Sword God in a World of Magic

After looking at his surroundings with his new Spirit Sense for a while, Shang sat down again and closed his right eye.

It was time to reach the True Path Stage.

It had been so long.

He had worked so much.

50 years of training tirelessly with unending discipline and enthusiasm.

How long would a normal talented person have taken, someone that didn't dedicate 100% of their life to their own power?

Probably over 150 years.

Maybe even over 200.

The danger of dying of old age would have been a real possibility.

But now, it was time.

Shang concentrated on his Path and willed it to become a reality.

It took several hours, but eventually, his Path began to manifest.

Shang felt a certain feeling of order enter his body, and he felt how it strengthened him.

It enveloped his entire being, and Shang felt how his connection with the world deepened.

Shang pulled this certain feeling deep into his chest and gathered it in one place. This was how the warriors reached the True Path Stage.

All the Mana in the surroundings entered Shang's body. Even the unknown kinds of Mana.

When someone elevated in power at this level, they absorbed all kinds of Mana of the surroundings to strengthen their being.

The Mana in the surrounding kilometers began to gather at Shang's place, but new Mana simply flooded the empty spaces again.

Mana was unending, and it filled the entire world.

As Shang absorbed more and more Mana, the connections of Mana he had established when he reached the Commander Stage began to strengthen even more.

The circulation of Mana inside Shang's body intensified severalfold, and he felt like he was ascending.

It was such a mysterious but empowering feeling.

his old body behind and inhabiting a new

strands of Mana started to connect with each other. They

willed them to become even more powerful,

were being built. It was like there

someone needed to hold so many things that they would need three arms. Shang

Shang had

reason why a warrior needed to have created their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also reached that

his Path and willed it to take control of his entire

as that happened, the different strands of Mana slowed down, but they also

extend to

entire body and slowly created something that

took several minutes for all the strands to completely connect to each other, and when they

more Mana

strands of Mana pulled at the surrounding Mana like they were

Mana entered Shang's body

more time passed, Shang's body began to

inside his body felt like a steady wind. It was

felt like he was at his limit, but he had already learned how to advance to the True Path

more Mana. This was necessary since the body didn't naturally absorb enough

himself to eat more and more, even though he felt

instinct of spitting out the Mana

expression

pain in his life that this

his body until he felt that it became impossible to absorb

had

took

willed all of the strings of Mana inside his

had become far wider in the past minutes, and Shang would need to

be able to move the Mana around. It was simply far too

on the floor for several minutes,

were cramping, but this was an expected effect that every warrior

a warrior couldn't even deal with this bit of discomfort, they didn't deserve to reach the True

Mana became thinner and more

felt the pressure inside his

like he was compressing air between

Shang only continued in

next hour, the Mana compressed to only half of its

later, it halved its

Shang felt like he had hit

like he couldn't

Who wouldn't