From star gatherer to leader of humanity

Upon realizing this, Xu Bai immediately began to try it out.

This time, the spiritual energy mobilized and the hand seals formed when casting the Spirit Gathering Technique underwent some changes.

After the spell was completed, a spirit orb the size of a billiard ball appeared in Xu Bai's palm.

This spirit pearl still contains 150 strands of spiritual energy, but this spiritual energy circulates slowly inside the pearl, maintaining the state of gathering spiritual energy using the Spirit Gathering Technique.

The spirit pearl slowly absorbed the pure spiritual energy from the surrounding area, which then merged into the pearl.

"This little idea actually worked!"

"This spirit bead, about the size of a billiard ball, can store at least 500 times the amount of spiritual energy. However, it absorbs spiritual energy slowly on its own. In the Shattered Star Sea, it will take at least a month to fully absorb it."

"But this is still a profit!"

Xu Bai once again pressed the jade slip containing the Spirit Gathering Technique close to his brow, recording his inspiration, the meridian pathways for casting the spell, and the hand seals within it.

"With my current spiritual energy and its recovery rate, I can cast the Spirit Gathering Technique at least fifty times a day, which is more than 20,000 strands of spiritual energy."

"During that month, I used it day and night without stopping, and I could accumulate about 60 strands of spiritual energy, which is equivalent to 60 spirit stones."

"It seems less appealing than mining, but I'm just idling around anyway."

A day later, after collecting 1300 Xuanxue Crystals, Xu Bai turned the Qi Circulation Disc again.

However, this time the option that brought me mediocre luck was the one I got.

Xu Bai didn't care. As long as he wasn't unlucky, he could always find precious mineral veins deep in the Shattered Star Sea.

Let's go!

The magical mining spaceship took off and began exploring the surrounding spiritual mines once again.

Not long after it took off, Xu Bai's spaceship suddenly detected a signal from a spaceship tens of thousands of miles away.

The other spacecraft also detected the signal from Xu Bai's spacecraft.

The two spaceships moved in perfect unison, simultaneously increasing the distance between them.

Three hours later, Xu Bai detected a broken celestial body containing Crimson Flame Iron, with a reserve of 800 tons.

After the surveillance drone determined that there was no danger in the surrounding area, Xu Bai piloted his spaceship to land on the shattered celestial body and began mining.

"Crimson Flame Refined Iron, 280 strands of spiritual energy per ton, I wouldn't mind~"

A day and a half later, after the Crimson Flame Refined Iron was collected, Xu Bai activated the Fortune Wheel again.

The moment the wheel of fortune began to spin, Xu Bai sensed something was amiss.

The worst option, absolutely the worst, stopped at the pointer.

The instant the Wheel of Fortune disappeared, the disordered gravity of the area was suddenly activated.

Xu Bai's spaceship shut down and began to spin under the influence of disordered gravity.

Those massive, shattered celestial bodies seemed to be sentient, drawing closer to each other and squeezing towards the magical spaceship.

A beam of earthy yellow light enveloped the entire mining spaceship, resisting the attack from the two shattered celestial bodies.

In the control room, Xu Bai was wearing a black robe and could breathe normally.

But at this moment, Xu Bai suddenly felt the spiritual energy in his body begin to become disordered, which was a sign of going into qi deviation.

"No way, bad luck doesn't have to be this bad!"

Xu Bai forced himself to stabilize his mind and tried his best to maintain his spiritual power, suppressing the signs of going into qi deviation.

The disordered gravity lasted for three hours before it stopped. When the spaceship resumed operation, Xu Bai thought he could finally catch his breath.

A gigantic golden rock serpent, 300 meters long, crawled out from a broken celestial body hundreds of miles in diameter, its menacing gaze fixed on Xu Bai's magical mining spaceship.

"Holy crap!"

Xu Bai tensed up instantly and tried to control the spaceship to escape.

At that moment, the giant golden rock serpent's tail lashed out like a whip at Xu Bai's mining spaceship.

"Bang!!"

The earthen-yellow Five Elements Escape Light was instantly shattered, and the intense shockwave caused Xu Bai's magical mining ship to fly out like a baseball and crash into a shattered celestial body not far away.

Fortunately, the Five Elements Spiritual Shield was activated upon impact with the shattered celestial body, preventing damage to the spaceship.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xu Bai stabilized the spaceship and accelerated at full speed, escaping in other directions.

Xu Bai desperately fled through the gaps in the massive, shattered celestial body, while the giant rock serpent relentlessly pursued him.

It wasn't that Xu Bai didn't want to resist, but the 300-meter-long Golden Rock Serpent in the Shattered Star Sea was a Nascent Soul stage star beast, and the Golden Rock Serpent was known for its defense, so even Xu Bai's special machine gun shells couldn't break through its defense.

It chased him, and he fled, for more than 20 hours before the golden rock snake got bored and left.

Xu Bai docked the spaceship on a huge, broken celestial body, slumped into the control chair, and gasped for breath.

"If I had a boost to my mental strength, I wouldn't be in such a sorry state." Xu Bai felt like his mental energy had been completely drained.

Inside the control room, a small robotic arm took a heated nutrient meal from the nutrient tank and handed it to Xu Bai.

After finishing his meal and resting for a while, Xu Bai recovered.

At this point, a day had just passed.

"Let's try one more time, maybe we can trigger the guaranteed reward."

As Xu Bai activated his mind, the Qi Circulation Disc began to rotate again.

As Xu Bai focused his attention, the area marked "Good Fortune" stopped at the pointer.

At this moment, Xu Bai's mood was like a rollercoaster.

"Let's get started!"

Xu Bai controlled the spaceship to maximize the mineral exploration fluctuations and began the search.

Not long after, Xu Bai discovered a source of Star Core Black Iron, containing 98 tons, with each ton worth 4000 strands of spiritual energy.

This time, Xu Bai didn't rush to start mining. Instead, he quietly noted down the coordinates and continued searching.

After these three spins of the Fortune Wheel, Xu Bai has figured out how to maximize the good fortune that comes his way.

Throughout the day, Xu Bai did not stop, searching for spirit ore in the nearby new sea area.

With good fortune and luck upon him, Xu Bai found several high-value spirit ores.

The most valuable item is the 975-ton Starry Ice Jade.

In one day, 32 spirit mines were found, and the number of spirit mines was just enough to fill the remaining tonnage of the mining spaceship.

When that feeling of good fortune disappeared, Xu Bai breathed a sigh of relief and then began to search for the previous coordinates to collect spirit ore.

He would mine and cultivate, then move to another location to continue mining and cultivating.

A month passed in the blink of an eye, and Xu Bai returned to the 29th city of Shattered Star with a full load of 10,000 tons of spirit ore.

As soon as Xu Bai arrived at the blank area created by the Shattered Star City formation, he found that the entire Shattered Star City was much more lively than when he arrived.

There are thousands of mining ships coming and going in the vicinity.

At the public port, after unloading the cargo from his spaceship, Xu Bai arrived at his chosen private docking spot, right next to his Hummingbird-class mining spaceship.

The two spaceships, one large and one small, looked like a toddler and an adult.

Xu Bai sat on the spaceship, looking at the settlement list of the public port.

"As expected of good fortune, 10,000 tons of spirit ore, with a total value of 5.8 million strands of spirit energy, and 348 million strands of spirit energy after tax."

"Looks like we've already met this year's KPIs!"

Xu Bai disembarked from the spaceship and looked at the Hummingbird-class mining spaceship parked to the side.

"Ninety percent new, and it's already an old buddy after less than a year of use." Xu Bai patted the hatch of the Hummingbird-class mining spaceship.

In the distance, a hovercar was rapidly flying towards Xu Bai from the entrance of the public port.

Just then, Xu Bai's personal terminal received a call request message.

"Bro, this is Xu Jun. This is my personal terminal. Call me back with a video call when you have time! (Smug expression)"

Upon seeing this message, a smile appeared on Xu Bai's face.