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20-year-old Yang Kei-Ying participates in the destruction of the Shaolin temple along with traitorous shaolin grandmaster Bak Mei. He is rejected when he asks to learn kung-fu, so he deserts and climbs the Song Shan Mountains to the temple of the taoist immortal sorcerers the Seven Scribes of the Cloudy Satchel. Revealing his corrupt heart, they curse him with seven lifetimes of martial skill and no ability to control it. He is unleashed on Bak Mei and the emperors soldiers, and left to wander the land.