5-7 Shen Mountain Fist

## Collectibles

**4**

**5**

**50**

At start ignore the star piece and head on. You soon reach an area with a blocked path guarded by to braziers. Destroy the stones left and right of your way and you will find a fire pit and a place to light it, as well as the Black Leather Gauntlet. Use it to enlight the braziers and the barrier will open. Before you pass, move back to the star pieces with your fire pit and hold it as close as possible to one of the bombs to set it on fire. The explosion will open your way to the star piece.

Next you get into a tough fight against the scholars of the Viper Clan Dojo again. If it is getting too hard, keep in mind Mei/Fei can't die, so running away and letting them do the job is a possible tactic. This is a one time fight, so once you have beaten the two, you could re-enter the stage without having to fight them again.

## Behind the Gate

Again ignore the star piece as it is unreachable for now and directly head on to the Health Altar to restore your energy.

Turn right and you meet Cecil again. In the screen north of her you could find a star piece inside of one of the boxes. Head further north and you could pick up another star piece openly lying around. Behind it are three gongs which give different sounds and the fighting dummy will name you the correct pattern to click - as long as you have acquired the music book in 5-4 Second Training. (BE AWARE: When you hit the attack button, depending on your equipment, it'll do 2 attacks at once, making it hard to complete). Behind the gate is video record #5. At last leave the gong area to the left to pick up some purple coins before you enter the door. It will lead you to the star piece which you saw after entering the main gate. Get back to the center from here.

This time take the left path and you meet a Fatness Trainer who will follow you on SNS and their drill instructor. Make sure that you break all pots in this area. One of them turns out to be unbreakable and once you interact with it, you get transported to a mountain top where the Sword Empress Akayuki costume is lying around. Once you are finished here, talk to the old man to get back to the stage.

Turn upwards and several massive blocks will be in your way north. At the first row move the middle one time up and than the right on to its right. Now you could access the left block in a way to push it downwards and get to the Demon Claw. At the next row you again push the middle block one up and then the left and right block each to their respective sides. Now go for the upper right block and push it upwards again until you are able to get through the gap and again address the left block from its upper side and push it downwards. The last star piece is underneath it.

Next you will reach the entrance gate to the Viper Clan Dojo, but you need to wear the Viper Clan Fighter costume from 5-1 Introductory Test Site to get in.

## Boss Fight

You shall now have completed this stage and could aim for the final fight of this World 5. The boss has four different attacks which are more or less powerful. At first some strong punches in a straight line, but this is easily evadable. The second attack happens if you move too far: it is a hit after teleportation – you should be constantly on a move to avoid it. Next is an attack which goes straight in all four directions and pulls you to him while dealing a significant amount of damage. Be quick and move into the diagonal gaps to evade it and still be close enough to deal damage. Last is the most powerful attack which gets announced by turning the whole scene into darkness. The boss throws a huge energy ball at you which likely kills you instantly. So do not try to attack or do anything but run to get out of the red circle.

## Collectibles

The star pieces are

1. At start between some massive rocks.
2. Inside a destroyable box north of Cecil.
3. Openly lying around north of the second piece.
4. After the main gate. It is reachable via the eastern route from the Health Altar.
5. Under the top left block on the way left of the Heal Altar.

The video record is behind the gong riddle. If the player has the Old Music Book item from stage 5-4 Second Training, interacting with the training dummy reveals the correct gong pattern, although the player can still hit the gongs and solve it if they know the pattern since the it remains the same in any playthrough.