The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King (Novel) - Chapter 149 - At Last

Chapter 149 – At Last

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Translated by Pratt

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At last, the Heavenly Peach had been delivered from the Immortal Realm.

Then, as if by a lie, his interest in the war plummeted all at once.

With a Heavenly Peach sitting solidly inside his infinite space, how could anything else catch his eye?

And besides, the European Imperial Army was marching into Moscow with a large force, so they would probably handle things fine over there on their own.

‘If I’m going to eat the Heavenly Peach, I’d better prepare properly.’

He needed secluded cultivation in a quiet place.

And plenty of time as well.

In the past, when he had gone into secluded cultivation to digest the poisons sent from the Immortal Realm, the Ten-Thousand-Year Five-Centipede Poison Pellet, the Poison-Horned Pollen-Network Poison Pill, and the poison of the immortal crane Hak Jeong-hong, that period had lasted nearly a month.

Thanks to that, he had achieved mastery in Primordial Everchanging Poison Spirit Art.

This time it was the Heavenly Peach.

Naturally, he had to go into seclusion again, and there was no way to estimate how much time it would take.

‘I’ll exchange one more delivery first, too.’

This time there was only a single Heavenly Peach, but in the letter they had written that next time they would send a full load of Immortal Realm flowers and black-darksteel ingots.

He should receive the Immortal Realm flowers and the black darksteel before starting.

Tae-ju went to Gurye immediately.

He first met Baek Seo-yeon right away.

“…When did you get back?”

“I just arrived. I’m sorry. I’m away from my post so often.”

“That’s fine. So long as you’ve returned safely, that’s enough.”

Baek Seo-yeon too knew that nuclear weapons had gone off in Moscow.

Her worries had been mountainous.

But seeing him this perfectly fine, what a relief.

“What I wanted to say is, I may have to hole up in the cultivation room for a month, or even longer.”

“By cultivation room…, like before?”

“Yes!”

“I’ll make preparations immediately.”

Baek Seo-yeon felt rather relieved instead.

This was far, far better than having him go looking for dangerous places whenever the mood struck him.

Next, Tae-ju called Changhun and Sun-cheol.

They came running in a hurry.

“Master!”

“Right. Nothing happened?”

“At the moment we’re preparing for the Paju raid…”

He had forgotten.

They had been planning to raid the demonic-beast concentration zone of the Paju DMZ.

There was no helping it.

That would have to be delayed a little.

“You remember how I stayed in the cultivation room for about a month before, right?”

“Yes, I remember.”

“I think it will have to be the same this time too.”

“Ah! Then we can just postpone the raid. Don’t worry. We’ll guard the door thoroughly ourselves.”

Tae-ju called Jeong Yeon-hui in Paju as well.

To explain the situation.

– I’ll wrap up what I’m doing and come down to Gurye too.

“There’s no need to go that far,”

– No. I should go. And while I’m there, I can look over the TJ Guild members’ swordsmanship as well.

He called the Emperor too.

“I’m in Gurye now.”

– Oh! Good decision. Right now things over there are still pitch-black. There are even rumors that a large-scale wave has occurred. Until reliable information comes out, let’s keep our heads down.

“Even so, I don’t think you’ll be able to contact me for a while. If there’s something urgent, please talk with Chief Baek.”

Tae-ju called in workers and began security construction on the cultivation room in his house.

They made a sturdy steel door and installed a new locking device as well.

And he had to fast too.

Tang Gun-ak had written in the letter that it would be best not to drink even water for at least five days.

That was in order to draw out the Heavenly Peach’s rate of absorption to the maximum.

Time passed.

Jjiririr,

the delivery signal from the Immortal Realm.

‘It came.’

The shared storage was full of Immortal Realm flowers and black-darksteel ingots.

After exchanging the goods, he sent off the letter of greetings he had written in advance.

That he was now planning to go into seclusion and consume the Heavenly Peach,

and that because of that, deliveries might not be able to take place.

Tae-ju went to the large Taehong Bio warehouse in Gurye.

It was no ordinary warehouse.

It was even fully equipped with refrigeration and freezing facilities.

Because of the repeated shopping trips every time, Baek Seo-yeon had turned almost the entire warehouse into something like a department store.

The final preparation was filling the infinite warehouse to the brim.

What would happen when he ate the Heavenly Peach?

His unfinished Poison Spirit might be completed.

And with it, perhaps the fourth soul linkage too.

When the third soul linkage had taken place, a flash event had opened.

An event in which Tang Gun-ak’s entire infinite space and his own had turned into the shared storage.

‘There’s a very high chance that another flash event will occur in the fourth soul linkage too. I need to fill it without leaving any gaps.’

Tae-ju took out the Immortal Realm flowers and black-darksteel ingots and placed them in the dedicated Gurye Taehong Bio warehouse.

So that there would be no disruption to MRC and ship construction while he was in seclusion.

He would fill the empty space with Earth’s goods instead.

The sports cars he had bought in the Republic of America.

The SUVs and large limousines produced by Baekdu Automobiles.

And all the merchandise stored in the warehouse as well.

Tae-ju returned home.

Now all he had to do was eat the Heavenly Peach…

At that moment!

“Hyung-nim!”

It was Kim Dong-hun, the head of Taehong Bio security and a white hacker.

‘I forgot about him.’

There was something he had asked of him too.

“You’ve been well?”

After asking briefly how he was,

“Right! There’s something I should tell you. About the intranet you designed. It’s almost fully installed. …They told me to pass on their thanks.”

“Heh heh, really? I put some care into that. So even beginners could install it easily.”

Kim Dong-hun too did not ask where this communications equipment was being used.

That was because Baek Seo-yeon had emphasized to him again and again that he did not need to know where the Chairman was sending it.

That he only needed to make it as instructed.

“And as it happens, I have something to give you too.”

“What is it?”

“I made the dedicated smartphones. I also installed the shopping-mall payment system, an SNS for content communication, and a simple platform-linking app for watching movies.”

“Oh!”

The finishing touch of the Immortal Realm intranet.

Machines capable of network communication there.

“How many did you make?”

“About five hundred…”

“The cost?”

“CEO Baek Seo-yeon paid for it.”

“Did you bring them with you?”

“I loaded them in the car.”

The timing was perfect.

He should put those into infinite space too.

Tae-ju entered the cultivation room.

Baek Changhun, with a serious expression as if making a vow, said,

“We will guard it well so that no one can approach.”

“I’m counting on you. And on you too, Ilbaek.”

He did not worry too much.

Ilbaek-Ibaek-Sambaek would be outside as well.

The thick steel door closed.

The cultivation room, where he was left alone.

‘Huu.’

He was terribly hungry.

He had gone without food for five days.

He had not even drunk water.

Tae-ju took out the Heavenly Peach from infinite space.

At once, an auspicious fragrance filled the room.

Squirm.

Just the scent alone was enough to make Poison Ward react.

He brought the Heavenly Peach to his mouth,

wagak!

and took one huge bite.

‘This is insane.’

It was unbelievably delicious.

Flesh that was neither too hard nor too soft.

But the juice alone was incredible.

It streamed down his lips.

Of course, not a single drop was allowed to spill.

* * *

First floor of the Immortal Realm multiplex.

The Immortal Realm restaurant run by Galhong.

“Hey, monkey!”

“D-did you call?”

“Yeah, table eight in front of the merry-go-round of Immortal Realm World ordered one chicken delivery.”

“Leave it to me.”

Great Sage Equal to Heaven plucked a hair from his forearm.

But then?

“Freeze right there!”

“Why?”

“You bastard, you’re trying tricks from the very start? Didn’t you say you wanted to serve the Immortal Realm? Then do it with your own strength.”

“My clones are my own strength too.”

“Want to die? Want to go back to the Tathagata Realm?”

“N-no! I’ll go at once. …Then what about the somersault cloud?”

“You can ride that. Speedy delivery! That’s the life of a deliveryman.”

“Mm, understood.”

“Don’t eat any along the way. If even one chicken neck is missing, you die.”

“…”

Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s service in the Immortal Realm had begun with simple errands.

Immortal Realm free service.

Also known as Delivery of the Immortal Realm.

“Monkey! Go to the Immortal Realm Cafe and bring back one iced caramel macchiato.”

“…Caramel ma, what?”

“Haah, this bastard. Iced caramel macchiato!”

“Ah, understood.”

“Here, this is your delivery tip.”

Liquor Immortal tossed him one banana with a flick.

‘…Fuck, do they really think I’m a monkey?’

And it was not only deliveries.

When the heavenly people went home and Immortal Realm World closed,

“Clean it thoroughly.”

And there was black-darksteel ingot delivery to the Yellow Springs Realm as well.

“The monkey’s here!”

“Hurry and move the black-darksteel ingots. No clones.”

Peach Blossom Palace.

“The Queen Mother of the West says she needs workers to pull weeds in the Heavenly Peach field. Hurry over there.”

The Heavenly Realm.

“The heavenly people picked Heavenly Realm flowers and piled them at the mini-car parking lot, so gather them all up and bring them back.”

Ahh.

The sinking feeling of defeat, and humiliation.

But there was no help for it.

To be acknowledged as a legitimate member of the Immortal Realm, he had to endure any humiliation.

‘Just you wait.’

It was a grave mistake to take him lightly.

Was Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s power only physical strength?

He had heard countless times that he was sly and cunning.

He had already laid a plan.

The immortals of the Immortal Realm would surely pay a price.

‘Heh heh heh, stupid bastards.’

When they couldn’t even see one step ahead, and yet dared to look down on him?

In the end, they would regret it.

Once they grew accustomed to free service, they would inevitably become trained to it little by little.

‘It’s free for now, but…’

Later he planned to convert it into a paid service.

After getting a full taste of free sweetness, even if it turned into a paid service, they would have no choice but to keep using it.

‘What? Yama and the Queen Mother of the West are the top VIPs?’

What a joke.

Once Delivery of the Immortal Realm was monetized, the richest being in the Immortal Realm would be Great Sage Equal to Heaven himself.

‘I’ll suck those coins dry.’

And he would buy up every last item in the shopping mall.

* * *

Earth.

Tae-ju’s home cultivation room.

But this time was different.

The swelling of the poison pellet did not stop.

It kept expanding.

Through Tae-ju’s whole body.

And thus his entire body was the poison pellet.

At that instant!

The poison pellet began to vibrate.

Wooong! Wooong! Wooong! Wooong! Wooong! Wooong!

‘This is bad…’

And then it began to explode.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Small explosions proceeded here and there inside his body.

Then,

papapapapapapapapang!!!

His whole body burst all at once.

‘Aaaaaaaa…’

A cry leaked from Tae-ju’s mouth.

The feeling he was experiencing right now.

It was precisely a sense of unity.

The poison pellet and his consciousness fused together.

He was the poison pellet, and the poison pellet was him.

‘So this is the poison spirit.’

The ultimate realm of the Honyuan Wuxiang Poison Spirit Art.

Heart and poison become one.

Where the mind led, hidden weapons were launched, and when the will manifested, poison was already there.

A poison pellet that had acquired spirituality.

Soon, a poison spirit.

And thus even Myriad Heavens Flower Rain could be unfolded.

While controlling hundreds of thousands of hidden weapons at once, each hidden weapon designated a separate target.

How tremendous was that?

An ordinary demonic-beast-dense zone would be eradicated in one hour.

And a beyond-elite demonic beast?

‘I think it’s possible.’

No matter how formidable its gang-qi protective barrier, would it really be able to block the concentrated attack unfolded by Myriad Heavens Flower Rain?

At long last he had awakened the poison spirit.

But the poison-pellet explosions were still continuing.

Pupeong! Pupeopeopeopeong!

The aura of the Heavenly Peach, heavenly qi, was filling him to the brim.

In truth, even a quarter of this would have been enough to raise him to the poison spirit realm without difficulty.

But excess was as bad as deficiency.

There was too much heavenly qi.

The heavenly qi left over even after awakening the poison spirit still rushed through Tae-ju’s flesh.

“Uugh!”

The heavenly qi was trapped within his body.

It was even continuing to increase.

Unable to find an outlet, it battered Tae-ju’s entire body.

In the end,

“Ah!”

Jjeong!

The Baihui acupoint opened.

The Yongquan acupoint opened as well.

Tae-ju sprang to his feet.

He could not possibly remain lying down.

The heavenly qi rose through the crown of his head, pierced the blocked ceiling, and ascended into the sky.

At the same time, it flowed down through the soles of his feet into the ground below.

The union of heaven and earth.

The earth and Tae-ju and the sky became one.

And then,

spat!

Tae-ju disappeared in an instant.

There was no one in the cultivation room.

In truth, the Heavenly Peach had one very well-known effect.

Namely…

* * *

The Immortal Realm.

Immortal Danzhu was lightly jogging while wearing the training set and sneakers he had bought with coins.

One might ask what kind of exercise an immortal would do, but,

having tried it, it was unexpectedly good.

He ran one lap around Immortal Realm World, passed the entrance of the Peach Garden peach orchard, and ran along the road to the Heavenly Realm.

After running so refreshingly, he would stop by the Spirit Beast Realm, find and gather the materials for imperial-yellow paper and mirror cinnabar needed for talismans.

That was his daily routine.

When he finished all of that, he would report to work at the multiplex.

He would fill himself lightly with salad and sparkling water at the multiplex cafeteria, then lie in a massage chair for about an hour, then watch a single drama episode.

At that instant!

A person appeared in the distance.

‘That impression seems very familiar…’

When he went closer to confirm,

“Oh! Greetings! Great Hero Tae-ju.”

“…Ah, yes, yes.”

“I was out exercising. The shoes are so soft and pleasant, hahaha! Ah, right, are you using well the talismans I gave you?”

“I-I’m using them well.”

“If you lack them, say so anytime. Then I’ll be going!”

Immortal Danzhu ran past Tae-ju and resumed running.

Then,

he stopped short!

He suddenly stopped his steps.

And slowly turned his head.

“…Uh?”

What in the world?

Danzhu’s eyes shook violently.