The captives are brought back to the High Monk's palace. Ning and Windy escape to seek the help of Yin, while Lord Fu, Autumn and Moon are captured by the monk. He incapacitates the rebels with a spell, which Autumn recognizes as an evil chant. Before long, however, the Imperial High Monk arrives with his entourage. Maneuvering Hu into fighting the demon, the rebels are able to rescue the sisters' father. As the convoy enters, however, the demon returns as well. Having failed to catch the convoy earlier, the rebels return to the haunted villa, waiting to ambush the convoy there. Unbeknownst to Autumn, the convoy is the one carrying the sisters' father. Hu and Autumn battle to a stalemate, and then go their separate ways. He emerges at daybreak on a dirt road, causing an altercation with an imperial convoy led by Hu ( Waise Lee). Autumn manages to injure it, but it flees. The next night, the two discover that the villa actually is haunted by a demon. They set off and leave Ning and Autumn at the villa. The sisters explain that their father, Lord Fu (Lau Siu-Ming), was framed for a crime and is now being transported to the place of his execution. While Ning mistakes Windy for his love Siu Sin, whom she resembles, the rebels mistake Ning for the Elder Chu. After a short skirmish, the rebel sisters Windy ( Joey Wong) and Moon ( Michelle Reis) discover Elder Chu's pendant. But in the middle of the night, rebel soldiers attack the two visitors. When Ning stops for the night in an abandoned villa, Autumn catches up and the two sort out the misunderstanding. Ning obliviously steals the horse of Autumn ( Jacky Cheung), a Taoist sectarian. He gives Ning one of his books and a pendant, and sends Ning through the tunnel. On the day of Ning's execution, the scholar reveals that he has dug out an escape tunnel. Sharing a cell with Elder Chu, a renowned scholar, Ning spends apparent months languishing in prison. Fleeing from cannibals, Ning winds up being imprisoned. Following the events of the first film, Ning ( Leslie Cheung) parts ways with the Taoist Yin ( Wu Ma) and returns to his home village, which has since fallen on desperate times.