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

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

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

dissipate at the same level as they were

like someone needed to hold so many things that they would need three arms. Shang simply couldn't concentrate on everything at

Shang had

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

it to take control

different strands of Mana slowed down, but they

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

body and slowly created something that looked like

the strands to completely connect to each other, and when

more Mana

strands of Mana pulled at the surrounding Mana like they were a

more Mana entered Shang's body for several

time passed, Shang's body began to

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

his limit, but he

began to absorb more Mana. This was necessary since

was like Shang was forcing himself to eat more and

spitting out the Mana

expression

had gone through so much pain in his life that this little bit of discomfort barely

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

body had reached

Shang took

of the strings of

wider in the past minutes, and Shang would need to

be able to move

remained sitting on the floor for

were cramping, but this

bit of discomfort, they didn't deserve to reach

strands of Mana became

the pressure inside his body climb to

he was compressing air between his

Shang only continued

the Mana compressed to only half of its initial

later, it halved its volume

like he had

was like he couldn't

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