Rest in Where Winds Meet is not tied to beds or sleep prompts. Instead, the game uses several systems that refill health and medicine, clear long‑lasting injuries, and even let you rebuild your character’s appearance or start over cleanly.
Boundary Stones for instant healing and medicine refills
Boundary Stones are the main way to “rest” during exploration and combat-focused play. They act as both healing points and fast travel nodes.
Step 1: Move your character close to a Boundary Stone until the interaction radius triggers.
Step 2: Stop and remain beside the stone for a moment; your HP will jump back to full automatically.
Step 3: Check your healing item slot on the hotbar; its charges are refilled by pulling from any matching medicine you carry in your backpack.
Step 4: Open your inventory before long journeys and make sure you have enough healing items, or the game will not be able to restock your Medicine Chest when you stand at a Boundary Stone.
Because Boundary Stones are also used for fast travel, you will naturally pass through them as you move around the map. Every visit doubles as a quick rest: health returns to maximum, and your equipped potion or medicine charges are reset as long as you have stock.
Campfires and food for gradual HP recovery
Campfires provide a slower kind of rest that depends on cooked food instead of pure medicine charges. This is useful when you are low on potions but have ingredients to cook.
Step 1: Find a lit campfire in the field, usually in camps, villages, or near cooking spots.
Step 2: Open your bag and confirm you have cooked recovery dishes, such as HP-restoring meals prepared earlier via the cooking system.
Step 3: Stand or sit near the campfire and consume a cooked meal; your HP will tick up gradually over time rather than refilling instantly.
Step 4: Stay within the campfire area while the effect is active to allow the full amount of recovery to apply before you move on.
Campfire rest is slower than standing at a Boundary Stone, but it lets you conserve medicine charges for emergencies if you have plenty of food prepared.
Evercare Clinic and self-healing for illnesses and sprains
Long‑lasting injuries such as sprains, bone stress, or miasma sickness reduce key stats through the Constitution system. Clearing these conditions is another important form of rest.
Resting at Evercare Clinic in Qinghe
Step 1: Progress the main story until Evercare Clinic in the Qinghe region becomes available and its nearby Boundary Stone is unlocked.
Step 2: Fast travel to the Boundary Stone near the clinic to avoid travelling across the entire region on foot.
Step 3: Enter the clinic building and speak with Yao Yaoyao, the NPC who runs the facility.
Step 4: Pay the treatment fee of about 10,000 coins when prompted; all active illnesses and injuries on your character are removed in one go.
This “medical rest” is the most direct way to reset your body when debuffs start to make combat or traversal feel punishing, especially early on.
Healing through other players in Online mode
In Online mode, players who selected the Doctor Career can also clear ailments.
Step 1: Switch to Online mode and position yourself in an area where other players gather, such as common hubs.
Step 2: Use the in-game request option to ask for healing from a player with the Doctor Career.
Step 3: Wait for a Doctor to accept your request and complete the short prescription mini-game.
Step 4: Once the mini-game finishes successfully, check your Constitution panel; the targeted condition should be gone.
Doctors cannot use this interaction on their own character, so this method is strictly cooperative and relies on others being willing to help.
Minor conditions that fade with passive rest
Some debuffs will resolve without visiting the clinic if you rest in suitable surroundings.
Step 1: For sprains, stop running and avoid combat; sit, meditate, or simply remain still so your character can recover.
Step 2: For bone stress, move to a peaceful location, such as near water or a calmer area, and remain there without strenuous actions.
Step 3: For miasma sickness, leave the polluted or cursed zone entirely and wait in clean air while the effect wears off.
Step 4: Periodically open your Constitution panel to confirm the status icon has cleared before resuming tough content.
Using passive rest for minor issues saves coins, while the clinic and Doctors are better reserved for harsher ailments or when you need to be in peak condition quickly.
Checking Constitution before choosing how to rest
The Constitution screen shows exactly how badly illnesses and injuries are affecting you, which helps decide when to spend money or time on treatment.
Step 1: Open the main menu and select Develop.
Step 2: On the right side, choose Details under your current build.
Step 3: Switch to the Constitution tab to view your four tracked body areas: Mind, Organs, Meridians, and Muscles.
Step 4: Highlight each listed condition to read its specific effect, such as a sprain reducing Endurance recovery by a percentage.
Use this information to prioritise rests: a small penalty to a non-critical area might be tolerable, while a heavy hit to Muscles or Organs before a boss is a strong cue to visit Evercare Clinic or ask a Doctor for help.
Managing the Medicine Chest and healing charges
Your Medicine Chest determines how many times you can heal from your equipped medicine before needing a refill at a rest point.
Step 1: Collect Medicinal Tales as you explore; these are used to improve your Medicine Chest capacity.
Step 2: Travel to Evercare Clinic and speak with Yao Yaoyao to turn in Medicinal Tales for upgrades.
Step 3: After upgrading, check the rank of your Medicine Chest; higher ranks unlock more charges, such as Rank 5 providing three uses before emptying.
Step 4: Stand beside a Boundary Stone whenever you are low on charges so the game can automatically refill them from healing items in your backpack.
Without enough spare medicine in your bag, the refill will fail, so crafting and restocking healing items is part of resting efficiently.
Crafting more medicine for future rests
Crafting keeps your supply of healing items ready for the next Boundary Stone stop.
Step 1: Travel to a crafting location such as Heaven’s Pier, Harvestfall Village, or Kaifeng, where medicine crafting stations are available.
Step 2: Gather the required materials for basic medicine, for example, 1 herb and 1 meat scrap for Hemostatic Powder.
Step 3: Interact with the crafting station and select the desired medicine recipe from the list.
Step 4: Spend the listed resources, including any stamina cost (for Hemostatic Powder, this is 4 stamina), to create new healing items that will later refill your Medicine Chest.
Keeping a small reserve of herbs and meat scraps in your inventory prevents being caught without craftable medicine before a long stretch away from towns.
Using inns and fast travel as indirect rest
Inns exist in certain cities, such as Kaifeng, and can be used in specific story moments or exploration routes to quickly regain energy or regroup. While they are not as central as Boundary Stones, they provide another fiction-friendly way for your character to take a break between challenges.
Step 1: Advance the story until you naturally enter an inn area, especially during early Kaifeng story segments.
Step 2: Look for reception or interaction prompts inside the building that allow you to rest or recover.
Step 3: Confirm any rest prompt when it becomes available; your character’s key resources are replenished without needing to expend items.
Step 4: Use fast travel from Boundary Stones after resting at an inn to immediately continue questing in another region with full resources.
Inns are less common than Boundary Stones or campfires, but fit naturally into early routes through major cities and can be used when the story places you nearby.
Resetting your appearance with Cheng Xin
Sometimes “rest” means taking a break from a rushed character creation and fixing how your hero looks without deleting progress. Cheng Xin, an NPC hidden below Evercare Clinic, lets you redo your appearance.
Unlocking Cheng Xin under Evercare Clinic
Step 1: Play through the Still Shore questline until the story pulls you back toward Evercare Clinic to investigate events involving Aunt Han.
Step 2: Follow the quest into the underground dungeon beneath the clinic, fighting through enemies until you reach Aunt Han’s boss encounter.
Step 3: Defeat the boss version of Aunt Han and wait through the aftermath scene; your character will awaken near Cheng Xin in a treasure-filled chamber.
Step 4: Speak with Cheng Xin and accept his offer to change your face; the full character creation screen opens, allowing you to rebuild your appearance while keeping your name and progress.
This is effectively a visual rest for your character, letting you adjust facial features and other details long after the initial creation screen.
Returning to Cheng Xin later for more changes
Cheng Xin remains in the underground area for repeat visits whenever you feel like another reset.
Step 1: Fast travel to the Boundary Stone at Evercare Clinic in Still Shore once it is unlocked.
Step 2: Walk behind the clinic building and locate the open well that leads into the underground space.
Step 3: Jump down the well and follow the corridors and drops until you reach the familiar treasure room where Cheng Xin waits.
Step 4: Talk to him again whenever you want to reopen the appearance editor and tweak your look.
While this does not change your name, it keeps your character feeling fresh in cutscenes, multiplayer sessions, and screenshots, acting as a long-term cosmetic rest.
Starting over as a full account-level “rest”
When a build, story choice, or difficulty setting no longer fits, the only complete reset currently behaves at the account level rather than as a simple character delete button.
Step 1: Decide whether you want a truly fresh start or whether appearance and difficulty tweaks are enough; remember that difficulty, such as Legend, must be chosen at creation.
Step 2: If you want a clean slate without touching your existing login, create a new platform or publisher account and start a new hero there.
Step 3: Alternatively, use the account deletion option offered by the publisher, confirm the process, and wait through the required 14‑day cooling period before creating a new character on the same credentials.
Step 4: Once the new account or post-deletion profile is ready, go through character creation again with your preferred name, difficulty, and social settings.
At launch, global servers typically expose only one visible character slot, so treating a full restart as a deliberate break is important before committing to it.
Rest through quieter careers and side quests
Not all rest is numerical. Some systems provide a slower pace while still moving your account forward.
Step 1: Unlock and level the Healing Career if you enjoy supporting other players; its career notebooks and Healer Giftboxes improve how strong your prescriptions are.
Step 2: Spend a session focusing on treating others via Online mode instead of intensive boss runs; this shifts your mental load while still rewarding you.
Step 3: Look for gentle Exploration quests, such as treating diseased animals or local NPC problems that mostly use Wind Sense and simple decisions instead of long dungeons.
Step 4: Turn in these side activities for Echo Jade, coins, Enlightenment Points, and exploration progress, giving yourself a more relaxed “off day” between main chapter pushes.
These activities work as a psychological rest: they keep progression moving while giving you a calmer rhythm than constant high-pressure combat.
Using Boundary Stones, campfires, clinics, and character resets together keeps your journeys through Jianghu smoother and far less punishing, so it is worth building the habit of “resting” regularly instead of waiting until everything feels overwhelming.
