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After returning to the cave dwelling, the first thing Lu Xiaotian did was refine a large quantity of Foundation Establishment Pills. He also had Xiao Heibao purchase another batch, enough to last several years, so that a similar situation would not arise again.
Refining Foundation Establishment Pills was merely a trivial matter now. He could accomplish it by using one strand of his Primordial Spirit to control a low-grade puppet. Lu Xiaotian's main Primordial Spirit, meanwhile, was focused on the golden whip constantly struggling before him—a spirit-linked artifact obtained from a fallen Nascent Soul Cultivator in Misty Hall.
This spirit-linked artifact was slightly inferior in power to the ice whip he had given Luo Ping'er. In truth, once such artifacts fell into