The First Peak of the Force

The Heavenly Throne, Book 3

By: Yuri Ajin

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

Those who follow the noble art of cultivation know that there's no place for evil in their craft.

All that matters is reaching the Heavens, but to do that, one must unlock their Force.

The Fallen Star Sect's expedition to the mysterious cave ended in tragedy. Hundreds of their most talented students lost their lives in the dark tunnels. No less horrible was the fate of those who had found themselves at the imperial palace at the time. Nobody could've predicted such a turn of events.

The empire is on the brink of collapse. The moment of civil war draws nearer. But Kai won't participate in any of it. That's all behind him. Instead, he has set off on a new adventure that'll lead him far east, where he'll have to find a way to heal, become stronger, and finally find his place in this merciless and cruel world.

©2021 Yuri Ajin (P)2021 Podium Audio

good

it was a good book. there was a nice twist at the end. will probably read the next one

Just another installment

While I didn't hate it, the story seemed like a wash, rinse, repeat of the first two books. Talented protagonist fights, talented antagonists to overcome current limits. I could watch One Piece, Dragon Ball or any shonen to get a better story.

loved this book

I don't get why people make so much detailed reviews on the 3rd or fourth book it's like we've got this far into it this book was good really good great series

Wow. I really enjoyed this one

The author reminds me of Kirill Klavanski. The story is full of surprises and great characters. The battles were jaw gripping. The narration was great. I had a hard time putting this one down. looking forward to the next installment.

Good books, terrible people

Honestly, though these books are fun and the action is great, at least 90% of cultivators on Saha should be executed. They are batshit crazy evil bastards that somehow hold power in a world that should have destroyed itself centuries ago. How is there even civilization with these psychopaths running around with god powers and seemingly no laws whatsoever? I can’t root for anyone except for Kai and even Kai is kind of a crazy person who doesn’t really have any redeeming personality traits except for strength. He doesn’t really have a strong moral compass even before the cold void sapped him of his emotions. The whole “lay down and die with honor you piece for trash” thing that everyone seems to say when Kai meets them is honestly cliche at this point. It happens with literally everyone.

emotional detachment

I liked the story well enough but the character changing and lack of real emotional loss or lack there of is very disconcerting the main character does not seem to care for the death of friends at all when someone does die it ends the chapter and moves on there is no rage or tears nothing but the next chapter or part of the story it makes you as The reader or listener not care about any attachments that the main character might develop with anyone because you can see that there's no points in having emotions if it's not displayed written or cared about

not good

I had low expectations, and this still couldn't meet them. I listen to a lot of low quality drivel, but this is has to be the worst.

so so

a bit washed up cultivation book, with system but lack of cohesion, and mostly rigged towards MC.
still, wort the credit, but dont have many expectations.

One disappointment after another

Just to be clear, I was not expecting much from this book. The first book was passable, but the second one was much less interesting. Going into this book, I expected a few interesting fights, and not much else. Sadly, the book didn't even give me that. Here is a list of my problems with this book

1) The timeskip problem of the first two books is much more prominent here. Whenever the Mc is too weak to fight someone, he vanishes for a year or two, getting stronger completely off screen. This gives us no chance to guess how strong he is, and the Author only reveals the Mc's power increases when he's in the middle of what would have been an impossible battle before the timeskip. It always feels like the Author is saying "See how strong the other guy is?! now check this shit out! because the Mc killed a god, and drank his blood, he can destroy this dude like its nothing! isn't he so cool!?!?!"

2) The info dumps don't feel natural at all. Characters talk like this whenever the Author wants us to get extra info on the situation. "Ah! I see what you did! For the past 40,000 years, you have been putting your soul into the body's of your sons, giving you a kind of immortality, giving you the power to rule the clan form the shadows!" "You fool! you think knowing my secret will help you beat me?! to kill me you would need all seven of the Holy Sword Spirits! and I know you cant have them all, because I have two of them myself! w-what?! what happened to my Holy Sword Spirits?!?!" "You fool! they are my Holy Sword Spirits now! and I will fuse them into the ultimate Holy Sword Spirit! I bet you didn't know that was possible! hahahahahahahahahahahaha!"

3) Characters are randomly killed off just to make the Mc mad. At one point, a girl from the 2nd book shows up just to be killed off 3 paragraphs later.

4) The MC ia way too strong for any fight to really matter. Even when he's having "trouble" in a fight, he pulls a new, broken ability out of nowhere. It never feels like hes in any danger.

so much fail

author seems to have forgotten what's already been written, changes it to push the plot then writes nonsense to keep pushing plot. puts special item everyone want in magic ring. next chapter enemies show up and he rushed to the downed beast for it's crystal and to put the special item in his ring. the item he already stole and put in the ring a chapter ago. none of the enemies would know what the special item was, if it's already in his ring when they arrive. then after fleeing he looks around "for a piece of wood to use as a weapon" WHAT?! just a couple chapters ago he was fighting beasts above his level with his bare hands AND still has swords in his ring but he's looking around for wood to use as a weapon? of course! that's how he notices the special inscription... wtf, BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE but you get the idea. still good overall story just frustrating watching the author find valid ways to connect his plot points.
went from decent story to going downhill fast in the span of two chapters.