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License to Cultivate [Progression Fantasy Tower Climber] (FOUR books completed!)

Name: License to Cultivate [Progression Fantasy Tower Climber] (FOUR books completed!)
Rating: 4.6 (384 reviews)
Author: MTalon

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Synopsis

Book 1-4 are complete! Book 5 releases T/Th/Sat

As a scribe without a sect to back him, Chang-li has little hope of advancement. Not until the day he makes a deal with a ghost and learns of a secret entrance into one of the Divine Emperor’s cultivation towers. Now, as he deciphers the secrets of a long-dead sect and practices forbidden techniques, Chang-li has a path forward. That is, if he can forge the paperwork to give himself the right to even try…

Now, in book 2:

Faking a license to cultivate was enough to get Chang-li to his first advancement and impress the government officials in charge of cultivating, but he’s also made some powerful enemies. As a scribe, without the resources of a sect behind him, it’s going to be hard to reach his next advancement. He’s learned of a secret trove of knowledge left behind by the long-dead Morning Mist sect. With some help from Min, granddaughter of the local mob boss, Chang-li’s determined to retrieve the secrets and take on the arrogant Young Master who’s nearly gotten him killed twice now. But when a screw-up threatens him and Min both, Chang-li will have to take decisive action. The consequences may be more than he can handle…

The action doesn’t let up in Book 3 – as Chang-li faces a beauty pageant with teeth – or as he searches out ancient sect secrets in book 4.

Cultivation with a tower-climbing twist. Character-driven, full of action and intrigue, this is one climb you won’t want to miss.

What to expect:

Weak-to-Strong

Unique, tightly-designed light-based magic system

One main point of view with several important secondaries

Series is planned to be 9 books long: while not a slow burn, themes and worldbuilding will be developed over the course of the series.

Action packed, character driven

Tower climbing with a twist

NO harem

Updates T/Th/Sat

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