Huangxing Boss Guide: Phantom Blade Zero Kunlun Renegade

Who Is Huangxing, the Kunlun Renegade?

Rock Paper Shotgun’s boss index lists Huangxing at number 50 of 61, in the Mountain of Imprisonment, with the nearest Bell at The Lady’s Shrine and a second health bar under the name Huangxing, the Whirling Executioner. The lore matches the menace: once one of the Three Pillars of Kunlun, he is now the mastermind behind Perfect Transcension, holding court in the temple at the region’s summit with a masked helm and a left arm that is mechanical from the elbow down. With it he hurls the Flying Guillotine at range or draws a sword for close combat, and — per community boss databases — he is the master who lied to Coppermaul. His fight was even used in pre-launch demos to showcase the game’s adaptive enemy behavior.

Reaching the Lady’s Shrine

Huangxing waits in the red shrine hall up the stairs past Jade-Face’s court. Access is the catch: the Mountain of Imprisonment is the optional true-ending region north of Meigu Lake, opened through the Spectral Gate, and the quest log objectives for Pillars of Kunlun lead you straight to him — “Find Huangxing at the summit” ends with “Confront Huangxing inside the Shrine.” If you have not unlocked the region yet, work through the Mountain of Imprisonment approach in our Mountain of Imprisonment walkthrough first; everything here feeds the true-ending checklist covered in our true ending guide.

Phase One: Lasso Spins and Guillotine Throws

Game8’s pattern table confirms Huangxing is a rhythm boss: he opens with eight sideways lasso spins — dodge the eighth hit, then use the guillotine slam recovery to land free hits before his next string. The rest of the phase alternates dodgeable Sha-Chi draining lunges and two-hit slash strings ending in a blue glint you can parry; the follow-up after a guillotine throw is also parryable, with a dodgeable second half. Watch for a thin red flash cutting across the screen near his body — per AllThingsHow’s capture, that is your cue that an unparryable hit is coming. Stay patient: parry the blue, Ghoststep the red, and whittle his first bar (roughly 139,680 HP on the Pathbreaker reference).

Phase Two: The Whirling Executioner

His second form — about 155,200 HP — adds the 3-hit bulldoze lunge, a Sha-Chi draining lunge with a bending wind-up, and a dark-phase transition capped by a high leap attack that is parryable. The arena itself becomes your toolkit: climb the poles ringing the hall. When the flying guillotine hangs in the air charging a slam, a well-timed climb avoids the damage entirely and sets up a jump attack on his recovery. Community testing also flags Ink Cut as a hard counter here — it deals bonus damage and stuns Huangxing, opening punish windows his normal strings deny you. On Hellwalker difficulty he additionally reads repeated habits, so vary your parry-then-counter rhythm instead of looping one answer.

Rewards: Flying Guillotine and the Lady Statue Puzzle

The payoff is one of the most useful Phantom Edges in the game. The Flying Guillotine (380 damage / 309 Guard Break per the item card) does double duty: it is a heavy-hitting equip, and its projectile interacts with mechanisms across the world. Most immediately, it opens the mechanism in the Lady statue’s base inside the shrine hall — TechWiser’s quest guide confirms firing it at the statue activates the mechanism tied to the Pillars of Kunlun questline, revealing the hidden passage onward. KeenGamer notes it opens locked areas in most regions, so keep it slotted during exploration. Rock Paper Shotgun additionally lists Inanis’ Radiant Fan among Huangxing’s drops. Full mechanics and upgrade path in our Flying Guillotine guide.

Defeating him also awards the Crossroads of Blood silver trophy, and his six memory flowers feed the Justice Tarnished tale — collect them while the arena is fresh in your memory.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you fight Huangxing before the endgame?

No. The Mountain of Imprisonment only opens late, after the Illusory Pipa restores the Spectral Gate. He is a late-game optional boss, and his region’s quests lock at the story’s point of no return.

Is the Whirling Executioner a separate boss?

It is Huangxing’s second health bar, not a separate entry — Rock Paper Shotgun lists it as his alternate phase name, matching how the game re-titles the bar mid-fight.

What weapon type is the Flying Guillotine?

It is a Phantom Edge, not a main weapon — it occupies your ranged/tool slot and fires the bladed ball on its chain, which is what lets it trigger the Lady statue mechanism from a distance.

Is Huangxing weak to any element?

No elemental weakness is logged on community stat sheets; the practical weakness is Ink Cut, which stuns him and deals bonus damage, plus the pole-climb trick that skips his phase-two slam.

Sources: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/phantom-blade-zero-bosses-order (boss #50, The Lady’s Shrine Bell, Whirling Executioner phase, Flying Guillotine + Inanis’ Radiant Fan rewards) — https://www.keengamer.com/articles/guides/phantom-blade-zero-all-bosses-and-their-rewards (optional true-ending boss, Flying Guillotine as region-unlocking Phantom Edge, Crossroads of Blood Silver) — https://game8.co/games/Phantom-Blade-Zero/archives/636602 (moveset pattern table, eight lasso spins, pole climbing, lore description) — https://allthings.how/phantom-blade-zero-huangxing-boss-fight (location past Jade-Face, Pillars of Kunlun objective update, red flash tell, two HP bars, Flying Guillotine stats, memory flowers) — https://techwiser.com/phantom-blade-zero-quests (Pillars of Kunlun objectives, statue mechanism activation) — https://phantombladezerodb.com/bosses/huangxing-kunlun-renegade (Ink Cut counter, Coppermaul lore) — https://www.gamereactor.eu/hands-on-impressions-phantom-blade-zero-could-go-from-pupil-to-sifu-in-the-martial-art-of-hack-n-slash-1400153 (pre-launch demo coverage) — October–November 2026.