Chapter 813 – Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 80

Night had already fallen, but Mo Lan’s enthusiasm for learning hadn’t diminished in the slightest. The school’s library space was open around the clock, so she immediately activated her mirror emblem and teleported over.

When she had first read 《Introduction to the Mirror Ruins University Library Space》, she had been utterly captivated by its descriptions of a library space formed from countless mirror spaces of varying sizes layered upon one another, filled with books of every kind.

But when she actually set foot inside, the sight before her still far exceeded anything she had imagined.

Looking around, she couldn’t see any walls, floors, or ceiling.

Countless enormous mirrors of varying shapes floated suspended in the air, slowly and silently rotating, rising and sinking.

Within the mirror surfaces, layer upon layer of Crystal bookshelves extended endlessly upward, densely packed yet neatly organized with all manner of books and materials.

These “mirror libraries” were connected to one another by shimmering rainbow bridges and floating transparent staircases.

Occasionally, one could catch glimpses of a few students moving between the bookshelves deep within a mirror, or hurrying across a rainbow bridge—but against the backdrop of this incomprehensibly vast space, they all seemed as insignificant as motes of dust.

“So many more books to read!” Mo Lan stood on a small floating platform at the entrance, her heart beating faster with excitement.

She shuttled between the mirror libraries, searching for books that interested her.

Just like with her course selections, she prioritized the mirror libraries related to martial techniques and unowned mirror spaces.

These two categories were considered niche within the entire library space—only two small mirror libraries housed such books.

The majority of the collection consisted of books on owned mirror spaces, beast core skills, psychic power cultivation, and body tempering.

Materials in these areas were comparatively abundant, as they represented the primary research focuses of Mirror Explorers in this world.

Students in the youth class could borrow up to a hundred books at a time.

Mo Lan pushed her borrowing quota to the absolute limit, and before long, her mirror emblem space was more than half filled with various books.

After bringing the books back to her dormitory, she immediately pulled out the thickest one—the one that interested her most—and began reading with eager anticipation.

She had used nearly her entire borrowing quota on a massive series called 《A Hundred Solutions to Unowned Mirror Space Entrances》, and even then, she hadn’t managed to borrow the complete set.

The title sounded rather grandiose. It claimed to offer a “hundred solutions,” but that was no exaggeration at all—if anything, it was modest.

The complete series comprised a whopping one thousand and eight volumes, and was still being continuously updated.

In the mirror library dedicated to unowned mirror spaces, a hundred-odd sets of these brick-like volumes of 《A Hundred Solutions to Unowned Mirror Space Entrances》 occupied a substantial portion of the shelf space.

What Mo Lan now held in her hands was the very first volume of the series.

The pages had yellowed, giving off the scent of aged paper and faint ink, clearly having been around for quite some years.

She immersed herself in it and was quickly drawn in by the contents.

“Any object or phenomenon possessing ‘mirror’ characteristics could potentially be a hidden mirror space entrance. It may appear perfectly ordinary—perhaps you simply haven’t yet discovered the correct method to open it.”

“There is no fixed method for opening unowned mirror space entrances; one can only rely on experience, inspiration, and patience to try each possibility one by one. This book aims to enumerate historically verified cases of successfully opened mirror space entrances of all varieties, for the reader’s reference and to inspire new ideas.”

What left the deepest impression on Mo Lan was the final reminder in the preface:

“However, one must remember that no amount of experience or methodology can sometimes compare to a single flash of brilliant inspiration.

When encountering a suspicious object possessing ‘mirror’ characteristics, feel free to unleash your creativity and try as many approaches as you can…”

After finishing this volume, Mo Lan finally understood how Teacher Yan Shuang had managed to discover the entrances to the moss-covered forest mirror space and the Blue Sand Sea mirror space, despite their complex and bizarre entry methods.

There was no “managing” about it at all! She must have thoroughly studied this entire series, familiarized herself with all manner of strange and unusual cases of unowned mirror space entrance activations, and then conducted her own experiments at the blue sand beach east of Sunset Bay in the Blue Sand Sea and at the pond in the underground snow cavern of Ice Lake Plateau. Combined with a bit of luck, she had successfully opened those teleportation entrances.

“It seems that from now on, whenever I encounter something with mirror characteristics, I’ll need to cast a luck spell on myself and try everything I can!”

Mo Lan picked up the second volume of 《A Hundred Solutions to Unowned Mirror Space Entrances》. She wanted to memorize all these bizarre methods so that when she faced something with “mirror” characteristics in the future, she’d have plenty of material to draw on for creative experimentation.

Once she started reading, she became completely absorbed.

The cases recorded in the book were mostly fantastical and bizarre, far beyond imagination: one required singing a specific nursery rhyme three hundred times consecutively in front of an ancient mirror; another required lightning to strike the reflection at the center of a lake on a stormy night; yet another required holding a rare tricolored flower and dancing under moonlight… Each method was unique and full of contingency. Mo Lan read on in wonder, completely losing track of time.

It wasn’t until the alarm she had set earlier rang out crisply that she was jolted back to reality from her ocean of knowledge.

There were only fifteen minutes left until her first private lesson in 《Footwork and Evasion》!

She sprang up from her desk in an instant, swiftly swept the books spread across the table back into her mirror emblem space, ran to the Teleportation Room, and quickly ate the complimentary youth class nutrition meal that the cafeteria had just delivered.

Then she dashed into the bedroom and deftly changed into a set of training clothes suited for movement.

By the time she finished all this, the timing was just right.

She immediately activated her mirror emblem and teleported to the transfer point outside the classroom.

There were still three minutes before class. She took a deep breath to steady her heartbeat, then raised her hand and knocked on the training room door.

The instructor was a Lady with a stern expression and eyes as sharp as a hawk’s. Her teaching style was simple and direct.

Without any preamble, she activated the training room’s automatic attack equipment, forcing Mo Lan to dodge frantically amid dense but non-lethal energy beams. All the while, the instructor continuously corrected her force application posture and weight shifting in a cold voice, giving Mo Lan a feeling she hadn’t experienced in a long time—reminiscent of her combat technique classes back at the Witch Academy.

By the end of the lesson, the fatigue from Mo Lan’s intense psychic power concentration actually exceeded her physical exhaustion.

As soon as the class ended, she only had time for a brief farewell to the instructor before immediately activating her mirror emblem and rushing without pause to her 《Mirror Space Development Fundamentals》 class.

The entire day, she was like a spinning top driven by an invisible whip, rotating non-stop between various classrooms, efficiently absorbing knowledge from different fields.

It wasn’t until deep into the night, when most of Mirror Ruins University’s teachers and students had finished their busy day and begun to rest, relax, or enter psychic power meditation, that Mo Lan finally teleported back to her dormitory, her body slightly weary but her spirit extraordinarily fulfilled.

After a brief meditation, she was fully recharged.

She pulled out 《A Hundred Solutions to Unowned Mirror Space Entrances》 once more and immersed herself in it again. (End of Chapter)