Forced to Be a Villain: Starting With My Brain Extraction System-Chapter 147: A Dangerous Encounter!

"Tch... so mysterious?"

Xueyin clicked her tongue lightly after hearing his warning. To be honest, she was even more curious now, eager to peek inside his mind.

Of course, she wouldn’t actually do it, even if Zhiran didn’t warn her.

"Boy... h-how can you use the power of D-Dao?"

While she was distracted, the person in front of her was already stunned beyond belief. At first, the burly man didn’t quite understand what happened.

It felt as if someone tossed his attack aside like it was nothing.

But when he examined everything carefully with his divine sense, he finally realized what swept away his attack just now.

However, that only made him even more confused.

"How? It is my own Dao... why can’t I use it?"

Xueyin rolled her eyes, or rather Zhiran’s, and lightly waved her hand.

As soon as she did, a fire like a raging dragon suddenly swirled around the burly guy out of nowhere, twisting and coiling with impossible speed.

Before he could even move, he was swept directly inside a towering silhouette of a cauldron, its form glowing with the power of heaven itself.

"Zhiran, look closely... it might come in handy for you later," Xueyin suddenly said, addressing Zhiran, who was observing everything from the depths of his body.

In fact, he could even feel the overwhelming power of Dao swirling through his own body, with Xueyin’s soul as the core.

’Is this how Dao is used to fight?’

Zhiran realized that, although Xueyin’s attack was extremely powerful, she was not using much of her spiritual energy. Rather, she manipulated what was already out there, as if commanding heaven itself.

That was why, despite his ability to defend, the burly guy quickly found that he could not.

Everything around him was already under Xueyin’s control. Even as a Gold Core cultivator, he was like a child, unable to muster enough power to resist.

The only thing he could summon was his internal energy, but against a power that had already claimed dominion over heaven itself, it was nothing.

"Ahhh... n-no, S-senior, please forgive me!"

If he still did not understand who stood before him, he would be a fool. He was witnessing a feat that even a Nascent Soul cultivator could not replicate with their own body.

Now he realized how unlucky he truly was.

’I have to stumble upon a reincarnated being. Fuck...’

The burly guy shouted loudly, begged for forgiveness, and even tried to resist, but everything was just futile.

Every strike, every attempt to resist, was erased before it could even form. He could feel the overwhelming force compressing him, reshaping the space around him, and knew instantly that there was no way to survive.

The heavens themselves were in her hands, and he was utterly powerless.

The faint silhouette of the cauldron hung over him like a prison, refining him endlessly, literally.

His flesh, bones, and even his blood were torn apart, crushed, and melted, changing into the purest form in mere seconds.

Even his tough Gold Core was pulverized instantly by the extreme heat, leaving nothing behind, its essence absorbed into the very fabric of heaven.

In no time at all, the Gold Core cultivator, known as "Zhenren" outside and revered by countless people, died without even leaving ashes behind.

How pathetic.

How powerful.

’Crap...I forgot to ask her leave his body intact.’

And how wasteful.

"Zhiran, my soul is already too weak. I must enter a coma to preserve my essence. I hope you won’t let me down."

Once Xueyin saw that the cultivator before her was dead, she quickly sent a message to Zhiran before retreating into her ring.

She had given everything just now to kill that guy quickly, as Zhiran requested. Because of that, she was now extremely weak; so weak that, without supplements, she would slowly disappear.

The price of playing with Dao was never low, even if it was her own. She had truly overexerted herself this time.

"Okay, don’t worry. I will keep my word. And... thank you."

Zhiran felt a twinge of disappointment that there was no body left to extract a brain from, but he understood the situation wasn’t ideal. Besides, he wasn’t particularly interested in a false Gold Core anyway.

’He is too old, and his brain probably has nothing valuable.’

He consoled himself, glanced around briefly, and then soared high into the sky.

Now that the obstacle was cleared, it was time to enter the Blood Palace. He couldn’t let that bastard Tianyu have all the advantages, could he?

***

"Bang!"

A deafening crack echoed through the massive hall. Dust and debris floated in the air, mingling with the metallic scent of blood.

"Ugh..."

A soft, painful groan came from the center of the carnage. A beautiful, petite girl collapsed to her knees, her short frame trembling.

She coughed violently, and a mouthful of blood splattered across the cracked stone floor.

Her crescent petal mark on her forehead throbbed faintly, pulsing like it had been pushed beyond its limits.

All around her, the hall was a graveyard. Corpses lay scattered, battered, some missing limbs, others barely recognizable under layers of grime and blood.

The echoes of battle still lingered, a grim reminder of what had just transpired.

In the far corner, untouched by the chaos, sat a figure on a throne with its body completely wrapped in a black cloak.

Only its two eyes could be seen, pulsing with blue flames in its sockets instead of pupils.

Right behind him was a huge door that led to the core of the Blood Palace, where the treasures lie.

Unfortunately, those who tried to bypass it were already dead, beyond recognition, at the hands of its undead servants.

Only Lian Yue was barely surviving after activating her mark. Even then, she felt that she was no match.

"Damn it... I was this close. Why is it so strong?"

Lian Yue murmured in a desperate voice as she looked at the bone dragon flying toward her.

Yes, it was literally a bone dragon.

Who would have thought?

And the one controlling it was the being seated upon the throne right ahead, blocking her only retreat.

If she had known this Blood Palace was so dangerous, she would have never entered in the first place.

"Roar!"

Lian Yue forced herself to stand, clutching her abdomen as a sharp pain shot through her body. Her vision swayed, crimson stains spreading across her robes.

However, before she could steady her breathing, the blood dragon lifted its massive head and released a thunderous roar that shook the palace walls.

Black flames surged from its maw, rolling outward like a living tide, swallowing the air itself as the temperature spiked violently.

"Swoosh!"

The flames swept across the ground, scorching everything in their path.

"Shit!"

Lian Yue activated her Crimson Petal Mark once more, red flames instantly engulfing her entire body.

"Bang!"

Even so, she could not stop it completely. Her back slammed into a cracked pillar, and the impact forced the air from her lungs.

She coughed, blood trickling from the corner of her lips as the bone dragon’s glowing, pupilless eyes locked onto her once again.

’Sigh... it seems this opportunity is not meant for me.’

Lian Yue finally lowered her head slightly, biting her red lips in distress.

She could feel something extremely important beyond that huge door, yet she could not even pass the Undead Dragon before her.

If she remained stubborn, she might even lose her life.

’Hah... I should have practiced some high-level concealment technique. Maybe I could have passed this stage like that guy.’

She thought, feeling a tinge of jealousy.

To think she had lost to someone from her own sect in this race for the Inheritance.

As the daughter of the Sect Leader, her pride took a heavy blow.

"Roar!"

The bone dragon did not allow her to dwell for long as it roared once again, shaking everything around it.

Perhaps because it was merely an undead slave, it possessed few abilities besides spewing black flames and releasing deafening roars.

But even this much was enough to make everyone who entered this palace die without burial.

Seeing that it was about to attack her once again, Lian Yue finally gritted her teeth and took out a Heaven-Grade teleportation talisman from her ring.

This was something her father had given her for emergency situations.

It seemed she would have to use it today.

’...So unlucky.’

Lian Yue bit her lips and poured her spiritual energy into the talisman, intending to leave.

With a Heaven-Grade talisman, she could not only escape this palace but even exit the entire secret realm, unless a space barricade was in place.

"Hmm? What is this place?"

However, just as she was about to activate it, she suddenly saw someone appear in the hall without any warning, right before her eyes.

No, his luck seemed particularly bad because the spot he appeared in was directly in front of the Bone Dragon, which was already prepared to unleash its black flames.

"Hey....dodge!"

Seeing such a ridiculous situation, Lian Yue was completely stunned and hurriedly shouted at the top of her lungs, but it was already too late.

Before she could finish her warning, the Bone Dragon let out a deafening roar and fired its attack, aiming directly at the intruder who had just appeared.

"Boom!"

With a thunderous explosion, black flames erupted, swallowing the unsuspecting figure whole. The violent shockwave tore through the hall, sending fragments of stone flying as the palace once again trembled violently.

With how close he was when the attack landed, there was no doubt that the figure had been reduced to ashes.