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

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

powerful,

they were being built. It was like there wasn't enough

that they would need three arms. Shang simply

had already expected

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

willed it to take

as that happened, the different strands of Mana slowed down, but

to different locations than before, and

over his entire body and slowly created something that looked

took several minutes for all the strands to completely connect

Mana entered

Mana pulled at the surrounding Mana like they

entered Shang's body

time passed, Shang's body began to shine

felt like a steady wind. It was circulating inside it in a rapid stream, strengthening his

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

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

eat more and more, even though he

instinct of spitting out the

expression

life that this little

his body until he felt that

had reached

Shang took

of Mana inside his body to

far wider in the past minutes, and Shang

he basically wouldn't be able to move the Mana around. It was

sitting on the floor for several

this

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

the strands of Mana became

felt the pressure inside his body climb

was like he was compressing air between his two

only continued

compressed to

later, it halved

point, Shang felt like

he couldn't

thought with a bit of excitement. Who wouldn't be