Unorthodox Paths, Bizarre Monsters, and Strange Magic: The Weirder the Better 旁门左道， 诡怪术法，法术越奇怪越好
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The Land Every Immortal Sect Must Fight For 仙家必争之地
[Gods of Huaxia] [Divine Processions] [Folk Customs] [Cultivation] [Invincible] Beneath the land of Huaxia lie countless people, immortals, gods, Buddhas, evils, and demons... In 2449, when the eerie moon appeared and evil forces launched an all-out invasion, humanity was raised as livestock for blood and plunged into an eternal night. Xu Wangyou, reborn with the Record of Gods and Immortals in hand, goes against the tide, saves a collapsing world, crushes the myriad races of the heavens, and re
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Unrivaled in Immortal Cultivation 独步修仙
The new novel, Refining Myself into a Corpse, is currently being serialized… Visit the author's homepage to read it. The path of immortal cultivation is about seizing opportunities and fortune, defying yin and yang and life and death, and mastering heaven and earth. Watch as the protagonist, through a twist of fate, enters the path through blood and gradually uncovers the truth about this world. (No heroine, no goody-two-shoes, a dark story with ruthless, decisive violence!)
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The Last Martial Hero 最后一个武侠
[No System + Not Mindless + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Slow-Burn + Genius Protagonist + Strategy and Management] The rise of an ordinary man: the legendary tale of a low-ranking jianghu thug who transforms into a figure renowned throughout both the imperial court and the jianghu. So what if he has no cheat? So what if he has no power, wealth, or connections? Even if he starts with nothing but a basic Iron Claw technique, training it to the utmost can give him the power to split mountains and
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Leave No Survivors, and No One Will Know I'm the Villain 不留活口，就没人知道我是反派
A night of murder and arson, the Asura of the underworld; all living beings revere Immortal Venerable Chen. In this treacherous world, full of scheming and deceit, Chen Luo knows that only the clever and ruthless can survive. By day, I’ll smile and joke with you. By night, I’ll hack you to death. As long as I leave no survivors, no one will know I’m the villain.
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The Ruthless Jianghu: One Slash to Conquer the World 狠人江湖，一刀砍翻天下
[Soul transmigration] + [The martial world and the imperial court] + [Cutting down everything in his path] Cao Yunfei accidentally transmigrated into the body of a low-ranking thug in the Sky Tiger Gang. This time, members of the gang's branch were escorting Madam Ma, the gang's second-in-command, on a trip when they were attacked by a rapist bandit. Faced with a beautiful woman poisoned by the Seven Absolutes Aphrodisiac, with her life hanging by a thread, Cao Yunfei was forced to step forward.
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Villain: My Junior Sisters Are All Dark Empresses 反派：我师妹全是黑化女帝
[Villain + System + Empress + corruption + invincible + yandere] [The chase-back-to-win-her-over arc] He transmigrates into a fantasy novel world as the abandoned son of an imperial clan, exiled from an immortal domain to the lower realm. After six lifetimes of reincarnation, he only wants to be a righteous senior brother, despite being a villain by nature. However, The junior sisters he cared about most misunderstood him for five whole lifetimes. In his sixth life, he gives up trying. From then
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Mutating into a God, I Became the Strongest Aberration 畸变成神，我成为了最强诡异
[Eerie cultivation + scheming + no saintly heroics + ruthless and decisive + Cthulhu] It’s gone mad! Everything’s gone mad! This world has gone mad! This is a world of the eerie and the twisted, filled with indescribable monsters. These ubiquitous abominations have tormented Fang Sheng until he is “barely human.” If that’s how it is, then he’ll become one of them too, and see who truly deserves to be called the “God of the Eerie”!!! [The further the story goes, the more twisted and “inhuman” the
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I Told You the Mother Pays for the Son’s Debts. Don’t Blame Me If You Won’t Believe It 说了子债母偿，你偏不信怪我咯？
[Invincible + satisfying power fantasy + master schemer] Wang Xiaodong was unexpectedly reborn and awakened the Primordial Sacred Physique, becoming the young lord of the immortal Wang family. Even the Jun family's Chaos Physique, hailed as unrivaled in his generation, was on high alert when he heard the news! But soon, everyone was astonished to find that things seemed to be taking a strange turn. Fortune-favored schemer: “I treated you like a brother, and you went and raided my home?” Jun fami
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The Embroidered Uniform Guard Solves Cases with Spirit Sight: From the Start, I Get the Lingbo Microstep 锦衣卫通灵破案：开局获凌波微步
[Mystery-Solving Focus] [Plot-Driven] [The Jianghu and the Imperial Court] [Unbeatable Among His Peers] [Classic Wuxia Style] (Also known as: The Embroidered Uniform Guard Solves Cases with Spirit Sight: Starts with Lingbo Microstep; The Embroidered Uniform Guard Enforcer: Even the Empress Gets Slapped for Baring Her Teeth) Xu Shan transmigrates into a high-martial version of the Great Ming and becomes an officer in the Embroidered Uniform Guard. He obtains the “Grant the Dead Their Final Wish”
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A Zhao Zilong as a Starting Reward 开局奖励一个赵子龙
[The 2023 luck-and-farming novel: follow the journey of building a power from scratch] [Fortune + Farming + System + Conquest] [P.S. This isn't a fast-paced power fantasy; the story moves at a slower pace.] [Become emperor, not a eunuch. If that bothers you, don't read this.] Qin Tianzong: “The Divine Race bullies us, the Demon Race humiliates us. Our human race must rise! Yanhuang shall never perish, and Huaxia shall never fall!” Ying Zheng: “Great Wall Legion, slaughter the jackal tribe! They
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After Reaching Max Level in Every Class, I Take Flight with a Female Ghost 全职满级后，我与女诡异比翼齐飞
A world of terror descended upon Blue Star. Anyone who had turned eighteen had a chance of being dragged into a dangerous horror dungeon. Su Ming had just celebrated his birthday when he was chosen by a dungeon on the level of the Ghost Zombie King! At the critical moment, Su Ming discovered that the “Blue Star Edition: All-Class Development Game” installed on his phone had turned into the “Horror Edition: All-Class Development Game” System! Ghost Doctor, Ghost Chef, Ghost Swordsman, Ghost Story
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The Most Realistic Cultivation 最真实修仙
[Heartbreak + Hellish Trials + Weak Beginnings + Cultivation + Realism + Most Miserable Protagonist + Immortality] Qin Feng has no protagonist aura, no golden finger, and no so-called heavenly luck. In this cruel world of cultivation, he lives worse than a dog every day. A man’s knees are worth their weight in gold, but Qin Feng has none to spare. He can only beg for his life to eke out a wretched existence. This is the most realistic story of an ordinary man cultivating immortality, seeking ete
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Myriad Saints Poison Immortal 万圣毒仙
A little beggar born in a world torn apart by war spends years struggling to survive. By a twist of fate, he accidentally stumbles into the perilous and unpredictable world of immortal cultivation, embarking on an extraordinary journey to immortality.
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Livestream: The Cultivation World Has Turned Into a Meme, What Does That Have to Do with Me? 直播：修真界变沙雕，关我何事？
Chen Feng transmigrated to the Mysterious Realm and started a livestreaming career. The System, which clearly had no regard for human decency, gave him a pile of bizarre skills. From then on, the world of cultivation got a whole lot weirder. [Voice of Filial Piety, Expert Appraisal Edition]: What is filial piety? What is love? Do you know the greatness of a mother's love? [Paper-Cutting People, Li Goushou Edition]: All-in-one funeral rites and ghost salvation. [Fifty-Cent Special Effects]: What?
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Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor 吞天妖帝
[Red Fruit Short Dramas: For a dark vibe, watch The Little Cultivator Monster: Season One. For a lighthearted vibe, watch The Devouring Sky Demon Emperor: The Toad’s Cultivation Tale. [Monster Cultivation + Ruthless + Unconventional Xianxia] The same old xianxia, but a different kind of story. A little monster refuses to live an ordinary life. Even a toad can dream of devouring the sky! This is the story of a little monster who refuses to settle for the ordinary and rises against the odds. Mo Fa
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Cultivation: Laying Low in the Herb Garden, Growing Crops and Seeking Immortality 修仙：苟在药园种田求长生
[Leisurely cultivation] + [keeping a low profile] + [no System] + [lighthearted and humorous] Master said: “For twenty years, you've been upholding justice to raise the prestige of our Qingyun sect and win people's hearts... You can't keep helping old folks find their sheep. Go do something proper, like slay demons and exorcise evil!” Jiang Yining: “Master, I'm not up to it. I need to hurry back and forth to tend the medicinal garden...” Junior brother said: “Eldest Senior Brother, let's go down
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Dragon-Subduing Divine Constable 降龙神捕
After several years as a police officer, I found myself in a strange and fantastical world. Mountain spirits roam the hills, while vengeful spirits, evil ghosts, and zombies appear in endless numbers at night. Though weak as ants, we should still aspire to greatness. Though oppressed, we must forge an unyielding heart. That was all nonsense. I’m just a low-level constable, working for the yamen. Greetings, honored sirs.
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A Mayfly in the Immortal Sea 仙海蜉蝣
[Ordinary-mortal cultivation + no System + no harem] A wandering cultivator, a speck of dust. The protagonist, Lu Luan, is a little independent cultivator at the second stage of Qi Refining, wandering among the mountain towns of the mortal world. He is fourteen, and ever since the old master who adopted him died, he has drifted from place to place through this world of cultivation... Note: The protagonist sometimes joins sects, but only as stepping stones, and never stays long. The story focuses
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The Red Moon Returns: Sewing Up Corpses Makes Me Stronger 红月复苏：缝尸就变强
(The hottest feel-good power fantasy of 2022) (A brand-new profession: Corpse Stitcher) Ghosts roam the night beneath a blood-red moon; Each shattered corpse Is a resource that makes the Corpse Stitcher stronger. Three incense sticks burn, and the Rebirth Mantra ends; The human-bone abacus rings, and corpse stitching brings rewards. One day, a corpse speaks: “I’m calling your name. Do you dare answer?” Two streams of bloody tears run from Ying Ji’s eyes... Stitch human corpses, stitch ghost corp
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Eternal Prudence: Starting with a Suona, Funeral Rites to Immortality 长生苟道：开局吹唢呐，送葬修仙
[Immortal Cultivation + Comedy and Memes + Ordinary Protagonist + Heroine + Laying Low + Status Panel] Bai Yu transmigrated to an immortal-cultivation world. From the start, he was immortal, and performing funerals made him stronger. Bury a grandmaster martial artist and gain a max-level Golden Bell Shield, with the vitality of a dragon! Bury a Nascent Soul cultivator and gain a top-tier Heavenly Spirit Root, with extraordinary talent! Bury an Immortal Emperor of the Myriad Worlds and gain the T
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I Am a Heretical Sorcerer 我是邪道术士
This is a fictional world of the supernatural, much like the Hong Kong crime films. After the Qing dynasty falls, the land descends into chaos, warlords divide the country, religious sects scheme against one another, good and evil clash, and all manner of monsters and ghosts wait for their chance to strike. Lin Fan transmigrates into this world and becomes a young Taoist priest. Unfortunately, his aptitude is terrible, and he accidentally goes astray. He spends his days refining corpses and rais
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The Plague God’s Growth 瘟神的成长
The protagonist graduates from a college of traditional Chinese medicine, but struggles to find a job and heads to Mingzhu to open a private clinic. After a strange encounter on the way, he begins treating and saving lives. When he meets bad people, he can inflict a sinister illness on them, making them experience the pain of disease for themselves.
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The Five Elements and the Art of Physiognomy 五行相术
Rumor has it that centuries from now, the Five Elements Art of Physiognomy will reappear in the martial world, sparking a scramble among heroes from every corner. Strange events from the decade of calamity, the Qinling Demon Tower, the ancient city of Fuxian, the Tianshan Blood Tomb, the ghost city of Miaojiang, and the haunted lake of Qinghai: after his grandfather mysteriously vanishes, Yuan Yuan must uncover a series of secrets.
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Dragon-Slaying Celestial Master: I Wield the Art of Qimen Dunjia 斩龙天师：我身怀奇门遁甲术
On the day I was born, a dragon skeleton was unearthed beneath our ancestral home. My grandfather said I was the dragon reincarnated, and that I would live no longer than twenty years. To stay alive, I became the last Dragon-Slaying Celestial Master in the world.
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The Fox Immortal Seeks a Title: I Said You Look Like My Future Wife 狐仙讨封：我说你像我未来的老婆
The white fox who once snuggled under the covers with me came to ask me to grant her a human form. I said: “You look like my future wife: a tempting face and figure, a slender waist, soft breasts, peach-round hips, fair skin, stunning looks, and long legs. You're even more beautiful than a nine-tailed fox spirit descended to the mortal world.”
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The Nine Dragons Send Off the Dead 九龙送葬
On the day of my grandfather’s funeral, nine dragons led the procession, and ten thousand ghosts wept in unison...
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Nine Dragons Hauling a Coffin 九龙拉棺
The day my grandfather died, all living things on Mount Kunlun paid their respects. Dark clouds churned as nine dragons pulled an emerald divine coffin down from the heavens... People said: When an immortal passes into meditation, heavenly thunder welcomes them back to their place in the celestial court; When nine dragons pull a coffin, a divine coffin buries an immortal's body.
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Strange Cultivation Begins with Planting Swords 诡异修仙从种剑开始
Unorthodox techniques, a bizarre cultivation world. Every act of cultivation comes at a price. Resentment gives rise to the eerie, the eerie brings calamity, calamity becomes tribulation, and tribulation rules over all living things. If cultivation is this painful, let someone else cultivate immortality for me. I will forge my realm from flesh and blood, stack bones into a throne, and build my path to transcendence.
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The Strange Immortal Records: The Whole World’s Memories Have Been Altered 诡仙录：全世界都遭到认知篡改
[Eerie]+ [Cultivation]+ [Lovecraftian]+ [Warhammer]+ [The Foundation]+ [One Female Lead] Sight, hearing, smell, and touch are merely the brain's interpretation of sensory signals. If cognition itself is compromised, how can you be sure that anything you perceive is real rather than an illusion? This is a tainted world. The pills that cultivators eagerly seek are actually living insect eggs, while the beautiful, aloof sword pavilion immortal maiden was long ago refined into a long sword of twiste
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Yin-Yang Eye Realtor: Selling Haunted Houses in Chongqing 阴阳眼中介：我在重庆卖凶宅
A novel inspired by local Chongqing legends and historical anecdotes. This story is entirely fictional. As a child, the protagonist gained the ability to see yin and yang from a Qing dynasty skeleton. His family’s ancestral ledger is filled with secrets of old Chongqing. The folklore is meticulously researched, with traceable details ranging from place names and historical anecdotes to traditional remedies and feng shui formations. Each haunted house seems like a self-contained case, but in trut
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Parasitic Cultivation: I Can Rewind After Death 寄生修仙：我能死亡回档
[A protagonist who grows over time, not a power fantasy] Twisted immortals and Buddhas, undying monsters, and a chaotic Heavenly Dao. Cultivate qi by planting insect eggs in your dantian, establish your foundation by spinning them into cocoons and hatching them into insects... Su Muran transmigrates here and awakens an infinite-rewind golden finger called Rebirth. He becomes an entry-level disciple of the Qinglan Sect. A cultivation path plagued by parasites, a road to immortality that turns you
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My Lady Doesn't Believe in the Supernatural 我家夫人不信邪
I believe in metaphysics, but she doesn’t. We got married just to prove each other wrong. I wanted to hang a portrait of the Three Pure Ones, but she refused, so after a huge argument, I decided to write down all the true events that have happened over the years: my dad got into trouble after eating a snake, my grandma suddenly started eating pork knuckle and cursing, Gao Dabao lost a hand in an elevator accident, Feng Ershuang was grabbed by a ghost, and their cousin mysteriously went mad and d
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Strange Cultivation: I Can Copy the Cost of Cultivation 诡异修仙：我能复制修行代价
Gu Chang'an discovers that he has transmigrated into a bizarre world of cultivation, where every path of cultivation comes at a price. Few who embark on the path enjoy smooth sailing. The rest either mutate and fall into depravity, becoming mindless monsters, or die without leaving so much as a corpse. Worse still, some attain immortality only to suffer endlessly for all eternity... Thinking that fate had left him struggling at every turn, Gu Chang'an unexpectedly discovers that he can copy and
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Cultivating Immortality in This World Is a Little Too Weird 在这个世界修仙有亿点点诡异
[Everyday life + Lovecraftian cultivation + lighthearted + eerie] Chen Ke transmigrates to a cultivation world. After countless hardships, he finally finds a cultivation sect. But after successfully joining, he discovers that everything here gives off an unusual air... “The first step in cultivation is called the Body Tempering Realm. As the name suggests, it means tempering your body and casting off your mortal flesh. Only by constantly strengthening your physique can you truly set foot on a br
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Day 49: The Whole Internet Watches Me Tear Through the Horse-Shaman World 第49天，全网看我杀穿出马仙
[The first novel online to tackle the “spirit-medium” genre from an opposing perspective] Before my dad died, he left me a blood curse: “If you meet a god, beat it. If you see an immortal, kill it.” Now the whole village is made up of spirit mediums, and I'm the only ordinary person left. They livestream “catching an old immortal,” so I report them and get their accounts banned. They stage “the Tragic King being killed,” so I expose their tricks on the spot. Then I rescue a snow-white fox, and i
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Ancestors, Bear Witness: I Shall Die and Ascend to Immortality 列祖列宗在上，赴死登仙
Corpse liberation and ascension to immortality? Transcending the mortal world and soaring to heaven? Just hallucinations before death, dreamed up by ordinary people~~~ *giggles* (#^.^#) A rocket soared into space amid cheers. What awaited it was not a silent void brimming with infinite possibilities, but a solid wall formed from countless fragments of spiritual realms, like a vast net that strangled every possibility. The pioneers used nuclear bombs to excavate and recover large quantities of
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Tomb Raiding: Inheriting the Gu Immortal’s Legacy, I Slaughter My Way Through the Tomb-Raiding World! 盗墓：蛊仙传承，杀穿盗墓世界！
Li Yu transmigrates into the world of tomb raiding and becomes the last surviving Gu master of the Jiuli Clan. He inherits King Xian's legacy and ultimately earns the title of Gu Immortal. Corpse-eating beetles? Corpse turtle elixirs? They're all the finest nourishment for my Gu. The Huo family's undying worm, capable of creating wormholes. The flying centipede, able to soar through the skies and burrow underground. The Corpse Turtle King, whose poison is the deadliest in the world. Fatty: “Mast
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They Called Me a Freak, but I’m Actually a Powerful Being Reborn 被说怪胎，不好意思我是大能降世
Time slipped quietly by like the wind. Luo Sheng had been born into this world for seventeen years. Whenever he was alone, he would rub the three belly buttons on his stomach and recall what his Third Aunt had told him. “Do you know why your parents abandoned you in the wilderness? Because you’re a freak.” “You have three belly buttons. You crushed your two older brothers to death inside your mother’s womb, and the other two belly buttons belonged to them.” Perhaps some stroke of fortune wou
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Invincible in the Mystic Heavens: Cultivation Starts at the Forge 玄天修仙从打铁开始无敌
During a cross-world mission, a Nether Marshal falls into the Xu Tian cultivation world. Jian Sheng, an ordinary young man, carries a jade pendant bearing the character for “life,” wields a Netherworld demon-sealing blade, and shoulders secrets of life and death that no one knows. Silver-white deer antlers conceal the true meaning of the Dao. Devouring Gold Gu insects break through all laws. A bewitching nine-tailed demon fox accompanies him, while the Myriad Demons Tempering Body Art defies th
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A Mortal's Quest for Immortality 凡人寻仙
[Mortal's journey + no System + no harem + no transmigration] Ye Zhou, a village boy, awakens his spiritual root thanks to a small family-inherited gourd that can change the age of medicinal herbs, and embarks on a long journey of cultivation. Everyone schemes against everyone else, danger lurks everywhere, and affection is as thin as paper. Steadfast determination and a sharp mind are his only supports. Millions of years later, he climbs the road to immortality, survives the tribulation of ligh
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Collecting Corpses, Ghosts, and Immortals 收尸，收诡，收仙人
(Supernatural horror, cultivation, ordinary protagonist, no System, no transmigration) A poor young man from a small town becomes a corpse collector to earn enough to marry. Before long, he stumbles into a strange and magnificent world of immortals and gods...
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The Way of Not Knowing 不知，道
[Alternate history + martial arts world + political intrigue + extraordinary people and arts + mystery] The pursuit of the Dao is not about seeking immortality. The bustling mortal world is full of the Dao; the only question is, what is the Dao? There are countless great paths in this world, yet most people are trapped by fame and status, enslaved by external things. They act only when circumstances permit, and in the end never attain freedom. The Dao is not found in temples or scriptures, but i
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The Immortal of Uncanny Arts 诡术道仙
Comedy, the supernatural, and Taoist cultivation Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever encountered some strange and uncanny supernatural event? Have you ever wondered why there are records of gods and ghosts in this world? By a twist of fate, Weiran's life begins a journey of adventure and cultivation. There is no end to the strange supernatural incidents, the mysterious clan that peers into the Heavenly Dao, the chuunibyou youth Weiran who enters the Dao through the sword, and Muxi, the haugh
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To Live Forever, You Have to Take Shortcuts 长生，就要走捷径
With poor aptitude and constitution, the world's spiritual energy depleted, and no money, companions, techniques, or sacred grounds, how hard is it to attain immortality? The only way is to seek shortcuts, exploit loopholes to cultivate immortality, and struggle forward through unorthodox methods. Breaking through worlds and ascending to immortality is child's play! See how an ordinary traveler between two realms, with no aptitude, constitution, or background, begins by planting a Gu within hims
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Creepy and Terrifying? Nonsense! This Is My Merit! 诡异恐怖？胡说！此乃贫道功德！
[Brutal Physical Slaughter] [Thunder Magic] [Summoning the Gods] [Do Whatever You Want] [Daoist] [No Female Lead] The Listening Thunder Temple does not worship Celestial Master Zhang or the Three Mao Patriarchs. Instead, it worships the Heavenly Worthy of Universal Transformation of the Nine Heavens and Responding to the Thunder, the principal deity of the Thunder Department. As a result, the Daoists of Listening Thunder Temple are known for their bad tempers. Don't believe in the Dao? Believe w
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