Gaming Guide

Purge the Sect Quest in Phantom Blade Zero: Ruthless Archer Camp and the Feather Bow

How to complete Purge the Sect in Phantom Blade Zero: where the Old Archer is, clearing the Ruthless Archer Camp, the Broken-String Bow, and the Feather Bow reward.

How to complete Purge the Sect in Phantom Blade Zero: where the Old Archer is, clearing the Ruthless Archer Camp, the Broken-String Bow, and the Feather Bow reward.

Soul standing by a timber hut and stacked logs at the Outpost camp in the bamboo forest of Weeping Creek Valley, Phantom Blade Zero

Quick answer: Defeat the Old Archer’s corrupted disciples at the Ruthless Archer Camp, pick up the Broken-String Bow they drop, and bring it to the Old Archer at the Outpost. He restores it as the Feather Bow, a Phantom Edge.

Purge the Sect is a side quest, or tale, in Weeping Creek Valley. It has two objectives, and it ends with a ranged Phantom Edge.


How to start Purge the Sect

The quest giver is the Old Archer, whose name tag reads Brooding Old Archer. He is a wounded archer about 66 m from the Outpost bell in Weeping Creek Valley. If you need help finding that bell, check the bell locations. Speak to him and the tale begins.

Soul at the Outpost forge camp with the furnace, braziers and a cauldron in Weeping Creek Valley, Phantom Blade Zero

The map below marks the Old Archer at the Outpost and the Ruthless Archer Camp.


Purge the Sect walkthrough

The quest log tracks two objectives, in this order:

  1. “Eliminate the Old Archer’s corrupted disciples at the Ruthless Archer Camp”
  2. “Give the Broken-String Feather Bow to the Old Archer at the outpost”
Before fighting, ring the bell at the Ruthless Archer Camp, a camp separate from the others with its own bell. The corrupted disciples are about 11 m away. If you die, the bell will bring you back close by.
Clear the camp of the corrupted disciples. They drop the Broken-String Bow along with a Blackstone Shard, which you can put toward your Blackstone Shards total. The bow’s item card reads:

“A longbow once used by the Old Archer’s disciples. Its limbs have been polished smooth by years of use, still bearing traces of the care it once received.

Now that the bowstring has snapped, perhaps the Old Archer at the outpost can repair it.”

Return to the Outpost and give the bow to the Old Archer. He fits it with a new string and hands you the Feather Bow, completing the tale.

Purge the Sect reward: Feather Bow

“A powerful bow repaired and restrung by the old archer. A formidable weapon at range.”

Feather Bow Phantom Edge artwork, Phantom Blade Zero

Its arts and upgrade path are covered in the Feather Bow breakdown, and every other option sits in the full list of weapons and Phantom Edges.

The rest of the game’s tales are in all side quests, and everything else in the area is in the Weeping Creek Valley collectibles.