Phantom Blade Zero Walkthrough: Full Chapter & Region Order

This Phantom Blade Zero walkthrough hub is the main-story spine of the game: the chapter order, the nine regions in sequence, the boss chain you will ride, and what to have ready before each stretch. Phantom Blade Zero is structured like a metroidvania — barriers in every region stay shut until you earn the right tool — so treat this page as the route map and the linked region walkthroughs as the territory. Side tales, collectibles and true-ending gates are catalogued on the All Tales index and the missable side quests guide.

Chapter Order at a Glance

Sources differ slightly on numbering — Game8 names a prologue plus ten numbered chapters, while Radio Times counts nine named main quests — but the sequence itself is consistent across Game8, Fextralife, IGN and KeenGamer:

Region Walkthroughs in Story Order

Each region below has a full walkthrough on this wiki. Click through for bells, Memory Flowers, weapons, and side-quest triggers:

1. Weeping Creek Valley — the opening valley: Forge, Yu’er, the Sha-Chi Tower. Full walkthrough.
2. Crimson Forest — thieves, cages and the mirrorwood mist; beating Bai Chilian fails every unfinished local tale. Full walkthrough.
3. Village of Lu — puppets, shrines and three masters; finish Young Mistress before Mu Xiaokui’s lift. Full walkthrough.
4. Pangzhen — the biggest town; Myst’s Tavern, the backstreets, and the Mandate Encampment key at the bottom of Gu Wanyue’s well. Full walkthrough.
5. Mandate Encampment (optional) — key-gated battlefield region; home of Red and the Chief Disciple of the Seven-Stars. Full walkthrough.
6. Meigu Lake — the boat region; the Illusory Pipa quest that un-mists the whole map. Full walkthrough.
7. Mountain of Imprisonment (optional) — prison peaks behind the northern Meigu Lake barrier; Huangxing’s Flying Guillotine breaks reinforced walls. Full walkthrough.
8. Crimson Manor — the late-game dungeon beneath Weeping Creek Valley’s tower, opened by the Puppet’s Tongue key. Full walkthrough.
9. Mirage Estate — the final explorable region before the point of no return. Full walkthrough.
10. Mount Soulrend — the frozen finale: The Crusher and the Saw, then the Leng Tu to Meng Hua gauntlet. Full walkthrough.

The Main Boss Chain

Rock Paper Shotgun’s verified list counts 61 bosses in order. The main-story chain you cannot skip: Zuo Shang and The Hunt in the Prologue; Jagged Steel, Peng Meng and The Hunt’s rematch in Weeping Creek Valley; Hua Qianxiao, Jing Ye and Bai Chilian in Crimson Forest; Zhuo Bi, the three masters, Dusk the Puppeteer and Mu Xiaokui in the Village of Lu; Blaze through Flame across Pangzhen; Soulclaimer and Heartpiercer at the Serpent Houses; Qiu Feng, Yuding, Mo Yuan and Lei Dang in Mirage Estate; then The Crusher and the Saw, Leng Tu, Meng Hua and finally Zuo Shang, the True Long on Mount Soulrend. Optional beats — the Mandate Encampment set, the Mountain of Imprisonment set, the four Acolytes and the Gold-Masked One rematches — are mapped boss by boss on the all bosses page. If a specific fight stalls you, the individual boss pages carry phase-by-phase strategy and drop tables.

Recommended Level & Readiness

Phantom Blade Zero gates difficulty behind weapon levels, not character levels: Solvent and Phantom Reforge Talismans carry gear to Lv. 10, then special consumables past Lv. 20. The one hard community number — Game8 recommends Lv. 15 equipment before the optional Aberrant Three-Faced Puppet in Weeping Creek Valley — works as an early-game floor. Precise per-chapter level targets remain community mapping in progress, so use these verified readiness checks instead: the Dread Axe (Peng Meng) breaks chained gates; the Flaming Mane (Flame) burns bramble walls; the Illusory Pipa clears mist barriers; the Flying Guillotine (Huangxing) opens reinforced walls; the Bashpole (Wan Jun) smashes weakened floorboards. Keep one weapon at the material cap before each region’s boss and you will never feel under-leveled.

FAQ

How long does the Phantom Blade Zero walkthrough take? A story-only run lands around 20-25 hours; completionist runs with all 48 tales, collectibles and the true-ending chain push past 40. The breakdown is on the how long to beat page.

Is the Mandate Encampment required in a Phantom Blade Zero walkthrough? No — it is skippable for the standard ending, but the region holds true-ending requirements (Red’s questline, the Seven-Stars boss) and the Bashpole tool. See the Mandate Encampment walkthrough.

What is the last chance before the point of no return? The Last Chance bell on Mount Soulrend. Everything unfinished — tales, Memory Flowers, the Crimson Manor — must be done before you rest there; the dedicated points of no return guide lists every cutoff.

Sources

• Rock Paper Shotgun — All 61 Phantom Blade Zero bosses in order (verified boss and region sequence), October 2026.
• Game8 — Story Walkthrough and List of All Chapters; All Choices and Consequences (chapter inventory), October-November 2026.
• Fextralife Phantom Blade Zero Wiki — Walkthrough chapter route, October-November 2026.
• KeenGamer — Complete Walkthrough: All Quests (chapter-to-region mapping), October 2026; corroborated by Radio Times (57 quests, 9 main quests) and IGN’s walkthrough hub.
• AllThingsHow — Remnant Spark Cube and accessory data; bladezero.org boss gear table (Lv. 15 equipment recommendation), November 2026.