The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King (Novel) - Chapter 147 - The Immortal Realm Is Still Changing

Chapter 147 – The Immortal Realm Is Still Changing

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Though it was only a dream,

Tae-ju was very, very glad to see the Sword Immortal.

It felt as though he had truly met the Sword Immortal in reality.

He looked exactly as he had in the smartphone videos Tang Gun-ak had sent.

Short-cropped hair, a neatly trimmed beard, and a suit whose fit was astonishingly perfect, luxury dress shoes, and a wristwatch.

And on top of that, with a sword slung on his back.

‘Who would think that gentleman was an immortal?’

Maybe a chaebol chairman.

Or perhaps an active model.

‘At this rate, he could step onto a runway and start walking at once.’

The image of a perfect handsome middle-aged man.

Enough to put ordinary models to shame.

‘He must have received the sports car well, right?’

The Ten-Thousand-Li Flying Sword, the Harley bike, and now even the sports car.

Sword Immortal truly loved vehicles.

He had always thought so, but that gentleman suited living on Earth better than in the Immortal Realm.

Would Sword Immortal recognize him even in a dream?

Tae-ju waved a hand toward him.

“Hello, Sword Immortal!!!”

With a broad smile, Sword Immortal waved his hand back.

“Good to see you, Great Hero Tae-ju!!!”

Then, pointing with a finger at Immortal King and drawing a hand edge across his own neck, he gestured,

“Shall I kill it?”

Tae-ju nodded.

“I’m sorry, but I ask this of you. I’m in a position where I can’t fight directly myself.”

Sword Immortal made a circle by joining thumb and forefinger.

“Okay!”

* * *

In spectator mode, sitting comfortably in her chair with one hand propping her chin and her legs crossed, Carmen sneered.

That was Kim Tae-ju’s limit.

The being he had summoned as his dream champion was, in the end, only a human.

And clearly an Earthling too.

Given the luxury suit, shoes, and even the wristwatch.

Who could he be?

The Emperor of Samhan? Or perhaps the Imperial Palace secretary said to be the number two?

“Hohoho, laughable.”

Could the experience of a soul linker possibly be that shallow?

Was the absolute being he knew merely that old man?

The game was over.

How could a mere human fight Immortal King?

Carmen had contracted with the Succubus Queen.

Because it was the great demon best suited to her.

But even the Succubus Queen could not treat him carelessly.

That supreme great demon was none other than Immortal King.

An incomplete existence that retained only instinct after losing reason, destroying whatever lay before its eyes first of all.

Though its flesh was stronger than that of any demon, it could never become a high noble or a demon king.

That was precisely why it was all the better.

It was perfect as the champion of the dreamlike magic-formation duel.

Compared to Immortal King, how shabby Kim Tae-ju’s dream champion was.

He held a single sword, yes, but could it even cut skin with that thing?

But at that exact moment!

“Ah?”

Kim Tae-ju waved a hand to his own dream champion.

Even up to there, perhaps that could be let pass.

“…What?”

But the old man that was Kim Tae-ju’s champion was responding.

And by directly conversing, no less.

“…”

Was that possible?

The champion system.

The actual existing being was not truly summoned into the dream.

That Immortal King too was an existence reconstructed and manifested within the dreamlike magic formation by Carmen’s own experienced memories.

That is, something like a copy created by the authority of the Succubus Queen.

It was not the real thing.

Therefore, the idea that they could interact with one another was absurd.

There were only two beings dreaming within the dreamlike magic formation.

Herself and Kim Tae-ju.

‘Could it be…?’

Carmen posed a question to the dreamlike magic formation.

‘How many beings are inside here right now?’

[At present, there are a total of 3 entities dreaming together within the Dreamlike Magic Formation.]

Had she heard wrong?

‘Three?’

How could that be?

* * *

Standing upright in the arena with his sword point hanging downward, Sword Immortal.

The creature called Immortal King, a great demon of the Demon Realm, let out a great roar.

“Kuoooooo!”

Kung-kung-kung-kung!

Immortal King advanced with giant legs as though he intended to smash whatever stood before him.

It was as though a low mountain itself had begun to move.

The great demon of destruction, of whom it was said that even demon kings could do nothing against its physical might.

But Sword Immortal remained composed.

As though such a mere monster were nothing at all.

The sword floated up into the air.

Though he held only a single blade in hand,

syut, syut! syut! syusyusyusyusyut!

swords formed by formless qi appeared.

They were immortal swords.

They continued to rise.

One hundred blades, three hundred, five hundred…, one thousand, two thousand.

At last they covered the dream sky completely.

He had not used this method in the battle with Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

Why?

Because Poison Immortal had already been doing something similar.

Wouldn’t that make their characters overlap?

That was absolutely intolerable.

And besides, Poison Immortal controlled a larger number of hidden weapons.

So he had used only single-strike killing techniques such as Controlling the Sword with Qi or Sword and Self Become One.

‘Now then, shall we begin?’

Great Hero Tae-ju had personally asked him.

That meant he trusted him the most.

Then he had to handle it cleanly.

It was a pity that this was only a dream,

but even so, there would be some feeling in the hand.

Tsupipipipipipit!

The thousands of immortal swords made of aura all flew at once under sword guidance.

It looked like a bombardment scene of laser beams from some SF movie.

* * *

Carmen sprang to her feet.

Because the sight before her was so absurd.

Very well, let it pass that Kim Tae-ju had somehow interacted with his dream champion.

Let it pass too that somehow they were dreaming together.

But just what was that old man?

Did such a man exist on Earth?

His ability was tremendous.

To shape swords out of formless aura and move them freely while dressed in a suit?

Thousands of swords poured down through the air like a bombardment.

Kwakwakwakwa! Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwa!

It was like thousands of bolts of lightning falling at once.

It was nothing but light.

Pupupupup! Pupupupupupupupuk!

Not a single one missed; those swords of light all drove into Immortal King.

Its head began disappearing first.

Then its upper body, chest, waist, lower body…

Immortal King melted away in the middle of walking forward.

It could not even mount a proper counterattack.

Could this even be called a duel?

Kim Tae-ju’s elderly champion had not moved even a single step.

He merely lifted his hand, created swords, floated them in the air, and then indifferently lowered his hand and dropped them.

‘…A god?’

Only by assuming he was a god did such majesty become possible.

Only then was there any explanation.

Now she understood too why he had intruded into the dreamlike magic formation.

Given that he had ignored the authority of the Succubus Queen as if it were nothing, he was at the very least a demigod.

“This is a scam! A scam! The contract is void!”

Carmen screamed and raged, but…

[The Champion Duel through the Dreamlike Magic Formation has ended.]

[The victor is Kim Tae-ju’s champion.]

[The spoils contract will now be executed.]

“No!”

And then,

jjaejjaejaeng!

the dreamlike magic formation shattered to pieces and broke apart.

* * *

Tae-ju woke from sleep.

Then,

“Nyaang!”

Ilbaek was guarding his side with worried eyes.

“When did you get here?”

“Nyaaaang,”

“You got here already? Ah, I see, you’ve been guarding beside me.”

“Nyaang?”

“It’s not that I slept because I was tired. You don’t have to worry.”

What a pity.

He had not even had time to say goodbye before parting from Sword Immortal.

That was because Sword Immortal had killed Immortal King too quickly.

He should have dragged it out just a little.

Then they could have talked more.

Anyway.

‘Hoo, he was terrifying.’

He truly lived up to being called Sword Immortal.

Thousands of swords made of condensed aura.

And the sight of them all stabbing down at once…

‘It felt rather similar to Myriad Heavens Flower Rain.’

All Streams Return to One.

They said that even if the currents were different, once one reached the ultimate point they joined into a single current.

By contrast, Immortal King?

A great demon of the Demon Realm?

Let’s take out the word great.

It was just a weak-ass demon.

‘Right! The spoils?’

That was when it happened.

Ssyuuuuuut!

He heard the sound of something flying toward him,

and then,

wajangchang!

One woman smashed through the window of the headquarters room and came rolling into the room.

The spoils had been delivered by express.

“Carmen?”

“…Uaaah! T-this makes no sense. What on earth are you? Wh-who was that old man? A god? Was he truly a god?”

Carmen poured out words in a frenzy, her hair disheveled.

Ordinarily he might have indulged her, but he didn’t have much time.

“Hand over the spoils.”

“Uaaaaah.”

“Quickly!”

“Th-the Black Mafia is…”

Information poured out in a stream from Carmen’s mouth.

The identity and name of the boss, how the organization had been made, what kinds of things it had done, and why it had started the Moscow civil war, the progress of the ritual, and the places where the other three elders were hiding.

‘Hmm.’

Everything Carmen said was true.

He had learned everything, but one thing was missing.

“Where is Drek Karax? Your boss, the soul linker.”

“Th-that, even I don’t know. He must be somewhere in Moscow.”

“Really?”

“I’ve told you everything I know. I swear it.”

The judge’s ring remained quiet.

Everything Carmen had said had been true.

To think he had hidden even his dwelling place from his closest confidant.

Anyway, what should he do with Carmen?

There was no need to think it over.

Uuuuuuuung!

Her body began swelling like a balloon.

“Huhk!”

It was obvious enough.

“So you too were under a forbidden restriction. Like Edward.”

“Aaaaaah…”

“Tsk tsk, after all that talk of Him, Him, in the end even you were discarded?”

The forbidden restriction activated the moment the spoils contract ended.

Carmen desperately grabbed at the leg of Tae-ju’s pants.

“N-no! I can live. I’ll be resurrected. But for that, you have to die here. Le-let’s die together! Together…”

At that instant!

“Kyaak!”

Before anyone knew it, Ilbaek had leaped up and smacked Carmen in the temple with his forepaw.

Tsupit!

Kwak!

“Aak!”

Her head spun around once.

At the same time, Carmen crashed into the wall like a deflated balloon.

Kwa-dang!

And then,

bang!

she burst apart.

“Mm…”

“Nyang?”

“No, you did well.”

Now on to the next place.

The Moscow War Memorial Museum, which was said to be the hiding place of the remaining three elders.

If he went there, he should be able to learn where Drek Karax’s own hiding place was.

In any case, all the magic formations were linked together.

But at that very moment!

Kukukukukukukukukung!

“Huh!”

Together with an enormous explosion sound,

deudeudeudeudeudeu…,

the Moscow military headquarters building shook as though it would collapse.

“…What?”

Beyond the shattered glass window, a mushroom cloud could be seen.

“Those crazy bastards!”

It was a nuclear explosion.

The direction was that of the Moscow War Memorial Museum.

Was this how they were cutting off their own tail?

“Haah.”

This was no time for that.

Spat!

Tae-ju moved at once.

In a few seconds, the shockwave would sweep over.

Picking Ilbaek up into his arms, Tae-ju escaped outside with Fluttering-Step Gale-Wind Pace.

Then, after boarding the Ten-Thousand-Li Flying Sword, he shot away in the direction opposite the nuclear blast.

* * *

The Immortal Realm.

The first floor of the multiplex.

The immortals were gathered thickly there.

At the center of them all, Sword Immortal was explaining things in an excited rush.

“No, I tell you, I started getting sleepy.”

“And then?”

“Isn’t that strange? To suddenly become sleepy, does that make any sense?”

“Well, that could happen.”

“Do you take me for He Xiangu? Even sleep time is too precious to waste.”

“What? Why are you dragging me into this? What on earth are you trying to say?”

Paying no mind at all to He Xiangu’s sarcasm, Sword Immortal went on spraying spit as he spoke.

“Can’t you tell at a glance? This was something someone induced on purpose. To make me fall asleep.”

“So you slept?”

“At first I tried not to, but then I decided to let it happen. I was curious too. And do you know who I saw in the dream?”

“What, perhaps you met your first love from the human realm?”

“Ahem, it’s not as though I have any first love…, ahem, anyway, as for who it was,”

“Honestly! Stop dragging it out and just say it already.”

“It was Great Hero Tae-ju. He summoned me into the dream.”

At the unexpected name, the immortals all leaned in closer with curiosity written on their faces.

“Great Hero Tae-ju?”

“That’s right.”

“And what did you do in the dream?”

“He told me to handle some monster, so I did.”

“Again?”

“Well, that was the end of it. But it felt so extremely vivid.”

The immortals who had been sitting there got up one by one with disappointed expressions.

“Tsk tsk, so you come back having had some silly dream.”

“I was wrong to expect so much.”

“Ehh, what a waste of time.”

“What’s so great about catching some monster in a dream? It’d hardly be enough even if you caught it in reality.”

Sword Immortal was wronged and frustrated.

“No, I tell you it truly was Great Hero Tae-ju who called me into the dream! We even exchanged greetings.”

“That’s how it is. The more absurd the dream, the more vivid it feels.”

“Huh, it was such an astonishing experience, but because I have no gift for words, this is all I can…”

“Enough of that,”

Ghost Valley said, clapping his hands together.

“All right, all right. We’ve wasted enough time listening to Sword Immortal’s useless story, so let’s get back to work. We have to finish the installation by today.”

The shipment that had arrived recently from Earth.

There had been the sports car Sword Immortal had been waiting for, but there had also been communications equipment for installing the Immortal Realm intranet.

The blueprint of Tang Gun-ak’s plan for the Immortal Realm’s development.

Use of the credit tags would soon be discontinued.

In the future, even without coming all the way to the multiplex, they planned to make it possible to pay, watch movies, and order goods through smartphones.

In other words, Immortal Realm Pay.

To do that, installation of the intranet was urgent.

Construction was already in progress.

Through the video manual stored on the smartphone.

“That young man called Kim Dong-hun, said to be Great Hero Tae-ju’s younger brother, was very sharp.”

“That’s right. Could he perhaps be a soul akin to Ghost Valley?”

“Heh heh, he explained everything so thoroughly that all we have to do is follow along.”

First, they had to lay optical communication cable in some sections.

It was impossible to cover all the Upper Realms wirelessly.

They had already built the main server building beside the multiplex.

From there, the optical cable would stretch out through the Immortal Realm and the Heavenly Realm.

Then what about the Yellow Springs Realm?

Upon hearing Poison Immortal’s intranet plan, Yama had installed a gate connecting the Yellow Springs Realm’s Hall of Karmic Flames and the Immortal Realm, that is, a permanent gate.

A gate that did not close and was always maintained.

They merely had to connect the optical cable through that.

What remained were smartphones with the dedicated apps and applications installed.

That had already been discussed with Tae-ju.

They would arrive in the Immortal Realm with the next delivery.

“By the way, what is the monkey doing?”

“He’s been holed up in the screening hall for a good while.”

The Wine Immortal made a displeased face.

“Poison Immortal is too kind for his own good. That bastard is no different from a sinner; he should’ve been sent to the Yellow Springs Realm instead.”

“That’s right. Yama was raring to go, and if Bright Maiden hadn’t stopped him, that bastard’s head would’ve burst long ago.”

“Tsk, shouldn’t he be punished? At this rate he’ll end up getting rewarded instead.”

“Exactly what I’m saying! How hard have we all worked for the development of the Immortal Realm? Yet that bastard just loafs around in the movie theater. That’s free-riding.”

“Let’s bear with it for Bright Maiden’s sake.”

In any case, change in the Immortal Realm was still ongoing.