Where Winds Meet: Echoes of Old Battles Puzzle Solution
Light the right wall blocks with the Yanyun Oath characters to open the sealed treasury in Qinghe.
Light the right wall blocks with the Yanyun Oath characters to open the sealed treasury in Qinghe.
by Pallav Pathak
The sealed treasury at the end of Echoes of Old Battles, the first Jianghu Legacy quest in Qinghe, is locked behind a wall mechanism tied to the Yanyun Oath. The puzzle sits underground beneath a training ground in the Verdant Wilds, and it only reacts once you perform the Yanyun Oath gesture in front of the large statue.
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Quick answer: Pull out (light up) the blocks reading 山 河 寸 土 on the left wall and 誓 死 不 易 on the right wall. Push all other blocks in until they dim. The stone gate opens once only those eight characters glow.
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Unlock Echoes of Old Battles in Qinghe
The quest lives under the Jianghu Legacy tab of the Qinghe Exploration menu, listed as Jianghu Legacy 01. To start it, talk to the eavesdropper standing by the gate at Battlecrest Slope in the Verdant Wilds. Asking the Wayfarer at Moonveil Mountain is the prerequisite that surfaces the lead.
After accepting, select the quest from the Jianghu Legacy list and inspect it so the location is marked on your map.
Speak to the eavesdropper at Battlecrest Slope, open the gate, then clear the training ground. You will fight several guards and Zhang Bao, a hard-hitting enemy, so keep parrying and dodging through his combos.
You will fight several guards and Zhang Bao | Image credit: NetEase (via YouTube/@IGN)
Open the chest on the training ground to receive the treasure map clue. The map points to a set of contraptions, and only one needs to be lit. Light the mechanism standing right next to that chest.
A new contraption rises at the center of the training ground. Use Mighty Drop on it to expose the staircase leading down. Descend until you find a corpse, then inspect it to learn the Yanyun Oath and the Yanyun Oath gesture.
Use Mighty Drop on the contraption to expose the staircase leading down | Image credit: NetEase (via YouTube/@Quick Tips)
From the corpse, take the left path down another flight of steps to reach the chamber with the large statue. Perform the Yanyun Oath gesture facing the statue to activate the wall mechanism on either side.
Wall mechanism solution (Yanyun Oath characters)
Each wall holds stone blocks carved with Chinese characters. Pulling a block out lights it up; pushing it back in dims it. The gate stays sealed until exactly the eight oath characters are lit and nothing else. Light these blocks:
Wall
Characters to light up
Left wall
山 河 寸 土
Right wall
誓 死 不 易
Work one block at a time and double-check the glow state before moving on. If the gate does not open, the usual cause is an extra block still pushed out, or one of the eight oath blocks left dimmed. Reset by pushing in everything that is not on the list, then pull out only the eight characters above.
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The lit characters must match the Yanyun Oath clue you read from the corpse. Pulling a wrong block keeps the gate locked even if all eight correct ones are glowing, so clear the extras.
Each wall holds stone blocks carved with Chinese characters | Image credit: NetEase (via YouTube/@Quick Tips)
Drop into the lower area with the water wheel and waterfall. Go through the waterfall and activate the mechanism behind it to spin the wheel, which unlocks the last stone gate.
Drop into the lower area with the water wheel and waterfall | Image credit: NetEase (via YouTube/@Quick Tips)
Enter the chamber and open the treasure left by the Northern Vow soldiers at the far end. Read the writings on the wall afterward to close out the quest.
You will know it worked when the stone gate slides open after the wheel spins, and the quest completes once you finish reading the wall text following the treasure.
Image credit: NetEase (via YouTube/@Quick Tips)
Echoes of Old Battles rewards
The totals below cover everything earned across the quest and on completion.
Reward
Amount
Touch of Death
1
Wind Beneath Wings Page
4
Medicinal Tales
1
Lv. 2 Ebon Iron
6
Oscillating Jade
2
Echo Jade
50
Qinghe Exploration
88
Enlightenment Point
100
Character EXP
13,000
Coins
13,000
With the oath characters lit and the water wheel turned, the sealed treasury opens cleanly, and the Jianghu Legacy 01 entry in Qinghe is marked complete.
