Chapter 749 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 16

Chapter 749 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 16

Mo Lan maintained the standard psychic power training posture—eyes lightly closed, breathing even and slow—appearing completely immersed in her cultivation.

In reality, she was idly counting the time in her head out of sheer boredom.

After painstakingly enduring several hours, Instructor Yan Shuang finally called for a stop.

“Class dismissed!”

Those two words were like a spell breaking a body-binding curse. The training room immediately filled with sounds of relief.

Chen Xingye rubbed the space between his brows after waking. Lin Yue collapsed to the ground without any regard for appearance, gasping for air like a dehydrated fish. Su Yu wiped the cold sweat from her forehead. Zhao Wuchen’s complexion had grown even paler. Zhou Ming shook his slightly dizzy head.

Wang Jingnan, Bai Wei, and the other six appeared far more comfortable, merely rubbing their numb legs and rolling their stiff shoulders.

Mo Lan could tell at a glance—those with headaches were the ones who had successfully trained with the mind jade, while those with physical discomfort hadn’t reached that stage yet.

《Introduction to Psychic Power Training》 had mentioned that every moment spent pushing psychic power forward under the crushing pressure of the mind jade labyrinth was an enormous challenge and drain on one’s spirit and willpower.

Headaches after prolonged sessions were perfectly normal, and rest was essential for recovery.

Overtraining was inadvisable for any Mirror Explorer.

From this perspective, mind jade training was more time-consuming and strenuous than the meditation method of cultivating psychic power.

No matter how long one meditated, there were no side effects like headaches or dizziness. Meditation could even restore one’s mental state and serve as a substitute for sleep.

Mo Lan mimicked the others by rubbing her head, putting on an expression of discomfort.

“Mo Lan, Chen Xingye, Lin Yue, Su Yu, Zhao Wuchen, Zhou Ming—”

Yan Shuang tossed out six cards. “These are universal room cards for the independent training rooms on the Third Floor. All of you have already mastered the method of training with mind jade, so from now on, manage your own psychic power training schedule.

You don’t need to come here for the next two afternoons. Arrange the time yourselves, though I still recommend spending more of it on training.

Because for the off-campus practicum in three months, anyone whose psychic power hasn’t reached one-star second-stage will not be eligible to participate.

Whenever you want to train psychic power at school, you can use this card to access the independent training rooms.

The same goes for the rest of you—once you’ve perceived your mental sea and psychic power and can train with the mind jade, you’ll be free to arrange your own psychic power training.”

Perceiving the mental sea and psychic power, then using the mind jade to train—for those with low innate psychic power, this process could take a very long time.

If one’s innate psychic power score was below 50, it would be utterly impossible to perceive the mental sea and psychic power at all.

But for the students of Mirror Explorer Class One, all of whom had innate psychic power scores above 80, this was extremely easy.

In a single afternoon of just a few hours, the six students with innate psychic power scores above 90 had already progressed to the mind jade training stage.

The remaining students had all successfully perceived their mental seas as well; they simply hadn’t managed to extend their psychic power outside their bodies yet. They weren’t far from success.

This was closely tied to their universally high innate psychic power.

Psychic power was the key to every Mirror Explorer’s growth. Even the most arrogant Mirror Explorers would never slack off in this area of training.

Wang Jingnan and the others who were just a step away from success silently resolved to put in extra effort after school. Tomorrow, they would definitely obtain their independent training room cards!

“Lastly, finish reading 《Introduction to Psychic Power Training》 and 《Basic Twelve Body-Tempering Decoctions》 as soon as possible. I don’t want anyone cramming at the last minute during future classes and holding up our progress!”

After this final emphasis, Yan Shuang vanished from the training room—apparently teleporting away directly.

Mo Lan stored the mind jade and the independent training room card in her storage compact mirror, quietly breathing a sigh of relief.

Thank goodness she wouldn’t have to come in the afternoons anymore. Pretending to train here every day might not arouse suspicion, but it was such a waste of time!

Sitting here doing nothing for hours on end was even more torturous than eating raw Breadfruit.

But then she furrowed her brows slightly—she still needed to figure out how to deal with the morning decoction body-tempering sessions.

Got it! She could read while soaking in the decoction! Instructor Yan Shuang only told them to stay in the medicinal pool; she never said they couldn’t do something else at the same time.

Having found a method that was neither suspicious nor wasteful of her time, Mo Lan’s mood improved considerably. She pulled out the book she hadn’t finished reading at noon and walked out of the training room with her nose buried in its pages.

“Hey! Chen Xingye, you love reading too—could you walk and read like her and still find your way without walking into walls or tripping?” Lin Yue tugged at Chen Xingye’s sleeve, pointing at Mo Lan.

“…” Chen Xingye said nothing on the surface, but once he reached an empty spot, he suddenly stopped, pulled out a book, and attempted to walk while reading.

“Hss!”

He did manage to read the book, but he failed to notice a step, missed his footing, and twisted his ankle.

By that time, Mo Lan had already taken the teleportation array all the way back to her home in Deer Call Community.

Once home, she headed straight for her original body’s parents’ bedroom and retrieved their most important keepsakes—two storage mirrors.

These two storage mirrors were much smaller than the original owner’s. Their mirror surfaces were only the size of a thumbnail—one fashioned into an archer’s ring, the other into a bracelet.

But the space inside them was considerably larger than the original owner’s. Moreover, they were registered storage mirrors that required a psychic power imprint to bind to an owner before they could be opened.

Unless the original owner died and the psychic power imprint dissipated, no one else could access the space within these storage mirrors.

Now that Mo Lan had ostensibly cultivated psychic power, she could finally see what was inside these two storage mirrors.

Following the psychic power imprinting method described in 《Introduction to Psychic Power Training》, she bound both storage mirrors to herself, then extended her psychic power into the spaces within.

“Jackpot!”

The original owner’s parents had truly been worthy of their status as six-star Mirror Explorers. The storage mirrors contained not only a large quantity of mirror coins, but also numerous herbs, ores, mirror beast parts, and other magical materials, ranging in quality from one-star to seven-star.

She didn’t recognize many of these items. She retrieved the copy of 《Encyclopedia of Magical Materials》 she had borrowed earlier that day from her storage compact mirror and cross-referenced each item against the book before identifying them all.

The most precious item was an unused seven-star mind jade.

A mind jade could only withstand one person’s psychic power. Only a freshly mined mind jade that had never been exposed to anyone’s psychic power could be used for psychic power training, and a seven-star mind jade was already extremely valuable.

Mo Lan took the storage bracelet, the storage archer’s ring, the mind jade, and one sample of each different magical material, and fed them all to the Book of Cards as card-crafting materials. She then used the Book of Cards to create corresponding cards for each item.

This way, the belongings left behind by the original owner’s parents remained in her possession and could be used openly, while the Book of Cards also gained the ability to produce these items.

After that, she headed straight for the training room at home.