From star gatherer to leader of humanity

In the chaotic gravity, the single-person mining spaceship was as silent as death, and most importantly, the life support system was also disconnected.

The temperature inside the spaceship plummeted, and Xu Bai immediately circulated his spiritual energy to maintain himself.

These were all specifically covered in the training department: In the Shattered Star Sea, if disordered gravity erupts, no matter how powerful the spaceship is, it will fall into a complete shutdown state, and all the spaceship's systems will disconnect.

As the temperature dropped, Xu Bai had to increase the circulation of his spiritual energy to resist the low temperature.

Just as Xu Bai was about to give up, the disordered gravity stopped, and the entire spaceship resumed operation.

The temperature in the control room rose rapidly, allowing Xu Bai, who had almost frozen to slowly recover.

"No wonder you have to be at the Qi Refining stage to enter the Shattered Star Sea~" Xu Bai had only heard about it during training before, but he understood the terror of disordered gravity after experiencing it firsthand.

After the mining spaceship was restored and its condition was confirmed to be fine, Xu Bai began to explore the surrounding spirit mines.

"After the disordered gravity, I hope there will be some good things around."

Mining spacecraft traversed the gaps in the broken celestial bodies, maximizing the exploration fluctuations.

Half a day later, Xu Bai maneuvered the mining spaceship to dock on a huge, broken celestial body that was 800 miles long.

The mining spacecraft fixed itself on a celestial body and released fourteen mining engineering robots.

The hatches on both sides opened, and the smelting furnace began initial preheating.

Xu Bai sat in the spaceship's main control room, monitoring the surrounding situation.

"A small vein can yield about 3000 tons of iron. The ship's current capacity is only 1300 tons. Remember these coordinates so we can mine the rest next time we come."

Xu Bai looked at the fourteen busy mining engineering robots.

"The ship's cabin needs to be larger and longer; there are too few engineering robots, and their efficiency is too slow."

"And then there are attributes; these must be prioritized."

"Next time I come out, I'll prepare a few spirit stones for cultivation, otherwise all the waiting time will be wasted."

No matter how futuristic the scene before him might seem, Xu Bai would never forget that this was a world of cultivation, where strength was the most fundamental element.

Four days later, Xu Bai piloted a fully loaded mining spaceship out of the Shattered Star Sea.

As soon as he came out, Xu Bai noticed that the spaceship's public address system had become lively.

"Repairing, upgrading, and adding parts to single-person spaceships is cheap, and new users get a 20% discount!"

"The Iron Mine Gang is recruiting. Once you join, an experienced member will lead you to the Star Mining Team to mine, guaranteeing you 20,000 strands of spirit ore per month."

"Big Iron Gang, you son of a bitch..."

"I……"

The space station has a dedicated unloading port, which is extremely spacious with 3,000 unloading bays. Xu Bai only waited in line for an hour before getting a bay.

The mining spacecraft came to a steady stop in its bay. A special device opened the spacecraft's cabin, removed the inner cabin, and transformed it into a cargo container.

Then they took a new inner cabin from the side and stuffed it in.

The whole process took less than ten minutes.

At this moment, Xu Bai received a message on his personal terminal, which summarized the cargo in Xu Bai's ship's hold.

"2500 tons of Chen Iron, 40 tons of Spirit Wood Carbon, three catties of Spirit Wood Carbon Crystal, Hummingbird-class mining spaceship engine, and medium-sized machine gun."

Xu Bai controlled his personal terminal and sold all the spirit ore.

"The spirit ore is worth 16300 strands of spiritual energy. After deducting the mining tax of 50%, the total income is 8150 strands of spiritual energy."

The mining spaceship navigated automatically and docked in the public spaceport. Xu Bai looked at the extra 8150 strands of spiritual energy in his account and felt a sense of joy at the harvest.

But this joy did not last long.

Xu Bai contacted the supplier of spacecraft repair and parts installation services through his personal terminal.

"A second-hand single-person mining spaceship engine has 80,000 strands of spiritual energy, and a second-hand medium-sized machine gun has 30,000 strands of spiritual energy."

The salesperson looked at the warehouse inspection information Xu Baifa gave him and immediately quoted a price.

Upon seeing the price, a smile appeared on Xu Bai's face.

But when he successfully completed the transaction and only received 55000 strands of spiritual energy, the smile on his face froze.

"I fucking..."

"This also incurs half tax!"

After inquiring with the sales staff, Xu Bai learned a piece of information that wasn't exactly obscure: everything obtained from the Shattered Star Sea was subject to a 50% tax.

"It hurts!"

Looking at the 64540 strands of spiritual energy in his account, Xu Bai felt his dream of achieving the white attribute had been shattered.

"Should we add a few more gray-out attributes?"

Xu Bai abandoned the idea as soon as it came to mind.

"The white attribute must be added, and the stronger the attribute, the better." After Xu Bai added a second attribute to the mining ship, he had a feeling that there was a limit to the number of attributes that could be added.

"Let's gather 100,000 strands of spiritual energy first, then add the white attribute to the spaceship before we talk about anything else."

Xu Bai disembarked from the mining spaceship and spent 1800 strands of spiritual energy to replenish the spaceship's nutrient solution, energy blocks, and ammunition bay.

On the commercial street of the space station, Xu Bai ate a large bowl of braised beef noodles at a luxuriously decorated noodle shop, which cost 50 strands of spiritual energy.

He then went to the United Bank and exchanged sixty spirit stones, one for cultivation and the other for dealing with emergencies.

"Keep going!"

Just as Xu Bai arrived at the spaceport, a huge firework suddenly rose from the unloading area in the distance, exploding in the sky above the space station. It was a riot of colors, a dazzling display of light and color, and looked extremely beautiful in the universe.

"Brother, what's wrong?" Xu Bai approached a member of the star-collecting team who had just disembarked from the spaceship and asked politely.

"A newcomer who graduated early?"

The star-collecting team member spoke, pointing to the sky.

"These are celebratory fireworks only possible when someone has acquired a shipment worth tens of millions."

"I wonder who was so lucky to turn their life around so suddenly."

Before Xu Bai could even express his gratitude, the person had already walked away.

As he watched the fireworks slowly fade away in the sky, Xu Bai felt a strange sense of familiarity.

"A multi-million dollar shipment, even if I collect half the tax, I'll still have 5 million left, enough for me to enchant with green attributes 500 times." Xu Bai's eyes gleamed.

"liver!"

Xu Bai boarded the mining spaceship and flew towards the Shattered Star Sea.

The spaceship weaved through the gaps between the shattered celestial bodies, its speed increasing as it flew deeper into the Sea of ​​Shattered Stars.

Xu Bai showed no interest whatsoever in the broken celestial body containing tens of tons of Chen Iron.

After spending a day, Xu Bai arrived at the fragmented celestial body that had not been fully collected.

"We'll talk about it when we get back. We've met our quota for spirit ore this month, so we can explore it to our heart's content for the next month or so."

Xu Bai touched the pocket inside his flight suit, where he found sixty spirit stones, which were his source of confidence for venturing deep into the Shattered Star Sea.

The mining spacecraft continued to traverse the gaps between the shattered celestial bodies, penetrating deeper and deeper into the Sea of ​​Broken Stars.

"Bang!!!"

As the mining spaceship was flying, a dark shadow flew out from inside a broken celestial body and crashed into the mining spaceship.

Xu Bai immediately changed direction and accelerated, dodging the attack from the shadowy figure.

The twin heavy machine guns on top of the mining ship opened fire, blasting towards the location of the dark figure.

However, the shadowy figure was too fast and agile, easily dodging the machine gun fire.

A cosmic beast resembling a bat stood on a broken celestial body, watching Xu Bai leave.

"We've only been deep in the area for a day, and we've already been attacked by three alien beasts from the stars."

"If it weren't for its repair capabilities, the mining ship would have broken down long ago!"

"As expected, there's a reason why so many newbies die every year."

"However, fortune favors the bold; the bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish!"

Xu Bai decided to go to the area where the veterans often went deep into the mine during the training course.