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 and inhabiting

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

them to become even more powerful,

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

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

Shang had

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

his Path and willed it to take control of his entire

different strands of Mana slowed down, but they also

began to move and extend to different locations than before, and this time, they stayed

body and slowly created

strands to completely connect to

Mana entered Shang's

of Mana pulled at the surrounding Mana like they were a bottomless

Shang's body

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

body felt like a steady wind. It was circulating

Shang felt like he was at his limit, but he had already learned how to advance

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

eat more and

spitting out

expression didn't even

his life that this little bit of discomfort barely

and more Mana inside his body until he

had reached

Shang took a deep

of the strings of

far wider in the past minutes, and Shang would need

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

on the floor

soul and body were cramping, but this was an

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

strands of Mana became

felt the pressure inside his

he was compressing air between

continued in

the Mana compressed to only half of its initial

it

Shang felt like he had hit a

he

of excitement. Who wouldn't