Looking for High-Quality Martial Arts Jianghu Novels 求高质量江湖文
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Devouring Demons 啖魔
A thousand-year-old legend of gods and demons, and an eternal struggle between good and evil. A mighty imperial dynasty teeters on the brink of collapse. Swordmasters whose martial arts approach the divine lie hidden in the darkest reaches of the martial world and among towering mountain peaks. Yet there are beings even more powerful than they: the Demon God of antiquity. Though his body was destroyed, his consciousness remains, sealed in slumber beneath the Nine Hells as he awaits awakening. Hu
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Help! This Lousy System Is Making Me Found a Sect! 救命!这破系统让我开宗立派!
After transmigrating to another world as a sickly man, the male lead triggers a System: if he fails to save twenty people within three years, he’ll die of his illness. He sets off on a journey to save people, meeting one lovely confidante after another along the way. In the end, he’s forced to found a sect and finds his happy ending. (This is not a cultivation novel.) The premise is fairly fresh, leaving behind the traditional level-up-and-fight-monsters formula. The protagonist is frail at firs
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Chasing Wind Tower 追风楼
[Wuxia + Passion + Assassins + Comedy + Multiple Protagonists] There are no sword strikes that split the heavens here, only bodies that achieve sainthood! They are the shadows of the Heavenly Dao Sect, and a band of grim reapers wandering the mortal world! Everyone who makes it out of here alive has a story to tell.
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The Illustrated Tale of the Swordsman Yongzheng, Volumes 1 and 2 雍正剑侠图(上下册)
Tong Lin takes up his midnight-and-noon chicken-claw mandarin-duck axes and roams the martial world, rising from a farmer's son to become Yongzheng's personal bodyguard. The Blood-Dropper secret service is recruiting online, while a band of sword heroes prepares for a final showdown on Penglai Island.
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Sparrow Bracket 雀替
[Wuxia, mystery, crime-solving, ensemble cast, not a wish-fulfillment story, no brainless characters, slow-paced, no romance. Read with caution if these aren't your thing.] The imperial court had never concerned itself with the affairs of the jianghu. That changed when sect feuds left large numbers of civilians displaced, and martial artists injured powerful nobles in the imperial capital. The court then established the Que Tilang, an office in charge of the jianghu. On one side stands the imp
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Sword Like the Evening 剑如夕
[Traditional wuxia + devoted couple + not a power fantasy + late Qing dynasty + ensemble cast] At the end of the Qing dynasty, the Boxer Rebellion and the Eight-Nation Alliance rise one after another. Gu Yang, a skilled martial artist burdened by a family grudge, leaves seclusion and joins forces with Su Jianli, the daughter of a reformist minister, to roam the jianghu and save the world from disaster. The cruelty of foreign guns and cannons and the wickedness of the human heart lay bare the wre
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Sword Shadows Across a Thousand Mountains 千山剑影
Dynasties rise and fall, and brilliant talents emerge in every age. Carrying the burden of his family's vengeance, the young Yan Yunsheng journeys from a scion of a distinguished family to a great hero of the martial world, from the splendor of the Tang Dynasty to its decline. Through hardship and upheaval, he writes a stirring tale of bold, passionate heroism.
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The Legend of Yue Fei 岳飞传
A historical epic novel by Huan Zhu Lou Zhu. Based on the life of Yue Fei, the famous Southern Song general who fought against the Jin, it begins with Yue Fei learning martial arts as a boy and vowing to serve his country. It vividly depicts how he formed the Yue Family Army, fought the Jin forces, and won one victory after another, until he was framed by treacherous officials and met a tragic end. The novel celebrates his unwavering loyalty and devotion to his country.
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The Solitary Sword That Locks the Sea 定海锁孤剑行
Seventeen members of the Liu household were wiped out overnight. There were no wounds or blood, and they looked as if they were asleep. The authorities blamed a vengeful ghost. Su Wan didn't believe them. The Sea-Calming Lock around her neck had grown hot in front of the Liu residence. This wasn't a ghost. It was a person. A single dusky-blue poison needle led her to the massacre at Luoxing Village ten years ago. She used the lock to identify the culprit and her sword to investigate the case. Th
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The Great Yan Immortal Martial Path 大炎仙武
Gods and demons set the stage, wuxia gives it form. Prove the Way with the sword, and slay immortals with martial might! At its core, this is traditional wuxia, with smaller stories of mystery, horror, and crime solving woven into the plot. Expect plenty of martial arts battles and a story full of twists and turns.
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Try the World 且试天下
Feng Lanxi and Feng Xiyun were born into noble houses. In their youth, they traveled the martial world under the assumed names Feng Xi and Feng Xi, earning quite a reputation. Matched in beauty and talent and exceptional in martial arts, they nevertheless acted in very different ways, now enemies, now friends. The martial world thus came to call them “Black Breath and White Wind.” But as the dynasty neared its end, the realm crumbled and the world fell into turmoil. In the end, the two left behi
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A Knock at the Door, and the Ponytailed Girl Told Me to Run 敲门声响起,马尾女孩儿让我快跑
A knock sounded at the door, and a girl with a ponytail told me to run.
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My Martial Arts Rank Second to Last in the World 我的武功天下倒数第二
He is a swordsman known throughout the martial world as Gu Longfei, half man and half ghost, the greatest of sword masters. His swordsmanship is so fast that it’s impossible to see. Wherever he appears, corrupt officials and crooked villains all lose their heads. Never provoke him. Push him too far, and he can split into hundreds of clones to attack his enemies all at once. He is a terrifying swordsman, and his sword style is called the Yuqi Heavenly Sword, also known as the Living Dead Sword. I
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The Shadow in the Old Photograph Draws Closer with Every Passing Day 老照片中的黑影,随着时间的推移,离我越来越近
The shadow in the old photograph is drawing closer to me with every passing day.
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Scheming with the Sword: The Alluring Emperor Both Dotes on and Torments Me 剑谋天下,邪魅帝君又宠又虐
The Heaven-Splitting Sword weeps, and heaven and earth lose their color. When the Blood Talisman appears, the martial world is stained red. This story overturns the traditional tale of an orphan's rise in Wuxia, revealing the path of a young master from a martial arts clan through the martial world. From an innocent youth to a leader who commands the tides of the martial world, worries over the nation's fate, plots for power, and steers the course of events with a laugh... He was the son of the
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The River Mist Drifts, the River Grass Grows Thick 江雨霏霏江草齐
[Ensemble Cast] [Immortals and Demons] [Usurper] Crane and swallow, the Eight Formation Diagram shifts the floating mountain; demonic miasma marches through the northern wilderness. (The gardenias fall, and the mortal world beckons. Thirty springs have passed; old friends keep their promise. Wind stirs along the purple road, and the moon shines full in heaven’s heart. Cranes and swallows come to protect the holy maiden. The Eight Formation Diagram shifts the floating mountain. The four immortal
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Roaming the Martial World with a Qin 携琴闯江湖
Tong Miaoyun: The notes of her zither drift far and wide, captivating the soul. She can astonish heaven and move the spirits. She is the God of Music! Ao Zongwei: Master of the Eight Trigrams and their formations, as well as ingenious crafts. The jianghu calls him the God of Craftsmen. Tong Miaoyun loves playing the zither, and turns her music into martial arts. The God of Music has burst onto the scene, venturing alone into the jianghu, rescuing the Fifth Prince, meeting the God of Craftsmen, a
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Sword of Coming 剑来
The world is vast, and anything is possible. I, Chen Ping’an, have but one sword. With it, I can move mountains, overturn seas, subdue demons, suppress devils, command gods, pluck stars, sever rivers, level cities, and split the heavens!
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The Silent Sword’s Path to Immortality 默剑长生
Modern painter Shen Mo transmigrates into the body of a constable’s son in the Great Liang dynasty. Using the Daoist art of ink painting as a key to cultivation, he turns ordinary skills into a path to immortality, practicing amid the everyday bustle of life as he sets foot on the road to becoming an immortal...
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Love in Qianyuan: Chu Feishan's Passionate Immortal Romance 情陷乾元:楚飞扇的热血仙恋
Fantasy xianxia, sweet romance, multiple heroines, quirky and charming female leads who can be both cool and adorable The Ninth Heaven Fairy was bathing and about to change. Her eyes brimmed with affection as she said, “Brother Chu, I’ve opened a private visual feed just for you... Look, am I more vivid than any treasure in the world?” “Chu Lang, you naughty thing. Our hearts are connected, and I’ll help you save Ximen Yuxiang. In return, you have to whisper sweet nothings to me for three days
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Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit: A Martial World That Never Fades 虹猫蓝兔:永不消失的江湖
[Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit Fanfiction] + [Animated Martial Arts] + [One Heroine] + [After the Qilin] + [The Seven Swords Reunite] The jianghu: wherever people gather, there is a jianghu! The jianghu is small, with room only for chivalrous hearts and tender affections, never to forget one another. The jianghu is vast: heroes lay down their lives, and justice endures. Let us cherish those who came before, and never forget those who follow! After the Seven Swords joined forces and killed the Demo
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Wandering the Martial World, an Old Man in a Lonely Boat 江湖客,孤舟翁
A wanderer of the jianghu, an old man in a lone boat
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Tracking! Tracking! The Disappearing Black Knight 追踪!追踪!消失的黑骑
After a mysterious band of black cavalrymen slaughter a village, they vanish into the capital of the Kingdom of Song. Shen Ye, who has stumbled upon one of the eight ghostly blades from the Heavenly Emperor’s Sword Tomb, pursues them there to avenge the dead, only to be drawn into one conspiracy after another. As he searches for the truth, he meets a bold swordswoman in red, a noble princess of Dongxia, a proud young general, and the gentle Miss Xiao. With each strange incident, the conspiracy g
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Dust at Dusk, Returning to the Ruined Tower 尘暮归残楼
A tale of love and hate, a lament for the tragedies of the mortal world. Shen Yichen, a man everyone under heaven believes to be a mere pawn, ventures alone and boldly into the world of cultivation, then roams the martial world in a drunken haze, repaying both kindness and enmity! Love between a human and a demon, romance between a human and a monster, bonds forged by fate, love in this life, rivalry between father and son, loyalty between brothers... A different martial world, a different morta
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Green Duckweed 青萍
In one life, the Celestial River overflowed, and all nine provinces became a vast marsh. In another, ten suns appeared at once, turning the earth into a living hell. In yet another, the gates of the underworld swung wide, and the mortal world became a realm of ghosts... Heaven and Earth are cruel, treating all living things as straw dogs! Through countless ages of reincarnation, who is really in control? In this life, a lone youth, with only a sword at his side, sets the wind in motion here, ris
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Spring's Surprise Pavilion 惊春台
On the night of the Flower Festival, blood is spilled aboard a wedding boat at Taoye Ferry. The missing half of the Startling Spring Invitation, gone for eighteen years, happens to fall into the hands of Liu Xuanling, a young woman from Spring Letter Station. The bride is abducted, and a survivor is made to look dead. Yet the old bell cord left behind by her sister, Liu Shuangyi, leads her step by step into an even deeper trap: the Startling Spring Society is about to reconvene, and the Nine Lan
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The Record of the Sunken Lamp 沉灯录
An ill-advised black coffin brought him a host of beautiful confidantes. On a rainy night at Qingshi Ferry, young ferryman Pei Zhaochuan takes on a black coffin he should never have accepted. Inside is someone still alive, and the coffin also leads to a lost old lantern. From then on, he is drawn into a web of old cases alongside Xie Tinglan, a disciple of Shuangting Valley, and He Xilou, a former resident of the Returning Lantern Tower. The cases are intricately linked to the tower’s destructio
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The Hideous Assassin Begs You to Wait Until She Draws Her Sword Before You Die of Shock 奇丑女刺客,求等拔剑再被吓死
People cannot choose their own appearance, but they can choose the face they show the world. People cannot choose the status they are born into, but they can choose the path they take from here. The ugliest woman in Later Jin never let her wretched looks or lowly status shake her resolve. Her ugliness was earth-shattering: one look at her was enough to scare the wits out of anyone and leave them trembling in terror. They called her the Red-Clad Ghost. They said she was uglier than any man, with
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Ming Dynasty Bounty Hunter: Soul-Sundering Saber 大明捉刀人之断魂刀
The gallbladder of a ten-thousand-year-old demon dragon, a blade forged from eight thousand vengeful souls. How could either be anything but a rare treasure? Grudges and passions, love and hate without end. Behold the passionate saber-wielder and the heartless swordsman, beneath the jianghu’s rainy night and the lamplight that burns through ten years...
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The Imprisoned King 囚王
Who am I? I woke up in a prince's manor after a seven-day dream. I had forgotten who I was, where I came from, and where I was going. It seemed I had once been plotting something, but before I could investigate, an assassination attempt sent me stumbling into the martial world. Thus began the weaving of a conspiracy spanning both court and martial world.
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The Tale of Scholar Ji 书生纪
[History + alternate world + fantasy + wuxia + court politics + the martial world + poetry + clever characters] [No transmigration] [No System] [No harem] What is the martial world? Some say it is the life of wine and women, wild and unrestrained, enjoyed by spoiled young masters; Some say it is gallant heroes roaming the land with swords, savoring every triumph and settling every score; Some say it is rival sects and a contest for supremacy among the martial world’s leaders; Some say it is acto
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Myriad Worlds: Murong Fu's Diary of Rebellion Across the Worlds 诸天:慕容复万界造反日记
[Instance Progress: The Deer and the Cauldron ✅ | The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber ✅ | Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils main story ✅ | The Smiling, Proud Wanderer ▶️ Updated daily, now in full swing] [Villain's comeback + harem + dimensional domination + ruthless action + invincible power fantasy + the Myriad Worlds] [Over 300,000 words and updated daily. Dive in with confidence: high-energy action from start to finish, not a dull moment.] “In the Myriad Worlds, there is a cursed identity known as ‘th
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The Peaceful Inn 太平客栈
Before the sword is even buckled on, the road outside is already a jianghu. After sailing through countless storms, he returns still a boy. Born into troubled times, he watches war sweep across the land, leaving the people in misery and human lives as worthless as weeds. On coming of age, he roams the world as a chivalrous hero, sword in hand, cleaving open a stretch of clear sky. Ten years of icy drink cannot cool his burning blood. He will hack through every obstacle, hoping to usher in peace.
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The Roar of Chaoyun Shakes the Universe 朝云啸乾坤
A thousand years of accumulation, all for the sake of a single word. Neither joy nor sorrow, seeing through time’s storms. The sages of old, who says they could not be defeated? This sword can suppress all the demons under heaven; this blade can slaughter every evil tyrant in the world. I am no good man, but neither will I be a villain. The world can change in the blink of an eye. I have a question for the heavens. If they do not answer, I will split them open.
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Grand Xuan Guardian Envoy 大玄镇守使
In this world, Dao branches into three paths, and the techniques number in the thousands. In this world, a young man carries a case of swords on his back. He salutes the years with one sword, and the world with all the rest. Someone has tended geese in the Eastern Sea for three hundred years, then punched open the road between life and death. Someone sees the mortal world through a spear, while another sees all living things from the tip of a halberd. This world has martial arts, magic, and skil
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Kunlun: The Iron-Blooded Hero 昆仑前传:铁血天骄
In the final years of the Southern Song, Mongol armies invaded the south in force. To escape conscription by the Mongols, the young Liang Wenjing and his father, Liang Tiande, fled to Sichuan, where they happened upon the assassination of the Prince of Huai’an, a staunch supporter of war against the Mongols. Since Liang Wenjing looked remarkably like the prince, Bai Pu, a strategist at the Prince of Huai’an’s residence, forced him to take the prince’s place and lead the Song army against the Mon
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The Spirit-Flying Sutra 灵飞经
Liang Xiao is long gone, and Lu Jian has yet to be born. Le Zhiyang steps into the martial world. The Spirit Way Stone Fish and the Ming throne set both the martial world and the empire ablaze! In the twenty-seventh year of the Hongwu reign, the political situation has settled, and the realm belongs to Zhu Yuanzhang. But the martial world is still rife with competing factions. Many sects are dissatisfied with the Zhu dynasty and even covet the emperor's throne, leaving the realm awash in bloodsh
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The Floating Chronicles 浮沧录
To the north lies Great Wei, and to the south, Qi and Liang. Western Xia and the eastern passes stretch far and wide, while the southern seas and northern plains sprawl across the land. Within the four seas, all is the martial world. It is only because the young prince, afflicted with a fatal congenital illness, heads north in search of immortality. And so, the martial world is thrown into turmoil.
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Dust Mountain 尘埃山
This story follows ordinary people struggling to survive through the long, chaotic ninety years of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It portrays how a group of common folk make their way in life, far from the halls of power, with no special advantages or extraordinary encounters. Like specks of dust drifting through time, they endure the weight of the years, unnoticed and unheard.
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A Villain's Reputation, a Hero's Heart 恶名侠骨
During the Wanli era, Lin Yan, a young boy from Huaibei, lost his father and was left alone after his mother remarried. He suffered constant bullying at the hands of local gentry and tyrants. When he was eight, his grandfather’s sworn brother, the renowned martial artist Chu Changfeng, found him and led him into a world of flashing blades. Lin Yan inherited his family’s secret techniques and mastered peerless martial arts, but scorned the hypocritical rules of the orthodox sects. Willful and rut
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Pine Breeze on the Ridge, Moonlight on the Mountain 半岭松风半山月
[Alternate History + Political Intrigue + Martial Arts + Two Strong Leads + Happy Ending + Mutual Devotion and Healing + No Brain-Dead Plotting + No Rebirth, Transmigration, or System] Lin Kuo, son of Duke Zhongsu of the Southern Zhou, suffers a family catastrophe in his youth and is shunned and isolated by the powerful aristocratic clans. He struggles through a difficult upbringing, carrying on the legacy of his father and elder brother as he carefully advances, bides his time, and plots to ref
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I, the White-Haired Blind Swordsman, End Ten Thousand Years with My Sword 我,白发瞎子,以剑道断万古
[Invincible Sword God] + [Blind, White-Haired Youth] + [Unrestrained and Overbearing] + [Unmatched by Thousands] + [Pure Thrills] Chen Tieyi transmigrates to this world and is trapped in a bitterly cold land for a hundred years. He spends a century practicing the sword and another century nurturing it, then leaves the mountain with a sword in hand despite his blindness. I have a sword that can split a mountain, cut a river in two, and subdue demons with a single strike. Sword energy surges three
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Fine Clothes and a Spirited Steed: The Days of Youth 鲜衣怒马,正是少年时
A sword, a horsetail whisk. A young man's story of laughter and tears, and a martial world brimming with every taste life has to offer. The bell tower south of the city rings once more, and the storyteller raises his voice again. Through countless twists and turns, the young man is still there... [A young man rides through the martial world: ten years of storms and rain. Poetry, wine, grudges, and vengeance: love is the hardest trial to overcome.]
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I Am the Sword That Can Slay Immortals 在下剑可斩仙
When common folk rise in anger, a million corpses litter the land and blood flows for a thousand miles. A half-immortal swordsman emerged from Dabe and slaughtered the wicked until the borders of Dabe ran red. His story begins the moment he set out for Changjing with a sword in hand.
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Kunlun Inn 昆仑客栈
Yunlong, a disciple of the Kunlun Sect, spent a century in seclusion, and mastered peerless martial arts. Alas, when he emerged from seclusion, the sect had changed beyond recognition. Like a weary bird longing for home, he had nowhere left to return to. By chance, a bowl of plain noodles brought him to stay at a rundown inn on the road through Mount Kunlun. He changed his role in an instant, becoming an inconspicuous waiter. Once you step into the martial world, it’s deeper than the sea. Exp
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