GUIDE / PROGRESSION
Crimson Forest walkthrough: Hua Qianxiao to Bai Chilian
Follow Crimson Forest from the first crane bell through Hua Qianxiao, Thieves’ Camp and Mirrorwood to Bai Chilian. Use the route cards to separate main progress, optional rewards and return gates; the guide does not claim every chest or Memory Flower.
Find the first bell after Steel and Steam
Community-reportedAfter the cave behind the Great Waterfall, the chapter transition leads into a red-leaf canyon. All Things How shows two climbable walls marked with scratched Xs. Climb both, follow the trail, then circle right around the foliage-covered cliff and left toward the crane statue. Finish the Inanis dialogue before ringing the bell. Use your displayed climbing and interaction controls.
Find your next Crimson Forest checkpoint
Community-reportedSchematic progression, not a geographic map. Choose the last named bell or boss you completed. Side quests and the Banyan trial branch from this route.
- First bell → Abandoned Main Road → Hua Qianxiao
Follow the forest road to the Sword Fanatic; inspect the newly opened route after his fight.
Open Hua Qianxiao, the Sword Fanatic boss guide → - Quickhand Zhang → Outlaw Trap → Thieves’ Camp
Free Zhang, keep the tunnel crank and follow up with Yu’er at camp.
Open Quickhand Zhang: three Crimson Forest treasures → - Village → Cliffside Lodge → Mirrorwood
Use the courtyard key, then collect the cellar crank and dungeon key on the lodge route.
- Parting Mists → optional Banyan trial
The island tree is a combat trial for a skill-unlock material.
Open Banyan Heart location and Crimson Forest trial → - Mirrorwood Depths → Threadbound Great Tree → Bai Chilian
Clear the mist, ring the final bell and review unfinished hand-ins.
Open Bai Chilian boss guide: Lady of the Twin Serpents →
Reach the camp and keep the keys
Community-reportedThe reported main route passes Hua Qianxiao, then Quickhand Zhang’s cage and Outlaw Trap. Release Zhang with the mechanism above the cage. Keep the tunnel crank from the cave behind Outlaw Trap; the treasure guide covers the grate it opens.
Continue to Thieves’ Camp, speak with Yu’er and visit Zhang’s hideout. Keep the tunnel crank distinct from the cellar crank and dungeon key: the latter pair comes from the Cliffside Lodge route and opens a return to the camp dungeon.
Continue through the village to Mirrorwood
Community-reportedThe village route uses Forest Outpost Courtyard Key from the first house on the left to open the lower gate toward Red Serpent House. Continue via Cliffside Lodge toward Mirrorwood Entrance, then Burial Grounds and Parting Mists. The Banyan Tree near Parting Mists is an optional skill-unlock detour.
At Cliffside Lodge, search upstairs for the cellar crank and use it to open the cellar. Descend to the corpse carrying the dungeon key; this returns you to the locked camp dungeon and a Quickhand treasure. Do not confuse that key gate with the later crossbow trap.
Mirrorwood Depths: read the engraving before the portal ring
Community-reportedAll Things How locates an engraved tree beside Inanis’ petal VI flower bed near Mirrorwood Depths. Read its weeping clue before entering the glowing passage between lantern trees. In the ring it describes, stand at the start facing away from the entrance: take right, left, middle, then middle again.
In that report, a correct choice returns you to the start; on the last choice the portal disappears. Follow the opened path and interact with the red-mist tree until the clearance message appears. Then continue to Threadbound Great Tree and ring the bell.
Other route reports give different short sequences without the same starting orientation. If your layout differs, return to the engraving and compare the ring’s landmarks before repeating a left/right instruction. This is a scoped reported solution, not a tested sequence for every Mirrorwood visit.
Reveal video · Crimson Forest maze solution landmarks
Footage interval reviewed · see build limits below
The creator moves among lantern trees and glowing passages while advising the viewer to pause and listen for weeping. This short excerpt establishes landmarks, not a complete portal sequence from every starting position.
vassillios16 · 1:30–1:50
Source & footage context
Creator-hosted recording; interval reviewed through bounded original-player playback and on-screen samples at 1:34.5 and 1:47.4. The configured player loaded, played and returned to paused on completion. This review checks the pictured situation, not frame-precise input timing. Exact game build, platform and difficulty are unconfirmed. Kingy has not played or tested this encounter.
Source record ↗ · Checked 2026-10-30
The original creator hosts the recording. If playback is restricted, use the YouTube link.
Before Bai Chilian: review unfinished hand-ins
Community-reportedKeenGamer warns that defeating Jing Ye can close Apprentice Healer, and that Bai Chilian can close unfinished valley and camp Tales including Purge the Sect, Festering Secrets, Honor Among Thieves and A Healer’s Mercy. These are single-report cutoff claims; their exact triggers and build applicability are not independently established.
As a cautious editorial route, return any herbs already collected and finish local dialogue or hand-ins before the forest finale. A reported cutoff is not proof that an unfinished quest in your save has already failed. Check the objective text rather than assuming every return route is permanently closed.
Bai Chilian → Place of Awakening
Community-reportedBai Chilian waits beyond Threadbound Great Tree in the flower field. The fight report describes a blade phase followed by Sacrificial Serpent, then the transition into Village of Lu. Use the dedicated guide for the attack cues and the Lu walkthrough for the bridge to Jewel.
- Fight the two reported phases
Prepare for a second bar before spending all healing on the blade phase.
Open Bai Chilian boss guide: Lady of the Twin Serpents → - Start the next region
Ring Place of Awakening and cross the rope bridge toward the huts.
Open Village of Lu walkthrough: Jewel, Zhuo Bi and the well →
Return gate: Bastion and the dungeon arrow trap
Community-reportedAfter Zhuo Bi in Village of Lu, Bastion adds Bolt Ward for repeating crossbow mechanisms. Grindnstrat describes returning to the Thieves’ Camp dungeon and using this protection to reach Brass Chest Guard.
The dungeon key and Bastion solve different problems: the key opens access, while Bolt Ward handles the trap farther inside. If you have only the key, record the trapped corridor for a later visit instead of assuming the key failed.
- Obtain Bastion in Lu
Reach the Gatekeeper from Young Master Lan’s Hideout.
Open Zhuo Bi, the Gatekeeper boss guide and Bastion →
Sources and how this guide was made
Updated: 2026-10-30. Checked: 2026-10-30. This guide uses official information and attributed reporting; Kingy has not play-tested these instructions. Each section links to its evidence.
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