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.

had all wanted to

the Isolation Barrier, but Shang

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

But he never did.

even became angry when Shang kept ignoring

was forbidden to attack someone without their consent, and

matter how angry they got, they didn't attack

but he

had tried to lure

would they

kill Shang and get his resources

them were his

them were

of them wanted

the truth, but

decades

pain and darkness, how could one see

ungodly training for such a long time, Shang

perspective, Shang had been training like this for over

one's own life, take 10% of it,

that person still

longest time Shang had

a couple of decades of isolation, but he had still done a couple of

walked from one place to the

time. He saw others from time to time, bought new resources, did some missions,

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

it was

was doing nothing

There was no break.

was no talking to

There was no buying.

There was no managing.

was just Shang

better or for

century, Shang had developed thoughts and feelings he

was approaching death, but not

feel like he was about to

Shang's mind and personality had

happened, Shang felt like he was no