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Department of Dungeon Studies

JPwrites

C47/100
Nox is an alchemist by trade, but he dreams of magehood. Fate dealt him unfavorable cards, yet he has learned to compensate with scholarly pursuits, tenacity, and sheer grit — qualities that catch the attention of Woodson University's scouts. The Department of Dungeon Studies values the mind and its ability to overcome all limitations. After all, they stripped the divine of their titles, turning gods into Dungeon Lords and their domains into Dungeons. The department will give Nox the tools to achieve his ambitions, and his limitations will push him to the forefront of arcane discovery. More immediate challenges remain, though. Nox lacks the means to pay the university's ridiculous tuition. Only alchemy and smart business deals will earn him the hundreds of gold coins he needs.
Royal Road4.56· 575Goodreads4.29· 682
AlchemyAnti-heroCraftingCultivationDungeon CrawlingLitRPG+3

Twisted Garden (Pokemon AU)

Aleister Adair

C47/100
Erika may have been born lowly, but she knows she is destined for glory and greatness. Street rat, trash, orphan — these labels are mere fetters to be shattered. One step at a time, Erika will claim everything that is rightfully hers. And what the world cannot give her, she will take by force. A darker, grittier, and more realistic take on Pokémon with xianxia elements and a unique power system.
Royal Road4.60· 399
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationGenius MCMilitaryOverpowered MC+1

The Foundation of Smoke and Steel

JCAnderson2025

C46/100
I woke up in another man's body on the day of his arranged marriage to the most terrifying woman in the Kingdom. He was supposed to die — and the worst part is he already did, because he's still here, in my head. Bitter. Brilliant. Watching me relive every mistake he made in a life that ended with betrayal, heartbreak, and murder. But I'm not Ethan Zhou. I'm a systems engineer with a background in strategy, survival, and zero interest in playing by the rules of a cultivation world obsessed with bloodlines, legacies, and face. Together — whether we like it or not — we build something better. I'll play the quiet husband, the loyal son-in-law. Until it's time to rewrite the foundation beneath the empire's feet.
Royal Road4.20· 688Goodreads5.00· 3
CultivationGenius MCHaremIsekaiReincarnationSecondary World+3

What Do You Mean I'm a Cultivator?

WanderingSenior

C46/100
Jiang Cheng is just another outer disciple in the vast Falling Star Sect, struggling for every scrap of progress in a world where talent and resources dictate fate. But strange subconscious thoughts — remnants of another life — whisper ideas foreign to this world and guide his every step. Combined with sharp perception and unyielding determination, can he turn these vague memories and instincts into true strength in a sect where the strong trample the weak? And more importantly: what is the truth behind these distant thoughts?
Royal Road4.57· 576
CozyCultivationLoner MCReincarnationSecondary WorldTransmigration+2

The Bureau of Isekai Affairs

Vebyast

C45/100
What does a world do to survive a continuous low-level influx of Isekai protagonists, each adding their own world's magic or superpowers to the mix? Whitney Ismael, software engineer, learns the answer: licensing and registration paperwork, search warrants, and special agents for the Bureau of Isekai Affairs.
Royal Road4.60· 292
ComedyCultivationGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGSatire+2

Manifestation

Samuel Hinton

C45/100
Born with an enormous well of power but no way to regenerate it, Raysha has been treated as an outcast her entire life. While others use aeon as commonly as breathing, she must ration her power drop-by-drop in a world where true masters have slaughtered gods. When her brother arrives from the Academy with a dangerous idea — that a crystalized ancient spirit heart might cure her — Raysha jumps at the chance. With her enchanted water bottle in hand, the pair head out into the wider world in search of the impossible.
Goodreads4.19· 916
Competent MCCultivationHard MagicSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Blood & Fur

Maxime J. Durand, Void Herald

C45/100
Each year, the Nightlords choose a new Emperor to rule Yohuachanca — a life of delicious food, beautiful company, and priestly counsel. It is good, luxurious, and short. At the year's end, the emperor is sacrificed under the light of the Scarlet Moon. Iztac is the piss-poor orphan chosen to be this year's emperor. But the Nightlords have made a mistake: Iztac is a sorcerer, whose soul journeys into the underworld to plunder the spells of the dead. There, in the darkness, hides the power to drag the Nightlords off their throne. He has a year to find it — or perish for good.
Goodreads4.30· 321
Anti-heroCultivationGrimdarkHard MagicSecondary WorldSoft Magic+1

Mask of Humanity

SlaughterBot

D44/100
In New London, year 2493, Nicolai is a centuries-old killer whose brain was implanted into the body of Zero-Twelve, a militarized killbot. Numb and apathetic, he is a cog in the machine — until Heaven arrives and the Great Game begins, and he is reborn as a human, his old body recreated along with the madness and blood rage that characterized his past. Given one direction — find the Lizard — Nicolai is thrown into Nightmare, a world of cultivation, undead, demons, spirit beasts, sects, and clans. He finds himself in a decaying castle constructed by a mysterious people, now filled with purposeless undead caught in an ancient war entering its final stages. For Nicolai, this new world is a dream come true. After a century trapped in metal, he is free — and he can resume his endless goal: to become the greatest fighter alive.
Royal Road4.47· 612
Anti-heroCultivationGameLitGenius MCGrimdarkIsekai+7

Guardian's Journey

Roman Savarovsky

D44/100
Dedicated his whole life to becoming the next Guardian of the Empire, the protagonist became the youngest of the Genius rank — striking fear into the hearts of his enemies. But evidently, that wasn't enough. His real journey only began when he lost everyone dear to him and used a secret Guardian technique to travel one day back in time to get revenge on those responsible. Only now it seems he's gone back much further than one day, and there are many more culprits to tackle than he expected.
Goodreads4.30· 284
CultivationGenius MCIsekaiRegressionWeak to Strong

Renewal: A Daughter of Fate

JaffaJessie ( J.L.Rabone )

D43/100
Death has a funny way of finding Lynette Heversham. After three lifetimes filled with pain, anger, and misplaced emotions, she wakes yet again as her younger self — cursed to re-live as the Crazy Cerue Lady. Can she survive her fourth time around, or will her past as a villainess come back to haunt her? As the unwanted adopted daughter in a dangerous household, she must unlock the power of her core to fight back against summoners and demonic beasts who wish her dead. With guidance from the gods and a slow-burning cultivation system entwined with LitRPG mechanics, she navigates country politics and the monsters threatening the Zopan Empire — determined to finally change her fate.
Royal Road4.53· 567
CultivationGameLitLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MCRegression+7

The Pillar of Enera

Eric Vanderlip

D43/100
Eight youths leave the arctic to explore Enera, a world where the planet's fractured crust floats in the sky. They join other adventurers on the Isle of Dreams, hoping one day to be inscribed on the Wall of Legends. While mastering martial arts and magic, they must discover who they are, fend off assassins, and prevent another Dark Age. The story unfolds through multiple perspectives in a world twisted for the amusement of a voyeuristic god.
Royal Road4.60· 186
CultivationDungeon CrawlingGameLitOverpowered MCSecondary WorldWuxia

Warlords of the Circle Sea

Ember Lane

D43/100
Connor O'Grady wakes up naked in long grass, reincarnated in a game world packed with monsters. A voice fills the sky and announces him as a Lord of the land — and then informs him that ninety-nine other Lords are out for his blood. Connor must build a civilization from scratch, form a team with other souls reincarnated from Earth, forge alliances with native elves, mountain men, and pixies, and tame dragons and wyverns. Monster battles, full-scale war, quests for hidden artefacts, magic, and crafting await — all while competing in a ruthless 100-Lord battle where there can be only one winner.
Goodreads4.21· 838
Base BuildingCraftingCultivationLitRPGMilitaryReincarnation+1

Immortality Starts With Diligence

RighteousEgg

D43/100
Lin Fei had mediocre martial arts talent — until he unexpectedly acquired a martial arts system that allows all of his skills to be self-cultivated through observation and practice. "Your Giant Whale Body Refining Technique has increased by 50% due to its observation of the 'Long Whale Under the Moon' diagram, which enabled it to comprehend the essence of the technique." Despite appearing to put in little effort, Lin Fei's martial arts skills are nothing if not diligent.
Royal Road3.68· 638
CultivationGameLitLitRPGMysterySkill CollectionWeak to Strong+1

Wake Up Cultivator, We've Got Young Masters to Shoot

SnazzyCub

D43/100
Erevan is a magical engineer from a world of dungeon-delving and slinging spells — until his party stabs him in the back and he wakes up sharing a body with Li Jian, a disciple of the Heavenly Demon Cult in an entirely different world. The problem: Li Jian's soul is still in there, and the two have to cooperate. Together they'll face a martial world full of peril: insecure rich young masters, scheming Demon Supremes, and bitter ex-fiancés. Good thing two of those problems can be solved with bullets.
Royal Road4.60· 169
ComedyCozyCraftingCultivationOverpowered MCReincarnation+3

The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns

Pancakes Witch

D42/100
Bing Xue spent eleven thousand years in a brutal world of martial arts and cultivation, ascending to its absolute pinnacle — only to find herself unable to escape the Heavenly Will's grasp. She gambled everything on a final act, fleeing into the Outer Cosmos. She expected an end. Instead, a black hole spits her back to Earth, a planet now transformed: a Tower connects it to countless worlds, dimensional gates spew monsters, and awakened Hunters climb floors in a desperate bid to save humanity. With her mother and sister still alive, Bing Xue brings eleven thousand years of supreme cultivation to bear — against the Tower, the gods who run it, and anything else that stands between her and the people she loves.
Royal Road3.80· 633
CozyCultivationGameLitHaremIsekaiLGBTQ++9

Universe's End

N. Francis

D41/100
The end of the universe came and went. An intergalactic war was waged, and the bad guys won when they pressed the big red button. Yet instead of the end of the story, Rory — a nobody in the grand scheme of things — finds himself almost completely alone in a fresh universe, one of eight precursors chosen almost entirely at random. With only an odd World Spirit for company, Rory must survive and build an entire universe from scratch. This is not the story of a plucky hero daring to challenge the gods of old. This is the story of how one of those gods came to be — their rise from a nobody in a brand new universe to a name known, sometimes loved, sometimes feared, throughout all of existence.
Royal Road4.59· 235
Base BuildingCraftingCultivationGameLitGenius MCLitRPG+4

Bloodline Tree

InkPainting

D41/100
In a world where the strong make the rules and bloodlines make the strong, Shu Yang felt incredibly unfortunate to be reborn as a lowly farmer in a small village. Without any special bloodline, he struggled to reach even the first stage of martial arts. Fortunately, the small seed that killed him in his previous life wasn't without a conscience. Taking root within his sea of consciousness, it granted Shu Yang an incredible ability: as long as his bloodline spread, he would receive feedback from his descendants, inheriting their talents and unique traits. His bloodline strengthening further and further, Shu Yang began gaining the power to truly explore this vast and mysterious world.
Royal Road4.51· 544
Base BuildingCultivationOverpowered MCReincarnationWeak to StrongWuxia

Stormborn Ascendant

K. H. Nulls

D41/100
They measure mana in drops. Tyler wields an ocean. Tyler Thorn worked all his life to rise above the hand he'd been given — his reward was constant agony and six figures of medical debt. Now humanity has been abducted to the multiverse, and he wakes in alien ruins, barely able to stand and surrounded by vicious monsters. He accepts a Curse just to survive, one that forever seals his magic within his body and renders most forms of power inaccessible to him. But the upside is an enormous mana pool. With a body that never tires, a mind that never dulls, and near-infinite magical energy coursing through his veins, Tyler will grow faster than the legends about him can form.
Goodreads4.26· 630
CultivationIsekaiLitRPGStatsSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Planetary Cultivation

Lochar

D40/100
An alien cultivator arrives on Earth to claim its Heavens, only to find a world completely bereft of cultivators or a Heavenly Realm to claim. Unwilling to leave empty-handed, Lei Zhaohui sets out to force the planet's cultivation until a Heavenly Realm is formed — and if none rise to defend it, he will take it for his own. Nicole Firen is a young woman who would simply like her world to start making sense, but finds herself thrust into a position of importance as the planet begins to change around her.
Royal Road4.57· 434
CultivationSecondary WorldSystem ApocalypseUrban FantasyWuxia

Fish Girl Evolution

Lunadea

D40/100
Shu wasn't always a fish. She wasn't even always Shu. After giving her life to save a child, she is rewarded — or perhaps cursed — with reincarnation into a world of cultivation and immortals. That doesn't go as planned, and she dies almost instantly, her soul absorbed by a mindless koi. Now she is stuck in the body of a koi, and her owner is the very man who cut her second life short. Her only saving grace is a System granted to help her navigate this new world — one that lets her both cultivate and evolve her way up the food chain.
Royal Road4.57· 429
CozyCultivationGameLitIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+4