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Leading his force of knights home from battle, General Wang (Chen Kun) saves

a beautiful girl, Mei-ling (Zhou Xun) from a team of bandits. They bring her

back to their hometown of JiangDu, and despite the onset of brutal murders

that accompany her arrival, nobody suspects her as the killer. The deaths

are not only mysterious but barbaric as well and their hearts ripped out.

The killer is in fact a Lizard Legend named Yi (Qi Yuwu), but it is for

Mei-ling he commits these acts for, as she is a Fox Legend who needs to eat

the hearts to stay in human form. Only General Wang¹s wife, Pei-rong (Zhao

Wei) attempts to reveal her secret but the town attributes her declaration

as jealous rantings. Meanwhile, her former lover, Er-long (Donnie Yen), and

Exorcist (Sun Li) arrive to expel Mei-ling, and the fight between human and

legends begins…