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.

he was leaving his old body behind

They didn't

to become even more powerful, and

dissipate at the same level as they were

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

Shang had already expected

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

it

of Mana

to different locations than before, and this

over his entire body and slowly created something that looked like

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

Mana entered Shang's

surrounding Mana like

Mana entered Shang's body for several

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

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

point, Shang felt like he was at his limit, but

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

to eat more and more, even

spitting out the Mana screamed

expression didn't even

gone through so much pain in his life that this

his body until he felt that it became impossible

body had

Shang took a deep

willed all of the strings of

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

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

remained sitting on the floor for several minutes, his

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

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

Mana became thinner and more

his body climb

compressing air between his two

only continued in a

Mana compressed to only half of

hour later, it halved its volume

Shang felt like he had hit

like he couldn't compress it

Who wouldn't be