While wandering in Chin Yeh Temple and enjoying the landscape, Chung Yuan spots Ha Sha injured, and treats him. Considering him promising, Ha Sha specially imparts him the Manchu Thunder Palm. The Weis seeing this identify him as their longstanding rival and kill him instantly.

Fearing that after learning the Manchu kung fu, Chung Yuan may use it to kill the Hans, Tzu Lung forces him to take an oath against this, and Chung Yuan cannot help but submit.

Wu San-kuei leads the Ching troops to invade the frontier. Emperor Chung Tsing, lamenting the fall of the Capital, kills himself. Princess Chang Ping is also missing. Treacherous ministers Ma Shih-ying and others install King Fu Chu Yu-chung as Emperor in Nanking. Incompetent, King Fu rallies the support of Tzu Lung to station his 100,000 crack men in Nanking……