In Phantom Blade Zero, Yuzan is a fair-skinned puppet with flowing red hair who performs on a pipa. She is the Chapter 1 boss concealed beneath the Village of Lu, sitting far inside the caves reached during the main quest HEARTLESS REMNANTS. The closest bell is nearby, but the battle is lengthy.
Quick answer: Find Yuzan in the caves beneath the well during Heartless Remnants, beyond the Beneath the Well bell. Entering the muddy basin below the scaffolding triggers her intro and begins the battle.
Where Yuzan is
Her name bar displays “Yuzan, No. 3 Musician Puppet”. The battle takes place in a broad dirt yard in the caves reached through the well during HEARTLESS REMNANTS. A crane statue occupies the center, with red-lit shrines and gates around the perimeter.
How to reach Yuzan
The fight begins as soon as the scene ends, so be ready to move when control returns.
Yuzan fight: health, attacks and the instant-kill orb
Yuzan has 52,100 HP on PATHBREAKER and WAYFARER alike. She relies primarily on ranged pipa attacks. You can evade most of her thrown blades and parry her pipa blows at close range.
| Attack | Damage on WAYFARER | How to handle it |
|---|---|---|
| Red crescent blades (from a red sphere) | About 270 HP each | Dodge |
| Blue crescent blades (from a blue swirl) | About 90 HP each | Dodge |
| Close pipa strikes | About 72 HP each | Parry |
| Dark teal sphere | Ends the attempt | Move away when teal orbs gather |
The red blades are her heaviest hits.
The blue blades do less damage but come out more often than anything else she throws.
Watch especially for the dark orb attack. Yuzan may draw Soul toward the arena’s center as small teal orbs collect, before a large dark teal sphere shuts around him. Being caught inside ends the attempt immediately, regardless of your remaining health. Keep moving, and escape as soon as the orbs show up.
The battle can take a while. During five and a half minutes on WAYFARER, her HP fell from 52,100 to 43,830, about one-sixth of her total. Soul had 1,402 max HP, lost roughly 3,000 HP over that period, and needed healing gourds.
If you fall, you return to the Beneath the Well bell, and your Remnant Dust stays with you.
Yuzan rewards and the Puppet Testing Grounds bell
Defeating Yuzan awards the HEARTREND PIPA, an Artifice Phantom Edge with 276 Damage and 234 Guard Break; it shoots Blue and Red Sonic Blades. The central crane statue changes into the Puppet Testing Grounds bell.
Beyond the arena’s far side, a workshop for puppets glows red and is packed with looms and red threads. Three pickups are inside.
| Where in the workshop | What you get |
|---|---|
| Rubbish pile |  Blazing Darkfire Charcoal |
| Another rubbish pile | “THE HERALD”, “Puppet Mute’s Blueprint” |
| Chest by the loom and ladder | “Exotic Copper Ingot + 8”, “Precision Mechanical Gear + 2”, Remnant Dust |
The Blazing Darkfire Charcoal card reads “Required to upgrade Destruction-type Phantom Edges from Lv. 10-20.”
The book explains that the puppet has no tongue, calls the marked tongue “both a tongue and a key”, and closes with “Place Mute in The Crimson Manor.”
Climb the slope beside the arena to find another reward. In a small room woven with red threads, Cui, a little puppet girl, gives you CUI’S RED RIBBON.
