He returns to the outside world, namely to his hometown, and assists the people, gathering several young men who loyally follow him and become his first students. When San Te professes that he wants to create a new chamber where he can train ordinary people in the basics of kung fu so they can defend themselves against their oppressors, the temple officially banishes him in a surreptitious way to allow him to carry out his mission.

However, after inventing the three section staff, San Te finally prevails and gains the chief abbot's permission to become overseer of one of the chambers.

Challenged by the monastery's Discipline Chief, who thinks him unfit for his role, San Te has several exhibition matches with him, only to be beaten each time. San Te advances more rapidly than any previous student, reaching the rank of deputy overseer within the space of six years.

Ninth Chamber: This chamber trains staff techniques.

'Sword Chamber': This chamber trains broadsword techniques.

'Leg Chamber': This chamber trains kicking techniques.

Seventh Chamber: This is the chamber for training empty-hand forms and techniques.

This is the last conditioning chamber after passing this chamber, San Te is allowed to learn kung fu techniques. Monks must headbutt their way through a corridor of sandbags and then place incense sticks on an altar.

Sixth Chamber: This chamber trains head strength.

Monks must follow a light without turning their heads, or risk getting burned by large sticks of incense.

Fifth Chamber: This chamber trains eyesight.

Monks must strike a gong with a weighted pole to the rhythm of the head master's striking his wooden fish.

Fourth Chamber: This chamber trains wrist strength.

The chamber also serves as the monastery's laundry. Monks must carry water in buckets with blades attached to their arms to keep the arms held straight out.

Third Chamber: This chamber trains arm strength.

Falling in the water requires the monk to dry his clothes off before entering the dining hall (by which time the food is all gone). Monks in training must jump on a bundle of sticks floating in a pool of water to reach the dining hall.

'35th Chamber': This chamber teaches lightness and balance.

San Te flees the chamber, and agrees to start at a lower level. When the head master of the chamber tells San Te to leave due to his ignorance of the sutras, San Te protests, only for the head master to knock him down from a distance.

'Top Chamber': This is considered the highest-level chamber, where the monks are reciting the Buddhist sutras from memory.

The chambers shown in San Te's training are as follows (names of the chambers, if given, are from the subtitles and in quotation marks): One year later, Yude - now known as San Te - begins his martial arts training in the temple's 35 chambers, in each of which the temple's novices are trained in one aspect of the kung fu fighting arts. Initially the monks reject him, since he is an outsider, but the chief abbot has mercy on the young man and lets him stay. Wounded by Manchu henchmen during an escape, Yude reaches the temple and seeks sanctuary.

Yude decides to seek vengeance and liberation for the people, and heads for the Shaolin temple to learn kung fu. The government officials, headed by the brutal General Tien Ta, however, quickly discover and suppress the uprising, liquidating the school and killing the students' friends and family members. A young student named Liu Yude is drawn by his activist teacher into the local rebellion against the Manchu government.

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