Trash of the Count's Family - TCF Part 2 - Chapter 51

The glass tanks were of different sizes. The further it was from the door, the larger the size. The place was dark, and Number Seven said that he did not know where the lighting switch of this place was. Number Seven was not afraid of dying, so he was not afraid of CH coldly looking at him. But Cale’s angry gaze and smile terrified him.
Cale asked Raon to light up the place with magic, and Raon weakly answered yes. Cale used his Dominating Aura on Number Seven, intimidating the latter. Number Seven was unable to breathe under the pressure, and thought that the Purifier was like the Blood Demon who saw him off when he left the Central Plains.
But Number Seven rationalized that the Purifier and the Blood Demon were incomparable. After all, the Blood Demon was someone who would become a god. Cale asked if the corpses in the glass tanks were all Jiangshi, and Number Seven replied yes. There were various beings in the glass tanks – elves, dwarves, beast tribe people, monsters, etc.
All had their eyes closed and intact bodies. Aside from looking severely pale, they did not look like corpses at all. There was a purple lotus flower drawn in the center of their foreheads, the sign of them being a Jiangshi. Cale asked how long the Huayans and the Blood Cult had worked together. Number Seven hesitated to tell the whole story. He felt the pressure on him again.
Number Seven answered that 400 years ago, the Blood Cult made a pact with the Huayans family. Raon continued to light up the place as several magic stones broke. Number Seven said that the Huayans wanted to collect strong individuals from each race and turn them into Jiangshi. That way, they would have more abilities than regular undead.
Cale asked why the Blood Cult accepted the deal, and Number Seven replied that he did not know. He only began working here 5 years ago, so his position was not that high to gain access to information. Cale asked for the publicly known reason for the deal, and Number Seven answered that it was for Jiangshi experimentation.
There was a kind of Jiangshi that the Blood Sect wanted to create, so in the name of experimentation to obtain it, they partnered with the Huayans family. Cale asked what kind of Jiangshi it was, but Number Seven replied that he would automatically die if he spoke more. Cale asked what he was allowed to say, asking what the goal of the Huayans was.
Number Seven answered that one of his missions was to figure out the Huayans’ goal. Cale smiled and questioned if the hunter families were not that close. It seemed to him that the families were competing and were wary of each other. He asked the reason why, but Number Seven did not answer because he was scared. He had realized that the Purifier’s gaze had changed.
After seeing the countless Jiangshi here, it was as if the Purifier did not see Number Seven as the same human. He trembled in fear and confirmed that the families had always competed with each other. There were many reasons for that, but there were also families that were friendly with other families. Cale said that he would hear those reasons later.
Raon completed lighting up the place. He looked at the three glass tanks that reached the high ceiling, his eyes trembling in anger as he saw it. There were three dragon corpses in those glass tanks. Unlike the other clean-looking corpses, the dragon corpses were full of wounds, implying that they had fought a bloody battle until they died.
Cale thought that these dragons could not return to nature. It was the worst death that a dragon feared. If Eruhaben had been here, he would have been furious. There were also more than a hundred corpses of people who looked like necromancers. CH said that the past emperors were also here. When Cale’s group had decided to participate in the test, they had studied about the imperial family.
The past emperors were different from the necromancer corpses. Their bodies were stained black as they had been turned into Jiangshi too. CH’s hand gripping the sword was shaking. He was angry at what he had seen today. The underground of the Alchemy Bell Tower was horrible, but this place was worse. He thought that the hunters were worse than WS.
Cale was stroking Raon’s head and called Number Seven who did not reply. He thought that Number Seven was trash as the latter did not even show any guilt or remorse. The man was only worried about himself or if it would cause a problem to his Blood Cult. Cale laughed and Number Seven got the chills. Cale asked how the Jiangshi here were controlled.
Number Seven closed his eyes and thought that the Huayans would suffer a great loss because of the Purifier here. But he did not care as the Blood Cult would not be affected by it. He was certain that with the power the Purifier used that he had seen, the Purifier could not defeat the Blood Cult. He thought that when he had the opportunity later, he would lead them to a place other than the Central Plains.
He sighed and glanced at the Purifier, feeling uncomfortable at the Purifier’s gaze. He replied that the Jiangshi only listened to the host, who was the emperor. He explained that it was possible to change hosts, but it took at least a month considering the number of Jiangshi here. If the Jiangshi were to be used for combat, the process would be more complicated.
Cale said that he was not asking about that. He did not intend to use this Jiangshi for combat. Number Seven asked if they wanted to make the Jiangshi here useless. He continued that all the Jiangshi here possessed dead mana. Burning them with the Fire of Purification was the best way to dispose of them.
Raon’s eyes widened at Number Seven’s words, his front paws twitching as he alternately glanced at Cale and the dragon corpses. Number Seven added that the corpses here were just empty shells without souls, so it was fine to purify them. After all, the souls of the corpses here would want that too. He suggested to destroy this room too.
Cale took off his mask, and Number Seven trembled when he saw Cale’s smile. Cale asked if there was a way to return the Jiangshi into regular corpses without the burning process. Number Seven answered that there was a way, but it would take at least half a year to drain the dead mana from the corpses. Once the dead mana was gone, they would return to being regular corpses and rot naturally.
Cale said that there was a simpler way to make the Jiangshi useless, which is to target the emperor, the host, so that he could not use his power over the Jiangshi. Cale inquired if there were more Jiangshi that were not in this room. There were only three dragon corpses here, but there should be more dead dragons.
The number of Jiangshi here were too small for something that was collected for 300 years. It was not enough to destroy this world or dedicate their karma. Cale motioned to CH to knock out Number Seven, and CH obeyed Cale. After Number Seven had fainted, Cale told CH that in 4 days, at the public execution ground, they would kidnap the emperor.