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 the beak until he could break

bird knew

said. "I don't want to see you for at least a century. If you appear in front of me again, I will kill

bird looked at

CRK! CRK!

a normal fish, signifying that it wasn't interested in

been the correct phrase. It definitely wanted to fight Shang again, but it also

the same opponent again and again. He needed variety to improve different parts of his

later, Shang's

tall and powerful fortress of

fan of keeping its body size suppressed,

meant that the tortoise could barely move inside the

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

would also be quite difficult to beat but for

Shang needed to improve his speed and

Shang would need to increase

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

BOOOOM!

ore exploded out of the turtle, right

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

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

CRRRRRRK!

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

sealed with a mixture of earth and metal just

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

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

use Infection, but before it could reach any significant

acted like the teeth of a shark. All the rock and metal on its body kept expanding

tortoise or

Nevertheless, Infection became useless.

Shang decided to use Injection and place

part eventually fell