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

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

willed them to become even more powerful, and at

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

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

Shang had already expected

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

it to

happened, the different strands of Mana slowed down, but they

of Mana began to move and extend to different locations than before, and

over his entire body and slowly created something

all the strands to completely connect to each other,

Mana

at the surrounding Mana like

Shang's

time passed, Shang's body began to shine in

a steady wind. It was circulating inside it in a rapid stream,

felt like he was at his limit, but he had already learned how to advance to the True

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

himself to eat more

of spitting out the Mana screamed

expression didn't even

his life that

body until he

had

took a deep

of Mana inside his

wider in the past minutes,

do that, he basically wouldn't be able to move the Mana around. It was simply far too

floor for several

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

even deal with this bit of discomfort, they didn't deserve to reach

Mana became thinner and more

inside his body climb to

compressing air

only continued

the next hour, the Mana compressed

later, it

Shang felt like he had hit

was like he couldn't

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