From star gatherer to leader of humanity

Xu Bai looked at the post and was filled with emotion.

I also know why this congratulatory post could get hundreds of thousands of replies. It's a path that many predecessors have already paved, and it's also the path they will have to take in the future.

"I wonder when I'll be able to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage." Xu Bai sipped the spiritual tea in the private room, his eyes wandering.

At this moment, the door to the private room opened, and the waiter began serving the dishes.

Three cold dishes, four hot dishes, plus a bowl of spiritual rice.

The aroma emanating from the food instantly attracted Xu Bai.

Just as Xu Bai was preparing his meal, the door to the private room suddenly opened.

A muscular man, about two meters tall and wearing a vest, walked into the private room.

"Finally found you." The burly man grinned maliciously, pulled up a chair from the table, sat down, and stared intently at Xu Bai.

"Scarface was arrogant and overconfident. He deserved to be killed by you, but now that he's gone, someone has to take his place."

"Join my Full Warehouse Gang, and you'll be the manager of my Ninth Team. You'll also have 20 new recruits under you, and you'll get 20% of their commission." The burly man stated his terms to himself.

The burly man exuded an intense aura of oppression, making Xu Bai feel that even the fragrant food had lost its flavor.

"Senior, I have no interest in forming any gangs. I appreciate your kindness."

"Since we've become enemies, senior, just use your methods. If I can't handle it, then it's my bad luck. If I could handle it..." Xu Bai didn't look at the burly man, but instead picked up his chopsticks, took a piece of snake-dragon meat, put it in his mouth, chewed it slowly, and savored it.

"That's tough, that's bold!"

"I hope we can meet again in the Sea of ​​Shattered Stars!"

The burly man got up to leave, but as he opened the door to the private room, he turned back to look at Xu Bai.

"My Mancang Gang has three hundred small, dedicated combat ships. If your ship is destroyed and you manage to survive, then I'll keep my word."

After speaking, the burly man left without giving Xu Bai a chance to reply, closing the door behind him.

"Full House Gang~" Xu Bai muttered before starting to eat, because he had more important things to do after finishing his meal.

As he finished eating, Xu Bai felt his body becoming full of spiritual energy. If he cultivated at this time, he could save a spirit stone.

After leaving the restaurant, Xu Bai turned and went to the Immortal Path Street next door, which was connected to the Spirit Qi Room.

Xu Bai found the largest magic shop in Immortal Path Street and bought the five essential magic spells for Qi Refining stage cultivators.

The five basic spells—Gathering Spirit Technique, Water Ball Technique, Fire Ball Technique, Lightness Technique, and Wind Speed ​​Technique—are the easiest to learn. Moreover, they can evolve into many spiritual techniques and supernatural abilities. These are the basic spells that all low-level cultivators must learn, and each one requires a thousand strands of spiritual energy.

These are also the five spells that you must learn in high school.

Xu Bai looked at the five jade slips in his hand, his expression quite complex.

"Mid-stage Qi Refining, five basic spells, tuition of 100,000 strands of spiritual energy—now I've finally achieved one of those goals."

At the spaceport, Xu Bai took a service vehicle to the location of his mining spaceship.

Xu Bai gently patted the hatch of the mining spaceship with one hand, and the attribute spiritual light in his dantian flowed along Xu Bai's hand to cover the mining spaceship.

The next moment, an attribute panel appeared in Xu Bai's eyes.

Hummingbird-class Mining Ship - Attributes: Agile [Easy to control, speed +20%], Repair [Slowly recovers non-fatal damage to the ship], Spirit Points! [Inside the ship, increases spirit power by 5 times.]

Looking at the two gray and one white attributes on the attribute panel, Xu Bai felt a little disappointed. He had originally hoped for a powerful combat attribute or an attribute that could help him mine more spirit ore.

"A five-fold increase in mental strength, I wonder what the effect will be."

Xu Bai used his personal terminal to wake up the mining spaceship, and the hatch opened automatically.

"Hakimi, welcome back, Master!"

An electronic sound system rang out inside the spaceship, and Xu Bai strode into the main control room.

The moment Xu Bai entered the spaceship's main control room, he felt an unprecedented sense of refreshment, as if the 480P resolution had instantly become 4K.

Sitting in the control room, Xu Bai's eyes gleamed with a burning passion.

"This is the effect of a 5x increase in mental strength. Not bad!"

Xu Bai had the port fill the energy and ammunition compartments of the mining ship, and then eagerly piloted the mining ship toward the Shattered Star Sea.

As the small mining spaceship flew out of the space city's magic array, Xu Bai suddenly sensed the chaotic spiritual energy in space.

Xu Bai had a vague feeling that with his current mental strength, he could extract pure spiritual energy from the chaotic spiritual energy for cultivation.

Just as Xu Bai was feeling happy, he suddenly sensed four hostile forces behind the spaceship.

He looked at the radar system of the mining ship and discovered four small ships hundreds of miles behind him.

"How arrogant of them, blatantly following us here!"

Xu Bai felt no fear whatsoever. After his mental strength increased fivefold, he felt that he had reached a state of perfect harmony with the ship. Even if he couldn't defeat the enemy, escaping would not be a problem.

"Master, those four are all small combat ships of the Bee class, equipped with small laser cannons, psionic tracking missiles, and heavy twin cannons. Their top speed is 0.15 times the speed of light," Hakimi reported the data he had gathered.

"No matter how fast you are, you still need to be able to unleash your full potential once you enter the Shattered Star Sea."

"Hakimi, once you enter the Shattered Star Sea, turn the detection fluctuations to maximum."

Xu Bai's eyes flashed with spiritual fire. Although he really wanted to clash with the four small combat ships, his spiritual power, amplified fivefold, told him that if the other side joined forces, he would have no chance.

"Kid, our boss said he really likes your unruly attitude."

"I hope you die with a backbone, proving the boss was right!"

Hakimi received the threatening message from the four small combat ships.

Xu Bai remained silent, simply maneuvering the mining spaceship into the Shattered Star Sea.

Upon entering the Sea of ​​Shattered Stars, the endless fragmented celestial bodies crowded together, instantly slowing down the spaceship's speed.

However, after Xu Bai piloted the mining spaceship into the Shattered Star Sea, its speed was several times that of when it traversed the Shattered Star Sea before.

The mining spaceship, like a beam of light, darted through the gaps between the shattered celestial bodies.

The instantaneous maneuvering quickly damaged the spaceship's power unit and hull, but Xu Bai activated the repair attribute, achieving a balance at this bizarre speed.

At this speed, it didn't take long for them to put a distance of tens of thousands of miles between themselves and the four small combat ships.

Within the Shattered Star Sea, the limit for detecting fluctuations is ten thousand miles.

At this moment, the operators of the four small combat ships were filled with shock.

They lost them!

"How are we going to explain this to the boss?!" asked the leader of the Mancang Gang.

"Let's follow the direction where this kid's signal disappeared for a while. I don't believe he can maintain that speed forever."

"They must have surveyed the entire terrain beforehand and planned the route intelligently, otherwise it wouldn't have been this fast!" another member said.