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That is really not a bad thing at all in this case, as the high-flying action, dreamy mysticism, and astonishing special effects are all just as good (if not better) than in the original. If you enjoyed either of the previous entries in the A CHINESE GHOST STORY trilogy, you certainly will not be disappointed in the third, as the final film is a virtual remake of the original, with only slight variations played on each of the characters. A naive young monk falls under the spell of the beautiful Lotus after spending the night in the temple, and the two team with a young swordsman to defeat the evil once more. He finds Lotus hiding under a pile of rocks, safe from the sun, and Lotus tells Shi Fang that her spirit will follow him when he takes her urn of ashes away from that place.It has been 100 years since Ning and the Taoist priest Yin defeated the ancient tree demon, but as legend foretold, the evil spirit has returned to the Orchid Temple along with its harem of ghostly slaves to trap the souls of weary travellers. Shi Fang thinks Lotus may have been killed by the sunlight, and starts looking for her. In the end, the Black Mountain Demon is killed by sunlight, and the sky clears. Lotus then takes Shi Fang up to the sky above the dark clouds so that Shi Fang can use his golden body to channel the power of the Buddha to break the demon's barrier of darkness so the sunlight can re-enter the earth.
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Master Bai Yun then casts a spell on Shi Fang and covers his body with his own blood, which has taken on a golden colour because of his accumulated spiritual energy. He summons high pillars to block their escape route and darkens the sky so the sunlight cannot shine on earth. However, after the Tree Demon's destruction the Black Mountain Demon takes up the pursuit of Yin, Shi Fang, Master Bai Yun and Lotus. Though he disapproves of his disciple's relationship with the ghost, the master helps to save Lotus as well. Yin and the master do battle with the Tree Demon using Taoist and Buddhist supernatural skills together, destroying it. Shi Fang enlists Yin to help rescue his master, and feels he must also help Lotus by recovering her urn. In the ensuing battle with the Tree Demon, the master himself is captured. When the Tree Demon attempts to take Shi Fang, the master intervenes and uses his staff to transport his disciple to safety. Being rivals for the favor of the Tree Demon, Butterfly plots to capture the monk and expose her sister's betrayal. However, another ghost Butterfly becomes suspicious of her sister Lotus. Over the next few nights, Shi Fang is visited by Lotus again and the two become fond of each other. Despite this, he lets Lotus go out of compassion before his master comes back. Lotus tries to seduce him many times the first night, but after he finds out she is a ghost she attempts to kill him on orders from the tree demon but he saves himself by reciting mantras repelling her. The tree demon knows of the residing monks and tell a female ghost Lotus to go and seduce Shi fang. While meditating, the monks hear the commotion and master Bai Yun goes to investigate telling Shi fang to stay in the temple.
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The bandits then are captured by the tree demon and are all killed. As the bandits run off they hear female ghosts singing and mistake them to be living humans. As the bandits make a move on them, one of them trips over a corpse arm and mistakes it for a ghost tripping him and they all run off scared since Lotus Temple was rumored to be haunted. Unknown to the monks, they were followed by bandits from town. Beset by the thieves and ne'er-do-wells in the villages, the monks go to spend the night at the local temple, which is none other than the Orchid Temple of the first film.
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On their travels they meet the relatively honorable mercenary Taoist Yin (It is revealed later that he was named after the Taoist swordsman Yin from the first movie and had even been rejected by him when he asked to be his student.) When talking to a merchant, Yin accidentally cuts the roof off Shi fang’s backpack revealing the golden Buddha statue. The film starts with a flashback to the first film with Taoist Yin sealing away the tree demon, but tells the scholar Ning Tsai Shen that it will reawaken in 100 years.įast forward 100 years later, two Buddhist monks master Bai Yun and his inept disciple Shi Fang are transporting a golden idol of Buddha.