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Sold by his mother for a few coins, he follows a man down a dusty road, and after Ju Geonhwi bans warfare and establishes the duel order, he becomes Number Ten thanks to his Twin Heart Meridians in the dark facility where children are priced and selected.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"In Blade of the Discarded, Chapter 1, an unnamed boy recounts memories of hunger, being sold, and being taken to Manbudong as his struggle for survival begins. Sold by his mother for a few coins, he follows a man down a dusty road, and after Ju Geonhwi bans warfare and establishes the duel order, he becomes Number Ten thanks to his Twin Heart Meridians in the dark facility where children are priced and selected.","key_events":["The buying man takes the boy to Manbudong and wishes him to survive to the end.","Duels replace war for wealth and power, with losers losing everything.","Number Ten receives a reward meal taken from weak children to be eliminated.","Martial Alliance Leader Ju Geonhwi bans war and defeats resisting great sects alone.","A boy is sold by his mother to a strange middle-aged man for a few coins.","Children in Manbudong are tested for physique, assigned martial arts, weak discarded.","The narrator is found to have Twin Heart Meridians and named Number Ten."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"MY EARLIEST MEMORY\nIS OF A CHILD TEARING INTO A DEAD RAT.\n\nIT WAS A CHILD MY AGE, AND THE LOOK IN THAT CHILD'S EYES...\nSHOWED NO ANGER OR SORROW IN THEM.\nTHERE WAS ONLY HOLLOW HUNGER, POOLED DEEP WITHIN IT LIKE A WELL.\n\nAND PERHAPS\n\nI WAS NO DIFFERENT.\nIN A HAZY IMPRESSION I CAN BARELY CALL A MEMORY,\n\nA WOMAN'S HAND ROUGHLY TUGGED AT MY TINY WRIST.\nI CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER HER FACE.\n\nTHE HAND OF THAT WOMAN CALLED MY MOTHER\nWAS ROUGH AND COLD, LIKE A WITHERED BRANCH.\nMY MOTHER LEFT ME STANDING BEFORE A STRANGE, MIDDLE-AGED MAN,\n\nAND POCKETED A FEW COINS RIGHT AFTER.\nTHAT WAS THE FIRST \"PRICE\"\nTHAT WAS EVER PUT ON ME.\n\nAND JUST LIKE THAT, THE WOMAN WALKED AWAY\nWITHOUT LOOKING BACK EVEN ONCE.\nFROM THAT DAY ON,\n\nTHE WORD \"MOTHER\" NEVER CAME OUT OF MY MOUTH.\nI FOLLOWED THE MAN ALONG A MAIN ROAD RIDDLED THICK WITH DUST.\nTHEN HE SUDDENLY SLOWED HIS PACE AND TURNED HIS HEAD SLIGHTLY.\n\nARE YOU SAD?\nNO.\n\n...EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE PARTED WITH YOUR FAMILY?\nIF SELLING ME LETS THEM LIVE A FEW DAYS LONGER,\n\nI DON'T THINK IT'S SOMETHING TO BE SAD ABOUT.\nYOU'RE OLD BEYOND YOUR YEARS.\n\nTHE MAN STARTED WALKING AGAIN,\nWHAT DOES THAT MEAN?\nYOU'LL UNDERSTAND SOMEDAY.\nAND I FOLLOWED BEHIND HIM.\n\nAFTER WE HAD WALKED A LONG WHILE AND THE SUN HAD GONE DOWN,\nTHE MAN SPOKE AGAIN.\n\nCHILD,\nAREN'T YOU CURIOUS WHY I BOUGHT YOU?\nI'M NOT.\n\nI'VE TAKEN IN MORE CHILDREN THAN I CAN COUNT OVER THE PAST DECADE OR SO.\n\nSOME CRIED AND THREW TANTRUMS.\nSOME STRUGGLED TO RUN AWAY.\nOTHERS DID NOTHING BUT STARE BLANKLY AND DROOL.\nHOWEVER,\nA CHILD WHO DOESN'T EVEN ASK WHY THEY WERE SOLD...\n\nYOU'RE THE FIRST.\nEYES AS DEEP AND STILL AS A WELL...\nNO CHILD THAT AGE SHOULD HAVE SUCH EYES.\n\nCHILD...\nI HOPE\nYOU SURVIVE TO THE VERY END.\n\nEVEN IN MANBUDONG.\n\nTHE WAR ENDED.\n\nHERE IN THE MURIM,\nNOT A SINGLE PERSON HAD BELIEVED THE WAR WOULD EVER END.\nYET, AS THOUGH MOCKING THAT OBVIOUS, UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED TRUTH,\n\nTHE WAR REALLY DID END.\nAND ALL OF IT ENDED\nTHROUGH THE HANDS OF A SINGLE MAN.\n\nMARTIAL ALLIANCE LEADER JU GEONHWI\nJU GEONHWI'S MARTIAL PROWESS WAS CONSIDERABLE FOR SOMEONE FROM A SMALL RURAL SECT.\n\nWITH THE BACKING OF THE \"NINE SECTS AND ONE UNION\" AND THE \"FIVE GREAT FAMILIES,\"\nHE ROSE TO BECOME THE MARTIAL ALLIANCE LEADER.\nTHEY HAD SIMPLY WANTED A PUPPET TO LEAD THE ALLIANCE.\n\nHOWEVER...\nJU GEONHWI'S FIRST ORDER AS MARTIAL ALLIANCE LEADER\nWAS SOMETHING THEY HAD NEVER IMAGINED.\n\nFROM THIS DAY FORTH, ALL WARFARE IN THE MURIM IS FORBIDDEN.\nANY SECT THAT DEFIES THIS ORDER\nWILL BE ANNIHILATED.\n\nNATURALLY, THERE WAS RESISTANCE.\n\nTHE PRIDE OF GREAT SECTS WITH CENTURIES OF HISTORY WOULD NOT BE BROKEN SO EASILY.\n\nJU GEONHWI STOOD ALONE AGAINST THEM,\nAND WITH EVERY SWEEP OF HIS SWORD,\n\nTHE BANNERS OF THOSE GREAT SECTS FELL, ONE AFTER ANOTHER.\nAND THAT WAS HOW WAR...\n\nVANISHED FROM THE MURIM.\nHOWEVER,\nWAR HAD MERELY CHANGED ITS OUTWARD APPEARANCE, CLOAKED IN A SHELL CALLED PEACE.\n\nITS TRUE NATURE REMAINED UNCHANGED.\nTHE GREAT SECTS STILL FOUGHT OVER THEIR INTERESTS,\nAND AS ALWAYS, THEY FOUND A NEW WAY.\n\nEVERY CLAIM TO WEALTH AND POWER WAS SETTLED ON THE DUELING PLATFORM,\n\nAND ANY SECT THAT LOST A DUEL LOST EVERYTHING.\nSOME SECTS REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE RESULTS AND PROTESTED,\nBUT THE MARTIAL ALLIANCE LEADER WAS ADAMANT.\n\nAS LONG AS IT ISN'T WAR.\nWITH THE MARTIAL ALLIANCE LEADER MORE RESOLUTE THAN EVER,\n\nEVERY SECT IN THE MURIM CHANGED ITS APPROACH.\nTO WIN THEIR DUELS,\nTHEY BEGAN RESORTING TO ANY MEANS NECESSARY.\n\nAND THAT\nWAS THE BEGINNING\nOF MY HELLISH LIFE.\n\nTHE MARTIAL WORLD'S TWISTED STRUGGLE FOR WEALTH AND POWER...\nA NEW HELL BORN FROM A SHELL CALLED PEACE.\nTHE PLACE THAT FIRST PUT A PRICE ON ME.\n\nTHAT PLACE WAS DARK ENOUGH TO SWALLOW A PERSON WHOLE...\nAND COLD.\nDISCARD THIS ONE.\n\nMOUNT HUA SECT, TWENTY-FOUR- MOVE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD ART.\nKONGTONG SECT, CROUCHING TIGER SWORD ART.\nTHIS ONE, TOO...\n\nDISCARD.\nWHAT WAS HAPPENING...?\nANOTHER WORTHLESS ONE.\nIS THIS ONE THE LAST?\n\nWHAT ON EARTH WERE THEY TESTING FOR?\n\nORPHANED, STARVING CHILDREN WERE EVERYWHERE IN THE CENTRAL PLAINS.\nWHY ON EARTH?\n\nWHY...?\nWHY GATHER UP CHILDREN WHEN THERE WERE SO MANY OF US\nAND EVEN GO SO FAR AS TO PUT A PRICE ON US...?\n\nWHAT WERE THEY TRYING TO DO?\nAS I SAID EARLIER, YOUR CONSTITUTION WILL DETERMINE\nWHICH MARTIAL ART YOU MUST LEARN...\n\nHOLD STILL.\n\nNGHH... AARGH!!!\nKEUK! UGH...!!!\n...WHAT'S THIS?\n\nTHIS ONE IS DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS.\nWHAT KIND OF CONSTITUTION IS THIS?\nI'LL HAVE TO PROBE DEEPER TO FIND OUT.\n\nIT'S USUALLY OVER IN LESS TIME THAN IT TAKES TO DRINK A CUP OF TEA...\n\nTHAT CHILD IS ENDURING ALL THAT?! WHAT KIND OF CHILD...?!!\nONE IS AS HOT AS FIRE,\nAND THE OTHER IS AS COLD AS ICE. COULD THIS BE...?!\n\n\"DUAL HEART MERIDIANS.\"\n\n\"THE NAMGUNG FAMILY'S IMPERIAL SWORD FORM.\"\n\n\"THE NAMGUNG FAMILY'S IMPERIAL SWORD FORM.\"\nTHAT CHILD?\n\nHAS MANBUDONG EVER HAD ANYONE CAPABLE OF LEARNING THE IMPERIAL SWORD FORM?\n\"IMPERIAL SWORD FORM.\"\nA MARTIAL ART THAT REQUIRES A UNIQUE CONSTITUTION FOUND ONLY IN THE NAMGUNG BLOODLINE.\n\nITS OVERWHELMING FORCE CRUSHES THE OPPONENT,\nAND IT MADE THE NAMGUNG FAMILY THE MOST RENOWNED SWORD FAMILY IN THE MURIM.\nAND THIS CHILD CAN LEARN IT...\n\nFROM THIS DAY ON, YOU ARE...\n\n\"NUMBER TEN.\"\nYOU WILL EACH LEARN THE MARTIAL ART I JUST ASSIGNED YOU.\n\nP-PLEASE DON'T KILL US...\nACCEPT IT.\nYOU WERE ALL FATED TO BE ABANDONED BY THE WORLD ANYWAY, WEREN'T YOU?\nDO NOT QUESTION IT OR RESENT IT.\n\nTO LEARN THE MARTIAL ARTS MANBUDONG BESTOWS UPON YOU AND BE SOLD FOR A HIGH PRICE...\nTHAT IS YOUR FATE.\nMY... FATE?\nLEARN IT IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE.\n\nLEARN IT AND BE WORTH YOUR PRICE.\nSOLD HERE FOR A FEW PALTRY COINS,\nONLY TO BE SOLD OFF SOMEWHERE ELSE.\n\nTHEN WHY WAS I BORN?\nWHY MUST I GO TO SUCH LENGTHS TO STAY ALIVE...?\n\nTIME PASSED, BUT THE QUESTION REMAINED UNANSWERED.\nI HAD TO BECOME STRONG TO LIVE,\nAND STRENGTH WOULD LET ME SURVIVE, BUT...\n\nWHY ON EARTH\n\nDID I NEED TO FIGHT SO DESPERATELY JUST TO SURVIVE?\nI TRULY HOPE YOU SURVIVE.\n\nTHE MAN'S WORDS CAME BACK TO ME.\n\nNUMBER TEN.\n\nYOU'RE THE BEST OUT OF THIS BUNCH.\nFOR THAT, I'LL GIVE YOU A REWARD.\n\nYOU'RE CERTAINLY ENJOYING THAT.\nEAT YOUR FILL. EVEN EATING IS A PRIVILEGE OF THE STRONG.\n\nWHILE YOU EAT, TAKE A LOOK\nAT THAT SCENERY.\n?\nSCENERY...?\n\nAH, DIDN'T I TELL YOU?\nTHAT FOOD IS A REWARD FOR YOUR PROGRESS IN TRAINING,\nBUT ORIGINALLY...\n\nIT WAS THEIR SHARE.\nRATHER THAN FEED WEAKLINGS WHO ARE GOING TO BE DISCARDED,\n\nIT'S BETTER TO FILL THE BELLY OF A THING LIKE YOU.\nONLY THEN DID I UNDERSTAND\nWHAT LIFE AND DEATH WERE.\n\nAND...\nA NEW QUESTION AROSE.\nTHEY WOULD KEEP KILLING US TO MAKE MONEY.\n\nTHEN WHAT WAS THE POINT OF SURVIVING FOR THEIR SAKE\nWHILE BEING TREATED LIKE THIS?\nI TRULY HOPE YOU SURVIVE.\n\nWHY ON EARTH HAD HE TOLD ME\nTO SURVIVE?\nI STILL HAD NO ANSWER.\n\nBUT NOW\nI KNEW WHAT I HAD TO DO.\n\nI WILL SURVIVE.\n\nI WILL SURVIVE, NO MATTER WHAT,\nAND FIND THE ANSWER.","bubble_count":189,"pages_count":79,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"In Blade of the Discarded, Chapter 1, an unnamed boy recounts memories of hunger, being sold, and being taken to Manbudong as his struggle for survival begins.","spoiler_summary":"In Blade of the Discarded, Chapter 1, an unnamed boy recounts memories of hunger, being sold, and being taken to Manbudong as his struggle for survival begins. Sold by his mother for a few coins, he follows a man down a dusty road, and after Ju Geonhwi bans warfare and establishes the duel order, he becomes Number Ten thanks to his Twin Heart Meridians in the dark facility where children are priced and selected."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/blade-of-the-discarded-8oudcglv/chapter-1-3dd2z5","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Blade of the Discarded #1","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-29T07:01:52.900Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/blade-of-the-discarded-8oudcglv"}}