The “Blind to the World” Lost Chapter Quest in Where Winds Meet builds toward a single quiet objective: understanding what the Lunar Goddess, Li Zhenzhen, actually wants. After draining a lake, solving puzzles, and retrieving her eyes, the quest locks progression behind a vague prompt to “find what the Lunar Goddess really wants.” The answer lies in two specific items hidden in her underground dwelling.
Quest context: reaching the Lunar Goddess
“Blind to the World” starts at Crimson Cliff in Qinghe, beneath Moonveil Mountain. After speaking with Uncle Tian at the lakeside, you:
- Drain the lake using three underwater mechanisms chained to a stone plate.
- Complete a pressure plate puzzle around the Moon Goddess statue to open the shrine entrance.
- Navigate a trapped corridor with flammable hanging cloths and cross a broken bridge via a side path through a flooded cave.
- Open a bell-locked stone gate by reproducing a ringing sequence with your bow, using the blue flowers nearby to experience the puzzle “blind.”
Past the bell gate, you reach a large cavern with an island-like platform. On the raised cliff sits Li Zhenzhen, the so‑called Lunar Goddess, motionless beside an altar. After a cutscene, you retrieve an Ice Jade Box (her eyes) and give it to Uncle Tian. He concludes that simply returning her sight is not enough; you are then prompted to “find what the Lunar Goddess really wants.”
How the “find what the Lunar Goddess really wants” step works
When you interact with Li Zhenzhen at this point, one of the options mentions settling an old vow, but you lack the right offerings. The game does not spell out what those offerings are. To progress, you must explore her living space deeper in the cavern and bring back two items tied to her past:
- Small Blade
- Moonlit Flower (also called Moonlight or blue flower in some prompts)
These items embody the life she led and the life she longed for, and they are what truly resolves her unfinished vow. Without both items in your inventory, the interaction with the Lunar Goddess will not fully complete this objective.
Where to find the Small Blade
Step 1: From the Lunar Goddess’s platform, turn away from her and look for a staircase leading down deeper into the cavern. Take this staircase to reach the lower levels of her dwelling.
Step 2: Follow the path until you see a small living area. This space stands out with everyday objects such as a clothes rack and a simple table, a clear contrast to the ceremonial altar above.
Step 3: Approach the table in this living area. The Small Blade lies on top of it as an interactable quest item. Pick it up; it will be added to your quest inventory.
Where to find the Moonlit Flower
Step 1: After taking the Small Blade, continue along the path that leads slightly further away from the living area. Stay close to the rock walls and watch for luminous plants.
Step 2: Look for a single Moonlit Flower that glows more brightly than the surrounding foliage. This flower resembles the blue blossoms that previously caused temporary blindness in the cave leading to the bell puzzle.
Step 3: Interact with the glowing Moonlit Flower to pluck it. It is marked as a quest item and will sit alongside the Small Blade in your inventory.
Common pitfall: why the Goddess still says “this isn’t what she wants”
Many players run into the same problem at this point. After finding one of the items—usually the Moonlit Flower—they return to Li Zhenzhen, offer it, and see feedback suggesting the offering is not enough or not quite right. This message can make it seem like you picked up the wrong object.
What actually happens is that the interaction consumes only one offering at a time. If you have just one of the two required items, or if you offer them in separate interactions, the game will not explicitly confirm that the total set is complete until both have been presented. The correct approach is to ensure you have both the Small Blade and the Moonlit Flower before expecting the final resolution.
How to offer the Small Blade and Moonlit Flower to the Lunar Goddess
Step 1: With both items in your possession, return up the staircase to the main chamber where Li Zhenzhen sits on the raised cliff. Approach her and interact to open the offering menu.
Step 2: Select the prompt related to settling her vow or fulfilling her wish. The UI will present your relevant quest items. Highlight the Small Blade and confirm. On the controller, this involves choosing the item and pressing the confirm button noted in the bottom corner of the screen (for example, the button labeled to “fulfill an old wish” on PlayStation).
Step 3: Interact with her again, and this time select the Moonlit Flower. Confirm the offering as you did with the blade. After both offerings are accepted, the objective to “find what the Lunar Goddess really wants” updates, and a final cutscene triggers.
On some platforms, the interface may appear to allow you to complete the step with a single item, but the story only resolves once both offerings have been given. If you see no cutscene or quest completion after offering one item, interact with her again and check that the second item is also used.
What each offering represents in the story
The quest never spells everything out in dialogue, but the placement and nature of the items hint at their meaning:
- The Small Blade rests on an ordinary table in her modest living quarters. It suggests sacrifice, self-defense, or a decisive act tied to the vow that left her “blind to the world.”
- The Moonlit Flower grows alone and glows brighter than the other plants around it. Earlier in the shrine, similar flowers obscure vision yet reveal hidden paths, implying a trade between clarity and blindness in exchange for insight.
By offering both, you acknowledge the full weight of Li Zhenzhen’s choices: the pain of what she did or endured, and the quiet life she may have yearned for under the moon. The cutscene that follows closes out her story and finally grants her rest.
Leaving the shrine and receiving the rewards
After the final scene with the Lunar Goddess, the quest marker points you toward the exit. The formal completion of “Blind to the World” only happens once you leave her cavern.
Step 1: From the main chamber, head back down toward her living space rather than trying to climb or teleport out. Follow the corridor deeper until you reach a narrow crevice in the rock wall.
Step 2: Squeeze through this opening to reach a small underground dock with a simple raft waiting on the water.
Step 3: Board the raft to automatically travel out of the cavern and return to the surface. Upon emerging, the quest flag updates, and all rewards are granted.
Completing “Blind to the World” grants the Blinding Mist Mystic Skill, Li Zhenzhen’s Dusty Wedding Dress, a Medicinal Tales item, and a package of progression resources such as Echo Jade, Oscillating Jade, Ebon Iron, Qinghe Exploration Points, Enlightenment Points, Character EXP, and coins. Blinding Mist creates a cloud of poisonous mist that obscures enemy vision and briefly disables weaker targets, opening them up for follow‑up attacks or Touch of Death takedowns. It requires 80 Vitality to equip.
Optional extras: letters and a hidden statue reward
While searching Li Zhenzhen’s shrine, you can collect three letter fragments from corpses and chests. These can be assembled and placed on a table in the lower levels of the cavern, expanding the backstory around the shrine and its inhabitants. This narrative thread is optional and not required to complete the quest or obtain Blinding Mist.
There is also an additional secret linked to the pressure plate puzzle around the Moon Goddess statue at the drained lake. After finishing “Blind to the World,” returning to that tower and solving the plate puzzle three times—twice with visible cues and a third time guided only by tones—reveals a hidden box beneath the statue as an extra reward. This interaction sits outside the core “find what the Lunar Goddess really wants” objective, but builds on the same theme of trusting sound and intuition over sight.
Once both the Small Blade and Moonlit Flower have been offered and you have taken the raft back to the surface, the key question posed by the shrine—what the Lunar Goddess truly wanted—is answered, and “Blind to the World” becomes one of the more self-contained and memorable stories in Qinghe.
