[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":274},["ShallowReactive",2],{"bosses":3},{"page":4,"bosses":9},{"path":5,"h1":6,"title":7,"description":8},"\u002Fbosses\u002F","Phantom Blade Zero Bosses","Phantom Blade Zero Bosses: Second Phases and Rewards","Phantom Blade Zero bosses: all 14 named so far, with their titles, second phases, what they leave behind and the trailer or build that showed them.",[10,31,44,54,66,103,120,138,163,187,208,232,247,264],{"slug":11,"name":12,"gives":13,"summary":16,"body":17,"shown":21,"page":26,"seo":27,"picture":30},"jagged-steel","Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute",{"name":14,"href":15},"Jagged Steel","\u002Fweapons\u002Fjagged-steel\u002F","A hulking marauder who leaves Soul the rust-scarred blade he is named after",[18,19,20],"Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute is one of the new bosses of the October 2026 preview build, the only footage that shows him so far. He is a hulking marauder, and the fight takes place on open, stony ground.","Once he falls, the game offers his weapon on the spot with \"Equip the new weapon now?\". The blade keeps his name, and its entry in the weapon list remembers him as \"a marauder as foolish as he was arrogant\".","The weapon is a One-Handed main weapon built around bleeding. At level 1 it reads Damage 272 and Status Effects 103, and every hit adds to the target's Bleed Gauge until Blood Loss sets in.",[22],{"label":23,"date":24,"at":25},"October 2026 preview build","2026-10","15:35",true,{"title":28,"description":29},"Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute: Phantom Blade Zero Boss","Jagged Steel, the Frenzied Brute is a Phantom Blade Zero boss from the October 2026 preview. Beat him and his bleeding blade goes to Soul.","bosses\u002Fjagged-steel",{"slug":32,"name":33,"summary":34,"body":35,"shown":37,"page":42,"picture":43},"zhuobi","Zhuobi, the Gatekeeper","An armored giant fought in a village street lit by blue lanterns",[36],"Zhuobi, the Gatekeeper is an armored giant who takes on Soul among village houses hung with blue lanterns, in a short clip of S-GAME's August 2026 deep dive.",[38],{"label":39,"date":40,"at":41},"Enter the Wulin: Gameplay & Story Deep Dive","2026-08","9:15",false,"bosses\u002Fzhuobi",{"slug":45,"name":46,"summary":47,"body":48,"shown":50,"page":42,"picture":53},"blizzard-blademaster","Blizzard Blademaster","Fought in deep snow in the 66 Days mode, where his win costs Soul a day",[49],"The Blizzard Blademaster meets Soul in deep snow during the deep dive's look at the 66 Days mode. Soul loses that fight, which costs him a day: the counter on the death screen goes from 37 to 36.",[51],{"label":39,"date":40,"at":52},"12:02","bosses\u002Fblizzard-blademaster",{"slug":55,"name":56,"summary":57,"body":58,"shown":60,"page":42,"picture":65},"the-hunt","The Hunt, Hunter of the Order","Ambushes Soul on a speeding horse-drawn cart, in the pre-order trailer and the October build",[59],"The Hunt, Hunter of the Order strikes while Soul rides a horse-drawn cart down a misty valley road, leaping in from above. This is the carriage battle of the August 2026 pre-order trailer, and recordings of the October 2026 preview build show it played.",[61,64],{"label":62,"date":40,"at":63},"Pre-Order Trailer","3:01",{"label":23,"date":24},"bosses\u002Fthe-hunt",{"slug":67,"name":68,"gives":69,"summary":72,"body":73,"lines":78,"shown":90,"page":26,"seo":99,"picture":102},"hua-qianxiao","Hua Qianxiao, the Sword Fanatic",{"name":70,"href":71},"The Fanatic's Broken Blade","\u002Fweapons\u002Ffanatics-broken-blade\u002F","A drunk swordsman who once led a Mandate sect; beat him for his Drunken Sword",[74,75,76,77],"Hua Qianxiao is the drunken swordsman of S-GAME's trailer for The Game Awards 2025, named and fought in the October 2026 preview build. He greets Soul already full of wine, calling for the death of \"all those righteous fools\", then only half remembers his own past: he once led a sect of the Mandate, and he has lost count of the years since he left it.","He knows Soul as the man who broke his blade, and still claims the victory: \"But you lost that battle!\" The duel takes place on a long wooden walkway above a field of red flowers.","Drink is the whole idea of the fight. S-GAME's combat director explains that he \"will continually drink to build up a certain kind of energy\", and the more he drinks, the wilder he moves, until his blade arrives from angles Soul cannot predict.","Beating him gives Soul his \"Drunken Sword\", The Fanatic's Broken Blade, which lets Soul drink, dodge at the last moment and counter while staggering as if tipsy. After the fight Soul rests at a bell called Pangzhen Bridge Overlook.",[79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89],"Delicious... delicious wine! Ahahaha! Kill all those righteous fools!","Heh... seems... I was a Mandate sect leader too... wasn't I?","No, no, no...! how many years has it been since I left the Mandate...?","Three...? Five years?","Ah. It's you! You again!?","So it was you... who broke my blade?","But you lost that battle! Hahaha! You lost! Ahahaha!","Swallow... the seas... cleave... the heavens!","Only... the wine in my cup... truly understands...","I drink the toast... you drink... the punishment!","Drink... come! Drink with... me!",[91,94,97],{"label":92,"date":93},"Release Date Announcement Trailer, The Game Awards 2025","2025-12",{"label":95,"date":96},"What exactly is Wuxia?","2026-04",{"label":23,"date":24,"at":98},"11:24",{"title":100,"description":101},"Hua Qianxiao, the Sword Fanatic: Phantom Blade Zero Boss","Hua Qianxiao, the Sword Fanatic is a Phantom Blade Zero boss who fights drunk. His fight, his lines, and the Drunken Sword he leaves for Soul.","bosses\u002Fhua-qianxiao",{"slug":104,"name":105,"summary":106,"body":107,"lines":110,"shown":113,"page":26,"seo":116,"picture":119},"peng-meng","Peng Meng, the Axemaster","Towering axeman with a hatred of the Mandate, fought in a misty field",[108,109],"Peng Meng, the Axemaster is a towering, pale brute who swings a great axe. S-GAME first showed him in its trailer for The Game Awards 2025, and the October 2026 preview build has the whole fight, in a misty field of long grass beside a wooden house.","His hatred is for the Mandate, and he roars it mid-fight: \"I'll slaughter every last Mandate rat!\" He dies calling out to his brothers: \"Brothers... Let us meet again in the next life!\"",[111,112],"I'll slaughter every last Mandate rat!","Brothers... Let us meet again in the next life!",[91,114],{"label":23,"date":24,"at":115},"16:50",{"title":117,"description":118},"Peng Meng, the Axemaster: Phantom Blade Zero Boss","Peng Meng, the Axemaster is a Phantom Blade Zero boss: a pale giant with a great axe and a grudge against the Mandate. Where he fights and what he says.","bosses\u002Fpeng-meng",{"slug":121,"name":122,"secondPhase":123,"summary":124,"body":125,"shown":129,"page":26,"seo":134,"picture":137},"flame","Flame, the Mask-Bound Lion Dance Grandmaster","The Lion Dance Grandmaster's Final Dance","The lion dance boss; partway through, it becomes The Lion Dance Grandmaster's Final Dance",[126,127,128],"Flame is the lion dance boss. Creative director Soulframe Liang picks the fight out in S-GAME's \"What exactly is Wuxia?\" video as one of the boss fights of the trailer for The Game Awards 2025, and both the August 2026 deep dive and the October 2026 preview build show it under its full name.","The idea came from a visit to a lion dance master in Shenzhen. A lion costume is worked by two dancers, so the studio made the boss move like a large monster at a distance and like a person up close, where \"the person in front will leap up and kick with both legs\". The fight takes place at night, under strings of red lanterns.","Partway through, the boss bar changes to The Lion Dance Grandmaster's Final Dance, the second phase. S-GAME has described the lion dance to Xinhua as one of its \"functional gameplay mechanics, not visual motifs\".",[91,94,130,132],{"label":39,"date":40,"at":131},"13:28",{"label":23,"date":24,"at":133},"21:40",{"title":135,"description":136},"Flame, the Lion Dance Grandmaster: Phantom Blade Zero Boss","Flame, the Mask-Bound Lion Dance Grandmaster is a Phantom Blade Zero boss in two phases, the second called The Lion Dance Grandmaster's Final Dance.","bosses\u002Fflame",{"slug":139,"name":140,"gives":141,"summary":144,"body":145,"lines":149,"shown":154,"page":26,"seo":159,"picture":162},"wan-jun","Wan Jun \"Coppermaul\"",{"name":142,"href":143},"Bashpole","\u002Fweapons\u002F#bashpole","Holds Justice Camp's gate for Huangxing; beat him for his sledgehammer, the Bashpole",[146,147,148],"Wan Jun \"Coppermaul\" stands at the gate of Justice Camp in the 2025 S-Party demo, on orders he trusts completely: \"Master Huangxing, he told me to guard the gate.\" Anyone hoping to get past hears \"NO LIVING SOUL SHALL PASS!\"","He fights with a heavy sledgehammer. Beaten, he gives away what lies beyond the gate (\"The training ground... Deep in the camp... They took soldiers there and...\") and turns on the man who posted him there: \"Master Huangxing! You lied to me!!!\"","His sledgehammer, the Bashpole, then goes to Soul. Its card calls it \"Brute's signature weapon\", and it can smash through weakened floors covered with old planks even when it is not equipped.",[150,151,152,153],"Master Huangxing, he told me to guard the gate.","NO LIVING SOUL SHALL PASS!","The training ground... Deep in the camp... They took soldiers there and...","Master Huangxing! You lied to me!!!",[155],{"label":156,"date":157,"at":158},"2025 S-Party demo","2025-07","7:19",{"title":160,"description":161},"Wan Jun \"Coppermaul\": Phantom Blade Zero Boss","Wan Jun \"Coppermaul\" is the Phantom Blade Zero boss who guards the gate of Justice Camp for Huangxing. Beat him for his sledgehammer, the Bashpole.","bosses\u002Fwan-jun",{"slug":164,"name":165,"alongside":166,"summary":169,"body":170,"lines":173,"shown":176,"page":26,"seo":183,"picture":186},"red-wraith","Red Wraith",{"name":167,"href":168},"Chief Disciple's Fallen Hope","\u002Fbosses\u002Fchief-disciple\u002F","A swift duelist met on a rooftop, then fought beside the Chief Disciple's Fallen Hope",[171,172],"Red Wraith is a swift, red-clad duelist of the 2025 S-Party demo. Soul first crosses her on a temple roof in Justice Camp, where she fights under her own boss bar but does not go all out, as Soul notices: \"She's holding back, even under that sanity-breaking Sha-Chi surge...\" He wonders whether to leave her be and push on.","She returns in the second phase of the Chief Disciple of the Seven Stars, where she and Chief Disciple's Fallen Hope fight Soul together, each with a bar of their own. Her words there bind the two: \"Nothing can separate us. Not even in death.\"",[174,175],"Nothing can separate us. Not even in death.","I will be waiting on the other side...",[177,179],{"label":156,"date":157,"at":178},"15:32",{"label":180,"date":181,"at":182},"2025 S-Party Trial Event Recap","2025-08","5:14",{"title":184,"description":185},"Red Wraith: Phantom Blade Zero Boss in Justice Camp","Red Wraith is a Phantom Blade Zero boss met on a rooftop in Justice Camp, then fought beside the Chief Disciple of the Seven Stars in its second phase.","bosses\u002Fred-wraith",{"slug":188,"name":189,"secondPhase":167,"alongside":190,"summary":192,"body":193,"shown":197,"page":26,"seo":204,"picture":207},"chief-disciple","Chief Disciple of the Seven Stars",{"name":165,"href":191},"\u002Fbosses\u002Fred-wraith\u002F","Ends the 2025 demo; turns into Chief Disciple's Fallen Hope as Red Wraith joins",[194,195,196],"The Chief Disciple of the Seven Stars is the last fight of the 2025 S-Party demo, and S-GAME first showed it in its Year of the Snake trailer in January 2025. On the way there, the Nameless Survivor warns Soul: \"Beware of the Seven Stars and their sword formation! Together, they have slain countless evildoers. But now... Now they're dark and hollow, just like their faces.\"","S-GAME's article on that trailer describes the fight as two stages. The Seven Stars Sword Formation opens it, seven swordsmen attacking as one and then one after another. String Puppet follows: the disciples still standing move their leader's body on crimson threads, as a puppeteer moves a marionette.","In the second phase the boss bar becomes Chief Disciple's Fallen Hope and Red Wraith joins in under a bar of her own, so Soul faces two at once. When it is over, the demo closes on \"Pick up Alkaid's Echo Blossom to end the demo.\"",[198,202],{"label":199,"date":200,"at":201},"Year of the Snake Gameplay Trailer","2025-01","0:39",{"label":156,"date":157,"at":203},"16:57",{"title":205,"description":206},"Chief Disciple of the Seven Stars: Phantom Blade Zero Boss","Chief Disciple of the Seven Stars is a Phantom Blade Zero boss in two phases; the second, Chief Disciple's Fallen Hope, brings in Red Wraith.","bosses\u002Fchief-disciple",{"slug":209,"name":210,"chinese":211,"earlierNames":212,"summary":219,"body":220,"shown":224,"page":26,"seo":228,"picture":231},"huangxing","Huangxing, the Kunlun Renegade","昆仑叛教者 荒行子",[213],{"name":214,"source":215},"the Sunken Pillar of Kunlun",{"label":216,"date":217,"at":218},"Real-Play Demo Highlights","2024-07","0:43","Signs the order that sends every member of Allied Justice to Perfect Transcension",[221,222,223],"Huangxing is one of the three Pillars of Kunlun, with Yuyin and Moji, masters counted \"as the de facto pillars of Allied Justice\". A document about the three calls him \"reticent and often feared\".","His name is at the foot of the notice posted in Justice Camp, \"Mandatory Procedure for All Personnel\". It sends every member \"to the training ground for Perfect Transcension augmentation\", because \"To win this war against the Masks, we need every ounce of strength you can give\", and anyone who refuses faces a trial for treason and a public beheading. Wan Jun \"Coppermaul\" guards the gate on his word, and turns on him once he learns what lies behind it.","Soul fights him in a hall of red lanterns and candles. The 2024 demo's name card titled him the Sunken Pillar of Kunlun; S-GAME's August 2026 deep dive calls him the Kunlun Renegade, which is also what the card's Chinese title says.",[225,226],{"label":216,"date":217,"at":218},{"label":39,"date":40,"at":227},"11:19",{"title":229,"description":230},"Huangxing, the Kunlun Renegade: Phantom Blade Zero Boss","Huangxing, the Kunlun Renegade is the Phantom Blade Zero boss who orders Allied Justice into Perfect Transcension. Who he is, and where Soul fights him.","bosses\u002Fhuangxing",{"slug":233,"name":234,"chinese":235,"summary":236,"body":237,"shown":239,"page":42,"picture":246},"tie-sha","Tie Sha the Frenzy","癫狂暴徒铁杀","A hammer-swinging brute of the 2024 World Tour demo, announced by a brush name card",[238],"Tie Sha the Frenzy is a brute with a heavy hammer, met in a wooded camp by a stream in the 2024 World Tour demo. He arrives with the game's brush name card, his name painted down the screen in Chinese with the English beneath.",[240,244],{"label":241,"date":242,"at":243},"Gameplay Trailer, Summer Game Fest 2024","2024-06","0:47",{"label":216,"date":217,"at":245},"0:10","bosses\u002Ftie-sha",{"slug":248,"name":249,"chinese":250,"earlierNames":251,"summary":256,"body":257,"shown":259,"page":42,"picture":263},"commander-cleave","Commander Cleave","横刀队长",[252],{"name":253,"source":254},"Captain Cleave",{"label":216,"date":217,"at":255},"0:23","Captain in a wide straw hat who wields a broad blade; a boss of the 2024 World Tour demo",[258],"Commander Cleave is a captain in a wide straw hat who fights with a broad blade, in the 2024 World Tour demo. His boss bar in the Summer Game Fest 2024 trailer reads Commander Cleave, while the name card in the Real-Play Demo Highlights calls him Captain Cleave.",[260,262],{"label":241,"date":242,"at":261},"1:03",{"label":216,"date":217,"at":255},"bosses\u002Fcommander-cleave",{"slug":265,"name":266,"summary":267,"body":268,"shown":270,"page":42,"picture":273},"jade-dancer","Jade Dancer","A hooded swordswoman who leaps at Soul, from the Summer Game Fest 2024 trailer",[269],"Jade Dancer is a hooded swordswoman who springs at Soul blade first among dark wooden buildings. She appears with her boss bar in the Summer Game Fest 2024 gameplay trailer.",[271],{"label":241,"date":242,"at":272},"1:21","bosses\u002Fjade-dancer",1792684117329]