My Journey to Godhood as a Caterpillar

Chapter 132: Accepting conditions with gritted teeth

Hao Tian bit his lower lip as he looked through the contract once again, then he looked at the ground as he thought for a little longer before he bit his thumb and let out a few drops of blood on the contract, the contract then transformed into two rays of light, one of black and one of red color, the black one entered in Yun Jhin's body and the red one into Hao Tian's.

Yun Jhin clapped a few times before he said:

"A good decision you have made my friend, now we can leave this planet behind, our next destination is the Black Tortoise planet, afterward you can leave wherever you want as the time passed on the planet might or might not exceed the contract limit."

Hao Tian narrowed his eyes:

"Wait doesn't that mean that I will have to employ your work again on the Black Tortoise planet?"

Yun Jhin smiled but he decided against commenting as he took out some resources from his spatial dimension that he inserted in the ground below him to power the formation.

The ground started to slowly shake as the snow around the formation was melted by the increasing heat coming from the activation of the formation.

Hao Tian approached Yun Jhin without as many concerns as before after he signed the contract, it said that Yun Jhin couldn't hurt him or scheme against him in the contract, if things didn't look good on his side as well he wouldn't have signed it. He needed some type of consolation for the fact that he was now basically Yun Jhin's henchman.

The formation whirred to live around them as Yun Jhin used his knowledge to control it to make them be ejected from the planet. The formation suddenly ejected both of them as they found themselves floating in space, the 4 planets could be seen in their vision, they were all placed in square shape near each other.

The Azure dragon one was blue and brown, the phoenix one was red and blue, while the white tiger one was completely white.

Yun Jhin's eyes turned to the dark and brown, black turtle planet, he could see that there was a huge difference between the other planets as the black turtle planet was lacking vitality!

For a planet to continue existing it had to have a certain amount of ki in its atmosphere, there was also the need for the balance between the ki and the population, while the population on the Azure dragon planet was higher, it only polluted and lowered the ki concentration while not putting the planet in danger.

But there was something strange about the Black Tortoise planet that Yun Jhin couldn't put his finger on.

Hao Tian looked around in wonder, this was the first time he left his planet and he felt the surrounding stars to be pretty, he didn't want to go towards the other planets, he wanted to leave Yun Jhin and search through the starry river to begin a new adventure!

But Yun Jhin broke his reverie as he told him:

"Let's go, our destination is down below!"

Hao Tian sighed as he started to fall along with Yun Jhin, the dark brown, Black Tortoise planet increased in their vision as they fell towards it, it didn't take them much to break through the atmosphere of the planet and finally reach the surface.

Yun Jhin fell to the ground slowly as he slowed his fall using his ki, he and Hao Tian finally reached the planet, Yun Jhin looked around and frowned, all he could see around him were swamps and dead trees, there were no water sources anywhere and from the looks, there were also no food sources fro almost hundreds of thousands of kilometers around.

This was strange, while the Black Tortoise planet should have a small death aura around it, it shouldn't be this bad, what could have happened to make the planet look like this? There was also the fact that Yun Jhin couldn't feel any life force on the planet, was the planet abandoned? Were all of the black tortoises dead?

Yun Jhin decided to search around the planet, he gave Hao Tian a communication stone and he went to the south while Hao Tian went to the north, the swamps were dirty and full of sewage that looked very old.

As Yun Jhin investigated the surface of the planet he realized that there was no life force left on the planet, there was literally nothing left, from Black Tortoises to any other animals or humans, the planet was dying slowly but surely and Yun Jhin could feel that it didn't have much time left now that he was so near it.

That meant there was a high chance the Black Tortoise pool should be drained and unrecoverable at this point, Yun Jhin frowned, was this the work of the people who poisoned and tricked the other three planets?

That meant if there were any remaining black tortoises alive they must be in their hands!

Yun Jhin felt quite angry, getting his plans delayed by these unknown people made him quite disappointed with the ability of the four sacred beasts, how could they let themselves be fooled like this?

Yun Jhin decided to call Hao Tian back, there was nothing of use on this planet to him so it was time to leave the four planets behind him and reach a neutral star where he could maybe find some information about the whereabouts of the last remaining black tortoises alive.

Hao Tian and Yun Jhin meet each other at the jumping pad formation of the planet, fortunately even though the planet was dying the jumping pad formation had one or two more uses on it before it would disintegrate.

Yun Jhin stood on the formation as Hao Tian kept close to him, after he did the same thing as, on the other jumping pad formations, he was sent back into space!

The stars were shining brightly around the duo as Yun Jhin took one more look at the four planets below him before he looked towards the empty cosmos. Hao Tian was rather happy that they didn't have to do much on the planet and that they could go on ahead and adventure through the universe!

Yun Jhin flew at a moderate pace while Hao Tian followed him through the cold and empty space of the universe, Yun Jhin knew the universe like the back of his palm, while planets would change, most of the time the universe wouldn't change at all beside spawning new planets, while planets could be moved by God Realm experts, they wouldn't do such things unless they had offended the wrong people and they had to hide their headquarters.

While the four sacred beast planets were rather remotely placed in the universe, that didn't mean they were living alone, it took Yun Jhin almost 2 months to find a neutral star where he could buy information.

Yun Jhin and Hao Tian were walking around the bustling place of the neutral star, Hao Tian was looking around just like a country bumpkin while Yun Jhin tried to find a place that sold information.

He didn't have many spirit stones left but he was sure the information about the black tortoises wouldn't be expensive, such a high profile abduction should have been public, so it should be rather common knowledge.

Yun Jhin found a place that sold information after a short while of looking around, the place was run by a sleazy looking human male who immediately said the moment he saw Yun Jhin and Hao Tian entering:

"What would these two young people like to order?"

Yun Jhin walked forward while exuding a rather experienced aura making the sleazy-looking man recalculate if he wanted to rip him off or not.

Yun Jhin put two middle graded spirit stones on the counter of the information selling place before he said:

"I have lived on the Azure dragon planet for quite a long while and I visited the other planets only to see that the black tortoise planet is deserted, I wonder why?"

The man chuckled as he swiped both of the middle-grade spirit stones before saying:

"Well it has been quite a long while since the black tortoise planet has been deserted, you see, the righteous forces of the Brilliance Light and Radiance sect had made a righteous crusade against these despicable animals that can use death power."

"The fight had been long and the righteous sect fought bravely for a time to the point that they almost had lost, fortunately, the sect master used a strong poison on the black tortoises that unfortunately seeped towards the other planets, they were also affected by the poison but considering they didn't use such despicable arts like the black tortoises, the Brilliance Light and Radiance sect decided against making a move."

Yun Jhin snorted, the only reason these people didn't make a move was most likely because the top combatants of the other planets weren't affected much by their poison physically, there was also the fact that the combatants of the sect must have been heavily injured in the fight with the black tortoises.

"After they won, the BRAL for short decided against eliminating these despicable beings, they could be considered saints of righteousness, these beings who could use such an evil power were spared and enslaved by the sect! They are now mostly used as either battle pets or slaves, a lot of them even seeped into the slave market, however, they are rather expensive, we even have some specimens right here on our Blight Druct star for sale, are these young sirs interested in buying?"

While Yun Jhin and Hao Tian were also from the 4 sacred beasts races, they weren't discriminated against as badly as the black tortoises because their innate talents weren't considered evil. These hypocritical sects needed a good reason to justify their actions in the eyes of the crowds so they wouldn't attack at random even when lightly offended. But they would bide their times and try to pin some blames on those that offended them.

Yun Jhin left the information selling place. Then he went to look around at the slave selling part of the star, there he found a few black tortoises, there were around 5 in number and they were sold at the price of 420 high-grade spirit stones each.

Yun Jhin found the price to be very high, he was very lacking in spirit stones currently and he couldn't buy even 1 black tortoise, he also didn't want to offend the Brilliance Radiance and Light sect at all considering his identity and current power, he needed to get ahold of his former treasuries to buy the needed black tortoises.

His treasuries were hidden along with the former headquarters of the Blood Throne sect, it was unknown if they were found and pillaged but Yun Jhin couldn't do anything else, it would take a bit too much time to pillage middle-ranked planets, and he would also get the wrong kind of attention from righteous sects, he didn't want to have a bounty on his head yet, he wasn't even a sage expert!

Yun Jhin left the neutral star as he started to fly towards the location of the former headquarters of the Blood Throne sect, he knew that there were only ruins left there but he needed to see if his hidden spots were dug up or not, even the poorest treasury he hidden would be enough for him to buy all 100,000 black tortoises that he needed, after all, his blood throne sect was one of the richest sects there were, he pillaged a lot of treasuries after he destroyed the sects of the competition or those that annoyed him.

To reach the location of the former headquarters he would have to travel for a rather long time, but he also planted some teleportation formations that could cut through the duration of the traveling by more than 80%, all he had to do was see if the formations were still active, but to reach them he still had to travel for around 5 more months in space.

Hao Tian got bored as they only landed on planets to rest or buy some supplies, he wanted adventure, he was still rather young considered the average lifespan of a cultivator and he was bored of traveling 24/7 but he couldn't say anything as there was still quite a bit of time before the contract between them expired. All he could do now was follow Yun Jhin along his journey even if he wanted to or not.