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 and inhabiting a

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

become even more powerful, and

were being built. It was like there

so many things that they would need

had already expected

a warrior needed to have created their Path. Every warrior without a Path

it

strands of Mana slowed down, but they also stopped

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

crisscrossed over his entire body and slowly created something that looked like a

all the strands to completely connect to each other,

Mana entered Shang's

surrounding Mana like

Mana entered Shang's body for several more

began

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

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

was necessary since the body didn't naturally absorb enough Mana to make

was like Shang was forcing himself to eat

instinct of spitting out the Mana screamed

Shang's expression didn't

pain in his life that this little bit of discomfort barely counted

his body until he

body had reached Mana

Shang took

of

the past minutes, and Shang would need

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

remained sitting on the floor for several minutes, his

soul and body were cramping, but this was

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

of Mana became

pressure inside his body climb

was like he was compressing air between his two

only continued in a methodical

hour, the Mana compressed to only

it halved its

that point, Shang felt like he had hit a

like he

bit of excitement. Who wouldn't