Master Bi Hai of Kuye Temple Boss Guide - Phantom Blade Zero

Who Is Master Bi Hai?

Master Bi Hai of Kuye Temple is encounter #17 on Rock Paper Shotgun’s 61-boss list, filed under the Masters type of the Heartless Remnant chapter, and the second of the Village of Lu’s three master duels. Fextralife’s dossier frames him as a monk puppet possessed by the Herald of the Veil who has taken over the Smuggler’s Tunnel — a warrior monk turned jailer. Where Master Bi Yuan of the Tianxuan Sect teaches restraint with his counter-stance swordplay, Bi Hai teaches target priority: a boss who hides inside a bell and lets his disciples do the dying. His arena sits through the pink fog beside the Smuggler’s Tunnel Entrance bell, past the dying Wounded Thief; the same gate where the Leave None Alive tale pays out, so settle the thief’s last request before or after, not during.

The Approach Through the Smuggler’s Tunnel

Per the Village of Lu walkthrough, the tunnel under the Well of the Three Puppets is the region’s second spine: Bi Hai guards it, and clearing him opens the passage as your back door into Pangzhen. AllThingsHow measures the fight at 37,520 HP on Pathbreaker, with Soul at 1,275 HP and three gourds, and logs 15,600 Remnant Dust plus the beads as the payout. There is no trophy attached; the reward is the edge and the routing. The arena itself is a paved, enclosed court: there is nowhere to run, and the fog behind you stays shut until he falls. If the monks’ chip damage wears you down, hugging the fog edge buys a breath, but Bi Hai’s linear projectiles make the arena’s center the safest real estate once the bell drops.

Phase One: The Tempest Bell

The fight opens with Bi Hai cross-legged inside a giant golden bell. While it stands, his health bar does not move; he summons three bronze monks, each with its own shield bar, and lets them fight for him. The monks throw quick fist combinations at arm’s length, leap in with flying kicks, and coordinate attacks from three sides while you swing at the bell.

Two pressures break the phase, and you need both:

• Heavy guard-break. AllThingsHow’s weapon tests credit each charged Dread Axe cleave with roughly a fifth of the bell, and the Tianxuan Bronze Sword chips it visibly every combo; light twin blades like the Sanguine Twin barely scratch it. Charged cleaves spend Remnant Sparks, so bank Sparks before the fog.
• Kill the monks. Each monk you drop takes a large piece off the bell and a chunk of Bi Hai’s health. Game8’s standing advice is simply to bring your highest Guard Break kit and treat the monks as the objective.

When the final monk falls, the bell explodes: Fextralife’s tip is to kite that last monk toward the arena’s edge and kill it from range, so the blast whiffs and you counter the recovery freely. In the later bell phases the bronze monks return as iron monks, then gold monks, and the same rule holds: kill them spread out, kill the last one from distance.

Phase Two: Fast Hands, Slow Fists

Once the bell drops, Bi Hai finally fights you hand to hand, and his kit is a fast-slow mix that punishes two opposite mistakes. The fast layer: quick palm strikes and short hand-and-foot strings with little to no wind-up — Fextralife warns against overextending precisely because several of these startup-blend into his movement. Most are linear, so lateral dodges beat backward ones. The slow layer: Flying Palm, where he soars slowly forward and strikes twice, giving you time to sidestep and counter the landing; Ethereal Fist, where he leaps sideways and fires a slow fist-wave down a straight line for about 76 HP, so dodge on the sideways leap, not the projectile; and Knockback Strike, a close-range double-fist wind-up that knocks both of you back whether it lands or is blocked, leaving a punish window after you sidestep it. His one red-flash move, Lethal Concentration, glows from his head and can be interrupted; when he glows gold across the arena, a flurry is coming, so raise your guard and reset. Interruptible aggression is the through-line: unlike Bi Yuan, Bi Hai can be staggered out of his slower casts, so pressure him whenever the slow telegraphs start. On higher difficulties the monks hit harder and the bell phases cycle faster, but the geometry of the answer never changes: break the bell, kite the last monk, dodge the blast.

Rewards: The Beads and the Second Seal

Victory pays the Kuye Temple Prayer Beads, the game’s first Summoning Phantom Edge, plus 15,600 Remnant Dust. Story-wise it removes the second thread seal from the Well of the Three Puppets, leaving one master-duty between you and the descent to Yuzan beneath the well. Practicalities: tell Young Master Lan the tunnel is clear before you ride it into Pangzhen; his two-region tale converts the cleared tunnel into the Lan Manor Key, and the report is missable once you cross over.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you beat Master Bi Hai of Kuye Temple? Break the golden bell with heavy guard-break swings, kill his three bronze monks to crack it faster, finish the last monk from range to avoid the explosion, then fight him directly with lateral dodges against his palm strings.

Where is Master Bi Hai in Phantom Blade Zero? Through the pink fog beside the Smuggler’s Tunnel Entrance bell in the Village of Lu, past the Wounded Thief; the bell doubles as your respawn point.

What does Master Bi Hai drop? The Kuye Temple Prayer Beads summoning Phantom Edge and 15,600 Remnant Dust, plus the second well-seal removal that advances the Heartless Remnant thread.

Is Master Bi Hai the same person as Master Bi Yuan? No — they are separate masters of different sects, fought back to back in the same region; both must fall to unseal the Well of the Three Puppets.

Sources

• Rock Paper Shotgun — All 61 Phantom Blade Zero bosses in order
• Game8 — Master Bi Hai Location and How to Beat
• Fextralife — Master Bi Hai of Kuye Temple
• Epic Games — Phantom Blade Zero: all Phantom Edge locations

Source note: boss numbering, chapter and reward per RPS’s 30 October 2026 list; moveset names per Fextralife; HP, Dust and weapon tests per AllThingsHow’s launch-week captures. Community walkthroughs differ on whether the tunnel push counts as main-path or side-content — majority sources (RPS, Game8, GamesRecon) file Bi Hai as a main-story master, which this page follows.