Chapter 746 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 13

Mo Lan had pretty much figured it out by now — when Instructor Yan Shuang said earlier that they couldn’t come out for one hour, that was all talk.

They’d been soaking for over an hour already, and Instructor Yan Shuang was just standing there watching.

Only those who fainted would be fished out and revived, then sent off to run laps.

At this rate, even if the pool water went rancid from soaking, Mo Lan still wouldn’t faint.

She’d have to find a way to make herself faint.

Mo Lan quietly observed her surroundings, a plan already forming in her mind.

The moment Su Yu finally couldn’t hold on and her body slowly slipped into the medicinal liquid, Mo Lan immediately activated “performance mode.”

First, she let her breathing become rapid and erratic, her fingers beginning to tremble “uncontrollably.” Her eyelids blinked heavily several times as her pupils rolled slightly upward.

Then her body tilted slowly as if the bones had been pulled from it, and at the instant before she touched the water’s surface, she “instinctively” struggled once before sinking completely into the medicinal liquid.

The next moment, Mo Lan felt a force lift her out of the medicinal pool.

The surrounding temperature plummeted. Not wanting to get drenched like a drowned rat, she hurriedly “woke up at just the right moment,” her eyelashes fluttering as she opened her eyes—

Splash!

A bone-chilling torrent of ice water still came pouring down over her head, making her jolt with a shiver.

Tiny ice crystals instantly formed on the tips of her hair, and water droplets rolled down her chin onto her still-steaming arms, making a sizzling sound.

Instructor Yan Shuang had definitely done that on purpose!

Mo Lan looked up, her eyes silently protesting.

Yan Shuang’s expression didn’t change as she condensed a second ball of ice water, leisurely tossing and catching it in her palm:

“After soaking in the Scarlet Refining Solution, rapidly cooling down with ice water can increase medicinal absorption efficiency by 37%. Paired with moderate exercise, it can boost absorption efficiency by 50%! How about it — want another one?”

Mo Lan firmly declined the instructor’s kind offer: “No need! I think my body temperature has already come down.”

“Fine then! You run sixty laps!” Yan Shuang pushed her toward the Teleportation Room on one side of the body-tempering room.

There were teleportation circles there that went directly to the sports field downstairs and the Underground exercise room.

When Mo Lan was teleported to the sports field, the scene before her nearly made her burst out laughing.

Bai Wei, who had been the first one thrown down here, had completely abandoned the very definition of “running.”

She was inching along the track at a speed slower than an old lady’s morning walk, her entire face flushed crimson, wet bangs plastered to her forehead — looking exactly like a pink shrimp dumpling that had just been fished out of a soup pot.

Not far ahead of her, Zhou Ming and Zhu Rao had tied a tow rope they’d found from who-knows-where around their waists and were dragging Wang Jingnan forward like bargemen hauling a boat.

Both were drenched in sweat, and steam was still rising from Zhou Ming’s muscular frame.

“Keep it up!” Ren Miao and Ding Yan were pushing Wang Jingnan’s shoulders from behind.

It was obvious that Wang Jingnan had completely lost the strength to make a sound.

“These… useless… wastes…” Zhao Wuchen wheezed between curses, gasping three times for every two words he managed. “Can’t… even… run…”

“Huff… your… complexion… looks… so… rosy… now!” Lin Yue was running herself half to death but still managed to find amusement in the situation.

The two of them went back and forth, sounding like two voice recorders running out of batteries.

Behind them, Xiang Yufan was moving slowly with his hands on his waist, dry-heaving every few steps — but miraculously never actually throwing up.

The only two on the entire field who still looked like functioning human beings were Chen Xingye and Su Yu.

Chen Xingye’s running form was textbook-perfect — even his arm swing was precisely controlled at a 45-degree angle, with his breathing rate and running speed both perfectly steady.

Su Yu had just arrived and was running at a good clip. Compared to the torture of the medicinal pool, running clearly fell within her comfort zone.

Mo Lan was watching with great amusement when she suddenly felt a chill on her back.

She slowly turned her head and, sure enough, saw that Instructor Yan Shuang had arrived. A large ball of ice water went flying toward the five-person towing squad: “Every one of you — ten extra laps each!”

Her voice carried clearly to the ears of Wang Jingnan and his four helpers.

“!!!”

Bound by their sponsorship arrangement and obligated to look after Wang Jingnan to a certain extent, Zhou Ming, Ren Miao, Zhu Rao, and Ding Yan quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Wang Jingnan felt like the sky was falling.

Before body tempering started, he’d thought himself exceptionally talented, willing to endure any hardship for the sake of growing stronger.

After body tempering started, he decided the bitterness of growing stronger was a bit too hard to swallow — there was simply no way to persevere on willpower alone.

Without anyone lending him their strength, running became even more agonizing.

“Are you not going? Or do you want a few extra laps too?” Yan Shuang said.

“No no no! Sixty laps is plenty!” Mo Lan immediately sprinted off.

Su Yu only felt a gust of wind brush past her ears as a damp gray figure suddenly flashed before her eyes.

Mo Lan had actually overtaken her!

How is that possible?!

Her pupils contracted slightly, and her pace quickened unconsciously.

Chen Xingye pushed up his glasses, watching their figures chase each other with an expressionless face. He shook his head internally and continued maintaining his precise rhythm.

On the track, the half-dead crowd was drawn to this sudden chase.

But none of them were optimistic — they were all waiting to see the two girls exhaust themselves and collapse in an embarrassing heap.

After ten laps, Su Yu’s speed had noticeably dropped, and the gap between her and Mo Lan grew wider and wider.

Mo Lan, on the other hand, not only hadn’t slowed down but could still throw in the occasional burst of speed.

Ten laps, twenty laps, forty laps, fifty laps, sixty laps!

“Instructor, I’ve finished!” Mo Lan walked to the edge of the track, pretending to be “out of breath.”

At this point, Bai Wei — who had been the first to come down and had the lightest assignment — was still on her second-to-last lap, and everyone else was also some distance from completing their tasks.

“You may go rest. Come to the classroom at 2 PM for psychic power cultivation class.” Yan Shuang nodded with satisfaction and let her go.

Mo Lan checked the time and saw there was still a while before lunch, so she headed straight for the Mirror Explorer Class’s dedicated library between Starlight Building and Bright Moon Building.

Most of the books here were useful for Mirror Explorers. There weren’t any secret cultivation manuals, but they were great for broadening one’s knowledge.

She scanned her student ID and borrowed the thickest thirty books.

If it weren’t for the thirty-book-per-checkout limit, she could have emptied the entire library.

With new books to read, Mo Lan felt much more at ease.

After leaving the library, she headed to the Mirror Explorer Class’s dedicated cafeteria.

Supposedly, the meat served in the Mirror Explorer Class’s dedicated cafeteria came from mirror beasts, and the vegetables were gathered from mirror spaces. Though not high in star rating, the nutrition and energy they contained were incomparable to ordinary food.

Each day there was only a fixed meal set, prepared according to each class’s training volume, which was extremely beneficial for body tempering.

The only thing was, the prices were also significantly higher than the regular cafeteria.

With the original owner’s financial resources, she could still just barely afford it.

Mo Lan had arrived fairly early — the cafeteria had only a few people from the fifth-year Mirror Explorer Class.

She paid for and collected the lunch set for Mirror Explorer Class One, fourth year, found a brightly-lit window seat, and didn’t forget to pull out one of the books she’d just borrowed — one about body tempering — to read while she ate.