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Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春
[Print edition now available] Sang Nian accidentally climbs into the world of cultivation and becomes the vicious supporting female character who meets a tragic end in the book. System: Your mission is to marry the male supporting character, Xie Chenzhou, abuse him, humiliate him, and then get killed by him. Sang Nian: OK (brandishes little whip) (hits herself) (collapses with a thud) System: (silence) (stares at the sky) System: Mission changed. Win him over, or go mine coal. Sang Nian: (smiles
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Aspiring to the Imperial Throne 问鼎皇尊
[Growth-Focused | No System | Fresh Setting | Expansive Worldbuilding] When chaos first stirred and the world was born, how many ages passed in the endless struggle for supremacy? In the Chaos Realm, gods and demons came into being, only to vanish into the river of history after countless ages. In the Beast Star Domain, savage beasts roamed the wilderness, yet even they could not escape fate, disappearing from heaven and earth. The Icebound Era began, and no life remained in the world. In the Pr
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Bait on the Path to Immortality 仙途为饵
[Rating just came out, it’ll go up] Cultivation + Strong Female Lead + Dot-ed-On by Everyone + Transmigrate into a Book + No CP + All-Rounder + Chaos Spirit Root + Space + Family Power Struggles Lin Yueyue unexpectedly transmigrates into a book and becomes Lin Yueyue, the original heroine who dies a tragic death. She knows just how miserable the Lin Yueyue in the book has it. She doesn't want to sit around waiting to die. Her only option is to save herself! But she's only five years old. What ca
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Nuwa Awakens: Who's in Charge of the Three Realms These Days? 女娲醒后，这届三界谁带班的
Lighthearted comedy + absurd humor + no romance + ensemble cast + unconventional tropes Nuwa lets out a yawn that lasts ten thousand years. When she opens her eyes, she can't believe it: it's 2030! Heaven has opened up trade with the mortal realm, and phones, AI, and internet products are everywhere. Mortal street food sells for the price of elixirs in Heaven, while Heaven's spirit stones are being traded in the mortal realm until they become a financial bubble. The Underworld is even more ridi
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The Dao-Cutting Art 诀天道
(No mindless protagonist, no clichéd plot, a cunning lead, fully realized characters, no System, twin swords) The twin swords ring out, cleaving the heavens. Let souls be severed and bones torn out as you will. The world shall know no more bloody storms. I am both demon and god! With everything shattered, can it be made whole again? Faced with the shackles of fate, he will cut them apart with his twin swords! The gods and demons wage war for a hundred years. The Heavenly Dao is merciless, treati
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The Whole Sect Is Full of Crazy Villains, Only the Junior Sister Is a Goofball 满门反派疯批，唯有师妹逗比
After transmigrating into a book, Ye Linglong becomes the vicious cannon-fodder villainess in a cultivation novel. With terrible aptitude, she even coerces the heroine into taking her into the top sect during the Cultivation Tournament. After joining, she opposes the heroine at every turn and eventually dies a miserable death. To enjoy a long, happy life, Ye Linglong immediately gives up on coercing the heroine and turns around to join the worst sect in the cultivation world. She’s done being th
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I Saved the Entire Sect by Giving Up 我靠摆烂拯救了全宗门
(The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh
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Showbiz: You Asked Me to Take a Side Job, So Why Am I Fortune-Telling at a Stall? 娱乐：让你做副业你摆摊算命？
In his previous life, he was a true immortal of the Daoist sect. In this life, he transmigrates to Blue Star's entertainment industry as a nobody. Yang Lin unexpectedly joins a livestream show called Work Hard, Everyone! To build their image as ordinary working people, the celebrities either perform on the street or set up stalls selling snacks. Yang Lin, however, simply pulls a Daoist robe from his bag, puts it on, and starts telling fortunes. He lifts a curse for a female CEO and earns a ten-t
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Cultivation: I Picked Up a Tool and Became an Immortal 修仙：我拾器成仙
[Cautious Cultivation] + [Stat-Boost Cultivation] + [Talisman Making] + [Sword Cultivation] + [Body Cultivation] + [Clan Cultivation] + [Sect Slacker] Yang Qingyun transmigrated to the cultivation world eighteen years ago and successfully went from an ordinary mortal to a tiny cultivator at the second level of Qi Refining. A ninth-grade spirit root, all mine! Work hard? Lying around is much more comfortable! The System finally showed up on his eighteenth birthday. Now that he has a System, does
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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Mingyi Takes Flight 明夷于飞
A young master as beautiful as jade, yet destined for tragedy. Immortals fall, and demons run rampant. A tale set in a world of immortals and martial arts. The heroine is a mortal with good-for-nothing talent who stumbles by chance into the world of immortals. A country girl blunders into a journey to seek the Dao and question her heart... While other girls compete over family background and beauty, or swoon over the four great young masters of the cultivation world, she is busy earning spirit s
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After Becoming a Cultivation Novel's Female Side Character, I Don't Want to Be Cannon Fodder 穿成修仙女配后不想当炮灰
[Female-Led Cultivation, No Romance] [Mutated Wind Spirit Root + Hidden Weapons] Reincarnated as the villainess in a cultivation novel, she gets the best setup possible: the Northern Border’s greatest beauty and a genius disciple with a mutated Wind Spirit Root. But since she isn’t destined to be the heroine, Duan Jiaojiao decides to stay away from her and turn down the powerful Canglan Sect, joining the “pickpocket sect” Kongkong Sect instead. Who could have guessed that this much-hated “pickpo
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Don't Panic, My Mother and I Will Ascend to Immortality Together 别慌，我和我阿娘一起成仙了
(No romance) Song Yue transmigrated to an unfamiliar dynasty and found herself with a beautiful, intellectually disabled mother. Her mother may have seemed a little foolish and clingy, but she doted on Song Yue and always put her first. The mother and daughter had been living in a village nestled against the mountains, making a living by hunting and practicing medicine. But a series of events brought on by a plague forced them to flee. By a twist of fate, they ended up in a town inhabited by cul
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Seal of Merit 功德印
A thousand years later, the former demoness bears a Merit Seal and embarks on a new life, guiding people toward goodness and accumulating merit. Little does she know that the very first person she meets is so wicked he draws the wrath of both gods and men. Get him to mend his ways? Forget it. I might as well die again.
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Immortal Martial Emperor 仙武帝尊
Nine thousand years ago, the Immortal Martial Emperor led a million divine generals into the ancient primordial wilderness. Not one of them returned, and only a wisp of true fire remained in the world. Nine thousand years later, Ye Chen, a discarded disciple, was driven from his sect and left with nowhere to go. By a twist of fate, he came into possession of the true fire and set foot on the path of immortal martial cultivation once more. This is a world where gods, demons, immortals, and Buddha
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Eternal Gate 永恒之门
The gods and demons wage war, the myriad worlds collapse, and only the Eternal Immortal Realm endures. After countless ages, a battle god named Zhao Yun gathers the essence of heaven and earth and reforges the primordial universe. From the depths of the underworld, he fights his way to the Eternal Immortal Realm and, in the name of the divine, rules over the myriad paths. From then on, his words become legend.
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Chaos in the Mortal Realm 人间乱
“Your Majesty, why must you abase yourself before them? They are nothing but one or a group of ordinary people, too weak to even kill a chicken.” “Enough, old man. The situation is settled. I made my choice long ago, and nothing can be undone. I made that choice to keep the world from falling into chaos, for the sake of all under heaven.” The old man looked at the desolate city, his heart aching. Then he asked a question that struck straight to the soul: “Yes, there may be a million reasons for
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Tycoon: After the College Entrance Exam, I Was Accepted by a Cultivation University 神豪：高考后我被修真大学录取了
After the college entrance exams, Lin Mo was admitted to Yanjing University’s Cultivation Department through a schemer’s machinations. On his first day, he awakened the Tycoon Immortal Venerable System. [Ding! The Host used a Nine-Turn Heavenly Fiend Pill, triggering a spending rebate red packet. Open it?] [Ding! Congratulations, Host! You received a 99-fold rebate: 9,900 Nine-Turn Heavenly Fiend Pills.] [Ding! The Host learned the technique, Heart-Calming Art, triggering a random draw. Start th
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Reborn to Cultivate Immortality: The Supporting Actress Gets the Heroine’s Script 重生修仙：女配拿了女主剧本
The Yun family of Cangyun City has two daughters. The legitimate daughter, Yun Yue’e, has a Water Spirit Root and the destiny of a phoenix. Her parents dote on her, and her master cherishes her. The concubine-born daughter, Yun Nian, is desperate for her parents’ attention. She willingly becomes her elder sister’s shadow, practices the Yun family’s forbidden arts, takes her injuries, and clears the path for her. Yun Nian thinks this might finally make her father spare her a glance, but she neve
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Cultivating Immortality Without a Golden Finger 没有金手指的修仙日子
Li Ling was a modern-day homebody. After she died, she took over another person's body and was reborn in a world of cultivation. Watch her keep her feet on the ground and work hard, step by step, to cultivate immortality.
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All Male Cultivators Are Fleeting Clouds 天下男修皆浮云
After transmigrating, Shi Qiu becomes a tempting morsel in the eyes of male cultivators, with everyone wanting a bite. Even with her naturally gifted spiritual bones, all the men in the world are beneath her notice.
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One Fall, and I Became an Immortal 一陨成仙
Her cousin betrays her own clan, and the Lin family is destroyed overnight. Every last member of the family is slaughtered! Her cousin becomes a disciple of a cultivation sect, and with cultivators backing her enemies, they grow ever more powerful... Then, three years later, the eldest Lin daughter, who should have been nothing but bones by now, suddenly crawls out of her grave...
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The Legend of Qin: Trails of the Dream Immortal 寻秦记之云梦仙踪
Transmigrated into the Warring States era, only to become an ingredient for immortal cultivation? Why keep this Heavenly Dao around until the New Year? Watching the "immortal seed" squirm in his dantian, Xu Shenwu finally understood that ascension was all a lie. The spiritual energy ordinary people painstakingly cultivated for a thousand years was nothing but fertilizer for the great medicine grown for the immortals of the Upper Realm! The year he transmigrated to Yunmeng Mountain, he spent a wh
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Heaven-Dominating Sword 一剑霸天
[A great author's alt account, one heroine, ruthless and decisive. Highly recommended!] Legend has it that there is a realm where one can pursue cause and effect, erasing every trace of an opponent across time and space with a mere sliver of divine power. One can command life and death, make countless worlds rise and fall with a single thought, and annihilate all living beings. One can stand level with the Heavenly Dao, harness the order of the universe, and rule supreme throughout eternity. Thi
315.6kReads9.2Score31.2kShelves
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Mortal Bones 凡骨
The world’s spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade, Heavenly Spiritual Bone. Second grade, Golden Spiritual Bone. Third grade, Profound Spiritual Bone. Fourth grade, White Spiritual Bone. All the rest are mortal bones, with no chance of cultivating. Xu Taiping, born with mortal bones, swears to prove to the cultivation world that mortal bones can slay demons, mortal bones can vanquish devils, and mortal bones can ascend to immortality!
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The Mortal's Immortal Gourd 凡人仙葫
Er Gouzi is an honest, hardworking farmer. His greatest dream is to save up enough to buy a few acres, become a small landowner, and marry a buxom, strong-legged wife. Then his life would be perfect. But after an accident leaves him with a gourd and an old swindler talks him into it, he blunders into the path of immortality and gets dragged into conflict. Even so, he never forgets his original goal: he just wants to farm...
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Heavenly Abyss 天渊
(The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw
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Rebel Soul, Become a God 逆魂成神
[Reverse Path to Godhood | Decisive and Ruthless | Fiercely Protective | Western Fantasy x Eastern Daoist Arts] Everyone says Carlido is a divine abomination, a madman cursed by his bloodline, born to be spurned by all three realms. But they don't know that he braved the River of Forgetfulness, where death was all but certain, toppled the highest throne in the divine realm, devoured obscure and difficult ancient Eastern texts, and grasped the legacy of ancient cultivators who defied the natural
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After a Gender Swap, I Was Forced to Become the Lord of the Immortal Palace 性转后，我被迫成了仙宫之主
[Gender Swap + Taking Disciples + Female Emperor + Everyone’s Favorite + Ensemble Cast + Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Gu Han transmigrated to the world of cultivation and became a woman. [System awakened: Congratulations, Host! You are now bound to the Sect System!] Looking at her six disciples, she fell into deep thought: [First disciple, Tao Yaoyao: Reincarnated Golden Immortal, daughter of an Immortal Lord.] [Second disciple, Liu Ruyan: Reborn three times, with a Reincarnation Dao Body.] [Third d
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The Emperor Star Descends 帝星临
The day his engagement was broken, he turned around and wrote a letter of divorce. “Today you cast me aside like a worn-out shoe. One day, you’ll be reaching for me and find I’m beyond your grasp.” The night a meteor fell, the young prodigy lost all his cultivation and became the laughingstock of Qingyang City. On the day of his wedding, the saintess tore up their engagement in front of everyone. He picked up his brush, wrote a letter of divorce, and made a three-year pact. Everyone thought
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Martial Spirit Era: Throne of Soul Seals 武魂纪元：魂印王座
In a border town in the Tianshu Domain, young Lin Chen awakened a low-grade Yellow-rank mortal stone soul seal and was mocked as a good-for-nothing soul seal the likes of which appeared only once in a thousand years. But who could have guessed that the despised, useless seal was actually the nascent form of a one-in-ten-thousand Chaos Soul Seal? The broken soul-seal compass his father left behind set him on the path to the pinnacle of the Soul Origin Realm: Form a pact with a Chaos Spirit Turtle
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Good-for-Nothing Beast Tamer: All My Pets Are Weirdos 废柴御兽师：我的宠兽全是奇葩款
Good-for-Nothing Beast Tamer: All My Beasts Are Weirdos
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Sequence of the Void Realm 虚境序列
On the first day virtual reality invaded the real world, I became the most wanted criminal. In the fully immersive game Beyond, I solved an ancient riddle and became the first “complete infiltrator.” The next day, my rival from the game died suddenly in the real world, with the game’s curse marks appearing on his face. The police thought I was the killer. They couldn’t understand how I could “see” the killer’s fingerprints left on the doorknob, or “read” the final scene of terror in the dead m
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Guardians of the Solar Terms 节气守护者
The Guardians of the Solar Terms On the night fireworks were banned, I met a Lantern Festival spirit on the brink of death. Only after inheriting my family’s ancient jade did I learn that all twenty-four solar terms have spirits. When their customs disappear, the spirits fade away. The technological beads on the young mayor’s wrist are quietly strangling the whole town’s memories. Before the last Spring Festival, I must find a new way to keep tradition alive: Not by fighting the times, but by he
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The Rise of Divine Ashes in the Mortal World 神烬凡尘崛起
The divine realm fell, and the mortal world burned to ash. Once a divine general, now he returns through a river of blood. The Nine Heavens Divine Realm had shone for countless ages. But a betrayal long in the making brought eternity crashing down. His dear friend Ming Cang joined forces with the extraterrestrial demon Shadow Eater, tore apart the Divine Court, and sealed the Holy Maiden away. Ling Jin, the Blazing Angelic General, had his divine core shattered and his soul utterly destroyed.
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My AI Buddy Helps Me Win Big This New Year: A Healing Tale of Reverse Reunion for a Burned-Out Office Worker AI搭子带我躺赢新年：脆皮社畜的反向团圆治愈记
My AI Buddy Helps Me Win Big This New Year: A Healing Tale of a Fragile Office Worker Finding a Different Kind of Family Reunion
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Cadmium Red in the Blank: A Gift for the Tenth Year 空白的镉红一个第十年的礼物
Blank Cadmium Red: A Gift for the Tenth Year
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Lamp and Bone 灯与骨
Light and Bone
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The Shared Diary in the Rental Apartment 出租屋的共享日记
The Shared Diary in the Rental Apartment
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I’ve Been Possessed for Ninety Thousand Years 我被夺舍九万年
I transmigrated, and then... I was possessed again. I was possessed for ninety thousand years. So, now that I've finally returned, let's see how I conquer the cultivation world and build a mighty empire.
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