Regressor Sect Master

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Description

[A Xianxia Family Focused Soap Opera]

Tundra Fox, a cultivator of immense power and Sect Master of the Verdant Snow Sect, faces an eldritch god from beyond and dies. However, a time-artifact sends his soul back 10,000 years, when he was still in the earlier years of growing his Sect.

This story comes with cultivation, base building, and usual regressor awesomeness, paired with a heavier focus on healing relationships, family and family relations. Tundra Fox will try to prevent family deaths, conflicts, and hopefully, try to raise descendants that don't become arrogant young masters.

Warning 1: The story starts with Tundra Fox having 3 wives (that are still alive).

Warning 2 : Time and years might move fast sometimes.

Warning 3: Despite the time skips, this is a slow story.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2023
Author: spaizzzer

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
Followers: 4,881
Views: 197,541

Chapters(16 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

Ovey MullerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I enjoyed this fiction and have no complaints. the aurthor has great pacing with a unique storyline that keeps you both captivated and hungry for more chapters which I hope will be provided in the coming months or years. Know that I have become a devoted fan and am both desiring the ending as well as dreading it with all my being. Thank you author for all your hard work and time you spent on this novel
AstraliumRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The Regressor Sect Master is a good story and I'm enjoying it so far.
It's actually rare for me to find stories on RR that I can truly empathize with the MC and liking the flow and style of the story. Most RR stories are not light and usually harder to understand than your typical light novels and other Asian style novels, which I'm more used to.
This one just checked on what's on my list to become a story that I like. Good characters, interesting setting, and most importantly, kingdom/sect building. Tundra is a sect master, a regressor to boot. He has a large family that he builds from the ground up; this setting alone already takes it apart from most other novels.
Tundra thought about it much, especially in his twilight years. Why achieve immortality, if it’s not for a purpose? But how can an immortal have a worthwhile purpose? Even immortals needed connections to the wider realms. Lovers. Family. Friends.
This sentence resonates quite well to me. I'm always in the thought of why achieve immortality if you can't share it with others that you love, won't it become a lonely torture?
I think my only complaint about the story is that it lacks chapters!
Oh, and this is just my personal thing. Sometimes author use hyphen instead of em dash, and occasionally he forgot to capitalize certain words, but I don't know if this is intentional. Anyway, something that can be fixed easily.
Will update this into advanced review once there are enough chapters!
DarkwoodRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a really interesting take on the Xianxia genre. Whilst the usual speedrun power levelling can be fun, the wandering from battle to battle protagonist Tundra Fox is not. At least not any more.
The author is actually showing you all of the set dressing that all of the other Xianxia have in the background and making it into a conpelling story, from the guise of a man who used to be one of those speedrunning protagonists. The family is not going to be forgotten by chapter 3 and the sect is not going to be changed for a new one by chapter 10. In fact they are the whole point of the story and I love it.
And in spite of all of this there is still an overarching goal that drives the protagonist to improve himself. Sure it has slice of life blood but this story is still Xianxia in its bones. The protagonist is an alchemy master, he has to have some cheats from his regression after all. Not to mention the parts of the story that are more traditional xianxia are just as well written as the twist of a family oriented plot.
Dougulas KaienRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
As I read this webnovel, I couldn't help but consider its similarities with It's a Wonderful Life (1946) movie, about a person who regresses and experiences a world without him in it. In this story, the MC dies in glory but full of regrets for his family. Through an accident (or fate), he goes back 10,000 years and receives an opportunity to make things right.
I've read the author's treecentric story for a while, and I could see the hallmarks of similarities, including an unorthodox premise and MC who runs with it. This is a cultivation story about a man finding enlightenment in family life instead of alchemy and solitary cultivation. And he must face an uphill battle to undo the scars that he inadvertently inflicted on his children as an abstentee dad. Relationships are the focus of this tale; action, face-slapping and other tropes common in cultivation stories are lacking here.
Despite being a bachelor, childless adult, I'm enjoying this work a lot more than I expected.
Vampire who readsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
About time someone adds a twist to the conventional cultivation setting.
Nowadays cultivation either tends to be generic or like BoC with the setting entirely removed from the conventional sect setting.
A very needed change of pace and hope it is the kick needed to start the waterfall of good xianxia genre stories.
XERNOBOKARoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
There's a bit of grammatical error like "I" for "my", but the plot is good enough, I'm waiting to see more, I can say it's at least at a decent level in the characters' backgrounds. I'll see, start saving chapters to read, maybe in a few weeks I'll come back to chapters 10 to 15, good job, author, you deserve it
MerlinKingRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
It’s an okay story, if simply written, and one I plan to continue reading, I do have to caution other readers that A) the writing is, as I said, fairly simplistic and repeats things without need, such as the main character thinking or noticing something, and then asking a person about it:
he’s gone up a step.
“You’ve gone up a step?”
there are better ways to write that kind of thing.
apart from the stylistic issue, the grammar is bogging the story down. There are many superfluous commas or areas that don’t have them but need them. It’s not glaringly bad, but it’s consistently there.
ignoring that, the story itself is fun, a good popcorn novel: A bitter old man of ten thousand years dies, gets sent back and time and realises his many, many mistakes relating to his family, his sect, and the world at large. The plot is alright, and the characters are interesting, though some make me want to bang my head against a wall.
Tundra, the main character, is rather quick to change. He’s aware of what went wrong, and finds in himself some restraint to the worst of his criticisms with his family. A little too quick, but since the characters themselves are wary of believing his sudden shift brought on by his ‘dream’, I find it an acceptable trade.
overall, give it a go if you’re wanting entertainment and don’t mind bad grammar.
Snow the eternalRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
I had put this story down for a couple months and decided to read the new chapters before they stubbed.
I can now remember why I hadn’t been keeping up with the story, in the five chapters I just read both nothing happened, and the same exposition was given 4 separate times.
all the talk of cultivation is the same each time, with no variation or new anything, the same exposition I can vaguely remember from 40 chapters ago.
The talk of the relationships is the same as it’s been throughout all 60 chapters I’ve read. Same issues, no new developments that weren’t predictable 40 chapters ago even by characters in the story.
It feels stagnant, such that even when things change the characters don’t. And the changes aren’t really brought up or touched upon.
Lazy king 123Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
I really want to like this story. It checks most of my boxes. Yet I can’t recommend it.
Personal bias:
Admittedly, my rating is influenced by my dislike of the development. Since my emotion after reading the last 10 or so chapters was frustration.
And also it is likely my fault since soap operas are not something I would usually read but the premise seemed nice, first chapter got me hooked…. So I am unsure if my frustration is not simply to me reading the wrong genre.
My main issue with this story can be summarized as such: you can’t help those that don’t want your help. Yet this is precisely what this fiction is all about.
The title is misleading, while mc is a sect leader his main focus is not on the sect but his family. It is to such extent that the title should be something like Horrible Father Time travels and tries (and fails) again.
Sect development is part of the story but it is at the very best a minor subplot of the family development.
Also the story is not focused that Much on mending relationships but in the reeducation of people that as they are complete wastrels.
The premise
Has potential to be interesting, the mc, who was originally brash and reckless (and just overall normal cultivator), in the face of death realizes that most of his grievances and conflict were meaningless, and could have been avoided. He also regrets his lacking interactions with his family. And after that realization he is miraculously given second chance. He returns to a time when he already has solid power base, yet it still nothing in comparison with his foe.
The characters:
The characters are the reason why I am dropping this novel.
The mc is person that is ruled by his guilt and he doesn’t want to realize that sometimes he has to let go. Instead of preparing for his enemy he focuses all his attention on his family, who clearly don’t want the attention (at least the ones he focuses on the most).
The family is also horrible. They have zero character development in over 40 chap
Blind Snot DragonRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
I love healthy relationships and communication and Dad's who are present for their families but please don't bleach a genre of it's defining characteristics to force a narrative.
As many other reviews point out, the idea is fresh and very engaging; a sect leader that cares about family?!!!!?? YES PLEASE!!!
The mill stone around this novels neck is that I don't think the author has done a good job portraying the Xanxia setting. Or even getting into the spirit of Xanxia. The story is inconsistent, the scary patriarch is not feared, respected or obeyed.
Fight scenes are boring, they lack description (ie and then they hit each other). Tell me what insane level techniques they are using and why they are so cool. Our MC is an alchemist? AWESOME, tell me about what kind of pills he is making, the exotic ingredients he's using, etc. Or better yet don't tell me, show me!
The MC is op but has excellent constraints on his power, very balanced character. Alchemy is very strong but no good without the right ingredients. MC has future knowledge but the enemy is already much stronger than him.
I love everything this story could be, how do you parent kids lovingly when their world only respects strength. How do you care for your spouse when you have three (portraying a healthy harem NANI!!), how do you make friends as a sect master when everyone just wants benefits from you? Excellent, delightful and so much more but woof, this is not it.
There's no nuance of perspective, is he a dead beat dad or the single strongest person in their sect/family whose relentless hard work has blessed them with so many nice things and safety/protection?
All of that AND Author has shared his work and creativity with the rest of us for free of charge. Thanks, and thanks for trying something new in a long stagnant genre. Keep up the good work and have fun.