Chapter 26: The Mysterious Purple Snake

  The crystal-clear spiritual grass sways gently in the breeze on the stone wall, emitting a strange and refreshing fragrance all around, giving people a sense of great refreshment.

  In the wisteria, a small purple snake with a slightly flattened triangular head poked out from among the guardian spirit grasses, watching its surroundings extremely vigilantly, its scarlet tongue hissing in and out, making one's hair stand on end.

  Xia Qi remained silent in the distance, quietly observing the purple snake, waiting for the best moment to strike with lightning speed and kill this strange little snake.

  The stone that was just thrown over was extremely fast, but the purple little snake was even faster, its body shape in the air was almost like a virtual shadow, and its speed was so fast that it was almost extreme. With a slight roll, the stone turned into powder, which also showed the strength of the little snake's force.

  However, Xia Qi's heart was not afraid at all.

  Xuanpin's Autumn Water Sword, with its unparalleled sharpness, can easily pierce the thick skin of a mid-tier Iron Armor Bull Demon Beast. This small snake, judging from its aura, is at most a peak-level one-stage demon beast. How could its scales possibly withstand a single strike from the Autumn Water Sword?

  As long as he could strike with one sword, Xia Qi had confidence in killing the purple snake with one blow!

  At this moment, the purple snake is on high alert all around, Xia Qi is waiting for an opportunity, everything seems to be on the verge of happening!

  "Hiss..."

  The snake slowly emerged from the vines, its purple body about the size of a thumb. After waiting for a while, it seemed to have confirmed that there were no enemies around.

  It wasn't until now that Xia Qi had fully seen the entire appearance of this purple little snake with an unusual speed. Its body was covered in small, overlapping scales that were a deep purple color, and it was only about the length of an adult's forearm, no thicker than a thumb. At this moment, it agilely crawled out from the vines and quickly made its way to the side of that spiritual grass.

  A small purple snake slithered around the spiritual grass, its triangular head slightly raised, hissing out scarlet snake letters, as if absorbing the exotic fragrance emitted by the spiritual grass, extremely enjoyable.

  Xia Qi stuck to the vines, his two feet searched for a protruding rock wall, and he stood slightly stable. His left hand had already produced a cold and shining sharp sword, which sparkled in the sunlight.

  The purple snake was too close to the spiritual grass, Xia Qi didn't dare to take action immediately, fearing that he would destroy the spiritual grass and end up losing out. He was still waiting for the best opportunity to strike.

  A small purple snake slithered around the spiritual grass, after a few minutes, it seemed to feel tired, and reluctantly looked at the spiritual grass, then started to move upwards along the smooth stone wall.

  A small snake with a long arm, at this moment has completely exposed itself on the stone wall, just forming a parallel with Xia Qi at this moment, and its exposed body is completely exposed under Xia Qi's eyelids!

  "Cut!"

  With a low drink, Xia Qi's injured right hand grasped the vine, and with a push of his two feet, the vine swung violently, bringing Xia Qi quickly closer to the small snake! The only thread of true yuan in his body was now fully infused into the Autumn Water Sword, making its body glow dimly, its blade flashing with sharp edges. With Xia Qi's powerful physical strength, this sword strike was like splitting mountains and opening up the earth, slashing down fiercely!

  "Ah......!"

  A sharp sword slashed down, a strong gust of wind whistled by, and the killing intent struck right in front of it. The purple snake immediately sensed it, swallowed its snake letter, and wanted to escape. However, even with the purple snake's astonishing speed, at this moment, it only managed to turn its head around, just in time to see a sharp sword slashing down through the air!

  "Ding!"

  As expected, the Autumn Water Sword slashed into the purple snake's body with great force and a sharp blade, but at this moment, it was as if it had been slashing at metal, extremely hard!

  "Pffft!"

  Fortunately, the Xuanpin Downgrade Treasure was indeed extraordinary, with unparalleled sharpness. Even the unusually defensive scales of this strange little snake were no match for it, and it was directly cut in two by the Autumn Water Sword!

  Suddenly attacked by Xia Qi, one sword cut into two segments, the purple small snake still did not die, but even if it didn't die, it was almost done, and at this moment, this piece of stone wall was crushed, the body that was cut in two could no longer cling to the rock wall, and had fallen directly from the air!

  The purple little snake's two truncated bodies, under Xia Qi's gaze, fell from the high sky and dropped into the roaring river water below, disappearing in an instant.

  "What kind of demon beast is this purple little snake? Its speed is incredibly fast, and its defense is astonishing. Although it's only a first-class demon beast at its peak, it's probably already enough to rival the defense of that mid-term Iron Armor Savage Ox, a second-class demon beast!"

  Xia Qixin was shocked at the same time, but also a little relieved. The purple snake's defense was much higher than he had expected, but the power of Xuanpin's treasure still made him unscathed and killed the snake.

  "At the time, the decision to blackmail Sword Without Worry was indeed a wise one!" Xia Qi showed a hint of a smile. The act of blackmailing Sword Without Worry was actually the most enjoyable experience he had since arriving in this world. At that time, he was just thinking of using the tiger's might to intimidate the fox, but unexpectedly gained an invaluable treasure - the Lower Grade Mystic Artifact.

  Sheathing Autumn Water Sword, Xia Qi's heart was slightly racing as he climbed along the vines to the side of that spiritual grass.

  As he approached the spiritual grass, Xia Qi could clearly smell that unusual fragrance. He took a deep breath, feeling refreshed and invigorated, his expression extremely excited.

  Although Xia Qi didn't understand the spiritual grass, he still had some common sense. At least he knew that in his past life as a loose cultivator, he had seen extraordinary spiritual grasses in some shops, but never one that could make people feel refreshed and invigorated with just one sniff!

  "This is absolutely a treasure!" Xia Qi looked at this spiritual grass, feeling that his earlier adventure of killing the purple snake was absolutely worth it.

  After a while, Xia Qi suddenly frowned. This spiritual grass was clearly not fully grown and might still be in its youth. However, he absolutely couldn't wait patiently for the spiritual grass to mature like that small snake did.

  To know that a spiritual herb, especially a precious one, from youth to maturity, takes at least hundreds of years, and often thousands or even tens of thousands of years, is quite common. Xia Qi, as a cultivator in the Qi Refining stage, has a lifespan of over a hundred years, how can he wait for so long for the spiritual herb to mature?

  "Can't take care of so many, even in the juvenile period, with such a miraculous effect, this spiritual grass is also invaluable!" Xia Qi gritted his teeth slightly, and finally couldn't bear to give up this spiritual grass, wanting to collect it directly, regardless of its life or death.

  The spiritual grass was deeply rooted in the rocky wall, Xia Qi's left hand exerted a slight force, and with one slap, this huge rock wall immediately cracked open with countless cracks, and the rocks where the spiritual grass took root almost turned to dust!

  Gently, he pulled the spiritual grass out of the rock, its roots intact and extremely long. Just as Xia Qi was about to put it into his storage bag, whether alive or dead, a sudden flash of inspiration struck him!