Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó Boss #12 of 74 · Weeping Creek Valley

How to beat Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó

Our strategy, built from the fight's numbers, followed by the game's own codex entry.

• Parry the blue flashes: 3 of Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó's 56 attacks flash blue before they land, and a timed parry stops them.
• Dodge the red flashes: 2 attacks flash red. They can't be parried, so dodge through them instead of blocking.
• The tightest tell is Whirling Blade Flurry: only 0.21s from the flash to the hit, so react to the flash, not the swing.
• Overhead Blade Grab is a grab: dodge it, because blocking and parrying don't stop a grab.
• Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó adds new attacks below 60% HP, so expect the moveset to change at 60%.
• Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó's Sha-Chi bar is 3,000: perfect parries and Guard Break attacks drain it, and an empty bar opens the boss to a finisher.

Every attack Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó can use, read from its ability data. The cards show the in-game animation with its timing: wind-up, the red or blue flash, the hit window and recovery.

Attacks

56

Red flash (dodge)

2

Blue flash (parry)

3

Grabs

4

Tightest tell

0.21s

New moves below

60%

From the start

All 56 attacks

Attack names are ours: the game doesn't name boss attacks. Times are seconds from the start of the attack; the reaction time runs from the flash to the first hit after it.

Parry Trainer

Test your timing on Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó's real attacks: parry the blue flashes, dodge the red ones.

Extra damage (+) or reduced damage (−) per element, and how fast each status effect builds up.

Base attributes from the boss's config, and the same values at the level the fight runs at.

Calculated Base values come from the enemy's own config. The game raises them with the area level; enemies in this region are level 1–4 (difficulty multipliers are not included).

The boss's spawn point on the Weeping Creek Valley map. Nearest Bell: Lóng Pillar.

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Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó lore

The codex entry the game unlocks for Mó Yuan, Leader of the Bastion of Mó.

Five Lóng Pillars, five reunions, yet they could never make up for more than thirty years apart. Across those countless days and nights, he missed too many important moments in Soul’s life.

He never heard Soul’s first words or watched him take his first steps. He was not there to teach him to read, introduce him to martial arts, or personally pass down the Bastion of Mó’s techniques. The Bastion bloodline carries immense Sha-Chi, demanding exceptional strength and control. Without someone from the Bastion to guide him, Soul was bound to endure far more hardship...

Fortunately, Soul has grown up safe. He now stands tall, and his martial skill is already no less than Mó Yuan’s own. In every move, Mó Yuan sees the hardship of those thirty years, as well as Soul’s search and uncertainty today. Soul is walking his own path. Beyond guiding his martial arts and teaching him to master the power in his blood, all Mó Yuan can do is let him know that someone will always be there for him.

But saying everything in his heart might only become a burden. Better to leave all the words he cannot say within each exchange of blades. He can only hope that these trials will help Soul clear the path ahead.

In-game codex

Boss order

Boss #12 of 74: the previous fight is The Gold-Masked One, the next one Jade Dancer, Young Mistress's Guardian.

Data: Phantom Blade Zero 26367565 (CL-302256, UE 5.7.4). How we source this