Chapter 791 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 58

Chapter 791 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 58

Inside the teleportation hall of the Gushing Spring Forest Sea, the staff member selling temporary passes felt his heart skip a beat when a figure suddenly appeared.

Is… is that her?! That one-star rookie who went in with an unlimited-duration pass over a year ago?! She’s back?!

These psychic power fluctuations—two-star is probably an understatement!

Ever since this girl had entered with that precious unlimited-duration pass, he’d been worried that someone would come looking for trouble with him—the one who’d let her through. He’d resolved that once she used the pass’s emergency teleportation function to escape danger and came back out, he would persuade her to go home.

So for the past year, he’d been paying extra attention to this teleportation gate, afraid of missing the moment she emerged.

He never expected the wait would stretch past a year.

Gradually, he’d lost all hope—and then she came back out!

These psychic power fluctuations—even he, a two-star Mirror Explorer, could feel the pressure. She had to be at least three-star level!

But how was that possible? Going from one-star to three-star in just over a year—even last year’s super genius who scored perfect marks in both psychic power and Mirror Explorer aptitude couldn’t be this absurd!

While he stood there in stunned silence, Mo Lan had already strode quickly out of the teleportation hall.

Stepping through the grand entrance of the Mirror Exploration Center, a gust of cool, fresh night air washed over her face. Looking up, she saw a sky dotted with stars and the twinkling lights of the city.

“It’s already nighttime?” Mo Lan blinked in mild surprise.

Each mirror space had different durations of day and night. While in the Gushing Spring Forest Sea, she’d been using a different magical watch calibrated to that mirror space’s time characteristics.

For the magical watch calibrated to Deer Cry Mirror’s time, she had only set alarms for a few important dates before stowing it away in her storage mirror accessory.

Having spent so long in the Gushing Spring Forest Sea, returning to Deer Cry Mirror felt somewhat unfamiliar.

Her original plan had been to head straight to school after emerging, to see if she could find Teacher Yan Shuang—report that she was safe, and also find out about this year’s exam arrangements.

But it was deep into the night now, and school had long since let out. That plan clearly wasn’t going to work.

“I’ll just have to go home first.” Mo Lan headed toward a nearby public teleportation hall and entered her home address at the destination terminal.

Sure enough, just as she expected, the mailbox had been stuffed to bursting again. The Teleportation Room at home was practically drowning in various publications and letters—there was barely anywhere to step.

Mo Lan was somewhat used to this sight by now. She began sifting through the pile with practiced ease, her eyes quickly scanning the dates on the periodicals.

Before long, she found the most recent issues of the 《Deer Cry Daily》.

On the front page of the topmost newspaper, a prominent headline caught her eye: 《Mirror Ruins Year 5725 Eastern China Alliance National Mirror Explorer Academy Entrance Examination Registration Announcement》.

Mo Lan rapidly read through the key information: registration would begin tomorrow and last for one week. The examination was scheduled for three months from now. The examination venue… the Kaleidoscope Wilderness mirror space.

“Phew…” Only at this moment did Mo Lan’s tightly wound nerves truly relax. She let out a long, deep breath. “Thank goodness I wasn’t late.”

Heaven only knew how panicked she had been when, deep within the Corrupted Swamp Spring, she had successfully harvested the toxic elemental spring eye and completed the final entry in her complete bestiary—and in the very next second after that surge of tremendous achievement, she suddenly remembered the time. She checked the magical watch synced to Deer Cry Mirror’s time inside her storage mirror accessory and discovered that there were only a few hours left before the alarm she had set over a year ago based on previous years’ exam schedules!

How fortunate! How incredibly fortunate that the entrance examination schedule was a century-old tradition of the Eastern China Alliance, with the time and location virtually set in stone. This year was no exception.

The timing right now was absolutely perfect!

She wasn’t the least bit worried that her prolonged absence from school would cause any problems.

Exploration of mirror spaces was inherently full of all sorts of unexpected situations—let alone a seven-star mirror space.

Her official reason for leaving school had been to hunt Thorn-Spined Glowworms and extract a second one-star beast core skill, White Light Flash. She had received Teacher Yan Shuang’s special permission and the support of an unlimited-duration pass, with the original plan already accounting for missing several months of classes to be made up later. Now she had simply been gone a bit longer than expected.

If she had come out too early, not only would she have had to return the unlimited-duration pass, but if she wanted to re-enter the Gushing Spring Forest Sea to continue collecting, she’d need to come up with a new excuse for leave—adding unnecessary hassle.

As things stood now, she could perfectly explain it as: the internal environment of the Gushing Spring Forest Sea was far more complex and dangerous than anticipated. To evade high-level mirror beasts and locate her target creatures, she had been forced to take circuitous routes, which cost an enormous amount of time. She had only just barely completed her objective and escaped safely.

Coming back now wasn’t late at all. After registering, she still had three months—just enough time to go to school and “make up” the year-plus of “missed” private tutoring sessions with Teacher Yan Shuang.

One session per month—over a year meant she’d only missed a dozen or so classes. Three months was more than enough time.

Mo Lan carefully folded the announcement and tucked it away, then turned her gaze back to the mountain of letters and publications.

She recalled that before entering the Gushing Spring Forest Sea, she had made a series of preparations, which included ordering some books by mail at no small expense.

Mo Lan rummaged through the paper pile swiftly and precisely. Before long, she pulled out several thick, handsomely bound volumes with an air of classical elegance.

《Three Thousand Mirror Ruins Prodigy Records: Starlight Volume》, 《Three Thousand Mirror Ruins Prodigy Records: Bright Moon Volume》, 《Three Thousand Mirror Ruins Prodigy Records: Blazing Sun Volume》.

This was a legendary book series published by the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins’ premier institution, Mirror Ruins University.

It was said that these books contained authentic, detailed profiles of the super-prodigies who had left immortal legends across every era of the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins.

This included their backgrounds, talents, core abilities, signature battle achievements, and most crucially—their strength growth data at different ages!

Each volume contained only one hundred entries. Whenever a new, even more gifted prodigy emerged, the series would be republished.

Only when a prodigy themselves grew into an eight-star or higher powerhouse, or when they were surpassed by a newer prodigy, would they be removed from the rankings.

Even prodigies from hundreds of years ago who had fallen before reaching their full potential would remain listed as long as their records stood unbroken.

It could be called the benchmark that countless young Mirror Explorers looked up to—a cruel measuring stick for gauging one’s own potential.

Mo Lan carried the books straight to her home’s training room and began reading rapidly.

“Luo Chen: psychic power aptitude 98, Mirror Explorer aptitude 95. Reached three-star psychic power threshold at age fifteen. Solo-killed the three-star mirror beast Golden Wood Wolf…”

“Ji Wuyang: psychic power aptitude 95, Mirror Explorer aptitude 100. Broke through to three-star psychic power at fourteen years and seven months. Solo-killed the three-star mirror beast Lightning Spider…”

Name after name, achievement after achievement that shook the ages—Mo Lan’s heart surged with emotion as she read.

Someone like Teacher Yan Shuang—who had placed first in the national Mirror Explorer Academy entrance examination, had even studied at Mirror Ruins University, and was now a pillar among the Eastern China Alliance’s high-star Mirror Explorers—couldn’t even rank in the Prodigy Records.