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 a

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

willed them to become even more powerful, and at that moment, a

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

that they would need three arms. Shang

Shang had already expected

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

it to take control

strands of Mana slowed down,

move and extend to different

his entire body and slowly

strands to completely connect to each other,

more Mana entered Shang's

the surrounding Mana like they were a

entered Shang's

passed, Shang's body began to shine in

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

point, Shang felt like he was at his limit, but

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

like Shang was forcing himself to eat more and more, even though he

spitting out the

Shang's expression

in his life that this

more and more Mana inside his body until he felt that it became impossible to absorb

had reached Mana

Shang took a

of the strings of Mana inside his body to

had become far wider in the past minutes,

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

remained sitting on the floor for several

cramping, but this was an expected effect that every warrior had to go

bit of discomfort, they didn't deserve to reach the

of Mana became thinner and

pressure inside his body climb to new

like he was compressing air between his

continued in a methodical

next hour, the Mana compressed to only half of its

hour later, it halved its

felt like he had hit a

like he couldn't compress it

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