Qing Ming (The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity)

Qing Ming is a Yin-Yang Master who travels to the Imperial City on his master’s orders to trap the Evil Serpent, sealed within the body of the Empress. He is portrayed by Mark Chao.

Throughout The Yin-Yang Master: Dream Of Eternity
He travels to The Capital on his master’s orders to trap the Evil Serpent for good. Arriving he and Bo Ya immediately get off on the wrong foot over their opposing view of demons, when he tries to protect Killing Stone. Later Killing Stone asks him to repay he by being his Spirit Guardian.

When Master Hongruo is killed in his sleep by the Hair Demon, The Empress orders the Princess to investigate Master Hongruo's death and catch the killer, and instates the Imperial Priest He Shouyue as Master Hongruo’s replacement. He find out using telepathy with Bo Ya that The Empress body is a vessel to contain the Evil Serpent. Back at the Imperial City accuse each other of killing Master Hongruo. In the morning Bo Ya tries to kill his Spirit Guardian Honeybug who was serving him tea. He then tell Bo Ya that not every demons kill and that his mother was a fox demon. In the night the other thee Master capture demons, but him.

Later he visits Master Shouyue and tells him that they have met before. When Qing Ming confronts him about the death of Master Hongruo he shows Qing Ming that he bears uncanny resemblance to his late master, Zhong Xing and learns that Shouyue is a Spirit Guardian of Zhong Xing, sent to protect the Empress. In the morning he gets a message that demons have invaded the Department of Celestial Observation he and Bo Ya quickly run to the Princess quarters and find her possessed. He gets the demon out by letting it into him. In the nigh Bo Ya tells him why he hates demons, because his mother was killed by one.

After a failed assasination attempt on the Empress by Master Long Ye, according to He Shouyue. Before she can disclose what she had discovered she is killed by the Hair Demon. With her last breath, she attempts to communicate her discovery to Qing Ming, who interprets the message as an accusation against the Princess. Qing Ming tells Bo Ya what Long Ye had told about the Princess, but Bo Ya doesn't believe that the Princess is the culprit, he insists Shouyue must be the culprit. In the morning they confront them separately.

Qing Ming gives Bo Ya the Yin-Yang sigil to give He Shouyue an order he's unwilling to do and Bo Ya gives him the magic ear to call upon him when there's danger and Qing Ming gives him a magic eye. When he confronts the Princess, she is attacked by the Hair Demon. He goes after the Hair Demon and finds out from her that she had been waiting to avenge her own death on the Princess for sixty years. He finds a painting of the Princess in the demon's hair realizing that the Princess has not aged a day in the past sixty years, Qing Ming surmises that the Princess must actually be the real Empress and thus the true vessel of the Evil Serpent. He directly runs to Bo Ya and find Bo Ya fainted on the floor.

He and Bo Ya confront the Princess and He Shouyue together and learn of their true plan is to save He Shouyue from dying but in order to save him he must become the new vessel of the Evil Serpent, rendering him immortal. Trying to stop them, He Shouyue uses the Yin-Yang teleportation Technique to teleport Qing Ming and Bo Ya to a tomb that's filling with sand. Qing Ming gets out with the Yin-Yang teleportation Technique, while trying to help Bo Ya out he realizes he that it can only take him to places he can see. He contacts Bo Ya with the magic ear and asks Bo Ya to see with the magic eye where he is to teleport him out of the tomb. After the Princess birthed the Evil Serpent, He Shouyue become the Evil Serpent new vessel.

The Princess and He Shouyue flee on the giant serpent, with Qing Ming and Bo Ya in pursuit. Qing Ming and Bo Ya notice that only three of the four stone guardians have awakened, as He Shouyue did not awaken the guardian appointed to him to allow the serpent to leave the Imperial City. Qing Ming summons his Spirit Guardians Killing Stone, Snow Tengu and Posessed Painter to fight He Shouyue. Bo Ya tells Qing Ming that he has one last idea to summon the Vermilion Bird, the last of the four stone guardians with his flesh and blood. Snow Tengu tells him he can leave the fight to him and Killing Stone and go and save Bo Ya. During the process, Bo Ya collapses and becomes a Spirit Guardian in the form of the Vermilion Bird.

While the Bo Ya and He Shouyue fight each other, Qing Ming teleports himself inside the Evil Serpent where he shows the Princess the last memory he has with his late Master. They teleport out of the Evil Serpent, and the Princess, no longer immortal, kills herself with the a sword. Distracted by the Princess, He Shouyue is impaled by Bo Ya with the Fangyue sword. As the Evil Serpent collapses and releases fangs, Bo Ya sacrifices himself in order to save Qing Ming.

He Shouyue rises from the Evil Serpent’s ashes with the Fangyue sword in his shoulders, he pulls it out and hurls a sword at Bo Ya's unconscious body, but Qing Ming throws himself in front of the sword and use the protection technique for the first time, but the sword pierced through the protection technique and his body, but then reaches a moment of clarity where he realizes the true meaning of being a Yin-Yang Master. He successfully deflects the sword from Bo Ya and stabs He Shouyue with it. Later, Qing Ming tells Bo Ya his Master's story about creating a Spirit Guardian as powerful as him. Later on, Bo Ya walks Qing Ming to his boat and say their goodbyes.

Appearances

 * The Yin-Yang Master: Dream Of Eternity

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