Wu Lengshuang, the Soft Sword

Wu Lengshuang, the Soft Sword is an optional Phantom Blade Zero boss near the Path of the Baishan's Fall in the Mandate Encampment. She parries your attacks with a purple flash, so stop attacking when you see it, then dodge red glints and parry blue ones. She drops the Soft Snake Sword.

Stop attacking the moment Wu Lengshuang flashes purple: she has deflected you, a counter is coming, and its glint tells you whether to dodge or parry. Game8 ranks her fifth among Phantom Blade Zero's hardest bosses, "a true test of restraint" who punishes aggression with parries and pressures a defensive player with long combos. The senior disciple of the Baishan Sect and Bi Taotao's first disciple is an optional duel near the Path of the Baishan's Fall bell in the Mandate Encampment, and her Soft Snake Sword asks for the same patience she shows: by Nov 9, 2026 only 15.2% of Steam players had deflected an attack with its Serpentine Reversal (the achievement Bloodless Victory).

PowerPyx's Oct 29, 2026 recording starts with her apology: at 0:15 a young woman in lilac robes with a sword on her back, named only "???" in the subtitle, says "I'm... so sorry!" on a path of dry yellow grass, and the bar "Wu Lengshuang, the Soft Sword" follows.

Quick facts

Where	Near the Path of the Baishan's Fall bell, Mandate Encampment; Maxroll: along the path past the Road to the Training Grounds bell
Chapter	No chapter number in the guides; the Encampment opens once Gu Wanyue falls in Pangzhen
Required	No
Enemy type	Perfect Transcension
Rewards	Soft Snake Sword, with a Guardian Idol Fragment: Leg by Maxroll's list or a Blackstone Fragment by KeenGamer's
Hardest bosses	Fifth on Game8's list
Quest	Secrets of the Baishan Sect: inspect the body in the flowerbed after the fight

Into the Mandate Encampment

Her duel lies past Gu Wanyue's arena in Pangzhen, where the Outer Gate Key that KeenGamer names as the way into the Encampment is found. AllThings.how says to rest at the Path of the Baishan's Fall bell and head to the pin on its map; Game8 describes a barren open area. Maxroll's route reaches her along the path past the Road to the Training Grounds bell, after a Defiant Mandate Guardian.

Restraint, not retreat

Stop when you see purple. She sometimes deflects your attack with a purple flash, which cancels your damage and leads into a counter. Stop attacking at once and read what comes next.
Do not overcommit, and do not hide. Game8 says she controls the pace of the fight: aggressive play is punished with parries, counters and combos, and the moment you pull back she pressures you with long, relentless combos.
Fish for Ghoststep counters. Only two of her moves can be parried into a Ghoststep counter: the blue-glint counter after her purple flash and the Acrobatic Slash (Game8). Perfect dodges of her red-glint moves also open her up, timing that Combat teaches on lesser foes.

Purple flash, glints and the Acrobatic Slash

Purple flash parry, then a counter. What follows tells you what to do (Game8):
- Red glint: unblockable; dodge at the right moment to counterattack.
- Blue glint: parry at the right moment for a Ghoststep counter.
- No glint: a quick counter; block or dodge.
- Screen darkens: a heavy counter; block or dodge.
Two-handed sword attack: her only two-handed move, always followed by an unblockable spinning slash. Dodge it on time to counterattack, and watch for it inside longer combos.
Acrobatic Slash: she flips forward to strike from range, or mid-combo to close a gap. Parry it for a Ghoststep counter.

The body in the flowerbed

Inspect the body in the flowerbed near her arena to update Secrets of the Baishan Sect. Do it before you fight Yubi at the Training Grounds, or you miss the Broken Vessel accessory, Maxroll warns. Steam counted 20.6% of players with the tale finished (the achievement The Last of Baishan) on Nov 4, 2026 and 33.2% on Nov 9, and Side Quests follows the quest from its first step.

The Soft Snake Sword

Its item card calls it "A soft, flexible sword once wielded by Wu Lengshuang." AllThings.how lists its arts: Serpentine Flow stops Guard Stance from using Sha-Chi and turns dodges into sidesteps; Serpentine Reversal deflects and redirects an attack with a timed Block and Heavy Attack; at weapon level 5, Inner Stillness lets you hold Block in Guard Stance for free, and at level 25 Serpentine Precision makes fully blocked attacks still deal 25% damage.