The bell puzzle in the underground cave during the Blind to the World quest in Where Winds Meet looks simple: four bells, one pedestal, shoot them in the order they ring. The trick is that the correct pattern only appears when you give up your sight and rely on sound, echoing the Lunar Goddess’s own story.
Where the bell puzzle appears in Blind to the World
The bells sit above a sealed stone gate deep inside the shrine beneath Crimson Cliff in Qinghe. You encounter them in the middle of the Lost Chapter quest “Blind to the World,” after:
- Draining the lake and solving the pressure plate puzzle at the Moon Goddess statue
- Following Uncle Tian through the burning cloth corridor
- Taking the side path at the broken bridge and swimming through the underwater tunnel
Both possible routes from the collapsed drawbridge converge in front of this stone gate. On the high ground facing the door is a small pedestal or stone contraption; that’s what triggers the bells.
Bell puzzle layout and mechanics
In front of the gate, you’ll see four large bells mounted in a line above the stone door. Each bell has a stone “slab” or pressure plate target just above it that you can hit with arrows to make it ring.
| Position (left to right) | What you see | How you interact |
|---|---|---|
| 1st bell | Leftmost bell over the gate | Shoot the plate above it with arrows |
| 2nd bell | Second from the left | Shoot the plate above it with arrows |
| 3rd bell | Second from the right | Shoot the plate above it with arrows |
| 4th bell | Rightmost bell | Shoot the plate above it with arrows |
| Pedestal | On the hill opposite the gate | Interact to play a bell sequence |
| Moonlit Flowers | Blue flowers near the pedestal | Step on them to darken your screen |
The obvious approach is to press the pedestal, watch the bells ring in sequence, then shoot the plates to mimic what you saw. If you do it that way, the door stays locked. The shrine reacts to how the blind Lunar Goddess experienced the world, not how you see it.
Why the Moonlit Flowers matter
Blue Moonlit Flowers appear several times in Blind to the World. Touching them plunges the screen into darkness and heightens environmental cues like sound. Earlier in the underwater section, they help you follow currents when you can’t see; here, they flip the logic of the bell puzzle.
Nearby dialogue and letters emphasize that the “Moon Goddess was blind and relied on her hearing.” The puzzle mirrors that idea. You are expected to:
- Accept temporary blindness by standing on the Moonlit Flowers
- Listen to a different bell pattern played while you can’t see
- Reproduce that sound-only pattern by shooting the bells in that order
Until you involve the flowers, the game is effectively teaching you a decoy pattern. Visually copying the first sequence is deliberately wrong.
Exact bell order to open the stone gate
Once the shrine is “viewed” on its own terms, the lock is much more straightforward. The correct bell sequence uses the positions of the bells from left to right.
| Step | Action | Bell position (left→right) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shoot the third bell’s plate | 3rd bell (second from the right) |
| 2 | Shoot the fourth bell’s plate | 4th bell (rightmost) |
| 3 | Shoot the first bell’s plate | 1st bell (leftmost) |
| 4 | Shoot the second bell’s plate | 2nd bell (second from the left) |
Written as a simple pattern, the solution is:
3 → 4 → 1 → 2 (counting bells from left to right).
Hit each plate cleanly in that order. If you misfire or hit the wrong bell, let the sequence fail and start again from the third bell. When all four are triggered correctly, the seal on the stone door breaks, and you can push it open to reach the Lunar Goddess’s chamber.
How to solve the bell puzzle using the flowers
For clarity, here is the full interaction flow from the moment you reach the gate:
- Walk up the stairs opposite the gate to the pedestal that controls the bells.
- Note the row of four bells above the stone door and the stone targets above each one.
- Walk a short distance behind or beside the pedestal to find the glowing blue Moonlit Flowers on the ground.
- Step onto the Moonlit Flowers so your screen darkens and the environment becomes muffled visually but sharper in sound.
- While still affected by the flowers, interact with the pedestal to trigger the bell sequence.
- Ignore what you can’t see; listen carefully to the order in which the bells chime. This corresponds to the 3–4–1–2 pattern when mapped left to right.
- Step off the flowers. The blindness will fade; you don’t have to stay blind while shooting.
- Stand where you can clearly see all four plates and draw your bow.
- Shoot the plate above the third bell, then the fourth, then the first, then the second, pausing briefly between hits to let each ring register.
- Wait for the audio cue and visual shake that signal the stone mechanism unlocking, then head down to the gate and push it open.
How the bell puzzle ties back into Blind to the World
The bell puzzle is not just a mechanical hurdle on the way to better loot. It reinforces the quest’s central idea: vision is not the only way to understand the world. Earlier, the quest teaches you to watch glowing plates, read written hints, and follow visible currents underwater. At the gate, those habits fail. The only way forward is to imitate the Lunar Goddess and let hearing, not sight, guide the solution.
Once the gate opens, the quest sends you into the inner cave where Li Zhenzhen’s body rests, and eventually asks you to choose between returning her eyes or offering a single Moonlit Flower and a Small Blade—two items that symbolize the life she chose and the vows she carried to her death. Solving the bells by sound alone is a small rehearsal for that choice, and the moment when the shrine finally responds feels earned because it required you to think like the person who built it.
By the time you leave with the Blinding Mist Mystic Skill and the rest of the quest rewards, the bells are a quiet reminder: sometimes, the right answer is the one you can’t see at all.
