Forced to Be a Villain: Starting With My Brain Extraction System-Chapter 145: At His Wit’s End!

"Haha...are you thinking about escaping into the palace? Tch...tch...unfortunately, you showed your weakness too early."

The burly guy noticed Zhiran’s gaze and laughed, his leisurely steps slowly closing the distance.

Zhiran could feel that this man was extremely alert. Even though he was a Gold Core cultivator, he remained cautious throughout. His guard never dropped for even a moment.

As if he were wary of something unexpected.

"But I have to say, you are the second guy who managed to dodge my attack. However, I can’t let you be the second one to escape, too. You know, it’s a matter of my prestige as a Zhenren."

The man grinned as he spoke, and without another word, he slammed his foot into the ground.

In a flash, a terrifying blade intent erupted upward, tearing through the air as it surged toward Zhiran with overwhelming force.

Zhiran’s expression changed instantly.

’Shrinking Step!’

Fortunately, he managed to activate the heaven-grade technique on time.

Suddenly, space itself seemed to fold beneath his feet, and his figure vanished from its path, reappearing several dozen meters away as the attack smashed into the ground he had just occupied.

This time, leaving a gash-like chasm.

’Gulp!’

Zhiran felt that he really, really shouldn’t let that attack even graze him a bit.

’But what did he mean someone dodged his attack? Who can..’

Zhiran suddenly paused as soon as he had this thought because he suddenly felt he knew who could do such an incredible thing beside him.

’Mo Tianyu...damn, is he already inside?’

He cursed, feeling that the situation was weirdly resembling the countless plots he experienced in his last life.

A seemingly logical random event that seemed not connected, but would always favour the protagonist.

Being the part that was used to operate such a plot was never a good feeling. It was like a marionette dancing on invisible strings.

Just like last life, when he had inexplicably helped him by exploding his own gold core somehow.

Did heaven want him to kill this guy here to save Tianyu?

Or use him to let Tinayu have the inheritance inside calamity?

’No...it shouldn’t be. Not after I absorbed the brain of that immortal.’

Zhiran hurriedly calmed himself down as he felt that he was thinking too much.

For all he knew, he didn’t believe anyone even thought that he could kill this guy, let alone survive.

He was just a mere casualty in a grand event, nothing else.

’That’s how it should be.’

"Heh...just as I thought, you’re different. You can even directly negate my field. Are you a hidden genius cultivated by the Divine Cauldron Sect?"

The burly man spoke, the murderous intent in his eyes thickening by the second.

He could clearly feel that Zhiran somehow broken free from his Divine Sense field, slipping out from under his suppression with unsettling ease.

No, more than breaking free, it felt as though Zhiran’s own divine sense had forcefully pushed aside his, seizing control of the space instead.

But...how was that even possible?

Just how high a rank of such a technique should be to let it negate the realm suppression?

Earth Grade?

Probably not...maybe Heaven Grade?

Just thinking about him made him extremely jealous, which fueled his killing intent even more.

"I admit, you’re something else. Unfortunately for you, I won’t let you slip away like that loach from before."

Finally, he completely stopped controlling his strength, no longer hiding anything.

In the next instant, his aura erupted, and the terrifying might of the Gold Core Realm swept across the Blood Valley like a raging storm.

*Boom!*

The world itself seemed to respond to his presence. Spiritual energy twisted and condensed around him, forming a visible pressure that weighed down heaven and earth alike, something no Foundation Realm cultivator could ever achieve.

Even the air let out a low, trembling hum, as if it could not bear his existence.

"Swish!"

Without warning, he stepped forward, appeared before Zhiran instantly, and struck.

"Boom!"

Zhiran’s figure flickered as Shrinking Step activated again, narrowly evading the blow, yet the ground where he stood shattered instantly, reduced to rubble.

But before he could even stabilise himself, the second attack came, then the third, faster and heavier, each strike arriving before the previous shockwave had fully dissipated.

The burly man’s aura continued to climb, his attacks turning into a relentless storm of fists and blade intent, tearing apart trees, soil, and even the spiritual veins beneath the Blood Forest.

Entire swathes of land were erased, leaving nothing but chaos in their wake.

"Ugh...fuck!"

In such a relentless attack, even using multiple brains wasn’t enough. In the end, Zhiran was finally caught by one of the blows, his body sent flying as blood sprayed from his mouth.

Fortunately, his physique was strong enough to withstand it after the protective amulet reduced the impact. But he absolutely couldn’t hold on any longer.

Dejected, before the next strike could land, he forcefully activated the Jade array given by Yan Yue, layers of shimmering light forming around him just as another devastating attack slammed into the barrier.

"Bang!"

The array trembled violently, barely holding on, while the Gold Core cultivator stood above him, aura still rising, as if he had yet to reach his true limit.

To be honest, he was really surprised how Zhiran could hold on so much longer.

His endless trump-cards, exceptionally proficient high-grade foot technique and even his attack far higher than any foundation realm he had ever seen...

He seemed completely different from other people, as if he had a plethora of experience fighting a gold core for a long time.

As if he wasn’t fighting one but multiple people in one body.

’Is this how geniuses are?’

He wondered, his killing intent getting deeper and deeper. He felt that today he had to kill him, even if he had to exert himself to the last drop.

If he let such a genius leave alive, not to mention him, even his sect, Black Lotus, could get destroyed later.