Subgenre
Cultivation LitRPG
Prices and ratings refreshed Oct 24, 2026. Curated Oct 24, 2026.
Cultivation gives progression its oldest shape: realms, breakthroughs, tribulations and a ladder that reaches past immortality. Western cultivation novels borrow that structure and tend to strip out the translation stiffness, and the hybrids below add status screens on top.
Ordered by how well the cultivation system is integrated with the story rather than by purity. Several entries are LitRPG with cultivation bones; a few are straight xianxia written for this audience.
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Shirtaloon · Mar 9, 2021
Essences, ranks, and a mouth
Jason's power ladder is cultivation in all but name, with status screens on top. The most popular hybrid in the genre.
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#2Unsouled
Will Wight · Jun 14, 2016
The Western cultivation standard
Sacred arts, advancement, and a twelve-book ladder with a finished ending. The book that made cultivation mainstream for English readers.
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Casualfarmer · May 24, 2022
Cultivation, declined
A transmigrator refuses the sect plot and farms. Still a cultivation novel, and the funniest one.
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TheFirstDefier · Jun 8, 2021
Dao and status screens
Zac walks a cultivator's path inside a LitRPG System, and the two halves feed each other for seventeen volumes.
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Michael Chatfield · Jul 3, 2018
Cultivation plus crafting
Ten layered realms, alchemy, smithing and a party of veterans. The cultivation here is practical and earned.
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#6Reborn
L. M. Kerr · May 13, 2019
Regression up the tower
A regressor climbs a tower of worlds with knowledge from a failed first life. Wuxia flavor, LitRPG bones.
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C. Mantis · Oct 4, 2022
Rational and ranked
LitRPG-skinned xianxia with a consistent magic system and a protagonist who thinks. Twelve volumes deep.
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Bruce Sentar · Jan 4, 2021
Mage cultivation, harem
A cultivation ladder for mages with a growing household. Bruce Sentar's most popular series. Harem.
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M.H. Johnson · Nov 30, 2019
Reborn in a xianxia world
A modern man reincarnated into a cultivation world, with romance and a long, steady climb.
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#10Dao Divinity
Bruce Sentar · May 7, 2021
Cheat skill, immortal road
Dies, reborn, cultivates with an edge. Harem, fast, four books.
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#11Crystal Core
David Burke · Nov 27, 2023
Cultivation with a partner
A unique class, a real romance, and comedy. One of the better-balanced hybrids.
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HolyMouse · Sep 16, 2025
A nerd meets the dao
A transmigrator who knows every trope arrives in a world running on them. Playful xianxia for genre-literate readers.
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Blaise Corvin · Mar 15, 2022
Cultivating through the apocalypse
Blaise Corvin brings cultivation to a post-apocalyptic Earth with a party and a unique class.
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Seth Ring · Aug 11, 2026
Body refinement, beast tamers
A magic-less scholar refines his body in a world of beast tamers. Seth Ring, romance included.
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RealKaiden · Jul 22, 2026
Regressed to a storm
4.6(1.2k)An overpowered regressor cultivates lightning from the start. New and climbing fast.
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K. Georgiades aka PathOfPen · Nov 12, 2025
A mage alone
A solo mage cultivating through a hostile world. Quiet, methodical, six volumes.
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