Su Xiao's gaze swept around him. Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baja were nowhere nearby.
Black chimneys built from volcanic rock towered into the sky, billowing thick smoke that drifted away. The smoke was blue-black, with sparks faintly visible within it.
As the smoke rose into the sky, the sulfur smell in the surrounding area grew stronger. There were at least a hundred of these enormous chimneys, each several meters thick, around Fallen City.
With such a massive discharge of exhaust, the surrounding environment should have been polluted beyond recognition long ago. Yet the reality was different. Although the air smelled of sulfur, its oxygen content was not low. There was even a faint, sweet fragrance, like the scent produced when some kind of plant was burned.
The Demon Clan was not wantonly discharging exhaust. The Shattered Continent had originally been an oxygenless, weightless environment that was unsuitable for all but some of the Demon Clan. That was why they had tried to transform the air, gravity, and attraction here, and even create a unique ecological balance.
After countless years of development, the Demon Clan had clearly succeeded. They had even formed an atmosphere around the Shattered Continent, allowing the water resources here to circulate.
The lizard Su Xiao had seen earlier was the result of the Demon Clan's years of effort. An ecological balance had already emerged here.
The Demon Clan was very different from what people imagined. They did not tempt others into signing contracts every day, nor did they think about invading the worlds inhabited by humans. Not to mention that the human and humanoid races in the Void were no pushovers, the Demon Clan had no need to do that. They were already very wealthy and possessed numerous industries in the Void.
In reality, the Demon Clan