The Academy’s Unrivaled Professor - Chapter 109

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Academy Absolute Professor Chapter 109
You—attacking me?
While Lee Se-ah was speaking with the Administrative Bureau, Kang Hyeon turned the just-ended call over in his mind.
‘She sounded rushed.’
She’d whispered, her voice thin and strained.
And that low, humming resonance in the background.
‘She’s hiding somewhere cramped, isn’t she?’
Kang Hyeon’s brow furrowed.
The Dang So-yu he knew was sharp.
Even if he’d told her to call, she wasn’t the type to cry for help at the first sign of trouble.
Not with the Thousand-Kill Constitution—a body so merciless that weakness meant death.
‘The call came faster than I expected.’
He’d given her a clear assignment: grow strong enough on her own that even China’s national institutions wouldn’t dare touch her, then come out on her own two feet.
And yet she’d sent out an SOS in desperation.
‘Which means there are enemies beyond her ability to handle.’
Dang So-yu was important to Kang Hyeon. The moment he had her location, he’d move.
Without hesitation, he entered the Medical Office and pocketed several Medicinal Pills that Baek Yu-yeon had refined.
Next, he went to the Practice Grounds, strapped a simple Iron Sword to his waist, returned to his Residence to don Training Outfit, Mask, and Cap Hat, then moved back to the Professor’s Office.
“Found her!”
Lee Se-ah was certainly quick.
No agent squeezed the Administrative Bureau’s intelligence network quite like her.
“Where?”
“Outside Chongqing, in a mountainous region. On satellite maps it shows as…… nothing but forest, but it’s probably a special restricted zone under direct control of the Chinese State Security Bureau.”
“Chongqing, then.”
The location crystallized in his mind.
Strangely enough, the Martial World he’d traveled through was linguistically and geographically similar to ancient China.
‘Chongqing, next to Sichuan.’
Creak.
The moment Kang Hyeon opened the window, Lee Se-ah cried out urgently.
“Wait. Where are you going?”
“Chongqing.”
“What? That’s a Chinese State Security Bureau zone, isn’t it? What about your passport?”
“Why would I need a passport to cross the sea?”
……
He was planning to cross the West Sea on foot?
Did he understand how absurd that sounded?
Though in fairness, Leviathan was out there on the water too.
No, wait!
Before that!
“Absolutely not! Smuggling into the country without proper exit procedures is bad enough, but entering a State Security Bureau zone……? If this gets discovered, it becomes an international diplomatic incident!”
“Explain it well to the Director. He’ll understand what I mean.”
He’d mentioned it before.
When requesting cooperation with Ariana Ashford, he’d said there was someone similar on the Chinese side.
“No, that’s not the—Kang Hyeon?”
Lee Se-ah reached out desperately, but Kang Hyeon was already gone.
Only a cool night breeze rushed in through the wide-open window.
“Don’t do this!”
Her cry, left alone in the room, was forlorn.

Underground, State Security Secret Research Facility, outskirts of Chongqing.
“Ugh, nngh!”
A middle-aged man and woman hung suspended by chains, writhing and crying out.
“Just bear with it a moment longer.”
The man looking up at them smiled at ease.
He was Ju Tianming, Deputy Director of the Chinese State Security Bureau and overall chief of this facility.
Or rather, more precisely…… Ju Tianming was merely a shell.
The being inhabiting his flesh was an incarnation of Mo Tian himself—one of the Six Inauspicious, master of the Kaimen Group!

‘It had been a long and tedious affair.’
He stood with his hands clasped behind his back, surveying the chamber.
Beneath the bound man and woman hung an enormous Ritual Tank, its contents churning with a sickly crimson liquid that reeked of blood.
Inside it swam the blood of a thousand children.
Mixed with the Formless Poison drawn periodically from Dang So-yu and brought to a boil.
He would use this liquid to inscribe a formation, and at its center, he would place Dang So-yu—bearer of the Thousand-Kill Constitution.
And when he killed the suspended pair before his eyes—Dang So-yu’s parents—what then?
The Thousand-Kill Constitution’s rationality would shatter, and at last the Thousand-Kill Demon would be born.
‘Originally, I had meant to wait longer.’
Recent reports of irregularities in Dang So-yu’s condition had irritated him enough to accelerate the timeline.
The concentration of Formless Poison had been inconsistent, and lately she’d been whining more frequently for permission to leave the facility.
Worse still, she’d been making trips to the Medical Office more often, complaining of vague ailments.
It wasn’t malingering, either.
Her actual body temperature readings came back higher than normal.
‘Quarantine protocols are sound enough…… an actual illness…… how tiresome.’
Just now, another call had come through.
She’d complained of stomach pain and gone to the restroom.
Discomfort flickered across Ju Tianming’s face.
That he, leader of the Kaimen Group, should receive reports about a human female going in and out of a toilet—the absurdity grated.
‘This bothersome business won’t last much longer. Once the great work is complete……’
It was at that moment.
“Director!”
A door swung open and one of his subordinates entered.
“What is this commotion?”
“The Inspection Bureau chief has come calling again.”
“Again?”
Liu Chen—Inspection Bureau chief.
The A-rank Hunter had been dogging Ju Tianming’s heels for years now, suspicious and relentless.
Especially regarding this research facility—he kept demanding to know what lay beneath, what was hidden in this underground.
Ever since he’d obtained intelligence that missing children throughout the Sichuan region had vanished without a trace, he’d become even more blatant in his harassment.
“Tsk.”
He had deliberately sourced only unregistered children, yet parents searching for their lost offspring had caused an uproar.
“Send him away.”
“This time he’s brought public security forces with him. A considerable contingent.”
“Drive them out by force if necessary. Since when does the State Security Bureau answer to the Inspection Bureau? Besides, this is a Class One State Secret facility.”
“Understood, sir.”
The subordinate withdrew, and Ju Tianming stroked his chin.
‘Liu Chen.’
That bothersome fool.
Ordinarily, he would have snapped the man’s neck without hesitation, but Liu Chen stood backed by the highest echelons of the Central Military Commission.
With the great work so close at hand, any disturbance now could invite unwanted scrutiny.
‘I must be patient a little longer.’
On the day Dang So-yu awakened as the Thousand-Kill Demon, he would be the first—he would order that Liu Chen’s limbs be torn from his body.
Having shed the weight of his killing intent, Ju Tianming suddenly withdrew the Smartphone from his pocket.
The screen was blank.
‘……Why is there no follow-up report?’
Nearly four hours had passed since the report that Dang So-yu had gone to the restroom, and there had been no word since.
He had ordered exhaustive reporting of her every movement, and the silence stirred an unsettling unease.
‘I’ll have to check on this myself.’
Bang!
He shut the heavy iron door of the underground chamber behind him and made his way toward the Medical Office section.

* * *
At that same moment.
At the entrance of the research facility above ground.
Ju Tianming’s subordinates and Liu Chen stood in tense confrontation.
“What is this? You’re blocking Inspection Bureau personnel from conducting an inspection?”
“Entry without authorization from the director is forbidden.”
The suited man answered in clipped, formal tones.
“I am the authority. Step aside.”
“Bring a warrant or central authorization. Any further approach will be treated as a breach of state secrets.”
Liu Chen drew confidence from their resolve.
‘There’s something here.’
What could they be hiding in there?
The precise thing being that even the Central Military Commission didn’t know.
“This won’t do. I’ll have to use force. See those behind me?”
As Liu Chen gestured with his chin, the ranked A-class Hunters from the Inspection Bureau drew their weapons in unison and stepped forward.
Clang!
In response, Ju Tianming’s subordinates drew their arms as well.
“So you truly wish to spill blood?”
“I gave fair warning.”
“Push through!”
In that instant, the collision began.
Clang! Crack!
Metal sang out as the sound of parted air erupted.
Yet the nature of the battle felt wrong.
Even for State Security Bureau personnel, most should have ranked B-class at best.
No matter how mighty a Hunter nation China was, one couldn’t fill an entire squad of operatives with A-class ranks.
How much trouble had Liu Chen himself gone through to assemble these men?
But then—
‘What is this monstrous strength?’
Clang-clang-clang!
Rather, the Hunters Liu Chen had brought were being pushed back.
Their movements felt almost as though they defied human anatomy.
The angles at which their joints bent seemed almost impossible.
That was when it happened.
“Ugh!”
One of the Inspection Bureau Hunters failed to defend and left an opening.
Thud!
The suited man’s bare hand struck the Hunter’s head and burst it like a melon.
Splurt!
A fountain of blood erupted.
Thump.
The A-class Hunter’s body collapsed limply to the ground.
Instant death.
“Damn madness!”
Liu Chen’s rage ignited.
“Did you just kill an Inspection Bureau officer?”
No matter how violent the clash, they were still agencies of the same nation—how could they use lethal force?
Yet the blood-soaked suited man stared at Liu Chen with not a shred of guilt on his face.
“Didn’t I warn you? Intruders into classified areas are targets for elimination.”
“…What?”
A chill ran through him.
The man who had just crushed a human skull—was this what he said?
Not a tremor in his voice; it was as though…
‘He wasn’t even human?’
The thought had barely crossed his mind.
“Pardon me—might a person pass through here?”
Suddenly, a languid voice cut through the chaos.
The accent was local dialect, with a hint of old-fashioned mainland Chinese pronunciation.
“…”
Every eye turned toward the source of the sound.
There stood a man in Training Outfit, a Mask and Cap Hat pulled low over his face.
“Who are you?”
The suited man asked in a flat, emotionless tone.
“Me? Just someone with business in the research facility.”
Liu Chen studied the man with bewilderment.
He hadn’t sensed even a hint of presence, yet the man had somehow closed to point-blank range.
‘A master?’
As the fighting paused, the masked man turned his head and looked toward Liu Chen.
“Who are you?”
“……The Inspection Bureau. From China.”
“Ah, then why are you having words with those people?”
“……Shouldn’t you explain who you are first?”
“I already told you. I have business at the research facility.”
The masked man, Kang Hyeon, walked casually toward the entrance of the research facility.
The suit-clad man repeated himself.
“No entry. If you advance any further, it will be treated as a breach of state secrets.”
“Go ahead, then.”
Slice!
Before the man’s words had finished, a flash of light swept across his throat.
“What——?”
Liu Chen’s mouth fell open in utter shock.
Thud. Thump-thump-thump.
The head of the suit-clad man, which had just been blasted apart, rolled across the floor.
It was true, then—when things happen too suddenly, words fail you.
“……W-what in the…… are you doing.”
“Why waste breath talking to creatures like that?”
Kang Hyeon flicked the blood from his Iron Sword as he spoke.
“They’re Demons, not men. Surely you didn’t think words would work on a Demon, did you?”
“What……?”
Liu Chen’s mind went blank.
State Security Bureau agents—not human, but Demons?
In that instant.
Hisssss!
Mist began to rise from the head rolling across the floor.
As human skin melted away, a hideous visage was laid bare.
One thing was certain—it was absolutely not human.
‘Is this……really happening?’
Liu Chen was about to speak again.
“Kill him!”
The Demons, their cover blown, let out a unified bestial shriek and surged toward Kang Hyeon.
Pressed from all sides by an overwhelming Demonic Aura, the Inspection Bureau Hunters instinctively stumbled backward in retreat.
But Kang Hyeon remained utterly composed.
“……Kill me? You, kill me?”
Even drained of Inner Energy after crossing the West Sea and traversing the continent in four hours, there was no way he could fall to mere Demons like these.
Unless they were the Six Calamities themselves, avatars of Asura.
Scrape-scrape-scrape!
The blade cut through the air only a handful of times.
Moving in the simplest of arcs, he left dozens of Demons as mangled corpses on the ground in less than a minute.
Sheath.
Kang Hyeon sheathed his sword without emotion, then turned to Liu Chen.
“Why not go inside? You’re from the Inspection Bureau, aren’t you? They’ve occupied this place—you’d best figure out what they’re plotting quickly.”

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