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

They didn't connect the different parts of

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

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

someone needed to hold so many things that they would

Shang had

have created their Path. Every warrior without a Path could have also reached that step,

visualized his Path and willed it to take control of

of Mana slowed down, but they also

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

crisscrossed over his entire body and slowly created

all the strands to completely connect to each other,

more Mana

surrounding Mana like they were

Shang's body for several more

more time passed, Shang's body began to

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

limit, but he had already learned how

to absorb more Mana. This was necessary

was forcing himself to eat more and more,

out the Mana

expression didn't

through so much pain in his life that this little bit of discomfort

his body until

had reached Mana

Shang took a deep

willed all of the strings of Mana

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

he didn't do that, he basically wouldn't be able to move the Mana around. It was simply far too

on the floor for several

cramping, but this was an

discomfort, they didn't deserve to reach the True Path Stage

strands of Mana became

inside his body

was like he was compressing air between

continued in

hour, the Mana compressed to only half of its

it halved its

Shang felt like he had hit

like he couldn't compress

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