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Legend of a Rabbit: The Martial of Fire

2015 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ19363424 ↗
Source-derived summary

Legend of a Rabbit: The Martial of Fire (Chinese: 兔侠之青黎传说 Tùxiá zhīqīng lí Chuánshuō) also known as Rise of the Rabbit in the United Kingdom is a 2015 Chinese animated action adventure film directed by Ma Yuan and Dong Dake, the sequel to Legend of a Rabbit. It was released on 21 February 2015.

Plot

It has been a couple of years since Tu defeated Slash. Tu is now regarded as the protector of the village, defeating bandits and upholding justice. However, with no skills, Tu has to start training to harness the kung fu skills he inherited from the grandmaster. One day, Fu rescues an old injured warrior who turns out to be the evil Zhan. Zhan is badly injured and Fu decides to keep him safe because Zhan told him that he is in danger. This is just a plan as Zhan plans to take over the world of martial arts by acquiring a martial of fire from Lan of Huell Clan. Lan is the leader of Huell clan, who are the guardians of Martial of fire, and nobody can cross the barrier between martial and the temple of fire. Zhane fools Tu because only Tu, after getting the powers of Grandmaster Ape, can cross the barrier.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Legend of a Rabbit: The Martial of Fire” is 2015 film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Legend, Rabbit and Martial, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015. For this dossier, Legend, Rabbit and Martial is the immediate research focus.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19363424. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Legend of a Rabbit: The Martial of Fire” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.