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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":187,"chapter_key":"187-cevuxg","title":"(S3) Episode 181","release_date":"2026-11-03","last_updated":"2026-11-03T15:49:00.222Z","summary":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 187 follows Cheongmyeong as he violently cuts open the thick Millennium Steel vault door to preserve its markings. He and the Sect Leader enter a modest archive with three bookcases holding pristine lost techniques like Scattering Blossom Shadow, Plum Blossom Steps, and the illustrated 24-Strike Plum Blossom Sword Technique left by Cheongmyeong. After deflecting suspicion over the fresh ink and same handwriting, Cheongmyeong is sent alone to Chengdu for Master Hwang's 80th birthday feast.","summary_source":"graph_aggregator","summary_status":"generated","summary_verification":"unverified"},"summary":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 187 follows Cheongmyeong as he violently cuts open the thick Millennium Steel vault door to preserve its markings. He and the Sect Leader enter a modest archive with three bookcases holding pristine lost techniques like Scattering Blossom Shadow, Plum Blossom Steps, and the illustrated 24-Strike Plum Blossom Sword Technique left by Cheongmyeong. After deflecting suspicion over the fresh ink and same handwriting, Cheongmyeong is sent alone to Chengdu for Master Hwang's 80th birthday feast.","key_events":["Sect leader assigns solo mission to represent sect at Eunha Trading Company feast for 80th birthday","Former Mount Hua members return to the mountain trails after 30 years to meet Hyeonjong","Discovery of the 24-Strike Plum Blossom Sword Technique tome with illustrations causes shock","A hidden compartment and empty chamber with circular floor marking is found beneath bookcase","Group enters hidden archive and finds preserved lost techniques including Scattering Blossom Shadow and Plum Blossom Steps","A swordsman cuts open a thick millennium steel vault door after failing with a single slash","Observers note fresh ink and identical handwriting across all secret tomes"],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"HEAVENS, A VERITABLE SWORD AURA!\nSTAND BACK, ELDERS!\nI OUGHT TO LEAVE THE MARKINGS ON THE DOOR INTACT, IN CASE THEY PROVE TO BE OF SOME USE DOWN THE LINE.\n\nI'M CERTAIN I CAN CUT AROUND IT.\nBUT FIRST...!\n\nTHE CLASSIC OVERHEAD SLASH!!!\n\n?!\nCLANG? NOT A SLICE?\nWHY DID THE BLADE ONLY CUT HALFWAY?\nAHA!\n\nOF COURSE IT'S NO ORDINARY DOOR!\nHOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN ITS SHEER THICKNESS? IT'S HARDLY MY FIRST TIME!\nWILL IT NOT YIELD, CHEONGMYEONG?\nN-NOT TO WORRY, SECT LEADER! JUST LEAVE IT TO ME!\nIF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED...\n\n...BEAT THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF IT UNTIL YOU DO!\nDEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS? MORE LIKE THEFT BY A THOUSAND CUTS!!!\nYIELD, YOU STUBBORN SLAB OF JUNK METAL!\n\nCAN I NOT HAVE ONE LOUSY THING GO MY WAY THE FIRST TIME?!\nTHIS HEAVENS-FORSAKEN SECT...!\nYOU'LL PUT ME INTO AN EARLY GRAVE, THE LOT OF YOU!\n\nEpisode 181\n\nB-BROTHER SECT LEADER...\n\nWOULD YOU CARE TO DO THE HONOR?\nA STRANGE APPREHENSION GRIPS ME.\n\nTHE VAGUE SENSE OF DISMAY THAT WHAT AWAITS US BEYOND THE DOOR IS NAUGHT BUT AN EMPTY CHAMBER.\nEVEN SO...\n...IT DOES NOT BEHOOVE THE LEADER OF A PROUD SECT TO BACK AWAY NOW...!\nCOME, MY BOY.\n\nHOW MODEST...\nWITH ONLY THREE BOOKCASES HERE TO GREET US...\nTHIS PLACE RESEMBLES MORE A LIBRARY THAN A TREASURE TROVE.\nMODEST IS CERTAINLY ONE WORD, BUT LACKING MAY BE ANOTHER.\nNEVERTHELESS...\n...THIS ANXIOUS PALPITATION SIMPLY REFUSES TO ABATE.\n\nIT IS AS IF THIS SENSE OF AUSTERITY EMBODIES THE VERY SPIRIT DESIRED OF MOUNT HUA'S FIGUREHEAD.\nPERHAPS SUCH IS THE LESSON THAT OUR ANCESTORS HOPED TO IMPART UPON US WITH THIS HIDDEN ARCHIVE...\n\nS-SECT LEADER!\nBEHOLD, THE INSTRUCTION TOME FOR THE SCATTERING BLOSSOM SHADOW! AN ADVANCED TECHNIQUE OF OUR SECT, LONG CONSIDERED TO BE LOST TO TIME!\n\nHOW CAN THIS BE?!\nO-OVER HERE WE HAVE THE PLUM BLOSSOM STEPS! A TECHNIQUE SUPERIOR TO EVEN THE SEVEN STAR STEPS!\nLORD SECT LEADER, I SEE ONE FOR THE BLADE OF NINE HOUSES!\nBY THE HEAVENS...! HOW COULD THEY BE PRESERVED IN SUCH PRISTINE CONDITION?\nONE MIGHT MISTAKE THEM FOR BRAND-NEW BOOKS, SECT LEADER!\nIN FACT, SO PERFECTLY PRESERVED ARE THEY THAT I CAN STILL CATCH A WHIFF OF THE INK FROM THE PAGES!\n\nOOPS...! I SHOULD HAVE LET THEM DRY FIRST!\nYES, QUITE SO... THE WRITING EVEN SEEMS POSITIVELY DAMP IN PLACES.\nJUST WHAT IS THIS INK MADE OF...?\nHMM...\nHAHAHA! THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED, BROTHERS!\nI MYSELF WAS STRUGGLING TO FATHOM WHY OUR FOREBEARS WOULD BUILD THIS VAULT WITH MILLENNIUM STEEL OF ALL THINGS.\n\nAND WHY IS THAT, BROTHER?\nLEGEND HAS IT THAT ANY CONTAINER FORGED FROM MILLENNIUM STEEL POSSESSES A PRETERNATURAL FROSTINESS, WHICH PREVENTS WHATEVER OBJECT LIES WITHIN FROM SPOILING.\nAHA...! THAT IS WHY SOME EVEN CALL IT MILLENNIUM FROST STEEL!\nIT THEN STANDS TO REASON THAT ITS COOLING PROPERTIES HAVE ALLOWED THESE INVALUABLE TOMES TO ENDURE THROUGH THE AGES!\n\nTHERE! THERE IT IS!\nOUTSTANDING EXPOSITION, LORD SECT LEADER!\nHMM?\nSECT LEADER!\nO-OVER HERE!\n\nWHAT IS IT, HYEONYEONG?!\nWHAT HAVE YOU DISCOVERED?!\nON THE BOTTOM SHELF, DOWN BELOW!\nWOULD YOU BELIEVE IT, BROTHER...?!\nTHE TOME FOR THE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE!!!\n\n2-24-STRIKE WHAT NOW...?!\nOUR FOREBEARS PRESERVE US...!\nTH-THE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE...\n...WITH DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRACTICE...\n\n...AND ILLUSTRATIONS?!\nGUHHH!\nB-BROTHER SECT LEADER! NO!!!\nTHIS IS NO TIME TO SHUFFLE OFF THIS MORTAL COIL!\n\nDO I NOT ALWAYS TELL YOU TO SETTLE YOUR WILL BEFORE YOU ASCEND?!\nAT LEAST SPIT OUT THAT WASTED VIOLET SKY PELLET YOU SWALLOWED!\nTHUS FOLLOWS THE LEGACY OF CHEONGMYEONG, A 13TH-GENERATION DISCIPLE OF THE GREAT MOUNT HUA SECT.\n\nCH-CHEONGMYEONG...?\nHERE I AM! WHAT A COINCIDENCE!\nCHEONGMYEONG...\nHERE LIES A NAME KNOWN TO US ALL...\nINDEED, A PROUD NAME REVERED IN OUR SECT FOR GENERATIONS.\n\nTHE MASTER OF THE BLOSSOMING BLADE.\nOH, THAT FADED LEGEND OF MOUNT HUA...\nONE THAT INSPIRED ME TO PERSEVERE IN SPITE OF OUR SECT'S WANING FORTUNE.\nTO THINK THAT I SHOULD BE HONORED WITH YOUR WRITING...!\n\nWHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO HIM? IT'S HARDLY SOME TEARJERKER ROMANCE NOVEL...\nTHE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE CONSTITUTES BOTH THE ESSENCE AND PINNACLE OF OUR PATH.\nTHIS EXTRAORDINARILY HUMBLE DISCIPLE AIMS TO LEAVE BEHIND ILLUSTRATED DIAGRAMS FOR EACH STROKE IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS ARE ABLE TO BETTER COMPREHEND THE TECHNIQUE.\n\nALL NEWCOMERS WHO READ THIS TOME ARE HEREBY URGED TO CARVE THE ILLUSTRATIONS INTO MEMORY AND DEVOTE THEMSELVES TO ITS MASTERY.\nIT IS NO BOASTFUL EXAGGERATION TO CLAIM THAT ANYONE WHO SUCCEEDS IN TRULY MASTERING THE 24-STRIKE PLUM BLOSSOM SWORD TECHNIQUE SHALL FEAR NO FOE BENEATH THE HEAVENS.\nYET, HEED THESE WORDS.\nIT IS NOT A MERE TECHNIQUE YOU MUST ENDEAVOR TO INHERIT, BUT THE SPIRIT OF MOUNT HUA ITSELF.\nACROSS THE PAGES OF THESE 24 VOLUMES, I HAVE SOUGHT TO CAPTURE THE HALLOWED SPIRIT OF OUR SECT TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY.\n\nFOR AS LONG AS ITS WILL LIVES ON...\n...THE PROUD NAME OF MOUNT HUA SHALL NEVER BE EXTINGUISHED.\nTH-THE MASTER OF THE BLOSSOMING BLADE, YOU SAY?!\nAND THIS IS HIS OWN TAKE ON THE TECHNIQUE, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS TO BOOT?!\n\nCOME, BROTHER! ALLOW ME TO APPRAISE--\nHMM...?\nBROTHER SECT LEADER...\nARE THE PAGES SUPPOSED TO BE ALL STUCK TOGETHER THIS WAY?\nI CERTAINLY HOPE IT IS THE INK AT LEAST...\nWHAT? SURELY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, THE INK CANNOT BE YET TO DRY...\n\nCOME TO THINK OF IT, SECT LEADER, EVEN THE HANDWRITING IS THE SAME!\nFOR EVERY ONE OF THESE SECRET TOMES, I MEAN!\nARE YOU CERTAIN?!\nSUSPICIOUSLY FRESH INK, ALL WRITTEN IN THE SAME HAND...\nONE MIGHT EVEN SUSPECT THESE WERE ALL PENNED BY THE SAME DISCIPLE ON THE SAME DAY...!\nMEANING WHAT, PRAY?!\nUHH, HELLO?! SINCE WHEN WERE YOU ALL EXPERTS ON ANCIENT TEXTS? DID THE PANACEA GROW BACK YOUR BRAINS AS WELL?!\n\nIT CAN ONLY IMPLY ONE THING, SECT LEADER...!\nOH! PRAISE BE TO THE BLOSSOMING BLADE! WE ARE TRULY BLESSED TO BE LEFT SUCH A PRICELESS LEGACY!\n\nPHEW... SAVED BY SLOW WITS, FOR ONCE.\nONE CAN SCARCELY BELIEVE IT, ELDERS...\nI NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD HOLD THE LEGACY OF THE BLOSSOMING BLADE IN MY OWN HANDS...\n\nHUH?\nL-LORD SECT LEADER?!\nTHERE APPEARS TO BE A HIDDEN COMPARTMENT UNDERNEATH THE BOOKCASE OVER HERE!\nFOOL OF A SENIOR BROTHER! THROW YOURSELF IN NEXT TIME AND RID US OF YOUR STUPIDITY!\n\nAN EMPTY CHAMBER...?\nI SUPPOSE IT WAS BUILT THEN LEFT UNUSED FOR LATER GENERATIONS.\n\nNOT EVEN A MINOR TREASURE IN SIGHT... HMPH!\nNOT THAT ANYTHING IS MORE VALUABLE THAN KNOWLEDGE, OF COURSE.\nNO NEED TO BE DISAPPOINTED, BROTHER. AS YOU SAY, WE HAVE ALREADY GAINED A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE THIS DAY--\nHMM?\nA CIRCULAR MARKING OF SOME SORT UPON THE FLOOR...?\n\nHOW VERY PERFECTLY ROUND...\nAND LARGE ENOUGH FOR A PERSON, EVEN.\nHMM, WERE I TO HAZARD A GUESS...\n...IT MIGHT EVEN RESEMBLE A HOLE INTENTIONALLY CUT OUT TO--\nAS IF ANY LIVING SOUL ON THIS EARTH COULD CUT OUT AND SPLICE BACK TOGETHER MILLENNIUM STEEL, LORD ELDER!\n\nI'D WAGER EVEN THE MASTER OF THE BLOSSOMING BLADE COULD BARELY MAKE A SCRATCH ON A VAULT THIS SIZE!\nN-NOW... WHY WASTE TIME ON AN EMPTY ROOM WHEN WE HAVE AN ENTIRE LIBRARY OF TOMES TO STUDY UP THERE? SHALL WE, ELDERS?\nARE YOU WELL, CHEONGMYEONG ? YOU SEEM TO BE SWEATING AN AWFUL LOT.\nARE YOU STILL AFFLICTED BY YOUR INTERNAL WOUND?\nP-PRECISELY, CUTTING THROUGH THE DOOR MUST HAVE TAKEN ITS TOLL...\n\nAHA, I SEE IT NOW!\nWHAT NOW? STOP SEEING THINGS ALREADY!\nAN EMPTY CIRCLE AT THE CENTER OF AN EMPTY CHAMBER...!\nDO YOU NOT COMPREHEND THE SYMBOLISM?\n\nTHIS TOO MUST BE SOME PROFOUND LESSON LEFT FOR US BY OUR ANCESTORS!\nPERHAPS THE MESSAGE HERE IS THAT WE MUST LEARN TO EMPTY OUR HEARTS OF EXCESS DESIRE ONCE WE HAVE ALREADY ATTAINED THAT WHICH WE DESERVE!\nWELL SAID, BROTHER SECT LEADER!\nOUR FOREBEARS WISHED FOR US TO REMAIN EVER-MINDFUL OF THE TAO!\nINDEED, THEY KNEW THAT THE DEEPEST FOUNDATION OF MOUNT HUA LIES NOT IN ITS MIGHT, BUT ITS PHILOSOPHY.\nI FIND MYSELF HUMBLED BY THE SIMPLE ELEGANCE OF THIS LESSON.\n\nRIGHT YOU ARE, BROTHER. I'M IN AWE OF OUR ANCESTORS' WISDOM!\nO PREDECESSORS OF OUR GREAT SECT...\nWHAT IN THE DAY-ONE PHILOSOPHY STUDENT PRETENTIOUSNESS...?\nIF ONLY I COULD BUST SOME SENSE INTO THEIR HEADS...\n\n...BUT I OUGHT TO BE GLAD THAT MY WORK HERE IS DONE.\nTHE RESURRECTED VIOLET SKY PELLETS HAVE ENHANCED THEIR QI MANIFOLD...\n\n...THESE TOMES HAVE LEFT THEM WITH MUCH TO PORE OVER...\n...AND THE TRAINING REGIMEN I ESTABLISHED FROM THE BEGINNING HAS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED THE MODEL OF SELF-MOTIVATED TRAINING.\nWITH THIS, NOT EVEN BROTHER JANGMUN CAN DENY THAT I HAVE ACHIEVED THE FIRST OF MY MANY GOALS UPON RETURNING TO MOUNT HUA.\nYOU'LL NOT SCOLD ME FOR SLACKING FOR A WHILE THEN, WILL YOU, BROTHER...?\n\nAS IN ALL MATTERS, ONE CANNOT HOPE TO ALWAYS FIND SUCCESS BY FORGING AHEAD WITH RESOLVE.\nAT TIMES, IT IS BETTER TO ALLOW A MOMENT FOR RESPITE AND REFLECTION, INSTEAD OF DEMANDING PROGRESS.\nA QUIET MONTH OR SO SHOULD SUFFICE...\nWELL, MORE LIKE A FORTNIGHT.\nYOU MEAN TO SEND ME WHERE, SECT LEADER?\n\nBACK TO THE EUNHA TRADING COMPANY, MY BOY.\nMASTER HWANG HAS GRACIOUSLY INVITED OUR SECT TO A FEAST IN CELEBRATION OF HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY ON THE DAY OF THE NEXT FULL MOON.\n\nTHOUGH IT WOULD BE MORE FITTING FOR THE SECT'S ELDERS TO ATTEND, GIVEN ALL THAT WE OWE THE GENTLEMAN, I'M AFRAID I FIND MYSELF UTTERLY INDISPOSED FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE.\nTHEREFORE, IT IS YOUR NEXT MISSION TO REPRESENT US AT SAID FEAST.\nME, SENT TO A FEAST? WHAT'S THE CATCH?\nAS YOU KNOW FULL WELL, OUR SECT IS CURRENTLY THE MOST OCCUPIED IT HAS BEEN IN MANY YEARS.\nTHE FINANCE OFFICE IS ENTIRELY CONSUMED WITH TASKS PERTAINING TO THE TRADING OF TEA AND PROVISION OF GRAIN TO YUNNAN, NOT TO MENTION THE WEAPONS TO BE SUPPLIED TO US BY THE SICHUAN TANG CLAN...\n\n...WHILE THE SECT ARCHIVE LIKEWISE HAS ITS HANDS FULL WITH SORTING THROUGH THE TOMES RECOVERED FROM THE HIDDEN VAULT AND PRODUCING COPIES SO THAT WE MAY BEGIN TEACHING THE REDISCOVERED TECHNIQUES TO OUR TRAINEES.\nWITH THESE VITAL MATTERS STILL TO BE SEEN THROUGH, YOU CAN IMAGINE I AM IN NO POSITION TO VACATE THE SECT GROUNDS.\n\nIN THAT CASE, WILL SENIOR BROTHER BAEKCHEON ACCOMPANY ME? YOU ALWAYS SAY I REQUIRE SUPERVISION...\nORDINARILY, YES, BUT EVEN BAEKCHEON IS COMMITTED TO ASSISTING UN-GEOM WITH THE JUNIOR TRAINEES FOR THE MOMENT.\nIT SEEMED IMPRUDENT TO DISRUPT THE FLOW OF THINGS AND SEND HIM AWAY AT SUCH A CRUCIAL JUNCTURE.\n\nBESIDES, LET US NOT FORGET THAT IT WAS YOU WHO AIDED MASTER HWANG AND HIS ORGANIZATION IN THEIR HOUR OF CRISIS.\nTHE LETTER SAYS SO ITSELF, DOES IT NOT? I BELIEVE IT IS QUITE CLEAR THE PRESIDENT AWAITS YOUR ATTENDANCE MOST OF ALL.\nI DARESAY YOUR PRESENCE ALONE WILL BRING GREAT CHEER TO OUR ESTEEMED MERCHANT ALLY.\nNOT ANOTHER IMPROMPTU JOURNEY... THOUGH I SUPPOSE THE SECT LEADER IS RIGHT.\nIT WOULD MAKE SENSE FOR ME TO ATTEND, CONSIDERING MY RAPPORT WITH THE EUNHA TRADING COMPANY...\n\nWELL, SINCE HE INSISTS ON TWISTING MY ARM...\n...I SUPPOSE I HAVE NEVER BEEN ONE TO TURN DOWN FESTIVITIES WITH FREE LIQUOR AND FOOD.\n\nSHALL I DEPART FORTHWITH, SECT LEADER?\n\nONE, TWO!\nGOING SOMEWHERE, CHEONGMYEONG?\nHERE I GO, OFF TO THE EUNHA TRADING COMPANY AGAIN.\nALL THE WAY TO CHENGDU?\nI TAKE IT YOU WILL BE AWAY FOR A FEW DAYS, THEN.\nAT THE VERY LEAST. I'VE BEEN TOLD TO TAKE MY TIME AND MAKE SURE TO LEAVE THE OLD MAN IN GOOD CHEER.\n\nIS THAT SO?\nTRY NOT TO EAT AND DRINK THEIR ENTIRE PANTRY EMPTY.\nREALLY, BROTHER! WHAT AM I, A STARVING HOG?\nIT WAS NOT SO LONG AGO YOU DID THE EXACT SAME TO THE SICHUAN TANG CLAN UNDER THE PRETENSE OF CULTIVATING MASS...\nCOME TO THINK OF IT... WHO THOUGHT IT WISE TO SEND THIS GOBLIN OF CHAOS TO AN OFFICIAL EVENT BY HIMSELF?\nWOULD YOU PREFER THAT I ACCOMPANY YOU? SURELY TWO REPRESENTATIVES IS BETTER THAN ONE--\n\nSO ARE TWO FISTS OVER ONE!\nANYHOW, HOW DARE YOU SLACK OFF WHEN YOU HAVE AN ENTIRE TRAINING GROUND FULL OF TRAINEES TO WHIP INTO SHAPE?!\nNO, YOU STAY PUT AND MAKE SURE NOT TO DO ANYTHING I WOULD OR WOULD NOT DO, WHICHEVER LEADS TO TROUBLE!\nYOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.\nWHY, YOU LITTLE...! WHO DO YOU TAKE ME FOR?!\n\nTEEHEE!\nENJOY RUNNING AROUND WITH SWEATY YOUTHS WHILE I WINE AND DINE!\nTHAT BLASTED SCOUNDREL...!\nEVEN THE MEREST WHISPER OF HIS USUAL SHENANIGANS AND LORD SECT LEADER WILL HEAR ALL ABOUT IT, I SWEAR!\nWILL HE BE ALL RIGHT, BROTHER?\n\nNO DOUBT HE WILL. THIS IS HARDLY HIS FIRST DUTY AS THE SECT'S MOST DERANGED ERRAND BOY.\nIT'S NOT SO MUCH THE MISSION I WORRY ABOUT...\nTHAT GHOULISH GRIN UPON HIS FACE...\nI FEAR HE MAY BE EVEN MORE UNHINGED THAN USUAL.\nHEHEHEHE!\n\nWELL... IT IS OUT OF OUR HANDS NOW.\nIF YOU SAY SO...\n\nHOW MANY YEARS, I WONDER?\nI RECKON IT HAS BEEN OVER THREE DECADES, BROTHER.\n\n30 LONG YEARS... AN ENTIRE ERA HAS COME AND GONE.\nNOT ONCE DID I EXPECT THAT I WOULD ASCEND THESE MOUNTAIN TRAILS ONCE MORE.\nNOR US, SENIOR BROTHER.\nHAD YOU NOT SENT WORD TO GATHER US ALL AGAIN, I DARESAY NOT ONE OF US WOULD HAVE THOUGHT TO REVISIT THESE PEAKS.\n\nPERHAPS SO.\nJUST A LITTLE FARTHER, BROTHERS. HYEONJONG AWAITS US.\n\nAFTER ALL THESE YEARS... WE SHALL HAVE MUCH TO CATCH UP ON.","bubble_count":219,"pages_count":59,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 187 follows Cheongmyeong as he violently cuts open the thick Millennium Steel vault door to preserve its markings.","spoiler_summary":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 187 follows Cheongmyeong as he violently cuts open the thick Millennium Steel vault door to preserve its markings. He and the Sect Leader enter a modest archive with three bookcases holding pristine lost techniques like Scattering Blossom Shadow, Plum Blossom Steps, and the illustrated 24-Strike Plum Blossom Sword Technique left by Cheongmyeong. After deflecting suspicion over the fresh ink and same handwriting, Cheongmyeong is sent alone to Chengdu for Master Hwang's 80th birthday feast."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w/chapter-187-cevuxg","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Return of the Blossoming Blade #187: (S3) Episode 181","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-11-03T19:14:10.051Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w"}}