Chapter 526: Purple Air Current

Whoosh whoosh whoosh…
The light purple wind in the hall howled for over a dozen breaths, seemingly dissipating on its own once it found no more intruders.
Su Che, standing in the corridor, remained unharmed and had not suffered any attacks.
“It seems this cutting wind only attacks those who enter the hall…”
Su Che pondered silently, calculating the distance between him and the Survival Token: “It’s only 120 zhang. Under normal conditions, any Yuan Ying cultivator could use their True Vital Energy techniques to grab an object hundreds of zhang away… But I wonder if True Vital Energy would also be blocked once it enters the hall?”
With this speculation, Su Che summoned another Yuan Ying-level servant from the Immortal Prison and ordered it to use True Vital Energy techniques to try and retrieve the Survival Token.
For safety, before the servant acted, Su Che retreated dozens of zhang deeper into the corridor to avoid being hit by those eerie cutting wind blades.
Once ready, the Yuan Ying servant stood at the end of the corridor and suddenly formed a large transparent hand made entirely of True Vital Energy, reaching for the Survival Token hundreds of zhang away.
Sure enough, what Su Che feared happened.
Whoosh!
A sharp purple air current appeared abruptly, effortlessly cutting through the energy hand. Then, with a hissing sound, like a circular saw blade spinning at high speed, it cut everything to pieces. The purple air current followed in the trail left by the Yuan Ying servant’s True Vital Energy.
Its speed was extremely fast!
Although the corridor was wide, it was only about a dozen zhang long, not enough to provide enough space to dodge sideways. The Yuan Ying servant could only dodge back and forth in a “Z” pattern while retreating rapidly. At the same time, it activated its protective aura and the top-grade Dao artifact defense barrier given to it by Su Che.
As it retreated, Su Che and the two exotic beasts also moved back quickly to avoid being caught in the crossfire…
But after dodging just a dozen zhang, the air current rushed through in an instant, freezing the servant’s agile figure in place.
“It’s over!”
Su Che could easily predict the outcome.
A few breaths later, the Yuan Ying servant collapsed, its body split in two. Even the top-grade defense Dao artifact couldn’t escape the tragic fate of being cut in half.
“Even a top-grade Dao artifact is so fragile?”
Su Che was shocked: “That means if I were to rush in recklessly, I’d end up the same way.”

Although Su Che had reached the Huashen stage and could control top-tier Dao artifacts, his cultivation was sealed, allowing him to exert only the combat power of the late Yuan Ying stage and enabling him to control only high-grade Dao artifacts. His overall defense was not much stronger than that of the servant earlier.
“Judging from this, even a top-tier defensive Dao artifact would be easily cut in half by it,” Lao He exclaimed in amazement.
The reason for this was that to cut a high-grade defensive Dao artifact in half so easily, at least an ultimate-grade offensive Dao artifact would be required; ordinary top-tier Dao artifacts couldn’t do it.
This showed that the faint purplish airflow had an extremely terrifying cutting power. For Su Che, it was simply deadly upon contact, leaving him with no chance of resistance.
“No, this won’t work!”
Standing in the dark corridor, Su Che muttered to himself, “No matter how many scapegoats I have, they won’t be enough to withstand such cuts. I need to find another way.”
What could he do?
First, Su Che released Xiao Hei—not to send him on a dangerous mission, but to protect himself. He assumed that the double-edged battle axe given by the Witch God would surely not be cut by that purplish airflow.
If it could be cut so easily, the Witch God’s craftsmanship would be far too poor!
Additionally, Su Che hoped that Xiao Hei could sense whether that purplish airflow was a special energy he liked to devour. After all, the chaotic energy within Xiao Hei was the origin of countless energies in the world, so there was a slight chance…
So, Su Che summoned another scapegoat at the Golden Dan stage and ordered him to bravely face death by entering the hall ahead. Whoosh— the faint purplish airflow instantly cut him in half.
When the airflow appeared, Xiao Hei indeed reacted. Boom— he immediately broke free from Su Che’s control and, following his instincts, strode toward the hall.
Su Che grew anxious and prayed repeatedly, “Xiao Hei, you must hold on! If you get cut to pieces, I’ll be heartbroken…”
Boom…
As Xiao Hei entered the hall, the purplish airflow appeared again, but this time the situation was clearly different. Instead of cutting head-on like before, it turned into a whirlwind, spinning rapidly around Xiao Hei.
This scene gave Su Che the impression that the purplish airflow was curious about Xiao Hei, carefully examining him to figure out what kind of creature he was.
Xiao Hei, however, was never polite. Anything that piqued his interest must be edible. Immediately, he opened his mouth wide and began sucking in the purplish airflow surrounding him.

“Xiao Hei can really eat!”
Su Che was overjoyed, as if he could already see the Survival Order in his hands.
Huhuuhu…
Xiao Hei absorbed at an incredible speed. In just a dozen breaths, he had sucked up all the purple energy currents around him. Yet he seemed still unsatisfied, shaking his head left and right in search of more such energy currents.
Undoubtedly, the energy that could interest Xiao Hei must be an extremely advanced and special type of energy in the vast universe. Su Che speculated that this energy might also benefit Xiao Hei’s progression.
Su Che was already at the middle stage of the Hua Shen realm, and Lao Hei was also close to reaching that stage. Yet for Xiao Hei, no suitable method had been found to help him advance. The original plan was to obtain more True Blood of the Witch God from him, but after actually meeting the Witch God, Su Che realized the vast gap between them—such a request was simply out of the question. Moreover, the Witch God clearly wasn’t someone easy to deal with. Asking for his True Blood would mean owing him a huge favor, and who knew what kind of revenge he might exact for it.
Thus, Xiao Hei’s advancement remained unresolved, and he was still only at the middle stage of the Yuan Ying realm.
Now, seeing him able to absorb these terrifyingly sharp purple energy currents, Su Che naturally hoped that after consuming such good food, there would be some change…
However, Su Che couldn’t control Xiao Hei while he ate. Otherwise, he would have immediately ordered Xiao Hei to get the Survival Order first.
Huh!
Another pulse of purple energy appeared out of nowhere, this time coming head-on and launching another cutting attack like those before. It seemed that Xiao Hei’s recent act of swallowing the energy currents had angered it.
Bang!
Xiao Hei swung his double-bladed axe, not to slash, but to use its axe head, which was like a huge door panel, to forcefully scatter the energy current.
The gifts from the Witch God were indeed extraordinary. Since Witch Clan weapons emphasized being indestructible, the weapons themselves should also be unbreakable—otherwise, how could they destroy others?
The collision between the energy current and the axe head produced a solid-like impact sound, as if the axe was shattering not an energy current but a huge rock.
After the energy current was scattered, before it could reassemble into a wind blade, Xiao Hei opened his mouth wide again and began to absorb greedily, huhuuhu.

Yet before Xiao Hei could finish sucking in those purple air currents, swish swish swish, three more wind blades appeared out of thin air and rushed toward him. While feeding, Xiao Hei’s combat instincts became extremely fierce; the size of his battle axe instantly doubled, reaching five zhang in width. Bang! Bang! Bang! That ten-zhang-tall black giant, once he swung his ten-zhang-long, five-zhang-wide giant axe, was impenetrable—there was no gap to slip through. The three air currents were scattered again, to become Xiao Hei’s next meal. “It seems Xiao Hei can completely control these terrifying air currents. But if he keeps eating like this, when will it end? When will he be able to obtain that Survival Token?” Even though the situation seemed fairly good for now, Su Che wasn’t blindly optimistic. Xiao Hei, while feeding, was completely out of control, and he had no idea that the most important thing for him at the moment should be to get that Survival Token. Su Che guessed in his heart, “The place where the Survival Token is stored must be far more complex than just these cutting air currents. If Xiao Hei keeps swallowing like this, it’s very likely to cause even bigger trouble.” Lao Hei replied, “When Xiao Hei is feeding, he’s completely ruthless. This behavior is indeed quite troublesome, like an uncivilized barbarian…” While the master and servant were talking, inside the hall, Xiao Hei had already scattered all the consecutive wind blades and was devouring them voraciously—just as Lao Hei had said, like an uncivilized barbarian who had gone hungry for hundreds of years. After a dozen breaths, his bottomless stomach had sucked in all the air currents. Boom boom boom… The black giant, wielding his giant axe, paced around the hall, still unsatisfied and longing for more air currents to appear. Buzz buzz buzz… A strange rumbling sound suddenly appeared. The “bigger trouble” Su Che had been worried about seemed to have truly arrived. A large amount of extremely dense purple air currents suddenly emerged deep in the hall—no longer light purple, but dark purple. Before Xiao Hei could rush over to devour them, these air currents, accompanied by the buzzing sound, quickly converged inward and in an instant formed a giant of similar height to Xiao Hei, colored dark purple. Its height and build were almost the same as Xiao Hei’s. Apart from the color, the biggest difference was that this purple giant was holding not a battle axe, but a giant battle sword over seven zhang long, forged from amethyst. Boom boom boom…

The two giants neither spoke nor moved; they stepped forward in large strides toward each other and stopped at the center of the hall, one holding a knife and the other an axe, panting heavily, like two ancient war gods in a silent confrontation before fighting.
“How could such a scene arise?”
Su Che couldn’t help but smile bitterly. “It’s obvious that those purple energy streams are unwilling to accept Xiao Hei as their equal, so they’ve turned into giants to fight him. But the long knife in its hand seems rather strange…”
As he thought about these things, Su Che was concentrating on waiting for the two giants to clash when suddenly he felt an extremely fierce strike coming from behind.
“Is someone attacking me?”
Su Che was shocked and instinctively wondered if those two strange beasts behind him had somehow changed and were trying to ambush him.