How to Get the True Ending in Black Myth: Wukong

To get the true ending in Black Myth: Wukong, you clear four chapter secret areas, finish the Treasure Hunter questline in Chapter 3, unlock the hidden Mount Mei area through the Great Pagoda, beat the Erlang fight sequence there, and then defeat the final boss. The game calls nothing a "true ending" in its menus, but the community uses that name for this alternate finale, and it carries its own gold trophy, Meet the Match. Everything below is about what you need and in what order, with spoilers held back until a clearly marked section.

We checked this against PowerPyx's secret ending and trophy guides, Shacknews' Great Pagoda guide, Game8's ending guide, the Fextralife wiki and the official trophy list in November 2026.

The Short Version: Five Requirements Before Mount Mei

The alternate ending is gated behind one optional zone, Mount Mei, which counts as the secret area of Chapter 3. You cannot walk into it on a normal run. According to PowerPyx and Shacknews, the hidden door only opens once you have handled five separate jobs, and they can be done in any order as long as each chapter is still reachable:

1. Defeat Elder Jinchi, the boss of the Chapter 1 secret area, the Ancient Guanyin Temple.
2. Defeat Fuban, the boss of the Chapter 2 secret area that sits beneath Yellow Wind Ridge.
3. Defeat the Duskveil, the boss at the end of the Chapter 4 secret area, Purple Cloud Mountain.
4. Defeat the Bishui Golden-Eyed Beast at the end of the Chapter 5 secret area, Bishui Cave.
5. Complete the Treasure Hunter questline in Chapter 3, which ends in a boss fight of its own.

Each of those four secret bosses also pays out a bronze trophy (Temple of Taint, Shifting Sands, The Cockerel Crowed and Frost and Flame), so a trophy hunter is doing this work anyway. If you are tracking every boss you have cleared, our chapter by chapter boss order marks which fights sit inside these hidden zones.

Unlocking Each Chapter Secret Area

None of the secret areas are signposted, and several hinge on small side quests that are easy to walk past. Here is how each one opens, based on the guides above.

• Chapter 1, Ancient Guanyin Temple: find and ring the three bells hidden around the Forest of Wolves and Bamboo Grove. Ringing the third bell moves you straight into the secret temple, where Elder Jinchi waits ahead of your spawn point. PowerPyx keeps a bell by bell route if you miss one.
• Chapter 2, the hidden kingdom under the sands: talk to the Drunken Boar near the Rockrest Flat shrine and follow his questline. Guides spell the kingdom's name differently (Sahali on Shacknews, Sahi on PowerPyx), but the result is the same: after the Yellow-Robed Squire fight, the boar leads you to the gate, and Fuban is the main boss inside.
• Chapter 4, Purple Cloud Mountain: Shacknews notes that the route opens after you kill the Venom Daoist. Inside you will also meet The Scorpionlord and Daoist Mi before the Duskveil fight at Cloudnest Peak.
• Chapter 5, Bishui Cave: destroy the demon carts for the Pale-Axe Stalwart in the Flaming Mountains. Once the carts are gone, the cave opens, and the Bishui Golden-Eyed Beast guards its far end.

A practical tip: do each secret area while you are still in that chapter. Fast travel lets you return later, but the side quests are much easier to follow when the NPC dialogue is fresh, and the Chapter 5 cart chain in particular spans a lot of ground.

The Treasure Hunter Questline and the Great Pagoda

The fifth requirement lives in Chapter 3, The New West. Shacknews places the start of the Treasure Hunter quest at the Bitter Shore, and the chain closes with a boss fight against the Green-Capped Martialist, according to PowerPyx's boss list. The little monk you meet at the end of that questline is the same NPC who later opens Mount Mei, so do not skip the conversation.

Next, reach the Great Pagoda itself. PowerPyx gives the route: go to the Snow-Veiled Trail shrine in the Pagoda Realm, stand in front of the shrine, turn left and head down the slope, cross the wooden bridge and follow the path to its end. The large hall there is the Great Pagoda. Shacknews adds that you reach this part of the Pagoda Realm by climbing to the top of the Mani Wheel and beating Captain Wise-Voice, which is part of the normal Chapter 3 route.

Go upstairs inside the Great Pagoda. If all five requirements are complete, the little monk triggers a cutscene and sends you into Mount Mei. If he does nothing, one of the four secret bosses or the Treasure Hunter chain is still unfinished, and it is worth checking your journal before you go back.

Where Sources Disagree, and the Order That Covers Both

Guides do not fully agree on the gating, and we would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise. PowerPyx and Shacknews list the five requirements above and say you do not need to finish Chapter 6 first. Game8's ending guide instead lists the four Loong bosses as a requirement and says to beat the game once before Mount Mei opens. Readers in the PowerPyx comments report doing Mount Mei before and after the first final boss kill, which suggests both routes work.

The order that covers every interpretation is simple:

1. Clear all four chapter secret areas as you play.
2. Finish the Treasure Hunter questline in Chapter 3.
3. Beat the four hidden Loongs as you go, since they are worth doing anyway and Game8 counts them. Our Loong boss guide covers the scales and the fixed fight order.
4. Enter Mount Mei and clear its fights.
5. Defeat the final boss pair of Chapter 6.

One warning from PowerPyx's trophy roadmap applies here. After the Chapter 6 credits, choose to continue your journey from the title screen rather than starting a new cycle, because entering New Game+ moves you back to the beginning and you would have to replay chapters to reach the Pagoda again.

Spoiler Warning: What Happens in Mount Mei and the Finale

Spoilers start here. This section names the secret bosses and describes how the two endings differ. Skip to the next heading if you want to see it fresh.

Mount Mei is a linear path that ends in a three part gauntlet. PowerPyx lists the sequence as Erlang, the Sacred Divinity, followed by the Four Heavenly Kings, followed by Erlang Shen as the final phase. These are the figures from the prologue, which is the point: the game brings the opening confrontation full circle. PowerPyx calls this the hardest fight in the game and recommends finishing Chapter 6 once first to collect the strongest story gear, which is why the order above leaves the final boss for the very end. Clearing Erlang also unlocks the Tri-Point Double-Edged Spear, a mythical weapon with 135 Attack on the Fextralife wiki. Our best staff breakdown compares it with the Jingubang.

After Mount Mei, defeat the Stone Monkey and the Great Sage's Broken Shell. The Fextralife wiki describes the difference this way: in the default ending, the Destined One takes on the Monkey King's mantle, the Golden Headband falls to the ground and his body is shown suspended in Birthstone. In the alternate ending, the headband still falls, but an elder monkey approaches and an animated sequence retells Wukong's story. The gold trophy Meet the Match unlocks for finishing the secret ending.

Preparing for the Erlang Gauntlet

Because Mount Mei throws three heavy fights at you back to back, a little preparation goes a long way. These suggestions use only systems the guides above describe:

• Finish your weapon tree first. The Jingubang, found in the Water Curtain Cave in Chapter 6, removes the decay on your fourth Focus point according to Fextralife. That makes heavy attacks far more reliable in a long fight.
• Upgrade your gourd. Talking to the Old Man in every location and upgrading the gourd to its top tier is also tied to the Always Accompanied trophy, so it serves two purposes.
• Use a respec. Sparks can be taken back and reallocated at a shrine, so you can try a build leaning on spells or dodging for Erlang and switch back afterward without losing anything.
• Stock up before you enter. PowerPyx describes Mount Mei as a linear path to the boss, so craft medicines and refill drinks at the last shrine you visit, since you will want every heal across three fights.

If you are also chasing the platinum, note that the secret ending is listed in step 2 of the PowerPyx roadmap alongside every other cleanup task, before New Game+. Our full trophy guide explains where Meet the Match fits among the 36 trophies.

If You Would Rather Skip the Setup

Hunting four hidden zones, a long questline and three back to back Erlang fights is a lot of time if you only want to see the finale or start New Game+ with everything in place. The store's Black Myth: Wukong all-in-one save includes a completed save option with all stats maxed, the Jingubang and other weapons fully upgraded, eight armor sets including the Monkey King set, and large stocks of Will and crafting materials. It also offers a fresh start option at level 50 with the skill trees upgraded, and a Steam resource boost that keeps your own progress.

It covers Steam and PS5 only, and the service is applied directly to your own account. Everything available for the game is listed on the Black Myth: Wukong boosting page.

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