Ten Thousand Tragedies [Xianxia Timeloop] (Book 1 Complete)

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Death is the greatest teacher, and 721 has a lot of learning to do. The Martial Arts Alliance stands at the precipice of defeat as war threatens to consume the world. Its sects, its great families - all are rotten at the core. As one of the slave soldiers of the Red Dawn Sect, 721 is not allowed to have a name, feelings, or thoughts. His death is not a tragedy, only a statistic. He's expendable cannon fodder, if that. But death isn't the end for him. Every time he dies, he wakes up again 24 hours before his death. Even though he only has a vague memory of who he once was, he will rise to the highest peaks. Freedom lies at the end of a long road, and 721's road is paved with his bones. This is a wuxia / murim setting with a focus on close combat and a protagonist who makes horrible mistakes and learns from them. There'll be darkness, especially in the first book, but there'll be light at the end of the tunnel. And there'll be dying. A lot of dying, in honestly pretty awful ways. Black comedy levels of dying horribly, just so you’re warned. Updates once a day for the first two weeks. Afterwards, updates intended for Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2025
Author: NMR-3

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Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
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What readers say about Ten Thousand Tragedies [Xianxia Timeloop] (Book 1 Complete)

“I really enjoyed arc 1. Super solid start. Fun writing, good set up for things to come. I will try to revisit in 100 chapters or so to see how that set up is paid off and how the character grows as he starts his life over (and over and over). Fun new Wuxia…”
turtlepearRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“This is a xianxia/wuxia time loop story that manages to preserve the best parts of both of them. The protagonist starts out without personality and in the worst possible position, and every loop, he grows in power .How this story distinguishes itself is tha…”
Akashic ReaderRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

turtlepearRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I really enjoyed arc 1. Super solid start. Fun writing, good set up for things to come. I will try to revisit in 100 chapters or so to see how that set up is paid off and how the character grows as he starts his life over (and over and over). Fun new Wuxia story and that’s always welcome
Akashic ReaderRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a xianxia/wuxia time loop story that manages to preserve the best parts of both of them. The protagonist starts out without personality and in the worst possible position, and every loop, he grows in power .How this story distinguishes itself is that the protagonist is ignorant of nearly everything, and every loop he gets character growth and increases his knowledge.
Emerson FortierRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Nice start to a grim story. Feels like the character could use a little more agency, maybe a little bit clearer of a motivation or some more obvious stakes, but the grim flavor is just delightful, and being an expendable slave soldier kind of makes those issues make sense. Would love to read more stories about deaths worn characters, and I look forward to seeing if the motivation/stakes get further developed now that we've traveled back to the start of the adventure with the close of book one.Over all, good stuff. Right up my alley. Love it.
HaltWriteRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
There are a lot of timeloop stories out there, but not all of them get it right like this story does.
Ten Thousand Tragedies blends not only power growth as it progresses - but character growth too. We see Wu Hao (or 721) learn and grow even in the early chapters of what I believe is the story's first arc, each lesson painful and earned. He doesn't get the answers right all at once, and the beauty of it is he doesn't have to. But we do see him progress, and the story does not waste time on endless repetitive loops.
Wu Hao grows, he struggles, and he tries again but better. Its the heart of what makes timeloops so addicting.
Style - Stylistically, the story has a crisp, workmanlike prose. It flows naturally and makes it easy to read, yet still allows for those moments where a more stylistic flourish is necessary - revelations and important character beats.
Grammar - No mispellings I recall from reading it, nothing that will detract from the reading experience.
Story - So far, great. Its been a treat watching Wu Hao's progression and all the plot threads that are so far unexplored, but that the author is (I presume) setting up to tug on in future chapters. One of the great joys of Timeloop is being able to explore not just the main character and how he affects the plot, but how all the side characters fit into it like a giant tapestry. The author clearly has a lot of things set up and has put thought into the overarching puzzle that is this story.
Character - If I had to fault the story for anything, its that so far at least, the side characters can be hard to keep track of. The use of numbers for the Deathsworn, esp with some of the numbers being so similar and their relative lack of screen time means it can be hard to keep straight who's who among the Deathsworn. This is, however, a minor point right now as not much focus has been put into them compared to Wu Hao's growth and the story's antagonists.
WhitebloodRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I'd been itching for a new cultivation book with time-loop after Undying Imortal System, and there is finally another one. The characters are very well written and the world has been thought out quite well. Almost close to zero mistakes in grammer and spellings. And most of all, the world discovery feels very organic.
YonislukiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
There is something in time-loops when written well. And especially when you add some kind of progression. If you like progression, this is a satisfying story to read.The character seems to be well-written, and that's what makes it an enjoyment to read. It is the progress of growth and failure with the promise of strength. How the MC will overcome the challenges. It is unlike a simple xianxia story, where the character has only one life. With often comes down to making pills and other progressive elements. In this story, there is the element of dying and progressing through the process.. At the very start there is the introduction of a system of some sort, yet this is a very minor part compared to a litrpg. Which usually have very "overwhelming" lists of stats and skills.I am more or less comparing to undying immortal system here on RR, which is a popular time-loop xianxia. This story however is different and in a good way. It is fresh and interesting, with a lot of mystery and questions. The lore is slowly being told, as the MC explores the world around him. Taking different paths and making different choices. That is what is appealing, the growth, the different scenarios that unfolds. It makes it's interesting to read and keeps you excited of what will happen next. That is a good quality for a story to have.I read this in 1 day, as that is how good and enjoyable I found the story to be. I recommend to read this story for yourself and see if you have the same reading experience as I did. In my opinion, this is very much 5/5 for me. That may differ for you.To summarise, the story is interesting, the characters have clear personalities, they feel more alive and real, rather than generic. The story and the progression is enjoyable and interesting. Overall it is a very well-written story. Highly recommend to read it for yourself.
reaperstokesRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is your next read! Stop the search for your next great one of a kind unique story because you have found it right here. Dive into a world filled with unforgettable twists you won’t see coming. The writing is superb and the chapters flow with a crescendo.
Just read the story! It really good and I want this dudes story to get the recognition it deserves. That way I get more chapters.
Read it!
tellaris3Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
So far, it’s been a good time loop story. It feels like there’s a clear effort to grow the MC as a character instead of just in his knowledge, and I haven’t seen too many stories try to make a time loop in a xianxia setting (not that there aren’t any, I just haven’t read any before this). It navigates it well enough. There are lots of characters to go around, and all of them seem to function together pretty well.I’ve been enjoying it so far, and I look forward to seeing where it goes.
AREK G. A.Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The Uncle's palm print growing heavier with each step, feeding on Wu Hao's qi until it becomes a shirt of lead — that's the kind of visceral worldbuilding most cultivation stories never achieve. You feel the weight. You feel the mountain fighting him. The prose does work that exposition couldn't.Wu Hao works because he's not trying to be clever. He stumbles through a time loop with animal stubbornness, survives Uncle's test through spite more than skill, and then makes the catastrophic decision to tell Father the truth. The conversation in the tent is masterclass — Father doesn't get angry, he gets disappointed. Worse, he's logical about it. "Your lives are mine to spend" isn't tyranny, it's just fact in this world.589 answering "I would ask how you wanted me to die, Father" without hesitation does more to establish the horror of this system than three chapters of torture could.The pacing is immaculate. Three chapters covering one day, every scene essential. The corpse during cultivation practice gets two paragraphs and vanishes — no dwelling, no sentiment, just another Tuesday. That restraint makes the few moments where Wu Hao does feel something (the twist of gratitude for table scraps, the rebellion in his eyes) hit like hammers.Minor complaint: "stared" appears in nearly every paragraph toward the end. Trim that and the prose tightens further.This is what cultivation fiction looks like when someone who can actually write tackles the genre.
Reading with dogs in lapRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A very impressive story that may not be the most unique but is most certainly entertaining and gripping. I've read at least 5 different good looping stories in the past couple years. This One by far along with stubborn skill grinder Are the most realistic in terms of How characters would actually react to such situations, and what would actually happen to said characters.
The fact that the main character has basically a chain on his mind To follow the sect elders and leaders without complaint To follow the sect , elders and leaders without complaint makes this Makes it so much more interesting to see how he tries to get around it And all of the psychological differences he has to the average man. Not to mention the fact that he dies in extremely horrible ways and gets power from it.
It's a violent but gripping story about a man trying to find true freedom in a world that only flows with blood and blade. It is a xanxia One of the hardest book types to write they can come out swinging with a lot of hate and blood and not really Bringing forth all the fun adventure and Extremely, imaginative scenes.