Chapter 237: Preparations for War

The elders were stunned to hear the voice: "Clan Head?!"

Na Li Yang was surprised: "Old Bo, you have come out of seclusion already"

"Hmm" Na Li Bo nodded. "Inform the village, we are preparing for war against the three clans!"

The Sky realm elders did not appreciate Na Li Bo's enthusiasm. Instead, they proceeded to question him.

"Clan Head, has cultivating for so long retarded your brain cells?"

"No offense Clan Head but did you go to Na Boyen's wine shop before coming here?"

"Clan Head, it is Qin Clan that we are talking about here"

"…"

Na Li Bo's smile wore off as the Sky realm elders berated him with words. It was as if he was a clown that had just done something that wasn't funny at all. He had planned to surprise the elders with his new cultivation base but now, they had already ruined his mood.

After calming his state of mind, Na Li Bo spoke: "Enough! I am not retarded. External Elder Lu is at the Acquisition realm, why should we still fear Qin Clan?"

The Sky realm elders were stunned silly. This Lu Zheng was an Acquisition realm expert.

The elders that had scoffed against Lu Zheng's words felt a chill run from their nape to their chrysanthemum. They were merely Sky realm experts and they had courted death by insulting the words of an Acquisition realm expert.

Lu Zheng only smiled. He did not say anything as he gazed at Na Li Bo.

It had been over five months since he became an External Elder of Na Clan and during this time, he had been ostracised by the Sky realm elders. After all, clans worked on the basis of bloodline but Lu Zheng did not have even a drop of Na blood in his blood vessels.

The expressions of the elders were ashen and they revealed a bitter smile: "Since Clan Head has this plan, we can only begin to act on it"

But inwardly, their train of thoughts was something similar to this: "Clan Head's faction has gained an Acquisition realm expert, we will further be suppressed"

Of course, not all elders were as narrow-minded as this. Lu Zheng was an External Elder of Na Clan, his high battle strength supported the clan. Even if they were suppressed, they would still experience a surge in benefits.

Na Li Bo went into action quickly. Na Li Yang gave him an information path artifact that was like a butterfly made out of paper. After the information needed to be delivered was infused in it, ink blots appeared on the paper butterfly's wings like polka dots before it flew away swiftly.

Matters of the righteous path were done like this. Even if a force was to war against another, the other force would still be informed.

The elders dispersed to inform the rest of Na Village about the preparations for war while Na Li Bo spoke with Lu Zheng.

"Qin Clan has two Void Passage realm experts. I can fight against the one at the second tier of Void Passage realm but can you handle the one at the peak of Void Passage realm?" Na Li Bo asked.

"Hmm, leave the matters of Ge Clan and Ma Clan to me also. As for the artifacts that would be used for battle, I can refine them" Lu Zheng replied calmly.

"Refine? You are an artificer?" Na Li Yang had an expression of surprise.

Na Li Bo's gaze dimmed. He did not expect Lu Zheng to be an artificer. Artificers naturally had low battle strength compared to martial warriors.

"Yes. I can refine any artifact below the Divine Grade" Lu Zheng replied.

"Anything below the Divine Grade? That means you are…" Na Li Yang was cut short by Lu Zheng.

"…a Grandmaster artificer. Yes, I am" Lu Zheng smiled softly.

"A Grandmaster artificer?" Na Li Bo was stunned. He knew how rare Grandmaster artificers were. On White Earth Mountain, there was no artificer. The artifacts they used were purchased from the caravans that came yearly.

Na Li Yang had an understanding expression. Since Lu Zheng was an artificer, it was natural for him to have many cultivation materials.

"I understand. We will leave the matter of artifacts to you then. You are free to take anything you want from Na Clan's inventory. You can use the inner rooms of this hall for refining the artifacts" Na Li Yang smiled. The war against Qin Clan was in a month's time. A Grandmaster artificer could refine hundreds of artifacts in that time.

Lu Zheng nodded and walked out of the hall. Despite how crucial he was to Na Clan's success, he wasn't worried at all. When he was still a Void Passage realm expert, his battle strength was enough to fight first tier of Acquisition realm experts not to mention now.

Five months had passed in the main world since Lu Zheng entered the lighting aperture fragment but in the aperture fragment, that was well over seven years. In his aperture, two Qi fruits other than the fragmented Qi fruit had already formed.

The first was the fire Qi fruit and the second was a blood Qi fruit. A third Qi fruit was already forming on the Qi tree. 

Lu Zheng's cultivation speed was mind boggling.