Jiang Ding silently watched An Siyan amid the students.
Unlike Jin Lingfeng, who had always served in the military and built her career there, An Siyan had followed the classic path of balancing university teaching and scientific research, aside from the necessary wars.
She had been developing within Clearwind University's Department of Array Spirit Algorithms and Immortal Dao Artificial Intelligence. Over the years, the two had collaborated from time to time and often met.
An Siyan had received her Daoist title a little over two hundred years ago. Her representative work was <Breakthrough Research on Structure No. in Array Spirit Algorithms>, which had advanced the Immortal Sect's Dao Integration-level Array Spirit algorithms by one step.
Of course, it was only a very small step.
It was a vast undertaking involving the entire Immortal Sect. Divine Mechanism Heavenly Lord, Yuan, and others had poured their life's work into it. Countless schools within the Immortal Sect, countless teachers and students, had participated, passing the torch from generation to generation in relay-like research and development.
Even so, making even a tiny breakthrough in the enormous project of Dao Integration-level Array Spirit algorithms counted as a top-tier contribution among Nascent Soul Cultivators. Her talent and ability were extraordinary.
On that basis, An Siyan received that year's Immortal Sect Science and Technology Progress Award. After her personal wishes had been consulted, she was granted the Daoist title True Lord Siyan.
Because of this achievement, An Siyan had also received a Spirit Transformation opportunity.
"Hi!"
"Long time no see!"
At that moment, a pretty young woman with loose silver hair like moonlight walked over, waving her pale, slender fingers before the blue-robed youth.
He did not even blink.
Jiang Ding carefully studied the silver-haired woman he had not seen in a long time.
She looked the