The Sundering Blade

A Thousand Li World Novel

De: Tao Wong

Narrado por: Brian Nishii

A blade cuts both ways

Newly minted an Elder of the Verdant Green Waters sect, sword prodigy Elder Cheng Zhao Wan—the Sundering Blade—is forced to leave the sect to fulfill an old obligation. A benefactor from the past is injured and has demanded Elder Cheng locate his assailant.

Forced to listen to the ramblings of a dying old man, amidst a small and unfamiliar sect, who Elder Cheng can trust is unknown. Was the injury nothing more than happenstance, or is something more dire afoot?

For once, Elder Cheng finds that his skill with the sword might be the least of his gifts.

A Thousand Li: the Sundering Blade is a world of A Thousand Li novel, featuring a much younger Master Cheng before he meets Wu Ying. A xianxia fantasy novel, The Sundering Blade is a stand-alone prequel to the best-selling A Thousand Li series and features high flying martial arts, tense battle scenes and contemplations of the Dao and karma alike.

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Great short story

Great story that fills in some blanks spot in the main series, can be listened to before starting the series and may give you a better understanding of the some of characters before you start the series

Now We Know

I fully appreciated this prequell to the A Thousand Li series. I've always liked our enigmatic Master Cheng and couldn't help wondering why he seemed to know he had a connection to Wu Ying when still a lowly peasant, why he didn't provide guidance initially to his "apprentice", why he pursued a dao of severing himself from all karmic ties, and why did he feel compelled to pursue Dark Sects when others believed them eradicated? Now I know. The one thing I don't know is why he would teach The karma Severing Blade to Wu Ying given how costly it could be... perhaps he felt it was fated?

The narration was a little stilted but decent. It always takes me a bit to adjust to a different narrator from a main series for this kind of side story, especially when the narrator for the main series is so outstanding. Still, not a bad job.

Solid side story

Good side story, interesting premise. I marked this down a notch because the MC is (intentionally) unlikable and though the story shows him to begin to grow into his humanity, we were left with a key dangling thread (the girl cultivator) and then some indicator of where the MC is going with his future. I think another chapter would have not left this feel unfinished…

Elder Chang

Elder Chang and his path of Karma, what an iteresting guy! I only wish we could follow mote of his adventures. Also, I adored the narration, Its so hard for me to listen to terrible narrators, and there ate plenty. overall, I loved everything about this audible book.

Story is ok.

Quiet frankly, the narration is just not up to the job. I wonder, what on earth have happened here! A good story is ruined because of the narration.
Thousand of prayers that Travis Baldree comes back for the next book.