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  Of course Flare, despite his young age, knows that any but is never a small matter but instead was the most serious and important.

Looking at the seriousness in Flare's eyes, the old man couldn't help but smile softly, "But, for a non magical being to cultivate themselves, they have to go through a purification process. And this process is very painful. So painful that it could even result in the loss of their lives. Do you understand what I am saying?"

Flare looked at the old man's questioning gaze and nodded his head.

'Purification process' 

Flare repeated these words in his mind a number of times before he asked the old man who was calm as he sat on his rock, "What should be purified?"

The old man did not mind Flare's questions. Instead he answered very calmly, "One's soul and body."

"Soul and Body?"