The palace walls of Ming Emperor Jianwen are being breeched by a hoard of rebels under his uncle Yongle and seeing disaster ahead he gives his infant son over to Hero Shangguan (Lo Wei) for protection and hopefully to regain the thrown in the future before he sets his palace on fire and dies in the inferno. Shangguan is the head of the Black Dragon Society and they are soon accused by Tien Feng and the East Side Gang of hiding the son of Jianwen. When Shangguan refuses to hand over the baby, his society is attacked and nearly all are killed except his daughter (Cheng Pei-pei) and his nephew (Wu Fung). These two escape taking the baby with the intention of delivering him to Shangguan’s brother seventy miles to the south. To get there they have to pass through many blockades with Tien Feng and his deadly female dart-throwing companion constantly on their heels. On the way they pick up the assistance of the king of beggars (Yeung Chi Hing), his sister (Ouyang Shafei), a small girl and two beggar disciples (Li Kun and Yueh Hua).
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