Humanity’s Great Sage

Stumbling out of the void, Lu Ye immediately fled forward.

Before long, he sensed the undulation of spatial power behind him, followed by the aura of Xue Jiu appearing in his perception.

This Blood Master is fast.

He already knew Xue Jiu was proficient in the Dao of Space, but the other party's relentless pursuit showed just how furious he truly was.

Lu Ye couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

Even with pure escape, he might not be able to survive Xue Jiu's pursuit, let alone with the two burdens he carried, which could even be called liabilities.

One was the Starry Sky Chessboard. Although the spirit of this treasure had been extinguished, its power remained undiminished. Its aura permeated the air, making it easily detectable from afar.

The other was the large bag of Dao Convergence Beads he was carrying. Similar to the aura of the treasure, the aura of the Dao Convergence Bead fragments was also difficult to conceal.

Carrying these two items was like carrying two beacons, making it impossible to hide from Xue Jiu's pursuit.

But how could he bear to discard them?

Not to mention the many Dao Convergence Bead fragments; with these, his Inner Heaven Secret Art could be cultivated to the seventh level without any problems, and there was even hope for the eighth level.

This was closely related to his own strength and was the foundation of his future. He couldn't abandon them, or at least, not all of them.

As for the Starry Sky Chessboard, no one would be willing to give up such a treasure once they had it in their hands.

Opportunities to obtain treasures were rare. Acquiring the Starry Sky Chessboard this time was purely coincidental. Based on Lu Ye's own abilities, he wouldn't have the means or ability to subdue such a treasure if he encountered it normally.

It was different from the Myriad Poison Bead. He was able to subdue the Myriad Poison Bead before because its power was countered by the Talent Tree.

While his thoughts raced, Lu Ye frantically urged the power of the Talent Tree.

He wanted to try refining the Starry Sky Chessboard.

Before the Talent Tree's transformation, it could devour attribute treasures. Now that the Talent Tree had transformed again and was itself at the level of a treasure, Lu Ye estimated that it should be able to devour treasures.

If that were the case, the Starry Sky Chessboard would no longer be a burden, and he could first take this benefit into his stomach.

As before, when the invisible roots spread out, they plunged into the chessboard in his hand, and Lu Ye's eyes lit up.

As he expected, the Talent Tree could indeed devour treasures now.

What surprised him was that the efficiency of the devouring was not low!

Lu Ye could clearly feel some of the mysteries within the Starry Sky Chessboard being devoured by the Talent Tree and introduced into his own body.

Immediately, he was slightly stunned.

Because he clearly felt that these mysteries that had been devoured could be manipulated by him.

Although he had never had such an experience before, he clearly understood one thing at this moment: these mysteries had two destinations.

One was to be injected into the Myriad Poison Bead fruit, and the other was to accumulate on the Talent Tree.

Lu Ye was surprised.

This was the first time he had devoured a treasure with the help of the Talent Tree, so he didn't expect such a change. However, after a little thought, he understood the key.

When the Myriad Poison Bead fruit was born, Lu Ye vaguely felt that the fruit should be able to continue to grow and strengthen. As the fruit grew and strengthened, the power of the Myriad Poison Bead should gradually become stronger. In other words, the power of the Myriad Poison Bead would continue to increase on the Talent Tree, and then return to its heyday, or even exceed it.

However, at that time, Lu Ye didn't know what price he would have to pay. After trying to urge Dao power to pour into the fruit, he only stimulated the power of the Myriad Poison Bead and modulated the poison that had previously wreaked havoc on the Insect and Blood races.

Now he knew that the growth of the Myriad Poison Bead fruit needed to be achieved in this way.

It had to devour the mysteries in other treasures.

Thinking about it, the price to be paid for a treasure to strengthen itself would certainly not be ordinary.

In addition, after the mysteries in the Starry Sky Chessboard were devoured, the second destination was to accumulate in a certain position on the Talent Tree.

Lu Ye could foresee that if he did this, the result of devouring the Starry Sky Chessboard would be exactly the same as the Myriad Poison Bead.

A third fruit would be formed on the Talent Tree!

What to choose?

At this moment, Xue Jiu's true body was poisoned. Although the power that the Myriad Poison Bead fruit could exert was far from the real Myriad Poison Bead, the poison was also the power of a treasure. Therefore, it was not so easy for Xue Jiu to get rid of it. However, his strength was strong, so even if he didn't get rid of it, it wouldn't have much impact on him.

But this idea only flashed in Lu Ye's mind, and he gave up without hesitation.

Because even if it was as he thought, the Myriad Poison Bead fruit could control the poison in Xue Jiu's body at a deeper level after it was strengthened, the impact of the poison on Xue Jiu was limited.

Unless Lu Ye modulated a more powerful poison and tried to get Xue Jiu infected.

But after suffering a loss once, how could Xue Jiu let him succeed easily? There was no blood source sea here, such a unique environment.

On the other hand, the power of the Starry Sky Chessboard seemed to be of some use in the current situation.

In an instant, Lu Ye had made a decision.

The invisible and intangible mysteries immediately gathered towards a certain place on the Talent Tree under his control, and quickly accumulated.

"Can you escape?" Xue Jiu's voice came from behind. As a dignified city lord of the top ten cities, if he personally took action to hunt down someone and let Lu Ye escape, it would simply be a laughing stock.

As he spoke, he raised his hand and slapped it towards Lu Ye's direction. A huge blood-colored palm print swept across the void and pressed down with a bang.

With such fierce power, Lu Ye couldn't avoid it at all. He could only roar angrily, urging his Dao power, and the long knife in his hand bloomed with a blade of light. He moved with the knife, rushing forward.

A moment later, when he rushed out of the blood-colored palm print's coverage, he spat out a mouthful of blood. His injuries were already serious, and now they were even more serious.

But he didn't dare to be negligent at all. The accumulation of power in that short period of time finally gave him the ability to use the Void Shift Technique again.

He took advantage of the situation and plunged into the void.

"Wishful thinking!" When Xue Jiu punched out, Lu Ye's figure, which had become dim, seemed to hit an invisible wall and was bounced back.

Before, he was caught off guard when Lu Ye used the Shift Technique to escape because Xue Jiu couldn't prevent it. Now that he was prepared, Lu Ye couldn't use such tricks in front of him.

The distance was getting closer.

In this situation, in less than half a cup of tea, Lu Ye would have no room to escape. At that time, he would only be able to fight Xue Jiu to the death.

But at this moment, Xue Jiu suddenly found that Lu Ye's figure shook, and a blood-covered figure appeared beside him. Through the blood color, this figure clearly didn't even wear a piece of clothing and was naked all over.

"Blood Essence Clone?" Xue Jiu frowned, and immediately sneered. Using the Blood Essence Clone Technique in front of him, the Blood Master, was simply ridiculous.

After the clone appeared, it immediately parted ways with Lu Ye's true body. Not only that, but it also took away the Starry Sky Chessboard.

Xue Jiu immediately saw Lu Ye's intention. This was obviously to abandon the car to save the commander, intending to use the Starry Sky Chessboard to lure him away, so that his true body could escape.

But how could this method work for him?

Xue Jiu also shook his figure. The next moment, a Blood Essence Clone appeared. However, in comparison, his Blood Essence Clone wore blood-colored clothes, which were obviously condensed by urging his power.

His true body continued to pursue Lu Ye, while the Blood Essence Clone chased after Lu Ye's clone.

True body against true body, clone against clone, fair and just.

After a while, he shot again, and Lu Ye, who was fleeing in front, was beaten until his figure swayed and he was in a terrible state.

Xue Jiu's eyes were getting brighter and brighter, because he felt that he would be able to take Lu Ye down in less than twenty breaths. This kid was obviously at the end of his rope now.

Ten breaths later.

Xue Jiu's face changed, and he turned his head to look aside.

That direction was where his Blood Essence Clone was located.

The pursuit on his side was about to succeed, and the same was true on the Blood Essence Clone's side. Just now, the Blood Essence Clone had fought with Lu Ye's clone.

Originally, Xue Jiu thought that everyone was a clone, and Lu Ye was definitely not his opponent, and he could crush him at will.

But after the real fight, he was shocked to find that Lu Ye's clone was a little wrong!

Although it was a clone, the strength it exerted was comparable to the true body.

His clone was not good. Although it was much stronger than the average Dao Convergence, it only had 30% of the power of his true body. In just three breaths, it was bombarded and killed by Lu Ye's clone urging the boundless sword light.

How could this be?

Xue Jiu really couldn't figure it out.

Although losing a clone was not a big deal for him, he only needed to stare at Lu Ye's true body now. When he caught the true body, the Starry Sky Chessboard would still return to his hands.

But just as he was thinking about this, he saw Lu Ye suddenly become blurred.

Xue Jiu's face changed, realizing that Lu Ye was about to use the Void Shift Technique again.

But when he used it before, there were still traces, so he could break it. Now, there were no signs at all.

When Xue Jiu realized it and wanted to stop it, it was too late. The fierce offensive scattered Lu Ye's figure, and there was no trace of his breath in the same place.

Xue Jiu turned his head suddenly and turned into a blood light to chase in the direction where the clone had just fallen.

He noticed that Lu Ye's true body had used some means to directly move to the clone's side.

This was definitely also the Dao of Space, but it was a means that Xue Jiu found difficult to understand.

This kid... still has such a hidden trick?

Xue Jiu was furious, only feeling that he had been played.

But it was obviously unrealistic for Lu Ye to use this method to escape his pursuit.

A new round of pursuit began. Xue Jiu had learned a lesson from just now, and he was deliberately ignoring Lu Ye's clone, but he couldn't do this, because if he lost the direction of Lu Ye's clone, he was afraid that he would really let him escape this catastrophe.

Therefore, he immediately condensed several Blood Essence Clones to chase Lu Ye's clone, while his true body still stared at Lu Ye's true body.

Like a maggot on a bone!