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Dead Tired

RavensDagger

Harold, the mightiest lich of all and challenger of gods, waged a cataclysmic war against the divine system and then took an incredibly long nap. An unwitting adventurer wakes him into an unrecognizable world of cultivation, celestial sects, and martial artists debating the path to godhood. Sleep-deprived but undeterred, the ancient overlord sets out to reclaim his stolen phylacteries (now used as god-batteries), acquires a devoted limpet follower as his first warlock, and turn by turn upends sects, cities, and armies across the Divine Kingdom.

Progression: Ancient-lich reawakening inside an explicit xianxia cultivation world. Harold, a pinnacle archmage-lich who once challenged the gods, wakes to a universe of cultivation realms, celestial sects, martial artists, and the path to godhood. Structured advancement is central: cultivators and sects grow through harsh-environment cultivation (Flaming Steppes sects), divine power is literally banked in Harold's stolen phylacteries, and Harold takes on Fenfang Fang as his first warlock, a patron-to-warlock progression ladder. Royal Road fiction tags include LitRPG, Progression, Cultivation, and Wuxia.