When confronted by death, many people would think about their life and reevaluate past decisions.

What were their regrets?

What would they have changed?

Maybe they shouldn't have been so strict with their children?

Maybe they shouldn't have broken up with their first love?

If they hadn't taken out that loan from those dangerous people, their children would have something to inherit today?

Naturally, Shang wasn't any different.

Should he have been more amongst people?

Should he have accepted the Sweeper's confession?

Should he have spared Jerald?

Shang thought about all of these things.

And he acknowledged something.

He would be happier if he had someone with him.

It would feel nice not to be alone right now.

Everything was so painful, exhausting, dark, and lonely.

Shang knew that he would feel better if he hadn't been so brutal and inflexible in his past.

However, did this mean that Shang would have changed his past actions if he could?

No.

If he hadn't killed Lash, the Grandmountain Kingdom might have killed him.

If he hadn't killed Jerald, he would have eventually caved in and told someone.

If he hadn't declined the Sweeper's advances, Shang wouldn't have had enough time to comprehend his form of Void Casting or the Concept of Twilight.

Yes, he felt lonely, and he wished that someone was at his side.

However, Shang knew that this luxury would come with a price he wouldn't want to pay.

And then came another thought.

So what?

Since everyone would die, it didn't matter what one accomplished in their life.

Might as well die happy and surrounded by loved ones, right?

However, that was only true when death was a certainty.

At this moment, Shang kept putting in effort.

Shang still had hope.

were loved ones around

horrible by

they tell him to give up and just go to

Shang

Probably.

was barely hanging on as it was. Any person that told him to just rest

at his side

would transform his likely death into a

believe that

this was

he had the right to fight for

end, Shang was glad that

He didn't want them.

He didn't need them!

would

what if he was about to

he

on his body,

But he kept breathing.

He kept fighting.

One more year passed.

And another year passed.

now well over the maximum lifespan of someone at the Fifth Realm, and any other person would

wouldn't give

He would never stop!

death wanted to take him, it needed

More years passed.

became

single muscle in the

Mana in his body had

was a corpse that

He couldn't do anything.

even feel

But he wasn't dead.

was agony, but

Was this living?

to most people's standards,

be

Shang, this was

his consciousness still existed, he

he could

Shang couldn't interact

perception was confined in his

in truth, he wasn't doing more than a stone

Was it life?

No.

Was it death?

No.

something between these

neither

It was limbo.

Or Purgatory.

This was Purgatory.

was what Shang had been searching

state, Shang had gained a special

be understood by people that went through

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