Series
A Thousand Li
Tao Wong · 13 novels · 7 short stories · 2019–2025
A Thousand Li is Tao Wong's xianxia progression fantasy, following a protagonist who leaves ordinary life behind to pursue cultivation — training body and spirit to climb a hierarchy of magical power and rank. Told in the genre's characteristic long-running, escalating structure, the series spans a large number of installments as its hero advances through successive stages of strength and status. It draws on Chinese wuxia/xianxia tradition rather than Western epic-fantasy conventions.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- A Thousand Li Prequels(1 work)
- Omnibus editions(3 editions)
Map
A Thousand Li at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s2
- 2020s18
Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 92% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book13 of 20 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Third Cutdarkest · calmest
- The Fourth Stagebrightest
- The First Stepmost intense