A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation

Chapter 819: Side Story - Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum (2)

Makli Hyun-ah chats for a bit with the raccoon demon beast, focusing on the guy's ability.

"So...your ability is, 'incitement,' right?"

"Incitement! Please use the refined phrase 'Demon Beast Inducement'."

"Got it, got it... Anyway, you can charm up to around ten other demon beasts and lead them as much as possible according to your will, right?"

"Yes, that is correct. This is a very special ability that only I could use on the mountain where I lived. In my opinion, I am probably the only one who can do this."

The raccoon demon beast proudly boasts about his demon beast ability, and Makli Yoeo, who is moving a pile of hay, sighs and says in passing.

"Raccoons all have that demon beast ability. Occasionally foxes use it too."

"Keeeeeeek! I am a badger demon beast!"

"Yeah, yeah, I get it..."

Seeing the raccoon demon beast having a fit, Makli Hyun-ah thinks.

'Not bad...?'

He looks stupid and seems stubborn too, but...

In other words, that means he is easy to handle according to Makli Hyun-ah's wishes.

On top of that, if he is a guy who has a demon beast ability that incites other demon beasts and guides their actions...

'Hm...it really might be good?'

It is an ability needed for the Great Demon Pacifying Heaven Formation that Makli Hyun-ah is trying to deploy.

Of course, since he is deploying it with low-stage Qi Refining demon beasts...

He probably has to call it the Small Demon Pacifying Heaven Formation rather than the Great Demon Pacifying Heaven Formation.

"Good. I decide on you, raccoon demon beast! You are mine now!"

"Why am I yours? And I am not some raccoon or whatever, I am a badger!"

Makli Hyun-ah receives the raccoon demon beast who insists he is a badger from Makli Yoeo and takes him out of the iron cage.

The raccoon demon beast struggles, going 'Keeek' as he tries somehow to slip out of Makli Hyun-ah's hand, but as a demon beast only at the level of Qi Refining 2nd or 3rd star, he cannot resist Makli Hyun-ah, who corresponds to the Qi Refining 6th star.

In addition to the raccoon demon beast, Makli Hyun-ah also receives from the Beast Stable seven rabbit demon beasts that the raccoon will control to raise his authority, and going into the inner part of the Beast Stable, he takes them to a training ground where demon beasts can be contracted.

"Ah, Cultivator Makli Hyun-ah. Have you come to train a demon beast?"

"Yes. I have come to train this raccoon demon beast."

"Racoon...? You mean a raccoon-dog demon beast?"

"Ah...yes, well, something like that."

Makli Hyun-ah knows that in the Makli Clan they do not particularly distinguish between raccoon-dogs and raccoons, and answers like that for now.

"In our hometown region, raccoon-dogs that look like this are called raccoons."

"Hooh...somehow the pronunciation is similar to some of the words Elder Makli Hye-seo sometimes uses."

"Oh, is that so?"

"Haha, yes. I have heard them a few times while passing near the Elder's cave residence... Ah, that is not what is important. Anyway...at the main house's training grounds, you can bring a demon beast and personally train it through Beast Taming methods or a demon beast contract, or our trainer cultivators can instead cast brainwashing techniques or hypnosis techniques, Beast Taming arts, and the like for you and train it in your stead. Of course, there is also the simple, primitive method of training it through whips and meat. The amount of spirit stones that must be paid to the training grounds changes depending on which method you choose...which one will you go with?"

Hearing the words whip, hypnosis, and brainwashing, the raccoon demon beast takes on a terrified expression and looks up at Makli Hyun-ah, and Makli Hyun-ah clears his throat and speaks.

"For now, I will use methods like Beast Taming methods or a demon beast contract."

"Haha, I see. I will escort you to a quiet training ground. If by any chance you fail at the Beast Taming methods or the demon beast contract, or find it difficult, please let us know. We cultivators belonging to the training grounds have countless demon beast training experiences, so if you tell us, we can go chase this raccoon-dog to the very end of hell and discipline it for you."

"H-Hiik..."

The raccoon curls up with a terrified expression, covering his own head and trembling, and after expressing thanks to the cultivator of the training grounds, Makli Hyun-ah goes into the place he is guided to.

The Makli Clan Beast Stable's training grounds are underground, divided into several training grounds.

Once you enter a training ground, you can arrive at a small stone chamber whose ceiling is completely open, with a sight like a cliff.

Makli Hyun-ah goes into that stone chamber, sets down the raccoon demon beast, and asks.

"You heard it too, right? I am sorry, but it will be better for you to obediently form a demon beast contract with me and leave. If you refuse for no reason, those terrifying cultivators of the training grounds will grab you and put you under hypnotic brainwashing, or train you with whips like a beast...so, how about it, do you feel like making a contract with me?"

The raccoon, shivering all over, says.

"O-Of course, I also think it is not bad to make a contract with you. Rather than having to struggle to find food every day in the wild and avoid natural enemies... Even though I am at the Qi Refining 1st star, a small badger like me often ends up dying just from meeting a mere tiger or bear that is not even a demon beast, because of the weight class difference."

"Hooh...so even at the same Qi Refining, you can just die to an ordinary predator because of the weight class difference?"

"If it is mid-stage Qi Refining or higher, that does not happen, but a low-stage demon beast like me is not like that. Honestly, think about it, Cultivator! Imagine going for a stroll in the mountains and meeting a bear! Bears tear people apart!"

"Uh...that is true."

"Anyway! I also do not have a big aversion to being raised by a human. Safety is guaranteed, after all. However...I am a badger. Please know that if you try to deny my racial identity, I cannot give you my true loyalty!"

"Mm...but you are a raccoon..."

"Keeeeek!"

"Hm...fine, all right. Then what is your name?"

"M-My name? That...I cannot tell you that."

"Hmph, then I just have to find out myself."

At those words, Makli Hyun-ah takes out a talisman he has prepared in advance.

As the Naming Family Method reached a certain realm, he now reached the stage where he can absorb the very 'name' of the other party, so it does not matter.

When Makli Hyun-ah slaps the talisman onto the raccoon's head, something rises onto the talisman for a moment, but then the talisman burns up with a pop and disappears.

"Mm? This phenomenon is..."

Remembering what he saw in the Naming Dao Conferring Gods Canon, Makli Hyun-ah nods.

'They say that beings with no name, or beings whose status is too high, cannot have their names carelessly discovered through a talisman, right? Anyway, as if this raccoon would have some kind of name.'

"Good, since it seems you do not have a name, I will give you one. And from now on I will call you only by that name, and I will not care whether you call yourself a badger or a raccoon-dog. When it comes to sensitive things, let us just not bother each other. How about it?"

"Hm...well, that is not bad. If you at least respect me in that way, I will accept it."

The raccoon nods, and Makli Hyun-ah takes out a sheet of talisman paper and inscribes the raccoon's new name on it.

[Makli Badger]

"From today on, your name is Makli Badger. I will just call you Badger."

The raccoon, seemingly displeased with that name, looks at Makli Hyun-ah with a dumbfounded expression, but Makli Hyun-ah does not care and sticks the talisman onto his head.

"Name activation!"

Chiiiiik—

Soon, the talisman imbued with Makli Hyun-ah's spiritual energy burns, and that name enters into the raccoon's body.

Now, his name becomes Makli Badger.

"No, how is this any different from attaching names like, you are Makli Black Person, you are Jegal Yellow Person, you are Namgung Red Person, to black people or yellow people or red people? What kind of name is this?"

"Q-Quiet. Then what, do you actually want a name like Makli Black Person?"

"...Argh, forget it. Call me whatever you want..."

After letting out a deep sigh and accepting his name, Badger completes the demon beast contract with Makli Hyun-ah, forming a link by exchanging spiritual energy and demonic energy with each other.

Afterward, Makli Hyun-ah also forms demon beast contracts with the seven rabbit demon beasts at the level of the Qi Refining 1st star...no, about the Qi Gathering level, that he has brought from the Beast Stable, then comes out of the training grounds.

***

"So...you mean that, to deploy the formation, you have to create social authority through our acknowledgment."

"Something like that. The incitement ability you have..."

"It is called Demon Beast Inducement!"

"Fine, fine. Roughly speaking, use that incitement spell to incite those rabbits so they will respect me."

To deploy the Great Demon Pacifying Heaven Formation, he needs eight or more demon beasts.

However, with the realm of these rabbits and raccoon, who are currently in the low stages of Qi Refining, even if the formation is deployed, it will not be anything great, so it probably has to be called the Small Demon Pacifying Heaven Formation.

"For now...I understand what you are saying. But as you know, respect is something that must well up from the heart. The art of Demon Beast Inducement that I have can guide the actions of demon beasts. I can make a rabbit that wants to eat clovers eat a carrot instead. But...I cannot make a rabbit whose stomach is already full eat more."

"So it means I need grounds for these rabbits to respect me?"

"That is correct."

"Then what do I have to do to be respected by the rabbits?"

"That...I will ask them first."

Badger faces each of the seven rabbit demon beasts one by one and has some sort of conversation with them.

It seems to be demon beast speech, but Makli Hyun-ah cannot understand it.

After a while, having finished his conversation through demon beast speech, Badger comes to Makli Hyun-ah and relays the rabbits' requests.

"This rabbit says it wants a carrot."

"Sure, here it is."

"This rabbit says it wants to eat clovers."

"Right, I've prepared it in advance."

"This rabbit wants you to tickle its belly."

"All right, I can do that as much as you want, you little rascal, you little rascal, you little rascal, you little rascal, you little rascal...uehe."

Makli Hyun-ah tickles the rabbits' bellies like crazy and dotes on them.

Through that, it seems the three rabbits develop affection toward Makli Hyun-ah, and Badger uses his demon beast ability to make the rabbits who have affection toward Makli Hyun-ah come to respect him.

Soon, the three rabbits, following Badger's orders, bow politely in front of Makli Hyun-ah and look up at him with eyes full of respect.

Receiving the rabbits' respect, Makli Hyun-ah feels good and looks at the remaining four rabbits and asks.

"What do these guys want? If it is carrots, I have prepared as many as they want..."

"Uh...mm...they say they want Master to lick them."

"What?"

Makli Hyun-ah, dumbfounded, looks at Badger.

Badger, looking at the rabbit that is making a ridiculous request with a somewhat embarrassed expression, interprets the demon beast speech.

"Uh...it says it wants to feel the sense of depravity of being licked by someone of higher rank..."

Makli Hyun-ah recalls the habit of rabbits.

They say rabbits have a habit where the side higher in rank is the one that gets licked.

This rabbit demon beast has taken in spiritual energy, making its intelligence vaguely higher, but on top of that, its desire seems to have been twisted into something bizarre.

'Should I just turn it into rabbit stew...this damn rabbit, not knowing its place, dares to...'

Seeing Makli Hyun-ah's expression and seemingly noticing something, Badger breaks out in cold sweat and speaks.

"If by any chance, Master...you plan to make rabbit stew, you absolutely must not do that. These guys are extremely quick-witted, so if you turn their friends into rabbit stew, the others will not follow you, and even the ones that already come to respect you will come to dislike you."

"Th-Then...can I not return it to the Beast Stable and bring another rabbit...?"

"..."

Badger conveys those words to the rabbit in demon beats speech and soon the rabbit jumps up and down in anger.

Badger scratches his head and relays the rabbit's demand to Makli Hyun-ah.

"It says, 'How can a lord so coldly throw away his vassal like so? Is a lord-vassal relationship such a light thing that you swallow when it is sweet and spit out when it is bitter? With such a mindset, no rabbit will ever follow you! If I am to return to the Beast Stable, I would rather commit seppuku right here!'...that is what it asks me to convey..."

Makli Hyun-ah desperately suppresses the urge to just turn it into rabbit stew.

'If you are going to fuss about a lord-vassal relationship, what kind of insane kink is it to demand your lord to lick you, you crazy rabbit bastard...?'

"For now...I think you have to grant the request. If not, the other rabbits will also..."

"Fine, shut up!"

In the end, Makli Hyun-ah tightly closes his eyes and sticks out his tongue toward the rabbit in front of him.

Lick, lick...

For the perfect talisman war tournament...for the greatest Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum...he has to make these damn rabbit bastards his rabbits.

In the end, while licking the rabbit that makes this insane request, Makli Hyun-ah presents the powerful sense of depravity that the rabbit is demanding.

After a while, having satisfied the sense of depravity it wanted, the rabbit does not hesitate to become Makli Hyun-ah's loyal subject.

"...What's next?"

Spitting out the rabbit fur filling his mouth, Makli Hyun-ah, his eyes bloodshot with anger and irritation, looks at Badger.

Badger clears his throat and relays the fifth rabbit's request.

"Uh, this one..."

"What is it!? Hurry up and say it!"

"Uh...yes...ha... It says it wants...to mate."

"..."

Makli Hyun-ah lets out a deep sigh and nods.

"Fine, what, is there some rabbit it likes? Then we can bring one from the Beast Stable or..."

"Uh...so well, actually..."

Badger has some sort of conversation with the rabbit, and his expression keeps getting worse.

Irritation surges up in Makli Hyun-ah, and he presses Badger.

"What now!? Don't tell me that rabbit is in heat for me or something?"

"Uh...it is not a sexual desire to that extreme. To us, the human race feels like frogs, so if it does not have fur, we are not really into it."

"Then who does it want to mate with? Hurry up and say it!"

"Well...it is not that abnormal of a twisted sexual desire, but...haah..."

For some time, the badger who is making Makli Hyun-ah feel stifled seems to get a headache at the thought of passing it on himself. After agonizing for a long while, he finally opens his mouth and conveys the rabbit's demand.

"Among the cats that roam around the Makli Clan, it says there is a cat as white as snow. It wants to mate with that cat."

Makli Hyun-ah seriously considers just turning all these rabbits into a rabbit pill and simply using other demon beasts instead.

***

With a face sunk in self-loathing, as he looks at the rabbit and the cat, who are purring with expressions that seem mutually satisfied, Makli Hyun-ah asks Badger weakly,

"The sixth rabbit?"

"Well...this one says it wants to negotiate its wages."

"Salary negotiation?"

"Yes...it says, surely you are not going to make it work without pay..."

"...Fine, all right. Let's at least hear what it wants."

"It wants it as a monthly salary, three hundred fresh carrots every month. In addition to the carrots it receives as that salary, it wants you to steadily provide fresh carrots and clovers for breakfast, lunch, and dinner...paid leave for childbirth, childcare, and holidays...and it is demanding things like getting off work on time."

"...Well, sure..."

For a rabbit, it really has a lot of demands, but compared to the previous two rabbits, they are things he can actually do...

Through Badger's mediation, Makli Hyun-ah even writes up a contract, exchanges it with the rabbit, and receives the rabbit's loyalty.

"What does the last one want?"

"...Um..."

Badger listens to the last rabbit's demand, then looks at Makli Hyun-ah again with an utterly dumbfounded expression.

Makli Hyun-ah already feels a headache coming on, and he resolves that if this time too it puts forth some shitty condition, he is absolutely going to catch these rabbits and turn them into a rabbit pill.

"It is asking whether, if it follows Master, it will be able to hear the screams of enemies and drink fresh blood...and whether it will be able to fight the strongest enemies and accumulate feats that are close to the impossible..."

"..."

For a rabbit, it is an absurd demand, but when Makli Hyun-ah thinks about it, it is not to the extent that he cannot grant it.

"I am going to fight a bear later...ask it if that level of opponent is good enough."

"Uh...it says, 'If I can really fight a bear, I will devote my whole body so that my master can bathe in the bear's intestines and blood and chew its fresh liver'."

"Uh...right, okay."

In that way, Makli Hyun-ah gains seven rabbits who support him unconditionally.

To the three rabbits who made comparatively normal demands, Makli Hyun-ah gives the names 'Big Rabbit, Middle Rabbit, Small Rabbit.'

And to the four rabbits who, even for rabbits, made crazy demands, he gives the names 'First Stew, Second Stew, Third Stew, Fourth Stew.'

It is a resolve that if they ever do something he does not like, he will turn them into rabbit stew.

***

A few days pass.

Makli Hyun-ah's request is accepted, and the tournament name of the Talisman War tournament is decided as 'Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum'.

Makli Hweol keeps grumbling, saying "I don't like the name," but Makli Hyun-ah pays it no mind and continues the preparations for the Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum.

And at last, the Talisman War tournament, the Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum, is held.

And so, on the day of the tournament,

Makli Hyun-ah has them read the rules and the manual of the Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum that he has previously distributed, and opens the Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum.

"From this moment, the talisman war tournament, Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum, is officially convened!"

Waaaaaaah!

Reading the emcee script Badger has written for him, Makli Hyun-ah announces the opening of the Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum, and begins the first match.

***

The Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum, and the various tournaments held in various places in the Makli Clan, are not only open to people of the Makli Clan.

Small cultivation families and cultivators near Lianshan City, where the Lianshan branch of the Makli clan resides, can also attend.

If the members of the Makli Clan seize the championship through the tournament, it is good because it can boil up the enthusiasm of the clan members, and if others seize the championship, through that, the Makli Clan intends to recruit those cultivators, win over other cultivation families, or improve relations with them. That is the Makli Clan's stratagem.

And...

Taking advantage of that very stratagem of the Makli Clan, among those attending the Makli Clan's tournament, there are also spies of the 'Seogyeong Makli Clan' mixed in.

A spy of the Seogyeong Makli family.

'Makli Cheop-ja,' who is currently disguised as an ordinary cultivator, is one of those people.

[TL/N: Cheopja means spy.]

"The first event of the Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum tournament is between the cultivator 'Lee Cheop-ja' and the Lianshan Makli Clan's promising younger generation 'Makli Bi-yeol.' Then we will begin the Talisman War match between the two!"

Letting the shrill words of the emcee woman above pass in one ear and out the other, Makli Cheop-ja takes the talisman distributed by the Makli Clan.

'So this is the 'Name-Sealing Talisman' they say the Lianshan Makli clan has recently started making...'

The efficacy of this talisman is extremely tremendous.

If the Seogyeong Makli Clan were to fight the Lianshan Makli Clan without knowing of this talisman's existence, they might end up unable to recover even if they win.

'However, the fact that they do not hide it for the decisive battle with the main house, and instead open it up like this...means that the economic and political influence this talisman gives is stronger than keeping it hidden and using it as a trump card.'

Even now, the Lianshan Makli Clan is probably selling these talismans to high-ranking sect members or to other Beast Taming forces and gaining enormous profit.

He does not know who developed this talisman, but...

It is a talisman that will become unimaginably dangerous in the future.

On this opportunity he has to figure out this talisman's performance as much as possible, and, if he can, even identify the talisman's creator and carry out kidnapping or even assassination.

'If we miss this chance...the branch family, the Lianshan Makli line, will transform into a power that surpasses the main house.'

Ten years.

In ten years, through this talisman, the Lianshan Makli Line can completely slip out of the grasp of the Seogyeong Makli Line and might instead call themselves the main house.

'That cannot be allowed. These bug-like branch-family bastards—!'

Makli Cheop-ja recalls the 'Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum rules' that the Makli Clan has distributed.

To be honest, Makli Cheop-ja has not been very interested, so he has only skimmed them roughly.

After all, this kind of talisman play is nothing but a game, and the rules are useless in actual combat!

'Hmph, a tournament where you fight only with talismans without relying on your true strength? What kind of stupid tournament is that!'

Thinking that the Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum is the dumbest tournament in the world, Makli Cheop-ja tries to cram his spiritual energy, which has reached the peak of the Qi Refining stage, into the talisman to the fullest.

'In this world. In this cultivation world, one's true strength is absolute! There is no field, no cultivation art where one's realm does not exert influence!'

Kugugugugu!

It is when the talisman, filled with Makli Cheop-ja's powerful spiritual energy, flies toward the inside of the arena.

"Ah, and as I mentioned beforehand...since this tournament purely evaluates your capability in using talismans, you cannot use spiritual energy, spiritual power, innate divine powers, and the like above a certain level, so I ask for your understanding!"

At the same time as the emcee's words, eight flags appear around the arena.

A single raccoon-dog and seven rabbits raise the flags and sit in their places, sending the emcee looks of deep respect and applause all at once.

Clap clap clap clap clap clap—

At the sound of that applause, made with the forepaws of the small beasts, the emcee tilts her nose up as if proud.

The social authority of the emcee, Makli Hyun-ah, generates power and begins to suppress strange powers and chaotic spirits.

Tududududu!!!

"...!"

Kugugung!

Makli Cheop-ja's spiritual energy is suppressed, and the spiritual veins of his whole body dry up as if they are completely drained.

At the same time, the spiritual power of all the spectators who have come into the area around the arena is greatly suppressed.

Cultivators of the Qi Building stage or higher can use their spiritual energy to some extent, but their capability drops down to the Qi Refining stage, and the Qi Refining cultivators, regardless of whether they are at peak or at the beginning, all have their spiritual veins dried up to a level no different from mortals.

"Wh-What is this...!?"

Makli Cheop-ja looks at the emcee at this bizarre phenomenon in which his spiritual energy is suppressed even though no special formation is activated.

Woo-wooong—

Only the emcee seems to be wrapped in a bizarre black energy, exuding a strange social authority, and her realm does not seem to be suppressed.

Makli Cheop-ja feels a chilling sensation.

'Not to mention talismans...what kind of sorcery is this...!? Suppressing the Heaven and Earth spiritual energy of the entire area? Are the flags those demon beasts are holding a formation? I cannot even feel spiritual energy from them. Even if I assume that is a formation, why are even the cultivators in the spectator seats, which are 'outside' the formation, having their spiritual energy suppressed!? I have never heard of or seen a formation that exerts influence even outside its range! Damn it...it seems the Qi Building stage is less affected, but like this...'

"Now, the start is Cultivator Lee Cheop-ja's turn...no, round. Please present your talisman!"

Makli Cehop-ja breaks out in a cold sweat and takes out the talisman.

'If such a terrifying formation exists...the Qi Refining cultivators of the main house will be massacred by these branch-family bastards! I have to contact the main house quickly, right now! We have to strike the branch family right now! We must not give these bastards time to further develop these insane formation and talisman arts! Only now is the one and only chance to defeat these bastards without damage!'

Tududududu!

However, inside the arena, since an enormous social authority is suppressing Heaven and Earth spiritual energy and strange powers and chaotic spirits, Makli Cheop-ja has no means at all to contact the main family.

In the end, he grits his teeth and glares at his opponent standing before him, Makli Bi-yeol.

'First, I have to win against this guy. They say the winner can go to the winner's waiting room and recover spiritual energy and the mind and body, so if I win, I will be able to find an opportunity to contact the main house. The loser, contact or whatever, has to just keep sitting in the arena spectator seats, so I absolutely have to win against this guy! I can do it. After all, I am a great cultivator with only a half-step left to the Qi Building stage! I will not lose to some mid stage Qi Refining brat!'

"Summon, demon beast talisman—White Fox!"

Kuooooo!

Makli Cheop-ja raises the demon beast talisman and summons the phantom of a demon beast named 'White Fox'.

A fox as big as a house is summoned and glares at Makli Bi-yeol.

When Makli Bi-yeol's turn comes, Makli Bi-yeol also takes out a demon beast talisman and summons a demon beast.

"Summon, demon beast talisman—Blue-Eyes Sea Dragon!"

Soon, the Talisman War between the two cultivators truly begins.

"Hmph, how foolish. Do you not even know that in a place of land, a sea demon beast cannot exert its strength against a land demon beast? They say the Makli Clan is famous for its Beast Taming methods, but it is all an empty name!"

Makli Cheop-ja tries to sneer at Makli Bi-yeol, but then he widens his eyes as he sees the talismans Makli Bi-yeol draws.

"I will play one trap talisman to upend the coral reef zone, and then activate one spell talisman. Spell talisman—Great Sea Thousand-Li Tide!"

Kugugugugugu!

Immediately, from Makli Bi-yeol's talisman, an immense mass of seawater gushes out and turns the entire arena into an environment like the sea.

The phantom of the White Fox that Makli Cheop-ja has summoned falls straight into the sea and flounders, and exclamations of admiration erupt from the spectator seats.

"To produce that much seawater in a place with no sea...!"

"As expected, the new talismans of the Lianshan Makli Clan have excellent effects...!"

"H-Hey, wait, what is this 'trap talisman' now, and what is this about a spell talisman! Wasn't a Talisman War tournament supposed to be a tournament where only the phantoms of demon beasts collide!?"

However, in response to Makli Cheop-ja's protest, the referee, Makli Hyun-ah, only keeps repeating like a parrot the words, 'We have already distributed the rulebook beforehand'.

'Damn it! If it were according to my original realm! At my original realm, half a step into the Qi Building stage, no matter what the environment is like, I could trample that bastard with the difference in spiritual power infused into the talismans alone! No!"

"Wh-White fox! Destruction Beam!"

The phantom of the fox demon beast that Makli Cheop-ja has summoned spits out a lump of light, but Makli Bi-yeol with a vile smile gives an order to the Sea Dragon he has summoned.

[TL/N: Biyeol means vile.]

"Blue-Eyes Sea Dragon Bi-yeol—evade!"

The Blue-Eyes Sea Dragon easily evades the White Fox's beam.

Right after, with a vile smile, Makli Bi-yeol points at Makli Chop-ja's fox and orders an attack.

"Go, Blue-Eyes Sea Dragon, show your technique! Bi-yeol—charge!"

Immediately, in accordance with Makli Bi-yeol's command, the Blue-Eyes Sea Dragon hides its body in the seawater and slams its body toward the White Fox.

Peobeobeong!

From Makli Bi-yeol's vile charge, the summoned demon beast of Makli Cheop-ja turns to powder in an instant.

"D-Don't be ridiculous! I cannot accept this! You vile bastards!"

"My name is Bi-yeol!"

"Shut uuuuuup!!"

Makli Cheop-ja grinds his teeth, his eyes bloodshot, and starts summoning phantoms of demon beasts through the demon beast talisman, and the arena of the Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum begins to fill even more with blazing heat.

And the emcee and head referee Makli Hyun-ah, looking down at that scene, looks over the gathered crowd with a satisfied expression.

The superior culture and products of Earth are spreading happiness, love, and joy across Penglai Star.

"Go, Blue-Eyes Sea Dragon, once more, Bi-yeol—charge!"

"You vile brat! I'll kill youuuuuuu!!"

Looking at the beautiful scene of the Talisman War tournament, Makli Hyun-ah continues to proceed with the Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum.

Talisman War Great Death Mausoleum is only just beginning.