China is plunged into strife as feuding warlords try to expand their power by warring over neighboring lands. Fuelled by his success on the battlefield, young and arrogant Hao Jie sneers at Shaolin's masters when he beats one of them in a duel. But the pride comes before a fall. When his own family is wiped out by a rival warlord, Hao is forced to take refuge with the monks. As the civil unrest spreads and the people suffer, Hao and the Shaolin masters are forced to take a fiery stand against the evil warlords. They launch a daring plan or rescue and escape.

Focusing on three old friends who live by classic codes of honor and loyalty until get-rich-quick schemes threaten to tear them apart, the film plumbs the depths of capitalistic corruption and the fiercely tragic greed and hubris it ignites.

The film tells the story of firefighter Long Dachuan from being looked down upon to becoming a qualified firefighter.

Firefighter Shi Peng learned that Zhou Yu, the captain of his safety fire brigade, was the hero who rescued himself alone in the fire seven years ago, but at the same time, Shi Peng also learned a fact from others that made him difficult to accept. The hero who gave his fire faith was a "coward" in the fire. What Shi Peng did not expect was