Been looking through quite a lot of genres and there arent many. While getting stronger and being able to fight stronger people is important, I dont really like where the mc gets strong and then finds a new 'realm' or 'world' where their power is suddenly considered the average, and it just becomes repetitive hundreds of chapters in. One example that stands out to me would be 'Tales of Demons and Gods' where I gave up because it was just constantly going to a new realm and doing the same kinds of power ups. Stories with multiple realms are fine, just I prefer to see the main characters growth actually show rather than just constantly learning new things, and where the mc is only considered strong at like the last chapter before going into a new realm, or the story ending
Read Overlord and Death March. Overlord wasnt bad but I'm not huge on the slice of life. I'll definitely check out my master disconnected again though
I fell like it's really standard CN Xianxia& Xuanhuan cliche. If you don't like it, take a break from that genre for a while.
Starchild Escape Marriage ..... become strong or you will be killed by ex fiance as premise seem fit Zhanxian it more about explore and revenge(lil of it) Ze Tian Ji aka The Way of Choice another be strong or die motivation while the ending kinda meh cultivation used as background so just try it
Reverend Insanity Main Character Hides His Strength Emperor of Solo Play (Great story in my opinion, but the ending seems to be almost universally disliked)
Reverend Insanity is a good example of what I'm looking for if the novel was considered a xianxia novel. As far as like chapter 400 (that's how far I've gotten as of right now) it implements stronger people into the story, but there are still people the main character is stronger than.
If you're not too particular about where you need your fix from, He Who Fights With Monsters on RRL or ScribbleHub is right in there.