Mm. It's more like bleeding, I suppose.

[This is also not helping. Yuan wonders about touch, and the wisdom thereof.]

The crystal is trying to give you more to work with, since you haven't quite come into your proper sense for mana yet. Rather like assuming the only reason you haven't drunk is because you don't have enough water, not that you don't have a cup for it.

[They're mineral parasites. He doesn't begrudge them the foolishness, only the vast loss of life caused by the associated human foolishness.]

To an extent, it can and will help you grasp it. Unfortunately, if this is allowed to continue for too long, the backlash will probably kill you.