The Academy’s Unrivaled Professor - Chapter 75

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Academy’s Absolute Professor, Episode 075
One Light Twelve Slashes
Screee-eeee-eeeee!
First came the piercing shriek of tearing snow, and Gye Mu-jin’s spear tip traced a dozen afterimages through the air.
The thrust drove straight toward Simdeunggwi’s vital point—and yet.
Clang, clang! Clang!
“Is this skin? Or steel plating?”
The hide didn’t so much as split. Instead, the shaft flexed from the recoil so violently that both his hands went numb.
Whoosh!
Simdeunggwi seized the opening and swept an arm toward him.
Even though it only grazed past, Gye Mu-jin felt his blood run cold.
“Get clear, Mu-jin!”
In that instant, Ma Chul-ung’s thunderous roar rang out, and a heavy saber descended in a arc.
Boom!
The Qiankun Lianhuan Tuobai Saber, First Form!
Opening Heaven Form!
The explosion crackled through the air, and for the first time, Simdeunggwi’s flesh tore and it was driven backward.
‘What?’
Gye Mu-jin stared, stunned by what he’d just witnessed.
‘He was on par with me, I was sure of it……’
No—if he was honest, he’d always believed he held the edge, just barely.
If they ever locked in a death match, staking their lives, he was certain it would be he who walked away alive.
‘But he’s gotten that strong in just a few months? That’s insane.’
“What are you doing? Snap out of it!”
“Right, got it!”
Jolted by Ma Chul-ung’s shout, Gye Mu-jin quickly reset his grip on the spear.
Simdeunggwi had retreated only a few steps; it was far from finished.
Though they’d exchanged only a handful of blows, both hunters felt a chill of dread.
It wasn’t just its strength—each attack employed the Six Profound Bone Breaking technique with such relentless precision that defense seemed impossible against it.
“Damn it!”
“Move!”
Bang! Crash!
The ring of steel on steel continued to echo around them.
Both hunters pushed themselves to their limits, yet without realizing it, they were steadily driven deeper into the Ice Canyon.
How much time had passed?
Finally, Simdeunggwi found an opening in Gye Mu-jin’s defense. He went flying through the air and slammed hard into the icy wall.
Crash!
“Ugh!”
Bright red blood spurted from his mouth.
He tumbled into the snow and tried to push himself up, using his spear as a crutch, but a sharp pain shot through his ribs and he could only cough, gasping.
“Mu-jin!”
Sensing the crisis, Ma Chul-ung roared and rushed forward, but Simdeunggwi was unmoved, solid as stone.
Clang! Clanng!
No matter how many times he struck, it was only superficial damage. What good did that do?
He had no choice but to give ground.
And then.
With a dull thud, the cold ice wall pressed against Ma Chul-ung’s broad back.
There was nowhere left to retreat.
‘Damn.’
He tried to hold his ground, but both his arms had already reached their limit.
The moment his saber’s strength began to falter.
Thrust!
Kang Hyun’s blade, trailing brilliant Internal Energy, pierced straight through Simdeunggwi’s back.
“Hyun! Hyun!”
Ma Chul-ung’s eyes widened as he gasped for breath.
Kang Hyun twisted his wrist with a subtle turn.
Squelch!
With a clean cut, Simdeunggwi’s heart was severed clean from its chest.
Robbed of its power source, the jiangshi crumpled to the ground with a heavy thud.
“Hah, hah.”
Ma Chul-ung, gasping for breath, wore an expression of regret.
So he’d needed help from Kang Hyun after all?
“There’s nothing to regret about it.”
Kang Hyun spoke flatly, carving the heart from the blade’s tip and methodically dissecting it with quick, efficient strokes.
Then a vivid crimson crystal emerged, and from the aura it radiated alone, it was a high-purity crystal that rivaled even a superior Magic Stone.
‘Excellent.’
Whoosh.
Kang Hyun picked it up and tucked it into his robes with a nod.
Growl.
Two Simdeunggwi had already pushed through the howling blizzard and now blocked their path ahead.
‘As I thought—there were three of them?’
‘Mongolia’s request for reinforcements made sense.’
Both hunters broke into cold sweat.
They’d barely managed against one just now, and there were two more lurking somewhere.
“It’s not two.”
For the first time, tension edged into Kang Hyun’s voice.
“I’m sorry?”
“Look at the wall.”
At those words, Gye Mu-jin, who’d been leaning against the ice wall, jumped in alarm and stepped back. Ma Chul-ung turned his gaze as well.
And in that same instant.
Flash!
Beyond the ice wall, ten pairs of crimson eyes snapped open in unison.
Ma Chul-ung and Gye Mu-jin felt their skin crawl.
“This, this is insane…….”
“There weren’t just three……?”
Two before them, and ten within the wall.
That meant twelve Simdeunggwi in total stood against them now.
Even Kang Hyun clicked his tongue.
‘Nakshal Gate—look at these bastards.’
He knew that forging a single Simdeunggwi required considerable effort, materials, and demonic energy.
Yet they were conducting synthesis on thirteen of these abominations?
Three had already been activated and roamed freely outside; ten more seemed still in progress.
Though if a Formation array was drawn beneath the ice, even dormant ones could move like this.
‘Taking them all on would be a strain.’
What should he do?
Should he retreat for now?
No, that felt wrong.
If he left them, these horrors would consume more hearts as time passed.
Crack, crackling!
“H-hyun!”
Gye Mu-jin cried out in alarm.
“The ice wall is splitting! Shouldn’t we flee immediately?”
“Don’t panic. Stay close to me.”
Kang Hyun gripped the sword hilt at his waist.
‘That’s right—why run at all.’
Take them all down.
No point leaving them behind to preserve Nakshal Gate’s strength, and besides, he needed those precious Magic Stones embedded in their chests.
‘I happen to have a technique that can bisect all twelve at once.’
Kang Hyun’s primary cultivation art was the Heavenly God Scripture.
It involved accepting a powerful entity called the Heavenly God into one’s body, but that required a Seventh Star Formation—impossible without it.
So Kang Hyun had no unique technique of his own and instead borrowed the arts of others.
The Celestial Warrior Body let him achieve Grand Completion rapidly with any technique, and once he memorized a mantra, he possessed the Talent of Non-Forgetting—the ability to never lose it again. That’s what made it possible!
‘I’ll use the One Extreme Sword Method from Sword Light Lao-kuai.’
Kang Hyun focused.
It was a technique that barely fit within his current suppressed Internal Energy reserves.
He’d have to squeeze out every drop just to deploy it, and if he failed, that would be the end.
Rumble!
At last, the massive ice wall shattered and collapsed entirely.
Growl! Shriek!
All twelve Simdeunggwi surrounded them, radiating terrifying killing intent.
“No, no, Brother…!”
Ma Chul-ung and Gye Mu-jin reflexively pressed close to Kang Hyun the instant they heard his warning.
Screech!
An iron blade half-slid from Kang Hyun’s scabbard.
‘Let’s do this.’
In that same moment, his eyes flared with lethal clarity.
One Extreme Sword Method.
Second technique—One Light Twelve Slashes!
Whip-whip-whip-whip-whip-whip-whip-whip-whip-whip-whip-snap!
Twelve flashes of light erupted in rapid succession, each igniting and fading in less than a single second.
And then.
Kang Hyun’s figure stood motionless far across the snow field, already beyond the encirclement.
He held the perfect closing stance of one who had already completed every strike.
‘What… what in the…’
The two S-rank Hunters had watched it unfold with their own eyes, yet neither could comprehend what had just occurred.
They hadn’t even registered the blade moving, so when had he crossed that distance?
And in the next breath.
Thud, thud-thud. Crack, crack-crack-crack!
Twelve Simdeunggwi froze upright, then their upper bodies crumpled inward, each torso collapsing with its sections severed at impossible angles.
He had carved through the chest cavity above where their cores lay embedded, with surgical precision, in that fraction of a heartbeat.
“In… insane!”
Gye Mu-jin’s lips trembled violently.
Ma Chul-ung stood rigid as stone, his mouth hanging open.
Looking at the thirteen corpses strewn across the ice, neither man could even muster a hollow laugh.
Was any of this even possible?
That he had cleaved hide that even an S-rank Hunter throwing full strength couldn’t breach—very well, they could accept that.
‘But not even the sound of the blade touching anything could be heard.’
To unsheathe that much destructive force within a single second—how could a body move like that?
And more than that, each cut was impossibly precise.
He had split the flesh clean without ever touching the Crystal embedded in the heart.
‘…Is this man truly a Warrior God?’
Gye Mu-jin felt he would never reach such heights, no matter how hard he trained.
In that same moment, he finally understood why Ma Chul-ung—a man who had joined no organization, aligned with no faction—remained tethered to his side.
“Cough!”
That was when crimson blood suddenly surged up Kang Hyun’s throat.
‘Damn.’
Kang Hyun’s brow twisted.
‘Pushed too hard?’
Eighty percent of his Internal Energy was being channeled into suppressing the venom of Asura.
He had used only the remaining ten percent, yet the strain had escalated beyond all proportion.
‘The lock I was holding has come loose.’
Spit.
Kang Hyun wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and withdrew a Liquor Bottle from his pouch.
Gulp, gulp!
For reasons he didn’t understand, this cursed Asura had a poor tolerance for alcohol.
Suppressing it with drink usually helped, but today the pain wouldn’t subside as easily as before.
“Brother! Are you alright?”
“Quiet. Recover the Magic Stones from their chests, now.”
“Yes, sir!”
The two Hunters swiftly gathered the Crystals and tucked them into their pouches.
And in that instant.
Rumble-rumble-rumble!
The balance of the fractured ice walls had shifted; the Ice Canyon began to collapse.
‘Trouble piling on trouble.’
“Chul-ung.”
“Yes, sir!”
“Support me. We run. Now.”
“At once, sir!”
Before the words had even finished leaving his lips, a thunderous CRASH erupted as the ice wall came pouring down.
“Brother, pardon my impertinence!”
Noticing something amiss with Kang Hyun’s condition, Ma Chul-ung hoisted him onto his back.
“Chul-ung, me too!”
“Damn it, you’re serious?”
“Save me too!”
“You two are something else.”
Since Gye Mu-jin wasn’t in much better shape, he slung one across each shoulder and ran.
Crash-crash-crash-crash!
They bolted toward the mouth of the Ice Canyon, fleeing the incoming wall of ice with every ounce of strength they possessed.
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Meanwhile, Batar’s heart felt heavy as he made his way back to the Camp.
It occurred to him that Baek Yu-yeon would be alone.
‘That’s right. I shouldn’t have left under the pretense of showing them the way.’
I should have stayed at her side instead of wasting time in the Ice Canyon.
She was my benefactor, after all—the one who’d made the effort to come here at my earnest request.
What kind of treatment Baek Yu-yeon would receive at the Camp was as predictable as fire.
‘The site director was Professor Chend, wasn’t it?’
Skilled enough, certainly, but notorious for a volatile temper and unbridled arrogance.
A man steeped in authoritarianism would never look kindly upon a foreign student who wasn’t even a formal member yet.
‘He probably ordered her to stay out of the way in some corner.’
He might even have thrown her out of the infirmary altogether.
As that thought took hold, Batar quickened his pace nearly to a run.
Gasping for breath, he arrived at the medical tent and roughly swept back the flap.
“……?!”
The scene inside was nothing like what he’d expected.
“You there, nurse! Get the forceps ready! Professor Chend, what have you been doing since earlier! Aren’t you listening to me?”
Baek Yu-yeon stood with her sleeves rolled up, barking orders.
“Y-yes, understood!”
“Patient number two’s vital channels have opened—inject the blood-replenishing agent immediately! I’ll finish this and go right away! If we wait any longer, the blood vessels will rupture!”
“Got it! Injecting now!”
“Patient number five! His condition is critical!”
“Wait just a moment!”
Batar couldn’t believe his own eyes.
There was Baek Yu-yeon, inserting needles with an almost possessed intensity, commanding the entire infirmary!
Standing dumbfounded, Batar approached a nurse who was pressing down on a rattling basin nearby.
“Tell me—what exactly is happening here?”
The nurse answered between labored breaths.
“Professor Batar? Ah! You brought this physician here, didn’t you?”
“And?”
“You brought us someone truly precious.”
The nurse’s eyes were flushed red.
She had witnessed firsthand the charisma that this young girl wielded before dying patients—how she preserved their lives through sheer force of will.
The nurse’s voice trembled with emotion.
“She is Mongolia’s hero. She’s saving most of the patients who were dying here. Look at Professor Chend over there—he’s following her instructions as though entranced.”
The nurse’s grip on the basin tightened.
“We will never forget this physician for as long as we live.”

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