Sifu

On a rainy night, Yang, a disgraced student of a martial arts school in China, leads a raid on his former school along with four other martial artists of the Dawn Group: Fajar "The Botanist", a ferocious, mute middle-aged man who wields a machete; Sean "The Fighter", an arrogant young man who wields a staff; Kuroki "The Artist", a young Japanese woman who wields a bladed three-section staff; and Jinfeng "The CEO", an elderly, one-armed woman who wields a rope dart. After defeating the students, Yang confronts the school's sifu, his former master, and strikes him in the chest, causing him to suffer a fatal heart attack. While searching through his belongings, Yang finds the sifu's only child hiding nearby and orders Fajar to slit their throat. The child wakes up to find their throat healed, thanks to an ancient pendant in their hand, which can revive the dead but exponentially increases their age with each resurrection until it breaks from overuse.
Vowing revenge on the Dawn Group, the child spends the next eight years living in isolation, training relentlessly and gathering information on their targets. As a young adult, the sifu's child, now a talented but inexperienced martial artist, begins their quest for revenge, tracking down the members of the Dawn Group. Each member wields a talisman that grants elemental powers, taken on the night of the raid. Yang and the others believed these powers should have been shared, but over time became corrupted by them and eventually began using them for their own selfish gain.
After clearing out the respective areas leading to each accomplice's domain, the martial artist fights and kills each member of the Dawn Group: Fajar, who now works for a gang of drug traffickers in the slums and possesses the Wood talisman, granting him control over plants; Sean, who runs an underground fight club and a brutal martial arts school, where he encourages students to fight for supremacy and permanently scars them with his Fire talisman; Kuroki, who runs an art gallery as a front for organized crime and can create surreal arenas from her own artwork using her Water talisman; and Jinfeng, who has become a wealthy but corrupt businesswoman in the city's largest tower, wielding the Metal talisman.
Eventually, the martial artist goes after Yang, confronting him at his private sanctuary, where Yang reveals his Earth talisman can bring back the dead. After a fierce fight, Yang attempts to disarm the martial artist of the pendant, but the latter deflects the attack and strikes Yang in the chest, killing him the same way he did their father. Afterwards, the martial artist experiences a vision of two graves next to a tree and learns that Yang tried to steal the Earth talisman to save his dying wife and daughter, but was stopped by the sifu, who declared that Yang had lost his worthiness by dishonoring his oath and expelled him from the school. The pendant tells the martial artist of the importance of Wude (the morality of martial arts) and sends them back in time with this knowledge, to the beginning of their quest.
At this point, the player can fight each member of the Dawn Group again, but now they have the option of sparing their opponents after defeating them. Being shown mercy by the martial artist, the Dawn Group members have their fighting spirits broken and willingly renounce their talismans. The game features two possible endings, depending on the player's actions:

If the martial artist kills any of the targets, they will again be sent back in time by the pendant and be forced to re-enact their fights in an endless loop until they learn Wude.
If the martial artist spares all of the targets, they adhere to the principles of Wude and allow Yang to take away the pendant and kill them during the final fight. Yang then sees the two graves in his own vision as the martial artist is temporarily resurrected to finish the fight by the tree, now in the real world. After defeating Yang, the martial artist succumbs to their injuries; however, because they adhered to Wude, they finally attain enlightenment. A post-credits scene shows the martial artist, now a sifu in their own right, training new students at their father's former school, implying they were somehow resurrected (possibly by the pendant for mastering Wude, or by Yang to seek redemption for his sins).