Baishan Headband: How to Get It & Unending Storm

The Baishan Headband answers the most-asked material question in Phantom Blade Zero: it Soul Tempers the Baishan Stormswords into Unending Storm, the upgrade that turns the weapon’s two-gauge rhythm into a self-feeding loop. This page is the fast answer — one item, one route, one temper. If you are hunting a different material, the Soul Temper materials index covers all 47 with a per-weapon table; if you want the mechanics of tempering itself, that page links the system guide.

What the Headband Does

One use, one weapon. Bring the headband plus the flat 5,000 Remnant Dust temper fee to Myst in Pangzhen’s underground tavern — or any Bell, once tempering is unlocked — and apply it to the Baishan Stormswords. The result, verbatim from the upgrade screen and confirmed by GameSpot and AllThingsHow:

Unending Storm — “Lightning Storm pulls enemies in and builds both the Wind Gauge and Thunder Gauge for each enemy hit.”

Why that matters: the Stormswords normally build the Wind Gauge with normal combos and the Thunder Gauge with Sha-Chi combos, then cash both into Baishan’s Blessing, a 20-second attack buff that can be detonated early as Lightning Storm. Unending Storm changes the economy of that burst — the storm now drags nearby enemies into its radius and refunds both gauges per enemy caught, so a dense pull can chain straight into the next Blessing window instead of leaving you gauge-empty. It is a mechanic upgrade, not a number upgrade: crowd fights stop being a choice between bursting and building.

How to Get It: The Cui Chain End to End

The headband sits at the end of the longest family side tale in the game, the Cui quest — three regions, four rescues, one fatal boss cutscene. Game8 frames the reward as “a reward for completing the Cui quest chain”; AllThingsHow names the exact giver: Lu Jieyuan, on Soulrend Cliff, about 88 m from The Giant’s Lair bell. Those are the same event, and every other launch source agrees:

1. Start in the Village of Lu. After defeating Yuzan, No. 3 Musician Puppet beneath the village well, find Cui — a crying child puppet in the red-threaded wooden room above the Puppet Testing Grounds arena. Accept Cui’s Red Ribbon and her grandfather’s search begins.
2. Rescue Lu Sanqian in the Mountain of Imprisonment. The old man is met three times: caged near Iron Butcher’s Camp, hanging beyond Kui Yanyan’s arena at Shrine Outer Gate (this is where the unmarked Rootless Dew pickup from the mountain path becomes required), and finally crawling before The Lady’s Shrine Bell, where he gives you the Crude Radiant Heart — the quest’s accessory reward.
3. Deliver the ribbon and letter on Mount Soulrend. Find Cui’s parents, hand over the keepsakes, and the family reunion turns into a burial.
4. Defeat The Crusher and the Saw. At The Giant’s Lair, Lu Jieyuan throws himself between Soul and the beast during the intro cutscene and is fatally wounded.
5. Claim the headband. Speak to the dying Jieyuan after the fight — per PowerPyx’s capture, his last line is “Cui… don’t be afraid… Father’s coming to you!” — and he gives you the Baishan Headband, completing the tale. wikily.gg’s material database and pbz.gg’s item data both list “from Lu Jieyuan, Mount Soulrend” as the sole source.

The item card tells you what you are holding: a headband belonging to a disciple of the Baishan Sect — Lu Jieyuan’s wife — that he carried everywhere after her death. Fittingly, it tempers the sect master’s own swords.

The Missable Step

There is exactly one way to lose this item: impatience at The Giant’s Lair. If you start The Crusher and the Saw before delivering Cui’s Red Ribbon and Lu Sanqian’s letter to her parents, the Lu Jieyuan cutscene does not play, no wounded father waits by the arena afterward, and the headband is gone for that run. GameSpot’s Soul Temper guide flags the same ordering rule. No vendor stocks the headband, no chest hides a spare — Quick Hand Zhang’s inventory does not include it — so treat the ribbon delivery as a hard prerequisite, not flavor.

Temper Immediately

With the headband and 5,000 Remnant Dust, tempering is a two-menu stop at any Bell. Whether Unending Storm earns its slot depends on your build: it shines in crowd control and dense elite pulls, where the storm’s vacuum and dual-gauge refund compound, and it pairs naturally with the aggressive swap-heavy playstyle the Stormswords already want — see the weapon’s dedicated guide for gauge management and the Blessing cash-out timing. If you are running a single-target boss loadout instead, the temper is still worth the Dust; it simply pays out most visibly whenever three or more enemies share a frame.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is the Baishan Headband located in Phantom Blade Zero? It is not found in the world — it is handed to you by Lu Jieyuan on Soulrend Cliff, Mount Soulrend, after you defeat The Crusher and the Saw, as the final beat of the Cui quest chain.

Can you buy the Baishan Headband from a shop? No. wikily.gg’s material database lists a single acquisition (“From Lu Jieyuan, Mount Soulrend”), and GameSpot’s Soul Temper locations guide calls it a quest-chain reward. No vendor source is documented at launch.

What are the Cui quest’s two rewards? The Crude Radiant Heart accessory, from Lu Sanqian before The Lady’s Shrine, and the Baishan Headband tempering material, from Lu Jieyuan after The Crusher and the Saw. Both are easy to miss if you rush the Mountain of Imprisonment or start the Mount Soulrend bosses out of order.

Does Unending Storm work on bosses? Lightning Storm works on any enemy the base skill hits; the pull component has the usual effectiveness limits on large bosses. The dual-gauge refund scales per enemy hit, so its value against a lone boss is the gauge economy, not the vacuum.

Sources: allthings.how “How to Get Baishan Headband” (giver, Soulrend Cliff position ~88 m from The Giant’s Lair bell, Unending Storm text, November 1, 2026), Game8’s material coverage (Cui-quest-chain framing), GameSpot’s All Soul Temper Materials (quest ordering warning, effect text), pbz.gg item data and wikily.gg material database (single source: Lu Jieyuan, Mount Soulrend). Source-conflict note: Game8’s “Cui quest reward” and AllThingsHow’s “Lu Jieyuan handoff” describe the same event; triangulated across all four sources — no alternate source exists.