Ancient Being Predecessor of the Primordial Era

OP MC Cultivation LitRPG

By: Z. Robert Nights

Narrated by: Christopher Harbour, Mandy McCullough

Being mistaken for an Ancient Predecessor usually results in heavenly benefits. Not for James Anderson.

After being thrown into an isolated training realm, he is quick to figure out that there is no tutorial. No guidance. No ancient being to fully unlock his system. For eons he remains stuck by himself. Only system notifications and rewards appearing out of thin air keep him from going insane.

But even that eventually stops working.

Standing at the precipice of the Isolated Realm, he closes his eyes and jumps.

A tear in reality opens under his feet, unbeknownst to him. It dumps him into a cultivation world gone awry. Demons and evil cultivators now dominate the world. Righteous sects and clans hole up in caves and array-defended mountain peaks.

Why do they hide? Well, let's just say James has something to do with it.

Follow James Anderson, or is it Yin Hu, as he is dragged into petty squabbles and the lives of the last remaining Hu Family members; Hu Shui and Hu Jun.

Will he achieve his ultimate dream? Will there finally be his dream lady to pamper him after eons of struggling? Or maybe he should begin a harem-chasing adventure?

Follow James (Yin Hu) as he navigates the world with the belief he isn't that strong.

©2025 Z. Robert Nights (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

HOW OBLIVIOUS CAN THE MC BE?!?

It was funny for awhile, but it quickly becomes extremely annoying. Like come on, we get it, but no one lives this long and is this freaking dumb. It kills the book when it barely even starts.

For an introduction this did not go well

to start off the mc supposedly spends countless eons by themself and believes he's in a tutorial world but his system is broken. the broken system immediately no longer makes this litrpg and just gamelit. pedantic I know but it feels like an important issue with this book, like I want to like it but the mc then finally gets to interact with people to find out he knows nothing because his "tutorial" didnt teach him anything but of course made him op anyway because he in basically how he describes played around and getting random rewards from said broken system. then of course goes around thinking he's weak after cause despite being op once again he knows nothing which is frustrating cause it's like did you really not practice anything and think nah none of those skills are useful cause the all powerful system doesn't work. like at one point they give a time reference of like 60,000 years having passed and it's like what were you doing. like he even says the thought that it's all a tutorial is what kept him sane but that still feels like a lazy way of saying I did lots of things but I don't remember any of them. I doubt I will continue as I only even finished this one out of pure hatred for the mc.

A Frustrating Main Character

This book was difficult for me to get through. The narration itself was fine, but the premise and execution didn’t really work for me.

The story centers around a main character who believes he is underpowered and focuses on raising two young girls to the peak of cultivation. To do this, he lies to them and pretends to be their ancestor while training them and providing resources based on manuals he has received.

The core frustration is that the main character is apparently the most powerful being on the planet, yet he never realizes it and continues acting as if he is weak. That misunderstanding might have been interesting for a short period, but it goes on for far too long and ends up making the character feel unnecessarily foolish.

Because of that, much of the story felt frustrating rather than entertaining. Watching someone with overwhelming power constantly misjudge their own situation stopped being amusing fairly quickly.

The narrators did a solid job with the material, but unfortunately the story itself just didn’t work for me. I won’t be continuing with the next book in the series.

Entertaining

Goofy yet entertaining MC. Definitely plan to purchase the next couple books in the series.

so much potential wasted with this one.

this book reminds me of someone that tells "jokes" but never deliver the punchline. it was humorous at first but it soon gets cringe AF
he never even tries to measure his own strength. I love op mcs but I loath stupid and cowardly ones more.