The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 3
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Chapter 3: Poison Essence (1)
Poisons are broadly classified into four types.
Animal poison, plant poison, mineral poison, and artificially created chemical poison.
Snake venom is an animal poison and contains powerful neurotoxins or hemorrhagic toxins.
The Mutated Seven-Spotted Snake has both.
If bitten, you die from bleeding or respiratory failure due to nerve paralysis.
‘What the hell.’
One problem after another.
It’s not even a small one.
Due to genetic mutation from mana, its body is as thick as an average man’s thigh.
Hiss! Hiss!
The giant Mutated Seven-Spotted Snake climbed up the steep cliff, flicking its chilling tongue as it slowly approached.
If it were perfect Ghost Eating Great Method, it would just perceive him as a log and pass by. But now the method isn’t complete.
Body temperature and breathing are the biggest problems.
Complete Ghost Eating Great Method would erase even these.
‘Please just pass by.’
He had learned Honweonmusangdokryeongong, which is based on poison.
However, in his current state, that thing’s poison is too strong.
As with all cases, training with strong poison from the start is forbidden.
The mechanism of poison arts is simple.
Adaptation.
Starting with weak poison and slowly modifying the body to withstand even strong toxins. Therefore, accepting this Mutated Seven-Spotted Snake’s poison would be too much.
Tae-ju kept his eyes barely open and didn’t move a single finger.
Just let this crisis pass.
Give me enough time to generate at least some poison essence.
If you do that, I’ll spare you even if we meet later.
But the breathing and body temperature that couldn’t be erased.
The creature might be recognizing him.
It seems to be pondering whether to eat this or ignore it.
‘This is driving me crazy. Can’t you just pass by… damn it!’
It seems to have finally decided to eat.
Hiss!
The creature raised its head.
At the same time, the Mutated Seven-Spotted Snake bit toward his nape with its sharp venomous fangs.
‘Damn it!’
Tae-ju reflexively raised his arm to block the creature’s mouth.
Crunch!
Crack!
‘Ugh!’
His relatively intact right forearm also broke.
But the broken arm wasn’t the problem.
The sticky liquid injected from the sharp venomous fangs.
It instantly flowed through his blood vessels to his entire body.
‘Gasp!’
A scream naturally came out, but he had to bite his lips tightly.
If he made noise, those creatures might discover him.
Instead, his internal organs were screaming.
That terrible snake venom circulated through his blood vessels, melting his organs.
The mutated poison possessed by a mutated venomous snake.
Even in that short time, his body was severely damaged.
Tae-ju’s eyes were bloodshot red.
Unbearable pain, as if he would lose consciousness.
Die like this?
Not a chance.
Who was he!
Jeoldaedokma.
Though his flesh was utterly weak, his soul was another soul of Danggumak, who had melted and killed even the Heavenly Demon.
Tae-ju circulated Honweonmusangdokryeongong.
The risks he currently faced.
First, he had accepted poison that was too strong in the beginning, and second, he had to circulate Honweonmusangdokryeongong on a cliff rather than in a safe place. And while enduring attacks from a magical beast.
Extremely dangerous.
If he made a mistake, he would have to end his life in that creature’s belly.
It was all or nothing anyway.
The greater the risk, the greater the benefit would be.
In his mind were the profound principles of Honweonmusangdokryeongong that Danggumak had cultivated his entire life.
A grandmaster of poison.
He vividly remembered eating even a thousand-year-old imugi’s poison as a snack, so how could a mere Seven-Spotted Snake do anything to him?
Kim Tae-ju guided the snake venom that had entered his blood vessels.
The incantation of Honweonmusangdokryeongong naturally recited itself without conscious effort.
‘To the dantian…’
Open the Okdang and Geogwol acupoints, block the Cheondol acupoint, guide it to the Jungwan acupoint, then drive it into the Gihae acupoint.
However.
‘Urgh!’
The Mutated Seven-Spotted Snake’s poison fiercely resisted as if it wouldn’t submit quietly. To think he couldn’t even handle this much.
Shameful.
He was so embarrassed he could go crazy.
He couldn’t face Danggumak, his other-world self, the Jeoldaedokma.
‘Damn it! How embarrassing…’
The poison energy hesitated for a moment.
This was the opportunity!
He compressed the poison energy that entered his dantian to create poison essence, the foundation of Honweonmusangdokryeongong.
The Mutated Seven-Spotted Snake’s attack was also fierce.
It thought this was just weak prey, but it dares to resist?
The giant Seven-Spotted Snake coiled around Tae-ju’s body.
Crack!
The sound of something breaking, shoulder blade? Spine?
Then it fell from the cliff to the ground while wrapped around Tae-ju.
Thud!
The terrible poison that melted blood vessels.
His heart gradually hardened, making it difficult to breathe.
His consciousness grew dim.
‘I need to stay conscious…’
Nevertheless, Tae-ju didn’t stop circulating Honweonmusangdokryeongong.
No, even if he tried to stop, he couldn’t.
An extreme confrontation.
Now only one thing remained.
Would he be eaten by the creature, or would he master the poison energy and generate poison essence?
Tae-ju endured and endured again.
Crack!
The Seven-Spotted Snake’s strength also grew stronger.
* * *
Sergeant Go Young-ho eventually returned empty-handed to Daecheongbong Outpost and met Lieutenant Jang In-dong.
Jang In-dong frowned deeply upon hearing that they had failed to secure Kim Tae-ju’s corpse.
“The orcs most likely took him?”
“The place he fell was a cliff, sir. There’s absolutely no way he could have survived falling down there. Especially with a mana rejecter’s body…”
“What if he’s alive?”
“Sir?”
“Will you take responsibility?”
“Th-that’s…”
It would be cleanest to dispose of this as an accidental death.
Even if he was mana rejecter trash, that bastard was the general’s son.
If murder was suspected, it would become very troublesome.
Of course, those above would cover for him, but.
‘Should I handle it like this?’
No.
At best, it would be desertion or failure to return.
That’s not enough.
He had to find it.
Definitive proof that Kim Tae-ju was dead.
‘I have no choice.’
He’d have to move personally.
Honda Mitsui.
The second daughter of the Kyushu Domain of the Samhan Empire, she wielded tremendous influence in the military as well.
She wanted Kim Tae-ju’s certain death.
If he was devoured by orcs, he’d have to bring back at least some traces.
“Assemble the squad members right now. Only the tight-lipped ones.”
“Yes, understood.”
* * *
When he was young, his father had been endlessly affectionate.
‘I will definitely cure you. You must live longer than your old man at the very least.’
But after his father remarried and his half-siblings were born and grew up.
‘Enlist. Go to Seorak Mountain Outpost.’
‘How long will you live like a freeloader just eating our food? I’ve spoken well of you to my unit commander, so just work hard at administrative duties. You won’t encounter any demonic beasts.’
His father’s cold gaze.
He had no choice but to comply.
He understood.
Born as a mana rejecter who could die at any moment, it was better to cut emotional ties.
And his stepmother, Lady Mitsui, too.
‘Don’t worry, Tae-ju. It’s not like you have to stay there forever. You can come back after discharge. This will always be your home.’
He had only recently learned that all the affection she had shown was fake.
Well!
The half-child who was supposed to die at 20 was still stubbornly surviving at 29.
A daughter of the Kyushu Domain.
There were quite a few Japanese generals within the Army General Staff.
They maintained close relationships with her maternal family, the Mitsui clan.
She was behind his assignment to Seorak Mountain Outpost.
Suddenly his throat felt dry.
Tae-ju’s eyes snapped open.
It was already dawn, with daylight breaking.
‘I’m alive.’
It seemed he had lost consciousness while resisting the seven-spotted snake’s poison with Honweonmusangdokryeongong.
He had thought he would surely die.
‘Was I circulating energy even unconsciously?’
Tae-ju slowly raised his right arm.
The head of the mutated seven-spotted snake limply followed, attached to his arm.
‘The snake is dead.’
It appeared completely dried up, as if its life force had been drained.
When he brushed it off with his hand, it crumbled to powder and scattered.
Come to think of it.
‘My arm is fine.’
Wasn’t it broken?
And it wasn’t just his left arm.
Every bone in his body had been shattered from falling off the cliff and being coiled by the seven-spotted snake.
‘Could it all be healed?’
Tae-ju slowly sat up.
His physical condition felt incredibly light.
Though the stench emanating from his entire body was nearly paralyzing his nose.
‘This feels much better than before I was injured.’
And he felt it.
The energy gathered in his dantian, condensed to the size of a bean.
‘Ah!’
Poison essence.
Though small in size, its presence was definite.
He had finally done it.
The achievement of Honweonmusangdokryeongong consisted of 10 levels total.
As the level increased, the poison essence became denser and larger.
Then what about poison spirit?
That was the realm of enlightenment.
Even reaching the 10th level didn’t guarantee attaining the poison spirit realm.
The 10th level of Honweonmusangdokryeongong was the default value for reaching poison spirit.
He had barely taken his first step.
The 1st level realm was merely at the level of a third-rate warrior.
He needed to reach at least the 5th level to possess supreme martial prowess.
What should he do now?
The answer was predetermined.
‘First, let’s survive.’
Someone was trying to kill him.
Lieutenant Jang In-dong?
He was just a subcontractor.
The mastermind was his stepmother, Honda Mitsui.
And.
‘Father is…’
It wouldn’t be him.
It must not be him.
His father wouldn’t have ordered his death.
He chose to believe in at least that minimum of human decency.
‘Since I’ve created poison essence.’
Martial arts to utilize it.
What would be good?
‘I absolutely must master Blood Mark Poison Palm.’
The palm technique that Jeoldaedokma mainly used in close combat.
Since it can emit and withdraw poison qi, it’s useful anytime, anywhere.
‘As for hidden weapon techniques…’
It’s better to focus on learning just one.
‘Flying Waterfall Flash , I’ll go with this.’
And Phantom Confusion Step .
A movement technique that can maximize the effects of Blood Mark Poison Palm and Flying Waterfall Flash.
In fact, countless martial arts formulas that Danggumak had learned were clearly imprinted in his mind, but for now, he would only master these three.
‘Let’s try it.’
No matter how completely he had inherited Jeoldaedokma’s true transmission, there was a world of difference between knowing it in his head and mastering it with his body.
Tae-ju started with Phantom Confusion Step.
While executing the footwork, he performed Blood Mark Poison Palm.
Whoosh!
Each time he extended his hand, the pungent fragrance of poison wafted out—emitting poison qi, then retracting it again.
There were many trees here.
Moreover, their bark had become as hard as steel plates due to mana.
Perfect for testing the power of Blood Mark Poison Palm.
His palm drew a circle.
Poison qi flowed like thread from his dantian and burst forth through his palm.
Thwack!
It struck the tree trunk directly.
Five fingers were clearly imprinted, having penetrated through the bark.
‘Not bad.’
When its full power is unleashed, targets wither and die the moment the poison palm hits.
Still, for a martial art performed for the first time to have this much power. Of course, Danggumak’s achievements must have acted as a kind of buff.
‘Well, I did properly emit the poison qi.’
Next was Flying Waterfall Flash .
There were only two techniques.
Flying Waterfall for area attacks, One Flash for single targets.
All the hidden weapons that Jeoldaedokma used were far from ordinary.
Butterfly-shaped hidden weapons for performing Blood Butterfly, thin scaled needles, spiky stones called Spinning Gold Stones that bristled with thorns like hedgehogs, Willow Leaf Flying Blades…
Flying Waterfall also required special hidden weapons to perform.
The only things currently available that resembled hidden weapons were the military sword strapped to his ankle and a few 500-won coins in his pocket with the Three Han Empire’s divine beast, the Three-Headed White Tiger , engraved on them.
‘Only One Flash is possible.’
He needed more hidden weapons.
He would have to make time to craft hidden weapons.
Of course, after surviving here first.
Tsspit!
The sword flew like lightning, leaving afterimages behind.
Thunk!
It embedded in the tree trunk all the way to the handle.
His wrist throbbed.
The most important thing in performing One Flash .
While the flying speed was important, the throwing motion had to be minimized as much as possible.
If you took a throwing stance by pulling back your shoulder, could that even be called a hidden weapon technique?
That would just be hurling.
One Flash uses only the wrist.
Enemies get hit without even knowing when the hidden weapon was launched.
‘Now that I’ve tried each one once.’
Time to increase proficiency.
He pulled the military sword from the tree and concealed it in his sleeve.
Tae-ju moved his body.
Starting with Phantom Confusion Step, then performing Blood Mark Poison Palm, and naturally letting the sword slide out from his sleeve…
Tsspiritt!
Thwack!
‘Again.’
The connection between each martial art was important.
Until his body could master them perfectly.
‘One more time!’
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