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.

like he was leaving his old body

the connection strengthened even more, the 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

become even more powerful, and at that moment,

were being built. It was

that they would

Shang had already expected

issue was the very reason why a warrior needed to have created their Path. Every warrior without a

it to

strands of Mana slowed down, but

streams of Mana began to move and extend to different locations than before, and this time, they stayed

over his entire body and slowly created something that looked like

to completely connect to each other,

more Mana entered

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

Mana entered Shang's

body began

inside his body felt like a steady wind. It was circulating

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

Mana. This was necessary

eat more and more, even though he felt

out the Mana screamed at

Shang's expression

so much pain in his life that

his body until he felt that it became

had

Shang took a

strings of Mana inside his body

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

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

floor for several minutes,

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

with this bit of discomfort,

of Mana became thinner and more

felt the pressure inside his body climb to

was like he was compressing air

only continued in

hour, the Mana compressed to

it halved

point, Shang felt like

was like he couldn't compress it

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