In the second year of Shunzhi during the Qing Dynasty (1645 AD), Prince Tang Zhu Yujiang (ninth-generation grandson of Emperor Taizu of Ming) entered Fujian province. Supported by Minister of Rites Huang Daogu, Fujian governor Zhang Kentang, Marquis of Nan'an Zheng Zhilong and others, Zhu Yujiang ascended the throne in Fuzhou, establishing an anti-Qing regime with the era name "Longwu". However, it wasn't long before this regime was dismantled by the Qing... It is said that before the city fell, Ming Prince Tang Zhu Yujiang secretly hid tens of millions of taels of gold in the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian...
By the tenth year of Qianlong (1745 AD), the wave of anti-Qing and pro-Ming sentiment had risen again across the land, especially led by the Southern Shaolin Temple of Fujian and the Heaven and Earth Society of Guangdong. They united various martial arts sects and prepared to launch a much larger storm to deliver a devastating blow to the Manchu Qing dynasty. Around this time, rumors about the hidden gold of Prince Tang Zhu Yujiang also began circulating through the jianghu (martial world)...
Simultaneously, the Qing also sent their top martial artists quietly southward, causing a wave of bloody killing intent to first spread through the southern wulin (martial community)!