The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King (Novel) - Chapter 144 - You Made a Mistake

Chapter 144 – You Made a Mistake

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The Yellow Springs Realm.

Yama was busy out of his mind with work together with the judges.

Today as well, the register meeting was held without fail.

“Haa, the reincarnators decrease, and the sinners keep increasing.”

“It seems we will have to expand hell further.”

“That isn’t the problem. As we mine black darksteel, hell widens too.”

“That is true. Rather, matching the ingot volume is…”

Since they also had to turn the black darksteel into ingots.

But then.

“Great King! Where are you, Great King!”

It was Gangrim.

That slippery fellow who ran off to the multiplex whenever he found a gap.

“You son of a bitch! Where have you been hiding again…”

“Something terrible has happened.”

“What is it? Speak. If it’s nothing, you’re dead!”

“That stone monkey is fleeing to the Demon Beast Realm after stealing the Heavenly Peach.”

“Hahaha.”

Yama wore an expression of disbelief.

“Bastard, so what? The Heavenly Peach will go to the one it’s meant to go to. It’s not as though predetermined fate is flimsy, so how can a mere messenger interfere with the whereabouts of the Heavenly Peach?”

“I-it’s not that, our Bright Maiden tried to stop the stone monkey…”

Gangrim the messenger explained how Bright Maiden had been wronged by the monkey.

Then Yama’s complexion hardened coldly.

“That fucking monkey yokai bastard!”

His fury reached the extreme.

He dared strike a heavenly person?

And then commit hit-and-run on top of that?

The expressions of the judges beside Yama also twisted like evil spirits.

He had been caught at just the right time.

In the past, how much had they suffered because that bastard had arbitrarily erased the book of registers?

This was a chance for revenge.

“What about Bright Maiden?”

“We brought her to a safe place.”

Even so, he absolutely could not forgive it.

He was so furious that even tearing the bastard limb from limb after catching him would not ease it.

“You said he fled to the Demon Beast Realm?”

“Yes!”

This opportunity would be used to sweep away the yokai as well.

“Chief Judge!”

“Yes, Great King.”

“We shall open the Hell Gate in the Demon Beast Realm.”

“A wise judgment.”

Thus even the Yellow Springs Realm joined the war.

* * *

Tang Gun-ak.

The poison spirit he had awakened from the human realm.

Even after ascending, it did not go anywhere.

Rather, it had been sublimated still further into immortal arts and become even more wondrous.

‘Do not touch the immortal-peach trees. Not Queen Mother of the Peach Blossom Palace nor the immortal maidens either.’

Wooong.

The poison spirit answered.

Myriad Heavens Flower Rain moved with both Poison Immortal and the poison spirit together.

The hidden-weapon attack concentrated solely on the monkeys.

‘You are continuing to track the aura of the main body, aren’t you?’

Woong!

‘Good, you’re doing well. The clone bodies we can deal with roughly enough.’

Woooong,

‘The rest will focus on the monkey’s main body. He absolutely must not put the Heavenly Peach into his mouth. It’s fine even if we kill him. Max out the poison qi as well!’

Woong, woong,

and as immortals appeared to help him.

‘The immortals are excluded from the attack targets.’

Woooong.

A precision-guided attack with an error range of not even one centimeter.

The hidden weapons pursued the monkey persistently.

But it was not easy.

That bastard was also dodging Myriad Heavens Flower Rain astonishingly well.

‘Damn it!’

Tang Gun-ak’s expression grew worse and worse.

To evade Myriad Heavens Flower Rain like that?

‘He truly deserves to be called Great Sage Equal to Heaven.’

There were what were called the Four Great Illusions of the martial world.

The Heavenly Net that always got broken through, the assassin organization that could never succeed in commissioned killings, the younger generation of famous clans who got beaten while foolishly relying only on family prestige.

And lastly, the Myriad Heavens Flower Rain that always missed.

But that was a misunderstanding.

In truth, it was because people mistook the Violent Rain Needles for Myriad Heavens Flower Rain.

Originally, Myriad Heavens Flower Rain had been a martial art possible only in theory.

In reality, no one had completed it.

In the history of the Tang Clan, only Tang Gun-ak had ever realized the true Myriad Heavens Flower Rain.

With it he had killed the Heavenly Demon and annihilated the Demonic Cultists.

Yet he could not do anything to that monkey.

At that instant!

– Poison Immortal?

It was He Xiangu’s voice transmission coming during the battle.

– You know what my immortal art is, right? So I have an idea…

He Xiangu, who could predict the near future.

After hearing her plan, Tang Gun-ak nodded.

And drove the monkey even harder.

Meanwhile.

Great Sage Equal to Heaven was half out of his mind.

Who was he?

He was Great Sage Equal to Heaven, the Victorious Fighting Buddha who always won if he fought.

Whether Supreme Emperor, Yama, or Dragon King, there was nothing in the world he feared.

Yet now he was being chased like this by a mere immortal?

The tens of thousands of metallic objects floating in the sky were not merely being scattered.

Each and every one chased him as if alive.

And was that all?

Tsupirit! Piriririt!

The Sword Immortal’s sword-control art, the sword qi and sword rings being scattered.

And what of the immortals’ spell formations?

Suddenly the earth rose and formed walls, a thick fog came into being and obstructed his vision, and countless talismans flared up, flared up, threatening him…

‘Damn this…’

He could not submit tamely.

‘With all my strength…’

He ran.

Confronting them was impossible.

Using the Somersault Cloud and clones, shrinking his body like a flea and enlarging it again.

He mobilized every method he had.

Now he was almost there.

There, just ahead, was the Demon Beast Realm.

There were hundreds of thousands of yokai there, high-ranking demon-beast generals, and the Chaos Demon King who possessed the power of immortality.

A massive host of yokai.

If viewed one by one they were no match for the immortals, but gathered together they were strong.

There was a chance to win.

Great Sage Equal to Heaven was certain.

* * *

The Chaos Demon King was waiting for Great Sage Equal to Heaven at the center of the Demon Beast Realm.

The Demon Beast Realm too was an independent dimension.

As long as one did not leave this place, there would be no problem.

The yokai were the masters of the Demon Beast Realm.

Those invading were enemies.

They would lure them deep into the main camp and fight.

Wasn’t this his own domain?

“Heh heh heh, how dare they invade a place like this…”

But then?

“Uh…”

The sight visible far away.

The fleeing monkey and its clones.

All kinds of weapons and hidden weapons covering the sky.

And the many immortals chasing after him as though determined to kill him.

“W-what?”

The immortals had come in a horde.

After saying all sorts of things over just one monkey.

“That damned stone-monkey bastard!”

He had been deceived.

This was not a job worth doing for merely half a Heavenly Peach.

‘Just what kind of trouble did he cause?’

Were immortals not beings so private that they hardly moved if it was not their own affair? Yet they were chasing the monkey that desperately?

But this was the Demon Beast Realm.

Once they crossed over here, he could handle them all he wanted.

“Hey!”

“Yes, Demon King.”

“Call all the brats together.”

“All of them?”

“Yes, bastard! Can’t you see that?”

The sky of the Demon Beast Realm turned blood-red.

At the Chaos Demon King’s summons, all the yokai who had been hiding rushed out.

At once the immortals’ complexions hardened as well.

“Damn it! They’re coming in a pack!”

“A-are they zerglings?”

“Don’t you have nuclear weapons? Nuclear! Nuclear!”

“Tch! Where would we get nukes?”

“I kept telling you again and again that we should have had some delivered.”

“What would we do by getting nuclear weapons? Ruin the whole Upper Realm? Let’s just beat up the monkey.”

“We mustn’t give him time to eat the Heavenly Peach.”

At once the immortals were driven into a numerical inferiority.

Even so, Tang Gun-ak did not give up.

No matter what, the Heavenly Peach had to go to Tae-ju.

“You cunning monkey bastard! Won’t you stop there?”

“Kikikik, try catching me!”

Great Sage Equal to Heaven shook his body once more.

This time very violently.

So violently that all the fur stuck to his body would fall off.

Sususususu.

Multiplication and fission.

Clone bodies increasing without limit.

They rushed only at Tang Gun-ak.

Great Sage Equal to Heaven knew it too.

Who was the most threatening one here.

Upon reaching the center of the Demon Beast Realm, the attacks aimed at him were dispersed.

Now if only that fellow were dealt with, there would be no one left to stop him.

Great Sage Equal to Heaven mounted the Somersault Cloud.

Holding the Heavenly Peach that he had hugged with both hands now in his left hand.

He took from his ear hole an extremely tiny piece of metal.

Suuuuuuuuuk!

The Ruyi Staff lengthened.

“Die!”

He was about to smash down on Tang Gun-ak’s head with the Ruyi Staff, which had lengthened to nearly one hundred meters, but…

Swaeaeaeaeak!

An immortal was flying in, radiating enormous force.

“Hk!”

Gripping the sword in both hands and thrusting it straight out, and making flames of immortal qi blaze all over his body, he charged at a speed faster than light.

“…Sword Immortal?”

Sword and immortal became one.

Sword-and-Immortal-as-One displayed by the Sword Immortal.

Kwakwakwakwakwa!

All the yokai and clone bodies in his flight path scattered like powder.

“…Damn it!”

Even Great Sage Equal to Heaven tensed.

Even Great Sage Equal to Heaven tensed.

Suuuuuk!

The Ruyi Staff shrank to a suitable shortness.

Then it lengthened again and met the Sword Immortal’s sword head-on.

Jjaeaeaeaeaeng!

An intense storm of qi burst out powerfully enough to sweep across the Demon Beast Realm.

The Sword Immortal was blown back.

Great Sage Equal to Heaven too was hurled backward.

At that very moment!

“Poison Immortal! Now!”

He Xiangu shouted.

Then the several thousand sharpened black-darksteel hidden-weapon ingots that had risen high into the air and been quietly waiting for an opportunity,

tsupiririt! tsupipipipipit!

fell straight down in a vertical line like ballistic missiles,

kwakwakwakwakwak!

and bombarded the left shoulder of Great Sage Equal to Heaven, who was holding the Heavenly Peach.

“Eohheok!”

No matter that Great Sage Equal to Heaven possessed a vajra body, it was difficult even for him to completely withstand the impact of heavy black-darksteel hidden weapons.

So in the end, he had no choice but to drop the Heavenly Peach from his left hand.

The Heavenly Peach fell to the ground.

Everyone’s gaze focused on it.

“The Heavenly Peach!”

“Grab it!”

“Kikikik?”

“Kreeeek!”

The monsters and the immortals all rushed toward the Heavenly Peach at once.

But one of the monkey clones swiftly picked it up first.

“A clone took it.”

“Fuck, which bastard?”

“I can’t tell them apart.”

“It’s that one!”

From Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s point of view, it was still a relief that a clone had picked it up.

But he had to get it back quickly.

Because a clone could not eat the Heavenly Peach.

So he swiftly ordered the clone that had taken the Heavenly Peach.

“Bring the Heavenly Peach here at on…, hiik?”

Kwakwakwakwakwa!

A waterfall of hidden weapons fell from above his head.

Papapapapat!

“Ah, come on!”

“This bastard! Give up already. It isn’t yours.”

“Hmph! You give up instead!”

For the time being, Tang Gun-ak had succeeded in making the monkey drop the Heavenly Peach, but he was troubled.

In an instant, his objective had split into two.

That elusive Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and the Heavenly Peach being passed from one clone’s hand to another.

There was no helping it.

He had to chase both.

Would the Chaos Demon King have stayed still?

“Kuoooooooh! The time has finally come to wash away the humiliation we suffered at the hands of the immortals!”

The monsters roared in response.

“Kyaaak!”

“Immortals…, kill them.”

“Krrrung!”

Most of the monsters of the Demon Beast Realm had been captured by immortals and brought here for the purpose of maintaining the balance of the human realm.

They had always intended to take revenge someday.

The chance had come.

They thought they had a chance if they all rushed in at once.

“Wow! What nonsense!”

“We’ve let these monster bastards go lately because there have been so many fun things, and now they’ve crawled up this far?”

“Chaos Demon King, we’ll take care of that bastard. Kunlun, Plum Blossom, Sanfeng, aid Poison Immortal together with Sword Immortal.”

“Can it be done?”

“Heh heh, we too are immortals who have ascended.”

“Let’s go!”

It was chaos.

The hordes of monsters opposing the immortals, Great Sage Equal to Heaven and his clone bodies.

A great bloody battle broke out.

Then the Heavenly Peach slipped from a clone’s hands, a monster picked it up, the monster holding the Heavenly Peach was skewered by a black-darksteel hidden weapon, a clone grabbed it, dropped it, grabbed it again…

The problem was, as expected, numbers.

No matter how outstanding each individual immortal’s abilities were, no matter how many monsters and clones Poison Immortal’s Myriad Heavens Flower Rain killed, the enemy host kept surging in without end.

Tuuk! Tung, tutuk, tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk!

The Heavenly Peach flew here and there.

From hand to hand, thrown and caught, dropped and picked up and passed again.

Not once did it end up in an immortal’s hands.

They did nothing but chase after it in a frenzy,

when all of a sudden!

Tak!

The Heavenly Peach slipped neatly into someone’s hand.

“Huh?”

“Hk!”

“Krk!”

“…What?”

“Wh-when?”

.

.

.

The battlefield fell silent as if by a lie.

“Wow! I caught it!!!”

It was Bright Maiden.

The immortals were horrified out of their wits.

“N-no, in a dangerous place like this…”

“Who brought Bright Maiden here?”

“Forget the Heavenly Peach, protect Bright Maiden first!”

“You bastards! If even one fingertip of our Bright Maiden is touched, then you’re all dying!”

A heavenly person.

The most beloved existence in all the Upper Realms.

Everyone could only stare blankly.

The monsters knew too.

What would happen if Bright Maiden was harmed.

What should they do?

Should they attack?

No one dared move rashly.

Except for one.

“You crazy bitch! Bring the Heavenly Peach here!”

Swaeaeaeaeak!

Great Sage Equal to Heaven, who could not read the mood, flew in at terrifying speed.

That was when it happened.

Jiiing!

A transparent gate appeared in front of Bright Maiden.

“Hk?”

Suddenly?

What was that again?

He had seen it somewhere.

And it was not just one.

Jiiing, jiiing, jiiing, jiiing, jiiing, jiiing…,

they opened here and there.

Too many to count.

Jiiing, jiiing, jiiing, jiiing, jiiing, jiiing…,

From the gates came walking out judges, messengers, reapers, and hell administrators.

Behind them,

kuryeok, kuryeok, kuryeok, kuryeok…,

came sinners of grotesque appearance.

They poured out without end.

They were the gates of hell.

Pointing at Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Yama gave the order.

“For the crime of daring to harm Bright Maiden, seize that monkey and force it to kneel before me. Killing it is permitted.”

“…What?”

That was not all.

Flap, flap.

Before he knew it, Taktap the Divine General had appeared in the sky of the Demon Beast Realm riding a winged horse.

“You shameless stone-monkey bastard! Are you saying you really injured one of our heavenly maidens? Your own sins have announced themselves!”

Great Sage Equal to Heaven was dumbfounded.

The Yellow Springs Realm and the Heavenly Realm intervening, fine.

It was not as though this was his first time experiencing such a thing.

But not one word was spoken about the Heavenly Peach.

‘It wasn’t because of the Heavenly Peach?’

That woman seemed to be the cause,

but just who was she…,

‘W-wait! Bright Maiden?’

Shit!

Only now did he remember.

‘This is bad.’

His mind went blank.

He had made a huge mistake.

‘Of all people…’

Taktap the Divine General let out a short, mocking laugh at Great Sage Equal to Heaven, who now did not know what to do, and blew the full-piri summoning flute of the heavenly army.

Piiiiiiit!

Paaaaat!

A large army was summoned.

It was the heavenly army.

They filled the entire sky.

Gulp.

Even the Chaos Demon King swallowed dryly.

‘We’ve really stepped in it.’

He had touched the one being he absolutely should not have touched.

Before he knew it, he had become entangled as an accomplice in harming a heavenly person.

All because of that stone monkey bastard.

‘…Haah! I should never have accepted that bastard’s proposal in the first place.’

The Chaos Demon King’s belated regret.

The sinners of hell rushed in.

At the same time, the heavenly soldiers too descended all at once.

Naturally, the immortals as well.

“You bastard! Offer up your neck.”

“Before the heavenly person is harmed, erase the monsters first!”

The monsters were seized and torn apart.

The clones too were ground down.

Great Sage Equal to Heaven lost all will to fight.

‘Haah,’

Even now, he could still try to snatch it, but how could he possibly bear the aftermath?

He should just die.

That would be better.

In truth, even dying was impossible.

Because he possessed the class of undying immortality.

Just like before, he would probably end up pinned beneath a mountain of rock for thousands of years unable to move.

Only then did Tang Gun-ak let out a sigh of relief.

Bright Maiden ran up to Poison Immortal with her bright smile and said,

“Here it is!!!”

holding out the Heavenly Peach.

“…I am deeply grateful, heavenly maiden.”

“Hehe,”

How should he repay this?

“Poison Immortal, later, please grant me just one request.”

“Whatever it may be, I shall grant it. I swear it!”

“Thank youuu.”

What that request was, he would hear later.

In any case, he took the Heavenly Peach and put it into infinite space.

Only now did his heart settle.

There was absolutely no way it would be stolen now.

But then the Sword Immortal approached with a serious expression and spoke.

“Poison Immortal.”

Had some problem arisen?

His heart grew uneasy.

“Uh, why is that? Has something perhaps gone wrong…?”

Then the Sword Immortal quietly whispered,

“S?”

“…”

Should he just kill him?

* * *

Earth too was in the midst of war.

In truth, people had thought it would end quickly.

Because the kingdom army was much stronger than the republican army.

But unexpectedly, the republican army’s strength was not so easy to dismiss.

Guerrilla warfare breaking out in every corner.

Already huge numbers of people were dying.

The European Empire had immediately decided to enter the war,

and in the middle of the Pacific,

Tae-ju too was receiving wartime breaking news in real time through his smartphone.

‘They’ve gone crazy. Absolutely crazy.’

The videos spreading through Tube and social media.

These were not the appearance of a normal army.

A corpse army.

There was no distinction between the kingdom army and the republican army.

Soldiers who advanced stiffly without taking cover even under a hail of bullets, soldiers who threw grenades as if nothing was wrong even after an arm had been torn off, soldiers whose necks lolled at a ninety-degree angle while they still fired their guns.

They were not even trying to hide it.

‘These bastards are doing it openly now.’

He could not sit still.

But this was no time to move yet.

Time passed and passed,

and at last the container ship approached Yangsan Port of the Samhan Empire.

Now it was safe.

They had completely left the territory of the elite marine demonic beasts.

In that case?

Tae-ju drew out the Ten-Thousand-Li Flying Sword and jumped off the ship.

Swaeaeaeaeak!

His destination was Gurye first of all.

Before going to Moscow, there was someone, no, some animal he had to take with him.