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.

old body behind and inhabiting a

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

them to become even more powerful,

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

so many things that they would need three

Shang had already

without a Path could have also reached that step, but this would be the very step that made

it to take control of his entire

of Mana slowed down, but

and extend to

and slowly created

took several minutes for all the strands to completely connect to each other, and when they were done,

more Mana

at the surrounding Mana like they were

entered Shang's body

Shang's body began to shine in a

wind. It

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

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

like Shang was forcing himself to eat more and

of spitting out the Mana screamed

Shang's expression didn't

life that this little bit of

more and more Mana inside his body until

had

took

willed all of the strings of Mana

in the past minutes, and Shang would need to

be able to move the Mana around. It was

sitting on the floor

but this was an expected effect that

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

Mana became thinner and

the pressure inside his body

was like he was compressing air between his two

only continued in a

the Mana compressed to only

later, it halved its volume

point, Shang felt like he had

was like he couldn't compress it

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