Sword God in a World of Magic

Time continued to pass.

The Bolts were no longer distracted by Shang since Lucin had created an Isolation Barrier around him, but Lucin himself had noticed that he was sighing far more often than usual.

He just felt bad for Shang.

It was one thing to go through so much pain to become stronger, but it was something else to continuously go through so much pain for decades upon decades.

This wasn't an individual instance of painful training anymore. Being under so much pain for so long had essentially transformed Shang's entire life.

Yes, Shang was already quite old, but spending decades in pain was still something significant.

Every decade of pain was equivalent to about one year of pain for a mortal.

How horrible would it be to be under such pain for one year?

Just one day was already terrifying.

As Lucin continued watching Shang, he got the thought that Shang was actually impressively sane for someone that was living like this.

Under normal circumstances, one would imagine a quivering mass of terror, paranoia, fear, and irrational hatred.

Sure, Shang had these aspects, but they weren't so strong that they overtook his entire personality.

Nevertheless, Lucin could still feel that Shang had huge issues deep inside.

His body was like a machine that was piloted by ten crazy people with different issues and illnesses, but by averaging them out, the machine was still piloted in a somewhat normal way.

Frankly, it was a miracle.

Decades passed.

Eventually, Shang used up all the Furnace Pills he had, which took him a total of 100 years.

At this moment, Shang was around 860 years old.

If he were a mortal, he would be nearly 80 years old.

Shang had genuinely reached the last years of his life.

Over the past century, a couple of Clouds had arrived in front of the Isolation Barrier.

wanted to talk to

at the Isolation Barrier, but Shang never

for Shang to see the outside, which meant that Shang could have noticed these Clouds and could have interacted with

But he never did.

Clouds even became angry when Shang kept

without their consent, and that

angry they got,

had not seen all of them, but he had still taken

had tried to lure him away from Lucin so that they

else would they

his

them were

of them

of them wanted

that wasn't the truth,

being in a heightened state of danger and by going through decades upon decades of nothing but intense pain, Shang's perception was bound to become

nothing but pain and darkness, how could one see the world as anything but filled

for such a long time, Shang was

perspective, Shang had been training like this

10% of it, and go through so much time while being tortured like

that person still be

was the longest time

isolation, but he had still done

Area 23, Shang had fought some beasts, walked from one place to the other, talked to Jerald, and

in the Temple of Blood, Shang had left his training room from time to time. He saw

town while training, which meant that he regularly had to communicate with others

it

was doing

There was no break.

was no

There was no buying.

There was no managing.

was just Shang and his

or for

and

approaching death, but not in the traditional

was about to die, but like

mind and personality had been close

he was no