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.

had used the Concept of Purgatory to weaken the beak

fish bird knew that

to see you for at least a century. If you appear in front

looked at Shang

CRK! CRK!

a normal fish,

phrase. It definitely wanted to fight Shang again, but it

in the last decade, but he couldn't keep fighting the same opponent again and

couple of minutes later, Shang's

a tall

of keeping its body size suppressed, and it took

could barely move inside

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

quickly noticed that this opponent would also be quite difficult to beat but for

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

Shang would need to

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

BOOOOM!

of ore exploded out of

all the projectiles since they were not that fast, but he also couldn't completely relax. Just like with the fish

at Shang, he actually had some opportunities to use Sword Heart since its assault wasn't as relentless and accurate

CRRRRRRK!

neck, but he could only

sealed with a mixture of earth

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

could still get close and attack, but he couldn't gather enough power to actually

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

of a shark. All the rock and metal

for the tortoise or if

Nevertheless, Infection became useless.

use Injection and place an Infection very

but even that part eventually fell off