Trash of the Count's Family

“A l, living jiangshi?!”

Chief Eunuch Wi became extremely shocked at Cale’s words and dropped the fan in his hand.

Plop.

Raon saw the fallen fan, looked back at Chief Eunuch Wi, and did that over and over before causing a gust of wind with his magic to cool the dumplings. Toonka's as well.

However, Chief Eunuch Wi could not pay any attention to that.

“A l, living jiangshi, that-”

He looked to be in shock.

Cale thought deeply after seeing this.

‘Did I ever mention the living jiangshis to Chief Eunuch Wi before?’

He realized that he had not.

Cale’s gaze moved to the old man, who had been eating dumplings next to Toonka until moments ago.

Fist King Mok Hyeon.

“…….”

His eyes were wide open as he looked at Cale.

His gaze was extremely vicious.

His clenched fist was bending the chopsticks, as if to show the reason he received the title of king.

‘...Let's not look at him.’

Cale just turned away from the Fist King.

“Young master-nim, could you please explain in detail?”

Chief Eunuch Wi asked urgently, unable to properly control his shock.

“Mm.”

Cale debated for a moment before deciding to tell them what he knew. These were his allies.

“You know little Central Plains, right?”

“Yes, yes sir.”

Chief Eunuch Wi knew that Cale had called the young monk Central Plains.

“He told me.”

“...That there is a living jiangshi?”

“Yes sir. The Blood Cult created living jiangshis and planted them in each of the Orthodox faction, Unorthodox faction, and the Demon Cult.”

“Ho.”

The Fist King gasped.

“It is the end of the world, the end of the world indeed.”

He shook his head as if in disbelief.

“Oh my, this is very bad.”

Choi Han asked after seeing Chief Eunuch Wi unable to hide his concern.

“Are living jiangshis that dangerous?”

“In this world, there is something called death arts in addition to martial arts. There are Alchemy and Magic arts as well, but... Anyway, there are some dangerous methods called death arts.”

Chief Eunuch Wi continued explaining with a stiff look on his face.

“Jiangshis have appeared in the world a couple times throughout history. The Blood Cult as well as the Demon Cult have created them multiple times. However, the living jiangshis-”

He closed his mouth for a moment.

He then asked the Fist King.

“It should be okay to tell them, right?”

“Do you remember what his Majesty said? He said give them whatever they need.”

“That’s right.”

Chief Eunuch Wi started talking to Cale again.

“The Imperial family has documents on living jiangshis. The approximate method of creating living jiangshis is written in there.”

‘The method is written in there?’

Chief Eunuch Wi continued to speak as Cale scowled.

“In order to create one living jiangshi, you need one living person and 443 lives as sacrifices.”

Silence filled the room.

Chief Eunuch Wi broke the silence he had created.

“However, there is also a medicine that is required to turn a human into a living jiangshi. Even the Imperial family does not know much about the medicine. How to make it as well as what it is... All they know is that it takes the form of a black liquid.”

Black liquid.

Cale thought about 'dead mana’ as soon as he heard that word.

Mana did not exist in this world.

That was why dead mana should be even less of a concept in this world.

“In the Central Plains, the creation of living jiangshis is considered taboo.”

The Fist King sighed.

“Furthermore, according to old records, living jiangshis think they are alive and have no idea that they are being controlled.”

“I know that as well, sir.”

“Really? Then do you know about their overload as well?”

“No, sir. I don't know.”

The Fist King was able to tell Cale a bit more details about the dangers of living jiangshis.

one day that a person you know is a jiangshi is scary

King placed the crushed chopsticks on the

even experts in the Unrestrained Realm will be unable to

someone who was at least at the Elder-level in a clan or sect would be able to take on a single living

Living jiangshis are stronger than

nodded his head at

that living jiangshi, who is an expert in the Unrestrained Realm, explodes. In addition, living jiangshis don’t feel pain from the moment they awaken. Basically, they charge

Imperial family would be

that the Blood Cult has living jiangshis would mean that there would be quite a lot more

for creating the living

Wi commented one after the other. Chief Eunuch Wi spoke to Cale

away to conduct a major investigation. This, this is something we need to use everything

a large number of Embroidered

Embroidered Uniform Guards need to protect his Majesty. It looks like we

when dealing with those bastards. We will only put the lives of

Fist King

this so that we can get the help of the

Orthodox faction help us? As for the Unorthodox faction and the Demon Cult-,

should listen since it is coming

“But still, those bastards-”

“There is a way!”

starting to raise his

was standing there looking confused. The Fist

here seems to be able to locate the living jiangshis using their smell. We can use that!” He should be able to quickly find them all if he spends the next year or two sniffing

a bit

see! We just have to find them one by one and prepare things so that we end up with the least amount of damage possible going

would be complicated if the Blood Cult found out. We can't let them hide all of the living

Clap!

was a light clap and the two people stopped their

Cale

we

He was smiling.

two of you said, these living jiangshis are a source of fear and trepidation for

was

his hand down after

Eunuch Wi and the Fist King... The two old men responded in a slightly more serious

say so. We cannot

We can suppress them if we decide to catch them. However, they are

smile became

shall we take things one step

He pointed toward Durst.

smell Noble Warrior Do noticed is truly the scent of

"Ah, that is true!”

had made a mistake due to his

need to confirm whether Noble Warrior

then we can just purify

“...Hmm?”

for a bit before blankly

“...Purify?”

Purification. Isn't

Eunuch Wi flinched after seeing Durst suddenly smiling

opened wide and his jaws

has the power to purify living jiangshis. The god I serve has even bestowed a

Nod nod.

He had

“Something is weird.”

Toonka mumbled.

“You...are quite sharp?”

after hearing Sui Khan's shocked

Ron had an extremely benign smile on his face as he offered seats to Chief Eunuch Wi and

the Fist King were now seated around the table with

placed teacups in front

Chhh.

gently spoke as their teacups were being filled

I do have the power

“Ho-”

couldn't help but gasp after Cale confirmed the parts that were a bit uncertain after

when a person gets to

"Excuse me?”

flinched and asked back but the Fist King

“No. It’s nothing.”

seemed much calmer as he

what you

“I can explain that.”

was rare to see

is an

Aura of nature.

Chief Eunuch Wi gulped.

master Kim truly in

His fingertips were shaking.

the jiangshis with the

“...Is that all?”

the Fist King, who still seemed to

getting hurt! The jiangshis return to their original appearances. Living jiangshis are jiangshis as well, so

scowled a bit after saying

course, there is a burden on our Purifier-nim’s body when he

Durst looked at him

why he nonchalantly

that big of

it is only enough to get me

but that may not

to purify this time because it

Fire of

lead to a greater physical burden

of the Heart is pretty much at

be many issues as his regeneration

“Ho-”

Fist King

sure that

a few times and

will burden

his eyes and

and at maximum that he might die. To be able to use only an aura of nature to purify

not even imagine how great and mighty of a task that would

thought of something else in

is for defending yourself and protecting others. Basically, it

you would end up harming people and causing damage to your surroundings in order

of training in martial arts is to return everything to their original place without harming anybody in the

Kim would use the power of nature to return the living

that is

arts was to return things to nothingness without any sort of fight. (TL: This is a play on words because