Heaven Dou Royal Academy was an academy for noble soul masters, situated roughly twenty kilometers outside Heaven Dou City.
It occupied an immense area, for the entire mountain, towering a thousand meters high, belonged to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
The main campus of Heaven Dou Royal Academy consisted entirely of single-story buildings, giving it the appearance of a fortress.
Its outer walls stood five meters high and were bright yellow throughout, making a striking sight. Glazed tiles also covered the tops of the walls, glittering brilliantly beneath the blazing sun.
Heaven Dou Royal Academy's facilities were no worse than those of Spirit Hall Academy. It had mimicry cultivation environments for soul masters of every attribute; at most, it fell a little short in the caliber of its top teaching staff.
Since Heaven Dou Royal Academy belonged to the imperial family of the Heaven Dou Empire, its nominal dean was the empire's emperor, Xue Ye.
But as emperor, Xue Ye had no time to oversee it as well, so an Education Committee was formed from the three most senior and powerful Heaven Dou Grade teachers.
The Education Committee decided all academy affairs, great and small, though certain important matters still required approval from the Heaven Dou Empire's imperial family.
The academy currently had more than five hundred students, almost all children of nobles from the empire and its subordinate kingdoms, and over fifty teachers.
Students were divided into three tiers. New students and those below rank 25 belonged to the first tier, known as the heavenly subtle level.
Those between ranks 25 and 30 belonged to the heavenly supreme level, while those above rank 30 entered the highest tier, the Heaven Dou Grade.
Teachers followed the same classification as students. At Heaven Dou Academy, teachers between ranks 40 and 50 were