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Knight Liu Wen Lung returns home to find his village sacked and wife slain by rampaging bandits led by Chou Chao. He meets Chou later and wounds him with a dart. Facing certain death, Chou chops off his wounded arm and flees. Liu sets out with son Yu Lang, student Hu Chi Feng and servant Wang Fu to track his foe down but fails to find him. Three ears elapse Liu raises orphan Yu Shan, the daughter of a woman killed by Hu in an abortive rape attempt. Living in seclusion in his friend Lin’s manor, Liu teaches Yu Lang and Yu Shan his secret method of fighting. The two youngsters fall in love but the affair is complicated by Lin’s daughter Hsiang Chin’s feelings for Yu Lang. One day Golden Light Monk, the number two man of a neighbouring bandit gang, calls at the Lin household to demand the surrender of his wealth on pain of his family’s death. Attempting to stall the gang, Yu Lang inadvertently discovers their number three men to be Hu, his father’s ex-student. Yu Shan now meets up with Hu, who falsely accuses Liu of her mother’s death. He claims the murder weapon is the type of dart wielded exclusively by Lin. Wang Fu confirms this and Yu Shan leaves Liu to move in with Hu. In return for past favors however, Yu Shan rescues Liu, who has in the meantime been captured by the gang. The gang chief turns out to be Chou Chao. He summons Liu to a duel to the death. Realizing she’s been deceived by Hu, Yu Shan rushes to Liu’s aid with Wang Fu and Yu Lang. The entire gang is wiped out in the savage fight which follows.
Boss Cheng (Chen Kuan-tai) is a middle-aged refugee in Hong Kong. He is frank and honest. After a year of hard work, he and his friends have managed to open a teahouse, called the Cheng Chi Teahouse. Business is brisk, and all employees in the teahouse are his relatives and fellow-refugees. One day, Hsien Kang kills two thugs to avenge his murdered sister, Hsien Chu (Liu Wu-chi) who was employed at the teahouse. Boss Cheng helps to get Hsien’s sentence reduced. The thugs led by Hsiung (Fan Mei-sheng) are impressed by the tact and bravery of Boss Cheng when he and several of his friends venture into their hideout to rescue some teahouse workers. Then boss Cheng helps the police to smash a drug smuggling gang. He also squeezes $300,000 from the gangsters, and donates the amount to charity before informing the cops. Mrs. Wang (Karen Yeh Ling-chi), a poor widow, is touched by Boss Cheng’s kindness and she decides to marry him. Two different gangs attempt to murder him during the wedding. But the timely arrival of the cops saves him. Next day, the thugs led by Sheng Fan-ming, again attack the teahouse. Yet once more the cops arrive in the nick of time to arrest the ringleader. However, the police are under the impression that one way or another Boss Cheng is connected with the gangsters. Therefore, the police pressure him into revealing the names of the underworld. Cheng is finally forced to leave home with his wife and children, forsaking his teahouse, relatives, and friends.
Cantonese / English Subtitles
Sportsmen students led by Lin Ta, rival Hung Wei and the other members of the University Music Group. They also dislike the Chinese Boxing group led by Ho Tai, and his girlfriend, Yang Luan who is the campus beauty and for whom Lin Ta has a secret desire. The final of the University basketball tournament is between Lin Ta’s Dagger team and the Eagles. When Lin Ta is injured, Ho Tai helps him and finally the Dagger team wins the trophy. Yang Luan jilts Ho Tai for the conceited Lin Ta. Yuan Shu-sheng from the Music Group admires Lin Ta and Ho Tai, but is rejected when he applies to join Ho’s Boxing club. In an effort to revive the Music Group’s low spirits, Hung Wei teaches them boxing and other martial arts. His elder brother, Hung Po, tries unsuccessfully to disrupt the program. During a boxing contest, Hung Wei encourages a dispirited Ho Tai to victory, and Yang Luan turns her attentions to him once more causing further clashes between Lin Ta and Ho Tai. With Hung Wei as their mediator, the rivalry between the music and sports groups dissolves into friendship.
During the Shang Dynasty, 3000 years ago, there lived a military commander of the Emperor, called Li Ching. He had three sons, named Chin Cha, Mu Cha, and Na Cha. At that time the Emperor was a cruel despotic ruler, and Na Cha was a brave young man who always fought for the poor and downtrodden. Na Cha killed Ao Ping for his brutality to the people. As an act of revenge, Ao Ping’s father, Ocean Dragon King Ao Kuang, threatened to cause a tidal wave, which would destroy Li Ching’s home and thousands of others, unless Na Cha was handed over to him. On hearing this, Na Cha fearlessly presented himself in front of his father and Ao Kuang, and took his own life by cutting off his left arm and committing hari-kari. This satisfied Ao Kuang, but Li Ching was angry because of the trouble Na Cha had brought on his parents, and he destroyed the memorial building to his son. Now, Na Cha’s spirit had been received by a divine being called Tai I Chen Jen, who reincarnated him (Na Cha) by embodying his spirit in a lotus flower. Tai I Chen Jen also bestowed on the reincarnated Na Cha two extremely powerful weapons, the Fire Point Lance, and the Wind Fire Wheel. With these weapons, Na Cha defeated Ao Kuang and freed the people from his oppression. He then helped the people to get to the Chou Kingdom where the rulers were kind and they could live in peace. Li Ching’s troops were also attacked by Na Cha, but another supernatural being, called Jan Teng Tao Jen, presented Li Ching with a precious pagoda which he could use to frustrate the attack of his son. Thus father and son stopped fighting and lived in peace forever. Li Ching earned the title, “Heavenly King Holding the Pagoda,” because he must always hold the magical pagoda to safeguard himself against Na Cha.
