My Journey to Godhood as a Caterpillar

Chapter 42: A single death doesn't change a thing

The battlefield on the plains was a grisly sight, for both the Long empire and the Heavenly Turtle sect, even though the sect has gotten some reinforcements, due to the aerial ambush from the empire, most of the turtle sect cannon fodder has already died, rivers of fresh blood were flowing on the plains, the green grass on the ground turned a deep fresh red, organs were scattered here and there along with decapitated heads and human body parts, it wasn't a pretty sight.

Yun Jhin chuckled inside as he looked at the patriarch picking up the crown prince like a little chick, he grabbed him by the neck as he held him up and floated there, however after he floated for a bit he let himself fall, it took too much out of a King Realm expert to fly, even though they could pseudo-fly they wouldn't be able to truly fly at their realm.

He dived into Long Huang's direction with one hand holding his son with the other holding the trusty trident, he looked ready to skewer the man who was exhausting his energy to save his son.

Yun Jhin smiled to himself as he was ignored by the man, he was an important beast that wouldn't be killed unless he would be obstinate to the point that he couldn't be tamed. Yun Jhin looked down at the ground as he heard the sound of steel clashing, blood splashing, and lives ending, it was a symphony of death.

A symphony that he enjoyed very much, he kept his eyes trained on the duo as they clashed again, using his dual swords Long Huang tried to save his son from Luo Sunfeng's hand, they both plummeted to the ground as their ki couldn't let them float anymore, there was a saying in the cultivation world, while a king can look at the sky an emperor can embrace it, and it applied to the cultivation realms as well.

While a king could float using his ki an emperor could truly fly!

They both fell to the ground on their legs, even though they fell from a high distance in the air nothing happened to them due to their tempered bodies and strong constitutions, anyone that got to the king realm and above would have a strong bloodline or unique constitution, or else they wouldn't have been able to go this far on the cultivation path.

The dragon caterpillar looked down as Luo Sunfeng threatened Long Huang with his son's life, his hand which was on his neck started to clench, the crown prince couldn't do anything, even let out a peep as his neck bones were slowly getting crushed, if they broke he would instantly die!

Long Huang growled as he threw his swords down and said:

"Ok, I admit defeat, what do you want to let him go?"

Luo Sunfeng laughed as he stopped clenching his neck but kept a tight grip on him, he opened his mouth and started telling his conditions:

"I do not want your land or resources, I just want two things, the dragon stone, and the dragon caterpillar!"

Long Huang gritted his teeth as he said:

"You already took one dragon stone and you want to take the second one too?"

Luo Sunfeng frowned as he said:

"The one we took was stolen and changed with a fake, I'm not sure how you got yours but I don't care either, now hand it over!"

Yun Jhin lent the dragon stone to the emperor when he got his draconic herbs, he knew something like this would happen sooner or later so he didn't want to become a target. The emperor opened his spatial bag as he took out the dragon stone.

The patriarch laughed heartily as he kept his eyes on the dragon stone and said:

"Get the dragon caterpillar down too, I want to make a contract with it, don't forget to erase yours from its consciousness space."

The emperor frowned as he kept his hold on the dragon stone and told him:

"The contract was made by Jun'er, you will have to let him go if you want him to destroy the contract."

Luo Sunfeng frowned as he looked as his captive's face and then he put his trident away and waved his free hand while saying:

"Throw the dragon stone here and I will release him, make sure it isn't a fake or I'm killing him immediately!"

Long Huang gritted his teeth so hard they started cracking as he looked at the dragon stone and then at his son, he threw the dragon stone in Luo Sunfeng's empty hand, the patriarch caught it easily as he looked at it to make sure it's genuine then he frowned:

"You don't treasure your son's life do you, Long Huang?"

The emperor laughed as he looked at him and said:

"A single death won't affect the future of my Long Empire, not even the crown prince's, as long as I'm alive I can sire more descendants."

Suddenly two swords drilled from the earth and directly pinned the man's feet to the ground, Luo Sunfeng growled as he clenched Long Jun's neck, easily breaking all of his bones and effectively killing him.

His head dropped to the side like a broken doll's and the luster in his eyes turned grey, however, Luo Sunfeng met with the cold sharp edge of a sword that was ready to cut him into two parts!

The patriarch laughed as he watched the sword get nearer to his head and then he shouted as his aura increased in volatility and depth, he escaped from the swords that were pinning him to the ground by jumping up, even though this action leads the swords to cut some of his bones and heavily injuring his feet, atleast he didn't die.

His trident appeared in his hands as he grasped it tightly then thrust it in front of him at extreme speeds even dislocating his arms in the process due to the speed he used, this was a blitzkrieg strategy, by using strength his body couldn't handle he wanted to end the emperor!

However, the trident missed his heart by a few centimeters, but the tri-pronged weapon still hit both of his lungs and made them collapse.

Long Huang vomited a mouthful of blood as his lungs started to fill with the same substance, Luo Sunfeng laughed loudly but then he cringed as he looked at his feet and used some of his ki like bandages to wrap up his feet in them so the injury wouldn't worsen.

Long Huang did the same with his inner injuries, as a King realm expert even though his lungs have been perforated he could still live due to the high vitality the King realm gave to the practitioner who reached the realm, even deadly injuries to those below the realm could be healed by Kingly experts, however, that didn't mean the injury wasn't deadly!

Yun Jhin shook his head as he stopped observing, he looked down at the battlefield as both sides stopped fighting, but the surroundings were bloody and full of corpses and death, organs and the other things, Yun Jhin laughed to himself as he looked around, he flew around the surroundings as he used his claw to make peculiar hand seals.

Those hand seals weren't normal as from the seals different type of runes started to etch themselves into the air, he ran along with the air, the space above the battlefield was engulfed with his runes, after a short while a formation that looked like a devil's skull appeared, with horns and all.

Using the bodies blood and injured cultivators Yun Jhin started to chant:

"Oh Zolal, Amon, Shacono, I give you these petty sacrifices to hit those two injured King realms down there, if you kill them you can even take their corpses!"

The formation started to light up with a peculiar red devilish light, the skull started to move as it seemingly laughed in delight, it's mouth opened as all of the gore and bodies on the battlefield started to disappear as they were transported to hell!

Even though Yun Jhin could create such formations to connect to hell, he knew that devils were very cunning and they would never leak hell's entrance location, at most he could make them do some work for him if they were interested in the sacrifice.

A creepy laugh could be heard as a pure black hand struck directly at the emperor and the patriarch hitting them directly, then a soul-chilling voice could be heard coming from the formation:

"Storm of blades!"

Blades of different lengths and colors, both physical and made of ki started to rain on the duo as they were cut up, they were both injured and on their last legs considering mobility, one had injured lungs and the other had skewered feet.

The rain of armaments cut them up pretty good as they were on their last legs, the pitch-black arm went directly to take a hold of the duo as it started to crush their bones, the emperor and the patriarch looked at each other as they shouted in unison and powered their auras to their maximum, furthering the injuries they escaped from the hand as a 'tch' sound could be heard from the skull formation.

The other cannon fodder down were absorbed into the formation as they died, the injured ones went first as even some of the healthy ones were absorbed, the formation was just like a vacuum!

After the formation had its fill of flesh and blood the skull stopped laughing and it transformed into ashes that drifted in the wind, a disappointed voice could be heard coming from the formation as it fully transformed into ashes:

"Two king realm experts, such abundant flesh and blood, you are a lucky one contractor..."

Yun Jhin ignored the voice as his big body flew down, he looked at the dying sect patriarch and emperor, they both looked at his dark eyes as the emperor wanted to get up and he said:

"Good, good come here Yun Jhin, help me up and kill this pig, he killed my son Jun'er!"

Yun Jhin chuckled as he looked at the man's attempt of getting up and he said:

"He killed your Jun'er? You might as well have killed him yourself."

Long Huang eyes widened as he heard Yun Jhin's tone, he didn't know who activated the formation but he never thought that Yun Jhin would be behind it, after all, he was a beast, and cultivation beasts had the worst talent for formations!

Humans and elves were the best at formations and beasts were the worst! As for the other races they were all average but that didn't mean geniuses from these races wouldn't rise and create new ways of using formations, it was possible but had a very low chance of happening.

Yun Jhin slowly approached them as his claws struck the both of them in the chest sealing the deal, they were slowly dying and Yun Jhin put the nail in their coffin.

Long Huang looked with wide eyes at Yun Jhin's figure but Luo Sunfeng laughed loudly as blood flowed freely from his mouth and he said:

"Fooled by a beast! We were both played by a beast!"

Long Huang didn't want to believe those words but he realized that his enemy was right, they were both played by Yun Jhin!

Yun Jhin kept a straight face as he took the real dragon stone from Long Huang's spatial bag and he looked at his dying form as he said:

"What you have said is true, it doesn't matter who dies, it won't change my future, however the amount of deaths matter!"

He grabbed the dragon stone as it flowed with a red light, the light entered in both of their bodies as they forcefully gained the dragon bloodline!

They screamed in pain as their bloodlines were forcefully changed by Yun Jhin's claws, doing such a thing while injured and on the verge of death exuded both of their life force, even though their bodies gained the dragon bloodline they immediately died!

Yun Jhin opened his mouth as he devoured both of their bodies, but things became problematic as he chewed on their hards bodies, King realm practitioners bodies were remodeled after they reached this cultivation realm, their toughness increased and Yun Jhin was actually having a hard time eating them!

Yun Jhin frowned as he tried to eat them but he realized that he couldn't!

Their bodies were too hard, his fangs almost cracked as he tried to continuously bite and chew on their hard meat and skin, he frowned as he looked at the bodies and used a free spatial bag to store both of the bodies, this wasn't a thing he liked, eating them sooner was better but his teeth weren't sharp enough to chew through their though bodies!

He needs to break through to the 3rd stage to be able to slowly chew through their bodies and he might not even be able to eat the bones!

Yun Jhin frowned as he looked at the empty battlefield, all of the elites and cannon fodder of the empire and the Heavenly Turtle sect perished here, their armies were dead but that didn't mean these places lacked cultivators, there were still the ones who dealt in logistics and other miscellaneous stuff, not everyone was talented at doing battle.

Yun Jhin frowned as he rushed towards the Long Empire, he needed to the treasury and enter a hidden place, with the memories he gained from both the emperor and the patriarch, he knew that he had to visit both treasuries, they had things that would help him, however, he needed to quickly eat the bodies or they would lose a high deal of nutritional ki!

Yun Jhin's big body flew at the highest speeds back to the empire, even though the ministers were still alive he could shrink his body and use the stealth technique to get inside the treasury, with the emperor dead there was nothing else he needed to fear!

Unknowingly to Yun Jhin back the formation entrance, a black hand grasped the firm space there and tried to slash it with his long dark nails, however another 'tch' could be heard as the voice complained:

"The dragon planet, the space is so hard there, goddammit! I would have wanted to rampage there for a while... but the entrance to the human world is so far away from that planet, not worth it..."

Space there returned to normal as the voice disappeared, the devil gave up on invading for now...