🎭 Endings Guide - True Ending, Missables & NG+

Three: a Tragic Ending, a Standard Resolution, and the True Wulin Ending. The True Ending is decided by one silent rule — complete every time-sensitive regional side quest before the late-game Mandate Encampment climax, and it is yours; skip or fail one and that cycle's True Ending is permanently locked (New Game Plus gives you a clean retry). There are almost no hard points of no return in the game — expiring side quests are the only real timer.

Which of the three outcomes you land on is governed by the completion state of the regional side quests — the game never asks you to pick an ending directly. The practical ladder:

The three documented make-or-break chains are Yu'Er's medicine-gathering in Weeping Creek Valley (she relocates with main-story progress and eventually vanishes), Bloodline Awakening, and Secrets at the Heart of the Lake in Meigu Lake. All three must be complete before you trigger the late-game Mandate Encampment climax. Skipping or failing any of them permanently locks Soul out of the True Ending requirements on that cycle — the reward for threading all three is the full conspiracy behind The Order coming into the open.

• Yu'Er's medicine quest — Weeping Creek Valley; expires by relocation, then vanishes outright
• Bloodline Awakening — one of the three documented 0.1% secret quests
• Secrets at the Heart of the Lake — Meigu Lake; the community is mapping it in real time
• Deadline for all three: before the Mandate Encampment climax

The community route documents almost no hard points of no return — the real timer is side quests, and the game never warns you when one dies. Some quests fail outright; others quietly expect a later return, and you cannot know which. The documented casualties are Yu'Er's medicine-gathering in Weeping Creek Valley and Whence the Weeping, the valley's signature side quest that starts at the broken carriage where Against the Flow opens. Treat "clear each region's tracked side content before its main mission" as the route's one hard rule and nothing stays missable.

New Game Plus is available after your first clear, and it is the clean retry for a locked True Ending: the requirements re-arm on the new cycle while your build knowledge comes along intact. The intended endgame ladder is structural — finish Gamechanger to unlock Hellwalker (the master mode and the community's stated reason for second runs), then take New Game Plus; difficulty can be adjusted at any Bell checkpoint mid-run with zero penalties, so the Hellwalker leg can be planned around rather than feared. For scale, a direct story run takes roughly 20 to 30 hours, the full regional side-quest sweep 35 to 45, and a 100% ledger that includes the Hellwalker clear 50 to 65+ — the second cycle is where most of that last tier lives. The second-run checklist writes itself from this site's data: the three 0.1% secret quests (Secrets at the Heart of the Lake, Bloodline Awakening, Secrets of the Baishan Sect), the optional superbosses left standing, the fragment ledger's last entries — twenty-one Blackstone fragments across the seven regions — and the 66-achievement list's combat tier.