Forced to Be a Villain: Starting With My Brain Extraction System

"Elder Shuren? Who…is he?"

After the initial shock, Zhiran calmly asked Elder Yan Yue, acting confused.

He didn't say he had no idea, as he knew, for a Gold Core Cultivator, catching lies of lower-level cultivators was too easy.

He just acted confused and uncertain, as if the person Elder asking was the same one he thought.

"Elder Shuren is one of the elders of my Ember Lotus Peak who went outside to investigate something. Unfortunately, he was hunted down by the demonic cultivators and died tragically."

Sure enough, it was really a false call. Seeing Zhiran's uncertain look, Elder Yan Yue lightly explained while throwing something in the pond.

Only now did Zhiran see that this small pond had so many spiritual fishes inside, all extremely beautiful. He even saw some having an aura stronger than his.

"Oh? So, it is indeed the same one I thought. I have heard about him in the rumour. But…why do you ask Elder?"

Zhiran acted as if he realized and then asked again, this time with genuine confusion. After all, he was from the outer sect and had never met that elder ever.

One time, he met him, and he killed him outright.

"Nothing…Do you know Mo Tianyu? It seems you are his clan brother."

Elder Yan Yue didn't answer, but rather directly changed the topic, which made Zhiran raise his eyebrow.

"Mo Tianyu? He is indeed my clan brother, but I don't have a good relationship with him."

The situation suddenly turned so confusing that Zhiran didn't know what Yan Yue wanted to know. This jump from Elder Shuren to Tianyu was too weird.

Fortunately, this time Elder didn't keep him dark.

"Do you know about Crimson Spirit Bamboo?"

Yan Yue suddenly turned around, looked at Zhiran, and asked softly.

"Crimson Spirit Bamboo?"

Although Zhiran was confused as to why she asked, he nodded and said,

"I know. The Crimson Spirit Bamboo is a rare spiritual plant that can directly absorb volcanic flame essence."

"Since it possesses a faint consciousness and has extreme vitality, it is highly sought after for body refinement. But, it is extremely rare and very hard to form."

"Yeah, it is extremely rare. In fact, after joining the Divine Cauldron Sect for so long, I have only seen it appear once."

Elder Yan Yue nodded and suddenly smiled slightly as if teasing while looking at Zhiran,

"But do you know that your brother Tianyu managed to find one just outside our sect? He even absorbed it completely, using its power to form a solid foundation for his body cultivation."

"Hmm?"

This time, Zhiran was a little surprised as he had never known about this at all. Although he knew not all opportunity of Tianyu was known to him, such a great discovery shouldn't go unnoticed.

'Unless he hid it from the public. Then…why now?'

Just as Zhiran was thinking, Elder Yan Yue continued,

"It seems you don't know. Okay, it doesn't matter anyway."

She slightly waved her hand, throwing all the crumbs inside the pond, initiating a battle of the spirit fish in the pond.

"Whatever he gained, it is his opportunity, and I don't care. But while searching for that Crimson Spirit Bamboo, he actually stumbled upon a strange letter on the outskirts."

"And that letter was actually written by Elder Shuren to Ember Lotus Peak. Do you know what this means?"

Elder Yan Yue asked softly with a solemn look on her face.

By now, Mo Zhiran already understood the ins and outs of the matter of what had happened. To be honest, he was really off guard by this situation today.

'Damn, that old man already left a trace of himself outside. Why didn't I think of that before?'

Zhiran almost cursed himself inwardly, but this really couldn't be put on him.

He knew Tianyu stumbled upon the old man and saved him in his last life, but didn't know how. He just thought it was a random meeting due to luck.

But it seemed to be due to the discovery of that letter.

'This meant they already knew the location of that cave. Fortunately, I completely burned that body and didn't just bury it.'

While Zhiran was thinking rapidly inside, outside, he still looked as confused as ever.

"Elder…so Elder Shuren was killed within the sect's influence?"

Although he looked confused, he still acted decently and asked normally.

Fortunately, he could see that Yan Yue wasn't suspicious of him. To be honest, nobody would be surprised by him at all, as he was just a Qi Condensation Cultivator.

Not to mention, he was just at the Third level at that time.

Sure enough, Yan Yue just nodded at his words and lightly explained,

"Yeah, it seems so. It was unfortunate that he didn't manage to get help before getting killed."

To be honest, even she was getting a headache from this discovery. It would have been better if that letter had never been found, as she never cared how that man died.

Now, with the situation developing like this, she was forced to give the sect some explanation

"Anyway, I summoned you here to ask how much you know about that guy Tianyu? Do you think….that guy has the motive to harm a foundation ream expert like Shuren?"

"Or do you know anything suspicious about him that you find odd in the outer sect?"

Yan Yue suddenly asked while gazing at Zhiran's face calmly. The reason she invited him here was to ask this.

She was a demonic cultivator in disguise and had seen all kinds of plots and schemes.

She knew that sometimes, the very enemy one was searching for was already hiding in plain sight, wearing the skin of a sheep.

So, it was better to start from ground zero. Even if she fired blindly, the worst that could happen was a miss.

Recently, she had been keeping an eye on Tianyu and noticed that he seemed to have caught the attention of an elder from one of the peaks. And that elder was someone who happened to have a long-standing feud with her.

Naturally, she grew suspicious.

She even suspected that the letter was a ploy to target her. Otherwise, why would it appear only after a month, when all the evidence at the scene had already vanished?