Chapter 2: Yellow Wind Ridge

Enemies: Giant stone/sand frog Yaoguai Chief

Threats: Tongue sweeps, belly flops, leaping ground-slams, and spitting blinding mud

Weaknesses and resistances: High posture vulnerability to heavy jump smashes; slow recovery windows

Tactics: Keep to its flanks to bait slow turning kicks, dodge backward when it charges belly slams, and interrupt its mud spitting with Immobilize

Rewards: Tadpole (material), Blood of the Iron Bull, Will, Silk

Enemies: Royal rat duo (King commands from stone pillars, Second Prince attacks on foot)

Threats: King hurls explosive projectile rocks and buffs his son; Prince uses giant club sweeps, lunging cleaves, and sand stomp shockwaves

Weaknesses and resistances: King has low health if reached on his perch; Prince enters a berserk frenzy if the King is slain first

Tactics: Focus and kill the King atop the stone pillars first using ranged Spirits/Pillar Stance to prevent buffing and obtain the Second Rat Prince Spirit, or burn down the Prince to capture the King's Pungent Flesh

Rewards: Keenness of Stone (if Prince slain first) or Second Prince Spirit / Pungent Flesh, Silk, Yaoguai Core, Will

Enemies: Hulking bipedal rat beast summoned via the Pungent Flesh or bell chimes in Valley of Despair

Threats: Relentless sweeping claws, burrowing charges, ground slams that break stone walls, and wide tail swipes

Weaknesses and resistances: Extremely aggressive with high poise; susceptible to stagger from colliding with arena walls

Tactics: Lure his charges into the cracked stone wall at the edge of the arena to instantly stagger him and crack the wall (revealing the Loong Scales chamber); punish with heavy charged smashes

Rewards: Arhat Gold Piece, Blood of the Iron Bull, Will, Silk

Enemies: Corrupted human swordsman Yaoguai Chief on the canyon bridge

Threats: Fast unsheathe Iai slashes, teleporting lunges, delayed blade thrusts, and kicking combos on a narrow bridge

Weaknesses and resistances: Fragile posture; low poise against Pillar Stance attacks

Tactics: Fight in the center of the wooden bridge rather than near edges; parry or deflect with Rock Solid when he sheathes his blade, then punish with full light attack chains

Rewards: Tiger's Acolyte Spirit, Old Rattle-Clothe, Blood of the Iron Bull, Will

Enemies: Staff-wielding cultist Yaoguai Chief

Threats: Erects a glowing red ritual array that buffs his attacks and inflicts sustained area damage, fires homing blood projectiles, and summons exploding totems

Weaknesses and resistances: Low physical defense and easily staggered out of ritual chanting

Tactics: Rush him down immediately at the start of the fight before he completes the blood boundary; use Immobilize to halt his ritual and burst him with Red Tides transformation

Rewards: Gore-Eye Daoist Spirit, Blood of the Iron Bull, Will, Silk

Enemies: The younger, agile Tiger Vanguard fought in the Kingdom of Sahālī past

Threats: Extremely swift claw rakes, high-jumping downward sword slams, roar shockwaves, and rapid tracking pounces

Weaknesses and resistances: Susceptible to Thrust Stance counters; pauses after executing full blade combos

Tactics: Maintain mid-range spacing to bait his plunging blade thrust, dodge sideways through his lunges, and counter-attack with Cloud Step backstabs

Rewards: Tiger Tally (Curio), Will, Mind Core