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 like he was leaving his old body behind and

even 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

them to become even more powerful, and

they were being built. It was like there

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

Shang had already expected

was the very reason why a warrior needed to have created their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also reached that step,

it

that happened, the different strands of

and extend to different locations

body and slowly created something that looked like

strands to completely connect to

Mana entered Shang's

pulled at the surrounding Mana like

entered Shang's

time passed, Shang's body began

It

limit, but he had already learned how

more Mana. This was necessary since the body didn't naturally absorb enough

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

instinct of spitting out the

Shang's expression didn't even

that

his body until he felt that it became impossible to

had reached

Shang took a deep

the strings of Mana inside his

had become far wider in the past minutes,

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

sitting on the floor

and body were cramping, but this was an expected effect that every warrior had to

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

of Mana became thinner and more

inside his body climb

compressing air between his

only continued in a

Mana compressed to only half of its

hour later, it halved its

point, Shang felt like

was like he couldn't compress it

a bit of excitement. Who wouldn't be excited after finally achieving