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Cultivation

Cultivation is a power-system style in LitRPG and progression fantasy, the engine a series runs on. Here are the 3 series we've reviewed built on it, best first.

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Cradle

Legendary

Complete

Born Unsouled and forbidden the sacred arts his clan lives by, a young man leaves home to climb a named ladder of power on intelligence and grit, racing to grow strong enough before a foretold disaster arrives.

Status: Complete
Books: 12
Length: 132 hrs
Pace: Steady, builds to fast (slow first book)

Defiance of the Fall

Legendary

Ongoing

When an unfeeling System drags Earth into a vast cultivation multiverse, an ordinary man armed with a hatchet begins a relentless, methodical climb to survive a reality where strength is the only currency.

Status: Ongoing
Books: 16
Pace: Slow-burn, grind-heavy

Beware of Chicken

Epic

Ongoing

A man dies and is reborn into a cultivation world of sects and sword-saints, wants none of it, and buys a run-down farm to grow rice in peace, but his qi makes the crops thrive and the animals clever while the wider world keeps noticing.

Status: Ongoing
Books: 5
Length: 79 hrs
Pace: Slow, cozy slice-of-life