Classical Xianxia: I'm Out of Books to Read, Recommend the Best and Most Iconic Stories 古典仙侠，书荒了，求最好看最经典的文
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Cultivating Immortality, I Shatter the Firmament 修仙破苍穹
[Mortal’s journey + no System + foreign races + immortal pets + supreme secret realm + sect] A young man ventures into the mountains and accidentally obtains a manual. After passing an examination, he joins the local sect, the Azure Dragon Gang. One night, an old man catches him cultivating. The young man becomes his disciple and learns that he has five spiritual roots, which will make cultivation extremely difficult. By chance, he obtains a mysterious little green bottle. The liquid inside cont
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- 102 A Bone of Startling Grace 惊鸿骨 The Stunning Bone 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 I Transmigrated as the Xianfeng Emperor: Developing the Nation with Technology and Repelling the Great Powers 穿越成咸丰：科技兴国御列强 Su Ran, a modern tech genius, transmigrates into the body of the Xianfeng Emperor after a laboratory explosion. He wakes to the upheaval of the Taiping Rebellion, the Eight-Nation Alliance poised to invade, the crisis at the Old Summer Palace, and the heavy shackles of unequal treaties. Taking on the identity of the Xianfeng Emperor, Su Ran uses his modern knowledge and unyielding resolve to stabilize the imperial court and embark on a journey to defy fate. He aims to drive out the foreign power 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 I Inherited a Title at Sixteen. Am I Supposed to Be Proud? 16岁继承爵位，我骄傲了吗 Reborn into the world of Tianlan, I find it a little strange. Dwarves are dwarves, elves are elves, and there is no magic! Unreliable parents who only want to get rid of their noble title. (Take note!) An older brother with dreams of becoming a general, who refuses to inherit the title at the age of eight. A protagonist with the least ambition imaginable, who inherits the title at sixteen. Fortunately, when the protagonist turns eight, a dialogue box appears in his mind, letting him copy all 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Arrogance Ruins Your Life! 傲娇毁终生！ Pride Ruins Everything! 9Reads—Score—14d adds
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Debts from a Fleeting Life 浮生宿债
The cultivation world has one absolute taboo: spiritual energy is borrowed from the Heavenly Dao, and the resulting karmic debt must be dumped on mortals. From the start, he has no spiritual root and is reduced to a trash can for absorbing disasters on behalf of immortals. The lofty immortal master throws him into a pill furnace, hoping to refine him in its raging flames. But no one knows that, despite having no spiritual bones, his body contains a bottomless black hole. If cultivating immortali
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Taking Wives in the Worlds of Liaozhai and Shu Mountain Swordsmen 我在聊斋和蜀山剑侠世界中娶老婆
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio + The Legend of the Shu Mountain Swordsmen + The Nineteen Heroes of Qingcheng + The Terminator + Starship Troopers, and more. Chu Tianxing transmigrates to the world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and obtains the Merit Supermarket System. He can take bounty missions to earn merit, exchange merit for all kinds of treasures, and even travel to other worlds to obtain powerful martial arts manuals. With the Merit Supermarket System, Chu Tianxing grows stro
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- 108 My Family's Pressuring Me to Marry? I'll Bring Home a Northeast Bride Instead! 家里催婚？我反手带了个东北媳妇回家！ Your family pressuring you to marry? I’ll turn around and bring home a wife from Northeast China! 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 Time and You, Walking Side by Side 时光与你，相伴同行 Through Time, By Your Side 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Dao Gui's Path to Immortality 道癸仙途 A country boy gains a fortuitous opportunity and sets sail for adventure, then returns in triumph. He catches a glimpse of the colorful world of immortals, yet sees bones littering the path to the Dao. Let’s see what kind of wonders Lin Xuan, a lad from a mountain village, can accomplish in this vast and turbulent world of cultivation~ 555Reads—Score—14d adds
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Legends of the Immortal Heroes of Jiuzhou 九州仙侠传
A purely Eastern classical xianxia tale. Join Lu Heng as he leaves seclusion and slays demons along the way. With dazzling spells and powerful magical treasures, his path of cultivation unfolds into an epic adventure.
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- 112 Inuyasha: Kikyo's Defiant Fate, A Heart Set Ablaze 犬夜叉·桔梗：逆命焚心录 Inuyasha and Kikyo: A Record of Burning Hearts Against Fate 36Reads—Score—14d adds
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In Wuxia, You Have to Wear a Hat. Who Said I’m the One Wearing It?! 武侠必戴帽，谁说戴的是我？！
Zhao Dongming is a professional fighter. Under the pressure of competition, he ranted about the bizarre trope of heroes in martial arts novels always getting cuckolded. Then he woke up and found he had transmigrated into a high-powered martial arts world. Just as he was planning to coast through life... He awakened a strange System that called itself the New Martial Arts System. He had scoffed at it at first, but in the end, he couldn't resist its charms. Decades later, several famous martial ar
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- 114 The Flying Dagger Legend 1 飞刀传说1 The Flying Dagger Legend 1 2Reads—Score—14d adds
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The Records of Qingxu’s Exorcisms 清虚伏魔录
A traditional Taoist novel based on real events. This is not a power fantasy. The first forty-seven chapters lay the groundwork for the grand story to come, so please read them patiently. Nine to five, I’m an office worker tapping away at a keyboard in a high-end office tower, walking through the city’s central business district in a shirt and leather shoes, using office software to bustle between reports and proposals. At dusk, I’m a Qingwei Taoist of the San Tian Gate, carrying ritual implem
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- 116 The Soul Ferry Bell Shatters, and Ten Thousand Souls Return to Silence 渡魂铃碎，万魂归寂 The Soul-Ferrying Bell Shatters, and Ten Thousand Souls Return to Silence 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 The Flying Dagger Legend 4 飞刀传说4 The Flying Dagger Legend 4 1Reads—Score—14d adds
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Immortal Venerable! 仙尊！
[No Mindless Protagonist] [Entirely Handwritten] [No AI Polishing Whatsoever] [Authentic Cultivation] One day, Fang Yi awakens his past-life memories and discovers that his uncle and aunt have seized the family estate, his cousin has stolen his chance at immortality, and he's about to be sold to a wealthy family as a personal attendant! How can he let that happen? Fang Yi looks around and sees a single blue brick lying in front of him.
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- 119 Drowning in Tokyo's Shadows: His Lips Stained with Neon and Sin 东京暗溺：他的唇，染着霓虹与罪 Tokyo’s Dark Descent: His Lips Stained with Neon and Sin 20Reads—Score—14d adds
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Peering into the Spirit Realm, Seeking the Dao and Knocking on the Door to Immortality 窥灵问道叩长生
Deep in the tunnels of the Qingshi Spirit Mine, a sixteen-year-old mine slave was chipping away at the stone. His name was Lin Mo. He had five spiritual roots, considered the worst possible aptitude in the cultivation world. He'd been here for ten years and had seen what the mine slaves looked like when they were carried out: old, sick, or with their legs crushed by cave-ins. He'd never imagined he might make it out alive. Until one day, the dark stone he'd worn around his neck since childhood b
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- 121 The Flying Dagger Legend 3 飞刀传说3 The Flying Dagger Legend 3 —Reads—Score—14d adds
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Daoist Lord of a Dream 黄粱道君
A dream as fleeting as a bowl of yellow millet, turning the false into the real. In this vast realm, great demon gods roam the world, colossal demon overlords wreak havoc, and countless immortals rule over all directions. Feng Heng wakes from a dream to find himself a humble Daoist boy in the Mystic Realm. He longs for the immortal Dao and adores divine maidens. Starting as a Daoist boy, he advances through the ranks of Daoist cultivator, mage, high priest, perfected one, earth master, and heave
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Cultivating in the Mortal World: The Path to Enlightenment 红尘修行：证道之路
No System + No Transmigration + Ordinary Mortal’s Journey + Historical Fantasy + Traditional Xianxia + Detailed Cultivation Techniques + Insights into Cultivation Lin Qingyang was born deep in the Qinling Mountains in the third year of the Jiajing era. Gifted with a “White Jade Physique,” he dreamed of the starry sky from childhood and was guided by an old man with white hair, marking him as extraordinary. At twelve, he became the disciple of the wandering Daoist Li Sanren and began his path of
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- 124 After My Engagement Was Called Off, My Powerful Archenemy Took Me Home and Hilariously Spoiled Me Rotten 退婚后，我被死对头大佬捡回家爆笑养废 After Calling Off the Engagement, I Was Taken In by My Archrival, a Powerful Tycoon, Who Hilariously Spoiled Me Rotten 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 The Flying Dagger Legend 2 飞刀传说2 The Legend of the Flying Daggers 2 —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 Fierce Snow in Guandong 关东烈雪 Fierce Snowfall in Kanto 4Reads—Score—14d adds
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Cultivating Immortality in the Golden Age of the Tang Dynasty 大唐盛世修仙记
[Historical xianxia]+ [mortal cultivation]+ [mystery]+ [Daoist heart] Set against the mystery surrounding Emperor Taizong’s death in the “Cuiwei Palace Case” in the twenty-third year of the Zhenguan era of the Tang Dynasty, this story opens onto a century-long world of immortal cultivation. The protagonist, Ye Fan, is the sole disciple of Yuan Tiangang, the “Heavenly Secrets Diviner.” Acting on the orders of his martial uncle, Li Chunfeng, he enters Chang’an as an unusual piece thrown into a mur
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The Divine Venerable Above, Me Below 神尊在上，我在下
They first met when she was young and naive. When they met again, she was older, yet still just as naive. Shuhua never imagined that someone as neither proper nor virtuous as herself could make the usually aloof and desireless God Venerable Qianshi fall into the mortal world of love. Only years later did Shuhua learn that their fate in this life had been bought with her life. Their slumbering past, their awakened malice: was their union written in the stars, or would they emerge transformed like
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A Menial Disciple Fell to Darkness to Save His Sister, Only to Become a Saint 杂役救妹入魔，竟成了圣人
Have you ever wondered whether ancient lingering thoughts from the previous era lie hidden beneath the bustling world of cultivation? Have you ever wondered whether, at the end of tribulation and ascension, what awaits you is not the Immortal Realm, but a Dao embryo with its heart removed? Have you ever wondered whether every act of protection, every sacrifice, every killing in your life was never your choice at all? My name is Lin Mo, the lowliest servant disciple of the Qingyun Sect. I hav
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- 130 Marked for Silencing from the Start, I Cultivate My Way to Wealth by Controlling Corpses 开局被灭口，我靠御尸富甲修仙界 [Mortal Cultivation Style] [Old-School Fantasy] [Leveling Up] Qin Chuan was a big, chubby baby, weighing over ten pounds at birth and astonishing the neighbors. After learning to cultivate immortality, he put a pretty corpse puppet to work as a laborer, hired an old yaksha as his enforcer, opened shops across the vast Han Sea, and sold spirit cannons for astronomical prices. He had only wanted to live quietly as the richest man around. Who could have guessed that the Immortal Sects, the Demon Re 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 EN Divine Ability Wielder 神通者 Among the living things of this world, some are born with strange bones. These bones can be inscribed with wondrous arts, granting their bearers immense power: conjuring fire and wind, summoning thunder and lightning, swallowing the sun and plucking stars, suppressing demons and imprisoning gods. These are Divine Ability Bones. Those born with such bones are called... Divine Ability Users. 2.7MReads9.5Score379k14d adds
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Path to Immortality Among the Stars 星路仙踪
In the modern world, a passage to another realm appears on Blue Star. Wang Yu is among the first people to enter a cultivation world through their dreams. In a daze, he embarks on the path of cultivation in order to survive! The Great Dao is merciless. On the path of cultivation, failing to advance means falling behind! By becoming a supreme cultivator, one can enjoy endless longevity and bring the power of cultivation back to Blue Star, saving its future. The cultivation world faces an apocalyp
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Why Bother Asking About Immortality 何必问仙
[Mortal's Journey + Golden Finger + Conquer the World + Anti-Cliché] I thought that if my heart embraced the universe, the world would know no bounds; I thought immortals could summon the Milky Way and wash away humanity's woes, yet I saw them sweep their sleeves through the clouds, laughing at mortals as if they were ants; I thought I was simply myself, and that my sword would turn with the edge of my heart, yet I saw the hidden hand manipulating my fate; I ask the heavens! If you gave me life,
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Across the Misty Myriad Worlds 缥缈万界
The ages roll on, and the seas change into mulberry fields. After Pangu split the heavens and earth and the primordial age dawned, the primordial world eventually shattered and heaven and earth were overturned. The ancient Heavenly Dao, which had once ruled over all things, collapsed and scattered with them. After endless ages of settling and transformation, the scattered fragments of the Heavenly Dao’s origin finally evolved into the universe’s laws of origin and the countless laws derived fr
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Born of the Sun, I Sweep Across the Ages! 出身太阳的我，横推万古！
[The rating has just opened and will rise] [No female lead] [Invincible protagonist] [No System] The heavens within the universe are countless, their traditions flourishing, their worlds wondrous and bizarre, with nothing too strange to exist! The Ziwei Heavenly Court has carried on through the ages, answering to the ancient Celestial Emperor above and inheriting the Dao Sovereign below, its might pressing down on all the heavens. The Three Pure Ones' Daoist Sect in Fuli Heaven has stood tall ac
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Duoqu Gebu 朵曲格布
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Prison of the Haunted Heart 幽心之狱
I don’t know what I wrote, I don’t know what I wrote, I don’t know what I wrote, I don’t know what I wrote, I don’t know what I wrote, I don’t know what I wrote, I don’t know what I wrote, I don’t know what I wrote, I don’t know what I wrote,
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One Sword to Question the Immortals 一剑问仙
[Swordsmanship] + [Fantasy Xianxia] + [Mortal Cultivation] + [One heroine] + [No System] + [Cautious and steady] + [Decisive and ruthless] My name is Chu Chen. I came first in the imperial examinations at twenty, only to have my entire family killed by an immortal. For forty years, I knocked on the gates of the Immortal Realm. At sixty, the Empress took me back to Mount Shu to cultivate immortality. A slow-paced cultivation power fantasy with steady, gradual progression. The protagonist isn’t an
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- 139 Seeking the Way of the Immortals 问道仙真 As a boy, I left home in a fit of pique to seek immortality, only to spend half my life with nothing but regret. Now in my sixties, I return home alone by boat, to find my loved ones in their graves. Chen Dao wandered for more than forty years, achieving nothing in letters or martial arts, while the path to immortality remained beyond reach. With snow and frost on his shoulders, he finally returned to his hometown, only to find his parents gone and his brother and sister-in-law old and frail. Al 6Reads6.6Score—14d adds
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The Cheat-Wielding Lad Takes the Cultivation World by Storm 开挂小子玩转修仙界
[Funny and lighthearted + Upgrade spirit stones + Refine pills + Humorous cultivation + No System] You rascal, you can upgrade spirit stones and pills? Confess everything and I won’t hit you! Yuan Xiao, a country boy, accidentally saves a divine thief from the immortal realm. With nothing but shameless audacity, he snatches the heaven-defying treasure, the Tianqi Pearl, and becomes a rich cultivator. Making money and upgrading are no problem at all! With two absurd, troublemaking spirit beasts a
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The Witch Initiated Me from the Start, So I Applied to Become Her Cultivation Cauldron 开局被魔女开光，我申请成为炉鼎
A new work is here! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well!
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Fantasy: Starting Blind, I Cultivate with an Erhu 玄幻：开局瞎子，从拉二胡开始
(The short drama is now streaming: Fantasy: Beginning with Two Springs Reflect the Moon) [Spending Life + Grinding and Lying Low] "Once a song breaks the heart, where in all the world can one find a kindred soul?" From the start, he transmigrated as a blind man and became a street musician. [Two Springs Reflect the Moon: LV2 (1/10000) Effect: Unblocks qi and blood, opens the meridians, dispels dampness, and warms the body] He is a blind street musician who wipes out an entire gang for
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The Great God 大神
[Xianxia Fantasy + Age of the Great Sects + Ordinary Cultivators’ Path to Immortality + No System or Transmigration + Witty and Humorous + Ensemble Cast + Mystery + Plot-Driven] In an age when cultivation flourishes, Feiyun Sect is a third-rate sect. In the most remote room live the four most hopeless disciples in the entire sect. A sword cultivator who can’t afford a sword, a body cultivator who can never pay off his debts, a pill cultivator without a pill furnace, and a former prodigy whose cu
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Six Paths of Reincarnation: The Prison of Heaven and Earth 六道轮回：乾坤牢笼
[Traditional Fantasy] [Overpowered Protagonist] [Eastern Elements] [The Myriad Worlds] [No formulaic tropes, no System, no mindless plot, no wish fulfillment] The gods moved their pieces, burying one dazzling golden age after another. Emperors who had reached the peak of the Great Dao were toyed with like ants, right in the palms of their hands! The gods schemed against those who dared defy heaven, slaughtering their entire clans and leaving only the legitimate heir alive, his Rinnegan gouged ou
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- 145 The Mountain Demon Inn 山妖客栈 [Fantasy gods and demons + no System, no transmigration + witty and humorous + ensemble cast + ordinary people cultivating immortality + plot-driven] An ensemble novel blending fantasy gods and demons with the cultivation journey of ordinary people. Told in a witty, humorous style, it follows the strange adventures of an ordinary man with no spiritual power who runs an inn in the demon realm. The story takes place at Mount Muxian, the boundary mountain between humans and demons. The mountain ran 676Reads8.1Score11314d adds
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I Told You to Die, Not to Pull a Stunt 叫你送死，没让你整活
[Goofy]+ [Lighthearted]+ [Exploit system bugs]+ [Milk the system]+ [Wild imagination] Fang Chen has barely transmigrated to another world when he learns that he has agreed to a fight to the death with a chosen one whose engagement was just broken off. He’s already trembling with fear. His System awakens, and he thinks his savior has arrived. But the System’s very first mission tells Fang Chen to raise his cultivation, give it everything he’s got, bring out the chosen one’s potential, and then di
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- 147 He Came from the Forbidden Zone, Waving His Sleeve to Write of Eternal Life 他从禁地来，挥袖写长生 What is an immortal? People say: One hand plucks the stars, one thought spans the ages. That is what it means to be an immortal. What is eternal life? People say: When the Heavenly Dao collapses, I remain undying; when reincarnation begins anew, I remain unchanged. That is eternal life. Throughout the endless ages, immortals have been as numerous as fish crossing a river. Yet there has only ever been one who attained eternal life. “Master, what is an immortal?” “One who replaces the Heavenly Dao 21.1kReads8.5Score1.7k14d adds
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From Accidentally Obtaining a Flood Dragon’s Bones to Becoming a Demon Saint 从意外获得蛟龙遗骨到苟成妖圣
[Dragon Transformation] + [Cautious Cultivation] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Smart Protagonist] + [No Mindless Decisions] + [Devouring] + [No System] + [Reborn] + [Wish Fulfillment] The same old xianxia, but a different story. A little demon refuses to be ordinary; even a black fish dreams of becoming a dragon. This is the story of a black fish who refuses to live an ordinary life and rises against the odds. Mo Yuan is reborn, only to become the most ordinary black fish. He would not have survi
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- 149 I Hear Snakes Speak and Walk Between Yin and Yang 听蛇语，行阴阳 Supernatural + feng shui + ghost-hunting + Bureau 749 + magic arts + demon-hunting + raising Gu + no System. My father's fate was that of a White Tiger Devouring Its Child. Of my mother's twelve pregnancies, eleven ended in miscarriage when the babies were five or six months along. Only one child was born alive, but that child didn't live to see the age of three. To ensure the Bai family had an heir, my grandfather had no choice but to seek out the White Python Embracing an Egg, a site of three 14.6kReads9.0Score1.9k14d adds
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Immortal Destiny: Entering the Dao Through the Furnace 仙缘，以炉入道
[Cold and Ruthless] + [Intelligence] + [Emotional Intelligence] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Beautiful Prose] + [Astonishing] + [No Clear-Cut Good or Evil] A good book deserves to be savored. This is a gradual, slow-burning story. First appreciate the prose, then absorb the atmosphere, feel the emotions, and grasp the wisdom. Only then will the story truly begin to shine. He arrives riding a seven-colored auspicious cloud, and you may think you have glimpsed the beginning of the plot. The initial charac
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