How To Access The Hidden Mountain Expansion Content When The Winds Meet

When the Winds Meet launches its first expansion on July 23, which unlocks the Hidden Mountain region. However, before you can explore a new region and try to fight its world bosses, the Ironheart Centipede and Ci and Cuo, you must open access to the region. The process is quite lengthy, as the Hidden Mountain is not intended to be an easily accessible location, making it a perfect location for the legendary Haven.

First, you want be the best in the base game before you head to a new location, so if you’re not there, you’ll want to gather information and level up beforehand.

Complete the Quest Yingying and Misty River invitation

To start the extended content, you need to check your quest log again get the request, “Yingying’s invitation.” This allows you to go to the inn in Kaifeng, where you find Yingying on the second floor and join her for tea. Master Jin joins you, and you discuss Haven, the place you and MasterJin are both trying to reach.

This leads to the section where you follow the wood bird. There are a few enemies you’ll encounter, but you can sneak up behind most of them and defeat them in one hit. If you can sneak them, they still aren’t hard.

At the end of this stage, you join Big Feng. Then, he heads across the river to Haven with him and Master Jin. Big Feng can fix the boat, but the river is covered with fog and if you try to cross it, you end up back on the shore.

At this point, you go and talk to the NPCs around you to get information about the mists. If you talk to the scholar, you have to go through the Gift of Gab challenge with him.

From here, you will try to cross several times. You need to use your Wind Sense to see the whirlpools and use them as a guide, and eventually you’ll come to a quest where the old sage joins you in debt, which is the result. indicates that you have passed the puzzle and it will reach the other shore eventually.

Climb the Cliffs

While you are in the Hidden Mountain region now, your journey is not over. Annoyed that Heron left him behind, Feng rushes forward alone. Follow him, but make sure you do too talk to the Traveler on the way to get a map of this place.

Master Jin will break up with you, but he will build a flying contraption with Feng that places you on top of the cliffs. Next, you have to go through a puzzle at Heron’s command to prove yourself, and Light Skills are not allowed here. The puzzle is made by using Celestial Seize on chain linkthen use the lumber found in the area to build a bridge between the chains so you can cross to the next area.

Keep repeating this until you get to the part where Fend holds the fields for you, where you are connect one chain to the image next to you and run across that chain. From here, you repeat the same process to return to Feng, opening the way for him to join you.

At the end, there is one enemy you have to fight, and Heron sends you up the mountain. This means that you have officially entered the main part of the Hidden Mountain region where the Spirits Meet.

Released

November 14, 2025

The ESRB

Youth / Alcohol Use, Violence, In-Game Purchases (Includes Random Items), User Interactions

Engineer(s).

Everstone Studio

Publisher

NetEase, Inc.