The Forbidden Zone is a restricted archive and investigation site in Honor of Kings: World that becomes accessible during Jixia Chapter 4: Jixia Secrets. It is the second half of the chapter, following the Guiling Return Mausoleum route.
How the Chapter Uses the Area
The player approaches the area with Dongfang Yao after a cutscene and nightfall transition.
The opening stretch is a stealth route patrolled by robots.
Grass crouching and scan mode help track patrol sightlines, but being spotted does not fail the chapter.
The inner objective is a two-floor archive search followed by a lower-chamber mechanism puzzle.
Archive Interior
Inside the building, the player searches shelves and marked points for clues. The route uses an elevator to move between floors, with gaps between upper platforms and a final descent into the lower archive chambers.
Search the required shelves and marked records on the first floor.
Ride the lift to the upper floor and continue the archive search.
Drop into the lower archive area and recover the disc from the white pedestal.
Rotate the mechanism so the blue energy line connects correctly through the conduits.
Why the Forbidden Zone Matters
It introduces the first sustained stealth section in the launch main story.
It reframes Chapter 4 from dungeon pursuit into secret-record investigation.
It connects Jixia's academy mystery directly to Godpattern research and hidden archives.
See Also
Stealth Tips
Being spotted by a patrol robot does not fail the chapter, but it triggers a brief combat skirmish that wastes time and pulls extra units into the entry path. Crouching in tall grass and using scan mode lets the player time patrol gaps without combat.
Tag patrols with scan mode before crossing open ground; the tag persists for several seconds and shows facing direction.
Crouch while moving between bushes; the robots cannot see through dense grass even at close range.
If detected, finish the skirmish quickly and continue: the chapter does not punish combat, but the patrols respawn slowly enough that re-routing wastes more time than a clean fight.
Archive Search Route
First-floor shelves are highlighted by the quest marker once the route is unlocked. The marked records list updates as items are collected. After the upper-floor lift sequence, the lower archive descent uses a single rotating mechanism puzzle; align the blue energy line directly through the conduits in order from outermost to innermost.
Narrative Payoff
The Forbidden Zone is the first sustained stealth segment in the launch main story and is the moment Chapter 4 reframes from cave pursuit into archive investigation. The recovered records are the first hard tie between Jixia Academy's modern operations and the Godpattern research arc that runs through the second half of the launch story.