[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-falling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot":3,"chapter-falling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot-falling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot-chapter-284":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Falling in Love to Escape the Original Book Plot [BL]",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1461617,1910,"Chapter 284: Twenty Years Later","falling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot-chapter-284",284,"\u003Cp>[Is there a level seven fire soul?] Zhen Yuan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the question, Shen Xu tilted his head and used the fire contract to communicate with Xiaomu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A moment later, he shook his head but his eyes were shining.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[There were two level seven fire souls but Xiaolei has already swallowed them. Also...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Also?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Xiaomu and Xiaolei have killed a peak level six fire python. We can have barbecue later.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhen Yuan chuckled when he heard this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he was also happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, the meat of a peak level six python was beneficial to Shen Xu’s cultivation and on the other, the double’s cooking was becoming more and more delicious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of the fire python barbecue, even Zhen Yuan couldn’t help but look forward to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Yang Shi can advance to late level six after refining the fire python’s demon core.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Mmh.] Shen Xu nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Yang Shi had a blood essence crystal and didn’t need other cultivation resources for the time being, the fire python demon core still had to be allocated to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he was intrinsically a python and refining a snake’s demon core would produce twice the result with half the effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you ready?\" Zhen Yuan asked, looking at Shen Xu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the double didn’t answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he clutched Zhen Yuan’s hand and jumped into the volcano.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Yang Shi, Feng Xue, Li Wenqiang, Dongfang Jing, and Chen Yi also jumped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, they uncorked their fire and ice gourds, ready to suction the surrounding fire souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally, fire souls were passive existences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless provoked, they never initiated attacks or tried to harm their surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, they were not easy to collect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition to hiding within fires, they were also very sticky and had to be patiently peeled from the fires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the fire and ice gourds had a special suction force on fire souls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without the gourds, the group would have needed more than fifty years to collect the fire souls on the outer mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’Thank heavens for the fire and ice gourds.’ Shen Xu thought, aiming his gourd mouth at a specific fire heap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barely a moment later, the fire flared and expanded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, a weak screech was heard and a handful of flames flew into the gourd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, the fire heap collapsed, revealing a silverish rock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What a good-looking fire silver ore.\" Shen Xu said and picked the rock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had collected many fire silver ores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the quality of ores in the outer mountain couldn’t compare to those inside the volcano.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After storing the rock, Shen Xu looked around and frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone, be careful. Don’t fall into the boiling lava.\" He warned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he was a chaos fire spiritual root cultivator, Shen Xu instinctively felt the danger of the boiling lava.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Excluding fires like Xiaomu and Xiaolei, no cultivator below the fusion realm could survive in the boiling lava.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, there were many rocks inside the volcano.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as they carefully used those rocks, they would be able to collect fire souls without falling into the boiling lava.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That said, the high temperature was a problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Zhen Yuan, an early-stage fusion realm cultivator, felt uncomfortable, let alone Shen Xu and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I feel like I am going to melt.\" Yang Shi complained and Shen Xu couldn’t help but roll his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How dare you complain?\" He said and quickly continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aren’t you an ice element cultivator? Why don’t you cover yourself with ice?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’You think I don’t want to?\" Yang Shi asked through gritted teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already tried to cover himself with ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the coldness of his ice was no match for the high temperature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the ice condensed around him, it melted and directly turned into boiling water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rather than relieve the heat, his ice had become an agent to scald his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What misery!\" He lamented with a miserable expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Try isolation talismans.\" Zhen Yuan reminded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, everyone immediately activated an isolation talisman and relieved sighs soon echoed in the surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They are not perfect but they are better than nothing.\" Shen Xu said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, the group settled in the volcano.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mostly, they collected fire souls, fire silver ores, and lava grass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, at other times, Shen Xu and Feng Xue absorbed fire qi while Zhen Yuan memorised fire laws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed and in the blink of an eye, it was twenty years later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After spending thirty years in the underwater volcano, the group finally collected all the fire souls, fire silver ores, lava grass, and other fire-type resources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, after Xiaomu and Xiaolei absorbed the lava at the bottom of the volcano, they discovered an earth fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Earth fire was only level five.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, it was enough to assist Xiaomu’s cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After exhausting the underwater volcano, the group didn’t linger in the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, they boarded a flying boat and headed to the mainland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is less than one hundred years until the secret realm closes.\" Shen Xu stated as he and Zhen Yuan drank wine on the ship’s deck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our trip was not wasted.\" Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the book, Xiao Weimin and his group also had a bumper harvest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, their gains were nothing compared to what he and Zhen Yuan got.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of the book and Xiao Weimin, Shen Xu frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wonder how he is doing.\" He subconsciously wondered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He is the main protagonist.\" Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu nodded before sighing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He is either doing as well as us or just a little worse.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying that, Shen Xu changed the subject.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s been more than five hundred years since we saw Lin Xiang. I wonder how she is doing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why did you suddenly think of her?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I talked to Li Wenqiang.\" Shen Xu started.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Wenqiang and Lin Xiang were poisoned and had an accident while in the Demon Plants Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, Li Wenqiang abandoned the ruthless way and planned to marry Lin Xiang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, Lin Xiang was still infatuated with Song Wancheng and didn’t want to be with Li Wenqiang.\u003C\u002Fp>",1025,"2026-06-06T02:30:15.894Z",1,"novelbin.me","fc815714a9a2777655917509ad1412ec9eb091b7a3cc4f568df19f912e57f432","falling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot-chapter-185","falling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot-chapter-184",498,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ffalling-in-love-to-escape-the-original-book-plot-cover.jpg"]