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.

of Purgatory to weaken the

fish bird knew

least a century. If you appear in

at Shang with an unreadable

CRK! CRK!

turned back into a normal fish, signifying

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

had improved tremendously in the last decade, but he couldn't keep fighting the same opponent

minutes later, Shang's next

a tall and powerful fortress of

comparison to the other beasts, this one wasn't the biggest fan of keeping its body size suppressed, and

that the tortoise could barely move inside the Isolation

around the tortoise. 'I expected to only fight beasts

opponent would also be quite difficult

bird, Shang needed to improve his speed

would need

entered the Isolation Barrier, Metal and Earth Mana gathered

BOOOOM!

ore exploded out

not that fast, but he also couldn't completely relax. Just like with the fish bird, Shang couldn't allow himself

had some opportunities to

CRRRRRRK!

but he could only

with a mixture of earth and

to hit the tortoise's body with a real physical slash, but

but he couldn't gather enough power to

decided to use Infection, but before it could reach any significant power, the

All the rock and

sure if this was normal for the tortoise or if someone

Nevertheless, Infection became useless.

and place an Infection very deep

part eventually