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

Mana started to connect with each other. They

them to become even more powerful, and

dissipate at the same level as they were being built. It was like

hold so many things that they would need three arms. Shang

had already expected

Path. Every warrior without a Path could have

willed it to take control of

happened, the different strands of Mana slowed down, but

extend to different

entire body and slowly created

minutes for all the strands to completely connect to each

more Mana

the surrounding Mana like they were

and more Mana entered Shang's

Shang's body began to shine in a blue

It was circulating inside it in a rapid

his limit, but he had already learned how to advance

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

Shang was forcing himself to eat more

of spitting out the Mana screamed

Shang's expression didn't even

so much pain in his life that this little bit of discomfort barely

and more Mana inside his body until he felt that it became impossible

body had reached

Shang took a deep

the strings of Mana inside his body to

past minutes, and Shang

basically wouldn't be able to move the Mana around.

on the floor for several

like his soul and body were cramping, but this was an

discomfort, they didn't deserve to reach the

of Mana became thinner

pressure inside his body

was like he was compressing

continued in a methodical

Mana compressed to only half of its initial

hour later, it halved

like he had

he

with a bit of excitement. Who wouldn't