The First Great Sect [Xianxia - Sect Building - Epic Cultivation]

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Description

“If the gods are so eager to die, then I will give them war.”

The war in heaven killed Liao Hua’s love and she will answer the gods with slaughter.

Struck by divine lightning and cursed with golden eyes that see the true nature of the world, Hua threads a path through the mortal forces opposing her. With the furious lightning Qi she cultivates, she will stand against empires and armies. From the rival cultivation clans seeking to destroy her family and the distant kingdom wishing to destroy her nation, she will fight and win and conquer until the world bows.

All this she will do to create the First Great Sect the world had ever seen, one powerful enough to judge the heavens through blood and lightning. She will make the gods pray for mercy before slaughtering them.

A story of revenge, Cultivation, politics, and finding love in the ashes.

What to expect:

-Female MC

-Competent and pragmatic MC

-Slowburn power progression

-Slowburn revenge story

-Creation of common xianxia tropes

-Complex cast of villains and characters

-Extensive politics

-Extensive worldbuilding

-Creating a Sect from the ground up

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2025
Author: Sun Yi Sol

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Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(5)

NelseumRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I always had problems reading Cultivator stories, difficulties with the setting, difficulties with the classic tropes and the general atmosphere, difficulties with how character felt bland in most cases. And yet im rating this one Five stars.
The first two chapter hocked me. The emotions MC got through did me nasty, i could not stop reading till i reach the end of chapter 27. I'm hopping this story will be succesfull and hopefully maintain such a high quality writing, character building and the very engaging revenge on the heavens plot.
SeventySevenRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I would do an advanced review if it wasn't just going to be all five-stars. I've been reading fiction obsessively since elementary school, so this thing is stepping over thousands of works to land at top 30, minimum. I don't think I can identify a single one-dimensional character so far, and that includes any who were introduced for the sole purpose of dying instantly or being humiliated. There's a spread of rational, intelligent people, and the protagonist herself is remarkably human for such a believable sociopath.
The author does the legwork when it comes to intelligence. I don't believe I've once been explicitly told a character is smart. It's just blatantly clear. Neither has the author so far pushed so much as a point, much less a viewpoint. The protagonist may be right or wrong, the people she comes in conflict with may be right or wrong. The writing remains neutral, treats the reader with respect.
I will dock one one-hundredth of a star for being a little too unsubtle with the "I will drown the heavens in blood." One less repetition, maybe.
I've written multi-page critiques before, but I truly had to work up the courage to review this piece of art.
TryypRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Has to be the strongest start of a cultivation novel I have read. The writing itself is high quality, with high marks for spelling, grammar, and word choice. No bland characters, both the protagonist and other actors having their own viewpoints be logical from their own viewpoints.
The only downside is that there is not more to read so far.
luda305Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The first six chapters are brilliant. Exquisite introduction to our characters and the world, the sweetest love*, a crisis, the greatest of tragedies, and a declaration of war against the heavens. Classic xianxia executed in the best way in English. If it was a stand-alone short story, I'd give it seven (out of five) stars.
*By the way, it's a lesbian relationship.
The remainder of the story so far... I have some serious pacing concerns. Yes, I realize that it's labeled slowburn. But at the pace it's going, it's going to take like 10-20 books before heaven is defeated.
So, around chapter 3/4, as a side effect of the war in heaven, the city of which the protagonist's clan rules is destroyed like a natural disaster. After she recovers from the great tragedy, she then spends chapters 7-19 dealing with the details of disaster recovery in the city. This is way too long, and the songbird subplot from 14-19 is extremely useless, other than putting her in a particular place to get the smallest bit of intel/wisdom.
In chapter 20, she finally hikes back up the hill to her home, though honestly it feels like it takes 3 chapters before she even relaxes for the first time.
So I read through chapter 22, and at this point, I skipped around a bit and skimmed. The pacing is still pretty bad.
So chapters 23-32 (and probably more, but that's what's released so far) is about her taking the lordship (head) of the clan and dealing with that process.
It's well written, but it seems like it's another obstacle. It could take the rest of book 1 to finish that out. And then how does that play into the sect plot? Does the clan become a part of the sect? Or does she need to leave the family to start? If that latter, it could be a hundred chapters easily for that to happen. If the former, then perhaps earlier, though honestly I'm not sure where the political capital to get started on the sect would come from while dealing with the natural disaster.
Anyways, I broadly see the strokes of the p
EmptyOwlRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
The first chapters of this story are just brilliant and amazing with deep emotion and promise. But as the story progresses it feels like the author lost who his characters were and it becomes banal and boring to read.
A few errors with gender (which seems common in this genre, perhaps due to non-English nativity in many of the authors) but otherwise, very evocative imagery and world-building, with great emphasis on politics and character consequences. However, I just don't see Hua (the MC) ever reaching her goal as I reach chapter 50 and find my interest waning.