Li “Little Flying Dagger” Xunhuan (Ti Lung) has wandered for three years but has finally come home, retiring from the martial world to have a normal life. Yet nothing can be that simple, as there are so many kung fu and weapons masters who want to kill him and be ranked as the best warrior in the martial world.

Directed by Yuen Chor, this was one of Shaw Brothers most popular movies. When you’re ranked number three in the world of all fighters, people are going to hunt you down, like Right Arm (Fu Sheng), who has inked the name of every man he has killed on his, well, right arm.

While the woman who caused Li to be sentimental — and an alcoholic — is alone and waiting for him, he’s really here to look up his old friend Ah Fei (Derek Tung-Sing Yee), who is content to go to sleep early and never fight, as well as be drugged by martial arts groupie — and now his wife — Lin Xanier (Linda Chu). However, she’s not very faithful and has been cheating on him with the leader of the evil gang known as the Monkey Clan.

Like a gunfighter exhausted in his old age, Li regrets his youth and the fight to be the best. It’s kept him from love, it’s ruined his friend’s life and now, he must keep on fighting people everywhere he goes. It’s no accident that this has Italian Western Morricone music behind so much of the swordplay. This is one of the rare times that the sequel is so much better than the first movie.