From star gatherer to leader of humanity

Within the Shattered Star Sea, atop a fragmented celestial body that is dark gold in color, sits a treasure-mining spaceship.

Thirty earth dragon-type mining robots were collecting star core iron, while Xu Bai was practicing his magic in the wide crevice of a shattered celestial body not far away.

A dark, mysterious light swirled around Xu Bai, and under his command, the light attacked the shattered celestial body not far away.

"Bang!"

The dark, mysterious light left a large crater on the surface of the shattered celestial body before dissipating, and then condensed again beside Xu Bai.

"It's a bit weak, but it's just a spell. Once you master it, you can cultivate the Mystic Light Spirit Technique."

With a thought, Xu Bai formed a hand seal and, in less than a breath, swung it at the shattered celestial body that had just attacked.

A fireball the size of a house, engulfed in raging flames, flew back towards the spot it had just attacked.

"boom!!!"

The explosion's flames covered an area of ​​hundreds of meters, illuminating the surrounding Stardust Sea region.

As the firelight faded, a crater ten times larger than before appeared.

Xu Hun, who had been guarding the area, clapped.

"Master's fireball spell is comparable to fire-based spiritual spells in terms of casting time, spell travel speed, and the power of the explosion at the end." Xu Hun, who was standing to the side, looked somewhat shocked. He was genuinely shocked, as he had never seen his master display such a skill in front of him before.

"That's magic!"

Xu Bai smiled slightly, formed a hand seal, and a violent spiritual power surged and condensed behind him.

Three basketball-sized fireballs, each containing several times the power of the previous fireball, quietly rotated around Xu Bai.

Under Xu Bai's divine control, the three crimson fireballs, like meteors, once again crashed into the shattered celestial body.

"boom!!!"

A violent wave swept across the surroundings, and the shattered celestial bodies that were the target were directly reduced to rubble and exploded in the Sea of ​​Shattered Stars.

"Master, the power of the Dao is terrifying!" Xu Hun, standing to the side, revealed a fawning expression.

"Basic stuff~" Looking at the shattered celestial body that had been blown to pieces, Xu Bai finally felt like a cultivator.

Looking back at the magical artifact spaceship mining not far away, Xu Bai gently waved his hand, and a hundred-meter-long jade centipede, its body as white as jade, appeared, radiating the unique spiritual light of a soul cultivator.

"Master, if you encounter any Golden Core stage Starry Sky Beasts in the future, let me take action. The Soul Dao Small World of the Myriad Soul Banner has expanded to a radius of thirty miles, but it still has the same number of people. It's time to recruit new ones." Xu Hun saw the Jade Centipede and thought of the empty Soul Dao Small World.

"That's natural." Xu Bai nodded.

Xu Bai mounted the jade centipede and began to wander around the surrounding Shattered Star Sea.

Upon arriving at an ordinary area of ​​abandoned rocks, the jade centipede suddenly became alert and signaled to Xu Bai that there was danger ahead, and that there was a celestial beast that was even stronger than him.

"Want to sleep? Here comes my pillow!" Xu Bai said excitedly, waving his hand to summon Xu Hun.

"Xiaoyu and I can handle this together. Master, you can just wait here."

After Xu Hun finished speaking, he excitedly flew back to the interior of the magic treasure mining spaceship. In no time, he returned, clutching a soul chain condensed by spiritual magic.

"Let's begin~" Xu Bai made a hand seal, and three crimson fireballs condensed, crashing towards the shattered celestial body indicated by the jade centipede like meteors.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The shattered celestial body from this bombardment was enormous, creating only a crater a hundred meters in diameter.

Although it didn't blast the shattered celestial body apart, it still achieved the effect Xu Chen wanted.

A giant tiger covered in black iron scales and with six steel tails crawled out from inside the shattered celestial body, angrily searching for enemies in its surroundings.

Its six massive steel tails, each tens of meters long, lashed at the shattered celestial body beneath it, creating ripples.

Looking at the imposing giant tiger, Xu Bai felt it would be difficult to defeat; just by looking at the black iron scales on its surface, he knew its defensive power was extremely strong.

"This shell is the least effective against soul cultivators."

"Master, just you wait!"

Xu Hun charged forward with the Jade Centipede, the Soul Chain in his hand transforming into a beam of light that connected him, the Xuan Iron Giant Tiger, and the Jade Centipede.

Then, the battlefield fell silent. The giant iron tiger stood frozen in place, its massive face still bearing the expression of anger.

"What a boring battle~" Xu Bai said leisurely.

An hour later, Xu Hun, who was floating in the Shattered Star Sea, awoke. He then waved his hand and turned the Soul Chains, and a giant black iron tiger, tightly bound, appeared in front of Xu Bai.

"Please trouble you, Master, to store this in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner."

"Alright~" Xu Bai waved his hand and put the Xuan Iron Giant Tiger into the Myriad Soul Banner, adding another member to the Soul Path Minor World.

"Master, we've discovered something interesting. There are quite a few good things hidden in the den of this Xuan Iron Giant Tiger."

As Xu Hun spoke, he patted the jade centipede beside him.

The jade centipede understood immediately and swung its tail toward the lair of the black iron tiger.

Before long, the jade centipede used its telekinetic power to crawl out carrying a bunch of crystal spirit ores, among which Moon Soul Jade was the most abundant, while the rest were some common crystals.

"Moon Soul Jade, Shadow Stone, Red Flame Crystal, Thick Earth Crystal..."

"It has everything! Shouldn't this guy be collecting Star Core Iron?" Xu Bai's eyes flashed with a golden light when he saw the crystal ore that could fill a small house. This pile could be exchanged for a lot of spirit stones.

"Three hundred thousand miles away from here, there is a powerful celestial beast called the Moon Soul Tiger. This giant black iron tiger has always wanted to mate with the Moon Soul Tiger, so it has been working hard to search for Moon Soul Jade in the surrounding area. The remaining crystals were found by chance."

"The Xuan Iron Giant Tiger has been searching for these Moon Soul Jade pieces in the Shattered Star Sea for over a hundred years."

"A little later, he should have brought this Moon Temptation Jade to propose marriage." Xu Hun chuckled.

"What a lickspittle..."

"Such devotion deserves to be paired with someone within my Ten Thousand Souls Banner." Xu Bai's lips curled up.

"Master's insight is brilliant!" Xu Hun nodded, and the jade centipede beside him also nodded.

"Take the corpse of the Xuan Tie Giant Tiger back with me. Once back, I'll find a master craftsman to forge it into a puppet, which will serve as my mount in the future."

The Black Iron Giant Tiger is covered in black iron scales, nearly fifteen meters long, five meters tall at the shoulder, and has six giant steel tails behind it, which look like six thick steel whips.

Xu Bai felt it would be a waste to sell such a corpse.

They traveled for half a month, but only spent one day mining.

"Master, the location of the next precious spirit mine is 10 days' journey from here."

"Star Gold, 6424 tons, Shattered Star City's purchase price is 1500 strands of spiritual energy."

"Then let's go. When we get back, we'll summon that Moon Soul Tiger and pair it up with the Licking Tiger in the Soul Path Minor Realm."

Xu Hun piloted the spaceship, while Xu Bai cultivated in the portable spiritual energy chamber.

As the aptitude die is rolled, the spirit-grade aptitude faces upwards.

"Just in time to perfect the basic spells of the Xuan Guang Sect."

"So that I can further study the corresponding spiritual arts."

At first, Xu Bai wanted to add attributes to those basic spells before practicing them, but then he thought that he was already at the Foundation Establishment stage, but he could still practice spiritual arts. It would be better to go all the way and add attributes to the spiritual arts jade slips.