Been trained in covert combat from youth, the Jinyiwei are all masters of this 14 Blades. Eight five for killing, for torture, when a mission failed, and the previous blade booked for suicide. The Jinyiwei devoted prowess and their lives into the service of the Emperor alone an elite force of covert agents with a permit to kill. As soon as the Imperial Court is absorbed by bad eunuch Jia (Law Kar Ying), the most useful of the Jinyiwei, Qinglong (Donnie Yen) is assigned to steal a list identifying those loyal to the Emperor. However unbeknownst into Qinglong, the Jinyiwei during the mission Qinglong has been strangled and barely escapes with his life, also have fallen under the hands of Jia. Now as the most wanted man from the territory, Qinglong must seek out and rally the loyalists to rise against Jia and reestablish the Emperor. Are the most deadly assassins his former brethren, from the territory, the Jinyiwei.