Compared with Reilo, whose many academic abilities had already been partially revealed to the public and hailed as legends and classics of higher academia, An Liya—the second person in the Academic World to enter the Grandmaster realm—was undoubtedly far more mysterious.
People only knew that this Grandmaster had once served as Grade Director at the Grand Natural Sciences Academy and authored the academic classic Alien Spirit Communication. Later, for reasons that were never made public, she had a major falling-out with Golden Pig Xiao Kang. At the time, it had caused quite a stir among alchemists. Only after Reilo, the dean of the Grand Natural Sciences Academy, personally intervened to mediate did she eventually join the Ten Elders Council...
As for the T-Gene Engineering Blueprint, it was a secret accessible to only a very small number of people.
As the foremost outpost in the Academic World's resistance against the Destroyer armies, the X Advancement Academy drew enormous attention to An Liya, its only other Grandmaster besides Reilo. In fact, she attracted no less attention than he did.
After all, the more mysterious something was, the more compelling it tended to be.
At that moment,
An Liya had already been fighting Zunlong for nearly four hours, using Alien Spirit Communication against him after he had unlocked his second battle-potential tier. The fight had lasted from day into night.
Compared with Zunlong's fiery, unrestrained style, as he recklessly unleashed the savage power within him, An Liya seemed far more passive and restrained. Her body was completely concealed beneath a voluminous cloak. The flesh beneath it seemed inhuman, like a mass of writhing tumors.
As Zunlong launched another attack, An Liya remained composed. A giant tentacle dozens of meters long shot from beneath her clothes in an instant. Black, keratinous spikes covered it,