Chapter 57 - Main Profound Veins (2)

Asil quelled his growing anger in his heart and spoke calmly, smiling: "Big Brother Medivh, thank you for your offer. But it's my business, and I'd like to handle it on my own. I don't have the power to do that right now, but there's no guarantee that it won't happen in the future. I believe in myself. The day will come when I will avenge him. So I'm gonna ask you to stay out of this."

After Asil's reply, Medivh had a smile on his face and then walked out of the room after approving with his head without turning his back.

After he went out, Asil ate some more food and fed his belly thoroughly, and then in his mind spoke to his master, Sirius: "Master, will I continue the training you told me to do in Kastor, or will we do another training?"

After Asil's question, Sirius immediately replied: "brat, since you are a genius, I am giving you a special education for geniuses. You have to repeat the first part of this training without ever getting tired of it. I know it sounds a little pointless to you, but believe me, in the future, you're gonna thank me a thousand times for having you do this training. As for the second part of the training, keep that up for a while. When you move to the Nascent profound realm from the elementary profound realm, we're going to do a much different kind of training, and when we start that training you can suffer a lot. For this, I'll warn you right now. But as I've told you many times before, you've been stuck in this worthless profound realm for a long time. You need to create the Profound Power Root and move into the Nascent Profound realm as soon as possible. Otherwise, the longer I hold the profound energy in your body, the more it will hurt you."

When Sirius was speaking, he said the word "genius" by stressing it. He had strengthened Asil's body with his own strength for his development and made him stronger by concentrating his profound energy. But even though he used a little power to do it, his student was developing much slower than a normal person, which made him nervous. According to him, by doing so much effort, he could have taken someone who is crippled, paralyzed, and with a low comprehension ability from the first level of the elementary profound realm to the tenth level of the elementary profound realm in three months. That's why he sometimes called Asil a genius. Of course, this genius wasn't in a good way, it was in a bad way.

But since Asil got used to his master saying these sarcastic words, he was not upset about it and started to do the weird training that his master told him. Asil thought that this training would be very painful, but contrary to his expectations, Sirius just told him to work on the Profound guiding technique that allowed Asil to slightly move the objects around him for five hours and after an hour of rest, told him to meditate for another five hours and try to guide his profound power to the points in his body that Sirius told him. Asil had done this every day for three months and, as an extra, had only participated in fights he had to attend. He did not do anything special other than these. This had led Asil to question whether this training was really useful as time progressed.

In doing this training, he had actually learned much better to control the profound energy and direct it; but his ability to do so was mostly provided by five hours of meditation, which he did every day. Working out the profound guiding technique, which was the first part of the training, which many called useless, and doing it for five hours each day in a strange way was something he really couldn't understand. Thanks to this technique, he was able to move small objects, but no matter how much he thought it would benefit him, he could not understand. He had asked his master many times why, but his master had always said that it had a purpose and that he had to do it every day without disrupting this training.

Naturally, Asil continued this training every day, and on the first day, he was able to raise only a small piece of nail-sized stone as high as the thickness of a finger, while the more he advanced the training, the greater the number and size of things he was able to move. Asil was able to move as many as twenty stones, half as big as a fist at the same time in recent days, enough to lift them up a meter.

Asil continued working on his profound guiding technique and finished it as smoothly as ever. But there was something different in training this time. And that, naturally, was that there were no stones in such a luxurious room. So Asil had moved the little accessories that were in the room instead of the stones.

Asil rested for about an hour after training in the profound guiding technique and then began to direct the profound energy by meditating. Since he's so much better at it now, that training had become almost as easy for him in recent days as breathing.

As time progressed and four hours passed since he began meditating, Sirius's brooding voice echoed in Asil's mind: "It's really strange. Is it what I think it is? If that's the way it is, then it could be the reason for the current ridiculous situation. But it's very unlikely that such a thing would even exist. Besides, can such a person really be?"

Sirius's strange speech caused Asil to wonder about the subject, and he immediately asked: "Master, what are you talking about? What's the weird thing?"

Sirius remained silent for a while and then replied: "Brat, what could be the weird thing? Of course, it's you! It's not normal for someone to be so bad at profound energy. You are as high a genius as I can say in learning and reasoning. This profound technique, which you are constantly working on, although very weak in terms of level, would have taken at least ten days for someone who had just gained the profound power. But you learned it in a very short period when you first got your profound power. It surprised me at first, but what happened next made me even more surprised."

"Even though you learned this technique, at first you could only move a stone as small as a nail. When a normal person first learned this technique, even if he was in the first level elementary profound realm, he would move a few times as big as you move a few times more than you do. That's exactly the weird part. Your sensing ability is quite advanced, and profound energy control is generally related to your sensing ability. Although energy control is difficult at first, once you learn it, you have to be able to do it easily in any way. But even if you direct your energy beautifully on yourself, when you transfer your energy out, that energy becomes weaker, which naturally diminishes the power of the techniques you use."

Sirius became briefly silent after speaking so far and then continued to speak curiously: "There may be several reasons for this, but it would have attracted a lot of attention if I had tested to find out why this happened while staying where they called Kastor. So now is the time to find out why this bizarre thing is happening. Brat, stop the energy guidance and gather all your energy into your 'energy center' dantian.

Following the words of Sirius, Asil immediately cut off the energy guidance, as his master said, and collected all the profound energy in his dantian. When he did so, Sirius spoke again: "Now listen to me carefully. Even though there are many Profound Veins in your body, the number of the Profound Veins, emerging directly from Dantian is eleven in all things except the profound monsters. These are called Main Profound Veins."

"While these main profound veins use the dantian to transfer the energy, all the other profound veins use these main profound veins to transfer the energy. Depending on the innate ability of each creature, a few of these main profound veins are open and the more open the number of veins, the more successful one will become in subjects about profound energy. The average number of Main Profound Veins that are innately open in ordinary people is three or four."

"Those with the five main profound veins open are those with above average. Those who are born with six or seven open main profound veins are people who can be called geniuses."

"It may even be insulting to say geniuses to people who have eight or nine main profound veins innately open. Calling them monsters will be more appropriate. Those who are born with ten veins open are monsters within monsters, and they can have higher powers with less effort than others.. But the total number of people who have the ten main profound veins by birth has perhaps never passed the finger of two hands throughout history. You got anything to ask, kid?"