Of course, it’s not like there was absolutely no way for wizards to regain their manhood. The only issue was whether the solution was acceptable or not.
After all, it was hard to say whether the seeds produced from their transplants were truly theirs or the original host.
It was a debatable topic based on perspective.
That said, there wouldn’t be any mental barriers if the transplantation involved their own severed manhood. It would just be reattaching what was lost.
However, Vaan doubted all wizards would have kept their severed manhood, let alone preserved in good condition.
Anyhow, transplantation was just the most straightforward method.
If one took the boundless potential of magic into consideration, it was definitely possible to regrow broken limbs and organs with higher-rank healing magic.
However, it would require an extremely-skilled healer with a complete micro-level understanding of the human body.
No matter how versatile magic was in its applications, it still followed the universal laws of the world.
For example, any witch could conjure an entry-level fireball spell. But the fireball’s destructive power and mana consumption could greatly vary based on their level of understanding of fire.
Magic was the process of transforming mana to manifest one’s will.
Thus, if the will coincide with the universal laws of the world, the success of magic would be more easily achieved.
If a witch had a complete understanding of fire, she would be able to consume the least amount of mana to demonstrate the greatest destructive power of the fireball spell.
On the other hand, if the witch had absolutely no understanding of fire, the fireball spell would definitely fail.
After all, if the witch didn’t even know what they wanted to produce, how could they expect the world to manifest it precisely the way they wanted it to be?
They couldn’t just ask for fire and not explain what kind of fire they want, how they want it to burn, and why it burns the way it does.
The less they understood about fire, the more mana they wasted to make up for what they lacked to complete the spell.
There was only one instance where a person with zero understanding of fire could still conjure a fireball spell – by possessing overwhelming will and mana.
And someone with overwhelming will and mana had to be an extremely powerful existence.
However, if such an extremely powerful existence with no understanding of fire could actually use their mighty will and power to brute-force their way into conjuring a fireball spell, it would no longer be considered a fireball spell.
It might have the appearance of a fireball, but its properties could be completely random, chaotic, or unrelated to fire.
In other words, it would just be a destructive power that looked like a fireball.
When the magic they wanted to cast had no support from any existing universal laws due to lacking the most fundamental understandings, they practically forged new universal laws to support their magic.
That’s why it would cost so much will and mana to manifest.
It was also why ordinary witches would fail; they didn’t have anywhere near enough will and mana to manifest such a vague and obscured fireball spell.
The same rules applied to healing magic.
If the healer didn’t completely understand what the missing limb or organ they were trying to regrow, the cost of will and mana would be so exorbitant that it would cause the healing magic to fail.
Knowing the appearance and surface functions weren’t enough.
One would also need to understand the elements that make up the body part, their cellular structure, interpersonal relationships and functions with the rest of the body, and more to reduce the healing magic’s requirement to the greatest extent.
In the world of magic, knowledge was indeed power.
A tower could not be built without its foundations, and a ship could not be sailed unless it was first built.
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From what Vaan understood about mana cultivation, the heart was not the best place to store mana for magic.
Since one’s will and mana were so closely related in the manifestation of magic, storing mana somewhere near the mind made far more sense.
Three hundred years ago, perhaps the heart was indeed the best place to store mana since it was the era of blind magic exploration.
Back then, people had yet to extensively research and understand all the mysterious forces and elements of the world. Thus, their consumption of mana to manifest magic was much higher. And since the mana gathered and flowed through the heart the most, it became their obvious choice.
There was also the risk factor – accumulating mana in the heart was much safer than in the brain.
After all, if it were the heart, a mistake in entry-level cultivation would only slightly injure them at most. On the other hand, if it were the brain, the same mistake could result in mental disabilities or brain death.
A person with brain death was no different from being dead.
Nevertheless, that was all in the past.
Things were no longer the same as it was three hundred years ago. Pangea had accumulated much theoretical and practical knowledge of magic. Manipulating mana to produce magic was much easier and safer.
As such, this outdated mana cultivation method was no longer suitable.
It was inefficient and primitive.
‘The body has three natural locations for storing energy – the Upper Dantian in the brain, the Middle Dantian in the heart, and the Lower Dantian in the stomach,’ Vaan recalled.
For mana cultivation, he had already decided on the Upper Dantian.
However, changing the mana accumulation point was not enough. He intended to alter the whole mana cultivation method entirely.
He wasn’t going to form the mana rings again.
The mana rings were only formed to aid witches in controlling multiple magic simultaneously. They run each spell autonomously by injecting their will into each mana ring.
In other words, the mana ring’s only advantage was to assist witches in multi-tasking control of magic.
Outside of this advantage, Vaan only saw disadvantages.
Not only did the mana rings take up a lot of space around the heart, but their movements were also limited by the veins in the way. They could only rotate in specific directions. This, in turn, limited the extent of mana compression.
As a result, it had a greater demand on the strength of one’s will with each additional mana ring formed.
The strength of the will was already weakened in order to reach the heart, and yet it was further weakened by the structure of the mana rings.
It was like trying to fill up a jar with scrunched-up newspaper.
Many gaps would be created, and it would take a lot of crushing strength to reduce them. And even then, gaps would still exist unless one had absolute power to crush those last few tiny gaps into nonexistence.
As such, choosing a jar that could store water was better. The only effort required to fill the jar’s space was accumulation.
The Upper Dantian was the ideal location for mana. That’s why Vaan chose it; he wouldn’t have to face unnecessary bottlenecks.
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Shortly after Vaan formed a solid mana cultivation method in his mind, he immediately entered a seated meditative position on the ground.
Mana gathered right after, rushing towards the glabella in between his eyebrows, where the Upper Dantian was located.
Thanks to his fast absorption rate, the abundant rich mana formed a visible whirlpool as they funneled into Vaan’s glabella.
His Upper Dantian quickly filled up with pure mana as he greedily devoured them all, unhindered.
Since mana existed in a gaseous state, they quickly occupied the space within Vaan’s Upper Dantian. But even after the space was filled up, pure mana kept flowing inside in a fast, continuous, consistent stream, causing the pure mana to become compacted.
However, Vaan didn’t try to control the direction of the mana’s compression. Instead, he left it to condense naturally.
Mana had its own natural flow while it was in its gaseous state.
Just like the wind and river, Vaan only needed to follow the current and not go against it. The more he tried to control such a torrential amount of mana, the less he had control.
Before long, the gaseous mana formed a drop of liquid at the center of the Upper Dantian.
Over time, more drops of liquid formed, adding to the initial drop of liquid mana at the center and increasing in mass.
At first, the blob of liquid mana appeared unstable as it fluctuated in all directions unpredictably.
However, Vaan wasn’t concerned and observed the situation calmly. He only needed to keep absorbing mana and trust the process.
Eventually, a small part within the liquid mana mass solidified and formed a magnetic field.
In that instant, the surrounding mana swirled around it like how the sea of stars orbited their super black hole.
The gaseous mana followed the cosmic flow.
The three states of matter could be observed within Vaan’s Upper Dantian.
Although such a different mana cultivation process would unlikely form the Magic Domain, Vaan didn’t need one.
After all, he had the Heaven-Swallowing Space.
‘This is how mana cultivation should be done. The height of magic shouldn’t be based on the quantity of one’s magic power but the quality refinement of it,’ Vaan mentally sighed.
After sensing the incredible magic power emanating from his Upper Dantian, he became even more certain that he had chosen the best path.