S1E1 · Episode 1

In the year of Tien Chi in the latter part of Ming Dynasty, Hsi Chung is on the throne. In a bid to seize power, eunuch Wei Chung-hsien, for the sake of personal gains, adopts 13 'spirits' locally and abroad to form a terrorist outfit titled "The Deadly Thirteen", imparting to them unique martial arts from different schools to eliminate dissent and to frame the loyal ministers. To stop the Ming empire from falling into evil hands, King Chu Yu-chien of Hsin plans to resist in alliance with "six gentlemen" including Yang Lien and Tso Kuang-tou, but isolated and weak in power, they fail to shake out of the control of Chung-hsien and fall out of favor in deep emotion. Not reconciled to Ching-hsien's cover-up, Yang Lien braves his life to remonstrate with Hsi Chung and exposes in Court his crime of levying high taxes, building temples for the living and defiance of imperial order.… ...