Win A Set Of Tao Wong’s ‘A Thousand Li’ Book Series

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The First Step in stores now.

A farmer’s son should never have had a chance at immortality. Wu Ying’s future was simple: tend the fields, care for his family, and live out his days in a quiet village. But when he’s conscripted into the army and marched off to war, that future is ripped away.

On the battlefield, a single moment changes everything. After spotting an ambush that saves countless lives, Wu Ying catches the attention of the Verdant Green Waters sect, one of the empire’s powerful cultivation schools. Offered a chance few commoners ever receive, he leaves behind the mortal world he knows and enters a realm of martial arts, spirit beasts, ancient mysteries, and immortals.

But talent alone won’t keep him alive. Surrounded by gifted nobles, rival disciples, and deadly enemies, Wu Ying must fight for every scrap of progress. The path to immortality is paved with hardship, sacrifice, and danger—and one wrong step could cost him everything. The First Step is the first book in the complete A Thousand Li series, a cultivation epic featuring deep progression, immersive worldbuilding, martial arts mastery, spirit beasts, and a classic underdog rise to power.

The First Stop in stores now.

A young man searches for his own path to immortality—while grappling with the looming threat of war—in this compelling novel in the A Thousand Li epic progression fantasy series. Includes a bonus short story exclusive to this print edition.

Long Wu Ying’s studies at the Verdant Green Waters Sect, an exclusive school of cultivation, are at a turning point. It’s time for him to choose what secondary occupation to pursue—alchemist or blacksmith, physician or martial specialist. Yet Wu Ying struggles to decide which focus will best define and contribute to his dao, his personal path of cultivation. And what happens if he chooses wrong?

But beyond the walls of Verdant Green Waters, the drums of war beat as the sect is pulled deeper into the battle for supremacy between states. The Sect Elders thrust Wu Ying and his friends into a desperate gamble to prepare for the upcoming war—a risky assignment that will put to the test everything Wu Ying has learned. As pressure builds from within and without, Wu Ying must find his place in this new martial world, or he may not survive the trials to come.

The First War, the third book in the series, in stores on November 10th.

As the long winter draws to a close, war between the enemy states of Wei and Shen grows ever more inevitable.

Long Wu Ying has been forbidden by the Verdant Green Waters sect to participate in the conflict. But there is more at stake than Wu Ying could have imagined when he began his study of magic and mystical martial arts: Wu Ying’s village—the family and friends who knew and loved him when he was only a farm boy—will be caught between the amassing armies.

Now Wu Ying has a choice to make: Does he leave his people to their fate in favor of pursuing his sect’s ideals and his own ambitions? Or does he help them and give up on the chance for greatness, after all his hard-won progress?

Or can Wu Ying find a third path–one that balances both his commitment to immortality and the earthly bonds that tie him to his family?