Bloodlines Lee Taijutsu Progression & Gates Guide

If you’re playing Lee in Bloodlines (or just want to punch people really hard), your entire build revolves around Taijutsu and unlocking the Gates. This guide walks you through:

• How to unlock the Taijutsu skill path
• How to get Green Gates (available to any Tai build)
• How to unlock Blue Gates (Lee-exclusive mode)
• How Red Gates works and whether it’s actually worth going for

I’ll go step by step, so you can follow this as your full Lee progression plan.

Unlocking the Taijutsu Skill Path

Your first goal is simple: unlock the Taijutsu skill tree via the move Weighted Kick.

Requirements for Weighted Kick

You need:

• 1× Combat Scroll
• 1× Chakra Shard
• Some ryo

You unlock the actual skill by sitting on a chakra point once you have those items.

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How to Get the Combat Scroll (and Your First Chakra Fragment)

1. Go to Training Grounds.
2. Hit one of the training logs until an NPC spawns.
3. Kill that NPC and pick up the green broken armor piece it drops – do not ignore this, it’s key.
4. Follow the path nearby to find the Combat Instructor.
5. Talk to him and start his quest. He’ll talk about hitting the log 1000 times – ignore that.
6. Just hand him the green broken armor piece.

Reward:

• 1× Combat Scroll
• 1× Chakra Fragment

Perfect start.

How to Get a Chakra Shard

Next, you need to break a chakra point:

1. Make sure you have:
   • 1× Chakra Fragment (from the instructor quest)
   • 100 ryo
2. Sit on a chakra point and choose Destroy.
3. This converts your fragment into a Chakra Shard.

Now you have:

• Combat Scroll
• Chakra Shard
• Some ryo

Sit on another chakra point and use these to unlock Weighted Kick. This opens the Taijutsu skill path.

Pushing Down the Taijutsu Path (Core Skills to Grab)

To reach Green Gates, you need to invest heavily into Taijutsu. You’ll be spending:

• Chakra Fragments
• Ryo
• Acumen (combat experience)
• A few special items

Taijutsu Combat & Redsmith’s Mold

To unlock Taijutsu Combat, you need:

• Enough acumen (earned by defeating NPCs)
• Redsmith’s Mold

How to Get Redsmith’s Mold (Barbarian Boss)

1. Head to your village mission board and grab the Barbarian mission, or go straight to Windy Plains 1.
2. Look near the Catacombs and you’ll find the Barbarian, sleeping.
3. Fight tips:
   • His jump attack: be mid-air when he lands to avoid damage.
   • His punches: perfect block by guarding right as he pulls his arm back.
   • After three perfect blocks, he’s stunned – dump your combos here.
4. Knock him, then press B to grip.
5. Loot the Redsmith’s Mold.

Use this to unlock further Taijutsu skills.

Get Both Improved Whirlwind & Improved Barrage

You don’t have to choose between them – get both:

• Improved Whirlwind – amazing for spacing and pushing enemies off you.
• Improved Barrage – great for poke and chip damage.

Both are extremely useful later against bosses like Tairock and for your Lee quests.

Chakra Punch (Highly Recommended)

Not strictly required for Gates, but very strong utility.

• Buy a Chakra Bone for 15 ryo from The Cunning Collector at Biyo Bay.
• Use it to unlock Chakra Punch in the Taijutsu tree.

It’s extra damage and utility that fits perfectly into your kit.

Unlocking Green Gates (Any Taijutsu Build)

Green Gates is the first Taijutsu awakening and can be used by any Taijutsu user, not just Lee.

To unlock it, you’ll need:

• Progressed Taijutsu tree
• Ryo
• Chakra Fragments
• Fighter’s Wraps (the rare part)

Getting Fighter’s Wraps – Tairock Boss

This is the tricky part.

Step 1: Buy the Stone Key

1. Go to Biyo Bay.
2. Find the Prisoner NPC.
3. Talk to him (first dialogue option).
4. Buy the stone for 35 ryo – this is your key.

Step 2: Open the Tairock Gate

1. Go to Rosemary Pit.
2. Near the chakra point, you’ll see a closed gate.
3. Use the stone to open it and enter Tairock’s boss room.

Step 3: Fighting Tairock

Tairock now has constant hyper armor, so trading M1s is a bad idea.

Basic gameplan:

• Use Dynamic Entry to poke in and out.
• Use Improved Whirlwind (M2) when he gets close to push him away.
• Use your barrage moves when it’s safe to chip him.
• If your substitution is on cooldown, play safer. Don’t let him catch you in full M1 strings.

Once he’s down:

• Press B to grip him.
• Hope for Fighter’s Wraps to drop.

They’re a rare drop – expect to kill Tairock multiple times before you get them.

Unlocking Green Gates

Once you have:

• Enough ryo
• Enough chakra fragments
• Fighter’s Wraps

You can unlock Green Gates at a chakra point via the Taijutsu tree.

What Green Gates Does

Green Gates gives you:

• Big speed and damage buffs
• Two key moves:
  • M2 – Primary Lotus: Close-range multi-hit that deals huge damage if it lands.
  • M1 Skill – Flicker Teleport: Teleports you behind your target, great for catching players off-guard or setting up Lotus.

Note:

• Any Taijutsu user can use Green Gates.
• Non-Lee users take a small amount of damage when the mode timer runs out.

Blue Gates – Lee Clan Exclusive Mode

Blue Gates is the true Lee clan awakening. Stronger speed, better damage, and extra moves on top of Green Gates.

You unlock it by starting a quest with Tairock – the same boss from the wraps.

Starting the Blue Gates Quest

• Talk to Tairock while he is not in combat.
• Press E to talk.
• If you don’t meet requirements yet, he’ll tell you what you’re missing.

There are three hidden requirements:

1. M1 Hits (Your fists are weak)
2. Blocks (Your defense is weak)
3. Green Gates Activations (You’ve yet to grasp the basics of your inner gates)

You can complete them in any order.

Requirement 1 – 2500 M1s (“Your fists are weak”)

• You need around 2500 M1 hits on NPCs or players.
• Requirements rules:
  • Hitting environment objects does not count.
  • Hitting block doesn’t count.
  • Hitting multiple targets at once still only counts as 1 per swing.

Best methods:

• Fight high HP bosses (like Tairock) for lots of hits in one fight.
• Or farm sturdy NPCs one by one.

Requirement 2 – 500 Blocks (“Your defense is weak”)

• You need 500 blocks
• Important:
  • Only blocking player M1s counts now
  • Blocking jutsu like Water Pool doesn’t count
  • Blocking NPC attacks also does not count

Best method:

• Ask a friend to help you.
• Let them spam M1s into your block.
• You can finish this in under 10 minutes with cooperation.

Requirement 3 – ~50 Green Gates Activations

• You need roughly 50 Green Gates activations.
• This isn’t tracked in your Progression Soul, so just spam it while you play.

Fast way to do it:

• Activate Green Gates
• Let the mode run out or jump off the map out of combat
• Change servers / rejoin to reset cooldown and repeat

By the time you’re done farming M1s and blocks, you should easily hit this number if you keep using the mode.

The Blue Gates Trial – Weighted Run & Fight

Once you meet all conditions, Tairock gives you a trial:

• You carry heavy weights from point A to point B.
• You cannot cast non-Tai skills.
• Movement is slowed.
• There’s a time limit.

Key tips:

• Spam Green Gates for extra speed as often as you can.
• Use Dynamic Entry and Flicker Step (if you have it) to cover distance faster.
• Avoid dangerous areas where NPCs will jump you mid-run.
• Try not to get stuck fighting mobs; you’re on a timer.
• It’s much safer with friends watching your back so random players don’t grief you.

Near the end:

• You’ll reach an area where you must fight three NPCs while still under weight restrictions.
• Strategy is similar to Tairock:
  • Use Dynamic Entry, Lion’s Barrage, and Whirlwind M2 to chip them.
  • Keep spacing and avoid getting stuck trading M1s.
  • If you’re running out of time, you may need to M1 more aggressively.

Defeat them, then talk to Tairock to finish the quest.

Reward:

• Lee Affinity item → spend it to unlock Blue Gates.

What Blue Gates Gives You

Blue Gates is a straight upgrade over Green:

• Even higher movement speed
• Stronger damage
• Three core moves:

1. M2 – Blue Gates Barrage
   • A multi-hit barrage that deals heavy damage and applies a burning ailment at the end.
2. M1 Skill – Flicker Teleport
   • Same as Green Gates: teleport behind your target, great for surprise punishes.
3. Charged M1 – Mid-range AoE Strike
   • Charge chakra and M1 to send out a mid-range strike with small AoE damage around the impact point.

Blue Gates is your main clan-exclusive awakening as Lee. You can stop here and already have a very strong build.

Red Gates – Gates of Death (Lee-Only, Extreme Late-Game)

Red Gates is less a progression tool and more a self-destruct god mode. It’s the strongest ability in the game and deliberately hard to unlock and use.

Key idea:

• When you use Red Gates, you become a raid boss for the entire server…
• …and then you wipe when it’s over.

How to Start Red Gates Progression

Go to the Dojo where your Blue Gates quest ended and talk to Might Guy.

He’ll give you similar hint messages as Tairock:

• “Your fists are weak” → Missing M1s
• “Your defense is weak” → Missing blocks
• “You haven’t grasped the power of the inner gates” → Missing Blue Gates activations

Red Gates Requirements

Approximate requirements:

1. 25,000 M1s
2. 2500 blocks
3. Around 100 Blue Gates activations
4. Later, unlocking the mode itself also needs:
   • 10 Chakra Fragments
   • 1000 Acumen
   • Plus 1 Lee affinity from the fight

1. 25,000 M1s

This is the big wall.

• You’ll hit this eventually just by playing Lee long-term.
• Pushing it too hard in one sitting is a good way to burn out.

If you want to speed it up:

• Buy a Silver Kunai:
  • Very fast swings
  • Low damage
• As Taijutsu, you already do less weapon damage, which helps.
• Hit tanky enemies to maximize M1 count without killing too fast.

2. 2500 Blocks

Same logic as Blue Gates, just more:

• Only player M1s count.
• Set up with a friend and let them swing on your block.
• This part is relatively quick once you commit to it.

3. ~100 Blue Gates Activations

If you’ve truly done 25,000 M1s as Lee, you’ll almost definitely have this requirement naturally as long as you actually used Blue Gates.

If not, just spam the mode like you did for Green Gates.

The Might Guy Fight – Red Gates Trial

Once you meet all requirements, talk to Might Guy again and accept his challenge.

Important rules:

• You can only use Taijutsu skills
• You can’t rely on healing ninjutsu (bring food if you’re not reanimated)
• If you fail, you must age up once before retrying

The fight has three phases:

Phase 1 – Base Taijutsu

• Moveset is similar to Tairock.
• He has hyper armor, so don’t trade M1s.
• Stick to:
  • Dynamic Entry to poke
  • Lion’s Barrage and Improved Whirlwind to punish
• Play it safe and chip him down.

Phase 2 – Green Gates

He activates Green Gates and gains:

• Teleport behind you
• Primary Lotus and other Green Gates moves

Strategy:

• Block as much as possible when not attacking.
• When he teleports behind you, immediately turn and block.
• Blocking Primary Lotus gives you a small punish window – use Improved Whirlwind or similar.
• Repeat: block → punish → block.

Phase 3 – Blue Gates

He now has the full Blue Gates toolkit:

• Hirudora (long-range, massive damage)
• Asakujaku (dangerous combo move)
• Teleports and general chaos

Strategy:

• Stay close and block; Hirudora is easier to avoid at close range.
• Watch for Asakujaku:
  • If you block it, you get another small punish window.
• Keep the same rhythm: block big move → punish → block again.

Once you defeat him, talk to Might Guy again to complete the challenge.

Reward:

• Second Lee Affinity – use this to unlock Red Gates, with additional:
  • 10 Chakra Fragments
  • 1000 Acumen

What Red Gates Actually Does

Red Gates is basically:

• Infinite air jumps
• Absurd movement speed
• Teleport options
• Massive AoE and single-target damage
• Complete server terror

Core moves:

• Charged M1 – Sekizo
  • Mid-range shockwave barrage that chunks players hard.
• M2 – Night Guy
  • Huge, fast, and extremely destructive dash/strike with a massive hitbox.
  • Very hard to avoid and can nuke groups of players instantly.

But here’s the catch:

• Your life force constantly drains while Red Gates is active.
• You must kill other players to extend your timer.
• When your life force runs out:
  • You’re knocked down briefly
  • Then you wipe completely

Using Red Gates is a one-character suicide mission:

• You can be reanimated later
• But to use Red Gates again, you must age up 10 times

It’s meant to be a rare, dramatic event – not a daily spam button.

Should You Go for Red Gates?

For most Lee players:

• Blue Gates is more than enough to be strong and relevant.
• Red Gates is “extra content” for people who want:
  • A one-time power fantasy
  • To obliterate a server they really dislike

If you enjoy your build and don’t want to wipe it, treat Red Gates as optional lore flavor, not a goal.

Recommended Progression Path for Lee

If you want a clean roadmap:

1. Unlock Weighted Kick → open Taijutsu tree.
2. Get Redsmith’s Mold from Barbarian.
3. Unlock Taijutsu Combat, Improved Whirlwind, Improved Barrage, and Chakra Punch.
4. Go to Biyo Bay → buy stone → kill Tairock until Fighter’s Wraps drop.
5. Spend fragments + ryo + wraps → unlock Green Gates.
6. Farm M1s, blocks, and Green Gates uses while progressing.
7. Start Blue Gates quest at Tairock → complete the weighted run and final fight → unlock Blue Gates.
8. If you’re insane and committed:
   • Grind 25,000 M1s, 2500 blocks, 100 Blue Gates activations
   • Beat Might Guy
   • Unlock Red Gates

If you want, I can also turn this into a shorter checklist version (for quick reference while you play) or a pure “boss strategy” guide focused only on Tairock and Might Guy.