My Journey to Godhood as a Caterpillar

Chapter 111: Cultivation jump

Yun Jhin's eyes remained closed as he used his breathing technique to absorb the fiery energy that was surrounding his whole body, Qinghe made sure there wouldn't be any interruptions as she kept watch.

As the energy in the pool started to revolve around Yun Jhin, he could feel that the energy was cleansing his body and soul, it was of a higher quality compared to the jade dragon pool of the azure dragon planet, that was for sure.

Atop of Yun Jhin's soul, his ki crown was reacting to the energy that it was given, and it started to devour it at a quick speed as the 7th jewel was currently going through a rapid refinement.

4th stage of refinement, 6th stage, 9th stage, full refinement!

The 7th jewel that contained the time law was now resplendent and glittery on the crown.

Since the 7th jewel was fully refined it was time to go and create the 8th jewel!

The 8th jewel could be filled with a multitude of things that would affect the ultimate 9th jewel which would give Yun Jhin a special killing technique only that he could use.

Yun Jhin already knew what he wanted to infuse his jewel with, he could use his own bloodline to fill it and create a bloodline jewel that would accordingly change when his body evolved or changed in any way, this was something that couldn't happen normally, but since Yun Jhin had the system he would be the only one who could do it.

Yun Jhin's blood started to slowly boil into the fiery pool as he extracted it from his body and refined it using the energy of the pool turning it crystalline and without any impurities, it didn't have many, to begin with so it didn't take him much time at all to finish that.

After the blood was fully refined he used his soul willpower to absorb it into his soul space then started to carve the crystalline blood into a red jewel, the character for bloodline slowly appeared on it as he carved it.

The jewel would have given an intense bloody smell in the open, but considering the jewel was already in Yun Jhin's soul space it didn't attract any attention.

He slowly slid the jewel into the 8th slot and it made a small clinking sound as it entered the slot perfectly, Yun Jhin's body started to change as his drained blood returned at a quick speed, his pale face returned to a normal healthy rosy color.

As his bloodline purified itself at quick speeds due to the jewel's properties Yun Jhin could feel that his stagnant body refining started to increase, but this was only for his internal organs and blood, they were getting strengthened at quick speeds until they stopped suddenly.

Yun Jhin opened his eyes as he examined his insides and nodded to himself, it was time to continue the breakthrough as he didn't even use 10% of the total energy in the pool, at most he used around 7% in total.

Considering how much energy he had left, he decided to go directly to the next breakthrough, unlike before with the current body refining state he didn't need to wait for his body to acclimatize to the breakthrough.

Now the last thing he had to do was fuse all of the jewels into a big multicolored jewel and remodel the crown into it having only a big slot.

This would take him more time than all of the previous breakthroughs so he decided to tell Qinghe to keep her eyes open for anything suspicious, if he was interrupted during this breakthrough there was a chance his crown may break, and repairing it would take a few years.

As he kept his eyes closed his soul willpower was rampaging in his soul space as it transformed into hands that started to meld the crown and fuse the jewels at the same time.

Time passed slowly as Yun Jhin made the crown into a smaller one which only had one big slot, after he finished remodeling the crown he turned all of the jewels into a liquid-like state and started to mix all of them.

After mixing them for a few months, Yun Jhin created a 'soup' of multicolored liquids that he started to harden using his soul flame at an immensely high temperature, but not that high as to not crack them or destroy them by accident.

After the jewels fused into one shiny jewel with different colors on all its sides, Yun Jhin made a hand using his soul willpower to insert it into the big slot that remained on the crown, his body started to shake as if he had a seizure as information from the jewel was inserted into his soul forcefully:

"I see, life and death, time and space, bloodline, the 4 elements, Ying and Yang just like my previous lives, this is the best combination!"

He had a big smile on his face as the unique technique revealed itself, with it Yun Jhin could create a supernova combined with all of the previously stated things to destroy his opponent both inside and outside, the supernova could also be contained into a very small and destructive form like a ball, or create a dangerously big one that could even hit the core of a planet and make it explode.

It was akin to a nuclear bomb but stronger, however, for the big one it would take time to charge and the small one was a little bit too destructive on the living things, so it could only be used when Yun Jhin wanted to truly destroy an opponent without absorbing him or enslaving him, it was a perfect killing technique with no counter!

Well, the only counter would be dodging it, but that was easier said than done.

Yun Jhin's body stopped trembling as he puffed out a small cloud of impurities that burned into the pool and disappeared.

Now he used around 25% of the energy of the pool and the energy started to decrease in height, the pool was full before but now a quarter was gone and if Yun Jhin stood up his head might be visible through the pool.

As things stood, Yun Jhin knew that he might be able to break through the Emperor Realm but he wasn't sure if he could reach the 2nd stage.

Yun Jhin continued his breakthroughs as he concentrated on absorbing the energy from the pool.

50%, 60%, 75% he stopped around at 78% as his body started to glow with both a fiery gold and a clear azure, the energy that he absorbed from the jade dragon pool was now resonating with the one from the Fiery Phoenix pool.

Yun Jhin's eyes formed a smile as he used both of the energies to break through into the Emperor Realm.

The Emperor Realm was very different compared to the King Realm, in this realm, one could actually start flying without getting exhausted and one could also create ki weapons that they could superimpose with their actual weapons to create a mass destructive ability that even though while not comparable with the innate technique they awakened at the 9th stage of the King Realm, it would still be equal to around 25-35% of its destructive power, however, this was also dependent on the user's ability with the weapon of their choosing.

Yun Jhin's weapon of choosing was the halberd, so he used the combination of jade energy and fiery energy to create half white and half red halberd that he grasped with his hand, the halberd solidified as Yun Jhin started to swing it and slash with it at high speeds, sometimes he would also poke around the pool with it, as the pool started to lose more energy Yun Jhin was solidifying his breakthrough in his realm.

In the first stage, one can fly freely and condense his spiritual ki weapon.

In the second stage, one is needed to strengthen the spiritual ki weapon.

In the third stage, one is acquiring a spiritual imperial armor that's similar to the ki weapon.

In the fourth stage, one is acquiring a spiritual imperial steed that would increase one's speed, the steed can also fly and increases one's flying capabilities by 100%.

In the fifth stage, one acquired the cape of an Emperor which furtherly increases the defensive capabilities of the spiritual imperial armor.

In the sixth stage, one acquired the ability to create ki troops that they could command as a true emperor.

in the seventh stage, one acquired the ability to summon a war banner that would explosively increase the might of their ki troops.

in the eight-stage, one acquired the ability to fuse with their troops and become a gigantic weapon of mass destruction, a punch from such a gigantic entity that was tens of thousands of meters tall would be able to destroy mountains with a single hit or even throw away small heavenly bodies to fight, such as moons or meteors.

In the ninth stage, one finally finished their cultivation in the Emperor realm and acquired an evolved version of their bloodline to increase their lifespan and physical battle power to the peak.

Yun Jhin was currently in the first stage and his ki halberd was slowly getting refined into the weapon he wanted to have.

After more time passed he finally finished refining the ki halberd and if he wanted to reach the 2nd stage of the Emperor Realm he had to refine the halberd using the energy in the pool and his innate ki flame.

Fortunately, there was still enough energy for that to happen, after he exhausted almost all of the energy inside the pool he barely reached the 2nd stage of the Emperor Realm, unlike the King Realm there was no stage of refinery like the jewels, once one attained the perfect stage of the weapon you could be considered to have broken through to the 2nd stage.

And for Yun Jhin it didn't take much time but a lot of energy!

There was still some amount of energy left on the bottom so Yun Jhin took it and infused his physical halberd and the special clothes he created using the jade dragon pool energy, he thus strengthened them even further and gave them another energy of the four sacred beasts.

He had some plans to get the energy pools from the black tortoise and white tiger planets as well, like this he would be able to create an outfit and weapon that could follow him even when he reached the peak of the god realm, from what he saw both the weapon and his clothes were at the Overwhelming grade, and from his calculations he could see that they might evolve to the Godly grade if he finished fusing them with the energy of the two other pools.

Yun Jhin jumped from the pool and almost startled Qinghe who was still keeping her eyes on the door.

Almost 6 more months passed since they entered the fiery phoenix pool and Qinghe's nerves were stretched taut for waiting and keeping watch for such a long time.

Qinghe was now a little bit slimmer than before as she couldn't stop her cultivation from breaking through anymore, and because she was so near the fiery dragon pool she unconsciously used some of the energy while she breathed in and out, Yun Jhin embraced her from behind as she told her:

"You can break through now, use this environment, and after that we can run away!"

She started to smile as she stopped blocking her breakthrough and decided to reach the Emperor Realm just like her beloved!

Yun Jhin watched as she formed her own ki weapon which was a sword, it wasn't that surprising, the sword was the most beloved weapon of the cultivators and one of the relatively easier to use, so it was normal she would choose it as her ki weapon.

Yun Jhin started to use his stealth technique as they both disappeared and left the capital behind them, a shout full of rage could be heard as her mother finally left the palace and went to visit her again:

"WHERE HAVE YOU GONE? YOU UNFILIAL DAUGHTER!"

Yun Jhin chuckled as he grasped Qinghe's now slim hand, she was quite the beauty after she lost all of her weight and she could be used and manipulated for him to absorb all of those remaining phoenix-kin.

Seeing how she was so madly in love with him due to reasons know only to her, Yun Jhin decided to spare her, she could be very useful and also pleasing to the eye, keeping her alive and besides him wouldn't trouble him that much now that he reached the Emperor Realm, he might only discard her if she became useless or if his life was in danger. But for now, he would let her follow him.