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Cheongmyeong vows to restore their lost dreams, then the sect gathers to grant a pellet to every disciple.","key_events":["All disciples are assembled in main yard to each receive a Violet Sky Pellet","Failed Primordial Panacea attempt revealed to have produced superior Violet Sky Pellets","Sect leaders are offered and accept the Violet Sky Pellets first before disciples","Physician admits tasting pellet crumb to vouch for its potent efficacy"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"I-ILL TIDINGS?\nBUT HOW CAN A FAILED ATTEMPT YIELD THIS ETHEREAL GLOW?\nSUCCESS IS THE ONLY BLOSSOM-LOVING OPTION, FAILURE'S NOT!\nBROTHER, I LOVE YOU, BUT THIS PESSIMISM'S GOT TO GO--\nENOUGH.\n\nTO FALL SHORT IN ONE'S MOST ARDENT ENDEAVOR CAN BE DISHEARTENING, INDEED...\n...EXCEPT IT NEED NOT MEAN THAT OUR SPIRITS SHOULD FALTER FOR GOOD.\n\nAFTER ALL, OUR VERY JOURNEY HERE WAS MOLDED BY MYRIAD DELAYS AND DETOURS, WAS IT NOT? LET US ALLOW OURSELVES A MEASURE OF PATIENCE.\nYOU DID WELL TO GET US TO THIS POINT, CHEONGMYEONG. WE OWE YOU OUR GRATITUDE.\nAT A TIME WHEN DISAPPOINTMENT ABOUNDS, HE IS NONETHELESS THE FIRST TO COMPOSE HIMSELF AND OFFER HIS DISCIPLES SOLACE.\nONCE AGAIN... I CANNOT HELP BUT ADMIRE HIM.\n\nWHAT A RELIEF IT IS TO HAVE MY BELOVED SECT BE LED BY A GRACEFUL SOUL LIKE HIM, TRULY.\nUNFORTUNATELY, THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA WAS A FAILURE.\nALL IS WELL, MY BOY. WE SHALL MOVE ON AND--\nTHAT BEING SAID...\nWE NOW SEEM TO HAVE A WHOLE BATCH OF VIOLET SKY PELLETS, SECT LEADER.\n\nHMM?\nI DON'T BELIEVE I HEARD YOU CORRECTLY, CHEONGMYEONG. VIOLET SKY PELLETS?\nOUR SECT'S MOST REVERED PANACEA OF ALL TIME?\nTHE ONE THAT WAS LOST TO HISTORY SINCE THE INVASION OF THE DEMONIC CULT...?\nWELL, I CAN HARDLY CLAIM THAT WE'VE REPRODUCED THE VIOLET SKY PELLETS OF LEGENDS DOWN TO A T...\nBUT NOR WOULD I SAY THAT WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA.\nIF ANYTHING, THIS MIXTURE IS EVEN GREATER IN ITS POTENCY.\n\nTRANSCEND THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA...?\nARE YOU TELLING ME THAT WE HAVE SOMEHOW IMPROVED UPON THE FORMULA LEFT BEHIND BY THE IMMORTAL PHYSICIAN HIMSELF?\nEXACTLY.\nBUT THAT WOULD MEAN...!\n\nTHE CRAFTING PROCESS WAS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS.\n\nPRAISE THE PLUM BLOSSOMS!!!\nBWAHAHAHA! YOU HAD US FOR A MOMENT, YOU TRICKSTER GOBLIN!\nFIRST, YOU MAKE US MONEY, AND NOW YOU MAKE US FABLED MEDICINE! IS THERE ANYTHING YOU CANNOT DO?!\nA FEAST! WE SHALL HAVE A FEAST IN YOUR HONOR, YOU LITTLE MIRACLE WORKER!\n\nA QI-INFUSED MEDICINE THAT EMITS A GLOW LIKE THIS... WHY, I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A THING, LORD SECT LEADER! IF THIS IS NOT A PANACEA OF OTHERWORLDLY EFFICACY, THEN I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS!\nOUR ANCESTORS SMILE UPON US...!\nBEHOLD, FOREBEARS OF OUR SECT... AT LONG LAST, WE STAND ON THE VERGE OF GREATNESS!\n\nARE YOU WATCHING OVER US STILL?\nENOUGH! ENOUGH WITH THE SOPPY MELODRAMA ALREADY!\nSAVE THE FEAST FOR LATER AND GET TO WORK MOLDING THE MIXTURE INTO PELLETS!\nWE CANNOT AFFORD TO LET OUR GUARD DOWN UNTIL WE SHOVE THE ENTIRE LOT DOWN OUR SECT SIBLINGS' THROATS!\nR-RIGHT YOU ARE!\n\nLET US GET TO IT! HURRY!\nTO WORK!\n\nEpisode 176\nTHE CRAFTING PROCESS IS FINALLY AT AN END, THEN?\n\nIT IS INDEED, SECT LEADER.\nCERTAINLY, THESE ARE NOT QUITE THE SAME AS THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA WE SOUGHT TO MANUFACTURE, BUT REST ASSURED, THEIR EFFECTS ARE UNDOUBTEDLY SUPERIOR!\nAND YOU CAN PERSONALLY VOUCH FOR THAT, CAN YOU?\nP-PARDON?\nI AM ASKING YOU, HOW CAN YOU BE SO SURE AT A MERE GLANCE?\nAS I RECALL, YOU HAD LITTLE TO DO WITH THE PROCESS DIRECTLY ONCE CHEONGMYEONG TOOK OVER, SO HOW IS IT THAT YOU CAN SPEAK ON THE PELLETS' POTENCY?\n\nE-ELDER HYEONYEONG, I--\nSPEAK UP, UN-GAK!\nI-I SWEAR IT, ELDER!\nI ONLY TRIED A TINY CRUMB THAT FELL FROM A PELLET, NO BIGGER THAN AN ANT DROPPING!\nIS IT NOT THE DUTY OF A CHEF TO TASTE THE DISH HE COOKS-- URK!\n\nSPIT IT OUT, YOU MEDICINE THIEF!\nHAHA, LEAVE HIM BE, HYEONYEONG! OUR CHIEF PHYSICIAN HAS THE RIGHT OF IT.\nLET US NOT DISCOUNT HIS HARD WORK IN PREPARATION FOR THIS ENTIRE PROCESS.\nDISCOUNT, YOU SAY?\nCOME, UN-GAK. TELL US MORE OF THE PELLET'S EFFICACY.\nTHE AMOUNT I INGESTED WAS MINUTE, LORD SECT LEADER, SO MY ESTIMATE IS FAR FROM PRECISE...\nEXCEPT TO SAY IT IS ALL BUT A CERTAINTY THAT ITS EFFECT ABSOLUTELY RIVALS THAT OF THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA, IF NOT MORE.\n\nI SHOULD THINK TAKING A WHOLE PELLET THIS TIME WOULD GIVE ME A BETTER IDEA...\nWELL, SINCE I HAPPENED TO MAKE A SPARE PELLET, PERHAPS I COULD SERVE AS THE TEST SUBJECT--\nHA!\nHAHAHAHA.\nCOME, ENOUGH JESTING. WE HAVE AN ENTIRE SECT FULL OF YOUNG DISCIPLES HAND THESE OUT TO, DO WE NOT?\nNOT YET, LORD SECT LEADER.\n\nOH?\nAS THE LEADERS OF OUR SECT, I THINK THE THREE OF YOU SHOULD HAVE THE HONOR FIRST.\nYOU DO...?\nYEP.\nBONE APPLE TEA.\n\nIT WARMS MY HEART THAT YOU WOULD BE SO THOUGHTFUL, CHEONGMYEONG.\n\nBUT WE ARE ELDERLY MEN WITH LITTLE LEFT TO ACHIEVE.\nRATHER THAN WASTE THE PELLETS ON US, I SUGGEST YOU HAND THEM OUT TO AS MANY OF OUR DISCIPLES AS YOU CAN--\nUGH, SAVE THE PITY PARTY FOR THE OLD PEOPLE'S HOME, SECT LEADER. THE SECT IS NOT DONE WITH YOU YET.\nI'D SAY YOU HAVE AT LEAST ANOTHER CENTURY OR SO LEFT IN YOU!\nB-BUT MY RETIREMENT PLANS...\nRETIREMENT PLANS? SURELY YOU WON'T ABANDON YOUR DISCIPLES TO GO BIRDWATCHING, GARDENING, AND WHATNOT.\nTAKE THIS AND YOU'LL BE RARING TO PUT IN ANOTHER THREE DECADES OF BACK-BREAKING WORK FOR MOUNT HUA!\n\nWHAT IN THE ELDERLY LABOR EXPLOITATION...?\nSECT LEADER.\nJUST TAKE IT.\n\nIT'S NOTHING YOU HAVE NOT EARNED.\nTHE MOUNT HUA SECT'S BEST MILESTONES AND ACHIEVEMENTS ARE AHEAD OF US YET.\nTHERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN A VIOLET SKY PELLET IS AS COMMON TO US AS MEDICINE FOR THE COMMON COLD.\nUNTIL THEN, YOU NEEDN'T DENY YOURSELF ON PRINCIPLE.\n\nHAHA... AS COMMON AS COLD MEDICINE, YOU SAY?\nI SUPPOSE YOU ARE QUITE RIGHT.\nTHE DAY MUST SURELY COME.\n\nYOU'LL HAVE TO EXCUSE OUR MISERLY WAYS, CHEONGMYEONG.\nWE CAME UP IN SUCH A TIME OF POVERTY FOR THE SECT THAT A GIFT OF THIS MAGNITUDE FEELS LIKE AN EXTRAVAGANCE, IF NOT DOWNRIGHT EMBEZZLEMENT.\nIN FACT, AFTER A LIFETIME OF NOT EVEN HAVING A ROOT OF GINSENG TO MYSELF, I CAN BARELY CLOSE MY HAND AROUND A PRICELESS PANACEA SUCH AS THIS.\nDID YOU NOT HEAR THE BOY SAY NO MORE PITY PARTIES, BROTHER?\nAM I NOT ALLOWED A MOMENT, YOU HAIRY BRUTE?!\nI FEEL A STING, SOMEWHERE DEEP WITHIN.\n\nA MIX OF PITY AND COMPASSION.\nPITY FOR THE CONSTANT HARDSHIPS THESE STOUT BELIEVERS OF MOUNT HUA ENDURED...\nAND COMPASSION FOR THEIR UNWAVERING LOYALTY IN STANDING BY THE SECT THROUGH MANY YEARS, AS THE MORE SHREWD AMONG THEIR PEERS DEPARTED ONE BY ONE.\nWASTE NOT, WANT NOT, ELDERS.\nEITHER YOU TAKE THE PELLETS OR I STOMP THEM RIGHT INTO THE DIRT.\n\nSOMETHING WRONG, ELDER HYEONYEONG?\nNO, BUT THERE IS SOMETHING I MUST TELL YOU FIRST.\nYES?\n\nTHANK YOU.\nWE OWE YOU A DEBT THAT WE MAY NEVER BE ABLE TO REPAY.\nWHY, THAT HARDLY SOUNDS LIKE YOU AT ALL. A MOUTHFUL OF THAT PELLET AND YOU'LL BE BUSTING OPEN EVERY DEBTOR'S HEAD IN NO TIME!\nI MEAN IT.\nTHERE ARE SOME WORDS OF GRATITUDE IN THIS WORLD THAT SHOULD NOT BE LEFT UNSAID.\nGRATITUDE OF SUCH HEARTFELT SINCERITY THAT IT WOULD BE AN INJUSTICE TO KEEP THEM BOTTLED UP.\n\nTHANK YOU ONCE AGAIN, CHEONGMYEONG.\nYOU HAVE GIVEN US MORE THAN ANY MOUNTAIN OF GOLD CAN WEIGH.\nI OUGHT TO BE THE ONE THANKING YOU, JUNIOR BROTHER.\n\nHMM?\nWHAT WAS THAT NOW?\n\nIT IS ALSO AN APOLOGY I OWE YOU, ALONGSIDE MY GRATITUDE.\nI FAILED IN MY DUTY TO PROTECT OUR SECT TO THE VERY LAST.\nBY MY SACRIFICE, IT WAS THE MARTIAL ARTS REALM I SAVED, NOT THE SECT THAT RAISED ME.\nTHE THREE OF YOU SUCCEEDED WHERE I FELL SHORT, KEEPING YOUR PREDECESSORS' LEGACY ALIVE AGAINST ALL ODDS.\n\nTHE DECADES YOU DEVOTED TO YOUR DWINDLING SECT WRINKLED YOUR SWORD HAND AND LACED YOUR HAIR WITH STRANDS OF GRAY.\nTHE HEARTS THAT USED TO BEAT WITH WILD AMBITION FELL SILENT IN THE COLD FACE OF REALITY AND YOUR ONCE-SOARING DREAMS BECAME BURIED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF DUTY AND OBLIGATION.\nYOU OBSTINATE FOOLS... OF WHAT WORTH WAS MOUNT HUA'S NAME THAT YOU LINGERED HERE AND GAVE YOUR ENTIRE LIVES TO IT?\nHAD YOU LEFT FOR YOUR OWN SAKE AS COUNTLESS OTHERS DID, YOU MIGHT HAVE LIVED A LIFE OF COMFORT.\n\nFORGIVE ME... IN TRUTH, IT WAS I WHO FAILED YOU ALL.\nIT WAS I WHO TOOK YOUR BEST YEARS AWAY...\nNO ONE ELSE...\nBUT I PROMISE YOU... I WILL MAKE AMENDS.\nYOU WILL ONCE AGAIN HARBOR DREAMS THAT HAD FALLEN BY THE WAYSIDE.\n\nI SEE IN YOU THAT LONG-DORMANT DESIRE TO MAKE YOUR MARK UPON THIS WORLD...\nAND I SHALL GRANT YOU THAT WISH.\nFOR ALL THE YEARS I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE TO GUIDE YOU, ALLOW ME TO MAKE AMENDS BY SHELTERING THE PATH YOU WALK ON NOW.\n\nWALK TALL, BEARERS OF MY LEGACY, AND DO NOT LAMENT YOUR SILVER YEARS YET.\nDO NOT DENY YOURSELVES FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR PUPILS...\n...FOR I SHALL BRING YOUR DREAMS BACK TO LIFE, THE WAY YOU KEPT MINE ALIVE ALL THIS TIME.\n\nBROTHER...\nHEAR ME, BROTHER SECT LEADER...\n\nMY DEBT TO MOUNT HUA SEEMS TO GROW WITH EACH DAWNING REALIZATION.\nWHAT'S ALL THIS ABOUT?\nWHO KNOWS?\n\nWAS THERE NO WORD FROM THE GREAT BROTHERS?\nNOT THAT I KNOW OF. I WAS MERELY TOLD TO ASSEMBLE IN THE MAIN YARD...\nQUIETEN DOWN BACK THERE. WE SHALL KNOW SOON ENOUGH.\nARE ALL THE DISCIPLES GATHERED?\n\nYES, SIR!\nWITHOUT FURTHER ADO, LET ME ADDRESS THE PURPOSE OF THIS ASSEMBLY TODAY.\nYOU WILL HEREBY EACH BE GRANTED A SACRED PANACEA CRAFTED BY MOUNT HUA!\n\nA PANACEA?\nSINCE WHEN DOES MOUNT HUA MAKE PANACEAS?\nAS OF NOW, IT SOUNDS LIKE. MUST BE NEW OR SOMETHING.\nBUT WHERE DID WE GET THE RECIPE, LET ALONE THE INGREDIENTS?\nSENIOR BROTHER, WAS THIS THE PURPOSE BEHIND YOUR MISSION TO YUNNAN...?\nINDEED.\n\nWE WERE SENT TO PROCURE INGREDIENTS FOR THE NEW MEDICINE.\nTH-THEN, YOU SUCCEED IN NOT ONLY FINDING THE INGREDIENTS, BUT ALSO IN CRAFTING THE PANACEA ITSELF?\nINCREDIBLE...!\nQUESTION, GREAT BROTHER. MAY I ASK ABOUT THE EXACT NATURE OF THIS NEW PANACEA THAT WE WILL BE GIVEN?\nMM.\nWE CALL IT THE VIOLET SKY PELLET.\nVIOLET...?\n\nTH-THE VIOLET SKY PELLETS OF LEGENDS?!\nTHE VERY SAME.\nAFTER A LONG AND ARDUOUS PROCESS, WE WERE ABLE TO RECREATE THE CRAFTING METHOD FOR THE HALLOWED PANACEA OF OUR SECT. AND THANKFULLY, WE WERE ABLE TO SECURE ALL OF THE NECESSARY COMPONENTS IN ADVANCE.\nGREAT BROTHER... DOES THAT MEAN WE WILL ALL BE GIVEN A VIOLET SKY PELLET EACH?\n\nJUST SO.\nEACH PELLET WAS MOLDED TO BE SOMEWHAT SMALLER THAN WE HAD EXPECTED, BUT IN DOING SO, EVERYONE FROM THE ELDERS TO THE CHEONG-LINE OF JUNIOR TRAINEES WILL RECEIVE AN EQUAL DOSAGE OF THE PANACEA.\nPRAISE BE TO MOUNT HUA!\nARE THESE PELLETS TRULY SAFE TO CONSUME?\nOUR SECT HASN'T MADE ANY SORT OF PANACEA IN NIGH A HUNDRED YEARS, SO WHO'S TO SAY THIS ONE WON'T COME WITH SIDE EFFECTS?\n\nI HEARD TAKING A FAULTY PANACEA IS BASICALLY ASKING FOR DEATH BY QI REFLUX...\nWELL? IS THE PANACEA FREE OF ALL DEFECTS?\nOF COURSE, BROTHER. IT HAS BEEN TESTED ON LIVE SUBJECTS ALREADY.\nLIVE SUBJECTS?\nWHO MIGHT THAT BE?\n\nYOU'LL SEE FOR YOURSELF IN A MOMENT. IN FACT, HERE THEY COME.\n?!\n\n!\nUHH, ELDERS...? 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