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.

the Concept of Purgatory to weaken

fish bird knew that it had

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

bird looked at Shang

CRK! CRK!

it turned back into a normal fish, signifying that it wasn't interested

phrase. It definitely wanted to fight Shang again, but it also didn't want

couldn't keep fighting the same opponent again and again. He needed variety to improve different

of minutes later,

tall and powerful

fan of keeping its body size suppressed, and it took up nearly half of the Isolation

the tortoise could barely move inside the Isolation

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

this opponent would also be quite difficult to beat but for

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

would need to increase his

entered the Isolation Barrier, Metal

BOOOOM!

instant, rocks and pieces of ore exploded

but he also couldn't completely relax. Just like with the fish bird, Shang couldn't allow himself to get hit by

it was shooting many projectiles at Shang, he actually had some opportunities to use

CRRRRRRK!

the tortoise's neck, but he could only cut through

more, the cut was sealed with a mixture of earth

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

attack, but he couldn't gather enough power to actually injure the tortoise

Shang decided to use Infection, but before it could reach

tortoise's body acted like the teeth of a shark. All the rock and

was normal for the tortoise or

Nevertheless, Infection became useless.

and place an Infection very deep inside

part eventually fell