The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 756 Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 23
Moran leaned on her wooden sword, sweat pouring down her face, her chest heaving violently, her muscles trembling all over, but her back was ramrod straight, and her eyes burned with a fierce light.

An unprecedented sense of exhilaration washed over my tired body.

She finally experienced the charm of martial arts combat! It wasn't as flashy as magic, but it was exhilarating enough.

"Go and prepare a suitable knife and dagger! Tomorrow I will teach you the 'Hundred Battles Knife Technique' and the 'Reverse Blade Combat Technique'!"

Yan Shuang also found it incredible, but the child had indeed mastered the "Nine Forms of Breaking the Edge" in just one lesson to the point of being ready to graduate, so she naturally wouldn't slow down her learning progress.

"Yes!" Moran planned to use the Book of Cards to make weapon cards for himself after school.

Moran had already used the weapons left by the original owner's parents as materials for the Book of Cards. Designing a knife and dagger with an appearance that met his needs and forged using the weapon materials and forging methods of this world was entirely feasible.

Seeing that Mo Lan had already mastered the "Nine Forms of Breaking the Edge," and that Teacher Yan Shuang was going to teach her her signature martial arts techniques, "Hundred Battles Knife Technique" and "Reverse Blade Killing Technique," how could the other students sit still?
An invisible pressure instantly enveloped the entire class.

Lin Yue pursed her lips, immediately planning to have her father's private martial arts coach increase the intensity when she got home that night, as she needed to catch up as quickly as possible.

She's number 2 in the class! She admires Moran from the bottom of her heart, but she can't afford to lose to her by too much!

Chen Xingye and Zhao Wuchen also felt a sense of urgency. With their family's resources, hiring an instructor who knew the "Nine Forms of Breaking the Edge" was not a problem. They had to contact such an instructor as soon as they got back.

Wang Jingnan's expression remained relatively calm, but his slightly furrowed brows revealed his concern.

Everyone in the Mirror Lord's Manor's pioneering team is a master, so he needs his father to find him a skilled swordsman to teach him and ensure his leading position.

Zhou Ming and several other students sponsored by the Wang family cautiously approached, earnestly requesting additional "martial arts resource assistance" in hopes of receiving better guidance so as not to fall too far behind.

After a moment's thought, Wang Jingnan nodded in agreement, seeing it as a way to invest in and solidify his own network.

The training ground quickly emptied, but Su Yu seemed completely unaware of the undercurrents outside.

She neither had the family resources of Lin Yue and others, nor was she willing to accept funding from other forces like Zhou Ming and the others.

After the bell rang, she silently walked to the edge of the field, picked up another training wooden sword, and practiced "thrust," "parry," and "step cut" in the air over and over again... Her movements may still be a little stiff, but her eyes are extremely focused, and every swing of the sword is carried with an almost obsessive seriousness.

Her academic progress was actually not bad; in fact, it could be said that she far surpassed many of her classmates who had better conditions, only slightly behind Moran.

Because she was no longer simulating combat in a safe training ground.

Her struggle for survival in the wilderness, and her numerous life-or-death battles with the Mirror Beast and even the treacherous hearts of men, gave her a primal and direct understanding of how to use daggers and longswords to inflict maximum damage and how to survive.

For her, the systematic martial arts techniques taught by Yan Shuang were the key to integrating, refining, and sublimating those scattered combat experiences gained through bloodshed.

She wasn't learning anything "new," but rather searching for a more efficient and powerful way to express her existing fighting instincts.

Every practice session involves bringing deadly wildness into a rigorous framework.

From that day on, body tempering with medicinal soup and combat skills became the main theme of classes for Class 1 of the Exploration Mirror.

As for mental cultivation, along with those theoretical textbooks, Yan Shuang unceremoniously categorized it as part of "self-study after class."

Her philosophy was simple and direct: physical training was the foundation, and martial arts were the claws and teeth; these two were the fundamentals for surviving in the mirror space in the short term.

The students had to squeeze in time to learn theoretical knowledge and cultivate their mental strength. This squeezed all their time to the limit. They spent their days training and exhausted themselves, and at night they had to use the mnemonic jade to meditate and study the textbooks while dragging their tired bodies. They also had to get enough sleep, otherwise their mental strength might not be able to withstand the suppression of the mnemonic jade and they would be injured.

Thanks to the fact that physical training and martial arts classes were only held once a day, they were able to squeeze out time to complete the tasks assigned by Yan Shuang.

This high-intensity, combat-oriented mode lasted for two whole months. When all the students' basic physique and combat reactions had been honed to a certain level, and their eyes showed a more composed look after being tempered, Yan Shuang proposed for the first time to take them to the mental training room to test their mental strength level after a martial arts class.

"Test according to student ID number!" Yan Shuang said.

All eyes immediately focused on Moran.

She was the most outstanding performer in the past two months. Her martial arts skills improved rapidly, and her physical endurance was amazing. After two months, she was tested on her mental strength again. I wonder if she can continue her perfect score in innate mental strength under the condition of insufficient cultivation resources.

Moran stepped forward calmly and walked towards the testing instrument.

With her mental strength, she could easily burst the testing device.

During this time, she was always reading, and had already learned about the growth rate of this world's top genius.

During the test, I directly stabilized my mental strength at the level of one-star fifth stage.

This is a result that is astonishing enough, but when combined with the perfect score in innate mental strength, it does not seem too "outrageous".

Reaching the fifth level of the first star in two months is only slightly faster than the geniuses in history who had perfect innate mental strength.

"One-star, fifth rank!" Yan Shuang was somewhat excited. This child might be even stronger than her in the future!

Moran left the testing device with satisfaction, only to find her classmates looking utterly shocked.

The astonishment and disbelief on Wang Jingnan's face were clearly visible.

Lin Yue instinctively covered her mouth to prevent a gasp from escaping her throat. Her gaze towards Mo Lan was extremely complex, a mixture of envy, jealousy, and a sense of powerlessness.

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"Next!"

Lin Yue stepped forward.

"One star, three dan!"

She was initially pleased with herself for exceeding Teacher Yan Shuang's requirement of 1-star 2-dan a month ahead of schedule, but with Mo Lan's 1-star 5-dan achievement as a benchmark, she now felt that her result was only average.

Chen Xingye, who followed her, also achieved the rank of 1-star 3-dan. Su Yu was slightly worse, at 1-star 2-dan, but she was only a small distance away from 1-star 3-dan.

Zhao Wuchen and Wang Jingnan are also at the first star level, second stage, but one of them has a lower innate mental strength score than Su Yu by four points, and the other by seventeen points.

At this moment, Zhao Wuchen's total mental strength was a level higher than Su Yu's, while Wang Jingnan's was about the same as Su Yu's.

Su Yu's cultivation progress was ultimately hampered by the lack of resources.