Phantom Blade Zero Outlaw Warblade: Jing Ye's Warblade and the Blood It Drinks

Getting the Outlaw Warblade

Defeat Jing Ye, The Outlaw in the Crimson Forest and the weapon card is handed over right after the victory. IGN places the fight on the main path shortly after you run into Quick Hand Zhang, and because Jing Ye is a required story boss the drop cannot be missed — there is no separate quest step. Rest at the Outlaw Trap bell first, since that is the nearest bell to the arena.

It counts as a Heavy Blade on the Blade roster.

What it does in a fight

The level 1 figures for the launch build, current as of 2026-11-05:

GamesDB.gg ranks it Common, and it is the early-game lifestealer. Every hit of the standard combo drains enemy life and restores HP, and more is restored while Soul still holds Recoverable HP. The Sha-Chi Combo is only two triangle hits and also regains HP on a successful hit.

Moves: Standard Combo (four square hits) and Sha-Chi Combo (two triangle hits). The unique move Reaping Retreat follows any triangle attack with a standard hit for a retreating slash that drains life and restores HP, more of it if Recoverable HP remains. The community database also lists a fourth move, Bloodthirst Frenzy, but no source that could be read directly gives its wording.

The drain has no effect on Puppets, Golden Bodies or Phantom Bodies, so keep a one-handed weapon for those fights. A one-hander also upgrades with Forged Metal instead of Broadplate Metal, so the two do not compete for the same material. The heavy attacks can convert your own HP into Recoverable Damage for extra power, but that damage is lost if you are hit before it recovers.

The published figures do not name a Power Surge for this Blade, so read the moves list on the weapon screen in-game for what L2 spends a Sha-Chi Essence on.

Taking it to level 30

Reckless Cleave at level 5 holds L1 + Triangle to charge, and all damage taken during the charge becomes Recoverable HP — 50% of it is restored if the strike hits, with no effect on Puppets, Golden Bodies or Phantom Bodies. Survival Shield at level 15 gives 1 layer of Emergency Shield for 10 seconds once Recoverable HP reaches 30% of max HP, then a 60 second cooldown. Blood Arrow at level 25 turns HP into Recoverable HP while the Emergency Shield is up, and a full restore fires blood arrows that hit nearby enemies for bonus damage and end the shield. The published figures give the Unstoppable effect for the level 1 tier only, and the level 20 and level 30 tiers are named but their own wording was not published, so read the effect on the upgrade screen before you spend.

What the upgrade ladder costs

Levels are bought at any bell and cost Remnant Dust plus the two-handed material chain:

The published figures put the whole +1 to +59 ladder at 2,036,340 Remnant Dust, on top of those three metal and solvent tiers. They give no per-band Remnant Dust price and no level 60 stat row, so read the dust cost of each step off the upgrade screen in-game. Sources also disagree on the cap itself: general weapon upgrade guides put it at level 30, while the community database's own upgrade table runs a 59-step ladder to level 60.

Soul Tempering

Ruthless Outlaw — a Six Paths Warrant and 5,000 Remnant Dust. Soul Tempering unlocks at Chapter 4 and happens at Myst in the Order's underground tavern in Pangzhen, and it cannot be undone.

Where to go next

• The Blade roster — every Blade, its class and where it comes from.
• Weapon types — what a two-hander gives up for its reach.
• Boss list — the Jing Ye fight and the region's other drops.
• Best weapons — the picks for bosses, crowds and shields.
• Phantom Edges — the two second-slot weapons that go with your Blades.