Shelf-Staple Fantasy Novels: No Transmigration, No Brain-Dead Plots, Not for Beginners 镇书架的玄幻，不穿越不无脑的，新手勿入
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Rewind to the Year 2000 回档2000年
Given another life, Lu Fei will work hard and strive to make something of himself. He won't be a street punk or live in poverty anymore, and he won't let anyone down. He'll take on the responsibilities expected of a husband, son, and father...
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- 52 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 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 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
- 53 My Mother Is No Ordinary Woman 我的妈妈绝非凡人 One day, an ordinary middle-school boy discovers to his shock that his mother can fly through the sky and burrow through the earth, while his father is a divine being who rules over an immortal realm. From then on, his life veers completely off its ordinary course. He causes chaos in the underworld and defies the Celestial Court. To survive the turmoil, he has no choice but to face off against saints and heavenly emperors, fighting his way through a bloody path to survival... 13Reads—Score—Shelves
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Where the Sword Rises, Storms Gather 剑起风云
In these turbulent times, it is not the world that is in chaos, but people’s hearts. The Gu family, loyal servants of the Tianfeng Kingdom, are heroes through and through. But fate is fickle. The heir to this illustrious military family spent twenty years in a daze, becoming the target of countless whispered insults and mockery. Then, on the young heir’s twentieth birthday, memories of his previous life suddenly returned. What troubles him most is realizing he seems to have done a lot of foolish
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The Mohists: Slashing the Heavens 墨家之斩天
The Narrative Art and Worldbuilding in the Latest Updates of The Abyss The recent chapters of The Abyss (Chapters 433–457) present a complete and compelling story arc, from escaping a deadly underground predicament to making an initial foray into the Cloud Dream Marsh. Through a variety of techniques, the author advances the story, deepens the characters, and gradually lifts the veil on the world. Here is an analysis of the craft behind this arc from the author’s perspective: I. Tight, Layered
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- 56 I Wish to Burn the Heavens 我欲焚天记 Infinite flow. The story takes the Valley of a Hundred Flowers as its starting point, gradually unfolding a vast and chaotic panorama of the Demon Realm. It involves ancient secrets, such as the Azure Emperor of Wood, power struggles among the various demon kings, and the mysteries of the laws governing life, death, and reincarnation. Li Du’s growth and rise will inevitably draw him deeply into the Demon Realm’s power struggles and shape the evolution of its order. From a cripple left for dead 15Reads—Score—Shelves
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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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Cultivating Immortality as an Outer-Door Servant 从外门杂役开始修仙
[Mortal's Journey + No System + No Golden Finger + No Female Lead + Not Invincible + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Fast-Paced + Decisive and Ruthless] A young man from the modern world accidentally transmigrated and stumbled into the path of immortality, struggling onward in his quest to become an immortal. The road to immortality was harder than ascending to heaven. Faced with countless dangers, his resolve to seek the Dao remained as solid as stone. Fang Qing transmigrated here and started ou
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From Transmigration to Slaying Demons and Exorcising Evil 从被穿越开始斩妖除魔
[High-Martial-Arts Jianghu, a Protagonist with Three Souls in One Body, No Goody-Two-Shoes, No System] Great Chu is divided into seven circuits and nineteen provinces, where immortals, demons, Buddhas, and devils all exist. The realm has enjoyed a century of peace, but chaos is brewing. As the Heavenly Dao turns through its cycles, demons and fiends are eager to make their move. Humanity teeters on the brink of collapse, while immortals and Buddhas watch with cold indifference. With the realm in
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The Carefree Little Confucian Immortal 逍遥小儒仙
In this world, the literary path reigns supreme. Scholars command literary seals, cultivate literary energy, and open literary palaces. A Ninth-Rank Aperture-Opening Literary Seal lets you read ten lines at a glance and gives you a light, healthy body. An Eighth-Rank Body-Cultivating Literary Seal lets words cloak your body, as if aided by the divine. A Seventh-Rank Benevolent Scholar Literary Seal… “You know poetry, lyrics, songs, essays, calligraphy, painting, chess, and popular fiction?” “I k
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The Ninth-Rank Artifact Crafter 九品炼器师
[A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality] [Artifact Refining] [A Young Man’s Rise] [Industrialization] [Fantasy Warfare] [Ensemble Cast] [Comedy and Satire] [Slow Burn] Young Qian Duoduo transmigrates through space! As a mortal, he starts from scratch! Thrown into prison, he’s facing certain death from the very start! If he doesn’t want to die, he’ll have to fight! To make matters worse, his bargain-basement master, a skinny old man, puts him over the fire to roast! If you want to read abo
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- 62 The Assassination of Ke Bi 刺杀轲比 At the end of the Three Kingdoms period, Han Long, a soldier in the Youzhou army, accidentally saved his enemy, Kebineng, the Xianbei chieftain who had long plotted a rebellion. After being rescued, Kebineng not only laid an ambush that killed Han Long’s mentor, but also nearly murdered his uncle. To make amends for his mistake, win the love he longed for, and bring peace to Youzhou, Han Long decided to kill Kebineng with his own hands. He set out from Youzhou for Longcheng, deep in the desert, 52Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 63 After Coming Down from the Mountain, Jingyi Went from Orphan to Prince 下山后，景怡从孤儿变成了王爷 Jing Yi is the son of a Jiuzhou envoy and a princess of the Elven Kingdom. The Perfected Void dug him up, mistaking him for a ginseng root. Through a twist of fate, he became the prince consort of both the Jiuzhou Kingdom and the Lazi Kingdom, as well as the live-in son-in-law of the Prince of Ji. He fell in love with a princess of the Elven Empire... He endured countless hardships and was eventually burned, leaving him in a vegetative state. Jing Wuming is the son born to Jing Yi after a night 46Reads8.5Score—Shelves
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Awakening to Sainthood 悟圣
(This novel starts slowly, but the farther you get, the better it becomes.) (No harem, no brainless characters, no invincible protagonist, no System. Even Tudou says it's good!) Beneath the calm surface of Jiuzhou, undercurrents are surging. A young man enters the world burdened by the mystery of his origins. Could the white Go stone he keeps close be the only keepsake his parents left him? After a series of brushes with death, Luo Heng discovers that the true horror is only beginning to emerge.
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Through Life and Death 劫生劫灭
[Supernatural abilities, deadly techniques, and hard-hitting fights that grip your heart. A transformed female protagonist. No idiocy, templates, or tired tropes. A pure male-audience writing style.] Chaos without order, emptiness without form. Tribulation gives birth to the void; tribulation's end gives rise to disorder. Who in the three thousand universes can retreat? Who in the six realms can stand against it? Each tribulation is a cycle of rebirth, each life and death a turn from flourishing
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Reborn, I Rule the Myriad Worlds 重生归来，我执掌诸天万界
The plot is full of twists and turns, without dumbed-down characters or mindless decisions. Please be patient and keep reading. The world is full of wonders, and even the protagonist never expected it to be so marvelous and colorful. See how he makes his way through this world and takes it by storm.
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The Fierce Soldier Slays the Heavens 悍卒斩天
The Heavenly Dao is shattered, demons run rampant, and the mortal world teeters on the brink of destruction! An ordinary boy emerges from the wilderness, cultivates peerless body techniques, forges the body of a Sacred Ancestor, and fights his way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He storms the heavens, embarking on an immortal legend...
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- 68 EN Apotheosis 百炼成神 After a family power struggle left him fallen from the position of heir to a lowly family servant, Luo Zheng unexpectedly obtained an ancient art of weapon forging. He would make his body a weapon and his spirit its soul, tempering himself again and again until he forged himself into a god! His path to turning his fate around began with taking a beating. Powerful factions vied for supremacy, and the clans fought for dominance as the winds of change began to blow. With a body forged into a magica 3.9kReads8.5Score576Shelves
- 69 The Azure Heart Mirror 苍心鉴 [Swordsmanship] [No System] [Ordinary protagonist + fiery action] [If you like a single heroine, don't come in if you want no heroine] [Seasoned readers, don't forget to give it a try. It might be right up your alley.] Keywords: Heaven's Bane, anomaly. Main plot 1: Cang Dongling, a swordsmanship prodigy, escapes a land devoid of spiritual energy and awakens the Blood Sword Eye, battling the greatest geniuses from every corner of the world. He is Heaven's Bane, bound by the fate of “Six Great —Reads—Score—Shelves
