Chapter 772 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 39

Among the group, Mo Lan was indeed the only one whose target mirror beast was of the dark attribute, giving her a direct need for dark-attribute beast cores.

Mo Lan set down her porridge bowl and glanced at the beast cores in Lin Yue’s hand.

She didn’t actually lack beast cores for everyday practice or spellcasting — her original body’s parents had prepared quite a few, and the Book of Cards could now produce some as well.

But nocturnal weasel beast cores were something she had never collected before.

If the price was right, she could give them to the Book of Cards as card-crafting materials to enrich her card collection — not a bad deal at all.

“How many mirror coins?”

In this world, one-star and two-star mirror beast cores were not only essential for extracting skills — they also contained relatively pure energy, making them excellent magic materials in their own right.

Lin Yue’s eyes darted around, and she said with a cheeky grin, “Hehe, market price is about a hundred mirror coins each? Since we’re classmates and all, how about ninety mirror coins for both? Pretty generous, right?”

She wasn’t really trying to make much money off Mo Lan — it was more about showing off her spoils with a playful attitude.

Besides, splitting a hundred mirror coins three ways among yesterday’s hunting party would have been awkward.

The price was fair enough. Mo Lan considered briefly, then nodded, crisply counting out ninety mirror coins from her storage ring and handing them to Lin Yue.

“Deal!” Lin Yue happily accepted the mirror coins and placed the two slightly cool dark-attribute beast cores into Mo Lan’s hand.

Nearby, Su Yu watched this exchange and quietly produced three black beast cores, roughly the size of pigeon eggs, from her personal mirror accessory. She held them out to Mo Lan. “Shadow wolf beast cores. Also dark-attribute. A hundred and fifty mirror coins each — interested?”

Including herself, six people had participated in killing those three shadow wolves last night.

They had already roughly divided the wolf meat and pelts based on contribution, but these three beast cores were harder to split.

Selling them to Mo Lan — the only person on the team with a clear need — and splitting the mirror coins evenly was the simplest and fairest solution.

Mo Lan’s gaze fell on the three shadow wolf beast cores in Su Yu’s hand. “Sure.”

She counted out the corresponding mirror coins from her storage ring once more and handed them to Su Yu.

Su Yu took the money, carefully counted it to confirm the amount was correct, then handed the three shadow wolf beast cores over to Mo Lan.

In the span of a single breakfast, Mo Lan had acquired five dark-attribute beast cores of varying properties. Everyone simply assumed she was stocking up on spellcasting materials for later use.

Wang Jingnan smiled at the sight and spoke up. “From now on, whenever we hunt beast cores we don’t need, we should check with our classmates first to see if anyone wants them, or trade directly. Saves us the trouble of dealing with them later.”

Everyone agreed it made sense and nodded in approval.

“Hey! What about you guys? Didn’t you run into any mirror beasts during your night watch?” Lin Yue asked Zhao Wuchen curiously.

“…” Zhao Wuchen felt a twinge of regret about not engaging those corrosion beetles last night. Even if they hadn’t shown any aggressive intent, they were still poison-type mirror beasts! Their beast cores would have been useful to him.

Of course, it wasn’t as though he was desperate for a few one-star beast cores.

Worried that Lin Yue — ever the nosy young lady — would keep digging and notice his discomfort, he decisively changed the subject, directing his gaze toward Mo Lan, who sat across from him quietly drinking her porridge. He asked in as casual a tone as he could manage:

“Mo Lan, what about your Group Four? The second half of the night must have been even more eventful, right?”

His question seemed to flip a switch. Before Mo Lan could even open her mouth, Bai Wei and Ren Miao — who had been in the same Group Four last night — along with Xiang Yufan, who had just acquired his prized beast core and was in a state of extreme excitement, all began talking over each other, eager to share.

“We ran into a swarm of night-shriek bats! A whole dark mass of them came swooping down from the sky!” Bai Wei gestured animatedly, still shaken by the memory. “It was terrifying! And then Mo Lan went whoosh-whoosh-whoosh! We couldn’t even see how she attacked — all we heard were the sounds of blades cutting through the air, and those awful night-shriek bats started dropping like dumplings into a pot! It was so fast!”

Ren Miao chimed in, her eyes shining as she looked at Mo Lan. “You were all asleep at the time — there was no way to warn you to cover your ears! If Mo Lan hadn’t struck fast enough and accurately enough to take them out instantly, every one of you would have been woken up by those annoying sonic attacks. You might have even gotten hurt — headaches, hearing loss, the works!”

Xiang Yufan couldn’t help pulling out his windchaser antelope beast core. “Hehe~ Look what I’ve got!”

“You guys didn’t see it — the whole scene was incredible. I’d finally managed to sneak close to the windchaser antelope, and then the wind direction suddenly shifted!”

“My heart sank — I was sure this duck that was practically in hand was about to fly away!”

“But guess what happened? Mo Lan was up on the lookout platform, and ‘whoosh’ — one flying dagger! Dead accurate! It struck right at the windchaser antelope’s rear leg joint, crippling it on the spot. Its speed dropped instantly! That’s what gave me the perfect opening to land my shot!”

“Without that, with the windchaser antelope’s speed, there’s no way I could have gotten this precious beast core!”

Having obtained their target mirror beast’s core on the very first night at the Kaleidoscope Wilderness — everyone was green with envy.

And through Bai Wei, Ren Miao, and Xiang Yufan’s vivid, animated descriptions, Mo Lan’s seemingly divine flying dagger technique took on an almost legendary aura, leaving everyone itching with curiosity.

“Seriously? A few whooshes and all the night-shriek bats were gone?”

“A flying dagger that broke a windchaser antelope’s leg? At night? That level of accuracy is absolutely insane!”

“Mo Lan! You’ve been hiding your skills all along!”

…

Lin Yue, unable to contain her fiercely burning curiosity any longer, scooted right up to Mo Lan’s side, hooked her arm through Mo Lan’s, eyes wide as saucers, and fired off questions like a machine gun:

“Mo Lan! You can do that too? How did you learn it? I never saw you use it in martial arts class! Is it a secret family technique? Or did Professor Yan Shuang give you private lessons on the side? Come on, tell us!”

The others weren’t quite as direct as Lin Yue, but they all perked up their ears.

After all, this kind of ultra-long-range, ultra-precise striking ability had enormous practical applications in real combat — especially for dealing with flying targets or creating tactical openings.

Under the intense gazes of everyone around her, Mo Lan offered a simple explanation. “I found a book callederta Mo Lan offered a simple explanation. “I found a book called 《Mo Lan offered a simple explanation. “I found a book in the school library called 《Hundred-Leaf Flying Daggers》and taught myself from it. I’ve already finished reading it — if you want to learn, you can borrow it.”

She said it as if it were nothing — as though “self-study from a book” and “practice” could fully explain that dazzling, never-miss flying dagger technique.

“Practice?” Lin Yue’s voice rose several pitches, laden with disbelief. “How long would you have to practice to reach the level you showed last night?”

She certainly didn’t believe she could reach that level in three months of training.

“Pick a good target, control your force, analyze wind speed, humidity, and the target’s movement speed and trajectory. Just practice a lot and you’ll get there.”

“Just… practice?” Lin Yue and the others stared, utterly dumbfounded.

Using leaves? Moving targets? Analyzing wind speed, humidity, and trajectory? It sounded simple enough in theory, but in actual practice, the difficulty was absolutely insane!

And who learns martial techniques from a book?! Just how high was this girl’s talent for combat arts?