Dungeon Core/Realm Heart

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Description

Dao Lord Brandr has cheated death many times over the millennia, enough to know that this time he should have died. There was just no surviving what had happened to him.

Fortunately or unfortunately, he did. Well... that depends on what you call surviving really. His body is gone and so is pretty much all of his mighty cultivation base. To add to this, he has suffered severe damage to his soul and as if that wasn't bad enough he's lost, far away from any world he knows and maybe even his universe.

Now, he's just learned from a being called a sprite that he's some sort of sentient mystic realm called a dungeon and that just for the crime of existing, there would be legions of enemies planning to pillage and destroy him.

It's okay though. Apparently, he can make legions of his own. Seeing what he has to work with, Brandr decides that perhaps, all is not lost after all...

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2018
Author: LupineKing

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 3,256
Views: 1,953,332

Chapters(99 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

MontenegroRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Satisfying and smooth read. As a Xianxia and fantasy fan, the combination is excellent and well crafted. The writing quality is top-notch, especially compared to most web novels. It would be interesting if later on, the dungeon became an inner world, with a portal to the entrance. Or perhaps he could materialize himself externally but bond the world as its will. If the Xianxia world was further connected, that would be exciting. Or possibly some dimensional enemy is plaguing both, or Xianxia vs level gods, trade? Anyway it's still too short, it would be absolutely great if it was the size of common Xianxia novels, even if there was a writing quality drop I would still love it. Ps. please don't drop:)
ShadowOfOrderRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's Rare that you see a Cultivator meets Western Fantasy done right. But this is it. The main character exemplifies a true cultivator that already reached the top once before. No arrogant young masters here! Instead we have a true Master of the Dao trying to understand the rules of this world, all the while the world outside starts to become slowly aware of how dangerous and rewarding this new Dungeon is.
It's a perfect meeting of two cultures so far. Just binged the whole thing (Bk 2 Ch 19), I can't wait for more.
Juan Jose Sanchez RojasRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
dammit. You leave me with suspense.
I love how you created this, much better than other novels and where the protagonist gets out of control. The Dungeon plays and rivals with expert adventurers but this one has its own limitations and rules to fulfill as well as mix with the wuxia world
PS: My language is not English. Using google translator: d]
Read until chapter 62 because there are no more updates T_T
PommyJoshRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A very well written story that comes off with a refreshing feeling when compared to other dungeon novels.
Characters feel developed and well thought out especially, the MCs thought patterns and interpretation of the world around him.
There are a couple of typos occasionally however, I’m sure that would be solved by purchasing the finished product.
maccusRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
We all have read several dungeon core stories, some being just too nice to those that are just having going for the laughs. Nothing bad with any of them at all. I read them all, enjoyed them all. Each one bringing a new twist on the old dungen diver/ dungeon core stories.
This one differs itself with a core getting an overpowered, sentient cultivator. Not just any ordinary one, a fallen "dao lord" (depending on which cultivator wuxia you started, personally biased to Tales of Demons and Gods), with all their dao jargons in tow.
The story is well thought of, the characters each have their quirks, and the MC is not too lenient nor too blood thirsty for a cultivator. There are some occassional spelling issues, but not too bad to have a double take on those.
My only foreboding concern are the hiatus that seems to vary from time to time. I understand that a lot has been happening to the author irl, and has always been dealt with before. I haven't experienced that clincher feeling yet since I just newly binged on this, coming from the author's other very good work Heavenward on Golden Wings. I spelled the title out to help any other readers out there that have trouble deciphering those acronyms to my intended direction. i've had so much trouble figuring those out without a GTG (go to google) reminder. Or maybe it's just me who has a problem. Hopefully not.
To close off though, it's a very god read. Although some chapters are short to my liking, the chapter gave the information the reader needs. The MC also has a goal set as well to return to "dao supremacy" once more. Hopefully the hiatus are done or only in very, very short burst, unlike my other must reads on this site.
Patrick DuffyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
great read like the dungeon building so far and how the dungeon guide isn't the standard dungeon fairy you would normally see very interesting read and love the cultivation technique he introduced for the fae that did join him all in all a very interesting read and start combining 2 of my favorite style of books dungeon core and xianxia would recommend to any dungeon core fan or anyone looking to get into dungeon core novels - would love to see more of the xianxia element going forward and more cultivation stuff all and all great job can't wait to read more.
Dark IntelligenceRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
This book is amazing. The author write pure gold. If you're reading this review, read this hidden gem. I can't believe this isn't in the top 10. I'm sure when this series gets to around 1k pages (100ish chapters) it'll gain more recognition. Thanks author.
Toby ZieglerRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I must confess, I've never been attracted to the xanxia genre. Nevertheless, I found Brandr's perspective from xanxia origins and terminology to be a clever approach.
At this point, the story appears to be on permanent hiatus, but even with no new chapters on the way, it's an interesting read to this point.
The story spends most of it's time sharing the dungeon's thoughts, so there's quite a bit of exposition. A lot of effort has been obviously spent on the mechanics of the system and the environment of the dungeon's area, somewhat to the detraction of the action and character interaction.
The simple summation? I'm glad I read it.
GrumploRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
Cultivation and Dungeon Core Stories are 2 genres I enjoy so obviously I was interested in a story that seems to be mix of them.
The problem I have with this story is that it has a very slow pace. Everything unimportant is explained in great detail, sometimes twice from different PoVs. At first that doesn't seem that bad, a thought out world can be enjoyable, but once you realize that there is no pay-off for these paragraphs and paragraphs of descriptions, it becomes boring. Feels more like filler and fluff that pads a few sentences of story progress to a whole chapter.
But a lot of the Dungeon building is done off screen, and so is most of the stuff regarding cultivation, the story fails to deliever on these basics of the genres but then goes on and uses 3 paragraphs to describe a item that can be summed up with "it's cool and worth a lot" or just the status screen that gets shown on top of the description anyway.
In the end book 1 has 60 chapters but a story that could be told in 15-20. Book 2 is not finished and on hiatus, this makes it a rather disappointing reading experience that _as of now_ I wouldn't recommend.
KiokuRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
Chapters are mostly too short to really be considered chapters unless you were to bind three or four of them together. That aside, as it's a malus on the reading experience and not the story itself, the story is... very, very slow to start, and not in an interesting or good way. I'll say it outright, it's boring.