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.

that a person you know is a jiangshi is scary and dangerous, but... They are basically

placed the

the Unrestrained Realm will be unable to suppress

who was at least at the Elder-level in a clan or sect

are

Fist King nodded his head

in the Unrestrained Realm, explodes. In addition,

made sense why the Imperial family would

would be

443 sacrifices for creating the living jiangshis were turned into regular

the other. Chief Eunuch Wi

to inform the Imperial family right away to conduct a major investigation. This, this is something

out a large number of Embroidered Uniform

looks like we will need to bring some people from the

Realm experts who do not feel pain. The military is not enough when dealing with those bastards. We will only put the lives of the poor common soldiers in danger.

King stood

this so that we

us? As for the Unorthodox faction and the Demon Cult-, would they

since it is coming from the Imperial

“But still, those bastards-”

“There is a way!”

King was starting to raise his

there looking confused. The Fist

using their smell. We can use that!” He should be able to quickly find them all if he spends the next

a

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 against those Unrestrained Realm experts! We also need to pay attention to the Blood Cult since we have to

complicated if the Blood Cult found out. We can't let them

Clap!

and the

that Cale was looking

why don’t we

He was smiling.

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

was

the dumpling in his hand down

Fist King... The two old

would say so. We cannot fathom what they

them if we

became

shall we take things one

He pointed toward Durst.

verify whether the smell Noble Warrior Do noticed is truly the scent of

"Ah, that is true!”

King realized that he had made a mistake due to his

confirm whether Noble Warrior Do really

then we can just purify

“...Hmm?”

Fist King stiffened up for a bit before blankly asking back while

“...Purify?”

Purification. Isn't

responded. Chief Eunuch Wi flinched after seeing Durst suddenly

eyes subconsciously opened wide and his jaws dropped after hearing what Durst said

esteemed Purifier has the power to purify living jiangshis. The god I serve has even bestowed a divine item to the purifier

Nod nod.

head. He had a calm smile on

“Something is weird.”

Toonka mumbled.

“You...are quite sharp?”

confused after hearing Sui Khan's

extremely benign smile on his face as he offered

Fist King were now seated

placed teacups in front

Chhh.

gently spoke as their teacups

of them, but I do have

“Ho-”

but gasp after Cale confirmed

when a person gets to

"Excuse me?”

but the Fist King

“No. It’s nothing.”

seemed much calmer as he

tell me what

“I can explain that.”

was rare to see

spreads out with our Purifier-nim at the center. That smoke is an extremely clean aura of nature that does not harm us at all. In fact, it makes us

Aura of nature.

Chief Eunuch Wi gulped.

is young master Kim truly

His fingertips were shaking.

with the

“...Is that all?”

King, who still seemed to find it

any damage or anybody getting hurt! The jiangshis return to their original appearances. Living jiangshis are jiangshis as well, so the process should

scowled a bit after saying

a burden on our Purifier-nim’s body when he

chills as Durst looked at

why

not that big

enough to get

that may not be the

time because it was living jiangshis compared

Fire of Destruction is

greater physical burden on his

the Vitality of the Heart is pretty much at full

be many issues as his

“Ho-”

Fist King gasped

that is the

times and patted his knee with one

course it will burden

closed his

that at minimum, he will be injured, and at maximum that he might die. To be able to use only an aura of nature to purify such an

imagine how great and

something

for defending yourself and protecting others. Basically,

and causing damage

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

the power of nature to return the living jiangshis to their natural

is

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