Looking for Books with a Grand Worldbuilding Scope 求宏大世界观的书
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Heavenly Venerable of the Dark Abyss 溟渊天尊
Blue Star was transported to another world by a mighty being and transformed into the Profound Wasteland, where the Great Dao of Earth Immortals was passed down. The human race of the Profound Wasteland is born with a World Seed. Using it as a foundation, cultivators open heaven and earth to create blessed lands and grotto-heavens, then form worlds that become universes. Some cultivators transform into Heavenly Emperors, appointing gods within their worlds to establish heavenly courts. Others be
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Chronicles of the Supernatural 诡异见闻之录
[Cultivation + Cthulhu Mythos + Potion Sequences] Beneath ordinary life, undercurrents are always stirring. Is the truth we see really the truth? During an accident, Zhao Zhipeng encounters an existence beyond human understanding, and a crisis follows in its wake. Under the guidance of Liming Xi, he learns that beyond spiritual energy and magic, there are even more mysterious powers.
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Aren’t You an Evil God? Why Does Seeing Me Lower Your SAN? 不是邪神吗？见我怎么降SAN值
[Vampires, werewolves, technology, potions, ghosts, biohumans, divination, puppets, and every terrifying element you can imagine: this world has them all.] Lin En transmigrated into such a bizarre otherworld and became an apprentice at a potion shop. "Something is wrong with that man! He never uses anesthetic when performing surgery!" "That shop is a scam! The moment you go in, they find a pile of illnesses even if you are perfectly healthy!" "But wait, isn't that shop supposed to be the bes
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The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Transformations 地煞七十二变
The seventy-two transformations of the Earthly Fiends each grant a supernatural ability. A mysterious book with a yellow cover sent Li Chang'an back to the ancient world. Every demon he killed earned him a new ability. Painted-skin ghosts, zombie kings, spider demons... one after another fell beneath his sword. Communing with the netherworld, swordsmanship, demon-slaying... one supernatural ability after another emerged from the book. After he wiped out a hundred ghosts and looked around with hi
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa
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Mysterious Gray Fog: From the Start, I Became a Witch’s Tool of Revenge 诡秘灰雾：开局沦为魔女复仇工具
[Cyberpunk] [Cthulhu Mythos] [Slow Burn] A bizarre world born from the interweaving of technology and myth, where science and theology have merged. When the human body can be modified and genetic locks unlocked, are people still human? The Ship of Theseus paradox takes on a different meaning when it comes to cyborgs. Silence seems to do no good anymore. Yet the even more mysterious “Near-Divine Attendants” tempt humanity into submission and worship. When myth enters reality, beneath the gloomy s
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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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The End of Ten Days 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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I Said There Were No Gods Tonight, So the Gods Fell 我说今夜无神，于是众神陨落
[The print edition, titled A Godless Night, is available to search for on all platforms. The comic adaptation is now online.] [Plot-driven + infinite-flow + mild horror + countless twists] Yan Huang had a terminal illness. He didn't want to die, so he became a player in Instance. The System's evaluation of him read: [Player Yan Huang practices what he preaches and has impeccable morals. Congratulations, you have awakened the talent: Deceiver.] [Deceiver: Each lie you tell has a fifty percent cha
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The Not-So-Cold Magician 不太冷的魔术师
[Publication Contract Signed, Safe to Read][Tales of Youth][Everyone Has Common Sense][Absolutely Wonderful][Magic][Distinctive Characters][No Female Lead] My name is Jin Feichen. Draped in the twilight of my youth, I once thought I would muddle through life, relying on taxpayers to support me forever. I thought that would be my fate. However, all of that came to an end on a rainy afternoon. Youth is a grand stage. On that evening when rain poured down in torrents, the stage reached out to me, a
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My Freshman Internship: You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物
[Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster
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Apocalypse Cockroach 末日蟑螂
Zhang Xiaoqiang is an insignificant nobody, a lazy loser who had been content to lounge around and wait to die. Staying at home lets him avoid the first outbreak of the zombie virus. When he sees his neighbors in the same apartment complex turn into zombies, he is overcome with boundless terror. He struggles to survive alone in an Apocalypse where people prey on each other. At last, worn down by loneliness, he picks up his gear and heads out into a world shrouded in smoke and fire. He takes the
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The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区
After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey...
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Xuanhuan: The Heavenly Dao Is My Brother 玄幻：天道是我兄弟
Lu Fan transmigrated, only to discover that he was born with a useless physique and couldn’t cultivate. Just as he was losing all hope, he unexpectedly activated a System. “What? A million years? System, are you kidding me?” “Please work hard at cultivating, Host.” “System, I don’t know how to cultivate.” “I’ll find you a sparring partner.” The Heavenly Dao: “Who am I? Where am I?” And so, the System locked Lu Fan and the Heavenly Dao away together for a million years. Until a million years late
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Xuanhuan: My Granddaughter Called Off the Engagement, So I Went on a Rampage 玄幻：孙女退婚，反派老祖杀疯了
[Decisive and ruthless + villain + ancestor + invincible] After transmigrating into a fantasy world, Wang Jing becomes the ancestor of the Wang family. But one of his granddaughters, Wang Yanran, has just broken off her engagement to a good-for-nothing? And she even says she’ll destroy the Wang family? Isn’t this the Child of Destiny? Wait, why is there also someone whose only ambition is to live forever? Wang Jing is dumbfounded... Fortunately, he awakens the Invincible Ancestor System! Anythin
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The Age of Beast Taming: My Fated Beast Is the Divine Azure Dragon 御兽时代：我的本命是神兽青龙
All he had from the start was an egg, and every divine beast had to be hatched! Luo Tianya, bearer of Heaven’s Mandate, transmigrated to the Divine Beast Continent, where the very first egg he hatched turned out to be a divine Azure Dragon! With the help of his Invincible Evolution System, he went on to recruit the Six-Eared Macaque, subdue the Vermilion Bird, supreme among flames, and hunt down the divine White Tiger. He formed a contract with the supremely defensive Black Tortoise, won over th
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Apocalypse: The Whole Company Denies the Existence of the 18th Floor 末世：全公司否认18楼存在
[Apocalypse + No System + Reborn + Mystery + One Female Lead + Zombies + Hard Sci-Fi + No Mindless Decisions + Revenge] Reborn six hours before the apocalypse, Chu Yan has not only retained his memories of the future, but also mastered the ultimate secret of genetic evolution! He can become the most powerful god in the apocalypse! He frantically stockpiles supplies, builds weapons, modifies vehicles, and saves his parents, racing against time! He will kill his enemies with his own hands and turn
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The Sacred Advent of the Netherwilds 冥荒圣临
[Xuanhuan] [Interstellar Cultivation] [Spiritual Qi Revival] [Passionate] [High Martial] [From the Apocalypse to Xuanhuan] The universe is a cruel experiment, and the galaxy I live in is an abandoned cultivation vessel designated "Minghuang." When I was ten, a conspiracy turned my planet into data, but I unexpectedly inherited the experiment's ultimate achievement. From then on, I became both the forbidden child hunted across the stars and the fifth specimen under high-dimensional observation. W
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Between Light and Shadow: The Cowardly Knight 光影之间：懦弱的骑士
Amid the endless struggle between light and darkness, a storm that will shake the divine realms is quietly drawing near. The thousand-year pact once sanctioned by the Father God of Creation has shattered with a roar. Athena's divine spear and Lucifer's black wings herald the renewed clash between gods and demons. Hyperion, God of Light, and Erebus, God of Darkness, are preparing for war. Behind them, the gods covet the flesh and blood of every race, seeking only to sate their insatiable hunger f
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The World of Mortals 凡尘的世界
One thought in the mortal world can bring a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood; endless years can bring spring warmth and blooming flowers. Across three thousand star domains, three thousand kinds of Dao fire forge the self and merge with chaos, from which yet more chaos is born, all for the sake of the mortal world. Lin Fan is a technician in modern society, and he and his wife, Lu Xue, have been married for just one year. On an ordinary day, Lin Fan is hospitalized after a car accident and
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Sorry, We Don't Talk About Love After Dark 对不起，夜深不说爱
I didn’t care that people said I’d married up by latching onto a goddess, and I didn’t care that they called me a poor country boy who’d married into wealth. But when my wife’s best friend’s husband came looking for me, I realized I’d been naive. My wife, it turned out, really knew how to “enjoy” life…
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Lone Wanderer on the Star Track: I Collect Scrap Across the Myriad Worlds 星轨孤客：我在诸天收废品
[Sci-fi + multiverse adventure + secret organization + blended genres + first-person narration. Watch the most unassuming orbital debris cleaner become the master of the multiverse’s railways!] I am a wanderer among the stars, an orbital debris cleaner, and a railway judge chosen by fate. Tang Yunchuan, a trainee member of the Eighth Pioneering Train Group on the Starrail Line of the Boundless Star Sea, accidentally awakens the will sealed inside the rearmost carriage during a debris-clearing mi
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A Century of Upheaval 百年丧乱
[Zombies + no saintly protagonist + decisive and ruthless + multiple narrative threads + ensemble cast + apocalypse fortress + war + survival + slow-paced] No rebirth, no supernatural abilities, no System or pocket dimension, no plot armor, and no romantic entanglements. This is not a power fantasy. It focuses more on realistic portrayals, particularly the story of humanity's resistance in an age overrun by zombies, and accounts of people trying to survive the apocalypse from multiple perspectiv
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The Cocoon of Ascension 升维之茧
(Sci-fi and fantasy, ensemble cast, no System, no harem, not mindless; read at your discretion) When humanity first discovered that the souls of the dead became blue particles of light and flowed into the void, the truth of human civilization came crashing down: we were nothing more than crops cultivated for energy by higher-dimensional beings... Earth, Experiment Site No. 138. In this cross-dimensional struggle for survival, humanity is split into factions: fanatics offer themselves up in sacri
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Two Souls, One Body: Magic in My Left Hand, Taoist Arts in My Right 双魂一体：左手魔法右手道术
[Two Souls in One Body + Fusion of Two Systems + No System + Mysterious Magic + Profound Daoist Arts + Not Invincible + Takes Off from Chapter 50] Read at your own risk! Warning: This book contains a large number of spells and talismans. Don't try them if you don't have a mana bar, or you'll bear the consequences! Story: A bolt of lightning on a dry day sends the soul of Zhang Shangyang, a modern young Taoist, transmigrating to another world. There, he ends up sharing a body with Alec, the good-
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Spirit of the Great Void 太虚灵
Divine-mortal forbidden love + powerful heroine + bold and spirited + national crisis in the mortal realm + a god undergoing tribulation + no System, no transmigration. “The Taixu Spirit has emerged from the Three Realms. Is this fate, sin, or tribulation?” Shui Qiong grew up in the forests of the mortal realm, surrounded by wild beasts, eating wild fruit and grains, and drinking from countless springs. Arrogant and unruly, free as the wind, she kept her life on the line, challenged a one-horned
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In Three-Body, I Am Honkai! 人在三体，我是崩坏！
The droplets destroyed every gravitational wave transmitter on Earth, bringing the balance of deterrence in the dark forest to an end. Honkai: Cheng Xin, I’ll give you a choice. Become my apostle and rebuild the dark forest deterrence system. Honkai: I’m sorry, dear Cheng Xin. I deceived you. Honkai was born alongside civilization, and its ultimate goal is to destroy civilization. Honkai: I’m a god who loves a good laugh. You really have brought me plenty of entertainment. I can’t help laughing.
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The Collapse Is Coming 崩坏来袭
Leng Feng transmigrated… Transmigration is one thing, but what’s with becoming so beautiful? What, you say I have a golden finger? I can enter all kinds of anime worlds? Damn it, I’m in! … Wait, these worlds don’t seem to be the anime worlds I know! What the hell is the Finality? I feel like I’ve been tricked. No, as long as I get to meet those anime characters, Leng Feng says he doesn’t care anymore. ┑(￣^ ￣)┍
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My Sword Is in Outer Space 我的剑在外太空
[Attack on Titan-style] [Swordsmanship vs. Technology + War + Mystery + Pure Love] [Not a power fantasy, not fan fiction] In a world threatened by armored troops, humanity is forced to live within the "Sky Dome Sword Net" to avoid attacks by the armored legions. He Yuanjie witnessed the Sword Net being breached and his mother being killed. He joined the Watchers with unwavering resolve, vowing to wipe out every armored soldier and give the world its freedom! As the story unfolds, he uncovers a m
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Building a Beginner's Village from Scratch 从零开始建设新手村
[Lordship and farming + a pseudo Fourth Calamity + magic-tech industry + one heroine, the Tree of Life] Horne only wanted to play a game, but he transmigrates into it and becomes the village chief of a Druid starting village. However, this is a world ruled with blood and terror by vampires. Weak and helpless, Horne has only the Tree of Life he just formed a pact with and the Plant Encyclopedia System to rely on. Through the Plant Encyclopedia, Horne can bring plants from the Myriad Worlds into r
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: I Asked You to Repay Your Debt, Not Paint Skins and Ghosts 聊斋：让你还债，没让你画皮画鬼
[Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio + Bizarre Cultivation + No System + Subverting Expectations + Folk Supernatural Tales + Becoming a God Through Painting + Dark Tone + Lovecraftian Horror + Clever Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] Transmigrating into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, I find myself trapped in the deadly predicament of The Painted Skin from the start, and saddled with an unpayable debt to the dead? Don't panic. I have a White Bone Brush tha
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The Forbidden Zone of the Human Race: Gods and Demons Must Not Enter 人族禁区，神魔止步
When worlds descend and the world itself is threatened, no one can stay out of it! Biological anomalies! Climate anomalies! Geological anomalies! Anomalies in the laws of nature! All anomalies must be eliminated! Become the world’s [white blood cells] and devour them! The West: “I will protect our world!” The East: “We will protect our shared home!” Zhang: “I will protect my wife!” Everyone: “???” [Comedic and lighthearted] [Includes hand-drawn monster illustrations]
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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 Soul Weave of Tianyuan 天源绎魂
As you can see, this is a novel recommendation. Eighteen-year-old graduate Xing Yan storms into the audition for the production of The Lost Path of the Strange Beasts, carrying tomato ketchup to use as fake blood. Director He Yan, wearing a ghost mask, roars at him that “the blood looks like chocolate,” then furiously tells anyone questioning the title to “get lost.” The eccentric film crew is a nonstop source of laughs, and the rookie actor’s job hunt is one mishap after another. Stay tuned f
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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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Beneath the Black Fog 黑雾之下
The appearance of mysterious black archways plunges the entire world into a state of panic, prompting the establishment of the [Lighthouse Base], tasked with exploring the worlds beyond them. When exploring World 127, Tian Yang is betrayed by his teammates. Certain he's about to die, he unexpectedly awakens the Avenger class and embarks on an unprecedented path to power... [The completed novels Edge of the Apocalypse and Warlord are available. Dive in with confidence!]
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Apocalypse Descends: Global Power Outage 末世降临：全球断电
The electromagnetic radiation and high-energy charged particles released by a solar storm will trigger violent activity in the upper atmosphere and near-Earth space. They can disrupt Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signals, interfere with high-frequency radio communications, completely cut off high-frequency communications along aviation routes, damage electronic components, and destroy optical systems. ...When that happens, there will be no phones, computers, internet, Wi-Fi, or even
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Deep-Sea Fission 深海裂变
The vast land remains largely unexplored, while the deep ocean is undergoing enormous changes as Japan dumps nuclear wastewater into the sea. Once-gentle ocean species are evolving into savage, bloodthirsty creatures, putting the marine ecosystem under severe strain. Many sea creatures are beginning to migrate onto land, sparking a fierce clash between terrestrial and deep-sea civilizations. At the same time, several mysterious and powerful forces within human civilization engage in a final show
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The Sorcerer's Legend: Star's Edge 术士传奇之星涯传
This is the first book in the Sorcerer's Legend series. It tells the legendary story of a protagonist from another world who is reborn, takes revenge on his enemies, and transmigrates through time and space to our world.
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Solomon's Perjury (Complete in Three Volumes) 所罗门的伪证（全三册）
A timeless classic of Japanese mystery fiction! The wounds hidden by lies will never heal. Only the truth can bring healing. A group of ordinary teenagers face a bizarre death at their school during the summer they turn fourteen. Fearlessly, they challenge the rules of the adult world. In that summer, malice twists human nature, but the truth the teenagers unearth together will ultimately heal their hearts. Part One: The Incident A boy's death is a mirror, reflecting good and evil, falsehood and
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The Crimson Foundation 深红基金会
The Crimson King and the Broken God wagered on a game, with the Three Brothers of Death joining in. All the worlds became a chessboard, and all things became pieces. Countless different world-stories were stitched together to form the board for their game of chance, turning those worlds' protagonists into pieces for the Supreme Ones. The fates of every character were now in the hands of the Supremes. When opportunity comes, someone will always seize it, and the Supreme Divinities scatter these c
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God Said! 神说！
God said, “Let there be light!” And so Lin Yi came into the world, determined to prove that God exists, though by another path. If humanity created artificial intelligence, then who created us? The other night, I was watching the movie Prometheus at home when a line made me stop and think. A robot son asks the human father who created him, “Father! If you created me, then who created you?” That got me wondering: if God created us, then who created God? So I decided to sit down and try writing a
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