However, this was stripped away from him due to bribery and he committed suicide due to the injustice. Subsequent to her departure, Kui took part in the imperial exams and obtained the highest honours. However, she was heartbroken when Kui said that humans and demons do not belong together, and left him to return to Hell. Three years prior, a snow demon named "Little Snow," stumbled upon a younger Kui in an effort to seduce him, but was soon smitten with him herself and lost some of her zeal for revenge. After Diaoxian's betrayal led to the Demon King and his followers being turned into demons and sent to Hell as Diaoxian sought to hide his crimes from the other gods the Demon King sought to take advantage of a date when the realms were close by and reincarnations occurred as his big chance to win redemption for his clan by using the Dark Crystal to expose Diaoxian. The current resident "Demon King" in the realm of Hell nearest to the city of Hu is revealed to have once been one of Diaoxian's pawns, much like Kui is presently. With it, he seeks to overthrow the pantheon of gods and rewrite all reality - even if he has to eradicate Hell and erase the souls of all the innocent in Hu to make that possible. Diaoxian wins the trust of Hu's residents in order to deceive them and the other gods into not noticing his real plans for wishing to steal away from Hell one of its most prized treasures: the Dark Crystal. Zhong Kui, a local scholar, is manipulated by Diaoxian into becoming his most powerful experiment yet: a pseudo-demon capable of more effectively slaying demons with. It is later revealed that not every demon in Hell is deserving of their fate nor their status, and that the lesser ones want redemption for themselves rather than harm to humanity, but must play along to avoid Diaoxian's zealot demon-slayers. He assumes control over the city of Hu, getting the locals to worship his every word. To reclaim what he had lost, he will have to traverse Earth, Heaven, and Hell to find answers.Īfter achieving lesser godhood, Zhang Diaoxian decides that isn't enough. Kui begins to question his true allegiance, and discovers that nothing is what it seems. Summary Ĭhinese anti-hero Zhong Kui is set up by deity Zhang Diaoxian to steal a supremely powerful gem- known as "the Dark Crystal"- and purge the Chinese city of Hu from demons, until he discovers that his lost love Snow Girl has also been consigned to Hell. The film was released on February 19, 2015. Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal (Chinese: 钟馗伏魔:雪妖魔灵 sometimes marketed in the US as simply Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal) is a 2015 3D fantasy action adventure film directed by Peter Pau and Zhao Tianyu and starring Chen Kun, Li Bingbing, Winston Chao, Yang Zishan, Bao Bei'er, and Jike Junyi.
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