The essence of playing god. Lu Zhiyu comes across a scroll to a another dimension, and through trial and error creates a new world within... more>> it. He clearly describes how the power systems work (they aren't arbitrary), and his continuing development of the supernatural system. Through developing this system he gains power in the real world. He often directly influences the world, and lives as an inhabitant of the world. <<less

Cancer patient Xu Zhi comes across the last queen of a dying race, one whose power is to accelerate the evolution of their species. Xu Zhi gains this power, and sets on making a world of evolution in his backyard, with the very largest creatures being the size of a mouse, and the people the size of ants. Xu Zhi is an average dude and he's not this super intelligent god, so he has no idea what he's doing and just tries things out. Eventually he brings people from the real world into his world. He doesn't gain power directly from the growth of this world, but using the world's supernatural research he can gain... more>> power and possibly cure his cancer.

He seldom directly interacts with the world, and even when he does it's as a godly figure, flooding the earth or expanding the world. <<less

MC is the Heavenly Dao of a cultivation world.

Lin Tuo resigns from his office job and moves to the countryside when he finds a sandbox showing the city he currently lives in. He is able to manipulate the world he can see, and section off part of the Earth into his own worlds. He gains power by increasing the quality of life of the people who his sandbox can see. The development of higher population or stronger spirits equates to him being stronger.... more>>

MC often sends an avatar into the world, directly experiencing the world and settings its course. <<less

Instead of creating a world, MC transmigrates into a low level martial arts world, and his goal is to elevate it into a high level martial arts world, then to xianxia, then to a fantasy world. MC still exists in the world, and as he is the progenitor of the new power system and derives his strength from the strength of the civilization, he is always supremely powerful in his world, although he still needs to try when fighting against other worlds. Eventually instead of suppressing the world with his power he goes hands off to encourage the development of the world's power.... more>>

Heavy emphasis on side stories and characters. Quite often MC is just in the background creating cultivation systems and small worlds while all of the supporting cast drives the story. Your enjoyment of this will depend on how much you enjoy these side stories.

MC is primarily an actual person living in the world, and a sect leader, rather than focusing on the ways in which he is the creator of the power system. <<less