To reach the narrow trail where Wu Lengshuang waits across the gorge from The Confinement bell, swing over on the chain rope beside it in the Mandate Encampment. She wields a supple soft sword, attacks with speed and force, and parries or counters your strikes.
Quick answer: Wu Lengshuang is a single-phase, 125,100-health soft sword boss who blocks or counters melee attacks and deflects ranged ones. Bait her counters, punish after her combos, and evade the dash following her red flash.
Wu Lengshuang at a glance
Her health bar displays “Wu Lengshuang, the Soft Sword”. A purple robe and mask cover her, and she wields a long, bendable blade with a whip-like motion.
The fight has a single phase and she fights alone. She summons no helpers and has no healing move. Her health bar holds 125,100 points.
She goes on the attack as soon as the intro scene finishes. On Pathbreaker, her first combo can leave you with almost no health in roughly seven seconds, even if you began at full health.
When you start a melee attack, she blocks or counters it. She does not stand still and she does not dodge. Most of her attacks hit at close range.
Thrown and ranged attacks do not work well against her. She deflects them, including the charged version, and follows each successful deflect with an attack of her own.
Where to fight Wu Lengshuang
If you die, you go back to The Confinement bell. Her health bar is full again on your next attempt, so you have to take the rope swing each time.
Wu Lengshuang moveset
Lunging slash
She pulls the soft sword back over her head, then lunges forward with a slash. The lunge carries her straight into you.
Whip sweep into kick
She swings the blade sideways in a wide sweep, like cracking a whip. She follows it with a knee and then a kick, and the kick can knock you to the ground.
Deflect and flip
If your attack hits her guard, she deflects it with a burst of orange sparks. She then pushes off you with a kick and flips away.
Flexible blade string
This is a fast string of several hits in a row. The bending blade lashes you again and again, and your health keeps dropping with every hit.
Red flash dash
A red flare signals her move before she lunges over the gap and slashes quickly. This flash is her most readable warning throughout the fight.
Tips for the Wu Lengshuang fight
Move as soon as the intro scene finishes; her attack comes immediately.
Do not mash the attack button. She blocks or counters as soon as you start an attack, so bait that reaction and hit back after her combos finish. The parry and dodge guide covers the timing.
When the red signal appears, evade the dash that follows.
Keep your thrown and ranged items in your pouch for this fight. She deflects them and gets a free follow-up attack.
The battle takes place on a slim rocky trail and plank deck, with a drop along one side. Position yourself so the drop is behind her rather than at your back.
Use your gourd before your health gets low. Her combos remove a large portion of your health, and she may launch another before you’ve recovered from the first.
Wu Lengshuang reward
The battle’s final scene shows her kneeling as she says “Master… I have failed you… this is as far as I can go…”.
Her drops are 78,000 Remnant Dust and the Soft Snake Sword, a one-handed weapon rated at 288 Damage and 118 Guard Break.
Its card reads “A flexible blade that moves with serpentine grace. It can deflect enemy attacks and grant its wielder the fluid agility of a serpent.”, and its Serpentine Reversal art deflects an attack just before it lands and turns its force back on the enemy.
This fight awards a Blackstone Shard too. Collect four Blackstone Shards to permanently raise Attack and Guard Break by 10%.
Wu Lengshuang in the boss list
Wu Lengshuang is one of the Mandate Encampment fights near the Path of the Baishan’s Fall. The other fights in the area, and the order they come in, are on the list of all Phantom Blade Zero bosses.
For a different encounter in this region, consult the Corpse-Eating Xue boss fight.
