Question from Stewart's Calculus regarding proof of independence of path and conservative vector fields.

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Please look over this proof. In the proof, it says: "Notice that the first of these integrals does not depend on $x$, so..."

How is that so? $C_1$ does depend on $x$. How/Why does it not depend on $x$?

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