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A Thousand Li: The First Step

A Xianxia Cultivation Series, Book 1

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A Thousand Li: The First Step

By: Tao Wong
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
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Given a chance at immortality, can Wu Ying grasp the fleeting opportunity? Long Wu Ying never expected to join a Sect or become a real cultivator. His days were spent studying, planting rice on the family farm and spending time with his friends. Fate, however, has different plans for Wu Ying and when the army arrives at his village, he and many other members of the village are conscripted.

Given the opportunity to join the Verdant Green Waters Sect, Wu Ying must decide between his pedestrian, common life and the exciting, blood soaked life of a cultivator. Join Wu Ying as he takes his first step on his Thousand Li journey to become an immortal cultivator. The First Step is the first novel in A Thousand Li series, a book on cultivation, immortals, wondrous martial art styles and spirit beasts and will be loved by wuxia and xianxia fans. The First Step is written by Tao Wong, the bestselling scifi and fantasy LitRPG author of the System Apocalypse, Adventures on Brad and the Hidden Wishes.

©2017 Tao Wong (P)2019 Tao Wong Action & Adventure Epic Fantasy Progression Fantasy Fiction LitRPG

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Critic reviews

“A Thousand Li is one of the best English-language cultivation series out there, written with obvious love for the genre. If you’ve heard about cultivation but don’t know where to begin, this is a great place to start.” —Will Wight, New York Times Best-Selling Author of the Cradle series
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I loved this novel. The story flows easily. The MC isn't overpowered. He is humble and his main quality is his perseverance.

enjoyable

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the narrator is absolutely perfect and really brings the story, which is excellent, to life

great wuxia story

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Hopefully book2 will build on the
First book.
A change of story line would be welcome too.

Better than expected

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I really liked it, my only complain that it is way too short. Basically a prologue and one arc. I will go ahead and listen the next one, which is the same length I think. l guess this novel is an endless story as it supposed to be similar to other Chinese cultivation novels. It just feels it cut into too small pieces which reduces it's value in my eyes. also saw there are 0.5 books between the main books and they are very short and cost the same as the main book, I mean that just seems like a rip off, considering that the main book is already feels like a small piece of the story. not sure exactly but its something like 40 hours listen for what 10 credits? Harry potter can't pull that off and that's saying something. That being said, I enjoyed the first book, good story and characters and the narrator is excellent. and I'm glad this genre found it's way to audible and I hope to see more of them here, but the pricing strategy needs
to be reconsidered.

good story, great performance, just short

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Very similar to a manga novel. Tao did a great job as the book is filled with fighting and cultivation. Author creates vivid images and makes you want to listen to more.
If you like fighting, cultivation and competition this is for you. Will be listening to the next book

Great start to a cultivation novel

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I found that I liked the main character, but disliked a lot of the other characters, and the whole fee reminded me a lot of Cradle. I know every hero needs a nemesis, but when there are so many people that you want to give a good slap, it gets quite tiring.

The story is a good one, with lots of fighting and progression, but for me at least there is too much focus on ‘cultivation’ and the constant mention of the flow of qi through meridians gets a bit too much. It is a cultivation story, but it seems like 50% of the story is talking about this and a lot of it could easily be cut out and you’d still be left with a decent story. I’ve listened to other stories which include cultivation and it is mentioned nowhere near as much.

All in all, I enjoyed it though, and it would be good to know how the story progresses, even with the MC being surrounded by short-sighted, ignorant, arrogant, petty nobles.

Good story

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This series took me a while to get into after reading the cradle series and wanting something to fill the hole. Picked it up and then actually didn’t listen to it for a month or two, eventually I did I can confidently say one of the best progression fantasies I’ve every had the pleasure of listening too. Book 9 releases in a couple days and I can’t wait. This competes with the cradle series in my mind

Wasn’t sure at first but now I’m on book 8

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Loved the whole experience. So exciting and enjoyable. Fantastic production, and wonderful storytelling. Looking forward to book 2!

Fantastic exciting story

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I devoured the whole book in one go the only issue I had was the names as a native English speaker the names being multiple words long in combination very foreign names made it very difficult to keep track of who was who something to keep in mind for future books written and read or even translated to English

I really enjoyed this

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reminds me of the cradle series, excellent narration and very easy to listen to. if your a fan of a mc working hard to get to the top look no further.

A great first book can't wait for more

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