Playing Chess with the Gods, Winning by Half a Move 与神明对弈，矣胜其半子
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- 151 My Past Lives Were Exposed: Five Lifetimes of Fate with the Empress 前世今生被曝光，我和女帝五世缘 For three thousand years, the Eternal Empress Ji Yuxi has waited desperately for his return. But where is he now? Lu Qianchen accidentally reveals his first life while appearing on the show Past and Present Lives. The fated romance between the peerless Sword Immortal Beidi and the Fairy Jinghong is destined to end in tragedy. But who could have known that the Fairy Jinghong would one day become the Venerable Emperor of this world? I, Ji Yuxi, swear to heaven: no matter what Beidi is like in his 917Reads9.1Score572Shelves
- 152 The Empress Reincarnates and Becomes a Defiant Disciple from the Start! 女帝转世，开局成为冲师逆徒！ [Sweet, adorable female emperor + tsundere male lead + one heroine + sweet daily life + a little goofy + don’t read if you dislike it] My name is Ji Mengyao. In my previous life, I was a female emperor of the Upper Realm, but after being betrayed, I reincarnated to cultivate anew. The Heavenly Secret told me that if I wanted revenge, I had to become a disciple of a man named Lu Beixuan. And, preferably, I should turn the tables on him and make him my disciple. Lu Beixuan: Why do you want to beco 1.7kReads9.0Score163Shelves
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I Played Chess Against the Gods and Held My Own 我与诸神对弈，平分秋色
The strongest Burning Heaven Martial Emperor in the Three Realms dies unexpectedly, then possesses the body of a genius in the lower world and rises to power, turning the tables at every step! You’re a reclusive old monster who’s lived for ten thousand years? I’m your equal. You’re a peerless Immortal Emperor of unmatched elegance? I’m your equal. You’re a demon whose name strikes terror into people’s hearts? I’m your equal.
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- 154 No Hope of Survival 生还无期 [No CP, No Female Lead] + [Infinite Deaths and Resurrections] + [Superpower Awakening] + [Mind Games and Strategy] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Life in Review] The keywords of this book are “human nature,” “death games,” and “setting traps.” The thirteen characters who appear from the start all play important roles! Each has a distinct personality, and every one of them will have a major part to play later in the story. This book also features endless deaths, so if that’s not your thing, please read wit 8kReads9.3Score830Shelves
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Seeking the Dao 问道
I devoted myself to the sword, then took it up, and with it I will challenge the world: is there a true path? I once thought that after regaining my sight, I would be able to see the world clearly when I opened my eyes. But when I did, I found that the world had become even harder to see. I want to live, to live until the day I can see this world clearly. Or perhaps I will reach the pinnacle of the Dao and play a song of clashing arms that subdues every unruly soul in this world!
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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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- 157 EN The Reticent Blade 刀不语 Someone once asked me, “What is the jianghu?” I thought for a moment. I thought of a jug of rough wine on the table, a distant figure walking away beneath the setting sun, a grave beneath the moon, and the cigarette burning down to ash in my hand right now. That person asked again, “Where is the jianghu?” I smiled and looked out the window. There were countless jianghus out there. One person is a story. Two people make a jianghu. 28kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
- 158 The Liang Dynasty's Petitioners 大梁请命人 The court is rotten to the core, wicked men use force to defy the law, and demons and monsters haunt the wilderness. Corpse escorts have an extremely dangerous trade. They must return mutated corpses to their hometowns and lay them to rest. There’s a saying among the people: “Coffin lifters get rich, corpse burners prosper; corpse escorts face a hundred deaths with no hope of survival!” Su Jing lives at a charitable burial home south of the city. Whenever midnight falls, he must carry a corpse o 809Reads7.5Score102Shelves
- 159 Sword Seed 剑种 One female lead, no angst. A sixteen-year-old boy with a sword case on his back sets out to wander the world for the first time. He only wants to recover the remains of his elders. Step by step, he uncovers the secrets of the sword case and masters one peerless famous sword after another, until he becomes the sharpest sword in the world. 6.7kReads9.1Score683Shelves
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Gods and Demons Game: Mages Are the Eternal Truth! 神魔游戏：法爷才是永恒真理！
[Gods and Demons Game + Card-Based Gameplay + A Rich Class System + An Expansive World] When brain chips completely replace traditional mobile phones, a card-based game called Gods and Demons Game is forcibly installed. From then on, the world enters the age of Gods and Demons Game. Everyone has their own talent and class. [Mystic Controller], [Templar Knight], [Archmage], [Mechanical Ascension]... Advancement, class changes, and a game that never ends. Holy light and evil. Mechanical modificati
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- 161 I Want to Save Someone, but She Lived a Thousand Years Ago 我想救个人，可她活在一千年前 [Xianxia] [Convergence of Time and Space] [Not a power fantasy] [No System] [Plot-focused] “Are you a disciple of the Sword Sect?” “I'm the Sect Master.” “Then you should still have a long time to live, right?” “Why do you ask?” “Put down your sword first. I need to tell you something.” “Go ahead.” “Do you know that the place I'm standing in is the ruins of the Sword Sect?” “...” “This may sound strange, but what I mean is that your Sword Sect was destroyed a thousand years ago. Your past, your 7.4kReads8.8Score790Shelves
- 162 Spiritual Qi Revival: Invincible from the Start as a Delivery Driver 灵气复苏：从送外卖开始无敌 [Spiritual qi revival + urban superpowers + System + multiple heroines + lighthearted comedy] I just have a ridiculous bug-ridden System that can turn the negative effects of cultivation techniques into positive ones. Have you ever heard of a berserk state that boosts your recovery and keeps you calm? Have you ever heard of self-harming martial arts being completely reversed into strengthening techniques? When people ask Ye Xiaoshu why he's so insanely strong, he replies: “As an ordinary deliver 7kReads9.0Score789Shelves
- 163 The Old Ones Have Awakened 旧日，复苏了 [Invincible + Supernatural Horror + Urban Superpowers + Single Female Lead + China + Exploration of Civilization] Ten suns hang in the sky, and the myriad paths fall apart. The rulers of the old world stalk the darkness. The colossal beings in the Abyssal Ruins open their eyes. Order, rules, chaos, destruction. New life after annihilation, awakening from the void. Beneath the gray fog, ancient and unknown horrors lurk across the continents and oceans. They are indescribable, strange beyond measu 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 EN I, Laying Low from the Primordial World to Journey to the West 我，从洪荒苟到西游 Mu Chen transmigrates to the Primordial World, becoming an ethereal spirit with no fixed form. He starts out utterly weak, but unexpectedly awakens the Starsea Fishing Choice System. “Congratulations, Host! After fishing for a hundred years, you've obtained a replica of the Four Swords of Zhu Xian!” “Congratulations, Host! After fishing for a thousand years, you've become a Taiyi Mystic Immortal!” “Congratulations, Host! After fishing for ten thousand years, you've attained the rank of Great Luo 35.2kReads9.2Score3.2kShelves
- 165 I'm the Son of a Schizophrenic, and Even Gods Give Me a Wide Berth 精神病儿子的我，神明见了也绕道 When Wusheng was five, his father was implicated in a crime, and he and his mentally ill mother were thrown into the Abyss of Exile. Fearing that his father's troubles would affect them, the family severed all ties with him and forgot about the mother and son. Everyone believed they had long since been devoured by ghosts. But no one imagined that eleven years later, a sixteen-year-old boy would emerge from nowhere and become a legend of the Nine Abyss Continent! Wusheng at five was forgotten. W 500Reads7.0Score104Shelves
- 166 Monsters? They're Just Old Friends Who Refuse to Leave 异类？是我的老朋友不肯离去罢了 They call me a freak? Heh, my old friends just refuse to leave! My name is Wang Jiuqing. “Jiu” as in ascending to the Ninth Heaven, and “Qing” as in bringing clarity to the world. You’d better not make me laugh. Otherwise, I can’t say what my old friends might do to you. 1.5kReads8.1Score147Shelves
- 167 Immortal Official of Taixia 太夏仙吏 Wei Ping'an wakes up one day to find that he has transmigrated from being a young man with nothing to his name in the modern era into a low-ranking constable in the Six Fan Gate of Great Xia. In this world, spirits run rampant and demons wreak havoc. Humans are as insignificant as ants, while immortals and ghosts walk among them. In the halls of government, sages cultivate a righteous spirit, traversing vast mountains and rivers and suppressing the fortunes of the realm's four corners! Across th 26.2kReads8.8Score2kShelves
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The Gods' Game of Chess 神明的棋局
The other races are powerful, while humanity is weak. Humans struggle to survive in the cracks, reduced to food for bloodthirsty beasts, and pin their hopes on the gods, worshipping them day and night. But the gods have abandoned all living beings. Though the people suffer, not a trace of the divine appears. A young man rises among humanity, becomes the Human Emperor, and drives back the other races, only to discover that this world is nothing but a game of strategy between the gods, and all liv
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- 169 The Greatest Go Master Under Heaven 天下第一棋圣 A failed Go match somehow sends him to another world. Is it all transmigration, or just a dream...? In an era where Go skill, martial prowess, and social standing all matter, how can a modern Go player survive, let alone become the greatest Go sage? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 System: The Gods' Endgame 系统：神明残局 After an accident, he finds himself inside a terrifying game. Is this a cruel twist of fate, or an incredible opportunity? Cheng Tian enters the terrifying world of Prototype and begins his first journey, setting off on a legendary life! Thus begins a strange tale. (Note: Any plot elements related to anime, games, or films in this story are adapted from the original works and reimagined through my own interpretation. Please don't treat them as part of the original canon. The author sincerely apo —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Great Solitary Peak 大孤峰
In court or in the jianghu, every injustice in this world can be settled with a single sword. If one strike isn't enough, then a hundred more, until nothing remains before me. Three million sword immortals fill the heavens, yet even they must bow their heads before me!
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I Will Never Regret Protecting Huaxia 守护华夏终无悔
Though Guarding Huaxia Without Regret is a humorous, feel-good urban fantasy, it is also a passionate and moving story. Above all, I want to pay tribute to the heroic ancestors who came before us. The story features those who laid down their lives for our people throughout history, heroes who fought floods and earthquakes, the firefighters who died in Liangshan and Tianjin, the pilots who soared through the skies to fight the Japanese invaders, and frontline workers who faced the pandemic withou
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High Martial Arts: I Know a Billion Little Bits of Every Martial Art 高武：所有武学我都会亿点点
[The farther you read, the better it gets, with no filler at all] [Steady updates, guaranteed quality] Origin energy resurges, and eighteen-year-old Xiao Fan leaves a third-tier city. By a twist of fate, he enters the Supergod Class, where all of humanity’s strongest geniuses gather. Having always kept his head down and quietly built up his strength, he decides, under the inspiration of generations of fallen heroes, to burst onto the scene and astonish the world. In the border war zone, he makes
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- 174 At This Moment, I Am Humanity's Guardian God 此刻，我为人类守护神 Disasters strike Earth one after another, and an alien Level Two civilization arrives. Humanity is ultimately wiped out, but Chen Chong, the commander-in-chief, is reborn on the eve of the disaster. He thinks, This time, I’ll be in time. I can save Earth and humanity. That is the mission I was reborn to fulfill. 237Reads—Score—Shelves
- 175 Bound to the Nation's Fate, I Guard the Country's Gates 绑定国运，我为国家守国门 [National destiny + tower defense + livestreaming + troop creation + exploration + System] More than 300 countries each send a representative, who must hold off wave after wave of attacks in an apocalyptic game. The representative for the Dragon Kingdom gets a divine-grade guidance System from the start, making every choice the best one. “Something's not right. Why does Zhao Yi from the Dragon Kingdom have so many coins?” “How come his units can upgrade? Is there any justice in this? Any law at 7.2kReads8.2Score415Shelves
- 176 Spiritual Qi Revival: I Win Every Bet 灵气复苏：我，逢赌必赢 [Battles between characters from different worlds] [Acquire characters from all realms as spirit guardians] Blue Star. The Arena of Myriad Heavens has arrived. Yang Fan, who transmigrated here, recognizes almost every contestant. With his cheat-like advantage, he’s been winning so much he’s practically numb to it. Other people use their few spirit guardians as bodyguards, but he uses his to build an army spanning all realms. Retsu Unohana versus Momonosuke Kozuki? Tsk, tsk, tsk. Yang Fan says Mo 8.2kReads8.6Score518Shelves
- 177 Chaotic Space: A Battle for National Fortune, Where I Alone Reign Supreme! 混乱空间：国运争夺，有我无敌！ A special, uncontrollable chaotic space randomly selects targets and transports them inside to undergo trials. During the trials, they may obtain all kinds of things, which then randomly appear in equal quantities in the real world, waiting for the right person to find them. Someone tames a zombie in the trials, and a zombie appears in the real world, spreading the virus across the planet! Someone finds a gene-enhancement serum, and in the real world it falls into the hands of a world-weary pers 2.6kReads8.6Score170Shelves
- 178 Age of Giants: I Signed In Behind the Lines and Became a God 巨人纪元：我于后方签到成神 [Character-driven story, patriotic fervor] [The author has a completed novel of 1.5 million words; here’s a new book from a veteran writer] The world underwent a cataclysm. Space ripped apart, and a civilization of giants invaded Earth! Dragonflame Giants, Armored Giants, Armed Giants, Demon Ape Giants, Storm Giants, Hell Giants… Countless giants appeared, forcing humanity to raise one line of defense after another and struggle for survival under the oppression of the giant civilization. Earth’s 820Reads8.7Score102Shelves
- 179 Plant Zombies: Lord of National Destiny 植僵国运领主 One contestant from each country is randomly chosen and bound to it, then sent into a realm for a battle royale. The countries behind the contestants can gain anything they can imagine through their chosen players. Average lifespan, physical fitness, natural resources, cutting-edge technology… Jiang Lianshan is bound to his country's fate and dragged into the realm, where wave after wave of monsters await him. At the brink of life and death, Jiang Lianshan calmly hefts his shovel. “Don't rush. L 1.3kReads9.0Score169Shelves
- 180 The Ghost of the War of Resistance 抗战之幽灵 Wei Ping transmigrates to a smoke-filled battlefield in the War of Resistance Against Japan. With exceptional combat skills and tactical expertise, he trains a special forces unit known as the Ghosts. Bearing the immense suffering of a nation and the anguish of four hundred million people, they answer an eye for an eye and blood for blood. 360Reads9.1Score111Shelves
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Apocalypse: Sacrifice All Living Beings and Play Chess Against the Gods 末世：献祭众生，与神对弈
Apocalypse + Reborn + Spatial Storage + Special Abilities + A Whole New System + High-Octane Wish Fulfillment + Decisive and Ruthless + Tight Logic + Wild Imagination + Feel free to roast the holier-than-thou protagonist... A chessboard descends from the heavens. All beings become pieces. The countless races of the universe. Infinite flow... Special statement: 10% of the book’s post-tax earnings will be donated.
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- 182 From the Start, I Created the Lord of the Weird 我开局缔造了诡异之主 The uncanny descends, and alien horrors invade! This is a mad age, overrun by the uncanny and the mysterious. Unknown mists, scarecrows, birds of ill omen, flesh-eating wedding gowns... One bizarre, unknowable event after another unfolds. Humanity cannot fight back and can only struggle to survive! Then an ancient secret society slowly emerges from the shadows. Mysterious superhumans? Saviors? Beacons of light in the darkness? No! It is all because Shen Li created the most powerful and uncan 4.9kReads9.3Score453Shelves
- 183 Turning the World Upside Down: Playing the Villain from the Start 颠覆全球：开局扮演反派大佬 Shen Yan transmigrates to a parallel world. As soon as he arrives, he falls into a strange dimension. Everyone who falls in here is slaughtered by alien creatures, dying in despair! Luckily, at this moment, Shen Yan obtains the Super Big Shot Role-Playing System. “Ding! Randomly drawing a big shot template. Big Shot Role-Playing Mode activated. The closer you are to the character, the more abilities you can unlock.” Make people believe the character is real, and you’ll earn Subversion Points. Th 22.2kReads9.4Score2.2kShelves
- 184 2052: Thirty Years Asleep 2052，沉眠三十载 (Original title: 2052: Thirty Years of Slumber) An accident left Yan Muyun in a deep sleep for thirty years. When he woke again, his parents had passed away, and the children of the younger brother he remembered as a newly grown adult were now adults themselves. The Dark Curtain, aberrant species, shadowy organizations, vigilantes... These once-unheard-of things had become commonplace in the modern world. A “god” who appeared out of nowhere issued a prophecy: Earth's civilization would face a de 12.4kReads9.0Score1.2kShelves
- 185 I Made the Game Descend into Reality 我让游戏降临现实 [Behind the Scenes / Players / Gaming / No Female Lead] That day, the epoch-making full-dive VR game Land of Seals burst onto the scene, setting off a gaming craze across the world. Its average number of players online topped three billion at one point! But no one knew that one day in the future, everything in the game would descend upon reality! The Tower of Seals, the Legions of the Old Ones, the Doomsday Church… Only Ye Qiu, a reborn person, knew what was coming. But I don’t care, because… “I 22kReads9.1Score1.9kShelves
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The Song of Ten Thousand Clans 万族长歌
[Go adventuring with companions] [Dragons] [Multiple classes and races] [An unconventional fantasy system] [A vast world] This world is boundless, and no one has ever traveled all the way around it. Here, there are dragons that blot out the sky, giants taller than city walls, fairies who bewitch farmers, and demons and gods from myth… There is a band of people who meet in different corners of the world. At first, each carries their own dream, but in time, they find a shared purpose. In the world
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Copy Unlimited Powers: Who Says Mortals Can’t Slay Gods? 复制无限异能，谁说凡人不能斩神
[Smart protagonist + not a wish-fulfillment novel + no System + ruthless and decisive + no reckless stupidity + no heroine + slays gods later on] [Let me emphasize this again: this is not a wish-fulfillment novel! It’s a slow burn! Read at your own risk!] Years ago, mythology made a comeback. Ancient gods, mysterious urban legends, incredible superpowers… Things that had existed only in people’s imaginations began to awaken. When every country in the world had fallen, and only Huaxia was struggl
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I Led the Entire Nation in an Invasion of the World of Gods and Demons 举国随我攻入神魔世界
“Elders, please calm down! I'm reborn, I swear. Believe me: in one year, gods and demons will return, and the world will fall!” At a national-level meeting in Jiuzhou, every elder votes to appoint Lu Yu as the director of the Backup Godhood Plan! Then Jiuzhou goes on a massive recruiting spree, enlisting twenty million people and shocking the world! “Twenty million recruits? Has that eastern country gone mad?” “A million-strong mecha fleet? How did Jiuzhou build an army so far ahead of its time?
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- 189 Global Cataclysm: I Am China’s Guardian God 全球灾变：我为华夏守护神 Spiritual qi revival. Global catastrophe. Demons, gods, and exotic beasts from every country descended one after another. The Seven Ancestors of the Blood Clan swept across America, the eight-headed serpent rampaged through Sakura Country, Count Dracula awakened in a European castle, and the Scorpion King roused an army of death in the Nile Kingdom... Just as countries around the world were mired in crisis and the land was strewn with the dead, Nan Feng had already led the mighty Huaxia to build 1.7kReads7.2Score102Shelves
- 190 Global Freeze: I Am Humanity’s Guardian 全球冰封：我为人族守护神 The world ends, and the whole planet is frozen over! The Ice Age returns. Humanity collapses, and civilization crumbles! In the final year before the apocalyptic disasters strike, Qin Ge transmigrates here with the mission of saving the world. An underground Dragon Nation seems to appear out of nowhere, becoming famous worldwide overnight. “My ancestors came from Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty, so I count as half a citizen of the Dragon Nation. Please, let me in!” “Move aside! My family only e 492Reads6.6Score—Shelves
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Demon King Daddy 魔王奶爸
In a dark world where death threatens every day, a lonely, helpless little beggar agrees to take on a task: helping a baby girl who is being hunted. He sets off for another city with the girl and a mysterious demon sword that has chosen him as its master, hoping to find help. Instead, he receives even more terrible news: the girl and the sword carry a deadly calamity that could engulf the entire Sorrowful Continent. Adopting the girl and carrying the sword mean shouldering immense danger and res
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Abyssal Realm Revival: I Have the Eyes of the Gods 渊域复苏：我有众神之眼
A woman untouched by worldly concerns… A hero searching for his memories… Through endless searching, truth and illusion, it is all just an eternal cycle of reincarnation…
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- 193 Emperor of Time and Space: The Song Dynasty in Turmoil 时空帝王：大宋风云 A new novel is here! Head over to Tomato Novel to read my work. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Medicine, Thought, Gods, and Demons 医念神魔
The Three Islands and Ten Continents, each ruling its own domain! Slay gods and demons, attain the Dao and ascend! A couple in the apocalypse, steadfast until death! I love the realm, but I love the beauty even more! A prophetic verse as proof: I reckon the affairs of the mortal world, yet my imperial heart remains unchanged. Only between mountain and moon can the long rivers flow on without end. Our likeness lies on the far shore; on this shore, we have wasted no time. How can we see the blueb
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Seeking the Way at Qingming 问道清明
(Mortal cultivation, somewhat feel-good, slow burn, no System) I stride alone through the clouds and tread among the immortals. Hand in hand with my immortal sword, I challenge the heavens. As long as I, Qingming, live, the sky will endure! This is the world that belongs to me alone, Zhang Qingming. Even if I die, I will protect the sky above us.
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The Spirit-Blooded 灵裔人
Bearing the blood of the gods, wielding the sword of slaughter, commanding the power of chaos, and harnessing the five elements of heaven and earth! He is a god, and he will one day slay the gods! “After this sword falls, I will be the only god left in this world.”
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Chess Across the Ages: A Clash of Eastern and Western Civilizations 弈世：东西文明对冲录
From the ink marks on Athenian pottery shards to the cold gleam of bronze ritual vessels at Yinxu; from Mongol hooves thundering across Western Asia to the shadows of knights’ swords defending their estates in Western Europe; from the gunboats of the great powers blasting open the gates of China to the Eastern Dragon’s roar as it awakens. This is a clash of civilizations spanning three thousand years. When Cleisthenes used ostracism to protect the flame of democracy, an ancient Eastern kingdom
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I Just Want to Quietly Slay the Gods 我只想安静的屠神
When Lu Xiaodao was eighteen, his grandfather opened the door to a new world for him. Five divine systems came together to form a deck of Divine System cards, laying out the extraordinary path of the human world, mysterious and uncanny. Even if the sun and moon turned backward and the stars flowed in reverse, I would face the gods with the strength of a mortal. "Come on, this is my last card..." Facing the gods, Lu Xiaodao murmured, "At the cost of my life!"
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