Tao Yongjie had heard words like these many times since he was a child.
The Tao family had once been the foremost family of artifact crafters, even producing the number one artifact crafter, his uncle Tao Qihui. Yet, for some reason, by the time it reached his father’s generation and his own, it was as if their very spine had been pulled out; not a single talented artifact crafter had emerged since.
Tao Yongjie’s gaze darkened, his tone low and laced with oppression. "Yin Shiheng, that’s easy for you to say. The position the Tao family holds today relies not just on the art of crafting, but on the Tao family’s heritage and the strategy and responsibility of successive City Lords. Do you really think you can prop up an entire city with artifact crafting alone? You are being remarkably naive."
Chapter 365