Phantom Blade Zero Gold-Masked One Guide: All 5 Long Pillar Trials and Rewards

First, unlock the trials: go to the Long Pillar Overlook in Weeping Creek Valley, enter the hut, and ring the crane bell to watch the memory. After that the Midlake pillar responds. Then work through the five trials in order: Midlake (Meigu Lake), the snow pillar in the Phantom Illusionist Ruins, the Mirage Estate pillar, the Mirrorwood pillar, and the final trial against Mo Yuan. In each Gold-Masked One duel, parry his blue-flash attacks and perfect dodge his red-flash attacks; staying close keeps his long combinations from resetting the fight. If you die, you return to the broken Long Pillar bell in the trial arena, and he returns at full health. You can leave for the Waking Realm at any time and retry by interacting with the pillar again.

Bloodline Awakening is available from Chapter 3 onward. The Midlake pillar may not react until one step elsewhere is done first: go to the Long Pillar Overlook in Weeping Creek Valley and enter the hut. Press the prompt at the crane bell, a stone crane holding a hanging bell, and watch the memory sequence that follows. After that, the game shows the hint to parry blue-flash attacks and perfect dodge red-flash attacks, and the quest card reads: find all five Long Pillars and complete their trials (0/5). From then on, interacting with a Long Pillar starts its trial.

The boss bar reads The Gold-Masked One, and he has one health bar per trial. In the first trial he is level 10 with 48,560 HP on Pathbreaker. He rushes Soul and launches extended combinations, and he punishes reckless aggression, so the fight is about defensive timing, not trading blows. Parry when a blue-white star appears above him: Soul can counter many of his blue-flash attacks and steadily reduce his health. Perfect dodge his red-flash attacks. Stay close, use Ghost Step to reposition behind him after a combination, land a short counterattack, and return to defense. Do not chase long combos of your own: his punish window opens the moment you overextend.

Take a boat from the Meigu Lake docks to the Midlake Long Pillar Dock bell. The prompt sits a few steps from the bell on the plank walk: face the stone dragon head with the red eye. Do not look for the prompt beside the stone column in the red pool. Press it to play a memory scene, and the game moves you to the trial arena, a temple compound burning at night. The duel starts right away. Win and the quest card reads (1/5), and the reward is the Counterstrike Bracers.

The second pillar stands in the Phantom Illusionist Ruins; the Four Guardians’ Mirror in Meigu Lake provides entry. Inside the arena, an interaction prompt appears beside the Man in Black: speak with him to begin the Gold-Masked One fight. After you win, the snow pillar collapses, the quest card reads (2/5), and the reward is the Miraculous Scabbard.

The third pillar is at the Mirage Estate: a stone dragon head with glowing red eyes on an upper terrace at the top of a wide stone stair that rises from the Mirage Estate Long Pillar bell. Talk to the Man in Black to start the third duel; the reward is the Quenched Flaming Grip fragment. The fourth pillar is the Mirrorwood pillar in Crimson Forest; speak to the Man in Black again for the fourth duel, and the reward is Chaos Iron Fragment I.

The fifth trial is not another Gold-Masked One duel. An opening scene leads straight into the fight with Mo Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mo, with no talk with the Man in Black first. Win and you get the Bastion of Mo Mask, and Bloodline Awakening is complete. One disagreement between guides: the trial order above follows the quest as mapped by allthings.how, while Game8 places the fifth pillar in the Mirage Estate near the Covered Corridor during The Way Forward. The opponent, the mask reward, and the quest completion are agreed by both; if the final pillar does not appear where you expect it, check the other location.

You likely skipped the unlock: go to the Long Pillar Overlook hut in Weeping Creek Valley and ring the crane bell to watch the memory first.

Yes. Use the broken Long Pillar bell in the arena to return to the Waking Realm, then interact with the pillar again to retry.

No. He appears in the first four. Trial 5 is Mo Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mo.

It is used to Soul Temper the starting Sanguine weapon.