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.

was leaving his old body behind and inhabiting

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

more powerful, and at

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

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

had already

issue was the very 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

his Path and willed it to

different strands of Mana slowed down, but they also

Mana began to move and extend to different locations than before, and this time, they stayed

over his entire body and slowly created something

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

Mana

the surrounding Mana

more Mana entered Shang's

passed, Shang's body began

like a steady wind. It was circulating

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

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

was forcing himself to eat more and more, even though

spitting out the

Shang's expression

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

more Mana inside his body until he felt that it

had reached Mana

took a deep

strings of Mana inside his body

become far wider in the past minutes, and Shang would need to compress

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

remained sitting on the floor for several minutes,

his soul and body were cramping, but this was an expected effect that every warrior

with this bit of discomfort, they didn't deserve to reach the True Path

strands of Mana became thinner and

his body climb

like he was compressing air

Shang only continued in a methodical

hour, the Mana compressed to only half

later, it halved its

like

he

a bit of excitement. Who wouldn't be