How to find Chen Cheng, use Meridian Touch at each location, and finish the One Leaf, One Life: Phase II quest.
How to find Chen Cheng, use Meridian Touch at each location, and finish the One Leaf, One Life: Phase II quest.
by Pallav Pathak
The Second Wind quest in Where Winds Meet sits inside the One Leaf, One Life: Phase II chain and focuses on stopping a man, Chen Cheng, from taking his own life. Progress comes from reaching the right locations in order, reacting quickly with Meridian Touch, and talking to his child, Chen Xiaoyu, before resolving things with a letter.
Second Wind quest rewards
Finishing Second Wind grants a small but useful bundle of currency and progression items:
Reward type
Amount / effect
Echo Jade
x8
Oscillating Jade
x2
Kaifeng Exploration Points
x5
Coins
x1000
Stored EXP
x1000
The Second Wind quest focuses on stopping an NPC from taking his own life | Image credit: NetEase (via YouTube/@OnGame MultiGaming)
How to start Second Wind (location and trigger)
The quest begins in Kaifeng, at South Gate Avenue near the river.
As soon as he leaves, look at the ground where he fell and pick up the letter he drops. This letter stays in your inventory until the final step of the quest.
Pick up the letter dropped by the NPC | Image credit: NetEase (via YouTube/@OnGame MultiGaming)
Tip: If the quest tracker asks you to pick up the letter but nothing shows, moving a little, rotating the camera, and checking the exact spot he lay on the ground often helps the prompt appear.
Second encounter at Tianjing Dock
After the first save, Chen Cheng relocates to the docks for another attempt.
Speak with Chen Xiaoyu to advance the quest. Exhaust the available dialogue so the objective updates to the final location.
Speak with Chen Xiaoyu at Willow Bank | Image credit: NetEase (via YouTube/@OnGame MultiGaming)
Note: If Chen Xiaoyu does not appear when expected, fully closing and reopening the game session has been enough for some players to make the child spawn and the next objective resume correctly.
Final encounter near Hopewell Academy teleport stone
The last confrontation takes place close to a teleport point.
Move to the area near the Hopewell Academy teleport stone. Watch for the Second Wind quest marker or scan the nearby riverbank if the icon is slightly offset from the stone itself.
After he is safe, talk to both Chen Cheng and Chen Xiaoyu if they are present. Let the conversation play out until the objective tells you to deal with the letter.
If the prompt to pick up the letter does not appear, move away from the exact spot where Chen Cheng fell, then walk back slowly and rotate the camera. Interact with any glowing or highlighted item at his previous position.
When Chen Xiaoyu or Chen Cheng does not spawn at their next location, fully quit to desktop (or close the client on console) and relaunch the game, then return to the relevant marker (South Gate Avenue, Tianjing Dock, Willow Bank, or Hopewell Academy).
If the quest seems to have broken earlier—such as the man never spawning at the start but the item already being on the ground—focus on progressing a few main campaign missions. Some players have seen Second Wind reset to an earlier, working state after advancing the main story.
If none of the above steps revive the quest and it remains your last blocker in a volume, contact official support through the game launcher or the publisher’s support portal and share your character, server, and quest state. Support staff can review stuck progression and apply server-side fixes when necessary.
Second Wind is a short quest that leans more on timing and map awareness than combat difficulty. Keeping Meridian Touch ready, visiting the three key locations in sequence, and paying attention to the letter and child NPC are enough to carry it through, as long as the quest state cooperates.
