The Academy’s Unrivaled Professor - Chapter 83

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Academy’s Absolute Professor Episode 083
Break out of the fishbowl
“No, Master!”
After finishing the conference, Baek Yu-yeon had followed Kang Hyun to his lodgings, so frustrated and upset she could barely contain herself.
“I really don’t understand no matter how I think about it. It’s supposed to be an exchange conference. How can they gather us to share perspectives and then prevent students from even talking to each other? Does that make any sense?”
Throughout the conference, the Chinese Public Security Bureau officers had been glaring at Baek Yu-yeon with their eyes wide open, so her grievance was well-founded.
“Then what’s the point of coming to Paris in the first place?”
Lee Se-ah handed her a cup of tea to calm her agitation.
“Just accept it. It’s China, after all.”
“But even in China, would such arbitrary control be allowed at a global event?”
“Yes, precisely because it’s China.”
China was a superpower vying for first or second place in the world.
Countries like the United States or the United Kingdom might lodge a protest, but most nations wouldn’t dare open their mouths.
Especially not Korea, a hunter-underdeveloped country.
“Sigh.”
Baek Yu-yeon felt the disappointment keenly.
At least she’d had someone she could talk to.
Slurp.
While she sat by the window, sipping her tea in dejection.
Toss.
Kang Hyun, who had been sitting by the window, threw his mobile phone onto the sofa.
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He skimmed through the dungeon conquests of six nations at double speed, but as expected, there was no talent worth noting.
‘The problem is Dang So-yu.’
In truth, it would have been cleaner if she were from a minor power.
Whether through money or martial prowess.
All he’d need to do was win her over.
But because she was from China, it had become difficult.
It seemed they had already recognized the Cheonsal Body and were controlling her as a state asset—there was absolutely no way to extract her through legal means.
‘Hmm.’
So what should he do?
As Kang Hyun was pondering, an image of Hwangtcheon Doksu suddenly surfaced in his mind.

* * *
Hwangtcheon Doksu’s lessons were always torment.
The jar filled with poison reeked of something putrid, and the old man would throw me into it every time.
– Hehehehe, you brat, does it hurt? Don’t complain. Compared to my life born with the Cheonsal Body, your suffering is nothing! Have you ever experienced spitting your mother’s blood instead of nursing at her breast, or felt your tears burn through the floor? Compared to my life, poisoned in every breath, living as a monster forever, your pain is nothing but a joke! So don’t whine about it!
That’s when I understood.
The nature of what the Cheonsal Body possessed.
– To stand against Asura, you must achieve Mandok Bulchim. Even then, you won’t be able to stop Asura’s poison. Their poison is said to exist beyond the realm of Mandok Bulchim.
Hwangtcheon Doksu would boil me in poison while rambling endlessly about his past.
How he poisoned his own mother when he was just an infant, how he was treated as a monster everywhere he went, how someone raised him as a weapon of murder.
I thought perhaps he was venting the hatred for the world that had built up from living such a cursed life onto me.
In any case, that old man talked a lot.
He even told me how he came to learn the Mokyojin.
– Then one day, that old man Geokmwang came looking for me and suddenly said this. There is a Demon that will descend upon the world, and to stop it, the power of seven is necessary, so join me. Hehehehe, do you know what I said?
I remember not responding at all.
I wasn’t even in a state of mind to respond.
– My venom is the Demon itself, and I am calamity incarnate—why would I stop it? Have you come to stop me? Should I spit poison at you?
He said no at first.
But then, why did he end up taking on Mokyojin, one axis of the Chilyojin?
– The Chilyojin is not originally a formation array drawn on the ground with mystical divination. It’s a formation that unfolds from within, using internal power to make the warrior’s own body the formation’s eye! But when that madman Geokmwang taught me the incantation for Mokyojin, do you know what happened?
Kang Hyun clearly remembered the joy that mixed into Hwangtcheon Doksu’s voice.
– My poison that had been gushing out uncontrollably became docile! The poison that had gnawed at me my entire life—I could now control it by my own will! Kehehehe! For those with the Cheonsal Body, the Mokyojin incantation is salvation itself. Like a bee finding honey, like a parched traveler finding an oasis in the desert! Those with the Cheonsal Body have no choice but to sell their very souls for that incantation! Now that the old story is done, swallow this freshly made poison pill!
“Blegh! Cough!”

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‘That damned old man.’
Kang Hyun furrowed his brow and shook off the thoughts.
Suddenly, a wave of nausea washed over him.
When he thought about it, Kang Hyun had Hwangtcheon Doksu to thank for the fact that he could still live with Asura’s toxic essence coiled in his Dantian.
In effect, Kang Hyun existed in a state bordering on Mandok Bulchim—immunity to virtually all poisons.
‘In any case.’
The old man had spoken.
The Cheonsal Body could be lured out through the incantation of Mokyojin.
Then what?
He had to tempt her.
With the Chinese government throwing up barriers, extracting Dang So-yu by force was pointless.
Instead, he needed to manipulate Dang So-yu into becoming so desperate for a way out that she’d devise her own means of escape.
Of course, he couldn’t simply hand over the Secret Manual of Mokyojin.
Even if he gave it to her, she didn’t have the cultivation foundation to master it herself—and besides, Chilyojin was ultimately his asset.
‘I should teach her only the Saengjang Tongje-jin, the third among the foundational arrays of Mokyojin.’
If she had some understanding of poison cultivation and possessed the keen intellect of the Cheonsal Body, that incantation alone would let her exercise some control over the poison radiating from her own body.
If she tasted even once the miracle of that poison being suppressed—
she would never forget that honey-sweet sensation, and she would crave the next incantation with all her being.
“Baek Yu-yeon.”
“Yes?”
“I’m going to teach you an incantation. Pass it on to Dang So-yu. With that incantation, she’ll feel better.”
“Really? But how? The Public Security Bureau agents have everything locked down.”
“Didn’t you say it yourself?”
“……?”
“You called it an Exchange Conference. At an academic meeting assembled for students to exchange ideas, what’s to stop students from talking to one another?”
“Oh!”
Baek Yu-yeon clapped her hands together.
“The question-and-answer session?”
“That’s right.”
Kang Hyun nodded and scribbled something in his notebook.
It was a simple incantation from a foundational array.
“Just deliver this. Can you do it?”
“……I’ll have to make sure the Public Security agents don’t find out, right?”
“For her sake, the more careful you are, the better.”
“……I’ll try.”
Whenever Kang Hyun saw Dang So-yu, it reminded him of Baek Yu-seol.
That was why, whenever there was a way, he wanted to help.

* * *
Tuesday. The conference hall.
Kang Hyun attended the session as usual, and Baek Yu-yeon’s eyes were bloodshot.
She’d stayed up all night worrying over how to deliver the message properly.
Dang So-yu had arrived early and was already seated.
The moment they made eye contact, the eyes visible above her mask seemed to say something.
‘I want to talk to you.’
Baek Yu-yeon answered with a glance.
‘I want to talk to you too, friend.’
At that, a Public Security agent’s eyes went sharp and narrowed.
‘Tch. I get it, I get it.’
Baek Yu-yeon pouted slightly and prepared for her presentation.
Today’s second session—what was the main topic?
<Emergency Treatment for Patients Infected with Magical Beast Toxin>
It was precisely Dang So-yu’s specialty.
Students from the United States and France took the podium, laying out the proportions of antidote compounds and emergency treatment methods they’d researched.
The content itself was excellent, but it didn’t venture beyond textbook-level instruction.
“Is there another presenter?”
The moderator’s words had barely finished before—
“I do.”
Baek Yu-yeon raised her hand and stood from her seat.
In that moment, a stir ran through the hall.
“Oh, the Mongolian angel finally?”
“But didn’t she specialize in Acupuncture? What’s this about poison all of a sudden?”
“I heard poison was that Chinese girl’s field. That’s why she’s kept in quarantine like that, isn’t it?”
Tap, tap.
Baek Yu-yeon, having taken the podium, displayed the materials she had prepared.
Not clinical data of patients, but an anatomical diagram of a Magical Beast.
“This is an anatomical diagram of the Cheongrin Dokseom, a Magical Beast known for its deadly venom. Today, I’d like to focus on how this creature harbors and controls such terrible toxins within its body.”
The Students tilted their heads in confusion at her presentation.
They were discussing patient treatment, and suddenly she brings up a Magical Beast?
“Excuse me, but doesn’t the focus seem a bit off?”
A British Student raised her hand and interjected.
“Isn’t that a topic that should be covered in Magical Beast ecology rather than martial medicine?”
“Right. We came here to treat patients, not to observe Magical Beasts.”
Heads nodded in agreement throughout the room.
But Baek Yu-yeon was unfazed and countered smoothly.
“If we’re going to treat the venom of a Magical Beast that’s invaded a human body, shouldn’t we first understand how that venom operates within the beast’s own system?”
It was a fair point.
But the British Student was no pushover either.
“But humans and Magical Beasts have entirely different Qi circulatory structures in their bodies.”
“Different or not, we have to try.”
Baek Yu-yeon fired back without hesitation.
“Poison research has clinical limitations. Just as we use rats and pigs for clinical experiments, we must gather as many clues as we can from observable Magical Beasts and derive treatment methods from them. We might even discover something significant enough to advance medicine while uncovering how Magical Beasts suppress venom.”
Baek Yu-yeon knew her argument had some forced elements to it, but she threw her whole body into the presentation.
That was the only way to convey it.
To Dang So-yu.
……!
And at that very moment, Dang So-yu’s pupils trembled.
‘Venom-spewing…… Magical Beast, and control……?’
Could it be that Yu-yeon was……
‘Talking about me?’
Dang So-yu’s heart began to race.
“When this beast emits its venom, the liver doesn’t carelessly send toxins everywhere. Instead, the beast undergoes three peculiar patterns of Qi circulation through breathing.”
The Cheongrin Dokseom undergoes Qi circulation?
That was obviously a lie.
What would a toad be doing, employing some martial technique?
She was packaging it plausibly, but the substance of it was the incantation of the Saengjang Tongje-jin, the third foundational array of the Mokyojin, which she began to recite.
While staring directly at Dang So-yu.
Though medical terminology and anatomy were woven throughout, the essence was a martial incantation.
Of course, she had deliberately fragmented and mixed it so that the other Students and the Public Security Bureau agents wouldn’t recognize it, but she believed Dang So-yu would understand.
‘To be honest.’
She wanted to add outright: There could be someone with similar symptoms to this, couldn’t there?
But she restrained herself.
Afraid the Public Security Bureau agents might catch on.
Baek Yu-yeon finished her presentation and posed a question.
“That concludes my explanation. Does anyone have questions about this circulatory structure?”
Swift.
Within the quarantine zone, Dang So-yu’s hand shot up.
The agents were startled, but they couldn’t prevent academic questions and answers themselves.
“I have a question.”
Dang So-yu’s voice trembled.
“About the final part of the Qi circulation you described in that Magical Beast. If—and I mean if—the toxin’s energy from the venom became too strong and tried to reverse flow, how would the beast maintain that flow?”
It was a question about a side effect that could happen right now in Dang So-yu’s own body.
Baek Yu-yeon smiled and answered.
“It’s a good question, but it’s impossible. A venom-using beast emitting venom that its own body can’t handle would be absurd, wouldn’t it? It’s not as though a Magical Beast can recite an incantation.”
It wasn’t a genuinely ignorant question.
Dang So-yu was asking something else.
‘You, that’s an incantation! You’re telling me to memorize it!’
Baek Yu-yeon responded to that.
‘Right, a human can recite an incantation even if a Magical Beast can’t! Try it!’
The agents would never suspect.
They’d think it was just talk about the Cheongrin Dokseom.
Baek Yu-yeon continued.
“In fact, while researching, I did find a way for this Qi to flow even better. However, my master has not yet granted me permission to share that, so I’ll end my presentation here.”
In other words, it boils down to this.
That’s a basic Incantation, but our Master knows plenty of even better ones!
The problem is, the Master won’t give permission for me to share them.
‘A master?’
As Dang So-yu tilted her head in confusion, Baek Yu-yeon gestured with her eyes toward the spectators’ section.
There sat a Korean man with Sunglasses on, his arms folded across his chest.
‘You don’t mean that person is your master?’
Dang So-yu blinked, and Baek Yu-yeon gave a slight nod.
Kang Hyeon, observing the whole exchange, felt the corners of his mouth lift.
‘Clever girl. She solved it elegantly.’
The Dantian he’d given her this time was already proving its worth.
She’d transmitted the Incantation and deceived the Public Security Bureau’s watchful eyes in one stroke.
‘And on top of it all, she’s made a point to appeal to me at the end?’
Kang Hyeon applauded silently in his mind.
The bait had been cast.
Kang Hyeon settled back against his chair with leisure.
Now he simply had to wait for the fish to break the bowl and leap out on its own.
And when it bit the bait?
All he needed to do was reel it in—hard and fast.

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