A Thousand Li: The First War cover art

A Thousand Li: The First War

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.
Prime members: New to Audible? Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Just £0.99/mo for your first 3 months of Audible.
1 bestseller or new release per month—yours to keep.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, and Originals.
Auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

A Thousand Li: The First War

By: Tao Wong
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly. Offer ends 29 January 2026 at 11:59PM GMT.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

Winter has passed, taking with it the hope of peace. The state of Wei deploy an increasing number of cultivators and soldiers, intent on taking over the state of Shen. Caught in between the armies is Wu Ying's village and all those that he cares about.

Advised to keep away from the approaching war, Wu Ying will have to decide what is more important - his journey to immortality or the ties to the mortal that he holds onto still. Or perhaps, there is a third way, one that balances both the needs of Heaven and destiny and the karmic ties of the family.

©2020 Tao Wong (P)2020 Tantor Epic Fantasy Martial Arts Fantasy

Listeners also enjoyed...

 A Thousand Li: The First Step cover art
Defiance of the Fall cover art
Adventures on Brad, Books 1 - 3 cover art
The Primal Hunter cover art
The Weirkey Chronicles Omnibus cover art
The First Law of Cultivation cover art
Mark of the Fool cover art
The Brightest Shadow cover art
Arcane Knight Omnibus cover art
Winds of Change cover art
Fall of Radiance cover art
Divine Apostasy Boxed Set Volume 1 (Books 1-3) cover art
Beware of Chicken: A Xianxia Cultivation Novel cover art
System Change: A LitRPG Adventure cover art
Unsouled cover art
Dissonance cover art
All stars
Most relevant
This book feels like 2.5 insteaf of 3. Since it dosnt add much to the series and can nearly be skipped without missing to much

Book 2.5

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Loved all of it, what an amazing story just fabulous and full of excitement. So fun and wonderful. Fantastic version

Fantastic and exciting

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Monotonous in action and performance. I enjoyed the most the first story. Starting with the second the interest of listening to it is dissipating to the point of not having it at all. Disappointed.

Is a dealbreaker

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This feels like it's a overcomplicated side story. Often time this feels like a DND session of sorts, and this far from of a compliment of any kind. Many aspects, while, "could happen" in the context of the world feel forced and just as the book itself puts it many times "boring". There's too many deux ex machina moments too. But the most glaring problem is the near suicidal quest for little to no benefit. Even the character growth feels pointless, since it seems to solve nothing more then problems the book itself introduces.

it's probably better to just skip to the next book. While not long it's a slog.

book doesn't meaningfully add to the series

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.