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.

leaving his old body behind

They didn't connect the different parts of

even more powerful, and

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

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

had already expected

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

it to

strands of Mana slowed

move and extend to

body and slowly

took several minutes for all the strands to completely connect to

more Mana

surrounding Mana like they were a bottomless

Mana entered Shang's

passed, Shang's body began to shine

It was circulating

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

necessary

like Shang was forcing himself to eat

out

Shang's expression

through so much pain in his life that this

inside his body until he felt

had

took a

of

become far wider in the past

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

floor for several minutes,

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

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

the strands of Mana became thinner and more

pressure inside his body climb to

was compressing

Shang only continued in a methodical

hour, the Mana compressed to only

hour later, it

Shang felt like

was like he couldn't compress

excitement. Who wouldn't be excited after finally achieving their goal after 50 years of