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After wrestling with whether to pass on the original form or his combat-modified variation, he resolves to follow his will as a forebear and sneaks out at night dressed as a burglar to carry the tomes back to Mount Hua.","summary_source":"graph_aggregator","summary_status":"generated","summary_verification":"unverified"},"summary":"Cheongmyeong arrives at the Eunha Trading Company's Huayin branch and asks Vice-President Jong-ui Hwang for a private, undisturbed chamber with rich meals, liquor, and money. He locks himself away for days to write out Mount Hua's lost martial knowledge, struggling to turn the 24-Strike Plum Blossom Sword Technique into a detailed 24-volume guide. After wrestling with whether to pass on the original form or his combat-modified variation, he resolves to follow his will as a forebear and sneaks out at night dressed as a burglar to carry the tomes back to Mount Hua.","key_events":["Cheongmyeong completes basic tomes then debates teaching original vs war-modified 24-Strike technique","Cheongmyeong in burglar garb leaves at night to secretly return to Mount Hua","Cheongmyeong requests private undisturbed room, meals, liquor and money at trading company branch","Cheongmyeong resolves to pass on his will as forebear and finishes manuscripts","Cheongmyeong isolates for days struggling to write breakdown of martial techniques"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"EUNHA TRADING COMPANY, HUAYIN BRANCH\nTH-THE BLESSED DRAGON OF MOUNT HUA...?!\n\nWHAT BRINGS YOU DOWN HERE, YOUNG MASTER?\nJONG-UI HWANG VICE-PRESIDENT OF EUNHA TRADING COMPANY\nIT'S BEEN TWO YEARS, NOT TWENTY.\nAND SPARE ME THE POMPOUS NICKNAME, MASTER HWANG. CHEONGMYEONG WILL DO AS BEFORE.\nSURELY YOU ARE TOO MODEST, YOUNG MASTER. THE ENTIRE REALM IS SINGING PRAISES OF YOUR EXPLOITS.\nPRAISES? NO NEED FOR ALL THAT.\n\nAS YOU WISH... AND HOW MAY I BE OF SERVICE TO YOU, YOUNG MASTER?\nA ROOM IS ALL I NEED, MR. VICE-PRESIDENT.\nA ROOM?\nYEP.\nI HAVE SOME BUSINESS TO TEND TO THAT WOULDN'T BE SO SUITABLE FOR MOUNT HUA.\nA PRIVATE CHAMBER FOR MY USE ALONE AND YOUR GUARANTEE THAT I WILL NOT BE DISTURBED. THAT IS ALL I ASK.\nTHEN CERTAINLY... IT SHOULD BE NO TROUBLE.\n\nGOOD. I WOULD ALSO LIKE THREE SQUARE MEALS A DAY. SOMETHING RICH AND NOURISHING FOR EVERY MEAL.\nAND TOP-SHELF LIQUOR TO WASH IT DOWN, OBVIOUSLY.\nOH, AND DO FEEL FREE TO SEND AN EXTRA BOTTLE OF THE GOOD STUFF IN THE EVENINGS.\nYOU KNOW WHAT? MAKE THAT TWO BOTTLES.\nROOM AND BOARD... IS THAT ALL YOU REQUIRE, YOUNG MASTER?\nJUST SO. FEED ME AND GIVE ME A BED TO SLEEP IN, AND I SHALL TAKE CARE OF THE REST.\n\nAH... ONE LAST THING!\nWOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? I NEGLECTED TO BRING MY COIN PURSE IN MY HASTE.\nMONEY, PLEASE!\n\nDREAD IT, RUN FROM IT... MOUNT HUA BEGS FOR MONEY ALL THE SAME.\n\nEpisode 179\n\nAS DIRE AS THE CIRCUMSTANCES MAY BE, THEY DO PRESENT AN OPPORTUNITY OF SORTS.\nSHOULD THERE BE A SCENARIO IN WHICH THE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE IS DISCOVERED INSIDE THE SECT LEADER'S VAULT BY SHEER COINCIDENCE, NOBODY WILL SUSPECT A THING.\nNEVERTHELESS, IT WOULD TAKE MORE THAN SIMPLY WRITING OUT A TOME TO TOSS INTO THE VAULT.\nIT MAY BE AN OPEN SECRET THAT I AM THE GREATEST MASTER AT MOUNT HUA AT PRESENT, BUT MY FORMAL RANK IS ESSENTIALLY THAT OF THE LOWLIEST TRAINEE.\n\nNOTHING COULD BE MORE SUSPICIOUS THAN A THIRD-GRADE DISCIPLE MASTERING THE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE FIRST TO PASS ONTO HIS SENIORS.\nNO... IF I AM TO WRITE OUT A NEW TECHNIQUE TOME, THEN IT MUST BE AT A LEVEL THAT THE LIKES OF UN-GEOM AND HYEONSANG CAN COMPREHEND.\nTHEN, THROUGH THEIR TEACHINGS, THE REST OF THE SECT SHALL GRADUALLY LEARN THE TECHNIQUE AS WELL.\nTHE PREDICAMENT HERE IS, HOWEVER...\n\nWILL THE TWO MEATHEADS OF MOUNT HUA BE ABLE TO MAKE SENSE OF THE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE IN THE FIRST PLACE?\nWHY USE MANY WORD WHEN FEW DO TRICK?\nI'M LEARNDING!\nIF PIGS COULD FLY...\nMANY OF OUR RIVAL SECTS OF THE SWORD BOAST VAST COLLECTIONS OF HIGHER-LEVEL SWORD STYLE TOMES.\nFOR MOUNT HUA, HOWEVER, THE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE IS ALMOST THE BE-ALL AND END-ALL.\n\nWHY? BECAUSE OF ITS NIGH-UNFATHOMABLE COMPLEXITY.\nNATURALLY, THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT THE SECT HAS NO SUPERIOR TECHNIQUES.\nIT IS RATHER THAT MOST DO NOT EVEN DARE TO ASCEND TO THE NEXT STAGE, EVEN UPON MASTERING THE 24-STRIKE TECHNIQUE.\nHA... AS IF A MERE BOOK WOULD SUFFICE.\nWHAT I OUGHT TO BE WRITING NOW IS NO SECRET TOME...\n\n...BUT A COMPLETE VISUAL BREAKDOWN OF THE TECHNIQUE.\nONE VOLUME FOR EACH STRIKE, 24 VOLUMES IN TOTAL.\nIT MUST BE A THOROUGH BLUEPRINT THAT LEAVES NO ASPECT OF THE TECHNIQUE SHROUDED IN MYSTERY.\nAND WHILE I AM AT IT, I SHALL CONVEY EVERY LAST BIT OF THE MARTIAL PHILOSOPHY THAT I HAVE YET TO BEQUEATH UPON MY BELOVED SECT!\n\nTHIS MAY BE MY FINAL OPPORTUNITY TO PASS DOWN MY MARTIAL LEGACY WITHOUT RESERVE... I CANNOT AFFORD TO WASTE IT!\n\nTHE YOUNG MASTER HAS NOT LEFT HIS CHAMBER TODAY EITHER?\nBUT WHAT OF HIS MEALS?\nHE BIDS US LEAVE THE TABLE OUTSIDE HIS DOOR, MR. VICE-PRESIDENT.\nWHEN WE COME BACK, WE FIND ALL THE PLATES LICKED CLEAN...\n\nHMM, BUT IT HAS BEEN THREE DAYS ALREADY... WHAT IS IT THAT HAS TURNED HIM INTO SUCH A RECLUSE, I WONDER?\nWELL, NOT A SOUL AMONG THE STAFF HAS BEEN ABLE TO PEEK INSIDE, SO--\nGAAAHHH!!!\nI HAVE JUST ABOUT HAD IT WITH THIS NONSENSE!!!\n\nTHESE BLASTED MIGRAINES!!!\nTHREE WHOLE DAYS, SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS.\nWHO KNOWS WHAT ANGUISH TORMENTS THESE MARTIAL MASTERS...? IT IS NOT FOR US LAYPEOPLE TO KNOW, I FEAR.\nNO DOUBT IT IS A MATTER OF GREAT IMPORT...\n\nWHAT IN THE BLOSSOMING WRITER'S BLOCK?!\nWHY AM I DRAWING A BLANK EVERY TIME I TRY TO PUT BRUSH TO PAPER?!\nIS IT THE LIQUOR? NO, I AM THE LIQUOR!\nTHERE! NO, LIKE THIS! JUST SO...!\nFOLLOWED BY A RIPOSTE!\n\nHOW IS IT THAT I HAVE THE ENTIRE TECHNIQUE CARVED INTO MUSCLE MEMORY, YET REMEMBER NOTHING OF THE INSTRUCTIONS?!\nAHA!\nIT'S COMING TO ME!\n\nYES! THAT'S MORE LIKE IT!\nI REMEMBER NOW!\nEACH TIME AN OBSTACLE OF THE MIND IS CLEARED, THE BRUSH COURSES ACROSS THE PAGES LIKE A DRAGON UNLEASHED FROM ITS CAGE...\n...ONLY TO PROCEED TO THE NEXT STEP THAT BRINGS WITH IT A NEW SET OF CHALLENGES AND FRUSTRATIONS.\n\nTHREE LONG DAYS OF STRUGGLES AGAINST ONE'S OWN MEMORY.\nGAAAHH...!\n\nTHERE! FINISHED!\nALL THE WAY TO THE SCATTERING BLOSSOM SHADOW!\nUGH, MY WRIST... LOOK AT ALL THESE BOOKS.\n\nWERE THERE ALWAYS SO MANY STYLES AND TECHNIQUES AT MOUNT HUA?\nIT'S A CHILLING THOUGHT, TO BE SURE.\nALL THIS PRICELESS MARTIAL ARTS KNOWLEDGE WAS CERTAIN TO BE LOST, HAD I NOT SOMEHOW RETURNED TO LIFE.\nWE HAVE THOSE SO-CALLED ALLIES TO THANK FOR THAT...\n\nDON'T YOU DARE FOR A MOMENT THINK THAT I'VE FORGOTTEN.\nWITH EACH BUSTED HEAD, YOU WILL KNOW THE WEIGHT OF YOUR BETRAYAL.\nFOR NOW, THE BASICS ARE DONE.\nTIME TO WORK ON THE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE PROPER...\n\nBUT WHAT DO I INTEND TO IMPART ON THEM?\nTHE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE, OBVIOUSLY.\nTHE ISSUE IS THAT I HAVE MASTERED TWO DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF THE TECHNIQUE.\n\nONE IS THE ORIGINAL FORM THAT WAS ONCE INHERITED BY THE SECT THROUGH GENERATIONS...\n...WHEREAS THE OTHER IS A HYBRID TECHNIQUE MODIFIED AND SUPPLEMENTED BASED ON MY KNOW-HOW FROM THE WAR AGAINST THE DEMON CULT.\nTHE VARIATION IS CERTAINLY MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD TO TEACH.\nIT SHOULD BE MUCH EASIER TO GRASP COMPARED TO THE ORIGINAL, NOT TO MENTION BEING ORIENTED FOR ACTUAL COMBAT TO DEVASTATING EFFECT AGAINST OTHER SECTS' STYLES.\n\nHOWEVER, TO PASS ON THE VARIATION BY ITSELF WOULD BE NOTHING SHORT OF SHAKING UP THE VERY FOUNDATION OF MOUNT HUA'S MARTIAL PHILOSOPHY.\nTHE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE IS THE ESSENCE OF OUR ART...\nIT IS NO EXAGGERATION TO SAY THAT ALTERING IT MAY LEAVE THE SECT ITSELF CHANGED FOREVER.\nAFTER ALL, THE TECHNIQUE REPRESENTS THE MOST SUBLIME EMBODIMENT OF MOUNT HUA'S PHILOSOPHY OF THE BLOSSOMING SPIRIT.\nAND WHO AM I TO WAX PHILOSOPHICAL...?\n\nINDEED, IT IS NOT LIKE YOU TO AGONIZE OVER THE DETAILS, CHEONGMYEONG.\n\nEXACTLY. THIS STUFF WAS ALWAYS YOUR JOB, SENIOR BROTHER...\nDO YOU SEE WHAT I HAVE TO DO ALONE, NOW THAT YOU'RE GONE? WHY PUT SO MUCH THOUGHT INTO THIS, IF NOT TO STOP YOU FROM NAGGING?\nYOU AND OUR NO-GOOD SECT SIBLINGS... LEAVING BEHIND THE ONE BROTHER WHO HATES PORING OVER SCROLLS AND BOOKS TO TAKE CARE OF ALL THIS BY HIMSELF...\nWHAT IS IT THAT TROUBLES YOU NOW?\n\nYOU KNOW PRECISELY WHAT. IT IS NOT MY PLACE TO CHANGE OUR ANCESTORS' STYLE ON A WHIM.\nTHEN WHY NOT CONVEY BOTH VARIATIONS?\nTHAT WOULD MEAN THE DISCIPLES WOULD ALWAYS WAVER BETWEEN THE TWO.\nGIVE IT A CENTURY OR SO, AND I GUARANTEE THERE WILL BE TWO FACTIONS AT ODDS WITH ONE ANOTHER.\n\nI SEE... I STILL FAIL TO SEE THE ISSUE.\nARE YOU EVEN LISTENING?! OUR FOREBEARS--\nARE YOU NOT A FOREBEAR OF THEIRS?\nFOREBEARS REFER TO THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE, AND WHO ARE YOU, IF NOT THAT?\nTO THE DISCIPLES YOU GUIDE NOW, YOU ARE THEIR SOURCE OF ANCESTRAL WISDOM.\n\nTHAT IS ONE WAY TO DESCRIBE IT...\nTHERE IS LITTLE TO PONDER.\nYOUR WILL IS THE WILL OF THE SECT'S FOREBEARS,\nAND YOUR WILL IS THE WILL OF MOUNT HUA.\nYOU HAVE MY BLESSING TO DO AS YOU WISH.\nEASIER SAID THAN DONE...\n\nTHIS TOO IS THE WAY OF THE TAO, IS IT NOT?\nIS THAT WHAT YOU DESIRE, BROTHER?\nI BETTER NOT HEAR ANY MORE NAGGING ONCE I JOIN YOU IN THE BEYOND.\n\nTHE UNIVERSE ITSELF IS IN A CONSTANT STATE OF FLUX, FLOWING AND CHANGING AS THE PASSING EONS DEMAND OF IT.\nTHERE IS NO FINER WAY TO VENERATE ITS CHANGING NATURE THAN TO MERELY ALLOW ITS CHANGES TO TAKE PLACE.\nBESIDES...\n\n...MOUNT HUA NOW HAS YOU TO GUIDE IT THROUGH THE CHANGING TIMES.\nI AM NOT SO DELUDED TO BELIEVE THAT THIS IS TRULY THE VOICE OF BROTHER SECT LEADER AS HE SPEAKS TO ME FROM THE AFTERLIFE.\nIT IS ONLY AN ECHO OF MY OWN DESIRES, LENT VOICE BY MY REMEMBRANCE OF HIM.\n\nPERHAPS ONE DAY WHEN I REACH THE REALM OF THE IMMORTALS, HE GENUINELY MIGHT GIVE ME AN EARFUL.\nWELL, SO BE IT...\nI NEVER HAD MY SIGHTS SET ON PARADISE TO BEGIN WITH.\n\nHOW MANY DAYS HAVE PASSED, I WONDER...?\nI CAN HARDLY TELL.\nTHE PASSAGE OF TIME SEEMED TO FADE INTO THE BACKGROUND AS I LET MY BRUSH TAKE HOLD OVER MY MIND.\n\nIT MAY NOT BE PERFECT, BUT IT WILL SUFFICE NONETHELESS.\nTHE FOUNDATION IS LAID ONCE MORE, TO BE BUILT UPON BY THE GENERATIONS TO COME.\nIT IS THE MARK OF TRUE GROWTH, AFTER ALL, TO MASTER AN ART, DISCOVER ITS SHORTCOMINGS, AND OVERCOME THEM FOR ONESELF.\nANY MORE THAN THAT IS NOT MY PLACE TO DETERMINE.\n\nNOW...\nI SUPPOSE IT MIGHT SEEM ODD IF I WERE TO BE SPOTTED CLIMBING UP THE MOUNTAIN WITH A GIANT BUNDLE OF TOP-SECRET TOMES ON MY BACK.\nHMM...\nTHAT LEAVES ONLY ONE WAY TO ENSURE THAT THESE REACH THE SECT.\n\nOUR BRANCH HERE IN HUAYIN HAS CERTAINLY GROWN OVER THE YEARS.\nIT MIGHT EVEN BECOME THE NEW HUB OF EUNHA TRADING COMPANY ONCE IT BEGINS TO PARTAKE IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF TEA THROUGH MOUNT HUA.\nWHEN FATHER FIRST SPOKE OF ESTABLISHING A BRANCH IN HUAYIN, I WAS CONVINCED HE HAD MADE AN ERROR OF JUDGMENT IN HIS ADVANCED AGE, BUT NOW I SEE THAT HE HAD BEEN RIGHT ALL ALONG.\nAS HE ALWAYS HAS BEEN, HEAVENS BLESS HIS SOUL...\n\nNOW, MORE THAN EVER, MAINTAINING OUR TIES TO MOUNT HUA WILL PROVE CRUCIAL.\nTHE PARTNERSHIP CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO DECAY--\n\nA BURGLAR...?\nIF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK AND QUACKS LIKE A BURGLAR...\nBUT IS THE THIEF COMING OUT OF MASTER CHEONGMYEONG'S CHAMBER?\n\nSURELY IT WOULD TAKE NOT ONE BUT A THOUSAND BURGLARS TO ROB THE MAD DOG OF--\nHOLD ON A MOMENT... I-IS THAT YOU, YOUNG MASTER?\nA BIT LATE FOR AN EVENING WALK, ISN'T IT, MASTER HWANG?\nWH-WHY ON EARTH ARE YOU DRESSED LIKE A BURGLAR?!\nHAHA, NOT TO WORRY, MASTER HWANG. I HARDLY SEE ANYTHING WORTH STEALING AROUND HERE.\n\nI NEEDED TO HEAD OUT FOR A WHILE, AND DO SO DISCREETLY, AS YOU CAN SEE.\nB-BUT WHERE ARE YOU GOING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, DRESSED LIKE A COMMON THIEF...?\nBACK TO MOUNT HUA, OF COURSE, THOUGH ONLY FOR THE NIGHT.\nTHAT MEANS BREAKFAST AS USUAL ON THE MORROW, IF YOU PLEASE! I SHALL BE BACK BY DAWN.\nNOW, ENJOY YOUR EVENING STROLL!\n\nTHAT BOY AIN'T RIGHT...","bubble_count":162,"pages_count":44,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Cheongmyeong arrives at the Eunha Trading Company's Huayin branch and asks Vice-President Jong-ui Hwang for a private, undisturbed chamber with rich meals, liquor, and money.","spoiler_summary":"Cheongmyeong arrives at the Eunha Trading Company's Huayin branch and asks Vice-President Jong-ui Hwang for a private, undisturbed chamber with rich meals, liquor, and money. He locks himself away for days to write out Mount Hua's lost martial knowledge, struggling to turn the 24-Strike Plum Blossom Sword Technique into a detailed 24-volume guide. After wrestling with whether to pass on the original form or his combat-modified variation, he resolves to follow his will as a forebear and sneaks out at night dressed as a burglar to carry the tomes back to Mount Hua."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w/chapter-185-i9p3i8","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Return of the Blossoming Blade #185: (S3) Episode 179","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-28T12:05:35.177Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w"}}