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

connection strengthened even more, the different strands of Mana started to connect with each other. They didn't connect the different parts of Shang's body with each other anymore but directly connected with each

powerful, and at that moment, a

level as they were being

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

had already

was the very reason why a warrior needed to have created their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also

and willed it to take control of his

different strands of Mana slowed down, but they

to move and extend to different locations than before,

slowly created something

to completely connect to each other,

more Mana

surrounding Mana like they were a

entered Shang's body for several more

began to shine

steady wind. It was circulating

at his limit, but he had

necessary since the body

forcing himself to eat more and more, even though he

spitting out the Mana screamed

Shang's expression didn't even

gone through so much pain in his life that this little bit of discomfort barely counted as a mere

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

body had reached

Shang took a deep

all of the strings of Mana inside his body

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

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

on the floor

but this was

this bit of discomfort, they didn't deserve to

of Mana

his body climb

he was compressing air between his

Shang only continued in

hour, the Mana compressed to only half of

hour later, it halved its volume

that point, Shang felt like he had hit

he

of excitement. Who wouldn't be excited after finally achieving