Wu Di, the poor young cobbler, lives with his mother and is obsessed with martial-arts picture books. Despite having no martial-arts training, he repairs the shoe of wandering swordswoman Yuelou and later assists in her rescue from a fight with wanted criminal Tian Baguang. She tells him she owes him a life and can be found on Qin Mountain if he ever needs her. Yuelou is a princess who was supposed to marry the Emperor but fled after setting fire to her palace quarters. Wu Di is in love and sets out to find her, fighting river pirate Dugu and his sidekick along the way and meeting a hermit Buddhist monk who offers to take him on as a pupil. Yuelou intends to compete in a martial arts tournament to establish her name, unaware that the emperor's chief eunuch Cheng has arranged for her to be secretly protected by Penal Bureau officer Yang Guo and to win the tournament so that the emperor can award her the prize and persuade her to reconsider marriage.
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Wu Di, the poor young cobbler, lives with his mother and is obsessed with martial-arts picture books. Despite having no martial-arts training, he repairs the shoe of wandering swordswoman Yuelou and later assists in her rescue from a fight with wanted criminal Tian Baguang. She tells him she owes him a life and can be found on Qin Mountain if he ever needs her. Yuelou is a princess who was supposed to marry the Emperor but fled after setting fire to her palace quarters. Wu Di is in love and sets out to find her, fighting river pirate Dugu and his sidekick along the way and meeting a hermit Buddhist monk who offers to take him on as a pupil. Yuelou intends to compete in a martial arts tournament to establish her name, unaware that the emperor's chief eunuch Cheng has arranged for her to be secretly protected by Penal Bureau officer Yang Guo and to win the tournament so that the emperor can award her the prize and persuade her to reconsider marriage.
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