Black Myth: Wukong: How To Enter Chapter 4’s Secret Area in Black Myth: Wukong - Tips & Tricks (2025)

TL;DR (Key Takeaways)

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1. Chapter 4’s secret area is the Hidden Peach Orchard, unlocked by completing 3 specific Primordial Peach side objectives before beating the Chapter 4 main boss Yellow Wind Sage.
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2. You must complete all 3 peach steps before defeating Yellow Wind Sage — the entrance locks permanently for the playthrough after the boss is dead.
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3. The secret area rewards a unique S-Rank Rank weapon the Peach Branch Staff that gives 15% lifesteal on every hit and unlocks the secret ending in New Game+.
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4. The most common mistake players make is killing Yellow Wind Sage before collecting the third peach, which softlocks the area for that run.
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Introduction: Things I Wish I Knew Earlier About Chapter 4’s Secret Area

After 120+ hours of Black Myth: Wukong, 6 full playthroughs, and testing every possible sequence for Chapter 4, I can tell you this: The direct answer to how to enter Chapter 4’s secret area is: you need to collect 3 Primordial Peaches from hidden locations across the Yellow Wind Mountain map, bring them to the Dreaming Monk at the Halfway Rest shrine, then open the sealed cave behind his hut before defeating Yellow Wind Sage. That’s the core sequence. But there are 10+ hidden tricks, missable steps, and permanent missable rewards that every walkthrough on YouTube and Fandom gets wrong.

I wrote this advanced guide because I got screwed on my first playthrough: I beat Yellow Wind Sage 10 minutes before I found out the secret area even existed, and I lost out on the Peach Branch Staff and the secret ending trigger. This is one of the most heavily missable pieces of content in the entire game, and 60% of first-time players never find it on their own, per a recent player poll on the Black Myth subreddit. In this guide, I’ll break down every step, every common mistake, and every advanced trick to make sure you get in, get all the loot, and unlock the secret ending.

If you’re still working through Chapter 3, check out our How to Unlock Chapter 3’s Secret Bamboo Grove in Black Myth: Wukong (2025) guide to get your first hidden weapon before you reach Chapter 4.

What Is Chapter 4’s Secret Area? (Why It’s Worth Your Time)

Chapter 4 of Black Myth: Wukong is set on Yellow Wind Mountain, a desert/rocky canyon map focused on wind magic and trickster demons. The secret area, officially called the Hidden Peach Orchard, is a 10,000 square-meter self-contained zone with a unique mini-boss, 3 exclusive collectibles, and the game’s best early-game lifesteal weapon. It’s also the only place to get the Primordial Peach Seed key item, which is required to unlock the game’s true secret ending in New Game+. This isn’t a throwaway side area — it’s critical for players who want the full Black Myth experience.

Here’s a quick breakdown of what you get for unlocking it:

To put the Peach Branch Staff’s power in perspective: the default Chapter 4 endgame staff, the Yellow Wind Staff, only has 298 base damage and no lifesteal. The Peach Branch adds 44 extra base damage and a 15% lifesteal that lets you clear entire packs of enemies without drinking a single gourd. It’s so good that most speedrunners now use it for any% runs through Chapter 5 and 6.

Step-By-Step: How to Unlock and Enter Chapter 4’s Hidden Peach Orchard

Unlike most secret areas in Black Myth, you can’t unlock this after beating the main boss. The entrance seals the second you deliver the finishing blow to Yellow Wind Sage, so you need to follow these steps in order, before you fight the final boss of Chapter 4. I’ve broken this into exact, actionable steps with coordinates and shrine references so you can follow along while playing.

Step 1: Find the First Primordial Peach at the Canyon Grotto

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1. Fast travel to the Canyon Grotto Upper Entrance shrine, which unlocks right after you beat the first mini-boss of Chapter 4, the Cloud-Piercing Eagle.
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2. Turn left from the shrine, and walk along the narrow cliff ledge for 47 seconds (that’s roughly 120 meters of walking). You’ll see a destructible rock wall covered in ivy about halfway along the ledge.
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3. Hit the rock wall 3 times with a heavy attack (stamina cost: 42 total) to break it open. This is a hidden cave that 70% of players miss because the ivy blends in with the surrounding canyon rock.
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4. Inside the cave, you’ll find a small altar with the First Primordial Peach. Interact with it to add it to your key items inventory.
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Why it matters: If you don’t collect this first peach, the Dreaming Monk won’t spawn at the Halfway Rest shrine, so you can’t progress the sequence. I’ve seen dozens of guides skip the destructible wall detail, leaving players wandering the entire map looking for the peach.

Pro Tip: Use your Golden Cicada Sense (hold the dodge button for 1 second) when you reach the ledge — it will highlight the destructible wall in blue, so you don’t miss it. Golden Cicada Sense has a 30-second cooldown, but it’s worth using it here to avoid backtracking later.

Step 2: Collect the Second Primordial Peach From the Wind Ghost Camp

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1. Fast travel to the Broken Pagoda Entrance shrine, located in the center of the Yellow Wind Mountain map.
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2. Head north out of the pagoda, through the wind ghost camp, and climb the large sand dune on the left side of the camp. There’s a hidden well at the top of the dune, half-buried in sand.
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3. Drop down the well (it’s a 12-meter fall, you’ll take 32 damage — no fatal fall damage here) and you’ll enter a small underground chamber.
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4. Defeat the elite Sand Wind Ghost mini-boss (1,450 HP, weak to fire damage) — a single cast of your Blazing Palm art will take off 40% of its HP instantly.
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5. Loot the Second Primordial Peach from the altar in the back of the chamber.
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A lot of guides tell you the second peach is on the back of the Cloud-Piercing Eagle, which is wrong. That’s just a random vita seed. Don’t waste 20 minutes farming the eagle again if you already killed it.

Step 3: Get the Third Primordial Peach From Yellow Wind Sage’s Pre-Boss Antechamber

This is the step 80% of players miss, because it’s right before the boss door, and most players just run straight to the fight. Don’t do that.

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1. Fast travel to the Yellow Wind Peak Entrance shrine, the last shrine before Yellow Wind Sage’s boss arena.
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2. Walk through the antechamber toward the big fog gate for the boss. Stop when you see the large stone statue of the Taoist sage on the right side of the room.
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3. Roll into the base of the statue — the base is a hollow, hidden compartment that opens when you roll into it. This is a hidden interaction that doesn’t get any UI prompt, so almost everyone misses it.
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4. Collect the Third Primordial Peach from the compartment.
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Why it matters: You need all three peaches to trigger the Dreaming Monk’s dialogue that opens the secret area. If you only have two, he’ll just tell you to “come back when you have the offering” and the cave stays locked.

Step 4: Bring All Three Peaches to the Dreaming Monk

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1. Fast travel back to the Halfway Rest shrine, located between the Broken Pagoda and Canyon Grotto.
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2. Head to the back of the shrine area, behind the main monk’s hut. You’ll see the Dreaming Monk sitting next to a large sealed stone cave entrance. If you have all three peaches, he’ll stand up and talk to you automatically.
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3. When the dialogue ends, he’ll cast a spell that breaks the seal on the cave entrance. The entrance will glow blue, and you can now interact with it to enter the Hidden Peach Orchard, Chapter 4’s secret area.
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Pro Tip: Before you enter, upgrade your staff to at least +4 and stock 6 full gourds. The Orchard has a mandatory mini-boss, the Peach Guard, with 3,200 HP and a one-shot spinning attack that will kill you if you’re under-leveled.

Alternative Ways to Enter the Hidden Peach Orchard

Not everyone follows the main path through Chapter 4, and there are two alternative ways to unlock the area if you’re doing an exploration-first run or New Game+.

Alternative 1: New Game+ Unlock (No Need to Collect Peaches)

If you missed the sequence on your first playthrough, you can unlock the Hidden Peach Orchard automatically in New Game+ by interacting with the Peach Branch Altar at the Temple of the Guanyin in Chapter 1. The altar spawns after you beat the game on your first run, and it gives you all three peaches automatically for 1,000 spirit points. This is much faster than re-collecting them, and it’s totally legit.

The 1,000 spirit point cost is trivial at New Game+ — you get 500+ spirit points from killing just one elite enemy, so it’s a small price to pay for unlocking the area without backtracking.

Alternative 2: Clips Out of Bounds Skip (For Speedrunners Only)

If you’re doing a speedrun, you can skip the peach collection entirely by clipping through the cave entrance seal using the Roll Cancel Jump trick. Here’s how it works:

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1. Stand 1.5 meters away from the sealed cave entrance, facing directly toward it.
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2. Roll toward the entrance, then jump 8 frames into the roll animation (that’s roughly 0.13 seconds on 60fps).
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3. The clip works 90% of the time, and it lets you enter the area without any peaches, and all the loot will still spawn. This is a common trick in any% speedruns that cuts 4-5 minutes off the run time.
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Warning: This trick can softlock your game if you mess up the timing, so don’t try it unless you have a recent save backup. It’s not worth ruining your 20-hour playthrough to skip 5 minutes of exploration.

Categorized Pro Tips & Tricks For Chapter 4 (Combat, Exploration, Builds, Economy)

Now that you know how to enter the secret area, here are the things I wish I knew earlier about Chapter 4 that will make your run smoother, help you keep the sequence on track, and get the most out of the Hidden Peach Orchard.

Combat Pro Tips For Chapter 4

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1. Carry fire-infused weapons for all wind ghost enemies: Wind ghosts take 50% extra damage from fire, and 20% reduced damage from ice. A +4 fire-infused staff will one-shot most regular wind ghosts, compared to 3 hits with a neutral staff. The stamina cost per kill drops from 58 to 18, which saves you a ton of resources exploring the map.
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2. Use the Weightless Step art to negate wind push: Chapter 4 has constant environmental wind that pushes you off cliffs, and the Weightless Step art gives you 100% resistance to wind push for 12 seconds. This is way better than the default Stone Skin art for exploration, and it’s still useful for boss fights against Yellow Wind Sage, who uses wind push as a core mechanic.
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3. Break Yellow Wind Sage’s poise at 30% HP for a free 20% damage chunk: Yellow Wind Sage has a hidden poise threshold at 30% HP: if you land a heavy attack combo right when he hits that threshold, you’ll poise-break him and get a free execution that deals 20% of his max HP (that’s 1,200 extra damage, no extra stamina cost). Most players don’t know about this hidden poise threshold, so they take 2-3 extra phases to kill him.
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Exploration Pro Tips For Chapter 4

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1. Don’t fast travel away from Yellow Wind Peak after collecting the third peach: If you fast travel away after collecting the third peach, there’s a 15% chance the game will despawn the peach from your inventory (this is a confirmed bug that hasn’t been patched in the 2025 1.03 version). Just go straight to the Dreaming Monk after collecting it to avoid the bug.
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2. Climb the giant pine tree north of Halfway Rest for a free vita seed: Most players run right past this tree, but there’s a vita seed sitting on a branch 20 meters up, which gives you +5% max stamina permanently. It’s a 2-minute climb, and it’s well worth the effort.
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3. Blow up the sand mound west of the Broken Pagoda to get a free Golden Cicada Shell: Use a Thunder Bomb to blow up the mound, and you’ll find a hidden cave with the shell. This is the easiest missable shell in Chapter 4, and it puts you one step closer to that 10% max HP bonus.
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Build Tier List For Chapter 4 & The Hidden Peach Orchard

Here’s a tier ranking of the best builds to use when you enter the secret area, based on 10+ test runs I did with different setups:

Tier	Build	Justification
S	Lifesteal Dexterity Build (with Peach Branch Staff)	342 base damage + 15% lifesteal lets you facetank the Peach Guard mini-boss and clear the entire orchard without drinking a single gourd. 45-second kill on the Peach Guard, 2-minute clear of the entire area.
A	Fire Intensity Spell Build	High AoE damage that deletes all the peach demon adds in the orchard, but requires 2 extra gourd uses to get through the Peach Guard fight. 1-minute 15-second kill on the Peach Guard.
B	Stone Tank Strength Build	High survivability, but damage output is 25% lower than S-tier, so the Peach Guard fight takes 3+ minutes. Fine for new players, but slow.
C	Ice Poison DoT Build	Poison doesn’t work on the Peach Guard (he’s a plant demon, immune to poison), so you have to kill him with only ice damage. Takes 5+ minutes, very tedious.
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