Back at the temple, Jackie returns the empty rice sack to Abbot Wei.
The temple’s head monk, Abbot Wei, summons Jackie. "The Golden Lotus has returned." The Golden Lotus -Jackie Chan 1974- -CHN-
The warlord —a brutal former Red Guard commander turned bandit king—has learned of the lotus. He arrives at the temple with a hundred soldiers, demanding it. Back at the temple, Jackie returns the empty
He takes refuge in a riverside inn, "The Drowning Eel." There, he meets a mysterious woman: (played by a young Cheng Pei-pei or similar wuxia star). She’s beautiful, silk-voiced, and her eyes hold a cold, familiar glint. He arrives at the temple with a hundred
"And the woman?"
She tries to seduce the statue from him with a wine-soaked dance. Jackie, flustered, accidentally drops the lotus into a fish tank. As he fishes it out, moonlight hits it—and for a moment, the petals glow, projecting a ghostly map onto the ceiling.
Jackie smashes the golden lotus against a stone altar—not destroying it, but rearranging its petals into a lock mechanism. The floor opens. Below: the Eternal Qi Spring, glowing a sickly green. Iron-Tusk dives for it. Jackie grabs his ankle. Lotus drives a sword through the warlord’s shoulder.