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.

person you know is a jiangshi is scary and dangerous,

King placed the crushed chopsticks

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

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

are

nodded his head

Unrestrained Realm, explodes. In addition, living jiangshis don’t

made sense why the Imperial family would

mean that there would be quite a lot more regular

presume that the 443 sacrifices for creating

Fist King and Chief Eunuch Wi commented one after the other. Chief Eunuch Wi spoke to Cale with a stiff look on

a major investigation. This, this is something

we need to send out a large

to protect his Majesty. It looks like

Unrestrained 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. No, this is not

Fist King

about this so that we can

the Orthodox faction help us? As for the Unorthodox faction and the Demon Cult-,

is coming from the

“But still, those bastards-”

“There is a way!”

to raise his

looking confused.

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

looked a

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

Cult found out. We

Clap!

and the two people stopped their

then noticed that Cale

don’t we all

He was smiling.

on what the two of you said, these living jiangshis are

voice was soft

his hand

Eunuch Wi and the Fist King... The two old men responded in a slightly more serious

say so. We cannot fathom what they

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

smile became even

shall we take things one step at a

He pointed toward Durst.

the smell Noble Warrior Do noticed

"Ah, that is true!”

he had made a mistake due to his feeling of

Noble Warrior Do really can

we

“...Hmm?”

a bit before blankly

“...Purify?”

Purification. Isn't

toward Durst, who immediately responded. Chief Eunuch Wi flinched

and his jaws dropped after

to purify living jiangshis. The god I

Nod nod.

head. He had a

“Something is weird.”

Toonka mumbled.

“You...are quite sharp?”

Sui Khan's shocked voice,

Ron had an extremely benign smile on his face

Wi and the Fist King were now

teacups in

Chhh.

spoke as their teacups were being filled

lot of them, but I do

“Ho-”

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

something like that possible when a

"Excuse me?”

flinched and asked back but

“No. It’s nothing.”

calmer

what you mean by

“I can explain that.”

was rare to see Durst cut in

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.

Purifier-nim purifies the jiangshis with the aura

“...Is that all?”

the Fist King, who still seemed to

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

face scowled a bit

is a burden on

as Durst looked at him with teary

why he

big of a

is only enough to get me

but that may not

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

Fire of

to a greater physical

the Heart is pretty much at

issues as his regeneration and healing abilities had not fluctuated

“Ho-”

King

sure that

head a few times

course it will burden his

Hyeon closed his

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

imagine how great and mighty of a task that

something else

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

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

in martial arts is to return

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

that is true

was to return things to nothingness without any sort of fight. (TL: This is