Huangxing.

Huangxing, a Kunlun renegade, occupies the peak of the Mountain of Imprisonment and serves as that skippable region's principal boss.

Ahead of the campaign, he was the taciturn Second Brother of the three Pillars of Kunlun. Whereas the Wulin revered Yuyin and adored Moji, it dreaded him. When Soul arrives, he has renounced the Mandate, seized the Lu clan shrine to use as a temple for the Merciful Lady, and equipped himself with mechanical limbs.

Facing him is a boss encounter you may skip.

The Trio of Pillars

As Senior Sister, Yuyin headed the Kunlun Sect, with Huangxing as Second Brother and Moji as Junior Brother. Their martial ability was equal, and together they were called the Pillars of Kunlun. Once the Maskwalker unrest erupted, the Mandate dispatched them to unite the lesser sects and eliminate surviving Maskwalkers.

Kunlun's disciples remembered Huangxing as taciturn but active, a man who entered a Maskwalker stronghold alone, disappeared for days, then came back holding the heads of several enemies.

The Deal with Zuo Shang

Yuyin had pledged herself as an ally to Zuo Shang of the Order. At a parley held during the combined operation twelve months before the campaign, Zuo Shang put it to Huangxing how he would feel if Yuyin were to vanish. In exchange, he wanted Huangxing to overpower the Chord in a secluded spot and deliver her to a location settled beforehand. Huangxing replied that Zuo Shang's treatment of Yuyin was not his concern.

The Proclamation

Huangxing announced that Yuyin had died in combat once she was gone. His decree brands Moji a craven who ran from the fray, breaking faith with their pact, and states that Huangxing has uncovered the art of Perfect Transcension and will lead the camp's disciples against the heretical path to sweep it away.

Across the Mandate Encampment he started promoting Transcension, ordering his closest followers to undergo it. Moji declined, contending that battling evil by evil means would leave them indistinguishable from the Maskwalkers.

The Summit Shrine

Taking his finest followers up the Mountain of Imprisonment, Huangxing slaughtered the challengers from the righteous path who pursued him. He rebuilt the Lu clan shrine at the peak as a temple for the Merciful Lady and made it his base. The Chord was imprisoned under it, behind the goddess statue's base, whose mechanism responds only to his Blood Droplet.

In time Moji and Huangxing clashed with weapons. With his own hands, Huangxing walled Moji into the statue within the Lady of the Veil's shrine. Moji's disciples, including Zhao Di, Zhuge Feng and Wei Sanchuan, branded Huangxing a traitor.

Ascent and Battle

Throughout the ascent, Jade-Face repeatedly turns up to mock Soul, and the Blood Droplet keeps slaying him, yet he never perishes. In the arena in front of the shrine, Soul battles Huangxing, the Kunlun Renegade, followed by Huangxing, the Whirling Executioner.

The victory drops the Flying Guillotine, which Soul applies to the shrine's mechanism to reveal a concealed passage. Beyond the battle is the Lady's Shrine, where Inanis hands Soul a fan so that Whence the Weeping can be concluded.

To Huangxing, the Mandate's leaders are corrupt and its disciples feeble. As he tells it, people lacking the will to act, and people possessing will without power, ran the righteous path; Yuyin held too firmly to the Wulin's rules, and Moji was nearly absurdly naive.

How he answered Zuo Shang reveals the extent to which he would go for this belief. He raises no protest against getting rid of Yuyin, and stands prepared to hand over the Chord with nothing tying Zuo Shang to it. His proclamation, on the other hand, dresses the same events in the vocabulary of duty. To his disciples, he is a silent man of action.

Huangxing is a skippable boss. Below the elbow, his left arm is a precision mechanism; he uses the Blood Droplet to tear off heads from afar and a sword when fighting up close. Beating the Kunlun Renegade awards the Flying Guillotine Phantom Edge, a tool that opens sealed areas across most regions.

Spoken lines

“You're not here just to kill a few Maskwalkers, are you?”

Something Huangxing says aloud.

“If we fall here, the Village of Lu and Pangzhen will be next.”

Something Huangxing says aloud.