A square brazier built of special stone,
burned with intense, scorching flames that seemed regular. While the firelight was a warm yellow, wrapped within was a layer of white. This white flame-layer seemed alive, breathing with the rhythm of the flames, as if it were slumbering.
When Yi Chen gazed at the bonfire,
it was like a fly stuck on ointment, his consciousness firmly affixed to it,
even though he stood twenty meters away. He suffered the most direct combustion, which not only warmed his body but also scorched his consciousness.
Those in the past who failed to acquire the Flame did not do so because the ritual failed,
but because they simply could not endure the direct scorching from the bonfire. Before even getting close, their consciousnesses were cleansed to the point of idiocy, and their bodies charred, tossed into the brazier like burnt charcoal.