Blind to the World Walkthrough

Blind to the World is one of the optional quests in the Qinghe region of Where Winds Meet. It focuses more on puzzle solving and exploration rather than combat, and it’s one of the more somber and enchanting experiences the game has to offer early on. Here, you’ll be helping Uncle Tian fulfill a request for a mysterious client of the Evercare Clinic, but there’s a catch: the place you need to visit is hidden in a cave under a lake, and to get there, you’re going to have to go through a lot of hoops.

Attempt to Open the Drainage

After you’ve spoken with Uncle Tian by the lake near Moonveil Mountain, you’ll need to dive into the water and look for a way to drain it all. Jump into the lake and dive down. You’ll see a stone plate at the bottom with three chains leading out of it. Follow the chains to find mechanisms controlling the drainage. Interact with the levers at all three mechanisms, and the water will drain away.

Solve the Blind Girl’s Statue Puzzle

The clue for this puzzle lies in the riddle given to Uncle Tian. Once all the water is gone, jump into the muddy basin, then make your way to the big statue of a blindfolded woman. Speak with Uncle Tian again, and soon, plates will light up around the statue. You need to step onto those plates based on the order mentioned in the riddle: north, east, south, and west. Use your map to orient yourself, or refer to the image above.

Step onto plate behind the statue, then go around the statue in a clockwise direction (go to the left). If you’ve done it correctly, the door leading to the secret sanctuary underground will open. Thankfully, the puzzles in this quest are a lot more straightforward compared to the ones in the Echoes of an Old Battle quest.

Find a Way to the Other Side

The entrance to the sanctuary is filled with arrow traps. Burn the ribbons blocking your way with fire arrows to disable the traps, then move forward. You’ll eventually reach a large cave with a bridge that’s been cut off. Check the edges of the cave for a path, and follow that path until you reach the other side of the broken bridge.

The path itself is fairly linear, but you’ll have to swim through a waterway to reach the end. One thing to keep in mind during this section is that if you touch the blue flowers growing in the cave, you’ll go completely blind for a short duration. If you go blind while underwater, you’ll see a path along the water that leads to the surface.

Activate the Stone Gate’s Contraption

After swimming through the waterway, you’ll reach the other side of the cave entrance, but you won’t be able to proceed any further until you find a way to open the stone gate. To do so, go to the high ground opposite the stone gate, then look for an interactable pedestal. Touch it, and the bells above the stone gate will ring. Once the symbols above them light up, take out your bow, then shoot the symbols according to the order in which the bells rang. You’ll need to do this twice.

Find What the Lunar Goddess Really Wants

Pass through the now-opened stone gate, and you’ll reach another large cave with an underwater lake surrounding it. This was the home of Li Zhenzhen, a woman who Uncle Tian refers to as the Lunar Goddess. His job there was to replace the Lunar Goddess’ eyes with new ones, but he says that she doesn’t want them. Now, the two of you need to find items for the Lunar Goddess.

Find a way to Li Zhenzhen’s living space below. There’s a Moonlit Flower there (the same one that causes blindness) — pluck it, and go back to the Lunar Goddess above. You can also pick up a Small Blade on a table near the Moonlit Flower. It counts as a quest item.

Back at the Lunar Goddess, you can offer either the Moonlit Flower or the Small Blade. For our run of this quest, we chose to use the Moonlit Flower. After doing so, a cutscene will play, and the quest will end. You can exit the sanctuary by heading back to Li Zhenzhen’s quarters and squeezing through a wall.

Blind to the World Rewards

• Blinding Mist (Mystic Skill)
• Li Zhenzhen Dusty Wedding Dress (Armor)
• 1 Medicinal Tales
• 8 Ebon Iron
• 4 Oscillating Jade
• 72 Echo Jade
• 120 Qinghe Exploration Points
• 100 Enlightenment Points
• 33k Character EXP
• 33k Coin

Blinding Mist is the main reason why you’ll want to do the Blind to the World quest in Where Winds Meet. This is a Mystic Skill that lets you release a poison mist that damages enemies while making them unable to fight for 5 seconds. This has no effect against powerful enemies like bosses, but it’s great for fighting big groups, as it also lets you perform Touch of Death takedowns on anyone affected by the mist. This requires 80 Vitality to use.

The Dusty Wedding Dress isn’t particularly special. It’s a fairly basic armor piece that’s easily overshadowed by the ones that drop from bosses and other activities, and perhaps more tragically, it has no cosmetic model of its own. It’s nice to have if you don’t have anything else to use, but otherwise, you can write reward off.

Medicinal Tales, on the other hand, will always be useful. They’re used to upgrade your Medicine Chest in Where Winds Meet, letting you carry more healing items while also improving their effectiveness. You’re going to need hundreds of these to fully upgrade your Medicine Chest, so every one you pick up will count.

The rest are for general account progression. Echo Jades are for pulling in the game’s gacha (among other things), while the others are for upgrading equipment, and unlocking talents and other features. Qinghe Exploration Points are particularly important for unlocking region-specific bonuses, such as the ability to fly.