The Protagonist's Weapon Is a Calligraphy Brush. 主角的武器是一只毛笔。

1. 1 开 I Awakened a Pen from the Start, and You Call That Good-for-Nothing? 开局觉醒一支笔，你管这叫废柴？ Piltover Detective皮城大侦探Urban1.4M WordsCompleted He transmigrates to a parallel world and awakens a supernatural ability in the form of a calligraphy brush. What should he do? Easy! Write the character for fire, set a mountain ablaze, and spend the rest of your life behind bars! Write the character for wind, charge ahead without hesitation, and become the happiest wind swordsman around! Write the character for thunder, and use an anti-aircraft cannon to swat a mosquito. Now that's satisfying! What? He can also bring the imagery of poems to lif 9.1kReads9.2Score777Shelves

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   It's a great read, very exciting. The author's writing is excellent and very engaging. Perhaps I'm just a casual reader, but the protagonist the author created is truly three-dimensional and resourceful. In the end, he genuinely works for the benefit of the people. In the very end, it's like a superhero finally saving the world and returning to where he started, beginning to enjoy a peaceful life. Perhaps all the experiences were like a dream, in which we are all the protagonists. Or perhaps the Big Dipper was truly reversed before, and someone corrected it.

2. 2 执 The Scribe 执笔者 Xiao Xiaoxiao肖小肖Two Male Leads478k WordsCompleted There's not a normal person at Liuhe University. Everyone is a practitioner. Gu Bai, who works in the logistics department, is lazy to the bone, useless at everything, and particularly unpopular. One day, somehow, he manages to provoke Yan Liang, the university's biggest boss, and his life soon becomes a living hell. In truth, Gu Bai only wants to spend his days relaxing on the street where he lives. But he never expected to be dragged into a chaotic struggle. Now that he's in the thick of it, w 1.2kReads9.0Score155Shelves

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   This is quite good. The protagonist initially avoids conflict, but later gets caught up in it, so he uses his pen to stir up trouble.

3. 3 我 I Created the World 我创造了世界 Fang Yebai方夜白Eastern Fantasy2.2M WordsCompleted Chen Luo found a Primordial Brush that let him create worlds at will. Whatever he wrote with it would become real in another world. He wrote down light, and the world gained a sun. He wrote down life, and the world gained countless species. More amazingly, he could bring players into this world and have them help evolve its species, advancing the world itself. So Chen Luo turned it into a hit online game that took the world by storm! “Second Life, a casual life-simulation game. Ten years in the 14.6kReads8.3Score1.4kShelves

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   Hunyuan Brush...

4. 4 当 After All of Humanity Disappeared 当全世界人类都消失以后 Fang Yebai方夜白Urban1.0M WordsCompleted After all humanity disappears from the world, there comes a knock at the door... Li Ge thought this was the kind of thing that only happened in science fiction movies and novels. He never dreamed he’d actually experience it himself! What’s it like to be the only human left in the world? Li Ge: Thanks for asking. I’m in Pengcheng, just got off the plane, and I have three things to say. I just found a gun and some grenades, blew up a bank, and set the cash on fire. Wanxiang City, the museum, the l 11.3kReads8.8Score770Shelves

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   These three books [laughs]

5. 5 第 My Ten-Thousandth Rebirth 第一万次重生 Fang Yebai方夜白Urban2.0M WordsCompleted After spending the last three months of his life battling a terminal illness, Chen Luo discovered that he had been reborn on the day his cancer was confirmed. Overjoyed, Chen Luo soon found that three months later, he still died of cancer. But what he never expected was that he’d be reborn again on New Year’s Day in 2019, the day he was diagnosed with cancer. By now, Chen Luo had been reborn ten thousand times. Over the more than two thousand years of this endless loop, Chen Luo had learned ever 22.5kReads8.6Score2.3kShelves
6. 6 我 I Became a Ghostly Scholar 我变成了鬼书生 A Leaf of Flame一叶火苗Eastern Fantasy377k WordsCompleted [No female lead + System + not supernatural horror] Meng Yu transmigrated to a world overrun by monsters and demons. From the start, he possessed the body of a dead scholar, but through a strange twist of fate, he became a ghost. From then on, the world had a refined ghost scholar who carried a white bone folding fan. It was only one day, when the bone fan in Meng Yu's hand turned into a bone sword, that he realized there was another way to do things... 323Reads5.3Score100Shelves

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   This is very stable; although the rating is low, it's a good-looking YY (Yoga) ds

7. 7 元 Origin Master 元尊 Author126b03作者126b03Eastern Fantasy3.8M WordsCompleted Heaven and earth are the furnace, all things are copper, yin and yang are the coals, and creation is the smith. In the struggle for fortune, serpents and sparrows devour dragons. Will the serpent and sparrow reign supreme, or will the holy dragon rise and tower above all living beings? This is a world where qi rules the universe, vast and magnificent. With a breath of qi, one can move mountains, overturn seas, turn the heavens upside down, and command yin and yang and the cosmos. The world’s sou 5.4kReads9.2Score496Shelves

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   This? The weapon is a calligraphy brush.

8. 8 超 Super Brush God System 超级笔神系统 Gui Shilang鬼十郎Eastern Fantasy2.7M WordsCompleted “Congratulations, Host! You have drawn a Divine Pill. Activate it now?” “Congratulations, Host! You have drawn a Divine Artifact. Activate it now?” “Congratulations, Host! You have drawn a Goddess. Activate her now?” Xiao Long, a total loser, somehow transmigrated and gained the Super Art God System. From then on, he drew the heavens, the earth, and beautiful women; he drew hearts, dreams, and life itself. “There may be things in this world you can’t imagine, but there’s absolutely nothing I can 59Reads5.4Score—Shelves

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   This is how you use a pen.

9. 9 儒 The Sole Sage of the Confucian Dao 儒道独尊 Thunder at Jingzhe惊蛰闻雷Eastern Fantasy880k WordsCompleted What can a poem do? Slay enemies! Slay immortals! Exterminate demons! Subdue devils! Do you really think that plucking the sun and moon and reaching for the stars is just a wild fantasy? It is the Star-Plucking spiritual root of the Star lineage. Do you really think that lifting mountains with strength enough to cover the world is just a metaphor? It is the Mountain spiritual root of the Mountain-Moving lineage. In this world, the hundred schools compete in splendor, yet scholars of the Confucia 388Reads7.2Score—Shelves

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   This is alright.

10. 10 鬼 Underworld Bailiff: You Told Me to Break Up a Fight, and I Got Sentenced to the Eighteenth Level of Hell 鬼差：让你劝架，判我十八层地狱 The Heavenly Dog Doesn't Eat the Moon天狗不食月Urban235k WordsOngoing [Grim Reaper + livestreaming + law education + Underworld = ?] Also known as The Outlaw: They Actually Accused Me of Violent Law Enforcement and Law-Education Livestream: I Speak for the Underworld Zhong Xu’s soul transmigrates into Blue Star, where he unexpectedly awakens the Spooky Law-Education Livestream System! Teach the laws of the Underworld, and grow stronger! Zhong Xu comes across two evil spirits fighting in the mortal world, and his viewers urge him to break it up! Zhong Xu delivers t 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A Book of Life and Death, a Judge's Pen

11. 11 人 Writing Novels in Journey to the West, Even the Sages Are Begging for the Next Chapter! 人在西游写小说，圣人都来催更了！ Great Demon of Hetu河图大妖Eastern Fantasy585k WordsCompleted A web novelist transmigrates to the world of Journey to the West and starts out with a copy of Battle Through the Heavens, drawing the Monkey King to him as a disciple. What's cultivation? What's Journey to the West? Nothing beats reading a novel! Determined to write a masterpiece, he takes the Monkey King as a disciple and racks his brains. The Monkey King wreaks havoc across the Three Realms, all to find inspiration for his writing. And that's not all. When Nezha reads Nezha: Birth of the Demo 1.5kReads8.9Score128Shelves
12. 12 魔 The Demon Dao Pen Immortal 魔道笔仙 Yun Che Jiuli云澈九里Eastern Fantasy111k WordsOngoing A brush in my left hand, writing the cycles of reincarnation for all; A sword in my right, cutting down the world's injustice. This brush sets right the injustices beneath heaven; This sword punishes those who have wronged the world. All I wish is this: May generals wield their swords without slaughtering the weak. May officials wield their brushes without oppressing the people. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Come and recommend it.

13. 13 儒 Conferring Gods Through the Way of the Scholars 儒道封神 Northern Foothills of Dongshan东山北麓Eastern Fantasy2.1M WordsCompleted Within, powerful lords stir with ambition. Without, demons and barbarians watch like tigers on the prowl. The Wu Wei Dynasty has languished for a hundred years. A young man comes from the north, armed with nothing but a brush. He drives back the barbarians, expands the realm, and secures the nation. Zhang Yinian: a Confucian sage enshrined as a god! 836Reads7.3Score103Shelves

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    The following are all similar; the protagonist's weapons are books, pens, and the like, which are quite entertaining.

14. 14 儒 The Confucian Sage Rules the World 儒圣天下 We Share the Same Robe与子同袍Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsOngoing This is a world where scholars command the forces of heaven and earth. Legend has it that Cang Jie, with two pupils in each of his four eyes, created the twenty-eight characters. His invention shook the world, gave writing to humanity, and put an end to the old system of knotted cords. From the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, when a hundred schools of thought contended and sages emerged one after another, to Confucius, the revered teacher of all ages, who gathered the force of tale 120Reads7.0Score—Shelves
15. 15 文 Sage of Letters 文圣 Liu Mo刘默Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsCompleted This is a world where scholars wield the power of heaven and earth. A scholar can kill with a stroke of his brush! A Master can govern a nation by writing a biography! A Sage's fury can shake demons and fiends! A Literary Saint can destroy ghosts and gods with a single word! Across the land of Zhongzhou, a hundred kingdoms stand side by side, literary giants emerge in droves, and countless schools of thought contend. But just as this age reaches its zenith, the ancient demon race awakens. Crawli 253Reads—Score110Shelves
16. 16 画 The Sage of Painting 画圣 Dugu Jianye独孤建业Eastern Fantasy2.3M WordsCompleted A painting that cannot become real is just ink; a person who cannot become a sage is an empty shell. Break the curse that has bound countless generations, then paint the sun, moon, stars, and all creation anew. With a brush as his blade, he wields every shade and stroke to perfection, striking not only the body but the heart. The world is his canvas, and through the small he reveals the great, reflecting good and evil as he sweeps the world clean. A wolf-hair brush, an inkstone: he talks and lau 99Reads—Score—Shelves
17. 17 儒 The Confucian Immortal 儒仙 Tengzi藤子Eastern Fantasy801k WordsOngoing A cup of poisoned wine sent him back ten years. In this life, he will ascend to immortality... —Reads—Score—Shelves
18. 18 文 The Ultimate Sage of Letters 文道至圣 Snow Drifts Past Broken Thorns断刺飘雪Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsOngoing Tens of thousands of years ago, the Wu and Yao clans ruled the continent, while humanity was insignificant. The birth of the Sages saved humanity from peril and passed down the path of cultivation. Tens of thousands of years later, as a new crisis arose, the flap of transmigrator Liu Zhuo’s wings, though unintentional, changed the course of all history! 34Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 19 我 I Have a Heavenly Tome Pen, and From the Start I Set the Mountain Ablaze 我有一支天书笔，开局放火烧山 Factory Worker厂里打工人Eastern Fantasy108k WordsOngoing I, Su Zimo, was only sixteen when a useless brush dragged me to another world. With only a Golden Core cultivation base, I have to tread carefully, act meek, and walk on eggshells. Everyone: “Have you no shame? You burned down an entire mountain as soon as you got here!” Heavenly Book Brush: “That’s enough. It’s one thing to fool other people, but how can you even fool yourself?” [Comedy + wild imagination. The first few chapters may be a little slow, but it gets absolutely exciting later on.] —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I recommend everyone read the book and show your support.

20. 20 野 Wild Monster Chat Group 野怪聊天群 Four Volumes四卷Sports1.9M WordsCompleted In the age of the Starsea, a virtual online game took the world by storm. Before the game even launched, Jiang Liu found himself in a mysterious group chat. One life per person. It turned out even the monsters could chat. Treasures, drops, hidden classes, rare items, mythical gear: information poured out as if it were free. From then on, Jiang Liu rose to the top. Armed with the latest intel from the group, he began a gaming life that would shake the world. 331Reads8.2Score124Shelves

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    Story Summary: With a Pen

21. 21 灵 Spiritual Qi Revival: My Martial Soul Is a Pen! 灵气复苏，我的武魂是支笔！ Flowers Fall Across a Thousand Chapters花落千章Urban109k WordsOngoing Lin Nan transmigrated to a world undergoing spiritual qi revival, where people could awaken martial souls. Some awakened the Plow Ox martial soul, gaining peerless stamina and becoming the darlings of countless wealthy women. Others awakened the Divine Dragon martial soul, wielding the mighty Heavenly Dragon to suppress countless ferocious beasts. Still others awakened the Heavenly Thunder martial soul, mastering its power and never crashing. Lin Nan, meanwhile, got the protagonist’s script and 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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