I liked this movie very much, really. The scenes were just beautiful to watch, really beautiful, and the plot was very oriental-romantic. It reminded me of Reyheart, the way he almost destroys the world only for her love, not because she wants him to, she’s good, but because he wants to be with her and be able to protect her forever.
The fact that Wang Duo has an important role in this movie was fantastic, I loved it.
Details (as I watched it):
A Yin-Yang master teaches QingMing a protection spell, but the boy can’t do it. When the snake of evil appears, the master and all his apprentices fight him with three spirits, but only manage to seal him back into ice at great cost. A spirit sacrifices himself, while the master gets hit and the snake’s venom can’t be cured.
The body of the snake is in the Imperial City; 300 years ago the four lands (South land, East islands, West region and North city, or something like that) locked it in there, putting up four statues to protect the world, and now the master tells Qinming that he must go to the east as the yin-yang master… (wait, why him? where are the others? they could do the protection spell, he couldn’t, why is he the new master?)
Anyway, at the imperial city there’s an old empress and a young princess who rumours say manipulates the empress a she likes, maybe even using dark magic.
Qingming is there with the other masters; Boya is the only one dressed as a warrior with a sword, Qingming uses spells and his fan, then there’s a girl and there’s He (Wang Duo !!!)
Boya hates demons and would like to kill them all, but Qingming uses them as his guardians, because not all demons are evil, like his butterfly girl who only eats honey.
I think they have to kill demons to gather this life-energy-balls or something, to feed the protective statues, but Qingming doesn’t seem in a hurry to do that.
I think master He Shouyie is not a man but a guardian spirit, and now that his master is dead he doesn’t have long to live? But since the body of the snake is locked into the empress body, they have to protect her at all cost (this one I think I understand, because its body is immortal, so they can’t kill it, only imprison it, and if she dies it gets released )
Qingming tells Boya they are stupid to kill so many and do so much work, he wishes to kill one really bad and be done with it.
A demon of obsessions attacks the princess, meaning she’s quite obsessed, and Qingming saves her and feeds that demon to the statue, and that one alone is enough to wake the guardian statue.
Then the girl master is killed by the hair demon that already killed a master in there. Before dying she said it was the princess, so Qingming thinks that she’s the culprit, that she wants to free the snake, while he believes that He can’t do that because of his link with his old master, but I heard He telling the princess that he must kill the others and then free the snake.
Boya thinks it’s He Shouyie, while Qingming thinks it’s the princess, so they test them separately, and find out that they are working together, the princess is actually the empress, and He Shouyie didn’t betray her but is helping her. Now Boya and Qingming confront them, and the princess admits everything. A long time ago she ate the flesh of a siren to become immortal, so that she could contain the snake forever, but she became a prisoner herself. She changed her identity lots of times, a florist, a singer, until the emperor chose her and when he died she became empress then she became the princess. She keeps losing everyone she loves, so now she wants the snake’s immortality because He Shouyie is dying.
The snake comes out of her body and enters He Shouyie’s, who instantly heals, but it’s not enough. They free the snake who eats people’s desires and becomes huge, gigantic, and He Shouoyie plans to leave the city with the princess, and wander the world, but she’s touched by people’s sufferings and instead choses to die with him. They get eaten by the snake but are not dead, somehow He Shouyie is part of the snake now and controls lots of power. Qingming calls three spirits, one of them the demon he saved from Boya the first time they met, and they fight but it’s not enough because the four guardian statues were not awaken, He Shouyie should have taken care of the fourth but he didn’t, so Boya wakes it with his own blood becoming another spirit guardian or something. He’s now like a winged spirit who flies to fight him.
So, uhm… He Shouyie is actually Zhongxing, the late yin-yang master. He was in love with the princess, and she loved him, and because of this he left, because she had the snake in her (who would have fed on her emotions?) and he went to teach Qingming. Before leaving, he create a paper guardian with his feelings and the order to protect her forever. To fullfill her wish to see him, He Shouyie became Zhongxing and became obsessed with his task, to protect her forever, and to do it forever he needed to become immortal.
Now she sees what is happening, confronts her sadness at knowing that Zhongxing is dead, and stops him by cutting her throat. He’s half defeated by the Boya-spirit, but launches a last attack, and Qingming finally manages the protection spell to protect real-Boya, becoming a true master, and defeats him. He Shouyie dies after grabbing Fangyue’s hand (the princess), and for now the snake has been stopped, but Qingming and Boya know that it might come back somewhere in the world, maybe in a few decades, and then they’ll fight together again.
A heartfelt goodbye, Boya stays behind while Qingming goes away.
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