The Academy’s Unrivaled Professor - Chapter 112

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Academy’s Absolute Professor, Chapter 112
That was my second trial.
Dang So-yu stared at the spot with vacant eyes.
She was startled by Kang Hyun’s skill, yes, but the overwhelming emotion was relief.
‘It’s finally over.’
The Demon that had imprisoned her since childhood—since before memory even began—had vanished.
A shudder escaped her.
As the tension drained away, the violent backlash from reversing the Life Control Formation Reversal crashed through her body.
“Don’t force yourself. Your meridians are completely tangled.”
Kang Hyun produced a Vitality Pill from his robe and pressed it to Dang So-yu’s lips.
“Swallow. It should help with internal injuries.”
“Master……”
Dang So-yu hesitated, then continued.
“May I call you that?”
“Not yet.”
Kang Hyun helped her to her feet.
“First, we need to go meet your parents.”
“Right!”
“I’ve already sent other Hunters ahead.”
Kang Hyun had traced her here by following the Mokyo Zhen Unique Aura she emitted, and Liu Chen’s group was conducting a search of the basement.
He’d only learned that her parents had been kidnapped during the process of dealing with the Demon.
“My parents should be on Underground Level 3.”
“Follow me.”
Kang Hyun took the lead.
The moment they emerged from outside the women’s restroom, Demons began attacking.
Remnants of the Kaimen Group—Mokcheon Disciples.
With their leader’s incarnation gone, control had fractured; they no longer bothered maintaining human disguises.
“Don’t slow your pace.”
Kang Hyun’s footsteps never faltered.
Whether two rushed him or four.
Slash!
He carved through the Demons’ tough hides in the most efficient arc possible, clean and merciless.
Blood sprayed in every direction, yet strangely none of it touched Kang Hyun or Dang So-yu.
He was calculating even the angle of the spray as he wielded his blade.
Dang So-yu caught her breath watching that overwhelming display.
‘What in the world is he?’
Who was this man that terrified these fearsome Demons?
Whatever the answer, one thing was certain.
‘Both Master and these Demons…… they want something from me.’
More precisely, her gift.
This cursed poison-spewing constitution clearly had its uses.
And Dang So-yu had already resolved to follow Master’s path.
* * *
Kang Hyun descended without pause until he reached Underground Level 3.
There were more Demons here.
Along with the reek of stale blood, he spotted Liu Chen’s group far ahead near the hall.
“Hold the formation!”
“If we break, we’re finished!”
The battle situation was grim.
They were surrounded by Demons with no real defensive line to speak of.
“Master!”
“Stay close behind me.”
Kang Hyun drove his foot into the ground.
Boom!
His form shot forward like lightning into the heart of the Demon horde.
There were no flashy sword auras, no explosive releases of internal energy.
Only cutting, blocking, thrusting.
The arc of the Samjae Sword Technique—fundamentals upon fundamentals—unfolded from his hands like art.
Within mere minutes, dozens of Demons lay scattered across the floor as severed remnants.
Kang Hyun shook the blood from his Iron Sword and turned back.
“Huff, huff…….”
Liu Chen staggered forward, fighting to keep his legs from buckling beneath him as he caught his breath in ragged gasps.
“Th-thank you. Without you, we would have been annihilated.”
“Never mind the thanks.”
Kang Hyun gestured with his chin toward the far end of the hall.
“I’ll take those people with me.”
Liu Chen’s gaze followed to where Kang Hyun was pointing.
In the deepest recesses of the hall, suspended in the air by thick iron chains beside an enormous tank, hung a middle-aged man and woman.
Dang So-yu’s parents.
Clang!
Kang Hyun swung his sword and severed the chains, and the two figures dropped to the floor.
“Mom! Dad!”
Dang So-yu screamed and ran toward them.
But she froze just steps away from their reach.
‘Ah…….’
Formless poison.
She possessed the Celestial Poison Physique, laden with deadly venom.
A cursed body that melted flesh at the slightest touch.
They said she could control it to some degree now, but what if something went wrong?
‘Besides.’
The image of her parents watching her from beyond a glass pane flashed through her mind.
‘If I touch them…… they might be afraid of me.’
In that instant, her instinctive fear and hesitation froze her hands in the empty air.
“So-yu!”
“Our baby! Our poor baby!”
The man and woman on the floor crawled toward her like beasts and swept her into their arms.
“W-what?”
Dang So-yu’s eyes widened like lanterns.
They showed no hesitation whatsoever.
The fear that her poison would melt their flesh seemed utterly beneath their concern; they caressed her cheeks and gripped her shoulders, tears streaming down their faces.
“You’re alive, our daughter. You’re safe…….”
“Mom? Dad? I can’t—you can’t touch me…….”
“It doesn’t matter! Even if you’re a monster, it doesn’t matter to me!”
Dang So-yu felt her entire body freezing.
It was the first time.
Since infancy, so long ago she had no memory of it, no one’s bare skin had ever touched her with such force.
Though their hands were rough and unpolished, the warmth that flowed through them was achingly tender.
Only then did Dang So-yu understand.
‘Ah…… they were never afraid of me.’
All this time, she had believed her parents kept their distance, watching her only through the glass because they feared her.
But that was not so.
Her parents too had longed to touch her, only Ju Cheon-myeong had kept them apart.
“Sob, sob…….”
The tears she had held back broke loose like a dam.
Dang So-yu held her parents close around their necks and wept.
“Mom, Dad. It’s okay now. I can control it. You can touch me. It’s safe.”
Though doubt flickered in her heart, she trusted her master.
He was a remarkable man.
Incredibly strong, impervious even to her poison, and he had even gathered and absorbed her venom into himself.
She felt a surge of gratitude toward him again.
Without him…….
She would have never held her mother and father in her lifetime.
* * *
Meanwhile, Liu Chen and the Inspection Ministry agents were conducting a thorough search of the basement, growing more appalled with each discovery.
“What…… what is all this?”
Liu Chen’s voice trembled.
A tank where blood was still boiling.
And records that remained intact on the computer.
All the evidence was there.
Everything—from the kidnapping and murder of children, to the entire scope of a project to awaken a girl named Dang So-yu as a secret weapon called the Celestial Poison Demon.
‘Demons had infiltrated the upper echelons of the National Security Administration!’
If word leaked out, the world would convulse with scandal on a scale that would dwarf everything before it.
Liu Chen demanded testimony from Dang So-yu’s father and cross-referenced the materials.
The result came quickly.
“…… Your country has committed grave wrongs against you. On behalf of the Inspection Ministry, I offer my apologies.”
Regardless of whether demons were responsible, what had been laid bare was the government’s incompetence.
But Dang So-yu did not accept the apology.
“Honestly, I’ve developed a strong resentment toward the Chinese government.”
“…….”
“It doesn’t matter that you didn’t know. Either way, I was treated as a strategic weapon of this nation.”
Liu Chen could only fall silent.
There were no words to defend himself with.
Had he, or his own child, been subjected to such treatment, he would have harbored hatred far deeper than what Dang So-yu now carried.
“I regret it. Since the situation appears to be stabilized, let us return to the surface and discuss matters there.”
The landscape above ground had transformed entirely.
“Fall back! Secure all civilians!”
The ordinary security personnel who had been standing guard retreated at a distance, establishing only defensive perimeters, while three of China’s S-rank Hunters, who had rushed to answer Liu Chen’s urgent summons, waited with drawn, tense faces.
An extraordinary aura was seeping up from the underground.
“Director! Are you unharmed!”
“Have all personnel inside been evacuated?”
“Yes, sir!”
“Any casualties?”
“None, sir.”
“A relief, then.”
It appeared that while Kang Hyun and Liu Chen had been apprehending the demons, everyone had managed to escape safely.
Liu Chen clasped his fists toward Kang Hyun in salute.
“I have received your aid. The government wishes to offer compensation, though I suspect you will not reveal your identity?”
Kang Hyun gave a slight nod, and Liu Chen’s gaze shifted to Dang So-yu.
Dang So-yu, registered under the identity of a National Security Administration operative.
“What are your intentions now?”
Now that her status as a victim had been made clear, the Chinese government had no legitimate grounds to detain Dang So-yu.
Dang So-yu’s lips parted slightly.
‘Of course I want to be naturalized in Korea and follow Master, but…….’
This was not the moment to make such a decision.
Because Master was currently keeping his identity concealed.
If she suddenly announced she was going to Korea here and now, it would only invite unnecessary complications.
– Smart girl.
‘Ah!’
The sudden telepathic transmission made Dang So-yu’s shoulders jolt.
A faint flush bloomed across her face.
‘Praise……!’
This was the first time she had received genuine praise rather than mere assessment.
As her heart thrummed with warmth, Kang Hyun continued.
– Do not reveal to them that I am Korean. And settle your affairs with the Chinese government cleanly using your own strength before you come. That is my second test for you.
Dang So-yu swallowed hard.
She understood by intuition.
If she passed this test alone, she could truly become his disciple!
She could train alongside Baek Yu-yeon, whom she had grown close to after meeting at the exchange tournament!
‘But.’
It was easier said than done.
China was the world’s greatest hunter superpower.
While Korea had only seven S-rank Hunters, they were so plentiful here you could trip over them.
No matter how sound her justification, there was no chance the nation, once aware of her abilities, would willingly let her cross the border.
– However, I will lay the foundation so that your words carry weight.
Kang Hyun withdrew two more Vitality Pills from his pocket and placed them in her hand.
Baek Yu-yeon’s Restoration Pills were of the highest grade, with materials alone costing over a billion won, and the refinement process demanded extraordinary dedication.
The performance, in turn, was extraordinary.
“Hah.”
An artificially catalyzed aura erupted explosively within her Dantian.
Whoosh!
At the same moment, Kang Hyun drew his iron sword.
Liu Chen’s face went pale.
“W-why are you suddenly doing this?”
“I told you. I have ties to the Sacheon Dang Family.”
A deep, resonant rumble tore through the air.
The aura pouring from Kang Hyun’s body crushed the ground across a radius of dozens of meters.
“Gahhh!”
“Ugh!”
The three S-rank Hunters, moments before so cocksure, dropped to their knees.
Kang Hyun didn’t even glance at them.
Instead, his gaze fixed on the building that loomed above the basement.
‘I can’t leave this half-finished.’
Among the Six Inauspicious, none were more troublesome than the Kaimen Group.
Literally the ones who opened the Gate—who tore open the heavens themselves to summon Asura.
‘And this is the ritual site they’ve prepared.’
If the Chinese government mismanaged things, there was a risk these creatures could use it again. And then there was the Formless Poison below—that was another problem entirely.
Left unchecked, it would seep into the surrounding mountains and cause catastrophic civilian casualties.
‘I’ll erase every trace.’
But even for Kang Hyun, destroying the building in a single stroke wasn’t simple.
‘There’s only one way.’
The final Secret Technique of the Unipolar Sword Technique.
If his Internal Energy had been at full capacity, he could have unleashed it as easily as breathing—but the Asura’s poisonous miasma forced him to expend considerable effort.
That’s why he’d taken the Vitality Pill.
Crack!
Kang Hyun launched himself skyward, pivoting his body in a complete rotation at the apex.
In that same instant, his sword blazed with Internal Energy.
That overwhelming Secret Technique—the one that annihilates all tribulation and calamity with light—crashed downward toward the earth.
The Seventh Secret Technique of the Unipolar Sword Technique.
Light of Extremity Annihilates Calamity!
A flash.
In that single instant where even sound vanished, a blinding radiance bloomed.
An apocalyptic roar tore through the heavens and earth.
Reality itself seemed to invert with the sound.
“……!”
As if an earthquake had struck, the entire mountain range convulsed, and a pillar of light erupted where the building had stood.
And simultaneously.
The entire foundation of the state research facility simply ceased to exist.
‘Cough!’
Blood welled up Kang Hyun’s throat, threatening to spill—but he swallowed it back.
His expression never wavered as he forced it down.
Everyone’s mouths hung open.
They couldn’t even breathe.
Dirt and debris mushroomed upward from the ruined structure, and where the research facility had been, a colossal crater now yawned open.
‘T-this can’t be real!’
‘How could the Dang Family have someone like this!’
‘…Is that person even human?’
Not just Liu Chen’s group, but Dang So-yu’s Parents and even Dang So-yu herself stood gaping.
How could any human wield such power?
“W-who on earth are you!”
One of the S-rank Hunters, having barely recovered his senses, called out in a trembling voice.
“Is there a Hunter in China—no, in the entire world—with such military strength?”
“Please, tell us your identity! You said you have ties to the Dang Family? I’ll report this to the central authority and guarantee you the highest honors! I beg you…!”
Kang Hyun didn’t even acknowledge their words.
He simply fixed his gaze on Liu Chen and continued from where he’d left off.
“If the Chinese government refuses that girl’s request, or forces her to relive the terrible life she endured…”
Click.
Kang Hyun sheathed the iron sword he’d drawn.
“…then the Chinese government may find itself facing a rather difficult adversary.”
It was a declaration of war against an entire nation, but after witnessing that display of power, no one could dismiss it as mere bluster.
If a monster like that walked into the heart of Beijing?
It was a calamity that made one’s skin crawl merely thinking of it.
“Remember my words well.”
With that.
Whoosh!
Kang Hyun’s figure vanished into thin air without a trace.
Watching his departure, Dang So-yu thought to herself.
‘Wait—Master! At this point, you’ve practically taken the test for me, haven’t you?’

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