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

placed the crushed

the Unrestrained Realm will be unable to suppress them without being

a clan or

are

Fist King nodded his head

Furthermore, the damage would be beyond this world if that living jiangshi, who is an expert in the Unrestrained Realm, explodes. In addition, living jiangshis don’t feel pain from the moment

sense why the Imperial family would be

mean that there would be quite a

443 sacrifices for creating the living jiangshis

one after the other. Chief Eunuch Wi spoke

Imperial family right away to conduct a major investigation. This, this is something we need to

out a large number of Embroidered Uniform

need to protect his Majesty. It looks like we will need to bring some people from the

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

King stood

Yi about this so that we can get the help

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

since it is

“But still, those bastards-”

“There is a way!”

Fist King was starting to raise his voice.

confused. The Fist King pointed at

Warrior Do over here seems to be able to locate the living jiangshis using their smell. We can use that!” He should be able to quickly

looked 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 against those Unrestrained Realm

found out. We can't let them hide

Clap!

and the two people stopped

then noticed that Cale was looking at

don’t we all

He was smiling.

living jiangshis are a source of fear

was soft

the dumpling in his hand down after seeing

and the Fist King... The

so. We cannot

we decide

smile became

things

He pointed toward Durst.

Noble Warrior Do noticed is truly the scent of a

"Ah, that is true!”

he had made a mistake due to

whether Noble Warrior Do

we can just purify

“...Hmm?”

for a bit before blankly asking back

“...Purify?”

sir. Purification. Isn't that

Chief Eunuch Wi flinched after seeing

jaws dropped after hearing what Durst

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

Nod nod.

head. He

“Something is weird.”

Toonka mumbled.

“You...are quite sharp?”

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

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

Eunuch Wi and the Fist King were now seated around the table with

teacups in front of

Chhh.

spoke as their teacups were being filled with

but I do have

“Ho-”

but gasp after Cale confirmed

that possible when

"Excuse me?”

but the Fist

“No. It’s nothing.”

much calmer as he continued

tell me what you mean

“I can explain that.”

was rare to see Durst cut

the center. That smoke is an extremely clean aura of nature that does not harm us at all. In fact, it

Aura of nature.

Chief Eunuch Wi gulped.

is young master Kim truly in

His fingertips were shaking.

Purifier-nim purifies the jiangshis with the

“...Is that all?”

the Fist King, who still seemed to find

any damage or anybody getting hurt! The jiangshis return to their original appearances. Living

scowled a bit after saying

burden on our Purifier-nim’s body

Durst looked at

was why he

big

is only enough to

may not be

purify this time because it was living

Fire of

greater physical burden on his

of the Heart is pretty much at full

be many issues as his regeneration and healing

“Ho-”

King gasped

I'm sure that is the

nodded his head a few times and patted his knee

course it will

Hyeon closed his eyes and

in the Unrestrained Realm would have to go into battle knowing that at minimum, he will be injured, and at maximum that he might die. To be

could not even imagine how great and mighty of a

he thought of something else

martial arts is for defending yourself and protecting others. Basically, it is

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

to return

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

is true martial

sort of fight. (TL: This is a play on words because martial arts and nothingness are both pronounced ‘moo’