A Classic Chinese Cultivation Manual Passed Down Through the Ages 一本中华传承经典修炼秘籍
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Getting to the Bottom of Mind-Reading 起底观心术
When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get
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- 2 EN The Heavenly Eye Feng Shui Master 天眼风水师 [A feng shui novel] [Featuring feng shui, Daoist medicine, psychology, and economics; read faces and phone numbers] [Practical insights] [Explaining the esoteric with science] My master hastily taught me the art of divination and passed down a few books. Before I even had the chance to formally begin my training in the mountains, he sent me down into the world to help people... Where can I even go to complain about that? Amid the mortal world, I help others and cultivate myself. 694.2kReads9.6Score146.3kShelves
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Peerless Secret Words: The Spirit Heavens Chronicle 绝世密言:灵天记
Through fantastical stories, this book explores the mysteries of the universe and explains the principles of life, helping readers understand why people live. In doing so, it can help them put their worries aside and embrace life's experiences with greater optimism and energy!
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The Message from the People of the Earth's Core 地心人的传话
This is a science fiction novel, inspired by an unusual dream I had and written after I collected some information. Please read it as science fiction. It is purely fictional, so don’t take it seriously. Another reason I wrote it is that I hope human civilization can truly unite, live in harmony, and advance science and technology together until we reach an early-stage civilization and enter the golden age we dream of. Finally, I want to tell everyone that I have never encountered the so-called s
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Realm Capital 界都
I contain all things. It all began on the first day I entered Jiangcheng Elite Academy... This is a world where Blue Star is divided in two, five hundred years after the spiritual qi revival. You'll find that everyone around me, whether ordinary or exceptional, is remarkable in their own way. The universe has ten domains, the ten domains have the Milky Way, the Milky Way has Blue Star, Blue Star has the Spirit Realm, the Spirit Realm has Huaxia, and Huaxia has Jiedu... Are you ready to embark on
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- 6 This World Is Such a Mess! 这个世界好混乱啊! Who am I? Where am I? Am I dreaming? Everyone in the world seems strange. What was that I heard… My heart hurts so much. At last, I picked up my knife… I died… I came back to life, but I no longer had a heart… This is a world with just one continent and a few islands, and it is on the brink of an eerie apocalypse. Can someone without a heart feel the warmth and coldness of human life? How can I hold on to my heart in a world gone mad? Why can I calmly watch the living die right before my eyes? 188Reads—Score—Shelves
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I Was Common as Dirt, Yet I Became an Immortal 我本庸俗却成仙
[Want to learn immortal cultivation and the Dao? Give it a look!] I yearn to become an immortal. Cultivating the truth and comprehending the Dao have been my lifelong dream, and I practice immortal cultivation in the real world. This is an unknown story, yet one brimming with wonder... Birth, aging, sickness, and death go on without end; cultivate the truth and comprehend the Dao to transcend them. I was once ordinary, yet became an immortal, neither suffering nor indulging in pleasure. I yearn
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- 8 Cultivation Is a Philosophy 修仙是门哲学 This is my story of cultivating immortality, an unknown story, a story full of mystery... [Short Story Collection] [At the End of Science Lies the Supernatural] [Understand the stories in this book, and you can cultivate immortality] I am a real cultivator living in the modern world... I seek to become an immortal, free and joyful as the heavens. Cultivate immortality through science, ascend through physics. 382Reads—Score106Shelves
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The Unconventional Path to Immortality 一本不正经的修仙感悟
[Fantasy] [Xianxia] [Xuanhuan] [Comedy] [Urban] After three lifetimes, I finally attained the Dao, Roaming the mortal world, laughing at its vicissitudes. I ferry souls across the River of the Underworld, following fate, But whoever the hell dares lay a hand on my people, I’ll beat you to death, you little bastard...
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Surviving the Ordeal 熬过劫难
First, be certain that you can reach the summit. Then believe this book can rewrite your fate, and believe in the power of belief. By the time you read this book, the identity you have now will already have begun to loosen its grip. The moment you choose to begin, you have already left mediocrity behind. Can my story help you find your own path to salvation? May words reveal the power they truly hold.
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Treading the Heavens to Become a God 踏天封神
[A pure ensemble-cast story, written entirely by hand. Aside from the first chapter, which has a lot of filler to set things up, the rest is absolutely exciting. If you don’t like it, feel free to criticize me.] “When the primordial chaos was divided, three great beings appeared between heaven and earth: humans, ferocious beasts, and demons. Humans developed intelligence early, but their bodies were frail, leaving them at the bottom of the pecking order. Ferocious beasts were unenlightened, bu
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The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon, Explained with Laughs 黄帝内经爆笑讲解版
Still missing out on China’s millennia-old treasures of health and wellness because classical texts are so hard to understand? This book breaks free from the dry style of traditional texts and uses laugh-out-loud language to unpack the foundational classics of Chinese medicine! It is divided into three volumes. The first offers clear, accessible explanations of the chapters of the Suwen, breaking down the underlying medical principles of yin and yang, the five elements, the organs, and qi and bl
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The Prequel to Journey to the West 西游前传
[Black Myth: Prequel to the Journey to the West] Why could Shen Gongbao be deified while Jiang Ziya could not? Why could Sun Wukong become a Buddha directly, with a higher rank than Guanyin Bodhisattva? Why did the Golden Cudgel appear in the Eastern Sea? Why did Hou Yi shoot down the suns? Why did Nezha have to die once first? Where did Nüwa go in Journey to the West? This book reveals all the answers!
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Cultivation Essentials 修仙常识
The first cultivation encyclopedia to combine modern science with the wisdom of the mystic arts. Tailored for those who transmigrate, its five volumes unravel the secrets of cultivation, from basic survival to ascending to immortality. Use chemistry to optimize alchemy, engineering to revolutionize artifact crafting, and cryptography to strengthen talismans and arrays. This book will help you use scientific thinking to outclass the cultivation world, survive steadily in another world, and ascend
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The Ninth-Heaven Mortal Venerable 九重凡尊
On my ninth life as an Immortal Venerable, I've become the most irresistible man in the mortal world! Zhu Shifan is deeply frustrated. In his previous life, he was the mighty Thunder Venerable of the Immortal Realm, but after being framed in a wrongful case, he was banished to the mortal world and given a mixed spiritual root. The day his memories return, his enemies are already on their way to destroy him... “Had your fun? It's my turn to steal the show!” Ruthless and decisive? That's my tra
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The Eternal Wisdom of Weiqi 弈旨千秋
Core theme: Using the four realms of Go as its framework, the story explores Go's philosophical depth as a microcosm of Chinese culture through a journey of Go practice across time and space. It echoes Ban Gu's Treatise on Go: “Go above contains images of heaven and earth; next, the rule of emperors; in the middle, the power of the Five Hegemons; and below, the affairs of the Warring States.” In the first 17 chapters, the protagonist transmigrates through time and space to grasp the philosophica
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- 17 The Young Master 少年高手 The Tribulations of Mortal Life: Officials stake their lives in the halls of power, while merchants scheme for wealth. Farmers head to the fields before dawn, and workers join the rush-hour traffic at four in the morning. Performers onstage bare plenty of skin, while worshippers in temples knock their foreheads raw. They say all this prosperity is just a dream, but chasing it is no easy task. Don’t mock those who pursue fame and fortune in this mortal world: they do so because they live in it. U 1.6kReads—Score121Shelves
- 18 Immortal Shadows, Dustbound Fate 尘缘仙影 He inherits a family heirloom ring, only to discover that it contains a whole world within. He had planned to finish college and then return home to stay by his parents' side. But some people have nothing better to do after a full meal, and they force Su Ming step by step down the abyss of Cultivation… 1.1kReads7.2Score102Shelves
- 19 The Dominating Chaos Art 霸道混沌诀 Born with a Chaos Physique, he obtains a cultivation method formed from primordial chaos at the dawn of creation, inherits a thousand years of memories from the patriarch, and gains a divine ring containing a pocket world of blessed grotto-heavens. He is accompanied by a transformed ginseng doll. He crushes vicious thugs and arrogant young masters with a single move, and wipes out demons and monsters with one punch. He punishes evil and promotes good, restoring clarity to the world. Whoever offe 2.5kReads8.3Score193Shelves
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All Beings Beneath the Light 光遇众生
Adventure + high-IQ showdowns + suspicious, scheming characters + no female lead + ensemble cast + slow pace + revelations about the world’s truth, layer by layer (A Sky: Children of the Light fanfiction) After transmigrating into the world of Sky: Children of the Light, the Duke becomes a Light Child manipulated by the ancestors. “Go make an offering,” they say. “It is your supreme glory.” He believes them and fights his way forward with his companions, only to discover the horrifying truth aft
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Immortality Begins with Burning Through Your Lifespan 长生从燃烧寿元开始
[Dark cultivation + aesthetics of pain + not a wish-fulfillment story] Also known as The Frosted String. That winter solstice, beads of blood hardened like sugar, so sweet they turned bitter. Seven-year-old Lu Guichen curled up in a rice jar, watching his mother's severed finger caught in the crack. Blood dripped onto malt sugar, becoming the only sweetness he dared to taste in six thousand years. ▌“My dantian holds no spiritual energy, only, ” His mother's needle and thread weave through the a
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The Great Ming Surveillance Court 大明道察院
[See the epic history of the Daoist sects in the early Ming through the eyes of a transmigrator] In the third year of Hongwu, the Hongwu Emperor established the mysterious Dao Investigation Bureau to rein in Daoist sorcerers who could turn the tide at will. There is no carefree Daoist life here, only the ironclad rule that “magic must be bounded by law, and the Dao restrained by regulations.” Even mighty cultivators who can fly through the skies and burrow through the earth must face execution i
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Record of Awakening and Returning to the Truth 觉醒归真录
Modern entrepreneur Lin Weixi glimpses the path of cultivation taken by Shen Zhifei in the Tang dynasty through an ancient mirror. Amid the clash between urban anxiety and the stillness of Zen, she draws on the wisdom of Buddhism and Daoism to open the door to awakening. When a flood of data meets philosophical reflections on mountains and rivers, a thousand years of resonance across time and space in the mirror will ultimately guide two souls toward the true nature of life.
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Lin Daiyu at Max Level: Reforming the Immortal Dao's Elite Families 满级黛玉:整顿仙道豪门
Lin Shu, a modern prodigy well versed in both the arts and sciences, with knowledge spanning ancient and modern times, died in the prime of her life because of a conspiracy. When she opened her eyes again, she had become the crying infant Lin Daiyu. In this world, the Story of the Stone still existed, but things were far from ordinary! The Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue families were four immortal cultivation clans that dominated China and monopolized its spiritual ley lines. The Grand View Garden was
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The Hot-Blooded Hunter: God’s Assault 热血猎人神之袭击
[Survival] [Hunting] [Fighting the Japanese invaders and looting their gear] [Cultivation] Wang Fei has just entered the world of cultivation when he's forced into becoming a live-in son-in-law. One blow shatters his dantian, setting him on a long road from staying alive to rising to greatness. Though he has lost his cultivation, he takes countless disciples. This novel was not written by AI. Every word was painstakingly typed out by the author, who only hopes readers will enjoy the story in its
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A Female Feng Shui Master's Work Diary 一个女风水师的工作日志
The author met a feng shui master and exchanged contact information with her. After seeing her work journal, the author found some of its contents worth reading. They also carry on traditional culture, so the author is sharing them here with her permission.
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The Heavenly Book: The Imperial Star Descends to the Mortal World, One Sword Proves the Dao 天书:帝星化凡,一剑证道
[A golden-scaled dragon is no pond-dweller. Soon, the Heavenly Book will descend from the ninth heaven!] What would happen if Dugu Qiubai lived for a thousand years? A Heavenly Book spans a thousand years of China’s history, bringing him into contact with humans, demons, immortals, and Buddhas. (A historical cultivation novel about immortality, featuring Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ideas that may be difficult for most readers. Not a wish-fulfillment story; slow burn, so read with care.) [Imm
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Cultivation Survival for the Nation's Fortune: I Can See Hidden Hints 国运修仙求生:我能看见隐藏提示
[National Fortune Survival + Livestreaming + Immortal Cultivation + God-Tier Hints] Blue Star’s resources are running dry, and the National Fortune Game has arrived! Two people from each country are randomly selected to enter the Cave Realm and cultivate immortality. If a contestant dies, their country’s national fortune will be deducted and a natural disaster will follow. Resources obtained by contestants in the Cave Realm have a chance of being returned to their countries with a critical bonus
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Livestream: Teaching Kids to Write Essays and Be Good People 直播:教孩子写作文,学做人
Writing compositions is easy! This book shows parents how to guide their children in writing and in learning how to be good people. Drawing on traditional Chinese thought, it explores methods and techniques for parent-child education.
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Learning Feng Shui from Third Grandpa 跟着三爷爷学风水
Born into a family of Feng Shui practitioners, I became someone who defies fate the moment I entered the world of Yin-Yang Feng Shui. As one strange event after another unfolded, I learned to recognize fortune and misfortune, ward off disaster, and handle everything with ease. To all the brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunties passing by, please leave a book review here! Remember to comment, too! Thank you! If you like learning, remember to bring your brain along. There’s plenty of useful informa
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The Legend of Junxiang: A Prequel to The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, Part 2 倚天前传之君襄风云录2
Another work by the author of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber: The Ming Cult's Revenge. [The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber] [The Legend of the Condor Heroes] [The Return of the Condor Heroes] [Wuxia] [System] [Transmigration] [Jin Yong fan fiction] This isn't a wish-fulfillment story about seducing other men's wives and taking in one's master's wife or junior sister. Xiangyang falls, and Guo Jing and Huang Rong die. On Mount Emei, the “Little Eastern Heretic” Guo Xiang uses her sword as a brus
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A Handy Guide to I Ching Ramblings 易学碎碎念宝典
[A practical guide to the I Ching + fortune-telling + feng shui + luck + arrangement + adjustment + psychology] How can you harness good fortune and make life better with every step? How can the I Ching move beyond ancient books and become an everyday tool for seeing through patterns and solving problems? This is my open-source I Ching project. I'm sharing the underlying principles of Bazi, feng shui, Plum Blossom numerology, and physiognomy with you. Practical and verifiable. No obscure termi
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- 33 The Ten Heavenly Stems: Cultivation’s Secret Code 修真密码十天干 Here, I will reveal the underlying principles behind the flow of time and space, knowledge passed down only to the worthy. I have two junior sisters. They have heavy workloads every day, and still have to cultivate with me. They said they wished they could study while they worked. So I wrote down the most essential parts of what our master taught us in this book. I thought there must be others like them, enduring the same hardships but never giving up on the pursuit of truth. 1.1kReads8.4Score499Shelves
- 34 The Eight Characters of Destiny Are the Ancestors of Science 八字是科学它祖宗 Newly released books tend to get low ratings, but everyone who has read this one gives it five stars. Many readers enjoy it so much that they have to read it twice. Some even ask, "Why isn't a book this good popular? Is there no justice?" Haha, thank you for your support. [This book follows the principle of "observing the Way of Heaven and carrying out its course": understand your own fate, find the bugs in your System, stand at the highest point of the Heavenly Way, and look down on all living 12.1kReads8.8Score3.2kShelves
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Heshen: Master of Power 和珅:权力的玩家
As a miniature reflection of the power structure during the Qianlong era, Heshen's life was forever entangled in the shadow of absolute imperial authority and the deep-rooted ills of the bureaucracy. From a penniless orphan living under another's roof in Lvrou Hutong to rising to the center of power through his gift for languages and financial acumen, his ascent was shaped by both the banner system and the emperor's political machinations. He was once a capable official who cleaned up the Minist
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My Pocket-Sized Grandpa and the System Are Incompatible 我的随身老爷爷与系统不兼容
A lighthearted cultivation story featuring a “pocket grandpa” and a pseudo-System with a golden finger. Somehow transmigrated to a world of cultivation, Li Zimu, who had only just become a father, discovers that he can’t meditate or cultivate to advance his realm. Frustrated, he calls out, and to his surprise, a pocket grandpa really does appear. All Li Zimu wants is to go home and hold his child, but circumstances force him to join his senior sister’s shady operation. He never finds his way hom
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Three Years Left to Live? Four Saintesses Beg Me Not to Slack Off 命剩三年?四圣女求我别摆烂
(Fantasy, Eastern cultivation, past and present lives, multiple female leads, passionate cultivation, formation genius, decisive and ruthless, golden finger) “That shabby book bought for five yuan changed Lin Mo’s left eye into a yin-yang eye. On a stormy night, the mountain god temple collapsed, and a bronze compass revealed Yuan Tiangang’s star chart. From then on, Lin Mo used a Five-Grain Cycle Talisman to boost harvests while planting rice and rushing to market, and awakened an ancient, thou
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The Officialdom Game 官奕
My name is Wei Zilong, and I’ve spent my career in government. Through my story, I want to show everyone what the political arena is really like... When you’re in public service, you can’t always control your own fate. If you never weather a storm, how can you ever mature?
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- 39 Adoption into the Family 过继 This is a novel about a man growing up through blood and tears. Along with the cruelty of reality comes the trickery of fate. But if you’re a man, wipe away your tears and face every hardship. Make yourself tough as steel, unbreakable... 29.9kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
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Diamond Demon-Subduing Formation 《金刚伏魔圈》
The Diamond-Suppressing Circle
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- 41 Seven Wounds Fist 《七伤拳》 Seven Injury Fist 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Seven Stars' Heaven-Defying Tribulation 七星逆天劫 Starting from the Body Tempering Realm, Chu Li faces the destruction of his family, pursuit by a sect, and life-or-death trials in secret realms. Step by step, he uncovers the truth behind the Seven Star treasures and the collapse of the Heavenly Dao. In the end, he gathers the power of the Seven Stars, reforges the Heavenly Dao, and becomes its new master. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Divine Taiji Skill 《太极神功》 The Divine Art of Tai Chi 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Star-Absorbing Technique 《吸星大法》 The Star-Absorbing Great Method 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Dark Nether Divine Palm 《玄冥神掌》 Mysterious Nether Palm 13Reads—Score—Shelves
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Free Public Course on Zi Wei Dou Shu 紫微斗数免费公开课
Zi Wei Dou Shu is an important part of traditional Chinese culture. China has a long and splendid history spanning 5,000 years, along with a rich and well-developed cultural tradition. Our ancestors taught us to approach things objectively, observe the world keenly, and experience the true meaning of life. This course will quickly introduce you to Zi Wei Dou Shu, helping you better understand the world, yourself, and life.
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- 47 Primordial Chaos Art 《混元功》 Primordial Chaos Technique 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill 《龙象般若功》 The Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill 92Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Tai Xuan Scripture 《太玄经》 The Great Mystery Scripture 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Life and Death Talisman 《生死符》 The Life-and-Death Talisman 2Reads—Score—Shelves

















































