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.

leaving his old body

Mana started to connect with each other. They didn't connect the different parts of Shang's body with each other anymore but

become even more powerful, and at

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

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

Shang had already expected

warrior needed to have created their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have

Path and willed it to take control of

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

extend to different locations than before, and this time, they

body and slowly

connect to each other, and when they were done,

more Mana entered

Mana pulled at the surrounding Mana like they were a bottomless

and more Mana entered Shang's body for several more

began

It was circulating inside

his limit, but he had already learned how

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

himself to eat more and more, even though

out the Mana

expression

in his life that this little

his body until he felt that it became impossible

had

Shang took

all of the strings of Mana inside his body to

wider in the past minutes, and Shang would need to

be able to move the Mana around. It

remained sitting on the floor for several minutes, his eye

body were cramping, but this was an expected effect that

bit of discomfort, they didn't

of Mana became thinner and more

felt the pressure inside his body

was like he was compressing air between his two

Shang only continued in

the next hour, the Mana compressed to only half of

it halved its

Shang felt like he had hit a

he couldn't compress it

moment,' he thought with a bit of excitement. Who wouldn't be excited after finally achieving their goal after 50 years of hard