Yucong.

Numbered 34 among the twisted puppets, Yucong has three faces and presently guards the frozen Mirrorwood inside Crimson Forest.

The name derives from a jade vessel, the idea that also lends the trophy The Four Freed its title, and Yucong is counted among the Four Great Puppets with Yuzan, Yubi and Yuding. Where those three are single combatants, this one is three: the Steel, Frost and Chaos faces rotate control of the body, and the Chaos Blade in its grip alters to fit whichever face currently leads.

You need Sanguine Reach after tempering, must get through all of the Mirage Estate chapter, and then revisit a stretch of Crimson Forest that has since iced over.

Three Wulin Swordsmen Sharing One Body

The trio argue incessantly. Yet the second the bone-chilling Chaos Blade lifts, they act as a unit, each in turn seizing the body as the blade shifts into frost, flame or bare steel. They used to roam the Wulin side by side, blades in hand. Fused together now, they burn hotter every bout, almost as if a device had been put inside them to split them apart a second time.

Triple Threat, First Part

At the statue next to The Lady's Rift Bell in Weeping Creek Valley the questline starts: Soul battles the Aberrant Three-Faced Puppet and collects the Three-Headed Doll. This battle is not mandatory, so Soul can postpone it until stronger.

Frozen Forest and Memory Flowers

Soul reaches Mirage Estate and finds the puppet's three Memory Flowers: the Training Grounds hold one after Yuding, the Mourning Hall another after Qiu Feng, and Leng Tu's Study the last. Scorching Flame materials come next, from Zhu Yuan beneath Pangzhen's Sha-Chi Tower and from the Long Pillar of eastern Meigu Lake, and Myst then tempers Sanguine Reach into Blazing Edge.

Soul brings Blazing Edge back to Crimson Forest's Mirrorwood, which snow now blankets, crosses an area whose bells, foes and chests have changed, and faces Yucong at the Threadbound Great Tree. Freezing Chaos is the reward, and the questline ends.

Three Faces in a Single Battle

Expect a lengthy, tricky battle that includes a phase where Soul is up against three distinct entities. Most aggressive is generally the Chaos Mask, and most defensive the Frost Mask. During that phase, a charged attack with Blazing Edge can dispatch one of them fast.

Base stats for the primary encounter are 10,000 HP and 2,400 Sha-Chi, with 6,000 HP apiece for the Steel, Frost and Chaos faces. Fire is the element to carry, since lightning and fire (30 percent) both hurt the primary encounter and the Steel and Frost forms, while Chaos shrugs fire off. Poison and bleed buildup never affects any form, and Frost additionally ignores both water and ice.

Twisted Puppet No. 34 wields the Chaos Blade. Bone-biting cold lifts its edge, and black flame trails as it comes down; its three shapes each match one face. Beating Yucong rewards Soul with the Freezing Chaos sword.

Although Yucong appears under Crimson Forest, its arena becomes accessible only on a revisit during the Mirage Estate chapter. Across the frozen lake, in the snow-covered Mirrorwood, it stands at the Threadbound Great Tree.

• Each of the names Yuzan, Yubi, Yuding and Yucong refers to a jade vessel, and The Four Freed, an achievement, draws on that same idea.
• Each of Yucong's three faces matches one of the Freezing Chaos blade's three shapes: Steel, Frost and Chaos.