi Tower key later opens.
Valley Sha-Chi Tower Summit
The Watchful Shadow Warden stands here and starts A Severed Mindseal.
Weeping Creek Long Pillar
The challenge tower is directly beside this Bell.
The Lady's Cave
Clean-up only: reached after the story moves on, through the town past the Outpost.
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Reported· PowerPyx Bell names are the same in PowerPyx and Fextralife. What stands next to each Bell is from PowerPyx's walkthrough, with Fextralife's NPC and tale lists as a second read.
Bosses in Weeping Creek Valley
Names are in a fold because they are story spoilers. Fextralife's valley list names six of these fights; the Puppet Scavenger comes from PowerPyx and the Steam achievement list. Which fights are required follows our boss list.
The first three fail when you push on in Crimson Forest, so finish or start them before the Jing Ye and Bai Chilian fights. The rest of the table can wait, but PowerPyx lists several of them as things to finish before Mirage Estate. Full notes are on side tales.
Tales · reported
Tale
Deadline
Reward
Flag
Status
Apprentice Healer
Before you defeat Jing Ye in Crimson Forest.
Medicine Case accessory, also missable (PowerPyx). Counts toward The Healer's Legacy.
Flesh Lily and A Severed Mindseal are marked missable on PowerPyx's trophy page but not on its valley page, so we show that disagreement rather than choose. Several of these tales also count toward trophies and the True Ending.
The lower valley and Crimson Manor
Much of the valley's gear sits behind a gate that stays shut until you own the Hunter's Chain Sickle.
After The Hunt · sources
The route
After The Hunt, the Hunter's Chain Sickle opens the lower valley: the key from the top of the Sha-Chi Tower unlocks the gate by the Creek Valley Plains Entrance Bell, and beyond it lie the Long Pillar Overlook, the Long Pillar challenge, the tower base and the way to Crimson Manor.
The Hunter's Chain Sickle page explains what the Edge does. The Long Pillar challenge and the Counterstrike Bracers sit here too, and PowerPyx suggests coming back for them later because the fight is hard. Reported· Game8
Collectibles in Weeping Creek Valley
Counts and the points worth knowing only; each full list is on its own page.
PowerPyx header counts · reported
Category
Count
Who prints it
Bells
23
PowerPyx, Fextralife
Weapons and Phantom Edges
7
PowerPyx, Fextralife
Accessories and medicines
11
PowerPyx, Fextralife
Challenge locations
1
PowerPyx, Fextralife
Sha-Chi Amber Shards
4
PowerPyx, Fextralife
Blackstone Shards
4
PowerPyx, Fextralife
Memory Flowers
1
PowerPyx, Fextralife
Tales
6
PowerPyx only
Tempering materials
2
PowerPyx only
Treasures
0
PowerPyx only
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Reported· PowerPyx Fextralife's block matches PowerPyx's line for line, so treat it as a second printing of the same totals, not an independent count. Both pages name only 22 Bells against the header of 23. The Memory Flower figure is disputed (see the Memory Flowers page).
Worth knowing · sources
Sha-Chi Amber Fragments
Four Sha-Chi Amber Fragments in Weeping Creek Valley are described the same way by PowerPyx and Fextralife; Game8 backs three of them.
Reward for Axemaster Peng Meng. It breaks chained barriers at the Outpost.
Feather Bow
Phantom Edge
Take the Broken-String Bow from the archer camp to the Brooding Old Archer to be repaired. Missable.
Scarlet Wraithblade
Weapon
Reward for Hua, the Bride.
Hunter's Chain Sickle
Phantom Edge
Reward for The Hunt. The valley's later clean-up needs it.
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Reported· PowerPyx Where each one comes from is PowerPyx's; Fextralife confirms the names but not the places.
Accessories and medicines · reported
Item
Where
Hunter's Insight
Dropped by the enemy right after the chain crossing from The Lady's Rift Bell.
Battle Wraps
Dropped by the large-sword enemy in the fight past the First Meeting with Yu'er Bell.
Token of Pursuit
Chest in the archer camp above the Creek Valley Plains Entrance.
Lingran's Pendant (PowerPyx) / Pendant of Righteousness (Fextralife)
PowerPyx: chest on a platform at the game's start, reached with the Hunter's Chain Sickle. Fextralife gives no spot.
Counterstrike Bracers
Reward for the Long Pillar challenge. Optional and hard, so it can wait.
Medicine Case
Reward for the Apprentice Healer tale. Missable.
Reflex Device
Use the Sha-Chi Furnace Inspection Crank on the furnace beside the Valley Sha-Chi Tower Base Bell.
Ancient Armor Fragment
To the left of the Crimson Manor Bell.
Shenji's Ring
Clean-up: chest outside The Lady's Cave.
Focus Pill (medicine)
Chest down the left path from the Axemaster's Holding Cell Bell, behind a barricade.
Vessel Restorative (medicine)
Chest at the top of the ladder by the Valley Sha-Chi Tower Base Bell.
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Reported· PowerPyx PowerPyx names Lingran's Pendant where Fextralife names Pendant of Righteousness. They may be one item; neither guide says, so we list both. Effects are on the accessories page.
People at the Outpost and beyond
The Outpost is the valley's hub. Forge upgrades your gear, and more on each person is on merchants and NPCs.
Valley NPCs · sources
Forge
Forge is the blacksmith. Meeting her unlocks upgrading main weapons and Phantom Edges, and after that you can open the upgrade menu from any Bell.
The Peddler is a merchant at the Outpost in Weeping Creek Valley who sells upgrade materials. Fextralife lists eight items, all priced in Remnant Dust.
Yu'er is a brewer's daughter who asks for a Flesh Lily and later herbs for medicine. You meet her at the ravine past The Lady's Rift Bell; she later stands at the Outpost beside Forge's smithy.
The Watchful Shadow Warden stands at the Valley Sha-Chi Tower Summit Bell and gives A Severed Mindseal. Fextralife says his name becomes the Friendly Shadow Warden after he consumes the Primal Stone.
How many collectibles are in Weeping Creek Valley?
PowerPyx counts 59 collectible locations: 23 Bells, 7 weapons and Phantom Edges, 11 accessories and medicines, 1 challenge location, 4 Sha-Chi Amber Shards, 4 Blackstone Shards and 1 Memory Flower. Fextralife prints the same figures, but both name only 22 Bells.
Which Weeping Creek Valley side tales can you miss?
Apprentice Healer, which also pays the Medicine Case, fails once you beat Jing Ye in Crimson Forest. Purge the Sect and Festering Secrets fail after the main boss at the end of Crimson Forest. Take them before you push on to those fights.
How do you get the Dread Axe in Weeping Creek Valley?
It is the reward for Axemaster Peng Meng, a story fight midway through the valley. The axe then breaks chained barriers at the Outpost, which opens a Sha-Chi Amber Fragment.
How do you reach the lower valley and Crimson Manor?
Beat The Hunt, climb back to the top of the Valley Sha-Chi Tower with the Hunter's Chain Sickle, and take the Base Camp Gate Key. It unlocks the gate by the Creek Valley Plains Entrance Bell, and the lower sections beyond it lead to Crimson Manor.
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