Inner Ways
Understand your passive effects.
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Find the pages, tomes or quest rewards that unlock an Inner Way. Compare its trigger and breakthrough changes with the actions you actually use before spending upgrade Notes.
Look for the source and version notes before using a guide to make a costly decision.
Adaptive Steel: Oddity reward and weapon mastery effects
Find Adaptive Steel in Qi Sheng’s Oddity rewards and understand why changing weapons changes the passive you receive.
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Adaptive Steel: Oddity reward and weapon mastery effects
Find Adaptive Steel in Qi Sheng’s Oddity rewards and understand why changing weapons changes the passive you receive.
Art of Resistance: Scammer Victims and shield duration
Finish Scammer Victims, collect Chengshi’s pouch and learn what Art of Resistance changes about your own HP shields.
Battle Anthem: Buddha Fort unlock and charged attacks
Free the Buddha Fort prisoner, learn Battle Anthem and understand which attacks benefit before spending Inner Way Notes.
Bitter Seasons: Gleaming Abyss secret-room reward
Find Bitter Seasons after Void King and understand its damage-over-time condition and application limits.
Blossom Barrage: Shadows in Bloom puzzles and the tome
Complete Shadows in Bloom with the drum order, seven clue locations and envoy deduction, then equip Blossom Barrage for Vernal Umbrella.
Breaking Point: Yi Dao reward and Exhausted damage windows
Unlock Breaking Point from Yi Dao and understand Critical-hit stacks, Exhaustion and later-tier changes.
Divine Roulette: Void King reward and the next-skill buff
Get Divine Roulette from Void King and understand deflection triggers, random benefits and skill consumption.
Echoes of Oblivion: the Qinghe reward and Twinblades effects
Claim Echoes of Oblivion after For Whom Does He Return, equip it with Infernal Twinblades and understand Sin, Karma and later breakthroughs.
Esoteric Revival: Sleeping Daoist reward and revive support
Get Esoteric Revival from the Sleeping Daoist and understand how it supports Panacea Fan’s revival skill in group play.
Evening Snow: both page chests and the opening heal
Collect the two sets of Evening Snow pages and learn why its conditional heal does not activate every time your health becomes low.
Exquisite Scenery: Puppeteer unlock and Thundercry counter
Defeat Puppeteer — Sheng Wu near Battlecrest Slope and learn the defensive counter that Exquisite Scenery adds to Thundercry Blade.
Fivefold Bleed: A Faltering Flame and the three lanterns
Find the Lamp-lighting Monk, bring back his three visitors over successive in-game days and claim the Fivefold Bleed tome.
Flying Gourds: Inkwell Fan chest and extra skill charges
Find Flying Gourds before the Inkwell Fan Skill Theft encounter and understand the extra-charge tradeoff for Peak’s Springless Silence.
Fury Harvest: Bodhi Sea reward and Mystic Skill Vitality
Get Fury Harvest from Ye Wanshan and distinguish qualifying Vitality recovery from ordinary combat actions.
Inner Way upgrades: Notes, Tips Exchange and Conversion
Choose the right Notes chest, protect materials before Tips Exchange and compare both sides of an Inner Way Conversion before paying.
Inner Ways beginner guide: learn, equip and upgrade passives
Find your passive slots, understand triggers and tiers, complete a breakthrough and fix Inner Ways that seem to do nothing.
Insightful Strike: archery reward and Affinity interaction
Complete the archery challenge chain for Insightful Strike and understand its Affinity-related effects.
Invigorated Warrior: Still Shore reward and the cost of taking hits
Unlock Invigorated Warrior from Heartseeker and weigh its damage and healing benefits against taking hits.
Mending Loom: Granary reward and Soulshade Dew spending
Unlock Mending Loom from Zheng the Frostwing and support Soulshade Umbrella’s Dew-spending loop.
Morale Chant: pages, unlock cost and Yi River stacks
Find Tang Bao’s Morale Chant pages, understand the 5,000 Echo Jade unlock and separate pages from upgrade Notes.
Mountain’s Might: all five page chests and Nameless Spear use
Find all five Mountain’s Might page chests in Palace of Annals and use its Nameless Spear support.
Restoring Blossom: Healer’s Calling reward and critical heals
Unlock Restoring Blossom through Healer’s Calling and maintain its critical-healing support.
Riptide Reflex: Veiled Blades reward and control-skill cooldowns
Get Riptide Reflex during Veiled Blades and use qualifying control hits to reduce Martial Art Skill cooldown.
Rock Solid: Dao Lord reward and Storm Roar’s defensive trade-off
Learn Rock Solid from Dao Lord and weigh Stormbreaker Spear’s taunt defence against its damage penalty.
Royal Remedy: Panacea Fan Sanctum chest and healing use
Find Royal Remedy inside the Panacea Fan Sanctum and understand the water-clone healing and Dew recovery it supports.
Seasonal Edge: Cao Sheng’s pages and weapon-switch buffs
Find Cao Sheng’s Seasonal Edge pages and use the passive with deliberate dual-weapon skill timing.
Star Reacher: Snake Doctor reward and Lingering Bone trigger
Get Star Reacher from Snake Doctor and activate it through Inkwell Fan’s Lingering Bone condition.
Sword Horizon: Ni Laoshan’s books and the Bleed follow-up
Find Ni Laoshan in Ghostlight Market, collect the Sword Horizon tomes and understand the timed Strategic Sword follow-up before spending Coins.
Sword Morph: claim the Tome and unlock extra sword waves
Claim Sword Morph from A Warrior’s Journey and learn the Qi shield, Vagrant Sword and Shadow Step conditions behind its extra waves.
Thunderous Bloom: Mercyheart unlock and updated activation
Get Thunderous Bloom from Mercyheart Monastery and use its updated Martial Art Skill completion trigger.
Trapped Beast: March of the Dead reward and emergency shield
Obtain Trapped Beast during March of the Dead and understand its low-health shield and long cooldown.
Vendetta: Jinming Pool unlock and rope-dart synergy
Unlock Vendetta through Jinming Pool and understand its Mortal Rope Dart token and rodent interactions.
Vital Leech: Lucky Seventeen reward and execution healing
Unlock Vital Leech from Lucky Seventeen and distinguish Execution healing from later-tier effects.
Wildfire Spark: Deerforage’s Remedy from start to finish
Trigger Deerforage’s Remedy, treat Shi Yimo, deliver Fuling’s mushrooms and learn how Wildfire Spark refunds Endurance.
Wind Beneath Wings: both unlocks and Skywalk Dash support
Complete Echoes of Old Battles and Tiger Fort to learn Wind Beneath Wings, then understand its movement and on-kill recovery effects.
Wolfchaser’s Art: the Heavenquaker Sanctum chest
Find the golden chest near the Heavenquaker Spear Skill Theft area, learn Wolfchaser’s Art and understand its Sober Sorrow role.