by W_Morgan
A young outcast with a monstrous arm and a forbidden power fights to defy heaven itself. Feng Hao was born to ruin — a fallen family, a body riddled with contradictions, and a forbidden cultivation technique that devours all life around it. When a mysterious master awakens within his soul, Feng Hao escapes death by fusing impossible spirit cores — unlocking power no one in history has ever touched. After defeating the legendary Fire Qilin and absorbing its essence, his left arm transforms into a Qilin Arm of crimson dragon scales — capable of shattering worlds with a single punch. Alongside a Gravity Domain that bends physics to his will, Feng Hao enters the Inter-Kingdom Competition to lift his kingdom from ashes. But the tournament draws the attention of poison masters, ancient beasts, and a mysterious "Demon" who poisons entire clans for revenge. Across thirty battlefields, Feng Hao must master his cursed power, protect the two women he loves, and prove that an "ordinary" youth can defy the heavens themselves.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:19 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:19 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
17%
Two or more lists
10%
Likely threshold order: Contemporary → Sci-fi → Mystery → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Contemporary (7%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#11744 of 12,155 · 11694 below RS #50
By genre
beats 13% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 79% of similar stories
Readers arrive, few stick
Traffic is strong, but conversion trails comparable stories. The usual suspects are the blurb, the cover and the opening chapters — fixing the hook multiplies everything the existing traffic brings.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 150+ chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
