Chapter 86: Dao Fruit Transforms Again, Dragon Elephant Vajra - Ascend (2)
"I apologize, Young City Lord, but I must decline the wood carving task. I haven't even started carving—my daughter has encountered great evil and nearly got kidnapped. My heart... I can't calm down to do the carving, and the carving wouldn't be perfect. Imperfect work—I can't accept it, so..."
"Would you please convey a message to Lord of the City for me? That I genuinely feel unworthy of the City Lord's trust."
Cao Qingyuan's expression immediately turned frosty.
"Master Li, aren't you taking this a bit too far?"
"After all this time, you took the order, and with your grandmaster craftsmanship, you should have completed the wood carving by now. My father said, he doesn't require a Divine Wood Carving, just one crafted by a grandmaster's hand should suffice. Surely a non-Divine Wood Carving is not too difficult for you..."
"It would be but a trivial task for you, Master Li. Could it be that you are looking down on the City Lord's Mansion, unwilling to grant us even the slightest bit of face?"
"Or is it that, over this period, Master Li has been preoccupied with other matters... with no time to carve the wood carving?"
The air instantly filled with tension, and the rain and snow floating down from the sky seemed to take on the sharpness of the Divine Foundation Divinity radiating from Cao Qingyuan.
"Or perhaps..."