He had taught him the Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations and the Seventy-Two Earthly Transformations. Now it depended on whether the monkey could forge a golden body, iron bones, and fiery golden eyes within the pill furnace. Then he would grant him a Somersault Cloud and have him retrieve the Wish-Fulfilling Golden-Hooped Rod from the Eastern Sea. The monkey from the original legend would then return.
Watching the monkey grit his teeth and endure inside the pill furnace, Chu Yi worriedly peered through its viewing window from time to time. Seeing the monkey burned black all over, she could not help asking anxiously, "Daddy, he won't really be burned into charcoal, will he? This is Samadhi True Fire!"
Fifteen snorted. "It would be better if he were burned into charcoal! That would prove he isn't qualified to be my junior brother!"
Zhao Gongming and the Three Firmaments merely watched in silence.
At first, the monkey could still hold on. The surging medicinal power within him alleviated much of his suffering. But as the Samadhi True Fire burned deeper and deeper, his screams gradually grew louder and more frequent. The medicinal power restored his body, while the flames destroyed it. Life and death alternated endlessly; his nerves healed, then broke, then grew back again...
Normally, once nerves died, there would be no more pain. Yet once they grew back, he had to suffer that pain all over again. Repeating this over and over was absolute torture.
Yet this was not even the worst part.
The worst part was that under these circumstances, he could no longer suppress his cultivation. His Golden Immortal tribulation descended accordingly. Tribulation clouds gathered in the sky, but there was no flashing lightning.
Everyone merely felt an immense aura shroud heaven and earth. The skies above First City were