Destiny Points alone were enough to give Lu Ren a headache.
After pondering for a long while, Lu Ren suddenly realized that the place supporting his ascension was not Border City at all, but the myriad worlds searched by the system. Although the endless array patterns laid throughout Border City had reinforced space-time to an unimaginable extent—even a Heavenly Immortal who exhausted all their True Energy within it would likely be unable to exert even one ten-thousandth of the power they once wielded in the Current Great World's universe.
That was only to be expected. After all, more than a billion Heavenly Immortals had gathered here, likely accounting for over twenty or thirty percent of all the Heavenly Immortals in the entire Current Great World.
Having lived here for so long, Lu Ren even began to feel as though, after climbing upward for all this time, he had suddenly looked back and found himself still standing in the same place.
During these peaceful days, Lu Ren had also discovered that Border City largely turned a blind eye to smuggling routes such as the Path to Ascension. Border City's garrison needed a great deal of fresh manpower, while an official Golden Immortal had declared that smuggling was forbidden. Yet the enormous personnel shortage in Border City's military stood right before them. The Border City authorities could not openly defy that Golden Immortal, so they could only turn a blind eye. As for smugglers, so long as they obediently followed the traffickers in—
Everything could be discussed.
This put Lu Ren at ease. Still, when he thought of Hanging Mountain on the Path to Ascension, where he had seen Purple Qi Comes From the East stretching endlessly into the distance and a Golden Immortal traveling in reverse, away from Border City, there