But the Snow Queen is out to stop her reaching Pingjing city, as is her master, Cimu, who is still alive. Still not entirely believing him, Baini leaves, taking the Scale Stone with her, and vows to return. Qingming tells the still angry Baini his version of events seven years earlier. He fights his way out and, with Yuan Boya and Shen Le, arrives back in his forest retreat, along with Baini who’s been wounded. When Qingming is given the Tushan Sword, he finds members of the Yinyang Bureau, led by Baini, lying in waiting. In return, Qingming promises Haifangzhu two live humans – Yuan Boya and Shen Le – for his public gladiatorial games. Qingming is in the city to ask Haifangzhu for the powerful Tushan Sword 涂山剑 that once killed the Demon Emperor and was then stolen from the Yinyang Bureau. Shen Le guides Yuan Boya to the Demon Realm, and to its mountain capital administered by Haifangzhu (Sun Honglei, voice). Yuan Boya visits Yanyan Le (Zhang Zixian), a sorcerer in the city, to get help and ends up being accompanied by his pesky young female disciple, Shen Le (Shen Yue), an orphan. The head of the Capital Guard gives Yuan Boya three days to retrieve the emperor’s stolen offerings from Qingming or face personal disgrace and ruin. Baini, now a senior minister, defends Qingming publicly but privately swears at the grave of Cimu to punish him for being a traitor.
Bureau elder Xican (Zhang Shuangli) blames Qingming for the forest attack. Meanwhile, back in the city some raven demons – sent by the Snow Queen – break into the Yinyang Bureau and steal the Scale Stone. The convoy is attacked by Qingming’s animal friends, including a group of ferrets, with whom he lives in the forest along with two benign demons, Peach Blossom Spirit (Wang Likun) and Eight Colours (Wang Yueyi), who answer to him. Seven years later Yuan Boya (Qu Chuxiao), a captain in the Capital Guard, leads a small detachment of soldiers to present the emperor’s offerings during the Ghost Festival. Qingming is defended in front of the elders by his childhood friend Baini (Zhou Xun), who is training to be a Yingyang Bureau minister. Before he flees, Qingming claims the real murderer was a captured demon, the Snow Queen (Wang Zixuan), who had broken out of the Sealing Chamber. Qingming (Chen Kun) – a half-human, half-demon member of the Yinyang Bureau of Daoist masters whose job is to rid the world of evil demons – is accused of killing a fellow young master and best friend, Cimu (Chen Weiting), and trying to steal the Scale Stone that protects the city from the evil serpent Xiangliu. VFX-laden costume fantasy with lots of cute animals brings nothing fresh to the table.Īncient China, Pingjing city.
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