Sweeping the Academy with a Wooden Sword

Dan Cheonwoo approached Lee Dojin.

Dan Cheonwoo, once called the Sword Emperor, wasn’t particularly displeased with the current situation.

Even though his current self was just an illusion created by the power of the girl named Mistilteinn beside him.

Because for the current Dan Cheonwoo, this place was reality.

And he thought that even the dead original Dan Cheonwoo wouldn’t be too displeased.

He had wanted to have at least one disciple but couldn’t, after all.

“Give me your arm.”

Lee Dojin obediently extended his arm to Dan Cheonwoo.
After touching the meridians and dantian in his arm, he nodded slowly.

“This is truly a rare case. It’s a blocked meridian that can’t be resolved by any divine technique. But to make the dantian activate when holding a wooden sword or branch, you should bow to her.”

Mistilteinn was watching Lee Dojin and Dan Cheonwoo from afar.

“Of course I’m grateful.”

Dan Cheonwoo snickered again.

“Now come at me. With all your might.”

Lee Dojin raised his wooden sword.
Colorless sword energy flickered on the wooden sword.

‘I’ll have to replace that worthless divine technique first.’

Having glimpsed the Superion mana cultivation method Lee Dojin was using, Dan Cheonwoo thought he should first get rid of that low-level divine technique.

Thud!

Lee Dojin stepped firmly on the ground.
And thrust his sword towards Dan Cheonwoo. There was no room to attempt a combo attack.

He puts his all into a single strike.
The wooden sword tore through the air and rushed towards Dan Cheonwoo.
However, Dan Cheonwoo’s expression was utterly calm.

Lee Dojin’s strike, which seemed like it would cut through everything.
Stopped abruptly as if hitting an iron wall.

Thud!

And it wasn’t even an iron wall, but just a skinny, short branch.

“Not bad, youngster. Keep going.”

Lee Dojin’s eyes widened.

‘…Not bad, he says?’

Lee Dojin was dumbfounded. Receiving his all-out strike like a child’s play?

“Don’t dwell on the gap between you and me. It’s just a very natural difference in level. Come on, keep going as I said.”

Dan Cheonwoo gestured to Lee Dojin.

Lee Dojin thrust his sword.
He put his all into each and every strike.

Of course, all that effort was rendered futile by Dan Cheonwoo’s hand.

“Continue.”

Tatatang!

Dan Cheonwoo deflected the colorless sword energy rushing from all directions with just one branch.

“Continue.”

Lee Dojin gritted his teeth. And he recalled. Baek Hwayeon’s <5 Consecutive Thrusts> he had seen a few days ago.

Was it because he had seen the exact attack routes and order with Mistilteinn’s function?

‘I can do it.’

Lee Dojin deconstructed Baek Hwayeon’s technique in his mind.
He stepped firmly on the ground.
Lee Dojin’s wooden sword once again tore through space.

This time, Dan Cheonwoo’s eyes showed a glimmer of interest, having thought it would be another straightforward thrust.

At a glance, it looked like sword energy coming from 5 directions simultaneously.

‘Consecutive thrusts achieved by pushing the movement of wrists and arms to the extreme, huh.’

This much could probably deceive the eyes of a second-rate warrior.

Dan Cheonwoo lightly deflected all 5 consecutive thrusts with his branch.

“That technique just now. Where did you learn it?”

Lee Dojin, breathing heavily, slowly shook his head.

“It’s a technique of an opponent I fought a few days ago.”

“Oh ho, you recreated it after seeing it just once? Keep going.”

After that, Lee Dojin poured out sword energy towards Dan Cheonwoo for a long time.

Clang!

Of course, all those sword paths were lightly blocked by the branch.
Lee Dojin finally collapsed.

Thud!

“Huff…! Huff.”

His heart was beating violently.
The muscles throughout his body felt like they were being torn apart.

Dan Cheonwoo fell into thought as he looked at Lee Dojin sprawled out.

‘This guy.’

While burdened with the fatal factor of blocked meridians, he overflowed with combat talent.

‘He was born with martial talent.’

Talent for martial arts.
His sense for controlling his body was close to that of a genius.

‘He’ll be a sufficient vessel to contain my sword path.’

If the vessel is inadequate, no matter how hard one tries, results won’t be produced.

But the youngster before him showed sufficient potential.

Realizing that the one he had to nurture was overflowing with talent, motivation welled up.

“Get up, youngster. First, we need to overhaul your internal energy method.”

Lee Dojin, who had sprung up, stared at Dan Cheonwoo.

“What’s an internal energy method?”

Dan Cheonwoo, having received all the knowledge needed to teach Lee Dojin, answered without hesitation.

“It’s what you call a mana cultivation method.”
Dan Cheonwoo looked at Mistilteinn.

“Can you create a book for me to use?”

“Of course.”

Green light flickered in Mistilteinn’s hand. And that light soon changed into the form of a book.

Dan Cheonwoo began to write something in that book without hesitation.

“What you’ll learn is the Reverse Heaven Divine Technique. What I’m writing now is its formula. The Reverse Heaven Divine Technique is a divine technique surpassing first-class, and it’s also a technique passed down to only one person through my master.”

It didn’t even take 30 minutes to write all the formulas.

“Read it.”

Lee Dojin took the completed Reverse Heaven Divine Technique formula book.
Blue-green light flickered in Mistilteinn’s eyes.

Then, a now-familiar window appeared in front of Lee Dojin.
With phrases he had never seen before.

[Learning mode starts.]

[Concentration increases dramatically.]

[Language interpretation and comprehension rise to maximum.]

The optimal environment for learning was provided.
Lee Dojin quickly read through the Reverse Heaven Divine Technique formula book.

With Mistilteinn’s power, he completed reading the formula book in a short time and fully understood it.

Mistilteinn, who had slowly walked up behind the two, handed a branch to Lee Dojin.

“While physical strengthening here becomes futile in reality, mana power and internal energy carry over as they are. Because they’re mediated through me.”

Lee Dojin took the branch Mistilteinn handed over.
Lee Dojin now realized it.
One year in Mistilteinn’s world time. Six months in real time.

Infinite training awaited during that time.

“Sit in a cross-legged position.”

“Understood.”

Lee Dojin sat in a cross-legged position while holding the branch.

“You probably understand roughly from the formula book, but I’ll draw the flow of energy on your back so you can get a clear sense. From now on, engrave in your mind the energy path I move.”

Swish-

Dan Cheonwoo placed his finger on Lee Dojin’s training uniform.
Lee Dojin moved his internal energy as Dan Cheonwoo guided.

It took Lee Dojin a full two days to build up the 1-star Reverse Heaven Divine Technique.

“Stand up and circulate your energy.”

Following Dan Cheonwoo’s words, Lee Dojin circulated his energy while holding the wooden sword.

Swish!

Flames rose on the colorless wooden sword.

“From now on, we’ll combine training and the divine technique.”

In Dan Cheonwoo’s hand was something similar to the wooden sword in Lee Dojin’s hand.

“Come, disciple.”

Dan Cheonwoo grinned.

“The eye for seeing sword paths improves fastest in actual combat.”

And Lee Dojin was one-sidedly beaten.

Hit. And hit again. He was hit hundreds of times. His whole body ached with pain, but Lee Dojin didn’t ask to stop.

Because he gradually began to see Dan Cheonwoo’s sword path.

Swoosh!

The wooden sword striking down fiercely like lightning.

‘Now!’

Lee Dojin recognized the sword path and stepped so hard that the ground was deeply dented.

Instantly rotating his body halfway, Lee Dojin immediately thrust his sword.

Swish!

But in the place where Dan Cheonwoo should have been, not even his afterimage remained.

“Seems like you’re getting the hang of it now, disciple.”

Dan Cheonwoo’s voice was heard from behind, and.

Thwack!

Pain bloomed in his shoulder once again.

After the training ended, Dan Cheonwoo granted a short rest period.

Mistilteinn embraced the collapsed Lee Dojin and patted him.

“You worked hard, master.”

“Thank you…”

Lee Dojin leaned in weakly.
From behind, Dan Cheonwoo’s chuckling was heard.

“Right, you’ve worked hard, so you deserve that much sweetness.”

Mistilteinn glared at Dan Cheonwoo for a moment, then looked back at Lee Dojin.

“The internal energy is preserved. And your brain will remember all the training from here. After a year of training ends and you return to reality, if you move your body a little, you’ll be able to acquire the results obtained here as they are.”
“That’s a relief.”

“It will be. Because the core of martial arts is not the body, but the mind.”

Dan Cheonwoo, having heard everything from Mistilteinn, nodded while thinking about the nature of martial arts.

“Then let’s start again, disciple. There’s no need to sleep, so this is truly a training paradise.”

The real Lee Dojin was as if indulging in continuous sleep for 6 months.
Instead, Lee Dojin in Mistilteinn’s world had no need to sleep.

The one-sided violence began again.

The girl with long pink hair, Baek Hwayeon, looked ahead.

In front of her was a woman with red hair. There was a long scar on the left cheek of the woman.

“Master, master. I met a strong friend a few days ago! At Mount Gamak.”

“A strong friend?”

The woman smiled and stroked Baek Hwayeon’s hair.

“Yes! He blocked all of my Second Form with a wooden sword! And he kept using only the wooden sword until the end!”

The woman’s eyes widened.

“He blocked your Second Form with a wooden sword… That’s quite an amazing friend. Did you ask his name?”

Baek Hwayeon nodded.

“Dojin! He said his name was Lee Dojin. Oh, he said he’s going to Iroaz Academy next year. I’m going to teach him a lesson when we meet then.”

“Right, right. You should teach him a lesson. I’d like to see that friend too.”

One of the four superhumans of South Korea.
It was the moment when Sword Empress (劍后) Yoo Seol-ah engraved the name Lee Dojin in her mind.