Way of Ascension

A text-based xianxia MMORPG in your browser

Begin as mortal.
Ascend beyond heaven.

Cultivate in seclusion. Break through realms that kill the unprepared. Join a sect, or start your own, and trade pills and treasures in a free market shaped by its cultivators. Rivals remember. So does everyone else.

Sign up early and keep the reward. The first 1,000 are marked Heavenward, a permanent title and a keepsake your cultivator carries forever.

In development

Your legend is not written. It is cultivated.

A persistent world that never resets, where nothing you can buy will ever make you stronger than the person who simply climbed further.

A lone cultivator sits cross-legged in a dark cavern, ringed by coiling currents of golden qi and drifting embers.The daily path

Cultivate

Sit in seclusion, hunt spirit beasts, refine pills and temper a blade that grows with you.

A cultivator stands with arms outstretched at the heart of a tribulation storm as lightning forks through churning golden cloud.The sky pushes back

Break through

Every realm ends in a tribulation you can fail. Survive it and the world treats you differently.

A vast sect complex of tiered pagodas and gold-crowned halls rising above a sea of cloud.Disciple to patriarch

Join or found a sect

Climb to elder, take disciples of your own, or raise a banner from nothing and see who kneels.

Two sect armies clash across a burning mountain valley, banners raised above the smoke and firelight.The world remembers

Make enemies

Duels, grudges that outlive lifetimes, and sect wars over the mountains worth cultivating on.