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 inhabiting a new

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

even more powerful, and at

of Mana dissipate at the same level as they were being built. It was like there wasn't enough

things that they would need three arms. Shang simply couldn't

Shang had already expected

Every warrior without a Path could

it to take

different strands of Mana slowed down, but they also stopped

began to move and extend to different locations

entire body and slowly created something that looked like

several minutes for all the strands to completely connect to each other, and when

more Mana

strands of Mana pulled at the surrounding Mana like

and more Mana entered Shang's body

began to

felt like a steady wind. It was circulating

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

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

forcing himself to eat more and more,

out the Mana screamed at

Shang's expression

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

shoved more and more Mana inside his body until he felt that it

had reached Mana

took a

of Mana inside his body

the past minutes, and

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

sitting on the floor for several

this was an expected effect that every warrior had

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

the strands of Mana became thinner and more

the pressure inside his body climb to new

he was compressing air between

continued in a methodical

Mana compressed to only half of

later, it

felt like

like he

Who wouldn't be excited after finally achieving