Cui Zhixia's cultivation rose, and he successfully entered the Dao Integration Realm. Overjoyed, Cui Taichu, head of the Dragon Gate Academy, asked Xin Wuming to personally teach him his supreme techniques.
Nor did Cui Zhixia disappoint them. In the days that followed, he challenged the major sects around the Capital City one after another.
With a strangely shaped divine weapon called the Shark Dagger, he defeated the sect master of the Songyang Sword Sect, an elder of the Yique Sword Gate, the chief elder of the Beimong Nether Sect, and the master of the Bronze Camel Ironclad Gate in succession, stunning the entire Capital.
His final battle against the Cloud Dream Pavilion on the Luo River drew countless cultivators from the martial world to watch.
That day, a sea of people crowded the banks of the Luo River, and even the pleasure boats were packed with spectators. The dagger in Cui Zhixia's hand, curved like a shark's tooth, appeared and vanished like a ghost. Its attacks were bizarre and vicious, leaving Hu Yinmeng, mistress of the Cloud Dream Pavilion, groaning in distress.
Hu Yinmeng was renowned for her Shocking Swan Shadow Movement, her figure drifting like a startled swan casting its reflection. Yet that day, no matter how she dodged and twisted, Cui Zhixia's Shark Dagger clung to her like a maggot burrowing into bone, never straying an inch.
In the end, Hu Yinmeng conceded on the spot after he used the Sword Talisman Way to slice off the silver hoop behind her ear.
Thunderous applause erupted from the watching cultivators. For a time, Cui Zhixia's fame was unrivaled. The resentment that had long weighed on his heart was swept clean away, and he felt vindicated, his confidence bursting at the seams.
Now, when he walked down the street, he