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 like he was leaving his old body behind and inhabiting

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 each

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

dissipate at the same level as they were

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

had already

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

willed it to take control

that happened, the different strands of Mana

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

entire body and slowly created something that looked like a

strands to completely connect to each other, and when they were done, something

more Mana entered

the surrounding Mana like they

entered Shang's

Shang's body began to

felt like a steady wind. It was circulating inside it

Shang felt like he was at his limit, but he had already

absorb more Mana. This was necessary since the body didn't

to eat more and

spitting out the

Shang's expression didn't even

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

body until he felt that it became impossible

had reached

took a deep

willed all of the strings of Mana inside his body

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

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

the floor

were cramping, but this was an

a warrior couldn't even deal with this bit of discomfort, they didn't deserve to

of Mana became thinner and

felt the pressure inside his body climb to new

he was compressing air between

Shang only continued in a

hour, the Mana compressed to only half of

it halved its volume

like he had

he couldn't compress

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