Cui Family Daughter

Chu Qing stood atop the carriage as snowflakes began to fall when he left Shi State.

Dozens of carriages stretched from head to tail in a mighty procession.

The Cui Family, the Hua Family, and several other aristocratic lineages sent guards to escort him, their feelings complicated.

When they learned that the main city had refused Chu Qing entry into its Martial Academy and that he was heading to the Imperial Capital instead, their emotions had remained complicated ever since.

To them, the Imperial Capital was impossibly high and far beyond reach.

They had only occasionally dreamed of going to the Imperial Capital.

Yet they had never considered actually making a trip there.

Much less gaining a foothold in the Imperial Capital.

After being rejected by the main city, Chu Qing had chosen without hesitation to go to the Imperial Capital within mere days.

To seize a place at the Imperial Capital Martial Academy.

That idea... was simply heaven-defying.

They had lived their entire lives, and their lineages had existed for eight hundred or even a thousand years.

Yet all they had ever wanted was to settle in the main city.

They had never dared dream of gaining a foothold in the Imperial Capital.

But now:

Chu Qing was telling them that he was going to the Imperial Capital.

Not only would he gain a foothold there, he would also enter the Imperial Capital Martial Academy.

What kind of mad maneuver was that?

Could he succeed?

Among the crowd, only the Cui Family head was secretly thrilled.

Because someone from their family had also opened the Heaven-Connecting Path.

If two people who had opened the Heaven-Connecting Path joined forces, then as long as one entered the Imperial Capital Martial Academy, his lineage would surely soar into the heavens.

King Shiyu