Black Smoke World!
A High-Grade World controlled by Black Smoke Venerable, with tens of thousands of Mid-to-Low-Grade Worlds attached to it!
Black Smoke Venerable was a Seventh-Level Devil lifeform who had already entered the upper echelons of the Devil Race's power. And given the Devil Race's law of the jungle, it was only natural for a Seventh-Level powerhouse like him to have a fief of his own.
However, the cluster of worlds where Black Smoke World was located lay in the middle-to-outer reaches of the Demonic-Energy Corrosion Civilization. It was not the most remote backwater, but it was hardly valued by the civilization as a whole.
After all, if Black Smoke Venerable had been sufficiently experienced, he would not have been sent to the front lines to fight the Abyssal Zerg right from the start.
Passing through one World Passage after another, Green paid little attention to their dark-purple interiors.
He was carefully examining how Black Smoke Venerable managed his territory.
Because the Demonic-Energy Corrosion Civilization had expanded too quickly, and because of its particular cultural traits, its administration of conquered worlds was extremely primitive.
Black Smoke Venerable managed his territory much like a feudal empire.
He had established a dynasty called the Black Smoke Dynasty, recruited some high-ranking Devils, and used them to rule over countless worlds.
This was in keeping with the nature of transcendent civilizations. Since power rested in the individual, powerful beings had little need to rely on those below them. It was the lower-ranking individuals who needed the protection of the powerful.
"A feudal empire. If the Demonic-Energy Corrosion Civilization hadn't developed Demonic Qi with such tremendous potential, it would probably have reached its limits long ago under this system!"
Feudal rule had a serious flaw: it led to the concentration of land in