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1. 551 不 I’ll Do Whatever It Takes to Cultivate Immortality 不择手段去修仙 Life Is Like Jade人生如玉Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsCompleted Feel-Good Story + Comedy + Mortal Cultivation + No Harem + Xuanhuan + No System Belief: If you've got thick skin, you get the meat. Motto: If a problem can be solved by sweet-talking, never resort to force. Principle: If nobody messes with me, I'll mess with them anyway. Specialty: Play the pig to eat the tiger. I'm number one at showing off. A street punk from the 21st century accidentally obtains a rare treasure and transmigrates to a world overrun by immortals, demonic cultivators, and practi 11.1kReads8.8Score914Shelves
2. 552 坠 The God Who Fell into the Demonic Path 坠入魔道的神 Life Is Like Jade人生如玉Eastern Fantasy2.4M WordsCompleted Legend has it that this world is bound by the Heavenly Dao, and only by devouring it can one empower oneself and rise to a higher plane. One day, a Heavenly Dao tomb from a higher plane descended into the mortal world and chose an infant, entering the child's body. From then on, a vast conspiracy gradually unfolded around this child. A lone star of ill fortune descended to the mortal realm, all living beings suffered, and the Divine Clan was destroyed. See how the heaven-chosen youth navigate 18.3kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves
3. 553 猫 The Demon-Cultivation Tale of Cat Lao Liu 猫老六修妖传 Life Is Like Jade人生如玉Eastern Fantasy2.6M WordsCompleted [Demon Cultivation | Immortal Cultivation | Comedy | Playing the Fool to Catch the Tiger | Ruthless and Decisive] Mao Laoliu was a wild, unrestrained fellow who accidentally came into possession of the Heavenly Toad, a supreme treasure from the Immortal Realm. The toad carried his soul across time and space to a world of immortal cultivators, where he was reborn in the body of a black cat. And so Mao Laoliu began his life as a demon cultivator… 8.6kReads8.7Score722Shelves
4. 554 反 The Villain Wins Over the Heroine from the Start and Gets an Infinite Legion of Death Warriors 反派开局拿下女主，奖励无限死士 Glowing Snail闪光蜗牛Urban218k WordsOngoing [The first 82 chapters are transitional. It starts as an urban novel, then becomes fantasy.] Su Chen transmigrates into the villain of an urban power fantasy and gets a God-Tier Villain Choice System. Right from the start, the fated heroine tries to use her charms to beg him to spare the fated protagonist. [Ding! Fated heroine Lin Qingyao detected. God-Tier Villain Choice System activated!] [Choice One: The fated heroine’s word is law. Follow Lin Qingyao’s wishes, spare Qin Heng, and become his 145Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The protagonist is ruthless and a master of cunning. He is lewd but not obsessed with beautiful women. He kills beautiful women without hesitation. In the first few dozen chapters, the protagonist is extremely cunning during his development stage. Later, he becomes powerful and full of scheming. In order to ascend to immortality, he directly refines all the people on the entire continent.

5. 555 穿 After I Transmigrated, I Focused on Helping Dad Build His Career 穿越后一心帮爹爹搞事业 The Half-Reclining Lifestyle半躺主义Ancient Romance1.4M WordsCompleted [Completed + Making Money and Building a Career + Family United + Beloved by Everyone] In her fourth year since being born into this world, Xiao Mingjia finally realizes that she's transmigrated into an old-fashioned tragic romance novel. But she's too late: the original plot is already over, and the heroine is dead. What's more, her father is actually an NPC in the original novel??? What can she do? Stay far away from the plot, of course! A simple-minded father, a frail mother, an innocent olde 4.3kReads9.0Score511Shelves

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   Intelligent and financially savvy!

6. 556 九 Jiuzhou: Axe Over All 九州：斧霸天下 Fire of Dafeng大丰之火Eastern Fantasy123k WordsCompleted Somehow, I ended up in this unfamiliar world. Chen Shanhe never expected he would make it this far. Everything... Every last thing... Anything standing in his way... Was ground to dust beneath the edge of his giant axe! 34Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Good book, good book, good book

7. 557 邪 An Aura of Evil 邪气凛然 Minotaur弥洛陶洛斯Eastern Fantasy2.4M WordsCompleted [Bravery + Wisdom + Harmony + Fairness + Justice] Lin Yuan, a demonic cultivator from the former cultivation world, died and unexpectedly returned to a thousand years earlier. In this world, people seek the Dao, cultivate it, and attain it. There is the Dao of War, the Dao of the Soul, the Dao of Yang, the Five Elements Dao, the Dao of Emotion… Reborn, Lin Yuan resolutely embarks on the path of demonic heresy! 30Reads7.5Score—Shelves

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   The low rating is due to its excessive darkness, reminiscent of ancient Chinese mythology.

8. 558 九 Venerable God of the Nine Netherworlds 九幽神尊 Huo Bigfoot霍大脚Eastern Fantasy345k WordsCompleted [Reborn + satisfying revenge + genius protagonist + not a goody-goody + not a simp + traditional fantasy + playing the pig to eat the tiger + ruthless and decisive + ruthless and cunning] I am Du Chaolin, from Earth, and I was a top student at a prestigious university. I have a Chaos Spiritual Root. I’m a born genius and king, reaching Nascent Soul in five years and Great Ascension in a century. I possess a divine cauldron that can collect all things and destroy all immortals. I’m ruthless and 58Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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   This one looks nice, but the rest are just like playing house.

9. 559 穿 Transmigrated to the Post-Apocalypse, and the Troll Wants Meat 穿越末世，巨魔要吃肉 Smelling Roses with Eyes Closed闭眼嗅蔷薇Eastern Fantasy3.8M WordsOngoing [Awakening in Another World + Decisive and Ruthless + Lordly Conquest + Darkness Descends + Multiple Races (Succubi, Snake Women, Fox Women...)] Earth is hit by a dimensional reduction, downgraded to a two-dimensional world and turned into a block of data merged into another world among the Myriad Worlds. Some people survive by all sorts of means and methods, and establish organizations. Luo Shanhai is one of the survivors! But by then, Luo Shanhai no longer goes by that name. He is Shakesi Miya 18.6kReads9.3Score1.7kShelves

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   The summary is insufficient; the answer lies within the book.

10. 560 觉 After Awakening the Righteous Path System, the Evil Cultivator School Beauty Was Terrified 觉醒正道系统后，邪修校花吓哭了 Self-Destructing Truck自爆卡车Urban658k WordsOngoing The rating has just appeared and will go up later. [Advanced Martial Arts + Scumbag Male Lead + Hypocritical Moralizer + Scams and Swindles + PUA] The moment Pang Guang opened his eyes, he had transmigrated to Blue Star, where spiritual qi had revived. Traditional cultivation methods still existed here. But ordinary people lacked resources, making cultivation difficult. So most took the path of one kind of unorthodox cultivation or another. Fortunately, Pang Guang awakened the Righteous Cultivat —Reads6.6Score—Shelves

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    The protagonist is a swindler, cunning, and treacherous individual who prioritizes profit and treats everyone else as a tool. [Laughs]

11. 561 全 Global Deities: My Divine Domain Is an Endless Abyss 全民神袛：我的神域是无尽深渊 Lord of the Raven渡鸦之主Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted After the Abyss swept through and shattered Chu Hao’s world, he arrived in a strange new world. In this world, everyone could create a strange world of their own. A beautiful, exquisite elven world? A magnificent dragon’s nest plane? A world of ancestral shamans from the dawn of chaos? Those are all too weak. My creation is the Endless Abyss! This is an endless, suffocatingly terrifying place! This is a place of brutal conditions and deadly dangers! This is a place without morality or ethi 15.7kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves

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