Phantom Blade Zero Quick Hand Zhang Hideout Locations

Quick Hand Zhang keeps five hideouts in Phantom Blade Zero: one each in the Crimson Forest, the Village of Lu, Pangzhen, Meigu Lake and the Mirage Estate. You free him from a hanging cage in the Crimson Forest first, and from then on every hideout works as both a shop and a drop point for the 16 relics he asks you to recover. Below you will find each hideout's starting bell, the route in, every relic set and its reward, and the requirements that quietly block a few of them.

We checked these routes against PowerPyx, KeenGamer, AllThingsHow and GAMES.GG guides published after the 29 October 2026 launch, plus PowerPyx's trophy list, in November 2026. Where those guides disagree, we say so.

Freeing Zhang From the Cage in the Crimson Forest

Your first meeting with Zhang happens in the Crimson Forest, after the bridge toward Pangzhen collapses. He is stuck in a hanging cage close to the Trail of Cages Bell, and he cannot help you until you lower it. Follow the cliffside path until it opens into a cavern, turn right into it, and pull the lever you find there. The cage drops, and you can then talk to him properly. Before you leave the cavern, open the chest near the lever: it holds the Cavalrybane accessory, and the same cave also has a Memory Flower and a Blackstone Fragment, so it is worth a careful sweep.

Once he is free, Zhang explains that an unnamed client wants lost treasures recovered across the land and will pay in useful items. He hands you a book called Quick Hand Zhang's Relic List, which opens on the Crimson Forest page and tracks every set from then on. That book is the easiest way to see which relics you still owe him, so check it from the menu whenever you reach a new region instead of relying on memory.

One small trap here: the cave route and the camp sit close together, and it is easy to ring the Thieves' Camp Bell, wander off toward the main path and forget that Zhang's first proper hideout is one short climb away. If the Relic List is not in your inventory after the cage scene, you have not finished the conversation, so go back and talk to him again.

All Five Hideout Locations, Region by Region

Each hideout has its own bell once you find it, which makes later visits a fast-travel hop. Getting there the first time is the hard part, because each one is tucked away off the obvious route. Use these starting points:

1. Crimson Forest: start at the Thieves' Camp Bell and head west. Climb the wall above the camp route to reach a cave. When you approach along the story route, the locked dungeon door is on your right, so take the left path to find Zhang.
2. Village of Lu: start at the Well of the Three Puppets Bell and head north to a building covered in red vines. Take the ladder on its right side down to the river, follow the waterway under the bridge into a hidden tunnel, then grapple up to the raised opening. The bell is listed as Zhang's Hideout (Village of Lu), and our Village of Lu walkthrough shows where it falls in the region's bell order.
3. Pangzhen: start at the Backstreet Archway Bell and defeat Wu Xuan, the Fallen General, a mandatory boss. Leave his arena to the north, enter the nearby house, climb onto the rooftops and cross to another building. Ring the bell inside, then take the ladder beside it down to Zhang.
4. Meigu Lake: start at the Meigu Village West Dock. You need the boat for this one: sail to the island east of the dock and enter its northern building.
5. Mirage Estate: enter through Green Serpent House and start at the Shaded Bamboo Path Bell. Before the door on the main route, take the left staircase with flames on both sides and follow the passage. The right-hand path drops you into a flooded area instead.

GAMES.GG notes that finding all five hideouts completes a small task called The Wily Hare's Three Dens, which pays out Maintenance Oil, a Soul Tempering material. That makes the Mirage Estate detour worth it even if you have already turned in every relic.

The Relic List: 16 Treasures and What Each Set Pays

Zhang's request covers 16 relics in total. Pangzhen has four, and the other four regions have three each. You turn in a full regional set at a hideout and he pays you once per set. AllThingsHow reports that any hideout accepts any set, with one exception covered below, so you do not need to backtrack to the region where you found the relics.

Quick Hand Zhang relic sets and rewards (KeenGamer and AllThingsHow, November 2026)

Region	Relics	Reward	Type
Crimson Forest	Sect Leader's Snuff Bottle, Bloodstained Seal, Ancient Crossbow	Flying Dagger	Phantom Edge
Village of Lu	Wedding Candles, Unveiled Statue, White Jade Twins	Fine Thread	Accessory
Pangzhen	Tiger Paperweight, Ink Stick, Carved-Edge Inkstone, Jade Brush Rest	Goldblaze	Phantom Edge
Meigu Lake	Blue Blossom Compass, Blight Astrolabe, Sundial of Impermanence	Sha-Chi Blood Catalyst	Medicine
Mirage Estate	General's Bronze Mirror, Gold-and-Silver Sachet, Golden Cloud-Moon Hairpin	Thundermoon Lantern	Accessory

The Mirage Estate set is the exception to the any-hideout rule. According to AllThingsHow, handing it in at the Mirage Estate hideout pays the Thundermoon Lantern, an offensive accessory, while handing it in anywhere else pays Quick Hand's Manual instead. If you want the Lantern, make the trip down the flamed staircase before you talk to him about that set.

The two Phantom Edges in this chain are the most useful early payouts. Flying Dagger arrives while you are still in the opening third of the game, and Goldblaze lands around Pangzhen, when you are starting to plan a proper loadout. Fine Thread and the Sha-Chi Blood Catalyst are quieter rewards, but finishing every set also matters for a trophy, which we cover further down.

Relics With Hidden Requirements

Most relics are simply off the beaten path, but a handful are locked behind keys, optional bosses or other questlines. These are the ones that leave players stuck at two out of three:

• Sect Leader's Snuff Bottle (Crimson Forest): sits in an underground mining pit beneath the Outlaw Trap area and needs the Crimson Forest Tunnel Crank from a cave near the Outlaw Trap Bell.
• Ancient Crossbow (Crimson Forest): inside the locked Thieves' Camp Dungeon. The dungeon key is in the Cliffside Lodge cellar, which in turn needs the Crimson Forest Cellar Crank.
• Tiger Paperweight (Pangzhen): in the Tianxiang Pavilion near Myst's Tavern, behind the Pavilion Key from the Star Performer questline.
• Jade Brush Rest (Pangzhen): on rooftops near the Marketplace Bell, behind flames you can only put out with You Loong's Deluge, the reward from the optional You Loong fight.
• Blight Astrolabe and Sundial of Impermanence (Meigu Lake): both sit in the Phantom Illusionist Ruins, which you can only enter after collecting all four Acolyte masks for the Secrets at the Heart of the Lake questline. Our guide to the talisman scarecrows covers how to earn those masks.
• Gold-and-Silver Sachet (Mirage Estate): in the Opera House, behind a locked entrance that needs the Opera Ticket from the main story.

The Crimson Forest pair are the ones most likely to trip you up, because both cranks are easy to walk past while you are focused on the Jing Ye fight and the thieves nearby. If you are already doing the letter quest at the Thieves' Camp, our Gentle Thief answers guide covers that conversation, and you can grab the dungeon relic on the same trip.

What Zhang Sells and When to Shop

Zhang is a merchant as well as a quest giver. GAMES.GG describes his stock as upgrade materials for weapons and Phantom Edges, and notes that some visits also offer Banyan Hearts, which unlock certain higher skill nodes. KeenGamer's skill guide adds that Banyan Hearts mostly come from Banyan Tree combat trials, with a small number available to buy, so a hideout visit can save you a trial or two if you are short.

His Crimson Forest hideout is also where AllThingsHow found two of the Quick Hand accessories on sale: Quick Hand Might, which adds 10 percent damage with two-handed weapons, and Quick Hand Pair, which does the same for dual-wielded weapons, each listed at 30,000 Remnant Dust. KeenGamer's accessory tier list rates the Quick Hand set as solid mid-tier picks rather than must-haves, which makes them a reasonable way to fill a slot early, when you only have two or three slots and few better options. Zhang also sells the Tainted Crystal Shard you need to polish them.

Spend carefully. KeenGamer also points out that clearing an area normally gives you enough upgrade materials, and that enemies do not respawn, so Remnant Dust is a finite resource in each region. Buying a pile of materials you would have found anyway is the most common way players end up short when an expensive ability comes along.

Route Order and Mistakes to Avoid

Completing every regional request unlocks the Lost and Found trophy, described in PowerPyx's trophy guide as "Complete All [Quick Hand's Requests]". PowerPyx does not list it among the seven missable trophies, but a reader comment on that guide claims it can be missed, and several relics hang off quests that close as the story moves on. Treat it as time-sensitive and turn sets in as soon as they are complete. Our chapter list shows roughly when each region opens, which helps you plan the hand-ins.

A sensible order looks like this:

1. Free Zhang and grab the Cavalrybane chest the moment you reach the Trail of Cages Bell.
2. Collect both Crimson Forest cranks before you leave the forest, then finish that set at the Crimson Forest hideout.
3. Clear the Village of Lu relics while you hunt the region's ribbons and bells, since all three sit near bells you will ring anyway.
4. In Pangzhen, finish the Star Performer quest and the You Loong fight before you move on.
5. Leave Meigu Lake's two ruins relics for after the four Acolyte masks, and the Mirage Estate set for the Mirage Estate hideout.

Also, keep a manual save before each hand-in. PowerPyx notes the game gives you 20 manual save slots, and a few readers report hand-in dialogue that did not trigger for them. A save from just before the conversation costs nothing and gives you a clean retry if something goes wrong. For the wider list of optional quests that close behind you, see our side quest guide.

If You Would Rather Skip the Relic Hunt

Zhang's chain is mostly about payouts: Phantom Edges, accessories, a medicine and the upgrade materials you buy from him. If you want those tools on hand from the start instead of spread across five regions, the store's Phantom Blade Zero mega modded save for PS5 and PC loads the full weapon roster, every accessory and medicine fully upgraded, resources and inventory items at 9,999 and 99,999,999 currency, with four fresh Cycle 1 slots set up for different difficulties.

It is a save file, not the game: you must already own Phantom Blade Zero, it is not available for Xbox or Nintendo Switch 2, and the platinum trophy is not included. Everything for the game is listed on the Phantom Blade Zero store page.

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