Kwong Loong

In the year of Tien Chi in the latter part of Ming Dynasty, Hsi Chung is on the throne. In a bid to seize power, eunuch Wei Chung-hsien, for the sake of personal gains, adopts 13 'spirits' locally and abroad to form a terrorist outfit titled "The Deadly Thirteen", imparting to them unique martial arts from different schools to eliminate dissent and to frame the loyal ministers. To stop the Ming empire from falling into evil hands, King Chu Yu-chien of Hsin plans to resist in alliance with "six gentlemen" including Yang Lien and Tso Kuang-tou, but isolated and weak in power, they fail to shake out of the control of Chung-hsien and fall out of favor in deep emotion. Not reconciled to Ching-hsien's cover-up, Yang Lien braves his life to remonstrate with Hsi Chung and exposes in Court his crime of levying high taxes, building temples for the living and defiance of imperial order.… ...

On his way to Chinchow, Liaotung, Chu is pursued by Chung-hsien,s man Wang Chu, But rescued by a handsome young man Chou Ting-feng. Wang is beaten and killed, but Ting-feng goes away without leaving his name. On arrival, King Chu discovers Chung-huan to have a large Army and persuades im to rise up and lead troops to the Capital to suppress Chung-hsien. But Chung-huan advises him against any such movement, claiming that this might provoke the Chins stationed no less than 100 Ii away into invading the border. Chung-hsien takes the death of Wang at Chinchow to mean that Chung-huan has been covering up WeiTzu-chin against him, and therefore, send killer Yang Wan to capture the culprit. Fortunately, Chung-huan outwits him and craftily has the killer eliminated. With the death of his father as a martyr, Tzu-Chin loath to live alone overseas, vows to kill Chung-hsien to offer him to his shrine.… ...

Chung-hsien stores ten thousand human throats for the sake of practicing martial art. For convenience-sake, he sends somebody to kill Chung-huan. However, the dedicated killer escapes during the chaos. To gain Chung-hsien's favour, Chung-huan pretends as the head of anti- Wei's force. Chung-huan can exterminate Chung-hsien easily for he keeps a close touch with him. On his way, Ting-feng happens to encounter Tien Siu-lin, who is going to meet her father. On her way, she is unfortunately robbed by a few robbers and lying down in pain. Ting-feng then saves her. Ting-feng falls into love with Siu-lin, however, the latter leaves the former when the former seeks information about her life.… ...

Since Hsi Chung dies of illness, Wei Chung-hsien believes that King Shun is the only heir and thus proclaims him as anew king and marks a new era of Chung-cheng. Chung-hsien's manipulation can ensure his control over the court. Although Chung-cheng lives under the custodial eyes of Wei Chung-hsien, he is happy. to discover a secret tunnel which penetrates through the Forbidden City to the outside.Wei-Chung-hsien helps Chung-cheng to choose his favourite. He makes use of the chance and places Siu-lin on the card. Chung-hsieh hopes to make use of Sin-lin's sexual appeal to tempt Chung-cheng so that the tote latter goet astray from politics. Actually, Chung-cheng is able to see the truth and pretends to have fallen into the trap. He also pretends to have : alienated from the sincere advice of Wang Sing-yan. Also, he even beats up Sing-yan in front of Wei Chung-hsien. Later; Chung-cheng secretly saves Sing-yan from the horror.… ...

After endless struggle, Sing-yan finally escapes from the murder. Fortunately, he can meet Chung-huan. After meeting General Yuan Chung- huan, Sing-yan addresses him the grievance of the Court and persuades him to unite with Chung-cheng. Knowing Sing-yan's successful arrange- ment, Emperor Chung-cheng feels glad. Knowing that Chung-hsien is gifted in martial art, Emperor Chung-cheng sends Sing-yan and Chung-huan to persuade Chin Liang-yuk and Chow Ting- feng to deal with Wei Chung-hsien. To cope with the conspiracy, Emperor. Chung-cheng secretly sends the old guards stationed at Liaotung back to the capital. However, while Sing-yan is persuading. Liang-yuk to join the force, he is discovered by the secret gang of Wei Chung-hsien.… ...

Liang-yuk attempts to kill Wei Chung-hsien while the latter is patrolling. However, Liang-yuk is defeated and flees back to th Court in pain. Chung-hsien uncovers the secret and forces to search the bedroom of Chung-cheng. Fortunately, Chung-hsien's search is in vain. Being poisoned by Chung-hsien, Liang-yuk's life is in danger. Ting-feng successfully empoisons Liang-yuk and thus eases all the worries. Later, Wei Chung-hsien attempts to search Liang-yuk again. Unwilling to send Liang-yuk to Chung-hsien, Chung-cheng does not know what to do. To gain Emperor Chung-cheng's favour, Lady Tien cuts her shoulder and pretends as Liang-yuk to face Chung-hsien's torture. Knowing Lady Tien's situation and sacrifice, Chung-cheng feels guilty and sends somebody to rescue her from danger. However, he Empress stops her from doing so. Knowing that Lady Tien is his deeply loved Siu-lin, Ting-feng worries and declares war on Chung-hsien.… ...