Garion kept reading.
At first, he thought he already understood most of it.
But the deeper he went, the more his expression changed.
"…There's more here than I expected."
He slowed down, flipping the pages one by one, actually paying attention now.
The book explained that early cultivators didn't start with some grand theory.
They simply felt mana, absorbed it, and reacted to what happened.
"At the beginning," Garion murmured, "they absorbed mana instinctively… without understanding the body at all."
He nodded slowly.
As mana gathered inside the body, a mana pool formed naturally.
It was not because they planned it, but because Mana had nowhere else to go.
"So they knew how to absorb it. They knew how to store it," he said quietly.
"But they didn't know how to use it."
Garion turned the page.
"And of course they didn't know about veins, nerves, or muscle fibers."
He snorted softly. "Not surprising."
What they did know came from doctors.
