Ye Jun waved a hand and said softly, "It's nothing. As long as you're more careful from now on, fellow Daoist, the Power of Karmic Fire won't return."
Kong Xuan and Great Peng gazed at Ye Jun with gratitude. In their hearts, he was now no different from a Sage.
Yuanfeng bowed and thanked Ye Jun again. After all, she knew her own condition best.
A karmic fire tribulation involving the power of the Heavenly Dao was difficult to treat. Though she didn't know how Ye Jun, who was only a Quasi-Saint, had managed it, Yuanfeng knew it couldn't have been easy.
"Mother, why don't we ask Lord Ye Jun to stay with us for a few days?" Kong Xuan asked Yuanfeng, looking at her expectantly.
Yuanfeng looked at Ye Jun with an equally helpless expression. He nodded.
He was traveling through the wilderness anyway. If nothing unexpected happened, this might be one of his last chances to visit the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes.
He could take the opportunity to explore them, too.
When she saw that Ye Jun had agreed to stay, Yuanfeng's pretty face flushed. In a soft voice, she said, "Thank you for honoring us with your presence, Lord! Kong Xuan and the others have long admired you."
Ye Jun had noticed that long ago. Though Kong Xuan and Great Peng were Yuanfeng's offspring, they hadn't been conceived through the union of Yin and Yang.
Rather, they had been born through a unique talent of the Phoenix Clan: conceiving through their perception of the energy between Heaven and Earth.
"These two little birds inherited the Five Elements Energy and the Yin-Yang Two Energies. Their talent is beyond question. It's not a bad thing to form a good relationship with them."
Ye Jun muttered to himself.
The days that