My Journey to Godhood as a Caterpillar

Chapter 133: You want my treasures?

Flying in the dark and vast universe was an endeavor that put pressure on one's psyche, how much time could you fly without any interactions, the soundless fluctuations of the stars pressing upon your mind and attacking your senses.

Hao Tian thought that flying in outer space would be more interesting but as time passed he realized that it was one of the most boring endeavors he had been on since he had been born!

The thing was that only poor people like Yun Jhin and him would use their own bodies to fly through space, ships that could sail the outer space existed but they were expensive and Yun Jhin couldn't buy one if he wanted to also buy the 100,000 black tortoises, and who knew if his treasuries were still intact after 500,000 years.

Hao Tian couldn't take the silence anymore and started to ask Yun Jhin:

"How far are we from our destination?"

"Technically speaking we are around 20 years away or so, but we can cut the time a lot by using this teleportation formation I know of."

"How much is a lot?"

"About 18 years."

"That's still two years of traveling like this, I can't take this much, we can't even cultivate because we travel and expend ki!"

Yun Jhin didn't comment, while he couldn't cultivate that didn't mean Yun Jhin couldn't, it was way slower than normal but his cultivation didn't stale, he could absorb the energies of the stars around him passively because he was so close to them without any problem, this would have been harder to do on planets because of the distance between them, but in space, he could do it easily.

Hao Tian didn't stop grumbling on the way, he acted just like a child and Yun Jhin found it strange, a cold-blooded white tiger was acting like a child? But there was also the fact white tigers weren't that advanced mentally, maybe because he wasn't in a high-stress environment anymore he could act like his true self now.

The journey towards the hidden formation that would get them closer to the personal treasuries of Yun Jhin, took them around 5 more months, Yun Jhin entered the formation along with Hao Tian and activated it with his last spirit stone, the formation powered up to life and absorbed the two of them inside it.

Then they were launched through space at a high velocity creating a tunnel between the destination and the place they used the formation, then both of them glided through the tunnel at immense speeds cutting the traveling time between the location they wanted to arrive by 18 years or so.

Yun Jhin could feel his surroundings shake and move like he was drunk, these were the aftereffects on those below the sage realm that used the formation, Yun Jhin easily got rid of them after a short while and Hao Tian only felt a little bit dizzy before he recovered.

Now they had to travel again towards the treasury location, Hao Tian almost went mad with the traveling, his only respite was they could go and rest on some plants from time to time as Yun Jhin's ki was getting drained quicker than his due to his cultivation base being lower.

After 2 more years passed they finally reached the location of the treasury, ruins of blood-red materials were strewn around, Yun Jhin finally reached the territory of his sect!

And he could be said to be very disappointed, everything was destroyed, the ruins weren't even whole anymore at this point and they started to turn into dust!

He frowned, could his personal treasuries be whole anymore? The inorganic defensive systems would be very weakened by now and the organic ones should be dead.

This was a problem if someone else found the location first.

He went north towards the former palace where he usually enjoyed himself, this was the location of one of the poorer treasuries.

He navigated through the ruins slowly trying to find the entrance by moving some of the boulders, but the moment he pushed them a little bit harder they transformed into small pieces of rocks that drifted in the spatial wind.

Yun Jhin found the hidden entrance after a while but it was opened, however, he could feel that the opening was done a little time ago so the person who entered should be trapped by the formations that he set, even though they were weakened, his formations were top-notch in defense and attack, even if they were weakened only those at the God Realm or above would be able to break through them.

Yun Jhin made Hao Tian use his stealth technique to envelop the two of them as they entered the treasury and found themselves transported into a big room that was full of luxuries most of them were only visuals as they didn't have any value.

Some of them were destroyed or broken due to time, but some of them were also picked up to be inspected, they went further inside the treasury only to find a doddering old man shivering in a corner, he was trapped by a formation and it could be seen that he would die soon if he wasn't helped, his cultivation base was around the 3rd stage of the sage realm.

Yun Jhin ignored the man as he made Hao Tian walk further into the treasury, the old man being trapped there meant that he shouldn't have touched the spirit stones or the other treasures.

However, Yun Jhin found out that the old man wasn't the only one who entered the formation as he found a young man taking all of his treasures in a spatial ring!

It seemed from this situation that the old man was fooled by the young man into walking into the formation so he could take the treasures all for himself!

Yun Jhin made some hand signals telling Hao Tian that he should get rid of this young man immediately!

The young man was at the peak of the Emperor realm and he didn't know that he was currently looked at by two strong predators ready to tear into him.

He was just happily filling his spatial ring while humming a little tone.

Hao Tian nodded as he appeared behind the young man and ran his dagger through his gut while driving his special poison through his whole body.

The young man coughed a mouthful of blood as he fell paralyzed to the ground, Yun Jhin took off his spatial ring and transferred everything from it to his spatial dimension before he threw the remaining spirit stones that the young man couldn't pick up in time into his spatial dimension.

The young man was slowly dying but he still got some words out as he looked into Yun Jhin's eyes:

"My sect will avenge me, it doesn't matter what your identity is!"

A ray of light escaped the young man's body that tried to bore itself into Yun Jhin's and Hao Tian's bodies.

Yun Jhin snorted as he destroyed the ray of light easily, he knew these types of tracking techniques like the back of his hand, he could break them but he couldn't sever the connection between this young man's souls and the soul lamp at his sect, even though they knew he died, they wouldn't know who killed him which made the soul lamp practically useless at this point.

Yun Jhin didn't leave the old man there, who knew if he got lucky, escaped and he ratted him out to the sect of theirs?

He slowly approached the formation and the old man's eyes lighted up thinking that reinforcements were coming to save him, or that the young man had a change of heart and he wanted to help him out of his predicament, only for him to see Yun Jhin and Hao Tian two strangers.

He still tried to appeal to their heart as he said with a trembling voice:

"Young heroes, please help me out here, my grandson left me in this formation and went ahead without me, I plead to you for your help and I will also promise that I will give you 60% of the treasures if you help me out."

Yun Jhin shook his head as he activated the formation fully, ki spikes appeared in the air as they slowly started to converge on the old man's location, the old man shouted at him:

"HOW CAN YOU DO THIS, PLEASE HELP ME! DON'T LET ME DIE!"

The spikes converging speed increased as he shouted, then they all transformed the old man into a skewered chicken, his blood was absorbed by the formation as his body dissipated into heaven and earth.

Yun Jhin shook his head, there was no reason to let loose ends exist.

He left the treasury and then the surroundings, he knew that the entrance to hell was around here but it would be very deep in the blood throne sect's inner palace where he was practicing his cultivation before.

It wasn't the time nor there was a need to arrive in hell yet.

Yun Jhin then used the formation from before and found another neutral star where he got more confidential information about the number of black tortoises for sale. Unfortunately, Yun Jhin lost the first auction that would be held every ten years where they would sell a huge amount of black tortoises and the only remaining ones for sale were the old or weak ones at the headquarters of the Radiance Brilliance and Light sect, they were considered cheap goods that no one would buy even if they got for free and they would soon be killed or used for mating until they died of exhaustion.

Yun Jhin frowned, he needed to get to the sect fast so he could buy those discount black tortoises, from the informant he also learned that around 150,000 remained, fortunately, they were enough!

However, the Radiance Brilliance and Light sect were quite far away from his current location so he needed to employ the use of their personal transportation formations which were quite expensive, but considering the amount of money he currently had on his hands he didn't care about the costs!

Yun Jhin entered the formation along with Hao Tian who decided to stick with him for a little bit longer even though the contract was almost done.

It didn't take him much time to arrive at the Brilliance Radiance and Light sect with their formations, he was stopped at the gate of the sect by the guards and asked why he was here when he said that he came to buy black tortoises the guards laughed and said:

"Brother, you came a bit too late, only the retarded and useless ones remain, do you want to use them for some pill making?"

Yun Jhin nodded and told them:

"Yes my master needs 100,000 black tortoises to create a death and life ying-yang dual eternity pill and needs the death essence from the black tortoises regardless of how strong or old they are, they just need to have their bloodline whole!"

The guards looked at each other than one of them left to inform the disciple that was supposed to sell the black tortoises.

The guard came back with a disciple with a crooked nose and blond hair, his skin was fair but his face was ugly and crooked, his teeth were chipped and he wore dirty clothes.

The man looked Yun Jhin and Hao Tian up and down and asked in a hoarse voice:

"You came here for useless goods? Even though they are considered useless they are still rather expensive due to their origins, the price mounts up to 50 Top grade spirit stones in total!"

For Yun Jhin this was very cheap considering he had almost 1000 Top grade spirit stones and that wasn't counting the smaller grades and the herbs and special things that he got from the treasury.

Yun Jhin took out the money and waved it in front of the ugly disciple as he said:

"Money isn't a problem, I hope the goods aren't damaged even though they are weak, if they are damaged I won't buy them!"

The ugly disciple gulped down a bit of saliva seeing the money and then he laughed as he invited Yun Jhin into the sect while asking:

"So who is this brother's master?"

Yun Jhin smiled as he said:

"He is an old eccentric that doesn't come out of seclusion anymore, but he dotes on me very much, he wants to create the pill for me to break through successfully in the sage realm in the future, as you can see I'm almost at the 9th stage."

Yun Jhin leaked a bit of his aura and the ugly disciple nodded as he invited them to the place where they could see and inspect the goods. After all, Yun Jhin needed to see for himself if their bloodlines were whole or not, if they weren't they would only make up for 0.5 or less in the system when he absorbed them.

Yun Jhin looked around the stables that he entered and nodded at the ugly disciple, he now just had to scan them and see if their bloodlines were wounded or not.