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, but...

Fist King placed the crushed chopsticks on

Unrestrained Realm will be unable to suppress them without

in a clan or sect would

Living jiangshis are stronger than I

Fist King nodded his

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

sense why the Imperial family would be

that the Blood Cult has living jiangshis would mean that there would be quite a lot more regular jiangshis. Jiangshis are apparently easier to make than living

for creating the living jiangshis were turned into

Chief

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

we need to send out a large number of Embroidered Uniform

protect his Majesty. It looks like we will need

dealing with those bastards. We will

Fist King stood

immediately go tell Ho Song Yi about this so that we can get the help of the

would the Orthodox faction help us? As for the Unorthodox faction and the

it is coming

“But still, those bastards-”

“There is a way!”

King was starting to raise his

was standing there looking confused.

smell. We can use that!” He should

looked a

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

found out. We can't let them hide all of

Clap!

and the two

then noticed that Cale was looking at

don’t we

He was smiling.

of you said, these living jiangshis are a source of fear and trepidation for everybody in the Central

was soft

dumpling in his

Fist King... The two old men responded in

would say so. We cannot fathom what

we decide to catch them. However,

became

take things one step

He pointed toward Durst.

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

"Ah, that is true!”

made a mistake due to his feeling of

whether Noble Warrior Do really can distinguish the

And then we can just purify

“...Hmm?”

Fist King stiffened up for a bit

“...Purify?”

Purification.

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

opened wide and his jaws dropped after hearing what Durst said

god I serve has even bestowed a

Nod nod.

nodded his head. He had a

“Something is weird.”

Toonka mumbled.

“You...are quite sharp?”

hearing Sui Khan's shocked

an extremely benign smile on his face as he offered seats to

Wi and the Fist King were now seated around the

in

Chhh.

their teacups were being filled with

cannot do a lot of them, but I do have the power to purify

“Ho-”

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

like that possible when a person gets to

"Excuse me?”

asked back but the Fist King waved him

“No. It’s nothing.”

then seemed much calmer

what you mean by

“I can explain that.”

see Durst cut in

our Purifier-nim at the center. That smoke is an extremely clean aura of nature that does not harm us at all. In

Aura of nature.

Chief Eunuch Wi gulped.

Kim

His fingertips were shaking.

Purifier-nim purifies the jiangshis with the aura within that

“...Is that all?”

King, who still

anybody getting hurt! The jiangshis return to their

a bit

a burden on

got chills as Durst looked

why he

big

only enough to get

may

it was living jiangshis compared to the

of the Fire of Destruction is sealed right

to a greater physical burden

Vitality of the Heart

should not be many issues as his regeneration and healing

“Ho-”

Fist King gasped

I'm sure that is

a few times and patted his knee

it will burden his

Hyeon closed his

have to go 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 an existence back to its original appearance

great and

he thought of something else in

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

end up harming people and causing damage to your surroundings

return

power of nature to return the

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 pronounced