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.

he was leaving his old body behind and

the connection strengthened even more, the different strands of Mana started to connect with each other. They didn't connect the different

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

level as they were being built. It was like there wasn't enough power

things that they would need three arms. Shang

had already expected

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

and willed it to

soon as that happened, the different strands of

to move and extend to different locations than

body and slowly created something

all the strands to completely connect to each

more Mana entered Shang's

of Mana pulled at the surrounding

and more Mana entered Shang's body for several

Shang's body began to shine in a blue

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

was at his limit, but he had already learned how to

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

forcing himself to eat more and more, even though he

of spitting out the Mana screamed at

Shang's expression didn't

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

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

had reached Mana

took

strings of Mana

had become far wider in the past minutes,

able to move the Mana around.

remained sitting on the floor for

cramping, but this was an expected effect that every

this bit of discomfort, they didn't

the strands of Mana

pressure inside his body

was compressing air between

Shang only continued in a methodical

compressed to

it

like

like he couldn't compress

is the moment,' he thought with a bit of excitement. Who wouldn't be excited after finally achieving their