Phantom Blade Zero Collectible Quests: How to Start and Finish Each One

Each quest step on this page was played through on a PS5 save for Map Master, and the Phantom Blade Zero wiki and region maps follow the chains into later areas. Several of these quests stretch across regions, so Crimson Forest is where they begin, not where they end.

How Phantom Blade Zero Collectible Quests Start

A Collectible Quest lands in your journal as soon as its trigger fires, and each trigger is a person or an object rather than a story beat. Freeing Zhang starts The Wily Hare’s Three Dens, asking him about relics starts Quick Hand’s Request, asking Lady Inanis about ability training starts Heart of the Banyan, and picking any of Inanis’ Memory Flower petals starts Resonant Strings.

Later regions add their own. Examining one of Mu Xiaokui’s Red Ribbons in the Village of Lu starts Young Mistress, and The Seven-Stars Formation waits in the Mandate Encampment, so the list keeps growing as Soul moves on rather than ending in the forest.

The Wily Hare’s Three Dens in Phantom Blade Zero: Zhang’s Hideouts

The Wily Hare’s Three Dens starts the moment Quick Hand Zhang is out of his cage, which is reported to be near the Trail of Cages Bell and opened with a lever. His first ask is the hidden Quick Hand Zhang treasure in Crimson Forest, and bringing it to his Thieves’ Camp Hideout sends you after his other hideouts.

The Thieves’ Camp Hideout is reported to be a cave up a climbable wall west of the Thieves’ Camp Bell. His next hideouts are reported to be under a bridge near the Well of the Three Puppets in the Village of Lu and near Wu Xuan’s arena in Pangzhen, and the Phantom Blade Zero Pangzhen and Mirage Estate map places the Pangzhen hideout.

Quick Hand’s Request in Phantom Blade Zero: Snuff Bottle, Seal, and Crossbow

Ask Zhang about relics in his hideout to start Quick Hand’s Request, and he’ll want the Sect Leader’s Snuff Bottle, the Bloodstained Seal, and the Ancient Crossbow. The Snuff Bottle is reported to be in a green chest in the mining pit below the Outlaw Trap, and the Tunnel Crank from the first Butcher’s cave opens the way down.

The Bloodstained Seal waits in a cave under Thieves’ Camp, past the Hound Trainer and his hounds, and the Ancient Crossbow is locked in the Thieves’ Camp Dungeon, reached through the Cliffside Lodge cranks and the dungeon key. Delivering all three is reported to earn the Flying Dagger Phantom Edge.

Heart of the Banyan Collectible Quest in Phantom Blade Zero

Lady Inanis starts Heart of the Banyan when you ask her about ability training. The first tree stands in a swamp on Crimson Forest’s southeastern side, and touching it starts a trial of two enemy waves followed by a rematch with Jing Ye, The Outlaw, so go in with your build ready.

Each Banyan’s Heart is reported to unlock skills such as Fluid Form level 2, Quick Remedy, and Opening Strike, plus some of the Boundless Capacity accessory slots. More trees are reported in Pangzhen, the Mandate Encampment, Meigu Lake, and the Mountain of Imprisonment, and the Human-Faced Banyan Tree trial guide follows each one.

Resonant Strings and Inanis’ Memory Flowers in Phantom Blade Zero

Picking any petal from Inanis’ Memory Flower set starts Resonant Strings, so this quest finds you rather than the other way round. It asks for the Memory Flowers of Inanis and the Chord: The Performance, Gravely Ill, The Gilded Lotus, An Uninvited Guest, Soul Displacement Scroll, and A New Life.

Try to finish the set before Bai Chilian in the Mirrorwood, since completing a region’s Memory Flowers before its boss is reported to unlock an extra phase or a unique reward. Each completed flower is also reported to raise health by 5 to 10%, and the Memory Flower locations by region place every petal.

Young Mistress and The Seven-Stars Formation: Phantom Blade Zero’s Later Collectible Quests

Young Mistress starts when you examine one of Mu Xiaokui’s Red Ribbons in the Village of Lu. The first one you’ll pass on the story path hangs in a tree with yellow leaves on the eastern side of the bridge, east of the Well of the Three Puppets Bell, and the Village of Lu map in Phantom Blade Zero places the other ribbons.

The Seven-Stars Formation belongs to the Mandate Encampment, where the Chief Disciple of the Seven-Stars Formation is reported among the camp’s optional bosses. The Phantom Blade Zero Mandate Encampment area map covers the camp, and Mu Xiaokui herself is one of the Village of Lu fights in the Phantom Blade Zero boss list.

Which Phantom Blade Zero Collectible Quest to Start First

Free Zhang first, then work outward from Thieves’ Camp. His hideout, the Bloodstained Seal cave, and the dungeon all ring the camp, so the Wily Hare and Quick Hand’s Request share most of their route, and the Snuff Bottle comes on the way to the second Butcher.

Leave the Banyan trial until your build is strong, since Jing Ye arrives only after two enemy waves, and pick up Mu Xiaokui’s ribbons as you pass them in the village. Zhang is reported to sell spare Banyan’s Hearts for 100,000 Remnant Dust from the Village of Lu onward, so every tree you clear yourself saves a fortune.