Nothing special, really. Not bad, no, by all means it’s entertaining, but the first one was much better, to me. The other was romantic/sentimental, with a bit of mystery and awesome battles, while this one has odd-looking monsters, very few words of loyalty that are neither here or there, and a final battle between two characters who re-enter the scene after becoming super-mega-sayan or something like that.
It is rather silly in many moments, kind of ridicule on purpose, like when the guards run away, or the ferrets playing-fighting, or the butt-shaking dance or whatever the monsters were doing, or when the huge hand-monster hits him like a volleyball.
It was well done, though. I liked the actress playing the snow queen, she was cool. The effects were good.
Story:
Seven years ago, QingMing was found among lots of corpses of his fellow… yin yang masters? Even though they were kids? Lots of masters? Quite easy to become masters around here, apparently… anyway, they were all there to guard a special stone, very dangerous for some reason. Everyone believes he did it, tried to steal it and killed all the others for it, and unable to successfully defend himself, he fled. He had always been sort of ‘part monster’, so everyone easily judged him guilty. Chief Baini doesn’t want to, but she’s alone in that.
Now: Imperial guard Boya is attacked on the road by some ferret-monsters (meaning they are not human, they belong to the other world of ‘monsters’, but they aren’t either ugly or evil). QingMing also appears, and all together they rob Boya of all the imperial tributes he was supposed to guard. The rest of the imperial guard fled quite early, shame on them! Because he lost it all, he is stripped of his rank (I think, but he keeps calling himself a guard) and forced to get it back or else.
So he’s very determined to find this thief and get it all back.
Qingming lives in a nice little heaven for monsters that he took as familiars, meaning they fight and die together, never betraying each other, but most of all these monsters have a safe place to stay and will never become evil because they are familiars. Or so they say. But when a black-winged monster sent by the snow queen steals the red stone and, hit by Baini’s arrow, lands near the ferrets, one of them swallows the stone instead of giving it back (they really like their shiny things) he becomes contaminated. Qingming doesn’t know right away what he has inside (I think) but locks him away with a spell nonetheless.
Baini and her people now hunt him down believing he betrayed them and stole it. They also fight over a special sword that should be dangerous to monsters.
Boya and a girl obsessed with serving Qingming find him and Boya ends up with the sword by accident. Qingming gets it back when all the monsters attack them to get it back, and Baini is injured protecting him and he saves her life bringing her to his house. Boya frees the ferret from the spell, because he’s an idiot, so Qingming has to kill him with the sword and Baini gets the stone back. She goes away but is attacked by the snow queen. Qingming arrives to help her after all her men are defeated - dead, all of them. He already told her that he didn’t kill the others seven years before, it was the snow queen, and he’s been searching for her, and now he follows her to fight her and he kills her - quite funnily in a creepy sort of way she starts speaking and revealing all after he cut her throat: she says she did it all to serve her master, yin yang master Cimu that he thought had died back then, but he didn’t. He orchestrated the whole thing to get the stone, but being human he couldn’t touch it back then so she took him away leaving the stone behind. Now Cimu attacks Baini and gets the stone and it goes inside him making him extra strong and half-monster. He releases the power of the stone contaminating all monsters around, sending them to attack Qingming’s place. All the familiars together fight to keep them back.
Qingming tries to stop him, but he’s more powerful than the sword, breaking the stone instead of dying after he stabs him. Everyone thinks Qingming has died, but the soul of the evil serpent with nine heads offers him to join him to get his powers. This Xianglu is the same that kept talking to him when he was younger, and sort of influenced Cimu, although not entirely its fault. Cimu himself says that he started thinking about power when he saw how much power a half-monster like Qingming had, and started craving that power for himself.
So, what I understood is that Qingming accepted Xianglu as his familiar and the spirit sort of got into him granting him immense power, so he started flying around and he fought Cimu and his huge hand-monster, and somehow defeated him, but the fight wasn’t very captivating to me.
After he won, he released everyone from the familiar-bond and went away. Boya was declared the hero that saved everyone from the monsters. The red stone is no more because after taking it out of Cimu’s body Qingming destroyed it crushing it in his hand like nothing.
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