Danjin’s Skyfall Quest Hides Zhongxu and a Phantom Echo

Faithful Heart Tested at Skyfall is Danjin’s Mengzhou outing, a Version 3.5 Exploration Quest that pays 100 Astrite and a Phantom Echo skin. Kuro shipped it with the Land of Xuanfang on July 10, 2026, parked beside Chapter IV instead of in a voiced Companion Story. The dungeon is the Skyworks. The people with something to lose are Danjin, the Autopuppet Zhongxu, and anyone who still hunts rare Echo looks in the open world.

Walkthroughs will get you through the elevators. They barely mention that Suyu is scoring Danjin for the Ministry of War, or that the machine you tune is the same class of Autopuppet whose Phantom sits on the reward screen.

Suyu Is Evaluating a Dangerous Resonator

The tracker points to Goldsong Woods in the Southern Yuan Hills, where an injured Midnight Ranger is trying not to tear her stitches. Suyu knows Rover from the Norfall Barrens stories around General Jiyan, and she is not in Xuanfang as backup. She is a Supervisory Officer on a special file: a Resonator the Ministry wants inside the fold, if the field work does not go wrong.

I have to evaluate her overall performance and decide whether she qualifies to join the Midnight Rangers or be assigned to another department under the Ministry of War.

Suyu, Supervisory Officer, Goldsong Woods

Danjin walks up with Jade Mushroom Soup and the same short blade she has carried since Jinzhou. She tells Rover the last time they met was the Moon-Chasing Festival, when she sent a lantern and hoped it would carry other people’s wishes a long way. Suyu’s version is colder. Patrollers keep finding the scenes Danjin leaves behind, and the Ministry thinks her way of handling Exiles is excessive, so the sword sits under Suyu’s watch for now.

That is why this quest exists in Mengzhou at all. A pack of Exiles fled toward Xuanfang, stole a Skybarge, and tried to throw Danjin off; she cut the power core, the ship went down in smoke, and the supervision detail followed her into a province already shaking from rogue Autopuppets. Suyu wants Danjin out of that file. A clean job at the Skyworks would help. She asks Rover to take the watch so she can stay off her feet.

Players who last saw Danjin in the Version 1.2 festival treat the reunion as the missing companion beat. The tax is the format. Exploration Quests rarely get full voice, and the script is long enough that a fan who tried to read an hour of it said the session wiped her out. The objection that keeps coming back is that missing track, not the puzzles.

Inside Zhongxu’s Frequency

A Kernel Puppet in the woods is pointing at the Skyworks and repeating that the plant is in peril. Danjin and Rover can ride together on the Expedition Motorbike. Once you commit, Skyworks stays sealed for the rest of the run, which is Kuro’s way of saying this is a closed industrial story, not a side path you dip in and out of while farming Tacet Fields in the Western Fang Peaks.

Zhongxu is the Autopuppet asking for aid. Rover clocks it as a Forbidden Bastion dealing with Tacet Discords that slipped a Censure Cage; Danjin is more startled that the machine has a name. It is not very bright in conversation. It is extremely specific in a fight. After a system crash on a cliff, you touch Zhongxu, mash the glowing panel, and the trophy I Choose the Form of Zhongxu fires as control transfers. Zhongxu calls you Facilitator and locks the question of what it actually is.

WHAT ZHONGXU CAN DO IN THE PLANT

• The kit: Jumps, shield dashes, basic attacks, Resonance Skill, and Resonance Liberation all carry over while you are inside the Autopuppet.
• The barrels: Thunder barrels that clip Danjin do not bother Zhongxu, so the dash sections are meant to be taken at a run.
• The job: Deactivate barriers so Danjin can advance, then hand the camera back when an Earthpull Lever dumps you onto her side of the line.

The split is the point of the quest, not a gimmick. Danjin’s inner lines while she waits for an elevator are about blood loss and Overclocking, and about trusting Rover to stop her if it happens again. You hear that while you are wearing a machine whose whole purpose is to hold Tacet Discords inside a court of modular brick.

The Forbidden Bastion Phantom Is a Quest Reward

Forbidden Bastion is a new Version 3.5 Elite Echo, Cost 3, built as one of the heavier Autopuppets of the Censure Court. The Forbidden Bastion echo skill summons it to bash for Glacio damage, and a copy in the main slot adds a 10% Healing Bonus on a 20-second cooldown. Phantoms are the mutated looks that usually drop off rare overworld variants. This quest just gives you the skin.

QUEST REWARDS AT A GLANCE

The Phantom is why collectors should not skip the dungeon even if they do not play Danjin. You already spent the quest inside a named Forbidden Bastion. The skin is that machine’s other face, handed over instead of being left to map luck. Cinnabar Fealty is the human half of the same screen, a profile plate for a Resonator who has not had a long outing since that festival lantern.

How to Start Faithful Heart Tested at Skyfall

Kuro’s Version 3.5 notes ask you to finish Chapter IV Act II first. Act II, Xuanling Sings, Storm Quelled, is the Autopuppet riot on Xuanfang Hold, so the Skyworks alarm lands after you already know what a plant full of rogue Kernel Puppets can do to the region. The quest can surface earlier, after you activate the Four Chime Shaftpost during Act I, The Wind Before the Storm, once the story lets you step out of the zone as Yangyang to check on villagers.

Track it from the quest tab, go to Goldsong Woods, talk to Suyu, then inspect the Rogue Autopuppet beside Danjin. That is the whole unlock. There is no separate level gate and no banner. Mengzhou itself opens through Act I; the Version 3.5 Mengzhou preview set the July 10, 2026 launch for Blade of Past Resounds, Lingering Dream Hymns, with Xuanfang Hold, Eastern Xuan Peaks, Western Fang Peaks, and Southern Yuan Hills as the four map slices.

If a lever, line, or camera swap stalls you after you are inside, use the step-by-step Skyworks quest route for the clicks. The notes below are the spots that actually change what the quest is doing, not a second copy of every elevator.

Skyworks Stays Sealed Until the Kernel Is Clear

Hundred-Span Corridor throws thunder barrels you jump or sidestep, then a square of enemies at the back. Zhongxu leads you to elevators and Skyflow Lines, the glowing crate paths a crane is already holding, and you grapple those instead of looking for a hidden ledge. Kernel Puppets on the belts are marked as critical assets. Zhongxu tells you to reroute. Danjin’s first instinct is to cut them down on the spot, which is the same instinct Suyu is writing up in her report.

When the path dead-ends at a cliff, Zhongxu fires a Mountainpin Stake and you ride the cable. The Autopuppet then freezes, Danjin drops to the floor to hold rogue Kernel Puppets, and you climb into the crashed frequency. From there the camera ping-pongs on purpose. You pull an Earthpull Lever, strike the Earthwaking Drum three times to kill a barrier, and the view snaps to Danjin on the far side of the same door.

Later the drum is a timing tool, not a lock. Pull the lever so the screen splits, Zhongxu on one half and the plant on the other, then hit the drum so barrels drop on the mobs. There is lag. Three strikes dump each set. If you mash with no rhythm you waste the window and the Autopuppet takes the hits. That sequence is Zhongxu and Danjin working a foundry the way Suyu wants them to work a patrol: one person holds the line, the other does the precise thing.

Three Drum Strikes and a Crane You Have to Break

After the barrel drops, talking to Zhongxu (and Danjin if you want the extra lines) is the clean pause. From there you shield-dash a path, answer the prompt to dodge a Xuan crane, and then the camera puts you back in Zhongxu to throw spikes at enemies and barrels while Danjin fights Tacet Discords. Grab the spare stake on the other side while the first one reloads. Precision Guidance is the trophy tied to that throw, so do not sprint past the pickup.

SPOTS THAT SOFTLOCK THE PACE

• The crane: Pick up the stake on the marked path, then keep hitting Normal Attack until the Xuan crane goes down; the quest will even fire the shot for you if you are on Zhongxu’s rail.
• The boss: Myriad Snare: Rustfire Chassis waits on the Snare Platform. If Zhongxu’s health empties, Danjin and Rover join, so the Autopuppet is allowed to lose the duel.
• The kernel maze: After the boss you tune Zhongxu again, follow a phantom, break red blocks that can damage you when they pop, plunge on glowing hexes, then mash Normal Attack when Danjin appears on the split screen.

The maze is the Autopuppet’s inner court, the same idea as the Censure cages the Forbidden Bastion class was built to tend. You smash the reset, take the group photo Zhongxu has never posed for, and read Suyu’s Wavesline on the way out. She wants them back. The plant is no longer the file. Danjin is.

The Talk at Shaftpost Yard

You can ride with Danjin again to Shaftpost Yard. The closing talk is the supervision report in plain language. Danjin already knows she is close to Overclocking. If that went somewhere she could not take back, or if it opened a Tacet Field, she says she would need someone to stop her the way you just stopped the Myriad Snare. Rover’s read is that Suyu did the long work so Danjin might put the obsessions down, not so the Ministry could own another blade.

Putting away the blade… is harder.

Danjin, Shaftpost Yard

Facilitator, Trust Me is the trophy on that line. Revenge and battle have been her companions too long for the change to happen overnight, and she does not pretend otherwise. The Chinese title of the quest puns on her name and on a loyal heart; the English title makes the Skyworks the test. The test she actually fails-and-passes is whether she can leave the Exiles, the barge, and the blood for a Ministry file that might still send her to some other desk.

A Wavesline from Danjin after the clear opens Faithful Heart Tested at Skyfall: Epilogue. It is short. You talk to her one more time and the thread closes. In mid-September 2026, players were still logging the main quest as a side outing they had only just found, which is what happens when Kuro hides a character beat inside a foundry and pays for it with a Phantom skin.

Frequently Asked Questions

How Do You Equip the Cinnabar Fealty Avatar?

Open the Terminal from the top right, tap the three dots beside your current avatar, and pick Cinnabar Fealty from the profile list. It is a portrait unlock from the quest clear, separate from the Phantom skin, which lives on the Echo screen instead of the profile menu.

Which Trophies Fire During Faithful Heart Tested at Skyfall?

I Choose the Form of Zhongxu unlocks when you first operate the Autopuppet and Precision Guidance unlocks when you throw the Mountainpin Stake to help Danjin, and each of those two pays Astrite x5 under Footprints in Huanglong III. Facilitator, Trust Me unlocks when the Shaftpost Yard conversation ends.

Does Faithful Heart Tested at Skyfall Leave the Game After Version 3.5?

No. Kuro listed it as a permanent Exploration Quest in the Version 3.5 content overview, in the same breath as Code Red: Corehazard and Autopuppets in Fog Veiled Chambers, so it stays in the log after that patch’s timed events rolled off.

What Does the Faithful Heart Tested at Skyfall Epilogue Add?

The follow-up is filed as a Side Quest, not another Exploration dungeon, and it only asks you to open Danjin’s Wavesline and speak with her once. There is no second boss and no extra Phantom on that ping.

Can You Leave Skyworks in the Middle of the Quest?

Skyworks is sealed for the remainder of the run once you head in with Danjin, so you cannot treat it like an open world node. The practical pause is after you speak with Zhongxu, and optionally Danjin, just before the crane path, which is the checkpoint most people use if they need to log out.