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 and dangerous, but... They are basically living

the

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

least at the Elder-level in a clan or sect would be able to

Living jiangshis are stronger than I

Fist King nodded his head

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

the Imperial family would be wary of

there would be

for creating the living jiangshis were turned into regular

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

need to inform the Imperial family right away to conduct a major investigation.

we need to send out a large number of

It looks like we will

enough when dealing with those bastards. We will

Fist King

about this so that we can get the

faction help us? As for the

since it is coming

“But still, those bastards-”

“There is a way!”

was starting to raise his voice. He

confused. The Fist King

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

a bit

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

if the Blood Cult found out. We can't

Clap!

was a light clap and

that Cale was looking

don’t we

He was smiling.

you said, these living jiangshis are

voice was soft and

his hand down after seeing Cale

the Fist King... The two old men

say so. We cannot

not say fear. We can suppress them if we decide to catch them. However, they

smile became

we take things

He pointed toward Durst.

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

"Ah, that is true!”

he had made a mistake

Noble Warrior Do really can distinguish the living

And then we can

“...Hmm?”

a bit before blankly asking back

“...Purify?”

sir. Purification. Isn't

toward Durst, who immediately responded. Chief Eunuch

eyes subconsciously opened wide and his jaws dropped after

god I serve has even

Nod nod.

head. He had a calm smile on his

“Something is weird.”

Toonka mumbled.

“You...are quite sharp?”

confused after hearing Sui Khan's shocked

had an extremely benign smile on his face as he offered

were

placed teacups in front

Chhh.

spoke as their teacups were being filled

but I do

“Ho-”

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

like that possible when a person gets to your

"Excuse me?”

flinched and asked back but the Fist King

“No. It’s nothing.”

calmer

me what

“I can explain that.”

rare to see Durst

the purification process, fog-like smoke 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 all. In fact, it

Aura of nature.

Chief Eunuch Wi gulped.

Kim truly

His fingertips were shaking.

purifies the jiangshis with the aura within that

“...Is that all?”

the Fist King, who still

The jiangshis return to their original appearances. Living

face scowled a

course, there is a burden on our

as Durst looked at him

why he

big of

it is only enough to

may not be

be harder to purify this time because it was

the Fire of Destruction is sealed right

a greater physical burden on

the Heart is pretty

issues as his

“Ho-”

King

that is the

head a few times and patted

course it will burden his

his eyes and

into battle knowing 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

could not even imagine how great and mighty

he thought of something else in

yourself and protecting others. Basically, it is saving

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

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

use the power of nature to return

is true martial

sort of fight. (TL: This is a play on words because martial