From star gatherer to leader of humanity

Various threatening words were transmitted to Xu Bai's ears through public channels.

Xu Bai remained silent, only glancing at the time on the data screen.

At this point, the chase had lasted for more than 20 hours.

"One more hour~"

The exhaust plumes of the magical mining spaceship traced graceful arcs between the shattered celestial bodies.

Xu Baiqiang braced himself and steered the spaceship, preventing it from venturing too far into the Shattered Star Sea.

As the time drew nearer, the pursuing combat ships ceased their intimidation tactics on the public channel and silently continued their chase, like a pack of wolves waiting for their prey to exhaust itself behind Xu Bai's magical mining ship.

An hour later, the air circulation wheel refreshed again.

Xu Bai hesitated for a moment, but only for a few breaths.

"That's about as bad as it gets. The magic weapon and spaceship's energy can last for at least another month. I refuse to believe I can't get some good luck in this month."

Xu Bai gritted his teeth and activated the Qi Circulation Disc with his mind.

A semi-transparent wheel of fortune spun before Xu Bai's eyes, and then it spun again, bringing misfortune upon misfortune.

Xu Bai's eyes showed little emotion. After drinking the nutritional paste handed to him by the spaceship's robotic arm, he continued his escape.

This time, the escape vessel, a magical mining ship, not only faces pursuers behind it, but also must be wary of Nascent Soul stage interstellar beasts that occasionally appear ahead.

Another 24 hours have passed.

"Damn it, I don't believe it!" Xu Bai, who was already feeling listless, broke down.

"Again!"

Bad luck

Xu Bai, whose mind was nearing its limit, was numb. The magical mining ship he was controlling could no longer fly accurately through the gaps. While trying to escape, he would occasionally crash into the surrounding broken celestial bodies.

On the fourth day, when Xu Bai's mental strength was about to reach its limit, the pursuing space pirates again called out through the public channel.

"Kid, you've got guts, you're the kind of guy who can do big things. This is the last time I'm inviting you to join us."

"Forget about magic weapons and spaceships. We'll provide you with a small combat spaceship, and you'll have no shortage of cultivation techniques and resources." That sinister voice had softened somewhat at that moment.

"Once you've finished spouting nonsense, continue!"

Xu Bai, with his eyes half-closed, didn't even lift his eyelids as he activated the Wheel of Fortune once more.

As the wheel of fortune spun, Xu Bai suddenly felt his mental energy recover somewhat.

At this moment, the "Good Fortune" option stopped at the pointer, and at the same time, Xu Bai felt a voice telling him that he was suffering from three strokes of bad luck, and the luck wheel had triggered the guaranteed minimum.

Like a desert traveler dying of thirst, a cup of cool drink is swallowed.

Xu Bai directly mobilized the three green attribute spiritual lights within his body to cover the entire magical mining spaceship.

"Once you've finished spouting nonsense, get going!" Xu Bai shouted again in the public channel, his words filled with endless killing intent.

Small Magical Mining Ship - Attributes: Luck Roulette [Can be spun once a day to determine the ship operator's luck], Five Elements Spiritual Shield [Absorbs the five elements of spiritual energy and spiritual ore, automatically forming a Five Elements Spiritual Shield to protect the ship], Ballistic Correction [Corrects the trajectory of all weapons inside the ship, allowing for precise hits on enemies], Full of Spirit [Amplifies mental power tenfold inside the ship], Intelligent Spiritualization [All things can be spiritualized, and intelligence is no exception].

The moment the attribute panel of the magic weapon mining spaceship appeared, the spiritual fire in Xu Bai's eyes seemed to materialize.

At this moment, this world seemed to have changed in Xu Bai's eyes. Compared to the 4K resolution, which was a five-fold increase in mental power, it was now twice as clear.

Xu Bai's magical spaceship suddenly turned around, and the heavy twin-barreled machine guns on the top of the spaceship began to roar.

At that moment, several bursts of laughter suddenly erupted on the public channel.

"The machine gun is like a fire poker in your hands. If your spaceship weren't equipped with psionic protection, you would already be in position within my Ten Thousand Soul Banner!"

However, before the laughter had even subsided, screams of terror erupted from the spaceship among the space pirates.

"don't want!!"

Immediately afterwards, the main attack compartments of the pirate's small combat ships began to explode one after another.

The magical mining spaceship dodged more than a dozen heat-generating missiles with extremely agile maneuvering, and the heavy machine gun on the top of the aircraft roared once again.

Each roar of the heavy machine gun precisely wiped out the space pirates in the main control room.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, until only the leading pirate ship remained.

Xu Bai didn't stand on ceremony and sent several shells into the pirate ship's control room.

The moment the control room exploded, a figure appeared in the sky above the spaceship, transforming into a streak of dark blue light and flying towards Xu Bai.

"Years of hard work have vanished just like that!"

"I'll make you pay with your blood!"

That streak of light moved incredibly nimbly through the air; in the past, ordinary machine guns would have been unable to hit it.

But the moment these shells were fired, they began to make slight adjustments based on the direction of the escape light.

For every ten shells fired, the Escape Light would inevitably be hit by one.

At first, the escape light could withstand the onslaught, but even a Golden Core cultivator couldn't withstand the direct bombardment of so many shells.

A golden talisman cannonball instantly pierced through the protective light of escape, blasting the Golden Core cultivator in two.

The instant the Golden Core cultivator exploded, Xu Bai felt a faint light, as if traversing the void, surge into the space between his eyebrows.

Xu Bai fainted, and his spirit and soul were pulled into a soul space.

A figure with black flames engulfing its body and obscured features stood in the void of the soul space, looking down at Xu Bai's soul as if it were an ant.

"You think you can win by destroying my body!"

"A mere Qi Refining stage ant, today I will..."

Before the figure could finish speaking, it was shattered by a palm strike from Xu Bai's spiritual power.

A golden flame ignited outside Xu Bai's consciousness.

The moment Xu Bai entered, he sensed the strength of the cultivator's soul that had invaded his soul space. If his mental power hadn't increased tenfold, Xu Bai would certainly not have been a match for him, but his mental power had indeed been enhanced.

The cultivators in the Soul Space had their souls destroyed, and Xu Bai inexplicably felt many new memory fragments appear in his mind.

"You really do possess the Myriad Soul Banner! And you truly are an inner disciple of the Demon Abyss Sect!"

As Xu Bai looked at these fragments of memories, he was lamenting why he had to become a space pirate when he had such a promising future.

As if fragments of memory were flashing through his mind, Xu Bai's expression turned serious as he looked at them.

In these fragments of memory, he saw many scenes that made his soul tremble.

"Pregnancy factory, spirit bone transfer, artificial spiritual roots, custom-made bodies for possession..."

As Xu Bai spoke, his stomach churned, his consciousness returning to its original form.

In the fragments of memory, Zhou Hu came from a humble background, was tested and found to have superior aptitude. He reached the peak of Qi Refining at the age of 16, Foundation Establishment at 17, and had already cultivated to the Golden Core stage before the age of 50. Along the way, the Demon Abyss Sect took far better care of him than ordinary inner disciples. His tasks were the easiest, and his cultivation resources were also the best.

His master, who was nearing the end of his life, treated him even better than his own son, having raised him from a young age and making him both a teacher and a father figure.

If it weren't for a chance encounter, Zhou Hu felt that the first half of his cultivation journey was simply perfect, and that his future cultivation path would be just like those great humans who had embarked on the path of immortality.

Zhou Hu even dreamed of leading the Demon Abyss Sect to become the thirty-seventh great immortal sect of the human race.

All of this came to an end the moment his mentor, who was like a father to him, patted him on the head and said, "It's ripe."

After that, he witnessed the darkest side of humanity's shadow.

Xu Bai stared at Zhou Hu's memory fragments, unable to recover for a long time.