The Academy’s Unrivaled Professor - Chapter 70

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Academy’s Absolute Professor Episode 70
The Array Ghost’s First Secret Art: Array Formation
After teaching my four disciples repeatedly, a month had already slipped away without notice.

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First.
“Hyaaaaaaah!”
Crash!
Do Jeong-hyeok had finally shattered the boulder to pieces.
Every last fragment had been reduced to sand, yet not a single scratch marked his knuckles.
“Haah, haah!”
The Diamond Body had always been hard to begin with, but now it was even more resilient.
“Master! I’m done!”
“Good work.”
Kang Hyeon, who had already ascended to the peak, brought down something onto the spot where the original boulder had rested.
Boom!
A massive Steel Plate, more than three handspans thick, struck the ground.
“……!”
Do Jeong-hyeok gasped.
“P-Professor, what is this……?”
“A custom-made piece. High-density alloy used in tank armor plating, or so I’m told.”
That wasn’t what puzzled Do Jeong-hyeok.
This thing must weigh hundreds of kilograms…… You brought it all the way up here?
When? How?
“The next stage is to strike it.”
“You mean destroy the plate?”
“No—strike it without leaving a dent.”
“……What?”
Hit it, but don’t dent it?
What did that have to do with training?
Do Jeong-hyeok adjusted his strength and gave it a gentle tap.
Ting!
A bright, clear sound rang out.
“Are you playing around? Strike with full force.”
“Oh, full force? Yes, sir!”
Do Jeong-hyeok planted his lower body firmly and rotated his waist, striking the Steel Plate with all his might.
Crash, crash, crash……!
The impact thundered across the mountain, echoing back.
But Do Jeong-hyeok’s face hardened.
A deep, fist-shaped indentation had been gouged into the plate’s surface.
“You dented it. Again.”
“But……isn’t it natural for it to dent when you strike with full force?”
“If you only train the obvious, how will you grow stronger? True strength comes from unconventional training. Your body’s durability and destructive power are sufficient now. What you need is control over your force.”
Kang Hyeon stepped toward the Steel Plate and raised his fist.
Do Jeong-hyeok swallowed and moved aside.
“Watch closely.”
Boom!
An explosive roar erupted—incomparable to the sound Do Jeong-hyeok had made.
The impact spawned a whirlwind of sand that twisted and swirled.
“Whoa.”
Do Jeong-hyeok instinctively threw his arm up to shield his face.
‘This—what is this? At that power, the plate should’ve been sent flying entirely.’
But when the dust settled and the Steel Plate came into view again, it remained exactly as before.
Only the dent Do Jeong-hyeok had left was still there; everything else was untouched.
‘That’s impossible.’
“At the moment of impact, withdraw your force completely from the surface. Do you know what happens then?”
It was then.
Crack, crack-crack!
The back of the Steel Plate bulged outward and immediately split open like a spiderweb of fractures.
The front remained pristine, but the back had shattered completely.
“All the force you expend passes through without striking the surface—it penetrates entirely inward. I call this the Penetrating Force.”
“……!”
It was a formidable technique.
Mastered properly, it mattered not whether your opponent raised a shield, wrapped themselves in protective energy, or hid behind a wall.
A single fist could shatter it all.
“When you can perfect this control of force,”
weight entered Kang Hyeon’s voice.
“I will teach you the Iron Fist.”
Do Jeong-hyeok could learn the secret martial art of the Old Ghost of the Iron Mountain at once.
Because he possessed the Diamond Body.
Do Jeong-hyeok felt his heart leap at the very mention of Iron Fist—why was that?
“I’ll give it my all, Master!”
“Just in case, I’ve ordered a few extra. If they get too warped to use, let me know.”
“Yes, Master!”

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Next.
Baek Yu-yeon memorized that thick Heaven Origin Pill Refinement Formula in a single week, then moved straight to practice.
Her short-term goal was singular.
Extract the essence of Supreme Yin Jade from the raw material and craft a medicinal pill for Baek Yu-seol!
While preparing the medicine, she did not neglect her acupuncture training in the infirmary.
In short, she was only now beginning to show the bearing of a true physician.

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Baek Yu-seol, too, possessed a fierce determination.
Since the day she began the horse stance, she had not missed a single day of training.
When she could hold for thirty minutes, she would collapse and sleep; nothing more.
But once she managed an hour, her stamina began to increase—she could spend far more time with her family now.
Kang Hyeon visited every weekend to verify that the Extreme Yin Heart Method was properly taking root within her.

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While Kang Hyeon’s disciples flourished, the Academy had quietly entered final examination season.
The campus itself hung heavy with tension, and wherever one went, the spirited shouts of students echoed through the halls.
But to Kang Hyeon, it was all a foreign concern.
He was a contract instructor, after all.
Final examination grades were assessed individually by the tenured professors in their respective departments—it was not his domain.
Of course, the Five Clouds Society showed no interest in final exams either.
Having already made the top sixteen in the midterm tournament, they received exemption from expulsion for the entire year, regardless of what grades they earned.
They abandoned regular classes entirely and trained only in private behind the New Training Hall.
Yet the other professors could say nothing about it.
Hunters, in the end, live or die by strength alone.
It was already absurd to brandish attendance records or test scores in front of the academy’s elite students.

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Meanwhile, Kang Hyeon’s building, rising on the grounds behind the New Training Hall, had already revealed its impressive silhouette in full.
Once the break began, dozens of workers would be brought in to handle the detailed finishing work.
And in the corner of the open space beside it.
“Master! There. Yes! Turn it just a smidge more to the left!”
“Like this?”
“No, a bit further. Whoa! Any more and the space will be misaligned!”
Kang Hyeon crouched on the bare earth, carefully driving Array Wood and Jade Stone into the ground.
Beside him, Min Seo-jun flashed his Ghost Eye and chattered ceaselessly.
Having already mastered more than half of the Heaven Earth Qimen Chart Explanation, he was more than a match for most Array Formation practitioners.
“Um, but Master. Isn’t that the Death Gate? Why are you putting Jade Stone there?”
“If you press life force into a place of death, the outer space sometimes grows thin from the resulting repulsion,” he said.
In truth, Kang Hyeon did not fully understand the principle himself.
He had simply memorized the explanation the Array Ghost used to ramble on about.
‘What I’m installing now is one of his secret Array Formations.’
The Space Transfer Array.
It was a formation he absolutely had to complete to eventually develop Taejeong Market into a world-class black market.
But then.
“Wow!”
Min Seo-jun’s mouth fell open in admiration.
“If we do it that way, we won’t need to tear open space at all! Using only the repulsive force to carve away the barrier—what an ingenious application! Master, you really are a genius! How do you even come up with such ideas?”
As Min Seo-jun clutched his head in wonder, Kang Hyeon cleared his throat awkwardly and looked away.
‘I have no idea myself, kid.’
It was enough that the boy understood perfectly without needing an explanation.
‘The Array Ghost is yours to command now.’
Kang Hyeon wiped the sweat from his brow.
This was his first time implementing knowledge from his mind into actual practice.
That’s why he needed Min Seo-jun’s help.
‘I can’t see the flow of Qi with my own eyes, but with his Ghost Eye, it’ll be crystal clear to him.’
And.
Behind the two of them, crawling across the dirt and placing stones, Professor Park Tae-gun stood swallowing hard repeatedly.
‘What on earth…… are those two…… exactly?’
At first, he’d nodded contentedly—so Professor Kang Hyeon also knows the fundamentals of Array Formation! But as the array grew more complex, his expression had grown increasingly grave.
The pattern taking shape defied all conventional knowledge of Array Formation studies, spiraling into something bizarre. The problem was that Min Seo-jun loved it.
“Whoa! Master! I’ve never seen anything like this!”
“It’s so beautiful! These layers of overlapping space!”
Park Tae-gun suddenly looked around at his surroundings.
Could they be in the middle of filming a variety show special?
‘Prank the Academy Professor! Surprise—hidden camera!’ He half expected a PD and camera crew to jump out from behind the bushes.
He would have preferred that.
Kang Hyeon and Min Seo-jun kept rolling around in the dirt, laying out the Array Formation until sunset, and Park Tae-gun, consumed with curiosity, refused to leave and simply kept watching, trying to understand.
The two of them never tired, and it was only at midnight that—
“We’re done!”
“Yaaaay!”
They collapsed onto the ground and let out cheers of triumph.
“Seo-jun, look. Does it look clean?”
“Yes! The space is completely bound as one now!”
“Good.”
Kang Hyeon stood up with a smile.
“We’ve got one gate done, so we’ll start on the opposite gate tomorrow.”
“Sounds great! We’re exactly halfway there now!”
Park Tae-gun was flabbergasted.
After all that work, this was only half?

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The opposite gate was placed two hundred meters away, which meant—
The required Mana Stones grew exponentially with distance.
Since this was just a demonstration, there was no need to overextend themselves.
The second gate was completed around sunset as well.
“Wow, Master! It’s done! In theory, the two spaces are now completely overlapped!”
“Is that so? Then shall we test it?”
Kang Hyeon pulled two Mana Stones, each the size of a thumbnail, from his pocket.
They were the drops that came from defeating monsters in dungeons.
‘One for each Array Eye.’
Up until that moment, Park Tae-gun still had no idea what kind of Array Formation they’d actually constructed.
But.
Whoosh.
Kang Hyeon took a single step across the boundary of the Array Formation.
Hummmmm!
His form wavered like heat shimmer.
Flash!
In the blink of an eye, he was standing at the exit two hundred meters away.
“Yaaaay!”
Min Seo-jun bounced up and down, cheering wildly.

“You try it too, kid.”
“Okay!”
Min Seo-jun darted back and forth between the two doorways without pause, even positioning himself in the middle as though wedged between them.
The sight was grotesque—as if a person had been cleaved in half and the pieces scattered to opposite ends of the space.
Yet Min Seo-jun moved his limbs with obvious delight.
……
Park Tae-gun watched the display and came close to losing consciousness.
‘Am I dreaming?’
He rubbed his eyes hard without thinking.
No matter how vigorously he rubbed them, the scene before him refused to change.
‘This… can this even be real?’
Every Array Formation he had ever known involved twisting directions to deceive vision or manipulating the flow of energy to conjure illusions—the realm of mere trickery.
But what he had just witnessed……
Shouldn’t that be called magic rather than an Array Formation?
“P-Professor Kang!”
Park Tae-gun seized Kang Hyeon’s sleeve without thinking.
“Where on earth did you—how did you possibly learn this!?”
“This?”
Kang Hyeon withdrew his arm with an air of annoyance and replied.
“I simply happened to read about it in an old manuscript I found by chance.”
“An old manuscript? But what ancient text would contain such godlike power……!”
Park Tae-gun tore at his own hair in desperation.
“The moment this is published in the academic world, it will turn the entire globe upside down. Commercialized spatial transit! This is a Nobel Prize. The Swedish Academy would establish a Nobel Array Formation Prize solely to honor you for such a monumental achievement!”
Kang Hyeon ignored his fervent outburst, lost instead in thought.
‘The real problem is the Mana Stones……’
The number of doorways that could connect to Taejeong Market was virtually limitless.
The plan was to link not only domestic locations but major cities worldwide as well, maximizing accessibility.
To achieve that, one would clearly need an astronomical supply of Mana Stones.
‘Where can I possibly source that many Mana Stones?’

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