The Hidden Ones Gacha and Currency Guide

Two banners, two currencies, two pity counters

The Lingxu Coin banner is the standard pool. It is the permanent place to widen your roster, and its currency comes from everyday play. The Xuanhuang Yu banner is the limited pool with a rate-up character. Its currency is scarcer and comes from competitive play and Luotian Dajiao. The rule that matters: pity is tracked independently on each banner. Pulls on the standard pool do not advance the limited pool's counter, and the reverse is also true.

That single rule changes how you should spend. A player who puts 60 pulls into one limited banner and 60 into the next has not earned a guarantee; they have two unfinished counters. If the rate-up you want is on the current limited banner, the only number that matters is the one on that banner. Treat the standard pool as a separate account-building track rather than a backup pity meter.

You do not need to pull early to play the story. The starting trio is Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao and Wang Ye, and the beginner's guide shows that this trio covers the opening route. The standard banner is for filling a role you actually lack, not for unlocking the game.

70 pulls for an SSR, 120 for the rate-up

Two guarantees do two different jobs:

• 70 pulls guarantees an SSR on that banner. It does not, by itself, choose which SSR. It is the floor, not the target.
• 120 limited-pool pulls generate enough mint to buy the current rate-up character directly from the shop. This is the only route that removes the coin flip; it is a purchase, not a lucky pull.

Read those as a ladder. If any SSR improves your account, 70 is a natural stopping point on a banner whose other featured characters you can use. If you specifically want the rate-up, 120 is the honest budget, and stopping at 110 is the worst of both worlds: you have neither the guarantee nor the mint. The mint is tied to the current limited pool, so plan around the banner in front of you, not a future one.

Where Lingxu Coin comes from

Lingxu Coin is the everyday currency. The final-test sources are:

• Daily quests, including the daily commission loop.
• 7-day sign-in, which is a new-player track rather than a repeatable income.
• Combat tutorial completions.
• Ranked rewards by tier, from Qingying upward.
• Guide milestones as you complete the introductory objectives.

The Bizarre Commission loop is the largest repeatable piece: three runs a day at 30 stamina each comes to roughly 2,000 Lingxu Coin per week plus breakthrough materials. That is the number to plan around, because it means a standard-banner ten-pull is a weekly decision, not a daily one. The progression guide covers how to fit those commissions beside the other stamina gates.

Because Lingxu Coin is permanent and the standard pool is permanent, there is no deadline pressure here. Spend when a role gap is actually holding your account back, not because the counter is climbing.

Where Xuanhuang Yu comes from

Xuanhuang Yu is the scarce currency, and the sources are narrower:

• Competitive modes, which is the main repeatable source.
• Luotian Dajiao, the weekly trial that opens on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and pays Xuanhuang Yu alongside breakthrough materials and high-tier inscriptions.

That makes Luotian Dajiao a gacha chore even though it is a PvE mode. If you are saving for a limited rate-up and you skip the Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday windows, you are skipping your main income. The mode's three difficulties — preliminary, second round and final — are also where the high-tier inscription supply comes from, so the run pays twice.

Competitive play is the other half, and it is slower per hour. Treat Xuanhuang Yu as a savings account: decide which rate-up deserves it before you start, then let the balance build. Do not spend it on a banner just because the button is available.

Xuantan Coin and the season track

Xuantan Coin is the season-limited character currency. It is not a banner currency and it does not share a pity counter with either pool. Treat it as a separate track: it exists to exchange for characters within a season, and the season is the deadline. Check the season shop before the rotation ends, because a balance left on a closed season is the one currency mistake that cannot be fixed by playing more.

Keep the names straight. Lingxu Coin buys standard pulls, Xuanhuang Yu buys limited pulls, and Xuantan Coin handles season exchanges. Mixing them up is the most common cause of a "where did my currency go" post.

What is actually time-limited

Separate the permanent from the temporary before you spend:

• Permanent: the Lingxu Coin standard banner and its pity counter. They are not on a clock, so there is no reason to rush a standard pull.
• Time-limited: the Xuanhuang Yu limited banner, its current rate-up, and the 120-pull mint attached to that pool. When the banner rotates, the target changes.
• Time-limited: Xuantan Coin's season exchange.
• One-time: the 7-day sign-in track. It is a start-of-account bonus, not a renewable source.
• Scheduled: Luotian Dajiao on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The mode is permanent; the windows are not.

The practical takeaway is that only one of the two banners punishes delay. Standard pulls can wait for a roster gap; limited pulls should wait for a rate-up you have decided you want, and then be finished in one committed run.

A free-player spending plan

1. Build the starting trio first. Zhang Chulan, Feng Baobao and Wang Ye cover the story and the early PvE checks. Pulling for a fourth character before the first three have gear spreads the same resources thinner.
2. Use Lingxu Coin for gaps, not for excitement. If you lack a ranged or control option, the standard pool is the right place. If you do not, save.
3. Pick one limited rate-up and commit. Because pity is independent, splitting Xuanhuang Yu across banners is the single most expensive habit in the system.
4. Stop at 70 or go to 120. Seventy is a reasonable floor when any SSR helps. One hundred twenty is the only point where the rate-up is bought rather than hoped for.
5. Never pull on a limited banner you cannot finish. A 60-pull balance on a rotating banner is a donation unless you are content with the SSR floor.
6. Keep Xuantan Coin separate. Spend it inside its season, on the exchange you actually need, and do not count it toward either banner.

This plan assumes no purchases. The page deliberately does not price anything or recommend a spending tier; the numbers above are the same whether you are free-to-play or not, and the correct order does not change. If you want the rest of the account plan, the progression guide covers where the currencies sit beside gear, stamina and weekly gates.

Track the counters yourself. The banner UI shows the current pool, but the only number that matters is the one on the pool you intend to finish. A note reading "limited: 84, standard: 12" prevents the classic mistake of assuming pulls carry over. If a rate-up arrives with fewer than 120 pulls banked, the honest plan is to skip it and keep saving, not to gamble on the 70-pull floor.

The old "no gacha" claim, corrected

The correction matters for planning, not just for accuracy. A player who believes there is no gacha will not save Xuanhuang Yu, will not track pity, and will be surprised when a rate-up rotates. The systems described on this page are the final-test systems; if a future build changes them, check the date at the top of the page.

For the character side of those pulls, the roster overview explains who each rate-up actually is, and the artifact guide explains what to equip once you have them. Neither answer depends on how much you spend.