Valerian The Legendary

Yan Ming the King of hell, Ruler of the abyss, one of the ten primordials was betrayed by three of his seven wives after a clash with his arch-enemy Ling Yi. Yan Ming fell to the assault but the three generals were unable to retrieve hell's mandate who deemed them unworthy of wielding it. Yan Ming reincarnates as a normal human with the mandate linked to him as a system guiding him to regain his powers with only one mission for him to fulfill. {Main Questline: Reclaim ownership of the infernal realm} {Time Limit: 5 years} {Penalty: Permanent loss of the title "King Of Hell, Ruler of the abyss} Guided by the mandate now recreated into a system, Yan Ming rises from a mortal body to reclaim control over hell and exert his dominance. During his journeys he discovers fragments of past events and uncovers his true desire, forfeiting the control over hell in pursuit of his own true desires and rewrite his own life from being chained down to an empty throne to become his own free man. Unbothered and unchained to no one and nothing he sets out for his journey to discover the origin of Dao and achieve the legendary final realm, the true pinnacle of cultivation! --- A book based on unraveling the different mysteries of cultivation and the universe, very fast paced and diverse. I'd recommend you check out the free chapters first and try making a guess regards the novels plot what do you think? The novel looks a bit slow in the initial arcs but eventually get better as it moves on, thanks for reading!

Arthur Vance was a titan of modern industry—a ruthless corporate strategist who mastered the art of the hostile takeover. But when a betrayal ends his life in the 21st century, he wakes up in the body of Julian Valerius, the disgraced, "waste" illegitimate son of a dying Emperor. ​In a world governed by ancient steel and noble bloodlines, Julian is a man with a target on his back. His six half-brothers, each a powerful warlord or cunning politician, have already signed his death warrant to secure their path to the throne. He has no army, no wealth, and a reputation as a drunken fool. ​But he has a mind the medieval world isn't prepared for. ​Using his knowledge of modern economics, chemical engineering, and psychological warfare, Julian begins his ascent from the mud of the slums. ​He turns sour grain into Liquid Gold, a distilled spirit that corrupts the empire’s elite and funds his private shadow army. ​He recruits Elena Vance, a legendary but betrayed General, turning her into the sword that will carve his path to glory. ​He builds a network of "Rats"—the beggars and outcasts—creating the first global intelligence agency in history. ​As the Empire spirals into a bloody civil war, Julian doesn't just fight for survival; he executes a takeover. From the smoke of the slums to the gold of the high court, the "Waste Prince" will prove that in the face of modern logic, even the strongest crown is nothing more than gilded lead. ​Witness the birth of an Empire where gold speaks louder than swords, and a bastard's shadow looms over the world.

He was born a traitor’s son. The academy branded him a failure. But an ancient king’s soul calls him Master. Seventeen year old Kael Ashford arrives at the prestigious Dragonspire Academy with nothing but a patched tunic and the heavy burden of his family's disgraced name. Branded as the son of the kingdom’s ultimate traitor, he expects to be rejected during the public Bonding Ceremony. He expects to return to his starving border village in shame. He does not expect a legendary, midnight-scaled black dragon,a beast thought to be dead for centuries,to crash through the glass dome, bow in absolute submission, and call him "Your Majesty." Before Kael can claim his destiny, a cloaked assassin slits the dragon's throat, and a forbidden royal crest burns itself permanently into Kael's chest. Sentenced to the damp, rotten Discard Dorms with the academy’s lowest failures, Kael quickly realizes the dragon isn’t completely gone,its powerful consciousness is alive inside his mind, acting as a secret mentor. To survive the murderous gaze of Headmaster Vance and the cold, vengeful blade of the brilliant Lyra Voss, Kael must fake his weakness while secretly siphoning forbidden magic. But as he uses a stolen silver key to unlock the ancient, hidden ruins built directly beneath the school, he uncovers a dark laboratory that shatters the history of the kingdom. Deep within the academy's forbidden underbelly stands a cage of pure magical energy. And resting inside it, is a boy who shares his exact face,a perfect duplicate whose pitch-black eyes are wide awake, whispering a dark warning that will change everything.

Synopsis Eryx Vale was never meant to live. Reborn into a cultivation world as a minor villain, Eryx awakens with the knowledge of his own fate: he is destined to be publicly executed before the day ends, his death nothing more than a stepping stone for the story’s true protagonist. Escape is impossible. Begging is useless. Every path he remembers leads to the same ending—death. Just as fate closes in, a cold voice echoes in his mind. Villain Survival System activated. Unlike legendary cheat systems, Eryx’s System offers no free power and no mercy. Its rule is absolute: he can only grow stronger by surviving events where he is fated to die. Avoid destiny the wrong way, and the System itself will punish him. With execution looming, Eryx makes a choice no version of him ever made before—he refuses to follow the script. From the outer sect’s execution grounds to the inner realms ruled by monsters, cultivators, and hidden laws of destiny, Eryx begins tearing through a world that insists on his death. Each defied fate grants him dangerous rewards, each survival twists the future further out of control. But the more fate he breaks, the more the world pushes back. He is hunted by protagonists blessed by heaven, targeted by higher beings who despise anomalies, and watched by a System whose rewards grow more lethal with every success. To live, Eryx must become something worse than a villain. He must become the man fate itself cannot kill.

After dying in a traffic accident, twenty-three-year-old game streamer Aria Vale opens her eyes inside Eternal Realm, the fantasy game she spent six years mastering. The problem is that she isn't reborn as the legendary heroine or an overpowered warrior. She becomes Luna Ashwood, the weakest beginner character who was originally destined to die in the tutorial. Aria believes she can easily survive because she knows every quest, dungeon, hidden treasure, and future event. She is wrong. NPCs begin speaking words they never said before. Bosses appear in places they should not exist. Future events happen weeks too early. Someone is rewriting the world's story. When the feared guild master Kael Ravencrest, the strongest player in the kingdom, notices Luna doing impossible things, he forces her into his elite guild. At first, he believes she is a spy working for another kingdom. But the more he watches her, the more impossible she becomes. She predicts disasters before they happen. She finds treasures nobody has ever discovered. She knows people before meeting them. As they investigate the changing world together, they uncover a terrifying truth. They are not the only ones who were reincarnated into the game. Someone else entered first. And that person wants the story to end with every player dead. Now Aria must protect a world she once treated as entertainment while hiding the greatest secret of all. She already knows how everyone is supposed to die. Except now... The future keeps changing.

In a world that demands perfection, only the broken can cut through fate. On the eve of his historic ascension, Li Xuan was the undisputed crown jewel of the Azure Sky Sect. A peerless genius destined to rule the firmament. But supreme talent breeds venomous jealousy. Hours before he could condense his legendary Pristine Jade Core, he was brutally drugged and betrayed. His sworn brother wielded the blade, his beautiful fiancé orchestrated the trap, and together, they systematically smashed his jade dantian into ten thousand glittering, useless pieces. Stabbed through his spiritual foundation, stripped of his core, and left to die in the bone-chilling mud of the Abyssal Wasteland, Li Xuan was labeled a "cripple." A broken mirror forever unfit for the Dao. But his enemies made one fatal mistake: they left the shards inside his soul. Driven by an absolute, terrifying will for vengeance, Li Xuan refuses to heal. Instead, he does the unthinkable he awakens the jagged, razor-sharp fragments floating in his ruined body. Where others see absolute destruction, Li Xuan forges a forbidden new path: Fractured Ascension. A perfect mirror can only reflect the world, but a shattered mirror cuts it to pieces. Each jagged fragment of his broken soul becomes a lethal weapon hungry to devour heaven’s Qi, twist natural laws, and reflect every past humiliation back tenfold. Armed with a hurricane of broken glass tearing through his veins and an unbreakable will, the boy they discarded rises from the pits. No mercy. No negotiation. Those who broke his foundation to keep him on his knees will watch him ascend using the very shards they left in the dirt. “You thought you destroyed my future? You merely unleashed my edge.”

In our era, where science and technology dominate, magic and the like are always dismissed as myths and legends, elements of folklore. However, a boy named Tom crops up from the rural areas of Detroit. Tom, was a lover of books, a science freak, and an ardent admirer of magic. During his high school days, Tom found a book from one of the world’s most secret occult groups; The Order of the Chalice. This book led him to an unprecedented adventure into the depths of the most hidden places in the world. Meanwhile, Tom’s unrequited lover, Heidi, was worried about Tom and insisted on pursuing him. Tom left home after hijacking his father’s pension funds in search of the Stone of Heka which the occult book told him of. Heidi, on the other hand, cut a frustrated figure as Tom eluded her. Sometime in the future, decades after he left his family, Tom resurfaced. But now, as the ‘vulle guze cha’; the magic Overlord of the Order of the Chalice. Many catastrophic events heralded his ascension and emergence. This caused the States, politicians, and the Order of the Chalice surviving members to become alert. The state thought that a major terrorist group had attacked, while politicians confused, concocted many conspiracy theories in pursuit of the culprit. However, the Order of the Chalice was frenziedly preparing for the homecoming and true ascension of the legendary ‘vulle guze cha’ who will lead them to the limelight, and bring back the golden era of magic. Heidi, who was done with her college education, has been in pursuit of Tom and is the only one who knows his whereabouts. Tom, however, seeks supremacy. He wants to rule the world. An inevitable war will ensue but only Heidi can save the day.

At eighteen, every human receives an Awakening—a chance to gain a powerful combat class and climb the ranks from F to the legendary SSR. Leo has spent his entire life dreaming of becoming a great hunter. But on the day of his Awakening, his dreams are crushed. F-Rank. Scavenger. Trash-tier potential. Humiliated by his peers and abandoned by the guild that once promised to protect him, Leo is thrown into a low-level dungeon as nothing more than expendable bait. Surrounded by monsters with no chance of survival, he prepares to die. Then something impossible happens. His worthless Scavenger class glitches. A forbidden system awakens within him—the Infinite Trial System. But it isn't a gift. The system rewards Leo only when he survives pain that should have killed him. Every broken bone, every wound, every agonizing battle can become strength. To grow, he must endure what others cannot. The stronger the enemy, the greater the pain. The closer he comes to death, the faster he evolves. While the world continues to see Leo as a pathetic F-Rank failure, he begins a secret journey of unimaginable growth. He hunts monsters, challenges powerful guilds, survives impossible trials, and slowly uncovers the terrifying truth behind his system. But becoming powerful comes at a price. When Leo finally challenges the corrupt forces controlling the world, he becomes humanity's most wanted enemy—and the Infinite Trial gives him a quest with a 99% mortality rate. Leo has spent his entire life being treated like trash. Now, he's going to show the world what happens when trash awakens as a sovereign.

Ren, a young man considered trash in his sect due to his inability to cultivate, lives in the shadows of ridicule and ostracization. However, he harbors a secret both terrifying and extraordinary: every time he nearly dies from a technique, his body strangely absorbs and copies that technique permanently, making it his own. From simple fire punches to lethal holy sword strikes, or even destruction by legendary domains, Ren rises again with the enemy's power now a part of him. This unique condition transforms his suffering into a source of infinite power, propelling him from a loser into an unrivaled entity in the world of cultivation. Ren's journey begins from the bottom, using his first "death" to master basic techniques he couldn't even learn before. With ingenuity and courage, he begins to strategically seek out greater "deaths," allowing himself to be struck by stronger and more dangerous techniques. Every "death" is a rebirth, every wound is a lesson, and every trauma is a power-up. His reputation as the "Copycat Immortal" begins to spread, though most only see him as a mysterious and terrifying cultivator, without understanding the true source of his power. He must face increasingly powerful enemies, from sect rivals to regional tyrants, and finally ancient forces that threaten the existence of the universe. As time passes, Ren not only accumulates a vast arsenal of countless techniques but also begins to understand the true nature of his condition. Is it a curse, a blessing, or a cosmic anomaly? His quest takes him beyond the boundaries of the mortal world, challenging Gods and Demons, and uncovering conspiracies hidden for thousands of years. With every "death" that brings him closer to total destruction, Ren instead moves closer to the peak of immortality

At the absolute peak of the cosmic firmament, Baron Colgate —the legendary “Void Sovereign” who dominated the universe for three centuries—faces his ultimate god-level ascension. However, the trial triggers a devastating Soulbreak Illusion, forcing him to relive the bitter regrets of his youth on Earth. Trapped in a nightmare orchestrated by his past enemy, Matt Windgate , Baron witnesses the brutal death of his fiancée, Juliana, and remembers the tragic destruction of his family. Overwhelmed by fury and despair, his mind breaks, his cultivation undergoes a demonic deviation, and he is obliterated by divine heavenly lightning. Instead of permanent death, Baron jolts awake in mid-May2018, finding himself in the cramped economy class of a commercial flight landing in Tuntadel City. He has been reborn into his teenage years, right before his life fell apart. Though his cosmic energy, Soul Core, and divine relics are completely gone, Baron realizes he possesses the ultimate advantage: three hundred years of pristine memories, including flawless cultivation techniques, alchemy formulas, and artifact-forging expertise. On an energy-depleted Earth where the hidden martial arts system only reaches basic grandmaster levels, Baron’s superior transcendental knowledge operates on an entirely higher dimension. Recognizing that his past failure stemmed from an unstable emotional foundation, he resolves to rebuild his power step-by-step. With his family, Malica, and Juliana still alive, everything can be salvaged. Armed with absolute detachment and the chilling confidence of an ancient cosmic emperor, Baron steps off the plane ready to seamlessly counter his old bullies, protect his loved ones, and systematically dismantle the elite houses that once trampled him. The show has begun, and the Void Sovereign will have his revenge.