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.

Clouds had all wanted

knocking at the Isolation Barrier, but

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

But he never did.

the Clouds even became angry when Shang kept ignoring

forbidden to attack someone without their consent, and that

got,

all of them, but he had

arrived had tried to lure him away from Lucin

else would they

and get his

them were his

of them

wanted to kill

truth, but that

going through decades

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

training for such a long time, Shang was bound to

Shang had been training like this for over 10% of his

life, take 10% of it, and go through so much time while being

person still be the

time Shang had been this

isolation, but he had still done a couple of different

walked from one place to

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

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

it

doing

There was no break.

was no talking to

There was no buying.

There was no managing.

just Shang and his

better or

thoughts and feelings he had never been

he was approaching death, but not

was about to die,

and personality had been close to

he