Yucong, No. 34 Twisted Puppet · Encounter and tactics

Complete the first encounter through the statue’s rift in the valley. After the story opens the frozen forest lake, return to the mirror forest to continue the quest. The rift encounter and the later forest battle have separate outcomes. The Lady's Rift · 3 m · Δz +0.1 m. First encounter: walk from ① to nearby ② and interact at the rift.
Yucong, No. 34 Twisted Puppet WEEPING CREEK VALLEY · Three-faced puppet boss TRIPLE THREAT
For the three-body branch, soul-forge SANGUINE REACH into its evolved form and equip it as your main weapon before the later battle. Owning the separate weapon BLAZING EDGE is not a substitute for this requirement. Threadbound Great Tree · 29 m · Δz -2.9 m. Once the frozen lake opens, walk about 7 m from ①, turn at ② and descend to the encounter at ③.
Yucong, No. 34 Twisted Puppet BLAZING EDGE as a soul-forged form and as a separate weapon
This enemy can punish charging. Start a charged heavy attack during its recovery. The enemy can counter ranged attacks. If it answers your first shot, reposition and fire after its next miss.
Yucong, No. 34 Twisted Puppet
The close-range moves include both blue-flash and red-flash attacks. Perfect-block a blue attack just before impact and dodge a red one. Similar-looking movements do not make both blockable.
Yucong, No. 34 Twisted Puppet
Both the normal ending and the three-body branch award FREEZING CHAOS. In the three-body branch, defeat all three bodies and finish the ending scene to also receive Chaos Iron Fragment II ×1 directly. Do not leave when the bodies appear.
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Related content · quantity 1 / Related content · quantity 1 · The phantom realm fades, and Sha-Chi spills forth. The Mirrorwood is sealed in ice and snow, all sound swallowed by the frost, leaving the forest quiet and still. The tree where Bai Chilian once dwelled now stands empty, replaced by the Chaos Puppet that appeared that day in the Rift Estate. This bitterly cold place is the perfect refuge for her, as one of the puppet’s consciousnesses fears heat and craves the cold. The puppet’s three faces bicker without end, yet the moment they wield that bone-chilling Chaos Blade, they act as one. The three faces take control of the body in turn, the blade at times cloaked in frost, at times wreathed in Chaos Flames, and at times gleaming like steel. For a moment, it is as if they have returned to twenty years ago. They too once walked the Wulin side by side, swords in hand, full of youthful spirit. Then one became timid, while another fell into a sleep from which she never awoke. In the end, the three fused into one, enduring unbearable agony without a moment’s peace. They fled here hoping to escape the Herald’s control. Yet now, as they fight, the burning pain within the body becomes unbearable, and the feeling of being bound grows ever stronger, as if the Herald had hidden some mechanism within them, now clamoring to tear the three of them apart...