Like Many Others - Please Help Me With The Title Of A Kung-Fu Movie

Hello everyone...

Before cable TV and non-broadcast stations (in the "long-long-ago") weekends could be boring if you were stuck inside.  In New England around 1978 - 1983 and probably beyond, there were two TV stations that showed what are now movie classics (for some of us anyway).  I saw the movie this post is about around 31 - 35 years ago and I hope you all can help me with the title.  Here is what I do know:

I am 99% sure it is a Shaw Brothers production.

I am 75% sure it stars at least 2 or 3 "Venoms Mob" members.

I am 75% sure it is about Shaolin students getting revenge on Qings or Manchus.

I am 100% sure it is VERY similar to "5 Masters Of Death", but I assure you it is not.

As with "5 Masters Of Death", the story tells about at least 3 but I think it is 5 Shaolin students who have the average kung-fu expected of normal disciples and that they ended up finding masters to teach them skills to counter those of the enemy fighters "bosses" that defeated them during the fight at the temple.  I know it sounds like "5 Masters Of Death", but here is where the story varies greatly.  They split up (be design or chance I don't remember) and end up learning their new skills from the standard collection of old masters (quite the characters weren't they?).  Here is what I remember about 3 of the revenge-seeking Shaolin fighters' training:

1. One fighter thrusts his hands into a large iron vat (or wok) containing heated stones.  He mixes the stones by hand until his hands are burnt and mangled, only to do it over and over again until his hands are impervious to pain and heat. PLEASE NOTE that there is another movie which starts with an EVIL fighter thrusting his hands in and out of a vat with heated red sand.  This is NOT the one. :)  The contents of the vat or wok at least resembled rounded smooth stones maybe about the width of a quarter or a half-dollar.

2. One fighter uses heavier and heavier and heavier leg weights and during a grueling training increases the weight until he has the heaviest weights on and can jump about as high as someone can normally jump.  Of course when he takes them off he is able to jump to the top of what looks like a 12' wall.  PLEASE NOTE that like #1, there is another movie where a fighter uses leg weights, but he trains in a bit with wooden levels and when finished he jumps out of the pit and not over a wall.

3. The last I remember, the fighter is training in a field of bamboo.  Using only his legs, he is to clear the field.  Of course bamboo versus flesh is a HUGE problem for the flesh and like so many others his legs are bruised and bloody before long.  But he, like the others, perseveres until like #1, his legs are impervious to pain or to blunt force trauma.

4. I do think there were two other fighters also training (making 5... JUST like "5 Masters If Death") and they all go to defeat their enemies and thus get revenge for the death of their Shaolin brethren.

This movie often feels like a re-make of "5 Masters Of Death".  When I started looking for this movie, I knew in the back of my mind it wasn't, but I still bought "5 Masters Of Death" and while great, the difference between it and the movie I am looking for is specifically the training.  In the movie I am looking for, their training is similar to Uma Thurmon's short fist attack in "Kill Bill".  Where in "5 Masters Of Death" they are perfecting new skills, they aren't training specific parts of their bodies to be "superhuman" but instead learning new weapons and styles to defeat their opponents.  The one I am looking for takes the time to specifically show how hard and how long the training was and what they had to go through to attain this mastery over the body.  In that respect I like it a lot more than "5 Masters Of Death", but I'll always have a special place in my heart for Pao and his Axe!

Thanks again for listening and I REALLY hope to hear from you!!!

Sincerely and hopefully thankfully,

Eric