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Reborn as a Primordial Slime in a Cultivation World
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Iron Blood, Ghost World: I Max My Martial Arts With Malice
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Zero-Day Sovereign: Root-Access to the Heavenly OS
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LitRPG & Magitech12
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CompleteThe Sovereign of Dry-Well Village
LitRPG
134 free
CompleteMy Golden Core is a Star, and You Call This Cultivating?!
LitRPG
134 free
CompleteStellar Slacker: I Thought This Was an Idle Game!
LitRPG
134 free
CompleteThe Master's Answer Key: Cultivating with the Heavenly Bug Tracker
LitRPG
134 free
CompleteFrontier Architect: My Blueprints Build Empires
LitRPG
134 free
CompleteThe Quest Everyone Failed: The Last Claim of Bellwether
LitRPG
134 free
CompleteThe Mapmaker Who Moves Mountains
Progression
134 free
CompleteThe Dungeon That Learned to Lie
LitRPG
76 free
Progression Xianxia9
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CompleteReborn as a Primordial Slime in a Cultivation World
LitRPG
134 free
CompleteVersion Control Immortal: Forking the Heavenly Dao
Cultivation
90 free
CompleteThe Daily Accumulation Ledger: 10% Every Day Until I Shatter the Heavens
Wuxia
58 free
CompleteThe Cripple Who Lived Ten Thousand Lives
Cultivation
58 free
CompleteMy Cultivation Requires a Worthy Enemy
Cultivation
134 free
CompleteThe Villain's Father Refuses to Die in Chapter 3
Xianxia
116 free
CompleteMy Spending Is Refunded 100x, But Only If I Spend It on Others
Urban Cultivation
116 free
NewThe Bizarre System: Forbidden Arts, Endless Life
Xianxia
116 free
Grimdark & Horror7
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CompleteIron Blood, Ghost World: I Max My Martial Arts With Malice
Wuxia
72 free
CompleteThe Lives I Burned: The Speculum of Forfeited Paths
Dark Fantasy
72 free
CompleteThe Hall of Ten Thousand Statues: The Cartographer of the Drowned Dao
Cosmic Horror
44 free
CompleteDo Not Level Up After Midnight
Horror
134 free
CompleteEvery God Starts as a Monster
Monster Evolution
56 free
CompleteRules of the Night Shift: Don't Let the Customer Without a Face Pay in Cash
Rules Horror
116 free
NewThe Last Safe House
Gothic Thriller
28 free
Sci-Fi & Summons5
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CompleteZero-Day Sovereign: Root-Access to the Heavenly OS
Cultivation
72 free
CompleteApex Breeder: All My Beasts Have Divine Ancestors
LitRPG
58 free
CompleteMy Summons Have Day Jobs: The Courtesy Bridge of Lowbank
Fantasy
134 free
CompleteThe Last Blacksmith of the Sun
Progression
56 free
ReleasingThe Hollow March
Progression
93 free
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33 novels
CompleteThe Sovereign of Dry-Well Village
LitRPGComplete
134 free1,000 ch
Exiled to a dying desert village with a crippled dantian, a dry mud well, and a hundred starving villagers who hate his guts—Pei Xuan activates the ultimate RTS City-Builder & Supreme Fusion Cube System!
CompleteMy Golden Core is a Star, and You Call This Cultivating?!
LitRPGComplete
134 free250 ch
Austin thought he was alpha-testing an unhinged indie sandbox survival game.
CompleteStellar Slacker: I Thought This Was an Idle Game!
LitRPGComplete
134 free500 ch
Felix Vance worked himself to death testing video games.
CompleteThe Master's Answer Key: Cultivating with the Heavenly Bug Tracker
LitRPGComplete
134 free400 ch
Frank thought he was beta-testing a broken, poorly coded wuxia simulator with a terrible instructor UI.
CompleteFrontier Architect: My Blueprints Build Empires
LitRPGComplete
134 free520 ch
An exiled municipal civil infrastructure engineer and hardcore colony-sim modder wakes up in the freezing mud of a rotting penal outpost.
CompleteReborn as a Primordial Slime in a Cultivation World
LitRPGComplete
134 free500 ch
Calm, food-loving logistics coordinator Lin Xiao transmigrates into an immortal cultivation realm as an adorable, translucent azure-blue Primordial Chaos Slime.
CompleteVersion Control Immortal: Forking the Heavenly Dao
CultivationComplete
90 free700 ch
Four hundred and twelve cultivators tried the Crimson Meridian manual.
CompleteIron Blood, Ghost World: I Max My Martial Arts With Malice
WuxiaComplete
72 free350 ch
In a rotting dynasty where the imperial dragon vein is severed and night belongs unconditionally to the Uncanny, mortal martial artists train for decades only to be butchered in seconds by incorporeal specters.
CompleteZero-Day Sovereign: Root-Access to the Heavenly OS
CultivationComplete
72 free700 ch
The Nine Heavens is not a divine cosmos—it is an ancient Precursor planetary super-architecture running legacy uncompiled ritual scripts, with heavenly tribulations acting as automated garbage collection routines.
CompleteThe Lives I Burned: The Speculum of Forfeited Paths
Dark FantasyComplete
72 free700 ch
An indentured contract conservator who cannot summon binds alternate versions of himself born from the futures he permanently surrenders—discovering that every power-up is an irreversible loss, and his strongest summon wants him dead.
CompleteThe Daily Accumulation Ledger: 10% Every Day Until I Shatter the Heavens
WuxiaComplete
58 free700 ch
Former forensic financial auditor Pei Jing transmigrates into the declining Pei Clan of Cloudford Town with zero talent and no spiritual roots.
CompleteThe Cripple Who Lived Ten Thousand Lives
CultivationComplete
58 free690 ch
Born with hopelessly shattered meridians in the Nine Provinces, Lin Cang is bound to the ancient Samsara Wheel.
CompleteApex Breeder: All My Beasts Have Divine Ancestors
LitRPGComplete
58 free1,000 ch
In a post-cataclysm Earth where human cities are defended by beast tamers and elite houses monopolize laboratory-cloned purebloods, transmigrated veterinary anatomist Arthur Vance views beast evolution not as mystical prayers, but as the reverse-engineering of cellular degradation and genetic dormant sequencing.
CompleteThe Hall of Ten Thousand Statues: The Cartographer of the Drowned Dao
Cosmic HorrorComplete
44 free1,000 ch
The celestial spheres did not burn; they drowned in a primordial deluge of dissolved concepts.
CompleteThe Quest Everyone Failed: The Last Claim of Bellwether
LitRPGComplete
134 free1,000 ch
For six years Tomas Reed carried other people's victories through the fortified river city of Bellwether.
CompleteMy Summons Have Day Jobs: The Courtesy Bridge of Lowbank
FantasyComplete
134 free1,000 ch
Indentured apprentice Pella Rook breaks her summoning examination to stop a boiler pipe explosion in Lathmere and discovers the Courtesy Bridge—where cross-world summons are working professionals bound by honest labor agreements rather than battle thralls.
CompleteDo Not Level Up After Midnight
HorrorComplete
134 free1,000 ch
Nineteen-year-old postal courier Len Vey crosses Rookvale—a mountain province trapped beneath an engineered twelve-year night where midnight transfers unclaimed level advancements into physical doubles wearing their owners' faces.
CompleteThe Mapmaker Who Moves Mountains
ProgressionComplete
134 free1,000 ch
After abandoning her scout exam to rescue an injured climber fifty paces below the finish line, Kezra Venn awakens her survey notebook as a Step Cartographer—capable of swapping surveyed blocks of mountain terrain to find her vanished brother in the sealed basin of Alderfast.
CompleteMy Cultivation Requires a Worthy Enemy
CultivationComplete
134 free1,000 ch
Expelled from the Ash Reed Sect for refusing to certify a rigged breakthrough, Coal-rank recorder Seyun inherits the Answering Meridian—an ancient martial art that completes his inward channels by answering the genuine advancement of three freely sworn worthy rivals.
CompleteThe Dungeon That Learned to Lie
LitRPGComplete
76 free598 ch
Killed on a rain-soaked stage after a failed illusion, third-rate conjurer Noll Vey awakens as the core of a ruined border fort where every lie believed by trespassers becomes physical reality—and leaves a compounding debt on the dungeon's stone ledger.
CompleteThe Hero's Save Point Belongs to Me
LitRPGComplete
76 free600 ch
Every time the Kingdom's Chosen Hero resets the timeline at the Oakhaven shrine, tavern keeper Jon Hale retains the physical ledger of the discarded loop—and claims jurisdiction over the save point itself.
CompleteThe Last Blacksmith of the Sun
ProgressionComplete
56 free400 ch
In a vertically tiered city warmed by failing solar lamps, salvage-yard apprentice Mara Venn hides the ability to hear structural fatigue inside living metal—until the last true sun-smith places the city's master hearth hammer into her hands.
CompleteMy Kingdom Has One Citizen
Kingdom BuildingComplete
116 free1,000 ch
Exiled to the ruined border fortress of Ormhold with a waxed-leather writ and a nursery book of Royal Forms, disgraced prince Idrin Saelmar awakens the Charter-Sovereign class—where a kingdom's strength is measured not by conquest, but by the free consent of those who sign its Gatehouse Register.
CompleteEvery God Starts as a Monster
Monster EvolutionComplete
56 free400 ch
When a nameless hatchling beneath a watermill refuses the church's culling hook and bonds with disgraced keeper Ysabet Orre, their shared survival ledger begins rewriting the ancient evolutionary law that turns feared monsters into living gods.
CompleteThe Villain's Father Refuses to Die in Chapter 3
XianxiaComplete
116 free1,000 ch
Waking up bound to the execution post in Chapter 3 of a tragedy cultivation novel, Gu Changsheng activates the Dad's Care-Package System—smashing the execution warrant, raising five future-villain children with warm meals and iron discipline, and derailing every Chosen One's script across the cosmos.
CompleteRules of the Night Shift: Don't Let the Customer Without a Face Pay in Cash
Rules HorrorComplete
116 free1,000 ch
Clocking in at 10:58 PM at Starlight 24-Hour Mart #04 to pay for his sister's medical care, Kenneth Pryce discovers a laminated sheet of deadly shift rules—and uses contradiction deduction to audit the supernatural entities of the Grey Shift.
CompleteMy Spending Is Refunded 100x, But Only If I Spend It on Others
Urban CultivationComplete
116 free1,000 ch
Dumped in the rain outside a luxury plaza with ¥48.50 in his pocket, architectural drafter Lin Mo shares a hot bowl of wontons with a starving child and awakens the 100x Benevolence Refund System—turning every coin spent on worthy people into an unstoppable financial and cultivation empire.
NewCompleteThe Bizarre System: Forbidden Arts, Endless Life
XianxiaNewComplete
116 free1,000 ch
Thrown into an alchemical poison pit as a disposable test subject, mortal servant Yan awakens an inverted system that converts lethal curses, forbidden demonic arts, and lifespan-burning techniques into boundless vitality and cultivation foundation.
NewCompleteThe Fallow Sovereign: I Cultivate By Doing Nothing
CultivationNewComplete
116 free1,000 ch
Crippled by a poisoned arrow and banished to a barren ridge, third young master Kaelen Vance discovers the Fallow Sovereign Dao—where refusing to train, napping under the eaves, and reading pulp romances compounds his Qi and martial strike multipliers to heaven-shattering levels.
NewCompleteI Can Claim the Talents of the Dead
LitRPGNewComplete
116 free1,000 ch
Working the corpse-recovery wagons beneath the dungeon gates of Greywater, unawakened porter Eli Voss discovers that closing the unfinished business of fallen hunters allows him to inherit their highest talents, memories, and broken vows.
ReleasingThe Hollow March
ProgressionReleasing
93 free768 ch
When a split heating pipe in the lower wards of Mercy exposes a rigged circulation ledger, pipe-fitter Iven Marr is thrust into the command track of a walking fortress city marching across an ash-choked continent.
ReleasingRejected by the Heroes, I Raised Their Final Bosses
LitRPGReleasing
31 free150 ch
Stripped of his rank by the Silverspire Hero Party and exiled to a crumbling border keep with seven condemned juvenile prisoners, instructor Calen discovers that his True Appraisal reveals the hidden trauma—and world-ending potential—of the realm's future Calamities.
NewCompleteThe Last Safe House
Gothic ThrillerNewComplete
28 free120 ch
As a reality-warping storm swallows the highways outside a roadside motel, night clerk Mara unlocks a brass-plated ledger of Sanctuary Law—where every room she repairs can shelter the living only so long as the house's spoken promises are kept.
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