Sword God in a World of Magic

Even though the fish bird had created its True Path, Shang still didn't have more issues than before.

The fish bird was a Late Beast Lord. A couple of techniques from the Fourth Realm didn't make any difference.

The two of them continued fighting for about five years.

It seemed like creating an Impose wasn't very easy for the fish bird, and it would probably need another couple of decades to create one.

So, while the fish bird stopped improving in the fight, Shang continued to become stronger.

In comparison to the fish bird, Shang was already working towards comprehending something that would allow a normal warrior to reach the Seventh Realm.

After another five years, Shang wasn't on the edge all the time. The fish bird was still insanely fast, but his usage of his sword had improved tremendously.

Shang still didn't know what beyond the Sword Heart was, but he knew that he was making progress. Otherwise, he wouldn't be growing more powerful right now.

Ten years after Shang had started to fight the fish bird, his body suddenly transformed into a weakened husk.

Shang became slower and weaker, but thanks to his improvements, he could still resist the fish bird.

A couple of seconds later, Shang's body recovered, and he struck the fish bird's beak.

Nothing seemed to change.

Shang's body became weak again and struck the beak once more.

CRACK!

Suddenly, the fish bird's beak completely broke apart, and Shang stabbed his sword toward the fish bird's head.

Shang's sword only buried itself up to the fish bird's skull before it stopped.

However, if he wanted to, Shang could have killed it.

Concept of Purgatory to weaken

knew that it had

a century. If you appear in front of me

looked at Shang with

CRK! CRK!

fish, signifying that it wasn't

definitely wanted to fight Shang again, but it also didn't

keep fighting the same opponent again and again. He needed variety

couple of minutes later, Shang's

tall and powerful fortress

fan of keeping its body size suppressed, and

meant that the tortoise could barely move inside the Isolation

Affinity?' Shang thought as he felt the Mana around the tortoise. 'I expected to only fight beasts with a Lightning Affinity here, but

also be quite difficult to beat but for an entirely

the fish bird, Shang needed to improve his speed and defense, but both things wouldn't help him

would need

as the tortoise fully entered the Isolation Barrier, Metal and Earth Mana gathered all over

BOOOOM!

an instant, rocks and pieces of ore

a lot of trouble avoiding all the projectiles since they were not that fast, but he also couldn't completely relax. Just like with the fish bird, Shang couldn't allow himself to

he actually had some opportunities to use Sword Heart since its assault

CRRRRRRK!

the tortoise's neck, but he could only cut

with a mixture of earth

time, Shang tried to hit the tortoise's body with a real physical slash, but the speed and number of projectiles increased

he couldn't gather enough power to actually injure the

next moment, Shang decided to use Infection, but before it could reach any significant power, the part that Shang

the teeth of a shark. All the rock and metal

normal for the tortoise or if someone had told

Nevertheless, Infection became useless.

place an Infection very deep inside the tortoise's

part eventually fell