Black Myth: WukongThe Best Sparks and Will Farm (Chapter 4)
RageGamingVideos' Chapter 4 farm for Sparks and Will, built around detonating the Ashen Slumber transformation's explosion in the middle of a small enemy pack. Once your weapon attack is high enough to one-shot the group, a full loop nets around 2,500 experience and 2,600 Will in as little as 30 seconds, which the creator clocked at roughly 5,000 experience a minute with the movement memorized. Far ahead of the well-known Chapter 1 snake trail farm most players default to.
Before you start
- Chapter 4 reached, since the farm spot itself is there
- The Ashen Slumber transformation, easy to miss earlier in the game but recoverable later, covered in Section 1 below if you don't already have it
Unlock Ashen Slumber (Skip if You Already Have It)
Talk to the Rat Villager in Chapter 2 First
From the Sandgate Village entrance shrine in Chapter 2, run to the back right of the large open area to find a house with a rock in front of its door. Killing the two-headed rat enemies nearby first unlocks a prompt at that door. Talk to the villager inside about the third rat prince, who they'll say went off to the Pagoda Realm in Chapter 3. Doing this before continuing determines exactly where the transformation ends up waiting for you in the next step.
Retrieve the Transformation in Chapter 3's Pagoda Realm
From the Upper Pagoda shrine, drop into the hole on the left to fight the optional Captain Lotus-Vision boss, then head back to the Lower Pagoda shrine near the bottom and run to the closed cell near the area's original spawn point. If you talked to the rat villager first, the Ashen Slumber transformation is waiting on a corpse on the floor of that cell. If you skipped that conversation and come here anyway, the transformation instead moves further along the main path, up a level via the stairs and through a tunnel past the usual progress route, where a cutscene triggers a boss fight. Beat that boss and you still get the same transformation either way, just through a different fight depending on the order you did things in.
Set Up and Run the Sparks Farm Loop
Reach the Farm Spot Beside the Chapter 4 Shrine
The farm itself sits in Chapter 4, right beside the shrine at the Pool of Shattered Jade. The most reliable way there is from the Upper Hollow shrine, a guaranteed shrine near the start of the area, though the route between the two is long with few clear landmarks, so it's worth just following the path directly rather than trying to describe every turn.
Boost Your Explosion Damage to One-Shot the Enemies
Before running the loop, the Ashen Slumber explosion needs to deal enough damage to one-shot the webbed enemy pack beside the shrine, seemingly driven mostly by weapon attack. Test it as-is first. If it doesn't one-shot the group, sit at the shrine, refund a few Sparks, and put them into the Transformation Magic attack damage node and the Scorch damage boost on the same skill tree page. It's fine to go overkill here, since every point can be refunded again once the farming session is done.
Run the Transform-Detransform Loop
With damage sorted, get up from the shrine, run about 15 feet to the right into the middle of the enemy pack in the cave tunnel, transform, then immediately detransform to trigger the explosion. It wipes the entire small tunnel of enemies, worth around 2,500 experience and roughly 2,600 Will per clear. Run back to the shrine, sit to rest and respawn the enemies, then repeat. With the movement down to muscle memory this loop takes under 30 seconds, which works out to somewhere around 5,000 experience a minute, or up to 300,000 in a full hour of uninterrupted farming.