Genius Protagonist, Not Someone Who Goes From Good-for-Nothing to Genius 天才流，不是废材变天才。
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The Floating Sky Never Falls 浮天不落
The floating sky never falls; the immortal sect endures forever. This is a story about a genius who lacks for nothing: talent, resources, or powerful connections. There are no brainless villains who show up just to help the protagonist level up, nor is the protagonist a tragic figure who builds a huge harem. Instead, there are all kinds of worldbuilding details the author, a hopeless settings fanatic, just couldn't resist writing, bringing to life my own personal dream of cultivating immortality
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I Command Countless Vengeful Ghosts, and Return as the Strongest in the World 身具万千厉鬼，我归来即人间最强
[Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa
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First-Year Internship—And You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters?! 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物
[Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster
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Huh? Turns Out I Was a Genius 啊？原来我是天才来着
[Strong Female Lead | No Romance | Ensemble Cast | Satisfying Interstellar Story] In the Star Alliance, there are two kinds of geniuses. One kind is fought over by military academies, fawned over by powerful families, and placed on a pedestal by the media. The other kind is called Chu Jia. Chu Jia had always been certain she only had B-grade mental strength. She planned to keep a low profile at Lingyou Military Academy and quietly coast through to graduation. But reality had other plans. The
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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
6.7kReads9.2Score457Shelves
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Eerie Descent: The More Refined I Am, the Stronger I Become 诡异降临：我越优雅就越强
With 24 hours left before the eerie beings return, a cold announcement rings out in the minds of people around the world. While everyone else is busy panicking and stockpiling supplies, Su Yan leisurely wipes the fingerprints off a thug's knife. “Don't get blood on my designer clothes.” On the day of awakening, he finds himself pondering his exclusive SSS-rank ability: “Elegance Is Truth.” In the first instance, “The Blood-Red Banquet,” the rules demand that everyone maintain “proper manners.” W
1.4kReads6.7Score215Shelves
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The Mighty Little Constable 神通小捕快
“One leaf riding the wind, roaming ten thousand miles; a dashing constable, famous throughout the land.” The most righteous men are often those society looks down on, and heroes rise from the streets. The spring breeze and I are both passing travelers, but your name alone belongs to the martial world. Ye Fei, a lowly errand boy at an inn, is rejected by the Su family because he's nothing but a nobody who runs errands! Who could have guessed that after getting drunk, saving a beauty, and catching
9.8kReads8.8Score909Shelves
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Ten Divine Physiques from the Start: I Reign Supreme Across the Ages 开局十神体，我力压万代
Zhang Lintian, from Earth, transmigrated to the cultivation world to save someone. As soon as he obtained the System, he discovered that he possessed ten different special physiques. What, you have a special physique? Sorry, so do I, and mine are just a tiny bit stronger than yours... If one physique isn't enough to beat you, I'll use another... Enemy: Why do you have one special physique after another? Are special physiques really that common? Zhang Lintian: Sorry, but they are where I'm from..
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Thunder Dao Heavenly Lord: Starting with the Discovery of My Celestial Spirit Root 雷法天君：从测出天灵根开始
[Heavenly Spirit Root, cultivation panel, pure lightning arts focused on combat, nearly invincible] Modern office worker Lin Xuan died unexpectedly. When he woke, he had become a lowly servant in a world of immortal cultivation. It was the day of the spirit-root test. Lightning shot into the sky, thunder roared, and heaven and earth were transformed by a celestial phenomenon. A lightning-type Heavenly Spirit Root, enough to alarm a mighty Soul Transformation ancestor! Awakening the Thunder Emper
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The Master Detective Who Started Out on the Criminal Police Squad 从加入刑警队开始的推理大师
Chen Mo, a top student at the police academy, steps into a crime scene for the first time and discovers that the perfect models in his textbooks fall apart amid the bloody reality. When the formulas of criminal psychology collide with the dark side of human nature, he is forced to strip away the halo of “procedural justice” and forge his own approach to solving crimes amid a flood of data and the grit of everyday life!
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Records of Seeking Immortals in Jiuzhou: The Lone Star Seeks the Dao 九州寻仙录之孤星问道
Ye Guxing, son of the Sect Master of the Heavenly Sword Sect, has borne the name “Cursed Lone Star” since childhood and endured eighteen years of mockery. Then, on his eighteenth birthday, the mysterious jade pendant he was born with suddenly activates. From that day on, his cultivation advances by leaps and bounds, and he rises against the heavens. Luo Chen, a young demon with a blood feud to avenge, and Shengle, the Holy Maiden of the Heavenly Melody Sect, who descends the mountain to enter th
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The Sumeru Ring: My Road to a Comeback 须弥戒，我的逆袭之路
I was reborn on a rainy night in late autumn. Not far away, my second uncle and his son were digging a pit for me, preparing to bury me in a graveyard. In my previous life, I woke up and escaped, never to return. I drifted through life, and just before I died, I came across a news report. On this very day, my second uncle sold my newlywed wife to human traffickers, leading to her being abused and killed. This time, I won't run away. Whoever digs the pit will be buried in it.
10.1kReads7.4Score871Shelves
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A Cultivator in the Mortal World 红尘修士
One day, Yun Xi's soul left Blue Star, and she fell into the vast world of cultivation. She never expected to start out as a lowly nobody, with a life as fragile as a blade of grass. In the face of despair, she seeks out opportunities, rises from the dust, and gradually stirs up the entire cultivation world!
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The Potato Oracle’s All-Purpose Comeback Theory 土豆万能接话神棍论 The Potato: An All-Purpose Conversationalist and Mastermind 430Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Frost Emperor of the Nine Wastelands 九荒寒帝
(Genius protagonist + Ice-Cold Sacred Physique + smart characters + no contrived drama + villain protagonist + System) On the Nine Desolate Continent, martial arts rule, and the strong reign supreme. The weak are lowly and suffer endless oppression; when the strong grow angry, the skies and earth change color. At the pinnacle, martial artists can rise above the nine heavens and look down on all living things. A single step can bring mountains crashing down and seas splitting apart, leaving river
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Transmigrating into a Fantasy World: I Am the Prodigy 穿越玄幻之我为天骄
[This is a rough first novel, so please bear with me. If you have any better suggestions, leave them in the comments.] [Genius protagonist, brisk pacing, a touch of ensemble cast, no heroine or just one heroine] Office drone Li Chengfeng transmigrates to the world of cultivation overnight! He thought binding to a System would let him lie flat and become an immortal, but who knew the System would run off right from the start! He channels Qi into his body in just half a quarter of an hour, astonis
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