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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":186,"chapter_key":"186-ytje34","title":"(S3) Episode 180","release_date":"2026-10-27","last_updated":"2026-10-27T15:55:00.334Z","summary":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 186 follows Cheongmyeong as his secret night labor repairing the Millennium Steel Pot turns into a sect-wide thief hunt. After the chief physician muses on the Violet Sky Pellets and the missing pot, Cheongmyeong is caught hammering metal, then chased and mocked as a masked intruder until Baekcheon stages his escape. The next morning he brazenly returns while the elders debate the theft and renewed guard duty.","summary_source":"graph_aggregator","summary_status":"generated","summary_verification":"unverified"},"summary":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 186 follows Cheongmyeong as his secret night labor repairing the Millennium Steel Pot turns into a sect-wide thief hunt. After the chief physician muses on the Violet Sky Pellets and the missing pot, Cheongmyeong is caught hammering metal, then chased and mocked as a masked intruder until Baekcheon stages his escape. The next morning he brazenly returns while the elders debate the theft and renewed guard duty.","key_events":["Chief physician reflects on making Violet Sky Pellets and notices Millennium Steel Pot missing, raising thief alarm","Intruder returns through main gates next morning pretending ignorance about overnight theft","Sect leader leads group below to sealed secret vault door passed down generations","Sect leadership discusses leak and decides to reinstitute nightly guard duty","Masked intruder caught in woods is confronted by Mount Hua disciples swarming at night","Senior disciple recognizes masked intruder and stages fake duel to let him escape"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"THE HALL OF MEDICINE HAS AT LAST WEATHERED ITS GREATEST TEMPEST IN ALL MY TENURE AS CHIEF PHYSICIAN.\n\nTO THINK THAT IT WOULD REQUIRE THE CONCERTED EFFORTS OF ALL THE MEDICAL DISCIPLES AS WELL AS THE ELDERS AND YOUNG CHEONGMYEONG TO PRODUCE THE FABLED VIOLET SKY PELLETS...\nAND WHAT A FEAT IT WAS, TOO.\nA SHINING ACHIEVEMENT WHOSE GLOW SHALL BE FELT BY OUR DESCENDANTS FOR THE REST OF TIME.\nALTHOUGH...\n...NOW THAT THE BURNING PASSION OF THAT DAY HAS SUBSIDED, THE OFFICE FEELS EMPTIER THAN EVER.\nTHE MEMORY OF ONLY A FEW DAYS AGO SEEMS ALMOST AS FLEETING AS A DREAM.\n\nWITHOUT THE MILLENNIUM STEEL POT HERE AS PROOF, I MIGHT HAVE EVEN BELIEVED THAT I TRULY HAD DREAMED THE WHOLE THING.\nHMM?\nHAHA... SPEAKING OF WHICH, WHERE DID THE POT DISAPPEAR TO?\nTIME TO WAKE UP, UN-GAK.\n\nSOUND THE ALARM! THIEEEF!!!\n\nWHAT A COLOSSAL...\n...WASTE OF MY TIME!!!\n\nHOW MANY TIMES MUST I BASH THIS HUNK OF METAL INTO SHAPE?!\n\nIS THIS WHAT A LIFETIME OF MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING COMES DOWN TO?\nUSING MY BARE HANDS TO FILL IN A HOLE THAT I CARVED OUT IN THE FIRST PLACE?\nI SPENT AN ENTIRE NIGHT MANUALLY BASHING THE POT INTO SHAPE, AND NOW I HAVE TO PUT IT BACK EXACTLY AS IT WAS!\nSURE, THEY CALL ME THE MAD DOG OF MOUNT HUA, BUT LITTLE DO THEY KNOW HOW THEY HAVE ME WORKING LIKE A DOG AS WELL!\nOF ALL THE THANKLESS MENIAL WORK I HAVE HAD TO DO, THIS SURELY TAKES THE RICE CAKE!\n\nHOW AM I STILL DOING SO MUCH PHYSICAL LABOR AS A MAN OVER A CENTURY OLD?!\nTHE THINGS I DO FOR YOU LOUSY DESCENDANTS... AND YOU'LL NEVER EVEN KNOW IT!\nI SWEAR, THIS BLASTED SECT HAD BETTER BECOME THE GREATEST SECT IN THE ENTIRE REALM... OR ELSE!!!\n\nEITHER GET WITH THE PROGRAM OR BE LEFT BEHIND, THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO IT!!!\n\nI'LL BET MY SO-CALLED DESCENDANTS ARE SLEEPING SOUNDLY IN THEIR BEDS AS I SPEAK... MUST BE NICE HAVING THEIR ANCESTOR DO THE BACK-BREAKING WORK ON THEIR BEHALF.\n\nTHIS SECT COULD SCARCELY EVEN AFFORD A BED UNTIL I CAME ALONG.\nWHO GOES THERE?!\nHMM?\n\nA FELLOW NIGHT OWL, EH?\nIS IT JUST ME, OR ARE THESE WOODS A LITTLE MORE CROWDED THAN WHEN I CRAWLED INTO THAT HOLE IN THE GROUND EARLIER...?\n\nI SUPPOSE THEY MUST BE OUT LOOKING FOR THE MILLENNIUM POT THAT NO LONGER EXISTS.\nAND CREDIT TO BAEKSANG OVER HERE... HE SOMEHOW SENSED MY PRESENCE AMID THE COMMOTION.\nA SIGN OF GROWTH, IF EVER I'VE SEEN ONE.\nPERHAPS HE DESERVES SOME PRAISE NOW AND AGAIN--\nOVER HERE!!!\n\nI HAVE THE FILTHY, STINKING THIEF DEAD TO RIGHTS!!!\nI TAKE BACK EVERY KIND WORD I EVER UTTERED ABOUT THIS BUFFOON.\n\nEpisode 180\nHA... IF ONLY THEY MOVED THIS SWIFTLY TO MUSTER FOR TRAINING.\nLOOK AT THEM SWARMING LIKE FLIES.\nSEIZE HIM!\n\nBREAK BOTH HIS LEGS FIRST SO HE WILL NOT GET AWAY!\nWHAT A BUNCH OF UNRULY SAVAGES...\nIS THIS HOW I TAUGHT THEM TO ACT?\nD*** RIGHT IT WAS, THOUGH THIS IS HARDLY THE TIME FOR A PAT ON THE BACK.\nSINCE I HAVE URGENT BUSINESS TO ATTEND TO ELSEWHERE, I SHALL LEAVE YOU ALL TO IT.\nAS YOU WERE, DISCIPLES OF MOUNT HUA--\n\nDID YOU HEAR THAT? THE BURGLAR'S TOO BUSY TO DEAL WITH THE LIKES OF US!\nWAAAH! BOO HOO, LITTLE BABY THIEF WANTS TO ROB A MARTIAL ARTS SECT AND TALK HIS WAY OUT OF IT, DOES HE?\n\nLOOK HOW TINY HE IS! PSPSPS, COME HERE, LITTLE THIEF! WHO'S A GOOD BOY?\nAWW, DON'T CRY! WE WON'T BITE!\nCONSIDER THIS YOUR FIRST AND LAST WARNING.\nYOU MAY NOT BITE, BUT I DO.\nBAHAHAHAHAHA!!!\nOH NO! WHATEVER WILL WE DO?!\nHAHAHAHA, WATCH OUT!\n\nLITTLE THIEF'S GOING TO BITE US ON OUR BEHINDS!\nMM-HMM. I HAVE NO ONE ELSE TO BLAME.\nTHIS IS ALL BECAUSE I FAILED TO TEACH THEM ANY MANNERS IN THE FIRST PLACE.\nOH, BUT IT IS NEVER TOO LATE FOR A NEW LESSON.\nA LESSON HARD-LEARNED, THE TRUE TAOIST WAY.\nWHO DARES DISTURB OUR SACRED TRAINING GROUNDS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT?!\n\nSENIOR BROTHER!\nIT'S SENIOR BROTHER BAEKCHEON!\nBROTHER BAEKCHEON!\nMOUNT HUA IS STRICTLY OFF-LIMITS TO MASKED INTRUDERS SUCH AS YOURSELF...\nHMM?\n\nBY THE BLOSSOMS...!\nON THIS EPISODE OF...\n...WHO'S THAT MASKED INTRUDER?!\nIIIT'S CHEONGMYEONG!!!\n\nS-STOP RIGHT THERE... UH, CRIMINAL SCUM... IF YOU ARE QUITE DONE WITH WHATEVER YOU WERE DOING, THAT IS...\n?\nSENIOR BROTHER?\nUGH... HEAVENS HELP ME...\nI AM SO UTTERLY DONE WITH THIS S***.\nSENIOR BROTHER?!\nL-LANGUAGE!\n\nGO...!\nGET THE HELL OUT OF HERE BEFORE ANY OF THE OTHERS SEE THROUGH YOUR FLIMSY DISGUISE, D*** YOU!\nTHAT WAY! BEGONE!\n\nIS HE MEAN MUGGING ME?\nY-YOU KNOW SOCIAL CUES MIGHT AS WELL BE ANCIENT PICTOGRAMS TO HIM, SENIOR BROTHER! WHAT DO WE DO?\nCAN YOU FAULT ME FOR TRYING?! WHY ON EARTH IS HE STILL HERE WHEN HE COULD HAVE LEFT US IN THE DUST MINUTES AGO?!\nI RATHER SUSPECT HE WANTS US TO SET THE SCENE, SENIOR BROTHER.\nSET THE SCENE?\n\nINDEED, A STAGED FARCE WHEREBY CHEONGMYEONG CAN FLEE IN THE MIDST OF THE ENSUING SCUFFLE.\nPREPARE TO FACE JUSTICE, YOU WRETCH!!!\n\nA WIDE, PREDICTABLE SWING OF THE SWORD AND HE SHOULD KNOW THAT IS HIS TIMING TO FLEE!\nI COULD NOT POSSIBLY MAKE IT ANY CLEARER!\nCOME, CHEONGMYEONG! PRETEND TO PARRY MY STRIKE AND USE THE MOMENTUM TO--\n\nRUN?\nHA... YOU GIANT BLOSSOMING A**HOLE.\n\nHAHAHAHA! FAREWELL, DISCIPLES OF MOUNT HUA.\n\nYOU WILL NEED TO TRAIN HARDER THAN THAT TO STOP ME NEXT TIME!\nBWAHAHAHA!!!\nAFTER HIM!\n\nRAAAH!\n\nPERHAPS THEN I'LL HAVE A MOMENT OF RESPITE FROM HIS NONSENSE.\nHAHAHA...\nHAHAHAHA...\n\nIT'S CHEONGMYEONG! BROTHER CHEONGMYEONG HAS RETURNED!\nNOT SO FORTUNATE, AFTER ALL.\nONLY HE WOULD HAVE THE GALL TO ROB HIS OWN SECT, THEN WALK BACK THROUGH THE MAIN GATES THE NEXT MORNING.\nUNBELIEVABLE...\nI HAVE NO WORDS, EXCEPT TO SAY...\n\n...WHAT A NITWIT.\nWHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, CHEONGMYEONG?! WE WERE BROKEN INTO OVERNIGHT!\nTHE MILLENNIUM STEEL POT WAS STOLEN!\nYOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE BURGLAR FIGHT, I TELL YOU!\nHE FOLDED BROTHER YUNJONG LIKE A DIRTY SECT UNIFORM WITH BUT ONE BLOW!\nWHAAAT? NOOO!\nCONSIDER MY FLABBER WELL AND TRULY GASTED!\n\nIMAGINE IF YOU FINE DISCIPLES HAD TRAINED HARDER INSTEAD OF LOITERING AROUND FOR A COMMON THIEF TO TAKE OUR TREASURES!\nI SWEAR...\nALL I AM SAYING IS, I SIMPLY CANNOT RELATE!\nOH, WELL! NO USE CRYING OVER SPILLED MILK, OR INDEED, A STOLEN PRICELESS MILLENNIUM STEEL POT!\n\nWHAT A PITY! PERHAPS NEXT TIME, BROTHERS!\nWELCOME BACK, CHEONGMYEONG! ARE YOU WELL?\n\nI AM, SECT LEADER!\nEXCELLENT!\nTHE INCIDENT OF THE BURGLAR OVERNIGHT GAVE ME CONCERN, YOU SEE.\nI FEARED YOU MAY HAVE BEEN THE INTRUDER'S TRUE TARGET AND SOUGHT TO ENSURE YOUR SAFETY, BUT I SEE YOU WERE UNHARMED, WHICH IS A RELIEF.\nWHY, I WOULD HAVE SENT THE THIEF PACKING WITH A FLICK OF MY WRIST!\nINDEED, I DO NOT DOUBT IT.\nON THAT NOTE... I BELIEVE WE OWE YOU AN APOLOGY.\n\nOUR LACK OF VIGILANCE ALLOWED THE THEFT OF THE PRECIOUS ARTIFACT YOU PROCURED FOR THE SECT.\nWE ARE NOT WORTHY TO CALL OURSELVES YOUR ELDERS...\nHARDLY. WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL NO ONE WAS HARMED, IF ANYTHING.\nWE CAN ALWAYS FIND ANOTHER POT TO BOIL MEDICINE WITH.\nAFTER ALL, YOU ARE ALWAYS TELLING ME THAT A SECT IS ITS PEOPLE, NOT ITS TREASURES.\nOH, SUCH A SAINT OF A BOY...!\n\nYOU TRULY ARE, CHEONGMYEONG...\nA SAINT?\nI HAVE HALF A MIND TO TATTLE ON YOU BEFORE THE SECT LEADER HIMSELF...\nI HAVEN'T THE FAINTEST IDEA WHAT YOU MEAN, SENIOR BROTHER. HAHA...\nBACK OFF, OR I'LL TATTLE ON YOU FIRST FOR BULLYING YOUR POOR, INNOCENT JUNIOR BROTHER...\nSECT LEADER, THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE BREAK-IN LED ME TO SUSPECT THAT THE INTRUDER SPECIFICALLY CAME IN SEARCH OF THE MILLENNIUM STEEL POT.\n\nTHIS IS NO LIGHT INCIDENT TO BE BRUSHED ASIDE SIMPLY BECAUSE NOBODY WAS HARMED.\nPARDON ME, SENIOR BROTHER, BUT ARE YOU SUGGESTING THAT INFORMATION IS BEING LEAKED FROM OUR SECT SOMEHOW?\nNOTHING IS CONCLUSIVE FOR NOW, HYEONYEONG. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE INTRUDER SPOTTED THE POT BY COINCIDENCE WHILE SCOPING OUT OUR HALLS.\nEVEN SO, THERE IS NO DENYING THAT SOME ENTERPRISING THIEF TOOK THE TIME TO CLIMB THESE PERILOUS PEAKS AND INFILTRATE OUR VERY BASE.\n\nIT WOULD NOT BE PARANOID TO THINK THAT OUTSIDE FORCES HAVE NOW BEGUN TO PRY INTO MOUNT HUA'S BUSINESS,\nESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE FEATS ACHIEVED BY OUR DISCIPLES OF LATE...\nHMM, I SUPPOSE IT MAKES SENSE, WITH THE EVENTS OF THE HUAZHONG CONTEST STILL BEING SPOKEN OF IN AWE...\nIT MAY INCONVENIENCE THE CHILDREN SOMEWHAT, BUT I BELIEVE IT MAY BE BEST TO REINSTITUTE NIGHTLY GUARD DUTY FROM NOW ON.\nAN EXCELLENT IDEA, SECT LEADER.\nGREAT, MORE MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.\n\nIT'S NOT AS THOUGH WE ARE SOME REALM-WIDE THREAT...\nTHIS IS PRECISELY WHY WE MUST ACT NOW, BROTHER.\nCHEONGMYEONG, NOW THAT YOU APPEAR TO BE BACK TO FULL HEALTH...\nWILL YOU BE ABLE TO CARVE THROUGH MILLENNIUM STEEL?\n\nOF COURSE, SECT LEADER.\n\nARE YOU CERTAIN YOU WANT US ALL TO SEE, SECT LEADER?\nWHATEVER WE DISCOVER WITHIN THE VAULT, I MEAN TO BRING IT ALL OUT WITH US. AFTER ALL, WHAT USE WOULD WE HAVE FOR A SECRET VAULT IN THE SECT WE INTEND TO BUILD?\n\nFOR MY PART, I HAVE NO DESIRE TO KEEP ANY MORE SECRETS FROM MY CHERISHED SIBLINGS OF MOUNT HUA.\n\nCOME, LET US HEAD BELOW.\n\nSUCH IMPENETRABLE DARKNESS...\nBELIEVE IT OR NOT, THIS HALLWAY WAS ONCE LIT AS BRIGHT AS DAY WITH LIGHTSTONES.\nWHAT HAPPENED TO THEM, SECT LEADER? ASKING FOR A FRIEND...\nHAVE YOU EVER WONDERED ABOUT THE SPORADIC INFUSIONS OF CASH INTO OUR ACCOUNTS?\nNO COMMENT...\n\nI CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE TIGHTENED OUR BELTS EVEN TIGHTER, HAD I KNOWN THAT THE FUNDS CAME FROM SELLING OFF THE LIGHTS IN OUR SECRET VAULT...\n\nHERE WE ARE.\nB-BROTHER SECT LEADER... IS THIS IT?\nINDEED.\nTHE SECRET VAULT OF THE SECT LEADER, PASSED DOWN THROUGH GENERATIONS OF MOUNT HUA.\n\nBUT HOW WOULD WE EVEN BEGIN TO SEE ABOUT OPENING THIS DOOR?\nTHAT IS PRECISELY THE CONUNDRUM.\nMY GUESS IS THAT IT MAY RESPOND TO A CERTAIN MARTIAL TECHNIQUE TAUGHT ONLY TO THE CURRENT SECT LEADER OF OUR SECT.\n\nONE THAT WAS LOST TO TIME, YOU MEAN...\nWHO KNOWS? IT MAY YET BE AWAITING US INSIDE.\nTHAT IS... IF THE TIME HAS COME TO UNRAVEL ITS SECRETS.","bubble_count":173,"pages_count":50,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 186 follows Cheongmyeong as his secret night labor repairing the Millennium Steel Pot turns into a sect-wide thief hunt.","spoiler_summary":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 186 follows Cheongmyeong as his secret night labor repairing the Millennium Steel Pot turns into a sect-wide thief hunt. After the chief physician muses on the Violet Sky Pellets and the missing pot, Cheongmyeong is caught hammering metal, then chased and mocked as a masked intruder until Baekcheon stages his escape. The next morning he brazenly returns while the elders debate the theft and renewed guard duty."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w/chapter-186-ytje34","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Return of the Blossoming Blade #186: (S3) Episode 180","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-28T12:05:37.606Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w"}}