From star gatherer to leader of humanity

When Xu Bai came to his senses, he was surprised to find that his hand holding the spaceship joystick was trembling.

The scenes from those fragments of memory had a tremendous impact on him.

"A top-grade aptitude, specially cultivated into a spiritual body! A spiritual body specifically for powerful figures nearing their end to possess."

A thought flashed through Xu Bai's mind: he thought of his underlings, but was then interrupted by Hakimi's voice.

"Master, Hakimi has collected the spoils of war in the surrounding area. Would you like to take a look?" A more spiritual voice rang out inside the spaceship.

"Hakimi?"

"Master, I'm here."

The spaceship's attribute panel reappeared in Xu Bai's eyes. Looking at the attribute explanations of the intelligent spirit, he felt that his own Hakimi might become a spiritual cultivator in the future.

"It's okay, you did a great job."

A screen of light appeared in front of Xu Bai, displaying a list of the spoils collected by Hakimi.

There were ten storage bags alone, and in addition, there were mostly crystal ores that they had treasured, which together were worth tens of millions of strands of spiritual energy.

"Ten storage bags, materials from star beasts, high-value crystal ore, the Myriad Soul Banner, and eight magical artifacts."

Hakimi delivered the ten storage bags into the main control room.

Xu Bai first took Zhou Hu's storage bag, opened it with some excitement, and saw in the fragments of memory that when he escaped from the Demon Abyss Sect, he took away a large number of spirit stones.

"Holy crap!"

As the storage bag opened, Xu Bai couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

A box, standard-issue for storing 10,000 spirit stones, appeared in Xu Bai's hands. After opening it, the 10,000 spirit stones were quietly presented before Xu Bai.

Xu Bai stared at the box of spirit stones for a long time without touching it.

He was pondering a question: should he have twelve green attributes or one blue attribute?

"The ten storage bags contain more than 12000 spirit stones in total. The green attribute can not only fully enhance the spaceship, but also fully enhance the attributes of the white ink robe I am wearing."

"Blue, this is the only magical spaceship you can buy!"

He placed one hand directly onto the ten thousand spirit stones.

Instantly, the ten thousand spirit stones transformed into spiritual light, surging into Xu Bai's dantian and converting into a blue attribute-based spiritual light.

"Hakimi, get me a basin of water to wash my hands."

The magical spaceship is currently blessed with good fortune. It doesn't have any additional attributes now, and it may be a long time before we encounter such an opportunity again.

A small life robot brought a basin of water to the control room. Xu Bai carefully washed his hands before calming himself down and placing them on the spaceship's instrument panel.

Xu Bai closed his eyes, and blue spiritual light surged from his dantian into his palm, eventually covering the entire magical spaceship.

Xu Bai only slowly opened his eyes after the entire magical artifact spaceship had completely absorbed the blue attribute spiritual light.

Small Magical Mining Ship - Attributes: Luck Roulette [Can be spun once daily to determine the ship operator's luck], Five Elements Spiritual Shield [Absorbs five elements spiritual energy and spiritual ore, automatically forming a five elements spiritual shield to protect the ship], Ballistic Correction [Corrects the trajectory of all weapons within the ship, allowing for precise hits on enemies], Full of Spirit [Amplifies mental power tenfold within the ship], Intelligent Spiritualization [All things can be spiritualized, and intelligence is no exception], Ten-Domain Flowing Light [Can embed ten light guides into space, allowing the ship to transform into light and travel to the light guide's location (can be remotely retrieved from the void) (range ten light-years)]

Ten beams of light appeared in Xu Bai's mind, which could be embedded into the space according to his thoughts.

"As expected of the blue attribute!" Xu Bai thought to himself, and then embedded the light source into the space.

Xu Bai checked the time; the "Lucky Star" attribute had lasted for two hours.

"Find spirit ore first, then deal with the spoils."

The magic weapon mining spaceship has entered prospecting mode. Due to the tenfold increase in mental power, the magic weapon mining spaceship is faster than before.

For twenty-two hours, Xu Bai did not stop for a moment, and detected many precious spiritual minerals in this Shattered Star Sea area, with a total amount of 3 tons.

The magical mining spaceship docked on a huge celestial body containing lunar stalactites.

Hakimi controlled the surveillance drone to keep watch around the area, while Xu Bai prepared to cultivate in the spaceship's lounge.

Xu Bai touched the white ink robe he was wearing, his expression somewhat excited.

White Ink Robe - Attributes: Spell Mastery [Spell Power +20%], Cleverness [Slightly increases Comprehension, the difference being as minor as the difference between rotten wood and mud]

"I haven't wasted a single bit of this lucky day's attributes—strength and comprehension!"

After appreciating the attributes of the White Ink Robe, Xu Bai calmed his mind and began to cultivate.

The tenfold increase in mental strength made Xu Bai's cultivation even more effortless, and in just one hour, his dantian expanded by three strands of spiritual energy.

Eight hours later, Xu Bai stopped when he felt soreness and distension in his meridians.

"A tenfold increase in mental strength, guidance from top-tier teachers, and the purest spiritual energy—these three combined allowed me to achieve in just eight hours what I had accomplished in nearly a month of cultivation before."

"If we disregard bottlenecks, I can reach the peak of the Qi Refining stage in six months!"

"This speed is outrageous!"

Xu Bai arrived at the control room and looked at the earth dragon-shaped mining robot still mining on the monitor screen. Suddenly, something occurred to him.

"Hakimi, can you control the mining ship to travel through the Shattered Star Sea now?" Xu Bai had always wanted to be a hands-off manager.

"Master, Hakimi is still lacking; he is not yet able to combat the underlying code data."

"There's hope only after Hakimi has fully transformed into a spirit," Hakimi replied in a soft, sweet voice.

"How long does it take to transform into a spirit?"

"Hakimi is bound to its master. Once the master advances to the Golden Core stage, spiritual power will be fed back to Hakimi, allowing it to transform into a spirit."

"That would be a long time coming."

After the pain in his meridians subsided, Xu Bai took out 10 storage bags and placed them in front of him.

"These 10 storage bags, along with some miscellaneous items inside, could fetch a few million strands of spiritual energy if combined, but the items are too eye-catching, so we need to find a place to hide them."

Xu Bai stroked his chin. He only wanted to mine and cultivate in peace, and lead his family out of poverty. He didn't really want to get involved in these eye-catching things that would cause trouble if he tried to monetize them.

"Hakimi, hide these things in a concealed place inside the spaceship," Xu Bai instructed.

"I will create a storage locker next to the spaceship's spirit power engine, which will naturally prevent powerful individuals from scanning it."

A robot entered the control room carrying a small box. Xu Bai put all the storage bags into the small box.

Mining, cultivating, using the Spirit Gathering Technique to condense a Spirit Pearl, then moving to another place to mine and continue cultivating.

During this month, Xu Bai thought he could cultivate to the second level of Qi Refining, but in the end, after spending ten days cultivating to the first level of perfection, Xu Bai was blocked by that thick bottleneck.

Xu Bai tried every possible method to overcome this bottleneck, but he was still unable to break through it.