Feng Ruzhi is a World Boss in Where Winds Meet, tied closely to the Heavenfall campaign and built around a single, high-stakes mechanic that can end an otherwise clean fight in seconds. You first meet her as part of Heavenfall, and after that campaign is complete she becomes a repeatable world encounter.
Feng Ruzhi location and unlock requirements (Heavenfall → world boss)
Feng Ruzhi is encountered during the Heavenfall campaign in Roaring Sands (Kaifeng). After you finish Heavenfall, she appears as a world boss in Verdant Hill Village, also in the Roaring Sands area of Kaifeng.
Her world boss version does not spawn until Heavenfall is complete. You initiate the fight by approaching her at the location.
What makes the Feng Ruzhi fight different: the silk ball timer
The defining pressure point in this fight is the “silk ball” punishment. If you’re hit by Feng Ruzhi’s yellow-glint attacks, she can steal your silk ball. When that happens, you have 15 seconds to retrieve it—if you fail, you’re defeated.
Retrieval is not passive. The stolen ball is guarded, and the expectation is that you quickly target and burst down the soldier holding it before the timer expires.
Core combat reads: yellow-glint danger and red-glint parry windows
Feng Ruzhi’s kit pushes you toward disciplined defense rather than constant aggression. Yellow-glint attacks are the major threat because they can trigger the silk ball steal, and one of her yellow-glint options is an unblockable grab that hits hard and is difficult to react to.
Her combos frequently end in a red-glint strike that signals a parry opportunity. Successful parries chip her Qi Bar and create openings for strong counterattacks and execute pressure.
How to handle the yellow-glint grab
Her yellow-glint grab is described as unblockable and fast. A consistent response is to dash forward to evade it, using the fact that her aerial pathing can fail to connect cleanly when you’re underneath or moving into the line.
Move set reference (what you’ll see in the fight)
| Move | What it does | Typical response |
|---|---|---|
| Rapid Strikes | Close-range melee combo | Parry with timing or dodge cleanly |
| Javelin Throw | Ranged weapon throw | Parry or dodge on release |
| Falcon Strike | Aerial flip into slashes | Parry or dodge through the sequence |
| Omnislash | Multi-direction dash slashes | Parry the rhythm or dodge to reset spacing |
| Aerial Takedown | Leaps up, drops down, knocks you to the floor | Dodge with tight timing |
| Wind Slashes | Ranged wind projectiles | Parry or dodge, keep spacing stable |
| Bloody Boomerang | Quick double throw at range | Parry or dodge twice |
| Falcon Kicks | Fast kick combo | Parry or dodge the chain |
Companion note: Ruby’s revive utility
One companion is singled out as unusually useful here: Ruby, because she can revive you after death. The fight’s volatility—especially around yellow-glint mistakes and the ball timer—makes a revive effect more valuable than incremental damage or utility.
Feng Ruzhi rewards (first clear and repeatable drops)
Defeating Feng Ruzhi as a world boss awards a specific bundle on first completion:
- 5× Inner Way Note: Custom Chest
- 3× Medicinal Tales
- Crimson Silk
- 20× Echo Jade
- 8000× Coin
- 8000× Character EXP
- 50× Kaifeng Exploration
Heavenfall itself also pays out a larger set of campaign rewards as you progress through and complete it, including Medicinal Tales, Oscillating Jade, Echo Jade, Kaifeng Exploration, Enlightenment Point, Character Exp, and Coin.
Campaign version vs. world boss version
You first encounter Feng Ruzhi during Heavenfall. That campaign encounter has a slightly modified move set compared to the world boss version, so a strategy that feels stable in the story fight can still get punished when you return for the repeatable spawn.
If you treat yellow-glint attacks as hard “do not get hit” moments and build your damage windows around red-glint parries, Feng Ruzhi becomes less of a wall and more of a timing test with one brutal failure state.
