"Look up at the sky?"

Gazing at the words composed of stars before her, Yun You was slightly taken aback, but instinctively she raised her head.

Then, she saw the quilt covering her head.

She blinked foolishly, but quickly realized that she was still lying in bed...

[...]

The starry text was silent for a moment, then quickly formed another line.

[Now, immediately, at once]

[Find an open, unobstructed place, then look up, look at the stars]

[Then, do your utmost to find a star that can "speak" to you, as your Life Star]

[This is the initiation to the Star-Attracting Skill]

Seeing this, Yun You finally understood that these star texts were actually the work of the Star-Attracting Skill manual, serving as her "instruction manual"!

"That's quite advanced..."

The little girl casually quipped, then turned over and got out of bed, made her way to the balcony, pulled the blackout curtains on either side, and looked up at the sky.

It was now 7 PM, and although the sky wasn't completely dark, the stars were faintly visible.

[To determine if someone has the talent for practicing the Star-Attracting Skill, the simplest way is to see how long it takes them to find their "Life Star"]

[Finding it within half a year is barely passable]

[Finding it in three months could be considered good]

[Finding it in two weeks could be deemed excellent]

[Discovering it within a day, well then you're this—]

The starry text showed a "thumbs up" icon.

[As for finding it in a single-digit number of hours or minutes... if you can find it that fast... woah, that's like having a cheat code]

[When meeting others, just say you're the author of the Star-Attracting Skill, even saying I'm your student works... anyway, I'm not as cool as you...]

[However, come to think of it, there shouldn't be such a person in the world, should there? When I first developed the Star-Attracting Skill and took it out for testing, even the most talented person took upwards of ten hours to find their Life Star in the vast sea of stars]

[So you needn't be overly nervous, finding your Life Star within half a year is already considered passable...]

Before the star text could finish, Yun You suddenly made a gesture for silence, interrupting it.

The young girl instinctively looked up, widening her eyes as she stared intently at a certain spot in the night sky.

If others saw this scene, they would definitely think the girl was daydreaming.

But only Yun You knew that she wasn't daydreaming; she was listening.

Listening to the voice from the stars...

She clearly heard the sound mixed with a sobbing tone and precisely located the celestial body making the sound.

"It hurts... it really hurts..."

"Eh?"

"Can you... can you see me?"

"I, I want to..."

The voice abruptly stopped, ending abruptly without further explanation.

But Yun You was certain it truly existed and was genuinely speaking to her.

Its voice was soft, sweet and gentle, albeit tinged with anguish, resembling an abandoned child, with unknown circumstances.

Yet, these issues were not important now.

Yun You's concern was the Star-Attracting Skill.

If this voice was real, then according to the manual's description, Yun You should have already found her [Life Star] at this moment.

And the time she took for this process was...

8 seconds.

That's right.

Yun You took only 8 seconds to accomplish a task that normally took six months.

This number was exactly 4,500 times faster than the previous person who took 10 hours to find their Life Star... someone whom the Star-Attracting Skill manual regarded as a "genius".

"According to the manual, now I... am I already eligible to carve my name... on the author line of the Star-Attracting Skill?"

Yun You thought dazedly, but soon shook her head.

"No no no, rather than that, isn't this [star] more important?"

She looked back at the celestial body that called out to her, murmuring...

"Is this really... considered a star?"

Yun You herself wasn't sure.

Because the star at the end of her gaze was a huge, round yellow celestial body.

It looked like an oversized mooncake, hanging alone in the sky.

It wasn't the well-known Big Dipper, nor was it the dazzling Sirius visible until dusk.

Its name was...

The Moon.

Yes, Yun You's Life Star wasn't one of those widely visible yet unfathomably distant stars but the Moon, astronomically close to Earth.

"But... isn't this strange?"

Yun You thought dumbfoundedly.

Everyone else's Life Stars are massive stars, but for hers, it turned out to be the Moon, not even classified as a planet?

To know that on the Moon's surface, there are several space colonies from Nest City.

It is, in a strict sense, claimed territory, with some giant corporations already developing real estate on the Moon...

Now, the Star-Attracting Skill tells Yun You, "The Moon is your Life Star, you're its master, find a way to acquire it."

This is absurd?!

For a moment, Yun You only felt a headache, and her recently broken record pride vanished.

And for a moment, the starry text before the little girl also fell silent.

Apparently, it had self-awareness, and its shock was much greater than Yun You's.

It truly hadn't seen such a scene before.

But as a professional manual, after a brief daze, it still reacted and reassembled the text.

[You're something, really something... little girl, you're more suited to practice this skill than the book's author]

[I won't waste your time with other words, for you, accelerating your learning progress is most important]

[So, you needn't make other preparations, just sit down, face your Life Star, let its light evenly cover you, and then close your eyes tightly, focusing on your breathing, ideally aligning your breaths with the light's rhythm]

[Then, you can imagine—imagine that star is part of your body and try to harness its power]

[In doing so, you can harness the star's light to temper your body]

"Sounds pretty simple..."

Yun You mumbled, and following the text's method, sat cross-legged on the ground and began deep breathing.

[Simple?]

Hearing this, the starry text couldn't help but want to reprimand Yun You.

"Simple my foot! This process is even harder than finding your Life Star. Many people, even after finding their Life Star, can't successfully harness starlight. Some get stuck at this stage for a lifetime, including some bright talents, got it!"

That's what it initially planned to say.

But then it thought about it carefully, realizing Yun You's talent shouldn't be judged through conventional lenses.

If you curse her now, you might just eat a boomerang later...

So the starry text chose to remain silent.

And its action proved wise.

Because in the 47th second of Yun You sitting cross-legged, a strand of dazzling silver sunlight suddenly bathed her, twinkling... its intervals perfectly mirrored her breath's rhythm.

This indicated that Yun You had completed the "initiation" once again, stepping with ease into this second phase of training.

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