Seeking Fantasy Cultivation Novels Where the Protagonist Doesn't Level Up Too Fast or Challenge Much Stronger Opponents 求玄幻修仙小说,主人公升级别太快也别太越级挑战
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I'm Cultivating Immortality, So Where's My Cheat? 我修仙了,外挂在哪
[Mortal's Journey + No System] Ye Feifan transmigrated just like that, as easily as could be. Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do? So this is a cultivation world!!!!! Damn! Where's the System? Where's the old man in the ring? Where are my cheat abilities? How am I supposed to cultivate without any of that?
23kReads8.3Score1.9kShelves
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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
334.6kReads9.6Score38kShelves
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Immortality System: I Outlived Everyone 系统赋我长生,我熬死了所有人
Observing the love and hatred of cultivators across the river of time from a perspective beyond life itself. He left a modest little town and entered the wondrous world of cultivation. His journey sped up and slowed down, moving forward or stopping to rest, but he never stopped walking. The Age of Declining Dharma, the Age of Emperors, the Age of Dark Turmoil… He appeared in every age, and the only thing he could do was watch old friends die with his own eyes, then see them off to their grave
549.1kReads9.4Score49.9kShelves
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I Get All My Cultivation Techniques by Scavenging 我的功法全靠捡
[Host picked up 10 points of Azure Dragon bloodline] [Host picked up an ancient remnant manual: Chaos Five-Spirit Art.] Pick up the strongest runes from an incomparable beauty? Pick up peerless cultivation techniques just by passing a cave? Lin Chen transmigrates to a fantasy world and gains the Heavenly Dao Loot System. In a world teeming with powerful experts, Lin Chen gets everything he needs, from cultivation techniques and combat skills to divine weapons, bloodlines, and runes, simply by pi
5.2kReads9.2Score715Shelves
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From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古,苟到天荒地老
[Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up
807.1kReads9.7Score95.7kShelves
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The Snake Heavenly Emperor 蛇天帝
An old snake from the village accidentally swallowed a human elixir and gained intelligence, setting out on the path to immortality. With a mysterious little cauldron and a cultivation technique that can transform it into a dragon, the snake has only ten short years to live, so it must seize every moment. This is the story of an old snake becoming an immortal. [Original title: The Old Snake’s Path to Immortality (Snake Ancestor). A manga adaptation is currently being serialized.] [No System, tra
105.2kReads9.2Score8.6kShelves
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Defying Heaven's Cute Beast: The Peerless Demoness Rules the World 逆天萌兽:绝世妖女倾天下
[Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her
196.8kReads9.6Score26.8kShelves
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Eternal Rebirth 生生不灭
Young Chen Feng possesses an unparalleled divine artifact and cultivates peerless demonic arts. He battles the Human Realm, slaughters the Demon Realm, challenges the Immortal Realm, and charges into the Divine Realm. He fights his way across countless worlds, carving a bloody path to the heavens and becoming the supreme ruler above all.
6.3kReads7.8Score649Shelves
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Ascension Record of a Hundred Refinements 百炼飞升录
He was an ordinary boy from a mountain village until he accidentally ate an unknown vermilion fruit and embarked on the path of cultivation. Starting out as a weapon refiner and relying on his talent for crafting talismans, he ventured alone through the perilous world of immortal cultivation. Just as his cultivation was advancing smoothly and success seemed within reach, an unexpected change came over him. Was it a blessing or a curse?
12.2kReads8.7Score491Shelves
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The Path to a Thousand Dao 万道成神
With a sweep of his sleeve, he stirs the clouds and turns the rain; with a single punch, heaven and earth crumble! This is a magnificent world, a world of martial artists where the strong rule supreme. An ancient battle to confer the gods enraged the heavens, unleashing celestial thunder and earthly fire. The continent shattered into nine regions and eighteen provinces, ushering in an era of decline. After the battle, the peak experts vanished without a trace, and the cultivation and development
4.5kReads8.5Score473Shelves
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Heaven-Defying Sword Cultivator 逆天剑修
Defy heaven and break the Dao, born for the sword. The weak are ants, the strong reign supreme. Who will become the ultimate Dao Slayer? A once-brilliant genius becomes a good-for-nothing, insulted, bullied, and trampled underfoot by everyone... The moment the soul of an peerless God King merges with this body, he will unleash a bloody storm with unmatched arrogance! Forge a martial soul from a dragon soul, refine a sword soul from a martial soul, cultivate heaven-defying arts, forge an invincib
70Reads7.1Score—Shelves
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Immortal Jade, Dust, and Destiny 仙玉尘缘
Lin Mu, a lowly servant of the Qianyu Sword Sect, accidentally discovers that the jade pendant left to him by his parents contains three mu of spiritual farmland. From then on, he uses the pendant to grow spiritual herbs and medicinal plants, earn a fortune in spirit stones, buy flying swords and magic treasures, and refine miraculous pills. Thus begins his rise in the cultivation world.
390Reads7.7Score126Shelves
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Nine Revolutions Divine Dragon Art 九转神龙诀
What is a strong cultivator? One thought can shatter the stars! What is a weakling? A life worth no more than an ant's! Chu Xuan is a peerless genius, but to save his father, he willingly cripples his martial soul and cuts off his own future! After three years of mourning, he finally obtains the Nine-Revolution Divine Dragon Art. He refines the stars of the heavens, strides beneath the eternal blue sky, and forges an immortal divine body! Whatever your technique, I can break it with a single swo
1.8kReads8.4Score218Shelves
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Reborn in a Magical Space: The Phoenix Roars Across the Heavens 重生空间之凤啸苍穹
[With a Pocket Dimension in Hand, the World Is Mine: A Story of Defying Fate] Reborn, she’s determined to rise like a phoenix. A woman born to shine should laugh proudly beneath the heavens! In her previous life, she did everything she could to please the Demon Lord and the Devil Venerable for the sake of restoring her family’s glory. She sacrificed her dignity as a woman, only to be imprisoned for a hundred years and die miserably in an underground palace. Reborn in an instant, she gains a heav
138Reads8.8Score—Shelves
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The Evil King's Obsession: The Ghost Doctor's Wild Consort 邪王嗜宠:鬼医狂妃
She’s a ruthless, scheming ghost doctor of the dark night. After transmigrating, she becomes a useless girl everyone despises and spurns. She contracts an ancient divine beast, cultivates a heaven-defying divine art, and dazzles everyone. With poison pills and potions at her disposal, anyone who dares bully her is asking for death! What’s a ninth-grade pill to her? Her adorable pets eat those like candy. She can make medicine, and she does whatever she wants! He’s the enchanting, peerlessly hand
19.9kReads9.3Score2.2kShelves
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The Last Female Mystic 最后一个女玄术师
When Ye Simei was five, a fortune-teller told her she was born with a bewitching beauty and destined to become a canary in some powerful man's cage. Ye Simei: Have the powerful gotten too cocky, or do you think I, Ye Simei, can't wield a blade anymore?
2.6kReads8.9Score342Shelves
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Lord Emperor! Your Wild Consort Is Unmatched, and the Entire Cultivation World Kneels 帝尊!你家狂妃太绝,修仙界全跪
[Both leads are virgins + equally powerful leads + wish fulfillment + sweet romance + crushing villains + divine beasts + secret identities + both leads reborn + multiple realms] Main couple: A cool, stunning little enchantress VS the darkly charming Lord Immortal Side couple: A cold, aloof demon king VS a talkative little guard A thousand years ago, he gave up ten thousand years of cultivation to save her, and his soul was utterly destroyed. A thousand years later, he saw her once and fell in l
3.1kReads9.1Score481Shelves
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The Imperial Princess Raises a Finger and All Creation Perishes; the Ghost Emperor Kneels to Kiss Her Hem 帝姬抬指苍生灭,鬼帝跪吻她裙摆
[Strong female lead + power fantasy] During the upheaval at the Heavenly Puppet Palace, Shi Xi’s eyes were gouged out and her life-bound puppet was stolen. She was tossed into a forbidden zone like a stray dog! At death’s door, she awakened spirit eyes that could see countless souls, drawing the attention of the Ghost Emperor, Gui Li. “Little girl, help me restore my body, and I’ll help you get revenge.” From then on, a peerless prodigy was born in the forbidden zone! You gouged out her eyes, se
12.9kReads9.4Score2.1kShelves
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There's a Cultivation Sect in the Village 村里有个修仙宗门
[Cultivation] + [farming] + [sect building] + [System] Original title: A Cultivation Sect in the Village Years later, Xiushui Village has gone from an isolated, impoverished little village to Xiushui City, a renowned metropolis on the Shifang Continent. It all began because this was where Lingxian Sect, the number one sect on the Shifang Continent, rose to prominence. This is the story of a group of country youths, their families, and their friends building a sect together and growing together.
29.6kReads9.0Score2.5kShelves
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This Time, the Wicked Supporting Character Just Wants to Take It Easy 这次恶毒女配只想做咸鱼
[My new book is out. Tap my profile picture to check it out, you won’t regret it~] Do female supporting characters really have to oppose the heroine and bring about their own ruin? No! Xiang Shushu’s ideal life is to be a lazybones, and her ideal ending is to die peacefully of old age. But what should she do when the villain is so pitiful in the early chapters? Oh, right. Why does the villain have to stay a villain? Can’t he just be a decent person? ...Hey! Villain, I thought we were friends. Ho
268Reads9.1Score—Shelves
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The Undying Primordial Art 元始不灭诀
A lowly servant obtains a miraculous cultivation technique and roams through the ages, undying and indestructible! The Immortal, Demon, and Monster paths stand alongside countless races. Geniuses of every kind emerge, and a hundred schools contend in a flourishing age. Divine abilities shake the heavens, their radiance dazzling. With a flick of the finger, they can destroy heaven and earth. This is a boundless fantasy world, strange and wondrous, filled with endless mysteries. The powerful can
557Reads8.2Score189Shelves
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Spatial Sword God 空间剑神
In the Western world, there are all kinds of beautiful, dazzling magic, and fierce battle aura with devastating power. These are merely the most basic paths of cultivation, available to people across the entire continent. What secrets await our protagonist in the Western world?
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Xuantian Vein 玄天脉
A good-for-nothing accidentally stumbles into Thunder Valley and obtains the Heart of Lightning, embarking on the path to becoming a mighty cultivator. Family martial contests, academy training. Though the paths of martial arts may differ, they all lead to the same destination. I strayed from the proper path, yet in the end I reached the right one. I wield my sword across the starry river and shatter the heavens, yet the higher I climb, the lonelier it gets. Awakening, Manifestation, Transformat
559Reads6.8Score105Shelves
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I Hunt Down Transmigrators in Ancient China 我在古代抓捕穿越者
The protagonist, Long Chen, transmigrates into an ancient world. But it turns out that world is full of transmigrators. They belong to many different factions. Long Chen, himself a transmigrator, receives a mission: eliminate every other transmigrator. …
2.3kReads—Score126Shelves
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Mountains and Rivers Within the Ring 戒中山河
[Passionate fantasy, peerless at the summit] Xiao Yunsheng, a young tribesman, unexpectedly obtains a spatial ring. Inside are mountains and rivers... He can grow supreme spirit flowers, cultivate ten-thousand-year-old divine herbs, and breed peerless demon beasts by the thousands. What? The mountains of Yangxiang Wood inside are actually legendary treasures for weapon crafting?! On this Sword Dao Continent, where even low-grade spirit flowers and spirit beasts are worth a fortune, what could al
15Reads7.1Score—Shelves
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The Ultimate Cultivation Expert 极品修真高手
When primordial chaos first opened, heaven and earth took shape. From chaos came four divine artifacts: the Ninefold Gate, the Ruler of Heaven and Earth, the Yin-Yang Mirror, and the Five Elements Pearl. By a twist of fate, Huo Zifeng, a prodigy blessed by heaven, obtains the Ninefold Gate and arrives on Earth. He takes on spoiled rich kids, flirts with campus beauties, captures evil spirits, and cultivates the Great Dao. If I become a man, I will be the Human Emperor; if I become an immortal, I
1.6kReads8.4Score178Shelves
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Sword-Wielding Immortal Xianyao 御剑仙瑶
A mountain boy as insignificant as an ant, A long and perilous path of cultivation, A wondrous and fascinating world of immortal cultivation. After the passage of many years, he at last rode his sword through the clouds of the Ninth Heaven, looking down upon all living beings as he traveled and sang.
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Divine Sky Fiend Immortal 神霄煞仙
The baleful are malevolent beings, rejected by the world. The immortals attain eternal life and share the longevity of Heaven and Earth. Lu Chen was an ordinary man of mediocre talent, but his exceptionally gifted younger sister set him on the path of cultivation. Alas, the immortal path is a world where the strong prey on the weak, steeped in bloodshed. If ordinary cultivation cannot protect the people I love, then what does it matter if I become baleful? What does it matter if I kill everyone
7.6kReads8.4Score1.1kShelves
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I’m Stirring Up the Cultivation World with Grind Culture 我在修仙界搞内卷
[Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn
139.6kReads9.5Score33.9kShelves
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I Transmigrated into My Master's Body and Doted on My Yandere Disciple 穿成师尊后,我娇养了病娇徒弟
Lanyue transmigrates into a book and becomes a cruel master who treats her disciple as a cultivation furnace, exploiting him without restraint. Fortunately, none of it has happened yet. Lanyue looks at the well-behaved disciple before her, the future Ghost King who will rule the Nine Provinces, and trembles in fear. To avoid the miserable fate of having her soul torn out and her skin flayed, Lanyue does everything she can to please her disciple. As long as she doesn’t spoil him to death, she’ll
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Reborn, the Senior Disciple Is the Sect's Beloved 重生后大师姐被宗门团宠了
In her past life, she cultivated diligently, only to have her master personally dig out her spiritual root and hand it over to someone else. Reborn in a single moment, she swore they would pay back double! After joining Penglai, Ye Qingli worked hard at cultivation and study, and somehow became everyone’s darling. The sect leader uncle: “The heavenly tribulation when little Qingli broke through nearly scared me to death. Hurry and pick something from the treasure pavilion to calm my nerves…” Thi
1.4kReads8.6Score146Shelves
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The First Mad Concubine 第一狂妃
Ye Qingge, the notorious good-for-nothing of the Beiyue Kingdom and the ugliest woman in the imperial capital, died a tragic death, disgraced and ruined. When her phoenix eyes opened, the soul of a champion mercenary took control of her body, and the world was thrown into turmoil. A useless nobody? She could refine supreme-grade pills and tame the king of beasts. Who could rival her? The universe was at her fingertips. An ugly woman? Who could have guessed that beneath her wretched appearance la
5kReads9.2Score761Shelves
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