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.

he was leaving his old body behind and

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

even more powerful,

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

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

Shang had

their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also reached that step, but

it to take control

strands of Mana slowed

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

and slowly created

for all the strands to completely connect

more Mana entered

surrounding Mana like they

entered Shang's body for

more time passed, Shang's body began

body felt like a steady wind. It was circulating inside

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

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

was like Shang was forcing himself to eat

spitting out

expression didn't even

much pain in his life that this little bit

body until

body had reached

took a deep

willed all of the strings of Mana inside his

the past minutes, and Shang would need to compress

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

remained sitting on the floor

but this was an expected effect

bit of discomfort,

strands of Mana became thinner

inside his body climb to

was compressing air between

continued in a

next hour, the Mana compressed to only half of its

later, it halved its

Shang felt like he

he couldn't compress

a bit of excitement. Who wouldn't be excited