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

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

to become even more powerful, and at that moment,

felt the strands of Mana dissipate at the same level as they were being built. It was like

things that they would need three arms. Shang simply couldn't concentrate on everything at

had already

issue was the very reason why a warrior needed to have created their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also reached that step, but this would be the very step that made

visualized his Path and willed it to take control

different strands of Mana slowed down, but

and extend to different locations than

body and slowly created something

completely connect to each other, and

more Mana entered Shang's

pulled at the surrounding Mana

and more Mana entered Shang's body

Shang's body began to shine in

body felt like a steady wind. It was circulating inside it in

at his limit, but he

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

to eat more

spitting out the Mana screamed

expression

had gone through so much pain in his life that

more Mana inside his body until he felt that it

had

took a

of the strings of Mana inside his body to

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

able to move the Mana around. It was simply

on the floor for several minutes, his

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

of discomfort,

strands of Mana became thinner

felt the pressure inside his body

was compressing air between his

continued in a methodical

next hour, the Mana compressed

it halved

felt like

like he couldn't compress

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