The Banyan’s Heart is one of the scarcer things you’ll pick up in Phantom Blade Zero, and only a small set of abilities will take one. Each of those nodes also costs Remnant Dust, and most are locked behind other nodes on the tree. Here is every Heart ability, what it does, what it costs, and what opens it.
Quick answer: Six Train Abilities nodes cost one Banyan’s Heart each plus Remnant Dust: Flow Like Water, Still Mind, Quick Remedy, Cicada’s Escape, Opening Strike, and Flash Step.
Abilities that cost The Banyan’s Heart
Flow Like Water
The node reads “Blocking and dodging do not interrupt the current combo.” That lets you defend mid-string without losing your place in the combo. It costs 1 Banyan’s Heart and 12,500 Remnant Dust, the cheapest of the six.
Still Mind
The node reads “Grants brief invincibility during a Power Surge.” It costs 1 Banyan’s Heart and 25,000 Remnant Dust.
Until you train Endless Renewal Lv. 2, the card shows “Prerequisite skill required” and can’t be bought.
Quick Remedy
The node reads “Using Medicine while being attacked cancels the stagger.” It costs 1 Banyan’s Heart and 45,000 Remnant Dust, and it opens once Unyielding Will is trained.
Cicada’s Escape
The node reads “When Guard Broken, automatically retreat and become immune to attacks.” At 1 Banyan’s Heart and 65,000 Remnant Dust, it’s the most expensive Heart node. It opens once Ascendance Lv. 2 is trained.
Opening Strike
The node reads “Replaces the move triggered by switching weapons with a special move.” It costs 1 Banyan’s Heart and 35,000 Remnant Dust, and Masterful Flow Lv. 1 has to be trained first.
Flash Step
Mapped to the right mouse button plus Shift, Flash Step reads “Consumes a small amount of Sha-Chi to immediately perform a special Dodge.”
You’ll find it on the tree directly beside Opening Strike.
To unlock Flash Step, you spend 1 Banyan’s Heart plus 45,000 Remnant Dust, which is the same Remnant Dust price you pay for Quick Remedy.
How to train a Heart ability
Rest at any bell, then choose Train Abilities from the bell menu. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor around the tree.
Open a Heart node’s card to see its requirements. The card shows The Banyan’s Heart, your owned amount, and a cost of 1; the Remnant Dust requirement appears on the HOLD TO TRAIN bar. Your Heart total is also displayed at the screen’s top right.
Keep Space held on the node until the bar reaches its end. Training completes once one Heart is removed from your count and the Remnant Dust cost is deducted.
Budget for more than the Heart nodes themselves, because most of them sit behind Remnant Dust nodes. Unlocking Still Mind, Quick Remedy, Cicada’s Escape, Opening Strike, and Flash Step costs 215,000 Remnant Dust for the Heart nodes and 370,000 for the nodes in front of them, for 585,000 total.
Some of those earlier nodes want other items too. Unyielding Will takes 2 Complete Memory Flowers, Ascendance Lv. 2 takes 4, and Boundless Capacity Lv. 2 takes 2 Sha-Chi Amber.
Where the Hearts come from
When the Discordance ends, each of the five Human-Faced Banyan trees awards one Banyan’s Heart.
You can get an additional one for 100,000 Remnant Dust. Purchase The Banyan’s Heart through the Store by the Songhouse Dock bell or from Quick Hand Zhang.
The math is simple. There are six Heart nodes and five trees, so training all six requires buying at least one Heart.
