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

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

them to become even more powerful, and at

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

they would need three arms. Shang simply

had

created their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also reached that step, but this would be the very step that

Path and willed it to take control of his

different strands of

to different

crisscrossed over his entire body and slowly created something that looked like a

connect to each other, and when

more Mana

the surrounding Mana like

more Mana entered Shang's body for

body began to shine

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

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

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

eat more and more,

of spitting out the Mana

Shang's expression

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

his body until he felt that it became impossible

body had reached Mana

took a

willed all of the strings of Mana inside

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

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

the floor for several minutes, his eye

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

deal with this bit of discomfort, they didn't deserve to reach

of Mana became thinner and

pressure inside his

like he was compressing air between his two

only continued in a

the next hour, the Mana compressed to only half of its

it

felt like

like he couldn't compress

wouldn't be excited after finally achieving their goal after 50 years of