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

connection strengthened even more, the different strands of Mana started to connect with each other. They

to become even more powerful, and at

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

they would need three arms. Shang simply

had already expected

warrior without a Path could have also reached that step, but

Path and willed it to take control of

of

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

over his entire body and slowly

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

Mana entered Shang's

strands of Mana pulled at the surrounding

entered Shang's body for several more

body began to shine in a blue

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

but he had already learned how to advance to the

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

was forcing himself to eat more and more,

instinct of spitting out the Mana screamed at

expression didn't even

much pain in his life that this

Mana inside his body until he felt that it became impossible to absorb

had

took a deep

willed all of the strings of Mana inside his

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

that, he basically wouldn't be able to move the Mana around. It was simply far too pressurized and

sitting on the floor for

like his soul and body were cramping, but this was an expected effect that every warrior had to

of discomfort, they didn't

Mana became

felt the pressure inside his body climb to

was like he was compressing air

continued in

Mana compressed to only half of its initial

hour later, it halved its volume

felt like

was like he couldn't

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