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

bird knew that it

don't want to see you for at least a century. If you appear in front of

looked at Shang with an

CRK! CRK!

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

not have been the correct phrase. It definitely wanted to fight Shang again, but it also didn't

last decade, but he couldn't keep fighting the same opponent again and again. He needed variety to improve different parts of

later, Shang's next

was quite a tall and powerful

one wasn't the biggest fan of keeping its body size suppressed, and it took up

that the tortoise could barely move inside the

expected to only fight

noticed that this opponent would also be quite difficult

fish bird, Shang needed to improve his speed and defense,

need to increase his

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

BOOOOM!

and pieces of ore exploded out of the

lot of trouble avoiding all the projectiles since they were not that fast, but he also couldn't completely relax. Just

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

CRRRRRRK!

could

sealed with a mixture of earth and metal

real physical slash, but the speed and number of projectiles

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

use Infection, but before it could reach any

rock

for the tortoise or if someone had told

Nevertheless, Infection became useless.

and place an Infection very deep inside the

longer, but even that part eventually fell off