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Legend of the Demigods (2008)
Legend of the Demigods is a TVB fantasy-adventure-comedy TV series starring Sunny Chan, Linda Chung, Benny Chan, Halina Tam, Stephen Au, Nancy Wu and Charmaine Li. The ending theme song Fat Sai is performed by Linda Chung and can be found in the Lady in Red album. It was first broadcast in August 2008.
Writing:
- Lee Tim-sing
Release Date:
Mon, Aug 25, 2008
Country: HK
Language: Cn
Runtime: 45
Country: HK
Language: Cn
Runtime: 45
Season 1:
In the morning, GAI SUN-CHI’s daughter GAI CHOI-CHI encounters a sick old beggar. Kindhearted CHOI brings him to her parents for cure. SUN used to offer free treatment in the town, and people call him “Generous Doctor”. A cured patient sends CHOI a pearl. CHOI crushes the pearl into powder and give it to her best childhood friend TSEUNG SIN, Head of County TSEUNG KAM’s daughter. SIN who is born ugly wants to be beautiful, she asks CHOI to go with her together to find the magic fairy in the Smoke Cloud Cave for help. After many efforts and struggles, they are able to meet the fairy at last. In order to make her dream come true, the fairy needs SIN to sacrifice the most precious thing that she possessed. SIN sacrifices her friendship with CHOI. She becomes a beautiful woman. She is asked by the fairy to turn CHOI into an ugly woman… After things have been settled, CHOI and her family visit her mother's grave……
SIN entices TONG into wresting the jade pendant that HEI wants to send to KAM. HEI is going to marry SIN and the jade pendant is the betrothal gift. HEI is pushed into the river by TONG. CHOI risks her life to save HEI. After the discussion with GRANNY HEADBOARD, MOM MONG-YAU decides to break the curse that suppresses the magic air in her inner body, and split her inner body into two halves and then transmit one into CHOI’s body to protect her. Fortunately, YAU appears in time to rescue CHOI. Upon recovery, CHOI discovers that she got superpower. YAU tells CHOI about how the love story began between SUN and herself. HEI wants to rebuild confidence and decides to stay in the town. Meanwhile, he is under SUN’s treatment for his serious sleeping sickness. As SIN wants HEI to leave, TONG entices HEI into emptying the whole bottle of drugs, and hence causes ultimate uplift of HEI’s strength…
CHOI endangers herself when she is practicing flying. Fortunately, she is rescued by YAU again. She begs YAU for teaching her magic. CHOI is able to overcome all the challenges at last and get the magic ivy for her own use. TONG seeks townsmen’s efforts in making a golden belt for WONG TAI-SIN. WONG TAI-SIN is delighted to receive the gift on his birthday. TONG is giddy that CHOI is joining the celebrations in the WONG TAI-SIN temple, but SIN is displeased with this. CHOI tells TONG’s sister SHEK KAM-YIN that LAU NGAI, the man YIN adores, is now in CHOI’s medicine shop. YIN’s mother pretends that she is sick so that YIN goes to the medicine shop with her together. While WONG TAI-SIN is drunk with joy, the Supreme Lord appears to tell him the fact that TONG has become a villain. WONG TAI-SIN suddenly remembers he has forgotten about the last wish of HEI’s mother before she died……
Monster GARUDA attempts to kill CHOI. HEI drowses when he is rescuing CHOI. He stabs his thigh with his sword. The spirit of SWORD hidden in the Magenta Sword is thus awakened by HEI’s blood. As the spirit of SWORD attaches itself to HEI’s body, GARUDA backs off. YIN is anxious to meet NGAI, she seeks help from CHOI. YIN and NGAI want to run away. TONG appears to stop them and sends NGAI to the police. CHOI splits up with TONG. HEI promises SWORD to help him find his wife MO CHE. TONG raids NGAI’s farms and takes a golden toad home that he finds in NGAI’s premise. It turns out that the toad is a monster. It discharges small monsters invade TONG’s family members at midnight. NGAI is banished, fortunately, he is rescued by CHOI and HEI.
YIN is extremely grateful when CHOI tells her that NGAI is safe. Bad things happen to TONG’s family one after another. Firstly, family members contracted an unknown disease, and second, the treasury collapses and all the money has gone. Townsmen beat TONG badly when they find he becomes powerless. At this moment, GRAND WIZARD appears and grants TONG a magic mirror and a sigil. With the magic tools, TONG realizes that his family is being invaded by monster. After many efforts, TONG succeeds in gaining the help from GRAND WIZARD and the other guardians to root out the monster. At the same time, TONG encounters SUN and CHOI who are coming to his home to cure YIN. GRAND WIZARD defeats the monster successfully and cures TONG’s family members. CHOI tries in vain to explore HEI’s potentials further. CHOI’s act, however, leads GARUDA out. GRAND WIZARD appears again and scares GARUDA away……
GRAND WIZARD suddenly appears in front of GARUDA. Surprisingly, GARUDA bends her knees before GRAND WIZARD. It turns out that GARUDA is GRAND WIZARD’s subordinate. GRAND WIZARD’s coming is all because of GARUDA’s report about the tracking of magic air. GARUDA discovers there is magic air somewhere in the town. The guardians of the town, EARTH GOD, GRANNY HEADBOARD, DAY GODDESS, and NIGHT GOD go the places where GRAND WIZARD has been to, to investigate about her. However, they cannot find out any clues about her true identity. GRAND WIZARD approaches them, she gives them nectar and attempts to associate with them. One day, a villager suffers from abdominal swelling. Other villagers try in vain to find GRAND WIZARD for help. Then they turn to SUN for help instead, but SUN is unable to find a cure this time. YAU risks revealing her magic power to offer drug cure……
YAU appears in original form after drinking tea that mixed with drug. GRAND WIZARD now reveals herself and casts magical curse at SUN, transforming him into a pig-monster. To ensure GRAND WIZARD’s plan is being carried out smoothly, GARUDA surrounds the demigods with the air of the Cyan-blade Sword. SWORD attaches himself to HEI’s body and starts fighting using the Magenta Sword. The Magenta Sword and the Cyan-blade Sword interact with each other, at the same time, GARUDA and HEI have unexplainable feeling when their gazes meet. TONG mobilizes the villagers and organizes a team to hunt the pig-monster down. SIN attempts to mobilize the villagers to burn CHOI to death. HEI blames everyone, he is however being described as devil’s companion. YIN plans to help CHOI flee at night. WOLF appears unexpectedly and attempts to kidnap YIN. CHOI drives WOLF off and finally eliminates people's misunderstanding about her……
While HEI is sleeping, CHOI and TONG head to HEI's old house, ANs Mansion. Strange things happen in the middle of the night, but CHOI thinks they are terribly suspicious. The next day, strange things still happen one after another. The trio feels disturbed and frustrated, and starts wondering if there is monster inside the wood pillar. It turns out that it is about the grudge between the ANs and LAIs after their investigation. LAI CHUNG reveals to HEI the reason why he has got sleeping sickness. Soon after, the two families reconcile. The Magenta Sword goes missing. After the sleeping sickness curse has been removed, HEI cleans his old mansion. At the same time, GARUDA arrives. GARUDA is defeated by the magic lamp. CHOI attempts to rescue YAU using the magic lamp, but the magic lamp and TONG go missing together. CHOI and HEI are startled to see TONG on a boat holding the lamp and the Magenta Sword, and leaving……
YUK helps TONG restoring consciousness with a pellet and teaches him the way to remove the curse completely. YUK says he hopes to help the trio to get through the challenges lie ahead, and hints that the only way to achieve final success is by united power. GRANNY HEADBOARD arrives to stop the trio and tells them YIN becomes seriously ill because she misses NGAI so much. At this time, TONG reveals it was the effect of the curse that he sent someone to kill NGAI, and NGAI fell into a river accidentally. NGAI did not die, he encounters powerless DRAGON GIRL. At this time, a strange wind comes up all of a sudden...NGAI promises to deliver a letter to DRAGON KING for her. Along the way to the East Sea, he meets CHOI and her friends. Then, he tells everyone about what has happened to him. The inn they stay is a cheating inn……
The group is trapped in RIVER's maze. Under the effect of the curse, TONG plots to cause CHOI ordering HEI to leave. He even hands NGAI over in exchange for the way to get out of the maze. Fortunately, HEI, who is attached with SWORD, is there to help. Through a mediumistic jade, RIVER is happy to see the conflicts between the friends. HEI gets the solving clues after his careful study of the stars at night and finally cracks the maze. At the same time, GARUDA arrives, the Cyan-blade Sword and the Magenta Sword meet and interact with each other, resulting in a harmony force that coordinates the two swords well together. GARUDA interrogates HEI about the origin of the Magenta Sword, HEI wants to escape, he jumps off a cliff, thus faces an ensuing attack by a big spider. TONG thinks he can find the Dragon Palace more easily by luring the shrimp and the crab knights……
DRAGON KING is touched by CHOI’s care about her family, so he has people’s death sentence remitted. HEI gets trapped by Poison Spider’s capture silk. SWORD is depressed as he has no way to free HEI. DRAGON KING rescues DRAGON GIRL successfully. Shortly after, he chooses NGAI as the spouse for his daughter. However, NGAI makes DRAGON KING’s blood boil when he speaks frankly that he will marry no one but YIN. DRAGON GIRL runs away with everyone and brings with her the magic icy ball. In rage, DRAGON KING sends knights Five Lakes and Four Seas to find his daughter and the magic icy ball. DRAGON KING is grateful for CHOI’s effort to bring reconciliation between him and his daughter. He grants CHOI the magic icy ball as the compliment. CHOI becomes his goddaughter and is granted the authority to administer Grand Lake……
SWORD mistakenly believes CHOI is MO CHE when he hears CHOI singing. He is suspicious about GARUDA's identity. People argue over the release of GARUDA. Finally they decide to let BIRD carry injured GARUDA leaving. CHOI, TONG, and HEI return to the town and discover SIN is being controlled under the Basilisk Curse. NGAI recovers completely after medication and YIN's care. TONG is delighted to know about it and starts planning the wedding for them. SWORD coaches HEI on sword skill. It annoys him to due with HEI’s stubbornness. At the same time, CHOI arrives, who wants to practice sword skill with HEI together. During the practice, SWORD, in the state of depending on HEI’s body, is embarrassed when CHOI touches HEI accidentally. Joy fills everyone’s heart on YIN and NGAI’s wedding day. DRAGON GIRL attends the wedding party, but soon she is worried when she finds YIN looks strange……
It turns out that YIN almost died a month ago. She approached DRAGON GIRL for help, she wanted to get married. She was able to live longer finally after the aid of DRAGON GIRL’s scale. TONG anxiously asks the demigods to save his sister, yet he is told that YIN has been taken away by ghost guards already. He goes crazy and looks everywhere for ways to enter Hell. CHOI brings a woman back home who has scary scars on her face. She is YAU’s twin sister, called YING BIK, also a magic herb belongs to the Supreme Lord. CHOI begs BIK for help to get the Life and Death Note from Hell. On the night that YIN’s spirit is returning, everyone is busy catching insects that are believed to have attached with YIN’s spirit. It turns out that it is CHOI and BIK’s plan. YIN is not alive anymore, it was only the effect of DRAGON GIRL’s scale to prolong her life. HEI runs away as he feels inferior, meanwhile, GRAND WIZARD appears…
It turns out that the emergence of GRAND WIZARD is a plan of SWORD, with which he hopes to awaken HEI’s potential. SWORD leaves as he has failed to achieve it. YUK curses at SWORD allowing him to appear in human form for forty-nine days. SWORD recalls the moments he and CHE have spent together. Surprisingly, GARUDA who is waiting there for a long time, can tell those past events. SWORD is suddenly attacked by GARUDA when they are holding each other, and is then trapped in a bottle gourd. It turns out that it is a plot by GRAND WIZARD to set SWORD up. Eventually, GRAND WIZARD reveals that CHE is an enchanted puppet follower under her control. The one SWORD has been waiting for as long as four hundred years is no one but GARUDA. CHOI accompanies TONG in finding HEI. In a chase, HEI accidentally falls into water. He almost died. According to SAM, SWORD is taken away by GARUDA to Deity Castle. A worried HEI turns to YUK for help……
SAM has a heart of sympathy that he gives up finding the replacement to gain his life back, and is so willingly to remain as the water ghost. JUDGE LUK is touched by his compassion. Although LUK does not succeed in giving SAM a new life, he helps SAM become TOWN GOD. All the demigods come to congratulate the newly appointed TOWN GOD. CHOI is told that the town has become an evil town. GARUDA is perturbed after SWORD has become an Evil Commander. Things happened between her and SWORD four hundred years ago now flash across her mind. CHOI is attacked by SIN as she rushes back to the town to rescue SUN. Fortunately, SAM arrives just in time to save CHOI and SUN. GARUDA forces YUK to reveal her true identity. She is cursed to visualize her past. She cannot accept at all what she has seen and tends to believe that it is indeed a mischief. TONG asks YUK for help to cure his hand injury……
In appreciation, TONG is awarded the title of ROCK KING for his effort to save the town, and enjoys the ensuing wealth. He feels so disgusted when he looks at himself in the mirror. It turns out that it is the curse YUK uses to test TONG's ability to control his desire. CHOI feels sudden pain in heart. While GRAND WIZARD is telling her about the happenings in the town, tears drop from YAU's eyes. It stuns GRAND WIZARD when she sees tears of blood. GARUDA heads back to the forbidden area in Deity Castle, and struggles whether or not to find out her true identity. YUK senses the imminent arrival of GRAND WIZARD. Simultaneously, he has a plan. Although GRAND WIZARD has fallen into the trap, the confrontation consumes YUK a great deal of his inner body……
Knowing that SWORD is apathetic about herself, GARUDA asks GRAND WIZARD to restore the original her that without conscience. HEI recovers and gets stronger power after removal of poison from his body. Heated argument arises among the group about DREAM GOD. To overcome the noise, CHOI chants the magic spell; to her surprise, her magic ivy comes alive thereafter. By magic spell, wind and rain are under CHOI's control. Poison remained in HEI's body continues to affect him, while in thunderstorm he will appear in the form of a vampire. YUK finds out the strategic time to assault Deity Castle, and everyone is ready for the mission. HEI, on the one hand, attempts to help CHOI and TONG getting into the castle to rescue YAU using decoys, while he confronts SWORD on the other hand. SWORD regains consciousness right after HEI's blood is spilt on him……
CHOI destroys Soul Abyss and saves YAU. Nevertheless, YAU is swallowed by GRAND WIZARD thereafter and is forced to safeguard GRAND WIZARD from within. SWORD, GARUDA, the Magenta Sword, and the Cyan-blade Sword are cast into a steel sphere. TONG and HEI returns to the town, while YIN and the others are back at the same time. YUK’s potion works on the villagers well, curses are removed. The poison inside HEI's body takes effect again, TONG limits HEI's activity within the Universal Formation. Unexpectedly, BIRD destroys the Universal Formation accidentally. BIRD calls HEI "Master" thereafter. HEI bites TONG accidentally in a scrimmage. GRAND WIZARD feeds on human blood to maintain her power, she threatens to kill YAU if CHOI...
DRAGON GIRL feels guilty and leaves soon after the exposure of her use of YIN's corpse to marry NGAI. NGAI feels so sad when he recalls memories of times spent with DRAGON GIRL. GRAND WIZARD's followers attempt to attack a weakened GRAND WIZARD, they are however subdued by CHOI with her magic ivy. GRAND WIZARD pretends to allow CHOI to see YAU, and all she wants is to collect YAU’s tears. CHOI uses half of her inner body to save an over trained GRAND WIZARD. CHOI’s contribution makes GRAND WIZARD feeling warm. Knowing that both of them have fallen in love with CHOI at the same time, TONG and HEI agree on a conclusion that the one who first saves YAU and CHOI from Deity Castle will be CHOI’s Mr. Right. CHOI sacrifices her own freedom in order to free YAU, she becomes GRAND WIZARD’s follower...
In order to save CHOI, TONG and HEI become GRAND WIZARD's follower, they tell her that they are willing to take any challenges. Realizing that they both love CHOI, GRAND WIZARD demands to drink their blood to speed up her recovery. CHOI is angry and anguished when she comes to know that they sacrifice their blood to save her. GRAND WIZARD becomes even more powerful than before. To please CHOI, she releases the conscience of SIN. TONG betrays YUK out of jealousy over HEI, he plots revenge against YUK and goes to find YUK together with GRAND WIZARD. The killing of YUK does not bring GRAND WIZARD any sense of pleasure at all. Soon after, GRAND WIZARD finds out it is a scheme...
Knowing that TONG and HEI are doing fine, CHOI is delighted, but feels sad at the same time as she cannot reveal her true identity even though she is standing right in front of them. Returning to the town, CHOI is startled by her funeral. In order to stay closer together with her family, she pretends that she is a distant relative of NGAI. HEI is extremely depressed after losing CHOI. CHOI does whatever she can to encourage him. She urges the villagers to renovate the Wong Tai Sin Temple, however, gets turned down and turned away. GRAND WIZARD is not happy to see a cheerful CHOI. So, she tells TONG and HEI the truth that CHOI is still alive. Then, she promises to set her free if they are willing to sacrifice their consciences in exchange for her freedom. CHOI inadvertently discloses the cause of the Aging Curse, and the second part of the curse is triggered to execute thereafter. People wish to donate their lives to CHOI after they have learnt that CHOI is dying soon.
GRAND WIZARD transforms the villagers in to pig monsters. The demigods turn to Wong Tai Sin for help. Aided by demigods, HEI and TONG steal the magic pellets successfully and give them to the villagers. Regrettably, the pellets are merely sufficient for the villagers, leaving no more for CHOI. Knowing that her life is coming to an end very soon, CHOI wants to marry HEI. CHOI, looks very old and weak, tries very hard to finish the wedding ceremony. Afterwards, she tells HEI all of her dreams, and hopes he will accomplish them one by one for her. Right after she has finished her words, she faints and falls into HEI’s arms. A sudden change in the weather signals GRAND WIZARD’s imminent arrival. Enraged, she attacks CHOI, HEI, and TONG as she knows that CHOI’s curse has been removed...
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