Ye Kunlun?
At the sound of that name, Jin Dapao and Ouyang Jian looked utterly lost.
But Xiao Tian Ce's stern face froze.
He had heard that name before.
It was more than a name. It was a taboo, a legend, a man buried in the Dragon Kingdom's most classified research files...
A madman!
"Elder Xu, are you sure?"
Xiao Tian Ce swallowed hard. "Wasn't Ye Kunlun banned for life from anything related to genetic research after conducting illegal experiments?"
"A madman?"
Elder Xu snorted, a complicated look flashing through his aged eyes.
"Yes, he's a madman! An utter madman the world has never understood!"
"At twenty, he earned doctorates in both biology and physics. At thirty, he became the youngest academician in the Dragon Kingdom Academy of Sciences!"
"His mind is said to be the closest thing to a god's in the Dragon Kingdom! To him, the rest of us are dim-witted barbarians!"
Elder Xu's words shook everyone present.
"He conducted all kinds of unthinkable animal experiments, trying to break the shackles of genetics and create entirely new species."
"The death toll was too high and his methods too extreme. Every one of his projects was shut down, and he was placed under house arrest."
"But—"
Elder Xu's tone shifted, and he drove home every word.
"No one can deny that he understands the mysteries of the human body better than anyone in the Dragon Kingdom—or the entire world!"
"More importantly, he was once the chief scientist of the [Kunlun Project]!"
The [Kunlun Project]!
Those words made Xiao Tian Ce's heart skip a beat!
It was the Dragon Kingdom's secret human-potential development program, launched to counter the threat of overseas Transcendents and rival the [Adam Project]!
But the risks and uncontrollable variables had been so great that the authorities