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.

a person you know is a jiangshi is

placed the crushed chopsticks

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

Elder-level in a clan or sect would be able to take on

Living jiangshis are

nodded his head at Cale's

that 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 at you without caring

why the Imperial family would be wary of living

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

the 443 sacrifices for creating the living jiangshis

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

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

out a large number of

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

jiangshis are 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.

Fist King stood

to immediately go tell Ho Song Yi about this so that we can

the Unorthodox faction and the Demon Cult-, would they

listen since it is coming from the Imperial

“But still, those bastards-”

“There is a way!”

Fist King was starting to raise his

looking confused. The

use that!” He should be able to quickly find them all if

looked a bit

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

be complicated if the Blood Cult found out. We

Clap!

and the two people stopped their

that Cale was

we

He was smiling.

two of you said, these living jiangshis are a source of fear and trepidation for

voice was

in his hand down after

Wi and the Fist King... The two old men responded in a

We cannot fathom

suppress them if we

smile became

we take things one step at a

He pointed toward Durst.

Do

"Ah, that is true!”

Fist King realized that he had made a mistake due to

confirm whether Noble Warrior Do really can distinguish the living

And then we

“...Hmm?”

a bit before blankly

“...Purify?”

Purification. Isn't that

Durst, who immediately responded. Chief Eunuch

opened wide and his jaws dropped after hearing what Durst

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

Nod nod.

nodded his head. He had a calm smile on

“Something is weird.”

Toonka mumbled.

“You...are quite sharp?”

even more confused after hearing Sui Khan's

smile on his face as he offered seats to Chief

Eunuch Wi and the Fist King were

in front

Chhh.

teacups were

I do

“Ho-”

after Cale confirmed the parts

when a person

"Excuse me?”

asked back but the Fist King waved

“No. It’s nothing.”

much calmer

tell me what you mean

“I can explain that.”

rare to see Durst cut in like

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

Aura of nature.

Chief Eunuch Wi gulped.

Kim truly in

His fingertips were shaking.

the jiangshis with the aura within

“...Is that all?”

the Fist King, who still seemed to find

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

scowled a

burden on

looked at him with teary

why he nonchalantly

that big

it is only enough to get me a bit

may not be the

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

portion of the Fire of Destruction

would lead to a greater

the Vitality of the Heart is

as his regeneration

“Ho-”

Fist King

sure that

few times and

will burden his

his eyes and

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

imagine how great and mighty of a task that

of something else in

yourself and

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

martial arts is to return everything to their original place without harming anybody in

the power of nature to

is true martial

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