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.

old

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

willed them to become even more powerful, and

dissipate at the same level as they were being built. It

needed to hold so many things that they

Shang had already expected

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

willed it to take control

happened, the different strands of Mana slowed down, but they also stopped

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

his entire body and slowly created something that

several minutes for all the strands to completely connect to each other, and when

Mana

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

entered Shang's body for several

time passed, Shang's body began to shine

like a steady wind. It was circulating inside it in a rapid stream, strengthening his entire

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

Mana. This was necessary since the

forcing himself to eat more and more,

of spitting out

Shang's expression

through so much pain in his life that this little

body until he

had reached Mana

took

willed all of the strings of Mana inside his

in the past

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

the floor for several minutes, his

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

deal with this bit of discomfort, they didn't deserve to reach the True Path Stage

Mana

inside his body

was compressing air

only continued in

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

later, it

point, Shang felt like he had

he couldn't compress

moment,' he thought with a bit of excitement. Who wouldn't be excited after finally achieving their