From star gatherer to leader of humanity

"You say you shot down more than a dozen Ghost Face Clan exploration ships, but why don't you mention the hundreds of official star-gathering team members you lost in the Shattered Star Sea?"

"What's the use of your indignation here? Has the Hundred Refinements Sect ever cared about our lives? The fact that they've allowed us to stay is already a sign of their kindness."

"Go ahead and fight. This kind of mess happens every few years. From now on, everyone here needs to keep their eyes open and not hesitate to run when it's time to run. Those of you with storage bags should hurry up and store up as many supplies as possible."

As everyone chattered away, Xu Bai forgot about eating and took out a small notebook from his pocket to start recording their points.

As for why personal terminals weren't used, they were all turned off during the dinner, and three magnetic talismans were placed in the private room, making it impossible to open personal terminals.

"Brothers, the original owner of this city built another city elsewhere. When I was mining, I discovered a signal left by the old city lord," one of the thin-faced middle-aged men said.

In an instant, the entire room fell silent.

"Do you have the coordinates?" Qiao Meng asked.

The thin-faced middle-aged man chuckled and shook his head.

"I can only tell you that it exists; the rest depends on your fate. I have a blood oath etched in my dantian, so I cannot speak of it."

Xu Bai, sitting to the side, wore a strange expression. You can't say anything, what are you babbling about?

Just as everyone was about to continue their conversation, an alarm suddenly sounded throughout the entire space city.

The expressions of those present changed.

"Let's go to the spaceport!"

"Shattered Star City, if you can't hold it, run! Go to Star Gathering Team 185!"

Meanwhile, the skies above the space city were already filled with hovercars. Xu Bai rushed home as fast as he could, got into a hovercar, and flew towards the spaceport.

A massive battle shockwave disrupted the Shattered Star Sea surrounding Shattered Star City. Shattered celestial bodies surged towards Shattered Star City like waves, following the shockwaves that spread from the battle.

Xu Bai, who was on the floating vehicle, became nervous upon seeing this scene.

"Speed ​​up!" Xu Bai said to the beautiful robot butler who was driving.

"Yes, sir!"

The hovercar accelerated suddenly, arrived at the spaceport, and hovered directly in front of the mining spaceship's docking position.

Just as Xu Chen was about to enter the magical spaceship, he suddenly looked at the hovercar and brought the beautiful robot butler who was driving it inside as well.

Xu Bai activated his spaceship and followed the torrent of numerous small mining ships towards the Shattered Star Sea region, where the battle fluctuations were opposite.

A heated discussion broke out on the spaceship's public channel.

"The city lord who is in charge of our Shattered Star Twenty-Nine Cities is at least a Nascent Soul stage expert, so please don't panic."

"Do not venture too far into the Shattered Star Sea; simply maneuver your spaceship to avoid the battle's fluctuations!"

Just as the high-ranking officials of Shattered Star City were stabilizing the situation in the public channel, many spaceships only saw a huge Ghost Face Clan statue step out of the Shattered Star Sea and arrive in the empty area.

The Dharma Image was nearly a thousand meters long, holding the corpse of a powerful human in its hand.

In an instant, a massive divine thought descended upon the area where numerous mining ships had converged.

"No! Run!"

A voice boomed over the public address system.

However, the moment the powerful divine sense of the Ghost Face Clan descended, its mental pressure knocked some of the weaker members of the Star Gathering Team unconscious.

Blood was flowing from Xu Bai's ears, eyes, and nose. He gritted his teeth and steered the spaceship toward the Shattered Star Sea.

Upon entering the Shattered Star Sea, Xu Bai activated the Ten Domains Flowing Light attribute, transforming into a stream of light and flying towards the coordinates of the light guide.

Two hours later, when the streak of light transformed into a spaceship, Xu Bai had already passed out in the control chair.

"Master, Master?"

After Hakimi called out a few times and confirmed that Xu Bai was unconscious, a string of garbled characters flashed across all the data screens in the control room.

At this moment, a torrent of data flashed in the eyes of the beautiful robot butler beside her, and finally, as if possessed, she carried Xu Bai into the lounge.

He then came out, replaced Xu Bai in the chair, and began clumsily maneuvering the spaceship to hide inside a broken celestial body by moving the joystick.

After an unknown amount of time, Xu Bai felt excruciating pain all over his body, as if his brain had been stirred with a straw, leaving him feeling dizzy and disoriented.

Xu Bai tried to open his eyes, but felt weak all over. Finally, he managed to groan with all his might.

Then, Xu Bai felt himself being helped up and warm water was poured into his mouth.

It took a lot of effort for Xu Bai to open his eyes.

Xu Bai wanted to mobilize the spiritual energy in his dantian to recover from the damage to his spirit. He looked inward and found that his dantian was completely dry, without a trace of spiritual energy.

"Master, is there anything I can help you with?" the beautiful robot butler asked.

At this moment, the life robot that was waiting on the side started up, took out a small box of spirit pearls from the cabinet, and placed it next to Xu Bai.

Xu Bai grasped the spirit pearls and began to absorb them.

As the pure spiritual energy circulated within his body and returned to his dantian, Xu Bai felt his spirit begin to slowly recover.

"What's the situation now?" Xu Bai's voice was hoarse, like the sound of a knife scraping against glass.

"After Master fell into a coma, I controlled Master's butler to park the spaceship inside a broken celestial body, where it is temporarily safe."

"Master has been unconscious for three days," Hakimi's voice rang out.

"I understand." Xu Bai nodded slightly, then picked up another spirit bead and began to absorb spiritual energy to recover.

Like spring rain on parched land, with the special effects of the cultivation technique, Xu Bai recovered from his mental injuries in just three days.

"We can't go back to Shattered Star City 29. Now we can only go to Star Gathering Team 185."

Xu Bai maneuvered the spaceship toward the direction of the Star-Collecting Team 185.

The spaceship kept shuttling between the gaps in the broken celestial bodies, and at each point, Xu Bai would embed a light guide into that space.

Recalling the scene of escaping from Shattered Star City, Xu Bai felt that in the face of this great power struggle between races, he was like an ant, with no ability to resist whatsoever.

That mountain-like Dharma image, with its disdain for all living beings, allowed Xu Chen to witness for the first time what a strong person truly was.

"Don't be an ant, become strong!"

The desire to become stronger has now become even more intense.

Three days later, a magical artifact mining spaceship flew out of the Shattered Star Sea.

As soon as he came out, the signal was restored on the personal terminal in Xu Bai's hand.

A light screen appeared in front of Xu Bai's eyes, and with his mind, he logged onto the public forum of Caixing Team 185.

"So the Ghost-Faced Clan discovered a magical mine!"

"It's just that the Twenty-Nine Cities of Stargazing are unlucky; they happen to be nearby!"

"The Heavenly Craft Immortal Sect has already dispatched powerful experts to deal with the situation. It seems that it won't be long before we can mine and cultivate in peace again."

Xu Bai looked at the content on the forum and felt relieved.

At the temporary expanded port outside the public port of the Star-Collecting Team 185, Xu Bai docked his magic weapon mining spaceship.

Looking at the endless row of parking spaces, Xu Bai felt that at least half of the Star Gathering Team members had escaped from Shattered Star City.

"Let's stay here for a while and see how the star-collecting team makes arrangements."

I opened my personal terminal's friend list and contacted the rental agent I used to work for.

"What? There are no rooms available?"

"Even the hotels in Space City have increased their price to 10,000 strands of spiritual energy per night!"

"What a rip-off!"