"Well, Mr. Ji, you didn't mention the issue of compensation before..."
Lao Niu asked awkwardly.
"I didn't say that, but you didn't ask either."
Ji Yuan joked with a smile, and saw an expression on Lao Niu's face that looked like he was constipated.
"But, but Old Cow, I don't have anything to offer as a reward... How about I kowtow to you, sir?"
Ji Yuan shook his head and stopped teasing him.
"Sit down, disperse the magic power on the back of your neck. This hair is rooted in your essence, and it will take some effort to remove it. Don't move even if you feel anything for a while, otherwise if there is any deviation when you guide the true fire, you will suffer enough."
Hearing Ji Yuan say this, Niu Batian was overjoyed. He responded quickly and sat down cross-legged with his back to Ji Yuan. While lowering his head, he also pulled his collar down a little.
Looking at the fire in front of him, Niu Batian also imagined what Mr. Ji's Samadhi True Fire would look like.
"Be prepared, don't move rashly, the Samadhi True Fire is no joke!"
Ji Yuan's words became much more serious, which made Lao Niu quickly concentrate. Yan Fei, who was on the opposite side, was originally leaning against a tree trunk with a sword in his arms to rest, but now he sat up straight and observed this side.
Ji Yuan looked at the old cow's rough skin and the tuft of brown hair on the back of his neck that didn't fit in with him, and slowly opened his Dharma eyes.
Compared to the blurriness of normal objects, Ji Yuan's vision will be unusually clear when it comes to special aura and the power of divine light.
The evil aura of the old cow and the evil aura on the hair are two completely different attributes. Following the collision of these opposing auras, Ji Yuan's sight of the Dharma Eye seemed to extend to the depths of the bull demon's marrow, and saw the source of the evil aura, which was constantly absorbing the old cow's essence and magic power, and trying to continue to extend, but there was also a layer of fascia-like Dharma light blocking it.
“It’s really difficult.”
After Ji Yuan said this, he used his magic power to open the golden bridge in his body and sent out a wisp of true fire energy. He opened his mouth, and a small stream of red-gray energy slowly flew out and approached Niu Batian's neck.
At the moment when the red-gray gas approached, the bull demon suddenly grabbed his trouser legs tightly, and he couldn't control the strength and tore his trousers, and pinched his legs tightly.
There should be no temperature change behind me, but at the spiritual level, I felt as if a raging sea of fire was pouring down on me, and even more so a mental pain as if I was being stabbed by endless long needles.
Warning signs were rising in my heart.
"Danger! Very dangerous! Fatal danger! Must avoid it!"
Even so, Niu Batian still resisted the urge to flee immediately and stood still. His clenched teeth made a "clack..." grinding sound, and cold sweat oozed from his body. Compared with the imagined sea of fire behind him, the bonfire in front of him was nothing.
"Huh..."
The extremely slight sound of breathing was amplified countless times at this tense moment. Niu Batian's pupils shrank sharply as he faced the campfire, and the raging sea of fire was already within reach.
A wisp of red-gray air flew, and under Ji Yuan's precise control, it flew to Niu Batian's exposed neck and touched the tuft of brown hair.
But this time, the red-gray energy did not directly ignite the hair. Instead, it entered the old cow's skin from the top of the hair, and then went down along the hair. At this moment, the true fire energy was as thin as a gossamer.
This process is an extreme test of Ji Yuan's mind and spiritual strength, as well as his control. Of course, it also tests Niu Batian's endurance.
"Hold on and don't move! The true fire has already entered your body. If you want to eradicate it, you have to wait until it takes root. If you burn it directly, your soul will also be burned. Calm your mind and don't visualize the true fire behind you, otherwise your state of mind will not be able to bear it sooner or later!"
After Ji Yuan reminded him again, he threw out a piece of yellow paper from his sleeve and stopped being distracted, trying his best to control his anger. Niu Batian also forced himself to calm down immediately as if he had just woken up from a dream.
Before the yellow paper hit the ground, a faint yellow light like fluorescent powder spread out, and then immediately transformed into an extremely burly warrior in golden armor.
The golden-armored warrior faced Ji Yuan and bowed respectfully.
"Your Majesty!"
However, Ji Yuan didn't have time to pay attention to him at the moment, so after the golden-armored warrior finished his salute, his eyes only stayed on Yan Fei for a moment, and then he stood quietly by the campfire.
Yan Fei watched nervously from the side, although he could not figure out what was going on, he knew that this was a very critical moment. He had heard Niu Batian complain about this evil technique on the back of his neck more than once in the past few days, saying that it was a sinister technique that damaged one's foundation.
However, since this golden-armored warrior is here, it is certainly not his turn to help with the protection of the law.
The high concentration of ordinary people cannot last long, even though Yan Fei is a martial artist with good martial arts skills. After staring at the other side of the campfire for about half an hour, he finally couldn't bear it anymore.
He rubbed his eyes and looked at the warrior in golden armor. The burly general didn't move at all, not even blinking.
"Phew... Please take care of Mr. Ji and Brother Niu, I'll be back soon."
When he was drunk, he called him “Brother Niu”, but this name was too intimate and Yan Fei was not used to it, so he just called him “Brother Niu” during this period of time.
Yan Fei threw a large piece of firewood into the campfire, then stood up on his knees and prepared to go out to relieve himself.
The night wind was blowing by the woods, and it was still chilly even in April. After Yan Fei walked a few steps outside, he looked back in the direction of the campfire.
"It's better to go farther away."
Thinking of this, Yan Fei took a deep breath, used his body skills to step as fast as the wind, and quickly walked towards the depths of the woods.
Now is the season when all things come back to life. The forest is no longer silent at night. Various insects and frogs are chirping. There should be a water source nearby.
Yan Fei stopped and unbuttoned his pants only when he realized that he could hardly see the flames of the campfire anymore. At this distance, it shouldn't affect Mr. Ji at all.
The water line fell onto the dead branches and leaves on the ground, and Yan Fei showed a relaxed expression on his face. However, during this process, he opened his eyes and looked forward, and found that he had passed through the dense belt of the forest. Looking in this direction at this moment, he could actually see the situation outside the forest on the other side.
"Is there a fire?"
In the distance, some flames can be seen.
There should be no towns or villages near this location, so the fire could only have been caused by another group of people.
After Yan Fei finished relieving himself, he fastened his belt, looked in the direction of the campfire where Ji Yuan and Niu Batian were, then looked into the distance, then he moved forward quickly, and it took him a while to reach the edge of the other side of the woods.
Then Yan Fei found a taller tree, jumped up and touched the branches, then jumped directly to the top of the tree, looking into the distance.
"There is indeed light, and quite a lot of it..."
With swallows flying on the branches, the light in the distance is no longer just a simple fire, because although the light is far away, it is not just a little bit. This situation cannot be explained by a campfire, but rather it is more like a fire in the wilderness.
Yan Fei looked up at the sky. There was not even a cloud under the bright moon and stars, nor was there any smoke floating around.
"The wind is blowing in my direction. If there is a wildfire, there must be smoke. Could it be... the lights of a town? But there is not even a village within a hundred miles of this place, so there can't be a town."
Yan Fei thought for a while and shook his head, thinking that it was better to have less trouble than more, so he prepared to jump off the branch, but before jumping, he suddenly saw a carriage driving in the wilderness in the distance. He looked carefully and found that it was indeed a carriage.
The carriage was at least a mile away from the edge of the woods where Yan Fei was, and was heading from east to west. The direction should be the fire that Yan Fei saw. He frowned and looked for a while, then finally jumped off the branch and turned back.
At the other end of the forest, by the campfire, Ji Yuan was controlling his true fire and touching the root of the hair. The true fire was like a tiny tornado, wrapping it from the outside to the inside, and then Ji Yuan had an idea.
Wow! All the brown hair and demonic spirit were burned at this moment.
"Hiss..."
Niu Batian made a slight sound in pain, or more likely he was frightened.
"Okay, it's solved. Without the detailed knowledge of this technique, we can only burn it violently like this."
"Huh...Huh...Just now, I was really scared, but I finally solved it."
Niu Batian wiped the sweat from his face, then reached out and touched the back of his neck. Apart from a piece of burnt skin the size of a fingernail, there was no other pain. More importantly, he felt relaxed in his mind and no longer felt any threat.
“Hahahaha, hahahaha… It’s really gone, I’m really fine! Hahahaha… When I’m fully recovered, I won’t be afraid even if I run into that bitch again!”
"With your hobbies, you might get into trouble again."
Ji Yuan smiled.
"Hey, how could that be? Every failure makes one wiser. I, Old Cow, will be more careful in the future! By the way, where's Brother Yan?"
After Lao Niu made the promise, he looked around but didn't see Yan Fei.
"He must have gone out to relieve himself. He should be back soon."
Just as Ji Yuan said, after a while, Yan Fei rushed back to the campfire and saw Ji Yuan and Niu Batian were reading or taking a nap, each busy with their own things.
Hearing Yan Fei's footsteps, Ji Yuan didn't look up, but Niu Batian jumped up suddenly. At this moment, he needed to share his excitement with others.
"Brother Yan is back. Hehe, your brother Niu is already well. Once this evil spell is removed, there will be no hindrance to my recovery. That bitch can't defeat me anymore. Look, look, the hair is gone!"
Lao Niu turned around and showed Yan Fei the back of his neck. Yan Fei just congratulated him a few times and then told him what he had seen.
As Ji Yuan listened, he put down the book, and even the old cow became quiet.
"You said there might be a town?"
"Yes, I saw with my own eyes that there were carriages going in that direction, and the arrangement of the lights over there was also like this. Mr. Ji, should we go take a look?"
Niu Batian looked at Ji Yuandao.
"Mr. Ji, something is wrong here. There should be no town here. After all, people gathered in a town are bound to be angry."
Ji Yuan put away the book in his hand, stood up and looked in the direction Yan Fei said, and indeed did not see any signs of people and fire gathering.
"Go and see, you two follow me."
While Ji Yuan was speaking, he had already set off. His body moved as if he was taking a walk, as if shrinking the distance. In a short while, he was far away.
"Brother Yan, let's go too!"
Lao Niu grabbed Yan Fei's arm, a faint yellow halo appeared under his feet, and he quickly rushed after him.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the three of them had reached a slope and were looking far to the west.
"It really is a town! Who lives here? Why have I never heard of it?"
Yan Fei asked in disbelief, but Niu Batian sneered.
"Hehe, Brother Yan, you are wrong. The town is real, but it is not human!"