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Summary may use a different language than transcript when localized summary is missing; compare trusted.chapter.summary_language and trusted.transcript.language.","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":188,"chapter_key":"188-3wrcv6","title":"(S3) Episode 182","release_date":"2026-11-10","last_updated":"2026-11-10T18:47:00.351Z","summary":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 188 finds Cheongmyeong intercepted in Huayin by Daegwang Hong, now leader of Gaibang's reopened Huayin cell, who demands answers about a missing beggar boy. Cheongmyeong erupts when Hong admits he freed the captive during his long mission. Back at Mount Hua, Baekcheon blocks unidentified old visitors demanding Hyeonjong, until Elder Hyeonyeong denounces them as traitors, but Sect Leader Hyeonjong arrives and greets their leader as Senior Brother Hyeondang.","summary_source":"graph_aggregator","summary_status":"generated","summary_verification":"unverified"},"summary":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 188 finds Cheongmyeong intercepted in Huayin by Daegwang Hong, now leader of Gaibang's reopened Huayin cell, who demands answers about a missing beggar boy. Cheongmyeong erupts when Hong admits he freed the captive during his long mission. Back at Mount Hua, Baekcheon blocks unidentified old visitors demanding Hyeonjong, until Elder Hyeonyeong denounces them as traitors, but Sect Leader Hyeonjong arrives and greets their leader as Senior Brother Hyeondang.","key_events":["Elderly former Mount Hua members return and tour rebuilt sect grounds, observing disciples training.","Group arrives in Huayin Prefecture and is welcomed by foreman for escort to Xian for feast preparations.","Daegwang Hong confronts Cheongmyeong about reopened Huayin cell and released captive beggar.","Hyeonyeong angrily rejects returning elders, but Sect Leader Hyeonjong appears and recognizes Hyeondang."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"HUAYIN PREFECTURE\nOH?\n\nMR. FOREMAN! YOU'RE A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES!\nIT IS OUR HONOR TO WELCOME YOU ONCE MORE, YOUNG MASTER.\nTHE VICE-PRESIDENT DEPARTED AHEAD TO HELP WITH THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE FEAST, SIR.\nFOREMAN BO YI HERE WILL PERSONALLY ESCORT YOU TO XIAN, IF YOU'LL JOIN HIM ABOARD THE COACH.\n\nAHA! NOW THAT IS A MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO WELCOME HIS GUESTS PROPERLY!\nALL ABOARD THE CHEONGMYEONG EXPRESS TO XIAN--\nHALT!!!\n\nNOT SO FAST, BLESSED DRAGON OF MOUNT HUA!!!\nHMM?\nEpisode 182\n\nHOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME, I ASK YOU?!\nPARDON ME? DO I KNOW YOU?\nDO NOT FEIGN IGNORANCE WITH ME!\nIT IS I, DAEGWANG HONG, THE FORMER LEADER OF THE GAIBANG SECT'S LUOYANG CELL!\n\nFORMER LEADER OF THE GAIBANG SECT'S LUOYANG CELL\nDAEGWANG HONG\nHAS YOUR LONG MISSION IN YUNNAN ROBBED YOU OF WHAT LITTLE WITS YOU HAD LEFT?!\nGAIBANG-- OH, THAT PLATE-LICKER FROM BEFORE?\nTHAT'S RIGHT! YOU DO KNOW ME--\nAND I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW, THAT IS A SLUR AGAINST OUR KIND!\nFINE, BUT WHAT BRINGS YOU HERE, CELL LEADER HONG?\nSHOULD YOU NOT BE LICKING PLATES BACK IN LUOYANG?\n\nFOR HEAVENS' SAKE... DID YOUR SECT LEADER TELL YOU NOTHING?\nBACK THEN...\nI COME AS A GUEST! IF YOU'LL BE SO KIND AS TO HUMOR THIS POOR OLD BEGGAR...\nAND ALLOW ME A GLASS OF COLD WATER TO QUENCH MY THIRST...\n...I HAVE A PROMISE TO KEEP WITH THE BLESSED DRAGON OF MOUNT HUA!\n\nBAHAHA! THAT'S THE STUFF!\n\nAHEM, WHERE ARE MY MANNERS...?! MY SINCEREST THANKS TO YOU FOR THE COLD BOWL OF WATER, LORD SECT LEADER!\nI GO BY THE NAME OF DAEGWANG HONG, AND I SERVED AS THE LEADER OF GAIBANG'S LOCAL CELL IN LUOYANG UNTIL RECENTLY!\nY-YOU NEEDN'T BOW TO ME, MASTER HONG. PLEASE, AS YOU WERE...!\nBUT MIGHT I ASK WHAT BRINGS YOU ALL THIS WAY...?\n\nI'M GLAD YOU ASKED, LORD SECT LEADER! YOU SEE, OUR HUMBLE SECT HAS A NEW CELL OPENING DOWN IN HUAYIN!\nAS SUCH, I FELT IT ONLY PROPER TO COME AND PAY MY RESPECTS TO THE PREEMINENT MASTERS OF HUAYIN PREFECTURE!\nAH, A NEW BRANCH OF THE GAIBANG SECT IN HUAYIN, YOU SAY?\nUHH...\nDID THE BLESSED DRAGON OF MOUNT HUA MENTION NOTHING OF IT, MY LORD...?\nHAHA... I FEAR THE BOY HAS A DEFICIT OF ATTENTION AT TIMES...\nNONETHELESS, THESE ARE GLAD TIDINGS, INDEED.\nTHE MOUNT HUA SECT HEREBY EXTENDS A CORDIAL WELCOME TO OUR NEW NEIGHBORS FROM THE GAIBANG SECT.\n\nHAHA, THANK YOU, LORD SECT LEADER! MAY THIS BE THE FIRST OF MANY FRIENDLY VISITS!\nAND SINCE I AM HERE, I WAS HOPING TO MEET WITH THE BLESSED DRAGON TO CONVEY SOMETHING TO HIM THAT HE REQUESTED SOME TIME AGO.\nMIGHT I TAKE UP A MOMENT OF HIS TIME?\nIF THE YOUNG MASTER IS AVAILABLE, THAT IS...\nONLY TO BE INFORMED BY YOUR SECT LEADER THAT I'D JUST MISSED YOU!\n\nI SEEM TO REMEMBER SOME TALK OF SENDING A BEGGAR TO HUAYIN FROM TIME TO TIME,\nNOT AN ENTIRE CELL OF YOUR SMELLIEST PANHANDLERS.\nFIRST OF ALL, RUDE. AND SECOND, DO YOU NOT RECALL THE PART ABOUT REOPENING OUR ONCE-DEFUNCT HUAYIN CELL?\nIT MUST HAVE SLIPPED MY MIND...\nWELL, REJOICE!\nBECAUSE WHO DID THE GAIBANG SECT SEE FIT TO LEAD THE SAID LOCAL CELL HERE IN YOUR FINE PREFECTURE? WHY... YOURS TRULY!\nDAEGWANG HONG\nLEADER OF THE HUAYIN CELL\n\nI ASSURE YOU, YOUR ESTEEMED SECT WILL FIND NO BETTER FRIEND IN LOW PLACES THAN ME!\nI KNOW, I KNOW! SAVE YOUR TEARS OF JOY!\nYOU AND YOUR BEGGARS...?\nHAVE YOU NO REGARD FOR PROPERTY PRICES AROUND HERE...?\nAGAIN WITH THE DISCRIMINATORY REMARKS! DOES OUR FRIENDSHIP MEAN NAUGHT TO YOU, BLESSED DRAGON?!\nYOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN HOW I ARGUED WITH THE ELDER BEGGARS OVER THIS!\n\nOH, SPEAKING OF BEGGARS, THAT REMINDS ME...!\nWHATEVER CAME OF THAT MANGY LITTLE STREET URCHIN I ASKED YOU TO HAUL BEFORE ME?!\nWHY DO I NOT SEE HIM IN RESTRAINTS?!\nHA... TALK ABOUT SELECTIVE MEMORY. HE BARELY EVEN RECALLED WHO I WAS.\n\nTHIS SORT OF VINDICTIVENESS IS A DISEASE AT THIS POINT, SURELY.\nI HELD HIM CAPTIVE, I DID.\nDID? DO I SEEM LIKE A MAN WHO ENJOYS THE PAST TENSE?\nWELL? WHERE IS THE BOY NOW?\nWITH ALL DUE RESPECT, YOU WERE GONE TOO LONG ON YOUR MISSION.\nI HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO SET HIM FREE--\nSET HIM FREE?!\nAND WHO ARE YOU TO LET HIM COME AND GO AS HE PLEASES?!\n\nARE YOU BEGGARS DENSE OR SIMPLY LAZY FROM NEVER WORKING A DAY IN YOUR LIFE?!\nWHAT WAS THAT ABOUT HAVING FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES?! WELL, IS BEING SIX FEET UNDER LOW ENOUGH FOR YOU?!\nALL I ASKED WAS FOR SOME NO-NAME JUNIOR BEGGAR TO BE BROUGHT TO ME FOR A POLITE CONVERSATION, ONLY FOR YOU TO GO AND CUT HIM LOOSE?!\nHOW DO YOU EXPECT TO BE ANY SORT OF A FRIEND TO MOUNT HUA WHEN YOU CANNOT EVEN TAKE CARE OF A SIMPLE FAVOR WITHOUT SCREWING IT UP?!\nP-PEACE, YOUNG MASTER--\n\nPEACE? PEEEACE?!\nDO I LOOK LIKE A PEACEFUL MAN AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME?!\nI SWEAR, THAT LITTLE URCHIN HAS BETTER LUCK THAN SENSE!\nHOW DARE HE GIVE ME THE SLIP?!\nP-PARDON ME, YOUNG MASTER, I SUDDENLY RECALLED SOME URGENT BEGGING TO ATTEND TO...!\n\nTHAT'S RIGHT! RUN!!!\nSOMEBODY GET THESE BEGGARS OUT OF HEEEERE!!!\n\nI DO NOT KNOW ABOUT YOU, BROTHER, BUT THE ASCENT HAS ME GASPING FOR BREATH EVERY FEW STEPS... PERHAPS IT HAS BEEN FAR TOO LONG.\nBACK IN OUR DAY, WE USED TO SPRINT UP AND DOWN THESE PEAKS TIME AND TIME AGAIN EACH DAY FOR TRAINING, REMEMBER?\n\nHAHA... WAS THERE EVER SUCH A DAY?\nYES... I SUPPOSE SO...\nSUCH WAS THE SECT IN OUR TIME.\nOH MY... EVEN THE VERY MOUNTAIN GATES HAVE BEEN REBUILT SINCE THEN.\nIT SEEMS SO, BROTHER, AND QUITE THE MARVEL IT IS, TOO. THAT CERTAINLY PROVES THE RUMORS REGARDING OUR SECT'S NEWFOUND RICHES.\n\nHAHAHA! INDEED, OUR HOME SECT RISES ONCE MORE!\n\nBY THE BLOSSOMS...\n\nGONE ARE THE OLD, DILAPIDATED PAVILIONS, WHOSE EAVES WOULD DROOP LIKE OUR WISPY BEARDS...\nTHE TRAINING GROUNDS ARE NOW PAVED IN BLUESTONE, AND AS FOR THESE NEW BUILDINGS...\n...MORE THAN HALF APPEAR TO BE NEWLY ERECTED, DO THEY NOT, BROTHERS?\n\nARE YOU CERTAIN WE HAVE NOT ACCIDENTALLY COME TO SOME MONEY-GRUBBING CULT INSTEAD...?\nFASTER! YOU CAN PACE YOURSELVES IN HELL, MAGGOTS!\nGAAAAH!\n\nHMM?\nFASTER, OR I'LL PUT YOU THERE MYSELF!!!\nURK!\n\nTAKING A BREATHER, ARE WE?\nARGH!\n\nWHY ARE THERE MORE AND MORE CHEONGMYEONGS AS TIME GOES ON?!\nLESS BLABBERING, MORE SCRAMBLING! QUESTIONS ARE FOR STRAGGLERS, AND STRAGGLERS GET TO FLY!\nMY WORD...\nOUTSTANDING...\nWITH SUCH FINE DISCIPLES TO CARRY ON THE FLAME, IT'S NO WONDER MOUNT HUA'S HALLOWED NAME RINGS OUT ONCE MORE...!\n\nHMM?\nA BAND OF STRANGERS WHO DARE MARCH THROUGH OUR GATES UNANNOUNCED...?\n\nWHAT BUSINESS BRINGS YOU TO OUR SECT, GENTLEMEN?\nHAIL, YOUNG DISCIPLE. I PRESUME YOU MUST BE THE ONE WHOSE RENOWN RESOUNDS ACROSS THE REALM OF LATE.\nOWN\nPARDON?\nCOME, YOU NEED NOT BE MODEST WITH ME.\n\nI HEARD THE NAME CHEONGMYEONG MENTIONED BY YOUR TRAINEES... THAT IS YOU, IS IT NOT?\nCHEONGMYEONG...?\nNO OFFENSE TAKEN, GOOD SIR...\nBUT I AM BAEKCHEON, A SECOND-GRADE DISCIPLE AT MOUNT HUA.\n\nOH...?\nGOODNESS, MY APOLOGIES.\nYOU ARE THE RIGHTEOUS BLOSSOM BLADE, THEN?\nINDEED I AM...\n...THOUGH THE QUESTION STILL STANDS, GOOD SIR. WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT BUSINESS DO YOU HAVE AT MOUNT HUA?\nAH... FORGIVE ME, YOUNG DISCIPLE.\nI NEGLECTED TO STATE OUR BUSINESS FIRST.\n\nMIGHT WE FIND HYEONJONG WITHIN?\nNOT ONLY AN UNINVITED STRANGER, BUT ONE WHO ASKS FOR OUR SECT LEADER BY NAME AS IF HE IS A SUBORDINATE...?\n\nBEFORE I ANSWER, SIR, I'M AFRAID I MUST ASK YOU TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF.\nAND I AM AFRAID I CANNOT DIVULGE THAT INFORMATION TO YOU, YOUNG MAN.\nPRAY SUMMON HYEONJONG TO US, AND YOU SHALL LEARN EVERYTHING YOU WISH TO KNOW.\nI APOLOGIZE FOR THE SECRECY, BUT I ASSURE YOU OF THAT.\n\nI UNDERSTAND YOU PURPORT TO HAVE BUSINESS WITH LORD SECT LEADER HIMSELF...\n...BUT TO SHOW UP UNANNOUNCED AND DEMAND AN AUDIENCE WITH HIM IS SIMPLY AGAINST OUR SECT'S PROTOCOL.\nNO VISITOR TO THESE SACRED MOUNTAINS MAY PASS THROUGH THE MAIN GATES WITHOUT IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES FIRST.\n\nOTHERWISE, IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT AN AUDIENCE WITH THE SECT LEADER IS OUT OF THE QUESTION.\nHAHA, WELL SAID, YOUNG DISCIPLE. WELL SAID, INDEED.\nEVERYTHING YOU SAY IS BY THE BOOK.\nHOWEVER, I BELIEVE THE PROTOCOL YOU SPEAK OF ONLY APPLIES TO OUTSIDERS.\n\nYOU MAY NOT KNOW ME, BUT I AM NO OUTSIDER TO THESE HALLS, WHICH MEANS I AM UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO FOLLOW THESE RULES.\n....?\nAGAIN, YOU MAY SUMMON HYEONJONG AND EVERYTHING WILL BE MADE CLEAR.\nSHOULD HE BE INDISPOSED, THEN ANY OF YOUR ELDERS WILL DO.\n\nWHAT AM I TO DO...?\nYOU!!!\n?!\n\nAH...! LORD ELDER!\nNO NEED TO BE WROTH, THESE GENTLEMEN ARE NOT HERE TO SELL ANYTHING--\nWHY HAVE YOU COME HERE?\n\nSHAMELESSNESS, IS IT...?\n\nTHEY SAY THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME.\nTO RETURN HERE AS AN OLD MAN AFTER SO MANY YEARS AWAY... WELL, I SUPPOSE MY ONLY SHAME IS THAT WE NEGLECTED TO VISIT ALL THIS TIME--\nNO PLACE LIKE HOME?\nPRAY TELL... HOW DARE YOU CALL THESE PEAKS YOU ABANDONED YOUR HOME?\n\nCOME, HYEONYEONG--\nYOU HAVE SEVERED ALL TIES WITH MOUNT HUA AND THAT IS THE END OF IT.\n\nWERE YOU SO DELUDED TO BELIEVE WE'D WELCOME YOU BACK WITH OPEN ARMS AND LET YOU PECK AT US LIKE VULTURES?\nBEGONE, I SAY! YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL NOT TO BE MARCHED OUT OF HERE AT THE POINT OF THE BLOSSOM BLADES THAT YOU CAST ASIDE!\n\nBUT WE MUST SPEAK WITH HYEONJONG--\nTHE LEADER OF OUR GREAT SECT IS NOT SOME ERRAND BOY THAT YOU CAN BOTHER ON A WHIM!\nDISCIPLES, TO ME!\nESCORT THESE OUTSIDERS BACK THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN GATES AND MAKE SURE TO SPRINKLE SALT TO CLEANSE THE GROUNDS!\nI HAVEN'T THE FAINTEST IDEA WHY YOU CHOSE TO WASTE OUR TIME,\nBUT AS LONG AS I REMAIN STANDING, I PROMISE YOU, YOU WILL NOT GET YOUR WAY!\n\nHYEONYEONG...\nI UNDERSTAND YOUR IRE, BROTHER. I TRULY DO--\nBROTHER? YOU ARE NO BROTHER OF MINE...!\nALLOW ME TO FINISH. THERE IS SOMETHING THAT YOU MUSTN'T NEGLECT TO CONSIDER.\nMY BUSINESS HERE...\nIT IS NOT SOME TRIVIAL MATTER FOR YOU TO WAVE ASIDE.\n\nYOU MUST SURELY SEE IT, TOO.\nDO NOT BE OBSTINATE AND LET US SPEAK WITH HYEONJONG.\nIT IS UP TO HIM TO TURN US AWAY IF HE WISHES, IN WHICH CASE I SHALL GLADLY RELENT.\n\nI WOULD SOONER CO-SIGN A LOAN WITH THE DEMON CULT THAN LET THESE SNAKES MEET WITH BROTHER SECT LEADER...!\nMY CONSCIENCE SIMPLY WILL NOT ALLOW IT!\nALL I SEE IS A BAND OF TRAITORS AT OUR GATES!\n\nUNLESS YOU TURN BACK IMMEDIATELY, WHY, I HAVE HALF A MIND TO--\nWHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS COMMOTION?\n\nHYEONJONG, OUR ERSTWHILE BROTHER...!\n\nS-SECT LEADER, I WAS ABOUT TO SHOW THESE MEN THE--\n\n...\nMANY SEASONS HAVE PASSED SINCE WE LAST MET...\n\n...SENIOR BROTHER HYEONDANG.","bubble_count":185,"pages_count":51,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 188 finds Cheongmyeong intercepted in Huayin by Daegwang Hong, now leader of Gaibang's reopened Huayin cell, who demands answers about a missing beggar boy.","spoiler_summary":"Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 188 finds Cheongmyeong intercepted in Huayin by Daegwang Hong, now leader of Gaibang's reopened Huayin cell, who demands answers about a missing beggar boy. Cheongmyeong erupts when Hong admits he freed the captive during his long mission. Back at Mount Hua, Baekcheon blocks unidentified old visitors demanding Hyeonjong, until Elder Hyeonyeong denounces them as traitors, but Sect Leader Hyeonjong arrives and greets their leader as Senior Brother Hyeondang."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w/chapter-188-3wrcv6","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — Return of the Blossoming Blade #188: (S3) Episode 182","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-11-10T22:12:21.525Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/return-of-the-blossoming-blade-5s2k6f2w"}}