Pai Mei stops Tse Shan and his pupils from getting out of the staircase. Shih-yu suggests that Pei let them leave if they should fight up to its top, and Pai Mei agrees.

After fierce fighting, Chin-chung succeeds with injury, and Pai Mei lets them leave.

Tse Shan and his party arrive at an old temple to lick their wounds. Chin-chung inflicts heavy injury on Tse Shan and snatches the jade pendant while Hsi-kuan and Shih-yu are out searching for food.

Chin-chung, who turns out to be Chien Lung's spy in Shaolin, wins high praise from Ao Kun for his success in getting the pendant. And Pai Mei offers to adopt him his pupil.… ...