We pick up the walkthrough after having defeated the Chief Disciple of the Seven-Stars Formation, and at the Road to the Training Grounds bell in Part 1 of 100% Walkthrough for Mandate Encampment. We will be completing Mandate Encampment, and the Hero or Heretic main chapter by the end of this article.
For us to be able to 100% this region, it is critical that you follow this walkthrough, as, specifically for an accessory, you need to do a particular section of this region first. So let’s start, by getting Xue’s list out of the way first, and then progressing on the main chapter in Phantom Blade Zero.
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Exploring the Final Mandate Encampment Section
Here, there are a set of three buildings together, and then the main one that sits apart from these, that we will be concentrating on. These buildings have a host of collectibles – including a lot of Notes that add crucial context and backstory to the characters and the plot.
Xue, Admirer of Heroes (3/3)
Start from the Three Towers Bell, jump down to where you fought the boss, and go straight ahead to spot and collect Remnant Dust. Continue right on the stream to get Moji’s House Key and the final item on Xue’s List – the Broken Iron Sword. Open the gate, and enter into an open area.
Go to the right, hugging the wall, and collect Otherworldly Copper. The ramp on the left leads you back to the area that we have cleared. Retrace your steps, and start clearing out the area. Once done, take the path upwards that ends with a few steps leading to a building. Here, there will be a path that branches right to another gate and a building – we will be clearing out that one as well, but hold for now. Continue straight up.
Amber Shard # 3
Before entering the house, look behind you for a path that leads you through the outer boundary of the building to it’s back – where there will be another set of enemies to take out. Collect Solvent on the way.
Defeat everyone, and spawn another Memory Flower. More importantly, loot the chest to get Sha-Chi Amber Shard #3 – with one left to complete all 4 Amber Shards in the Mandate Encampment region. With that, now enter the building.
Also note, the adjacent building to which you can climb from here onto it’s roof. We will do that after clearing out the current one. As you enter the courtyard, couple of enemies spawn. Take them out, and start looting the house. Get the Notes on a Music Score, and open the door on your left, next to the painting in the centre for A Disciple’s Letter, and Illusory Incense Ash in front of the painting.
With this building done, go the spot a couple of images back, and jump to the next one. Here, again, a group of enemies to clear out, and take the Torn Page: Perfect Transcension, Letter from Master Bai Notes.
The next progression path is right behind the house that you entered in the beginning. Get the Weapon Reforge Talisman, and jump down. Take out all the enemies, and enter the building to collect Martial Arts Inquiry Note, Invitation to Baby’s First Celebration, Letter of Poetic Exchange Notes.
Open the door with Moji’s House Key. Get the Universal Solvent, and below, there are in total of 6 Notes to collect – all in a narrow, linear corridor. The last one – Moji’s Notes – Crudely-Marked Map updates the Pillars of Kunlun quest.
Now, exit, and use the grapple on the right to get on to the roof. Collect the Apprentice Healer’s Memory, and ring the Behind the Encampment Waterfall bell.
Closing Xue’s Quest | Sha-Chi Headscarf
Before proceeding ahead, since we have collected all the items on Xue’s List, travel to the Pavilion of Knowledge Crossroads in Pangzhen, and hand the items over to the Child of Knowledge to receive the Sha-Chi Headscarf – which increases Sha-Chi recovery rate by 15%.
Main Building of the Mandate Encampment Region
From here, take the left, drop down the ladder, and we have the one final building to cover. This one has the ground floor, the first floor, the roof, and the area in front. you can do these in whichever order you want. This building can also be approached in various ways – we will take the one that starts from the roof, and works its way down.
Roof | Blackstone Shard # 3
So, go straight from the bell, clear out the enemies. Ignore the closed gate at the end of the steps, take the 2 climbable walls on the left, picking up Forged Metal on the way. From here, jump down to the roof, and take this particular enemy out to get the Blackstone Shard. Be careful not to fall down, or make the enemy fall down to prevent any bugs. Collect the Refined Indigo Crystal as well.
First Floor | Nameless Thumb Ring
Once done, first floor has Camphor Timber, Disciples of Moji Note, and Nameless Thumb Ring accessory.
Ground Floor + Area Outside
The ground floor has Guardian Idol Fragment: Torso, Mandate Decree Note, Precision Mechanical Gear, Letter to the Six Sects Notes.
Outside, defeat enemies to get Universal Solvent, and Illusory Incense Ash. Continue on the end, and you will have another set of enemies around a campfire. Defeat them, and note this door. We are not to open it until we have progressed in another area, else you will get locked out from a trophy.
This is the location of the door on the map – you already hold the key – the one to the Training Grounds, but don’t use it yet.
Now, make your way to the gate at the end of a lot of steps that we had noted earlier, and open that. Collect the Skilled Healer’s Memory where the waterfall ends, and continue on the linear path to arrive at the Path of the Baishan’s Fall bell, collecting the Soul Displacement Powder Formula Note from the right just before that.
Amber Shard # 4
Defeat the group of enemies that spawn to get the 4th and final Amber Shard for the Mandate Encampment region. Collect Solvent, and Blazing Darkfire Charcoal. Use the horizontal wall running section to land on the opposite side, and take out the enemies to spawn a Memory Flower. Go straight ahead and ring The Confinement bell. Collect the Otherworldly Copper, and swing with the iron chain to the other side for a boss fight.
Wu Lengshuang boss fight | Soft Snake Sword | Blackstone Shard #4
The weapon the boss uses ( and which you will get after) is the main problem here – while the moveset remains the same throughout the fight, the whip-like nature makes parrying, and gauging the safe distance from the attacks difficult.
This should not be a boss fight that causes too much of a problem. Once she is defeated, you get the Soft Snake Sword, and the Blackstone Shard no. 4 for the region.
Also pick up get the Guardian Idol Fragment: Leg, completing all the fragments to get you the Guardian Idol accessory.
Collect the Tainted Crystal Shard, and Batch 79: Discarded Items Note from the edge, and Broadplate Metal, then proceed up the steps, collecting Flawless Forged Metal on the way, to arrive into an open field of flowers. Examine Bi Taotao’s body – which then updates the Secrets of the Baishan Sect quest to finding and defeating Bi Taotao’s puppet.
This is the update that we wanted to first get, before proceeding through the door that we had earlier asked not to go through. If yo don’t interact with the body here first, the quest fails and you will not get the trophy/achievement linked to it.
Collect the Thread Binding Sect Note, Universal Solvent, and use the iron chain to swing across, and then find yourself next to the Behind the Encampment Waterfall bell.
Closing The Undying Heroic Spirit | Memory Flowers of Mandate Leaders
At this point, return to Myst’s Tavern, and speak to the Purple Robed ‘Wolf’ Leader. He will ask you to go and give peace to them, handing you a Shattered ‘Hero’s Courage’. Now, all those Memory Flowers that spawned which we were not able to interact with – we can now do those.
For the purposes of this quest, and the reward it gives, we need to do this at any four, so go ahead and get those out of the way. The easiest ones to quickly close are:
Pangzhen Slums – go to the left path, and you will come across the Memory Flower.
Three Towers bell – Jump down, and use the ramp to exit the camp area. Take a right, and continue on that path till you come across another ramp down.
Here, you will see the Memory Flower on your right.
Mass Grave bell – Jump down to where you fought Xue, and follow the stream to lead you to the third Memory Flower.
The Confinement bell – Turn to your right, and after the second wooden plank bridge, will be the fourth Memory Flower.
Behind The Encampment Waterfall – Go to the area where you had collected the 3rd Amber Shard – straddling the outer boundary of the 1st building.
Pond of Fading Song (Pangzhen) – Go south, towards the other side of the lake where we had the first non-interactable flower. We can interact with it now, and get the final Memory Flower of the series. Check our Pangzhen 100% Walkthrough Part 3 guide for the exact location.
Do note – all these Memory Flowers will count towards the respective area’s completion – So, for example – the four that we collected in the Mandate Encampment will count towards this area’s 100%. Hence, make sure that you collect all 6 – even though the quest requires 4.
With this, you would have collected 4 Memory Flowers. While the full set requires another two, for the purposes of closing The Undying Heroic Spirit, this will be enough. You will receive the Hero’s Courage to temper the Swordsman’s Summons.
With that done, let’s now go to the Road to the Training Grounds bell and open the door. Ring the Training Grounds bell. Take the Perfect Yin Vessel Note, and make your way down to the boss fight.
Yubi No.21, Swordfighter Puppet
This puppet does wind and lightning damage, and she will be handing out to you, at the end of the fight, one of the very best and flashy dual wield weapons of the game.
The one attack to watch out for is when she does a full 7-8 hit combo. She will do a couple of rapid twirls with the dual swords, and then jump in the air to lunge at you with a blue glowing attack. There is another lunge that ends with a kick, and one move where she kind of pauses for a micro-second, and then does a wind AoE in a straight line ahead of her. Avoid both attacks.
The other big attack to watch out for is when she sends a wind / lightning arc from a distance at you, at the end of the combo. She has several variations and combinations of this attack, and it does not help that there is a shadow behind her that also mimics her attacks. At about 40% of her health down, she will create a sandstorm, and make the effective arena smaller with lesser area to move around.
Baishan Stormswords | Broken Vessel | Experiment Victim’s Memory Flowers (1/3, 2/3)
The Bashpole Phantom Edge and a fast paced weapon of your own – like the Fiend Saws work well for this fight. Once you have defeated her, you get the Baishan Stormswords. If you have progressed the Secrets of the Baishan Sect quest, and interacted with Bi Taotao’s body at The Confinement bell, you will also get the Broken Vessel accessory.
Before going straight, look to your right, and there will be Memory Flower that you can take. Do that, and continue up to get another one.
Illusory Backplate | Experiment Victim’s Memory Flowers (3/3) | Lament Draught
Now, go straight ahead and collect the Illusory Pipa Backplate. You should now be having all the 3 required pieces to have Myst restore the Pipa. Collect the Unsent Letter, and with that, the Hero or Heretic chapter in the Mandate Encampment region comes to a close. We still have a few things to close, before we venture to the next region and start the chapter.
Go up the stairs, and collect Rules of the Radiant Heart Workshop, and Vessel Zero Notes. Collect the Memory Flower, and open the chest to get Lament Draught Medicine.
Go ahead and ring the Training Ground Depths bell, and enter the illusion – you still need 1 more piece to be able to do anything here.
Go to Myst’s Tavern, and she will (quite dramatically) restore the Illusory Pipa Phantom Edge. This opens up previously inaccessible areas for exploration, like the one near the Marketplace bell in Pangzhen.
With that, we are finally done with everything needed to be done here. If you have followed this walkthrough, you should be at 100% for Mandate Encampment. The next region that we will be taking up in the Meigu Lake, accessed from the Pangzhen docks bell, for which we had already discovered the mechanical boat at the end of the Pangzhen walkthrough.
