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

themselves and knocking at the Isolation Barrier, but Shang

the outside, which meant that Shang could have noticed

But he never did.

even became angry when Shang

forbidden to attack someone without their consent, and that extended to someone's belongings

they got, they didn't attack

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

arrived had tried to lure him away from Lucin so that

would they

and get his resources or kill him for some

them were his

of them

them wanted to

the truth, but

of danger and by going through decades upon decades of nothing but intense pain, Shang's perception

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

through this ungodly training for such a

put this into perspective, Shang had been training like

only need to look at one's own life, take 10% of it, and go through so much

that person still be

the longest time Shang had

isolation, but he had still done a couple

Shang had fought some beasts, walked from one place to the other, talked to

left his training room from time to time. He saw others from

run a town while training, which meant that he regularly had to

time, it

was doing nothing

There was no break.

no talking to

There was no buying.

There was no managing.

just Shang and

or

developed thoughts and feelings he had never been

was approaching

he was about to die,

Shang's mind and personality had been close

like he was no longer