Come With Me

Zi Xia frowned, her little face scrunched up as she pondered for a long while. Then inspiration suddenly struck her.

If she climbed onto the Purple Golden Eight Trigrams Furnace, she could take off the lid.

Her eyes lit up.

Right, she could just climb the Alchemy Furnace.

But Zi Xia looked at the towering Purple Golden Eight Trigrams Furnace, and her little face fell again.

Samadhi True Fire burned beneath the Purple Golden Eight Trigrams Furnace. If she climbed up there, she would be cooked before she could even lift the lid.

What was she supposed to do?

Zi Xia frowned, craning her neck as she stared at the Purple Golden Eight Trigrams Furnace for a while.

Forget it. Saving the monkey came first!

She leaped up and nimbly landed on one of the Purple Golden Eight Trigrams Furnace's legs.

"Ah! So hot, so hot!"

The instant she landed, she felt scorching heat rising from beneath her feet.

But now that she was up here, there was no turning back.

Gritting her teeth, Zi Xia began to climb.

Fortunately, though the Purple Golden Eight Trigrams Furnace was enormous, it was not unimaginably huge.

Before long, she had climbed onto the top of the Purple Golden Eight Trigrams Furnace.

By then, her palms were covered in blisters.

Every time she moved, pain scrunched up her little face, while streaks of blood were left on the Purple Golden Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Those were the marks left after the countless blisters on her palms had been rubbed raw.

"Haa..."

Zi Xia exhaled and struggled to steady herself at the edge of the furnace's top.

Then, using every ounce of strength she had, she finally shifted the lid of the Purple Golden Eight Trigrams Furnace open by a tiny crack.

"Monkey! I'm here