In the waning days of the Ming dynasty, Japanese marauders raid villages on the Chinese coast. A wandering swordsman single-handedly dispatches a group of the foreign thugs, and agrees to help defend the town. He assembles a core team of highly skilled warriors, and together they train the townsfolk to stand up to the foreign pirates, using strategy and skill. When the army launches an all-out assault on the town, a ferocious battle rages, leading to final conflict on the Beach of the War Gods.

清雍正年间，少林寺接连出现离奇命案，数名弟子神秘死亡，少林三十六代和三十七代掌门也相继被害，康熙御赐的墨玉香炉被盗，所有疑点都指向俗家弟子雷鹏飞（黄家达）。雍正帝（江南）欲借题发挥，命玉格格（龙君儿）前往少林逼少林交出盗宝者，现任掌门圆慧（鲁平）只得答应若限期内查不出凶手就焚寺自尽。雷鹏飞在师祖田智（张翼）和女俗家弟子柳芝兰（上官灵凤）的协助下查出了真凶圆慧，但是似乎圆慧背后还有一个人……

The martial world is now awash in one-armed knights, who aren't inclined to make any permanent alliances among themselves.

A one-armed martial arts master is being stalked by an Imperial assassin, the master of two fighters killed in the previous film. When the One-Armed Boxer is invited to attend a martial arts tournament, his efforts to lay low are unsuccessful, and the assassin soon tracks him down with the help of his three subordinates: a Thai boxer, a yoga master, and a kobojutsu user.

A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, Oedekerk sets off to avenge the deaths of his parents at the hands of kung-fu legend Master Pain. Along the way he encounters some strange characters.