This is a Carter Wong vehicle about a young man who has to fight the 8 Masters as punishment for his father's misdeeds.

When Chu is younger he is taken to a Shaolin monastary to protect him from his father's enemies. While there his training and studies begin, and he grows into a skilled fighter. When he's older he goes back to the village to find his mother and to live in peace but once the 8 masters find out he's left the monastary. They all still want to fight and make him pay for his father's misdeeds. He adamantly refuses and takes beatings constantly.

Ultimately, he fights the 8 masters and learns that one is significant to him. The fight scenes were really good.