From star gatherer to leader of humanity

The mining spaceship skillfully evaded the incoming fragmented celestial bodies, its speed increasing rapidly.

But the white light behind him relentlessly pursued him, using its immense psychic power to pull the surrounding shattered celestial bodies and forcibly create obstacles for Xu Bai's spaceship.

Boom!

The enormous celestial bodies on either side of the gap began to close, and the mining spaceship shot straight up into the air.

Just as the two massive celestial bodies merged, the mining spaceship managed to break through the gap.

The moment it burst through the crevice, the mining spaceship performed extreme evasive maneuvers to avoid the barrage of shattered celestial bodies crashing down upon it.

At this moment, Xu Bai was under extreme tension. Although the spaceship's maximum speed could exceed that of the white jade serpent, with so many obstacles, even the slightest mistake would lead to utter destruction.

Xu Bai looked at the white light relentlessly pursuing him on the spaceship's main control screen, as well as the fragmented celestial bodies that kept crashing down on him from time to time.

The mining ship could dodge the large, broken celestial bodies, but the smaller, broken celestial bodies slammed into the mining ship like bullets, making a series of loud bangs.

At this point, the mining spaceship had reached its maximum speed.

As Xu Bai was focusing too much on concentrating his mental energy while piloting the spaceship, two streams of blood flowed from his nose to his mouth.

Xu Bai dared not wipe it, his hands moving like afterimages as he precisely controlled the mining spaceship's posture.

"Damn it, I have to live!"

As Xu Bai spoke, blood from his nose flowed into his mouth, tasting somewhat fishy and sweet.

The mining spaceship, rapidly traversing the gaps between the celestial bodies, gradually distanced itself from the giant white jade serpent.

The white jade serpent's eyes were filled with resentment, and a resolute look flashed in its angry vertical pupils.

The white jade snake's body began to turn blood red, and its speed suddenly increased significantly, even faster than Xu Bai's mining spaceship.

At this moment, Xu Bai, who thought he had escaped, suddenly sensed that the giant white jade snake was chasing him again, and the fluctuations it emitted were even stronger than before.

"A surge in energy has been detected within the Starry Sky Beast. There is a 60% chance it will enter its explosive phase. Please hold on, Master!" Hakimi's voice rang out.

*Bang!*

A fragment of celestial body the size of a millstone struck the tail of the mining spaceship, and the two massive fragments on either side of the gap closed together.

"Damn, they're really not giving us a way out!"

Xu Bai's eyes turned bloodshot, and he pushed the mining spaceship to its limit again, bursting through the closing gap.

As he watched the red light closely following the mining spaceship, a sudden inspiration flashed through Xu Bai's mind.

"Hakimi, throw out half of the Spirit Flesh Warm Jade!" Xu Bai shouted suddenly.

"Yes, sir!"

The mechanical arm inside the cabin cut the piece of warm jade flesh in two, clamped the smaller tail section with the mechanical arm, opened a gap, and threw it directly out of the mining spaceship.

Sensing the presence of its child, the red light suddenly slowed down, approached the Spirit Flesh Warm Jade, and wrapped its tail around it, but did not continue to pursue the mining spaceship.

In that split second, the mining spaceship, traveling at top speed, had already covered a great distance.

Watching the mining spaceship recede into the distance, the white jade serpent roared in resentment, and the surrounding celestial bodies turned to dust under its immense psychic power.

Xu Bai piloted the mining spaceship for five hours before finally stopping.

The mining spaceship docked on a broken celestial body. Xu Bai breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed completely, but at that moment his mind seemed to explode, as if hundreds of long steel needles were piercing into his brain.

If it weren't for the boost in mental power, Xu Bai felt he would have already passed out.

"Hakimi is on alert."

After Xu Bai finished speaking, he leaned back in the control chair and fell into a deep sleep.

Xu Bai didn't know how long he had slept, but he felt refreshed and in complete control of his body before he slowly woke up.

"Hakimi, how long have I been asleep?"

"14 hours and 32 minutes, with no abnormalities reported during that time," Hakimi's electronic voice reported.

"That's good." Xu Bai stood up and stretched, but in the cramped control room, that was the only place he could move around.

After finishing his activities, Xu Bai sat down again to examine the spirit ore in the cabin.

"Hakimi, remember the depth of the warm jade mine we just saw. Remind me when we reach that depth in the future."

Xu Bai controlled the spaceship to activate the mineral exploration fluctuations and searched the surrounding area.

"Yes, ma'am!"

Full of energy, Xu Bai quickly found a spirit charcoal mine in the vicinity.

"300 tons is a good amount, enough to collect for a day and a half. I'll use that time to cultivate properly."

The spaceship slowly docked on a charcoal-black, broken celestial body.

The robotic arm is fixed in place, a surveillance drone is deployed, and the mining engineering robot inside the mining spacecraft is activated.

After doing all this, Xu Bai entered a state of cultivation.

After cultivating for ten hours, Xu Bai felt soreness in his meridians, so he stopped cultivating and took out the jade slip of the Spirit Gathering Technique to begin learning.

Just as the mining spaceship was about to complete its mining operation, Xu Bai successfully cast the Spirit Gathering Technique.

A ball of spiritual energy, about the size of a basketball, half black and half gray, gathered together and appeared before Xu Bai.

"With such chaotic spiritual energy, it's fine for casting spells, but absorbing and cultivating it will surely lead to qi deviation."

"Only after mastering the Spirit Gathering Technique can you gradually purify spiritual energy according to your own will. The road ahead is long, so take it one step at a time!"

Xu Bai looked at the jade slip containing the Spirit Gathering Technique in his hand, and a thought suddenly struck him.

"Spell jade slips can also be imbued with attributes. I wonder if the added attributes can make the Spirit Gathering Technique even more powerful."

Xu Bai took out the leather bag containing spirit stones from his pocket, poured out all the spirit stones inside, and the dice-sized spirit stones collided in his hand, making a crisp sound.

There are a total of 16 spirit stones, one of which has already been half used.

"We'll talk about that when we have more spirit stones. Right now, we're mainly using the mining spaceship." Xu Bai placed one hand on the spaceship's power stick, and the spaceship's attribute panel appeared in front of him again.

"If it weren't for this white attribute, I might be dead here today."

"No, not here. They died from the attack of those four small, single-person combat ships."

"For now, the life of the spaceship is my life."

"140 catties of spiritual flesh and warm jade are worth 112,000 strands of spiritual energy. If you include the flaming gold, it's 170,000 strands of spiritual energy. I can just collect a little bit in this area and that will be enough to add another white attribute to my mining spaceship."

"I'll consider other things after I've maxed out the white attributes of the mining ship."

Xu Bai recalled those dangerous moments in the Shattered Star Sea. If it had been a regular Hummingbird-class spaceship, his body would probably be nothing but ashes by now.

A day later, after the spirit charcoal was collected, Xu Bai piloted his spaceship to begin another mining expedition.

"Moonstone, 40 strands of spiritual energy per ton, 180 tons, mine~"

"Starstone, 150 tons, mine!"

"Moon-Cold Refined Iron, 180 tons, to be mined~"

Xu Bai felt like a busy little bee, searching for all kinds of flowers to pick in the garden.