Looking for Wuxia Like Red Dust Jianghu 求武侠，像《红尘江湖》那样的
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Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼
[The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac
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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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My Entire Family Was Loyal to the Nation, Yet the Emperor Forced Me to Rebel 满门忠烈，皇帝却逼我造反
[Alternate History] War + political scheming + play the pig to eat the tiger + passion He is the son of a great general and the future master of the hundred-thousand-strong Xiao Army. The common people despise him, and everyone calls him a wastrel. Yet all of this is just a facade, meant to let him keep to his corner in peace. Unfortunately, a prince grows wary of him, and an assassination attempt follows. From then on, he no longer holds back. Once he sheds his disguise, he is a dragon among me
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A Carefree Official in the Embroidered Uniform Guard 锦衣卫里的闲散官
Flying-fish robes, embroidered spring knives. When the brocade-clad guards draw their blades, the court runs red with blood. Traitors who collude with the enemy: execute them! Officials who take bribes: execute them! Those who disrupt the court: execute them! Those who form cliques for personal gain: execute them! In an age of prosperity and splendor, where life drifts like willow fluff, the embroidered spring knife holds the realm in check. He Lu put away his Embroidered Spring Knife, still sta
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The Dark Night Draws Near 暗夜将至
When a person's soul grows powerful enough, it can give rise to an ability almost like that of a god. Hidden in our world is a group of people who possess this extraordinary power. The story I'm about to tell you is about one of them. This book updates three chapters on odd-numbered days and two on even-numbered days. I'll try my best not to take any days off...
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The Jianghu Among the Stars 星之江湖
Su Wanxing, a policewoman, is accidentally shot during a mission and loses consciousness. When she wakes, she has become Qin Suyue, the leader of a demonic cult. Though she understands the original owner's pain and the source of her hatred, she refuses to let that hatred control her. She escapes the Tianluo Cult, determined to venture into the martial world on her own, avenge the original owner, and put an end to the root of her hatred and the culprit behind all these tragedies. She expects thin
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No Immortals 无仙
After his master’s death, the youth Lin Yi descends the mountain to cultivate. Thus begins his journey through the martial world, seeking the true meaning of cultivation. To cultivate immortality is to cultivate the heart…
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That Year, That Cicada, That Sword 那年那蝉那把剑
Holding a cicada from summer doesn’t necessarily mean holding the whole summer in your hand. But grasp that sword, and you hold an entire world of martial arts. Wield a three-foot blade of gleaming steel. Dream of becoming a revered Sword God, if only for a day. Be an invincible Sword Immortal, if only for a moment. Sever the headmaster’s treasured pagoda and knock the emperor’s crown from his head. He laughs aloud: “Eight kings with zithers, lutes, harps, and pipes; four imps with grotesque fac
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Elm Immortal 榆仙
The new book, “The Age of Demons: Cultivating the Unorthodox Path to Immortality, Starting with the Livestock-Creation Method,” is now available. [No System, no harem, traditional xianxia, decisive and ruthless, mortal cultivation.] Cultivation is about questioning your own heart. Yu Xian, an orphan from Dayushu Village, formed a bond with a great elm tree. Before dying, the Elm Tree Matriarch opened his spiritual root, and from then on he embarked on the path of cultivation. Using the elm’s spi
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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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After Seeking Immortality, I Slay Immortals with My Sword 寻仙之后，我一剑斩仙
Swordsmanship + one female lead + high-spirited adventure + genius + companions. No angst. (Slow burn. Please don't give up after reading only the first three chapters. The exciting parts come later, and it only gets better!) The young are young: they don't dislike the spring breeze, grow weary of summer cicadas, grieve over the autumn wind, or sigh at winter snow. That is simply because they are young. With a three-foot green blade in hand, he stands against the world, his youthful spirit surgi
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Sword and Wine 剑酒
[Traditional fantasy + no System + one heroine + slow burn + passionate adventure] In the Eastern Lands, a tavern waiter wears twin sabers at his waist and tempers his heart in the mortal world. In the Western Regions, a devoted monk carries a paintbrush, bringing flowers to the world. In the Southern Mountains, a Daoist wields peachwood, using talismans to subdue mountains and seas. In the northern lands, a monster carves a wooden staff, its dragon's roar shaking the Nine Heavens. And in the Ce
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Dashing Youth 少年白马醉春风
The long street was steeped in danger, loud and chaotic. A butcher wielding a cleaver brought it down, carving flowers into bone. An old woman selling embroidered shoes teased a flame from her candle with a needle. Not a soul could be found a hundred feet away. Then there was the oil seller, with eighteen swords hidden in his sleeves, always watching the steamed-bun shop across the street and its little beauty, whose hands could tear away one face and give her nine new ones. At the end of the st
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Emei 峨眉
He cultivates through wind and snow, seeking the Dao and questioning immortality. A young tavern boy sets out from Shu with the last wishes of an elder. The jianghu and the imperial court, love and hate, joy and sorrow. Behind the path to immortality, a shocking secret about Mount Emei slowly comes to light...
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The Ice and Snow Token 冰雪令
Fulfill the two dreams in every man’s heart: roam the jianghu with sword in hand, and drift off in the arms of a beauty. A traditional style, groundbreaking martial arts, and a whole new jianghu! The young hero Xue Feng wields two forms of internal energy with opposing attributes and carries a Frostfire Sword. Alongside Bei’er, his companion in the jianghu, a white tiger, and a black bear, he roams the world with his sword. Can he live up to everyone’s hopes, set the jianghu to rights, and fulfi
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Yet the Way Seems Ordinary 却道寻常
[A web-novel master picks up his pen again: a monumental xianxia epic twenty years in the making] He walked out of the Inverted Sky, climbed to the fourteenth floor, and shouldered the whole mortal world. Barely twenty and dressed in blue, he dares to seal the heavens!
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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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Reaching to the Sky 参天
The appearance of fragments of the Heavenly Book sparks a frenzied struggle among the people. Is this a fortuitous opportunity, or does it conceal a deeper mystery? Is the pursuit of cultivation really only about attaining immortality?
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Intrepid Blade’s Path in the Snow 雪中悍刀行
The jianghu is a beaded curtain. Great and small figures are its beads; great and small stories, the strings that bind them. And loyalty and affection are the spirit that gives those beads their luster. The story is drawing to a close. The final chapter will end with those words: “Waiter, bring us some wine.”
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Immortality 长生
Ever since he was young, the boy Changsheng has inexplicably been struck by heavenly lightning time and again. He is saved by Daoist Lin, who takes him in as his final disciple. Daoist Lin was an abandoned disciple of Gezao Mountain, with the Daoist title Luoyangzi. For years, he explored tombs not for wealth, but to find treasures that could extend the life of the woman he loved. Before his death, he divides the secret manuals taken from the tomb among his five disciples and entrusts Changsheng
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Swordbone 剑骨
In an age when frost withered every blade of grass, a young man walked out of the Temple of the Bodhisattva and took up the heaviest sword in all the world. Facing the mortal realm, he carved out a glimmer of light.
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I'm a Bounty Hunter in the Great Li Dynasty 我在大骊当捉刀人
A boy from a poor back alley, whose meridians have been weak since childhood, chooses to abandon the Confucian path for martial arts and become a hired blade. He hopes that through his own efforts, he can give his aunt a peaceful, happy life. In this world of Confucian scholars, Buddhist disciples, Taoist priests, and demonic beasts... power remains a sword hanging over the heads of all living things, and the might of the monarch fills them with dread. If you want that sword over all living thin
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Lone Phoenix 孤凰
The genius Yue Ning’an dominates the business world, amassing a fortune and never suffering a defeat. That is, until she takes a major fall because of Lu Zangfeng. She has been married to him for three years, spending all three alone in the bridal chamber. At last, General Lu returns victorious, but instead of sharing in her husband’s glory, she gets handed a divorce decree. Having lost both her money and her heart, Yue Ning’an takes the decree, cuts her losses, and leaves with a carefree stride
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Storms Sweep the Martial World 风雨江湖
The first volume of The Stormy Martial World: Storms in the Capital. The second volume: The Liangshan Upheaval. In the early Song Dynasty, a village hunter is caught in an accident and forced to carry someone's remains a thousand miles. This sets him on the path into the martial world. Volume One: Storms in the Capital. By a twist of fate, the hunter Chu Fengyu learns superior martial arts and arrives in the capital in the early Song Dynasty... Volume Two: The Liangshan Upheaval. A hundred yea
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The Path of Severed Life 断生行
The martial world is like rain, its grudges like blades. No matter how sharp a blade may be, it cannot cut through a steady drizzle. There is an old beggar who loves to brag and pick his nose, always claiming to be an expert; an old monk with a limp in his right leg, stern and scowling; a foul-smelling old Taoist with a goatee, carrying a peachwood sword, drinking and sleeping late; and a lecherous fortune-teller with a quick-witted granddaughter, skilled in every kind of swindle. They are the f
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Lone Blade at the Edge of the World 天涯孤刀
A boy who grew up among piles of corpses in the Valley of the Dead embarks on an irreversible path of revenge. Through one bloody battle after another, he transforms, like a lonely wanderer roaming the ends of the earth in search of the one hope that keeps him alive. He says his heart is dead and his blood has gone cold, yet he falls helplessly in love with a woman who can never give him a promise, but will change his life forever… He has few friends, but he is always ready to stand by th
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The Mortal World of the Jianghu 红尘江湖
The young man enters the martial world alone, surviving countless trials by the skin of his teeth. He seeks neither glory nor riches! He knows not how high the sky is or how deep the earth runs. For her, what does it matter if he forsakes the world? What does it matter if the whole world turns against him? He doesn’t care about any of it. Years later, someone asked him why he had entered the martial world. He answered with just six words: “Only to keep her safe...”
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The Contest for Supremacy 逐鹿
His sword qi stretches thirty thousand li, and his blade chills fourteen provinces. He is the youngest Sword Sect master in a thousand years, yet he is hunted all the way to the wilderness. At the critical moment, he banishes the sword spirit that would bring him a deadly calamity into the sky. From then on, the sword spirit vanishes without a trace...
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Clouds Over You 君有云
Ten Li Langdang was home to the Academy, where the Confucian Sage held sway. Beneath him were nine Gentlemen and three hundred Confucian scholars, making it the place in the world with the greatest concentration of scholarly refinement. Whenever an Academy disciple was elevated to Gentleman, they had to proclaim a single phrase aloud as the maxim of their life. They would devote their whole lives to striving in accordance with that phrase, which was known as a “Gentleman's Word.” Su Baiyi, Feng
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Chronicles of Misty Jiangnan 江南烟雨录
"Jiangnan is not a place, but a killer! Jiangnan, also known as Ashui, is the personal disciple of the martial world’s greatest hero. Gentle and kind by nature, he was injured as a boy and left with a limp. After being betrayed time and again by friends and family, he became a man with two sides and a split personality, now known as “schizophrenia”! One side is Ashui, a chivalrous man full of tenderness; the other is Jiangnan, a bloodthirsty killer. See how tender affection can soften and transf
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The Sword in the Martial World 剑在江湖
Every time the Seven-Star Sword appears, it stirs up a storm of bloodshed across the martial world. Some say the sword conceals an unparalleled martial arts manual; others say it is tied to a treasure worth more than an entire kingdom. The only thing everyone knows for certain is that every owner of the Seven-Star Sword has died by its blade. He is the Pure Yang Qingxu Sect’s chief disciple, and the senior brother to the entire younger generation of the Pure Yang Sect. Yet he becomes the latest
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The Sentimental Sword and the Martial World 情剑江湖
Born into what should have been a prominent family, He was forced by vengeance to enter Shaolin. A fortuitous encounter brought him peerless power, And led him into both the imperial court and the jianghu. Love, hate, and revenge are the unchanging refrain of the jianghu; what changes are the people who devote their lives to them. In the jianghu, you have no choice but to go with the flow. In the imperial court, you are like a companion to a tiger. See how the protagonist stands proudly in the h
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The Silent 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.
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The Blood of Youth 少年歌行
The live-action adaptation of The Blood of Youth premieres exclusively on December 26. A passionate young man dressed in red, a penny-pinching owner of a dilapidated tavern, and the first disciple of a powerful martial clan: the three seem to have nothing in common, until they meet one snowy night. Each with their own agenda, they set out together to escort a coffin made of gold to the frontier city of Bilo. Along the way, they are hunted by forces from every side: the elite assassin duo Yue Ji
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Cicadas Sing as the Sun Sets in the West 蝉声且送阳西
[Wuxia + swordsmanship + political intrigue + scheming protagonist + comedy + multiple leads] The world’s great currents form a chessboard, and all living beings are its pieces. One player commands the black pieces, another the white. One person has double pupils and looks down coldly on mortal life, overturning heaven and earth with a single gesture. Another is refined and graceful, laying schemes one after another, each linked to the next. Another, though only at the second rank, takes one ste
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