Chapter 475: Transfer
Zhang Yu understood Fang Yuzhong's meaning. Once the matter of the artifact cultivators was exposed, it would inevitably have far-reaching consequences.
As a Profound Rectifier of a prefecture, his stance toward artifact creation was of utmost importance. If, in the memorial he later submitted to the Profound Court, he expressed rejection of artifact creation or called for its suppression, the Profound Court would very likely take his advice into consideration. It might even crack down on the Creation School.
After all, present-day Celestial Xia was ruled by cultivators led by the Profound Court. The Creation School, which had risen in merely a few centuries, possessed very limited strength. Looking across all the provinces of Celestial Xia, it was still far from being able to stand shoulder to shoulder with cultivators.
In Zhang Yu's view, artifact creation itself was neither right nor wrong. Its development had also brought immense convenience to Celestial Xia's military and civilian life.
But such things had to be restrained. There had been certain rules and restrictions in the past, yet they had not gone far enough.
This was normal enough. Artifact creation had existed for too short a time among the upper echelons of cultivators, and some problems had never arisen before. Moreover, at present, the benefits it brought still outweighed its drawbacks.
Furthermore, he knew clearly that the matter of the artifact cultivators could never have been accomplished by the Celestial Mechanism Institute alone. In truth, higher powers had participated in and guided it.
Without the guidance of higher powers, even another hundred years might not have been enough for them to accomplish such a thing.
Thus, the root of the problem did not lie in artifact creation.
And setting all that aside, he could not simply and crudely cut off artifact