Chapter 785 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 52

The fifth-year students could no longer contain their curiosity. They crowded around Mo Lan and her classmates, peppering them with questions about Teacher Yan Shuang’s teaching methods from every possible angle.

“How did Teacher Yan train you? Did she just throw you straight into the Kaleidoscope Wilderness?”

“Did she follow you the whole time? Did she step in to help?”

“Did you all personally hunt mirror beasts? How was the skill extraction rate from the beast cores? Did Teacher Yan share any tips or tricks?”

…

The questions came one after another, their voices brimming with an eager thirst for any scrap of experience they could absorb.

Mo Lan and the other eleven were caught somewhat off guard by this sudden wave of enthusiasm, but they couldn’t help feeling a small swell of pride as they showed off the arrangements Teacher Yan Shuang had made for them.

From the fifth-year students, Mo Lan and her classmates also learned about the progress of previous Mirror Explorer Class One cohorts.

For a time, the Mirror Clarity Hall was filled with exclamations of amazement and animated discussion about Teacher Yan Shuang’s teaching methods and results.

Beyond the Kaleidoscope Wilderness portal, within the spatial barrier, Yan Shuang watched that group of students—battered and disheveled yet bright-eyed, excitedly “spreading word” of her “exploits”—and fell silent.

She had been planning to call the students back to the classroom to announce the upcoming teaching arrangements, but now she decided against it.

Yan Shuang quietly teleported away from the Mirror Clarity Hall. Mo Lan glanced back—she had sensed a familiar spatial fluctuation.

During their time in the Kaleidoscope Wilderness, Mo Lan had frequently detected similar fluctuations. She knew they were the signature of Teacher Yan Shuang’s spatial abilities.

Everyone continued their excited exchanges with the upperclassmen for a while longer, but Teacher Yan Shuang never made a formal appearance.

Extreme exhaustion surged back like a rising tide, ultimately overwhelming their excitement.

“Teacher Yan probably had something to take care of?”

“I’m dead tired. I’m heading back first—my bones are about to fall apart.”

“Same here. I need to get home, take a hot bath, and sleep like the dead!”

They said their goodbyes, promising to see each other at school tomorrow, then dragged their utterly exhausted bodies to the public teleportation hall outside the school, each stepping onto a teleportation array and departing.

The glow of the teleportation array faded, and Mo Lan appeared in the quiet, familiar Teleportation Room of her own home.

However, the moment she returned, the sight before her made her pause slightly.

The household mailbox on one side of the Teleportation Room was hanging wide open, stuffed so full that its thin metal casing looked ready to burst.

Papers of every kind spilled out and scattered across the floor.

There were the various newspapers and periodicals she subscribed to, payment bills in assorted colors, and a mountain of gaudy promotional flyers… But amid this chaotic heap of paper, one envelope stood out conspicuously—its material noticeably thicker, its edges printed with the distinctive emblem of Deer Cry Middle School.

Mo Lan bent down and pulled the Academy envelope from the pile of clutter.

It had a slight weight to it.

She tore open the envelope and drew out the letter inside.

The letter was written on the Academy’s standard heavy-stock paper, the text in clean, crisp print.

“To all students of Mirror Explorer Class One:

Effective immediately, a major adjustment to the teaching schedule will be implemented. All group classes—body tempering, martial arts techniques, and the like—are hereby cancelled, replaced by ‘Individual Tutoring Days.’

Each student will have a minimum of one fixed day per month for comprehensive one-on-one tutoring conducted by me personally. Tutoring content will include but is not limited to: potion-based body tempering, psychic power cultivation, martial technique combat training, in-depth beast core skill development and application, and more.

Individual Tutoring Days will officially begin tomorrow, proceeding in order of student number. Thereafter, each student’s tutoring will be held on the same fixed day each month.

If you need to adjust your fixed tutoring time, or have additional tutoring needs outside your scheduled day, please send a letter to my office in advance.

—Yan Shuang”

“Individual tutoring… comprehensive…” Mo Lan stared at these words, practically able to imagine just how ‘fulfilling’ tomorrow was going to be.

Cancelling all group instruction meant that the teaching model going forward would be elite-level cultivation in the truest sense—no shortcuts, no compromises.

The benefits of this approach were enormous.

Every student would receive Teacher Yan Shuang’s most direct and meticulous attention and guidance. Training content and intensity would be entirely tailored to each individual’s physique, innate talent, psychic power level, mastered skills, and weaknesses, maximizing the potential of every single person.

Even with only one fixed day per month, this kind of high-intensity, highly targeted individual tutoring would produce results that routine group classes could never hope to match. They would inevitably learn far more of substance, and their rate of improvement would accelerate dramatically.

At the same time, however, this model placed high demands on the students.

Without strong self-discipline and planning ability—without proactively and efficiently organizing one’s own study and training on non-tutoring days, digesting what was learned during sessions, and continuously pushing for self-improvement—the lack of supervision would only breed complacency and waste precious time.

Mo Lan carefully refolded the letter, let out a soft breath, yet there was not a trace of apprehension in her eyes. Instead, a glimmer of anticipation flickered across them.

For her, this was undeniably wonderful news.

She had long since grown accustomed to self-study. One could even say that self-directed learning was her most comfortable way of absorbing knowledge.

Without frequent group classes eating up large blocks of time, she would no longer need to spend so many hours at school. She could freely allocate far more of her time as she saw fit.

She could finally look for opportunities to enter higher-level, more dangerous mirror spaces, collect a greater variety of beast cores, analyze skill imprints, and enrich her mage Magic.

Teacher Yan Shuang’s individual tutoring itself was also an excellent opportunity for Mo Lan.

Not only could she learn the martial arts essence and power application techniques of this world more efficiently and deeply under Teacher Yan Shuang’s guidance—no longer constrained by other classmates’ pace and comprehension—but she might also use this chance to subtly probe this knowledgeable and formidable teacher for information about mirror spaces, especially how to obtain a small mirror space of her own.

Mo Lan had not forgotten that her original purpose in coming to the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins World was precisely to acquire her own small mirror space, which, combined with the Dream Chronodisk, would save her enormous amounts of time in her Magic research!

“Tomorrow… is my Individual Tutoring Day.”

Time was pressing. Mo Lan quickly gathered up the scattered newspapers, bills, and flyers from the floor, then retreated to her room to compile a list of questions she needed to ask Teacher Yan Shuang tomorrow.

In terms of psychic power cultivation, there was nothing to consult about—Mo Lan’s psychic power had already exceeded the upper limit of the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins world.

Body tempering was the same. Low-grade tempering potions no longer had any effect on her; the previous body tempering classes had been nothing more than acting practice for her.

When she tallied it all up, it was really only martial techniques that warranted focused consultation. Once she had learned all the martial techniques Teacher Yan Shuang knew, she could also apply to study under other martial arts instructors at the school when time permitted.

Beyond that, there was the matter of mirror spaces.