survival

"It took us three days to clear the first floor," Jax shouted, backing up as the creature lunged. "This is our first mission together." Mira laughed, sharp and breathless, already moving. "You worry too much." She slid past him, blade flashing.

Valor is dying. Karalinde—Kar—has no memory of it, but the powers to save his fading world, or finish killing it, lie dormant within him. For Kar and his family, their last hope lies in Iridess: the one city where life still thrives. The home they once fled. He was never told why. Now—thrust back into that city—he must uncover the truth about his heritage, even as the powers buried within him begin to awaken. Iridess might kill him first though. Monsters called crystbeasts now roam the ruins of Valor, hardened hunters wield newly awakened abilities, and ruthless guilds vie for territory. Kar will have to grow strong quickly—strong enough to protect the people he cares about… and survive what he’s becoming.

Jasmine received "shocking" news: she had to marry the Dragon Ghost as his wife. But in exchange, after the marriage, she would inherit the entire estate, subjects, and territory of her husband. Jasmine was overjoyed: "Is there such a sweet deal in this world?" On the wedding day, she dressed up sharply and stepped into the magnificent cathedral, casting an affectionate glance toward her future partner. And then she saw... a Dragon Egg. The majestic Dragon Ghost was nowhere to be seen; there was only an egg lying there all by itself. Inventory of assets: A dilapidated castle, with drafty winds blowing in from all directions. Subjects: Three hundred skin-and-bone slaves who, at first glance, looked like walking skeletons about to collapse from hunger. Territory: A dead land spanning ten thousand square kilometers around the Dragon Valley, so desolate that "dogs eat stones and chickens eat pebbles." Jasmine knew she had fallen for the scam of the century, but unfortunately, the knights who escorted Jasmine here had long since "whipped their horses and vanished," running away a long time ago. An old butler, so aged he could barely walk, tremblingly stepped forward, waiting for the new Lord's instructions: "My Lord..." Jasmine held the "egg-husband" in her arms, and her rational nerves snapped: "I have land and people, could I really let myself starve to death?" Putting words into action, Jasmine rolled up her sleeves and officially embarked on the path of tilling the soil to get rich. Many years later. A strange town suddenly appeared on the mainland, rumored to be obscenely wealthy. From that place flowed exquisite fabrics, pure white porcelain, and sparkling jewelry... Anyone who had ever set foot there could not help but exclaim in amazement, while wandering poets competed to compose poems praising that prosperity until their throats were sore. A certain greedy King became overcome with avarice and brought a massive army, intending to seize the town for his own. The result? They were treated to the sight of a giant dragon descending from the sky to "pay them a visit."

I only publish this novel on ScribbleHub and Webnovel. If you see it on any other website, it has been reposted without my permission. ... Immortality sounds glorious—right up until you’re the one still standing at the family altar while everyone else turns to names on wood... and Elian found it in the hard way. This isn’t the quick-breakthrough kind of world. Pills spoil. Talismans smudge. The sect counts spirit stones before it counts favors. Years go by between small steps, and every step costs something. Elian has a cheat—but only with a bit of advantages, survival is uncertain, and the harsh realities of immortality come to life. He grows up in a cultivation clan where “family” means both shelter and competition. As he lives longer, he starts outlasting the people who taught him how to hold a sword. And what of the tired trope of men endlessly pursuing women? Why not flip the script? Why can’t the so-called “righteous female ancestor” seek out younger male cultivators—not for schemes, but out of genuine love or even because she's captivated by his youthful charm? No heaven-defying bloodline. No instant power-ups. Just a patient, clever cultivator learning where to bend and where to bite. This story was born out of my deep fascination with xianxia and cultivation novels—a genre I’ve devoured for years. But as I read, one question kept lingering in my mind: what would a true cultivation world look like? For years, I’ve been asking myself these questions while consuming cultivation stories, and now, I’ve written this story to discover the answers. Because it draws inspiration from so many xianxia novels, I’ve decided to place it in the fan fiction section. (I will use chinese names and a bit of western elements) No system.

A soul from Earth transmigrates into the Southern Border’s Black Blood Stockade. No system, no cheats, only the memories of the survival laws from the world of Reverend Insanity. Lin Mu, with only B-grade aptitude, knows he is but a moth to the flame in this cruel world. To reach the peak, he must become more ruthless than the demonic path and more hypocritical than the righteous path. He starts by intercepting the legendary Liquor Worm, the very treasure that began Fang Yuan's legend. In this world, there is no right or wrong, only benefits. Follow Lin Mu as he uses his knowledge of the future to refine the world itself into his own blood-colored path. What to Expect: 1.ruthless MC: No harem, no romance, only benefits. 2.Deep Schemes: High-IQ battles and cold-blooded survival. 3.Daily Updates: At least 1 chapter every day! Author’s Note (Originality & Translation): This is a work of fanfiction inspired by Reverend Insanity. The plot and original characters are created by me. I utilize AI tools for translation and localizing the prose to ensure the best "RI style" reading experience. Read up to 5 Chapters Ahead on Patreon: https://patreon.com/yokocat0618

The Age of Ascension has begun. A distant war, once fought by the ancients, has returned — its influence now bleeding into the lesser realms, consuming both the weak and the strong alike. In this new era, survival depends on one thing: Transcendence. Titles have appeared, granting power beyond mortal limits. To live is to rise. To fail is to be left behind. Amid all this chaos, what am I to do when even my body isn’t mine alone? {PLS NOTE: Do not read if you are faint of heart, It is a horror/gory book. For those who say it isn't horrifying enough, I implore thee to post suggestions.} Note: slow burn, or is it called slow progression ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When Feng Qi awoke, he realized the world had been completely overturned. Wherever his eyes fell, the land was strewn with desiccated bones. All life had withered away. [Warning: Three hundred meters ahead lies a database. It contains historical records, including a detailed account of your untimely death. You should go take a look.] [Trust me—don’t go west. You could die!] [Do you see that black stone monument? You decide to approach it and investigate.] “I don’t want to!” Feng Qi protested, resisting the voice echoing in his mind. [No. You do.] … Guided by that mysterious voice, Feng Qi begins to traverse between reality and the future, gradually uncovering the truth of this ruined world—and searching for a way to change it. For it is only after witnessing true darkness that one comes to long endlessly for the light.

After 4 years of bitter isolation, hatred, and malice, Takeshi decides to emerge from his solitude into the harsh world where humans generally use Aura, in order to recover his sword. This initial goal served as a motive for Takeshi to strive toward greater goals he had long desired to achieve, and now the opportunity has come for him to develop himself and fulfill what he aspires to.

Every soul is like a star. They burn in life, fall in death, yet— Their light remains in memory. *** Lukas lived a quiet life until a sudden accident ended it. He opens his eyes in Terros, a world of magic and swords, reborn into a powerful noble house. Misfortune strikes again, making him lose everything he had. To survive, he must learn how mana flows, how swords are used, and which pieces of himself he needs to discard. His path takes him through the dark side of a world ruled by strength. He traverses vast continents, uncovers ancient secrets, conquers dungeons, and participates in wars. He doesn’t want glory. He wants to live. And somewhere in this vast, cruel world, the girl he lost might be alive.

Leo Vance dies for the hundredth time in the hellish, monster-infested ruins of 2047, his body torn apart by a Chitter Alpha. But this death is different. Instead of awakening days or weeks in the past as usual, his consciousness is violently thrown back a full decade to 2037—the precise moment the "Veil" fell and the apocalypse began. He retains the hardened skills and brutal experience of a decade of survival, but he is trapped in his younger, weaker body. His sole, inexplicable advantage is a quirk of his new reality: any firearm he touches never runs out of ammunition. The bullets are infinite, but his stamina, his sanity, and his humanity are not. Armed with foreknowledge and this single, broken power, Leo embarks on a grim mission: not just to survive, but to rewrite the catastrophic timeline. He must navigate a world freshly plunged into chaos, confront the hidden architects of the collapse, and decide whether saving humanity is worth sacrificing the last remnants of his own soul.

Transmigrated into the world of Naruto, he was taken in by the Konoha Orphanage and eventually became a shinobi of the Root—the hidden foundation of the village. To become a powerful shinobi, he is willing to do whatever it takes. Combined with his exceptional talent for cultivation, he has earned the recognition of Danzo Shimura. The leader of the shadows believes he finally has a worthy successor—someone with the resolve to become the next "Darkness of the Shinobi."

Leo Silva destroyed the world in seven seconds. All it took is one moment of lost control. One surge of unstable power. Now the world is ash, his family is gone, and the survivors aren't human anymore. Leo did this. And he can't take it back. But Alphabet, the syndicate that gave him this cursed power, isn't done with him yet. They call him: Subject S3. Hunted by those who want to weaponize him. Haunted by the faces of everyone he killed. Leo must master the very power that destroyed everything, or watch it consume what little remains. Some mistakes can't be undone. Some can only be survived.

Synopsis: After his farm is reduced to ashes, David Newman abandons the lawless underworld in search of a new life in the megacity of Cor Marshall. There, his hope for a fresh start is shattered when he encounters his cousin unrecognizable, bearing the marks of a system that has fundamentally altered human life. David is drawn into a confrontation with the system and his own fears, where the question is no longer how to change humanity, but whether anything human remains to save. His faith becomes both his source of strength and his greatest vulnerability.

Ebony Baptiste agrees to a first date with a man she met at the university library after weeks of late-night phone calls. James seems charming and fascinated by her work in natural medicine and virology—but his interest is anything but innocent. When he drugs her with plans to abduct her, something ancient intervenes. Raphael—a powerful jaguar shifter—has been watching from the shadows, knowing from the moment he saw her that she is his fated mate. When her life is threatened, he unleashes the beast within. James doesn’t survive. Shaken and unsure of what she witnessed, Ebony struggles to reconcile science with the image burned into her memory: burning amber eyes in the dark. Detective Gabriel Cruz, a white witch sworn to protect the city, knows the truth—but revealing it could change her life forever. As danger closes in, Ebony is drawn into a hidden world of shifters, witches, and ancient bloodlines—where destiny doesn’t ask permission. It claims you.

A 27-year-old office worker dies in a truck accident after another 14-hour shift. He wakes up as an Imp—the weakest demon in the deepest layers of hell. No special powers. No allies. Just a mysterious Evolution System that activates when he absorbs souls. Now he must survive in a world where everyone wants to eat him. Every demon is a predator. Every shadow hides death. And every soul he consumes makes him stronger... but also makes him forget. Forget his name. Forget his past. Forget he was ever human. How far will he go to evolve? And what will be left of him at the top?

After the human world was ruined by the war between the gods and the shadow creatures. Axley woke up in the shadow realm, an ancient world ruled by cruel gods. Being the only human in the world of gods isn't just a misfortune, it is a horrible nightmare. Axley was trapped in the Hell Dungeon for eighteen years, he has survived on nothing but sheer will and hunger for vengeance. In this realm, the powerless are used as ritual experiments and broken until there is nothing left of them. Axley thought he could endure it, but he was wrong. After a final, brutal act of torture, his body was tossed away like trash and left to rot in the dark. But, instead, death rejected him, and the very darkness he was thrown into whispered back.

Gerhard Virex was born in 972.M41, on an Imperial Hive-world. He regains his memories of a past life in the same year that it was overrun by Orks under a Warboss using as much dakka as they could get their hands on. All alone and isolated, forced to fight against the now resident Orks for survival, Gerhard is unwilling to accept such a fate of constant war and sets out to advance on his own. Thanks to a special power, he became the Gamer, and thanks to that, Gerhard now has a real chance. Chaos and the Xenos better hurry, because the Gamer has entered the Grim Dark Future of the 41st Millennium and he is here to stay.

When Aldric clicked Confirm, expecting a rez glitch, he got transmigrated to Westeros — the world of Game of Thrones with no interface or guild chat, and certainly no way back. Wearing epic plate armor that shines too much, thirty thousand gold nobody here can explain, and not one paladin spell left. The first village he reached was already ash and bodies... support me on p@treon: p@treon. com/zefyrus (additional 30+ chapters and daily updates)

Jinu was nothing more than a struggling laborer, invisible to the world and forgotten by opportunity. Until the day he found something buried beneath stone — something that wasn’t from this world. When a mysterious Core fuses with his body, his reality shatters. System notifications begin to echo in his mind. Missions appear. Deadly worlds open. Failure means punishment. Success means evolution. Thrown into shadow realms without sunlight and beast-dominated lands soaked in blood, Jinu must grow stronger or be erased. But as the Core awakens, so does something far more terrifying. The apocalypse is coming. And the weakest man alive might be humanity’s last hope.

[R18 WARNING: This novel contains mature content including explicit sexual situations, non-consensual acts, graphic violence, torture, psychological trauma, and dark themes. Reader discretion is strongly advised.] "They discarded me like trash. They should have incinerated the body." Kaelyn Hayes was born into a world of mana and monsters, but his life was defined by suffering. The scion of a broken bloodline, he was captured by the ruthless Whitmore family and spent five years as a lab rat—a plaything for the cruel heir, Morgan. Branded with a slave mark and tortured to the brink of death, Kael was eventually tossed into a dump yard to rot. But death was only the beginning. Reborn in the darkness, Kael awakens the [Devourer System]. It grants him a terrifying power: the ability to consume the mana, skills, and very essence of his enemies. In a world where strength is law, Kael isn't interested in being a hero. He is done being a victim. Now, he has escaped his cage, but he is far from safe. To destroy the B-Rank Warlock who branded him, Kael must infiltrate the elite Silverwood Academy and hide his true nature. He will wear the mask of a broken boy, seduce the daughter of his enemy, and manipulate the innocent to get close to the guilty. From the shadows, he will rise. From F-Rank to Godhood, he will carve a path of blood and betrayal through the galaxy. They wanted a savior. They created a Devourer. What to expect: Villain Protagonist: Cunning, manipulative, and ruthless. System & LitRPG Elements: Levels, Skills, and Ranking progression. Devouring Mechanic: The MC grows by consuming his enemies and stealing their powers. Dark Romance: Manipulative relationships, harems, and R18 content. Revenge Plot: A slow-burn journey from the bottom to the absolute top. "Mercy is for the weak. I am what the strong fear." Tags: Villain MC, Dark, R18, System, Cultivation, Revenge, Anti-Hero, Superpowers, Action, Romance, Sci-Fi, Harem (Slow Build), Explicit Content, Psychological Trauma, Blood and Gore, Mature Themes