During the battle, Bai Suzhen uses her powers to flood the temple, causing collateral damage and drowning many innocent people in the process. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing fight with Fahai to rescue Xu Xian. Fahai tries to separate them again by capturing Xu Xian and imprisoning him at the Jinshan Temple. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing travel to Mount Emei, where they brave danger to steal a magical herb that restores Xu Xian to life.ĭiorama at Haw Par Villa, Singapore, depicting the battle between Bai Suzhen and Fahai.Īfter coming back to life, Xu Xian still maintains his love for Bai Suzhen despite knowing her true nature. Xu Xian dies of shock after seeing that his wife is not human. Bai Suzhen unsuspectingly drinks the wine and reveals her true form as a large white snake. He approaches Xu Xian and tells him that during the Duanwu Festival his wife should drink realgar wine, an alcoholic drink commonly consumed during that festival. Still angry with Bai Suzhen, Fahai plots to break up her relationship with Xu Xian. In the meantime, the terrapin spirit has accumulated enough powers to take on human form, so he transforms into a Buddhist monk called Fahai ( 法海). They move to Zhenjiang, where they open a medicine shop. Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen gradually fall in love and are eventually married. Xu Xian lends them his umbrella because it is raining. They meet Xu Xian at the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou. The green snake is grateful to the white snake and she regards the white snake as an elder sister.Įighteen years later, during the Qingming Festival, the white and green snakes transform themselves into two young women called Bai Suzhen ( 白素貞) and Xiaoqing ( 小青), respectively. The white snake transforms into a woman and buys the green snake from the beggar, thus saving the green snake's life. One day, the white snake sees a beggar on the bridge who has caught a green snake and wants to dig out the snake's gall and sell it. There is another terrapin (or tortoise) spirit also training in the lake who did not manage to consume any of the pills he is very jealous of the white snake. She, therefore, feels grateful to Xu Xian, and their fates become intertwined. She eats the pills and gains 500 years' worth of magical powers. In the lake dwells a white snake spirit who has been practicing Taoist magical arts. Lü Dongbin laughs and carries Xu Xian to the bridge, where he flips him upside-down and causes him to vomit the tangyuan into the lake. After eating them, he does not feel hungry for the next three days so he goes back to ask the vendor why. A boy called Xu Xian ( 許仙) buys some tangyuan from Lü Dongbin without knowing that they are actually immortality pills. Lü Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals, disguises himself as a tangyuan vendor at the Broken Bridge near the West Lake in Hangzhou. 1.1 Modifications and alternate versions.
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