The Ancient Genes

He ruled the heavens and conquered the abyss, only to be butchered by the people he called brothers. Lu Tian was the Eternal Emperor, the supreme cultivator who united the Nine Realms under a single banner. But on the day of his coronation, his closest allies and the woman he loved pierced his heart with celestial iron. As his soul burned, he learned a terrifying truth: he was just a pawn in a game played by cosmic entities who feared his potential. Instead of fading into nothingness, Lu Tian wakes up ten thousand years later in the broken body of a mocked noble youth in a fading border town. His empire is gone, his name is erased from history, and his enemies now sit on divine thrones. Armed with an ancient relic that crossed time with him, Lu Tian begins his ruthless climb back to the top to slaughter the gods who set him up and uncover the cosmic horror lurking beyond the stars.

Eduardo died as a loser on an old pier, beaten to a pulp for refusing to sell his wife’s honor. Yet an ancient artifact revived him through the System of Equivalent Exchange. Eduardo was granted the power to rule the criminal underworld, but at a horrifying price: every inch of power he seized had to be paid for with fragments of his own memories. From his last ragged breaths, Eduardo built an empire. From the blood of his enemies, he forged luxury for the family he loved. But as he climbed the throne as Italy’s supreme Godfather, he realized a bitter tragedy. The wealthier his family became, the more they turned into parasites, ravenous for riches and indifferent to Eduardo’s body as it slowly hollowed out. Amid betrayals of blood and the cold crack of a sniper’s bullet, Eduardo must choose: to die as a man forgotten, or to pass his darkness into the right womb. A blood debt can be repaid, but the price of a memory lasts forever.

For eighteen years, Victor Chapman was the bruised, starving bastard of House Vane—the shame of a mother they claimed was a runaway thief. Treated worse than a rabid dog, he was destined to be exiled on the Day of Resonance. But when his broken, bleeding hand touches the Resonating Crystal, it doesn't summon a creature of light. It shatters the crystal, blackens the sun, and rips a hole in the fabric of the universe. From the Void descends a six-winged Abyssal Seraph who bows to Victor, revealing the horrifying truth: his mother never ran away. She was buried alive to power the city’s opulent lights, and his hidden sister is next. Fueled by a bottomless, ancient power and a cold, unforgiving rage, Victor refuses to be a victim any longer. The corrupt nobles of Dagobah thought they were casting out a piece of trash into the dark. They didn't realize they had just unleashed the Sovereign of the Abyss. The hunt has begun, and the sun is finally setting on the empire of lies.

They called him a refugee. A charity case. A worthless son-in-law. For three years, Alexander Petrov endured their mockery, their insults, their cruelty—all while his wife stood silent. The wealthy Summers family never knew the "helpless" man scrubbing their floors was Crown Prince of Valdoria, hiding in plain sight after a brutal coup destroyed his kingdom. But when his uncle's assassins infiltrate the family to seize the Circle of Crowns—an ancient shadow network controlling European politics—Alexander's carefully built cover begins to crack. His sister has been turned into a weapon programmed to kill him. His enemies are closing in. And the wife who never defended him is about to discover the truth.He's spent twelve years playing weak. Now it's time to show them what a cornered king can do. In a world where power is everything, how much of yourself do you sacrifice to reclaim a throne?

At the final stage of the Sixth Trial, Azzim and his friends are trapped inside the Gatekeeper’s Lair. It’s the lair of The Great Zarkhan, the final boss they need to kill to activate the portal gate to The Seventh Trial Realm. For some reason, they need to get to the Seventh Trial Realm to clear all the trials as a requirement to reclaim their freedom. But things don’t go as their plans. The four of them got crushed by The Great Zarkhan, An Ancient Class Dragon, The Gatekeeper of The Sixth Trial Realm. Even after Azzim successfully killed the boss, he and all of his team members are all in a dire condition, inflicted by Zarkhan's poisonous Nethertoxin. He manages to save all his friends by taking them out through the portal gate. But Azzim were stumbled and trapped, couldn't even move with HP lower than 1 %. Just as he is about to die, the system gives him a favor, a second chance to retake the trial with an unfavorable condition.

“They only notice when you’re shining, but they never ask how long you burned to glow.” Asher Reynolds had one dream—to make music that mattered. But when the girl he sacrificed everything for betrays him with the superstar he idolized, his world shatters in front of millions. Broke, humiliated, and seconds from giving up, Asher unlocks PHEME—a mysterious ancient system that promises to turn his pain into fame. Overnight, the world falls in love with the boy they once mocked. But fame has rules. And breaking them could destroy everything. Now Asher’s rise threatens the very man who ruined him—Neil Carter, the golden boy with a dark secret and his own sinister system. Their rivalry turns into a war of gods: one powered by truth, the other by corruption. Fame made Asher a star. Vengeance might make him a legend. But at what cost? Read on to find out in this thriller!

Jian Chen was destined to die—a minor villain sacrificed for a hero’s growth. But as the executioner’s blade descends, the script of reality shatters. Armed with the forbidden "Destiny Usurper System," Jian Chen refuses to be a footnote in someone else's legend. He doesn’t seek redemption; he seeks absolute dominion through theft. From plucking "Protagonist Luck" from the world's favorites to turning ancient legacies into his personal playground, he is systematically bleeding the universe's original savior dry. To Jian Chen, destiny is not a path—it is a resource to be harvested until the chosen ones are left bankrupt and forsaken. The architects of fate have finally noticed the anomaly in their masterpiece. As the stars align to erase the man who stole their miracles, Jian Chen stands at the summit of a darkening world order. But when the Heavens themselves come to collect his debt, can a throne built on stolen fate survive the wrath of its true creator?

Ethan Cross was no ordinary mercenary. Beneath his skin, something ancient lurked — a fragment of divinity long thought destroyed. He was Aurelian, the Warlord of the Sun, a god exiled from Heaven for daring to defy the divine order. Now reborn as a man, he has no knowledge of his pasty life, his power sealed across six celestial locks, he walks the human world as both weapon and curse. But when a mafia heiress named Elena Vitale saves him from the brink of death, everything changes. In her eyes, he sees the spark he lost — compassion. Humanity. And something dangerous: faith. He was ready to endure anything for her, including the degradation and humiliation her family put him through until he could take it no more and when all six locks sealing his powers were broken, his memory returned, he decided to fight the world back with his divinity and power.

"Yesterday, I was a bug you could crush. Today, I am the bank that owns your soul." For five years, Qin Ming was the joke of Hanhai City—the "Living Door Mat" of the Lin family. He endured the insults of his mother-in-law and the physical torment of his boss, Chu Haoran, all while secretly using his genius to build his wife's company, into a billion-dollar empire. But on their fifth anniversary, the betrayal is absolute. His wife, Lin Xinyi, reveals she was only using his "Dragon Blood" to stay young, and with her ex-lover Chu Haoran, she shoots Qin Ming and tosses him into the ocean. As he sinks, his blood hits the family's "Dragon-Vault Seal." In a single, world-shaking moment, the Dragon God System doesn't just wake up—it liquidates the ancient hidden reserves of the world's 1,000 largest sects. In less than twenty-four hours, the System transfers every cent of stolen "Spirit Wealth" into his account.

In the heart of Blackrift City, a decaying urban sprawl ruled by syndicates and shadow clans, Jace Ronan is just another forgotten soul. Once a street-fighting prodigy, now he's reduced to cleaning up the grime of a city that chewed him up and spit him out. No future. No hope. But when he throws himself in front of danger to save a child, death doesn't greet him. Instead, something ancient stirs inside him. Jace becomes the host of the Ragnar Protocol, an AI-like, sentient system with immense power. Thrust into a brutal world of system cultivation, hidden magic, and violent politics, Jace is forced to fight his way through real-life quests where every choice shapes him, and every step forward paints a target on his back. The stronger he gets, the more dangerous he becomes. Not just to others, but to the ones pulling the strings. Now Jace must decide. Play the game by the rules, or tear the entire system down.