Calron is turning eight years old in a few days... will he awaken as an accursed Lightning Cultivator or will he inherit something else entirely?Over a millennium ago, Lightning Cultivators ruled the skies and the earth. Wielding powers of overwhelming destruction, every other Element Inheritor could only kneel in subservience. The Lightning Gods ushered in the Golden Age of Cultivation.
Until the fated day.
All records of history were burned, and entire clans were massacred to hide the truth from the world. After centuries, any remaining embers of the past died with the passage of time.
Today, Lightning Cultivators are servants of Nobility, their element only able to paralyze their opponents and nothing more. No one questioned why the lightning element was the weakest among all the elements, and it was accepted as fact for generations.
The day before his eighth birthday, Calron loses his entire family, including his newborn sister. Filled with rage at the people responsible, he even directed his fury to the skies. In response, a mysterious bolt of Azure Lightning shot down from the heaven and invaded the young boy's body.
Foretold destinies and chains of servitude break apart when a forgotten element wakes up once again.
Legends of the past return and Ancient foes gather in a battle of the Divine Elements.
"The Divine Elements" is perfect for fans of Cradle by Will Wight and other wuxia, xianxia and progression fantasy book series. This series features weak-to-strong power progression, cultivation ranks, magical beasts, martial arts training, and a lot more!
The Blood legacy is one of the few books where the MC progresses without doing much. He gets a strong element, a Teacher in his head and another blood legacy ability... All within a span of 10 days.
Phew... I just couldn't take it anymore and called it quits at 65%
I could not put it down. I can't wait till the next one. I will admit the writing is.not professional. It does get the job done. I will be recommending this book to all,my friends.
The revenge arc of the protagonist felt lacklustre. I didn´t feel like his lord deserves the constant blame - at least not in the tradidional sense. The whole blame game felt too Gen Z for me: the lord had the protagonist´s family as paid retainers/workers and wants something in return for the salaries etc. The father died by accident and bad luck, the mother due to stress and the protagonist bitched about getting a stipend from him to go to a prestigious cultivator school for several years? Fortunately, the author later on makes the lord ridiculously evil and rather stupid - if he is sooo powerful why doesn´t he use some of his elite men for the hunts?
The author left twice his changes in the book contradicting himself in the next sentences ;-). I found it funny, that the giganticand prestigious academy is only 15 minutes by coach from the protagonist´s farm..
The protagonist becomes rather OP very fast and gets help from several grand masters at once, steals a legendary weapon and progresses way too fast which really feels like a cheat. Of course, he is special and the chosen one - which has really become a lame old trope by now. For me it is a paradox that the "hero" has enormous killing intent but neither killed nor intends to kill (yet).
The assassin family is preposterously over the top and the contest just ridiculous. The author killed all the immersion i had with the ending.
Fist book is fine really. Protagonist is a little mary-sue ish, but totally tolerable, especially for the Chinese spiritual martial-artist fairytale kind of thing it's going for. However, he just keeps getting new OP abilities one after the other.
SPOILERS
Protagonist has/is: special blue lighting, a talking spirit necklace to teach him, blood legacy berserker, part legendary lightning bird, can transform into a bird thing, but also it's part dragon, has some minor godlike mind ability, and he's also part psychic dark elf....
I don't think that's even all of it. JUST PICK SOMETHING AND STICK TO IT! Jeezus...
If you read a lot of cultivation books you know what usually happens to a young promising culivator and his master. The issue for me is the reason. To make an 8 year old the biggest simp ive ever seen was a bit much. However it was still an excellent read. Great story. Will be onto book 2.
I wanted to like this, but the writing style is just terrible. Extremely repetitive. Seems like a translation. Couldn’t make it more than a few chapters.
This book was well thought out, and is a good original concept. The only reason this is not a 5 star is because the writing seems rushed and was without details. I don't know if the author reads these reviews but if so I would suggest adding more details to his writing. It is like the saying "show not tell" don't just tell us what's happening, show us what's happening. We want to be able to clearly picture it. After reading the whole series it seems like you got better at this as it goes, adding things like hair colors, and other things. Along with details, I would say don't jump from one thing to another so fast. This can be applied to the development of the main character, to just the writing in general. Calron, the main character, doesn't have a clear power development. He seems to jump 4 stages of power at a time. This is evidenced (I just finished the third book so I'm going to use that as an example) when Calron jumps from the beginning of vajra to the 8th stage. If you had gradual development then it would be even better. I can understand wanting your character to be more powerful than he is, but you can still make that gradual. When a reader sees a character just jump that much power at once, it makes them not appreciate them as much. Along with this, I would meld and merge your books more. You did this well in the third book when you brought back Roran. That was a good throwback from the first book. It seemed like you had something specific you wanted for each book and was not willing to stray from that at all. For example, at the end of the first book, he gets sent to the desolate lands. The whole second book is spent there, and Calron isn't really even shown thinking about Roran or his previous master much. I think if you made Calron more like an actual person, your book would be more successful.
I really hope this doesn't come off as criticizing because this was a heck of a lot better than anything I could do. I have tried writing some books but I also struggle with adding details and not just being vague. I rated it 4 stars because it really was a great book and series.
Also I don't know why I wrote this whole thing to the author when it's mainly going to be other readers reading the reviews...
I hope this is better than that other cultivation book I read recently with the red cover.
Hmm. I don't know how to feel about this.
First off. The protag is too stoic for an eight year old. If he was reincarnated, I would understand the mature vibe he is giving off, but not when he was grown in that world.
Second. I don't know if the author is a native Chinese author, but this reads like a generic Chinese cultivation novel.
I have a quarter of the book remaining, and I don't know if I will continue the series. It's so generic, nothing stands out.
I love a good OP character, but this fresh off the farm bumpkin eight year old, with less than a week in school (where nothing is taught as yet), surpasses many people that were training for years. Okay. I understand you got the resources others don't (i.e knowledge), but so easily grasping cultivating energy? It beggars belief.
Finished the book. Seems the author isn't a Chinese webnovel author, he is just copying them. The whole book reads like a blood filled anime. I don't know if I would pick up the sequel.
An eight year old doing all this (cognitive development) without showing he was competent before hand is just not adding up. I can sum it up to "cultivator energies" or something, but I won't.
Calron, a young orphan boy, has just lost his entire family. The lord for whom his family were servants used his father, a lightning cultivator, to stun beasts so he could profit from the then easily killed beasts. After his father was killed the lord came for him, as he possessed the same talent. Enrolling him in a school to teach him to cultivate, the future seemed to be bleak for him. A surprising master and unexpected friendship caused Calron to nurture hope and made a few astounding discoveries. Unfortunately, politics abound in school and real life and Calroun makes a few deep enemies as he dares to work toward a life of his own. A few loose ends, firstly : what happened to the Elder that initially gave him his first cultivator pill? Also a bit usual that these kids had so much free time. Not much indicated as to what sect life was like. Usually their time is highly regimented. Lastly, these cultivator pills were never mentioned again, but would have been instrumental in furthering their development, no? Anyway, loved the overall story and ready to dive into the next!
Good enough for me to to buy all three books and read them in one day? Only issue I have is the dialogue. It was weak, very choppy, with zero intellect. I also couldn't wrap my mind around the main character. He was 8 years old and mid book her was an 8 year old with muscles and a six pack. Um, yeah. Not feeling it. Worst part is, by third book, he's still only 13 years old and he's saving the kingdom and abolishing slavery, yeah very unbelievable. But but but....
It's still a very good book. I was entertained. So much so, I followed the link to the authors patron page. Though, sadly disappointed this author request $80 month pledge for 12 chapters of his book. I've never heard of such a thin of authors asking his fans to support him, financially. I mean, who ever Daman is, is milking $3000 a month from his fan, aside from the money makes from the book. I found that to be very sketchy, no wonder this author goes by the name Daman.
Anyways, though it was tempting to consider pledging to his patron to get those 12 chapters, I decided to rather wait.
So, maybe I had high hopes when I read this series was similar to the Cradle series by Will Wight. Which couldn't be further from the truth. It was massively disappointing. I finished the book and can't help but shake my head at all the issues I encountered. The characters are not well thought out. The constant prophecy of who these children would become was seriously annoying and nonsensical.
Honestly, it's a tragedy because there was so much potential for a wonderful story, but it's trash. I kept hoping it was going to get better, that the hype was just around the corner, but no. It just got worse and worse. The only reason I decided to finish it was so I could write this review. How anyone could ever compare this garbage to the Cradle series is beyond me. Unless the comparison was to tell the author what not to do.
Fun Cultuvation story but poor English translation
This story is a nice little story about a boys journey to get revenge on those who have wronged him. He is a kind person with a lot of flaws. My only gripe is that he is a little too perfect at times as he is a "genius" at every new thing thrown at him. The story also suffers from what feels like a quite literal translation and poor editing. "One has to remember..." will be used to fill in info for the reader instead of showing them and "...is like the difference between Heaven and Earth" is repeatedly used to describe the difference in everyone's power level. The over reliance on these two phrases and the constant switching between 1st, 2nd and 3rd person is why even though I enjoyed the book I cannot give it 5 stars.
I feel like its pretty clear you didn't have an editor. There is some clear narration that dejects from feeling in the story. A lot of "he did that because of this, obviously". When there was clearly ways to express why a character did something, generally through dialogue, but interpretation of behaviour could also work. It feels like the narrator is constantly trying to tell us why things happen, but i dont really like that. I want to pretend im the character, and have the character find the answers as to the world he lives in.
There is other issues as well such as character development, Overly foreshadowing, NPC like behaviour. I'd highly recommend this book gets rewritten after seeing an editor, It has a lot of promise, but the quality is pretty bad.
I cannot believe anyone can read this. Formatting is all over the place. Paragraph spacing. No paragraph spacing. Indentation. No indentation. Section breaks don't use the same number of periods. Some section breaks don't have any so the pov just shifts without any indication. Dialogue tags form new sentences on a new line for some reason. People sigh inside dialogue. Author throws in *chirp* *chirp* and other words like that since I guess this is a screenplay or something. Just say birds are chirping.
The writing is about as juvenile and amateur as it gets. The story is the lowest quality power fantasy I've ever read. I did make it to the end somehow with lots of skimming.
I do not recommend. It's poor in every metric imaginable.
Reads like a fanfic of eastern YA fantasy. It works in triggering some of the satisfaction I had years ago when I was new to the genre. If only Daman had a better sense of balance and restraint. There's an over-eager pull in of various mechanics from the genre resulting in a distraction from the story itself. Character personas are often semi-psychopathic in this genre, and Daman seems split on a desire to embrace and reject it with characters ricocheting from unhinged to saintly at random.
Still, it's light hearted and fast-paced enough to keep me interested in seeing what happens in book 2.
I really REALLY wanted to like this story but there 2 major issues.
1- protagonist is 8 years old and it seems that the author has no idea what 8 year olds are actually like. 13 or 14 could have been believable but The story is absolutely ridiculous with an 8-year-old protagonist. Psychologically or biological, either way it's just silly and ridiculous.
2- literally every other line is a hyperbole. Some one is going to hit harder than anyone's ever hit before in the history of mankind! He had to learn now or he'd die! He was the , they were, it was.... It's just ridiculous and exhausting. It's crap .
I really enjoyed this self-published story. Despite the desperate need for a proofreader, it impressed me.
There's little that is original here. Some elements seemed lifted directly from other works. The pacing is inconsistent and sometimes jarring. There are seemingly unintended gaps in the narrative that make the protagonist's motivations uncertain. In short, this is a rough book... but I'm still heading straight into book two.
Regardless of Daman's inexperience, they know how to tell an entertaining story.
The author had a great success emulating the quirks, the style and the substance of a badly translated bad Chinese novel. If the writing was more standard I might have been able to push through to the start of a story if there is one, because the book starts with big trauma, never to be processed, then MC is suddenly drowning in techniques, teachers, artifacts and legacies. Over 50% of the book and we have yet to establish MC's character. Also, let's not have an 8 year old boy look at similar age girls that way please, ever.
Read this book in less than 1 day. It was hard to put down once I started. MC is weak to strong character progression. The story is funny, and you’ll be cheering for MC from the very first chapter. The world building is limited to the main town, but I’m sure there’ll be more as the series progresses. The Cultivation levels are easy to follow along, though a different name is used for 2nd stage compared to what you typically see in this genre.
I don’t really understand the praise. The books are mediocre at best. The story is kinda worth dealing with the poorly written prose. If this is a rough translation, I can understand. But, if it’s original English…it’s not great. I want to be charitable though, so if you have time to kill and little else to read. You could do worse.
Not sure there is enough development to judge the MC’s character. At the very least, he is not a walking sociopath.
Really enjoyed this book as it has great characters and world building, I like the weak to strong aspect as the characters work hard for there power and strength instead of been over-powered from the start. & I also like books that fight through discrimination and prove others wrong. This book really deserve 5stars.
The story and world description just jumped around. The time line was also distorted. The 8 year old becomes incredibly power full in a few days and then in a couple of months is ready for combat. The school doesn’t even question where he disappears to. A bit sloppy as a story.
This was an enjoyable read. I thoroughly enjoyed how the main character developed. It was inspiring how the MC was able to endure. The sadness and loss of family and still find some form of happiness. The introduction of his friendship was great and showed the thought the author put into developing that character.
This one has some classic elements of cultivation novels, but it was written like a kid wrote it. Not like a kid is the mc, but literally as if a young adult wrote this. There are moments that don't make any sense, the mc isn't very smart or likeable but somehow gets the specialist person in the world powers... And makes decisions that are awful.
Wow this is a real hidden gem among cultivation novels. I am really enjoying the series and it all feels so real and the characters and the story really pulls you in. I normally disslike it when author write books that only lasts for around 8 hours but I am making an exception for this series as it really caught my interest.
Great story, poorly written. Maybe it would be better if it was written like a novel, but instead it reads like a webcomic or something similar. Attention to grammar is lacking and seems as though too many details were rushed and not explored properly. Almost reads like a high school project for a student whose major is not English.
This book seems to suffer from indie author issues: a great premise but poor realization. The characters are kind of one dimensional and a lot of overpowered abilities get unlocked in a short amount of time.
It's a weird pathof the hero story, because while the protagonist would seem to be on the bottom of the ladder, he actually carries something inside from the very beggining of he story. It's also a story of brotherhood between friends and a mistrious teacher.
I was amazed by the efforts of the author to create a totally different kind of cultivation system. The success is in the story. I think the blood was something no one thought of before and the age of the characters makes for a scarier tale.