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.

like he was leaving his old

strengthened even more, the different strands of Mana started to connect with each other. They didn't connect the different parts of Shang's body with each

become even more powerful, and at that moment, a change

at the same level as they were being built. It was

like someone needed to hold so many things that they would need three arms. Shang simply couldn't

Shang had already expected

Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also reached

Path and willed it

different strands of Mana slowed down, but they also

to move and extend to different locations

and slowly created something that looked like

all the strands to completely connect to

more Mana entered

of Mana pulled at the surrounding Mana like they were a

entered Shang's body for several

time passed, Shang's body began to shine in

felt like a steady wind. It was circulating inside it in a rapid stream, strengthening

but he had already learned how to advance

and began to absorb more Mana. This was necessary since the body didn't naturally absorb enough Mana to make

eat more

of spitting out the

expression didn't

through so much pain in his life that this little bit of discomfort barely counted as a mere

shoved more and more Mana inside his body until he felt that it became impossible

body had reached Mana

took a

all of the strings of Mana inside

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

that, he basically wouldn't be able to move the

sitting on the floor for

cramping, but this was an expected effect that every

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

Mana became thinner and

felt the pressure inside his body climb to

was like he was compressing air between

continued in a methodical

hour, the Mana compressed to only half of

hour later, it halved

Shang felt like he

he couldn't

wouldn't