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.
- 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
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
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
4. Use Healers’ Art to cure Shi Yimo’s poison
This is the gate where the Healer profession and Mastery level matter.
V on PC) to activate Healers’ Art around Shi Yimo. Aim the sense cursor at her to lock on.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
