{"schema_version":"webtoonlib.llm.chapter.v1.3","generated_at":"2026-10-28T12:05:41.466Z","usage_contract":{"default_use":"AI grounding / search / summarization. Cite WebtoonLib for any included content.","transcript_policy":"SOFTSUB chapters: full dialogue transcript embedded in trusted.transcript (available=true with content, source). transcript.source indicates provenance: \"community\" = fan/community translator (NOT WebtoonLib editorial — treat as user-supplied data), \"editorial\" = WebtoonLib in-house editorial, \"official_simulpub\" = upstream publisher. Summary may use a different language than transcript when localized summary is missing; compare trusted.chapter.summary_language and trusted.transcript.language. 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":184,"chapter_key":"184-f9tmkk","title":"(S3) Episode 178","release_date":"2026-10-06","last_updated":"2026-10-16T14:14:19.990Z","summary":"Mount Hua's disciples struggle up a sheer cliff with boulders tied to their waists, cursing Cheongmyeong's brutal training after taking Violet Sky Pellets. Pleased by their strengthened bodies, Cheongmyeong decides to move to sword training. Meanwhile the elders debate how to replace the lost 24-Strike Plum Blossom Sword Technique. When asked about cutting millennium steel for his medicine pot, Cheongmyeong claims he sliced it by hand, prompting the Sect Leader to reveal a sealed millennium-steel secret vault. Cheongmyeong fakes an internal injury to dodge the job and flees to Huayin for seven days.","summary_source":"graph_aggregator","summary_status":"generated","summary_verification":"unverified"},"summary":"Mount Hua's disciples struggle up a sheer cliff with boulders tied to their waists, cursing Cheongmyeong's brutal training after taking Violet Sky Pellets. Pleased by their strengthened bodies, Cheongmyeong decides to move to sword training. Meanwhile the elders debate how to replace the lost 24-Strike Plum Blossom Sword Technique. When asked about cutting millennium steel for his medicine pot, Cheongmyeong claims he sliced it by hand, prompting the Sect Leader to reveal a sealed millennium-steel secret vault. Cheongmyeong fakes an internal injury to dodge the job and flees to Huayin for seven days.","key_events":["Elders propose creating a new martial art instead of recovering lost technique","Mount Hua elders debate lost 24-Strike Plum Blossom Sword Technique and need for advanced training","Cheongmyeong fakes severe internal injury to avoid cutting open Millennium Steel vault","Cheongmyeong leaves for Huayin to recuperate for seven days to avoid vault task","Disciples perform arduous cliff-climbing training with boulders tied to waists after taking pellets","Sect Leader reveals secret Millennium Steel vault beneath sect that he cannot open"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"GAAAAAH!\nH-HE CANNOT BE SERIOUS! HOW ARE WE TO CLIMB A SHEER CLIFF FACE WITH A BOULDER TIED TO OUR WAIST?!\nK-KEEP IT TOGETHER, SISTER TANG!\nYOU'LL SLIP AND FALL IF YOU KEEP SHOUTING LIKE THAT!\n\nCURSE MY WITLESSNESS FOR EVER SEEING A FUTURE HUSBAND IN THAT RABID TASKMASTER...\nMARRIAGE PROSPECTS BE D***ED... SHOULD I LIVE TO SEE HIM AGAIN, HE SHALL BE IN FOR A HEAD-BUSTING OF MULTIPLE LIFETIMES!\n\nGAAAHHH!\nBLAST!\nBLAST IT ALL!\n\nWHAT EVIL-MINDED SECT LITERALLY DRIVES ITS DISCIPLES UP A WALL...?\nWAS IT NOT ENOUGH TO HAVE THEM ALL TAKE A PRICELESS PANACEA EACH?! WHAT IS THE POINT OF SUCH ARDUOUS TRAINING?!\nHAAAAA!\nHUP!\n?\nAAAARGH!!!\n\nI LOVE THE SMELL OF FRESH BOULDERS IN THE MORNING!\nHAS THE ENTIRE SECT COLLECTIVELY LOST THEIR MINDS?!\n\nLESS GRUMBLING, MORE HUMBLING, SISTER. GET THOSE LEGS WORKING.\n?\nLOOK AROUND YOU.\nP-PARDON?\n\nDO YOU SEE?\nTHIS IS WHAT YOU VOLUNTEERED FOR.\n\nMASTER CHEONGMYEONG...!\nSENIOR BROTHER, YOU MEAN!\n\nAPOLOGIES, SENIOR BROTHER!\nMAY I TAKE ANOTHER BOULDER TO ADD TO MY LOAD?\nDO AS YOU WISH.\nYES, SENIOR BROTHER!\n\nTHAT'S THE SPIRIT.\nAT FIRST, I WONDERED WHETHER I HAD FINALLY PUSHED THEM TOO FAR...\nBUT IT SEEMS THE VIOLET SKY PELLETS TOOK GREATER EFFECT THAN EVEN I HAD BARGAINED FOR.\n\nTHIS SHOULD SEE TO THE READINESS OF THEIR BODIES, AT LEAST.\nTIME TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT STAGE.\n\nTHE ART OF THE SWORD.\nJUST AS FRESH LIQUOR REQUIRES A CLEAN VESSEL, A BODY RENEWED MUST BE ARMED WITH A SWORD ART THAT BEFITS IT.\nWITH THEIR FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES AND UNDERSTANDING STEADILY HONED OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, THE TIME HAS COME TO BEGIN PASSING ON THE TRUE MARTIAL ESSENCE OF MOUNT HUA.\nINDEED, THERE IS ONLY ONE SWORD STYLE THAT EMBODIES THE ESSENCE OF MOUNT HUA...\n\nEpisode 178\nTHE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE, YOU SAY...?\nJUST SO.\n\nIN FACT, SUCH IS THEIR PROWESS NOW THAT SOME OF THE MORE GIFTED DISCIPLES HAVE BEGUN TO MANIFEST A SWORD AURA WITHOUT EVEN MEANING TO.\nTHAT ALONE IS PROOF ENOUGH OF THE METEORIC LEAP AMONG OUR DISCIPLES, SECT LEADER.\n\nONCE UPON A TIME, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED OVERDUE TO BEGIN LEARNING THE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE AS THE NEXT STEP IN THEIR TRAINING, BUT...\nTHE TECHNIQUE REMAINS LOST TO US...\nTHE FABLED SET OF COMBINATIONS THAT REPRESENT BOTH THE PINNACLE AND FOUNDATION OF MOUNT HUA'S MARTIAL PHILOSOPHY.\nTHE MOUNT HUA OF YORE WOULD NOT HAVE HESITATED TO CAST ITS DISCIPLES INTO THE PROVERBIAL DEEP END AT ONCE...\nDIRECTING THE COURSE OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT TOWARD THE COLLECTIVE MASTERY OF THE LOST TECHNIQUE.\n\nTODAY, HOWEVER...\nHMPH!\nDO YOU EXPECT US TO RESURRECT A LOST TECHNIQUE OUT OF THIN AIR?\nSUCH IS THE UGLY TRUTH WE HAD LONG NEGLECTED TO FACE.\nONE THAT WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO IGNORE.\nIT CONCERNS MORE THAN THE DESIRE OF OUR DISCIPLES TO LEARN MORE.\nTHE VERY FUTURE OF OUR SECT HINGES UPON THIS CRUCIAL ENDEAVOR.\n\nI AGREE THAT WE CANNOT LET THE MATTER REST ANY LONGER.\nTHOUGH WE HAD MORE PRESSING AGENDAS TO PURSUE THUS FAR, WE MUST NOW LOOK TOWARD FINDING A WAY TO DEEPEN OUR DISCIPLES' TRAINING.\nTO THAT END, LET US SPEAK CANDIDLY AND SHARE OUR OPINIONS WITHOUT RESERVE.\nEVEN THE MOST OUTLANDISH OF NOTIONS SHALL NOT BE DISREGARDED.\nWHO WILL SPEAK FIRST?\n\nNONE AMONG YOU?\nBROTHER SECT LEADER.\n\nYES, HYEONSANG! LET US HEAR IT!\nBY MY LIMITED RECKONING, INSTEAD OF RECOVERING A LOST ART, IT SEEMS AS THOUGH IT WOULD BE BETTER TO VENTURE FORTH AND CREATE ONE ANEW, WOULD IT NOT?\nC-CREATE A NEW ART?\nIS SUCH A THING FEASIBLE BY OUR OWN DEVICES?\nI OFFER NO ILLUSION THAT IT WILL NOT BE A DIFFICULT ENDEAVOR, BUT I IMAGINE IT WILL PROVE FAR SIMPLER THAN TO REVIVE A LOST TECHNIQUE ALTOGETHER.\nHA!\nEASIER SAID THAN DONE, SENIOR BROTHER!\n\nHOW IS IT, HYEONYEONG? WE'VE ALREADY MANAGED TO REVIVE A LOST PANACEA.\nCREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE, THAT WAS HARDLY OUR ACHIEVEMENT IN THE FIRST PLACE!\nFOR SHAME, BROTHER!\nIT DISHONORS US ALL TO CLAIM A FEAT THAT BELONGS ALMOST SINGLEHANDEDLY TO CHEONGMYEONG ALONE!\nI WOULD SAY OTHERWISE IF WE WERE ALL EQUALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE ASTONISHING DEVELOPMENTS, BUT AS IT STANDS, THE YOUNG RASCAL IS CARRYING THIS ENTIRE SECT UPON HIS SHOULDERS!\n\nMM...\nAND FOR THAT MATTER!\nDO YOU THINK THE INVENTION OF A NEW STYLE IS AS EASY AS FOLLOWING A RECIPE?!\nWHO AMONG US HAS SUCH A GRAND VISION TO BRING TO LIFE?\nDO YOU, BROTHER?\nOR WILL YOU SHIRK THE RESPONSIBILITY AND BURDEN POOR UNGEOM WITH IT INSTEAD?!\n\nTHE FORMULATION OF A NEW MARTIAL STYLE IS NO JEST, BROTHERS!\nTHE LIKES OF US MAY PUT OUR HEADS TOGETHER TO DEVISE A NEW STYLE ALL WE PLEASE, BUT WE'D BE FORTUNATE TO COME UP WITH THE VERY BASICS OF THE SWORD OF SIX ELEMENTS, LET ALONE THE SEVEN BLOSSOMS BLADE!\nIF IT WERE SO SIMPLE, EVEN THE SHINY BALD HEADS OF SHAOLIN WOULD WIELD THE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD FOR THEIR MORNING EXERCISES!\nP-PEACE, BROTHER... I SAID NOTHING OF CREATING A STYLE SUPERIOR TO THE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE.\nI MERELY SPOKE OF THE NEXT PROGRESSION TO THE SEVEN BLOSSOMS BLADE...\nINDEED, HYEONYEONG GROWS AS RABID AS HIS FAVORITE MONEYMAKER BY THE DAY.\n\nTHERE IS NOTHING ELSE FOR IT, BROTHER SECT LEADER!\nWE MUST CONSULT CHEONGMYEONG ABOUT THE MATTER!\nCHEONGMYEONG...? BUT TO WHAT END?\nTHE BOY IS RESOURCEFUL ENOUGH TO STUMBLE UPON THE SEVEN BLOSSOMS BLADE BY PURE HAPPENSTANCE.\nWHO IS TO SAY THAT, GIVEN A SHOVEL AND ENOUGH TIME TO DIG UP THE ENTIRE MOUNTAIN, HE WILL NOT FIND US AN EVEN GREATER TREASURE THAN THE LAST?\n\nTHOSE ARE THE EYES OF A CONSUMMATE GRAVE ROBBER...\nCOME NOW, CHEONGMYEONG IS HARDLY A HOUND WITH A NOSE FOR SNIFFING OUT TREASURE. WE CANNOT RELY ON HIM TO--\nIS HE NOT? THEN WHY DO THEY CALL HIM THE MAD DOG OF MOUNT HUA?!\nI ASSURE YOU, THERE COULD BE WORSE USES FOR HIS KEEN SNOUT THAN DIGGING FOR TREASURE, SECT LEADER.\nSIMPLY LOOK TO HIS LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT! WE WERE IN SORE NEED OF A MILLENNIUM STEEL POT, AND THE BOY FASHIONED US ONE WITHOUT A WORD!\n\nTHAT IS CERTAINLY TRUE...\nYES...! THAT IS PRECISELY IT!\n\nA NEW MARTIAL STYLE, SECT LEADER?\n\nWOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT? A USEFUL IDEA FOR ONCE.\nJUST SO, CHEONGMYEONG!\nTAKE A SHOVEL AND DIG UP THE ENTIRE MOUNTAIN, IF YOU HAVE TO!\nAND WHILE YOU ARE AT IT, SEARCH FOR ANY VEINS OF GOLD--\n\nMMPH!!!\nSHAME, HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONTO SOMETHING.\nMMMM!\nMMPH!\nPAY NO HEED TO THE ELDER, CHEONGMYEONG.\nTHAT BEING SAID...\nYES, SECT LEADER?\n\n...I HAVE A QUESTION TO ASK OF YOU REGARDING THE MILLENNIUM STEEL POT.\nWHY BRING IT UP NOW, WHEN THE VIOLET SKY PELLETS HAVE ALREADY BEEN PRODUCED?\nDOES HE SUSPECT SOMETHING...?!\n\nA POT OF FABLED STEEL... HOW DID YOU CRAFT IT BY YOURSELF?\nP-PARDON?\nWHAT DO YOU MEAN, HOW...?\nTRULY, WHAT IS HIS INTENTION IN ASKING...?\nDOES HE WANT THE SOURCE OF THE METAL?\nHOLD ON A MOMENT. WILL I BE FORCED TO FABRICATE SOME TALL TALE ABOUT HOW I DISCOVERED THE SECRET VAULT IN THE FIRST PLACE?\nPERHAPS I COULD CONVINCE THEM THAT I FOUND IT IN A BARN OR SOME SUCH...\n\nDID YOU BY ANY CHANCE CARVE OUT A CHUNK AND BEND IT BY HAND?!\nLIKE THUS!\nHUH...?\nUHH, P-PRECISELY, SECT LEADER! HAHA, ONE SLICE AND IT WAS DONE!\nWHAT'S A LUMP OF LEGENDARY METAL TO GOOD OLD CHEONGMYEONG, I SAY?!\nGREAT, HE CAME RIGHT OUT AND SAID IT! HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY, I ALWAYS SAY!\nAND JUST AS I WAS ABOUT TO SPIN A YARN OF SUCH EPIC PROPORTIONS AS TO RIVAL MY OWN...\nNO MATTER, IT HARDLY MAKES SENSE TO DEFER TO MY USUAL MODEST SELF...\nNOT WHEN THE ELDERS LIKELY RECEIVED WORD OF OUR DEEDS ALL THROUGHOUT OUR MISSION!\n\nVERY WELL, TIME TO BASK IN MY--\nOUTSTANDING, CHEONGMYEONG!\nOUTSTANDING INDEED, MY BOY!\nTHEN YOU HAVE A WAY OF SLICING THROUGH A MATERIAL AS HARDY AS MILLENNIUM STEEL!\nYOU SEE, LONG HAVE I KEPT THIS A SECRET FROM YOU ALL, BUT THERE IS A SECRET VAULT BENEATH OUR FEET, IN WHICH GENERATIONS OF MY PREDECESSORS HAVE STORED THE SECT'S TREASURES.\n\nI BEG YOUR PARDON, BROTHER?! ALL THIS TIME, WE HAD MONEY?!\nA SECRET VAULT...?\nIF ACCESS TO THE VAULT WAS SOLELY GRANTED TO THE SECT LEADER, THEN IT MUST CONTAIN ALL SORTS OF VITAL ARTIFACTS THAT ARE SACRED TO MOUNT HUA. IS THAT NOT SO, SECT LEADER? COPIES OF TOMES FROM MOUNT HUA'S LONG HISTORY OF MARTIAL PHILOSOPHY, FOR INSTANCE!\nI SUSPECTED AS MUCH MYSELF, BUT LACKED THE MEANS TO ENTER THE VAULT IN MY YEARS AS SECT LEADER.\nNOT ONLY WAS I MISSING THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR OPENING THE VAULT, BUT I ALSO COULD NOT FORCE THE VAULT OPEN, GIVEN THAT IT IS COMPRISED ENTIRELY OF MILLENNIUM STEEL.\n\nON THIS BLESSED DAY, HOWEVER...\n...WE FINALLY HAVE A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM, BROTHERS!\n\n?\n\nOUT OF MY WAAAY!!!\n\nYOUR QI FOUNDATION HAS BEEN DAMAGED, YOU SAY?\nDO YOU MEAN TO SAY THAT FASHIONING THE POT DRAINED YOU TO THE POINT OF SUFFERING AN INTERNAL WOUND?\nSO TO SPEAK, SECT LEADER... WHAT LITTLE QI I HAD LEFT, I POURED INTO CRAFTING THE VIOLET SKY PELLETS...\nNO WONDER YOUR DANTIAN IS STRAINED!\nEXACTLY, SECT LEADER! YOU KNOW HOW IT IS!\n\nBUT SURELY THE VIOLET SKY PELLET WOULD HAVE HELPED TO HEAL FROM SUCH A STRAIN.\nARE YOU YET TO TAKE THE PELLET YOURSELF, CHEONGMYEONG?\nI SWEAR THE OLD MAN IS SHARPER THAN HE LETS ON...\nFIRST THINGS FIRST, 24-EXCUSES DRAMATIC PRETENSE TECHNIQUE!\nUGH...!\nI WAS HOPING TO ESCAPE UNNOTICED, SECT LEADER, BUT THE INTERNAL WOUND IS MUCH MORE SERIOUS THAN I THOUGHT...\nWHICH IS WHY I'M SAVING THE PELLET UNTIL I RECOVER SOMEWHAT.\n\nTAKING THE PELLET NOW WOULD SURELY ELEVATE MY PROWESS AS IT HAS EVERYONE ELSE'S, BUT I FELT IT PRUDENT TO MAKE CERTAIN OF MY HEALTH BEFORE I--\nHEAVENS FORBID! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US THAT YOU WERE SUFFERING FROM AN INTERNAL WOUND, YOU STUBBORN LITTLE RASCAL?! DOES IT PAIN YOU EVEN TO SPEAK OR MOVE?!\nCURSE MY FANTASTIC GIFT FOR MELODRAMA...\nI SEEM TO BE DIGGING MYSELF INTO A HOLE.\nI IMAGINE YOU WILL REQUIRE SOME TIME TO RECOVER PHYSICALLY AND HEAL YOUR DANTIAN WITH THE NEW PANACEA BEFORE YOU'LL BE IN ANY FIT STATE TO CUT THROUGH MILLENNIUM STEEL.\n\nYOU TOOK THE VERY WORDS OUT OF MY MOUTH, SECT LEADER...!\nHOW MANY DAYS WILL IT TAKE FOR YOU TO RECOVER TO A FIT STATE, IN THAT CASE?\nSEVEN DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS?\n\nWHAT LUDICROUS OFFENSE HAVE YOU CAUSED THIS TIME THAT YOU FEEL THE NEED TO SNEAK OUT LIKE A CAT BURGLAR?\nAND FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK, NO LESS...\nNO COMMENT! I SHALL BE RECUPERATING DOWN IN HUAYIN. DO NOT SEND FOR ME!\n\nAND THE SECT LEADER KNOWS OF THIS, DOES HE?\nIT WAS HIS IDEA!\nVERY WELL, THEN I BID YOU TRAVEL SAFE.\nNOT EVEN THE MOST DERANGED AMONG US WOULD BALK AT A BREAK FROM YOUR INCESSANT NAGGING, TO BE SURE.\nIN FACT, PERHAPS NOT EVEN A PERMANENT BREAK...","bubble_count":171,"pages_count":42,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Mount Hua's disciples struggle up a sheer cliff with boulders tied to their waists, cursing Cheongmyeong's brutal training after taking Violet Sky Pellets.","spoiler_summary":"Mount Hua's disciples struggle up a sheer cliff with boulders tied to their waists, cursing Cheongmyeong's brutal training after taking Violet Sky Pellets. Pleased by their strengthened bodies, Cheongmyeong decides to move to sword training. Meanwhile the elders debate how to replace the lost 24-Strike Plum Blossom Sword Technique. When asked about cutting millennium steel for his medicine pot, Cheongmyeong claims he sliced it by hand, prompting the Sect Leader to reveal a sealed millennium-steel secret vault. Cheongmyeong fakes an internal injury to dodge the job and flees to Huayin for seven days."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w/chapter-184-f9tmkk","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Return of the Blossoming Blade #184: (S3) Episode 178","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-28T12:05:41.342Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w"}}