The Swordwing Saga [LitRPG Cultivation]

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Book 1 is available onKindle and KUhere!

Restarting the apocalypse was a good way to die, according to Rieren, even if she’s made too many enemies along the way. Especially since she would be reborn in the process.

Unfortunately, when she goes back to the past, she isn't the only one who remembers the previous timeline. Everyone else does too.

Now, half the world already hates Rieren’s guts, while the other half is searching for who’s forcing them to go through the monstrous apocalypse again.

The only saving grace—Rieren is reborn where the world doesn’t know her. Yet. With her identity one misstep away from a fatal revelation, Rieren must use her experience to forge the quickest path through a maze of rival sects, warring factions, and hidden threats, all to attain and surpass her former power before her greatest enemies close in.

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This is a regressor story inspired by Reborn Apocalypse and Forge of Destiny. Updates will be daily, or as close to daily as I can manage. Chapters will usually range between 2k-3k words.

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Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2023
Author: GeorgieD

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Rating: 4.1/ 5.0
Followers: 1,036
Views: 421,982

Chapters(276 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

PakkoRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
SwordWing is one of the most unique stories in the genre of Apocalypse Regressor stories I have read so far. The idea that the side affects of rewinding time is that everyone else remembers their past lives is brilliant. I haven't read too far to feel much of the effects of this, but I am excited to continue forward with all of the possible implications. Mainly it means that life will be very different for Rieren. For me the one downside was that the first few chapters felt a bit slow and took me a little ot get used to. The writing and editing for this story have been great. After the first few chapters the story has also gone by faster and smoother. Overall I would highly reccomend.
LunaEclipse365Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Pretty good, I don't see why others has had a hard time reading it, but to be fair, I've only read the first 3 chapters so I'm not one to judge. The overall idea of the story is well known, somebody very skilled dies and gets reborn and all that, but I really love the new spin on the idea!
Astral CrystalRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The Swordwing Saga is one of the more original and well written Cultivation stories out there.
The style of the story is good it's easy to understand what's happening.
The story itself is it's greatest strenght in my opinion, it starts off with a time reset after a system apocalypse in a cultivation world but unlike other time reset stories everyone keeps their memories which brings much nuance and interesting situations. I also think the way the cultivation and system apocalypse aspects are blended together perfectly without it being sloppy. For example tropes usually present in system apocalypse novels such as resource gathering are integrated into the sect system. It's surprising how well they mix.
The grammar is good I didn't see any errors or confusing paragraphs.
The characters are very good, the main character is interesting and op in a believable way, batcat is super cute and adorable while also being helpful and not just a cute decoration, her best friend, father and elder are good characters as well they are likeable and have their own traits and problems apart from just existing for the mc. The only problem I'd say is that the mc is way too paranoid but it makes sense story wise so it's fine.
Overall if you're looking for a story with an op protagonist, cultivation aspects or a system apocalypse I'd definitely recommend it.
They do mention monkey balls a suspicious amount of times though.
Darath69Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The protagonist is responsible for reversing time in a world where people can cultivate and also level up with a class. The interesting part of the story is that everyone remembers the life they led up until their death or the time reversal. The part I hate is how the protagonist keeps hiding her power. I get she wants to hide where she previously reached, but it’s just stupid to keep lying about her current level, or current cultivation level. She’s not quite at the murder-hobo level as she does have a few friends, but her paranoid secrecy is getting to the point of annoyance for me.
I think I’ll keep reading more to see if things change, otherwise I may end up dropping the story.
DynalonRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
This story is hybrid of cultivation and system with elements and tropes of both mixed together. Style and grammar are good, characters are done well enough, worldbuilding is excellent.
There are few things which are not problem given current story length but could be problem if the story continues the same way:
- pacing is relatively slow, most of the time is spent on worldbuilding and descriptions how things work, mostly in the form of MC inner monologues. If pace picks up a bit or amount descriptions is slightly reduced it will be perfect
- character could use bit more depth, maybe few more casual interactions would do the thing, but given where story went so far (survival after apocalypse) I understand it was hard to pull it off
- MC lacks a goal other than to survive and get stronger, she has already fulfilled her goal in the prologue and now it feels like she does not have anything solid to strive for
- story is told only from POV of MC, which is fine but I think it would help if there were few other (1-2) POVs, but if not then it is fine too
monkeymanwasd123Royal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Short version: it's hard to read, as if it was actually written by a pre industial cultivator
I skipped a lot of chapters to get to where she even met people, it feels like there's a lot of filler text in each chapter even if I scroll past a lot of text I don't miss plot points. Maybe I would rate it higher if I was in a better mood but it's definitely not a page turner for me dispite this being one of the only times if not the only time I've seen a novel where everyone is a regressor. Hopefully it gets good later but the more I compare it to other regresser novels the more I doubt it.
LostAncillaRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
Good setup, solid basics. Our heroine Reiren starts the story standing atop the pinnacle of cultivation and spitting in the eyes of the divine.
This is immediately undone in a way that deeply disadvantages her. Though she once achieved impossible strength, repeating her achievements starts as difficult and approaches impossible. Any advantages she gains are incremental while the struggle increases exponentially.
The decision to fuse gamer elements with xianxia was a fun and engaging one but there doesn't seem to be anything truly impressive about Reiren's own build aside from overpowered healing - an element gained early on. Others have more interesting powers put to creative use.
The current arc involves narrative decisions that sabotage any stakes so thoroughly that the progress made seems to be completely nullified for no reason except to manufacture outrage.
Good luck to readers - the material for a solid, engaging story is buried here somewhere.
Dennis ARoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
The premise is interesting and it is fairly well written. If you are bothered by wrong words being used and incorrect tenses, this story will be hard to read.
As of chapter 40 the story suffers from 2 main problems.
1. The MC's rampant paranoia is taking over the narrative.
In the original timeline, the MC has 2 periods of their life. Before ascension and after. When they ascended, they became so different that there is no connection between the two. This is the only reason that the gods did not immediately smite her and her sect as soon as the restart happened. And yet the MC is completely overcome with paranoia about people making the connection. This isn't helped by, for some reason, the demons specifically targeting her. No reason, other than the restart, is given to explain why she is being targeted. A fair chunk of each chapter is taken up with her internal paranoid monologue.
2. There isn't any attempt to address the fact that everyone person alive at the point of the restart falls into 2 camps.
First camp: people that died, often quite horrifically. Each of these people went from watching everyone in their life being killed as well as experiencing their own death, to being alive and perfectly healthy. There has to be some serious trauma there.
Second camp: all of those who betrayed humanity and sided with the gods. There has to be some conflict/mass killing of the traitors.
RTorranceRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
I don't know, this one hasn't grabbed me. The base concept is a decent one, a regressor resets everything and everyone keeps their memories... A nice twist on the genre.
The execution however is the iffy bit. The characters and grammar is great but the world just does not quite fit together properly and some of the plot holes make it hard to read.
I keep getting pulled out of the story and can never be immersed in the world. Some of the more egregious examples being:
The MC is super paranoid about keeping everything and everyone under wraps, but is basically targeted/recognised by the bads almost immediately regardless so that's great. Why she even bothers or why her identity isn't passed on absolutely immediately to the big bad guy are plot holes that might be explained later but they haven't so far and if they are I'd be surprised.
Her pre-knowledge is mixed and never well hinted out in advance before being randomly pulled out in a specific moment when needed Deus ex machina style over and over. The fact that everyone has changed actions means her knowledge of future events is worthless and the author has also said her 'muscle memory' needs to be rebuilt anyways (despite her fighting as of it's still there) which largely means she is supposedly only advantaged by her knowledge about the system.
Oh yeah the cultivation novel has also crammed in a system and it is very janky. The scaling seems super wacked since the god realm has A and S ranks but she had already fought everything from E up to B already 60 chapters in and it's a always a coin toss on if she will struggle immensely against one solitary enemy or if her or random sect disciples can just squish legions of them like bugs.
It has a shop which sells everything and anything for prices which wildly fluctuate including herbs, cultivation techniques and then big standard "17 pace rope" all for basically random prices. It also lets you sell to it almost everything including rubble (ch. 91) and apparently offers
MetafalicaRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
It's really difficult to get into this. It starts out well enough and things do make sense, but at some point, the story and/or style just deflates like a punctured balloon and never recovers.
It's hard to pinpoint one specific thing, but if I had to try, I would say: The system and the power creeping (One thing, two things, same thing). The system just, doesn't really fit in and is weird at times. Take for example her base movement skill:
2 usages of 7 (or was it 14) paces per combat. And then that suddenly translates to "However many usages you want up to a combined 2x7 (or 2x14). Why even include usages then? And combat is defined on a "per enemy" basis. An army of 100? You now have 100x2x7 paces, have fun! It's just, what. And you can sell pretty much whatever at any time to the system as well and this is never abused, even though it would be so obvious to do so. She keeps on going "gotta balance the stats!" but never actually tries to. I could go on more, but that's the gist of my "system" issues.
For the power creeping, well, it should be fairly obvious what that entails.