Any Stories About Someone Alone, Defending a City with One Sword Against Tens of Thousands? 有没有那种孤身守一城一剑占几万的小说。
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I Risk My Life to Kill the Enemy, and the World Begs Me to Stop 拿命杀敌，全球哭求我别上了
After transmigrating to a high-martial world where countless races have arrived, Luo Yuan becomes an ordinary soldier stationed at the frontier. But he discovers that he is gravely wounded and has only one day left to live. Just as he falls into despair, he binds himself to the “Risk Your Life to Kill Enemies” System. Every enemy he kills earns him a certain amount of life force, letting him live a little longer! So from the start, he drags his gravely wounded body onto the battlefield and slaug
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I Was Ten That Year, Alone Defending an Entire City 那一年我十岁，孤身镇守一城
The setting sun was red as blood. Blood ran in rivers across the ground, and severed limbs and bodies lay everywhere, like the underworld of a blood-soaked asura. Before, there had been thirty men. This time, there were a hundred. What about next time? Would it be three hundred? Three thousand? I have only myself and a single blade! I'm so tired. I want to lie down! But in the isolated city behind me are 572 elderly people, women, and children, all placing their hopes in me. The Martial King's b
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During the Spiritual Qi Revival, I Guarded a Lonely City All Alone 灵气复苏，只身一人守孤城
The spiritual qi revival begins, a new era rises, and the gods descend! Vast Huaxia, glorious Shenzhou, yet not a single god to be found! Everyone laughs that Shenzhou’s backbone is broken, that the Han have no men left! Everyone says the sons of Shenzhou are all sickly cowards! The Western empires rise up to bully them, hoping to crush this gravely wounded lion once and for all. But they never expected that, in the northern lands of Shenzhou, a young man would write an incredible legendary epic
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Guarding a Lonely City, Invincible on My Own 镇守孤城，一人无敌
Blue Star was invaded by the demon race. Under the iron hooves of its armies, most of humanity’s territory fell, and the human race faced the threat of extinction. Yet in the occupied lands, one city belonging to humanity still remained unconquered by the demons. For five hundred years, the isolated city held out. Every resident grew gray-haired, and they fought until the last soldier, yet not one person surrendered or was taken prisoner. This was a human city, human territory. As long as even o
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The Human Race Is the Weakest? I Create the Ten Great Emperors to Conquer All Races 人族最弱？我编辑十大帝尊镇万族
[System + Myriad Races Across the Heavens + Great Emperors + Decisive and Ruthless] The heavens stand side by side, and countless races vie for supremacy! Immortals, demons, gods, dragons, spirits, and all the other races lord over the ten directions. What? The human race is the weakest, bullied by all the others? As his life nears its end, Xia Yan awakens the Great Dao Simulator. From then on, the Great Emperor of Ancestor Xia, the Great Emperor of Heavenly Zhou, the Great Emperor of Immortal Q
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I Built a Heavenly Court for Humanity and Summoned Heroes Without End 我为人族立天庭召唤英灵不要停
(Dynastic nation-building + power struggles + farming + summoning) In the eternal universe, after heaven and earth first came into being, countless races vied to become the chosen ones of the world. They gathered energy and fought for fortune, founding kingdoms, empires, and imperial dynasties... A golden age dawned. The Heavenly Book Ranking towered above the nine heavens, listing a hundred overlord races and their dynasties. The top ten on the list could each raise their fortune by one rank! F
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With a Court Full of Famous Ministers, How Can You Expect Me to Be a Tyrant? 满朝名臣，你让我怎么做昏君?
[Build strength, vie for supremacy, legendary Chinese generals, legendary generals from around the world.] Xia Yu transmigrates into a world of lords and awakens a god-tier talent: 100-fold critical boosts. Anything he obtains can trigger a hundredfold increase. Raise armies and stockpile supplies at a rapid pace. Most importantly, summoning heroes can trigger critical boosts too! While everyone else is fretting over getting even one purple-tier hero, Xia Yu already has a host of golden, legenda
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Slay the Gods 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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From Lowly Soldier to Great Xia’s Fiercest General 从小士卒到大夏第一猛将
A general's bones lie forgotten, while an actor's private affairs are known throughout the land! After transmigrating, I become a soldier on the northern frontier of Great Xia. With corruption in the court and danger lurking in the martial world, I must find a way to survive amid one perilous situation after another, relying on nothing but my soldier's grit...
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There's Something Wrong with You, Constable 你这捕快有问题
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
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You Were Supposed to Defend Against the Ten Thousand Clans, Not Stew Them All! 让你抵御万族，你全给炖了？
[Rated 9.7 during serialization] [Cultivation at school (high-martial arts) + a growth journey + a vast cosmic world + an utterly clueless male lead + no heroine (or a single heroine) + noble ideals and fiery passion + standout supporting characters + satisfying wish fulfillment with smart characters] The myriad races force open the star path and descend upon Earth! Humanity is in danger! Ordinary student Lu Chuan accidentally obtains an ancient book recording the delicacies of the cosmos, and d
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The Peerless Sword 一剑无竟
[The void has no bounds, and the sword path knows no end] The young man follows his father across the colossal ancient ridge, finally opening the gates to the upper realm as he had long hoped and stepping into the [Nine Heavens Immortal Realm]. He thought he would find a broad road to the Great Dao. Instead, this world was beset by countless tribulations, with bloodshed at every turn. Ghosts flay their victims and rip out their souls; demons use illusions to ensnare the mind. False Buddhas pre
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The Tang Dynasty’s Mightiest Slacker 大唐最强咸鱼
After transmigrating back to the Tang Dynasty, Li Qiu became the live-in son-in-law of the Han family, a military household on the frontier. He had hoped to spend his days doing nothing, but then the barbarians invaded from the south! In a single night, Youzhou fell, and a thousand miles of land were laid waste! The common people were driven from their homes, and the northern frontier became a hunting ground for the barbarians! To defend his homeland, Li Qiu, a mere commoner, stepped forward. Le
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I Just Built a Mecha, and You've Already Conquered the Galaxy 刚造出机甲，你把银河系都占领了
[Urban fantasy] [Technology] [Everyday life] (Not a pure technology novel. If that's what you're looking for, please move along.) Su Yi, a recent college graduate, acquired a partially activated technology System. At the System's behest, he built the world's first combat mech. But to fully activate the System, his first task was to donate the mech to the nation's military. Ten years later. Su Yi and a group of military bigwigs were cruising through the Milky Way aboard the super spaceship he
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One Man Guards the Nation’s Gate: Facing a Trillion Dark Beasts Alone 一人守国门：独自面对万亿黑暗生
A huge number of portals appeared on Blue Star. A trillion dark creatures emerged from them. With humanity facing extinction, people discovered a miraculous kind of seed that granted them the ability to control plants. Farmers became the most respected people of all. Ye Feihong was a new farmer. He would defend Tianmen Pass alone, holding back a trillion dark creatures by himself.
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Naruto: Forging a Legend with One-Sword Style 火影：从一刀流开始缔造传说
Su Tu was a contemporary of Hashirama Senju and Madara, and he single-handedly kept the two legendary figures under his thumb. As old age brought him to the brink of death, Su Tu waited a full eighty years for the System he had wanted from the very beginning. “Congratulations, Host, you have activated...” Already invincible in the world, Su Tu didn’t wait for the System’s voice to finish in his mind. With his own will, he erased the late-arriving System from his consciousness. And so, Su Tu was
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Global Cataclysm: China's City Defenders 全球灾变：华夏守城人
[Huaxia + veteran reader + national destiny + livestreaming + passion + protection + infinite possibilities] That day, the whole world was plunged into endless darkness. When the light returned, countless terrifying cities appeared in the sky: the City of Zombies, the City of Giant Serpents, the Scarecrow City, the Terror Insect City, the Demon City, the City of Vengeful Spirits, and more. Blood-red stairways snaked down from the sky. The chosen survivors had to climb them and enter the terrifyi
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I Routed a Million-Man Army from the Start, So Why Is Dying So Hard? 开局喝退百万大军，想死怎么就这么难
After transmigrating to another world, Ye Lin discovers that he is actually a reincarnated Heavenly God. Once this life's cycle of reincarnation ends, he will regain his identity as the Heavenly God of Myriad Realms. Well then, he might as well go all out and court death, ending this cycle early. “The entire court bows its head, yet only Lord Ye stands tall with righteous conviction, unafraid of death. He is truly a blessing to the realm and all its people!” The emperor is overwhelmed with emoti
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We Talked About the Staff and the Sword, How Did I Become Lord Shadow? 说好杖与剑，我怎么成暗影大人了
Guys, if there were a Dayun truck outside your house, and the driver smiled and greeted you, saying he was going to take you to another world, would you think it was a joke? Well, my home is on the 18th floor. Can you believe it? A nearly hundred-ton Dayun heavy truck appeared outside my 18th-floor window. What else was there to say? It was already this wild, so I might as well go along with it. Only, my life in another world is just a little different. Come on, tell me: you say your name is Su
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One Sword, One Flask, One Universe 一剑一酒一乾坤
[Swordsmanship + Wine Immortal + Fantasy Xianxia + One Heroine + Mutual Devotion + Humanity’s Survival] A year ago, the boy watched his father shoulder his sword, slay demons, and save humanity, never to return. A year later, the boy arrives at Qingyun with only a sword and a jug of wine. Shunned by all, he is confined to the peach blossom grove. The sword his father called the “Sword of Protection” stands in the most prominent place in the Qingyun Sect, yet the world calls it the “Sword of Sham
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Forced into the Demonic Path from the Start, I Leapt Straight to the Thirteenth-Realm Emperor 开局被逼入魔，我直入十三境大帝
[Demonic Cultivation Big Shot] [The World Against Him] [Invincible, Wildly Satisfying] [His Entire Clan Gets Wiped Out] "You Don’t Need Me to Guard the Border? Now That the Great Demons Are at the Gates, You’re Scared" (Slow start, then all hell breaks loose after chapter 60.) When the demon race invaded, Lu Yang guarded a lonely city all by himself for a hundred years, bringing a century of peace to the Canglan Domain. But after the eight great demon clans launched a joint sneak attack, he was
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The Black Dragon Roars, the Ink Dragon Sings, and the Halberds Ring as One 黑龙啸，墨龙吟，长戟齐鸣
Also known as The General. [War god] + [national warfare] + [political intrigue] + [fictional setting] + [military commanders] His father died on the battlefield when he was young. His mother passed away when he was a child. An orphan, he was fortunate to be raised with help from his uncle and aunt in the same village. Unwilling to accept the fate laid out for him, he joined the army in his early teens. A boy from a mountain village ultimately rises step by step to become a dynasty's general, gr
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National Fate: Invasion of the Myriad Races, I Forge a Mythic Civilization 国运：万族入侵，我缔造神话文明
A game called “Civilization Evolution” descends upon Blue Star, and one person from each country is chosen at random to enter the Battlefield of Myriad Races. Everyone starts with a city and must defend it against monster attacks. If they successfully defend it, both the city lord and the country they represent receive immense rewards. If they fail, then for every monster that captures the city lord’s manor, ten thousand identical monsters will appear in the city lord’s country. Just as Jiuzhou
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Exiled to the Army, I Grow Stronger with Every Enemy I Kill! 发配充军，我杀敌就变强！
Qin Feng, eldest legitimate son of the Marquis of Fengxin, is framed and sentenced to penal military service. His father is also implicated, stripped of his title, and has his home confiscated. On his first day joining the northern frontier army, he activates the War God System. Whenever he defeats or kills an enemy, he receives one-tenth of that enemy's combat power. Every major victory also gives him a chance to gain a special ability that accelerates the growth of his soldiers. He has no spir
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You Wiped Out My Clan? I’ll Abandon the Frontier, Rebel, and Become Emperor 灭我全族？弃守边疆，造反称帝
This novel has been adapted into the short drama Spear of Winter Shatters the Firmament. [First Emperor + insanely satisfying troop recruitment + Great Qin Empire] Qin Yuan transmigrated to ancient times and became the empress’s childhood friend. He poured his heart and soul into helping the empress, raising her to the pinnacle as ruler of all under heaven and making the Great Qian Dynasty the center of a thousand nations! The Embroidered Uniform Guard above surveyed the realm, while the Unnatur
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At This Moment, I Am China's Guardian Deity 此刻，我为华夏守护神
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 0260, a large horde of sea beasts appeared in Old Copper Mountain, Mi Nation. Not a single person in the city survived! On April 23, 0261, Level 6 sea beasts appeared in North Bear Nation. The entire country fell! On New Year's Day, January 1, 0262, a Level 10 sea beast appeared in Huaxia, codenamed [Taotie]. Huaxia fell! In January 0260, Huaxia's God of War, Chen Feng, was reborn eleven months before the sea beasts emerged. He won the trust of the country's
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New Cop on the Job: Two Wanted Criminals as My Welcome Gift 新警入职：抓两个通缉犯当见面礼
Zhao Yichuan accidentally transmigrates to a parallel world and becomes a rookie police officer, then successfully awakens the Heaven's Eye System! Every criminal he catches raises his Heaven's Eye permissions, and he can grow stronger without limit! On his first day at work, he runs into a child kidnapper? What? The kidnapper is holding a child hostage? No problem. I'll fight fire with fire: I'll disguise myself as a kidnapper and “kidnap” the hostage back! A quick sweep of the streets is enoug
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The Blood of Youth: My Unlucky Senior Brother, Zhao Yuzhen 少年歌行之我的冤种师兄赵玉真
[No female lead + no System + an outrageous romantic pairing stew + everyone is straight] Li Xuanji: Senior Brother, come down the mountain! Your little fairy is being ambushed! Zhao Yuzhen: Little fairy, do you want these people alive or dead? So Zhao Yuzhen came down the mountain ahead of schedule, joined forces with Li Hanyi to surround the Dark River, and then married her! Li Xuanji: Sect Master Lei, the Tang Clan is planning to poison your Lei Family Fortress. Lei Qianhu: Old Master Tang, c
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The Spirit of the Soldier: Three Thousand Years of War 兵魂：三千年战记
My name is Shen Du, a soldier who has lived for a very long time. In the mists of Zhuolu, I died for the first time and came back to life for the first time. The boy who gave me my name died beneath a stray arrow. I buried him under an old locust tree, carved three marks into it, and left the battlefield. I didn't know who I was or why I kept coming back from the dead. I only knew I had to keep moving. From Zhuolu to Muye, from Muye to Chengpu. I crawled out of the heaps of bones at Changping an
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The Lonely City Is Not Alone 孤城不孤
A modern crisis management expert transmigrates into the body of a prince of a fallen kingdom. He wakes among the dead, defends a besieged city, travels across the land, saves the people, and supports a young ruler. He ultimately becomes a powerful regent, but at the height of his influence, he steps down after accomplishing all he set out to do and retreats to Jiangnan to watch smoke rise from kitchen chimneys.
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Reborn at the Bottom of the Cliff 重生之于崖底
Lin Feng, a modern-day special forces soldier and corporate management expert, dies while doing a good deed and transmigrates into the chaotic final days of the Great Chu Dynasty. He becomes a trusted imperial general framed by treacherous courtiers. Climbing back up from beneath a cliff, he leads more than twenty surviving soldiers through desperate struggles to stay alive. He keeps a low profile and builds his strength amid the chaos, eventually getting revenge and unifying the realm.
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Three Thousand Miles Along the Min River 岷江三千里
Three Thousand Miles Along the Min River
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Choices on the Crest of the Wave 浪尖上的抉择
A Choice on the Crest of the Wave
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The Pingyuan Calamity 平远劫
The Pingshan Calamity
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Beast Chess 兽棋
Beast Chess
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When Cats Stopped Catching Mice 当猫不再抓老鼠了
When Cats Stop Catching Mice
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Love in Wind and Rain 风雨双璧情
A Tale of Two Heroes in Love
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The Brocade River Flows East 锦水东流去
The Brocade River Flows East
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Where the Clouds Return Amid the Deep Spring Woods 万木春深归云处
Where the Deep Spring Woods Meet the Returning Clouds
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The Return: A Microscopic Prison 归记：微观囚笼
The Return: A Microscopic Cage
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Xuanhuan: If I Wield the Sword, You Will All Die 玄幻：我若执剑，尔等皆死
[Swordsmanship] [Reborn] [Invincible] [Passionate] “Xu Changqing, the Northern Region’s number-one wastrel, is here to die!” Changqing guards the Outer Domain. What demon or god would dare approach Taiqing? If I draw my sword, you will all die! Sword Master, fear not! We are here! Do you think the Xu family has no one left to stand up for it? Let them drown in a river of blood! Unbeaten at the summit!!! The protagonist is decisive and merciless, and always avenges his enemies without delay. Ther
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Call Me Lord Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人
After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关
Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year.
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Superpowers: I Have a Replication Mirror 超能：我有一面复刻镜
[Gods Descend, Calamity Begins] When cultivators from the divine realm invade Earth, superpowers and modern weapons become humanity's last line of defense! Can Gou Chen and Adam, Earth's only two superpower academies, shoulder humanity's future? What kind of hidden strength does Huaxia, hailed as the Chosen Nation, possess? This is a feast for the Godslayers! A young man gains the power to replicate abilities. With a mortal body and the power of the world in his hands, he will ultimately slay th
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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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Heroes of the Nation: Thirty Years Guarding Earth 人间忠烈：镇守地球三十载
In 2066, a scientific research base is completed on Mars, and researchers head to Mount Olympus to collect data. On the far side of the mountain, a dust-covered battlefield comes into view. The wreckage of shattered warships. Giant steel mechs. A massive head buried in the dust. And a familiar red flag, standing tall on a platform at the very center of the far side of the mountain. What kind of battle took place here? Blood had congealed into fortresses, shattered, then congealed once more! It w
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You Were Ordered to Guard the Border, So Why Did You Marry the Enemy Emperor? 让你镇守边疆，你娶了敌国女帝？
After transmigrating to a perilous fantasy world, Zhou Chen became the seventh prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty from the start. He had planned to give up the struggle for the throne and live as a carefree, wealthy prince. But he was framed and banished to the frontier. He thought he would die in battle a few years later, but unexpectedly awakened the [Nation-Guarding System], which gave him the Shadow Corps, the Ancestral Dragon’s blood essence, and more from the start... “Guard the frontier for
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Centenarian God of War: His Nine Sons Sacrificed Themselves, Now He Goes to War for His Country! 百岁战神：九子捐躯，为国出征！
The hundred-year-old God of War, Jiang Tiance. At his birthday banquet, he is met by nine coffins, each empty of his sons' remains. With hatred in his heart and a blade in hand, he returns to the battlefield of the myriad races! Alone, he fights the myriad races and slaughters foreign enemies from countless nations! The green hills are honored to bury the bones of the loyal. Why should one need a horse's hide to wrap their corpse? Why must one's bones be buried in their homeland? Wherever one
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Tomb Raiding: The Corrupted Qilin Tattoo 盗墓：邪化麒麟纹身
[South Sea Return to the Ruins, Under One Person + tomb raiding + Old Nine Gates + the Qilin boy + century-old families + exposure + immortality + the uncanny] The soldier, the actor, and the immortal led astray. The rakish devil laughs like a Buddha. The beauty who reads fortunes plays a game that reaches the heavens. This is a story that belongs to the Old Nine Gates.
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One Man Guards the Nation’s Gate: From the Start, I Play the King of Hell 一人镇国门，开局扮演阎罗王
A mysterious forbidden zone beyond the borders of the world appears on Livestream, selecting contestants from every country to enter and explore it through games. Resources obtained inside are converted into real-world supplies at a hundredfold rate. Contestants who explore the entire map will receive a hundredfold boost in fortune, becoming the strongest on Blue Star. Qin Feng, whose God of Yama role-play has reached 50% after awakening the Role-Playing System, is selected. From the start, he u
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