All Bosses

The Order's Shadow Sovereign opens the game as the prologue duel and closes it as the true final boss: after Meng Hua he leads Soul through the gold portal into the Fallen Dream, fights first as the Shadow Sovereign with flung golden blades, then as the True Lóng in a monochrome lake with a dragon rising from the water. Drops the Aureate, the Broken Long Body and the Radiant Heart.

A hooded, armoured hunter of the Order with a red glow where his face should be, fighting with chain sickles. Fought twice in the Weeping Creek Valley: on a racing horse cart, then at the Great Waterfall, where he turns into the Sixfold Scythe halfway through and drops the Hunter's Chain Sickle.

A pale, green-haired brute with a gold shoulder plate and a long saw-toothed blade, fought by a waterfall in the Weeping Creek Valley riverbed. Beating him earns the Jagged Steel, a one-handed weapon whose slashes inflict Bleeding.

A huge, pale-skinned brute with a great axe, fought in the Weeping Creek Valley. He leaps in and slams the axe into the ground; beating him earns the Dread Axe Phantom Edge, which breaks iron chains, and the bronze trophy The Axe's Grudge.

The optional rift boss of Weeping Creek Valley that starts the tale Triple Threat: a white-haired, long-sworded puppet that vanishes into portals and re-emerges with swings, overhead slashes or a kick depending on the portal. Drops the Three-Headed Doll. Its identity is learned much later, as Yucong, No. 34 Twisted Puppet.

An optional puppet boss hidden beneath the first Sha-Chi Tower in the Weeping Creek Valley: a bride in a red veil who blinks across a field of red flowers, drops exploding blossoms behind her and ends combos with a grab. Drops the Scarlet Wraithblade.

The masked swordsman of the Long Pillars: an optional duellist fought five times across the map for the Bloodline Awakening quest, each time in a burning arena, with Red- and Blue-glint attacks that the game's own hint text tells you to dodge and parry. Beneath the mask is Mo Yuan, played by Donnie Yen.

A drunken swordsman in teal robes, the first boss of the Crimson Forest, fought on a wooden bridge. He drinks in the middle of the fight and sends his sword flying across the bridge; beating him earns The Fanatic's Broken Blade and the bronze trophy A Thousand Cups Drained.

The mounted boss of the Crimson Forest: a bandit chief who opens the fight from the saddle of a bone-plated warhorse, dismounts once his health drops and continues behind a spiked shield, then with the sword alone. Drops the Outlaw Warblade.

A bare-fisted brawler of the Crimson Forest who fights with stone-plated gauntlets: punches, headbutts, pounces and flying combos, with red-glint charges once his health drops. He can deflect your strikes and counter at once. Drops the Iron Gauntlets Phantom Edge.

The final boss of the Crimson Forest: a string-borne swordswoman who vanishes mid-combo, throws daggers from the air and, in her second phase, spends most of the fight airborne. Drops the White Serpent & Crimson Viper dual swords and the Resonance Talisman.

The last of the Four Great Puppets and the answer to the tale Triple Threat: the Aberrant Three-Faced Puppet of Weeping Creek Valley, met again as Yucong in the snowed-over Mirrorwood of the Crimson Forest. Three masks, Steel, Frost and Chaos, speak during the fight. Requires the Blazing Edge per the tale objective. Drops Freezing Chaos.

The first boss of the Village of Lu, met in a dirt yard below a roofed gate during the Chapter 1 quest Against the Flow: a squat armoured warrior in a horned, plumed helmet behind a demon-faced shield as tall as himself, with a polearm for sweeps. His shield bar has to be worn down with parries and heavy Phantom Edge hits before his health will move; when it breaks he kneels for a few seconds. Drops the Bastion, the shield Phantom Edge, which also blocks crossbow bolts when exploring.

The first of the three masters of the Village of Lu's Heartless Remnants quest, a grey-haired swordsman who blocks, parries from a stance and counters with a red glint; his blue-glint vertical slash is parried, his leaping slash is dodged. Drops the Tianxuan Bronze Sword.

The second master of the Heartless Remnants quest, a monk puppet who seals himself in a golden bell and summons three Fist Bronze Men whose bronze skin shrugs off flinches; between bells he fights with palms, a straight-line projectile and an unblockable red-glint shout. Drops the Kuye Temple Prayer Beads.

An optional puppeteer hidden in a ravine below the Village of Lu, unlocked by collecting the region's Memory Flowers: he rings the Puppeteer's Bell to summon puppets and giant severed hands, throws stones and red threads, and at low health splits into two copies that share his name bar. Drops the Puppeteer's Bell and the Illusory Pipa Head.

A hovering musician puppet guarding the puppet testing grounds under the Village of Lu well; she plays a pipa and fires homing orbs, red projectiles and ringed shockwaves that the guides say to block, interrupt and dodge in turn. One of the Four Great Puppets; drops the Heartrend Pipa.

The final boss of the Village of Lu, shown in full in the official boss-fight video S-GAME gave IGN: a slender swordswoman who throws spinning blades, blinks out of reach and drains Sha-Chi with lunges, before her two guardians take the field. Drops the Wild Oriole Sword.

Not a stand-alone boss: Mu Xiaokui summons her two guardians, the hulking Iron Fiend and the cloaked Jade Dancer, as the last phase of her Village of Lu fight, and you fight both at once in a dusk meadow. Game8's advice is to keep both of them in view.

One of the four hidden Acolytes of the tale Secrets at the Heart of the Lake, reached through a talisman scarecrow in the Village of Lu and fought in a ring of fire: fireball volleys that can be blocked back at her, diving clones, a flamethrower and fire that lingers on the ground. Drops Yanru's Blazing Mask.

The first boss of Pangzhen: a masked official in red who whirls meteor hammers on chains, summons warriors of the Order and, once his first bar is empty, rises again wreathed in green phosphor under a second name bar with fire that burns. Drops the Fire Meteor Phantom Edge.

The first of the three Shadow Wardens, fought in a Pangzhen square with the Armybreaker polearm: tumbling rolls into spear strikes, a continuous thrust that ends in a Sha-Chi drain, and quick backsteps into upward slashes. Mostly slow and linear; aggressive play can knock him down.

A heavily armoured general with the Wolfjaw, a bladed mace, in the Pangzhen backstreets. Blue-glint combo enders are parried for a Ghoststep counter; a four-hit combo and a spinning arm grab are unblockable. After his first guard break he burns purple, gaining shockwaves and homing orbs.

A woman in white who sings by a dry well in Pangzhen and fights with blade-like sleeves and Phantom Arts that plunge the arena into darkness; each dark phase ends in an unblockable attack or a purple fireball that can be parried back at her. Two unblockable grabs. Drops the Fanatic's Fragment: Fixation.

An optional fight at the Mass Grave of the Mandate Encampment against a starving ghoul and an endless supply of corpses, only one of which, the green-flamed one or Xue herself, takes damage at a time. Beating her starts the tale Xue, Admirer of Heroes, which ends in the Sha-Chi Headscarf.

An optional boss of the Mandate Encampment, fought in the dusty yard below the wooden gatehouse near the Beneath the Watchtower bell: a huge, bald, shirtless man swinging a golden melon-headed hammer. His charges kick up dust that hides the arena, and his red (unblockable) attack is a grab. Drops the Bashpole Phantom Edge, which also smashes weakened floors when exploring.

An optional boss of the Mandate Encampment, fought on the tiled temple roof reached by ladders from the Dovecote bell: a swordswoman in red who leaps between the roof ridges and closes with fast sword strikes and kicks, with red-flash unblockable attacks. Beating her drops no item (66,000 Remnant Dust in PowerPyx's capture); PowerPyx's collectibles guide says to spare her, because if she lives she joins the Chief Disciple's second phase and that duo fight yields two missable collectibles.

An optional two-phase boss of the Mandate Encampment, fought on the scorched field below the ladder near the Three Towers bell: first a seven-man sword formation whose six followers move in sync around the leader, then, as "Chief Disciple, Sword of Despair", the leader alone, hung from threads above the arena and firing swarms of puppet strings. If Red, the Mysterious Swordswoman was spared on her rooftop she joins halfway through the second phase (PowerPyx). Drops the Swordsman's Summon Phantom Edge and the Training Grounds Key; silver trophy Sword Against the Seven-Stars.

An optional duel in the Mandate Encampment against the Baishan Sect's senior disciple, who fights with a soft sword and punishes every careless attack with a purple-flash deflection and a counter. Drops the Soft Snake Sword and a Blackstone Fragment.

The second of the Four Great Puppets, an optional fight on the Training Grounds at the end of the Mandate Encampment. Her combo enders flash blue and are parried for Ghoststep counters; a red-glint flip kick and a low spinning thrust are unblockable. The quest prompt calls her "Bi Taotao's puppet form".

A hooded healer of Pangzhen who hangs out of reach on red threads tied to bodies around the yard while three bodyguards fight for him; cutting the threads brings him down, and his own health pool is small. Drops Everflow.

A spearman of Pangzhen who calls lightning: parryable dashes and counters, unblockable thrusts, rushes and a lightning slam on foot; then a mounted second phase with a blinding mule kick, leaping slashes and a horse slam that calls a strike. Drops the Thunder Spear Phantom Edge.

The first of two fights against the Blackwater Crew's leader, in a flooded pond on the west side of Pangzhen. Beating him before Flame gives You Loong's Deluge, the Phantom Edge that puts out fire barriers, including the one by the Marketplace and Flame's fire.

A two-name-bar fight in the Lion Dance Hall Depths in Pangzhen against a giant spiked lion-dance beast that charges and erupts in fire; in the second phase, "The Lion Dance Grandmaster's Final Dance", Flame calls his troupe into the arena. Drops the Dormant Flaming Mane, which Lei Dang later repairs into the Flaming Mane Phantom Edge.

The second of the four hidden Acolytes of the tale Secrets at the Heart of the Lake, reached through a talisman scarecrow below Old Man Gen's House in Pangzhen and fought on a misty plain under lightning. Drops Leiting's Thunder Mask.

The second Shadow Warden, fought by the Dockside Warehouse at the Pangzhen docks with a pair of hooked blades: red-glint tumbles and limbo strikes, a sideways spin into a blue-glint parry, and a Sha-Chi draining leap. When he crosses the hooks to block, expect an uninterruptible counter. Drops the Parting Hooks.

An optional swordsman at the bottom of the Pangzhen Sha-Chi Tower who fights under a paper parasol in a yard of embers, sweeping the ground with fire and once filling the whole screen with flame. One of the two optional bosses required for the true ending; drops the Scorching Flames.

A Maskwalker group fight in the shallows below the Village of Lu on Meigu Lake, part of the tale A Brother Once More: Jin, Xiu's brother, leads a band of red-clad Maskwalkers. Drops the Embroidered Shoes, the Soul Tempering material for the Scarlet Wraithblade.

An optional archer on the eastern island of Meigu Lake whose bow fires red beams, turning the whole island red for the second half of the fight. One of the three kills for Master of the Misty Waters. Drops the One-Eyed Bow.

The second, harder You Loong, at the Blackwater Crew Dock on an island in Meigu Lake. This is the kill that counts for the trophy Master of the Misty Waters. Drops the Loong Trident and the High-Power Pump.

An optional duel at the Meigu Songhouse Dock, opened by collecting the six Yan'er Memory Flowers: a musician in red who carries her zither on her back, fights with it and a blade, and cannot be hurt until her guard is broken by parrying the blue orbs she sends out. Drops the Illusory Pipa Strings and the Fanatic's Fragment: Attachment.

The third Shadow Warden, behind the doors of the White Serpent House at Meigu Lake, fighting with two heavy axes: blockable red-glint backflips and left-hand pierces, and a Sha-Chi draining jump kick into a blue-glint spin that Game8 calls his most lethal sequence. Drops the Sundering Dual Axes and the White Serpent Eye.

The third hidden Acolyte of Secrets at the Heart of the Lake, reached through a scarecrow on the island with the Meigu Village East Dock and fought on a poison-green plain with chains and green beams. Drops Guhe's Venom Mask.

A pale, cloaked swordsman who fights with ice at Whiteshadow's Fall in Meigu Lake. Beating him earns the Whiteshadow sword and the silver trophy The White Shadow.

An optional brute of the Mountain of Imprisonment, the true-ending region north of Meigu Lake, fought near The Lady's Path bell in a scaffolded courtyard among jungle ruins and campfires, with purple blight patches on the ground; he enters by leaping from the cliff above with his axe raised. He is the 2024 demo's Tie Sha the Frenzy under a release name. OfZenAndComputing rates the fight among the hardest. Drops the Iron Butcher Mask, the Soul Tempering material for the Jagged Steel.

The 2024 demo's first named boss: a bare-chested axeman who opens with heavy strikes and follows with chains of slashes, fought in a scaffolded courtyard. In the retail game he is Iron Butcher, the Frenzied Brute, an optional boss of the Mountain of Imprisonment near The Lady's Path bell, in the same courtyard with the same entrance; that page carries the retail record and this one stays as the 2024 demo record.

The 2024 demo's Commander Cleave under his retail name: a heavily armoured, straw-hatted warrior with a long jagged cleaver, fought in the retail game in a village clearing under a red-leaved tree on the Mountain of Imprisonment, near the Cavern Passage bell. His swings are delayed and erratic, and several flash red (unblockable). Drops the Juggernaut two-handed blade, which builds Red Edge for its Crimson Wheel Slash.

An optional boss at the Shrine Outer Gate of the Mountain of Imprisonment, a woman in lilac with red threads and a long blade, fought on a ruined stair. OfZenAndComputing rates the fight among the hardest for its short openings. Drops the Missing Lift Crank and a Sha-Chi Amber Fragment.

An armoured, jade-masked polearm fighter in the courtyard beyond the Lady's Shrine on the Mountain of Imprisonment, met on the way to Huangxing in the Pillars of Kunlun quest. Drops the Seamless Death main weapon.

The boss inside The Lady's Shrine on the Mountain of Imprisonment, the optional true-ending region: a two-name-bar fight. As the Kunlun Renegade he fights in the shrine's red-lit pillared hall with the bladed weight on a chain seen in every demo since 2024; as the Whirling Executioner he fights in a red void on a plank floor with a huge spinning toothed blade-wheel. Drops the Flying Guillotine Phantom Edge, which opens Huangxing's mechanisms and the switch under the shrine's statue.

A hidden duo fight in the Scavenger Pens of the Crimson Manor, a side area of Weeping Creek Valley: a house-sized puppet-beast with scythe arms, joined partway by the fourth hidden Acolyte, Hansui, who fills the pen with ice. Silver trophy Nothing Goes to Waste. Drops the Alloyed Scythe Blade, the Crystal Puppet Eye [Yang] and Hansui's Frost Mask.

The third of the Four Great Puppets, a required fight by the Training Grounds bell midway through the Mirage Estate, at night under red lanterns. Yuding fights with a crescent-bladed polearm on a chain and teal bursts of light. No English attack guide is on record yet. Drops the Crescent Blade.

A masked, hunched beast-man in a snow-filled hall near the Mourning Hall bell, a main boss of the Mirage Estate stretch. Drops the Wraith Mask accessory, which spawns three Wraith Masks on every Ghoststep.

A two-phase fight in the Mirage Estate against the Order's envoy, who opens with the Tiger Cannon in a burning temple courtyard and, as the One-Armed Tiger, finishes in a purple storm of debris. Drops the Tiger Cannon.

A pair fought on the frozen lake of the Giant's Lair under Mount Soulrend: a huge white-furred beast and its chained red iron ball, then, alone, the Crusher's Earthshattering Form with the ball swung on its chain. Drops the Bonesaw.

The Herald, fought on Mount Soulrend just before Meng Hua in every ending but one: a giant masked figure who first sends earlier bosses against Soul in pairs, the Puppet Scavenger, Cavalrybane and Heartpiercer, Yubi and Yuding, while Inanis calls up fallen allies to fight at Soul's side, then comes down to fight himself. No drop.

The final boss of the normal ending, fought on a pink shore under Soulrend Cliff: a many-limbed figure on a dark pedestal who hurls exploding blossoms and, later, drains the colour from the whole battlefield. Drops The Lady's Fan.