Chapter 748 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 15

Lin Yue quickened her pace to catch up with Mo Lan, sneaking a peek at the book cradled in her arms.

Mo Lan was reading 《Mind Jade — The Best Fit Is the Right Fit》?

She remembered clearly — at lunch, Mo Lan had been reading a book on body tempering!

This girl… switched books?

Looking more carefully, Mo Lan’s hairstyle hadn’t changed either.

No way… she didn’t nap at lunch? She spent the entire break reading?!

The more Lin Yue thought about it, the more absurd it seemed. She couldn’t help staring at the back of Mo Lan’s head, as if trying to bore a hole through it with her gaze.

Mo Lan teleported to the training room for the afternoon class, found a cushion and sat down. She had just opened her book when she felt a scorching gaze burning into her from the side.

She tilted her head slightly and met Lin Yue’s unblinking stare.

“Is something the matter?” Mo Lan asked, puzzled.

Had this girl’s curiosity really been simmering this long?

Lin Yue narrowed her eyes and lowered her voice. “You… didn’t sleep at lunch?”

Mo Lan nodded.

“Aren’t you tired?” Lin Yue had napped a little at lunch and only then felt her body recover. She hadn’t eaten much, though, and was feeling hungry now.

“I feel perfectly fine,” Mo Lan said with certainty.

The mirror beast meat from this world was even more nourishing than magical beast meat. She could sense energy in the mirror beast meat similar to the body-strengthening effects of the Dietary Fortification Card.

Lin Yue: “…”

Monster!

She was about to say something more when Instructor Yan Shuang appeared in the rest area. “You’ve all read Chapter One of 《Introduction to Psychic Power Cultivation》, yes? Sit quietly and try to perceive your mental sea!”

Mo Lan and Chen Xingye immediately entered a state of perception — spines straight as pines, hands resting naturally on their knees, breathing gradually slowing…

“Those two freaks!”

Lin Yue grumbled internally as she carefully recalled the method for perceiving the mental sea.

She had already read ahead through the fourth-year textbooks during the break. 《Introduction to Psychic Power Cultivation》 was among them.

But reading was one thing — with the aptitude test still unfinished, she hadn’t dared to actually try.

And she hadn’t memorized the contents all that firmly either.

Zhao Wuchen and Wang Jingnan were in similar situations to Lin Yue. They had all used family connections to learn the fourth-year curriculum in advance and gotten hold of textbooks to preview for a while. Su Yu had read a bit of the opening chapters of 《Introduction to Psychic Power Cultivation》 the previous evening, but was still far from having it memorized.

Perceiving the mental sea required not only psychic power that met a certain threshold, but also complete mental focus.

Their psychic power levels all far exceeded the baseline for perceiving the mental sea, but when they weren’t sure whether their method was correct, it was hard to concentrate.

The remaining classmates had it even worse — they hadn’t previewed the textbook at all the previous night, and hadn’t read it today either.

In the end, it was Ding Yan who steeled himself and raised his hand under Instructor Yan Shuang’s dangerous gaze. “Instructor, I haven’t read it yet. May I read it now?”

“Suit yourself! But let me make this clear upfront — three days, maximum. If you still can’t perceive your mental sea and psychic power after three days, you’d better transfer to another class on your own!”

Yan Shuang said coldly.

The students who hadn’t read the book, or weren’t sure if what they remembered was correct, breathed a sigh of relief.

They were just about to pull out 《Introduction to Psychic Power Cultivation》 to read when they noticed that Yan Shuang had just smiled.

Smiled? Her expression had been sour as could be just moments ago — why was she smiling?

Following her gaze, they saw a thin golden thread appear at Mo Lan’s fingertip.

The training room was equipped with a device that could make invisible psychic power Reveal itself for observation.

She had perceived her mental sea and even successfully channeled her psychic power? Even with their innate psychic power, as long as they knew the method, perceiving the mental sea was easy enough — but surely not this fast!

“You can officially begin cultivating your psychic power with a mind jade now.”

Yan Shuang produced a one-star mind jade and handed it to her. “Give it a try!”

Mo Lan nodded and took the mind jade curiously, then began her attempt.

Seeing the others still craning their necks to watch Mo Lan, Yan Shuang spoke. “Seen enough?”

Her voice made everyone flinch. “Now, immediately, start practicing!”

The rustling sound of pages turning erupted all at once.

After finishing Chapter One, they finally had some idea of how to perceive the mental sea and psychic power.

Following the book’s instructions, they calmed their minds, closed their eyes, and began to sense.

After Mo Lan extended her psychic power into the one-star mind jade, it was as though she saw a “labyrinth.”

The paths within the “labyrinth” were narrow and winding, with no end in sight.

Everything was exactly as described in 《Introduction to Psychic Power Cultivation》.

Mo Lan channeled more psychic power, sending it surging into the mind jade labyrinth.

She had braced herself to be suppressed by the mind jade labyrinth, unable to advance an inch — but her psychic power surged forward a great distance in one go.

Huh?

Wasn’t psychic power supposed to have extreme difficulty advancing through the mind jade labyrinth? Wasn’t the whole point that only by pushing forward through the endless mind jade labyrinth could psychic power gradually grow stronger?

Why did she feel absolutely no resistance?

Oh, right — 《Mind Jade — The Best Fit Is the Right Fit》 had mentioned this. If psychic power moved through a mind jade too smoothly, it meant the mind jade in use could no longer improve one’s psychic power, and a higher-starred mind jade was needed.

Generally speaking, Mirror Explorers were best served using mind jades at the same star level as themselves, or one star level apart.

When conditions allowed, they could occasionally train with mind jades two to three star levels above their own rank, increasing the pressure to accelerate psychic power growth.

For beginners like them who were just starting to cultivate psychic power, one-star mind jades were standard. Those with better resources might use two-star mind jades, with the occasional four-star mind jade session to stimulate psychic power growth.

If one’s psychic power was insufficient, the mind jade labyrinth would seem infinite and without exit. Once psychic power found the exit and broke through the one-star mind jade labyrinth, it signified that one’s psychic power level had advanced to two-star.

The star-level classification of Mirror Explorers was based precisely on this.

When it came down to it, the effectiveness of mind jades was still tied to one’s psychic power level.

It seemed her psychic power was simply too strong!

Not surprising in the least! The original owner already had memories of training with higher-starred mind jades that her parents had upgraded to after advancing. Mo Lan had anticipated this — she wasn’t too disappointed. She had expected it all along, and now she was completely resigned to it.

Proper cultivation was out of the question — she would just have to put on an act.

She hurriedly reined herself in, allowing only the amount of psychic power that had been drawn out during yesterday’s test to run wild through the one-star mind jade, pretending she was training diligently.

She was terrified that if she channeled even a bit too much psychic power by accident, it would break through the mind jade and be discovered by Instructor Yan Shuang.

Good physical fitness making running effortless, quickly perceiving the mental sea and channeling psychic power — all of that could be explained away by talent. But reaching two-star psychic power on her very first training session was too outrageous.

She would have to wait until she was alone, then use the mind jade to determine exactly how much psychic power constituted the two-star level. Until then, she would need to be careful whenever training in front of others.

The only pity was that without a mind jade that could actually challenge her psychic power, she couldn’t personally verify what difference mind jade training made compared to meditation for developing psychic power.

Even now, meditating with the Earth worldscape was still effective for her psychic power growth!