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.

was like he was leaving his old body behind and

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

them to become even more powerful, and at that

the same level as they were being built. It was like there wasn't enough power

that they would need three arms. Shang simply couldn't concentrate on

had already expected

why a warrior needed to have created their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also reached that step, but this

Path and willed it to take control of his

of

streams of Mana began to move and extend to different locations than before, and

his entire body and slowly created something that looked like a

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

Mana

at the surrounding

more Mana entered Shang's

Shang's body began to shine in a blue

the Mana inside his body felt like a steady wind. It was circulating inside it in

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

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

Shang was forcing himself to eat more

out the Mana

Shang's expression didn't even

that this little bit of discomfort barely counted

and more Mana inside his body until he felt that it

had reached Mana

took a deep

of

past minutes,

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

remained sitting on the floor for

felt like his soul and body were cramping, but this was an expected effect

deal with this bit of discomfort, they didn't deserve to reach

the strands of Mana became thinner and

the pressure inside his body climb

he was compressing

continued in a

compressed to

it

felt like he had

was like he

wouldn't be excited after finally achieving their goal after 50 years of