Fantasy Novels Where the Protagonist Plays Weak While Secretly Building His Own Faction, With All-Around Strength 玄幻扮猪吃老虎，暗中培养自己的势力，全能性重
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- 51 A Mixed Spiritual Root from the Start 开局杂灵根 Qin Tian was tested at fifteen and found to have a worthless spirit root, becoming synonymous with uselessness. At eighteen, he faced mockery from his family and betrayal by his fiancee. His romantic rival even destroyed his spirit root completely, turning him into an ordinary person. After plunging into the abyss for four months, he returned and embarked on the path of cultivation. [Traditional fantasy + no System + no transmigration + the blurb can't do it justice, read the story] 31.9kReads8.7Score5kShelves
- 52 Flying Immortal on a Warship: I'm a Ship Cultivator in a Xuanhuan World 御舰飞仙：我在玄幻当舰修 [Overwhelming firepower] [Unmatched technology] [One heroine] [No brainless characters] A young captain arrives in this world of fantasy, bringing with him the Xihe, a warship that once ruled the seas of stars. No matter how you fly through the heavens or shatter mountains and rivers, even the arrogant cultivators must bow before the miracle known as “science.” Rift cannons, two-dimensional foils, light-particle strikes, black hole bombardments... Mechanical golden cores, electronic nascent soul 21.3kReads9.4Score2.2kShelves
- 53 Xuanhuan: The System Helps Me Refine the Divine Art 玄幻：系统带我炼神诀 He has control over all six realms, and they are all his sons! That year, he was forced to leap from a building. In his final moments, he swallowed a family heirloom disc and unexpectedly obtained a System! In this life, he arrived in Tianwu! Breaking through his shackles, he weathered tribulation and became an immortal with the System at his side, then rose to godhood in a single stride and ascended to the pinnacle of divinity: the Supreme! “Greetings, Supreme! The foundations of the six realms 4.6kReads8.9Score373Shelves
- 54 Live! My Daily Cultivation in a Xuanhuan World 直播！我在玄幻世界的修仙日常 (Lighthearted, power fantasy, sly schemer, the rise of China, easygoing daily life, one heroine, cultivation for all) “The man standing before you is the Pavilion Master of the Divine Lord Pavilion, the greatest genius on the Holy Spirit Continent, the founder of Blue Star’s cultivation system, the progenitor of cultivation in the Dragon Kingdom... Mr. Li Xuanye!” Li Xuanye transmigrated to a fantasy world and received the Otherworld Livestream System from the start. As long as he started a live 744Reads9.2Score100Shelves
- 55 I've Arrived in a Fantasy World, Surely My Life Should Be Going Better 来到玄幻世界，我总该过好了吧 [Xuanhuan, Multiple Heroines, Romance, Slow-Paced, Lighthearted, Happy Ending] Tired of life, Lin Ye climbed the mountain at night to pay respects to his parents. It was supposed to be his final act. But then came a sudden pillar of light piercing the sky, a mysterious jade pendant, transmigration, and a new world? Having let go of everything, Lin Ye decides to live another life. Here I come, new world. ???? But when Lin Ye wakes up, he finds that this world isn't quite what he expected. The alo 95Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 56 Xuanhuan: I'm Doomed! How Did I Become Invincible? 玄幻：夭寿了！我怎么就无敌了？ [Transmigration + Sign-In + Invincibility + Multiple Worlds + System + Divine Son + Prodigy + No Female Lead] Zhang Chen is born in the Beiming Dao Domain. His father was the previous Divine Son of the Ancient Zhang Clan, and his mother was once a monster-level talent on the Prodigy Rankings. From the start, he awakens the Indestructible Hongmeng Physique and is named the clan’s Divine Son! After that... Sign in for the Forgotten Life Blade Art: one slash sends all into reincarnation, where life 22.3kReads9.1Score2.3kShelves
- 57 EN Xuanhuan: Invincible, Starting with an Innate Holy Body and Dao Embryo 玄幻：无敌从先天圣体道胚开始 [Morally gray protagonist, lots of fights and immortal battles! Vast world + swordsmanship + battle for the path to the throne + invincible power fantasy + overwhelming family backing + fake System + creating a perfect world] After the Battle of the Origin’s Destruction, the Nine Immortal Domains were born. Later, the immeasurable tribulation arrived without warning. The heavens were engulfed in karma, darkness revived, and a world-ending war began, shattering the Immortal Domains. A new era daw 20.1kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves
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Ying Zheng: So My Ninth Brother Is the Peerless Master! 嬴政：原来我九弟才是绝世高手！
Ye Ming accidentally finds a tiny pagoda and transmigrates into a world where the histories of many dynasties converge. He becomes the ninth son of Emperor Xuanyuan, with Ying Zheng as his eldest brother, Li Shimin as his second, Liu Bang as his third, and Xiang Yu as his fourth, followed by Cao Cao... He is graceful as an immortal, a peerless spearman, and a once-in-a-generation genius! Alone with his spear, he pacifies the four seas, destroys the Guixu, and slays immortals and gods! The Nether
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- 59 The Carefree Young Prince 逍遥小王爷 A legendary war god transmigrates to another world and becomes a useless vassal prince of Great Qin. He has a title but no power? That won't do! First, he'll seize control! The steppe barbarians are marching south to attack the frontier? Second Battalion Commander, bring out the cannons I just had built. Today, we'll teach them how to fire! The Xiongnu of the great desert want to join the fun too? Second Battalion Commander, blast them all as well! The martial arts masters of the jianghu think t 1.3kReads8.6Score129Shelves
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Reborn as a Good-for-Nothing Bastard Son, I Defy Fate with a Spirit Spring and Fox 穿成废柴庶子，灵泉灵狐助我逆天
A wisp of divine soul carries a spiritual spring space as it transmigrates to the cultivation world of Cangxuan Star. Li Yang wakes to find himself the discarded good-for-nothing illegitimate son of the Marquis of Loyalty and Valor's household. His dantian is shattered, his stepmother has plotted against him, and he's plunged into mortal danger the moment he opens his eyes! Fortunately, the spiritual spring space has come with his soul. Its clear spring can cleanse his marrow and meridians, its
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- 61 Proving the Way Through Dust and Mud 尘泥证道 A flash flood swallows a village. Li Yang’s parents give their lives to protect him, and the fifteen-year-old flees to Beijiao with the black stone passed down through the Li family. He has no idea that this strange stone, which cannot be burned or shattered with a hammer, is an ancient treasure left behind by immortal cultivators. The moment his blood claims it, a half-acre spiritual field and a pool of immortal spring water unfold from his palm, along with an unbelievable law that makes time —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Nine Star Hegemon Body Art 九星霸体诀
Was he an Alchemy Emperor reborn, or had he fused with another soul? Long Chen was a talentless youth whose spiritual root, spiritual blood, and spiritual bone had been stolen. Relying on the divine alchemy techniques in his memories, he cultivates the mysterious Nine-Star Hegemon Body Art, pierces through layer upon layer of mystery, and uncovers a world-shaking plot. He commands the universe in his palm, treads upon the sun and moon, and suppresses evil spirits and wicked gods. Rumor has it in
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Great Tang: The Divine Princess's Husband, Getting Stronger by Being a Slacker 大唐：神级驸马爷，咸鱼就变强
[10,000 characters a day] + [Great Tang] + [alternate history] + [feel-good power fantasy] + [invincible] + [high-spirited] + [Showbiz] + [inventions] In the ninth year of Wude, Qin Mu arrived in Chang’an with a letter in hand and pushed open the gates of the Zhangsun residence. He awakened a System and received rewards. Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained the calligraphy techniques of the Sage of Calligraphy. Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have obtained the legacy of the Immortal o
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The Age of Universal Emperors: I've Already Simulated an Invincible Build 全民皇帝时代：我已模拟无敌
A dream brought to an abrupt end! One billion people transmigrate into a game where everyone becomes an emperor! From the start, you're the supreme emperor above all! A wine pond and a meat forest, women, wine, and song, an imperial will that shakes the four seas! Powerful ministers seize control, eunuchs crowd around, relatives of the empress meddle in government, and imperial power slips away! A ruler presiding over a dying dynasty, a puppet on the throne, surrounded by danger! Watching one “e
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I Hunt Down Transmigrators in Ancient China 我在古代抓捕穿越者
The protagonist, Long Chen, transmigrates into an ancient world. But it turns out that world is full of transmigrators. They belong to many different factions. Long Chen, himself a transmigrator, receives a mission: eliminate every other transmigrator. …
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I Play the Fool Just to Take Down the Wise! 我扮猪专吃老虎！
In my previous life, I waged war against countless races and traveled across countless worlds, earning the respect of all creation within and beyond the universe as the Night Venerable of Tribulation Transcendence. In the end, during the great tribulation of ascension, I was framed by immortals from beyond the universe and perished in the tribulation of inner demons. Yet I awoke from a dream a thousand years ago. In this life, I’ll settle the regrets left by that tribulation, repay those I wrong
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- 67 I Build My Power in the Shadows 我在幕后培养势力 [Behind the scenes, building a faction, System, slow-paced, large cast of supporting characters] The arrival of the supernatural shattered Blue Star's peace. Those who gained power often gave themselves over to their desires, bringing out the worst in human nature. A vengeful female ghost in a murder case; a killer with lightning-fast Seven-Step Fist in a string of murders; a construction laborer who rises to power after a shooting in an abandoned building; a police officer whose bullets can tur 201Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 68 Spiritual Qi Revival: I Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger 灵气复苏：我在扮猪吃虎 Lin Chen transmigrates into a world where spiritual qi has revived. Since he didn't awaken a talent, his teachers, classmates, and family see him as a complete good-for-nothing, and even his girlfriend breaks up with him. Awakened ones? What's that? I'm an unparalleled cultivator! Across the Myriad Worlds, no matter how peerless or brilliant you are, no matter how you shake the ages, I can suppress you with a wave of my hand. I have enemies in every direction and factions all around me. No matte 72.1kReads8.6Score7.7kShelves
- 69 Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger: Quietly Growing Strong Behind the Scenes 扮猪吃虎：我在幕后悄悄变强 [Behind the Scenes + Feel-Good Story + Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger + Decisive and Ruthless] Wang Ping transmigrated into a game world and assumed he was the only one who had been reborn. He planned to use his knowledge of the future to grow stronger quickly. But when he saw a crowd of people outside the home of a hidden big shot, all shouting that they wanted to become his disciples, he realized that the way to get stronger was to work behind the scenes. And so the story begins! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 Building My Power, Forging Legends Across Worlds 发展势力，我在各界缔造传说 My name is Zhang Chuan. I was chosen by an unknown celestial body to undergo a trial: in each parallel world, I must establish and develop my own faction. In a world ravaged by catastrophe, I’m tasked with building a shelter. In a steam-powered world, I’m tasked with building a mobile castle powered by a perpetual-motion engine and roaming the wasteland. In a martial arts dynasty, I’m tasked with establishing the Myriad Swords Manor and dominating the martial world. In a fantasy world —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 Building My Power from Scratch 从零开始发展势力 Monsters run rampant, sects are everywhere, the imperial court is in decline, and the common people live in poverty. An ancestral bronze cauldron is his only support in this world. When he sees countless monsters slaughtering his fellow humans, he leads the charge. “Form ranks, everyone! Follow me and wipe out the monsters!” —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Doomsday Doppelganger: This Reclusive Noble Has Turned to the Dark Side 末日分身：这个死宅贵族黑化了
A funny transmigration-and-System novel featuring high-level magic and combat, leveling-up zombies, leveling-up clones, and an invincible main body. Wang Dahai, a corporate drudge, finds his soul in another world inside the body of a minor noble named Cade Nicola. The original owner was a good-for-nothing who couldn’t use magic or battle aura, but lucky for him, I’ve got a golden finger!
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- 73 There's a Fat Guy in the Cultivation World Who's Ridiculously Cautious 修仙界有个胖子超苟 (Beast-taming cultivation, unlimited leveling, power fantasy, stronger against strong foes and stronger still against the weak) Zhang Baiwang is a very fat young man from a small frontier city in the Xia Kingdom. His father is a merchant who had him late in life and spoils him, so Zhang Baiwang is both ignorant and uneducated. However, having grown up around his father's business, he's picked up some knack for reading people. By a stroke of luck, he obtains an ancient divine artifact, the Demon- 696Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 The Trillionaire CEO’s Beloved 千亿总裁心尖宠 The real heiress, Ye Wanwan, is manipulated by the fake heiress and ends up pregnant with President Fu's baby. After learning the truth, President Fu marries Ye Wanwan first, and they fall in love later, each choosing the other. With President Fu backing her, Ye Wanwan dishes out face-slapping to a whole crowd of green tea rivals. 94Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Hand Over the Two-Way Portal From the Start, and the Nation Invades the Cultivation World 开局上交双穿门，举国入侵修真界
[Report it to the nation + unite the strength of the whole country] In an age of high martial arts, spiritual qi revival, and incoming beast tides, humanity is on the brink of extinction. It’s practically the apocalypse. “Well, the thing is, my special ability is a little unusual.” “Every 72 hours, or three days, I transmigrate to another world.” “The people there… can fly on swords and make their words come true!” “Yes, the immortal-cultivation world you’re thinking of.” “Three days later, I re
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- 76 Maple Fate City 枫缘城 The world is in chaos, rife with deceit and treachery. Evil spirits run rampant, and people are never satisfied. Countless peoples and clans are locked in endless war. The Jiang clan betrayed its allies, ambushing and wiping out the Jian and Hong clans. Only Jian Shu and Jian Hongtian, who were away on a journey, escaped by sheer luck! Thunderous roars, hatred that sears the heart, a blood feud beyond reconciliation: they will fight to the death! At this very moment... Jian Shu, who once revered 529Reads—Score—Shelves
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Your Highness, the Foolish Prince: Your Ugly Consort Has Restored Your Family's Honor 傻王殿下，丑妃替你重振家声了
Prosecutor Xiao Qingyu is caught in a fire while on a mission. When she opens her eyes, she has become the General's household's “ugly, useless legitimate daughter,” someone everyone can bully! She is set up as soon as she arrives and married to a foolish prince. The two “losers” make a perfect pair, and the whole capital is waiting to laugh at them. People throw rotten vegetables at her when she goes out, her half-sister mocks her in public, saying, “A fool is just right for you,” and her famil
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- 78 The World Inside the Painting 画中世界 A fantastical, kaleidoscopic world that feels like ancient times, yet isn't. Immortals, demons, and Buddhists all coexist here. We have a wonderful story to tell, full of human warmth and the flavor of the jianghu. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Eternal Demon 永魔 Traditional cultivation. The protagonist is ruthless and merciless, no holier-than-thou hero, no heroine, dark fiction! No System!! If you want to become an immortal in the heavens, you must climb the road to immortality over the bones of others. This isn't AI-generated. I wrote it by hand!!! 3.2kReads5.4Score316Shelves
- 80 Yingtai Sword 营台剑 “Master, I don't dare hope for skills that make me invincible. I only ask that I won't have to depend on others when I roam the martial world. Please pass them on to your disciple!” Li Zheng lay prostrate on the ground, his voice breaking as he sobbed. “Heh, you silly boy. Come closer...” 89Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Commoner 白丁 When immortals fight, mortals suffer. Bai Family Village was caught in the crossfire. Of its more than 160 residents, almost everyone died, and only a handful survived. Bai Ding was one of them. Determined to get justice, Bai Ding resolved to enter the immortal sects, cultivate the Dao, and seek out his enemies. But cultivating immortality was no easy feat... A mortal cultivates immortality: no System, no transmigration, no harem. 578Reads8.3Score104Shelves
- 82 Tricked into Cultivating Immortality 被骗去修仙 [Decisive and ruthless + smart protagonist + mortal’s Cultivation] Cultivation? I was tricked into it... Wang Hao was an unremarkable young man in the 21st century. After an accident in which he saved someone, a strange old man tricked him into cultivating. Faced with schemes, plots, and deadly dangers at every turn, how will he use his wits to survive in this Cultivation world where the strong prey on the weak...? 751Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 83 You Call This the Greatest Sect Under Heaven? 你说这是天下第一宗？ [A sect that raises its disciples + an unconventional take on cultivation + ensemble cast] The Chiyang Sect has three treasures: a master who runs fast, strange senior brothers and sisters, and a sect that’s been poor forever. New disciple Xiao Yaoyin had hoped to latch onto a powerful immortal sect, but instead became the most troublesome “work-in-progress” for eldest senior brother Li Tengqian. He has to teach her how to draw qi into her body, deal with the sect’s budget deficit, and stop his 459Reads—Score100Shelves
- 84 All My Disciples Want to Claim Me 徒儿们都想占有我 [Yandere + Multiple heroines + Love triangle drama + No System] After transmigrating as an ancient Demon Lord, all I wanted was to lie flat and enjoy my retirement. But my four troublesome disciples had already become the nightmare of the cultivation world. One was the leader of the righteous path, one the ruler of the demonic path, one a grandmaster of alchemy, and one the demon race's empress. They fought whenever they met, but were united like never before on one point: find me, lock me up, a 18.4kReads7.5Score2.5kShelves
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I’m Done Holding Back in the Apocalypse. If You Don’t Like It, Let’s Fight 老娘在末世不装了，看不惯就干吧
[Alien heroine, top-tier powers, strictly business, male lead, not an arrogant overpowered hero, a major who puts herself on the line for the people.] [Both leads are cool and distant, putting country and family before romance. Guaranteed face-slapping of scumbags, with a little warmth.] The apocalypse has arrived. What does that have to do with aliens?! The heroine Bai Ting, blessed by a god-tier civilization, uses her infinite-reset rebirth ability to return to different points in time and sp
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I Took a Transmigrator on a Rampage Through the Mortal Realm and Cultivated into an Immortal! 我带穿越女杀疯人界！修炼成仙！
[Spatial realm + strong female lead + transmigrate + business + building a faction] There is a lawless region on the Cangling Continent known as Zhongzhou Island. Six thousand years ago, the land of Zhongzhou shook without end, and the sea swallowed everything around it. People fled in droves, and no one was ever able to enter the region again. In the hundred-thousandth year after spiritual energy vanished from the Cangling Continent, lightning and thunder filled the skies above Zhongzhou Island
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Summoning Villains from the Start: I Rule from Behind the Scenes 开局召唤反派，幕后我为尊
(The rating has just been released and will rise later! Big shots, please head to the main text.) [System Summons]+ [Invincible Behind the Scenes]+ [Factional Conquest]+ [Decisive and Ruthless]+ [Never Takes a Loss]+ [Nonstop Thrills] Chu Tian transmigrates to the Tianxu Continent and becomes the useless heir of the Martial King’s residence in Dongzhou. He is afflicted with a strange poison, unable to cultivate for the rest of his life, and reduced to a laughingstock of the dynasty. But no one
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Transmigrating Through the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Sun and Moon Light My Way 穿越之日月照我隋唐路
He was just a 2025 spy operating on the edge of a knife. An accidental explosion sent him transmigrating to the turbulent years of the Sui and Tang dynasties. Reborn in another body, he finds himself the young lord of a frontier people. Should he take up the shepherd's crook and continue living a pastoral life? Or command a hundred thousand mounted archers and challenge the Sui and Tang, the Tujue, and the Gaobaixin Japanese? A cinnabar mole, a moonlight of the heart... His reach extends to ever
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