
by vvruvrivvn
The world of mortals has never truly belonged to mortals alone. Beyond their cities and temples lie ancient spirit courts, kingdoms beneath the seas, realms among the clouds, and beings who have walked the earth long before mankind learned to write their names. For centuries, an uneasy balance has kept these worlds apart. Now, that balance is beginning to unravel. Gu Xinglong, Commander of the mysterious Lingguan Si, is a mortal accustomed to dealing with things ordinary men would rather pretend do not exist. But when a series of disturbances draws him deeper into the affairs of the spirit world, he finds himself travelling alongside six unlikely companions: an ancient White Python, a sharp-tongued Green Viper, a Celestial Crane, the Chrysanthemum Lord of Autumn, an ingenious Carp inventor, and a Fox Prince with a talent for getting himself, and everyone around him, into trouble. Together, they become known simply as the Seven. Their journey will carry them across mortal kingdoms and forgotten wildernesses, through celestial courts and spirit realms, where old grudges endure, ancient powers stir, and the line between friend and foe is rarely as simple as it seems. They were never chosen to save the world. They simply kept choosing one another. And when the coming storm finally reaches all living things, ten thousand spirits will have to decide where they stand.
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, 05:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 05:38 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
2%
Two or more lists
1%
Likely threshold order: Romance → Adventure → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Romance (1%).
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
#6248 of 12,147 · 6198 below RS #50
By genre
beats 45% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 6% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.