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

placed the crushed

in the Unrestrained Realm will be unable to suppress them without being willing

a clan or sect would

are stronger

King nodded his head at Cale's

an expert in the Unrestrained Realm, explodes.

sense why the Imperial family would

there would be quite a lot more regular jiangshis. Jiangshis are apparently easier to make

for creating the living jiangshis were turned into regular

King and Chief Eunuch Wi commented one after the other. Chief Eunuch

Imperial family right away to conduct a major investigation. This,

need to send out a large number of Embroidered

need to protect his Majesty. It looks

who do not feel pain. The military is not enough when dealing with those bastards. We will only put the lives

Fist King

Yi about this so that we can get the help of the

the Unorthodox faction and the Demon Cult-, would they even

should listen since it is coming

“But still, those bastards-”

“There is a way!”

starting to raise his voice.

confused. The

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

a

find them one by one and prepare things so that we end up with the least amount of damage possible going

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

Clap!

was a light clap and the two people stopped

then noticed that Cale was looking

don’t we all

He was smiling.

are a source

voice was

his hand

Fist King... The two old men responded

would say so. We cannot fathom what

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

smile became even

things one

He pointed toward Durst.

verify whether the smell Noble Warrior Do noticed is truly the

"Ah, that is true!”

realized that he had made a mistake due to his feeling

need to confirm whether Noble Warrior Do really

And then we

“...Hmm?”

Fist King stiffened up for a bit before blankly asking

“...Purify?”

sir. Purification. Isn't that

turned toward Durst, who immediately responded. Chief Eunuch Wi flinched after seeing

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

esteemed Purifier has the power to purify living jiangshis. The god I serve has

Nod nod.

quietly nodded his head. He had a calm smile on

“Something is weird.”

Toonka mumbled.

“You...are quite sharp?”

hearing Sui Khan's shocked voice, but...

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

the Fist King were now

placed teacups in front

Chhh.

as their teacups were

cannot do a lot of them, but I do have the

“Ho-”

couldn't help but gasp after Cale confirmed the parts that

like that possible when a

"Excuse me?”

back but the Fist King

“No. It’s nothing.”

calmer

tell me what you

“I can explain that.”

rare to see

rises and spreads out with our Purifier-nim at the center. That smoke is an extremely clean aura of nature that does not harm us at

Aura of nature.

Chief Eunuch Wi gulped.

Kim truly in the Nature

His fingertips were shaking.

purifies the jiangshis with the aura within

“...Is that all?”

Fist King, who still seemed to find it hard

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

face scowled a bit

there is a burden on our

as Durst looked at

was why he nonchalantly

big of a

it is only enough to

may not be

be harder to purify this time because it was living jiangshis compared to the

of the Fire of

would lead to a greater physical

of the Heart

should not be many issues as his

“Ho-”

King

I'm sure that is the

a few times and patted

course it will burden

Hyeon closed his

maximum that he might die. To be able to use only an aura

even imagine how great and mighty of a task

something

end, martial arts is for defending yourself and

damage to your surroundings in order to save those

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

young master Kim would use the power of nature to return the living jiangshis to

is true

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