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Qingzhou - Eastern Peak is the 2.3 region.

Reach Level 32 and complete the Qinghe Main Chapter Heaven Has No Pier
Complete the Lost Chapter Away to Qingzhou and enter Qingzhou - Eastern Peak
Grants the quest item Hometown Courier
Complete Jianghu Legacy Volume I: Riddled Echoes
Teaches the Fan martial art Willowbend Fan
Complete Jianghu Legacy Volume II: Sea Shepherd
Teaches the Waist Drum martial art Museflow Waist Drum
Complete the Qingzhou Injustice Quests
Unlisted local encounters built around courtesy and hospitality; completing them shifts your hidden morality
Complete Qingzhou Meow Meow — the Trials of the Six Arts
Cat proctors are hidden around Qingzhou; finding one starts an open-world Meow Meow exam challenge for exploration progress and materials
Collect the Qingzhou Oddities
Bronzepeal Zhong, Earthsong Xun, Hidesound Gu, Woodtone Yu and Bamboonote Chi
Take part in the Qingzhou folk customs
Everbloom Spree, a market held on every new and full moon (it recurs — tracked in the daily list), and Exam Vigil

The Novice and Initiate ranks are open now; higher ranks, lectures, the dorm and the cafeteria arrive after the order’s Farm Recess.

Join the Inkbound Order
Through Master Goose at Wayfarer: pass the Primary Exam, or join as a Visiting Disciple and keep your main sect
Reach the Initiate rank
Unlock War of Words, the new Gift of Gab mode
Requires the Profession feature
Unlock the Inkbound Order’s scholarly bounty hunting
Full members only — an open-world loop of tracking down and defeating low-morality players

The Waist Drum and the Silkbind - Wings path debut with 2.3.

Unlock the Silkbind - Wings path and its Inner Ways
Legendary Inner Way Harmony Song; Epic Zephyr Whispers, Melody of the Brush and Blade’s Will; gear sets Cloudshear and Reinchime
Buy the one-time Melody of the Brush: Note ×10
From the Qingzhou merchant Zhao Laoliu
Defeat the Qingzhou world bosses for their first-defeat rewards
Tidewatcher, Old Raftsman and Shuttlecock Champion, unlocked with the Qingzhou region; each also has Trial challenges
Clear Compass & Chime
Five-player Sword Trial, level 100, through Wandering Paths
Clear Liminal Ascension
Ten-player Hero’s Realm, level 100, through Wandering Paths

The character level cap stays at 100.

Unlock Solo Mode Level 18: Discernment
Farm Tier 100 gear
Replaced Tier 96 gear can be stored in the Tier 96 Arsenal; the Tier 91 Arsenal is now legacy
Raise Gear Enhance through levels 66–70
Needs Oscillating Jade, gathered materials, Coin and Howling Ore: Dustless. Catch-up now covers levels 56–60
Unlock Tier 100 Gear Tuning and Attuning
Tier 100 gear adds Gear Tuning Reset and a Re-attunement Guarantee
Relay Tier 96 gear into Tier 100 Relayed Gear
With Relaying Stone: Dustless from Engagement. Keeps set bonuses and Tuning and Attunement affixes; Tier 100 Same-Tier Relaying and Gear Modulating unlock alongside
Advance Mystic Skills to Tier 6 Stage 25
With the Mystic Insight talent, also develop the Blinding Mist variant moves
Upgrade the Medicine Chest to Level 18 and unlock the Level 100 recipes
Fever-Clear Decoction, Fruit Corn Bun, Clay Oven Roll, Wheat Fried Mushrooms, and the Voidsky, Soullink and Purewrath Scripts
Raise your Profession to the new rank cap

Hidden Mountain adds more than ten new bosses and over 2,000 metres of vertical exploration depth.

Complete the new campaign, Changeless Heart
Complete the requirements for the accessory Adrift in Azure
Complete Jianghu Legacy Volume I: Mountain Unveiled
Complete Jianghu Legacy Volume II: A Flourishing Legacy
Opened Aug 6 at 05:00 UTC+8
Complete Hidden Mountain: Rising Beyond
Opened Aug 6 at 05:00 UTC+8
Construct or unlock the Skytouch Rail and ride the Sky Shuttle
Complete the Hidden Mountain Injustice Quests and Encounters
Claim the one-time titles, cosmetics, accessories and exploration milestones

Unlock and join the Mohist Hill sect
Complete the Haven Astray main-story requirement
Confirmed in-game: main-story progression through Haven Astray is required to join — there is no alternative entry route
Unlock Mohist Hill construction and mechanism systems
Advance sect standing and complete the one-time rank tests
Unlock the Universal Love shop
Including the options available to non-members
Learn the sect's Divinecraft abilities and engineering features
Claim the one-time sect-entry, standing, codex and tutorial rewards

Gauntlets and Bamboocut: Kite are the headline Version 2.0 combat additions.

Unlock Gauntlets
Learn the Gauntlet martial art, Heavenwill Gauntlets
Unlock Skygrasp Rope Dart
Through the Hidden Mountain story requirements
Unlock and configure the Bamboocut: Kite combat Path
Complete New Armament Drill
Learns the new setup and awards its limited rewards. Version 2.3’s drill is the Silkbind - Wings path, until October 29 at 05:00 UTC+8
Build and save a proper Gauntlet / Rope Dart loadout
After finishing the trial version

Unlock and clear the new world bosses and their Sword Forge challenges
Claim first-clear rewards from the Hidden Mountain world bosses
When officially available
Unlock and complete Dragonscale Tamer
Five-player Sword Trial
Unlock and complete Carnival Voyage
Ten-player Hero's Realm
Complete each new boss's tutorial or introductory difficulty
Unlock all difficulty tiers and their matchmaking requirements
Claim first-clear achievements, titles, cosmetics and codex entries

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