Riddled Echoes Walkthrough in Where Winds Meet (Willowbend Fan Unlock)

Riddled Echoes is the first Jianghu Legacy quest in Qingzhou, the region added in Where Winds Meet’s Version 2.3 update, Friends From Afar. A meteor drops near Mount Tai, the crater opens into a Han Dynasty tomb, and you spend about 20 minutes inside with Inkbound Order scholar Zhuge Feifei. Along the way you deal with riddles, quicksilver floods, a pitch-black corridor and a swarm of insects. The quest is also the only way to unlock the Willowbend Fan martial art.

Quick answer: Unlock Eastern Peak by talking to the Wayfarer during Away to Qingzhou. Then track Riddled Echoes near Seedling Temple and examine the sword mark in the lower chamber to learn Willowbend Fan.

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How to start Riddled Echoes

The quest won’t appear until Qingzhou’s Eastern Peak subregion is open. Before you start, check that you have the following:

Access to Qingzhou, which arrived with Version 2.3 on October 15, 2026.
Speaking with the Eastern Peak Wayfarer during Away to Qingzhou, a Worldly Affairs quest, unlocks the Eastern Peak subregion.
The Mystic Skill Night Glow, which you’ll want for the dark tunnels.

Open the Exploration menu and go to Qingzhou, then Jianghu Legacy, then 01 Riddled Echoes, and track it. The marker sits just south of Seedling Temple, on the southeast side of Mount Tai. When you head toward it, the sky turns dark and the objective changes to “Something is strange about the sky.”

Quest Tracking on Map — Riddled Echoes tracked on the Qingzhou-Eastern Peak map, just south of Seedling Temple. Shown at 00:08 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Everstone Studio

Riddled Echoes walkthrough

The quest runs in a straight line, and the markers always point to the next interaction. The parts worth knowing about are the two traps, the chest minigame and the chase, so those are covered in the most detail below.

From the meteor to the tomb doors

Go to the clifftop vantage point by the water and watch the falling stars. One of them hits the forest below, and the objective updates to “Go to the fallen star’s location.”

Run about 400m to the impact site and glide down into the crater. Go into the cavern at the bottom and cast Night Glow to light the passage. Some prompts call it Nightborne Glow, and it is mapped to B on controller. A Hero’s Tomb chest along the tunnel holds Echo Jade and coins.

In front of the carved stone doors, examine the peculiar bowl on the altar. It carries the first piece of the tomb’s riddle. Zhuge Feifei shows up behind you, and after a short conversation the two of you agree to explore the tomb together.

Examining the Peculiar Bowl — The peculiar bowl on the altar holds the first riddle verse, and examining it brings Zhuge Feifei into the quest. Shown at 01:43 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Everstone Studio

Examine the hole in the collapsed brick wall next to the altar, then crawl into the robbers’ tunnel. You may need Night Glow again in here.

Entering Tomb Robbers' Tunnel — The robbers' tunnel gets you past the sealed entrance. Examine the hole, then crawl through. Shown at 02:11 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Everstone Studio

When you come out the other side, inspect the two stones sealing the tomb doors from the inside. Then turn around and follow Zhuge Feifei down the hallway.

Infiltrating the Ancient Tomb — Inside the tomb, the doors are sealed by stones. Inspect them before you move down the hallway. Shown at 02:44 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Everstone Studio

The chest in the corner by the hallway exit sits on a trapped floor. Pull it toward you with Celestial Seize instead of walking up to it.

Banquet hall and the second riddle

In the hall with the laid-out tables, inspect the three marked items. Two Compendium entries are here as well: the Heel Support near the left-hand table and the Winged Goblet on the right.

From behind the central table, inspect the three symbols on the door beside Zhuge Feifei. They depict the Queen Mother of the West and Han funerary carvings.

Check the broken bowl on the side altar and talk to Zhuge Feifei about its riddle. Then go down the corridor. The side room you pass is empty, but there’s a chest at the end of the hall.

Strange tomb chamber and the quicksilver trap

In the chamber with the kneeling terracotta attendants, read the three Bamboo Scroll Fragments on the tables. Then inspect the grouped statues.

Inspect the bowl turned upside down on the table before the mountain-and-crane carving; it presents the third riddle.

Reading Third Riddle — The inverted bowl in the strange chamber gives you the third riddle verse, just before the trap triggers. Shown at 05:42 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Everstone Studio

Head for the solitary statue at the room’s rear. A wall lowers between you and Zhuge Feifei as quicksilver floods the floor. Climb the raised beam to reach the wooden rafters and stay above it.

Quicksilver Trap Escape — Quicksilver Poisoning builds quickly while you stand in the flood, so get onto the rafters right away. Shown at 06:14 in Game Guides Channel’s video. Image: Everstone Studio

As the quicksilver continues to rise, make your way across to the tunnel on the far side of the room. You can cross it without sinking. Before leaving the small chamber, open the chest behind the altar.

Curing Quicksilver Poisoning

While poisoned, you can’t heal. The poison also can’t kill you, so you don’t need to rush. The game moves you forward in short jumps as you walk.

In the cellar full of wine jars, inspect the engraving on the jars at the table.

Drink from all four wine jars on the table, then channel Qi when prompted. The poison clears, but your health stays critical.

Hit the cracked wall with any attack to break through. The passage beyond it is completely dark.

The dark corridor with Zhuge Feifei

Follow the soundwaves and Zhuge Feifei’s muffled voice to the dividing wall. The quest marker points the same way.

Knock on the wall, then keep your hand on it and walk forward in step with Zhuge Feifei’s silhouette on the other side.

When the prompt appears, lower your hand and step away from the wall to crouch under the collapsed timbers. Touch the wall again afterward and keep going until the corridor lights up.

Grab the large chest near the stone stairs, then drop into the hole at the end of the hall. You land alone in another part of the tomb.

The curiosities chest

Inspect the three tables of burial curiosities. You’ll find chess sets, jade hooks and cuju balls. Then check the chest in the center of the room.

Reach through the hole and steer your hand with W/A/S/D. Avoid the red danger zones, because they trigger blade traps. Pull out the three objects one at a time. The prompts name them as Immortal’s Pit or Immortal’s Pill, Endless Catch, and Woven Trivet or Woven Tasset.

Find the fourth spot, the trigger. Something grabs your hand. Mash the on-screen prompts to free yourself, and Zhuge Feifei arrives just as the insects pour out of the ceiling vents.

Escaping the insect swarm

The insects follow light and heat, and if they catch you, they can kill you. If that happens, the chase restarts, so keep moving and react quickly to prompts.

Run with Zhuge Feifei through the horse corridors, using Cloud Steps whenever a prompt marks a ledge.

At Zhuge Feifei’s suggestion, press the flashing prompt to send a flaming arrow into the oil cauldron at the center. The swarm catches fire, but only briefly.

Once the oil burns out, keep running and catch up with Zhuge Feifei in the long corridor. Follow him down the pit at the dead end, landing on the platforms on the way down.

At the bottom, follow the marker to find Zhuge Feifei, who is alive, and talk to him.

Learning Willowbend Fan in Sun Buqi’s chamber

Follow Zhuge Feifei into the chamber full of vines and broken incubation coffins. Inspect the sarcophagus and the scattered book pages. Loot the chest in the study corner, and pick up the Lunar Pendant and Discarded Fan from the tables.

Examine the sword mark gouged into the wooden shelves. This teaches you Willowbend Fan, which shows up labelled Ranged DPS.

Read the wall carving about Master Moonstream and Sun Buqi, then talk it over with Zhuge Feifei. Climb the ladder in the wall. It takes you to the crypt, not back to the surface.

Solving the final riddle in the crypt

Under the azure dome, read the three Tomb Master’s Bamboo Scrolls, then ask Zhuge Feifei about them.

Check the inverted bowl on the sarcophagus altar. The verses you collected combine into one riddle, and you and Zhuge Feifei solve it together. The riddle refers to the court game in which Dongfang Shuo guessed a gecko hidden under an inverted bowl.

When the sarcophagus slides open, drink the tomb master’s wine. A shared vision of Emperor Wu’s banquet plays, and afterward you talk to Zhuge Feifei one last time.

Riddled Echoes rewards

Reward	Type	Where you get it
Willowbend Fan	Martial art	Sword mark, Sun Buqi’s chamber
Banquet Guest	Achievement	Quest completion
Echo Jade, Coin	Currency	Tomb chests
Oscillating Jade, Jade Fish	Items	Tomb chests
Lunar Pendant, Discarded Fan	Items	Sun Buqi’s chamber tables
Tomb Master’s Bamboo Scroll	Item	Crypt
Heel Support, Winged Goblet	Compendium	Banquet hall
A Moonlit Night	Exploration quest	Unlocked on completion

Willowbend Fan belongs to the Silkbind – Wings Martial Path. It is designed to pair with the Museflow Waist Drum, which comes from the other Qingzhou Jianghu Legacy, Sea Shepherd.

How to confirm Riddled Echoes is complete

After the final conversation, a banner reading “01 Riddled Echoes Completed” appears and you are returned to the surface at Mount Tai. A moment later, the Banquet Guest achievement pops up under the Qingzhou Jianghu Chronicles. Willowbend Fan should already be in your martial arts list from earlier in the quest, and A Moonlit Night now has its own quest pin on the map.