My Journey to Godhood as a Caterpillar

It didn't take much time for Yun Jhin to realize that something wasn't right, only a few minutes in after he saw how the emperor was focusing too hard on Andonara made him realize that he was making a trap for them!

He knew that the emperor realized that they were using the time Andonara got for them to rest and recuperate so there was surely no way he would let them restore their battle power unless he had an ace up his sleeve!

And Yun Jhin didn't really want to see what that ace was going to do, in this situation if he let the emperor charge his energy they would all die without a shadow of a doubt!

Yun Jhin ignored the throbbing pain that was coursing through his body as he gave an eye signal to his compatriots.

Since they were enemies for such a long time they had learned quite a lot of things about each other so they knew what Yun Jhin's eye signal meant, know yourself, and know thy enemy was a saying that most cultivators at the higher stages followed religiously.

Yun Jhin eye signal meant that they were going to sacrifice Andonara to deal a critical hit to the emperor's body.

Even though the man was hiding it, Yun Jhin could see through him rather well, he knew that he was on his last legs and if his body broke again he wouldn't be able to create another one.

In that situation, his soul willpower would be around 50% of his original strength or even lower, thus the 3 of them would be able to work together and subdue it.

Yun Jhin took in a deep breath as he looked at Andonara's pitiful form and shouted:

"Stop that celestial emperor, I was the one who killed your son, you want me right?"

Yun Jhin's words struck a chord in the celestial emperor's heart. He saw some of the times he had with his son and he burst into a rage as he rushed towards Yun Jhin.

Yun Jhin smiled inside as he saw how easily the fool fell for his trap, his hands wavered for a few seconds seemingly as if he was taking a hard decision before Andonara's snake body appeared in his hands.

Andonara didn't know what was happening, she was almost half unconscious from the beating she took but she was rather glad to be in Yun Jhin's arms, only to cry out in surprise as she was thrown directly at the celestial emperor like a Lasoo

Andonara grabbed him up as he was momentarily tied by her body, but as he flexed his arms Andonara cried out:

"Untie me from him, my body will burst!"

Andonara could feel her body scales started o crack and rip away from her and it was immensely painful.

She cried out for Yun Jhin's help:

"Hubby, don't let me die, please help me! You still need my help to take him down don't you?"

Yun Jhin's face was as cold as glacial ice as he said:

"Yes and no."

Andonara started to panic as she knew what Yun Jhin would do in this situation.

Yun Jhin let go of her tail as the celestial emperor fully broke her into two pieces that fell to the ground in a circle.

However, the celestial emperor knew that something wasn't right the moment Andonara's body fell to the ground as he tried to jump out of the circle.

"TOO LATE!"

The trio shouted in unison as they powered up, their auras engulfed their bodies, their powers reached their peak as Andonara's body started to glow below the emperor's feet, as a peak, God realm expert's body and an intelligent beast, Andonara's body was certainly a treasure that many cultivators would long after. As the glow intensified in power purple smoke started to rise from Andonara's body which was slowly paralyzing the celestial emperor's body.

Andonara's poison was very strong but not strong enough to do much to the celestial emperor, but with the help of the trio who was powering up the body of the deceased Andonara the poison could paralyze the emperor before they couldn't attempt this as Andonara's body wouldn't have been able to handle all of their power alive.

Even when dead the body couldn't really resist, as it was expunging all of that poison it was also slowly disintegrating into ashes which drifted in the wind.

The celestial emperor's skin started to turn purple as he was coughing up globules of purple blood trying to extract all of the poison from himself.

But he was still a step too late as Yun Jhin, Gu Manshu, and Biu Wuan caught him in a triangle formation, they shouted as a triangle of energy engulfed the celestial emperor's whole body, every one of them poured up to every tiny scrap of ki remaining in their bodies into the attack.

A gigantic yellow pillar rose into the skies as the emperor's cries could be heard coming from it.

The pillar extended up into the stars as it only disappeared after a few minutes of it burning brightly.

The celestial emperor was on his last legs as his burnt body kneeled to the trio who were gasping for air and clutching their chests as they took in big mouthfuls of ki from their surroundings trying to replenish their reserves.

All of the ki in the surrounding 300 kilometers was emptied as the 3 experts did their breathing techniques to recover their ki.

The celestial emperor's legs wobbled as he tried to get right back up from his kneeling position only to fall again, he felt his body starting to crack as he couldn't stop the process of his body decaying anymore.

Parts of his body started to fall off and disappear as his pure azure celestial soul started to appear in the front of the three greedy sharks that got him in this situation.

Yun Jhin couldn't help but laugh as he saw the emperor's shell break down and transform into ashes just like Andonara's body did, he took a few steps forward but Gu Manshu and Biu Wuan glared at him from behind.

Yun Jhin knew that all 3 of them couldn't absorb the soul and cutting it up would surely massively reduce the effects that they wanted to see so at this point they were enemies!

Even Gu Manshu who had a good relationship with Yun Jhin immediately decided to attack him from behind trying to impale him using his bone spears.

Biu Wuan didn't watch from the side as he took out his needle and launched an assault towards Yun Jhin's forehead trying to kill him so there would be one less contestant.

Both Gu Manshu and Biu Wuan knew how insidious Yun Jhin was so they wouldn't want to team up with him in this situation, however, the two didn't know that while the celestial emperor lost his body that didn't mean the fight with him was over!

Yun Jhin had even stated beforehand that they still needed to defeat his soul before they could absorb it, right now he was taking a few steps forward to use the soul techniques he learned from the soul emperor to weaken the celestial emperor's soul so they would be able to take him down easily.

However the two had different thoughts than him, they thought that because they destroy his body he would be easy pickings.

But the celestial emperor wasn't, he looked towards the trio who were attacking each other as he let out a wail making them clutch their heads, they weren't fully healed at this point and their ki wasn't at its full capacity so they couldn't defend themselves from the sound attack let out by the celestial emperor.

Yun Jhin took a few steps backward as he drilled into the ground and disappeared leaving Gu Manshu and Biu Wuan to deal with the celestial emperor's soul, but they weren't dumb and they didn't want to let Yun Jhin be the fisherman so they both flew into the skies and tried to escape.

It was a good attempt but the celestial emperor's enraged soul didn't really want to let them escape, it let out another shriek as it increased in size and started to shot out globules of green plasma from his mouth which hit both Gu Manshu and Biu Wuan before they could fully leave the area, the globules were sticky and heavy so they fell to the ground and remained there as they got stuck.

The emperor chuckled darkly as he used his phantasm hands inserting them in the craniums of both of them, Gu Manshu's soul fire started to slowly deplete as any living signs on the skeletons started to stop, while Biu Wuan struggled mightily as he chanted Buddhist incantation after Buddhist incarnation, while it didn't look like much without Yun Jhin's support they were both easily picked out by the celestial emperor as if they were sheep for the slaughter.

Yun Jhin looked at everything from the underground as he sat there cross-legged, the ki from the earth itself was slowly fusing with his body as an azure aura started to flare around him, flame-like patterns appeared on his face as if they were tattoos and destiny from the celestial realm was slowly converging on his body, but at the last second when the destiny was ready to merge with his body he declined it!