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?

…

just kept looking at

then, he slowly turned his head to

once been

Shang's attention to the hill he was

Flesh.

Blood.

Organs.

that had accumulated over the past century, and

was when Shang noticed that he wasn't actually standing on the ground

and it was filled with

now, he could feel

blood, suffering, and pain for a century in

or life could enter from the

Everything was isolated.

was like this

it was a small

bright, positive,

And the air…

It was… strange…

could feel that the air had

But what was this?

force in the

his right hand

in

an instant, something happened to Shang's

to

lost control over his hand,

to move it,

it, but that

His hand had died.

or scared,

what it was, but it

It felt mysterious.

experienced anything

like Darkness, but it also

It was different.

seconds later, Shang's hand turned black

had to remember that the bodies of such powerful people didn't decompose easily. After all, all of Shang's body parts were still on the hill, and they hadn't

was

just kept looking

vanish as the natural

on his surroundings as the decomposition slowly crept up his

if he absorbed

surrounding Mana was

then, Shang got a

of this Mana had

with this kind of Mana, what effects

the ways in which Shang had absorbed Mana previously were

his own

of absorbing Mana included the incorporation of Shang's will on

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

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

Shang was confronted with something this mysterious, for some reason, he still felt

he