Over a dozen days later, Rock Demon City.
This city was the largest within several hundred light-years, a gathering place for countless demons and the most prosperous, flourishing place around. Innumerable demons streamed in and out, conducting trade.
Like humans, they lived in this city in orderly fashion.
"It seems the Abyss truly is utterly different from before."
At that moment, Xia Ping sat alone in a tavern, drinking rice wine brewed in the Abyss. It was as scorching as magma and carried a terrifying power of Abyssal corrosion.
If any life-form from the myriad races of the heavens took a sip, they would likely fall into an Abyssal creature in an instant.
But he was different. The Hell Golden Crow Bloodline within him could effortlessly devour and refine the Abyssal power contained in the potent liquor, making it his own.
At the same time, the mana within his body seemed to have increased as well.
Watching the Abyss Demons around the tavern drink and boast, he could not help feeling deeply moved. If he were not actually in the Abyss, he would have thought he was still in the Present World Universe.
Based on his previous impressions, he had believed this Abyss Continent should be filled with terrifying battles, with war raging everywhere. Countless Abyss Demons would fight one another to the death without end, beacon fires rising on all sides as flames of war swept across the land.
The buildings should have been primitive as well. City walls and houses made of stone would already have counted as advanced; ordinary demons should have lived in caves.
Yet now that he had arrived in this city, he discovered that everything was orderly. The architectural techniques were also highly advanced, brimming with savage vitality and not much different from human