Hu Te et al. escape the burning temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it at Shaolin Temple. The band of 5 choose to come up with secret codes enlist those patriots, to spot fellow patriots and eventually meet up again to escape into the south off from the Qings, and identify the traitor who sold temple. Ma Fu Yi (the traitor, played with Wang Lung Wei), joins the Qing top fighters to get rid of the rebels but is vulnerable by Ma Chao-Tsing who has captured by Ma Fu Yi. Hu matches up with a group of men posing as their boss has been murdered in the process, as Ma to be rescued by bandits the band its join the remainder of the shao lin patriots.