When thrown into a different world, the typical isekai protagonist gets some sort of a cheat. In Xiao Yun's case, all he got was crippled cultivation and a crumbling clan.
If one thing sets him apart from the masses, it's his Earthly knowledge — and he is forced to put that knowledge to use to find a safe place for himself in this new and absurd reality.
Featuring a smart, cunning protagonist navigating clan building and politics, the story deliberately subverts familiar cultivation tropes and gives clichéd characters and situations its own personal twist.
4.54· 184
Base BuildingComedyCultivationGenius MCIsekaiSatire+1
Hal Miller wanted comfort, not chaos. Now he's trapped in a world where plumbing is myth, toothbrushes are sorcery, and nobles are parasites in fancy shoes. With a sarcastic AI in his head and a head full of modern logic, Hal is about to break every rule this world has.
Armed with stubborn ingenuity and a talent for making things explode in instructive ways, he sets out to drag an entire medieval society into a new era — one scientific-magic experiment at a time.
Thrust through a mysterious portal into an unknown world, Nick Barnette does the sensible thing and runs. Now separated from his friends and hunted by powerful forces he doesn't understand, Nick must navigate the Kingdom of Lhasa while searching for a way home.
Through his trials he discovers a strange power that lets him slow time—but he can't control it. The only path to mastering it leads high into the mountains, where monks and hermits practice the ancient Way of the Immortals.
Born with a soul mutation desired even by the Gods — perfect memory — Kael could recall every word, every book, yet not a single drop of mana. Mockery, beatings, a ruined family, and a desperate deal with the God of Knowledge and Madness condemned him to centuries of slavery in the endless Divine Library.
Seven hundred years of torment turned him into a vessel of knowledge. Then hatred — and the stolen Canon of Primordial Void — gave him a chance. Kael escaped back into his fifteen-year-old body, months before tragedy struck.
Now he carries not only memory, but the knowledge of countless worlds. His goals: protect his family, hide from the gaze of the Gods, walk the path of power once denied to him — and take revenge against the God who enslaved him.
John Miller was a fairly normal young man, working hard to support a family that had run into many financial difficulties. His unexpected death ends his difficult but mundane life — and he wakes up alive, but not himself.
Fortkran Tenebach was the young master of a cultivation clan in another world. John barely knows anything about cultivation, but he must make his way with the memories of his new body. His new family isn't as close as his old one was, yet he can't help but want to be honest with them.
Certain they've noticed his sudden change in personality, he confesses what happened — a move he expects to be fatal. Quite surprisingly, his family breathes a collective sigh of relief that the old Fortkran is dead. This leaves John to take over his duties, including cultivation, though he has to start from the beginning and isn't sure he won't make some massive mistake.
4.17· 355
Competent MCCultivationReincarnationSecondary WorldTransmigrationWeak to Strong+1
The Heavens demand obedience. She offers slaughter. Fa Xiaolan once stood at the pinnacle of the world, powerful enough to challenge the Jade Emperor for the throne of the immortals. She lost.
Now, a fragment of her shattered soul stirs within a freshly hatched phoenix. Stripped of memories and divine power, left with only instinct and a fractured drive to ascend once more, she will claw her way back to the top and remedy the fatal mistakes of her past life — just as soon as she figures out what those mistakes were.
A xianxia cultivation story featuring unique phoenix evolutions, monster evolution, and a "birdbrain" MC with flashes of ancient wisdom.
The Dao of Reincarnation: Ascending Through a Hundred Lives
RighteousEgg
F22/100
Su Chen died — and that was when the real cheat code finally activated. A mysterious ancient tome called the Reverse Fate Scripture latched onto his soul. Every time he dies, it tallies his previous life's feats, failures, and audacity, then awards Reverse Fate Points to spend on perfect-grade talent, heaven-defying comprehension, god-tier bloodlines, and more — anything to rewrite the script of the next existence.
He has been the arrogant trash young master, the iron-blooded general, the emperor killed by family, the unrivaled senior brother, a demonic cultivator, and a devouring Nether Raven. Lifetime after lifetime of failure, betrayal, glory, and catastrophic falls — every death just feeds the next run.
Now, armed with memories from countless lives and a terrifying mountain of hoarded points, he opens his eyes once more. From worm to apex predator, from mortal speck to standing above the heavens — this time, he's engineering the single most broken starting build imaginable.
4.24· 338
CultivationOverpowered MCRegressionReincarnationSecondary WorldWeak to Strong+1
Haoyujin Jieyuan was born for greatness — of that, if nothing else, he's certain. In a ruthless world where power is everything and might makes right, there's only one path he can take, no matter how painful it promises to be.
When Jieyuan joins the Gleaming Stone Sect, he does so intending to outstrip everyone else and quickly ascend through the ranks. Instead, he ends up in third place in the entrance trials, grossly overshadowed. He remains undeterred — until he mysteriously regains memories of a previous life after a failed assassination attempt.
Realizing there's something big going on beneath the surface of the world, Jieyuan reevaluates his priorities and sets his sights much farther. Setting down this path might mean pitting himself against Fate itself, but nothing ventured is nothing gained.
A man on his deathbed regrets only one thing: never becoming a wizard. Fortunately, he is reincarnated into a world where magic truly exists.
Will he finally accomplish his lifelong dream — or does fate have other plans for him?
Long ago, demonic cultivators betrayed the Dao and cast down mighty sects, leaving only ruined wastelands behind. The few survivors took refuge in hidden pocket realms, striving to regain the strength necessary to reclaim the world. Now, twenty-five hundred years later, opportunity may have finally arrived.
Qing Liao never dreamed of becoming a cultivator, but mandatory testing reveals his potential and draws him into the Celestial Origin Sect. As he trains to wield stellar qi, he discovers an unusual quirk that places him at the center of the war between demonic and orthodox factions.
Elsewhere, Grand Elder Itinay has schemed for millennia waiting for her moment, while Scoria Scorn — a cultivator who chose the demons — hunts down every remaining fragment of human existence. As immortals collide, one cultivator waits unseen, an arrow cloaked in shadow.
4.50· 158
Base BuildingCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkPost-apocalypticSecondary World+1
Ben Crawford shouldn't be here. One moment he's on Earth; the next he wakes up in an inescapable room that seems intent on erasing him. Then, just as suddenly, he's somewhere else entirely — dropped onto a world where humanity is barely more than a myth.
On Ark, power is everything, and Runebinding magic is the key to survival. Ben shouldn't be able to use it, but he can — and he's learning faster than anyone should. Fighting alongside monster hunters and wielding powers of Light, Ben quickly discovers that being an anomaly comes with a price. Some see his strength as an opportunity; others see it as a threat.
As faction politics turn against him and ancient powers take notice, Ben must navigate a world that doesn't know what to do with him, all while something far more dangerous watches from beyond. Humanity was never meant to be part of this story — but to survive what's coming, Ben must forge a new path as the first Paladin in a world that needs one.
4.48· 278
Base BuildingCozyCultivationHard MagicIsekaiOverpowered MC+5
Adam was having a great time camping in the woods with his girlfriend until they were suddenly attacked. His girlfriend was shot; he was thrown from a cliff.
Unconscious and near death, an android appeared and brought him aboard a spaceship called Spector, which healed him. Now Spector wants him as its operator so they can leave Earth — but first, Adam needs to settle the grudge against those who attacked him.
Armed with advanced technology, Adam hunts them down before heading out to explore the universe — all while being forced to livestream to the entire cosmos.
A man from Earth dies and is reincarnated in a world of magic and swords, reborn as a beast-kin with wolf ears and a fluffy tail. Follow him as he discovers the mysteries of magic and the system, navigates intricate politics and cultures, and forges his own path in a new world.
The story features multiple POVs, slow-burn pacing, kingdom-building elements, and a LitRPG system layered over a rich secondary-world setting.
4.05· 316
Base BuildingCozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+4
What does it mean to learn from your own death?
Seventeen was supposed to die in a frozen granary-fort. Instead, a forgotten spirit pulls him back. Every death sends him to the same starting line with a little more knowledge, a little more skill, and a growing weight of visions he does not understand. The System inside him offers no guidance — its skills surface under pressure, and the things he sees in death do not fade. They accumulate.
To survive, Seventeen must turn every death into information, outthink the men who own him, protect the few people worth saving, and uncover why the world around him is beginning to twist. What starts as a brutal struggle to escape a granary-fort grows into something far larger: border wars, hidden orders, and old powers moving in the dark.
4.49· 150
Base BuildingCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPGMilitary+5
In a world where an awakened spirit determines your starting point, Li Yu awakens a low-grade blood-red Koi fish — a Grade One, Inferior spirit fit only for a decorative pond. Mocked and with no future in his village, he discovers his "useless" Koi possesses a divine ability: it can devour the spiritual energy and life essence of any aquatic lifeform.
To cultivate this power, Li Yu forsakes the path of a glorious disciple and takes the most despised job at the prestigious Green Mountain Sect — fish farmer in the Aquatic Beast Pens. Surrounded by cultivation resources only he can access, he begins a path of silent, hidden growth. Armed with two heaven-sent techniques, he navigates treacherous sect politics from the lowest rung, his growing power concealed behind the aura of a simple fish.
While others see a quiet, hardworking orphan, he is an unseen predator in a tranquil pond — patiently absorbing the power to one day become a leviathan that can swallow the seas.
Reborn in another world of magic and flying ships, Det only wants one thing — to leave. For twenty years he has lived on one of the many pillars emerging from a deadly sea of mist, suffering the abuse of locals who accuse him, as a ReSouled, of hijacking the body of an unborn child. Not that he gives a damn what they think.
From the moment he found himself reborn in a superhuman body with the magic to bring ink-wash paintings to life, he has had one focus: to get home to the wife and daughter he left behind on Earth. Now the fabled Mistguard — an organization of ReSouled like him — are coming to recruit him. With magic and resources far beyond what is available to him now, the answer to getting home could finally be within reach. To succeed, he will need to excel in an academy of legendary difficulty, master his power, and survive the threat that brought ReSouled to this world in the first place.
Jay Lightning Leonard was one fight away from becoming the Heavyweight champion of the world — his brother's dream before him, his father's before that. But the path to the top is paved with shattered ambitions. After Jay kisses the canvas one final time, he wakes up in a black void and is offered entry into the Second Chance Coliseum.
There are no rules in the Second Chance Coliseum — no referees or regulations. Gladiators harmonize with fragments of truth, bending worldly essences beneath their will. When Jay's first opponent enters with a greatsword and all he has is boxing gear, he realizes he needs to reconsider everything he knows about fighting.
Forget the belt. Forget the glory. Jay's fighting just to live another week.
4.46· 174
CultivationGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldWeak to Strong+1
After dying from COVID, Oliver never expected to wake up again — especially not in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Reborn among the people of the Northern Water Tribe, he carries faint memories of the world's future, though the details are hazy after so many years.
He remembers enough to know one thing: the Fire Nation's shadow is coming. Rather than sit back and watch history unfold, Oliver decides to act. Through waterbending, knowledge from another world, and sheer determination, he will carve out his own place in this era — and protect the Northern Water Tribe from what is coming.
4.33· 263
IsekaiMilitaryReincarnationSoft MagicWeak to StrongWuxia
Mediocre Master: I Can See Your Hidden Potential! (A Xianxia Sect-Building LitRPG)
Calmari
F16/100
In the world of cultivation, talent is everything — and for Lu Chen, it was his greatest failure. After a lifetime of playing high-stakes strategy games on Earth, he wakes up as the Sect Leader of the Coiling Dragon Sect. It's a prestigious title hiding a crumbling ruin: mediocre disciples and a leader stuck at Foundation Establishment with zero hope of breakthrough.
But his transmigration came with a gift — Truth Seeker's Gaze. With a single glance, flawed cultivation manuals reveal themselves as masterpieces, worthless spirit stones become hidden gems, and a mortal servant girl the world writes off as talentless is exposed as a monster with a Dormant True Dragon Bloodline and a Sacred Cosmic Bone.
While other Sect Leaders chase after genius disciples, Lu Chen begins his Trash Collection. He doesn't need to be the strongest cultivator — he just needs to hold the leashes of the monsters he's about to unleash.
4.08· 277
Base BuildingComedyCultivationGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+3
Enochia Adams was humanity's undisputed Rank 1 hero — a symbol of hope for her generation. Then she was ambushed and killed. Rejecting Heaven's grace, her soul was cast into Hell, consumed by wrath.
Reborn as a twisted demonic entity in the fiery pits, she retains her godlike stats and a single ability but starts fresh at Level 1 in a brutal, unforgiving underworld. Guided by an enigmatic guardian angel, she must grind levels and slaughter hordes of demons just for a chance to return to the world of the living.
In a realm built to break the damned, can the ultimate hero conquer Hell itself — or will her emerging demonic instincts consume what remains of her humanity?