From star gatherer to leader of humanity

"So you've come to the minister seeking asylum?"

"Although the Minister of the Array Department is short of spirit stones, he will not interfere in such grudges." The guard captain shook his head.

"I don't dare to hope for that. I only ask the Minister of the Array Department to dissipate this spiritual energy in my body so that I may have a chance to live."

Xu Bai spoke very sincerely, like a pitiful person who had been implicated.

At this moment, the captain of the guard seemed to hear a voice and directed a guard to lead Xu Bai into the formation department.

Upon entering the Formation Department, Xu Bai felt as if he had entered another world. The world within the formations was magnificent and colorful, with each level offering a different view.

Upon arriving at the core of the formation, one finds a three-story building.

"The office at the top is the head of the formation department. Just knock and go in," the guard said before leaving.

Xu Bai entered the small building and found that on each floor, there were more than a dozen array masters dressed in array robes, watching over the miniature Shattered Star City and adjusting the array.

Xu Bai walked past them without even glancing at him.

Upon arriving on the third floor, Xu Bai hadn't even knocked when the office door opened automatically.

A thin-faced middle-aged man with bright eyes, dressed in a Bagua Taoist robe, was intently looking at a document.

Xu Bai presented the bag containing spirit stones.

"Senior, I request 2000 spirit stones to dispel the spiritual energy within my body," Xu Bai said respectfully.

"The price is right. It seems someone is giving you pointers. Put the spirit stones down."

The head of the formation department looked at the document in his hand, flicked his finger at Xu Bai, and Xu Bai felt the spiritual energy in his body dissipate.

Xu Bai bowed again and quietly withdrew.

After Xu Bai left, the office door closed automatically.

At the spaceport, Xu Bai returned to his spaceship and was about to activate the magic weapon mining spaceship to leave when he suddenly noticed that the familiar magic weapon spaceship was hovering above the spaceport.

"Do you think I don't have any information channels in Shattered Star City?"

Suddenly, a voice rang out in the private channel.

"Alright, I hope you can make my life a little more fun." The voice was somewhat excited, like a hunter who couldn't wait to make his move.

Xu Bai did not respond, and maneuvered the magical mining spaceship to fly rapidly towards the Shattered Star Sea region.

The performance of a refined and an unrefined magical artifact spaceship is vastly different. An unrefined magical artifact spaceship is just an ordinary spaceship. As the degree of refinement increases, the magical properties of the magical artifact spaceship begin to emerge, with a significant difference in speed, defense, and agility.

Xu Bai flew ahead, while the magical spaceship followed leisurely behind, as if enjoying the thrill of chasing its prey.

"I was planning to take a few classes on how to break through bottlenecks, but I didn't expect to run into this mess again."

Xu Bai, who was piloting the spaceship, sighed softly, feeling that his peaceful life was always being disturbed.

Xu Bai had considered dealing with him in the Shattered Star Sea. Although the opponent was using a fully refined magic weapon spaceship, he was not afraid due to the spaceship's defensive and offensive attributes.

But after destroying it, he had no way to deal with the subsequent troubles.

He wasn't even a formal employee in the Star Gathering Team. If the Operations Department caused trouble, the Star Gathering Team wouldn't protect him, and Xu Bai was well aware of this.

If we're going to kill him, we should wait until he's gained a certain status in the Star Gathering Team, not now.

With a myriad of thoughts swirling within him, Xu Bai piloted his spaceship into the Shattered Star Sea.

Once inside, Xu Bai accelerated the mining spaceship, rapidly traversing the gaps between the shattered celestial bodies.

The magical artifact spaceship following behind Xu Bai also accelerated into the Shattered Star Sea.

Looking at the distance between the two spaceships, Xu Bai smiled slightly, shut down the spaceship's signal, and directly activated the Ten Domain Flowing Light attribute.

In an instant, the entire spaceship transformed into a beam of light and flew toward the coordinates of the light guide, its speed far exceeding the upper limit of the spaceship's ability to fly in the Shattered Star Sea.

Deep within the Shattered Star Sea, a streak of light seemed to suddenly fly out from the void and abruptly stopped at the coordinates.

The streak of light paused, transforming into a magical mining spaceship.

Inside the control room, Xu Bai clutched his head, feeling as if he had been hit on the head with a brick, his head spinning.

It took an hour for me to recover.

Looking at the shattered star sea where he had previously mined, Xu Bai parked his magical mining ship inside a huge crevice in a broken celestial body.

Inside the spaceship's lounge.

"This year's KPIs have been achieved, so there shouldn't be any problem not returning to Shattered Star City for at least a year."

"Take advantage of this time to cultivate diligently; the first level of Qi Refining is too low."

Xu Bai always remembered what the master's shadow said in the jade slip of the "Spiritual Qi Technique" cultivation method: to try to expand the dantian as much as possible.

Holding more than 20 small spirit beads in his hand, Xu Bai broke through the bottleneck in his cultivation of the Spirit Qi Technique.

Eight hours later, Xu Bai stopped, feeling soreness in his meridians. Although he hadn't broken through, he had a smile on his face.

He felt the bottleneck that had been broken by eight hours of spiritual energy impact begin to loosen.

"In ten more days, I will be able to break through to the second level of Qi Refining."

Slumped on the sofa in the lounge, Xu Bai randomly picked a movie to watch.

Xu Bai rested here, while Zhang Li frantically searched the Shattered Star Sea, manipulating his magical spaceship, constantly shouting that it was impossible.

*Bang!*

Zhang Li slammed his fist on the armrest of the control room, his face full of murderous intent.

"Kid, you can run away, but you can't hide forever. I don't believe you can keep hiding forever!"

"I have plenty of time for you to play!"

The magical artifact spaceship traversed the gaps in the Shattered Star Sea region at an angle unconventional to that of a spaceship, searching for signals from Xu Bai's spaceship.

Time flies, and two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

Xu Bai's magical mining spaceship is still docked in the crevice of that huge, broken celestial body.

At this moment, Xu Bai is working hard to break through the bottleneck of the third level of Qi Refining.

"It will take at least three months to overcome this bottleneck. If I don't have the Spirit Gathering Technique, it will take me at least several million strands of spiritual energy to break through."

At this moment, Xu Bai used the Spirit Gathering Technique to condense a special spirit pearl containing three hundred strands of spiritual energy. If the spirit pearl is placed in the Shattered Star Sea for a month, it can reach seven hundred strands of spiritual energy.

Xu Bai has no shortage of spiritual energy for cultivation now.

Another spirit orb the size of a billiard ball condensed in Xu Bai's hand. After it was condensed, Xu Bai put it into a box full of spirit orbs next to him.

Just as Xu Bai was about to continue using the Spirit Gathering Technique, the jade slip containing the "Spiritual Qi Technique" in his storage bag suddenly vibrated.

Sensing this, Xu Bai took out a jade slip containing cultivation techniques from his storage bag and held it close to his brow.

It was still the familiar, otherworldly old man, but now, a look of weariness flashed in his eyes.

"I am a dignified man..." The old man's next words seemed to be blocked, and Xu Bai couldn't hear them at all.

"The revised 'Spiritual Qi Technique' is in no way inferior to those immortal cultivation methods that point directly to the Great Dao. However, it is as difficult as ascending to heaven for someone as mediocre as you to learn it."

"I have deciphered the secrets of heaven and understood all the myriad paths, and I have finally found a way for you to learn this technique."

"Listen carefully, this first sentence, 'The Tao has a thousand interpretations, the foundation of spiritualization, is...'"