The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King (Novel) - Chapter 156 - Great Sage Equal to Heaven's Golden Clones

Chapter 156 – Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s Golden Clones

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Translated by Pratt

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The golden hairs that Great Sage Equal to Heaven had personally infused with demonic power and handed over.

When Tae-ju grabbed a fistful and scattered them,

pang! Pang! Papapapang! Pang-pang-pang-pang!

the first clones appeared.

Their outward appearance was that of ordinary monkeys.

Just plain monkeys.

One clone body per single hair.

It seemed the number of hairs was about five thousand or so.

So the number of clones that appeared was also five thousand.

Their colors were all golden as well.

‘Hmm, isn’t that a bit few?’

The undead army was in the millions…

But there was still division left.

As if they had sensed Tae-ju’s thought, the five thousand clones brushed off their bodies.

Then hairs fell off the clones.

Those hairs also transformed into clones.

And that was not all.

The clones created through division brushed off their bodies too, and more clones appeared, and they brushed off their bodies too, and more appeared…

‘…’

Insane!

Just how many were there?

The golden Great Sage Equal to Heaven clones, which had multiplied so much that they could not even be estimated by eye, filled the great plain.

‘Roughly five hundred thousand? They increased about a hundredfold.’

The tremendous aura that could be felt from them.

Of course, there was a difference in strength.

The clones that had come out directly from the hairs, and the clones created through their division.

The first clones had strength similar to the power Tae-ju had possessed before awakening his Poison Spirit.

Compared with the Mixed-Origin Formless Poison Spirit Art, they were almost 9-star.

In other words, the strongest five-thousand-man suicide squad.

But there was no helping the fact that they weakened the more they divided.

Judging the strength of the final clones, they were only a little stronger than elite demonic beasts.

“Ukki-kkik?”

“Kkiik?”

“Keeeeek?”

“Kkuuuit?”

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All the clones sat down neatly and looked only at Tae-ju.

It gave the feeling of, You called us out, so hurry and make us do something!

‘What do I do now?’

‘Should I just play?’

‘I’m bored!’

‘Hurry and give an order.’

Tae-ju concentrated his consciousness and assigned a target.

‘I leave it to you.’

At that instant!

Swiik!

The heads of the roughly five hundred thousand golden Great Sage Equal to Heaven clones all turned in the same direction at once.

What they were looking at was the army of undead demonic beasts marching toward the city near the distant horizon.

‘Got it.’

‘We just have to take care of those guys, right?’

‘Don’t worry. We won’t leave a single one behind.’

‘This looks fun. Shall we play?’

One clone threw back its head toward the sky and roared.

“Kkiaooooooo!”

The rest of the clones too,

“Kkuuuu!”

“Kiaaaak!”

“Kyaaak!”

“Ukkikkikki!”

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After exchanging such communion with one another,

spat! papapat! pat-pat-pat-pat-pat!

the five hundred thousand Great Sage Equal to Heaven clones kicked up dust and charged at the undead demonic beasts.

* * *

Matsumoto and Abrahim, who had become undead necromancers.

They were faithfully carrying out their master’s orders.

They would join with Jonson’s corps, which was coming up from below, and destroy Kiev.

Far away, a city could be seen.

Kharkiv, one of the great cities of the Kiev Union.

Refugees fleeing in panic could be seen as well.

– Let us hurry, Matsumoto. At this rate, all those bastards will escape.

– Do not worry. Even if they flee, they will not get far. Look. The cars filling the roads, the lowly humans crying out as they all try to flee first.

– That’s right. Keu-keu-keu, they are more than qualified to become our master’s servants.

– The time of harvest has come.

An army of undead demonic beasts nearing one and a half million.

Kharkiv city was only the beginning.

They would absorb them all and turn them into undead slaves.

Then the next city, and another city after that…

Right then!

Kugugugugu…,

the ground was trembling faintly.

– Hm?

The huge dust cloud approaching from the far south.

– It seems Jonson’s undead corps is coming.

– Tsk tsk, it is a little late.

– They must have attacked one more demonic-beast concentration zone on the way here.

– …But the speed is extremely fast.

– Is it not because they are hurrying to keep their promise?

It came closer and closer.

The yellow dust cloud that had been beyond the horizon was now suddenly right before their noses.

The vanguard became visible.

But the identity of the group that had been hidden inside the yellow dust cloud, its shape impossible to make out.

– Huh?

Golden-furred monkeys.

– What?

They were not undead demonic beasts.

Because not the slightest black demonic qi could be felt from them.

They were real monkeys.

They came running while kicking off the ground with all four limbs.

– Th-these bastards?

– Uh…

There was no time to respond.

The massive clones of Great Sage Equal to Heaven rammed into the side of the undead demonic-beast formation.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwak!!!

The formation was split in two at once.

And then the massacre began.

The clones ran wild like mad.

As though it were some sort of game, they hurled away and tore apart everything they could see.

“Ukkigigik!!!”

When one clone seized an undead demonic beast in front of it and threw it backward, the clones behind caught it and tore it apart.

They leaped up, yanked off heads, clung to one creature three or four at a time and tore it limb from limb, rammed straight through bodies with headbutts, grabbed undead legs and dragged them across the ground before smashing them away.

Tae-ju was watching from above on the Ten-Thousand-Li Flying Sword.

‘Wow! This is really…’

Compared to the undead, the clones’ numbers were only one third.

They were much smaller as well.

But that sort of thing was nothing.

The undead demonic beasts were being smashed apart and dying.

It was like a gigantic lawn mower cutting down weeds in a garden.

Fragments of flesh and bone scattered through the air.

‘This is unbelievable.’

Though of course he was the one who had called them out.

‘No, with this kind of power, how did he fail at stealing the Heavenly Peaches?’

He had heard from Poison Immortal that Bright Maiden had played a major role, even so.

‘Was it because of compatibility?’

Another title Great Sage Equal to Heaven held.

The place where he had been was not the Immortal Realm but the Tathagata Realm.

So he also had another name.

Victorious Fighting Buddha.

That is, the Buddha who wins by fighting.

The power Great Sage Equal to Heaven had planted in them included not only demonic power, but Buddha power as well.

How could sinister black demonic qi possibly endure the Buddha’s power?

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwak! Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwak!

It was simply at the level of playing with them.

Matsumoto and Abrahim were appalled.

An utterly unforeseen situation.

Why here?

– Monkeys?

– …And not even demonic beasts.

Their appearance and size were no different from the monkeys they were familiar with.

It was only their golden color that was a little unusual.

But they were that strong?

Strong enough to rip apart demonic beasts strengthened by undeath?

They did not remain still either.

Matsumoto and Abrahim fought the clones with black magic.

– Bone Wall!

– Dark Spear!

– Fear of Hell.

– Dark Storm!

But it was useless.

The giant Bone Wall they had erected as a shield shattered feebly like the bones of an osteoporosis patient,

pasasasaak!

the black demonic spears created by black magic bounced away the moment they struck the clones’ bodies,

ting-ting-ting-ting!

and the mental attacks that made one feel the fear of hell, as well as the terrifying vortexes of demonic qi, did not inflict any damage on the monkeys whatsoever.

And at last,

the clones that had swept away the demonic beasts reached the front of Matsumoto and Abrahim.

“Ukkikk?”

Hundreds of monkeys surrounded Matsumoto and Abrahim.

Ordinary black magic would not do.

They tried to burn their whole bodies and cast a final spell, but

– Devil Soul Destruc…

– Meteor of Hell…

“Kyaaak!”

“Kkiaooo!!!”

Before the spells could even be completed, the clones pounced.

– Kkeuaaaak!

– Heooo-eok…

Matsumoto and Abrahim too were ripped and torn apart.

Bones and flesh scattering through the air.

Pasasasasasaak!

But the clones did not stop.

Not until the bodies had been separated into tiny fragments.

The citizens of Kharkiv who had been evacuating also witnessed that astonishing sight with their own eyes.

While filming it with the smartphones they carried.

The citizens too knew about the war that had broken out in Moscow.

But because the distance was relatively far, and the European Imperial Army was fighting back as well, they had thought the war’s effects would not reach this far.

And yet, out of nowhere, groups of undead had appeared on the outskirts of Kharkiv.

The citizens were scared out of their wits.

They had hurried onto the evacuation road, but it had only been a matter of time before they were caught.

It had been hopeless.

They were afraid of dying, and they were also afraid of becoming undead after dying.

But what was that?

A golden tide that had suddenly appeared from somewhere and was charging at the undead corps.

“…Monkeys?”

“Those really are monkeys.”

“That many of them…”

“Could they be demonic beasts? M-maybe it’s a wave.”

“No, this region’s demonic-beast concentration zones don’t have creatures like that.”

“Right, you’d have to go to somewhere like a tropical rainforest to see monkey-type demonic beasts.”

The monkeys were no different from tyrants.

Without the slightest hesitation, they tore the undead apart viciously.

Enough that one might even feel sorry for the undead.

Before long, the countless undead corps could not be found even if one washed one’s eyes looking for them.

Was it over now?

At that very moment!

Swiik!

The eyes of the golden monkeys this time turned toward the citizens of Kharkiv who were evacuating.

“I-it looked this way.”

“My God!”

“…Run!”

“S-save us!”

But,

dudududududududuk!

the monkeys came charging in as fast as rays of light.

They tried to flee, but it was hopeless.

Aaaah!

The citizens realized instinctively.

Next was their turn.

Deopseok!

The monkeys seized one citizen who had been fleeing by the nape and the leg.

“Huh!”

At the sight, even Tae-ju was startled.

“Hey! No! What are you doing?”

Could it be that because they were clones, they could not distinguish friend from foe? Or that some monstrous instinct remained?

Charging at humans?

“Damn it, these monkey bastards…”

Uuuuuuuung!

Seuseuseuseusut!

He pulled hidden weapons out of the Infinite Space,

and was about to use Myriad Heavens Flower Rain on the monkey clones by designating them as targets.

But then he paused.

‘…Hm?’

Ah.

So that was the situation.

The citizen caught by the monkeys was an awakened with patterns drawn over his face.

“Ukkigigik!”

At the same time, that awakened

ppudeudeuk, ppudeuk!

had his neck, legs, and waist all snapped in an instant.

The awakened citizen died on the spot.

Seureureureuk!

And then transformed into the form of a demonic beast.

The citizens were shocked.

“…Uhhh.”

“Wh-what?”

“A demon-human…”

“A demon-human?”

Only after dying was his identity revealed.

The serial-killer demon-human who had been living mixed in among the citizens, secretly hunting countless compatible hosts and ordinary people in Kharkiv, was killed by the Great Sage Equal to Heaven clones.

“Unakit?”

“Ukkikk!”

“Eugyagya!”

“Kkiiu, ukkikkit…”

Only after killing the demon-human did the monkeys look at one another and cheer.

An expression of delight at having completed their mission.

They neither looked at nor touched the other citizens.

Among themselves, they even began singing songs and, on top of that, started dancing in delight.

Turning somersaults and cartwheels, running around excitedly as if playing hide-and-seek with one another, fooling around, and then…

Suddenly!

Papat! Papapapat! Papapat!

The monkeys vanished without a trace as though soap bubbles were bursting.

Papapapapapapapapapa…

In an instant, all of the many monkeys had disappeared.

The citizens could not believe it at all.

They had seen it, they had even filmed it, the undead wreckage was still over there, and yet the strange monkeys that had saved them had vanished like bubbles?

It felt like a dream.

Tae-ju too let out a sigh of relief.

“Phew.”

When the clones had rushed at the citizens immediately after dealing with the undead demonic-beast corps, his hair had really stood on end.

But there had been a reason for it.

Only now did he remember.

The request he had given the clones when he called them out.

Exterminate all beings that harbor undead and black demonic qi.

Naturally, that included demon-humans as well.

‘They really are Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s clones.’

However, the war was not over yet.

That sticky black demonic aura felt from the north,

and since his strength had fully recovered as well, should he use Myriad Heavens Flower Rain this time?

‘I should save the hairs.’

Because they were precious.

* * *

At the Purple Tenuity Palace of the Celestial Realm,

the Jade Emperor pressed a tiny smartphone close to his eyes and carefully tapped it with his fingers.

“Aigoo! Your Majestyyy! You have to press here for likes. What you pressed is a dislikeee.”

“I pressed the right thing. Is there any reason for me to press like on a post that bastard Sword Immortal uploaded?”

“I just feel sorry for Sword Immortaaal.”

“Still, he seems happy enough.”

The comment Sword Immortal had written on his own post.

└ Even if you all mash the downvote button, I feel zero impact. One like from Bright Maiden is enough for me.

But the immortals were not the sort to stay quiet.

└ Right, next is your spiritual victory.

└ Pathetic. Truly pathetic.

└ Says the guy who bought a watch, bought a car, lost all his coins, and now eats one-coin eyeball lollipops every day.

└ If he weren’t so pitiful, would Bright Maiden even have pressed like?

└ Bright Maiden presses like on everything anyway.

“Can’t downvotes be repeated?”

“Nooo.”

“Tsk tsk, if I had my way, I would like to leave a mocking comment as well.”

The Jade Emperor also quietly read posts uploaded by other immortals besides Sword Immortal’s Byeolstagram.

There was no problem at all with language.

Through conversations with Bright Maiden, he had quickly learned what these unfamiliar letters meant.

Of course, the power of spells had helped as well.

‘No wonder the heavenly people like it.’

It was perhaps only natural that the number of heavenly people visiting the Immortal Realm kept increasing.

The Jade Emperor even entered the shopping mall.

There were countless products sorted by type.

There were many things he wanted as well.

Watches, fountain pens, sunglasses, all kinds of liquor and snacks, soft drinks…

But to buy these, he needed coins.

How was he supposed to earn coins?

Given the Jade Emperor’s dignity, he could hardly go pick celestial-realm flowers and sell them.

At that, Bright Maiden said,

“Your Majesty, shall I buy you a watch?”

“Hm?”

A watch?

The cheapest one cost twenty thousand coins.

The expensive ones went up to three hundred thousand coins. Cars were cheaper instead.

Three hundred thousand coins was worth three thousand immortal peaches.

“No. I’d sooner strip the liver from a flea. If it becomes known that I bought something with your money again, I will be in trouble.”

“I have lots of coins! And if we do it without anyone knowing again, it’ll be fineee.”

“Hm? How much can picking celestial-realm flowers even bring in? Wasn’t it one coin per blossom?”

“Poison Immortal just gave them to me. Look.”

Bright Maiden opened her coin wallet and showed it to the Jade Emperor.

“Let me see, hm? …O-one million coins?”

“If it’s not enough, he said he’d print more for meee.”

“Ehem.”

Bright Maiden entered the shopping mall and bought, in a lump-sum payment, a Swiss Patek wristwatch costing three hundred thousand coins.

“Hehe, done.”

“What is done?”

“I bought a watch. Please wait just a little bit for meee.”

Wait?

What exactly for?

He did not understand, but for now he waited as Bright Maiden said.

Time passed,

and in the room where the Jade Emperor was inside the Purple Tenuity Palace, the door creaked open.

“Product delivery has arrived. Bright Maiden?”

“Oh! Mr. Monkey! Come on inee!”

“Haha, sign here please.”

“Yes!”

A monkey wearing clothes embroidered with the words Delivery of the Immortal Realm appeared.

Judging from the lack of a tightening band on its head,

‘It’s a clone.’

A clone body employed by Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

The Jade Emperor was dumbfounded.

He bought an item in the smartphone shopping mall, and a monkey brought it over?

The upper realms really were turning into a bizarre world.

‘I will have to convene the upper-realm-wide meeting one more time.’

At this point, he had to admit it. What else could he do?