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.

a jiangshi is scary and dangerous, but... They are basically living

King placed the

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

a clan or sect would be able to take

are

nodded his

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 they awaken. Basically, they charge at you without caring

made sense why the Imperial family would be wary of

mean that there would be quite a

that the 443 sacrifices for creating the living jiangshis were

the other. Chief Eunuch Wi spoke to Cale with a stiff look on

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

send out a large number of Embroidered

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

with those bastards. We will only put the lives of the poor common soldiers in danger. No, this is not what we should be doing

King

Yi about this so that we can get the

As for the Unorthodox

is coming from the Imperial

“But still, those bastards-”

“There is a way!”

King was starting to raise his voice. He

was standing there looking confused. The Fist King pointed at

smell. We can use that!” He should be able to

looked a bit

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 do it stealthily so they don’t find

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

Clap!

a light clap and the two people

then noticed that Cale was looking

we

He was smiling.

of you said, these living jiangshis are a source of

was

in his hand down after

King... The two old men responded

cannot fathom what

suppress them if we decide to catch them. However, they are indeed a

became

take things one

He pointed toward Durst.

Noble Warrior Do noticed

"Ah, that is true!”

made a mistake due to his feeling of

to confirm whether Noble Warrior Do really can

And then we can

“...Hmm?”

up for a bit

“...Purify?”

sir. Purification.

who immediately responded. Chief Eunuch

and his jaws dropped after hearing what Durst

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

Nod nod.

quietly nodded his head. He had a calm smile on

“Something is weird.”

Toonka mumbled.

“You...are quite sharp?”

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

his face as he offered seats to Chief

and the Fist King were now seated around

in front of

Chhh.

gently spoke as their teacups were being

I do have the power to purify living

“Ho-”

but gasp after Cale confirmed the parts that were a

when a person gets to

"Excuse me?”

and asked back but

“No. It’s nothing.”

much calmer as he

you tell me what

“I can explain that.”

rare to see Durst

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.

Kim truly in the

His fingertips were shaking.

purifies the jiangshis with the aura within that

“...Is that all?”

King, who still seemed

or anybody getting hurt! The jiangshis return to their

face scowled a bit after

burden on our Purifier-nim’s body when he

looked at him with teary

why he nonchalantly

big of a

to get me a bit

may not be the

time because it was living jiangshis compared to the regular

the Fire of Destruction is sealed

greater physical burden on

Vitality of the Heart is pretty much at full

as his regeneration

“Ho-”

King

sure that is

times and patted his knee with one

it will burden

closed his

an expert 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 able

great and mighty of a task

he thought of something else in

the end, martial arts is for defending yourself and protecting others.

causing damage to your surroundings in order to save

goal of training in martial arts is to return everything

use the power of nature to return the

that is true

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