In Black Myth: Wukong, You Can Summon One Boss to Beat Another Boss While Basically Doing Nothing

Warning! Black Myth: Wukong spoilers follow.

If you’re playing through Black Myth: Wukong right now, you’ll be familiar with the action RPG’s boss fights. The game is packed full of them, and some offer a significant challenge. But what if you could gain a helping hand from one boss as you fight another?

That’s exactly what’s possible in Black Myth: Wukong via a super cool secret IGN unearthed while playing this week. It turns out that in Chapter Two, you can summon a hidden boss to defeat a required boss — if you find a bunch of items first.

The boss fight in question is the Stone Vanguard, which is found in the Fright Cliff area. You might have encountered this boss already, or even defeated it. But did you notice the large rock on the left as you entered the arena?

That rock is in fact a dormant Shigandang Yaoguai King Boss, sealed away with six items of divinity, which you can use to release him. IGN has a guide, How to Defeat the Stone Vanguard With Another Boss, that will tell you all you need to know to summon Shigandang and have it do your dirty work for you.

What follows is a cool Black Myth Wukong Yaoguai King Boss Battle that you can sit back and admire from a safe distance. Eventually, Shigandang defeats the Stone Vanguard, although you then need to step in and defeat Shigandang yourself. Thankfully, the plucky Stone Vanguard took a bit of health off the much stronger Shigandang during the fight. Check it out in the video below:

It’s a pretty wild way to defeat a boss without lifting a finger, and you get credit and all the item drops as if you beat the Stone Vanguard yourself.

Speaking of Black Myth: Wukong bosses, this week IGN reported on how one optional boss encountered very early in the game is absolutely destroying players. While you’re here, IGN has plenty more Black Myth: Wukong guides to help you out, including Essential Tips and Tricks, Things Black Myth: Wukong Doesn’t Tell You, and our Boss List and Guides.

Meanwhile, developer Game Science has apologized for any tech or performance issues players have encountered since Black Myth: Wukong’s record-breaking launch earlier this week, and promised patches are coming.

IGN’s Black Myth: Wukong review returned an 8/10. We said: “Despite some frustrating technical issues, Black Myth: Wukong is a great action game with fantastic combat, exciting bosses, tantalizing secrets, and a beautiful world.”

This week, IGN verified an email sent from the Black Myth: Wukong marketing team that told content creators who were granted a Steam key that they must not include “feminist propaganda” or use what are called “trigger words” such as COVID-19 in their coverage.

Chinese studio Game Science has yet to respond to IGN’s previous report compiling numerous sexist comments made by the studio’s founders and other developers spanning the last decade.