Shirong was standing in the main hall of the Lu clan and the rest of the leaders were sitting here along with clan head Lu. They had smiles on their face as they felt relieved. They had truly been given a great shock and had not expected for something like a spatial rift to have opened.

"So Young master Shirong, are you feeling good now?" Clan Head Lu questioned with concern.

"Ah yes! It's all thanks to clan head Lu for rescuing me in time, or I'm afraid I would not be here today." Shirong thanked.

He truly was grateful this time. He knew that even if he had been saved by the spear in the end, it was actually due to the effort of the clan head Lu. If he had not delayed for time till the spear saved him, he would truly have been dead.

Now he wondered if it would actually be good to reward them. Shirong was not stupid. He had spent many years at the Ji clan and had learned how to rule over one. He knew that one of the top rules to having a Strong clan was to also have loyal allies.

Clan head Lu had proved to him that the Lu Clan was truly willing to pledge themselves to the Ji clan by aligning them with him. This was actually one of the reasons why he had originally come to the Ling kingdom: to make allies.

At first, he had intended to go talk with the royal clan directly, but then upon hearing that a new forbidden zone was created in the Millennium forest due to a meteor, he was very interested in it. He reckoned that it would be better to check it out, after all, he could always go to the royal clan later. It was not like they would reject him either.

But seeing the dedication of the Lu clan made him think more of them. Also, this didn't mean that he had to choose only them, the best thing for him was to add as many allies as he could. At least, the Lu clan head a nascent soul realm cultivator which made them worthy of being an ally.

"Umm, Young master Shirong…" Clan head Lu was just about to ask something when he was interrupted.

"I believe, clan Head Lu and the people here want to know what exactly happened?" Shirong asked.

"Yes, we do. Something like a spatial rift… simply does not appear randomly." Clan Head Lu replied.

Shirong nodded his head in acknowledgment before speaking, "yes clan head Lu is right. The reason for the spatial rift was none other than my spatial storage ring."

Clan head Lu raised his brows after hearing this. Before he had seen the spatial storage ring missing from Shirong's hand and had thought that it was destroyed due to the spatial rift. It was not uncommon for spatial storage treasures to become unstable and break due to the influence of a spatial rift.

Even his own spatial storage treasure had been damaged, which made his heart ache. But he didn't mind it and simply assured himself that it was all for saving Young master Shirong. Thankfully though, while his spatial storage treasure had been damaged, it had not fully destroyed.

Rather, his spatial storage treasure's capacity was merely reduced. This also meant that some of the things that were kept in his ring were inadvertently lost in an unknown fragment of a minor dimension. He had thought that the same thing happened to Shirong but on a higher scale, destroying the ring completely.

In fact, he couldn't even begin to think how a spatial storage ring would be able to cause a spatial rift to appear. The sheer amount of spatial attribute spirit qi required for that would be enough to make a hundred spatial storage treasures easily.

"How would something like that happen though?" it was Lu Peng who asked this time.

"I'm afraid, I do not know the full reason either. The spatial storage ring I was using was actually found in the tomb of a fallen expert that I luckily found a few years ago. Perhaps there was some kind of anomaly in the spatial storage ring that I didn't know of and that was what caused it.

I was cultivating normally when suddenly I felt the ring cracking on my hand. I knew that the destruction of a spatial treasure can cause injuries sometimes, and thus I quickly threw it away. But I never expected that it would release such a massive amount of power that would open up a spatial rift." Shirong explained while making up a lie.

The spatial storage ring he had was actually from his clan and was not from an expert's tomb as he had stated. But that was not something that they needed to know. But the part about him finding an expert's tomb was true. Using a factual encounter and combining it with a half lie only made it stronger.

"I see… perhaps the spatial storage ring was made using some unique production method and it had gotten weaker of the year and finally broke." Clan Head Lu hypothesized.

"Yes… I think that's what must have happened too… I need to be careful about what random things I pick up from now, hahaha…" Shirong acknowledged with a light laugh.

"Then is that were Young master got the divine armor too…" One of the elders suddenly asked.

Nearly all of the people that were here had seen Shirong dressed in the armor and had seen it stopping and closing the spatial rift. The bright light had stopped them from seeing what had actually happened and as it only appeared when Shirong was about to be sucked into the rift, only made it that much real to them.

Clan Head Lu tensed upon hearing this and gripped the armrest of his throne hard.

"Elder Niu! Watch your mouth!" Clan head Lu shouted.

He knew that there were certain secrets that must not be said out loud, and seeing the abilities of the emerald green armor Shirong was wearing only made it obvious to him. There was no chance that something that could stop a spatial rift would be anything simple.

At the very least, it must have been a peak grade spirit tool.

"Please, please! Clan head Lu, it's fine. They can ask me." Shirong calmed him down.

"If the young master says so…" Clan Head Lu spoke in a straight tone but still gave elder Niu a glare.

"No, the armor was no something that I found there. Rather, it was a small pendant that was given by the ancestor to protect me. I've had it for a while but never knew that its true form was that of an armor. I also didn't think that it would have been able to stop a spatial rift, thus I didn't try to use it at the very start.

But luckily for me, it automatically activated when I was about to be sucked into the spatial rift." Shirong explained.

"Ahh~ so it was the Ji clan ancestor's grace that the Young master is alive today. I should have expected this, only a great man like him could be capable of doing something like this…" Clan head Lu praised.

"The Ji clan ancestor is truly peerless!" Elder Niu exclaimed, and the others joined in as well.

They all knew how to boot lick and were not naive youngsters anymore. They knew that clan head Lu wanted to grow a good relationship with Young master Shirong and this was a good way to show their stance.

Shirong secretly smirked and knew that his plan had worked. He was actually not sure if they would really believe it or not, but it seemed like their eagerness to become his ally made them blind to some inconsistencies that would be revealed if they thought about it a bit more.

Shirong even thought that if it was the Mu clan or even the Xiong clan, they would have doubted his claim about the armor. Thankfully, he had been Lucky… or rather unluckily… he couldn't really tell at this point. His life recently had been a roller coaster in terms of luck.

It was good for a while and then would crash to the very bottom next. If Shirong counted it correctly, in the past month itself, his life had been under mortal threat at least three times. Which was three times too much than he would have liked.

In fact, if he tried to recall when his life was threatened like this ever before, he could think of less than five incidents since he was a child.

'Did obtaining the spear really mess up my luck?' Shirong wondered.

"Well then," Clan head Lu interrupted his train of thought.

"Now that, young master Shirong is finally recovered, I believe it is finally the time for a proper banquet." Clan head Lu proposed.

"Ah, yes. It would be good to relax for a while…"