After reaching a cooperation agreement with the dean of the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, the two also received official positions at the academy. Tang Qingye served as an honorary teacher, while Gu Yuena served as the librarian.
They took no part in managing the Sun Moon Academy, but enjoyed all the benefits and cultivation resources afforded to its teachers.
At the same time, Deming Pavilion, the Soul Tool Secret Vault that housed the academy's most closely guarded secrets, was also opened to them.
The Soul Tool Secret Vault was a massive alloy structure buried deep beneath the academy. It was the most confidential place in the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy, with a vast number of top secrets sealed inside.
The entire Soul Tool Secret Vault was completely closed to outsiders. Even the academy's academic affairs administrators were not allowed near its outer perimeter without authorization credentials issued by the dean.
Anyone outside the academy's top-level core personnel was forbidden from taking even half a step closer.
The bottom level held paper files on ordinary soul tool theory; the middle level housed hand-drawn drafts of advanced soul tools; the deepest section contained secret holdings that even ordinary academy instructors had no right to enter.
Entering the Soul Tool Secret Vault required a clearance token authorized by the senior leadership. Even instructors from within the academy were turned away without that credential.
Only the academy's highest-ranking figures could enter the vault's deepest section, which housed design drawings for God-Slaying-grade Fixed Soul Cannon Shells, Level 9 Soul Tool Core Calculation Drafts, files on rare alloy smelting ratios, structural blueprints for humanoid soul-powered mecha, and Memory Crystals containing countless calculation records.
For the vast majority of academy personnel, this area was already forbidden ground.
The vault's main door was far