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.

out one day that a person you know is a jiangshi is

Fist King placed the crushed chopsticks on

in the Unrestrained Realm will be

at the Elder-level in a clan

jiangshis are

his head at Cale's

beyond this world if that living jiangshi, who is an expert in the Unrestrained Realm, explodes. In addition, living jiangshis don’t feel

family would be

the Blood Cult has living jiangshis would mean that there would be quite a lot

that the 443 sacrifices for creating the living jiangshis were

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

master-nim. We need to inform the Imperial family right away to conduct a major investigation. This, this is something we

send out a large number of Embroidered

It looks like we will need to bring

bastards. We will only put the lives of the poor common soldiers in danger. No, this is not what we should be doing right

Fist King

Ho Song Yi about this

for the Unorthodox faction and the

since it is coming from the Imperial

“But still, those bastards-”

“There is a way!”

raise his voice. He turned

looking confused. The Fist King pointed

the living jiangshis using their smell. We can use that!” He

looked a

to find them 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 to pay attention to the Blood Cult since

complicated if the Blood Cult found out. We can't let them hide all

Clap!

clap and the

noticed that Cale was looking at

why don’t we all calm

He was smiling.

are a source of fear and trepidation for everybody in the Central

voice was

dumpling in his hand down after seeing Cale like

The two old men responded in a slightly

so. We cannot

we decide to catch

smile became even

things one

He pointed toward Durst.

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

"Ah, that is true!”

had made a mistake due to his

Warrior Do really can

then we can just

“...Hmm?”

King stiffened up for a bit before blankly asking back while looking at

“...Purify?”

Purification.

who immediately responded. Chief Eunuch Wi flinched after seeing

subconsciously opened wide and his jaws dropped after hearing

to purify living jiangshis. The god I serve has even bestowed a divine item to the

Nod nod.

head. He had a calm smile on his

“Something is weird.”

Toonka mumbled.

“You...are quite sharp?”

more confused after hearing Sui Khan's

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

the Fist King were now seated

in front

Chhh.

spoke as their teacups were being filled

I do

“Ho-”

confirmed

like that possible when a person gets to

"Excuse me?”

back but the

“No. It’s nothing.”

seemed much calmer

what you

“I can explain that.”

rare to see Durst

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

Aura of nature.

Chief Eunuch Wi gulped.

young master Kim truly in the Nature

His fingertips were shaking.

Purifier-nim purifies the jiangshis with the aura

“...Is that all?”

King, who still seemed to find it hard to

to their

face scowled a bit after

course, there is a burden on our

as Durst looked at

why

not that big of a

it is only enough to

but that may not be

to purify this time because it was living

significant portion of the Fire of Destruction is sealed

greater physical burden

the Heart

not be many issues as his regeneration and healing abilities

“Ho-”

Fist King

I'm sure that

nodded his head a few times and

course it will burden his

closed his eyes and

at maximum that he

and mighty of a task

of something else

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

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

is to return everything to their

to how young master Kim would use the power of

that is true martial

things to nothingness without any sort of fight. (TL: This is a play on words because martial arts and nothingness