Mystic Skills

Mystic Skills are techniques independent of your weapon’s fighting style. Learned through quests, encounters and exploration, they help with combat, travel and puzzles. Offensive skills use equipped slots; General and Movement techniques have dedicated controls.

Controls & Menu

Press H → Abilities → Mystic Skills, or Esc → Develop → Abilities → Mystic Skills. Choose General, Movement or Offensive at the top.

Default controls. Changed your layout? Use Settings → Keyboard & Mouse → Button Settings.

General & Movement

Scanning, diving, jumping and lightness travel use dedicated controls. Basic moves are available early; story lessons, exploration and outpost rewards unlock more.

Wind Sense: Find People and Clues

PC: Hold V to scan.

Activate Wind Sense and turn the camera to find highlighted people and objects. Approach a target to inspect a clue, collect an object or diagnose an injured person.

The opening progression introduces Wind Sense through the Blade Out talent. Open its talent panel → View Tutorial to review the lesson.

Wind Sense highlights nearby people and objects against muted surroundings.

Abyss Dive: Dive and Surface

PC: Alt to dive down; Space to swim up.

Abyss Dive is available from the start in designated deep-water areas, including Crimson Cliff. Descend to explore, then surface before your breath runs out. If no diving prompt appears, that stretch of water may not support diving.

Movement → Diving: the PC tutorial shows Alt to descend and Space to ascend.

Mighty Drop: Land and Break Cracked Floors

PC: Jump with Space, then press Q while airborne.

Mighty Drop sends you straight down and can break cracked floors. The basic move is available from the start.

For fall-damage protection, unlock Safe Mighty Drop by clearing Mysterious Outpost in western Moonveil Mountain, Qinghe, for the first time. It adds immunity to fall damage and landing-related Disease while using the move. Walking off a cliff still counts as a normal fall.

Safe Mighty Drop adds fall-damage protection to the airborne move.

The circled red outpost in western Moonveil Mountain is Mysterious Outpost. Its first-clear reward unlocks Safe Mighty Drop.

Lightness Skills: Take Flight

PC: Hold Space to launch, then press Space when the flight timing prompts appear.

Learn a flight style first. Meteor Flight comes from Afterglow under Journal → Exploration → Qinghe → Jianghu Legacy. Complete its flight lesson and boat-jumping trial.

You also need regional flight permission. On the Qinghe map, open the Exploration level beneath the region name and claim Afterglow Pendant from the Level 4 reward. Quests, chests, outposts and other map activities earn Exploration points. Kaifeng uses its own Flight Medallion.

Select your learned style under Movement → Lightness Skill before launching.

Open the Exploration level beneath the region name on the map to see its reward track.

Afterglow Pendant is the Qinghe Level 4 reward shown here. Its description grants regional use of Grand Lightness Skill and Wallstride.

Offensive

Equipped techniques for attacks, protection and puzzle interactions.

Common Skills and How to Equip Them

PC: Select a learned skill → Deploy (Space) → choose a slot. Use the number shown beside it on your HUD.

Open a locked skill’s details to find its source. Once learned, deploy it in an unlocked slot. Its HUD icon shows the assigned control and cooldown.

Useful Offensive Skills
Skill	Use It For
Tai Chi	Redirect eligible attacks and move objects in puzzles.
Meridian Touch	Seal or release a person’s acupoints; immobilize ordinary enemies.
Celestial Seize	Retrieve eligible items from a distance, including items carried by people.
Contortion	Shrink to enter small spaces and reach Miniature Treasures and Special Oddities.
Cloud Steps	Jump to marked spots in exploration, or stomp on an enemy in combat.
Lion’s Roar	Damage a group of nearby enemies with a wide-area roar.
Golden Body	Gain a shield to absorb damage and help you withstand attacks.

Meridian Touch selected in Mystic Skills. Equipped slots are on the left; Space · Deploy is at the bottom right.

Tai Chi: Redirect and Move

Follow the opening Qinghe story to the bear reaching for honey. Complete the Skill Theft timing lesson to learn Tai Chi, which redirects eligible attacks and moves certain puzzle objects.

The Tai Chi lesson’s location in Verdant Wilds.

Space · Start Skill Theft begins the bear’s timing lesson.

Meridian Touch: Release or Seal Acupoints

Find Yan Qiren among the training figures at General’s Shrine. Follow the Meridian Touch quest and trial prompt to unseal his acupoints and learn the skill.

Use it for acupoint interactions with people or puzzles. In combat, it can immobilize ordinary enemies and break Vital Spots; mighty enemies resist immobilization.

The blue-book Meridian Touch quest marker is west of the opening story area in Qinghe.

Examine Yan Qiren: his F interaction appears among the training figures.

Contortion: Shrink Into Hidden Spaces

At character level 10, find Elder Zhan near Qinghe Prison in Riverside Station. Track Tiny Adventure: Part I and watch his demonstration to learn Contortion. Use it during the prison tasks to finish the quest.

Deploy Contortion under Mystic Skills → Offensive. Activate it to shrink and enter small openings; activate it again to return to normal size. While small, you cannot use weapon attacks, climb, ride or swim.

Miniature Treasure Marker

This white symbol marks a Miniature Treasure on the minimap or above its hiding spot. Use Contortion to reach it. Some spots also require a puzzle interaction, such as following a signpost’s instructions.

Contortion also helps you collect Special Oddities, which use their own collectible markers.

Tiny Adventure: Part I directs you to Qinghe Prison at Riverside Station.

The yellow circle highlights a Miniature Treasure marker; the map shows its Riverside Station location.

Celestial Seize: Retrieve Items at a Distance

Track Foul Play at Heaven’s Pier. Speak to Qiu Yuehai beside the building and follow his demonstration to learn Celestial Seize.

Use it to take eligible objects from a distance, including items carried by people. Check the target’s item list and success chance first; a failed grab can alert them.

Foul Play selected at Heaven’s Pier. The right panel names the place and the next objective.

Qiu Yuehai is the NPC to speak with for Foul Play.

What’s Stopping You?

I Learned a Flight Skill but Cannot Fly

Select the learned flight style under Mystic Skills → Movement. Then check the current region’s Exploration rewards and claim its flight keepsake. Afterglow Pendant applies to Qinghe; Kaifeng uses Flight Medallion.

I Still Take Damage from a Fall

Check whether Safe Mighty Drop is unlocked under Movement. Clear Mysterious Outpost for its first-clear reward, then use the airborne drop control before landing.

An Offensive Skill Is Missing from My HUD

Open Develop → Abilities → Mystic Skills → Offensive, select the learned skill and use Deploy. Place it in an unlocked slot and check that the HUD is showing that skill set.

I Cannot Dive Here

Swim into a designated diving area, such as the diveable water at Crimson Cliff. Look for Dive Down and Surface Up on the swimming HUD. Abyss Dive does not make every river or pond diveable.