When retired swordmaster Li refuses to reveal the secret of his "Piercing the Dragon" sword technique to the hunchback Liu Tou (Fan Mei-shing), Liu kills Li with his Iron Palm technique. This leaves the strikingly beautiful Bao Zhu (Shih Szu) an orphan. She is sent to live with an uncle, learns how to kill, and returns to her village to wreak havoc on the bad guys. She becomes known as THE YOUNG AVENGER (though how ANYONE could mistake Shih Szu for a man is beyond me...) She reconnects with her cousin, Chen (Hua Yuah), just in time to discover that Liu is returning to wipe out the village. When his men attack, they fall victim to a divide-and-conquer type of strategy along the lines of that used against the brigands in Akira Kurosawa's brilliant SEVEN SAMURAI (many of them fall into camouflaged pits dug by the villagers). This leads to the final showdown between Bao Zhu and Liu Tou. Good action throughout, and (finally!) Shih Szu is on screen long enough for admirers to admire her striking beauty (sigh)...