
by Anipen
Kairo Venn died the way countless ordinary people do: without warning. One moment he was crossing the street after another exhausting day at his 9-to-5, his mind wandering to the web novels he'd spent years reading. The next, headlights filled his vision. Perhaps unsurprisingly, his final coherent thought wasn't fear. 'If I end up like those people from the web novels... I'll probably get a system. ...This might actually be fun.' Then everything went black. He awakens in the body of Lin Zhao, a boy from the beast-taming territory of Verdant Ridge, moments after a catastrophic rift devours his village and kills his father. While everyone else mourns, Kairo quickly realizes something is wrong, not just with the world, but with himself. No one can detect anything unusual about him. Powerful formations and artifacts return nothing. Even the sect's strongest elders cannot determine what he truly is. The only thing that acknowledges him is a mysterious System capable of assimilating the abilities of his contracted beasts, analyzing the impossible, and remaining completely invisible to everyone else. As suspicion grows, powerful enemies begin searching for the lone survivor of the rift, while the greatest minds of Verdant Ridge are forced to confront a terrifying possibility: What if the greatest anomaly isn't the rift... ...but the boy who walked out of it? In a world where beasts determine status, strength decides survival, and every secret carries a price, Lin Zhao must grow stronger without revealing the truth no one would ever believe. Because if anyone discovers who, or what, he really is... The entire cultivation world may decide he's a threat that cannot be allowed to exist.
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 9 Oct 2026, 02:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 9 Oct 2026, 02:18 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
8%
Two or more lists
4%
Likely threshold order: Psychological → Sci-fi → Action → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Psychological (3%).
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
#2005 of 4,776 · 1955 below RS #50
By genre
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