Recommend Some Down-to-Earth Cultivation Novels. I've Been Reading for Ten Years 来点正常的修仙文,十年老书虫了
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Just a Poor Rogue Cultivator. Why Are You Kneeling, Fellow Daoist? 贫穷散修一枚,道友何故下跪?
[No romance, ensemble cast] [A goofy trio of wandering cultivators] [Female-led cultivation progression, few scenes involving children, skip if that bothers you] Song Li transmigrates into a cultivation novel as the evil female supporting character. After bullying the heroine, she is thrown by her own brother into the Abandoned Infant Pagoda, where she dies at the hands of countless vengeful infant spirits. Waking inside the pagoda, she looks at the crying spirits and says, “I can be your mother
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I Cultivated Too Hard, and Now My Entire Sect's Prodigies Beg Me to Become a God Soon 修仙太狠,满门天骄求我早日成神
[No romance]+ [Leveling up and growth] When Li Yuan opened her eyes, she had become the most famous pushover in the entire sect. She gave spirit medicines to other people's cultivators and acted as cannon fodder on their trials. Was she both the gentle, generous junior sister and another fish in the pool of the genius senior brothers at Sword Peak? Her own strength was zero, and even her single-element spiritual root was fake!? Flip the table! Starting from scratch, she was going to cultivate! E
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- 3 The Goal: A Peaceful Death in Old Age 目标,寿终正寝 A fortune-teller said she’d face a calamity at twenty-one. Sure enough, Jiang Yuanyao could only stare at the sky in disbelief: she’d landed inside a melodramatic xianxia drama. This place was bizarre and dangerous, and the God of Fate had it in for her, casting her as a supporting character destined to be instantly crushed by the heroine’s plot armor. Other cultivators sought immortality and transcendence. All she wanted was to live out her natural lifespan and die of old age. 3.4kReads8.8Score232Shelves
- 4 Three Thousand Great Daos, Playing the Zither to Become an Immortal 大道三千,抚琴为仙 [Traditional cultivation + no romance, female-led story + strong heroine + not a saint + level-up progression] After disaster struck Zihuang City, its young lord, Sang Zi, was reborn in the Nine Provinces of the lower realm. From then on, her eyes veiled in white silk and a Zihuang zither in hand, she journeyed across the Nine Provinces, seeking the path to immortality and ascending straight into the clouds. Cultivating the Dao and pursuing immortality: a path that defies heaven. Forget the mort 687Reads7.0Score100Shelves
- 5 Among the Three Thousand Worlds, I Embrace the Moon and Become an Immortal 浮世三千,揽月为仙 Fuli came from an age when cultivation had all but vanished. After her death, she encountered the Heaven-ordained Three Lives Stone, and her soul transmigrated and was reborn on the Floating World Continent. This was a cultivation realm rich in spiritual energy, where any living thing could cultivate and attain the Dao if fortune favored it. Fuli looked at her Five Elements Heavenly Spiritual Root and her innate Chaos Body, which could contain every kind of energy, and smiled. Alchemy? Learn it! 2.1kReads9.3Score234Shelves
- 6 After Ascending, I Discovered My Boyfriend Is a Male-Focused Power Fantasy Hero 飞升后发现,男友竟是男频龙傲天 [Transmigrating into a Male-Oriented Novel + Fantasy Cultivation + Rise of the Phoenix-Proud Heroine] Both the female and male leads are upright young prodigies, not villains or protagonists who kill without batting an eye. If you prefer cold and heartless characters, please look elsewhere. Shi Wanwan was born into an isolated primitive village and thought she had landed in a story about farming and building up a settlement in ancient times. She peacefully set about developing the village, teach 4.8kReads8.6Score300Shelves
- 7 EN Lord Jiang is the Demon! 那妖魔是姜大人! (Rating just released) [Gender Swap] [Single] [Slaying Demons] [Feel-Good Fiction] Using the blood of demons as ink, and the Hundred Demons Manual as a canvas. I can sketch their forms and seize their supernatural abilities. 384kReads9.3Score28.6kShelves
- 8 I Transmigrated into a Tragic Romance and Started Cultivating Immortality 穿到虐文里我修仙了 (No romantic tension, no male lead, no romance. Maxed-out beauty and strength, with a light, exaggerated writing style!) [Cool, powerful heroine + dual cultivation in music and swordsmanship + genius protagonist + ice spirit root + Supreme Yin Divine Physique + no romance + immortal sect goddess + struggle for supremacy in a grand age] “I have a melody. Would you all care to listen?” An Shu transmigrates into a book, becoming the heroine of a heart-wrenching tragedy? The story hasn’t even begun, 10.4kReads8.5Score1.1kShelves
- 9 Think a Poor Boy Can Rise? This Young Lady Will Send You into Reincarnation with One Sword 莫欺少年穷?本姑娘一剑送你轮回 (This book has been adapted into the comic drama Fate Reaver. Interested readers are welcome to check it out!) Don't look down on a poor young man? I'm absolutely going to look down on you while you're poor and young!!! [Strong Female Lead, Satisfying Revenge, System, Decisive and Ruthless, Subverting the Tropes, No Romance] She transmigrates as the eldest daughter of a cultivation family, whose engagement has just been broken off? Watching the male lead below, clutching the letter of divorce an 5.1kReads7.8Score658Shelves
- 10 Reborn, the Eldest Senior Sister Gets Rich Beyond Measure 重生后,大师姐她凭亿近人 Originally titled Reborn, the Senior Sister Is Worth Billions Su Chanyi never claimed to be a good person, but neither was she a vicious villain. Yet in the end, her entire family was wiped out, and her bones were ground to dust. Reborn, she cultivates both spiritual and demonic arts, masters both swordsmanship and formations, and proves the Dao through the Taiji. Her family is powerful, her status exalted, and her talent defies the heavens. With a phoenix and a Bai Ze at her side, she is the on 7.1kReads9.4Score943Shelves
- 11 Born with Sword Bones, I Slay My Way Through the Cultivation World 我剑骨天成杀穿修仙界 [Awakened villainess + face-slapping revenge + leveling-up sword cultivator + ensemble xianxia cast + comeback] Only after Wen Zhao died did she learn that she had been living inside a storybook called The White Moonlight of the Heartless Sword Venerable. She was the vicious, jealous junior sister, a stepping stone whose role was to bring the male and female leads closer together. Her fate was to be slain by her master, Xie Xuan, so he could achieve the heartless Great Dao. When she opened her e 2.1kReads8.7Score263Shelves
- 12 Chaos, Unrivaled 混沌无双 Tell me, in this mortal world, are there immortals? I have a clear and steadfast Dao heart. Can I save myself? Yuzhi suffered a lonely and miserable past life. Reborn into the world of cultivation, she still can't escape her fate as a solitary star. If that's how it is, then she'll fight Heaven for the Dao and uncover the deepest secrets of the immortal realm! Pure cultivation story, no romance. (No golden finger, no cheat, no pocket dimension, and no extraordinary identity from a past life. Thi 226Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 13 All Male Cultivators Are Fleeting Clouds 天下男修皆浮云 After transmigrating, Shi Qiu becomes a tempting morsel in the eyes of male cultivators, with everyone wanting a bite. Even with her naturally gifted spiritual bones, all the men in the world are beneath her notice. 2.9kReads9.0Score364Shelves
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Senior Sister, Drop the Act. You're the Tight-Lipped One in the Whole Sect 师姐别装了,整个宗门数你嘴严
[Cultivation + ensemble cast + stronger woman/ weaker man + 1v1 + sweet romance] [Max-level reborn Nether Ancestor Soul Master × arrogant, cheeky young master of the Fox Clan] Everyone knows that the eldest direct disciple accepted by the master of Dragon Transformation Peak in the Lingxiao Sect is a peerless genius of this age, with terrifying talent. She is also respectful toward her master and devoted to her fellow disciples. Every disciple in the Lingxiao Sect admires her wholeheartedly and
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- 15 After Becoming a Cultivation Novel's Female Side Character, I Don't Want to Be Cannon Fodder 穿成修仙女配后不想当炮灰 [Female-Led Cultivation, No Romance] [Mutated Wind Spirit Root + Hidden Weapons] Reincarnated as the villainess in a cultivation novel, she gets the best setup possible: the Northern Border’s greatest beauty and a genius disciple with a mutated Wind Spirit Root. But since she isn’t destined to be the heroine, Duan Jiaojiao decides to stay away from her and turn down the powerful Canglan Sect, joining the “pickpocket sect” Kongkong Sect instead. Who could have guessed that this much-hated “pickpo 5.5kReads9.2Score543Shelves
- 16 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑,唯我是真疯批 The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 234.9kReads9.7Score27.6kShelves
- 17 After Her Lazy Plans Failed, the Eldest Senior Sister Went Mad 大师姐摆烂不成功后成疯批了 Ning Ran is the senior disciple of the head of Mu Tian Sect. In the cultivation world, she was the first to reach Foundation Establishment in five hundred years, the first to form a Golden Core, the first to reach Nascent Soul, and the first to attain Divinity Transformation. Ning Ran is the pride of Mu Tian Sect and a role model for all its disciples. She is dutiful and spends every day cultivating and teaching her junior brothers and sisters. She always puts the sect’s honor first, and wheneve 2.9kReads9.1Score340Shelves
- 18 The Dark and Dashing Senior Sister Has the Cultivation World Going Crazy 阴暗师姐她超帅,修真界全疯了 [Publication pending] [No romance + ensemble cast + strong female lead + sect life + everyone’s a little crazy] [The main cast are unhinged and shameless. The heroine is fiercely independent, loyal, and more than a little mad] Xie Qing transmigrates into a book as a cannon-fodder supporting character and finds herself struggling to survive in a sect full of slackers. Who wants to pick a fight with the heroine? Xie Qing will set the whole cultivation world straight. She encourages her world-weary 37.6kReads9.5Score4.4kShelves
- 19 Shock! I Actually Became the Sister of the Fake Heroine 惊!我竟然成伪女主的妹妹 (Note: A devoted couple, both with no past relationships; a pocket dimension; adorable spirit beasts; an extremely powerful golden finger; dual wood-and-air spiritual roots.) After falling to her death in a restroom, Yun Nuan is reborn as a baby. Later, she discovers that she’s in a cultivation world. Her older sister is the original heroine of a transmigration-into-a-book story, while Yun Nuan is the cannon-fodder little sister who dies young in her sister’s memories. In the book, her sister is 8.4kReads9.0Score827Shelves
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Qingyun and Jiange 青云与剑阁
Qingyun and the Sword Pavilion
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- 21 The Cangyun Calamity 沧云劫 Ye Yi travels through the myriad worlds of the Cangyun Continent, battling demons and evil forces. Across the four seas lies a world of immortals and mysticism. Calamities and fate are unpredictable, and legends unfold across Cangyun Dazhou and the Immortal Realm. 299Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 A Carefree Tale of Yunhua in Jiuzhou 九州云华逍遥记 Ye Yi and Ling Ziyuan cultivate and wander through the mountains and rivers of Yunhua's nine provinces on the Cangyun Continent. The sect's people lend their full support to the Yunhua Dynasty, as heaven and earth together share life across the four seas of Yunhua. 309Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Legends of Jiuzhou Yunhua: Storms 2 九州云华风雨传说2 Legends of Wind and Rain in Jiuzhou Yunhua 2 169Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Legends of the Storms in Jiuzhou Yunhua 3 九州云华风雨传说3 Legends of Wind and Rain in Jiuzhou Yunhua 3 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Spatial Jade Pendant: From Zero to Immortal God 空间玉佩:从零开始修炼成神 Traditional cultivation fantasy with satisfying power-ups + a Creator God's guidance + no romance + Ice Spirit Root + native-born heroine + heavenly tribulations to save the world Xiao Xue lives in the mortal realm. After a sect holds a recruitment drive, she embarks on the path of cultivation. Through years of training, she searches for a way to ascend from the cultivation world and leads the Xuanling Continent to a higher plane. At last, the continent reaches a higher plane, where she ascends 1.2kReads—Score108Shelves
- 26 Legends of Wind and Rain in the Nine Provinces 九州云华风雨传说 Legends of Wind and Rain in the Cloud-Kissed Lands of the Nine Provinces 223Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Sequel to the Carefree Tale of Yunhua in Jiuzhou 九州云华逍遥记续 A Continuation of the Carefree Chronicles of Yunhua in the Nine Provinces 106Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Hua Yan, Heaven and Earth 华炎天与地 Huayan Heaven and Earth 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 The Tale of Yun Yao 云遥传 The Tale of Yun Yao 113Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 The Legend of Shushan 蜀山传说 The Legend of Shu Mountain 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 The Demon Dragon and Diancang 魔龙与点苍 The Demon Dragon and Diancang 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Wind and Rain in Huayan 华炎风雨 Huayan Through Wind and Rain 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Hua Yan: Storm and Strife 2 华炎风雨2 Hua Yan: Storms and Strife 2 11Reads—Score—Shelves
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Cultivating Immortality Without a Golden Finger 没有金手指的修仙日子
Li Ling was a modern-day homebody. After she died, she took over another person's body and was reborn in a world of cultivation. Watch her keep her feet on the ground and work hard, step by step, to cultivate immortality.
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- 35 Yunhua's Memories 1 云华忆1 Memories of Yunhua 1 52Reads—Score—Shelves
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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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- 37 Peerless Elegance 最风华 She didn’t transmigrate or get reborn. She simply dreamed of another life. She had a rare spiritual root, outstanding talent, and an impressive family background. But after she turned three, a sudden catastrophe shattered it all. In a single night, she lost every one of her loved ones… She sought immortality at six and took a master at twenty-one, only to lose her cultivation at thirty. After a brilliant life marked by bloodshed and hardship, she finally rose to glory once more. She thought she 2kReads8.7Score202Shelves
- 38 Yunhua's Memories 2 云华忆2 Memories of Yunhua 2 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 One Fall, and I Became an Immortal 一陨成仙 Her cousin betrays her own clan, and the Lin family is destroyed overnight. Every last member of the family is slaughtered! Her cousin becomes a disciple of a cultivation sect, and with cultivators backing her enemies, they grow ever more powerful... Then, three years later, the eldest Lin daughter, who should have been nothing but bones by now, suddenly crawls out of her grave... 1.9kReads9.1Score230Shelves
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One Move from This Shameless Junior Sister, and the Experts of the Nine Provinces Are All Stunned 缺德师妹一出手,九州大佬全麻了
Lu Lingyou transmigrates into a novel about a universally adored heroine, only to become the cannon-fodder female supporting character. The original owner was useless at everything and always the first to take the blame. The heroine killed a fellow disciple? The heroine leaked the sect's secret techniques? The heroine was secretly involved with the Demon Clan's holy lord? She got blamed for all of it. In the end, she died horribly amid the cheers of the entire cultivation world! Lu Lingyou says
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- 41 Eternal Gate 永恒之门 The gods and demons wage war, the myriad worlds collapse, and only the Eternal Immortal Realm endures. After countless ages, a battle god named Zhao Yun gathers the essence of heaven and earth and reforges the primordial universe. From the depths of the underworld, he fights his way to the Eternal Immortal Realm and, in the name of the divine, rules over the myriad paths. From then on, his words become legend. 18.4kReads9.2Score1.5kShelves
- 42 Immortal Martial Emperor 仙武帝尊 Nine thousand years ago, the Immortal Martial Emperor led a million divine generals into the ancient primordial wilderness. Not one of them returned, and only a wisp of true fire remained in the world. Nine thousand years later, Ye Chen, a discarded disciple, was driven from his sect and left with nowhere to go. By a twist of fate, he came into possession of the true fire and set foot on the path of immortal martial cultivation once more. This is a world where gods, demons, immortals, and Buddha 60.5kReads9.1Score14.3kShelves
- 43 Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春 [Print edition now available] Sang Nian accidentally climbs into the world of cultivation and becomes the vicious supporting female character who meets a tragic end in the book. System: Your mission is to marry the male supporting character, Xie Chenzhou, abuse him, humiliate him, and then get killed by him. Sang Nian: OK (brandishes little whip) (hits herself) (collapses with a thud) System: (silence) (stares at the sky) System: Mission changed. Win him over, or go mine coal. Sang Nian: (smiles 188.6kReads9.5Score25.6kShelves
- 44 EN The Infinite Reset: A Side Character's Journey to Immortality 女配修仙,但是无限读档 [No romance, an absolutely massive golden finger, carefree cultivation, fighting monsters and leveling up] What happens when a cannon-fodder supporting heroine gains the ability to reload infinitely... Bad spiritual roots from the start? Reload and try again. Can’t win the sect tournament? Reload and try again. A secret realm full of danger? Reload to avoid every danger and collect every rare treasure. Offended a high-ranking cultivator? Even with just a 1% chance of success, keep reloading thro 74.6kReads9.4Score9.9kShelves
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Stop Pretending! The Sweet Little Junior Sister Is a Top Demon Cultivator 别装了!软萌小师妹就是魔修大佬
[No Romance] [Strong Female Lead] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Lighthearted and Witty] [Everyone’s Favorite] [Ridiculous] [Unhinged] Yun Ning, a young lord of the demon clan, transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a disposable extra who dies from the start. Yun Ning doesn’t panic. She kills the elder who tries to humiliate and murder her, then spreads recordings of the sect’s scandals far and wide. Then she heads to the Wanfa Sect. She astounds everyone at the testing platform, leaving the
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- 46 EN The Supporting Female Character Cultivates, the Protagonists Are Sacrificed to Heaven 女配修仙,主角祭天 On the night before becoming the disciple of Immortal Venerable Yanchen, Sang Ying discovered that she was the villainess in a cultivation novel about a master and his disciple! She was the foil to the pure and kind heroine, a delicate white lotus. Not only did she force the male lead to take her as his disciple, she also tried to steal what belonged to the heroine. In the end, she died at the hands of one of the heroine's admirers, and her pure ice spirit root became the catalyst for repairing 7.7kReads8.5Score1.2kShelves
- 47 Outworking Everyone in the Cultivation World, This Good-for-Nothing Rises to the Top 在修仙界内卷,废柴逆袭成大佬 Mu Qingyue is reborn in the mortal district of the cultivation world. Her family is poor, her grandmother is awful, her eldest brother is lame, and her mother is pregnant. The only normal person is her hardworking father. At a loss for words, Mu Qingyue rolls up her sleeves and takes down her rotten relatives first, then leaves home with her parents and brother, determined to escape the leeches back at the old house. She ventures into the mountains and stumbles upon a great opportunity, receivin 48.5kReads8.6Score3.9kShelves
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Record of Profound Cultivation in Another World 异世玄修录
[Mortal Cultivator + Multiple Twists + Subverting Expectations] Jiang Hao is a cultivator with no spiritual roots, yet he is accepted as an inner disciple of the Yuqing Sect. Just as he steps through the sect's gates, the world is destroyed, and he is transported to a world barren of spiritual energy. Here, for his own sake, for his sect, and for the entire world, Jiang Hao has no choice but to fight to the bitter end. Cultivation means stealing the secrets of Heaven in pursuit of immortality. C
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- 49 You Call That a Healer? She Bludgeons Everyone to Death 你管这叫奶妈?她把人头都锤爆了 The print edition of I Can Pluck the Stars is available on all platforms. Genius + rich woman from the start. The day Ning Ruan left her village, a menace appeared on the Nine Provinces Continent. A mage? A sword cultivator? No, she just wanted to be a healer! All the continent’s geniuses: Shut up, you poisonous healer! Later: “Help! I never knew healers could heal people to death until I met Ning Ruan!” “But isn’t she a metal-element spiritual adept?” “Isn’t she wood-element?” “She’s clearl 212.5kReads9.5Score17.7kShelves
- 50 I Dig the Pits, You Fill Them In. Everyone in Our Sect Is a Rebel 我挖坑,你填土,师门全是反骨 [Original title: I Became the Beloved Little Junior Sister and Turned the Cultivation World Upside Down] Xie Sisi transmigrated and became the cannon-fodder supporting character in a novel she’d once mocked, a character with the exact same name. The supporting character’s role was to bring the heroine to an immortal sect, dutifully serve as her medicine human, and ultimately die after being used to test the heroine’s medicines. Xie Sisi, who knew the plot: “Bah! Whoever wants to be a medicine hu 62.5kReads9.4Score8.1kShelves
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