The city was bustling.
One might not expect it, but the Heavenly Path did, indeed, have cities. Not only did it have cities, it had many of them.
With the sheer number of cultivators entering at once, it was impossible to expect that they would just spend their days in the wilderness, hunting after beasts day in and day out. Depending on the whims of the Heavenly Path, one opening could last anywhere from a few months all the way up several decades. Even for cultivators, if the timing was closer to the latter than the former, they couldn't possibly spend the entire time fighting.
As a result of this, the cities of the Heavenly Path acted as a sort of recharge station where the currency was, once again Heavenly Favor. Not only did you need to pay a certain amount of Heavenly Favor to enter these cities, but everything within cost even more Heavenly Favor.
