Serious Cultivation Novels, Please! I'm Desperate for Something to Read! 正经修仙小说！求求了！严重书荒！
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Anime Crossover: Starting with Naruto, I Grow Stronger Through Cultivation 综漫：加点修仙从火影开始
[Male-oriented crossover + System + xianxia cultivation + stat allocation + interstellar era + anime] Zhi Lan transmigrated into a fantasy world in a near-future spacefaring era, only to die suddenly that very night and transmigrate a second time. Luckily, this earned him an all-purpose System with functions including, but not limited to: Crossover transmigration, stat allocation, cultivation assistance, skill cards, achievements, titles, daily sign-ins, crossover shop, loot, daily quests, synth
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An Old Man's Immortal Cultivation! 老人修仙记！
[Mortal Cultivator Style, No System, Decisive and Ruthless, Not Mindless, Funny] I, Li Dakai, began cultivating immortality at the age of fifty. A slow-burn cultivation fantasy with a satisfying payoff. The story unfolds gradually, with every turn grounded in reason! Fellow cultivators, please don’t be put off by the title. New chapters every day at exactly 5:10 p.m.!
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The Ninth-Rank Demon Exorcist 九品驱魔人
When the sun sets, every door in the city is shut! Evil spirits open their eyes, and monsters run rampant! The Wei Constables mount the city walls, while exorcists draw their swords. An apprentice from a martial arts school stands proudly amid the demons, determined to protect one last sanctuary.
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The Immortal Clan: The Gu Family’s Rise Begins with Foundation Building 仙族：从筑基开始的顾氏家族
Without an invincible System or a mysterious little bottle, with demons surrounding them from outside and a weak clan within, how can a small Foundation Establishment clan weather one crisis after another? Gu Changhuan opens the map: spirit treasures, spirit herbs, and mineral veins are all laid out before him. With this golden finger, what is there to fear about the hardships of cultivation? Still, he has to keep a low profile. Lower and lower. After all, playing the pig to eat the tiger and qu
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Beloved by All, the Fearsome and Adorable Young General 团宠农门女将军又凶又萌
☾Ensemble cast + steady power progression + no romance + academy + passionate + hilarious + decisive and ruthless + gets better the more you read☽ "The heroine is tiny and sweet, but she kills without mercy and without hesitation" Ming Ying transmigrates straight into a deadly predicament. Her body is that of a frail four-and-a-half-year-old. Her parents have just died in battle, her family is dirt poor, and she and her three young brothers can barely hope to survive the winter. To make matters
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In the Womb: The Empress’s Umbilical Cord Is Choking Her as She Begs Me for Help 人在娘胎：女帝脐带缠脖向我求救
Shi Tian accidentally transmigrates into a fetus, only to discover that there's a baby girl in the womb next door. “Whoa, I have an older sister now?” Yun Man'er was once a mighty female emperor of the Upper Realm. After being betrayed by her disciple, she was ambushed and grievously wounded. She was forced to reincarnate. But while still in the womb, she suddenly discovers that someone is secretly sharing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth! How could the ruthless, decisive, proud,
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I Turned Out to Be the Yandere Disciple's White Moonlight 病娇孽徒的白月光竟是我
[Complete. Comic adaptation signed.] [Two Male Leads + Reborn + Half Sweet, Half Angsty + Gentle, Unrestrained Miracle Doctor Master VS Yandere, Mad Demon Disciple + Martial Arts] Only as he lay dying in his previous life did Mu Fengyan learn that he was merely a disposable master in a novel. His disciple, Duan Wuluo, had only approached him to get the Golden Silkworm Gu and save the person he loved. Reborn ten years later, Mu Fengyan looks at the disciple who has become a great demon and sneers
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A Bewitching Beauty Who Captivates the World 妖颜倾世
Her name is Xin Cangqu. Born with a bewitching beauty and destined to be the star who brings down a nation, she has been raised as a boy since childhood. At ten, she is blamed for her mother's death, forsaken by heaven and earth. At fourteen, she is granted a royal title and a name by the ruler of Tianxin. She takes her brother's place as a hostage and is sent to a foreign land. Accept my fate? Fine, I'll accept it! Why shouldn't I? Since you all see me as the star destined to bring down a natio
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I Was Only Reborn for Revenge, So Why Are the Gods Shaking in Fear? 我只是重生报仇诸神为何瑟瑟发抖
[Cool, aloof seductress VS domineering female demon] The female demon Chu Qun was reborn. A thousand years had passed, yet her legends still covered the continent. The Saint of the Pill, the world-destroying Marquis Chu Yi, the sword-forging patriarch... They were all her secret identities! In her previous life, her siblings betrayed her. She was torn apart by chariots, and her soul was sealed beneath the abyss. This time, she returned in triumph, slaying prodigies, killing her enemies, and supp
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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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Ninth Highness, Your Princess Consort Is Bold and Fierce 九殿下，王妃又飒又狠
She was the eldest daughter of a general’s household, yet everyone mocked her as a country bumpkin. Qin Wanyan couldn’t be bothered with them, but her underlings weren’t having it! Martial Arts Alliance Leader: “Nonsense! She’s the junior sister I cherish most.” Chamber of Commerce Elder: “How dare you! She’s our tycoon, rich enough to rival a nation!” Eleventh Imperial Uncle: “Ridiculous! She’s Mu Yunye, the divine physician I admire.” Neighboring Emperor: “Insolence! She’s the all-powerful cha
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Mortal Bones 凡骨
The world’s spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade, Heavenly Spiritual Bone. Second grade, Golden Spiritual Bone. Third grade, Profound Spiritual Bone. Fourth grade, White Spiritual Bone. All the rest are mortal bones, with no chance of cultivating. Xu Taiping, born with mortal bones, swears to prove to the cultivation world that mortal bones can slay demons, mortal bones can vanquish devils, and mortal bones can ascend to immortality!
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Heaven-Devouring Cauldron 噬天鼎
Ye Han, a poor cowherd, accidentally loses his cattle, but what seems like a misfortune turns out to be a blessing: he obtains a mysterious purple cauldron that devours the heavens. Watch as he rises against fate with nothing but an ordinary talent, enters the ranks of the top cultivators, and makes the name Ye Han resound across countless worlds. He looks down upon the Five Elements and roams freely through the Nine Heavens! Cultivation realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core
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Fish of the World 天下游鱼
By the Canglan River, a young man wears a straw raincoat and bamboo hat, holding wine in one hand and a fishing rod in the other. His heart has no place in the world, yet he finds himself in the jianghu... I come from a place beyond knowing. I want to see this world, just as unknown to me...
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Mortal Cultivation: From the Start, I Guard the Scrap Pill Room 凡人修仙，开局看守废丹房
[Mortal-style cultivation + no System] Su Shier, a village boy of mediocre aptitude, is forced to embark on an endless, arduous path to immortality in pursuit of revenge for a blood feud. It is a world of deceit, the law of the jungle, scheming, and hardship... The road ahead is long, the way fraught with danger. Though this humble mortal must fight through every obstacle, he swears to forge his own path to immortality.
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Pagoda Immortal Fate 宝塔仙缘
[Mortal cultivation, no System, pocket dimension, medicinal garden, immortal pets] Even an ordinary person can encounter great opportunities. A country boy carrying the Three Treasures Glazed Pagoda is captured by an evil cultivator and forced to serve as a test subject. But a misfortune turns into a blessing, setting him on a bizarre and arduous path to immortality. From then on, he uses the pagoda to grow spirit herbs, raise immortal beasts, refine pills, craft talismans, and cultivate forbidd
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The Late Ming Dynasty: Rising from Menial Constable to Power 明末，从快班杂役开始崛起
[The World of Low-Ranking Officials] [Historical] [Rags to Riches] [War and Political Schemes] [Passionate] "This isn't the cold 'border troubles of the late Ming' found in history books. It's the secret to turning the tide, as Ling Yun pours his heart and soul into rebuilding the realm!" From a menial runner in Guanyang to a great ruler of his age, every step in Ling Yun's rise echoes the collapse of the Ming dynasty. When Ling Yun, a transmigrator, picks up his mother's shattered jade pendant
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Thirty Thousand Years of Pursuit: The Emperor Embraces the Heavenly Dao’s Beloved Daughter 追妻三万年，帝尊抱走天道亲闺女
[Everyone's favorite + punishing the scumbags + genius golden finger + thoroughly satisfying + one-on-one romance] Previous life: She died full of hatred. This life: Reborn from the ashes, she takes revenge and punishes the scumbags, with the Divine Venerable of the Phoenix Clan watching over her. She thought her true identity was nothing more than the Heavenly Emperor's daughter. But as the layers of her identity are revealed, the powerful figures who dote on her are stunned to discover that th
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After I Transmigrated Into a Book, the Villainess Became Everyone’s Darling by Playing Her Cards Right 穿书后，恶毒女配反向操作成团宠
(Sweet romance + cultivation + transmigration into a book + everyone’s darling + beloved by all, regardless of gender + plot-focused + devoted couple + master and disciple) Si Chen X Su Qingqing With a crash of thunder, Su Qingqing transmigrates into a book. To get home, she dutifully plays the role of the willful, bratty, spoiled villainess. She bullies the heroine on one side and swoons over the hero on the other. But why is the plot getting harder and harder to understand? When danger strikes
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Nine Lives as a Villain, and All the Heroines Turned Evil! 九世反派，女主集体黑化了！
Jiang Chen transmigrates into the world of a shallow fantasy novel and becomes the villainous senior disciple. With no golden finger, he knows that a villain is destined to become cannon fodder, so he repeats nine cycles of reincarnation, trying only to be an upright senior brother. But the Heavenly Dao is unjust. Burdened with the villain’s aura, he endures nearly a thousand years of misunderstanding and scorn across nine lifetimes! In his tenth life, a System appears. As long as he sticks to h
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The Demon King Desperately Tries to Stay Alive, Yet They Worship Him as a God 魔王疯狂保命，却被他们奉为神
[The whole cast overinterprets everything + hilarious absurdity] Before her death, the no-nonsense tomboy Ye Yue was plagued by illness. After transmigrating to the world of cultivation, all she wanted was to keep her head down and survive. But she ends up in the body of the fallen “leader of the villains,” the Asura King. Every one of her subordinates talks about crushing the Celestial Clan or exterminating humanity, and they hound her every day to conquer the world. Worse still, her predecesso
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Good Grief! The Frail, Sickly Demon Lord Keeps Fainting on His Own 真要命！病娇魔尊身娇体弱自己倒
[Transmigrate into a book + villain + supporting female character + fantasy + sweet romance] Le Zheng Qian transmigrates into a book as the vicious supporting female character. Calmly drawing her sword, she tears up the script, then draws talismans, makes pills and forges weapons, setting out to reach the peak of life. Along the way, she picks up a pretty little weakling who shares a name with the original story’s gloomy, terrifying Demon Venerable, a mass murderer who is always threatening to d
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Breaking News! I Disguised Myself as a Man and Became Everyone's Favorite in the Cultivation World 爆！女扮男装后我成修真界万人迷
✨Completed! [Adorably sweet and lovable heroine adored by all + a touch of silliness + cross-dressing as a man + transmigrate into a book + romantic rivalry + 1v1, with multiple versions of the male lead (not a strong heroine)] * Su Qingran transmigrates into a cultivation-themed Mary Sue novel, becoming a minor character with the same name as her, who hopelessly loves the male lead and keeps courting death. She thinks that if she just follows the plot carefully, she can retire in peace. Instead
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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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How Could This Silly Fake Heiress Possibly Be the Villain? 假千金如此沙雕，怎么可能是反派
[No romance + mysticism + a cast of lovable goofballs + spiritual qi revival + a little wish fulfillment + secret identities + transmigrate into a book + everyone’s favorite] Gu Juanyan transmigrates into a novel about secret identities as a fake heiress side character with her brain in her backside. All she does is court death and give the heroine chances to face-slap her. After learning her situation, Gu Juanyan decides to keep out of trouble and live like a lazy fish. She had hoped to coast t
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After Marrying the Demon in Someone Else's Place, I Went on a Killing Spree 替嫁给魔头后，我杀疯了
[The short drama adaptation, Farewell to the Immortal Bone, is now streaming] She was poisoned by villains, left mentally impaired, and had her dantian shattered and her contract beast stolen. Then she was forced to take another woman's place in marriage to an old demon. When her memories return, she transforms into a little grandmaster who can conquer the heavens and earth in a flash. The Spirit Palaces of the Heavenly Realm revere her, the rulers of the Underworld fear her as a demon, and the
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Level Up by Slaying Monsters: The Useless Girl Is Actually Max Level 杀怪就升级，废材女竟是满级大佬
Xiang Su transmigrates to the cultivation world with a gaming System. A useless cultivator? She has nothing to fear. With her heaven-defying System, she faces no bottlenecks in leveling up. She can exchange points for anything in the System’s shop. Alchemy, forging, beast taming, seven elemental spiritual meridians, secret realms and all kinds of adventures are a piece of cake! Xiang Su becomes a leveling maniac and sets off on her journey through the cultivation world. But she never imagined th
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Returning to the Roots of Humanity 归根人家
If you can see your own experiences reflected in my novel, congratulations: a whole new world is waiting for you. Admission requirements: no cowards, no arrogant people, and no sticklers for convention.
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The Reborn Senior Sister Doesn’t Want to Work Hard 重生大师姐不想努力了
As the sect’s senior disciple, Song Wu had always worked diligently, trained hard, and taught her fellow disciples, all to protect the sect’s reputation. But her fiancé thought she wasn’t gentle or considerate enough. Her fellow disciples called her rigid, strict, and lacking in compassion. Even her master, the sect leader, advised her to be more generous and kind. Heartbroken, Song Wu forced a breakthrough and lost her life. She never expected to be reborn at a time before she had even become t
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Reborn in Another World as a Blade of Grass 重生异世一根草
[Reborn + No System + No Saintly Protagonist + Demon Clan + Golden Finger + Infinite Realms] Jue Chen, a model young man from the 21st century, was hit by an out-of-control truck while helping an old lady cross the street and sent to an immortal cultivation world called Liyue. Unlike other transmigrators, he transmigrated as a blade of spirit grass. After a cultivator discovered him, a chance encounter allowed him to take human form, and from then on he embarked on the path of cultivation. "Huma
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Reborn, the Good-for-Nothing Third Senior Sister Is Done 重生后，废柴三师姐她不干了
[Strong female lead + possible romance + everyone faces a reckoning + never turning back + a touch of ensemble cast] Yun Qingmian died because of the love she had longed for in her previous life. Someone ran a sword through her heart, and she died without a whole body. It was all because her master and several senior and junior fellow disciples cared only for their little junior sister, Ye Youyou. When Ye Youyou was in danger, Yun Qingmian shielded her. When Ye Youyou wanted to buy something, Yu
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Cultivation: In the Name of the Artifact 修仙：以器为名
Transmigration ╬ Cultivation (not traditional) ╬ Power struggles ╬ Purging traitors ╬ Multiple dynasties ╬ No System ╬ Unorthodox cultivator ╬ Beggar leader ╬ Business tycoon ╬ Tomb exploration ╬ Medical authority... Ying Ye, a twenty-first-century expert in restoring cold weapons, unexpectedly transmigrates to the world of cultivation during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. He becomes a retainer of the renowned Qin general Meng Ao. While forging swords, he unexpectedly realize
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