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The Illusion of Heaven

After three hundred years as a legendary grandmaster in a glorious cultivation world, Zhung Hang dies peacefully in his death bed, only to awaken in a modern hospital bed. Doctors smile kindly and tell him it was nothing but a coma-induced dream. Stripped of every achievement, every bond, every shred of meaning, he returns to a life where no one ever truly wanted him. Parents who saw him as a burden. A little brother who died forgotten. Love that was never love. On a rainy night, he slits his throat and makes one final vow: “If reality is crueler than any dream, I will carve the next one with my own hands, even if I have to become something neither demon nor saint.” Death refuses him. He awakens again, reborn as an eight-year-old boy named Zhung in a third, far crueler world. Here, there is no qi, no spiritual roots, no merciful heaven. Power is measured by the **Nine Refinements of Will**, a brutal path where mortals must drink the fresh blood of divine or demonic beasts to tear open an **Aperture** inside their flesh. One wrong drop can leave you a conscious vegetable feeling eternal agony. One deep wound can strip a lifetime of progress in seconds. In this world, Zhung has only one light: his mother Zheng Han, the third and person in three lifetimes who has ever loved him without condition. For eight years he remains powerless, hiding behind a gentle smile while secretly feeding travellers to a beast in the forest cave, waiting for the day its blood will let him begin. He does not walk the righteous path. He does not walk the demonic path. He walks the **Broken Path**, a third road forged from the refusal to ever again be heaven’s tragic puppet. A dark, slow-burn xianxia of cosmic betrayal, quiet maternal love, and a soul that will gamble everything just to protect the one person who never asked him to be anything more than her son. The heavens wrote the first two tragedies. The third one will be his.
JemLazyTired · 22.1k Views

Spiderball

When a mysterious relic known as the Spiderball crashes into Kairo City, the world unknowingly steps into a new era of human evolution. Sixteen-year-old Kade Orion survives the Spiderball’s violent Binding, awakening the Web—a latent human energy system fueled by pressure, instinct, and willpower. The power enhances physical abilities but comes at a brutal cost: every use strains the body, causes recoil, and risks permanent damage. Most humans do not survive awakening. Kade does, but survival makes him a target. The Council of Web Authority, a covert organization that regulates awakeners, moves to contain Kade under the command of Nyx Vale. At the same time, rogue awakeners—humans who reject control—emerge, led by veterans like Raze, who believe awakened power should rule openly rather than hide. As Kade is forced into combat and training, he learns that strength without control leads to Web Fracture and eventual collapse. Power responds to emotion, making anger and fear dangerous allies. Each battle leaves lasting injuries, pushing Kade closer to losing control of himself. While the Council tightens its grip, independent factions rise across the world, and awakeners begin to appear openly. Ideological conflict erupts between regulation, freedom, and destruction of the old world order. Kade becomes a symbol none of them fully control. As signs of Web Collapse surface, Kade faces the truth behind the Spiderball: it was never meant to create heroes, but to filter humanity through survival. In a world on the brink of exposure and war, Kade must decide whether power should be suppressed, controlled, or destroyed entirely. Spiderball is a long-form battle anime novel focused on human evolution, discipline, and consequence—where strength is earned through pain, restraint, and choice, and every victory leaves a scar.
Ifechukwu_Livinus · 1.2k Views

The Broken Halo

‘How cliché. I’ve read countless novels where the Hero is betrayed by their companions… but was I wrong to trust those who fought beside me for nearly six decades?’ ----- Betrayal. A word many live in fear of. A word some never expect… until it happens. A word that completely shatters one’s view of life. Just like any other heroic tale, Simon was the Hero of Earth, the one who defeated the Demon King and was about to end the war between races with his companions. Yet, in the end, he was betrayed by his own companions for reasons he never understood. Instead of finding death, Simon found rebirth. To his horror, he reincarnated as the very race he had devoted his entire life to exterminating… a race he despised, feared, and was disgusted by. Reborn as a demon infant within one of the most impoverished demon tribes, Simon found himself at the very bottom of a world he once sought to destroy. Fortunately, he was not entirely abandoned. His unique Seven Star Blessing, bestowed by his patron God, followed him through reincarnation. Armed with this Blessing and the Demonic Magic of his new race, Simon now harbors an ambition greater than ever before… to rise higher than he ever did as the Hero of Earth. To become a God. But the path forward is far from simple. Betrayals from those he would never expect. Endless trials and tribulations. And the lingering question of identity… Should he cling to his past as a human hero, or embrace his nature as a demon to survive? Can Simon abandon his hatred and live among demons? Or will he erase his past entirely and fully embrace his demonic nature? Will his thirst for revenge drag him deeper into darkness… Or will he rise above it? In the end… Will he be devoured… or will he devour all?
Anon22 · 136.1k Views