Sword God in a World of Magic

Shang looked at his body and realized that there was still a bit to go.

However, this time, it no longer seemed impossible to comprehend Void Casting.

Shang was already 80% done.

Only about 40 more years.

Only two or three more sessions in the Isolation Chamber.

Then, he would finally comprehend Void Casting.

Yet, Shang only absentmindedly focused on nothing.

He was just standing in the Isolation Barrier, doing nothing.

He wasn't training.

He wasn't thinking.

He was just there.

That was it.

He just didn't care anymore.

Training was so exhausting.

Moving was so exhausting.

Thinking was so exhausting.

Everything was so exhausting.

He just didn't want to anymore.

His past was suffering.

His present was suffering.

His future was suffering.

Why suffering?

Why did it always have to be suffering?

Why did the world put him through so much suffering?

In Shang's mind, there was no way out of this suffering.

It couldn't be stopped.

As long as he lived, he would continue to suffer.

What was the point?

…

kept

slowly turned his head

once been Shang's body had

Shang's attention to the hill he

Flesh.

Blood.

Organs.

that had accumulated over the past century, and the pieces of flesh and organs were starting

was when Shang noticed that he wasn't actually standing

air stunk indescribably, and it was filled

before, but right now, he could feel something very profound

experienced nothing but blood, suffering, and pain for a century in complete

air, or life

Everything was isolated.

this was

it

was nothing bright, positive, or

And the air…

It was… strange…

feel that the air had

But what was this?

this force in

his right hand and

Mana in the

something happened to

began to turn

hand, and it just

to move it,

tried to heal it, but that was

His hand had died.

some reason, Shang wasn't nervous or scared, and he just looked at his

it was, but it felt profound and

It felt mysterious.

never experienced

wasn't like Darkness, but it also

It was different.

hand turned

such powerful people didn't decompose easily. After all, all of Shang's body parts were

hand was starting to

kept

began to vanish as the natural decomposition reduced it to earth, liquids,

focused on his surroundings as the decomposition slowly crept up his

that if he absorbed more, he would

surrounding Mana

then, Shang got a

this Mana had

everything in here had been filled with this kind of Mana, what effects did it have

the ways in which Shang had absorbed Mana previously were very different from

now, Shang had absorbed the Mana in the surroundings without converting it to his own Mana. In essence, Shang was using a simplified and weaker version of Void

absorbing Mana included the incorporation of Shang's will

that, Shang's body and mind didn't decompose like

how much of this Mana. Sure, he had put his will on it, but did

something this mysterious,

like he just