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Exhausted and sleep-deprived, the Sect Leader and elders struggle to maintain heat and stirring until their arms seize on the final day, forcing Cheongmyeong to take up the paddle to save the precious medicine.","summary_source":"graph_aggregator","summary_status":"generated","summary_verification":"unverified"},"summary":"The elders test a paper-thin Millennium Steel pot that endures full qi, then begin crafting the Violet Sky Pellets with Golden Spirit Fruit, Soul Descent Water, and morning dew. The mixture must simmer for ten days without stopping. Exhausted and sleep-deprived, the Sect Leader and elders struggle to maintain heat and stirring until their arms seize on the final day, forcing Cheongmyeong to take up the paddle to save the precious medicine.","key_events":["Elders begin decade-long simmer adding golden fruit essence, soul water and morning dew","Millennium steel vessel endures full qi infusion, proving it can contain panacea ingredients","Sect leader wakes after blackout to harmonious fragrance and hears ill tidings","Elders collapse from seized arms with less than a day left, risking the medicine","Young disciple takes over stirring paddle to save unevenly mixed medicine","Elders share vision of perfect harmony of five elements inside giant metal pot","Stirring continues for nine days with elders exhausting qi and unable to stop process"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"AHA!\nIT'S HOLDING!\nTHEN THE LEGENDS OF THE MILLENNIUM STEEL ARE PROVEN TRUE! AS PAPER-THIN AS IT APPEARS, IT IS ENDURING THE FULL EXTENT OF MY QI!\nOUTSTANDING!\nTHIS WILL DO VERY NICELY INDEED, SECT LEADER!\n\nWE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED TO CRAFT THE PRIMORDIAL-- I MEAN, THE VIOLET SKY PELLETS!\nALL OUR EFFORTS SHALL BE REWARDED AT LAST...\nREJOICE, BROTHERS...! OUR ANCESTORS ARE SMILING UPON US!\n\nANCESTORS, MY BLOSSOMING BEHIND. IT TOOK ME AN ENTIRE NIGHT OF BASHING THAT SOLID HUNK OF METAL WITH MY FISTS WHILE YOU IDLERS SLEPT SOUNDLY IN YOUR BEDS.\nALTHOUGH I SUPPOSE...\n...I'M SOMETHING OF AN ANCESTOR MYSELF.\nCAN WE PLEASE GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD...?\n\nEpisode 175\nNOW TO ADD THE ESSENCE OF GOLDEN SPIRIT FRUIT...\n...SOUL DESCENT WATER...\n...AND AN ENTIRE JAR OF THE PUREST MORNING DEW...!\n\nLET US COMMENCE, GENTLEMEN!\nHYEONSANG!\nON IT, BROTHER SECT LEADER!\n\nTHERE WE HAVE IT, BROTHERS! JUST SO!\nTHIS IS THE IDEAL SIMMER!\nWE NEED ONLY TO KEEP THIS UP!\nFOR HOW LONG?\nONLY ABOUT TEN DAYS OR SO, SECT LEADER!\n\nEXCELLENT! LET US GET TO IT--\nHOW MANY DAYS NOW?\nH-HOLD ON A MOMENT!\nHAD I KNOWN IT WOULD TAKE SO LONG, I WOULD HAVE HAD US TAKE A COMFORT BREAK FIRST AT THE VERY LEAST...!\nTOO LATE NOW, SECT LEADER! ONCE THE PROCESS HAS BEGUN, IT CANNOT BE HALTED!\nYOU BETTER HOLD ON TIGHT FOR THE NEXT TEN DAYS!\n\nOUR DISCIPLES CAN TAKE OVER FROM TIME TO TIME, BUT ONLY FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS AT A PUSH!\nI SUGGEST YOU CIRCULATE YOUR INNER QI WITH MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY TO MINIMIZE LEAKAGE AND KEEP UP THE OUTPUT FOR THE NEXT TEN DAYS!\nIT IS NOT MY QI I AM WORRIED ABOUT LEAKING! ESPECIALLY AT MY AGE...!\nI BELIEVE IN YOU, LORD SECT LEADER!\nBESIDES, IF ANYTHING, IT IS THE LACK OF SLEEP YOU OUGHT TO WORRY ABOUT!\nIN ANY CASE, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, ELDERS! SOME OF YOU MAY DIE, BUT THAT IS A SACRIFICE I AM WILLING TO MAKE!\nWHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!\n\nI'M JUST SAYING, SECT LEADER, I'LL MAKE SURE TO TELL THEM THAT YOU DIED DOING WHAT I LOVED MOST... STIRRING THE POT!\nYOU GET BACK HERE, RIGHT THIS INSTANT!\nARE THE INGREDIENTS THE ONLY THING YOU CARE ABOUT?! THIS IS EXPLOITATION OF ELDER LABOR, PLAIN AND SIMPLE!\nAND SO, THE FIRST DAY OF CRAFTING DREW TO A CLOSE...\n\n..THEN TWO...\n...THREE...\n...FIVE...\n\n...A WEEK...\n...UNTIL THE NINTH DAY.\nYOU CANNOT LET YOUR INNER QI FALTER, SECT LEADER!\nWE HAVE A TEMPERATURE TO MAINTAIN!\n\nLORD SECT LEADER!\nELDERS, PLEASE!\nW-WE CANNOT AFFORD TO SLACKEN, NOT NOW...!\nWE CAN REST... WHEN WE ARE DEAD...!\nTHIS MUST BE DONE...!\n\nAT ALL COSTS...!\nUN-GAK... HOW MUCH LONGER MUST WE PERSIST...?\nONLY A DAY NOW, SECT LEADER.\nA-A DAY HAS NEVER FELT SO LONG...\nCOME NOW, SECT LEADER! LET US HAVE NO MORE OF YOUR WHINING!\nYOU TOO, BROTHER! SAY AH!\n\nAND IF YOU TRULY FEEL THAT YOU ARE ON DEATH'S DOOR, MIGHT I REMIND YOU HOW THINGS WERE ONLY THREE YEARS AGO? WE COULD SCARCELY AFFORD THIS BOWL OF PORRIDGE, LET ALONE A MYTHICAL PANACEA!\nI WOULD RATHER STIR THAT POT FOR A THOUSAND DAYS THAN BE PENNILESS ON THE STREETS!\nHE'S OUT OF LINE, BUT HE'S RIGHT...!\n\nAS ARDUOUS AS THE JOURNEY MAY BE, THIS IS OUR BID FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE!\nIT IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE BITTER STRUGGLE OF HAVING TO BORROW A COIN OR TWO EACH DAY JUST TO BUY GRAINS FOR OUR DISCIPLES!\nSUCCESS IS OUR ONLY OPTION!\nTHIS MAY WELL BE MY LAST DAY ON EARTH, BUT THE PANACEA MUST BE COMPLETED FIRST!\nONE MORE DAY, BROTHERS!\nWE NEED ONLY TO HOLD FAST FOR ANOTHER DAY!\n\nINDEED...! WHAT IS A DAY BUT A FLEETING MOMENT?!\nAFTER THESE NINE LONG DAYS, ONE MORE WILL PASS IN AN INSTANT!\n\nWITHOUT DOUBT, SOMETHING IS COMING TOGETHER...\nTHE MIXTURE'S AROMA GROWS THICKER,\nWHILE THE INITIAL INGREDIENTS HAVE DISINTEGRATED INTO A SHAPELESS MUSH...\n\nA DEEP, INVITING SCENT...\nTHE FRAGRANCE OF PURITY...\n...AND BLISSFUL--\nLORD SECT LEADER!\nYOUR INNER QI OUTPUT IS WANING!\n\nBY THE ANCESTORS...\nHAVING FUN THERE, SECT LEADER?\n?\n\nCARE FOR A TREAT?\nDO YOU TAKE ME FOR CATTLE OF SOME KIND?\nAND MUST YOU SIT AROUND IDLY WHEN YOU CLEARLY HAVE PRECIOUS LITTLE INTENTION OF TAKING OVER ON OUR BEHALF?\nOF COURSE HE MUST!\nWHY WOULD WE NOT WANT HIM WITH US, BROTHER SECT LEADER?!\n\nLET US NOT MINCE WORDS HERE. HOW DID THINGS TURN OUT FOR US BACK IN THE DAY WHEN WE ONLY HAD OURSELVES AND THAT QUACK UN-GAK TO RELY UPON?\nWE SQUANDERED ALL OUR MONEY AND THEN SOME!\nBE THAT AS IT MAY, DO YOU SEE THE BOY AIDING US IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM?!\nWHY, HE IS HELPING US AS OUR LUCKY CHARM!\nTHERE IS A REASON WHY AFFLUENT HOUSEHOLDS ALWAYS HAVE A GOLDEN TOAD IN THEIR HOME... TO INVITE WEALTH!\nI SAY YOUNG CHEONGMYEONG HERE IS OUR GOLDEN TOAD, SO TO SPEAK, AND I WILL NOT HAVE ANY OF YOU JINX THE ENDEAVOR BY SENDING HIM AWAY!\n\nHEAR, HEAR!\nNOT TO CRITICIZE, CHIEF PHYSICIAN, BUT I NOTICED YOUR HANDS SLOWING DOWN A TOUCH.\nAND WHILE WE ARE AT IT, YOUR QI OUTPUT COULD BE HIGHER, LORD SECT LEADER. NO TREAT FOR YOU!\nI-IS THAT SO?\nUHH...\nHUH?!\n\nTH-THE PADDLE WON'T BUDGE...!\nARGH! M-MY ARMS!!!\nTHEY'RE SEIZING UP! SOMEBODY TAKE OVER!\nWH-WHAT SHOULD WE DO?\nSHALL I ROUSE ONE OF YOUR FELLOWS FROM THE UN LINE OF DISCIPLES?!\n\nMY PEERS SIMPLY WILL NOT DO, ELDER! WE NEED SOMEBODY WITH A DEEPER RESERVE OF QI!\nTHEN ALLOW ME TO STEP UP AND DO MY PART!\nI SAID SOMEONE WITH A DEEPER QI RESERVE, NOT A DEEPER COIN PURSE!\nIS NO ONE ELSE UP TO THE TASK?!\nN-NO!\nMY ARMS ARE AS STIFF AS A PLANK!\n\nSOMEBODY! ANYBODY!\nSAVE THE PRECIOUS INGREDIENTS!\nFINE!\nIF A FEW DAYS OF HARD WORK IS TOO MUCH FOR YOU ALL, THEN LET ME GIVE IT A TRY!\n\nWH-WHAT DO YOU KNOW... ABOUT HARD WORK...?\nURGH...\nU-UN-GAK!\nGAH...!\nHYEONSANG!\nS-SO CLOSE...!\n\nBROTHERS! NOOO!\nWHO WILL TAKE UP THE STIRRING PADDLE NOW?!\n\nWITH LESS THAN A DAY LEFT TO GO, WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA PELLETS...?\nIS THIS THE END OF OUR SECT'S GRAND AMBITIONS...?\n\nNOT AFTER THE HELL WE WENT THROUGH TO GATHER THIS POT FULL OF CRAP!\nI'D RATHER DIE THAN LET IT ALL BE IN VAIN!\nAS A WISE MAN ONCE SAID, GET RICH OR DIE TRYING!!!\nW-WELL SAID, CHEONGMYEONG! SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE PROFITEER-- I MEAN, PRODIGY OF OUR SECT!!!\n\nAT A GLANCE, IT MAY SEEM AS THOUGH THE INGREDIENTS ARE EVENLY MIXED, BUT PARTS OF THE MIXTURE CONTAIN TOO MUCH OF ONE INGREDIENT AND TOO LITTLE OF ANOTHER.\nTHE MEDICINE WILL NOT BIND UNLESS THE INGREDIENTS ARE EVENLY DISPERSED THROUGHOUT.\nSUCH PRECISION IS A GIVEN WHEN IT COMES TO A MEDICINE LIKE THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA PELLET!\nONCE AGAIN, IT FALLS ON LITTLE OLD CHEONGMYEONG TO SAVE THE DAY! TIME TO FINISH THIS!\n\nTHE IMMORTAL PHYSICIAN'S FORMULA FOR THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA PELLET EMBODIES THE PINNACLE OF FLAWLESS HARMONY, UPON WHICH I MUST ADD MY OWN QI...\n...THE PUREST AND MOST REFINED ENERGY OF ALL!\n\nBY THE BLOSSOMS... IS THIS IT?!\n\nHMM?\nWHAT IS THIS PLACE...?\nSOOTHING RAYS OF SUN AMIDST A VERDANT FOREST...\nA GENTLE STREAM FLOWING THROUGH THE COOL EARTH...\n\nTHIS MUST BE THE PERFECT HARMONY THE ANCIENTS SPOKE OF... A TRUE MANIFESTATION OF THE FIVE ELEMENTS...!\nDID WE SOMEHOW REACH ENLIGHTENMENT WHILE CRAFTING THE PANACEA...?\nTHE FIVE ELEMENTS, SECT LEADER? WATER, FIRE, WOOD, METAL, EARTH... ARE WE NOT MISSING THE ELEMENT OF METAL?\nINDEED NOT! LOOK AROUND YOU, UN-GAK!\nDO YOU NOT SEE THAT ALL THIS HARMONY IS BUT THE CONTENTS OF A GIANT METAL POT?\n\nWH-WHAT IS THAT, A GIANT FINGER?!\nCHEONGMYEONG?! IT'S YOUNG CHEONGMYEONG, SECT LEADER!\n\nCHEONGMYEONG!\nOVER HEEEERE!!!\nPRIMORDIAL PANA-SAVE US!!!\n\nDID I FALL UNCONSCIOUS DURING THE CRAFTING PROCESS...?\nI SEEM TO BE ALIVE, AT THE VERY LEAST...\n\nH-HOW IS THE MEDICINE COMING ALONG...?\nTHE PRI-- NO, THE VIOLET SKY PELLETS...\n\nI-I REMEMBER THIS DEEP, HARMONIOUS FRAGRANCE FROM MY DREAM...!\nIT CAME FROM THE MEDICINE POT, THEN! WAS THE CRAFTING PROCESS A SUCCESS?!\nIS OUR WORK COMPLETE?!\n\nSECT LEADER...\nI'M AFRAID I HAVE ILL TIDINGS TO REPORT.","bubble_count":157,"pages_count":40,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"The elders test a paper-thin Millennium Steel pot that endures full qi, then begin crafting the Violet Sky Pellets with Golden Spirit Fruit, Soul Descent Water, and morning dew.","spoiler_summary":"The elders test a paper-thin Millennium Steel pot that endures full qi, then begin crafting the Violet Sky Pellets with Golden Spirit Fruit, Soul Descent Water, and morning dew. The mixture must simmer for ten days without stopping. Exhausted and sleep-deprived, the Sect Leader and elders struggle to maintain heat and stirring until their arms seize on the final day, forcing Cheongmyeong to take up the paddle to save the precious medicine."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w/chapter-181-nhx8q3","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Return of the Blossoming Blade #181: (S3) Episode 175","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-09-20T09:21:07.059Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w"}}