It was only then that I realized I might have made a very serious mistake.
Zhuang Cheng had said that his flame was his spirit, and I understood this to mean his spirit was just a regular spirit in a standby state. Only when he activated his superpower did his spirit become fuel for the flame or transform into the fire itself.
But what if that wasn't the case?
Zhuang Cheng was a supernatural power user who could freely transform between himself and the fire. If his spirit in standby was not a regular spirit but instead possessed the characteristic of blazing fire, or even more so, resembled a "flame masquerading as a spirit"...
Then wouldn't my actions be as foolish as sticking my hand into a burning incinerator that was operational?
And reality surpassed the metaphor. At that moment, I experienced the hallucination of beholding the sun.