The Academy’s Unrivaled Professor - Chapter 62

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Academy Absolute Professor Episode 062
Demonstrating the Heavenly Physician Ghost Needle
A method?
Of course there is.
Knowing the medicine of the Mad Hand No Goe, with the Reverse Tendon Classic and the Heavenly Physician’s Mirror lodged in his mind—how could he not?
The current Kang Hyeon was no different from a living Hua Tuo capable of treating even the Nine Yin Meridian Severing.
‘But.’
His gaze pierced through Kasar’s Qi-Blood.
His eyes, honed by No Goe’s training, possessed an ability no different from the Heavenly Meridian Eyes.
‘Baek Yu-yeon would be perfect for practice material.’
At her level, she wouldn’t solve it easily, but it wouldn’t be too difficult either.
‘I’m sorry to them, but I’ll have to entrust this to Yu-yeon.’
Kang Hyeon had no obligation to come forward and solve everything himself.
Just as Kasar, Mongolia’s most promising prospect, was important to them, the growth of a disciple who could complete the Seven Luminaries Formation was far more important to Kang Hyeon.
Besides, wasn’t that the path that served the many as well?
He would stand watch beside her throughout Baek Yu-yeon’s procedure anyway, so there was no real danger to Kasar’s life.
“There is a way.”
“Truly?”
Batar’s eyes flew wide open.
“Yes. My disciple at the Academy’s Medical Office should be more than capable of handling it.”
“……The Academy’s Medical Office?”
His expression shifted in an instant.
“Surely you don’t mean a martial medicine student who hasn’t even graduated yet?”
“That’s right. Baek Yu-yeon—she’s fairly well-known here.”
“Are you joking with me, Professor Kang?”
Batar’s face hardened.
It was a natural reaction.
Mongolia’s finest medical team had been mobilized to treat Kasar’s condition.
Yet they hadn’t even found the cause—and now a mere student from a Korean academy would cure it?
“Our student’s life is on the line. I think we should seek cooperation from the American or Chinese side…….”
“You can do that if you like. But time is something you don’t have much of.”
“What?”
“Left as is, his heart will burst before a day passes.”
“……!”
If that was true, it was dire indeed.
Seeking cooperation would be difficult, and it would take more than a day physically for them to enter the country.
Then what was to be done?
Batar clenched his teeth as his heart burned with urgency.
“Aaaaaaah!”
Kasar, who had been lying still, convulsed again.
The energy of the Heart Lamp Demon within him was trying to escape.
Batar grew frantic.
“Professor Kang! Can we truly trust you on this?”
“The choice is yours. I’m not forcing you.”
Kang Hyeon, having said his piece, glanced at Kasar once more, then turned and walked away.
Batar’s blood ran cold, but he had no choice.
At the very least, he couldn’t just leave things as they were!
“Everyone assemble! Pack your things at once! Training is suspended—return immediately!”

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Crash!
Late at night, the Medical Office door burst open roughly.
“Clear the way! Emergency patient!”
With Batar’s urgent cry, Mongolian students rushed in carrying Kasar on a stretcher.
Kang Hyeon alone followed at a leisurely pace.
Professor Hwang Ye-rim, who happened to be on duty, and Baek Yu-yeon, who had rushed over after receiving word, greeted them.
“What in the world has happened?”
Hwang Ye-rim’s face, turned toward Kang Hyeon, was etched with confusion.
‘With such exceptional medical skill, why not treat him directly?’
But Kang Hyeon merely answered with a shrug of his shoulders.
At the same time, he shook the Whiskey Bottle in his pocket with a soft clink, as if to say something without words.
‘You can’t place needles while completely drunk, can you?’
“Ah, let’s see first. Yu-yeon! Check the meridians and examine the pupils!”
“Yes!”
Hwang Ye-rim set aside her questions for the moment.
The patient’s condition was far too urgent for leisurely inquiries.
“Body temperature is abnormally elevated. And the Qi-Blood…….”
To Baek Yu-yeon’s eyes, which possessed the Heavenly Meridian Eyes, it was starkly visible.
Beneath Kasar’s skin, something dark writhed in a grotesque, frenzied dance.
“The Qi-Blood is completely reversed…… What on earth is this!”
Cold sweat trickled down her spine at the sight of something entirely new to her.
She sifted through every detail of the Comprehensive Meridian Theory and Heavenly Physician Ghost Needle burned into her memory, but not a single line described a case like this.
Fear gripped her.
‘Master, what is this?’
Baek Yu-yeon’s instinct drew her to Kang Hyeon, but he was already leaning against the wall at an angle.
Kang Hyeon’s eyes were not on the patient.
They were fixed solely on Baek Yu-yeon.
“Find the answer yourself.”
Baek Yu-yeon’s shoulders tensed.
She understood in an instant.
‘This is a test.’
Her master could certainly cure this, yet he had entrusted this patient to her anyway.
The realization brought her some comfort.
Her racing heartbeat settled into a steady rhythm.
“…… First, malevolent Qi has coagulated in the Heart Protector. That Qi is traveling through the Blood Meridian and flowing backward throughout the entire body.”
Hwang Ye-rim’s eyes widened at Baek Yu-yeon’s clear response.
“Then we must disperse the Qi immediately! Yu-yeon, prepare the Long Needle for the Great Palace Gate Acupoint——”
“No!”
Baek Yu-yeon shook her head.
“If we disperse it now, that Qi will fragment and tear the Heart Meridian apart. We can’t disperse it—we have to channel it to one point and draw it out.”
“How?”
“Give me a moment.”
She thought without blinking once.
‘What must be done. First, I need to open an alternate pathway.’
Her jade-green eyes deepened slightly.
The Heavenly Meridian Eyes probed even deeper into the Blood Meridian.
‘Simply opening won’t do. I have to create a path it can exit from, coax it, and drive it in one direction.’
Already, a three-dimensional map of Kasar’s Blood Meridians was constructed in her mind.
‘Then what if I block its backward escape route? It would try to move elsewhere to survive…… If I create one opening at a time and guide it that way?’
In the process of deriving the answer.
“Graaaaagh!”
Kasar convulsed again.
Every blood vessel in his body protruded and swelled blackly, as if about to burst at any moment.
“Move!”
Batar’s patience had snapped.
Thud—crack—crack—crack!
An overwhelming killing intent from the S-Rank Hunter bore down on the Medical Office.
“Hngh……!”
Hwang Ye-rim’s face drained of color and she stumbled backward.
Baek Yu-yeon too found herself collapsing without thinking.
‘Is this an S-Rank Hunter?’
The difference in caliber was undeniable.
People said that mere killing intent from such a being could slay a man—now she knew it was true!
“So it was your plan all along to use my disciple as an experimental subject for your medical training?”
Just as Batar moved toward Kasar, Kang Hyeon stepped into his path.
“Do not interfere.”
“What?”
“Are your eyes mere decoration? Can’t you see he’s straining with all his might to save your disciple? If you truly cared for him, you’d suppress your anger and stand back.”
“You really want to die——”
The moment Batar’s reason began to shatter, something appeared again.
A solitary figure standing atop the Four Immortal Peaks Abyss—a phantom born of that very image.
“……!”
Batar flinched.
What in the world was this man?
Without question, he’d never seen anyone like this, not even in international matches.
In the end, Batar pulled back his momentum.
The fever that had been building subsided for a moment, and reason returned.
‘There’s nothing to gain by thrashing about here now.’
Yet he couldn’t simply retreat and turn his back.
“You’d do well to remember this. If this treatment fails and something happens to my student, then I will not rest until I’ve made you pay with your life.”
“As you wish.”
Kang Hyeon replied curtly, then gestured to Baek Yu-yeon with a jut of his chin.
An unspoken command: continue with what you were doing, don’t mind him.
“Professor Hwang.”
“Yes?”
“I’m going to seal the Spirit Platform and Spirit Path.”
“Block the backflow? Isn’t that dangerous?”
“It can’t be helped. I need to block everything with needles, then open only the Lesser Sea to extract it.”
“Will that actually work?”
Human qi-blood flows like a river.
Block the channel and it doesn’t simply flow docile into another course.
It can surge and burst the dam.
And this wasn’t even ordinary qi—this was malevolent Demonic Qi!
“I can’t think of any other way. Professor, please stabilize the patient’s upper body. We’re running out of time!”
“Right, understood.”
Somewhere along the way, the positions of professor and student had reversed.
Baek Yu-yeon was the surgeon, and Hwang Ye-rim was the assistant.
Thwick! Thwack-thwick!
Hwang Ye-rim placed needles at the blood meridians, paralyzing Kasar.
Baek Yu-yeon drove a Long Needle directly into the Spirit Platform and Spirit Path without hesitation.
“Kyaaaaaaagh!”
‘Good, blocked for now.’
Now the real work began.
Thump-thump, thump-thump-thump!
With the exit sealed, the blood vessels began to swell as if about to burst.
Poke, poke-poke-poke!
Baek Yu-yeon continued placing needles with fluid grace.
Ghostly needlework, pure and simple.
To the untrained eye, it would have seemed the work of spirits themselves.
“Good! Now if I can extract what’s in the Lesser Sea……”
Swish.
A Long Needle withdrew cleanly.
But.
Thump-thump, thump-thump-thump!
The qi wasn’t moving as she’d intended.
Instead of flowing toward the Lesser Sea, it began to clot as if intent on rupturing the blood vessels themselves.
And its direction was……
‘The brain?’
Spurt!
Black blood fountained from Kasar’s nose and mouth.
“Vitals are collapsing! The meridians are about to sever!”
Hwang Ye-rim’s face went sheet-white as she cried out.
Kasar’s heartbeat thrashed wildly before dropping—thump, thump—beginning to falter.
The Demonic Qi surging toward his brain was gnawing through his lifeline.
“What are you——!”
Batar’s eyes bulged as he tried to surge forward again.
But Baek Yu-yeon heard nothing.
– When qi-blood tangles, you don’t soothe it. If Demonic Qi could be soothed, it wouldn’t be Demonic Qi, would it?
Why? It was as if she could hear her master’s voice.
‘That’s right.’
That’s what she’s doing—trying to comfort him.
Baek Yu-yeon bit down hard on her lip.
“Professor Hwang! Apply pressure to the Dove Tail and Chest Center acupoints! With full force!”
“What? Those are the gateway to the heart! If I press there, he could actually stop breathing…….”
“There’s no time! Do it!”
Hwang Ye-rim startled at the sharp command, but having committed to helping, she did so decisively.
“Hnh!”
She gathered her internal energy into both palms and pressed hard against the center of Kasar’s chest.
‘Now!’
Three needles in Baek Yu-yeon’s hand sliced through the air.
This time, she was not simply piercing.
In the same motion as the insertion, she twisted the needle tips with a faint thread of qi woven through them.
An application of the Heavenly Physician Ghost Needle technique.
Snap! Crack!
The Shoulder Well on his shoulder, the Clear Cold Abyss above the elbow, and finally her true target—the Lesser Sea on the inner arm!
“……!”
Even Batar froze at that eerie precision.
He instinctively held back his own momentum, lest he interfere.
Looking at the fierce concentration blazing in Baek Yu-yeon’s eyes in this moment, even if Kasar’s parents had appeared, he would have stepped aside.
The needles began driving the demonic qi toward one side of the arm.
Crack-crack! Crack!
Kasar’s right arm swelled grotesquely.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!”
“Almost there!”
Baek Yu-yeon reached for the thickest needle—the Three-Edged Needle.
And without mercy, she drove it straight into the center of the Lesser Sea acupoint, now blackened and distended.
Thud!
In that instant.
Eeeeeeeeeee!
Not from Kasar’s mouth, but from the burst meridian itself—a bone-chilling shriek erupted.
Splaaaah!
Foul-smelling blood sprayed upward.
‘Got it!’
Baek Yu-yeon was watching through her Heavenly Meridian Eyes.
That was it—the demonic qi that had been tormenting Kasar!
The problem was…….
That blood carried murderous intent.
The blood of the Heart Lamp Demon, now unmoored from its host, was seeking a new target to possess.
“Where are you going, you little parasite.”
Pop!
Kang Hyeon, who had been watching, uncorked the Whiskey Bottle.
The blood, seized by Void Capture, was sucked into the bottle.
Shhhhhhhhh!
Not a drop was left—it was all crammed and compressed inside.
Swift.
The cork was sealed shut with a solid twist.
Click, click!
The sound of it filled the Medical Office with an eerie silence.
Hwang Ye-rim stood vacant-eyed, her gaze darting between Kang Hyeon and the bottle, while the Mongolia students and Batar stared with jaws hanging slack.

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