How to treat Ouyang Xue?

[kungfuchris99]

I'm stuck after curing Gu Sigui during the main story "Hornless Dragon" quest. I have to "Treat Ouyang Xue" but my IP isn't high enough and I don't know who the "specific ally" is that I need to have in the party to treat her. Who do I need to get in my party to treat Ouyang Xue?

[路过的吉良吉影]

Yan Weihuan or Dizuiseng（I'm not sure if that's his name in English，He was a knife-wielding monk from the Shaolin Temple）but, both players need to complete the previous side quests before they can join the team。
If none of them join the party, then I suggest you reset the points and change to increase lp to get lp to 120, if you can't do that, you can directly use the modifier

[kungfuchris99]

Thanks! So it looks like to get Yan Weihuan in party I need to first recruit Li Yuanxing, which requires getting his affinity to 60. I had some affinity with him already and gave him a couple gifts which got it to 50, but then he stopped accepting gifts from me. He just says, "I appreciate your generosity, but I can't take this." (I am of course trying to give him more gifts that have the heart icon.)

I've never head this happen with an NPC before. It's not a power-level issue -- I'm far more powerful than he is, and I've tried all the gifts with hearts next to them. I can't figure out how to get him to 60 or higher now. Any advice?

[Sheo]

He's tied to a quest chain too, I believe. One of the guides here on steam goes into how you can recruit those guys, so that should be pretty helpful for you.

[kungfuchris99]

Now I seem to be well and truly stuck. So according to the companion guides, you need to complete the Tianshui/Badlands stuff and have Frosty Condor join your party, after which you can just go to Shaolin and ask Di Zui to join. I did everything as the guide suggests, booted one of my companions out of the group, and then went to Shaolin but Di Zui won't join because it says his Affinity isn't high enough -- and he doesn't take gifts, so I have no idea how to increase his Affinity.

Giving up on that, I went back to trying to recruit Yan Weihuan. The guide says you gotta recruit Li Yuanxing first then go to the Brambleshade Forest and find Yan Weihuan in the east part of that area where he'll join if Li Yuanxing is in your party. So I went back to Li Yuanxing and happily a new conversation triggered and bumped his Affinity up so I was able to have him join. But then I went to the Brambleshade Forest and there is no sign of Yan Weihuan (as far as I can tell, I did everything correctly per the guide).

I decided to Remove Li Yuanxing from the group since that didn't work and go back to Shaolin, hoping that maybe talking to Di Zui would trigger a new conversation and I could get him to join now -- only I can't Remove Li Yuanxing because "quest is not complete". In fact, I can't remove ANY of my companions now, so even if I could somehow get Di Zui's Affinity up, I don't have room for him to join.

And the only active quest I have now is Hornless Dragon >> Treat Ouyang Xue. I feel completely stuck and completely frustrated. I am hoping there is something obvious I'm missing here. How do I Remove at least one of my companions? How do I find Yan Weihuan now? If I can't find him, how do I get Di Zui's Affinity up?

[Crom]

Di Zui recruitment requires specifics steps during the Badlans long sidequest chain. One of those is having Weihuan during said quest. So if you dont have weihuan, you sadly missed the triggers to recruit Di Zui. As for recruiting weihuan, it is time sensitive, should be done ideally right after finishing the Beggars Sect sidequest.

So yeah, you missed both characters this run. There isnt a party cap btw, so you dont need to kick anyone out of the party.

As for you actual problem, you simply need Yi to have 120 IP points. If all your meridians are already distributed, then simply farm until you can reset them and allocate them again.

[kungfuchris99]

Thanks for the response. I'm not sure what I missed with Di Zui, but you must be right. Also, good to know there's not a party cap.

Thanks for the tip on resetting meridian points. I didn't even realize that was a thing, not having paid attention to the button before.

[Visser]

there is also a somewhat "perfect route" in the southern dlc, the pink super doctor gives you a medicine that cures oouyang without even doing the qi healing
and yeah as the other posters have mentioned, the southern dlc needs you to recruit pretty much everyone for the perfect completions. and i think you kinda understood, but whenever you see the gold/orange recruitment symbol above a character, do so.
i played my first playthrough thinking i could only have a certain amount of teammates, this is wrong. if you can recruit them, you should, there is zero reason not to

and yeah the yan begger fist dude is a total badass in every way, and he lets you recruit the white mask puppet master girl later. she herself is kinda odd, but she is one of the only ways to get the star absorption skill for your MC, its pretty good

if you want a NOT PERFECT guide for the normal game, aka not the southern dlc
https://www.arrp eegeez.com/ 2023/09/ wandering-sword-walkthrough-guide.html
is a guide written by a guy who beat the original game last year. he isnt perfect, but it covers a bunch of stuff in a very well explained way.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3038171486
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3038849462
those are both steam guides written by players as well as one of the devs?
i'm not saying you have to use them, but if you want hints and or straight up know the answer to the weirdness the devs did to make certain things happen, they are very usefull

i personally played the game 3ish times without guides, and the game felt enormous with so many things to do and explore. once you use the guides you start to see how the game is actually kinda a puzzle, and the hints are not great, and you can miss content easily with little to no warning.
there is a sword chick you can save midway through the game. if you dont go to a inn during a particular story mission that there are zero hints to do so, she challenges a corrupt guard and gets assassinated, you can show up and help her, and in return she joins you. she is insanely underpowered and is never useful to the story..... i still refuse to not save her, its just feels weird that shes out there waiting to die unless you show up