Blind to the World is one of the early standout side stories in Where Winds Meet. It trades combat for environmental puzzles, underwater navigation, and a quietly tragic tale around the Lunar Goddess Li Zhenzhen. Clearing it unlocks the Blinding Mist Mystic Skill along with a bundle of progression rewards, so it’s worth doing as soon as you reach Qinghe’s Moonveil Mountain.
Blind to the World quest basics
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Quest name | Blind to the World (Jianghu Legacy / Side Story) |
| Region | Qinghe, Moonveil Mountain – Crimson Cliff |
| Quest giver | Uncle Tian / Doctor Tian by the lakeside |
| Main focus | Puzzle solving, swimming, light platforming, story exploration |
| Main rewards | Blinding Mist Mystic Skill, Dusty Wedding Dress, materials, EXP, currency |
The quest plays out in a fixed order: drain a hidden lake, solve a pressure-plate puzzle at a blind girl statue, survive a trapped corridor and underwater tunnel, open a bell-locked stone gate, then resolve the Lunar Goddess’s final wish before escaping the shrine.
How to start Blind to the World in Qinghe
Head to Moonveil Mountain in Qinghe and move toward the Crimson Cliff area. The easiest approach is to fast travel to the Crimson Cliff teleport stone if it’s already unlocked. Otherwise, any nearby wayfarer point around Moonveil Mountain works; just hike toward the lake marked by a teleport stone south of the local waypoint.
On the lakeshore, find Uncle Tian (also referred to as Doctor Tian). Speak with him to pick up Blind to the World and read the letter he hands over. The letter alludes to a submerged shrine and sets up the recurring theme of relying on more than just sight.
Drain the lake: find and pull the three underwater levers
Once the dialogue ends, jump into the lake and dive. Activating Wind Sense is strongly recommended here: it slows your breath consumption and makes it easier to navigate without drowning.
At the bottom of the lake, look for a large stone plate with three chains leading away from it. Each chain points toward a drainage mechanism:
| Step | What to do |
|---|---|
| 1 | Find the central stone plate on the lakebed. |
| 2 | Follow one chain to its end, locate the lever-like mechanism, and interact with it. |
| 3 | Repeat for the remaining two chains and levers. |
| 4 | Surface for air whenever necessary to avoid drowning. |
Pulling all three levers drains the lake, revealing a muddy basin and a large statue of a blindfolded woman at the bottom. Talk to Tian again on the ledge above, then jump down into the drained lakebed to continue.
Blind girl statue puzzle: correct plate order around the statue
The first major puzzle revolves around the “blind girl” or Moon Goddess statue in the drained basin. The statue stands on a central slab surrounded by a ring of stone plates.
Stepping on plates incorrectly shocks you and resets the mechanism, so the order matters. There are two equivalent ways to think about the solution; both describe the same sequence:
| View | Plate sequence |
|---|---|
| Compass directions | North → East → South → West |
| Relative to statue | Behind statue → then clockwise around |
To execute it cleanly:
- Stand on the large central plate to activate the puzzle and light up the ring plates.
- Move behind the statue and step on the plate at its back (north).
- Circle the statue clockwise, stepping on the remaining lit plates in order.
If done correctly, a melody plays and a stone door opens nearby, exposing a tunnel deeper into the mountain. Follow Uncle Tian through the newly opened entrance.
Cross the burning corridor and reach the flooded tunnel
Past the door, the path quickly becomes more dangerous. Tian will stop by a corpse and some notes; these fill in the backstory but are optional for completion.
Beyond this, a narrow corridor hangs with cloth or feather-like decorations. Contact with these can ignite you and chip away at your health. There are two options:
- Move carefully, weaving between the hanging bundles and using short dashes to avoid them.
- Use flaming arrows to burn them down from a distance and clear a safer lane.
At the end of the corridor, you’ll find a broken drawbridge that appears to offer a shortcut across a chasm. Ignore the temptation to jump straight over: attempting the leap simply kills you and respawns you nearby. The actual path is a cave entrance to the right of the broken bridge.
Enter that cave and drop into the deep water below to begin the underwater section.
Underwater section: Moonlit Flowers and air pockets
The flooded tunnel leads toward the far side of the cavern and eventually back to the surface. The route is mostly linear, but there are a few key details:
- Blue Moonlit Flowers grow in the water and along the walls. Touching them temporarily blinds your screen.
- When blinded underwater, a path of light or current becomes visible, pointing you toward the correct direction and air sources.
- There are at least two air pockets where rays of light pierce the water; use these to refill the breath meter.
Chests are scattered along side passages, including one that triggers a cave-in. Looting is optional; prioritize breath and navigation if you’re not comfortable underwater yet. Follow the tunnel downward, then toward the quest marker until you can surface near a stone gate with four large bells mounted above it.
Stone gate bell puzzle: how the “blind” mechanic changes the sequence
The stone gate is locked by a bell contraption. On a higher ledge opposite the gate sits a pedestal linked to four bells and their targets. At ground level near the bells are blue Moonlit Flowers.
The puzzle plays on the blind/vision theme: interacting with the pedestal plays a bell sequence and lights symbols, but sight alone can mislead you. Stepping on a Moonlit Flower to dim the screen aligns what you hear with the “true” order.
For the bell puzzle, number the bells from left to right as 1–4. The sequence required to open the door is:
| Hit order | Bell number |
|---|---|
| First | 3 |
| Second | 4 |
| Third | 1 |
| Fourth | 2 |
In practice:
- Walk across a Moonlit Flower behind the cliff to darken your screen.
- Activate the pedestal so the bells ring in sequence.
- Stand where you can see all four targets above the bells.
- Use your bow (preferably with fire arrows already equipped) and shoot the targets in the order 3 → 4 → 1 → 2.
Hitting all four correctly breaks the seal and unlocks the stone door. Head back down, push the gate open, and follow Tian inside.
Meeting the Lunar Goddess and retrieving the eye box
Past the stone gate, the shrine opens into a wide cavern with a cliff at the far end. At the top sits the body of Li Zhenzhen, the so‑called Lunar Goddess, surrounded by water and remnants of her life.
Approach her to trigger a cutscene that explains her history and the vow she made. After the scene, inspect the altar or table beside her to pick up a sealed container: the Ice Jade Box (also described as a Frost-Laced Box or Eye Box), which holds her eyes.
Turn and talk to Uncle Tian again to hand over the box. He quickly concludes that simply returning her eyes will not settle her regrets. The quest objective now shifts to finding “what the Lunar Goddess really wants.”
Final choice: Small Blade vs Moonlit Flower
Interact with the Lunar Goddess once more and you’ll see an option to “settle an old vow,” but you currently lack any offerings. To find them, take the staircase that winds down behind the altar.
This leads into her private living area, dotted with clothes racks, shelves, and more water. Two key quest items are here:
| Item | Location | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Small Blade | On a table near a clothes rack at the lower level | Represents the violent, unresolved past |
| Moonlit Flower | Growing just beyond the Small Blade, glowing more brightly than other flowers | Symbolizes her desired quiet life and recurring blindness motif |
Pick up both items; the game treats each as a potential offering. This area also holds treasure chests and scattered letters; collecting three related letters lets you assemble a book that expands on the shrine’s story, but it’s not required to finish the quest.
Return to the Lunar Goddess and interact again. You can technically present either the Moonlit Flower or the Small Blade, but the narrative and other coverage converge on the Moonlit Flower as the “correct” item that aligns with her true wish. Offering the flower plays a final cutscene that resolves her vow and completes the main objective of Blind to the World.
Leaving the shrine and collecting rewards
Even after the cutscene plays, there’s still one step left: physically leaving the shrine. The quest flag shows as complete, but rewards are only fully delivered once you exit the cavern.
Follow the marker back down to the lower living area where you found the Small Blade and Moonlit Flower. Behind a clothes rack is a narrow crack in the wall. Squeeze through it to reach a small underground dock with a raft.
- Board the raft to ride along the waterway and exit back toward the surface.
- Once outside, the side story fully wraps, and the game grants all remaining rewards.
Blind to the World rewards and why Blinding Mist matters
Completing Blind to the World delivers a mix of combat utility, lore, and raw progression. The headline reward is the Blinding Mist Mystic Skill.
| Reward | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Blinding Mist | Mystic Skill | Emits a poisonous, vision‑obscuring mist that briefly incapacitates normal enemies and enables Touch of Death takedowns; requires 80 Vitality and does not affect major bosses. |
| Dusty Wedding Dress (Li Zhenzhen) | Armor | Basic armor piece tied to the quest’s story; mechanically modest and lacks a unique visual model. |
| Medicinal Tales ×1 | Upgrade material | Used to upgrade the Medicine Chest, boosting healing capacity and potency over time. |
| Ebon Iron ×8 (Lv. 2) | Material | Equipment development resource. |
| Oscillating Jade ×4 | Material | Higher‑tier crafting / development resource. |
| Echo Jade ×72 | Currency | Premium currency used for pulls and other account-level unlocks. |
| Qinghe Exploration Points ×120 | Exploration | Contributes to regional progression in Qinghe, eventually unlocking area-specific perks like advanced movement. |
| Enlightenment Points ×100 | Progression | Used for broader character/talent development. |
| Character EXP ×33,000 | Experience | Direct contribution to character level. |
| Zhou Coin ×33,000 | Currency | Standard spendable currency. |
Blinding Mist is particularly useful in open-world encounters and dungeon pulls where groups can overwhelm you. The mist’s blind effect opens windows to reposition, crowd-control several enemies at once, or chain Touch of Death executions. It doesn’t trivialize bosses, but it gives a strong tool for managing lesser foes in both PvE and PvP engagements.
The rest of the rewards are incremental but efficient: one side story delivers a Mystic Skill, a unique armor piece, an important upgrade book, regional progression, and a substantial chunk of EXP and currency, all wrapped in a self-contained narrative about perception, regret, and what it means to be “blind to the world.”
