Wildfire Spark is one of the most useful Inner Ways in Where Winds Meet, refunding some Endurance whenever you spend it. The only way to get its tome early is through the Qinghe encounter quest Deerforage's Remedy, which starts at Deerforage Grove and follows the wandering child Shi Yimo across Qinghe.
The quest is easy to fail to trigger and has a few hidden requirements, but once it starts, the actual steps are fairly straightforward. The whole encounter plays out between three main locations: the road between Blissful Retreat and Heaven's Pier, Deerforage Grove in Moonveil Mountain, Porcelain Kiln, and Thousand-Buddha Vale in Sundara Land.
Prerequisites for Deerforage's Remedy
Before Shi Yimo will appear in Deerforage Grove, you need two things in place:
- Culinary: Hotpot Fever completed – This is an Exploration quest in Qinghe, on the road between Blissful Retreat and Heaven's Pier. It has you help Shi Yimo with a Hotpot recipe near a blossom tree and a cooking pot.
- Healer profession unlocked and leveled – You must be able to use Healers' Art/Wind Sense to treat illness, and you need roughly 4,100–4,500 Healer's Mastery to clear Shi Yimo's poison check at Thousand-Buddha Vale.
Culinary: Hotpot Fever is a direct narrative lead-in: you meet Shi Yimo there first, then she later turns up in Deerforage Grove. Healer is mandatory because Deerforage's Remedy includes a treatment minigame that cannot be skipped.
How to trigger Deerforage's Remedy at Deerforage Grove
Deerforage's Remedy starts as a roaming Encounter in Moonveil Mountain, and Shi Yimo can be finicky about showing up.
Step 1: After finishing Culinary: Hotpot Fever, travel to the Deerforage Grove Boundary Stone in Moonveil Mountain. This is in the Qinghe region and can be reached quickly once the stone is activated.
Step 2: From the Boundary Stone, move toward the large tree nearby, then circle around to the back side toward the small creek and bridge. Shi Yimo should spawn in the water near the bridge, with the Encounter prompt appearing on your screen.
Step 3: If Shi Yimo does not appear, clear the following common blockers:
- Finish any other currently active Encounter quests; players report that multiple concurrent Encounters can block the trigger.
- Change the time of day and revisit Deerforage Grove; several players see her during the Shen (monkey) hour.
- Fast travel away, complete any small side event or Encounter, then return and run a short loop up and down the nearby cliff and back to the big tree.
Once Shi Yimo is visible and the Encounter marker appears, interact with her in the river to officially start Deerforage's Remedy.
Deerforage's Remedy walkthrough: all quest steps
1. Talk to Shi Yimo in Deerforage Grove
Step 1: Speak with Shi Yimo while she is “swimming” in the creek by the bridge in Deerforage Grove. She insists she is a loach and tells you she is searching for a treasure that smells good, which she once saw a woman holding.
Step 2: When prompted, choose to help her rather than leave. This locks in the Encounter.
After accepting, Shi Yimo decides she has searched Deerforage Grove enough and runs off toward Porcelain Kiln. A book called The Li An Plan appears where she was standing; pick it up as a quest item before you leave.
2. Find Shi Yimo at Porcelain Kiln
Step 1: Use the nearby Boundary Stone to fast travel to Porcelain Kiln, the kiln complex in Qinghe.
Step 2: Look up toward the wooden tower or stacked shelves overlooking the kiln. Shi Yimo is perched on the upper level, pretending to be a jar.
Step 3: Climb up to her and start a conversation. She points out what she thinks is a murderous villain below, but it turns out to be Song Jiu, the owner of the kiln. After realizing her mistake, she decides to continue treasure hunting somewhere more secluded and announces she is heading to Thousand-Buddha Vale in Sundara Land.
If you have not yet opened the Sundara Land map, speak to the regional Wayfarer to claim it before heading to her next location.
3. Track Shi Yimo to Thousand-Buddha Vale
Step 1: Fast travel to Sundara Land and move toward Thousand-Buddha Vale (often called Thousand-Buddha Village in some quest logs). Follow the quest marker up into the valley lined with Buddha statues and alcoves.
Step 2: Find Shi Yimo sitting or kneeling in one of the alcoves, meditating among the statues. Try talking to her; she initially shushes you because “everyone is meditating.”
Step 3: Insist on speaking again. After a brief exchange, she doubles over with stomach pain, revealing that something is seriously wrong. At this point, the quest asks you to use your healing skill.
4. Use Healers' Art to cure Shi Yimo's poison
This is the gate where the Healer profession and Mastery level matter.
Step 1: Press your Wind Sense key (default V on PC) to activate Healers' Art around Shi Yimo. Aim the sense cursor at her to lock on.
Step 2: Interact with her while Wind Sense is active to open the healing interface. Start treatment and complete the minigame to remove her “Unknown Toxin.”
The check requires roughly 4,100 Healer's Mastery or higher. If your Mastery is too low, you will fail the treatment and need to level the profession first via Healer activities such as clinic work and the “Legacy: Healer's Calling” questline.
Step 3: Once the treatment succeeds, exit the minigame and speak to Shi Yimo again. Your character now questions her about how she was poisoned.
Shi Yimo explains that she already found her “treasure” long before you met her. She ate it, loved the taste, and has been chasing more of the same thing since — not realizing it was a toxic red mushroom. As she remembers its appearance, she points to a specimen stuck on a nearby wooden post: a bright red mushroom that clearly stands out from the surroundings.
5. Meet Fuling and destroy the poisonous mushroom
Step 1: Talk to Shi Yimo again to hear the full story. She mentions that another girl showed her the mushroom, which is why she wanted one of her own.
Step 2: As you get ready to track down this other child, a second girl appears next to the mushroom on the post. This is Fuling, dressed in green. She claims the mushroom as hers.
Step 3: Fuling climbs down and argues with Shi Yimo. Shi Yimo warns that red mushrooms are poisonous and, in a panic, grabs the mushroom off the post and smashes it to save Fuling from poisoning herself.
Fuling, however, already knows the mushroom is poisonous and explains she was gathering these red caps for Sister Lingdang to use in medicine. Because Shi Yimo destroyed her specimen, Fuling demands compensation.
To make it right, you must now collect three Wild Mushrooms for Fuling.
6. Collect three Wild Mushrooms
Regular Wild Mushrooms are common gathering items in Qinghe and elsewhere. The quest accepts any Wild Mushrooms in your inventory and does not require new ones picked specifically from Sundara Land.
Option 1: Use the map's item tracking
Step 1: Open the world map. On the right side of the screen, select the twig icon that opens the item tracking sidebar.
Step 2: Scroll through the list of gatherables until you find Wild Mushroom and tick its checkbox. The map now displays all known Wild Mushroom nodes across the regions you have explored.
Step 3: Travel to any of these highlighted spots, pick mushrooms until you have at least three in your inventory, then return to Fuling at Thousand-Buddha Vale.
Option 2: Buy mushrooms from a vendor
If you do not want to track gathering nodes, General Goods Vendors in Qinghe and Kaifeng also sell Wild Mushrooms in small quantities.
Step 1: Fast travel to a city in Qinghe or Kaifeng and locate a General Goods Vendor.
Step 2: Purchase at least three Wild Mushrooms, then return to Fuling. The quest will recognize vendor-bought mushrooms just like gathered ones.
In either case, if you already had three or more Wild Mushrooms before treating Shi Yimo, you can hand them over immediately without leaving Thousand-Buddha Vale.
7. Resolve the encounter and claim Wildfire Spark
Step 1: Interact with Fuling and choose to submit the three Wild Mushrooms. She acknowledges that the debt from the destroyed red mushroom is settled.
Step 2: Fuling then uses the mushrooms you provided to cook a pot of mushroom soup at her small camp nearby. You are asked to taste the dish; accept and watch the short cutscene of the girls eating.
As they eat, Shi Yimo and Fuling quickly become friends. Almost immediately, they start arguing over whose storyteller is better: Shi Yimo's brother Li An or Fuling's sister Lingdang. The discussion escalates into a friendly rivalry, and the two girls run off to find their respective siblings, leaving you behind with a reward.
Step 3: Shi Yimo gives you a book before she leaves: the Wildfire Spark: Tome, which unlocks the Wildfire Spark Inner Way passive once learned. At the same time, you also receive a bundle of currency and progression rewards.
Deerforage's Remedy quest rewards
| Reward | Quantity / Effect |
|---|---|
| Wildfire Spark: Tome | Unlocks the Wildfire Spark Inner Way passive (Endurance refund on spend). |
| Echo Jade | 25 |
| Qinghe Exploration | 25 |
| Enlightenment Points | 100 |
| Character EXP | 10,000–15,000 (values may vary slightly by listing but sit in this range). |
| Coins | 10,000 |
These rewards are delivered gradually as you move through critical steps (curing Shi Yimo, resolving the mushroom dispute) and then on final completion. The Wildfire Spark tome is the main reason to prioritize this Encounter early in Qinghe, especially for builds that spam high-Endurance martial arts.
If Shi Yimo still refuses to spawn in Deerforage Grove after completing Culinary: Hotpot Fever and clearing other Encounters, it often helps to leave the area, wait through a full in-game day cycle, and return during a different time slot. Once she appears and Deerforage's Remedy is underway, the rest of the quest is linear and free of combat, making it a quick route to a powerful Inner Way.
