Adam Cheng in a wig so majestic it deserves its own billing.
Season 1 • Episode 25
LatestA Japanese samurai, Wuming, travels to China and defeats many martial artists, challenging the Central Plains' top Swordsmen, leading to a fight with Liguojushi. Wuming loses but threatens revenge, setting off a battle over the martial arts book, Ling's Sword Manual. Nangong Yi falls out with his master and learns from another. He ends up as the leader of a sect and helps stop an evil martial arts master from gaining power but dies fighting Wuming who threatens to destroy the entire martial arts world.
Stunts
Pre-wirework sword fights with actual sweat and danger.
Costume
Wuming's revenge outfit: peak 70s wuxia drip.
Acting
Adam Cheng's intensity could cut steel.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1978 Hong Kong television wuxia was peak genre saturation — this rode the Cheng Pei-pei and Shaw Brothers wave into living rooms.
Adam Cheng filmed this between his iconic Chor Lau-heung roles, making Wuming his 'villain era' before that was a thing.
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