A Toast to Heroes is a Wandering Tale in Where Winds Meet set around the Northern Vow Ruins in Qinghe’s Verdant Wilds. It looks simple at first — help an old man recover a lost bag, then bring him wine — but the early-game snakes and small, hard-to-spot wine flasks make it easy to stumble.
This breakdown follows the natural flow of the quest: unlocking it, handling the snakes around the bag, then tracking down both Sacrificial Wine locations and turning everything in.
How to unlock A Toast to Heroes
A Toast to Heroes belongs to the Wandering Tales category and sits in the Verdant Wilds portion of Qinghe.
Speak with Grandpa Zhou. He explains that he lost a bag from his caravan and sets you on the first major task: recovering it.
Speak with Grandpa Zhou to reveal a quest clue | Source: NetEase | YouTube: Game Guides Channel
Recovering Grandpa Zhou’s lost bag and dealing with the snakes
The lost bag is close by but ringed by snakes that can punish low-level characters. You can either bypass them with Celestial Seize or fight them directly.
Aim Celestial Seize at the highlighted bag in the center of the snakes. Adjust your angle or footing on the hill if the targeting reticle refuses to lock onto the bag.
Cast Celestial Seize to pull the bag to your location. Once it lands at your feet, pick it up without ever entering combat.
Note: Targeting can be finicky on uneven ground. If repeated angle changes still do not allow a lock-on, switch to the combat method instead of forcing the issue.
Use Celestial Sieze to grab the bag | Source: NetEase | YouTube: Game Guides Channel
Method 2: Fighting the snakes safely
If Celestial Seize is unavailable or unreliable, you can clear the field by kiting the snakes and leaning on ranged tools.
Stand at the edge of the field and hit one snake with a ranged attack. Immediately retreat so only that single enemy chases you up the slope or onto clear ground.
Focus on the pursuing snake quickly. These enemies hit hard and inflict poison, so prioritize dodging and short attack strings over long, greedy combos.
Break the line of sight when your health gets low. Once the snake drops aggro and starts retreating, wait a moment for your auto-heal effects or food buffs to restore you, then tag it again before it fully recovers.
Repeat the pull-and-kite pattern until all snakes are dead. Avoid standing in the center of the group; the encounter is tuned to be punishing if you fight them all at once.
Use range weapons to kill the snakes | Source: NetEase | YouTube: Game Guides Channel
Tip: A three-hit combo using the Leaping Toad skill can cleanly delete early snakes when you land it first, making the initial pulls much safer.
Returning the Soaked Bundle to Grandpa Zhou
With the snakes out of the way or bypassed, the bag is finally yours.
Listen to his reaction: he realizes all his wine is shattered and asks for help acquiring fresh jars. He requests two containers of Sacrificial Wine and tells you to meet him again at the Boundary Stone near Northern Vow Ruins.
At this point, the quest shifts from snake handling to bandit camp raids and item hunting.
Return the bundle to Grandpa Zhou | Source: NetEase | YouTube: Game Guides Channel
Finding Sacrificial Wine at bandit camps
Grandpa Zhou wants two small wine jars taken from nearby bandit supply wagons. Both are tiny red flasks placed on carts, easy to miss unless you know where to look.
Bandit camp locations around Northern Vow Ruins
Wine Flask
Relative Location
Landmark
Placement
Flask 1
North of Northern Vow Ruins
Small bandit camp by outer ruin walls
On the corner of a supply wagon/cart
Flask 2
South, toward the river
Bandit caravan spot by the road next to the river
On the edge of a large cart
Both camps are close enough that you can sweep them in a single loop around the fort.
Find the flasks in the bandit camps | Source: NetEase | YouTube: Game Guides Channel
Wine flask 1: North bandit camp by the fort
The first Sacrificial Wine sits in a compact camp just outside the main entrance to Northern Vow Ruins.
Once the area is safe enough, walk around the large cart and look along its edge. Pick up the second red wine flask to secure the second Sacrificial Wine.
Defeat the bandits at the second camp before locating the flask | Source: NetEase | YouTube: Game Guides Channel
Note: Players often misread “by the river” and search north along other waterways. The correct caravan is along the southern river road.
Meeting Grandpa Zhou at the Boundary Stone
With both wine flasks in hand, the last leg of A Toast to Heroes is a short pilgrimage back to the old man, now relocated to a more solemn setting.
Travel to the Boundary Stone near Northern Vow Ruins. This is a Sentient Being point where characters often gather to honor the fallen or mark important oaths.
Speak with him and hand over both jars of Sacrificial Wine. This completes the Wandering Tale and resolves his request to toast old heroes properly.
Return the flasks to Grandpa Zhou at the Boundary Stone | Source: NetEase | YouTube: Game Guides Channel
A Toast to Heroes quest rewards
Finishing the full sequence — recovering the Soaked Bundle and delivering the two wine jars at the Boundary Stone — grants a compact set of rewards that contribute to account growth and regional progress.
Reward
Amount
Use
Echo Jade
40
Premium currency for pulls and select purchases
Qinghe Exploration
10
Exploration points that advance regional completion for Qinghe
Character EXP
5,000
Experience to level your character
Coin
5,000
General currency for vendors, crafting, and services
The values above reflect the total payout across the mission’s steps and final turn-in, so there is no need to track sub-rewards separately.
Clearing A Toast to Heroes early in Verdant Wilds does more than fill a checklist: it teaches how to combine exploration tools like Wind Sense and Celestial Seize with cautious combat and map awareness around camps and Sentient Beings. Treat it as a small rehearsal for the more demanding Wandering Tales scattered across Jianghu.
