My Journey to Godhood as a Caterpillar

Chapter 142: 7th layer of Hell

The 7th layer of Hell was the third most expansive place in Hell, as Yun Jhin went down into Hell the layers became bigger and bigger, in total it took him around 10 months to reach the 7th layer and that was because he knew the location of the entrances to the layers if it was someone else it would have taken them years to travel between layers alone!

Yun Jhin could feel that the 7th layer was pretty different than what he remembered it when he last visited Hell, everywhere was an aura of conflict more than usual, as the number of the layers increased the open aggression decreased because of the demons and devils increasing intelligence.

However, the aggression was pretty open around here as Yun Jhin could see some of the demons fighting it out in the open with some devils, even though demons weren't good at plans or schemes they wouldn't be as easily provoked as when they were dumbed around here.

Yun Jhin frowned as he watched from above and kept himself hidden, he hoped to get some information from them to see what changed in Hell while he was reincarnating:

"OFF WITH THE HEADS OF THE DEVILS IN THE NAME OF THE TRI-HORNED MASTER Bujkil Rampel!"

The devils scoffed seeing the charging demons who were attacking the orders of a tall demon with a dark face and blue body, he was muscular and naked but no genitals could be seen around his body.

He had a mane full of dirty blood and his face was as ugly as it could get, full of scars, his nose was cut off and he had piercings on his remaining uncut skin.

The devils could be considered pretty beings as the succubuses also evolved from the normal imps, the devil who instigated this fight between them was a pale man with blonde hair and pale pupilless eyes, he had big claws on both hands and wore a red velvet suit that made his whole body unseeable.

They were both at the 1st stage of the sage realm.

The leaders glared at each other while the underlings fought it down below as they shouted:

"GLORY TO LORD RAMPEL!"

The devils finally had enough of the demons' noisiness and decided to chant a curse technique that they aimed at their heads immediately lowering their already below-average intelligence even further.

However, that didn't affect the demons pretty much, they only attacked with more fervor as their eyes turned a deep red color!

The devils easily swayed through their attacks even though they attacked quicker and with more strength, their power might have increased but their minds were clouded and they couldn't fight properly unlike the smart devils. That didn't mean there weren't any devils that didn't get cut down during the attack, however, compared to the casualties of the demons they were unnoticeable.

Yun Jhin could feel that the hatred that came from both parties was because of their leaders, Yun Jhin didn't recognize the name of Bujkil Rampel and that meant he wasn't an oldie from Yun Jhin's era, nor was he a reincarnated ones, normally when a reincarnated one reaches the peak of his cultivation he likes to use his first name.

Yun Jhin frowned as he concentrated on what the devils muttered:

"This damn trashes, Lord Vanzuel really put us in this much trouble because he found that item in the 9th layer at the same time with Lord Rampel..."

It seemed devils understood more of the story, unlike the demons who listened 3 times and forgot what they heard 2.5 times.

Yun Jhin cloaked form slowly made its way towards the back of the devil's formation as he absorbed 4 or 5 of them as he gained the knowledge of the happenings in the 7th hell and above.

It seemed Lord Vanzuel and Lord Rampel found an item with a high amount of demonic energy concentrated in it and fought for ownership since they found it however, the other archdevils and demons found out about it as well but because these two lords were relative newbies in the 9th layer the others didn't covet their item as it would be useless to them, thus their factions in the below layers were made to fight and the faction who won would get 10% of the item and the rest will go to the lord who won.

Yun Jhin felt that this was the doing of Hell's will, Hell didn't like God Realm experts to fight inside it so it restricted them with rules and regulations, those rules and regulations didn't affect those below the God Realm but those above the God Realm had to stick to them or they would be punished, Hell unlike the mortal realm had a separate consciousness.

The consciousness wouldn't interfere much in anything as it was an amalgamation of pieces of souls of the former God Realm experts who either died or reincarnated and they didn't want Hell to get attacked while they were infighting, it was strange considering Hell was always the one doing invasions but they were always panicky about one.

Yun Jhin already disappeared from the small battlefield as he only took a look because he was nearby, that he knew what the conflict was about he was interested why would the heads of these two faction leaders who were not very high in ranking compared to the other Gods on the entrances to the layers and the one to hell.

Yun Jhin had one speculation about why their faces were on the entrances., they might be the young masters who needed to be groomed in the next lords of demons and devils, that was the most likely explanation, as the door would be inscribed with the faces of the lords, or the strongest persons in hell.

Yun Jhin finally found a secluded corner where there weren't any visible demon or devils that could attack him or disturb his cultivation, he needed to cultivate to the 9th stage and see what type of bloodline ability he would get, as a celestial caterpillar, albeit even a fake one he still needed to keep his mind open to the possibility of a very strong ability!

Yun Jhin started to dig into the ground as he made a small cave for him to work in and then went to work.

Hell's demonic energy started to converge around his body entering it and cleansing his ki pathways, his body was resisting the increased gravity with all it's got, and combined with the energy that was slowly coursing through his whole body, he was slowly getting stronger again!

Yun Jhin could feel the celestial energy in his body rejecting the demonic energy as if it was it's biggest enemy as it started to attack it with ferocity, he frowned as he felt a sweet aftertaste coming to his throat and ready to leave his 'mouth' but he continued cultivating as he tamed his celestial energy and tried to intertwine the celestial and demonic energy together.

Celestial energy was just like a proud woman who wouldn't let herself be conquered by any common man while the demonic energy was like a bum who wanted to eat swan meat, they didn't match at all.

However, Yun Jhin knew that the appearance of the bum was only a disguise as beneath it was a rich CEO!

As Yun Jhin ground through the demonic energy he purified it even further allowing it to be accepted by the celestial energy, Yun Jhin's body started to grow slowly as his cultivation inched towards the 9th stage of the Emperor realm and his body refining rate reaching the early 9,500s.

Yun Jhin breathed in and out as his body expanded and his cultivation increased accordingly, he could feel that the benefits coming from this type of cultivation would be able to lead him to enter the sage realm without the need of any special pools, but making advances would need the energy of the pools or him entering further down in Hell, where there was more high-quality demonic energy.

Yun Jhin could feel the newly created energy seeping into his blood and awakening the innate runes that laid in there!

Those runes were black and unresponsive and they should naturally have grown and cultivated some energy in them by now but due to Yun Jhin not being a true celestial caterpillar, it was unlikely he would get to activate any of them until the God Realm, fortunately, the 9th stage of the Emperor realm was specialized in bloodline awakening.

His azure blood started to boil as the energy entered it and started to fill the runes, they started to light up with crepuscular blue energy that made Yun Jhin's body compress to a stage of being around 1,75 meters but his physical strength increased even further as his body refining reached the 9,700th rank.

He could slowly feel that he was ready to awaken his bloodline ability and reach the 9th stage of the Emperor realm!