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

placed the crushed chopsticks

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

in a clan or

jiangshis are stronger than

his head at

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

made sense why the Imperial family would be wary

mean that there would be

presume that the 443 sacrifices for creating the living

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

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

send out a large number of Embroidered Uniform

need to protect his Majesty. It looks like we will

will only put the lives of the poor common soldiers in danger. No, this is not what

King

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

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

since it is coming from the

“But still, those bastards-”

“There is a way!”

was starting to raise his voice. He turned toward

was standing there looking confused.

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

looked a

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

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

Clap!

and the two people stopped their

then noticed that Cale was

why don’t we all

He was smiling.

the two of you said, these living jiangshis are a source of fear

was soft and

the dumpling in his hand down

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

so. We cannot fathom

would not say fear. We can suppress them if we decide

smile became even

take things one step at

He pointed toward Durst.

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

"Ah, that is true!”

that he had made a mistake due

Warrior

we can

“...Hmm?”

bit before blankly asking back while looking at

“...Purify?”

sir. Purification.

who immediately responded. Chief Eunuch Wi flinched after seeing Durst suddenly smiling

subconsciously opened wide and his jaws

I serve has even bestowed a divine item to the purifier to purify

Nod nod.

just quietly nodded his head. He had a calm smile on

“Something is weird.”

Toonka mumbled.

“You...are quite sharp?”

Khan's shocked voice, but... Sui Khan just shrugged his

Ron had an extremely benign smile on his face

Eunuch Wi and the Fist King were now

in

Chhh.

as their teacups were being filled

do a lot of them, but I do have the power to purify

“Ho-”

confirmed the parts that were a bit uncertain after Durst's

like that possible when a person gets to

"Excuse me?”

asked back but the Fist King waved him

“No. It’s nothing.”

much calmer as he continued to

me what you mean

“I can explain that.”

to see Durst

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 makes

Aura of nature.

Chief Eunuch Wi gulped.

young master Kim truly

His fingertips were shaking.

the jiangshis with the

“...Is that all?”

King, who still seemed to find it

Without any damage or anybody getting hurt! The jiangshis return to their original appearances. Living jiangshis are jiangshis as well, so the process should

face scowled a bit

is a burden on our Purifier-nim’s body

as Durst looked

why

not that big of a

it is only enough to

may not be

because it was living jiangshis compared to the

a significant portion of the Fire

would lead to a greater physical burden on

of the Heart is pretty much at full

issues as his regeneration

“Ho-”

King

I'm sure that

a few times and

it will burden his

Hyeon closed his eyes

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

imagine how great and mighty of a task that

something else in

martial arts is for defending yourself

you would end up harming people and causing damage to your

training in martial arts is to return everything to their original place without

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

is true

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