Xie Qiudong

Xie Qiudong, the Divine Healer is a required Phantom Blade Zero boss in Pangzhen, in Chapter 7, The Heart's Trail. He floats over the arena healing his guards, so defeat the six bodies on red threads first, pull the guards away until he has no health left to give, then finish him. Game8 lists the Everflow as his reward.

You cannot hurt Xie Qiudong, the Divine Healer, while he floats: first defeat the six enemies held by the red strings around his arena until he drops to the ground, then fight his remaining guards away from him while he spends his own health healing them. He is a required boss of Chapter 7, The Heart's Trail, in Pangzhen ("the second part of Pengzhen", PCGamesN calls it), and Game8 lists the Everflow as his reward. TheGamer sums him up: it "isn't a hard fight, but it's a bit unconventional". Unlike most bosses of the game, he has no Steam achievement of his own: none of the 66 on Steam's list names him (read Nov 9, 2026), so there is no count of how many players have beaten him.

PowerPyx's Oct 29, 2026 recording shows the threads before the healer: at 0:15 the bar "Xie Qiudong, the Divine Healer" is up over a stone-paved yard crossed by taut red lines, and Soul is fighting the guards among red barrels.

Why the guards keep getting up

Every enemy tied to him by red thread is healed "no matter how many times you try", TheGamer writes. Game8 puts the condition plainly: you must first "cut off the red threads connected to the six bodies" scattered around the arena, which also holds explosive barrels and a house behind it whose stairs enemies cannot climb.

Cutting the threads, step by step

Defeat the six strung-up enemies while dodging the guards. Use the explosive barrels to destroy the bodies faster, but clear the blast radius before you set one off.
When the bodies are down, Xie Qiudong drops to the ground. TheGamer says not to attack him yet.
Lead the remaining guards around the stairwell, away from him, and fight them there. He still heals them, but from his own health; keep going "until Xie Qiudong has no health left to give", then finish the guards.
End him with a finisher.

PCGamesN's version is shorter: defeat the characters linked to him by red thread first, then focus on him, since healing enemies only wastes your time.

Two other ways through

Burst the bodyguards. Without the thread route, Game8 suggests bursting down one or two bodyguards, then focusing him, because his healing is limited. Use the large arena to avoid ambushes, and take out the aggressive twinblade or dagger guards first.

The house cheese. The house behind the arena isolates him, because enemies "cannot go up the stairs". He can still reach you with a grab, so let him, then dodge his swings; the dagger-throwing guard's ranged attacks still reach you there.

What he and his guards do

Raised arm: when he raises one arm and pauses, a red attack is coming, PCGamesN says. Dodge it, as with every red flash (Combat).
Grab: he can grab you to reach you, even up the house's stairs.
Swings: in the house he still swings at you; dodge them.
The guards: twinblade and dagger fighters, one of them throwing daggers from range.

None of the three guides gave his health or a fuller list of his moves when they were read on Nov 4, 2026. The chapter around him, with the bosses before and after, is on Walkthrough.