In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves.

A hero of government affairs, protect the world! At the end of Qing Dynasty. Japan, which is trying to seize Tianjin, where even great powers cannot easily enter, and further devour China, opens the Honghua Military Academy in Tianjin and suppresses the Tianjin Martial Arts Association. Huo Yuan Jia, an expert in the field, engages in a life-threatening battle with Kamesaburo Takeda, a Japanese military commander in order to prevent Japan's ambitions.