Lion Dance Hall Depths: All 6 Memory Flower Locations

What Is the Lion Dance Hall Depths Quest in Phantom Blade Zero?

Lion Dance Hall Depths is one of Phantom Blade Zero’s five Memory Flower collectible quests. Its objective: collect the Memory Flowers of the Lion Dance Grandmaster — Flame, the celebrated lion dancer who ends his story as the mask-bound boss of Pangzhen’s Lion Dance Hall. Game8’s walkthrough awards a permanent +10% maximum HP for the completed set, and GameSpot flags this as the only Pangzhen flower set whose icons actually appear on the map.

Geography splits the set in two. Memories one through three lie in central Pangzhen, steps from the Marketplace and Pavilion of Knowledge bells. The rest hide in the Pangzhen backstreet, which opens after Town of Death, with the final petal inside the Lion Dance Hall itself. AllThingsHow’s measurements put every flower within roughly 240 metres of a bell — this is the most walkable Memory Flower quest in the game.

The Three Central Pangzhen Memories (1-3)

1. I. New Year’s Greetings — about 21 metres from the Marketplace bell, inside the open-front shop directly across the street. Push to the dark back corner, past the potted dead tree and lit candles; the flower rests on a table. Flame and Senior Mo discuss the Mirage Estate’s lion dance — and the news that Patron Gao has fallen ill.
2. II. The Introduction — on a market-stall table under red awnings. Game8 places it on the table west of the Huang Manor Crossroads bell; AllThingsHow recommends approaching downhill from the Pavilion of Knowledge Crossroads bell, about 89 metres on foot, noting four small ledge drops you cannot climb back up. The memory is the set’s thesis: Leng Tu, the Herald of the Veil, introduces himself to Flame and asks about taking a person’s soul from their body and placing it in a puppet.
3. III. Truth and Illusion — atop the stone stair on the root-covered terrace above the market street, north of the Cavalrybane boss arena. AllThingsHow’s route runs about 237 metres from the Pavilion of Knowledge Crossroads bell, with two mounted Blue Riders guarding the cramped sunken passage — sprint past them and climb. In the memory, Flame asks the question the whole game keeps asking: “does a man become a puppet — or a puppet become a man?” The Herald answers: “Man is no puppet, and puppet is no man… hollow and empty, neither true nor false.” Flame’s reply is the lion dance’s creed: “In our lion dance, man becomes lion, and the lion becomes man.”

The Three Backstreet Memories (4-6)

4. IV. Wondrous Art — from the Pond of Fading Song bell, roughly 80 metres at bell height, inside a roadside building with a courtyard. Game8’s landmark is the house near where you land after ziplining from the Narrow Alley Residence 2nd Floor bell. Flame visits the bedridden Patron Gao, puzzled that an ordinary illness could fell a man that strong.
5. V. The Unexpected Turn — about 145 metres through the lanes from the Lion Dance Hall bell, on the paving of a stone lane beside a stepped warehouse yard. Game8 files it in the Green Serpent House area. Senior Mo confides his bad feeling about the Mirage Estate; Flame reports that Gao is no illness case — his body and even his heart are “hollowed out,” “like a jar of wine that’s been half-drained.” The word neither man wants to say is puppetry, and Mo leaves to investigate with the disciples.
6. VI. Wooden Man — about 125 metres from the Lion Dance Hall bell through the red double gate, in the yard below the raised stone platform at the foot of a stone stair. Per Game8, you need Chapter 7’s The Heart’s Trail: defeat the Lion Dance Disciples at Ancestral Shrine Square for the Heavy Lion Hall Gate Key, unlock the hall, and cross to the second courtyard. The final memory is the troupe’s last night: past midnight, no fireworks over the Mirage Estate, and Flame watching the air “reek of blood.” Mo and the disciples never come home.

What the Set Adds to Flame’s Story

The petals turn the Flame boss fight from spectacle into tragedy. You already know from the fight that his mask suppresses a hollow, frenzied mind; the flowers show you the hollowing in order — the Herald’s interest in him, the philosophy he answered with, the patron emptied like a wine jar, and the last midnight before the Mirage Estate’s feast consumed the troupe. When the duel ends and Soul takes up the lion head, you understand exactly what Flame was waiting to pass on.

The hall itself is worth a full sweep: the Kin Against Kin tale starts on the bridge near the entrance bell, the first courtyard enemy drops a Blackstone Fragment per the Fextralife wiki, and Flame’s defeat awards the Dormant Flaming Mane that Lei Dang repairs into the Flaming Mane Phantom Edge — the field tool that burns branch barriers across the world.

FAQ

How many Memory Flowers are in Lion Dance Hall Depths?

Six, named New Year’s Greetings, The Introduction, Truth and Illusion, Wondrous Art, The Unexpected Turn, and Wooden Man. The set pays +10% maximum HP.

When can you collect all six Lion Dance Grandmaster flowers?

The first three in central Pangzhen on arrival; memories four and five once the backstreet opens after Town of Death; the final petal in Chapter 7’s The Heart’s Trail, behind the Heavy Lion Hall Gate Key.

Do you need to beat Flame to finish Lion Dance Hall Depths?

No. Wooden Man sits in the hall’s second courtyard before the Depths arena. Flame himself is an interlocked boss fight with his own rewards.

What do Flame’s Memory Flowers reveal?

The Herald of the Veil scouting the troupe, Patron Gao hollowed out by puppetry, and the blood-soaked last night at the Mirage Estate — the six scenes behind the Mask-Bound Lion Dance Grandmaster.

Sources

• AllThingsHow — All 6 Memory Flowers of the Lion Dance Grandmaster (Lion Dance Hall Depths)
• Game8 — All Memory Flower Locations: Lion Dance Grandmaster Guide
• GameSpot — All Memory Flowers In Phantom Blade Zero (Lion Dance Grandmaster set)
• Fextralife — Phantom Blade Zero: All Memory Flowers (Pangzhen tables)
• Exputer — Lion Dance Hall | Phantom Blade Zero Wiki