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Dao of the Deal

jacobk

B64/100
When Muchen wakes up as an orphan living a hardscrabble life in a world of magical kung fu, he immediately sets his sights on the obvious goal: get rich. Money can make ghosts work hard, let alone cultivators. He can worry about immortality once he has secured a comfortable standard of living. Unfortunately, on the Qianzhan Continent, it takes a clever mind to earn a fortune — but it takes strength to keep it.
Royal Road4.64· 919
ComedyCultivationGenius MCIsekaiMerchantReincarnation+1

Applied Cultivation

CatVI

B63/100
They called him trash — until he put the Dao under the microscope. When demons slaughter his new family, computer scientist Johan — now reborn as Yu Han — survives by pure wit. He gains access to the mysterious system that all cultivators use to defy the heavens. But it won't be enough. Betrayed and stripped of everything, his only path forward is joining a prestigious immortal sect. Before he can even step inside, he slaps the faces of two powerful young masters. Yu Han should have no path forward — but in his past life he was a corporate warfare consultant who treated business rivals like failed hypotheses to be mercilessly eliminated. Trash talent? He'll prototype his own. Watch this blood-thirsty fatty sprint toward immortality, bringing algorithms to sword fights and treating cultivation like a hostile takeover.
Royal Road4.27· 1.2K
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationGameLitGenius MCIsekai+6

Alpha Cultivation

Sunny Sain

B62/100
Titan Maximus Chadman, the seventh head of the Alpha Cultivation sect, practices the Dao of Chadness and cultivates Big D energy. Now that foreign cultivators have taken over Earth, he may be modern civilization's only hope.
Royal Road4.65· 539Goodreads4.50· 2
ComedyCozyCultivationOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSatire+1

Beware of Kittens - Scientific Sorcery!

Vitaly S Alexius

B62/100
Ioan Starfall, a Nordstaii teen on the cusp of adulthood, drowned as his village was set ablaze by a dragon. A biochemist from our world woke up in his body — and refused to become a hero seeking revenge when offered incredible power by a witch. There are far more important things on the to-do list. Reborn in a land of Nordic cultivators and giant monsters, there is a whole new world of science to explore, witchy powers to experiment with, and magical creatures just waiting to be dissected.
Royal Road4.67· 219
ComedyCultivationGameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+3

Kind Young Master

Wen Lambo

B61/100
Gao Fushuai had given up on cultivation before being chosen as a disciple by Xiao Sheng, the legendary "Living Blade." His master must soon ascend to the heavens, and Fushuai is determined to be worthy of that legacy before he does. When the Living Blade ascends, Fushuai will be left to find his own Path. The more power he gains, the more clearly he sees that the will of heaven is twisted by death, suffering, and dishonor — corrupted to its roots. To heal the world, he will shatter the heavens.
Royal Road4.67· 183
Competent MCCultivationOverpowered MCSecondary WorldWeak to StrongWuxia

This Venerable Demon is Grossly Unqualified

Turniper

B61/100
Elder Hu Xin, the Crimson Saint of the Pathless Night Sect, is missing — not physically, his body is still walking the sect like he owns the place. But behind his eyes, a stranger is panicking, because his transmigration experience came with no instructions and none of Elder Hu's centuries of memories. Fellow elders, disciples, and dogs of the orthodoxy all have expectations about who Hu Xin is — and Hu Xin has no idea what those expectations are, let alone how to meet them. He doesn't even know how to work his own cultivation, let alone nurture someone else's. Shielded by audacity and armed with bullshit, this newly venerable and grossly unqualified demon is making it up as he goes.
Royal Road4.64· 668
ComedyCompetent MCCultivationIsekaiMysteryOverpowered MC+3

I Am Become Death

J.M. Clarke (U Juggernaut)

B61/100
Matthias Stonebreaker is tormented every day. He has no talent for The Gift of magic or the Enforcement of life energy, and will one day be forced beyond the frontier where ferocious monsters destroy all who cannot defend themselves. He certainly cannot — until a near-death experience awakens a new path to power: the path of Divine Breath. Now he must learn to cultivate the very energy of the gods to steal their divine strength. Supported by his cursed brother and younger sister, he will walk the path of shadow and death itself. But he must be careful — in this world, even death could die.
pf6.0· 1Royal Road4.65· 439
CultivationGrimdarkOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSoft MagicWeak to Strong+1

Secrets

David Musk

B61/100
Mana artists rule the world, and the path to power is a well-kept secret — restricted to state-approved programs and schools. Akari Zeller will never be a mana artist. Not if society has its way. She's a Bronze with no money, no family, and no connections. But technology is advancing too. And to a skilled hacker like Akari, no secret is safe forever. The dark web holds the keys to true power, advancement, and her only chance of survival.
pf6.0· 1Royal Road4.52· 1KGoodreads3.67· 65
Anti-heroCultivationGenius MCHard MagicMysterySchool+2

The Devil Herself

13 Sparks

B60/100
Ellen goes from being a flight attendant to being mistaken for the devil herself. It all starts locked in a dungeon — a place to meet the best sorts of people — where she saves the life of a psycho cultivator. She never figures out if he's a hero or a villain, but he's certainly good at killing people. He takes a shine to her and teaches her how to cultivate to defend herself. But he's busy trying to kill his cousins, so Ellen's cultivation takes some unexpected turns: she becomes a pyromaniac, starts abusing geometry, and eventually steals some hellfire because it's not hot enough until you melt the walls. A slow-burn romance between a workaholic and someone dense as a brick, with a good helping of magic, violence, and sarcasm along the way.
Royal Road4.66· 244
ComedyCultivationIsekaiSlow BurnWeak to StrongWuxia

Leaving A Legacy (A Xianxia story)

212perseus

B60/100
What happens when a young master from a declining cultivator clan decides to simply be a decent human being? Zhao Ren is not a typical young master — no arrogance, no entourage, no random face-slapping. He prefers books to throwing his weight around, and was raised to turn around his family's fortunes. But instead of following convention, he found his own way to the Dao. A cultivator who favors sustainable herb-growing, leaves behind inheritances instead of looting, and spares a thought for those who come after? Who even plants a tree that won't bear fruit until long after he's dead? Everyone thinks he must be crazy. So how does he keep getting stronger?
Royal Road4.63· 840
ComedyCozyCraftingCultivationSecondary WorldWuxia

My Children From Another World

_Glasses

B60/100
With souls and issues from a world very unlike his own, Rakta Velbrun must raise his children right, train their strange abilities, and keep the world from swallowing them whole. A fantasy tale of an ex-adventurer father caring for his beloved children in the wake of his wife's death. He must contend with noble politics, new enemies, old allies, and the realization that his children come from a world very unlike his own.
Royal Road4.65· 366
Base BuildingCozyIsekaiLGBTQ+Overpowered MCReincarnation+3

Blueprint for Immortality: a Crafting Xianxia

NoDragons

B60/100
Booker has woken up in the wrong body — one ruined by drug use, trapped in a dead-end life as the lowest possible apprentice in a massive sect. But that doesn't faze him. When he looks at the mountains, he sees a climb waiting. Better yet, he carries the assistance of a magical book that lets him craft any pill in existence perfectly — a skill alchemists would fight and die for. With his crafting skills, patient soul, and relentlessly upbeat attitude, Booker sets out to climb the first of many mountains. A slow-life xianxia with a focus on crafting and character-driven exploration of the genre's world and people.
Royal Road4.51· 987
AlchemyBase BuildingCozyCraftingCrafting PowerCultivation+6

Regressor Sect Master

SpaizZzer

B60/100
Tundra Fox, a cultivator of immense power and Sect Master of the Verdant Snow Sect, faces an eldritch god from beyond and dies. A time-artifact, however, sends his soul back 10,000 years — to the earlier years of growing his Sect. With cultivation, base building, and the foreknowledge of a regressor, Tundra Fox sets out to prevent family deaths and conflicts, and to raise descendants who don't become arrogant young masters. A story about healing relationships and finding enlightenment in family life rather than solitary cultivation.
Royal Road4.56· 982Goodreads4.24· 456
Base BuildingCultivationHaremOverpowered MCRegressionSecondary World+1

Unfathomable Senior

Kuropon

C59/100
It all started after receiving a strange email with options to select body type, starting point, and a name. Choosing on a whim — picking a Chinese name at random — the protagonist wakes up in an entirely different world, unwittingly beginning a cultivation journey he never signed up for.
Royal Road4.02· 1.1KGoodreads3.64· 7
ComedyCozyCultivationGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+2

Rebirth as a Wind Cultivator

Erios909

C59/100
When Li Mei dies in a traffic accident after another soul-crushing retail shift, she awakens inside her favorite game, Phoenix Kingdom Chronicles — inhabiting the body of Lin Xiulan, the scorned second daughter of a noble family. Armed with knowledge of the game and hard-won experience dealing with difficult people, Xiulan refuses to be the family's punching bag. She must master alchemy, tame spirit beasts, and perfect martial arts while fending off scheming sisters and a manipulative stepmother. She also carries knowledge of a devastating future that threatens the entire realm — and surviving her own family long enough to act on it will be the first challenge.
Royal Road4.53· 918
AlchemyCultivationIsekaiOverpowered MCReincarnationWeak to Strong+1

Yashima Chronicles

jacobk

C59/100
The island nation of Yashima is in chaos. Armies march to war, pitting cousin against cousin for power. Sword saints grow deadlier with every battle even as muskets flood the country and transform the average soldier into a lethal threat. One woman towers over the era. Known as the blood-soaked flower of the battlefield, it is said that to see her is to risk madness, and to fight her is to die. Some claim she draws her power from the blood of vanquished foes. Listening to the rumors, the narrator can't help but feel that a plan to secure a comfortable administrative post has somehow gone awry.
Royal Road4.58· 855
ComedyLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary World+1

Cultivating Earth

Cromethus

C58/100
After hundreds of thousands of years cultivating, Zhao Gang has finally reached the penultimate threshold — ready to ascend to the level of True Immortal. To avoid drawing the attention of his enemies, he selects the most desolate plane he can find: Earth. Fast forward three thousand years. Zhao Gang discovers what his long absence has wrought — a cultivation-free culture that has independently unlocked the deep mysteries of creation. Now he can't help but wonder how this tiny, energy-barren planet could affect the course of all creation. There's only one problem. For that to happen, he first has to succeed in cultivating Earth.
Royal Road4.63· 635
CozyCultivationSchoolSecondary WorldSoft MagicSuperpowers+2

Jumpspark

chakfor

C58/100
Each human contains a spark of divinity. Only a few ever learn to access it — but for those few, a reward awaits in the afterlife. Meet Karlus, a 26-year-old construction manager who managed to access his spark. Join him on a journey of discovery as he explores a new world and new powers, meeting new friends and ancient heroes along the way. A western-style xianxia blending cultivation with classic adventure.
Royal Road4.61· 797
CultivationReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft MagicWuxia

Immovable Mage

ImmovableMage

C57/100
What do you call a mage incapable of casting spells? In this story, we usually call him Terry. When the boy is accepted into Arcana Academy, his talent in mana foundation management awes everyone — making the eventual disappointment all the greater when Terry proves to be an utter failure at spellwork. Diagnosis: major aspect impairment, no cure. Faced with expulsion, Terry finds unexpected kindness that costs him his academy place but gives him a home with a caring family. Resigned to exploring mana cultivation, he never stops searching for his own path as a mage — day after day, season after season — looking for compatible spellwork. All to finally find the only spell he can cast. A journey to discover that even a narrow path of magic can lead to the territory of legends.
Royal Road4.53· 878
CultivationDungeon CrawlingGenius MCHard MagicMysteryOverpowered MC+4

Lunatic Sword

RabZ YT

C57/100
Some live by the sword — Alex is imprisoned by it. Not that he's complaining; he likes swords. In a world of swords and sorcery, some are born with divine blessings that lead them to challenge the heavens, while others are punished by fate and forced into suffering. For Alex, it's all irrelevant. As long as he has his sword, every tragedy is a joy and every obstacle is just more time to polish his blade. There's nothing that can't be solved with a good sword cut — unless the enemy is a ghost, in which case he'll need a church. A battle-focused progression story with a sword-obsessed protagonist whose genius is strictly limited to swordsmanship.
Royal Road4.65· 224
ComedyDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSchool+4