Tang Bao is one of the most important early-game merchants in Where Winds Meet, especially if you care about Inner Ways and housing cosmetics. He’s labeled as a Weiyang Merchant and acts as both a currency sink for Echo Jades and a vendor for rare Wulin items.
Tang Bao location in Where Winds Meet
Tang Bao stands in the Blissful Retreat area of Western Qinghe. The quickest way to reach him is to fast travel to the Blissful Retreat Boundary Stone in central Qinghe, then look just outside the nearby gate. His stall is set up right by that entrance, and he remains in this same spot throughout the game.
In some world states, his map icon does not appear even though he is present. Treat the missing map marker as a UI issue, not as a sign he has despawned. Travel to Blissful Retreat as usual and check beside the gate to find him.
Tang Bao and online vs. solo mode
Tang Bao’s visibility can depend on your mode selection. Players have reported that he does not appear when playing purely in solo mode. Switching to online mode makes him show up at his usual spot in Blissful Retreat.
If you have finished the main story and think Tang Bao is gone, first confirm that:
- You are in online mode rather than solo.
- You have fast traveled to the Blissful Retreat Boundary Stone and checked by the gate manually.
Once those conditions are met, Tang Bao should be available as normal, regardless of campaign progress.
What Tang Bao sells
Tang Bao trades primarily in Echo Jades, the cross-activity currency that sits at the center of many high-value purchases in Where Winds Meet. His inventory focuses on three categories:
- Inner Way acquisition – pages for Morale Chant.
- Combat tuning – Large Tuning Stones for weapons.
- Housing furnishings – decorative furniture for your home base.
| Item | Type | Cost (Echo Jade) | Primary use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morale Chant: Page | Inner Way unlock material | 500 each | Unlocks the Morale Chant Inner Way when all pages are collected |
| Large Tuning Stone: Snowshield | Tuning Stone (combat) | 5 | Weapon tuning for defensive-oriented setups |
| Large Tuning Stone: Doom | Tuning Stone (combat) | 5 | Weapon tuning with offensive effects |
| Large Tuning Stone: Rhapsody | Tuning Stone (combat) | 5 | Alternative combat tuning option |
| Large Tuning Stone: Gold Inlay | Tuning Stone (combat) | 5 | High-end tuning stone with premium stat profile |
| Luohan Pine Plant | Furniture | 60 | Housing decoration (plant) |
| Emerald Pine Sentiment Cabinet | Furniture | 120 | Housing decoration (cabinet) |
| Winter Plum Wooden Table | Furniture | 60 | Housing decoration (table) |
| Starry Courtyard Lantern Stand | Furniture | 60 | Housing decoration (lantern stand) |
These prices make Tang Bao a long-term Echo Jade sink. The Morale Chant pages alone cost several thousand Echo Jades in total, and the furniture pieces sit in the mid-range for prestige housing items.
How Echo Jades and Tang Bao fit into the economy
Echo Jades are a universal development currency in Where Winds Meet. They come from exploration, story progression, daily tasks, energy activities, events, and reward tracks such as the Battle Pass and seasonal systems. Tang Bao and other Weiyang Merchants are the main places to spend them on permanent power and account-wide cosmetics.
Within the game’s currency ecosystem, Echo Jades sit alongside more traditional coins and specialized tokens. Coins cover everyday purchases from standard NPC merchants, while Echo Jades are reserved for rare treasures, Inner Ways, weapon tuning pieces, and high-end cosmetics. Tang Bao’s catalog is a clear example of this split: everything he sells requires Echo Jades rather than regular Coin.
Morale Chant from Tang Bao (Inner Way unlock)
Morale Chant is an Inner Way that functions as a universal buff, supporting damage dealers, tanks, and healers alike. Unlocking it early gives your character a passive damage and healing boost that works with essentially any build path.
To acquire Morale Chant from Tang Bao:
Step 1: Accumulate at least 5000 Echo Jade across your account through campaign progression, exploration, daily objectives, and other standard activities.
Step 2: Travel to Blissful Retreat in central Qinghe and interact with Tang Bao near the Boundary Stone gate.
Step 3: Purchase all 10 copies of Morale Chant: Page from his shop menu. Each page costs 500 Echo Jade, for a total of 5000.
Step 4: Open your bag with B, switch to the Develop tab, and locate the Morale Chant pages.
Step 5: Use the context menu on the stack of pages and choose Comprehend to convert them into the Morale Chant Inner Way.
Step 6: Press H to open the Develop screen, go to Abilities → Inner Way, and equip Morale Chant in one of your four available Inner Way slots.
Once equipped, Morale Chant applies an always-on buff built around Yi River stacks. Attacking or healing has an 80% chance (checked once every two seconds) to grant a stack of Yi River, each giving +1% Physical Damage and +1% healing for eight seconds, up to five stacks. At maximum stacks, this is a 5% Physical Damage and 5% healing increase that stays active as long as you are regularly attacking or healing.
Upgrading Morale Chant after unlocking it
Tang Bao only handles the initial unlock via Morale Chant pages. Improving Morale Chant further uses a different material, Morale Chant: Notes, and a few progression gates.
Morale Chant arrives at Tier 1. To raise its tier, you need:
- Solo Mode Level 4, reached by pushing through the game’s level caps using the breakthrough system.
- Morale Chant: Notes, which serve as the Inner Way upgrade material for this skill.
Morale Chant: Notes drop or can be purchased from several places across the world:
- Season Shop – Inner Way Note Chests that can randomly include Morale Chant: Notes.
- Zhou Feiyan’s Warehouse in Kaifeng City – more Inner Way Note Chests with a chance of containing the right Notes.
- Tang Lun Weiyang Merchant in Kaifeng – directly sells 10 Morale Chant: Notes at 200 Echo Jade each.
- Energy Challenge gameplay – Outposts Challenges, Sword Trials, and some campaign missions reward Inner Way Note: Custom Chests that can be focused on your chosen path or roll any legendary Note, including Morale Chant.
- Tips Exchange – unwanted Inner Way Notes can be recycled into Vintage Bookplates, which you then trade for specialized Inner Way Tomes that limit the pool of possible Notes.
Upgrading Morale Chant follows the pattern used by other Inner Ways: once you meet the Solo Mode level requirement and have the correct number of Notes, you spend them inside the Inner Way screen to raise the tier and strengthen the Yi River stacking effect.
Is Tang Bao worth prioritizing early?
For most builds, yes. Tang Bao is the earliest reliable route to Morale Chant, and Morale Chant’s passive 5% Physical Damage and healing bonus makes it relevant regardless of whether you favor melee, ranged, tank, or support playstyles. Since Inner Ways run in the background once equipped, this investment raises your baseline performance in every activity.
There are more specialized Inner Ways that outshine Morale Chant in narrow scenarios, but there is almost always room to run it alongside those in one of the four Inner Way slots. That makes Tang Bao an unusually efficient Echo Jade sink for players who are still deciding on their long-term weapon paths.
Beyond Morale Chant, his Large Tuning Stones give early access to weapon tuning normally associated with higher-end content, and his furniture catalog contributes to a more polished home base once you unlock housing. If Echo Jades are limited, Morale Chant pages should be the priority, followed by any Tuning Stones that match your current weapon, with housing decor as a later luxury purchase.
Tang Bao looks like a simple regional merchant, but in practice he anchors a key part of character growth in Where Winds Meet. Once you know his exact spot in Blissful Retreat and the mode settings needed for him to appear, his stall becomes an essential stop whenever a new batch of Echo Jades lands in your pocket.
