Have Sword, Will Travel

Lo Yi (David Chiang Da-Wei) is a young swordsman who hires on at Peerless Manor, where the head of the house, Ying Ke-Feng, runs an escort business carrying 200,000 taels of silver to the capital every year. This year Ying is afflicted with an infirmity that keeps him from using his own sword, and Lo Yi rides out with Siang (Ti Lung) to guard the road. Chang Cheh lets the silver wagons roll on under open sky, the men beside them hands on their hilts.