Traveling Ten Thousand Miles Just to Be a Dog?

"Did it matter?"

Chu Qing glanced indifferently at the Cui Family Daughter and gazed into the distance.

Over there, the snowflakes were falling even harder.

The Cui Family Daughter paused, then burst out laughing.

"Yeah, did it matter? It didn't!"

"As long as I can carve out the Heaven-Connecting Path, nothing else... matters!"

The Cui Family Daughter stretched lazily and said with a smile:

"The Cui family head hoped I would join hands with you and seize a Martial Academy quota!"

"But I don't want to!"

"So... when you go to the Imperial Capital this time, you won't get a quota at all!"

The Martial Academy in the main city doesn't want you, and the Imperial Capital Martial Academy will reject you!"

"Your future... has already been set in stone!"

Chu Qing was taken aback, then chuckled. "Why would we need to join hands?"

"Competing for quotas depends on one's own ability!"

The Cui Family Daughter rolled her eyes. "You country bumpkin, you don't understand anything."

"Let me tell you—long ago, the scions of the great clans in the Imperial Capital and the main cities began forcing Heaven-Connecting Martial Artists from our provincial cities to follow them and help them seize quotas."

"If you go fight for a quota alone, you'll definitely die a horribly miserable death!"

Chu Qing smiled. "Back in the County Town, people wanted to kill me, but I killed them instead!"

"It was the same in the provincial city!"

"So many people wanted me dead, but I didn't die. They did."

The Cui Family Daughter smiled. "The Imperial Capital is different!"

Her eyes shifted as she said, "The Heaven-Connecting Martial Artists in the Imperial Capital are different from us."

"Their foundations are far more terrifying."

"Though we all walk the Heaven-Connecting Path, the gap between them