Chapter 804 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 71

Chapter 804 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 71

After tidying everything up, only ordinary items remained in the home.

Finally, Mo Lan went to the Teleportation Room and sent letters of non-renewal to the places she had subscribed to for meals or newspapers, such as the community cafeteria and the newspaper office.

Without waiting for replies or refunds to arrive, Mo Lan headed to the teleportation hall at the community entrance and teleported directly to the city’s only cross-mirror teleportation hall.

The teleportation circles in the Deer Cry Mirror’s cross-mirror teleportation hall all had fixed destinations.

There were the most teleportation circles going to the Eastern China Alliance’s cross-mirror teleportation hall, while those going to the other seventeen major mirror domains were slightly fewer in number.

Each teleportation circle had its own dedicated teleportation room for protection. Regardless of destination, they were all divided into single-person and multi-person teleportation options.

Single-person teleportation was expensive but offered immediate departure; multi-person teleportation required gathering enough people but was considerably cheaper.

Mo Lan knew exactly where she was going and walked straight toward the teleportation room area marked “Cloud Mist Mirror.”

She quickly scanned the exteriors of several multi-person teleportation rooms and soon spotted one where the indicator light on a five-person teleportation room’s door displayed “4/5” — just one person short.

She immediately walked in with brisk steps.

Inside were four Mirror Explorers who appeared to be traveling together, waiting with some impatience. Mo Lan’s appearance visibly relieved them.

“Sorry for the wait,” Mo Lan said simply, then quickly walked over to the payment counter beside the teleportation array and paid her share of the teleportation fee.

The moment the fee was settled, the entire teleportation circle hummed, and a gentle yet powerful spatial energy instantly enveloped all five people within the array.

The scenery before their eyes suddenly warped and stretched, accompanied by a slight sensation of weightlessness.

In less than a minute, all spatial fluctuations subsided.

Mo Lan found herself standing in a minimalist-style teleportation hall with architecture somewhat different from Deer Cry Mirror’s — this was the Cloud Mist Mirror’s cross-mirror teleportation hall.

Fortunately, even though the décor differed, the functional layout of all official teleportation halls across the Eastern China Alliance was essentially the same.

Mo Lan navigated with practiced ease, found a staff member, and asked for directions to the nearest public teleportation hall.

Through the public teleportation hall’s convenient transit network, she quickly teleported again to the Cloud Mist Mirror’s Mirror Exploration Center.

All publicly accessible, paid-entry mirror space entrances were typically located at local Mirror Exploration Centers, and the entrance to the Ice Lake Plateau — a seven-star mirror space — was naturally no exception.

In the Mirror Exploration Center’s preparation area, Mo Lan swiftly changed into the cold-weather combat gear she had prepared in advance, then walked into the Ice Lake Plateau mirror space’s teleportation hall and presented her unlimited exploration permit — which she had only just obtained the day before — to the staff member on duty.

After verifying everything was in order, the staff member respectfully activated the teleportation gate for her.

When Mo Lan stepped through the shimmering portal rippling with ice and snow patterns, barely fifteen minutes had passed since she’d left her home.

In the Three Thousand Mirror Ruins World, traveling was just that convenient and fast.

The moment she set foot in the Ice Lake Plateau mirror space, a blast of biting cold wind mixed with swirling snowflakes sharp as knife blades slammed into her face, and visibility dropped to near zero instantly.

Mo Lan frowned slightly. She hadn’t expected her “luck” to be this good — running into the mirror space’s worst weather condition right upon arrival: a severe blizzard.

The wind howled and the temperature plummeted. Even wearing cold-weather gear, she could feel the cold seeping through every gap.

Seeing no one else around, she immediately retrieved the bottle of transformation potion from her storage ring and drank it down. The potion took effect rapidly, and she transformed into her appearance from Earth.

Transfiguration alone wasn’t enough — she needed to find shelter immediately.

Braving winds fierce enough to blow a person away, Mo Lan quickly surveyed her surroundings, found a sheltered snow slope on the lee side, and used an ice wall spell to rapidly construct a temporary snow shelter before ducking inside. The sound of wind and snow was instantly shut out.

The temperature inside the ice shelter was still very low, but it was enough to block the wind.

Mo Lan was now wearing a different face and had no intention of making herself suffer. She summoned her Book of Cards, produced her Spatial Tent Card, and materialized it.

Crawling into the warm, comfortable tent, Mo Lan finally let out a long breath of relief.

Listening to the ghostly howling of the wind and snow outside, she was in no hurry. She simply took out that copy oferta《Mirror Ruins University: A History》and began reading leisurely by the tent’s soft light.

Time slipped by quietly as she read.

By the time she had nearly finished the entire history book, the wind outside the tent had gradually died down as well, eventually falling completely silent.

Mo Lan put away the book and the tent, then dispelled the ice wall spell. The ice walls collapsed quickly, leaving only a few scattered fragments on the snow.

The blizzard had passed. Before her stretched an endless, majestic plateau blanketed in thick white snow, reflecting a blinding glare under the pale sunlight.

Over the next few days, Mo Lan began her long search across the vast snowy highland plateau.

Although Yan Shuang’s notes recorded the approximate location, the plateau was vast and the terrain complex. Searching for a specific snow cavern entrance was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

After a full day of searching with nothing to show for it, time continued to slip away.

“It seems I won’t get anywhere without resorting to some unconventional methods.”

Mo Lan sighed and deployed her Witch Magic — the luck spell, the Pathseeking Spell, the Fortune-Telling Spell, and the Clairvoyance Spell all working in concert. Only then, on the seventh day, did she finally find an extremely well-hidden crack in the mountainside, half-concealed by enormous icicles and accumulated snow.

The crack was pitifully narrow — barely wide enough for one person to squeeze through sideways. Its depths were pitch black, emanating a chill even more bone-piercing than the outside air. No matter how she looked at it, it bore absolutely no resemblance to the “passable snow cavern” described in Teacher Yan Shuang’s notes.

“Has the terrain changed this much?” A flicker of doubt crossed Mo Lan’s mind.

But every spell she had cast was emphatically telling her — this was the place!

It must have been the passage of too much time; geological activity or snow accumulation had drastically altered the entrance’s form.

Mo Lan hesitated no longer and squeezed sideways into the narrow, ice-cold crevice.

The passage deeper in was winding and tortuous, with many branching paths. The cold was oppressive, and she even occasionally encountered ice-type mirror beasts that had made their home here.

Just as she had done in Gushing Spring Forest Sea, Mo Lan used the high-star mirror beasts to practice her magic and the mid-to-low-star ones to practice her martial techniques, all while collecting useful magical materials along the way.

After walking for what felt like an eternity, she suddenly caught a whiff of vegetation — a scent completely at odds with the surrounding environment. She quickened her pace, rounded a bend, and her eyes went wide at the sight before her!

Soft green moss carpeted the ground, several hardy low-growing shrubs clung stubbornly to life, and at the center sat a small pond — all of it forming a strikingly sharp contrast with the frozen world of ice and snow surrounding it.

Without Teacher Yan Shuang’s notes and her own magical divinations, who could have imagined that such a place lay hidden deep within the snow mountains?

“Finally found it!”

Mo Lan breathed a sigh of relief. Now all that remained was to follow the method described in the notes to get inside.