Water Flower

A LitRPG Adventure (The Undying Immortal System Book 2)

De: Greg Tolley

Narrado por: Daniel Wisniewski

Life is the teacher. Death is the lesson. An undying cultivator is the result.

Su Fang’s path of cultivation is a journey of countless deaths. As each new life pulls back the veil that covers the Nine Rivers Continent, he discovers both hidden truths and the chains that bind him.

The Nine Rivers Continent is under the thumb of a godlike entity willing to do whatever it takes to push society forward, and nothing fuels progress like conflict. To get his first true competitive advantage, Su Fang begins his hunt for a spatial fire seed, a treasure that will grant him the power to create a world of his own—a sanctuary beyond the reach of the Heavenly Dao. Fortunately—or perhaps unfortunately—he has as many attempts as he needs to succeed.

A cultivator who defies death has only one option: seek out a life worth living.

©2025 Greg Tolley (P)2025 Mountaindale Press

Conflicted

It is a solid series. Only real annoyance is MCs lack of asking the system for things like understanding soul manuals at level 1 since a shitton of the MCs worries seem to revolve around soul strength. Otherwise it is a good series with solid progression. I just wish it wasn't such a neverending series of self fulfilling "everything sucks in the end and I am alone"

Still Quality

Looking forward to the next one. I'm not exactly sure where it will go from here, but I can see big things on the horizon.

I wish I could spend his credits for him though, he has so many that it's painful to see him advance single affinities in such small steps when he could boost them all permanently for a fraction of his wealth. I also want to see him buy a few permanent items/artifacts like his health pill from the first book. He basically ignores his system inventory completely in favor of his tiny soul storage.

He also doesn't really experiment with his system much. Like, to not even ask how much it would be to boost his qi absorption rate is insane to me. At some point in this book he does a couple "Give me the most _ you can with _ credits" which is the smartest thing he has done yet. Infinite lives my guy, compound interest is your friend.

Beautiful

the only problem with this book is that it ends. can't wait till book 3.

MC irritated me

I was expecting somewhat similar pacing to the first book. Instead it felt 3 times slower. The main character continues to irritate me with his decision making skills, priorities, and social intelligence. Progress felt non existent for the first half of the book and only inched forward in the second half. "A regressor's Tale of Cultivation" seems to have given me an unreasonable expectation for these types of stories.

Great but Emotional

The first part of the book was great and the second half got real emotional, but I liked it overall.

It pays off in the third act big time

Top tier story. MC has grown, the overall series has developed and I’m excited for book 3

I don't know

Daniel is a top notch performer. I have never seen him till they were less than an amazing performance when doing the narration. a caveat before I move on to the story. I do endeavor to separate my personal taste from the quality of the work should they differ. I also try and take it easy on the first book of a new series as I've seen shaky starts from tried and true authors. when it comes to a sequel and basically looking for everything that made the last book worth it and then just a little bit more. I think this is a solid entry. I had mostly a negative feeling at the end of the last book. the core concept I thought was pretty cool. it's one of the reasons why I came back for book two. book two is vastly better in my opinion then book one. there is a scene for perhaps it would be better to say that the author chose to do certain things to a supporting character that I really hated. that though has to do with my personal preferences. I guess the thing that's kind of bothering me about the story now that I'm at the ending of book two is that I can't really tell what the point is. is our main character truly alone. is he trying to permanently change the world in which she now exists. is he trying to improve himself. in the last book he mentions that he died trying to save his sister but that had been so long he could barely remember his sister let alone what he was trying to save her from. the deal if he agreed to his current circumstances was that he would get the opportunity to help her. she's not mentioned at all in this book. so are we just done with that.

A Solid 2nd Book

If you enjoyed the first book in the series, I think you will enjoy the 2nd.

The MC expands his knowledge base while a interested story unfolds. Most cultivation series I’ve experienced it always seem like you're left wanting. This series is 2 for 2, I of course always want more but the books have enough and end at a good stopping point.

Looking forward to book 3.

Okay, for sure worse in the first

I was looking forward to this second book very much, but I was disappointed. maybe I hyped it up too much in my mind, or maybe it's just not as good. Will I get the third book when it comes out. Yes, will I be as excited? No.

Thinking about the world in the story, I found that I really dislike that different cultivation methods brainwash the cultivator. And if the protagonist had found a workaround in the first book, it wouldn't have been such a big deal, but it's still happening.

A lot of the crappiness of his various lives can be linked to this. And the majority of this book was spent on one life where that was the case. Which also gives me the thought that the blessing of one of his followers being that powerful. I don't like that, it just seems incredible that it could be able to tell so much about his blessing.

Incredible

I loved the ending way too much. I can’t wait for the next book. I went through these so fast I want to relisten already