Five Shaolin Masters

Hu Te escapes the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroy it. The group of 5 decided to develop secret codes to identify fellow patriots, enlist those patriots and eventually meet up again to escape to the south away from the Qings and also identify the traitor who sold out the Shaolin temple.
Ma Fu Yi joins the Qing top fighters to eliminate the rebels but is exposed by Ma Chao Tsing, who gets captured by Ma Fu Yi. Hu meets up with a group of Shaolin men secretly posing as bandits to rescue Ma as their leader is killed in the process; thus, the bandits join the rest of the Shaolin patriots.
Suffering continuous defeats at the hands of the Qing kung fu experts, the 5 Shaolin patriots return to the temple ruins to perfect their Kung Fu and take revenge for their destroyed temple and dead comrades.