Huxiao Hall is a Chapter 6 location in Honor of Kings: World. It appears during Jixia Chapter 6: When Stars Converge as the site of the cave-door route, the forced Sun Bin segment, and the Linghu boss fight.
Route Into the Hall
Teleport to the Huxiao Hall waystone during the Chapter 6 objective chain.
Drop from the cliffside route and enter the cave approach.
Open the mechanism door with one cloud-energy token. If the player does not already have one, a token can be picked up nearby.
Continue through the cave route and the Sun Bin-controlled combat stretch before returning to the hall proper.
Why the Location Matters
It is one of the first chapter spaces that mixes outdoor waystone access, a cave-side key requirement, and a forced alternate-character segment.
It holds the simplified Chapter 6 Yuange Puppet rematch.
It is the arena for Linghu, the chapter's main boss pressure point.
Chapter 6 Flow
Huxiao Hall is best understood as a chained location rather than a single room. The player arrives from the academy-side objective, handles the cave door requirement, clears the Sun Bin route, beats the lighter puppet encounter, then returns to the hall interior for the final enemy waves and Linghu fight.
Cloud-Energy Token Mechanism
The cave-side door into Huxiao Hall requires one cloud-energy token to open. The token is a single-use chapter consumable, not a permanent inventory item. If the player does not already hold one when arriving at the door, the chapter route deliberately drops a token at a nearby pickup point so the door can always be opened on first attempt without backtracking. Players who collected a token earlier in the route can save the spare for an optional side path, but the chapter does not require token reuse.
After the door opens, the cave route forces a Sun Bin control segment. The player swaps to controlling Sun Bin directly through a light-combat stretch before the route returns to the main party at the hall interior. This is one of the chapter's intentional control switches, designed to teach players how a different Resonance feels in a constrained environment.
Yuange Puppet Rematch
Inside the cave, before reaching the hall proper, the player encounters a simplified rematch with the Yuange Puppet from Chapter 4. This rematch is a story variant, not a full repeat of the original two-phase encounter: it uses a single phase, a reduced move set, and a hard story-lock near the end of the health bar. Players who struggled with the original Yuange Puppet fight in Chapter 4 will find this rematch significantly more forgiving.
Linghu Boss Notes
The hall's main boss encounter is Linghu, a parry-and-counter style fighter whose kit is similar to Kai. Mindless melee pressure on Linghu is punished because his counter timing is short and his retaliation deals high single-hit damage. Effective approaches are to bait the parry window, use ranged or skill-based attacks to break posture, and let Xi Shi's lift effects shut down his movement between counter windows. Kai is also a strong direct counter pick because his own reaction skill answers the parry exchange in kind.
Why it Matters in the Launch Story
Huxiao Hall is one of the earliest chapter spaces in Honor of Kings: World that mixes outdoor waystone access, a cave-side keyed door, a forced alternate-character control segment, a simplified boss rematch, and a parry-style boss fight in a single chained location. The hall's design pattern of open-world access into a key-gated underground stretch, into a controlled-character interlude, into a reduced-difficulty rematch, and into a parry boss is a template the early-game uses to introduce the action-RPG combat ceiling without overwhelming new players. Subsequent chapters build on the same chained-location template at higher difficulty.