Forced to Be a Villain: Starting With My Brain Extraction System-Chapter 139: A Solid Slap On Her Butt!

In a sea of churning crimson mist, a Peak-Stage Foundation Realm cultivator clad in dark robes stood trembling, his breath ragged and uneven.

Around him lay the corpses of Black Lotus Sect disciples, their eyes still wide with disbelief, their faces frozen in terror and confusion.

Some of them tried to flee, others begged, and a few even called him "Elder" with hoarse, breaking voices.

But it made no difference.

Blood pooled beneath their bodies, slowly drawn upward by an unseen force.

Thin scarlet streams twisted through the air like living veins, piercing into the cultivator’s pores and meridians. With each infusion, his strength began to climb higher and higher, as if ready to pierce the bottleneck.

"Ugh..."

He could not help but let out a low, broken cry as the blood qi surged violently within him, his cultivation base swelling beyond control.

All that blood qi he absorbed, along with his own, was already being condensed above his dantian with the help of the array beneath him. The bloody mist around him helped him complete this transformation even more.

Currently, he was using a forbidden demonic method to condense his Gold Core. Rather than an orthodox one, this Gold Core was blood red, coalesced from the vitality of multiple Foundation Realm cultivators.

It was deeply flawed and risky.

But the man did not falter. Even though he knew that his companion was already dead from trying to form his Gold Core, his will was firm.

After all, if he did not form a Gold Core today, he would die anyway. His lifespan was already running thin.

So, he savored this chance given by his sect even more.

"Roar!"

A deep, resonant hum suddenly echoed from his dantian as his chaotic Foundation Qi compressed violently, collapsing inward again and again until it formed a dense, radiant core.

Simultaneously, golden light burst forth, momentarily tearing through the crimson haze.

Gold Core.

His aura surged, crushing the blood-soaked ground beneath his feet.

The pain finally vanished, replaced by intoxicating clarity and overwhelming power.

"Gold Core Realm... so this is how it feels to be in the Gold Core Realm?"

Feeling the overwhelming energy coursing through his body, several times stronger than before, Hei Lian marveled softly.

"Even a false core is this strong. How strong would the real one be then?"

He could not help but feel a certain pang in his heart.

False cores were those Gold Cores that did not go through the test of Heavenly Tribulation.

Unfortunately, Hei Lian did not have the guts to withstand Heavenly Tribulation.

That was why he formed his Gold Core inside this secret realm, where Heaven’s eyes could not reach.

"Still... from this moment on, I am Hei Lian Zhenren."

Hei Lian laughed, feeling satisfied. He knew how much talent he had, so he was already content with a false Gold Core.

"Now that this is over... only the order of Elder Lu Shen remains."

Hei Lian thought while looking at the dark blood forest ahead, where countless Foundation Realm cultivators from various sects were roaming around.

His mission this time was to collect as much blood essence as possible from orthodox cultivators.

However, he had no intention of starting his hunt immediately.

"Let them play around for a while. There is still time. No need to rush."

Hei Lian was eager to let loose and fight and kill everywhere, but Elder Lu Shen’s order was absolute.

Besides, he also thought that letting those disciples roam around and hunt for treasures for a few days had more benefits.

After all, although he was now in the Gold Core Realm, he also knew that a few of those disciples possessed power equivalent to the same realm as a trump card.

If he were reckless, he could even die after they ganged up on him.

After gaining a few years of life by building his Gold Core, he was not about to waste it immediately.

***

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[A fresh brain with a damaged level of 99% has been detected.]

[Do you want to perform extraction?]

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’This one is equally worthless. Is the entire secret realm like this?’

Zhiran crushed the boar’s head with his hand, frowning in thought.

He found out that no matter how strong a monster in this Blood Forest was, even at the Peak Foundation realm, not one of them had an intact brain that he could extract.

Those plant monsters didn’t even have anythign to extract.

’It is such a waste of time to fight them then. It is better to just kill those disciples from the Black Lotus Sect instead.’

Zhiran frowned in thought.

Although he now had the help of Immortal Brain in his consciousness platform, it was somehow restricted due to his very low realm.

And those brains he extracted before were already worthless to him. He was in need of a new stack.

Just as Zhiran was about to go deeper into the forest to explore more, he suddenly felt a jade on his waist vibrating slightly.

’Hmm? Mei Xuan?’

When he used his mental power to read the message inside, he found out that it was a request for help from "Mei Xuan". It seems she was kind of desperate.

’This stupid girl. She is always getting into trouble.’

Zhiran felt quite speechless.

Although he complained, he hurriedly turned around and flew to a certain location mentioned in the message.

No matter what, that girl was already his. He couldn’t just let her die like this, right?

***

"What the hell is this place? Where is the exit?"

Mei Xuan frowned as she tried to make head or tail of her situation. But no matter where she looked, she could not see anything besides thick blood fog that obscured her vision.

In fact, the fog was so dense that it even impaired her divine sense.

Yes, Mei Xuan had already built her foundation after using the pills given by Zhiran.

She had been quite lucky at first, as she had directly landed near a natural spring filled with spiritual energy.

So, without wasting time, she used the array given by Zhiran to hide herself and build her foundation.

However, just as she was getting happy and about to explore outside, she suddenly appeared within this fog out of nowhere.

She did not even know whether this was an illusion array or some kind of trap, as she had already been stuck here for quite a while.

"I don’t know if Zhiran can find me here. If not... what should I do?"

Mei Xuan felt that she must have used up all her luck by finding that natural spring.

Now, she was suffering from the backlash. Fortunately, although the fog was thick and obscured everything, she still did not feel any immediate threat inside.

"Let’s wait a few hours here. Maybe it will subside by itself?"

After walking around and still not seeing any exit, Mei Xuan felt extremely tired and drowsy and decided to rest.

She felt that this was most likely some kind of natural phenomenon within the secret realm. As long as a certain amount of time passed, such phenomena tended to disappear on their own.

She also needed to recover her energy.

However, just as she was about to doze off, a loud slap landed on her butt, directly waking her from her stupor.

"Pah—"

"Ouch!"

"Who?"

Mei Xuan felt such a strong slap that her butt hurt badly. In an instant, she turned around, readying her rapier to fight, only to become dumbfounded.

"Stupid girl. You’ll be dead within an hour at most if you stay inside. Are you stupid?"

Mo Zhiran smiled slightly as he looked at Mei Xuan’s stunned expression. He felt that this girl was far too careless for her own good.

"You—"

Mei Xuan wanted to curse, but stopped herself as she suddenly felt relieved.

Only now did she realize that she had almost fallen into the trap of whatever this place was.

She had actually been intending to rest in an unknown area.

"D-Do you know what this place is?"

Mei Xuan rubbed her sore backside and asked, reluctantly forgiving Zhiran for his indiscretion.

After all, even if she did not want to, what could she do?

"This... this seems to be an entrance to a trial ground. Girl, you seem to have some luck."

Mo Zhiran looked around at the thick fog and spoke.

From the outside, he just saw a thick blood surrounding the area mentioned by Mei Xuan.

But now that he entered, he felt a strange tug at his blood, and it was getting stronger in some direction.