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 leaving his old body behind and

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

become even more powerful, and

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

that they would need three arms. Shang

had already expected

why a warrior needed to have created their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also reached that step, but this would

Path and willed it to take control

of

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

crisscrossed over his entire body and slowly created

connect to each other, and when they were done,

more Mana entered

Mana pulled at the surrounding

Mana entered Shang's body

more time passed, Shang's body began to shine in a

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

at his limit, but he had already learned how

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

himself to eat more

of spitting out the Mana

expression didn't

his life that this little bit

more Mana inside his body until he felt

body had

took a

of the strings of Mana

become far wider in the past minutes, and Shang would need

to move the Mana around.

the floor for several minutes, his

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

of discomfort, they

Mana became thinner

pressure inside his body climb to

he was compressing

continued in a

the Mana compressed to only half of

hour later, it halved its volume

that point, Shang felt like he

was like he

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