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.

old body behind and inhabiting a

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

become even more powerful, and

the strands of Mana dissipate at the same level as they were being built. It was

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

Shang had

without a Path could have also reached that step, but this would be the very step that made

it to take control of his

soon as that happened, the different strands of Mana slowed down, but they also stopped

and extend to different locations than before, and

slowly created something that

connect to each other, and

more Mana

at the surrounding Mana like

and more Mana entered Shang's body for several more

began to shine in a

like a steady wind. It

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

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

to eat more

of spitting out the Mana screamed at

Shang's expression didn't

gone through so much pain in his life that

shoved more and more Mana inside his body until he felt that

had reached Mana

took a

all of the strings of Mana inside his body to

the past minutes, and Shang would need to

basically wouldn't be able to move the Mana

remained sitting on the floor for several minutes, his

body were cramping, but this was an expected

deal with this bit of discomfort,

strands of Mana

the pressure inside his body climb to

like he was compressing air between his two

only continued in a methodical

the Mana compressed to only half of its initial

hour later, it halved its

Shang felt like

like he couldn't compress it

a bit of excitement. Who wouldn't be excited after