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Crimson Divine Beast
April 17, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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The Crimson Divine Beast (猩红神兽, Xīnghóng Shénshòu) is a signature boss encounter in Honor of Kings: World. Baidu Baike primary text explicitly names this boss and shows an in-game screenshot captioned "游戏BOSS-猩红神兽" ("Game Boss: Crimson Divine Beast"). The fight was the centerpiece of the Tencent SPARK 2025 showcase in April 2025, where it was used to demonstrate the Dual-Class Resonance combat system and the "red light" boss attack mechanic. It remains a confirmed launch-era encounter.
The Crimson Divine Beast is described in Baidu Baike as a large, visually distinctive beast with red and crimson coloration. It serves as a showcase encounter for many of Honor of Kings: World's core combat systems in one fight, similar to how Bi Fang serves as the flagship co-op boss for the Gamescom 2025 public demo.
The Crimson Divine Beast's defining mechanic is its "red light attacks" (红光招式). These are special telegraphed attacks marked with a red glow that cannot be dodged or parried through normal means. Instead, players must use stun-tagged techniques on specific Resonance abilities to interrupt the red-light windup. Successfully interrupting the attack opens a burst damage window during which the boss takes increased damage. Failing to interrupt results in heavy damage and often a debuff.
This mechanic is a core pillar of the Resonance combo system, and the SPARK 2025 demo explicitly used Sun Bin's Reverse Flow Time (逆流之时) ability as the time-slow setup that let the party interrupt the boss's red light wind-ups and chain their own ultimate damage windows. This is one of the clearest public demonstrations of how Honor of Kings: World's combat is designed to reward party coordination over raw individual damage.
At the Tencent SPARK 2025 Games Conference on April 22, 2025, the Crimson Divine Beast was featured in a full combat demonstration showing:
Dual Resonance hot-swapping during the fight
Sun Bin's time-slow setting up ally ultimates
Red light attack interrupts during boss phases
Posture break windows after sustained pressure
Multi-player cooperation on a boss designed to require coordinated play
A variant encounter called the Crimson Stone Statue (猩红石像, Xīnghóng Shíxiàng) appeared in Honor of Kings: World launch-era Bilibili speedrun footage (for example BV15rXGBtE6h, "首发《王者荣耀世界》1分18速刷全新Boss之猩红石像," April 2026). The Crimson Stone Statue appears to be a distinct boss variant introduced at or near the April 10, 2026 launch, likely sharing the Crimson family aesthetic with the Crimson Divine Beast but presenting a new fight layout.
The Crimson Divine Beast is Honor of Kings: World's "combat tutorial boss" in the marketing sense: an encounter whose visual design and mechanical pillars show off the full combat system in one fight. Players who internalize the Crimson Divine Beast's patterns have a strong foundation for tackling other boss encounters later in the game, because the core systems (red light attacks, posture breaks, time-slow setups, Resonance swapping) recur throughout the game's boss lineup.
The Crimson Divine Beast and its red-light attack mechanic are confirmed by current community data. The canonical Chinese name is 猩红神兽; "Crimson Beast" (without "Divine") is a shortened English rendering used in some earlier wiki versions.
