Chapter 31: Awakening (Part 1)
Azrael looked carefully at Ashara’s face, and after confirming that she wasn’t joking, he asked with a look of interest.
"Is it really that difficult for Unawakened people to refine twenty primary energy veins?"
"Let’s not talk about whether it’s difficult to refine energy veins just yet..." Ashara set her empty teacup down on the table. "What do you think about trying to find a primary energy vein among millions of secondary energy veins?"
’Easy,’ Azrael thought subconsciously, though he didn’t say it out loud.
For him, who possessed the Infinite Comprehension trait, it wasn’t really difficult to locate primary energy veins. The only thing holding him back from finding all of them was his limited spiritual power.
But the same couldn’t be said for other people. Unlike him, who just needed to sweep his gaze across the clusters of energy veins to find the primary ones, others had to painstakingly examine each individual vein to identify whether it was a primary one.
"It’s difficult..." He finally answered Ashara’s question.
"Yes, it’s difficult," Ashara nodded, smiling faintly. "Though it’s hard, many people still try to find primary energy veins before awakening. Do you know how long they can persist before running out of spiritual power and needing to rest for the entire day before trying again the next day?"
Azrael shook his head—he didn’t know.
For him, if he pushed himself, he could last for four or five hours every day before running out of spiritual energy—and that was without using the Mind Stone.
"Normally, Unawakened people can hardly last even an hour before they run out of spiritual energy while searching for energy veins. And even if they somehow manage to find a primary one, they must use spiritual power to refine it, which is extremely taxing on the mental health of those with low spiritual reserves," Ashara explained calmly.
"Simply put, the effort put into refining energy veins while still Unawakened is not worth it. Instead of exhausting their spiritual power every day trying to locate a single primary vein—which affects their entire day and makes it difficult to do anything else—most people would prefer to do something more meaningful."