A mean, loud-mouthed town bully is talking on the phone one night during a storm when, in a freak occurrence, a bolt of lightning strikes a telephone pole, travels down the phone wires and hits him. He is declared clinically dead, but miraculously recovers shortly thereafter--with a completely new personality and, he claims, the ability to communicate with the dead.

1929年，中国正处于兵荒马乱之中，军阀割据，其中一名军阀卡恩雄踞一省进行鸦片交易，对不服从者横下杀手，只有武当门人敢于卡恩作对，以正中华之风，对立二者之间上有一名西方武术大师白鹤，他是无辜百姓的守护者，军队袭击了武当庙，杀害了妙龄大师，白鹤燃气了熊熊怒火......