Xiao Lan had successfully passed the lightning tribulation and was now a Ghost Commander equivalent to the Golden Core realm.
However, she was extremely weak for the time being and would need a long period of recuperation before regaining combat effectiveness.
During Xiao Lan's recovery, Xiao Fei managed the spiritual plants in the space, fed and bred the Fire Ants, and occasionally refined a batch of pills.
The spiritual plants in the space grew rapidly and required frequent tending, such as trimming branches and leaves, picking flowers, sometimes harvesting mature spiritual herbs, and then replanting seeds or seedlings.
While doing these tasks, Xiao Fei never felt tired; instead, he felt his mind at peace and enjoyed himself.
Being far from the constant fighting and killing of the cultivation world, tending to some flowers and plants, growing some spiritual items he liked, and occasionally making a delicious meal was his greatest joy.
Who would enjoy fighting people all day if they had a choice?
It was just that in the martial world, one's fate was not entirely their own.
Without striving to climb to the very peak of the cultivation world's pyramid, one would never have freedom, only to be exploited and treated like a fish on a chopping board.
Such leisure and elegance could only be truly enjoyed by reaching the highest level.
The fruits on the Wood Spirit Fruit tree in the space were nearing maturity, and they could be refined into Wood Attribute Marrow Cleansing Pills to enhance wood spiritual root aptitude.
In the space's insect breeding room, the new batch of Fire Ants was about to hatch.
After years of survival of the fittest, his Fire Ant Queens had gone through several generations, and their aptitude was vastly different from before.
Fed with Dragon Breath Grass for a long time, the current Fire Ants now possessed a trace of dragon's breath, greatly increasing their strength.
After feeding the Fire Ants, Xiao Fei picked some leaves from the Sky Mulberry Tree and some less valuable spiritual herbs, filling a large basket to feed the Flying Fish.
The Flying Fish was not picky about food; it ate whatever it was given, but its appetite was particularly large.
After feeding the Flying Fish, he walked to another pond where a Nine-Bend Golden Lotus was planted.
He reached into the pond and dug out a section of lotus root, leaving only a branch as a seed.
He washed the lotus root, revealing the pale golden root sections inside.
Xiao Fei found the sharpest small knife and, with considerable effort, cut a bloody opening on his wrist.
The flowing blood dripped onto the golden root section, which absorbed it. The root section continued to absorb blood for three days.
Bleeding profusely for three days left Xiao Fei dizzy and his hands and feet trembling.
For such a treasure that could replace his own death once, shedding a little blood was nothing.
Then, he took out dozens of refining materials and began to craft a puppet.
He was already intimately familiar with puppet crafting; he just lacked the materials.
Now that he had all the materials, he successfully refined a substitute puppet in just ten days.
At this moment, he held a five-inch-tall figurine, the finished product of his ten days of labor.
However, this item still needed to be refined to be effective.
During refinement, a portion of one's divine consciousness and vital blood had to be integrated into it.
Once the substitute puppet died, this divine consciousness and vital blood would be lost and difficult to recover.
Xiao Fei then spent several more days refining the substitute puppet.
After successfully refining the substitute puppet, his second sister had still not recovered. Xiao Fei decided to wait until his second sister fully recovered before leaving the canyon.
In the following time, Xiao Fei tended to the spiritual plants and Fire Ants in the space, occasionally refined pills, or polished his own cultivation.
His current realm had reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment Great Perfection. If he had the Primordial Gold Elixir, he could prepare to break through to the Golden Core realm.
Furthermore, since obtaining the Glazed Crimson Light Ganoderma, the materials for refining the Primordial Gold Elixir were complete.
However, he still had a concern, which was why he had delayed the breakthrough.
When he broke through from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, some minor details of the cracks on the jade disc within his body were repaired, and the space increased from 3 mu to 36 mu.
As the space expanded, all his spirit stones, pills, spirit wine, and spirit fruits were consumed. In the end, he even resorted to eating grass out of necessity.
This time, breaking through from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core, he didn't know if the treasure space within his body would expand. It might consume even more spiritual energy.
He had to stockpile a batch of spirit stones and spirit wine for this, preparing in advance. He wouldn't be able to find these spirit stone resources trapped at the bottom of the canyon.
Another five or six years passed, and Xiao Lan had fully recovered her strength.
On this day, Xiao Fei rode on the back of a fish, taking Zhu Yu with him, and flew towards the top of the canyon.
Outside the canyon, after several years, the evil cultivators who had pursued him that day had already left.
The two landed on the ground, concealed their auras, and walked towards the direction of Lu Country.
As for the evil cultivators Xiao Fei had subdued that day, if nothing unexpected happened, they should have all died from the poison.
The possibility of finding an antidote in the White Bone Sect was extremely slim. There were very few alchemists among the evil cultivators, and those like Xiao Fei who could deduce the components of the antidote from the poison were rare, perhaps not encountered in a lifetime.
The two walked cautiously for two or three days when they suddenly heard fighting sounds ahead.
They initially did not want to get involved; it was normal for these evil cultivators to kill each other when they had nothing else to do.
However, just as Xiao Fei was about to turn away, he heard a familiar voice from the shouting and curses of both sides.
"Little girl, why don't you yield to me? This old man will definitely make your soul the main soul of this magical treasure!"
"Die!"
Xiao Fei quietly approached and discovered it was Huang Feifei, being besieged by two Golden Core evil cultivators.