Banyan's Heart Locations

One run of Phantom Blade Zero holds eight Banyan's Hearts. Five come from the Human-Faced Banyan trees in Crimson Forest, Pangzhen, Mandate Encampment, Meigu Lake and the Mountain of Imprisonment, and three are sold by Quick Hand Zhang for 100,000 Remnant Dust each. On Nov 13, 2026, 31.5% of Steam players had cleared all five trees.

One run of Phantom Blade Zero holds eight Banyan's Hearts: five are won at the Human-Faced Banyan trees, one each in Crimson Forest, Pangzhen, Mandate Encampment, Meigu Lake and the Mountain of Imprisonment (AllThingsHow, updated Nov 13, 2026), and three more are for sale, at 100,000 Remnant Dust apiece, in Quick Hand Zhang's hideouts in Village of Lu, Pangzhen and Meigu Village (AllThingsHow's shop list, updated Nov 11, 2026; Maxroll counts "3 more" in the shop). The trees are a bigger draw than the credits: 31.5% of Steam players held Even Trees Know Sorrow, the achievement for all five, when we read Steam on Nov 13, 2026, against 28.8% who had beaten the last required boss, and up from 25.3% four days earlier.

6:51 Five plus three is our own sum of two separate guides, and it lands on the one count taken from whole playthroughs. In Fextralife's Oct 30, 2026 video, recorded after a finished run and a second in Cycle 1, the guide says "you only get eight banyan hearts per cycle" and that you are "a third or halfway through the game" before the first one arrives.

Next: every skill and what the rest of the tree costs, the three end nodes that only hearts can raise or why the Remnant Dust for the shop hearts cannot be farmed.

The five trees

Each tree stands near a bell. The bells and last waves are AllThingsHow's, from its own run; Maxroll's guide (updated Oct 29, 2026) names the same final fights except where noted.

Region	Nearest bell	What you need first	Last wave
Crimson Forest	Parting Mists	Most of the region behind you	Jing Ye, on horseback, with two fighters
Pangzhen	Lion Dance Hall	Nothing extra	Master Bi Yuan
Mandate Encampment	Sunset Path	Nothing extra	Two bosses at once, Stone Hand Iron Fever among them
Meigu Lake	Lake Banyan Dock	The boat	Cavalrybane and Soulclaimer together
Mountain of Imprisonment	Shrine Outer Gate	The Illusory Pipa quest	Jagged Steel and Iron Butcher together

Crimson Forest. The Illusion of Inanis, at the stone lamp before the Parting Mists bell, starts the Heart of the Banyan quest when you pick Train Abilities. The tree stands in water downhill from the bell, about 105 m on foot by AllThingsHow's measure, past two drops you cannot climb back up.
Pangzhen. On an island between the Lion Dance Hall and Old Man Gen's House bells (Method, Nov 5, 2026), about 270 m through the back lanes.
Mandate Encampment. Up the hill to the right of the Sunset Path bell; reach the Cliffside Walkway Entrance and you have gone too far (Method). Maxroll names the second boss here as Iron Fiend (Iron Fiend and Jade Dancer).
Meigu Lake. An island with its own bell, Lake Banyan Dock, which is still unrung when you land. Method's route sails along the right edge of the water past the Village of Lu Shallows Dock; AllThingsHow crossed about 400 m of open water from the White Serpent House Dock.
Mountain of Imprisonment. Just past the Shrine Outer Gate bell, over a rope bridge, at a banyan ringed by gravestones. The mountain opens only after the Illusory Pipa quest, which is also one of the ten quests Endings lists for the True Ending.

At the Meigu Lake and Mountain trees the prompt to begin shows only on the side of the trunk with the face, AllThingsHow found.

How a tree fight goes

Touching a tree moves Soul into the Discordance for three waves: two packs of ordinary enemies, then a boss you have already beaten, or two of them together. A death is cheap. Maxroll says you restart at the wave you died on, with your medicines refilled, and AllThingsHow's run agrees: cleared waves stayed cleared, and Soul woke at a candle-and-branch altar whose "Return to the Waking Realm" option leads back out. Each win shows "The Banyan's Heart +1".

Maxroll's advice for the paired fights is the same at every tree: put all your damage into one boss. At Meigu Lake it would burn Soulclaimer first, and it brings a shield breaker to Crimson Forest for the bandits around Jing Ye.

The three for sale

Quick Hand Zhang trades from five hideouts (Crimson Forest, Village of Lu, Pangzhen, Meigu Village and Mirage Estate), and a price is the same at every one that stocks the item, by AllThingsHow's shop list. The Banyan's Heart is the dearest thing he sells:

The Banyan's Heart	100,000 Remnant Dust, at Village of Lu, Pangzhen and Meigu Village
Quick Hand's Manual	50,000, at Pangzhen
Quick Hand Might	30,000, at Crimson Forest and Pangzhen
Quick Hand Pair	30,000, at Crimson Forest
Master Healer's Memory	16,000, at Meigu Village

The Crimson Forest hideout has no heart, which GamerFuzion's writer also found when he looked. The one stock count anyone has printed is AllThingsHow's, which saw one heart in stock (updated Nov 12, 2026) in the store it opened at Meigu Lake's Songhouse Dock bell. Maxroll's three and Fextralife's eight both fit one heart at each of the three hideouts, but no guide has shown all three purchases, so check the stock line before you count on the third.

What 300,000 Remnant Dust means, in sums of our own from the guides' figures: one heart costs as much as ten trainings of Flowing Chi at 10,000 each (AllThingsHow, updated Oct 30, 2026), and almost exactly what reverting a level 18 dual-wielded weapon pays back, 99,450 in DTG Reviews' example of Oct 29, 2026. All three together are 6% of the "almost 5 million" Fextralife's guide held at the end of his first run. Maxroll calls the shop hearts "a bit pricy" and expects you to afford them by Pangzhen.

What a heart buys

A heart is spent at any bell, under Train Abilities; its item card reads "Used to unlock special abilities in Ability Training."

Flow Like Water costs one heart and 12,500 Remnant Dust, and with it "Blocking and dodging do not interrupt the current combo" (AllThingsHow). GamerFuzion's writer picked it first, so that a dodge in the middle of a string no longer restarts the string.
Keen Edge, Focused Mind and Fortified Body, the three nodes at the end of the tree, take hearts and nothing else (Game Rant, Nov 6, 2026). In Fextralife's Cycle 1 a node took five points at most, so he expected most players to put five into damage and guard break and split the other three between Sha-Chi and health.

A heart is never lost to a bad pick: resetting the tree (P on the Train Abilities screen on PC) refunds the hearts with the Remnant Dust, AllThingsHow reports. The achievement asks only for the five trees, so the shop hearts matter for the build and not for the Platinum.