Fu Lubao is one of the earliest Jianghu “Old Friends” you run into in Where Winds Meet, and he’s also one of the first walls many players hit with the new AI chat system. He’s the grave robber loitering around the General’s Shrine near the start of the game, and he’s obsessed with a treasure linked to the Meow Meow cat puzzle.
The catch: you aren’t meant to fully befriend him on that first encounter, and trying to talk your way through it usually ends with him getting hostile and hitting you with a literal head injury debuff.
Where to find Fu Lubao and what he actually wants
Fu Lubao appears at the General’s Shrine in Qinghe. He’s introduced as a grave robber and flagged in the Jianghu Friends list with the title “Grave Robber”. When you walk up, his AI chat prompt frames him as hunting for treasure at the shrine.
The “treasure” he’s after is tied to Meow Meow, the cat puzzle in the same early region. Completing that puzzle rewards a bell-like treasure linked to the cat. Fu Lubao doesn’t want a vague description or directions; he wants that bell.
Step one: finish the Meow Meow puzzle and get the bell
Before Fu Lubao’s encounter makes sense, you’re expected to clear the local Meow Meow puzzle:
- Track down Meow Meow in the area and solve the puzzle sequence.
- Receive the cat’s “treasure” reward — a bell item.
If you approach Fu Lubao without having this bell, the conversation leans on him trying to squeeze information out of you about Meow Meow’s treasure. If you’ve already solved the puzzle and have the bell, he skips straight to demanding the treasure itself.
How the first Fu Lubao encounter is supposed to resolve
The intended flow of that first meeting is surprisingly simple and does not rely on clever AI chat phrasing:
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1 | You have the Meow Meow bell in your inventory. |
| 2 | You interact with Fu Lubao at the General’s Shrine. |
| 3 | The game surfaces a direct option to “gift” or pass him one bell. |
| 4 | Once you hand over a single bell, the encounter ends and he leaves the area. |
You’re not meant to “win” the AI debate here or jump straight to friendship. The system treats this moment as one step in a multistage Old Friend chain. He leaves after getting his bell, and the friendship progression continues later.
Why Fu Lubao keeps getting hostile when you try to chat
Fu Lubao uses the same AI chat backbone as other Jianghu Friends, but his first stage is unusually narrow in what “works.” Several patterns tend to trigger his anger:
- Promising to share the treasure later instead of handing it over.
- Giving vague directions instead of acknowledging the bell directly.
- Acting like you already used or lost the treasure.
If you play it as a pure conversation puzzle — trying to describe where you found chests or spinning a story about the shrine — he often concludes you’re lying and starts a fight. You can defend yourself and even kill him; he will eventually reappear after fast travel or passing time, but the interaction is still stuck.
The key is that, for this phase, talk isn’t the real solution. The “correct” answer is the item handoff, not a particular line of dialog.
Using quoted actions like “gives treasure” in AI chat
Players have noticed that the AI chat engine treats quoted phrases as actions. For example:
"gives treasure"
"give bell to Fu Lubao"
"hand over the bell"When you type something like that in quotes, the NPC interprets it as an in-world action rather than just speech. With Fu Lubao, this can sometimes stand in for the missing bell prompt if the UI doesn’t surface it correctly, effectively simulating that you hand him the bell.
This is a bit finicky and depends on the exact wording, and it’s not the designed path. It’s more of a workaround when the GUI option to gift the bell refuses to appear. When it works, the conversation recognizes that he has received the treasure, he makes a deal with you, and then disappears from the shrine.
Why you don’t see friendship points after giving him the bell
Handing Fu Lubao the bell and watching him leave can feel bugged at first glance because:
- You don’t immediately see Old Friend reputation gains.
- He’s gone from the shrine, so there’s no obvious way to follow up.
That behavior is consistent with him being part of a longer chain. The bell handoff completes only the first leg of his Old Friend storyline; the relationship meter doesn’t jump just because you completed that transaction. He re-enters your journey later, and the more classic “befriend them via AI chat and tasks” pattern kicks in at that stage.
If you’re tracking “Old Friends” completion for Qinghe, Fu Lubao will not clear off that list purely from this first meeting. He shares the same space with other Shrine-adjacent problem NPCs like Fu Lushou and Fang Xu, and those early hours are deliberately messy and overlapping.
How Fu Lubao fits into the broader Jianghu Friends system
Fu Lubao is one node in the Jianghu Friends (Old Friends) network. These NPCs share a few core traits:
- They can be chatted with freely in an AI-style dialog box.
- They have a specific personal problem or obsession you’re meant to help with.
- Solving that issue in the way the game expects raises reputation and unlocks weekly gifts.
Some of them use mini-games like Sparring, Fishing Contest, or Pitch Pot as their primary route to friendship. Others, like Fu Lubao and Fu Lushou, lean heavily on AI conversation and world-state checks (items acquired, puzzles solved, skills unlocked).
The General’s Shrine cluster is deliberately tricky: Fu Lubao and Fu Lushou are entangled with Meow Meow’s treasure and another character, Fu Luwa — a dog behind the General’s Shrine that becomes important once you unlock the Animal Whisperer mystic skill.
Common confusion: Fu Lubao vs. Fu Lushou vs. Fu Luwa
Three names around the shrine cause a lot of overlap:
| Character | Role | Key requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Fu Lubao | Grave robber “Old Friend” at General’s Shrine | Give him one Meow Meow bell in the first encounter |
| Fu Lushou | Tomb raider disguised as merchant | Later stages tie into Fu Luwa and treasure talk; harder AI chat |
| Fu Luwa | Dog behind the shrine, called Fu Lubao’s “big brother” | Requires Animal Whisperer to talk to him |
Players often assume all three are part of one synchronized puzzle. In practice:
- Fu Lubao’s first step is self-contained: give bell, he leaves.
- Fu Lushou’s treasure obsession is more open-ended and can be satisfied by different conversation angles—some players resolve it by roleplaying an adventure where they “went with Fu Luwa and Fu Lubao to find the treasure.”
- Fu Luwa the dog becomes crucial once you unlock Animal Whisperer, because then you can name-drop him credibly in conversations with his human “relatives.”
It’s easy to get stuck on Fu Lubao or Fu Lushou if you try to brute-force the AI chats without the right items or skills—especially when the system marks both of them as potential Old Friends in the same vicinity.
Animal Whisperer and why you can’t talk to Fu Luwa yet
The dog Fu Luwa sits behind the General’s Shrine, but in the early game you can’t interact with him at all. The game expects you to unlock a mystic skill that lets you talk to animals before he becomes part of your solution set.
That mystic is Animal Whisperer. Once you have it, animals gain proper names and dialog. Fu Luwa then turns into a full AI-chat Old Friend in his own right and becomes part of the web around Fu Lubao and Fu Lushou.
Without Animal Whisperer, any “I know Fu Luwa” claim you make to Fu Lubao is pure bluffing. With it, he has reason to believe you actually spoke to his “big brother,” which can open different conversational paths in their later interactions.
What to do if you made Fu Lubao or Fu Lushou angry or killed them
Both Fu Lubao and Fu Lushou have very short tempers in AI chat. A few wrong lines and they attack you. Players regularly end up killing them in self-defense and then wonder if they’ve locked themselves out of Old Friend rewards in Qinghe.
The game does not treat those kills as permanent failures. Fast traveling away or simply passing time allows these NPCs to reappear and re-engage in conversation. The Jianghu Friends system is built for experimentation and repeated attempts; you’re not punished permanently for an aggressive misfire around the shrine.
That said, if you want to avoid endless loops of hostility, the most reliable path with Fu Lubao is still:
- Secure one Meow Meow bell.
- Trigger the “gift bell” option or successfully act out “giving bell” in chat.
- Let him leave the area and accept that friendship progress will resume later.
Fu Lubao’s early shrine encounter looks like a pure AI riddle but behaves more like an old-school item check hiding inside a chat window. Once you treat it that way—solve Meow Meow, hand over a bell, walk away—the rest of the General’s Shrine drama with Fu Lushou, Fu Luwa, and the wider Jianghu Friends system starts to fall into place.
