If you want to unlock the Mending Loom in Where Winds Meet, you will need to take down Zheng the Frostwing during the Ever-Normal Granary questline. With the Mending Loom equipped, your Soulshade Umbrella becomes much better at keeping you alive, so it’s definitely worth grabbing. This guide will walk you through how to get the Tome and give you easy tips for beating Zheng.
How to get the Mending Loom
You can unlock Mending Loom by defeating Zheng the Frostwing during the Ever-Normal Granary campaign. This Lost Chapter plays out inside the Granary of Plenty in Kaifeng, so just follow the quest chain until you reach the fight and take Zheng down to earn the Tome.
Mending Loom gives your Soulshade Umbrella some sustain. Every time you use the umbrella’s Special Skill, Echoing Grow, you get back 5 Dewdrops. On top of that, for every 100 Dewdrops you spend, you heal yourself for 10% of your max HP, making it a reliable way to stay alive during longer fights.
As you unlock its Breakthrough Enhancements, the skill cooldown of Herbal Resonance drops to just one second, letting you use it far more often. Your physical attack also scales up with your Solo Mode level. Later, you gain an extra heal restoring 10% of your max HP after consuming 50 Dewdrops.
Higher tiers make the support aspect stronger. Herbal Resonance can detect low-HP allies from much farther away, and your overall healing gets a small boost. At the final tier, Herbal Resonance doesn’t just help others, it heals both you and the nearby teammate with the lowest HP, turning Mending Loom into a very reliable sustain tool for both solo and group play.
How to Defeat the Zheng the Frostwing
In Phase 1, Zheng does a red-glowing fan swipe that is difficult to parry. If you use the Meridian Touch during his wind-up, it completely cancels the attack and knocks him down. This gives you a chance to deal damage and push his Qi bar even lower.
Zheng the Frostwing is all about timing your parries. The fastest way to break his Qi bar is to keep deflecting his attacks. Just remember, he can parry you, too. Hit him once, then get ready to parry his counterattack.
Most of his projectiles can be parried, except for one: the Double Wave. That one must be dodged sideways. Also, a lot of his melee swings leave ice thorns on the ground that explode after a short delay. Make sure you move behind him or step back so you don’t get hit.
