Jue Yuan and his father are conscripted as labourers by a warlord Wang and Jue Yuan's father is killed by one of the warlord’s guards. Jue Yuan flees to the nearby Shaolin Temple where learns Kung Fu and plans to avenge his father. After a failed attempt to kill Wang, Jue Yuan and the Shaolin temple are drawn into a war between warlord Wang and Warlord Li who would later found the Tang Dynasty. The Shaolin temple ends up on the side of Li but are attached by Wang’s army and with no help in sight, they must fight for their own survival.