Jinming Pool is one of the centerpiece locations in Kaifeng’s Jadewood Court region in Where Winds Meet, and it anchors an entire naval-focused campaign arc. It ties directly into achievements like “Jinming Pool Secrets”, unlocks a major boss encounter with Murong Yuan, and feeds into several in‑game achievement lines that ask you to clear the area on higher difficulties or under time pressure.
Jinming Pool on the world map
Jinming Pool sits in the western Kaifeng region, inside the Jadewood Court prefecture. Jadewood Court is a strip of waterways, cliffs, and gardens that runs along the western edge of Kaifeng, and Jinming Pool occupies the area of the great training pond and its surrounding platforms.
| Region | Prefecture | Related points of interest | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaifeng | Jadewood Court | Grand Canal, Masterwood Hamlet, Buddha Statue Site | Outer approach to Jinming Pool |
| Kaifeng | Jadewood Court | North Imperial Garden, South Imperial Garden | Gardens overlooking Jinming Pool |
| Kaifeng | Jadewood Court | Martial Temple, Dreamfall Cliff, Pipa Chasm, Petalfall Crossing | Cliffs and crossings around the pool |
| Kaifeng | Jadewood Court | Jinming Pool | Campaign zone and naval warship arena |
The pool itself is framed as a training pond for a five‑deck warship, with surrounding cliffs and terraces that you move through during the story. Once the related campaign is unlocked, Jinming becomes a repeatable combat space rather than just a scenic landmark.
Jinming Pool campaigns, trophies, and achievements
Several achievement systems call out Jinming Pool explicitly. They fall into three broad groups:
| System | Achievement name | Requirement | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epic Games / IGN lists | Jinming Pool Secrets | Clear Campaign: Jinming Pool | Standard completion of the Jinming Pool campaign route. |
| PS5 trophies | Jinming Pool Secrets | Clear Campaign: Jinming Pool | Bronze trophy with very low unlock rate. |
| In‑game achievements | Way Seeking in Jinming | Clear Jinming Pool campaign for the first time and uncover secrets within the Five-Fang Warship. | Rewards Echo Jade and highlights the warship’s hidden story. |
| In‑game achievements | Exhilaration! Jinming Pool | Defeat Rong Yuan in Jinming Pool campaign within 180 seconds. | Speed‑clear challenge focused on the campaign boss. |
| In‑game achievements | Fieryheart a Cry | Complete Jinming Pool challenge on Hard difficulty. | Marks a higher-difficulty clear. |
| In‑game achievements | Kite Flies at Leisure | Complete Jinming Pool challenge on Abyss difficulty. | Top‑end difficulty for the same content. |
For general trophy and platform meta‑progression, simply clearing the campaign once is enough to trigger “Jinming Pool Secrets”. The deeper set of in‑game achievements asks you to treat Jinming Pool like an endgame dungeon: clearing it quickly, and then again on Hard and Abyss for extra Echo Jade and prestige.
How Jinming Pool unlocks Murong Yuan
Jinming Pool is not only an achievement trigger; it also gates a later boss fight and campaign arc. Clearing the naval sequence is what opens access to Murong Yuan, one of the harder Campaign Bosses in Kaifeng.
| Boss | Type | Where to fight | Unlock condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Murong Yuan | Campaign Boss | North Imperial Garden, Jadewood Court | Complete the “Jinming Pool: Petalfall Banquet” campaign quest. |
The Petalfall Banquet chapter at Jinming Pool is the story step that introduces the massive warship and its political stakes. Once that arc is complete, the campaign path shifts to the imperial gardens above the water, where Murong Yuan waits as a dedicated boss encounter.
This sequence ties Jinming Pool into a broader Kaifeng progression: campaign rewards from Petalfall Banquet include items like Soul Weave: Tome and a unique fan (Zheng E Snowborne Fan), and they also move you closer to finishing Kaifeng’s campaign‑oriented trophies, such as “Savior of Kaifeng” and “Past Secrets Unsung”.
Murong Yuan fight overview and recommended skills
Murong Yuan is tuned as a high‑difficulty Campaign Boss, with a five‑star rating and mechanics that reward tight resource management. While the full move list is extensive, one pattern is crucial: yellow unblockable attacks in her first phase can be interrupted using specific tools.
| Element | Details |
|---|---|
| Recommended martial art | Panacea Fan for reliable healing and ranged coverage. |
| Recommended mystic skills | Flaming Meteor, Loong Head, Meridian Touch. |
| Key interaction | Use Meridian Touch against Murong Yuan’s yellow unblockable to cancel the move and knock her down. |
Meridian Touch is central to controlling the fight. When Murong Yuan flashes a yellow, non‑blockable animation, triggering Meridian Touch on contact locks out the attack, drops her to the ground, and opens a short window to dump high‑damage combos into both her health and Qi bars.
Because Meridian Touch is a separate Mystic Skill unlocked through the Qinghe quest “Meridian Touch”, you need to bring progression from Qinghe into Kaifeng to make the most of this fight. Panacea Fan and Flaming Meteor cover sustain and explosive damage, while Loong Head provides another hard‑hitting option once her Qi has been suppressed.
Jinming Pool campaign rewards and progression impact
Clearing the Jinming Pool: Petalfall Banquet campaign chapter pays out a mix of currency, progression resources, and unique items. At campaign completion, you receive:
| Reward type | Reward | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Currency | Coin × 43,000 | General purchases and upgrades. |
| XP | Character EXP × 43,000 | Core level progression. |
| Exploration | Kaifeng Exploration × 105 | Raises exploration rank in Kaifeng, unlocking regional rewards over time. |
| Knowledge | Enlightenment Points × 100 | Spent on long‑term character development systems. |
| Materials | Oscillating Jade × 5 | High‑end crafting and enhancement. |
| Item | Soul Weave: Tome × 1 | Inner Way or progression unlock (soul weave line). |
| Equipment | Zheng E Snowborne Fan × 1 | Thematic fan weapon reward tied to the Granary / Zheng E line. |
| Lore / utility | Medicinal Tales × 1 | Compendium and healing‑adjacent progression. |
These rewards overlap directly with larger progression goals. Exploration points push you toward Kaifeng’s region rewards, which include items like the Afterglow Pendant for movement skills in Qinghe’s equivalent system. Enlightenment points and Oscillating Jade accelerate character builds aimed at tackling later campaigns, such as Palace of Annals or Halo Peak, which also carry their own trophies.
The in‑game achievements tied to Jinming Pool then ask you to go back and replay the content under stricter conditions. Speed‑clearing Rong Yuan and then tackling Hard and Abyss difficulty variants are all framed as discrete milestones with Echo Jade payouts, giving the naval arena long‑term value rather than being a one‑and‑done story beat.
How Jinming Pool fits into the wider campaign structure
On the macro level, Jinming Pool sits alongside Still Shore, Palace of Annals, Halo Peak, Heavenfall, and other named campaigns as one of the nodes that story and trophies revolve around.
| Campaign | Region | Platform / meta achievement | Theme |
|---|---|---|---|
| Still Shore | Qinghe (Moonveil Mountain) | Source of Still Shore | Early homeland arc for the protagonist. |
| Palace of Annals | Qinghe (Moonveil Mountain) | Past Secrets Unsung | Abandoned imperial retreat and Lucky Seventeen boss. |
| Halo Peak | Qinghe (Sundara Land) | Buddha’s Afterglow | Mountain monastery and Bodhi Sea‑linked storyline. |
| Jinming Pool | Kaifeng (Jadewood Court) | Jinming Pool Secrets | Naval warship, Petalfall Banquet, and Murong Yuan unlock. |
| Heavenfall | Kaifeng | Savior of Kaifeng | City‑scale crisis in Kaifeng. |
Qinghe’s campaigns open core systems like Mystic Skills (Meridian Touch, Blinding Mist, Meteor Flight) and foundational Inner Ways. Once those are in place, Kaifeng’s set of campaigns—Jinming Pool included—expect you to bring that toolkit to bear in more complex fights and tighter achievement challenges.
Clearing Jinming Pool, therefore, serves three roles at once: it fills in a key story about naval power and political ambition, it unlocks a late‑game boss in Murong Yuan who leans on skills learned earlier in Qinghe, and it ticks off a named trophy that sits alongside all the other campaign‑completion milestones.
Treat Jinming Pool as one of the inflection points in Where Winds Meet’s progression. Once the Petalfall Banquet is done, the pool is no longer just a scenic training pond; it becomes a benchmark for how well your build, Mystic Skills, and map knowledge can handle timed clears, high difficulties, and bosses that assume you’ve explored both Qinghe and Kaifeng in depth.
