Just like that, both commanders fled for their lives. The remaining heavenly soldiers and generals hastily mounted clouds and scattered in every direction. Fortunately, they all carried bound tokens that could activate teleportation and take them back to the First Heaven.
In theory, the greater one's strength and status, the higher one lived among the Thirty-Six Heavens.
Heavenly soldiers and generals generally lived in the First Heaven. Even Marshal Tianpeng's residence was only in the Sixth Heaven of the First Realm.
The Heavenly River lay in the Fourth Heaven of the First Realm.
The Desire Realm was the Sixth Realm, and Yaoji had originally lived in its Fourth Heaven.
The Thirty-Six Heavens were divided into six realms. The First Realm had six heavens, the Second Realm eighteen, the Third Realm four, the Fourth Realm five, the Fifth Realm three, and the Sixth Realm was Great Luo Heaven.
The Heavenly Court had thirty-six heavens in total. Many demons, monsters, and ghosts below the Golden Immortal level could not even break through the barriers between realms.
Even the First Heaven alone was an immense world of cultivation, vaster and more boundless than Above the Heavens, which Xiao Tian had seen. Back in the Demon Court's era, countless living beings had inhabited it, descendants of powerful members of the Demon Tribe and creatures of the Primordial World who had multiplied over untold ages.
Now, however, it had all become ruins.
In fact, when the Demon Tribe ruled the Heavenly Court, it had only been divided into nine heavens. The Witch Tribe had fought its way upward, heaven by heaven, destroying the Demon Tribe's legacy, and chaos had reigned throughout the world ever since.
All nine heavens had been battered into wreckage, riddled with holes. Dao Ancestor Hongjun had patched and mended them into