My Journey to Godhood as a Caterpillar

Chapter 129: Adapting on the spot

Yun Jhin's smile immediately made the thin tiger try and jump backward, but it was too late!

Yun Jhin's halberd came from below him to slash at the thin tiger, trying to cut him into two pieces horizontally.

The tiger frowned, this situation was something he never calculated, he thought that the weakening poison that he laced his dagger with would have knocked Yun Jhin out so he could capture him and send him to his father, but it seemed poison didn't work on him.

Yun Jhin watched as the halberd made its way towards his opponent's crotch only for him to shift his body to the side only getting his right leg hacked to the point that it was almost severed.

Yun Jhin wanted to press on for the advantage but the thin tiger tried to use his stealth technique to disappear and run away, however, his injured leg made him stagger for a bit so Yun Jhin could let in one more attack!

He thrust his halberd towards his opponent's body trying to impale him in the chest, directly taking his heart out!

The thin white tiger's eyes widened as he fell to the ground to avoid the deadly thrust, his leg crumbled under his weight as it was finally severed from the bone, it laid there as he jumped on one leg and disappeared using stealth. Yun Jhin picked the leg as it dissipated into dust, he absorbed it and started to analyze the cells and blood that made it up to see what made the fortuned tiger special, he still couldn't believe there was someone out there better than him at stealth.

He had fought quite a lot of fortuned ones but none of them specialized in stealth, they thought that it was a cowardly way to fight and they would rather fight with the sword or the spear or whatever weapon they chose.

As he analyzed the contents of the leg he found that his fortuned energy was concentrated in his bloodline power, which meant his stealth was an innate technique that only he could use, this was interesting considering most tigers would unlock techniques that would improve their physique or were considered extremely violent and direct. His ability should have even been looked down upon by the other tigers when he awakened it.

Unfortunately, he didn't have time to use all of his abilities, or else the tiger wouldn't have been able to escape as easily as he had, the sudden attack flustered him quite a bit.

He looked across the battlefield as he was now free, things weren't looking well for his army, while the Matrathite buildings were slowly turning into a bunch of scraps the same could be said about his soldiers, the other parties soldiers were also dying but in lower numbers, the only good thing was the fact that there were no sage realm experts casualties.

Yun Jhin made his way through the battlefield as he absorbed the downed members of both parties slowly increasing his absorption count. Finally reaching 70,000 in total.

Things started to transform into a stalemate between who's resources would end first, would the buildings collapse or would Yun Jhin's army die?

If the buildings collapsed, the sage realm experts could storm the headquarters and pretty much kill and capture everyone, it could be seen from the fact that the other parties Sage Realm experts were slowly being pushed back and some of them even died.

8 more days passed in this manner, Yun Jhin found it strange that the thin tiger didn't attack him again during this time, what could he be possibly doing right now?

The thin young tiger was gritting his teeth as a new leg grew out of his stump, he was currently in a pure white pool that was full of frigid energy, he was using the Icy White tiger pool to recover from his injuries.

A snort could be heard from deeper into the cave he was currently in:

"You have failed to kill that man with your fortuned constitution? I accepted you because of your deadly assassination abilities, even though your ways of fighting are rather shameful for us white tigers, at least you were doing good jobs before!"

The thin white tiger kept his head down, he didn't know what to say to this admonishment, it was true that he failed, but he felt that man Gao Yanting had some secrets surrounding him. Also, his weapon of choice was strange as he never saw someone using a halberd!

The voice could be heard again:

"It doesn't matter, at this point, I will have to intervene, even though my injuries aren't fully healed, that old fool will still have to give me face, you go back and make sure you kill that Gao Yanting if you can't capture him! Use deadly force and your best techniques now!"

The thin young tiger nodded a red light started to flicker into his eyes as he asked:

"Should I even use that technique?"

"Of course, why are you even asking? I told you to use your best techniques! Go now Hao Tian, don't anger me!"

Hao Tian bowed before leaving the cave, a light streak also left the cave soon enough after Hao Tian disappeared.

He approached the outer edges of the Hao settlement in what could only be described as an instant, but he soon hit a barrier as the voice of the Mao Patriarch was heard:

"Aren't you a bit too rushed my friend? I see that your last injury didn't heal yet, why don't you go back and let the younglings fight it out?"

The light streak transformed into an old man who wore brown robes made of the same mammoth skin as the Mao Patriarchs, he glared at him as he coughed a bit into his palm, sparkling golden blood could be seen being absorbed back into his body through his palm.

"You think that this little injury will keep me still old fool Mao Ya?"

Suddenly he threw something out of the sleeves of his robe that made its way towards Mao Ya's chest in an instant, however, the thing was crushed between Mao Ya's fingers as he shook his head and said:

"Always with the sneak attacks at first, whatever, I will keep you occupied, by how things look your Matrathite structures will be soon broken, enjoy the sight of your descendants and tribesmen being captured and taken over by mine!"

Yun Jhin could feel the fluctuations of laws being broken above him, it seemed the fight between the peak God Realm experts finally started!

Yun Jhin knew that in this situation the best thing to do was push through and use everything to capture the settlement of the Hao tribe, now that the God Realm expert of the enemy wasn't hiding anymore there wasn't anything else he had to be wary of!

Yun Jhin gave out the command:

"CHARGE, FORGET ABOUT THE DEFENSIVE, OUR PATRIARCH IS FIGHTING IT OUT, CHARGE AND THE SAGES WILL CLEAN EVERYTHING AFTER WE BREAKTHROUGH!"

This made the injured soldiers give out roars as they attacked the Matrathite buildings with the remaining of their ki!

The shaking Matrathite buildings slowly started to collapse as Yun Jhin felt cold steel approaching his back, he knew that this moment would be the best to assassinate him when he was giving out instructions. He left his back wide open and had no defensive measures around his body besides his ordinary-looking mammoth skin clothes.

The dagger dug deep into his body but it got stopped at his bones, his body was way too refined for a dagger below the Godly quality to cut fully through it, even if he didn't use any defensive measures.

The thin tiger Hao Tian had a big malicious smile on his face as he twisted the dagger inside Yun Jhin's body, he released the poison into his body fully as he said:

"It seems you have to fall down here Gao Yanting."

Yun Jhin coughed out black blood as he slowly slid to the ground while keeping his hand up trying to grasp Hao Tian's arm. His arm shook a few times before it became limp and fell to the ground.

Yun Jhin's pulse became slower and slower as his breathing almost stopped.

Hao Tian ripped the dagger out of his opponent's body as he gave him a few kicks to make sure he was dead, he slowly got closer to Yun Jhin's head as he wanted to make sure he was dead, his dagger made its way towards his neck to decapitate him!

Yun Jhin's closed eyes suddenly opened, his eyes turned into dark and white slits that bored directly into Hao Tian's eyes making him feel dizzy, his grasp on his dagger loosened only for Yun Jhin's stiff-arm to grab his knife-wielding arm and make him stab himself!

The poison from the knife entered his system slowing him down considerably as the same things that happened to Yun Jhin started to happen to him, his pulse slowed down and his breathing was an inch away from stopping.

The poison was very strong and if Yun Jhin visibly resisted it, Hao Tian would have used his special technique to make sure he would die, but Yun Jhin faked his death and made him think that he won, the moment he went in to make sure he was truly dead he acted!

Hao Tian's body started to shake like he had a seizure as he coughed multiple blocks of black color. Yun Jhin put his feet on his chest as he took the halberd out of his spatial dimension before he thrust it down towards his neck!

Suddenly Hao Tian's body exploded into smoke as Yun Jhin frowned, he felt that there was nothing below his feet now!

A bloodied and weakened Hao Tian appeared twenty meters away as his silhouette started to disappear, his body swayed from side to side but his stealth didn't break again. Yun Jhin's body disappeared as well, Hao Tian was trying to run away from the battlefield only to find Yun Jhin appear in front of him!

Yun Jhin used his time-skipping ability to cut through space and appear in front of his opponent!

Hao Tian chuckled as he stabbed himself multiple times with the dagger he had before his body exploded into smoke again.

Yun Jhin frowned, how many times could he do that?

He saw his silhouette disappearing again nearby, Yun Jhin used time-skip again only to find the man stabbing himself again and disappearing in smoke.

A thick vein appeared on Yun Jhin's forehead as his anger visibly increased, he gritted his teeth as he looked at Hao Tian waving at him while disappearing while muttering:

"Let's see how many times can you disappear into smoke!"

Yun Jhin continuously used time-skip only for the other man to disappear again and again until Yun Jhin couldn't actually find him anymore! The smoke didn't dissipate but actually remained there and due to how the man positioned himself every time he disappeared, it created a dense smoke screen that made even Yun Jhin unable to see through it!

Yun Jhin gritted his teeth as he said:

"Very good!"

He flew into the air as he looked down from a bird views point on the battlefield, the Matrathite buildings fell and the sage realm experts now had free time to hunt whoever they wanted without any issues, the Emperor Realm experts had almost died by 60% from his side and there were around 120,000 left or so.

Yun Jhin couldn't see Hao Tian's face anywhere no matter how much he concentrated, fighting a fortuned one was like trying to catch a slippery loach, he was lucky that the other two he killed weren't even at their middle stages of cultivation or else he would have had a hard time with them as well, to properly get rid of a fortuned one was to kill them before they grew at all!

This could be problematic for him, he knew the location of the jumping pad formation and that it wasn't protected by anyone at this point, but he couldn't leave the battlefield before he absorbed the last 30,000 bodies, later it would be a bit too suspicious to do it so he immediately dived among the dead and absorbed the last bodies while the others were either celebrating or fighting he remaining people from the Hao tribe.

The Hao patriarch was currently coughing gold blood everywhere as he glared at the Mao Ya with intense hatred in his eyes, Mao Ya also had a rather ugly scar spanning across his face now, his red nose was also almost cut off from his face and some white energy could be seen running inside his wounds:

"I won, go away now Hao Qin Yan!"

Mao Ya told him with a superior tone of voice, Hao Qin Yan gritted his teeth to the point that blood flowed freely from his gums he flicked the sleeves of his robes as he disappeared, it was unknown where he went to.

Yun Jhin finally absorbed the last tiger as a notification appeared in front of him:

[Pure White Tiger blood has been created through the absorption of 100,000 bodies, to unlock the evolution path of the artificial celestial caterpillar host needs to absorb 100,000 black turtles!]

It seemed he was almost done with the white tiger planet now.