Ragnar gasped and hurriedly reached for Thane's forehead.The instant his fingers made contact, flames licked across his hand.“Ah!”He jerked back with a startled cry, shaking his burned hand. The flames had risen considerably, surging higher and higher until they threatened to reach the ceiling.Ragnar's brows drew together.He looked at the bed again.The fire was consuming Thane, yet not a single flame had spread to the bedsheets beneath him. They remained completely untouched, as though an invisible barrier separated the flames from everything around him.That wasn't how ordinary fire behaved.Ragnar examined his reddened palm. The burning sensation was intense, far worse than when he had touched Thane moments earlier. Back then, the heat had been comparable to scorching coals. Now, it felt as though he had plunged his hand into a furnace.He exhaled slowly and cautiously extended his hand towards the flames again.“My goodness, that's divine flames. Divine Qilin flames. The pure

Ragnar's body trembled violently from the pain.He needed rest himself. His body had barely recovered from the ordeal of evolving his physique, and now he was subjecting it to another punishing experience.But he had priorities.The crease between Thane's brows gradually loosened. His strained breathing became steadier, and the tension in his body began to ease.Ragnar could feel the burning sensation transferring from Thane's body to his own chest. At the same time, streams of pure, refined spirit energy seeped back into Thane, nourishing his body and replenishing his depleted reserves.Ragnar gritted his teeth.He carefully helped Thane refine the divine flames, filtering their aggressive energy before sending the purified spirit power back into his body for absorption.It was a delicate process. One wrong move could aggravate Thane's condition or cause the flames to spiral out of control.He couldn't afford to make a mistake.Time passed slowly.Gradually, Ragnar lost all sense of