A 25-second continuous live-action martial arts special effects fight video. The overall style uses frosty night cold blue moonlight, grey-white snow reflection, bluish-black brick walls, and dark orange firelight from grey pit charcoal as a cold-warm contrast, low saturation but bright and transparent; ARRI Alexa film texture, 35mm ultra-wide-angle lens, delicate 35mm film grain. Textures of real skin, wet hair, coarse cloth, bricks, snow, wooden beams, incense ash, and a small amount of sparks. The overall combat logic refers to the close-combat martial arts design of Hong Kong hard-boiled action blockbusters: emphasizing close-quarters pressure, continuous offensive, counter-moves into grappling, impact into throwing, short-range combat, environment-based combos, and clear cause-and-effect of movements. Not a floating Xianxia fight, but a high-intensity continuous death battle of 'real combat logic + exaggerated martial arts special effects.'
Theme: Pursuit Battle in a Snowy Night Mortuary.
The protagonist is a female martial artist, age about 35 to 45, Chinese female, lean and strong build, thin but powerful shoulders and back, strong explosive power, fierce, short, and fast movements, a practical martial arts expert. Cold face, calm and dangerous eyes, long hair tied up or half-tied, with a few stray wet strands allowed. Outfit is deep cyan-grey or black-grey old-style martial arts short-cut suit, suitable for close combat, wearing narrow-leg pants and cloth leggings, old cloth shoes or lightweight leather boots. Weapon is a 'dark iron short ruler', slightly shorter than the forearm, held with one hand, capable of parrying, hitting, smashing, wrist-locking, and knife-trapping, also cooperating with the other hand for grappling control. The protagonist's core technique is 'Bridge-Locking and Momentum-Breaking,' with the core strategy of staying close to the center line, intercepting weapons, controlling arms, continuous elbow and knee strikes, shoulder and back ramming, grappling and throwing, and then finishing with the short ruler. Afterimages/instant steps are only auxiliary footwork for rushing, repositioning, line-dodging, and back-taking, not to overshadow the combat.
The opponent is a 48-year-old Skin-Borrower, a humanoid fox demon, with withered yellow long hair, a face like a layer of loose old skin, wearing a clay yellow short robe, holding a normal short knife. Skilled in Yellow Wind Claw Pressure, close-range knife strikes, shoulder ramming, low-level sliding pounce, and afterimage pouncing. Movements are sinister, change lines quickly, and are poisonous at close range, like a fierce martial arts bandit using a knife, but with a slight demonic aura.
The scene is the courtyard of a mountain mortuary on a snowy night: snow-covered stone flat, incense burning pit, corpse-storing corridor, black wood coffin racks, corpse-washing stone table, withered cypress, and narrow stone steps in the back. Spatial relationships must be clear: center is the snow flat; left is the incense pit; right is the stone table and coffin racks; corridors, pillars, and beams on all sides; stone steps and brick walls in the back. Cold blue moonlight falls from above and the side-back, while charcoal in the pit provides flickering dark orange light, creating cold-warm lighting. Snow powder, ash, cold mist, and sparks float in the air.
General Movement Principles: The entire film must have continuous martial arts action and clear combat logic, with a valid movement change every 0.4 to 0.8 seconds: attack, parry, dodge, grapple, counter, throw, explosion. No standing and charging power, no slow posing, no light-weight flying. All moves must be based on real body power: kicking off the ground, turning the hips, dropping the shoulders, cutting the line, staying close, locking the wrist, sealing the elbow, knee-striking, tripping, using walls, pillars, tables, and coffin racks. The combat feel should be like a real bone-breaking close battle but with exaggerated martial arts effects.
General VFX Requirements: Exaggerated but must stay close to the actions. The 'Bridge-Locking and Momentum-Breaking' effect is formed by grey-white air pressure, air refraction, snow mist, incense ash, short ruler motion trails, stone impact, afterimage tails, and cold mist. Her heavy hits will explode with short pressure marks and shock rings at the point of contact, interception moves will pull out sharp grey-white cut lines, and throws will bring up snow, ash, stone chips, and air depressions. The opponent's 'Yellow Wind Claw Pressure' effect consists of withered yellow blade wind, black smoke, grey earth cracks, broken fur needles, and incomplete fox claw outlines. The finishing move can have a huge phantom effect, but it must be composed of real snow mist, ash, air distortion, and motion trails, not solid summoned beasts or colored magic.
[0.0–4.0 seconds]
Ultra-wide angle high-speed push close to the snow. The Skin-Borrower rushes over, the short knife slashes diagonally up and then horizontally back, as the Yellow Wind and broken fur tear the snow curtain. The protagonist does not retreat, immediately enters the center line, her left hand slaps away the knife wrist, right hand's short ruler diagonally blocks the second knife, followed by body forward pressure, ramming the chest with her shoulder, pressing the arm with her right elbow, and wrist-locking with the short ruler, directly breaking the opponent's continuous knife line. The knife clearly vibrates. She then turns her hips, tearing the opponent's knife-holding arm outward, knee-strikes the abdomen with her left knee, and follows with a short ruler smash to the collarbone. The movement should be like hard-bridge fast fighting, all in one go. Each collision has grey-white air pressure marks and exploding snow mist. Finally, the protagonist says coldly in a low voice: 'Holding a broken knife and you dare pursue me?' She then twists her waist and pulls back, the Skin-Borrower is pulled off balance, his shoulder and back hit the stone table, snow, ash, and stones explode.
[4.0–8.0 seconds]
The Skin-Borrower bounces back from the impact, stabs at the shoulder with the knife at close range, then turns to cut the belly, and sweeps the knee from a low position, movements are sinister and continuous. The protagonist first sidesteps to dodge the line, a short afterimage left in place, her true body stays close to the inside of the blade, an elbow strike hits the wrist, the knife is deflected; followed by using the short ruler to press the opponent's forearm, left hand locks the elbow, right shoulder rams into the chest, pushing him toward the incense pit. The Skin-Borrower suddenly headbutts the protagonist's brow, her head turns, wet hair and clothes have a delayed swing, but she does not let go, turns her wrist, passes the ruler through the arm crook, counter-locks the arm, then uses a leg trip and hip power to throw the opponent out diagonally, smashing a corner of the black wood coffin rack. The rack shatters, wood chips, snow, ash, and cold mist explode together. The entire segment must maintain close-range continuity, no broken-shot feel.
[8.0–12.0 seconds]
The Skin-Borrower counter-attacks violently, knife and Yellow Wind Claw strikes continuously, four or five incomplete fox claw phantoms press forward, tightening the space. The protagonist uses the core section of 'Bridge-Locking and Momentum-Breaking': first afterimage repositions to the left corridor edge to avoid the first claw; the true body immediately cuts back behind the opponent, short ruler strikes the wrist, left palm supports the jaw, right elbow hits the ribs, followed by a knee strike to the belly, and finally the ruler presses the heart, forming a four-hit combo. The logic should be like the close-combat combinations of Hong Kong martial arts: each hit creates an angle and loss of balance for the next. About 1 second slow motion (9.8–10.8s): left palm supports the jaw, opponent's head tilts back, followed by the right elbow hitting the ribs, the side of the ribs clearly caves in, grey-white dust pressure shoots out from the back; followed by knee strike to the belly, torso bends, fabric and flesh clearly collapse when the ruler hits the heart. High speed resumes immediately after slow motion. Finally, a spinning sweep leg ruins the opponent's stance, sending the Skin-Borrower sliding half-kneeling, plowing a snow trail on the snow flat.
[12.0–16.5 seconds]
The protagonist instant-steps up the corridor pillar, running fast on the vertical wooden pillar, the camera pans up. The Skin-Borrower slashes at the edge of the pillar from below, wood chips and snow fall. The protagonist dives down from a high position, ruler in front, the other hand as a palm, as afterimages, cold mist, incense ash, and air refraction behind her condense into a large incomplete grey-white tiger spine phantom, not a solid tiger, but a silhouette of a spine and claw marks formed by high-speed pressure. She cuts down from a high angle, the ruler hits the back of the knife, the left palm presses the head, pinning the Skin-Borrower to the stone flat. The ground shatters, snow, stones, and cold mist explode in sheets. The Skin-Borrower roars: 'Stupid woman, I'll strip your skin!' The protagonist does not answer, kicks the opponent away, pushing him toward the stone steps.
[16.5–20.5 seconds]
The Skin-Borrower dashes along the ground to pounce again, Yellow Wind Claw sweeps half the courtyard. The protagonist performs an upgraded 'Eight-Step Bridge-Breaking,' flashing between the incense pit, corridor, coffin rack, stone table, and steps. Each landing point is not a pose but an immediate action: one afterimage short ruler strikes the wrist, one afterimage sweeps the leg, one afterimage palm-strikes the chest, one afterimage shoulder-rams the back. After the Skin-Borrower cuts through two afterimages, the true body suddenly cuts in from the smoke at his back-left, left hand deflecting the knife wrist, right hand ruler smashing the face, then locking the neck with the forearm, using the centrifugal force of the turn to drag him to the center of the steps. About 1 second slow motion (19.2–20.2s): ruler smashes the face, nose and cheeks are visibly compressed, head tilts; followed by forearm neck-lock pull-back, waist and abdomen horizontally deformed, feet briefly off the ground; slow motion ends, body is slammed back to the ground, snow, stones, and dust explode on the steps.
[20.5–25.0 seconds]
Final move 'Momentum-Breaking Unity.' Afterimages, cold mist, ash, snow dust, and air refraction in the entire mortuary converge on the protagonist, forming a giant grey-white broken-bridge wind-spine phantom across the screen behind her path. This phantom is not a bridge or a beast, but like a cracked spine line pressed out by air pressure and snow dust, edges continuously dissipating, interior empty. The protagonist shatters the stone steps as she instant-steps in front of the Skin-Borrower, shouting: 'Your momentum ends here.' She first traps the knife wrist with the ruler, left palm presses the chest, body drops for half a beat, forming an extremely short contact pause; in the next instant, palm, shoulder, hip, and leg exert power simultaneously, hitting the strongest close-range explosion. The largest grey-white shock ring explodes at the contact point, the opponent's chest and belly cave in, knees collapse, body bends; the broken-bridge wind spine pierces the courtyard along her power path, snow is split to the sides, incense ash from the pit spirals into the sky, stone steps and brick ground explode continuously along the attack direction. The Skin-Borrower is blown away, crashing through coffin racks and the back brick wall before landing heavily. The lens follows this huge grey-white shock wave forward at high speed, and is finally pushed back by stones, snow mist, and the shock wave, ending on the frame of the protagonist standing after finishing her move, her shoulders slightly dropped.
Complete required fields: 0.0–4.0 seconds, 4.0–8.0 seconds, 8.0–12.0 seconds, 12.0–16.5 seconds, 16.5–20.5 seconds, 20.5–25.0 seconds