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## Chapter 1

* English
* Korean

## English Release

Season 1

The **1st chapter** of the webtoon was released in Korean on Naver Webtoon (Series) (2021), and later in English on Webtoons (2021).

## Summary

Cheongmyeong manages to kill Chun Ma, putting an end to the war against the Heavenly Demon Sect. After succumbing to his injury, Cheongmyeong is reborn 100 years later as a beggar and learns that the Mount Hua Sect isn't part anymore of the Ten Great Sects.

## Recap

The chapter starts during the war against the Heavenly Demon Sect. Cheongmyeong is mortally wounded and looks at the fact that everyone around him is dead, including the members of the Mount Hua Sect. Around twenty sects, including the Ten Great Sects, formed an alliance in order to defeat the leader of the Heavenly Demon Sect, Chun Ma, but none of them survived. Cheongmyeong is unable to stay calm at this fact and look angrily at Chun Ma, who is also seriously wounded but nevertheless inhumanly calm.

Chun Ma starts talking, noting the tragedy of Cheongmyeong's fate: if he had been able to survive here, Cheongmyeong could have became the famous swordman which killed Chun Ma. Despite the pain and his struggle, Cheongmyeong gets up and orders Chun Ma to stop talking. But Chun Ma continues and say that Cheongmyeong should feel pride of having been the one that struck the final blow to him. Chun Ma finally recognizes Cheongmyeong's blade as the best of all, and in a fit of anger, Cheongmyeong pulls out a sword that was stuck in his body, yells one more time at Chun Ma to shut up then starts running towards him. Chun Ma briefly regrets not having been able to live one more day, since he could have become worthy of the name Chun Ma. But he accepts his fate and tells Cheongmyeong that one day the Heavenly Demon Sect will come back and win over the world. At this moment, Cheongmyeong cut off Chun Ma's head.

Now that Chun Ma is dead, the war officialy ended, but Cheongmyeong is also about to die because of his injuries. He is scared for Mount Hua's future, now that all the elders and older disciples died in this war, leaving behind them children. He asks himself if he may have been to save them, if he had trained more seriously, and can't help but thinks that Mount Hua's disciples dead may have no meaning here. Finally, Cheongmyeong is unable to stand longer and die.

Cheongmyeong starts having flashback of his whole life: the day he was discovered in front of the gate of Mount Hua when he was still a baby, his training as a disciple, the reprimands of Cheongmun... He remembers that he never followed the rules, and got a title altough he never seriously trained. He then hears Cheongmun, asking Cheongmyeong if he does have regrets. Cheongmyeong answers that yes, because he thinks that if he had trained more seriously, he may have saved people. Cheongmun reply there is no need for regrets, because Mount Hua will live on.

Then, Cheongmyeong suddently wake up, hit on the head. At first, he thinks that is Chun Ma, but then notice he had been hit by a beggar using a baboo strick. Cheongmyeong don't understand why he is threatened by a beggar and starts getting irritated by him. When the beggar is about to hit him one more time, Cheongmyeong is convinced that he is able to defend himself against it and will teach the beggar a lesson; but while trying to stop the blow, he then realize that his body was not his own because of it being too short and is beaten. During the beating, Gu Chil passes by and leaves immediately.

After having being beaten and once alone, Cheongmyeong is angry that he was beaten so violently for the first time in his whole life at the hands of a beggar. Cheongmyeong starts analysing his situation and understands that he seems to have been reincarnated in the body of a young kid, the memories of his previous life retained. Then, Gu Chil come see Cheongmyeong and asks him if he is okay. Immediately, Cheongmyeong starts to ask questions to Gu Chil: he first confirms that he is a beggar and this fact annoys Cheongmyeong.

As a second question, Cheongmyeong asks him if he know about Chun Ma. At first, Gu Chil conclude that the blows must have left dizzy Cheongmyeong to ask such a question, but at Cheongmyeong's insistence, he finally answers that he know that Chun Ma was the leader of the Heavenly Demon Sect who died a hundred years ago. Cheongmyeong then start yelling and orders Gu Chil to affirm that he is not lying.

Chung Mung slowly begins to accept the fact that this is the truth. He don't understand why he had to reincarnate so late and hen he thinks about the fact that he is now alone, Cheongmyeong remembers about the Mount Hua Sect and start asking Gu Chil about it. Gu Chil does not even recognize the name and explains to Cheongmyeong that there is no sect of this name among the Ten Great Sects. Cheongmyeong is shocked and does not understand how this can be possible.

## Trivia

* At first, the ribbon in Cheongmyeong's hair was black during his previous life. It was fixed later for a green ribbon.
* Cheongmyeong's injuries are shown to be less severe in the manhwa than in the novel. While in the novel Cheongmyeong struggles to walk to Chun Ma to kill him, he runs to him in manhwa.

## Appearances

Cheongmyeong

Cheongmun

Chun Ma

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Jongpal

Guchil