Urban Novels with Hidden Superpowers and Ranked Ability Systems 都市，异能不公开，异能等级序列之类的小说

1. 751 门 Door Meta-Du: King of Phantom Spirits 门艾塔都【虚像灵之王】 This Palace Is Blissful本宫极乐Sci-Fi & Apocalypse162k WordsCompleted In Menaita, the last city standing after the apocalypse. Thirty million people crowd beneath tin roofs and neon towers. From E to S1, every rank is a step built with lives. The upper classes control everything. For those at the bottom, climbing upward is the only lifeline. Lu Yan is a boy from the E-rank Ashfall Zone. He failed the mental power test, but an accident awakened his Illusory Spirit, setting him on a different path... Cyberpunk + Illusory Spirit battles + a rise through the ranks 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The inner ring master enjoys a high position and preferential treatment, while the ninth ring youth is unwilling to be trapped in the tin shantytown. After the disaster, he secretly hoards awakening potions, and his passive skill can see through the enemy's attack animation. He accumulates crystals to upgrade his afterimage by clearing the battle tower, and he also has to deal with two opposing high-ranking officials in the labor bureau.

2. 752 长 The Long Night Has Arrived, and I Was Chosen by a Goddess While Sleeping in Class 长夜终临，上课睡觉被女神选中 Lamplighter秉灯人Urban1.1M WordsCompleted (Passionate god-slaying + one heroine + growth + supernatural ability sequences + protecting Great Xia) Also known as: "Vast Great Xia Fears Not the Dead. Follow Me, and We Shall Face Them Together!" Do you believe that the so-called gods are mass-produced? The creatures plotting to overthrow this world are hiding in every corner. They might be the old man repairing cars by the roadside, or the girl sipping milk tea on the street. The Lantern Bearers will guide you through the apocalypse of a va 14.1kReads9.2Score1.3kShelves
3. 753 市 Strange Tales from the Jianghu Streets 市井江湖异闻录 Loose Wild Grass散装野草Urban518k WordsOngoing Qin Bei was an ordinary young man from Northeast China, living a quiet, unremarkable life among the bustle of the city. Then a mysterious package arrived out of the blue, shattering his peaceful routine and dragging him into one bizarre incident after another. Beneath the glittering surface of modern life, undercurrents are stirring. The secretive martial sects passed down for millennia have never vanished, and mysterious powers unknown to the world lie hidden in the everyday rhythms of the cit 48Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Meets the requirements, just one hundred chapters! [Laughs]

4. 754 我 I Grow Stronger by Devouring the Dead, but the Goddess Wants to Devour Me 我靠吞噬死者变强，女神却想吞我 Director Little Dot导演小不点Urban350k WordsOngoing [Urban high martial arts + varied supernatural abilities + new power system + no System / but a loot-box-style golden finger + intelligent protagonist who grows stronger + satisfying story with brains + mind games and martial combat] Lin Mo is a cleanup worker for the Special Affairs Administration in Shenzhen, tasked with handling the affairs of unclaimed "lonely deaths." During a routine funeral, he unexpectedly awakens the supernatural ability "Echoes of Last Wishes": by touching a dead pers 353Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Yes, brothers! [Thinking] New author, new book, new original! Near future + urban fantasy with high martial arts, the main story is set in the Eastern Kingdom in 2049. Every character has clear motivations and is fleshed out. No AI, stable updates. If you're tired of formulaic stories, come and try something different!

5. 755 活 After the Grim Reaper Retires, Superpowers Collapse Worldwide 活阎王退休后，全球异能崩塌 Seven and Nine in One Cage七九同笼Urban591k WordsCompleted Mu Lei was once the Underworld's most feared top assassin, codenamed the Living Yama. Three years ago, he returned from the brink of death after taking a bullet to the heart. By chance, he awakened an incredible ability: he can see everyone's countdown to death, and whenever someone dies, time resets, letting him reload a save. But what he never expected was that his body was the ultimate product of the Phoenix Project: a living coffin. Every reset loosens the coffin lid and drains his life forc —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   It's a great show. The beginning was hilarious, but the end made me cry buckets. It really made me cry so much. Life has light.

6. 756 穿 I Transmigrated into a Pendant, and My Wife Handed Me Over to the Nation 穿越成吊坠，妻子把我上交国家 Puppet Number Twenty-One二十一号傀儡Urban363k WordsCompleted [Urban high-martial world + transmigration + handing everything over to the state + passionate ensemble cast + protecting his wife from behind the scenes] This is another world where Chinese history has been lost to a gap in the record and exotic beasts run rampant. The original host dies in the opening. I’ve only just transmigrated and haven’t even figured out what’s going on when my soul is sucked into a broken pendant, a keepsake the original host gave his wife. Sealed inside the pendant is f 243Reads—Score—Shelves

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   These are all books on a newly compiled list from a book club during the May Day holiday. I'm forwarding them to you; you can check them out if you're looking for something to read.

7. 757 组 Team Up to Go Home for the New Year: Why Are All My Teammates Goddesses? 组队回家过年：队友竟然全是女神 Puppet Number Twenty-One二十一号傀儡Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Urban + System + multiple women + lighthearted + feel-good power fantasy + mostly everyday life] “Yang Tian, if you don’t bring home a girlfriend this New Year, you’re sleeping in the pigsty!” Faced with his mother’s ultimatum, penniless Yang Tian suddenly obtains the [Instance Party System]. As long as he posts a mission, all kinds of goddesses will accept it and “team up” with him to go home and conquer every obstacle. New Year’s Eve, family reunion dinner. Uncle: “I heard Yang Tian lost his 2.3kReads6.0Score254Shelves
8. 758 嫌 You Thought I Was Too Weak, So My Cultivation Technique Went Dark Overnight 嫌我太弱，我的功法连夜黑化了 Puppet Number Twenty-One二十一号傀儡Urban744k WordsCompleted [Lighthearted + Misunderstandings + Chat Group + Fully Automated Training + Overpowered Power Fantasy] Yang Tian transmigrates into a high-martial-arts world. With mediocre talent, he only wants to lie flat. But who could have guessed that the cultivation techniques inside him would think he was too weak and turn sentient overnight! And that’s not all. His techniques even set up a chat group: [Iron Shirt] left the group and wrote: “The Host is too fragile. I went for a soak at the nuclear power 732Reads—Score102Shelves
9. 759 我 I Used the Myriad Worlds Exchange System to Redeem Myself 我用万界兑换系统兑换我自己 Puppet Number Twenty-One二十一号傀儡Urban343k WordsCompleted [System + mastermind behind the scenes + multiple worlds + apocalypse + no saintly hero] Yang Tian acquired a strange System. The items in its shop turned out to be attributes he had "lost" himself? [Looks +10]? I lost that! [Intelligence +20]? I lost that too! [Protective Astral Energy]? That's my passive skill! Yang Tian: "Hey, System bro, aren't you just making me pay to buy myself back?!" The world changed. The Gray Realm descended, and reality merged with the mysterious and uncanny. Wit 157Reads—Score—Shelves
10. 760 末 Dust and Smoke in the Apocalypse 末世微尘烟雾之徒 Hiccup Babbles有嗝叭叭Sci-Fi & Apocalypse505k WordsCompleted The protagonist is a smoke-wielding ability user. Before the apocalypse, he was a gloomy, insecure boy. By a stroke of luck, he fulfilled a smoke spirit's dying wish and gained its power. He can control a domain that takes shape as smoke, and uses various smoke bombs and concussion grenades to boost his abilities. This book tells the story of a war between three sides: the anomalies of the Old World, the rebels of the New World, and humanity. The anomalies of the Old World are called impostors. 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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    If you can awaken a superpower, why can't others awaken your barely perceptible one? How can those with shared superpowers prevail? Tools and mindset are key. The "Smoke Men" are more accurately described as "Smoke Bomb Men." This book, *The Apocalyptic Smoke Men*,...

11. 761 末 Extreme Scenario Investigator in the Apocalypse 末日极端情景调查员 Youyou Lianhua幽幽怜桦Sci-Fi & Apocalypse255k WordsOngoing [Natural disasters + sequences + dungeons + leveling up + multiple characters] When souls can be kept as livestock, endless cycles of reincarnation strip everyone of their memories, existence, and sense of self. Gods born from humanity grow ever more powerful, while humanity itself becomes increasingly broken. The impure, rejected by the gods, turn into one final roar of defiance. At the end of reincarnation, the final rebellion begins. “Please let go, Mother.” False memories, counterfeit souls, —Reads7.3Score—Shelves

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    Sequence and Doomsday

12. 762 别 Don’t Mess with That Frail Girl, She Just Swallowed the Abyss 别惹那个病弱少女，她刚吞了深渊 Old Dreams Far Away远方旧梦Urban483k WordsOngoing Qin Mo: I'm in the Abyss, just swallowed Guixu, and I feel great. The only problem is that I've got an “Eye of the Abyss” in my head that's itching to fight me every day. It's getting pretty urgent. Jiang Yu: (hoisting her battle-axe) Qin Mo, you've got something in your eye. Want me to chop it out for you? Qin Mo: (wiping his sweat) No! That's my ticket into the Abyss. White Robe: Qin Mo, sacrifice is your destiny. Qin Mo: Destiny my ass. Why don't you go be the sacrifice yourself? (Sarcastic n —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's very immersive, you should buy it!

13. 763 苟 A Life of Lying Low in the Brocade-Clad Guard 苟在锦衣夜行的人生 Dark Dust, Dusk Snow暗尘暮雪Urban386k WordsOngoing His younger brother, who shared his mother but not his father, went missing. Bai Yu opened the black suitcase the boy had left under the bed and understood one thing: The world is a bride beneath a veil. Whoever lifts her veil, she belongs to him. Fifty years spent cloaked in luxury, walking unseen through the night. Life is like dust beneath the bright moon. 25Reads—Score—Shelves

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    In this city, amidst a chaotic spacetime, there are no superpowers, only life levels.

14. 764 高 High Martial: I Feed on Gods, and My Sequence Evolves Without Limit 高武：我以神为食，序列无限进化 Careless Onion粗心的洋葱Urban114k WordsOngoing This story went off the rails and isn’t getting any traffic. I’m done with it. I’m cutting it short and starting over. The entire story will be replaced. If you still have faith in the author, please head over to the neighboring page and read Sequence: Uh-Oh, I Think I’m the Final Boss. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Fully meets the requirements

15. 765 从 Once Upon a Time, There Was a Ghost Gate 从前有座鬼门关 I Just Want to Write Alone只想一个人写Urban171k WordsOngoing At the Gates of Hell, there are two kinds of death: One is called sacrifice, your name carved into a cold stone monument. The other is called coming home, your name dyed into a flag warm with life. Feng Zixiang belongs to neither. He came from the “City of Sin,” deeper than the Gates of Hell. His only reason for living is to hold his younger sister’s hand and pull her back from the brink of death. Then one day, the teacher with a severed finger, who was always trying to drag him back into the wo 13Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The teacher's three steps became my salvation. Until he stood before the city, with corpses strewn all around him and the lights of countless homes beyond the city behind him, I finally understood the heavy weight of "protection". A group portrait, a story about teacher-student relationships, a slow-burn story.

16. 766 灭 Is Nation-Level Strength Really That Impressive? My Armor Martial Soul Can Kill in an Instant! 灭国级很强吗？我武魂铠甲瞬秒！ Ordinary Man, One Sword凡人一剑Urban93k WordsOngoing [High Martial Arts + Emperor Armor + Martial Souls + Multiple Heroines + Livestreaming + Academy + National Martial Arts Exam + SSS Rank] (No AI, entirely handwritten.) Deng Shewen awakened an F-rank Martial Soul in the form of a bodysuit. Faced with a desperate situation, he activated the Armor System to save his childhood sweetheart, Bai Qianqian. Transform: Emperor Armor! From the school elimination tournament to the city, provincial, national, and global competitions... He defeated one 93Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 767 高 High Martial: With an Invincible Background, How Am I the Villain? 高武：背景无敌的我，居然是反派 Time to Eat吃饭饭Urban982k WordsOngoing [High martial arts + System + villain + hot-blooded + sign-in + summoning + face-slapping + power fantasy] Lin Fan transmigrated to a high-martial-arts world and obtained an invincible cheat System that randomly awarded prizes through sign-ins. His first sign-in gave him the Sun God. The Martial Saint Guan Yu as his bodyguard, the bloodline of a divine dragon, god-tier cultivation techniques... Lin Fan also discovered that his family members were all bi 6.5kReads8.1Score414Shelves
18. 768 传 Traditional Culture Transcends the Ordinary: Intangible Heritage Slays Gods 传统文化超凡，非遗斩神 A Muggle Who Can't Do Magic不会魔法的麻瓜Urban86k WordsOngoing [New Genre + Traditional Culture + Intangible Cultural Heritage + Cultural Confidence + Ensemble Cast] Beneath the neon lights of the bustling city lurk bizarre monsters that devour life itself. The secret to fighting the darkness lies in traditional culture, long since forgotten. Lion dances awaken ancient “lion spirits.” Molten iron fireworks become raging infernos. Mortise-and-tenon structures form sealing barriers. Paper cutouts come alive as an army of thousands. The Four Great Embroidery S —Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 769 末 Apocalypse: The Whole Company Denies the Existence of the 18th Floor 末世：全公司否认18楼存在 On Jiufeng Mountain九峰山上Sci-Fi & Apocalypse783k WordsCompleted [Apocalypse + No System + Reborn + Mystery + One Female Lead + Zombies + Hard Sci-Fi + No Mindless Decisions + Revenge] Reborn six hours before the apocalypse, Chu Yan has not only retained his memories of the future, but also mastered the ultimate secret of genetic evolution! He can become the most powerful god in the apocalypse! He frantically stockpiles supplies, builds weapons, modifies vehicles, and saves his parents, racing against time! He will kill his enemies with his own hands and turn 3.4kReads8.7Score284Shelves

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    This post-apocalyptic novel is so realistic it's chilling. The protagonist is reborn to find the world's script completely altered, and his intelligence remains consistently high throughout. There's no system or cheat codes; the portrayal of human nature is incredibly profound. It gets more exciting as you read on, and you'll be left with nothing to read after finishing it.

20. 770 末 Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂 Mighty Cockroach伟岸蟑螂Sci-Fi & Apocalypse6.3M WordsCompleted Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the 27.3kReads8.9Score2.4kShelves
21. 771 山 Guardian of the Mountain and Sea Gate 山海守门人 The Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare兔子和乌龟的故事Urban171k WordsCompleted Also known as: I Inherited a Zoo, but All the Employees Are Ancient Divine Beasts??? A Modern-Day Unlucky Guy's Bizarre Work Diary!! Shen Liushang is a born loser who graduated straight into unemployment. He chokes on his water, trips over every pothole, and can never get more than one bar of Wi-Fi. Just as he failed his 108th job interview and was about to go home and live off his parents A strange Chinese-style manor, Wangchuan Residence, suddenly opened its doors to him. And so began his mise 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Urban setting! Fantasy and imaginative!

22. 772 无 Infinite Evolution: From Mortal Bones to Creator 无限进化：从凡骨到造物主 Blackcurrant Pie黑加仑派Sci-Fi & Apocalypse411k WordsOngoing [Apocalypse] [An Overpowered Journey] [Multiple Heroines] [Fast-Paced Payoffs] The moment white light fell from the sky, the world collapsed. Earth's surface area expanded a hundred thousand times, and humanity was swept into an endless tide of evolution. Zhong Jinchen, an ordinary college student, crawls out of the ruins and awakens a forbidden golden finger: the [Evolution Editor], which can analyze and edit any genetic sequence. As an age of rampaging giant beasts and survival of the stronges —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Both of these works have excellent writing, plot, and pacing.

23. 773 叫 You Call Me a Useless Teacher? My Talent Is Beyond SSS 叫我废物教师？我的天赋超SSS Blackcurrant Pie黑加仑派Urban651k WordsOngoing In a world where talent determines one's fate and everyone can awaken their powers, 24-year-old Lin Ye appears to be a useless Tier 2 teacher, stuck teaching the worst class in the school. No one knows that what he awakened is actually the [Darknight Judgment], a power beyond the SSS sequence. Whenever the innocent are crushed by the powerful and justice is absent, he appears with a black business card: "When night falls, I will deliver justice." By day, he teaches and guides students. By night, —Reads—Score—Shelves
24. 774 修 Cultivators from the Realm of Truth Come to the Village for a Pilot Program 修真界来村里搞试点 Gate of Wonders妙之门Urban162k WordsOngoing 1998, Hegou Village. A group of cultivators in brocade robes blocked the village entrance, saying they planned to turn the place into a "mortal pilot program." Those with spiritual roots could cultivate immortality; those without would farm. The villagers called them peddlers. Village Chief Zhao mistook "Du Ziteng" for "my stomach hurts" and promptly pulled out two tablets of tetracycline. Li Chengjun squatted on his doorstep and said, "He doesn't look like an honest man." When they shouted, "Ga —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's incredibly good; I can only say I'm a genius at finding books.

25. 775 战 The God of War Returns: The CEO’s Superpowered Stay-at-Home Dad 战神归来：总裁家的异能奶爸 There Is No Yan Ruyu in This Book书中并无颜如玉Urban759k WordsCompleted She makes the Japanese devils beg for mercy, and beats the English into returning the national treasures. Without his aura as a God of War, he’s just a stay-at-home dad in an apron, using the hands that once shook the stars to cook a warm dinner for his family… 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Those who offend China, though far away, will be punished! Patriotism! Passion! It contains an organized system, a strategic reversal, Chinese culture, martial arts, military strategy, and profound meaning. In short: if you don't like it, kill me!!!

26. 776 元 The Yuanhe Revelation: The Gate of Destiny 元和启示录：命运之门 Cicada Song Wu蝉鸣吾Urban210k WordsOngoing [Urban Supernatural Powers] This is an epic tale, a story filled with philosophy and reflection, a true story that seeks to explore human nature and emotion, and perhaps even a tragedy. Long-form stories take time to read, so readers who prefer simplistic, wish-fulfillment, or mindless stories should steer clear. 1Reads7.3Score—Shelves

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    🥡🥡🥡[Physical Transmigration/Superpowers & Technology/Love Story/System/Otherworld/Sci-Fi Apocalypse/Eastern Fantasy/Urban Superpowers] A joke-like kidnapping-style transmigration from Earth to the other world of Yuanhe. A nobody thrown to the lowest rung of society on Earth, he overcomes various crises and traps, exposes countless conspiracies and schemes, and gradually grows into someone who can influence the course of the world.

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