Where Winds Meet: Spirits of the Lake Walkthrough (Jadestream Valley Part 4)

Spirits of the Lake is a short Wandering Tale in Where Winds Meet, filed under Jadestream Valley Part 4 in the Wandering Tales log. It runs on a simple loop: a drunk man named Qi Dali has dropped his wine gourd into the lake and refuses to swim after it because he is convinced a woman’s ghost is weeping out there. The whole quest is a round trip across the water and back, and it takes only a couple of minutes once you know where the boat is.

Quick answer: Talk to Qi Dali east of the Deepwave Works Boundary Stone, follow the water to Li Lanlu’s boat, take the Leather Wine Gourd, then return to Qi Dali and choose Give.

Spirits of the Lake location and unlock requirement

The tale sits in the Hidden Mountain-Suixiang area, on the water southeast of Mohist City. You cannot pick it up until you have finished the A Flourishing Legacy quest, so if Qi Dali is not on the shoreline, that prerequisite is the thing to check first.

Detail	Value
Quest type	Wandering Tale
Log entry	Jadestream Valley Part 4
Region	Suixiang, Hidden Mountain
Nearest fast travel	Deepwave Works Boundary Stone

Map location — The map shows the starting location near water southeast of Mohist City in Hidden Mountain-Suixiang. Shown at 00:09 in Quest Mastery’s video.

The quest also appears in your journal before you ever reach it. Open the Exploration menu, switch to the Wandering Tales tab, and Spirits of the Lake is listed under the Jadestream Valley Part 4 group, which is the fastest way to set a waypoint.

Official game artwork — Spirits of the Lake as it appears in the Wandering Tales tab. Shown at 00:04 in RIFAS’s video.

How to complete Spirits of the Lake

Fast travel to the Deepwave Works Boundary Stone, located in Mohist City, then follow the eastern route toward the lake. Some paths pass through the village before exiting through a brief rock tunnel that leads to the shore.

Find Qi Dali kneeling and beating the ground near the water’s edge, close to a wooden bridge. Interact with him to open the conversation.

He explains that his gourd fell in with half a gourd of good wine still inside, then asks whether you heard crying. Pick “I think I heard something.” to move things along. A “Wandering Tales: New Clue Acquired” prompt confirms the tale has started.

Set a waypoint east along the water, toward Wind Broken Bridge, and travel across. You can swim it, glide it, or hop between the small islands on the way. Partway out you will get an “Eerie female voice heard” prompt and a second clue.

Keep going until you reach the small covered boat moored near the rocks and the cave mouth. Climb aboard and talk to Li Lanlu, who panics and shouts that you are a ghost before calming down.

Finish her dialogue to receive the Leather Wine Gourd, which she had found in the water. A third clue, “A Partially Charred Letter,” is logged at the same time and can be read from the Wandering Tales Details screen.

The letter is the point of the whole tale. It is written by a daughter to her parents, apologizing for missing a visit while she studied, and promising to carry on their work building embankments and forging weirs. The crying Qi Dali heard was Li Lanlu mourning, not a spirit.

Open the map, mark Qi Dali’s position, and travel back along the shoreline the way you came.

Return route — The map pinpoints Qi Dali's location for the return trip. Shown at 01:04 in Quest Mastery’s video.

Returning on Map — The map is checked again before heading back to the riverbank. Shown at 01:32 in MicroMan Gaming YT’s video.

Speak with Qi Dali and select Give to hand over the Leather Wine Gourd. Mention Li Lanlu, and he will pour wine as a tribute to the dead before the tale concludes.

All three Spirits of the Lake clues

Three clue entries fill in as you work through the tale. All of them can be reread from the Wandering Tales Details screen.

The opening note about a burly man sobbing by the lake outside Mohist City.
The entry explaining that Qi Dali is too scared of the rumored lake ghost to fetch his gourd.
A Partially Charred Letter, found on Li Lanlu’s boat.

Spirits of the Lake rewards

The payout below is the total for the tale, counting what you pick up along the way and what lands when the ending unlocks.

Reward	Amount
Echo Jade	30
Hidden Mountain Exploration	10
Coin	3,750
Character EXP (Stored EXP)	3,750

How to confirm the quest is complete

Handing over the gourd triggers a “Wandering Tales: Spirits of the Lake Ending Unlocked” banner, followed immediately by the reward summary. If that banner does not appear, the gourd was not submitted through the Give option.

For a permanent check, reopen the Wandering Tales tab. The entry should now read Spirits of the Lake [Completed] in the Jadestream Valley Part 4 list, with all three clues readable. That marker is the only confirmation you need before moving on to the rest of the Hidden Mountain tales.