Battlecrest Slope looks simple on the map, but its encounter requirements are some of the most opaque in Where Winds Meet. The region only tracks two encounters, yet both are gated behind actions that take place across the wider King region and Verdant Wilds, with no in-game hint that they are connected.
There are two key encounters tied to Battlecrest Slope:
- Little Master’s Legacy (counts as one encounter, but has four parts).
- Recipe’s Heir (a cooking and healer-focused encounter).
Both must be completed to clear the “Encounter” section for Battlecrest Slope.
Little Master’s Legacy encounter (Battlecrest Slope)
Little Master’s Legacy is a chain of four mini-encounters that trigger after clearing enemy camps in the Verdant Wilds area. Only the fourth and final part is recorded as an encounter for Battlecrest Slope, but you must complete parts 1–3 first.
How Little Master’s Legacy works
Each time the event triggers, a child named Xiaoing appears near the camp you just cleared. He asks you to demonstrate a specific martial art by using a particular weapon skill in front of him. After you perform the requested move and talk to him again, that stage of the encounter ends.
The problem is that Xiaoing appears randomly at different camps, and the game does not indicate that these short meetings tie into Battlecrest Slope at all. You simply have to keep clearing camps until all four parts trigger.
Triggering Little Master’s Legacy 1–3
Step 1: Head into the Verdant Wilds region and begin clearing any enemy camps you find. Finish each camp completely so the “camp cleared” state triggers.
Step 2: After a camp is cleared, watch for an encounter notification related to Little Master’s Legacy. When it appears, scan the area around the camp for a child NPC named Xiaoing. Talk to him.
Step 3: For Little Master’s Legacy 1, he asks to see Nameless Sword – Daunting Strike. Equip a Nameless Sword martial art and use its special move L2 + Square in front of him, then speak to him again to finish the stage.
Step 4: Keep roaming Verdant Wilds and clearing more camps. The next time Xiaoing appears, it will be Little Master’s Legacy 2. This time, he asks for Strategic Sword – Intractable Slash. Equip the Strategic Sword, use its L2 + Square special skill in front of him, then talk to him again.
Step 5: Continue clearing new camps until Xiaoing spawns again for Little Master’s Legacy 3. He now wants to see Stormbreaker Spear – Storm Roar. Equip the Stormbreaker Spear, use L2 + Square with that weapon, then talk to Xiaoing once more to finish part 3.
These first three meetings do not increment the Battlecrest Slope encounter counter, even though the quest log entries look substantial. They are prerequisites only.
Unlocking Little Master’s Legacy 4 (the Battlecrest Slope encounter)
Little Master’s Legacy 4 is the part that finally registers as an encounter in Battlecrest Slope. Unlike earlier parts, Xiaoing does not appear himself. Instead, a villager turns up with a message and a gift from the child.
Step 1: After completing parts 1–3, keep clearing Verdant Wilds camps, especially around the Battlecrest Slope side of the region. Treat it the same way as the earlier stages: finish a camp, check for a new encounter pop-up.
Step 2: When the final stage triggers, you will find an older villager NPC instead of Xiaoing. Talk to him to receive a message from Xiaoing along with his father’s spear.
Step 3: Finish the dialogue. This closes the Little Master’s Legacy chain and counts as the first Battlecrest Slope encounter.
There are no extra combat or skill checks at this point; the main hurdle is simply getting all four parts to spawn.
Recipe’s Heir encounter (Battlecrest Slope)
The second Battlecrest Slope encounter is Recipe’s Heir, a questline that only unlocks after you eat 10 specific dishes from the King region. Nothing in the Battlecrest Slope UI hints at this requirement, so it is easy to overlook.
The structure is:
- Buy 10 unique food items from five different merchants in King.
- Eat one of each dish.
- Return to Battlecrest Slope and follow the quest markers, including a cooking step and a healer action.
Where to buy all 10 required foods in King
Each food merchant in King sells exactly two dishes that count for Recipe’s Heir. You need at least one of each dish; duplicates do not add anything.
| Location (King region) | Merchant’s dishes |
|---|---|
| Harvestful Village | Fried Snails, Snail Meat |
| Heaven’s Pier – Merchant 1 | Braised Pork Belly Slices, Hodge Podge Stew |
| Heaven’s Pier – Merchant 2 (near merchant 1) | Honeypool, Pear Soup |
| Mercyart Town | Juju Bay Flatbread, Sevens Flatbread |
| Feinsteed Hamlet | Horse Milk Pastry, Spicy Cheese Crisp |
Step 1: Visit Harvestful Village and find the food vendor. Purchase Fried Snails and Snail Meat, one of each.
Step 2: Travel to Heaven’s Pier. From the main waypoint, locate the first food merchant and buy Braised Pork Belly Slices and Hodge Podge Stew.
Step 3: Still in Heaven’s Pier, move to the nearby second food merchant and buy Honeypool and Pear Soup.
Step 4: Go to Mercyart Town. Find the bread seller and purchase Juju Bay Flatbread and Sevens Flatbread.
Step 5: Finally, head to Feinsteed Hamlet, the settlement with horses. From the local merchant, buy Horse Milk Pastry and Spicy Cheese Crisp.
At this point, your inventory should hold all 10 different dishes needed to unlock Recipe’s Heir.
How to trigger Recipe’s Heir at Battlecrest Slope
Once every dish is in your inventory, you must eat one of each. The game does not clearly state a required location, but treating Battlecrest Slope as the trigger zone is the safest option.
Step 1: Fast travel to the main waypoint at Battlecrest Slope.
Step 2: Open your inventory and, one by one, consume each of the 10 food items listed earlier. Make sure you eat at least one of each unique dish; order does not matter.
Step 3: After you consume the final unique dish, the Recipe’s Heir encounter should start, with an on-screen notification and a new marker in the Battlecrest Slope area.
If nothing appears, double-check that none of the dishes were sold, discarded, or already eaten long before this sequence. The requirement is tied to having eaten all 10 types at least once.
Completing the Recipe’s Heir encounter
Once Recipe’s Heir is active, most of the work is simply following quest markers and short dialogues around Battlecrest Slope and nearby locations. The main interactive checkpoints are hunting, cooking, and using the healer’s profession skill.
Step 1: Talk to the NPCs marked in Battlecrest Slope to properly start Recipe’s Heir. Expect a short setup around food and cooking.
Step 2: Follow the objective to hunt a small bird. Defeat the target indicated by the marker and interact with it if prompted.
Step 3: Return to the quest giver or nearby marker. After some dialogue, you are asked to cook a dish, typically a crispy pheasant-style recipe (the in-game name may vary slightly but is clearly flagged by the quest log).
Step 4: Open your crafting/cooking menu when prompted and select the required crispy dish. The interface will show the ingredients and where to obtain them if you are missing anything, so you do not need to guess locations.
Step 5: Once cooked, give the dish to the NPC specified by the quest. After he eats it, he falls ill with indigestion and can only be helped with the healer’s art.
Unlocking and using the healer’s art
Recipe’s Heir cannot be finished without access to the healer profession. If your character has not started that path yet, you must unlock it first.
Step 1: Travel near Mercyart Town. On the road in that area, find the NPC who is lying sick from poison.
Step 2: Complete the short mini-quest around treating this poisoned NPC. The objectives are straightforward and serve as the introduction to the healer profession.
Step 3: After finishing the mini-quest, the healer’s art becomes available to your character as a usable profession skill.
Step 4: Return to the Recipe’s Heir NPC at Battlecrest Slope. Activate the healer’s art on him when prompted to cure his indigestion and advance the encounter.
Final steps of Recipe’s Heir
With the healing step complete, Recipe’s Heir wraps up with a short follow-up sequence.
Step 1: Follow the next quest marker to Heaven’s Pier, where you will be asked to set up a camp table and speak with a beggar NPC. This continues the thread of the recipe inheritance story.
Step 2: After completing the interaction in Heaven’s Pier, you are directed back to Battlecrest Slope. Investigate the table or stall in the marked area, then look around for a set of footprints leading away.
Step 3: Follow the footprints a short distance behind the stalls or up onto a nearby ledge, where the Recipe’s Heir NPC appears one last time.
Step 4: Talk to him to resolve the final dialogue. When the conversation ends, Recipe’s Heir is complete, and the second Battlecrest Slope encounter is recorded.
Why Battlecrest Slope encounters feel “bugged”
Many players assume Battlecrest Slope is broken because they explore the area thoroughly, clear enemies, and talk to every local NPC yet still see missing encounters or anecdote entries. The region’s content is heavily tied to:
- Randomized camp events in Verdant Wilds (for Little Master’s Legacy).
- Food purchases scattered across the entire King region (for Recipe’s Heir).
- Progress in the healer profession, unlocked via a separate road-side event near Mercyart Town.
If Little Master’s Legacy 4 and Recipe’s Heir both show as completed, the Battlecrest Slope encounter list should finally read as 100 percent. The remaining “Experience” anecdotes referenced by some players are part of separate systems, such as talking-animal experiences (e.g., following a white goat in a bamboo forest or a bear near General’s Shrine) that require the “talk to animals” skill and are not strictly Battlecrest Slope encounters.
Once the two core encounters are done, Battlecrest Slope itself is effectively cleared, even if other regional anecdotes or animal experiences still need cleanup elsewhere on the map.
