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HARDSUB chapters: image-only, transcript_unavailable.","citation_preferred":true,"untrusted_fields_separated":true},"trusted":{"series":{"title":"Return of the Blossoming Blade","slug":"return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w","original_title":"화산귀환"},"chapter":{"number":180,"chapter_key":"180-fv22yi","title":"(S3) Episode 174","release_date":"2026-09-19","last_updated":"2026-11-02T10:29:00.160Z","summary":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 180 finds Cheongmyeong returning home to Mount Hua and facing a new crisis over a cracked medicine pot. After watching his companions drive lax disciples to brutal peak-running training, he learns the Primordial Panacea Pellet recipe requires a giant pot infused with inner Qi, which has already shattered three cast-iron pots. He boldly promises Millennium Steel by tomorrow.","summary_source":"graph_aggregator","summary_status":"generated","summary_verification":"unverified"},"summary":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 180 finds Cheongmyeong returning home to Mount Hua and facing a new crisis over a cracked medicine pot. After watching his companions drive lax disciples to brutal peak-running training, he learns the Primordial Panacea Pellet recipe requires a giant pot infused with inner Qi, which has already shattered three cast-iron pots. He boldly promises Millennium Steel by tomorrow.","key_events":["Cheongmyeong reflects on delegation and sect growing stronger through harsh training cascade","Medicine pots crack from inner qi infusion needed for Primordial Panacea Pellet","Cheongmyeong promises to supply Millennium Steel within one day for new pot","Elders discover finished giant Millennium Steel pot and are shocked","Cheongmyeong cuts Millennium Steel slab from secret vault and hammers it into pot shape overnight","Returned disciples punish juniors for slacking with forced runs up peaks"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"HOME SWEET HOME, HUH?\nI CAN BARELY RECALL THE LAST TIME I HAD THE LEISURE TO WATCH THE CLOUDS FLOAT BY.\n\nSUCH IS THE BEAUTY OF DELEGATION, I SUPPOSE.\nLOOK LIVELY, YOU MAGGOTS!\nHOW IS IT THAT A MEASLY MONTH WAS ENOUGH TO LEAVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU SO UTTERLY USELESS?!\nSHAME ON YOU!\n\nI SEE IT AS PLAIN AS DAY! NO SOONER HAD WE DEPARTED THAN YOU TOOK IT UPON YOURSELVES TO SLACK OFF FROM TRAINING FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH!\nAND YOU EXPECT ME TO TRUST YOU LOUSY IDLERS ON OUR MISSIONS AWAY?!\nB-BROTHER...\nOH, SO NOW I'M YOUR BROTHER, AM I?!\nTELL ME, BAEKSANG, WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN MY ABSENCE?!\n\nIS HE POSSESSED...?!\nENOUGH OUT OF YOU.\nTO THE TOP OF WILD GOOSE PEAK YOU GO.\n\nAND YOU OUGHT TO MAKE HASTE, IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU.\nTHE LAST HALF TO RETURN WILL BE SENT STRAIGHT BACK UP!\nNOW RUN, YOU LAZY MAGGOTS!!!\n\nHMM.\nSINCE OUR SENIORS HAVE BEEN SENT ON A WILD GOOSE CHASE, SO TO SPEAK, YOU LOT WILL ASCEND LOTUS PEAK INSTEAD.\nWHAT...?!\nAND SEEING AS HOW THE HALF THAT ARRIVES LATE SHALL BE SENT BACK,\n\nLET ME THINK, HMM...\nAHA.\nI SAY THE REST OF YOU, ASIDE FROM THE FIRST TEN TO RETURN, WILL REPEAT THE HIKE.\nB-BY WHOSE AUTHORITY?!\nBY OURS, YOU BUNCH OF SLACKERS! DO WE NEED TO TELL YOU TWICE?!\n\nSAVE YOUR BREATH AND GET RUNNING!!!\nWHAT IN THE PLUM BLOSSOMS GOTTEN INTO THEM?!\nDON'T ASK ME, JUST RUN!\nIT BEGGARS BELIEF THAT WE WERE AWAY FOR BUT A MONTH AND THIS IS WHAT WE COME HOME TO.\nTHOUGH I'M LOATH TO ADMIT IT, I SEE NOW WHAT CHEONGMYEONG MADE OF US WHEN HE FIRST CAME TO THE SECT.\nI SEE IT TOO, SENIOR BROTHER, IF NOT QUITE ENOUGH TO SYMPATHIZE.\n\nYOU'RE QUITE WELCOME. WHERE WOULD YOU BE WITHOUT ME, EH?\nAFTER ALL THE BEATINGS FOR MORALE-- I MEAN, INTENSIVE TRAINING ON OUR WAY TO YUNNAN...\nIT'S NO WONDER EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM HAS GROWN SEVERALFOLD IN TERMS OF THEIR PROWESS COMPARED TO BEFORE.\nNOT ONLY HAVE THEY FULLY ABSORBED THE INNER QI OF THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA PELLETS, BUT THEIR TECHNIQUES HAVE BECOME MORE REFINED THAN EVER.\nON TOP OF THAT, THE SERIES OF GREAT MASTERS WE ENCOUNTERED IN OUR TRAVELS IS ALL BUT CERTAIN TO HAVE RAISED THEIR STANDARDS FOR MARTIAL PROWESS.\n\nWITH ANY LUCK, MY COMPANIONS WILL GO ON TO HOLD THE TRAINEES IN THEIR CHARGE TO THE SAME, UNCOMPROMISING STANDARD.\nIN TIME... THIS IS HOW A SECT ATTAINS GREATNESS.\n\nAS ONE MASTER BEGINS TO DEMAND MORE FROM HIS PEERS...\nSO, TOO, WILL THEY FORCE THEIR JUNIORS TO LEARN FROM HIS EXAMPLE.\nONCE THIS PROCESS REPEATS ITSELF MANY TIMES OVER, IT CREATES A CASCADE IN WHICH THE ENTIRE SECT HOLDS EACH OTHER TO ACCOUNT TO GROW MORE POWERFUL IN UNISON.\nAFTER A YEAR OR SO, IT WILL BE SECOND NATURE TO OUR SECT SIBLINGS TO TRAIN THEMSELVES INDEPENDENTLY OF OUR HARANGUING.\n\nTHIS IS HOW A LEGACY IS PASSED DOWN THROUGH THE GENERATIONS...\n...TO BUILD A SECT OF GREAT RENOWN.\nTO SOW THE SEEDS OF POTENTIAL AND WATCH THEM SPROUT IS ALWAYS A JOYFUL ENDEAVOR.\nEVENTUALLY, DISCIPLINE AND DIRECTION SHALL BE RESTORED TO MOUNT HUA, AND WITH THE BOON OF THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA IN OUR HANDS, OUR ASCENT WILL BE SWIFT BEYOND ALL RECKONING.\n\nNOW, TIME FOR A WELL-EARNED NAP--\nCHEONGMYEEEEONG!!!\nOR NOT.\nCHEONGMYEONG! WHERE ARE YOU?!\n\nYOUR BELOVED SECT NEEDS YOU ONCE MORE!!!\nEpisode 174\nLOOK, CHEONGMYEONG!\n\nWHAT ARE WE TO DO ABOUT THIS?\nTHE MEDICINE POT, SECT LEADER?\nWHAT ABOUT IT?\nTAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT ITS BASE!\nTHERE'S A CRACK IN IT.\nWHAT SORT OF CRACKPOT WOULD VANDALIZE AN INANIMATE OBJECT?\n\nFOR A START, IT WAS ME, AND I HAD NO INTENTION OF VANDALIZING IT, BUT TO INFUSE IT WITH MY INNER QI.\nYOUR INNER QI? IN A POT?\nWHAT WOULD BE THE POINT IN THAT, SECT LEADER? THIS IS A POT, NOT A SWORD.\nUNLESS YOU'VE BEEN WORKING ON A NEW STYLE THAT USES A POT AS A WEAPON, OF COURSE.\nNOT QUITE, BUT THE POT DOES HAVE ITS USES FOR A SOMEWHAT PECULIAR STEP IN THE RECIPE FOR THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA PELLET.\nYOU SEE, CRAFTING THE PELLET REQUIRES THE MEDICINE POT TO BE HEATED TO A SUITABLE TEMPERATURE BY A MASTER OF THE INTERNAL ARTS WHO POSSESSES A VAST RESERVE OF INNER QI.\n\nA POT HEATED BY THE INDUCTION OF A MASTER'S QI?\nWHAT DOES THAT DO, EXACTLY?\nTHE EXACT MECHANISM IS A MYSTERY TO ME, EXCEPT TO VENTURE THAT THE INFUSION OF INNER QI CLEANSES THE POT OF IMPURE ENERGIES.\nAGAIN, SOUNDS LIKE A CRACKPOT THEORY TO ME.\nBUT I SUPPOSE THE IMMORTAL PHYSICIAN'S CRAFT WAS STRANGER THAN FICTION.\nEVEN NOW, HIS SECRETS CONFOUND US ALL.\n\nEXCEPT THIS HAPPENED?\nINDEED, WE HAD LORD SECT LEADER HERE INFUSE THE MEDICINE POT WITH HIS QI, BUT THE POT SIMPLY COULD NOT WITHSTAND THE STRAIN.\nTHIS IS THE THIRD WE'VE BROKEN, IN FACT.\nFORTUNATELY, WE WERE MERELY TESTING THE PROCESS IN ADVANCE,\nOTHERWISE WE MIGHT HAVE WASTED AN ENTIRE BATCH OF PRECIOUS INGREDIENTS.\nJUST TO SUMMARIZE...\n\nCRAFTING THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA PELLET NEEDS AN INFUSION OF INNER QI INTO THE MEDICINE POT, EXCEPT SIMPLE CAST-IRON POTS SUCH AS THESE CANNOT BEAR THE STRAIN, IS THAT IT?\nQUITE SO.\nTHEN WHY NOT MAKE ONE USING THE SAME ALLOY WE USE TO FORGE OUR BLADES?\nI NEVER SEE OUR SWORDS CRACKING FROM ANY AMOUNT OF QI.\nTHAT WOULD BE LIKE COMPARING APPLES TO ORANGES, I'M AFRAID.\nA SWORD IS CUSTOMARILY FORGED AND HAMMERED INTO SHAPE, WHEREAS A POT OF THIS SIZE CANNOT BE CRAFTED THE SAME WAY.\n\nACCORDING TO OUR NEW TRAINEE SOSO, NOT EVEN THE TANG CLAN WOULD BE CAPABLE OF SUCH A THING.\nIN MY ESTIMATION, A PURER, STRONGER KIND OF IRON MAY BE NEEDED, BUT SUCH FINE METALS ARE OFTEN EXCEEDINGLY DIFFICULT TO ACQUIRE IN VOLUME.\nTHEN WHY NOT PRODUCE THE PELLETS IN BATCHES USING A SMALLER POT INSTEAD?\nTHE THOUGHT DID CROSS MY MIND, UNTIL I REALIZED THAT THE IMMORTAL PHYSICIAN'S NOTES OUTLINED SPECIFIC MEASUREMENTS AND PROPORTIONS FOR A REASON.\n\nREDUCING THE AMOUNT OF THE PELLETS REQUIRES AN ADJUSTMENT OF THE PROPORTIONS ALTOGETHER, WHICH I'M AFRAID IS BEYOND MY MEANS.\nTHEN WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS...\nWE NOW NEED ENOUGH STEEL OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY THAT CAN WITHSTAND A VAST INFLUX OF INNER QI, TO CAST INTO A GIANT MEDICINE POT OF ALL THINGS?\nIN SO MANY WORDS, YES.\nONE THING AFTER ANOTHER... IS THERE SIMPLY NO END TO THE AMOUNT OF FETCH QUESTS THIS SECT WILL SEND ME ON?\nIS THIS SOME SORT OF DIVINE PUNISHMENT?\n\nDON'T LOOK AT ME.\nHAAA...\nWHERE WOULD WE FIND SUCH A METAL...?\nWAIT, IRON...?\nTHE KIND THAT COULD WITHSTAND AN INFUSION OF INNER QI...\nENOUGH TO CAST INTO A GIANT MEDICINE POT?\n\nIT CERTAINLY RINGS A BELL...\nWOULD THE MILLENNIUM STEEL SUFFICE?\nIT MOST CERTAINLY WOULD! A FABLED METAL LIKE THAT WOULD BE PERFECT, IN FACT!\n\nBUT IF IT WERE SO EASY TO GET HOLD OF SOME, WE WOULD NOT BE IN NEED OF YOUR HELP, CHEONGMYEONG.\nIS IT POSSIBLE THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW SOME WAY OF OBTAINING SOME MILLENNIUM STEEL POSTHASTE?\nHA...!\nHEHEHE, HAHAHAHA!\nHMM?\nMILLENNIUM STEEL, EH? HAHA! HAHAHAHA!\n\nF-FORGIVE ME, CHEONGMYEONG... I SUPPOSE IT WAS TOO MUCH TO ASK.\nEVEN FOR A DISCIPLE OF YOUR RESOURCEFULNESS, I SUPPOSE A MYTHICAL METAL OF THAT KIND IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SOURCE IN QUANTITY--\nONE DAY.\nPARDON?\nWELL, ONE BUSINESS DAY. YOU'LL HAVE IT TOMORROW AT THE LATEST, LORD ELDER.\nHAVE WHAT, PRAY?\nTHE MILLENNIUM STEEL, OF COURSE.\n\nOR WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO BEAT IT INTO THE SHAPE OF A POT FIRST?\n\nIT WAS AROUND HERE, IF MEMORY SERVES ME...\nOR MAYBE NOT.\n\nAHA!\nCHEONG-MOLE STRIKES AGAIN.\nONCE MORE INTO THE SECRET VAULT OF MOUNT HUA.\n\nTHOUGH IT HAD SLIPPED MY MIND THROUGH THE MYRIAD HAPPENINGS...\nIT WAS EARLY IN MY RETURN TO MOUNT HUA THAT I DISCOVERED A VAST REPOSITORY OF MILLENNIUM STEEL, AMONG OTHER THINGS.\nSINCE THERE WILL BE NO NEED TO FORCE THE DOORS OPEN THIS TIME, I DARESAY NO ONE WILL NOTICE IF I SNEAK RIGHT UNDERNEATH THE VAULT AND SLICE OFF A PIECE FROM ITS BASE.\n\nBLESS YOU, BROTHER SECT LEADER!\nFIRST, YOU GUIDE ME TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM, AND NOW THE MILLENNIUM STEEL! AS YOUR BELOVED JUNIOR BROTHER, I GRACIOUSLY ACCEPT THIS GIFT!\nBELOVED JUNIOR BROTHER? MORE LIKE GREEDY VAULT ROBBER!\nI SUPPOSE THE VAULT WAS FASHIONED FROM MILLENNIUM STEEL FOR A REASON.\nEVEN WITH A SWORD AURA, MY BLADE FAILED TO LEAVE THE LIGHTEST SCRAPE.\nHAD I NOT ELEVATED MY INNER QI SEVERAL TIMES TO THIS DAY, I WOULD NOT DARE TO TRY AND CUT THROUGH THE VAULT NOW.\n\nGOOD THING I HAVE COME LEAPS AND BOUNDS SINCE THEN.\n\nSHAME MY BRAIN HASN'T GROWN IN THAT TIME...!\nWHERE ELSE WAS THE SLAB SUPPOSED TO GO IF I CUT IT DIRECTLY ABOVE MY HEAD?!\n\nI SHOULD HOPE THIS WILL BE BIG ENOUGH FOR A COOKING POT...\n...ALTHOUGH, IT'S A LITTLE THIN, ISN'T IT?\n\nI MEAN...\n...THIS METAL LAYER WAS PROBABLY AS THICK AS WE COULD AFFORD. BUILDING A VAULT THIS VAST USING A FABLED METAL LIKE MILLENNIUM STEEL WOULD HAVE COST EVEN THE GREAT SHAOLIN TEMPLE AN ARM AND A LEG, LET ALONE AN INDEPENDENT SECT SUCH AS MOUNT HUA.\nTHE ORIGINAL PLAN WAS TO SCOOP OUT A THICK, ROUND PLATE TO CARVE RIGHT INTO A MEDICINE POT BY SWORD, BUT NOW...\n...THERE'S ONLY ONE THING FOR IT.\n\nI'LL JUST BEAT YOU INTO SHAPE MYSELF!\nTAKE THAT!\nAND THAT!\nEVERY SINGLE TIME!\n\nDO I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING AROUND HERE?!\nWELL, WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT...?\nTHIS IS GOING TO TAKE THE WHOLE D*** NIGHT AT THIS RATE! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!\n\nLET'S SEE WHO BENDS OR BREAKS FIRST, YOU OR ME!!!\n\nDESPITE AN ENTIRE NIGHT OF PONDERING VARIOUS MEANS TO SOURCE THE MILLENNIUM STEEL, WE ARE NO CLOSER TO FINDING A SUREFIRE WAY.\nEVEN IF WE DO SUCCEED IN SECURING THE STEEL, HOW WOULD WE CAST IT INTO A POT?\nYOUNG CHEONGMYEONG MAY BE A FIEND FOR FINDING PRECIOUS OBJECTS, TO BE SURE, BUT THE MILLENNIUM STEEL IS A MATERIAL OF FABLED RARITY...\n\nINDEED, I OUGHT TO CALL OFF THE SEARCH.\nNO DOUBT THE BOY TRIED HIS BEST TO MAKE GOOD ON HIS BOASTFUL CLAIMS...\nI OUGHT TO OFFER HIM SOME WORDS OF COMFORT ON A WASTED ENDEAVOR.\n\nA GIANT POT?!\n\nA QI-INFUSED SWORD SHATTERED LIKE GLASS...\nTH-THEN THIS HAS TO BE THE GENUINE ARTICLE...!\nS-SECT LEADER!\n\nLORD SECT LEADEEEER!!!","bubble_count":159,"pages_count":42,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 180 finds Cheongmyeong returning home to Mount Hua and facing a new crisis over a cracked medicine pot.","spoiler_summary":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 180 finds Cheongmyeong returning home to Mount Hua and facing a new crisis over a cracked medicine pot. After watching his companions drive lax disciples to brutal peak-running training, he learns the Primordial Panacea Pellet recipe requires a giant pot infused with inner Qi, which has already shattered three cast-iron pots. He boldly promises Millennium Steel by tomorrow."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w/chapter-180-fv22yi","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Return of the Blossoming Blade #180: (S3) Episode 174","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-11-05T07:22:32.582Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w"}}