Ip Man reluctantly begins a series of challenges from rival kung fu schools and is soon drawn into the dark and dangerous world of the Triads.

Thousands of years ago, a magical drum was made by the fairies of the Red and Celestial Fox tribes. The drum holds great power. Sometime later, the Celestial Fox tribe's fairy is murdered by a Red Fox tribe member, with the fairy's bone and soul been taken away. The leader of the Celestial tribe has sworn revenge and sends Ouyang Zhou into the human world to find the magic drum and their fairy's bone and soul. But while in the human realm, he meets Qiaoyan and Mige; who both for some reason, have connections to the fox spirit world.

A sister and brother, the last heirs of a family of acrobats, are called upon by a Buddhist monk sect to retrieve an artifact that their ancestors have protected throughout the ages.