Banyan Island lived up to its name, covered from end to end by a colossal banyan tree.
Birds were plentiful here, but at this moment, the gaps between the banyan's roots had been completely opened up, forming natural passageways. The trunk had natural pores that connected through those passageways to the uppermost layer of the canopy, where the Griffins nested.
More than three hundred Griffins roosted atop this enormous banyan tree. Passing through the trunk and into the roots led to the Griffin knights' resting quarters and training rooms. Further underground stood grand halls piled from layers of Azure Sea Stone, descending level after level for a total of nine floors.
The Golden Lion Grand Duke's reception room was on the fifth floor. Deeper underground lay even more secret spaces, used not only to store strategic weapons, but also as warm nests for breeding Griffins.
At the very bottom, using this great banyan tree as its foundation, there was an independent Derivative Space. The banyan absorbed the surrounding elements and poured them into the Derivative Space, creating an entirely separate world.
Clearly, this was not a place the Golden Lion Grand Duke had fled to in panic. He had been planning for it long ago.
Yet strangely, skulls marked with the words "Evilized" could be seen everywhere, as though they had already acknowledged their identity.
When Li Ziran appeared on Banyan Island, the Golden Lion Grand Duke did not fear exposing himself in the slightest and came directly to the top of the banyan to greet him.
Compared to before, the Golden Lion Grand Duke looked much younger. Li Ziran remembered that the last time they met, he had been heavily wrinkled and his hair mottled with white. Now, his wrinkles had noticeably diminished, and only a few white hairs