The express maintenance elevator descended sixty thousand miles straight into the deepest sub-solar bedrock beneath the Central Mega-Sun.
Inside the brass elevator cage, Gu Changsheng stood with his arms crossed calmly over his yellow bunny apron, watching the depth numerals click downward on the wall gauge. Beside him stood Empress Luo Qingxue, her hand resting lightly on the frost-jade hilt of her sword. Meanwhile, Grandpa Fu stood half a step behind them, his Jade-Abacus Cane sweeping the ancient basalt shaft for concealed Upper-Realm array traps.
Above ground, on the sunlit campus of the 1,000-Sun Cosmic Family & Civic University, the five newly minted Rank 8 Early children were busy presiding over their afternoon faculty classes. Moreover, Welcoming the fifty million new freshmen. Gu Changsheng hadn’t mentioned the hidden vault to the kids yet.
A good father always checked what was rattling around in the basement before calling the children downstairs.
“Master Gu,” Grandpa Fu reported quietly as the brass cage dropped past the forty-thousand-mile mark, the jade beads on his cane clicking in a steady rhythm. “According to the confiscated maintenance logs from the smelting core, Former Headmaster Hong discovered this sub-solar shaft three thousand years ago when the Heavenly Script Pavilion first constructed the academy.”
