Almost at the same moment Lu Ye began to feel hopeful, the meteorite transformed from the core accelerated again and caught up.
Lu Ye felt utterly helpless. This core gave him the impression of being impervious to reason, and it showed no response whatsoever to his voice transmissions.
The chase continued. To Lu Ye's dismay, he discovered that he was actually slower than the core. If this went on, he would be caught sooner or later. Judging by the power the core had displayed just now, once he came within a certain distance of it, he would be swallowed directly into its internal world.
Lu Ye did not dare take that risk.
After a brief ponder, he raised a hand. A drop of Treasure Blood seeped from his fingertip, and with a flick of his finger, it shot off in one direction.
He intended to use a Treasure Blood Clone and the Void Spirit Pattern to shake off the core's pursuit. He had employed similar methods many times before, and every time, they had allowed him to escape with his life from powerful enemies.
In the past, though, he had mostly relied on Controlled Artifacts. Using a Treasure Blood Clone now was undoubtedly much more convenient.
Yet he never could have imagined that this action would trigger an even greater upheaval.
As the Treasure Blood was flicked away, the core, which had originally been plain and unremarkable, like an ordinary meteorite one could find anywhere, suddenly burst with crimson light. In an instant, it turned into a bloodstone.
That alone would have been one thing, but the crucial point was that after the core transformed into a bloodstone, an unfathomable pressure spread out from it.
This wondrous pressure was not tangible, yet it felt incomparably familiar to him!
A look