The Beautiful CEO’s Dragon Blood Bodyguard
Chapter 397 - 0397: Secret Cave

Chapter 397: Chapter 0397: Secret Cave

Long Fei cleared his throat and seductively said to the two beauties, "The reason I’m asking you to drink this soup is that the Blood Spirit Flower grows beneath this cold pool of water. If you go down without drinking this stuff, you’ll be frozen stiff as soon as you enter."

Zhang Xuan’er and Li Zhenni exchanged glances, eying Long Fei skeptically. "How do you know the Blood Spirit Flower is down there?"

Long Fei joked, "I have x-ray vision, do you believe that?"

"Get lost!"

The two beauties scorned him in unison, nobody would believe him.

However, they did believe a part of what he said.

If the Blood Spirit Flower was indeed nurtured by a Spiritual Beast, then there was only the Jade Toad here.

It lived in this cold pool, so perhaps the Blood Spirit Flower was at the bottom as well.

But a flower’s growth usually requires sunlight and soil.

How could a flower be nurtured in a pool of water?

The two pondered for a moment, then reached out to Long Fei for the toad soup, overcoming the nauseating taste, they gulped it down in one go.

Just as Long Fei had said, after drinking the soup, their bodies indeed felt unbearably hot.

Soon, beads of sweat formed on their foreheads.

This was because the toad lived in the icy cold pool, resisting the cold year-round. Its body had naturally evolved to produce a substance with an opposite, heating effect.

Otherwise, it would freeze to death in the cold over time.

Unable to suppress their curiosity, the two beauties insisted that Long Fei take them down to have a look in the middle of the night.

They both had come for their grandfathers, and after enduring so much, naturally, they didn’t want to leave empty-handed.

Long Fei agreed to take them, as Old Man Hong Qi was naturally unable to move.

For his safety, Long Fei had Fat Wang find a crack between the rocks to hide him away securely.

He, Fat Wang, Lu Buping, and the two women went to the edge of the pool.

In reality, he had already seen the situation inside very clearly.

There was a passage within the cave inside this pool, leading to an area behind it.

It was likely the practice secret realm of the Alchemy Cauldron Sect from the past.

Long Fei took the lead and plunged in, Fat Wang and the others looked at each other and dived in without hesitation after him.

Even if there was nothing inside, a cold bath would still be refreshing.

Their bodies were incredibly overheated at that moment.

It was more troublesome for Li Zhenni and the other; they were still deciding whether or not to take off their outer garments when the men had already all plunged in.

Fearing that Long Fei would monopolize the Blood Spirit Flower, they rushed in, clothes and all in their hurry.

With a splash, water flew everywhere.

The pool water was chilly, but they felt no cold, instead finding it wonderfully refreshing as if taking a cool bath on a hot day.

In the dark of night, the pool water should have been impenetrable to light, yet light came from somewhere unknown, fully illuminating the inside.

Li Zhenni and Zhang Xuan’er followed and could see Long Fei about ten meters deep.

He motioned Fat Wang and Lu Buping to enter a cave entrance and waited outside for them.

For Li Zhenni, it was no trouble at all, as their training base required them to practice snorkeling and deep diving every day.

Even Fat Wang could last about five minutes underwater.

But Zhang Xuan’er struggled. Once she went down about five or six meters, her heart felt an oppressive squeezing sensation.

The deeper she went, the more intense the suffocating feeling became.

After Zhang Xuan’er entered that cave entrance, she could no longer bear it, and her body, buoyed by the water, looked set to float upwards.

That’s when a strong hand grabbed her wrist.

Her eyes widened as she shook her head to signal she couldn’t go on.

However, the person wouldn’t let her give up, pulled her down, wrapped an arm around her waist, and pressed lips against hers.

A rush of oxygen flowed from his mouth into hers, leaving her stunned in the water.

At this moment, Zhang Xuan’er felt her head spinning, with an overwhelming urge to faint.

Growing up, she had truly never kissed someone before.

From school to the workplace, the men around her invariably kept their distance.

She didn’t know what was wrong with her, making men so fearful of her.

Thus, she stayed single without much experience.

When Long Fei suddenly pressed his lips against hers, she tensed up nervously, her head spinning.

Their bodies sank in the blue glowing water like two fish looking out for each other, inducing a sense of utter relaxation.

Upon reaching the cave entrance, Long Fei let her go first, squeezing through the opening before her.

Zhang Xuan’er, unwilling to part, actually wanted to hold him and kiss a little longer.

Unfortunately, the cave was too small and could only accommodate one person at a time.

Strangely, with Long Fei’s breath inside her, she felt no lack of oxygen in the water.

After swimming about thirty meters forward, a light suddenly appeared above her head.

Zhang Xuan’er followed the light upwards, and as soon as her head broke the surface of the water, she gasped for air.

Li Zhenni and Fat Wang helped her up, with Long Fei following closely behind, surfacing as well.

A fragrance of flowers and vegetation greeted them, prompting Long Fei to take a deep breath.

Onshore, he and Zhang Xuan’er exchanged glances, both shifting their gaze away awkwardly.

They both kept the incident to themselves, and to Long Fei’s relief, Zhang Xuan’er surprisingly didn’t make a fuss.

Long Fei was prepared, but still taken aback upon entering.

The cavern was the size of a football field, domed on top, not open to the sky, yet with multiple openings like a warehouse.

The light of the moon streamed through these openings, giving the place a luminescence that warded off complete darkness.

At daybreak, it was likely indistinguishable from the outside world.

At the waterway’s entrance stood a stele.

The inscription read, "For Alchemy Cauldron Sect Inner Sect Disciples Only. Trespassers will be severely punished!"

It had been long neglected inside, with weeds thriving everywhere, just like a botanical garden.

The otherwise short chrysanthemums grew as tall as willow trees, adorned with vivid and plump blossoms.

The bamboos had grown wildly to over fifty meters, as thick as plane trees.

Beneath the trees, giant mushrooms easily the height of a person dotted the landscape.

Multi-colored and uncertain if they were poisonous or not.

Standing among them, Long Fei felt like he had entered the land of giants, where all the flora was magnified tenfold.

In this verdant expanse, insects and beasts were naturally abundant.

The toad, presumably, must have thrived in this environment, guarding the entrance and treating it as its harem.

Long Fei and the group followed the old flagstone path deeper inside, searching for the Blood Spirit Flower.

The two women kept complaining about their broken phones.

If only they could take a few selfies here, they would surely shock the entire country once outside.

Being there felt like being on an alien planet.

In the center of the cave, they quickly discovered its greatest secret.

There was a pond, a hundred meters across, with blooming lotuses and green leaves covering the surface of the water.

In the middle was a small island with four huge stone pillars, each over ten meters high, carved with Five-Clawed Golden Dragons, wrapped with thick Mystic Iron Chains.

Even after so many years, the chains remained shiny and new, without a hint of rust.

On that island bloomed a vast spread of crimson flowers.

Li Zhenni and Zhang Xuan’er couldn’t help but exclaim together, "Blood Spirit Flower!"