[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic":3,"chapter-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-742":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Sword God in a World of Magic",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1492527,1940,"Chapter 742  742 – The Right Thing","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-742",742,"\u003Cp>When confronted by death, many people would think about their life and reevaluate past decisions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What were their regrets?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What would they have changed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe they shouldn't have been so strict with their children?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe they shouldn't have broken up with their first love?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they hadn't taken out that loan from those dangerous people, their children would have something to inherit today?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, Shang wasn't any different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Should he have been more amongst people?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Should he have accepted the Sweeper's confession?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Should he have spared Jerald?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang thought about all of these things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he acknowledged something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would be happier if he had someone with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would feel nice not to be alone right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything was so painful, exhausting, dark, and lonely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang knew that he would feel better if he hadn't been so brutal and inflexible in his past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, did this mean that Shang would have changed his past actions if he could?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he hadn't killed Lash, the Grandmountain Kingdom might have killed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he hadn't killed Jerald, he would have eventually caved in and told someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, he felt lonely, and he wished that someone was at his side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Shang knew that this luxury would come with a price he wouldn't want to pay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then came another thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since everyone would die, it didn't matter what one accomplished in their life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Might as well die happy and surrounded by loved ones, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, that was only true when death was a certainty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Shang kept putting in effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang still had hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if there were loved ones around him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wouldn't they feel horrible by watching him suffer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wouldn't they tell him to give up and just go to sleep?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And would Shang do that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Probably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was barely hanging on as it was. Any person that told him to just rest might tip him over the edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having a loved one at his side would take away all hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would transform his likely death into a certain death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They would essentially kill him and believe that this was the right thing to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was his life!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he had the right to fight for his life!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, in the end, Shang was glad that there was no loved one around him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't want them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't need them!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their weakness would make him weak!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what if he was about to die?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least he would die fighting!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang kept focusing on his body, and he kept breathing weakly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he kept breathing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kept fighting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One more year passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And another year passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang was now well over the maximum lifespan of someone at the Fifth Realm, and any other person would have long since died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he wouldn't give up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He would never stop!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If death wanted to take him, it needed to come for him personally!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More years passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, Shang became 1010 years old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn't moved a single muscle in the last ten years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His skin had already split at multiple locations, and the Death Mana in his body had started to leak out into the surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang was a corpse that was unwilling to die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't do anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't even feel his surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he wasn't dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every waking moment was agony, but he still kept going.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was this living?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to most people's standards, no.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This couldn't be considered living.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, to Shang, this was still living.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as his consciousness still existed, he would be alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as he could think, he was still alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, Shang couldn't interact with the living world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His entire perception was confined in his own body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was counting himself as alive, but in truth, he wasn't doing more than a stone lying at the side of a road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it life?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was it death?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was something between these two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang was neither alive nor dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was limbo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or Purgatory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was Purgatory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was what Shang had been searching for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After ten years in this state, Shang had gained a special feeling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This mixture of feelings could only be understood by people that went through the same thing that Shang had gone through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was so profound, unique, and special, but also simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He understood what it meant to be in Purgatory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Shang realized that he had comprehended the level three Concept of Death, Purgatory, his mind basically exploded with willpower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>WHOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's legs turned to dust as he sacrificed them to the Domain of Entropy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Domain of Entropy cleaned the remainder of Shang's body of all Death Mana, and Shang felt all the power return to him for just a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a moment was all he needed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's Spirit Sense extended out of his body for the first time in a decade, and Shang willed all the Mana in his surroundings to enter his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Void Casting filled all of his body with Mana, and Shang immediately tried to digest all of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's body shook and nearly broke apart under the strain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, his mind reached for more Mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed more!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted more power!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He needed more power!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, all the Mana in the surroundings entered Shang's body of its own volition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the sign of a breakthrough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone was reaching the Sixth Realm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang's body was being lifted up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His legs healed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tears in his skin closed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Death Mana left his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shang felt incredible power enter his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After being weak for so long, having that much power felt unreal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was so powerful!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could do everything!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As more and more Mana entered Shang's body, Shang reflected on the last ten years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If I had loved ones, I would be dead right now.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'My emotions might regret the path I have chosen, but my mind doesn't regret it!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'All my sacrifices were worth it!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Without all my sacrifices, where would I be?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I've done the right thing!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'And I would do it again!'\u003C\u002Fp>",1053,"2026-06-06T04:07:22.039Z",1,"novelbin.me","5e8309a86fb5f365825da6a2a2187a604b5891601b356870748955c770b6314a","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-743","sword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-chapter-741",1033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsword-god-in-a-world-of-magic-cover.jpg"]