The Second Son of the Marquis Wants to Laze Around

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Chu Feng transmigrates to the vast and mysterious Xuantian Continent, a world where strength determines everything. But unlike others, he can’t cultivate at all. Just when it seems like he’s destined to remain weak and irrelevant, he suddenly awakens a strange system—one that allows him to grow stronger by accepting disciples. Lacking any real knowledge of cultivation techniques, Chu Feng does the only thing he can: he bluffs. He starts recruiting disciples using made-up martial arts and nonsense teachings, hoping to trick the system into making him stronger. What he never expected was that his disciples would take his nonsense seriously—and actually master the techniques he invented. Not just that, they go on to become terrifyingly powerful, shaking the world with their strength. A hundred years later, as his disciples stand at the peak of the cultivation world, one by one becoming legendary Emperors, Chu Feng can only look on in disbelief and mutter: “I made up those techniques… how did you all become Emperors?” ================================================================ Why You Should Read This: The main character doesn’t become overpowered overnight. This isn’t one of those stories where the protagonist takes in one disciple and instantly starts dominating everyone. Chu Feng has to build his strength gradually, and his progress feels earned. It avoids the usual face-slapping, power-trip routine. In the early chapters, you won’t find constant revenge arcs or exaggerated drama. The story takes its time and lets the world—and characters—develop naturally. There’s a subtle layer of humor. The contrast between Chu Feng’s nonsense teachings and the dead-serious disciples who actually succeed with them adds a light, clever touch that keeps the story fun without turning into full comedy. It plays with familiar cultivation tropes while adding a twist. If you’re used to reading xianxia or progression fantasy, you’ll recognize the structure—but this novel bends the formula in some refreshing ways.

He called me his ruin. Then he made me one. Alpha Shiloh's rejection wasn’t just a scar—it was a betrayal. He left me shattered. Broken. And I had to rebuild myself in silence. I almost forgot the way his touch once burned like salvation. Now he’s back. Not to beg forgiveness. To bargain. A deadly mission, he says. He promises freedom. But then presence ignites my wolf into a frenzy. She thrashes, desperate to claim him again. But I remember the coldness in his eyes when he exiled me. The way the pack turned their backs as I crawled into the wilderness, half-dead and wholly broken. Hate simmers hotter than desire. Yet here I am, bargaining with the devil who shattered me. Every moment we share is a lie. He doesn’t know about the shadows I’ve fed, the truth I’ve buried. Or the child. One whisper of its existence, and the pack will paint the forest with my blood. But the closer we get to completing his mission, the harder it is to hide… from him, or from the part of me that still craves him. Freedom has a price. So does vengeance. And I’m not sure which will destroy me first.

By D_rissing, nightmaster000. Gods have reincarnated in our times...some kids have been chosen to become the new deities of the world; training hard to be great gods one day. Unfortunately for him, Lincoln Loud WASNT one of the chosen one...he doesnt have any divine power...or at least...he thinks he doesnt have one.

In the sprawling, morally fractured realm of the Roland Empire—a land where colonial ambition cloaks itself in divine righteousness and magic collides with treachery—a disgraced noble’s pact with a demon ignites a revolution that will shatter gods and empires alike. Duwei Luo Lin, heir to the illustrious Luo Lin family, is branded a “worthless fool” at birth. Silent, frail, and dismissed by his iron-willed father, Count Raymond, the empire’s revered naval commander, Duwei hides a lethal secret: his soul carries memories of a past life, gifting him a modern intellect sharp enough to dissect the rot beneath Roland’s gilded surface. When a political assassination leaves him mortally wounded, Duwei strikes a Faustian bargain with , Alagon a chained demon of the abyss. In exchange for the Eye of Laws—a power to unravel the fundamental truths of magic and lies—Duwei’s soul begins its slow descent into darkness, his right arm twisting into a clawed monstrosity. As Roland’s seventh colonial fleet sails to plunder the South Sea, Duwei is thrust into a labyrinth of imperial intrigue. His father, celebrated for crushing rebellions, drowns in guilt over atrocities committed in the empire’s name. The Church of Light, sanctimonious enforcers of “divine order,” hides vampiric rituals behind sermons. Meanwhile, the South Sea tribes, led by the blind prophet Sea Singer, prepare to drown Roland’s ships in blood. Duwei walks a razor’s edge: manipulating his family’s rivals, exposing the Church’s heresies, and allying with Vivian, a frost mage burdened by her lineage as a half-human heir to an extinct ice goddess. But power corrupts. The demon’s whisper grows louder in Duwei’s mind, and his victories come at a cost. He forges the Free Covenant—a coalition of mages, dragons, and rebels—yet fears becoming the tyrant he seeks to overthrow. When the Light God itself descends to annihilate him, Duwei gambles everything: shattering the divine Frost Crown to freeze eternity itself, even as his body disintegrates. In his final moments, he entrusts Vivian with a plea: “Tell me if the new world… has fewer lies.”

They called her a savior… until the day she failed.” At thirteen, she awakened — one of the youngest heroes of the modern age. Blessed with divine power, she rose against monsters born of myth and nightmare. For two years, she fought in the light. Until the light betrayed her. At fifteen, one life slipped through her hands… and the world condemned her for it. The media twisted the truth. The public turned their backs. Her name became a curse. So she disappeared — vanishing into the shadows, her powers sealed, her heart broken. Three years later, the world is changing again. Myth is no longer legend. Gods long forgotten are clawing their way back into reality — bringing chaos, destruction, and ancient war to modern soil. Humanity’s last defense? A covert organization known only as MYTHOS INITIATIVE, recruiting those who still bear the divine spark. She wants no part of it. Heroes? Hope? Justice? Those words mean nothing to her anymore. But when someone she loves is caught in the crossfire… the darkness stirs. Her soul responds. And the Nyx Protocol awakens. A system born from the primordial goddess of night — granting her the power to absorb the essence of fallen gods and evolve beyond mortal limits. Each battle pulls her deeper into the abyss. Each fragment of divinity brings her closer to something... inhuman. She was once the world's youngest hero. Now, she might be its final weapon. From darkness all things are born. To darkness all things return.

NO RAPE! MATURE CONTENT/ VIOLENCE BUT NOTHING TOO GORY FOR READERS TO HANDLE. Lilith was a rebellious child while growing up and didn’t have a belief in marriage as she saw it as a fancy prison. She was adopted by Lycan foster parents who saw her as nothing more than a burden. Because she was human, they repeatedly sold her to men seeking mistresses, but each time, she was returned after a single night. At last, she thought she had found an escape, falling for a man who promised her freedom. But instead of a life of love and freedom, she awoke in chains, barely clothed, imprisoned in a room in the pack house of the Alpha Lycan of the Purple Phoenix Pack. Suddenly a voice spoke, “So, you have awoken?” Slithering down her spine like ice water. Never before had mere words unsettled her so, but this one did. It was laced with menace, whispering of danger…of death. As she shifted, pain lashed through her body, sharp and stinging. She winced, squeezing her eyes shut against the agony, only to realize her situation. She was bound, barely clothed, and trapped. How did this happen? She had been on her way to her husband’s house and…oh, no. He had betrayed her! “Who are you?” She demanded, forcing herself to swallow her fear, to summon courage despite the quiver in her voice. She strained to see the source of the voice, but the oppressive darkness yielded nothing. Frustration flared within her. “Humans…” The word dripped with disdain and disgust. “Always asking unnecessary questions.” His hatred was palpable, seething. One wrong word, and he would not hesitate to end her. “Whip her.” Lycans were cursed beasts who rarely had mates. After a hundred years of waiting, the Alpha Lycan was commanded by the gods to take a virgin human bride to conceive an heir. But he despised humans and had no desire to rule with one by his side. So he agreed; he would mate with her, but once she bore his child, she would be discarded. Before she could part her lips to talk, the order was given. The lash struck her back, sharp and searing, and she cried out in agony. … Days passed. The whipping continued, lasting for thirty minutes each day but Alpha Zayd never returned. “Kill her. She is of no use.” He ordered, but instead of despair, something unexpected flared within her…hope. “I will be your slave,” she whispered, forcing the words out. “And I will offer my body only to you, Alpha Zayd.” He stilled. His golden gaze flickered toward her, considering. “Take her to my bed,” he ordered. Then, just as swiftly as he had appeared, he was gone. Determined, Lilith agreed to be his slave but only to find a way to escape and make everyone pay.

During a fiasco with Vilgax, Jack Andros is sent to the world of Eostia.

Aelira Dawnmaere has always felt out of place in the quite forest village of Theralune. Orphaned as a child, she was raised by the village healer and told never to stray to far from home _for the world beyond the veil is not safe for her kind . But Aelira doesn't know what that means _until on the eve of her 21st birthday, the stars themselves speak her name, awakening a power long buried within her.But as dark force gather and her power grow stronger, Aelira must decide will she follow the path written in the stars....or carve a new destiny with the one who holds her heart?