事缘诸葛神侯夜观天象之时，发现自身将有一大劫降临，另一方面，邪派高手上官苍穷，因曾败于诸葛神侯手下，故一心想复仇，矢誓要坐神侯之位，而他苦待多年，终于等到诸葛神侯气数最弱之时，遂密谋一举而杀诸葛神侯，而诸葛神侯也深知自己若不在人世，则定必剧盗蜂起，其势不可收拾，苦思之下，决定兵行险着，布下一假死之局，暗中却策令已退隐的四大名捕回京，以代其位，希望将影响减至最低，此外，另一邪派高手胡天龙因多年前被诸葛神侯赶出中原，远赴日本，并收得日本人古月正文为徒，并曾立誓中原有诸葛神侯一日，便不再踏足中原半步，此时为想回归中土，遂遣其弟子，古月正文到中原杀诸葛神侯，于是，便引出一连..

四大名捕本已歸隱，卻因其師諸葛神侯被殺而重出江湖。上官蒼窮暗殺神侯，成功奪取其位，隨即展露狼子野心，他以藥物控制皇上，欲逼他交出帝位。四大名捕得悉其陰謀，加以阻撓，誓要與他周旋到底，粉碎其稱帝之美夢。

四大名捕本已歸隱，卻因其師諸葛神侯被殺而重出江湖。上官蒼窮暗殺神侯，成功奪取其位，隨即展露狼子野心，他以藥物控制皇上，欲逼他交出帝位。四大名捕得悉其陰謀，加以阻撓，誓要與他周旋到底，粉碎其稱帝之美夢。

The four famous hunters had already been hidden, but they reappeared because their master Zhuge Shenhou was killed. Shangguan Cang Qiang assassinated Shenhou and successfully seized his throne, and then revealed his ambitions, and he controlled the emperor with drugs, trying to force him to surrender the throne. The four great immortals learned of his conspiracy, obstructed it, and vowed to fight with him to the end and crush his dream of becoming emperor.