My Talent Skill Mutated

However... with a Star Spring, the lower one’s cultivation level, the greater the boost.

That made sense.

"It really is fast. If I run into a few more of these, breaking through to Eighth Grade won’t be a problem."

Chen Yu felt great as he sensed the surging Qi within him.

The boost from his first time soaking in a Star Spring was even greater than he had anticipated.

Leaping from just having entered Seventh Grade to reaching its Late Stage was a feat that would normally take at least a year or two of regular cultivation.

The special Spiritual Qi contained within the Star Spring rapidly accelerated this process, saving him a great deal of cultivation time.

Moreover, this was just a relatively ordinary Star Spring. If it had been a large-scale one, the boost would have been even more immense.

RUMBLE—!!

A tremor ran through the spring water. The three looked at the now-clear water, and in the next second, the hundred-meter-wide Star Spring, as if pulled by some unknown force, vanished into thin air right before their eyes.

Even Chen Yu couldn’t detect any trace of the Star Spring’s departure.

It had simply vanished.

"Good thing we finished, or we would have missed a golden opportunity," Zhuge Qingtian couldn’t help but sigh, looking at the vanished Star Spring.

Talk about luck!

Just as they finished absorbing it, the Star Spring vanished.

If it had been any faster, they probably wouldn’t have gotten such a big boost.

When a Star Spring relocates, anyone soaking inside is thrown out.

As the spring vanished, the green desert oasis also began to change rapidly.

The vegetation withered, and the soil on the ground transformed into silver sand.

In just a brief moment, the desert oasis completely disappeared, turning into a silver desert that blended in with its surroundings.

The desert oasis from just moments ago was nowhere to be seen.

In a fleeting moment, it was as if it had experienced the changes of countless ages, disappearing without a trace.

This magical scene left the three of them utterly astonished.

This was the first time any of them had encountered such a situation.

"I wonder where that Star Spring relocated to... It would be great if we could track it," Dongfang Yao sighed, looking at the silver desert.

"Perhaps a Spatial Ability could track it," Zhuge Qingtian said.

"Then let’s leave as well. We need to find somewhere safer," Chen Yu spoke up.

The other two nodded, and soon, the three of them disappeared into the starlit night.

...

「The next morning.」

On the dreamlike gobi of the Astral Realm, the trio emerged from a rocky cave.

Stepping out of the cave, Chen Yu gazed out at the vast gobi.

Of the two billion needed for his physical body’s Evolution, Chen Yu was only a little over two hundred million away.

’I should be able to make it today...’

Gazing at the nebulous sky, Chen Yu activated his Force Field with a thought, scanning the area.

He scanned everything within a hundred-kilometer radius.

However, he didn’t find any Star Beasts. Chen Yu wasn’t discouraged; encountering a Star Beast depended on luck, as they weren’t exactly everywhere.

"Let’s go this way," Chen Yu said, pointing in a direction.

The other two had no objections and nodded. A moment later, the three figures moved, swiftly vanishing from the front of the cave.

...

Astral Realm, Gobi Desert!

Their figures flashed past, moving as fast as lightning.

Suddenly, Chen Yu, who was in the lead, stopped in his tracks, his gaze fixed on a region of strange rock formations ahead.

Giant rocks hundreds of meters tall stood on the gobi, resembling a forest of stone.

The area of strange rocks was vast, stretching as far as the eye could see.

Chen Yu’s brow furrowed. As he looked at the region of strange rocks, he found that his Force Field couldn’t sense anything within it.

It was as if his ability had malfunctioned.

He couldn’t probe the area’s conditions in the slightest.

"What’s wrong, Brother Yu?"

"This stone forest... is there a problem?" Dongfang Yao asked, looking at Chen Yu.

Chen Yu nodded, his expression serious. "Something’s wrong. I can’t scan this place with my ability."

Hearing this, the other two also grew solemn.

They were well aware of Chen Yu’s scanning ability. Even though the Astral Realm naturally suppressed such powers, Chen Yu’s unique ability could still function in most places.

But the fact that he couldn’t scan this area definitely meant something was wrong.

An abnormality like this was a sure sign of trouble!

This wasn’t just any other place; this was the Astral Realm, where anything could happen.

"This stone forest is very strange. Should we go around it or go in?" Zhuge Qingtian asked, looking at the stone forest ahead before turning his gaze to Chen Yu.

Chen Yu stared at the stone forest, pondered for a moment, and said, "Let’s go in and take a look first. What do you guys think?"

"No objections from me," Zhuge Qingtian said with a nonchalant expression.

Dongfang Yao looked at Chen Yu. "Brother Yu, I’ll follow your lead."

"Then let’s go take a look." Without another word, Chen Yu turned and headed toward the stone forest.

The other two followed behind him, heading toward the stone forest together.

Skill breeds boldness!

United, the three of them felt that even if they faced a peak Ninth Grade entity, they could still flee if they couldn’t win the fight.

——

Giant rocks, hundreds of meters tall, stood upon the gobi, spread across a vast area.

Each giant rock was like a stone mountain. These enormous stones, like meteorites, had a faint starlight flowing around them.

As the three entered this vast and towering stone forest, they seemed as tiny as ants.

"The gravity here... seems even stronger than outside."

The moment he stepped into the stone forest, Zhuge Qingtian’s shoulders twitched as he felt a powerful gravitational force wash over him.

Chen Yu and Dongfang Yao also felt the immense gravity!

The gravity in the stone forest was significantly stronger than outside!

The gravity outside was already more than ten times that of the Ancestor Star. Here, it was probably more than double the gravity just outside the forest.

The three of them looked at the bracelets on their wrists, which displayed a number.

A gravity reading!