Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang felt his mind swim, and a second later, he felt like something extremely important to him was being torn away.

It was like someone had shoved their hands into his chest to tear out his heart!

However, Shang didn't move, and he didn't say anything.

He only gritted his teeth.

Queen Primordium was looking at Shang with surprise, while Wester had a small gleam of recognition in his eyes.

Sure enough, the Lightning Emperor had been correct.

Wester was essentially inflicting the greatest pain anyone could feel by tearing apart Shang's soul and establishing new connections.

Yet, Shang was just gritting his teeth.

This was an unreal amount of willpower and resistance to pain.

After a couple of seconds, Shang got used to the pain, and he simply stood there motionlessly.

Queen Primordium got surprised even more, and even Wester was surprised this time.

An equivalent picture from Earth would be someone looking evenly at someone that was currently slowly cutting through the first person's torso with a searing knife.

Shang wasn't showing any reactions anymore.

A couple of seconds later, Shang felt something he had never felt before.

It was extremely difficult to describe this feeling.

The closest thing Shang could say would be that he felt like the world had become more real.

It was like someone that had seen the world through the haze of tiredness was suddenly injected with adrenaline. They were more alert, took in all their surroundings in great detail, and wanted to do something.

This was the effect of anchoring Shang's soul.

only been anchored by the smaller connections

as he pulled his finger back. "Your soul will

nodded. "Thank

now, Shang wasn't feeling very

a small feeling of fatigue in his body, but he wouldn't notice

things look now," Wester said, "your mind will now start to strengthen. Near the beginning, it will be quite fast since your

Realm within 15 years, the Mid Archmage Realm within 45 years, the Late Archmage Realm within 135 years, and the Peak Archmage Realm within a bit more than 400

body increases by a level, your mind will also

if I remain at the peak of a Realm for a long while

advance individual levels without problems, it needs a concerted effort to push through a major breakthrough. When your mind reaches the peak of a Realm,

you wouldn't want your mind to reach the Initial Archmage Realm, you would just need to do nothing. At that point, your soul will feel like it has been filled to the brim, and it will no longer absorb as much life energy since it isn't growing

Shang nodded.

to come to terms with his new

in this world, his mind had always

and worst of all,

What had been wrong?

made it impossible for him to practice

and even more, he had gained the

wouldn't practice

was already running out of longevity by only training in his physical Path. He

mind was still extremely useful

Concepts would be easier for Shang, which resolved one of his major

knew that there were four Concepts of Entropy that needed to be fused into

comprehended two of those with the

comprehend these Concepts again would be when he

Shang's mind would be at the Peak Fifth Realm, which would allow him

Sixth Realm, which would allow him to

Shang would be able to combine his two

have everything

Addition to Light, which went via Twilight to Darkness, which went via Subtraction to

Shang to fuse his Addum and

that would be in