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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 Road4.16· 707Goodreads5.00· 3
CultivationGenius MCHaremIsekaiReincarnationSecondary World+3

Bloodline Tree

InkPainting

C46/100
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 Road4.54· 610
Base BuildingCultivationOverpowered MCReincarnationWeak to StrongWuxia

I Became a Mother in Another World

Urmie

C46/100
Samaya Dhar, codename Maya, is a Special Agent who finds herself transported to a strange and unfamiliar world mid-mission. Her immediate priorities: find appropriate clothes, figure out where she is — and decide what to do about the half-dead child she finds in an alleyway. She'll take the little bun with her. She'll still find a way home. Or so she thought, until the boy turns out to be a Prince, and his father wants him back at the Palace. This is the story of a woman protecting her found family while navigating politics, harem intrigue, and assassination plots — and one infuriating man at the center of it all.
Royal Road4.59· 402
Base BuildingHaremIsekaiMilitaryOverpowered MCSci-fi+3

What Do You Mean I'm a Cultivator?

WanderingSenior

C45/100
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· 579
CozyCultivationLoner MCReincarnationSecondary WorldTransmigration+2

Five Element Overlord: I Can Upgrade Everything!

KaeNovels

C45/100
Li Hao is transmigrated into a Xianxia cultivation world and thrust into the life of a servant in the Azure Cloud Sect. He has the worst quality trash five-element spiritual roots — in any other's position, he'd be chopping wood and eating inferior pills for the rest of his life. However, he binds with a system that can upgrade everything. A burnt, poisonous pill? One upgrade away from a priceless Marrow Cleansing Elixir. An old cracked butter knife? A few upgrades from a blade that slices through Demonic Serpent Scales. With his upgrade ability, Li Hao climbs through a world of sects, clans, and royal dynasties in constant war — accumulating magic items, spirit stones, and wealth along the way.
Royal Road4.15· 692
Anti-heroBase BuildingCraftingCultivationLitRPGMystery+4

The Distinguished Mr. Rose: LitRPG Adventures of a Gentlemanly Madman

QuiteTheSlacker

C45/100
There is one thing Lucius values above all else: beauty. As the humble owner of a flower boutique — one with a bloody secret hiding underneath — he is surrounded by all the beauty he could ever want. Flowers, art, people — everything in no short supply. When he is suddenly whisked away into the sky along with the rest of humanity and forced to participate in a series of games, trials, and adventures into foreign dimensions, Lucius discovers a new frontier. A wide universe, unique lands brimming with beautiful, blossoming souls. With style, grace, and gentlemanly candor, he seeks to draw out the inner beauty in all — and will not rest until they bloom as their truest selves.
Royal Road4.59· 360
Anti-heroGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MC+3

Return of the Martial Messiah

ToraAKR

C45/100
ZionLine's promise was irresistible: triple your lifespan. The price? Surviving an unknown world rife with brutal combat, where gruesome deaths are terrifyingly real. For a desperate humanity, it was a price worth paying. But beneath the time dilation's gleaming facade lies a horrific truth that Earth's elite will kill to conceal. Raine KongRu has seen this future before — he lived through the captivity it heralds, and he knows there is precious little time to consolidate his power before millions die again. Under the guise of Alaric, Raine is hunted by those with the means to see him dead in both worlds. CronGate was once his home, its leaders his mentors, its people his own. They taught him everything he knew — and enslaved him for a lifetime. The feeling is mutual.
Royal Road4.58· 517
GameLitHaremLitRPGOverpowered MCRegressionReincarnation+2

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 Road4.46· 630
Anti-heroCultivationGameLitGenius MCGrimdarkIsekai+7

MMA: Magic Martial Arts

Poor Lost Child

D44/100
Jonny was the undefeated king of the octagon — until a group of incompetent goons accidentally killed him while trying to rig his next fight. He wakes up reincarnated as the only son of a duke in a world where magic is ordinary. There's just one problem: a rare condition prevents him from using magic. With his father's brother scheming for his death, Jonny is secretly sent to an orphanage for safety. But Jonny was the strongest before, and he intends to be the strongest again — and his very condition might be exactly what he needs to make that dream a reality.
Royal Road4.58· 495
ComedyCultivationIsekaiOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary World+2

The Court of Souls?

Andur

D44/100
In a world of myths, gods, and demons, only power counts — the weak are worse than cattle, and survival of the fittest is the only law. A lonely child is born with a strange power that places him between light and darkness, shunned by his own people for what he can do. This is not a story of a noble man doing good amid monsters. It is a story of a demon who was, perhaps, kinder than the rest.
Royal Road4.58· 490Goodreads4.33· 49
Anti-heroGrimdarkSecondary WorldSoft MagicWuxia

Focused Fire

arg3nt

D44/100
The rise of a young Fire Nation commander. Xing, a survivor of a village attack turned prodigious firebending colonel of the Fire Nation's 11th Regiment, seeks to keep his adoptive family in the military safe, sound, and sharp — even as the pieces of the main story begin falling into place around him. The biggest piece: Princess Azula joins the 11th Regiment in their military operations across the Earth Kingdom.
Royal Road4.58· 488
Base BuildingCompetent MCHaremIsekaiMilitaryOverpowered MC+2

The Pillar of Enera

Eric Vanderlip

D44/100
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

Quiet Life Of The Mute Archmage

P_Magno

D44/100
Rescued from the slums by a kindly Sage, Molly discovers a talent for magic unlike anyone else's. While others chant to shape Root and Structure, Molly sees the symbols in silence. When she awakens her true Affinity — [Epilogue] — she learns her power doesn't just use archmage-level magic. It ends it. Even the gods fear the silence of Epilogue. When her mentor dies, her final wish is simple: hide, enroll in the academy, graduate, find a party, and do not end up alone again. Disguising a divine-level threat as an average hero-in-training is hard enough — harder still when the heavens are watching, waiting for the one mortal who holds the key to their undoing. In a world where only those with a voice are heard, can a mute girl defy the pantheons?
Royal Road4.58· 466
CozyCraftingCultivationLitRPGOverpowered MCSchool+5

The Legion of Nothing

zoetewey

D43/100
Nick Klein is your average high school geek — if you can still call yourself average when your grandfather was a retired superhero and you've been trained in martial arts by a mysterious immortal mercenary. After his grandfather dies, Nick inherits the last version of the Rocket suit: powered armor that lets him shrug off bullets, smash through walls, and manipulate sound. Along with the suit comes the base of his grandfather's superhero team, its jet, and forty years of trophies from fighting criminals and aliens. Together, Nick and his friends — descendants of his grandfather's teammates — attempt to bring back a superhero team originally formed during World War 2, facing both the normal problems of high school and the less normal problems left over from their grandparents' past.
Royal Road4.59· 279
ComedyCozySchoolSci-fiSuperpowersUrban Fantasy+1

The Agartha Loop

RavensDagger

D43/100
They asked Amber to become a magical girl three times. She refused. That only made her more interesting. The fourth time, she asked them. The Agartha Loop follows a time-looping protagonist navigating magical girl shenanigans, existential horror, interlinked magical systems, conspiracies, and mysteries — with a cast of LGBTQ+ characters across the spectrum of usefulness.
Royal Road4.58· 351Goodreads4.28· 250
Competent MCCozyHorrorIsekaiLGBTQ+Mystery+7

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

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· 640
CultivationGameLitLitRPGMysterySkill CollectionWeak to Strong+1

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· 637
CozyCultivationGameLitHaremIsekaiLGBTQ++9

Nobody's Hero

Noct

D42/100
There's one firm rule in Central City: everyone dies. Super strength, invulnerability, regeneration — everything is on the table, except immortality. After all, if anyone were immortal, Alpha, the completely-legitimately-elected dictator-for-life of Central City, could absorb their skill and become dictator forever. It's a good thing no one is immortal. Especially not Levi. A satirical dark superhero story with a LitRPG twist, drawing on the vibes of The Boys, Perfect Run, and Astro City.
Royal Road4.54· 543Goodreads3.47· 115
Anti-heroComedyGameLitGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPG+10

Immortality Starts With Investment

RighteousEgg

D41/100
A lost soul from Earth crosses over to a cultivation world and finds himself in the body of a member of a small Qi Refining family. The original owner had poor cultivation talent and wasted his resources on a female cultivator. Fortunately, the newcomer has a system: as long as he gives gifts to that same female cultivator, the system returns tenfold, a hundredfold, or even thousands of times the value back to him. Ye Chen would never admit he was a simp. He's just making an investment.
Royal Road4.14· 608
ComedyCultivationHaremLitRPGTransmigrationWeak to Strong+1