Becoming a True Leader

The Heavenly Throne, Book 9

By: Yuri Ajin

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

Prove your strength and cultivators from all corners of the Ecumene will follow you to learn the ways of true mastery.

The Trial Worlds do not forgive mistakes, and Kai will learn this through firsthand experience. He escaped death, but he lost a part of himself along the way. To get it back, he will have to overcome pain and suffering. But he knows it will be worth it.

He is no longer a pawn in the world of cultivation. So far, he has been but one of the many participants in the unfolding events, but now it is time for him to become the ringleader. The only question is: will he be able to endure these ordeals or will he become another lost name, erased from the annals of history, gone without leaving his mark in this cruel world?

His will alone is not enough anymore. Just like in the rest of the Ecumene, strength and skill rule in the Trial Worlds, too.

More precisely, the laws of cultivation!

©2022 Yuri Ajin (P)2022 Podium Audio

good when it gets around to the story

omg the tangents this book takes at explaining every small detail at times are frustrating especially when it in the middle of frigging fights... just dead stip in the middle of a fight to explain exactly how/why every technique works/is blocked for 30 45 min at a time gets old FAST

but if you can zone out for those parts the actual story and narration are gooe

Uh another amnesia book

One of my favorite series and this book doesn’t disappoint. I’m just frustrated that every good series has to have an amnesia and a lost power book in it. This is just gets frustrating as a reader. A great mind can’t come up with more original ways to progress the story.

Loved It and Kai’s the man

Kai is still my favorite RPG main character in all of my RPG series. He’s just a badass unlike some other wimpy MCs who don’t even know how to use 50% of their amazing potential and power. Kai just keeps on advancing and getting more and more badass. I can’t wait for the next book.

Starting to slow down

I'm not sure what happened here. The MC goes to a new world at the end of the last book and starts this book dead and with no memory. Seems like a book is missing.

Storyline is slipping

The previous books show the Mc building up his strength only to dismiss it . The storyline from the previous books don't line up with this book and this goes for the Mc and the other characters..the Mc gives an attitude like the people he hated in the previous books. I will stay with thos series hopefully the next book will be better

Still needs work

Still can't understand why no one can get along. Everyone hates everyone. Also the BS about there always being poverty is BS. Such an old leader would know that. Lastly you keep explaining things over and over, and makes me disconnect from the story due to just getting bored listening to 30 min of something we already knew from a previous book.

I will say I'm glad to see a potentially powerful female that isn't swooning for him. That was getting annoying...

Pointlessly negating most of MC uniqueness

So we spend 8 books building up how special, different and impossible Kai’s bloodline is. It’s made to be the most unique of the many unique things no one can have and as you develop it becomes hard to change core features. These limitations play a massive part of the story. Then in like a minute, all that is undone in this book. He literally makes a potion that gives anyone his powers. It’s beyond stupid and story breaking. It’s not thought through and a pointlessly bad subversion of the story. Then there’s there’s 40 minute fights that have 8 minutes of actual fighting and 32 of descriptions are ridiculous. Who wants that? Oh and there’s a lot
of pompous, hypocritical grandstanding done by the main character. He’ll get a slave and then go on undermining his future by requesting nothing while completely trusting other people because he doesn’t want slaves as followers. I mean it’s pointlessly risky. He doesn’t even ask for regular assurances using the system after all that because plot armor? He has talked about how foolish it is to blindly trust and 5 minutes after meetings people in this book there is a 180 on so much. And it doesn’t happen once or twice, he constantly flakes on his morals and plays this delusional and subverted version of an “honorable” cultivator. The author tries so hard to make the MC seem cool in this weird, inconsistent way. He ends up being a judgemental a**hole who only enslaves those who aren’t talented and “true” cultivators. If he judges you as one, he’ll just ask for a regular promise before handing over all his secrets if he wins. Because plot armor.