Cultivation novels/webnovels or weaktostrong (strongtostronger etc) with a male mc who doesnt constantly make everyone around him powerful.. Also not a fan of the random buffing of friends/family. Mc is mc. Everyone else is shrubs and should be left behind Thank.
Maybe you could try Monster Paradise? I also doesn’t like MC's friends stick to MC 24/7. MC's adventure is MC alone, others please get lost. Like why can't they do their own thing? Monster Paradise is exactly I like. MC have friends but wasn't too close to the point where MC have to brought them everywhere in his adventure... MC's friend gain strength is their own way just like MC. Then they will meet up occasionally for some events then during that time they will catch up on each other progress. It's really a nice friendship. The Devil's Cage is also nice
Archean Eon Art -he wants immortality very bad for his close ones like his wife, etc. but its not possible. How far you can get in cultivation ( or merely life extension ) can be boosted by treasures a little ( little as compared to the protag who genuinely is a powerhouse on the cusp of attaining complete immunity to time ) but it can't outright give you more than several thousand years. Like his wife, she has Phoenix blood which is a big deal at first, but later she isn't nearly as advanced as MC and basically only spends time on homeworld with his main body and the dead bigshot whose treasures attracted demon invasions in the first place is the one who is responsible for getting that bloodline and infusing some populace with it for the sake of giving the world surefire defenders every time atavism hits (often, divine bloodline and all). AEA cultivators really are on short time as compared to other IET novels. Mortals have until 30-50 to blaze through 5 realms and reach the one that doubles the lifespan. Way, way, later Tribulation grade people have around 10k (100k for MC's perfect cultivation) and the Tribulation realm is one huge chasm where every other character MC meets desperately chases the next level and truly eternal people never appear besides maybe one or two glimpses through legacy recordings. Even after MC reaches "pluck dead people from the past" there's a big thing. It won't work on anyone whose time is zero according to the spacetime rule permeating everything. So pulling his dead parents would just let him see them falling apart in front of his eyes in a matter of moments.