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.

that a person you know is a jiangshi is scary and

King placed the crushed chopsticks on

living jiangshis overload, even experts in the Unrestrained Realm will be unable to suppress them without being willing to

only someone who was at least at the Elder-level in a clan or sect would be able to take on a

Living jiangshis are

his

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

family would be wary

would mean that there would

for creating the living jiangshis were turned

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

the Imperial family right away to conduct a major investigation. This, this is something we need to use everything we

need to send out a large number of Embroidered Uniform

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

with those bastards. We will only put the lives of the poor common soldiers in danger.

Fist King

need to immediately go tell Ho Song Yi about this

As for the Unorthodox faction and the

since it is coming from the

“But still, those bastards-”

“There is a way!”

Fist King was starting to raise his voice. He turned toward

standing there looking confused. The Fist

Do 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 them all if he spends the next year or two sniffing

a

amount of damage possible going against those Unrestrained Realm experts! We also need to pay attention to the Blood Cult since we have to

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

Clap!

and the two people stopped

noticed that Cale

why don’t we all calm

He was smiling.

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

voice was soft and

dumpling in his hand down after seeing Cale like

King... The two old men responded in a slightly more

would say so. We cannot fathom what they

fear. We can suppress them if we decide to catch them. However, they are

smile became even

shall we take things one step at

He pointed toward Durst.

Do noticed is truly

"Ah, that is true!”

realized that he had made a mistake

need to confirm whether Noble Warrior Do really can distinguish the living

And then we can just purify

“...Hmm?”

a bit before blankly asking back while looking

“...Purify?”

sir. Purification. Isn't that

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

and his jaws dropped after hearing what

the power to purify living jiangshis. The god I serve

Nod nod.

head. He had a

“Something is weird.”

Toonka mumbled.

“You...are quite sharp?”

Sui Khan's shocked voice, but...

his face as he offered

King were now seated around

in

Chhh.

their teacups

do a lot of them, but I do have

“Ho-”

Cale confirmed the parts that were a bit uncertain after

something like that possible when a person gets to your

"Excuse me?”

but the

“No. It’s nothing.”

seemed much calmer as he continued to

me what

“I can explain that.”

see Durst cut in like

process, fog-like smoke rises and spreads out with our Purifier-nim at the center. That smoke is an extremely clean aura of

Aura of nature.

Chief Eunuch Wi gulped.

young master Kim truly in

His fingertips were shaking.

Purifier-nim purifies the jiangshis with the aura within that

“...Is that all?”

responded to the Fist King, who still seemed to find it

return to their original appearances. Living jiangshis are jiangshis as well, so the process should be

a

burden on our Purifier-nim’s body

looked at him

was why he

big of

to

but that may not be

purify this time because it was living jiangshis compared to the regular jiangshis from

portion of the Fire of Destruction is sealed right

to a greater physical burden on

Vitality of the Heart is pretty much at

not be many issues as his

“Ho-”

Fist King

I'm sure that is

head a few times and patted his knee with one

will burden his

Hyeon closed 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 an existence back to its original

imagine how great and mighty

of something else in

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

would end up harming people and causing damage to your surroundings

is to return everything to

similar to how young master Kim would use the power of nature to

that is true martial

without any sort of fight. (TL: This is