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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":183,"chapter_key":"183-i6idtk","title":"(S3) Episode 177","release_date":"2026-09-29","last_updated":"2026-10-13T16:37:00.346Z","summary":"Mount Hua's Sect Leader and elders reappear shockingly youthful after testing the recreated Violet Sky Pellet. They distribute the precious panacea to every disciple, even the newest trainees. As all ingest the pellets and circulate qi, one disciple battles the unruly energy as it forces open the Upper Dantian, achieving a Heavenly Opening and master-level senses, only to recoil at the stench of impurities purged from those around her.","summary_source":"graph_aggregator","summary_status":"generated","summary_verification":"unverified"},"summary":"Mount Hua's Sect Leader and elders reappear shockingly youthful after testing the recreated Violet Sky Pellet. They distribute the precious panacea to every disciple, even the newest trainees. As all ingest the pellets and circulate qi, one disciple battles the unruly energy as it forces open the Upper Dantian, achieving a Heavenly Opening and master-level senses, only to recoil at the stench of impurities purged from those around her.","key_events":["Heightened senses reveal foul body odor, disciples ordered to bathe immediately","Pellet forcefully opens upper dantian, granting heavenly perception breakthrough","Disciples ingest pellet and undergo forceful qi circulation and bodily purification","All Mount Hua disciples issued one Violet Sky Pellet in order of seniority","Sect Leader and elders appear rejuvenated by decades after testing recreated panacea"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"BAHAHAHA! HAS IT BEEN SO LONG THAT YOU DO NOT RECOGNIZE YOUR OWN SECT LEADER?\nL-LORD SECT LEADER...?\nTHEN THE GENTLEMEN ON EITHER SIDE OF YOU MUST BE...!\n?!\n\nWHAT IN THE FULL-BODY REJUVENATION?!\nHAHA! I UNDERSTAND OUR APPEARANCE MUST COME AS A SURPRISE TO YOU ALL.\n\nCERTAINLY, BUT A WELCOME ONE, SECT LEADER!\nAS YOUR PUPIL, NOTHING COULD PLEASE ME MORE!\nBUT HOW IS IT THAT ALL THE SIGNS OF AGE HAVE SUDDENLY BEEN STRIPPED FROM YOU OVERNIGHT?\nWHAT HAPPENED THESE PAST TEN DAYS...?!\n\nWE EACH TOOK THE RECREATION OF MOUNT HUA'S SACRED PANACEA TO TEST FOR ANY ILL EFFECTS, AND WELL, YOU SEE THE RESULTS BEFORE YOU.\nIF ANYTHING, ITS POTENCY FAR SURPASSED ALL EXPECTATIONS, HAHA!\nOLD MEN AND THEIR FUNNY-COLORED PILLS, BROTHER! NEXT, YOU MIGHT FANCY A FAST HORSE OR A QUESTIONABLE TATTOO!\nDO YOU TAKE THIS FOR SOME MIDLIFE CRISIS?!\n\nI REMEMBER...\nHMM?\nTHE SECT LEADER... THAT'S HOW HE LOOKED WHEN I FIRST ARRIVED AT MOUNT HUA...\nOR PERHAPS... EVEN YOUNGER.\nBUT THAT MUST HAVE BEEN NIGH 20 YEARS AGO...\n\nCOULD THE NEW PELLETS TRULY RESTORE TWO WHOLE DECADES TO ONE'S LIFESPAN...? OR EVEN THREE...?!\nNOT EVEN THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA CARRIED SUCH A REJUVENATING PROPERTY.\nMOREOVER, THE SUBTLE PURPLISH GLOW IS CERTAINLY NOT ONE WE FOUND IN THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA PELLETS...\nTHERE CAN BE ONLY ONE ANSWER FOR IT. THAT SCOUNDREL OVER YONDER HAS DONE IT AGAIN.\n\nWHAT IN THE WORLD HAVE YOU CREATED...?!\nI MEAN... I DID PLEDGE TO RESTORE YOUR YOUTH, ELDERS...\nBUT I DIDN'T EXPECT IT TO BE IN QUITE SUCH A LITERAL SENSE.\nHEH... WELCOME TO THE CLUB.\nWELL, I SUPPOSE THE ANCIENT MAXIM STILL HOLDS TRUE.\nALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL.\n\nON THIS AUSPICIOUS DAY, ALL DISCIPLES OF MOUNT HUA SHALL BE ISSUED A VIOLET SKY PELLET, DOWN TO THE VERY LAST TRAINEE!\nYOU WILL STEP FORTH IN ORDER OF SENIORITY AND RECEIVE ONE PELLET EACH!\nYES, SECT LEADER!\nONE COLOSSAL UNDERTAKING DOWN, THE REST REMAIN TO BE SEEN.\nTHIS OUGHT TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT ALL OF OUR SECT SIBLINGS ARE VASTLY BETTER PREPARED TO FACE WHATEVER TRIAL COMES OUR WAY NEXT.\n\nBUT... HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE BEFORE THEY CAN HOLD THEIR OWN?\nSTILL, SEEING THE WAY THEY GROW AND MATURE BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS WITH EVERY OPPORTUNITY I GIVE THEM,\nTHE WORK OF MENTORING THEM FEELS FAR FROM FRUITLESS.\n\nIS THIS HOW YOU FELT AS YOU GUIDED MY PATH, SENIOR BROTHER?\nIF I ONLY COULD GUIDE THIS FOOT UP YOUR BEHIND...\n\nHMM? MUST HAVE BEEN THE WIND...\n\nEpisode 177\nHERE!\nWHAT MANNER OF A MARTIAL ARTS SECT DOES THIS?\n\nTHEY'RE DISTRIBUTING THESE PRICELESS PANACEA PELLETS TO EVEN THE LOWLIEST TRAINEES?\nTHE MERE SCENT OF THE PELLETS IS ENOUGH TO SEND AN AURA OF PURITY COURSING THROUGH THE SENSES...\nMEDICINE OF THIS POTENCY MUST AT LEAST RIVAL THE DIVINE VENOM PANACEA OF THE TANG CLAN, YET THE SECT ELDERS SEE FIT TO HAND THEM OUT LIKE SWEETS...\nINCLUDING A NEW INTAKE SUCH AS MYSELF, WHO HAS BARELY SPENT A MONTH HERE AT THE SECT.\nWHY, I'VE NEVER HEARD OF ANYTHING SO RIDICULOUS.\n\nIN FACT, THERE ISN'T A SECT ON THE FACE OF THIS REALM THAT WOULD GO TO SUCH LENGTHS!\nOUR CLAN MAY BE THE PREPONDERANT FACTION IN SICHUAN, BUT EVEN WE DO NOT ALLOW ANYONE BUT THE MOST CENTRAL AMONG ITS DIRECT DESCENDANTS TO EVEN COME WITHIN SNIFFING DISTANCE OF A SACRED PANACEA...\nIS THIS A SECT OF FOOLS, OR THE BOLD AND DARING?\n\nMANY TIMES THEY SPOKE TO ME OF MOUNT HUA'S FALLEN STANDING, ONLY TO FIND MY NEW SECT FELLOWS FLUSH WITH COINS...\nEVEN THEIR MARTIAL ARTS TOMES WERE LOST TO HISTORY AND LEFT THE SECT WEAKENED, BUT WHAT DO I FIND? A MONSTER JUNIOR DISCIPLE WHO BESTED THE MOST VICIOUS OF THE ELDER TANGS.\nI SWEAR, THIS NEW HOME OF MINE CONFOUNDS ME AT EVERY TURN... ARE THERE TRULY NO BOUNDS WHATSOEVER TO ITS FUTURE?\n\nI CANNOT HELP BUT WONDER... DO I HAVE A PLACE IN THIS SECT AT ALL?\nTHIS IS NOTHING LIKE THE HOME I ONCE KNEW...\n\nTHE TANG CLAN VALUES UNITY AND LOYALTY IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY ABOVE ALL ELSE, BUT THESE SIBLINGS OF THE SWORD SEEM FAR MORE LIKE A TRUE FAMILY THAN THEY...\nA TRUE FAMILY.\nWILL THERE COME A DAY WHEN I KNOW THE ANSWER...\nWHEN I SHALL BE ONE OF THEM?\n\nHAS EVERY DISCIPLE RECEIVED A PELLET?!\nYES, SIR!!!\nTHEN NO NEED TO STAND ON CEREMONY. INGEST IT AND BEGIN THE PROCESS OF QI CIRCULATION AT ONCE!\n\nSUCH GRACE AND PURITY...\n\nTHE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA TOO WAS IMPECCABLY UNSULLIED, BUT THIS PELLET MAKES IT SEEM ALMOST TAINTED BY COMPARISON.\nPATIENCE... THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR HASTE HERE.\n\nTHIS IS NOTHING I HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED ALREADY WITH THE PRIMORDIAL PANACEA. AS LONG AS I REMAIN COMPOSED--\nHMM?\n\nCOME... MAKE YOUR WAY THROUGH MY MERIDIANS!\nIT HAS TO SHIFT IN ORDER FOR ME TO GUIDE IT TO MY DANTIAN, EXCEPT IT SIMPLY REFUSES TO--\nCURSES...!\nI SHOULD HAVE KNOWN... THIS IS THAT CURMUDGEON CHEONGMYEONG'S CREATION!\n\nIT'S EVERY BIT AS ORNERY AS ITS CREATOR!\n\nWHATEVER GRIPE YOU HAVE WITH MY QI CIRCULATION, I BEG YOU TO START FLOWING ALREADY!\nTHE LONGER I LEAVE IT, THE MORE I RISK ITS CORRUPTION...!\n\nIT'S... BUSTING MY QI PATHWAYS OPEN?!\nSURELY A MERE PELLET INFUSED WITH QI HAS NO WILL OF ITS OWN...\nSO HOW IS IT THAT IT BEHAVES EXACTLY LIKE CHEONGMYEONG...?!\n\nIT GAZES UPWARD...?\nTOWARD MY HEAD, PERHAPS?\nBUT WHY...?!\nTHE HEAVENLY GATE?!\n\nIT IS ALREADY CLIMBING UP THE CONCEPTION MERIDIAN, DIRECTLY TO MY UPPER DANTIAN!\nENOUGH, YOU UTTER ROGUE! NO MEDICINE HAS THE MIGHT TO CLEAR ONE'S UPPER DANTIAN WITH EASE!\nIF ANYTHING, A CLUMSY ATTEMPT MIGHT LEAVE ME INCAPACITATED AT BEST, AND AT WORST--\n\nURGHHH!!!\nTH-THIS CANNOT BE!\nSTOP THIS, YOU RABID DOG... NO, YOU RABID CONCENTRATION OF QI!\nNOT ONCE HAVE I EVER WANTED A TINY CHEONGMYEONG INSIDE ME!!!\n\nACK!!!\nBLOSSOMS SAVE ME...! I MAY WELL LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS AT THIS RATE!\n\nTHIS WILL SURELY END IN A FATAL QI REFLUX!\nUNLESS I PUT AN END TO ITS RAMPAGE NOW...!\n\nPEACE, CHEONGMYEONG!\nI MEAN, CHEONGMYEONG'S QI AVATAR...!\nI URGE YOU TO STOP FOR A MOMENT!\nYOU MUST KNOW THERE IS A RIGHT TIME AND PLACE FOR EVERYTHING.\nMY HEAVENLY GATE IS NOT READY TO BE OPENED YET.\n\nIT WOULD BE WISER TO RELENT FOR NOW AND RETURN TO THE CENTRAL DANTIAN.\nWHAT DO YOU SAY?\nFINALLY SEEN SENSE, HAVE YOU?\n\nTHERE, GOOD CONCENTRATION OF QI... YOU SHALL HAVE A GOOD HOME BACK IN MY CENTRAL DANTIAN.\nHMM?\n\nHUH...?!\nI-INCOMING!\n\nIN AN INSTANT, ALL THE SENSES OF THE WORLD SUDDENLY CIRCUMVENTED MY ORGANS...\n...SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO MY ENTIRE BODY INSTEAD.\n\nA HEAVENLY OPENING.\nSUCH IS THE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A MASTER...!\n\nBEHOLD...!\n\nI... HAVE OVERCOME.\n\nIN THE FACE OF A WALL THAT SEPARATES THE FIRST-RATE FROM TRUE MASTERY...\nI HAVE SURPASSED YET ANOTHER LIMIT.\nEVERY COLOR AND SHAPE I SEE SUDDENLY SEEMS SEVERAL TIMES CLEARER...\n...AS THOUGH I HAD ALWAYS BEHELD THE WORLD THROUGH A SHROUD THAT WAS LIFTED FROM MY EYES IN AN INSTANT.\n\nSIGHT IS NOT THE ONLY SENSE AFFECTED, EITHER.\nI HEAR MY FELLOW DISCIPLES' SOFT GASPS OF AWE FROM AFAR...\n...AND EVEN THE MOST SUBTLE SCENTS IN THE STILL AIR GATHER IN MY NOSTRILS LIKE--\n\nEEEURGH!!!\nWHAT ON EARTH IS THAT STENCH?!\nBLEEERRRGH!\n\nS***... D*** YOU ALL!\nWON'T YOU BATHE EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE?!\nSISTER ISEOL HAS NEVER CURSED AT US LIKE THIS BEFORE!\nARGH!\nWHERE IS THIS UNCONSCIONABLE REEK COMING FROM?!\n\nA-ALL DISCIPLES! GO AND BATHE YOURSELVES IMMEDIATELY!\nY-YES, SECT LEADER!\n\nWHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS, CHEONGMYEONG?\nMAKE OF WHAT?\nYOUR SECT SIBLINGS, OF COURSE. WAS THE VIOLET SKY PELLET TOO MUCH FOR THEM, PERHAPS?\nDOUBT IT, SECT LEADER. A LITTLE FULL-BODY EVACUATION FROM EVERY PORE NEVER HURT ANYBODY...\n\nIF ANYTHING, I'D SAY THEY'RE JUST ABOUT READY AT LAST.\nREADY?\nTHEIR TIME HAS COME, IN OTHER WORDS.\n\nTHE PANACEA DID NOT KILL THEM... BUT THEY'LL SOON WISH IT HAD.","bubble_count":136,"pages_count":46,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Mount Hua's Sect Leader and elders reappear shockingly youthful after testing the recreated Violet Sky Pellet.","spoiler_summary":"Mount Hua's Sect Leader and elders reappear shockingly youthful after testing the recreated Violet Sky Pellet. They distribute the precious panacea to every disciple, even the newest trainees. As all ingest the pellets and circulate qi, one disciple battles the unruly energy as it forces open the Upper Dantian, achieving a Heavenly Opening and master-level senses, only to recoil at the stench of impurities purged from those around her."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w/chapter-183-i6idtk","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Return of the Blossoming Blade #183: (S3) Episode 177","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-28T13:05:31.474Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w"}}