I Am Born With A Silver Spoon novel Chapter 691

“Alright! Since this is the first time you’d let me stay by your side, of course I’d come!” Yun Qing smiled coyly.

Meanwhile, Chen Hao merely smiled and nodded in reply, deciding that he wouldn’t mention a single word to her about his plan to save the lady in white at midnight; if he didn’t compromise at all, then he’d be in trouble if she messed up his efforts to recall the lady in white’s soul.

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“Shuisheng, where’s the Snake Cave? Do you remember where it is or not?” One hour later, everyone had set off with the gang consisting of Shuisheng, a curious Su Ruoxi and Yun Qing, who was tagging alongside Chen Hao. They soon arrived at the mountain.

“Of course I do, it’s just a little secluded. Let me think.” Shuisheng scratched his head, then stood on a dirt mound. “I found it! Over here!” He leaped forward in an agile manner, then parted a thick patch of grass to reveal a cave entrance with a height that was as tall as a man.

When Shuisheng was little, he’d discovered this cave while playing with his friends in the mountains, then made a bet that he was brave enough to go inside. When he did, he discovered a gigantic snake’s skin. Also, he was bestowed with special powers after eating a fruit he found inside. As such, he called this cave the Snake Cave.

At first, everyone had to crouch down as they entered. But after walking for some time, the passage opened up to reveal a large stone chamber with the huge snake’s skin in the middle of that chamber. It wasn’t a stretch to say that this large snake was as large as the one they saw in the Palace in the Sands.

“This is it!” Shuisheng looked as if he knew the place as well as his own home, rounding the pitch-black cave with a smile before turning on a lamp to illuminate the dim stone chamber.

With the light, Chen Hao could finally see the strange drawings painted all over the cave walls. An eye-catching plant grew from one of the wall’s cracks, except that this plant did not bear any fruit. “This is the plant I took that fruit from, except it doesn’t seem to have any now. In fact, I don’t think it’s bore any fruit since the one I took when I was little!” Shuisheng recalled.

“That’s weird. This is called the Saint’s Fruit, and it’s an ancient spiritual item that only bears one fruit at a time. You were lucky to have eaten it! Though I suppose its effect would be diminished since it grew on Earth, where there’s not much spiritual energy to go around,” Yun Qing said, clearly recognizing the plant and smiling as she explained.

“Hmm, so that’s how Shuisheng got his powers,” Chen Hao said. However, the cave paintings had already drawn his attention, since it was apparent that these paintings were old. Honestly, ‘old’ wasn’t even the right word to describe it; ‘ancient’ was probably the right one.

After scanning the paintings, Chen Hao thought it was quite weird because there were many strange humans depicted in the paintings. For example, there was a human-shaped figure with a pair of wings, and the most uncanny one was a human with three eyes.

Besides that, there were many animals depicted there, except they were enormous in such a way that Chen Hao couldn’t tell if their size was deliberately exaggerated. There was also a huge bat-like creature in the paintings that made Chen Hao think. When he went to take the Water Elusive Stone with Gu Yuxiao, there was a huge bat with a human head in that cave, and it looked very similar to the one in this painting.

At the time, he’d thought it was a bat demon that had meditated for some time, but could it have been a surviving creature from the ancient times? There were too many strange aspects about the situation.