Lin Jiayi said, "This is where the real Illustrious Virtue Hall is located. It is indeed underground, but not beneath the Illustrious Virtue Hall building. It lies beneath the entire Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. The academy has two levels: the academy aboveground, and the whole of Illustrious Virtue Hall below. The space before us is the hall's main chamber. It contains five thousand workbenches, enough for five thousand teams to manufacture soul tools. Each workbench is supplied with a certain quantity of rare metals that the soul engineers are free to use. This is one of Illustrious Virtue Hall's benefits. Those metals are worth a fortune."
"Besides this space, there are special experimental facilities and research institutes around the chamber, with even tighter security. Most of the research conducted in those facilities involves imperial secrets. Without special authorization, ordinary people cannot enter. The entire main chamber is under surveillance. Here, anyone who interferes with someone else's soul tool manufacturing may be treated as an intruder and shot dead on the spot. The archives that store soul engineers' blueprints are also among those rooms, and they are heavily guarded."
Lin Jiayi introduced the entirety of Illustrious Virtue Hall to Jiang Hai. No one would have imagined that it was so enormous, or that it lay beneath the entire Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy. It was easy to imagine how many of the Sun Moon Empire's finest soul engineers had gathered in this vast hall, and how many research breakthroughs emerged from it every year.
Without lingering in the main chamber, Lin Jiayi led Jiang Hai through a sealed door. After passing through an entirely metal corridor, they stopped outside a laboratory. Lin Jiayi said, "This is the hall master's office. Wait here a moment while I report to