Manggu Academy, which guarded the entire Manggu Star Domain and ranked among the academies second only to the Nine Star Palaces, had an Eighth-Tier Star Lord as its president and Seventh-Tier Star Lords as its vice presidents.
However, given the Star Alliance's current situation, the Eighth-Tier Star Lord who presided over Manggu Star Palace had long since taken most of the academy's fighting forces to the front lines, joining the battles to hold back the armies of the Divine Realm and Spirit Realm, the Demon Cultivators, and the Void Demon Race.
The same was true of nearly every other academy in the Star Alliance's various star domains, not just Manggu Academy.
In fact, as far as Liang Ji knew, several of the Eighth-Tier Star Lord presidents of the Star Palace's thirty-four academies across its thirty-four star domains had already fallen in the successive great battles.
Manggu Academy had fared relatively well. At least its Eighth-Tier Star Lord president was still alive, though he was now fighting on the front lines and could hardly return to oversee the defense of Manggu Academy and the Manggu Star Domain.
The highest-ranking person remaining at Manggu Academy was a Seventh-Tier Star Lord vice president. He was the one responsible for handing things over to Liang Ji and for controlling and operating the grand array of the Manggu Star Domain, as well as coordinating and merging it with the Wu artificial star domain under Liang Ji's control.
So, once the Artificial Star Domain and the Manggu Star Domain had merged, and the central region of the Artificial Star Domain under his command had joined with Manggu City, Liang Ji directly took over control and command of the entire Manggu Star Domain.
The Seventh-Tier Star Lord vice president left behind at Manggu Academy had no objections