Ten Thousand Tragedies [Xianxia Timeloop] (Book 2 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.

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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 2 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
“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 jus…”
tellaris3Royal Road5.0 / 5

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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
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.
TheFartRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's a great timeloop wuxia story, at the end of the first book the mc finally exclaved slavery and this is great it would have sucked if he tried continuing to be one, but there's a big pivotal point here, how would the author take it from now here, how quickly will the protagonist recover and what will he do
But just talking about book 1, it was great, you can see the mc slowly see through the brainwashing and slavery he is under, and how big the difference is between how easy he breaks the chains to the mind control in the middle of the book vs the end, the side characters are few and many of them are just faceless numbers, the main perspective is about the mc and his psihological situation, though some actual side characters do get introduced, Father and the sword girl as some of the more important ones
Wheelchair ShinobiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
There aren’t too many Wuxia time loop stories out there despite how I feel that those two genres go well together, and I’m glad I was able to find a good one. The main hook for me was the MC progressively gaining more independence for himself, with the gain in strength being a driving force to push past barriers. I do wish that he took full advantage of repeated deaths under the same conditions as I was getting all little annoyed that he wasn’t reaping all the benefits he could get. This is just the completionism in me, but I hope he gets a chance to complete all his fragmented skills in the future.
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.
RaddddRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The premise of this time loop is refreshing. I recommend checking it out for the novelty if nothing else. Most time loops do not begin with such a unique PoV.
It's got an interesting world with strong characterisation for the MC. He needs to escape his situation, and even with his looping powers, it's an impossible enough task to be compelling. The side characters are all... cartoonish, but the MC's PoV is *extremely* naive. I think the side characters will turn out to have more dimensions once the MC can perceive them better.
Unfortunately, the way the story is written lacks a certain something. Maybe it's an issue with set-ups and expectations, or the questions the main character is trying to answer, or their goals. Something of that nature. Perhaps just too much repetition/ too many things that needed to be summarised. All I know is for many of the MC's lives, I skimmed right to the end, even though the prose was good.
The MC is too dumb to do anything interesting with their powers, which is actually *fine*. But it adds to that impetus. You want him to learn and grow, or finish his current path and find a new direction, but it happens too slowly. You see where things are going faster than the MC does, and you are rarely surprised.
Anyway, the hook is so strong I am still reading. I'm curious enough about where things will go. I recommend checking this one out. It stands out for sure.
ThePlanetTreeRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
During the story, he has the ability to gain info that might expose himself BUT he can still learn things, like what is a sensor, what different outcomes are and dying in certain ways to gain abilities HOWEVER he for some reason hides these things even though its shown he has basically lost his fear of death and has a way to 'terminate functions' at any time he wants.
On the other side, he does act quite smart when he does do things like this and his character is different then most xianxia stories which I like and he changes in a lot of ways throughout the story.