Find Ban-Lu at the bottom of the waterfall, on a small island. Listen to his assessment of you then defeat him. You will be able to walk on the water. He jumps around a lot, one more reason to be thankful for Roll.
To turn this quest in and get your mount, Zen Pilgrimage. Leave the Temple of Five Dawns through the north door, in front of you. Go down the stairs, bear left and hop the stream. Ban-Lu is waiting for you at the mouth of the cave. You will be ported back to the Temple on your new mount after the cinematic.
Quest
The Trial of Ban-Lu
Quest facts and objectives from the current retail game data.
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Quest line for the class mount Ban-Lu, Grandmaster's Companion starts at [npc=118214] on Broken Shore after completing Breaching the Tomb with a Monk.
- Master Who?, use the Transportation Mandala on the western side of the artifact forge hall
- The Tale of Ban-Lu
- Return to the Broken Peak
- The Trail of Ban-Lu
- Smelly's Luckydo
- The Shadow of Ban-Lu
- Clean-up on Aisle Sha
- The River to Ban-Lu
- Lilies for Ryuli
- The Trial of Ban-Lu
[spell=240963] will be added to your mount collection automatically after turning in the quest.
Poem on his island:
Beside my bed in a pool of darkness
I see your blood upon the ground.I lift my eyes and see the stars,
and search for my cherished friend.
Quest facts
Check whether you have already completed this quest
in-game: /run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(46350))
Description
Ah, the ripples I feel in the water are strong! The droplet does not fall far from our location. Ban-Lu is quite close. <Ryuli closes his eyes and releases the lilies into the water. They drift slowly to the east.> He waits for you now, at the bottom of the waterfall to the east.
Where to go
Pins are the quest’s own POI points from the current retail client, projected onto the in-game zone map. The game marks one blob as the quest’s turn-in; the rest are objective areas. Points that fall outside a map’s window are dropped rather than guessed at.
Turn-inIn-game waypoint: /way #709 41.8 25.3
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #371 23.4 35.2
Objective areaIn-game waypoint: /way #379 73.9 88.9
Coordinates
- Turn-inThe Wandering Isle 41.8, 25.3
/way #709 41.8 25.3 - Objective areaThe Jade Forest 23.4, 35.2
/way #371 23.4 35.2 - Objective areaKun-Lai Summit 73.9, 88.9
/way #379 73.9 88.9
Map coordinates of the pins above. An area the client draws as a shape is given by the centre of its points.
Nearby on the The Wandering Isle map
- Storm Brew about 390 yards
- Impending Danger about 490 yards
- The Dawning Light about 490 yards
- Prepare To Strike about 490 yards
- The Emperor's Gift about 490 yards
- Halls of Valor: Odyn's Cauldron about 490 yards
- A Peaceful World about 490 yards
- Rebuilding the Order about 490 yards
- Brick By Brick about 490 yards
- Report from Tian Monastery about 490 yards
Quests whose map markers the client places closest to this one on The Wandering Isle, nearest first. Distances are straight lines between the markers.
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Spell: Ban-Lu, Grandmaster's CompanionSummons and dismisses your companion Ban-Lu. This is a flying mount.
Storyline
Class Mount: Monk
Part 10 of 10.
Previous: Lilies for Ryuli
- 1Master Who?
- 2The Tale of Ban-Lu
- 3Return to the Broken Peak
- 4The Trail of Ban-Lu
- 5Smelly's Luckydo
- 6The Shadow of Ban-Lu
- 7Clean-up on Aisle Sha
- 8The River to Ban-Lu
- 9Lilies for Ryuli
- 10The Trial of Ban-Lu
Storyline order is the client’s own QuestLine data from the current retail build.
Where this quest fits
Before this quest
Taken from the storyline's own step order.
- Lilies for Ryuli
I have not seen Ban-Lu, but the waters will surely know where he is. There is a flower that grows in the lakes of the mountain slopes near the Temple of the White Tiger, that only blooms in the presence of someone pure of heart.
The storyline at a glance
Class Mount: Monk has 10 steps, from Master Who? to The Trial of Ban-Lu.
Maps its steps are placed on (steps per map): Kun-Lai Summit (6), The Wandering Isle (3), Vale of Eternal Blossoms (1).
Other storylines on The Wandering Isle map
- The Broken Temple
- Journey of the Grandmaster II
- Journey of the Grandmaster III
- Journey of the Grandmaster IV
- Journey of the Grandmaster I
Steps, storylines and map placement from the client’s QuestLine, prerequisite and QuestPOI data; neighbouring quest text is Blizzard’s own (quest API), shortened to its opening sentences.