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.

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

willed them to become even more powerful, and at that

they were being built. It was like there wasn't

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

Shang had

issue was the very reason why a warrior needed to have created their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also reached that step, but

visualized his Path and willed it to take control of

as that happened, the different strands of

of Mana began to move and extend to different locations

entire body and slowly created something that looked like a

strands to completely connect to each other, and

more Mana entered

surrounding

entered Shang's body for several

more time passed, Shang's body began to shine in a

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

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

feeling and began to absorb more Mana. This was necessary

was forcing himself to eat more and more, even though he

out the Mana

Shang's expression

life that this little

his body until he felt that it became impossible

had

took a

willed all of the strings of Mana

in the past minutes, and Shang would

basically wouldn't be able to move the Mana

sitting on the floor for several minutes, his eye

and body were cramping, but this was an expected effect

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

strands of Mana became thinner and

pressure inside his body

like he was compressing air between his two

continued in a

hour, the Mana compressed to only half of

later, it halved

point, Shang felt like he

like he couldn't compress

he thought with a bit of excitement. Who wouldn't be excited after finally achieving their goal after 50 years of