The cities of the Heavenly Prison world were conceptually rather different from those of The Present World.
The great cities of the demon race were exceptionally tall, vast, and massive; a single city was nearly a nation unto itself.
If the entire demon race were considered as one whole, it more closely resembled a colossal empire of city-states. The Primordial Imperial City sat at the center, with all city-states under heaven submitting to it.
The transition from "tribes" to "city-states" was also a fundamental transformation for the demon race, with its hundred lineages and thousand kinds.
Though the Human Race had the saying, "Different accents every ten li, different customs every hundred," with each having their own languages and traditions, and people's affiliations divided among different nations, sects, and various organizations, everyone still shared an overarching sense of identity as humans.
The demon race, with its hundred lineages and thousand kinds, was not like that.
Even during the glorious age when the demon Heavenly Court ruled all worlds, life-and-death wars between the races were commonplace. Wars of extermination erupted at the drop of a hat, and blood flowed into rivers.
The demon race was a collective concept, a general term for the Spirit Clan born of heaven.
That which first grew was still bent and had not yet stretched forth—this was the form of yao; "yaoyao" described the appearance of youth and flourishing vigor. The extended meaning of the demon race was the young daughters born of Heaven. Favored by heaven and earth, uniquely beloved by The Present World, they were thus the rulers of all worlds.
Yet this lofty race that ruled the myriad worlds, with its tens of millions of internal branches, also had distinctions of superiority and inferiority, high and low.
There were cat clans that slaughtered