From star gatherer to leader of humanity

The curtains in the private room slowly opened, revealing a dazzling display of fireworks across the entire Shattered Star City in the sky.

The light shone on the faces of the many lone wolves. Xu Bai glanced at them and saw a variety of emotions, realizing that this group was no ordinary people.

After enjoying the fireworks for a while, everyone closed the curtains in the private room and continued their discussion.

Which areas are rich in mineral veins? Which areas have the most alien creatures? Some lone adventurers even shared maps of the areas they had explored.

Looking at the light and shadow map painted with various colors, Xu Bai quietly decided which area to go to later.

At the spaceport, Xu Bai, having finished his gathering, arrived at two ships: one a magic weapon mining ship, and the other a hummingbird-class mining ship.

"Keep it; it's just an extra berth fee."

"If I achieve great success in the future, keeping it will be a keepsake."

Xu Bai patted the outer armor of the Hummingbird-class mining spaceship, then turned and boarded the magical mining spaceship.

The magic weapon mining spaceship flew into the Shattered Star Sea and began to accelerate.

A day later, upon reaching the depth predetermined by Xu Bai, the air circulation disk was activated.

"May good fortune shine upon you, may good fortune shine upon you, may good fortune shine upon you..."

Looking at the Qi circulation disc, Xu Bai muttered to himself.

The spinning wheel slowed down, and finally, to make matters worse, the option stopped in the pointer area.

"I……"

Xu Bai immediately took precautions, carefully watching his surroundings, and no longer navigating through the narrow gaps between the broken celestial bodies.

Even so, the misfortune-on-one nature of the game still gave Xu Bai a unique way of playing.

After passing through a relatively wide gap, Xu Bai suddenly saw a uniquely styled, significantly taller magical mining ship docked on a shattered celestial body in the distance.

Xu Bai sensed a peculiar frequency emanating from the silent magical artifact spaceship, accompanied by faint groans as he approached.

"what?"

After circling around to the front, they were surprised to find that the spaceship's main control room had activated a panoramic simulation of the interior and exterior.

An extreme and profound exploration of life is unfolding in the control room, where neither of them knows what their natural enemy is.

Seeing this, Xu Bai wanted to leave, as the magical spaceship was clearly a level above Xu Bai.

But just as Xu Bai was about to leave quietly, a meteorite the size of a house seemed to be suddenly pulled by gravity and crashed into the magical mining ship.

The two woke up with a start and looked out the window, immediately spotting the magical mining ship sneaking away.

"How dare you interrupt my good time!"

"Go to hell!"

The magical mining spaceship suddenly started up, and a laser beam as thick as a bucket shot towards Xu Bai.

Xu Bai quickly maneuvered his spaceship to evade, turning the ship around in an attempt to escape.

In the Shattered Star Sea, the spaceship's speed cannot be fully utilized.

Taking advantage of the situation, Xu Bai escaped a considerable distance.

But the two, whose enjoyment had been interrupted, chased after them relentlessly, and their speed increased.

"Is this even possible?! The Shattered Star Sea is so vast, and you let me run into this?!"

Xu Bai maneuvered the spaceship to escape, dodging laser cannons fired from behind from time to time, all the while muttering complaints.

Just when Xu Bai thought his bad luck had come to an end, a shattered celestial body, its surroundings blurred, revealed the original silhouette of a combat spaceship, which suddenly opened fire on Xu Bai's spaceship. At that moment, the magical mining spaceship activated its Five Elements Spiritual Shield.

A heavy, magic-piercing shell struck the golden spirit shield and exploded.

Not far away, the densely packed fragmented celestial bodies began to change shape, eventually transforming into more than a dozen uniquely shaped small combat spaceships.

"Space pirates!!!"

Upon seeing this, Xu Bai immediately changed direction and fled for his life.

Meanwhile, the magical mining ship chasing Xu Bai engaged in battle with the space pirates.

However, that's only half of it; the other half is chasing after Xu Bai.

"Damn it!"

"Misfortunes never come singly," that saying is absolutely true!

At this moment, Xu Bai's spirits were at their peak.

Although the space pirates' combat ships are not strong, those who can be space pirates in the Shattered Star Sea are at least at the Foundation Establishment stage, and there are even Golden Core stage experts among them.

These points were specifically explained in the training courses: In the Shattered Star Sea, the danger level of interstellar pirates is greater than that of alien space beasts.

At this moment, Xu Bai missed the attributes of the previous spaceship immensely: it could only withstand three shots, meaning even if the opponent was a Foundation Establishment or Golden Core stage expert piloting the spaceship, they couldn't dodge it.

Now, Xu Bai controlled the heavy twin-barreled machine gun on top and fired a burst at the pirate ship chasing behind, but it was all skillfully dodged.

"Keep running. These pirates want the complete magical mining ship; they won't be able to touch me anytime soon."

Xu Bai glanced at the time; there were still 22 hours until the next start of the air circulation plate.

"Hand over the complete spaceship, and we'll allow you to leave in a lifeboat."

"Otherwise, even if you commit suicide, I will still collect your soul into the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls and torment it!"

A sinister voice rang out on the public channel.

Xu Bai remained silent, focusing solely on increasing the spaceship's speed.

Good news, the magical spaceship is faster than them.

Bad news: the Shattered Star Sea has a complex terrain, and the enemy's skill in piloting their spaceships far surpasses Xu Bai's.

Typical technologies have made up for the equipment gap.

Another crevice, thousands of miles long, appeared. Xu Bai instantly increased the speed of his spaceship to the maximum, creating a slight gap between himself and the combat spaceships behind him.

In the control room, Xu Bai touched the location of his dantian, where there were three spiritual lights of attribute.

Normally, these three elemental lights would definitely save his life, but with the added blessing of the "misfortune never comes singly" attribute, Xu Bai dared not gamble.

"Don't let me catch my breath!"

At this moment, Xu Bai also realized the intentions of the space pirates chasing him. They only wanted to destroy the power unit of the magic weapon mining ship and make the ship lose power.

However, the spaceship is protected by the Five Elements Spirit Shield, which the pirate spaceship's heat-sensing missiles and magic-piercing armor-piercing missiles cannot penetrate, so it can only stay here.

Moreover, these pirate ships had already formed a semi-encirclement around Xu Bai's magical ship. As long as Xu Bai turned his ship around and flew towards Shattered Star City, he would have no choice but to confront these pirate ships head-on.

Xu Bai dared not gamble. If the Foundation Establishment or even Golden Core experts inside had special methods, then his life would be over.

The more they fled for their lives, the deeper they went into the Shattered Star Sea.

"I'll give you a chance. Join us with your magical spaceship." That sinister voice rang out again.

Xu Bai still didn't respond, but the coldness in his eyes intensified.

"The depths of the Shattered Star Sea are fraught with danger; the deeper you go, the more perilous it becomes."

"How much energy do you have to supply the magical spaceship?"

"If you don't know what's good for you, your body and soul will suffer unimaginable torment when your spaceship runs out of energy."

"Do you know the Demon Abyss Sect? I used to be an inner disciple of the Demon Abyss Sect, and my specialty was torturing souls!"

"The pain of the soul is a hundred times, or even a thousand times, more intense than the physical pain."