Black Myth Wukong All Side Quests

This guide shows all Side Quests in Black Myth: Wukong. The quests aren’t marked in any way in-game. Unless you stumble across them you wouldn’t know they exist. They are all required for trophies & achievements because they lead to secret bosses. Those bosses in turn are needed to obtain 100% Journal Completion, and they drop various pieces of equipment that’s also trophy-related.

Most of the side quests require interacting with an NPC. They don’t give you objectives with waypoints, instead you have to infer from the dialogue what the quest giver wants.

You can fast travel between chapters at any time from Keeper’s Shrines. There’s still free-roam after the story. After the endboss you are put back in the Title Screen, here choose to Continue, it will spawn you before the final boss. You can still revisit all places from this point. Just don’t “Enter a New Cycle” in the Title Screen as this starts New Game+ and overwrites your save with no way back.

Side Quests that take place over all Chapters

Horse NPC Questline [MISSABLE]

MISSABLE – Must exhaust all dialogue with the Horse NPC in every chapter, before advancing to the next chapter!

The Horse NPC can be found in every Chapter from Chapter 1 – 5. You have to find him in every chapter, talk to him, and exhaust all dialogue. When you start a new chapter he disappears from the previous chapter. To get the trophy “Urge Unfulfilled” you have to talk to him in every chapter, thus making this highly missable.

Horse NPC Locations:

1. Chapter 1 > Bamboo Grove > Back Hills: From this shrine go down the stairs and then take the path left to find a cave entrance. Inside you find the horse NPC sitting on the side of the cave. Exhaust all dialogues with him. (A meditation spot is also here in the middle of the cave)
2. Chapter 2 > Sandgate Village > Village Entrance: From this shrine go forward and then to the right to enter the village area. Keep going forward through the village (past rat archers on the cliffs), then take the road left to get to a meadow where the Earth Wolf boss awaits. This is the opposite side of the gate you saw from Village Entrance shrine. After defeating the Earth Wolf, check the pagoda on the side to find the horse NPC. He’s tied-up there. Exhaust all dialogue.
3. Chapter 3 > New Thunderclap Temple > Temple Entrance: From this shrine go forward, through a temple building, then up the stairs in front of you. Then go down the stairs on the left side and straight ahead into the next building. Inside this building go up the stairs to reach the upper balcony. From here you can go over a wooden bridge on the side of the balcony, the horse NPC stands at the end of it. Exhaust all dialogue.
4. Chapter 4 > Webbed Hollow > Middle Hollow / Bonevault: On your way to the next shrine called “Cliff of Oblivion” you will automatically run into the horse NPC again. You can’t miss him here, he’s on the main story path and will talk to you automatically. He pops out of a spider cocoon.
5. Chapter 5 > Furnace Valley > Valley Entrance: Go down the path and enter the lava lake on the right side, in the corner of the lava lake interact with the Element Cart to pull a string from it. The Horse NPC is stuck inside the cart. Exhaust all dialogue until he repeats the same line.

After you spoke to him in every spot you must do the following:

• First, you must beat Chapter 5.
• After reaching Chapter 6, fast travel back to Chapter 5 > Furnace Valley > Valley Entrance: Go back to where you talked to the NPC stuck in the cart in Chapter 5. From this shrine walk down the path, then enter the lava pool on the right. Go to the corner of the lava to find a stuck Element Cart surrounded by a bunch of enemies. Interact with the cart to pull a string. After pulling out the string you unlock this trophy. You can’t pull the string during Chapter 5. You have to beat Chapter 5 first, then come back here. Doing so will unlock this trophy as well as the “Dark Thunder” spell.

Old Man Questline [MISSABLE]

MISSABLE – The Old Man disappears from some of his locations as you advance the story. Talk to him in every chapter before starting the next chapter.

You can find the Old Man throughout the game, once per chapter. For the trophy “Always Accompanied” talk to him in every chapter.

1. Old Man Location 1: Chapter 1 > Bamboo Grove > Snake Trail: From this shrine go up the stairs, he will stand on the right and gives you the Blessed Gourd.
2. Old Man Location 2: Chapter 2 > Crouching Tiger Temple > Cellar: From this shrine go down the sandy path, then turn right and go to the end of the path to find him. He’s looking at the rocks there. A meditation spot is in the same place. Alternatively, you can get here from Yellow Wind Formation > Windseal Gate: Go through the gate and then take the left path to the end.
3. Old Man Location 3: Chapter 3 > Pagoda Realm > Warding Temple: From this shrine go up the stairs into the temple courtyard to trigger a boss fight against the Macaque Chief. The Old Man appears during the cutscene and unlocks the Ring of Fire spell for you. This is unmissable from story progression so you can’t miss him here.
4. Old Man Location 4: Chapter 4 > Temple of the Yellow Flower > Temple Entrance: From this shrine go straight ahead into the temple, then slightly to the right through the gate. In this area you find a meditation spot and lots of enemies. In the back of the area go up the stairs to find the NPC, exhaust all dialogue.
5. Old Man Location 5 + Supreme Gourd Upgrade: Chapter 5 > Furnace Valley > Rakshasa Palace: From this shrine go upstairs and over the bridge. Then take the left path to reach a room with the Old Man NPC. Exhaust all dialogue with him, then interact with the fire in the middle of the same room to upgrade your gourd to the “Supreme Gourd”. It’s the best gourd in the game, Mythical grade (orange color in inventory), and has 10 healing charges. You must have upgraded your regular Gourd to 9 healing charges at the Shen Monkey (Chapter 1 > Bamboo Forest > Marsh of White Mist). For the required upgrade materials refer to Luojia Fragrant Vine locations.

To get the Supreme Gourd you don’t need to have talked to the Old Man everywhere. But to get the trophy “Always Accompanied” you must have talked to him everywhere. Can still do it in New Game+ if you missed him. In Chapter 4 + 5 he’s still there after the story.

Chapter 1: Black Wind Mountain

3 Bells Quest

• 3 Bells Side Quest Walkthrough – leads to Chapter 1 Secret Area.

Chapter 2: Yellow Wind Ridge

Xu Dog Quest

1. Optional: Defeat the boss “Lang-Li-Guhh-Baw“. He is a big frog located in Chapter 2 > Sandgate Village > Village Entrance > to the left of this shrine drop down the ravine and go down the path. At the end of the path you will find a flooded area with this frog miniboss. Afterward talk to the NPC “Xu Dog” who stands at the top of the staircase before the boss, he will craft you some potions. If you advanced the story he will disappear from here, in that case skip straight to Step 2.
2. Later in Chapter 2 you will meet Xu Dog again at Crouching Tiger Temple > Cellar > explore the area to the right of this altar and Xu Dog will climb out of a vase. Interact with him and choose the “Talk” option. Even if you didn’t do Step 1 he will spawn here. There are two ways to reach the Cellar: 1) after defeating “Tiger Vanguard” at Crouching Tiger Temple > Temple Entrance, interact with the small statue in the boss arena to drain the blood and open a hatch, then go down the hatch through the cellar. 2) after defeating “Stone Vanguard” you will reach Yellow Wind Formation > Windseal Gate, here go through the gate and up the sand path straight ahead.

Completing this quest will unlock the ability to craft permanent stat upgrades in exchange for Mind Cores. Also opens Xu Dog’s shop, he will sell you Formulas for making Medicine, new ones unlock at the start of story chapters.

Buddha’s Eyeballs Quest

• Buddha’s Eyeballs Locations

Drunken Boar Quest

• Drunken Boar Questline Walkthrough – leads to Chapter 2 Secret Area.

Old Rattle-Drum Quest

1. Defeat “Tiger’s Acolyte” boss to get Old-Rattle Drum (key item). You find this boss at Yellow Wind Formation > Windrest Hamlet > directly after this altar on the next bridge. Afterward you must use the Old-Rattle Drum in 3 locations.
2. Yellow Wind Formation > Windseal Gate: take the path left of the altar, after crossing a bridge turn left to enter a side area, the screen will get a gray color and you can interact with the environment to use Old-Rattle Drum, defeat the Withered Corpses.
3. Yellow Wind Formation > Windrest Hamlet: From this altar turn around, go downstairs and through the gate. explore the side of the village to use the Rattle Drum again, where a few Withered Corpse enemies are sitting.
4. Sandgate Village > Village Entrance: From this altar go straight across the bridge, then turn right to enter the village. Reach the meadow on the left side of the village, where the chief “Earth Wolf” boss is. In the corner of the village the screen will turn gray again and you can use the Old-Rattle Drum to get a cutscene. After the cutscene jump into the well, this triggers the secret Mad Tiger fight.

Man-in-Stone Quest

1. First you must defeat the “Mother of Stone” boss. Location: Fright Cliff > Squall Hideout – from this shrine take the left path until you can go up to a cave. Go right in the cave, then take the next left to go up a path. At the end of the path you find 3 blue glowing crystals on a rock, attack them. This is actually the “Mother of Stone” boss. This is in the cave just before the “Rockrest Flat” altar. The boss is just a rock and neither attacks nor defends itself. Just clear out the other enemies in the cave and then you can freely hit the boss. It will drop the Key Item “Stone Essence” which you need for the next step.
2. Give the “Stone Essence” to the “Man-in-Stone“. Location: Fright Cliff > Squall Hideout: from the shrine, take the path to the right, go through the ravine that has a little bit of water in it. At the end of the ravine are some black thorns, interact with them, it’s actually a guy trapped in them. Give him the “Stone Essence” you got from the “Mother of Stone“. He will now rise up and insult you. Attack him and defeat him. He hits hard but doesn’t have much health. After defeating him, interact with his body to unlock the “Azure Dust” spell.

Chapter 3: The New West

Turtle Tear Quest

1. Location: Bitter Lake > North Shore of the Bitter Lake – From this shrine follow the shoreline straight ahead until you reach the end of the coast. There you will encounter the optional boss “Apramana Bat“, defeat it. Then on the left you can find a big skeleton, interact with it. This will trigger a cutscene with the big turtle island dropping a green tear.
2. Run back up the coastline where you came from, look where the big turtle is. Below the turtle’s head you can find a green item at the coast. Pick it up, this is the “Turtle Tear” (a Soak for your Gourd).

Chen Loong Quest

• Chen Loong Questline Walkthrough – leads to hidden area Ruyi Scroll > Zodiac Village, there you can upgrade armor and grow plants for harvesting

Treasure Hunter Quest

• Treasure Hunter Questline Walkthrough – leads to secret boss “Green-Capped Martialist”

Fox Quest

• Fox Questline Walkthrough – leads to hidden boss “Non Void” & Curio “Snow Fox Brush”

Prisoner Quest / Captain Spirits

• Prisoner Questline Walkthrough & All Spirits of Captains Locations – this unlocks the Transformation Spell “Ashen Slumber” & unique weapon crafting material “Chubai Spearhead”

Chapter 4: The Webbed Hollow

Venom Daoist Quest

This quest leads to Chapter 4 Secret Area.

1. Venom Daoist Location 1: Webbed Hollow > Pool of Shattered Jade: To the right of the shrine go up the path to find a big hanging cocoon. Attack it until the Venom Daoist pops out of it, defeat him. Afterward he will run away. You must find him again later in the chapter.
2. Venom Daoist Location 2: Temple of the Yellow Flower > Court of Illumination: From this shrine turn around and take the path directly across. When there’s a split in the path go left. Then you get a cutscene with the Venom Daoist spawning. Must have defeated him at the first location. Defeat him again, he has two phases, each with a full healthbar. After the fight interact with the wall in front of you to enter the secret area “Purple Cloud Mountain”.
3. Finish Secret Area: Purple Cloud Mountain > Cloudnest Peak: At the end of the Purple Cloud Mountain area, you encounter the Duskveil boss. He has two health bars (transforms after beating his first form).

Rice Cocoons / Silkworm Deity / Proto-Amourworm Quest

This quest unlocks the “Elder Armourworm” Spirit.

Webbed Hollow > The Verdure Bridge: From the shrine, go across the wooden planks, then head left. Go right past the two lanterns to enter a room with 4 chests. Continue past them to enter the area with the “Elder Amourworm” boss. Kill it to obtain the key item “Proto Armourworm”. If you haven’t already, do Chen Loong’s quest to get access Zodiac Village. At Zodiac Village, deliver the Proto Armourworm item to Chen Loong (the dragon). Now head back to The Verdure Bridge and destroy any spider cocoons you find until you have 3 Rice Cocoons. You may already own these if you’ve been destroying them on your first visit, they are random drops from white spider cocoons throughout Webbed Hollow. Now return to Zodiac Village and feed the Rice Cocoons to the worm which you’ll find next to the pots (in the area above the two monkeys). You can only feed him one Rice Cocoon, then you have to rest. Rinse and repeat for all of them. Once you’ve fed him the third Rice Cocoon, rest once more and you’ll be able to collect this Spirit at the location the worm was at.

Purple Altars / Letters Quest [MISSABLE]

MISSABLE QUEST: This quest has to be completed BEFORE finishing Chapter 4 (BEFORE beating the boss “Hundred-Eyed Daoist Master”). After this the purple altars can no longer be interacted with. You can still do it in New Game+ if you missed this. The quest is mandatory for 100% Journal Completion because it unlocks the Character entry for “Crane Immortal”.

Throughout Chapter 4 you can find purple glowing altars. Each of them has a letter on it that you can take.

All Purple Altar Locations:

1. Webbed Hollow > The Verdure Bridge: From Verdure Bridge take the left path over the green bridge with roots growing on it, turn left, where two lanterns are drop down the right side and go forward until you go upstairs to a village. Progress upstairs through the village, then you will reach the purple altar at the top of the village. It will trigger a cutscene. Afterward you can loot the letter from the altar.
2. Webbed Hollow > Cliff of Oblivion: Directly in front of this shrine is another purple altar.
3. Webbed Hollow > Cliff of Oblivion: After this shrine you’ll have to defeat the story boss “Buddha’s Right Hand”. After that you can go over the broken hand. Go down the path, on the left side you can drop down and go over a wooden hanging bridge. This leads to a narrow wooden beam with spider arms slashing out of cocoons. Use Cloud Step to turn invisible and run over the beam, thus you won’t get attacked. On the other end you reach a hidden shrine called “Relief of the Fallen Loong”. To the left of that shrine enter the cave area and you’ll find the purple altar at the end of the path (before dropping down the cliffs).
4. Temple of Yellow Flowers > Court of Illumination: Directly in front of this shrine (final shrine of this chapter). However, this purple altar is blocked off by an invisible wall. The invisible wall goes away after collecting the other 3 altars.

After interacting with all 4 altars, you will get attacked by the Supreme Inspector. He has a lot of health but you don’t need to fully defeat him. After taking 15% of his health a cutscene will trigger. The Crane Immortal will talk to you which adds his entry to the journal. Then you can open the golden container in front of you to collect a Celestial Nonary Pill (increases Stamina).

Daoist Mi / Missing Bodies Quest [MISSABLE]

• Quest Start: Purple Cloud Mountain > Valley of Blooms – First, do the Venom Daoist Quest to reach the Secret Chapter 4 area. Before crossing wooden bridge to the first shrine there (called “Valley of Blooms”), you can talk to a red snake on a tree. Exhaust all dialogue with the snake. Then advance through the secret area until you reach the shrine “Petalfall Hamlet”. From there go up the stairs, on the left you will find a masked man NPC. He’s “Daoist Mi”. He asks you to look for missing bodies in the village.
• Solution: You have to defeat the yellow-robed enemies in the village area around the quest giver (to his right) until one of them drops the “Violet Hail” key item. It’s a completely random drop. If nobody drops it, rest at shrine and kill them all again until you get it. Then give it to Daoist Mi to fight him which finishes the quest. It will add his entry to the journal, he counts as a character. Needed to complete all journal entries.
• Reward: Violet Hail (Spell)

Chapter 5: Flaming Mountains

Five Element Carts Quest

• Five Element Carts Questline Walkthrough

Chapter 6: Mount Huaguo

No known side quests in this chapter.

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