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

more, the different strands of Mana started to connect with each other. They didn't

powerful,

Mana dissipate at the same level as they were being built. It was like there wasn't enough power to tie them

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

had

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

visualized his Path and willed it to take control of his

that happened, the different strands of Mana slowed down, but

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

and slowly created something that looked like a

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

Mana entered Shang's

at the surrounding Mana like they were a

more Mana entered Shang's body

Shang's body began to

a steady wind. It was circulating inside it in a rapid stream,

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

was necessary since the body didn't

Shang was forcing himself to eat more and more, even though he

of spitting out the Mana

Shang's expression didn't

that this little bit of

inside his body until he felt that it became impossible to absorb

body had

Shang took

the strings of Mana

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

be able to move the Mana around. It was

floor for several

were cramping, but this was an expected

deal with this bit of discomfort, they didn't deserve to reach

the strands of Mana became thinner and more

inside his body climb to

was compressing

only continued in a

hour, the Mana compressed to

it halved

that point, Shang felt like he had hit

like he couldn't compress it

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