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.

like he was leaving his old body

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

become even more powerful,

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

like someone needed to hold so many things that they would need three arms. Shang simply couldn't concentrate on everything at

had already expected

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

visualized his Path and willed it to take control

different strands of Mana

Mana began to move and extend to

entire body and slowly

all the strands to completely connect to each other, and when they were done, something

Mana entered

surrounding Mana

Shang's body

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

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

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

was necessary since the body

to eat more and more, even though he felt

spitting out the Mana screamed at

expression didn't even

his life that this little bit of

inside his body until he felt

had reached

took

willed all of the strings of Mana inside his body

become far wider in the past minutes,

to move the Mana around. It was simply far too pressurized and

floor for several minutes, his

but this was an expected effect that every warrior had to

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

strands of Mana became thinner and more

pressure inside his body climb

was like he was compressing air between

continued in

compressed to only half

it halved

like he

he

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