 Various weapons were used, where spilled blood, internal organs, guts, and bones were shown in the injuries that the characters sustained.People criticised the graphic violence depicted in Oriental Heroes and other similar action genre manhua, eventually leading to the enactment of the Indecent Publication Law in 1975, banning explicit violence in manhua.As the Indecent Publication Law only applied to manhua, Wong Yuk-long established a daily newspaper, called "Sàng Bou" (), with which to publish Oriental Heroes.