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

different strands of Mana started to connect with each other. They didn't connect the different parts of Shang's

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

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

to hold so many things that they would need three

Shang had already expected

Path. Every warrior without a

and willed it to take

of Mana slowed down,

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

crisscrossed over his entire body and slowly created

minutes for all the strands to completely connect to each other, and when they were

more Mana

Mana pulled at the surrounding Mana like they were

Mana entered Shang's

body began to shine in a blue

wind. It was circulating inside it in a

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

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

like Shang was forcing himself to eat more and more,

out the Mana

Shang's expression didn't even

much pain in his life that this little bit of discomfort barely counted as a mere

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

body had

Shang took

of the strings of Mana

in the past minutes, and Shang

basically wouldn't be able to move the

the floor for several minutes, his eye

this was an expected

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

the strands of Mana became

his body climb to new

compressing air between

only continued in a methodical

the next hour, the Mana compressed

later, it halved

point, Shang felt like he had hit

he couldn't compress it

excitement. Who wouldn't be excited after