The Legend of Hei 2

The Legend of Hei 2

Year: 2025

Runtime: 2 h

Language: chinese

Directors: MTJJ, Jie Gu

Echo Score: 61

Budget: $10M

AnimationActionAdventureFantasy

A sudden assault breaks the delicate truce that has kept the spirit realm and humanity separate. Hei joins forces with Luye, the final pupil of his master Shifu Wuxian, to unravel a hidden plot that endangers both worlds and the sacred oath they have pledged to defend.

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A powerful yaojing named Master Dasong and the members of his Liushui Guild Hall were ambushed by human soldiers armed with advanced weaponry strong enough to kill several yaojing. While fending off the mercenaries, Master Dasong was confronted by someone he knew before he was promptly slain.

Two years have passed since the events of the previous movie. Xiaohei still lives with Wuxian, honing his skills in metal manipulation, relearning his ability over Domain after losing it, studying Mandarin, and enjoying travels with Wuxian. One day, Wuxian receives a summons to the Main Hall to see the elders of Yaojing Guild. On the way to the building, they are joined by Luye, yaojing and a former student of Wuxian. At the meeting, the elders question Wuxian about the attack on Liushui Guild Hall and his whereabouts. They have found evidence of bullets infused with Roumo-wood, a rare type of iron-hard wood imbued with spiritual energy which recently went missing from the Guild’s watch, along with the wood stolen from Liushui Guild Hall. They also found security footage showing someone who looks like Wuxian leading the attack. With the given evidence, the impossible strength required to defeat Master Dasong, and racial tensions between the Yaojing and the humans rise, suspicion falls on Wuxian. Wuxian denies the attack but is unable to prove it, but also theorizes that the true culprit’s motive could be to place suspicion on the strongest Enforcer in the guild to weaken their total forces. So Wuxian suggests that he be placed under watch by NeZha in the Main Hall since he is the only one to match his strength, while the rest of the guild investigates and finds the real culprit.

Luye and Xiaohei investigate on their own, but must be supervised by two members of the guild due to their relation to Wuxian, two bat yaojings named Jia and Yi. However, Luye manages to shake them off by teleporting to random locations before destroying the teleporter to the Dongqiao Guild Hall. Luye can detect residue of spiritual energy, where she sensed a trail of spiritual energy left by the Roumu-wood from Liushui Guild Hall. Following the trail, a yaojing named Nihuang attempts to ambush her. Giving chase, Xiaohei and Luye find out not only was Nihuang part of the attack on Liushui Guild Hall, but he also can shapeshift into other people, including Wuxian. They detain Nihuang and prepare to return to the Main Hall to clear Wuxian’s name.

Meanwhile, Wuxian hangs out in NeZha’s room within the Main Hall and plays video games with him all day, but suspicion on him rose due to Luye’s actions to destroy a teleporter to evade guild supervision. The Guild investigation has yet to find the culprit, but it managed to locate a military base of the humans that attacked Liushui Guild Hall, along with some of Roumu-wood. Chinan, one of the guild elders, personally leads an attack on the military base to retrieve the wood.

Luye and Xiaohei struggle to return to the Main Hall since the teleporter Luye destroyed has not yet been repaired. They have no choice but to board a plane to arrive the next day. They are joined by the Jia and Yi on the plane. Mid-flight, they are ambushed by other yaojings attempting to free Nihuang. They succeed in rescuing him while destroying the plane in the process. Luye had no choice but to let them flee as she worked with Xiaohei, Jia, Yi, and the human pilots to safely crash the plane in the nearby mountains. Jia and Yi have become too injured to follow Luye anymore, while she goes to pursue the culprits again. Xiaohei realizes that Luye’s actions to destroy the teleporter and book a flight were all to bait the culprits into attacking the plane to rescue Nihuang so that she could more easily track them. Xiaohei berates Luye for her unethical methods of putting the humans in harm’s way, but she views the humans with very little regard. She is more focused on trying to single-handedly bring down the leader who organized the attack on Liushui Guild Hall.

Meanwhile, the investigation into the attacked military base has revealed the location of a second military base holding the rest of the missing Roumu-wood. A few members of the guild arrived there first to construct a teleporter in the nearby mountains so that the entirety of the Yaojing Guild could launch a full-scale attack. However, they are shortly discovered and have to construct the teleporter while surviving an onslaught of human bombings. Wuxian overhears all the yaojing Enforcers gathering outside the Great Hall teleporter to prepare for the attack. Despite how risky and suspicious it is, Wuxian wants to take part in the attack to single-handedly storm the military base to prevent yaojing casualties. Chinan refuses Wuxian’s plan, so Wuxian forcibly stops all the Enforcers from passing through the newly connected teleporter. None of the Enforcers, Chinan included, can defeat Wuxian nor enter the teleporter, so NeZha has no choice but to step in. The battle between Wuxian and NeZha escalated to the point where their fight was causing damage to the teleporter, so Chinan reluctantly gives Wuxian permission to participate.

Luye eventually tracks Nihuang and his crew to an abandoned steel mill. Despite the abundance of metal being her favor as a metal-elementalist like Wuxian and Xiaohei, the culprits have set up a magic formation around the entire steel mill that prevents her from using her metal powers. While fending them off with kung-fu alone to destroy the different points of the magic formation, she is attacked by Lord Lingyao, one of the elders of the Yaojing Guild. While wielding Dasong’s Liushi Armor, Lingyao reveals himself to be the true mastermind behind the attack on Liushui Guild Hall, the stolen Roumu-wood, and equipping foreign mercenaries with anti-yaojing weaponry. Lingyao fears that the Guild’s complacency and integration with the rapidly evolving human technology will eventually lead to humans surpassing yaojing in strength, leading either to their extinction or subjugation. He wanted to frame Wuxian, since he is the only human Enforcer, but also stronger than most of the other Enforcers in the guild. By advancing human weaponry and attacking yaojings, Lingyao was hoping to escalate human and yaojing racial tension to the point where yaojings would approve of the destruction of human civilization. At the last minute, Xiaohei swoops in to help Luye. Realizing the situation, Xiaohei uses his unpolished Space manipulation powers to help Luye destroy the rest of the formation. Despite Luye being severely injured, they both managed to destroy the formation and amputate Lingyao. He concedes and surrenders willingly. The two are then caught in the blast of a magic seal that causes the mill to self-destruct. While they recover, Xiaohei confronts Luye on her principles, saying he will “side with the right side” should a war between the yaojings and humans break out, while Luye is firm to side with the yaojings no matter what.

The Enforcers of the Yaojing Guild pass through the teleporter to assist the yaojing in constructing the teleporter as they try to survive human military strikes. Wuxian storms the military base alone while the other yaojings watch, and he effortlessly gets back the Roumu wood (although the human soldiers confuse him with Nezha due to his t-shirt).

Time passes, and Lingyao is now in custody at the Great Hall. The Guild elders Chinan and Headmaster Yudi confront Lingyao on his actions, and the whereabouts of the last missing piece of Roumu wood not found at either the military base. Lingyao refuses to reveal its location and uses its absence and its possible human possession as a stalemate to ensure the yaojing maintain peace with the humans. While the Guild elders do not accept Lingyao’s principles, Lingyao points out the hypocrisy that the Elders kept his involvement and his crime a secret.

Wuxian, now cleared of wrongdoing, returns home with Xiaohei. Luye watched them be happy together and reflected on her childhood and her apprenticeship with Wuxian. Realizing that her past trauma with humans made her bitter and isolated from Wuxian, she is happy that Xiaohei can live a happy life. She parts with Wuxian, telling him to visit her sometime.

Last updated: September 03, 2026 at 01:43

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