The plot centers on a young and mischievous Wong Fei-hung, who runs into a series of troubles, from beating up the wrong people to making inappropriate advances on a woman. His father decides to punish him for his behavior by making him train harder in martial arts. Wong's father arranges for Beggar So to train his son in martial arts. Beggar So forces Wong into his brutal and rigorous training program. Soon Wong proceeds to learn Beggar So's secret style of martial arts, a form of Drunken Boxing called "The Eight Drunken Immortals", named after the eight mythological figures that the fighting style emulates.