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 body behind and inhabiting

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

powerful, and at that moment,

level as they were being built. It was like

that they would need three arms. Shang simply couldn't concentrate on everything

had already

their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also reached that step, but this would be the

visualized his Path and willed it to

that happened, the different strands of Mana slowed down,

to move and extend to different locations than before,

and slowly created

connect to each other, and when they

more Mana entered Shang's

surrounding Mana like they were a bottomless

entered Shang's body

Shang's body began to shine in

the Mana inside his body felt like a steady wind. It was circulating inside it

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

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

was forcing himself to eat

out the Mana screamed at

expression

pain in his life that

body until he felt

had reached Mana

Shang took a

the strings of Mana inside his

become far wider in the past minutes, and Shang

that, he basically wouldn't be able to move the

remained sitting on the floor for several

but this was an

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

strands of Mana became thinner and

inside his body

was compressing

Shang only continued in

Mana compressed to only half of its

hour later, it

point, Shang felt like he had

he

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