Chapter 783 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 50

Chapter 783 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 50

The process went smoothly.

When Su Yu opened her eyes again, a wisp of extremely faint yet sharp and corrosive energy fluctuation lingered at her fingertips.

She casually channeled this energy onto the refined iron dagger beside her, gripped the dagger, and lightly drew it across a hard rock nearby.

Hiss—

With a soft sound, a smooth incision nearly half an inch deep was carved into the rock’s surface, as if what had been cut was not stone but cork!

Not only that, but the edges of the incision showed faint traces of corrosion.

This was the skill from the razor-claw weasel’s beast core—Armor Break Rend.

It could not only be applied to weapons, greatly enhancing their penetrative and destructive power with a minor corrosive damage effect; theoretically, it could even be applied directly to the user’s fists, feet, or specific body parts, making every physical strike carry armor-breaking and rending effects. For close-quarters combat, it was nothing short of a divine skill!

A look of satisfaction flashed across Su Yu’s face. This skill was a perfect match for her fighting style.

With this, all the students had extracted their first one-star beast core skill.

“Finally… we finally completed the mission!” Lin Yue let out a long breath, her voice brimming with joy. “We can leave this godforsaken place now, right? I never want to eat field rations again!”

Just thinking about the food in her spatial storage made her expression twist with disgust.

During this entire period, aside from the one meal Mo Lan had cooked on a whim, everyone had been making do with whatever was available.

Even though she had prepared jerky, dried fruits, rice cakes, and various other convenient dry provisions, eating them for this long had worn out everyone’s patience.

Her words immediately struck a chord with everyone. Even the perpetually aloof Su Yu pressed her lips together slightly—she had been eating beast jerky and refined rice cakes every meal, and the cheapest kind at that.

Hearing this, Bai Wei blinked, a hint of confusion in her voice: “But… do any of you know how to leave? When we came in, nobody told us how to get out, did they?”

That question stumped everyone at once.

Right—how do they get out? A mirror space wasn’t exactly a place you could come and go from as you pleased.

Wang Jingnan rubbed his chin. His family managed several mirror spaces, so he knew a thing or two about this:

“Typically, mirror spaces open to the public have strict time limits for entry, and specially made spatial tokens are issued upon entering. Either you wait until the time on the token expires and get automatically expelled, or you break the token yourself in an emergency to leave early. But the Kaleidoscope Wilderness is special—it’s free for students from the Alliance’s eighteen key regional middle schools. There was no time limit when we entered, so naturally no spatial tokens were issued either.”

“So you’re saying we can’t get out through the normal methods?” Zhou Ming furrowed his brows.

“There’s another way,” Chen Xingye added. “Besides the token corridors, mirror spaces theoretically have one or more passages connecting to other spaces. We just need to find the one connecting to Deer Cry Mirror.”

“Spatial passages?” Zhou Ming scratched his head. “Do any of you know where they are? This wilderness is enormous—how would we even find them?”

Just as everyone fell into deep thought, trying to recall materials they had read or think of clues, a powerful and familiar aura appeared nearby without any warning.

Everyone jolted in alarm, turning to look in unison. There stood Teacher Yan Shuang in her fitted black combat attire, having appeared at some point without a sound, as though she had always been standing there and simply gone unnoticed.

“It seems you’ve all succeeded.” Yan Shuang’s voice remained as flat as ever, betraying neither praise nor criticism, though those who knew her well could detect a faint trace of satisfaction. “You finished a bit ahead of schedule. Not too embarrassing, I suppose.”

The students straightened up, the corners of their mouths curling upward uncontrollably.

“Teacher, how should we leave from here…” Wang Jingnan couldn’t help but ask.

“Head to the central region of the Kaleidoscope Wilderness. There’s a place called Green Wave Pool.” Yan Shuang raised her hand and pointed in a direction. “Find it, and on a spring evening, at the moment between dusk and darkness, jump into the pool. That will take you back to Deer Cry Mirror.”

“Jump in?” Lin Yue repeated instinctively, her face full of shock and disbelief.

The other students also looked bewildered. Jump into a lake? What kind of bizarre exit method was that?

“Green Wave Pool contains a spatial passage connected to the school’s teleportation gate, but it only opens at specific times.” Teacher Yan Shuang explained concisely, with no intention of elaborating further. “If the timing is right, the water won’t drown you. You’ll be transported back to the school’s Mirror Clarity Hall the moment you enter the water.”

She paused briefly, then added: “However, there are quite a few mirror beasts nesting in the vicinity, including some two-star mirror beasts. Be careful—don’t stumble at the very last step.”

With that, her figure vanished just as silently as it had appeared, leaving behind only a group of students exchanging bewildered glances.

After a brief silence, it was Wang Jingnan who broke the quiet first. He pulled out the map:

“Since the teacher has given us a direction and destination, what are we waiting for? Let’s get ready and head out! Let me see where this Green Wave Pool is…”

Mo Lan’s finger landed directly on Green Wave Pool’s location: “It’s right here! I’ve memorized the complete map. Let me lead the way from here!”

She too was eager to leave. The mirror beasts in the Kaleidoscope Wilderness were too weak for her—she wanted to get out quickly and find an opportunity to try other mirror spaces.

The team set off once more. Though their bodies were weary, the sense of power from their newly acquired skills and the cohesion they had built as a team left them with little fear about heading into the central region.

Time slipped away quietly amid unending marches, vigilant watches, and small skirmishes. Half a month later, Mo Lan and her companions finally arrived in the vicinity of Green Wave Pool.

The closer they got to Green Wave Pool, the more frequently the seasons shifted, and encounters with two-star mirror beasts grew increasingly common.

After the long journey, everyone looked weathered and travel-worn, but their eyes had grown ever sharper, and their coordination with one another had improved steadily.

Pushing through the dense forest, a small, serene pool appeared before them.

The water was not the ordinary blue or green one might expect, but a deep, crystalline emerald that seemed to hold the luster of ten thousand tourmalines condensed into one.

“This is it…” Mo Lan said softly, her gaze sweeping quickly over the area surrounding the pool to confirm they hadn’t come to the wrong place.

“Wow… this water is so extraordinary,” Bai Wei couldn’t help but whisper in amazement.

“Don’t just stand there admiring the scenery,” Zhou Ming reminded in a low voice. “The teacher said there are plenty of mirror beasts around here.”

Before his words had even faded, the bushes to the left suddenly rustled without any wind!

Immediately after, accompanied by a low, grinding hiss like stones scraping together, an enormous python covered head to tail in dark green scales slowly emerged from behind the ferns.

“It’s an emerald-scaled python!”