Lu Li followed Black Lily onward, but he still could not help asking who the Botanical Garden's leader had been before.
Black Lily's explanation surprised him. She said the Botanical Garden had never had a leader in the past, so Manjushage was nominally the Vice Leader, but in reality, she had been its sole manager.
Still, Lu Li felt there might be something they did not know behind all this. Otherwise, why would the Botanical Garden have such strange rules? Only after asking did he learn that Manjushage had not officially been made leader until she returned after the great disaster ended a hundred million years ago.
Before long, he arrived at the Botanical Garden's headquarters for the first time—or rather, the home of End Space's strongest expert.
The top level of the Doomsday Vine was filled with standalone manor estates. Once inside, the place opened into an entirely different world. There were not many houses here, and at a glance, their number matched the number of Ninth Order experts currently in End Space.
Among them, the manor before Lu Li was the largest, clearly displaying its owner's status in End Space.
After Black Lily led Lu Li inside, he finally met the Legendary Grade figure who had helped him many times. Yet perhaps because his own realm was no longer low, and because he had already met even stronger people, he felt no great stir in his heart.
"Greetings, Senior Manjushage."
Lu Li bowed politely.
The woman seated by the tea table rose to greet him as well. She was extraordinarily tall, over 1.7 meters, and wore a vivid red dress with an eerie charm that called to mind a blooming otherworld flower.
Her face, however, lacked that eerie feeling. It was clear and refined, utterly free of seduction.