Five young fighters survive to escape the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it.

Hu Te-Ti meets up with a group of Shaolin fighters secretly posing as bandits and recruits them to help rescue Ma Chao-Tsing.

Suffering successive defeats at the hands of the Qing kung fu experts, the five young fighters return to the Shaolin temple ruins to perfect their kung fu and prepare to take revenge for their destroyed temple and murdered comrades.

Lau Kar-leung considered leaving the film industry to open up his own martial arts school in the United States, but ultimately chose to keep working for Shaw Brothers.

Lau Kar-Leung took credit for the Shaolin temple storyline of these films, stating that Chang "didn't understand kung fu very well".