Phantom Blade Zero Boss List: 54 Fights by Region

All 54 named Phantom Blade Zero boss fights by region, with required or optional status and drops, plus the final boss and the missable fights.

October 29, 2026 · Phantom Blade Zero Wiki Team

Quick Guide

The director told 4Gamer the game has at least 50 bosses; Wccftech's review counted over 50, many optional.
This table lists 54 named fights across eight regions, the count community region guides arrive at when rematches are split out.
Steam achievements name 25 of those fights, so the achievement list is a partial index rather than the full roster.
Optional bosses carry the weapons and Phantom Edges; Zhu Yuan and Bi Feng are optional but required for the true ending.
Spoilers start at Mount Soulrend, the final region — that section names the final and true-ending bosses.

How many bosses are in Phantom Blade Zero?

At least 50, and 54 once you count each named fight separately. Director Soulframe Liang gave the "at least 50" figure to 4Gamer, and Wccftech's review counted "over 50 bosses, many of them optional."

The 54 in this table is the count you reach by walking the eight regions and treating rematches as separate fights — You Loong is fought twice, for example. Achievement hunters get a shorter list: Steam achievements name 25 of these fights, so a full achievement list is an index, not a roster.

Measure	Figure	Why it differs
Director's statement	at least 50	Announced scale, not a checklist
Named fights in this table	54	Rematches counted separately
Fights named by achievements	25	Only the trophy-worthy encounters
Story chapters	11	Chapters bundle several regions

Bosses by region

Eight regions, in the order the story reaches them. Mirage Estate is a Pangzhen sub-area, split out below because it has its own boss set. "Required" means the story gates on the kill; "Optional" means you can walk past it.

Weeping Creek Valley

Boss	Status	Notable drop
The Frenzied Brute	Required	Jagged Steel (weapon)
Axemaster Peng Meng	Required	Dread Axe (Phantom Edge)
Hua, the Bride	Optional	Flesh Lily (quest item)
The Hunt, Hunter of the Order	Required	Hunter's Chain Sickle (Phantom Edge)
The Puppet Scavenger & Acolyte Hansui	Optional	Alloy blade materials, two quest items

Crimson Forest

Boss	Status	Notable drop
Hua Qianxiao, the Sword Fanatic	Required	The Fanatic's Broken Blade (weapon)
Jing Ye, the Outlaw	Required	Outlaw Warblade (weapon)
Stone Hand Iron Fever	Required	Iron Gauntlets (Phantom Edge)
Bai Chilian, Lady of the Twin Serpents	Required	White Serpent & Crimson Viper (weapon)
Yucong, No. 34 Twisted Puppet	Optional	Freezing Chaos (weapon)

Village of Lu

Boss	Status	Notable drop
Zhou Bi, the Gatekeeper	Required	Bastion (Phantom Edge)
Master Bi Yuan of the Tianxuan Sect	Required	Tianxuan Bronze Sword (weapon)
Master Bi Hai of Kuye Temple	Required	Kuye Temple Prayer Beads (Phantom Edge)
Acolyte Yanru	Optional	Yanru's Blazing Mask
Dusk, the Puppeteer	Optional	Puppeteer's Bell (summon Phantom Edge)
Yuzan, No. 3 Musician Puppet	Required	Heartrend Pipa (Phantom Edge)
Mu Xiaokui, Young Mistress of the Order	Required	Fiend Saws (weapon)

Pangzhen

Boss	Status	Notable drop
Flame, the Lion Dance Grandmaster	Required	Dormant Flaming Mane (quest item)
Blaze, Shadow Warden Captain	Required	Fire Meteor (Phantom Edge)
Cavalrybane, Elite Shadow Warden	Required	Armybreaker (weapon)
Wu Xuan, the Fallen General	Required	Wolfjaw (Phantom Edge)
Gu Wanyue, the Wailing Wraith	Required	Wraith fragment (quest item)
Xie Qiudong, the Divine Healer	Required	Everflow (medicine)
You Loong, Leader of the Blackwater Crew	Required (first fight)	Progress toward the two-kill achievement
Chang Hong, the Thunder Spear	Required	Thunder Spear (Phantom Edge)
Soulclaimer, Elite Shadow Warden	Required	No recorded drop

Mandate Encampment

Boss	Status	Notable drop
Corpse-Eating Xue	Required	Opens the Xue side quest
Wan Jun, the Coppermaul	Required	Bashpole (Phantom Edge)
Red, the Mysterious Swordswoman	Optional	No recorded drop
Chief Disciple of the Seven-Stars	Optional	Swordsman's Summon (Phantom Edge)
Wu Lengshuang, the Soft Sword	Required	Soft Snake Sword (weapon)
Yubi, No. 21 Swordfighter Puppet	Optional	Baishan Stormswords (weapon)

Meigu Lake

Boss	Status	Notable drop
Yan Qiansui, the Zither Maiden	Optional	Illusory Pipa Strings (quest item)
Grief-Stricken Jin	Optional	Embroidered Shoes (upgrade material)
Heartpiercer, Elite Shadow Warden	Required	Sundering Dual Axes (weapon)
Acolyte Guhe	Optional	Guhe's Venom Mask
You Loong, the Frenzied Blackwater Leader	Optional (rematch)	Loong Trident (Phantom Edge)
One-Eyed Archer	Optional	One-Eyed Bow (Phantom Edge)
Zhu Yuan, the Searing Blade	Optional	Scorching Flames (upgrade material)
The Gold-Masked One	Optional	Flaming Grip
Blizzard Blademaster	Optional	Whiteshadow (weapon)

Mountain of Imprisonment

Boss	Status	Notable drop
Iron Butcher, the Frenzied Brute	Required	Iron Butcher Mask (upgrade material)
Bi Feng, Giant Saber Commander	Optional	Juggernaut (weapon)
Kui Yanyan, the Deranged	Optional	Missing Lift Crank, Sha-Chi Amber Fragment
Jade-Face	Optional	Seamless Death (weapon)
Huangxing, the Kunlun Renegade	Optional	Flying Guillotine (Phantom Edge)

Mirage Estate

Boss	Status	Notable drop
Yuding, No. 12 Crescent Blade Puppet	Required	Crescent Blade (weapon)
Qiu Feng, the Crimson Boneblade	Required	Wraith Mask (accessory)
Mo Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mo	Required	Bastion of Mo mask (upgrade material)
Lei Dang, the Tiger Cannon	Required	Tiger Cannon (Phantom Edge)

Mount Soulrend (spoilers)

Stop here if you want the ending unrevealed. This region contains the final fight and the true-ending fight.

Boss	Status	Notable drop
The Saw and the Crusher	Required	Bonesaw (weapon)
Leng Tu, Herald of the Veil	Required	No recorded drop
Meng Hua, the Merciful Lady of the Blossom Veil	Final boss (normal ending)	The Lady's Fan (weapon)
Zho Shang	True-ending boss	Aureate (weapon), Radiant Heart

Which bosses can you lock yourself out of?

Four kills close side quests if you take them too early. This is the part of a boss list that actually costs you something:

Boss	Finish first	What a rush costs
Jing Ye, the Outlaw (Crimson Forest)	The apprentice healer quest and its three herbs	The quest, a medicine-box accessory, and the healer legacy achievement
Bai Chilian, Lady of the Twin Serpents (Crimson Forest)	The healer's mercy step, the Flesh Lily hand-in, and Lanlan's Baishan sect quest	Two achievements and the sect questline
Mu Xiaokui, Young Mistress of the Order (Village of Lu)	Her own quest chain before the lift	Third phase, Fiend Saws, one key item — and the lift breaks afterwards, so loot the dock first
Yubi, No. 21 Swordfighter Puppet (Mandate Encampment)	The current Baishan sect objective	The Baishan legacy achievement

Two more optional fights are not missable but are load-bearing: Zhu Yuan and Bi Feng gate the true ending. A third, Chief Disciple of the Seven-Stars, is the released name for the Seven Stars encounter previewed in January 2025 — our Seven Stars article covers what that preview showed and how it maps onto the shipped fight.

What do the boss fights ask of you?

The mechanical vocabulary is consistent across the roster, and two colour cues carry most of it:

Red glint marks a grab that cannot be parried or blocked — dodge it.
Blue glint marks an attack you are meant to parry.
A well-timed dodge opens Ghoststep, which is where a lot of your stagger damage comes from.

Managing Sha-Chi and swapping weapons mid-fight do the rest. Our parry and deflect guide drills the timing, and the combat guide covers the slots and secondary tools you bring into these fights.

How to use this list

Use the region tables to plan a run rather than to spoil it: check whether a fight is optional before you spend an evening on it, and check the drop before you decide to skip. If a boss is blocking you, the boss hub explains how to read an unfamiliar encounter instead of memorising someone else's combo string.

Names, statuses and drops here are cross-checked against the region guides published on launch day and the achievement list; where guides disagree on a romanisation, the table keeps one spelling. Boss behaviour changes with patches, so treat status as stable and drop tables as likely to shift.

Sources

Game8: list of all bosses — chapters, regions, optional split
Gaming Route: bosses by region and drops — 54-fight table, missable warnings, count attribution
Keen Gamer: trophy list — official achievement wording for 25 fights
Steam global achievements — 66 achievements, completion spread

Frequently Asked Questions

How many bosses are in Phantom Blade Zero?

At least 50. Director Soulframe Liang gave that figure to 4Gamer, and Wccftech's review counted over 50 with many optional. Community region guides arrive at 54 named fights once rematches are counted separately, which is the number in the table below.

Who is the final boss of Phantom Blade Zero?

Meng Hua, the Merciful Lady of the Blossom Veil, is the final boss of the normal ending. Meeting the true-ending conditions opens a gold portal on Soulrend Cliff that leads to one more fight, Zho Shang.

Which bosses can you miss permanently?

Four kills can lock side quests if you rush them: Jing Ye, Bai Chilian, Mu Xiaokui and Yubi. Each has a quest chain that must be finished first, and Mu Xiaokui's third phase only exists if her quest is done.

What do you lose by skipping optional bosses?

Their weapons and Phantom Edges, plus the achievement tied to the fight. Two optional bosses, Zhu Yuan and Bi Feng, are also prerequisites for the true ending, so skipping them costs the extra fight rather than a cosmetic.

Does this list spoil the story?

The regional tables up to Meigu Lake name fights and drops without story context. The Mount Soulrend section names the final and true-ending bosses, so stop before it if you want those unrevealed.

Why do guides spell some boss names differently?

Romanisation varies between guides: the gatekeeper of the Village of Lu appears as Zhou Bi and Zhuo Bi, and the true-ending boss as Zho Shang or Zuo Shang. The table uses one spelling per boss and keeps the English name the achievement text uses where they overlap.

Related Guides

Phantom Blade Zero Bosses: Count, List & How to Prepare

Phantom Blade Zero ships at least 50 bosses. See how the roster splits by region, which fights are optional or missable, and how to read a new encounter.

Phantom Blade Zero Seven Stars: Chief Disciple Boss

Meet the Seven Stars fight in Phantom Blade Zero: seven coordinated swordsmen, a crimson-thread puppet phase, and the released Chief Disciple encounter.