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.

was like he was leaving his old body behind and inhabiting a

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

to become even more powerful, and at that moment, a

as they were being built. It was like

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

Shang had already

reason why a warrior needed to have created their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also reached that step, but this would be the very step that

visualized his Path and willed it to take control of his

that happened, the different strands of Mana slowed

to move and extend to different locations than before,

slowly created something that looked like a

all the strands to completely connect to each other, and

more Mana entered Shang's

surrounding Mana like they

entered Shang's

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

inside his body felt like a steady wind. It was circulating inside it in a rapid stream, strengthening his

limit, but he had already learned how to advance to the True Path

feeling and began to absorb more Mana. This was necessary since

was forcing himself to eat more and more, even though

spitting out the Mana screamed

Shang's expression didn't

through so much pain in his life that

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

body had

took

willed all of the strings of Mana inside his

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

didn't do that, he basically wouldn't be able to move

floor for several

like his soul and body were cramping, but this was an expected effect that every warrior had

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

of Mana

pressure inside his body climb to

was like he was compressing air between his two

Shang only continued in a methodical

hour, the Mana compressed

it halved

point, Shang felt like

he couldn't

is the moment,' he thought with a bit of excitement. Who wouldn't be