No Female Lead. The Protagonist Stays Single the Whole Time. This Monk Is Trying to Give Up Lust 不要女 主角一直单老衲要戒色了

1. 501 我 I, Ghost Cicada, Sweeping Through the Cultivation World Is Perfectly Reasonable 我，鬼蝉，杀穿修真界很合理吧 Sliced Bitter Melon苦瓜切片Eastern Fantasy615k WordsCompleted [Villain Protagonist + Never Takes Human Form + No Female Lead + Not a Do-Gooder] After transmigrating into a cicada, Chen Yun will stop at nothing to collect evolution items, committing every manner of evil and using any means necessary. The reverse scale of a waning-moon wind dragon + the soul of a Tribulation Realm cultivator = ??? From then on, the cultivation world gained a cicada that slaughtered countless people. Since this world has no place for me, I’ll carve a path through it with bloo 1.1kReads8.4Score109Shelves
2. 502 玄 Xuanhuan: I Devour Heaven and Earth! 玄幻：我，吞天噬地！ Jiang Yu Wei Han江余未寒Eastern Fantasy604k WordsCompleted [Dark tone] [Ultimate power fantasy] [No female lead] Xiao Chen is reborn on the Jiuzhou Continent, where he suffers endless humiliation and falls into demonic cultivation. So he takes his Devouring System and devours all living things, slaughtering everyone who dares defy him as he embarks on a bloody path of killing. In the end, he devours all life and buries the Three Thousand Great Daos. Even the will of Heaven can only tremble beneath his feet. Billions of gods and demons bow before him 2.3kReads8.5Score138Shelves
3. 503 万 A Carefree Journey Through Ten Thousand Worlds 万世逍遥游 Thinking of the Mortal World应念凡尘Historical420k WordsCompleted The Myriad Worlds + Invincible + No female lead He is a traveler who roams the heavens, a mortal who journeys through countless worlds. He is the past that was never forgotten, the future that could never be recalled. The heavens bear his footprints, and the myriad worlds echo his name. His name is Lin Ziyi. An ordinary, supreme being. PS: This is about the Myriad Worlds, not a historical novel... 3.3kReads9.1Score220Shelves

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   Completed, no female lead, no saintly characters, super awesome! A ten-year veteran reader highly recommends this book, having reread each one multiple times.

4. 504 仙 Cultivating Immortality in a Celestial Mansion: Farming My Way to the Dao 仙府修仙：种田证道 Rebel to Become an Immortal逆为仙Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted [No Female Lead + Immortal Estate Space + Alchemy + Beast Taming + Mortal's Journey + No System + Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Deification] In the cultivation world, where the strong prey on the weak, Lin Changqing was just an ordinary, unaffiliated cultivator. Yet an immortal estate appeared within him, a pocket paradise capable of accelerating the growth of spirit herbs. He could now grow spirit herbs, raise demonic beasts, and enjoy spirit fruits and p 2.5kReads8.1Score181Shelves
5. 505 洪EN Primordial Era: Yang Jian Becomes a Saint, His Master Can't Stay Hidden Anymore 洪荒：杨戬成圣，师傅的我苟不住 Y Little FishY小鱼儿Eastern Fantasy2.7M WordsCompleted After transmigrating into the Investiture of the Gods world, Chen Changsheng binds a System and becomes stronger with every disciple he takes. His eldest disciple, Yang Jian, cultivates the Double Pupils, storms the Celestial Court, and splits open a mountain to save his mother. His second disciple, Di Xin, builds the Great Shang Sacred Dynasty, transforms into a Sacred Emperor, and dares to challenge the Six Saints! His third disciple, the Little White Dragon, storms the Western Paradise, trans 16.3kReads8.9Score1.5kShelves
6. 506 万 Ancestor of Ten Thousand Poisons 万毒之祖 I'm Lord Nian我是年大人Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsCompleted [Mortal's Journey, No System, No Harem, No Old Master] A bullied young man awakens a special constitution. The poisons that kill others become his finest nourishment. He slays powerful enemies, seeks opportunities, ventures across the world, cultivates immortality, roams the four seas, and becomes invincible beneath the heavens, ultimately attaining the title of Ancestor of Ten Thousand Poisons! 594Reads7.7Score100Shelves
7. 507 从 From Infinite Duplication to Ruling the Ice Age Apocalypse 从无限复制到执掌冰河末世 White Porcelain Listening to Night Rain白瓷听夜雨Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.0M WordsCompleted The novel has surpassed 10 million reads. Its short-drama adaptation, The Awakening Journey in the Extreme Cold Apocalypse, has surpassed 6 million saves, and it has also been adapted into multiple animated dramas. Read with confidence. (Extreme-cold apocalypse, rebirth, genetic locks, comeback and face-slapping, decisive and ruthless, lone wolf plus a Primal Beast army, completed) Also known as: Extreme Cold Apocalypse: I Stockpiled Billions of Supplies with a Treasure Basin In his previous li 67.3kReads8.7Score5.3kShelves
8. 508 神 Mysteries, the Path to Immortality, and an Angler 神秘，仙路，钓鱼佬 Big-Headed T头很大的T君Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted (A xianxia take on the Sequence genre, a schemer, a mastermind behind the scenes, and a battle of wits. Also updating: From the Start: A Broken Jade Peers into Immortal Secrets, The Terrifying Path of Immortal Cultivation, The Path of the Unorthodox Immortal, and The Eerie Path of Immortality.) Twelve mysterious immortal paths, one hundred and eight ranks of immortal status, forging a mysterious immortal! … Su Changsheng transmigrates to another world and spends ten years as a beggar, with Old 2.3kReads8.8Score134Shelves

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   These are all good; they all feature no female lead.

9. 509 我 I Really Just Want to Outlive You All. Why Are You Forcing Me? 我真的只想熬死各位，为什么逼我 Radishes Are Crispy萝卜很脆Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsCompleted [Immortality + eerie cultivation + immortal cultivation + cunning and utterly inhuman + no angst + slow burn] (The protagonist plays it rather safe early on, but only temporarily. This is not a story about living cautiously.) (Also known as: “Don’t Ask If It’s Right or Wrong. Just Tell Me, Did You Become a Dao Ancestor?”) Fang Qing woke up to find he had transmigrated into a cultivation world where the Great Dao was manifest for all to see. All living beings could gaze directly upon the Grea 10.8kReads8.4Score983Shelves
10. 510 关 About How I Have No Special Powers in a World Overrun by Zombies 关于我在丧尸降临的世界没有异能 Huan Xuewei幻血为Sci-Fi & Apocalypse808k WordsCompleted [Friendship-focused, no romance, post-apocalyptic survival and adventure, human nature, warped values: not for minors] Li Rui is an ordinary convenience store worker. One day, zombies suddenly appeared. With no special abilities and worried about his parents back in his hometown, he sets off through the desperate, apocalyptic world on a journey home. Along the way, he is forced to shed his false, decadent exterior, gradually revealing his true and unvarnished self. Why is this world so strange? 447Reads9.3Score100Shelves
11. 511 人 A Human Cage 人间囚笼 Yan Yizhi言一知Urban538k WordsCompleted [Not a wish-fulfillment story + extremely dark + oppressive and suffocating. Don’t read if you’re faint of heart.] When you’re nearing the end of your life, you can actually feel it coming. Just like right now. The closer that moment gets, the more you want to leave something behind in this world. But what should I leave? Assets lose value, and houses change hands. Nothing material can last forever. So perhaps I should tell everyone my story instead. I’m no good person. I just occasionally feel 118.9kReads9.5Score16.6kShelves
12. 512 倒 The Countdown Begins 倒忌时开始 Do Not Say the Dream Is Far Away莫道梦魂遥Mystery488k WordsCompleted Patient: Li Taiyuan, male, twenty-four years old Diagnosis: Paranoid schizophrenia “Doctor Wang, if someone told you I wasn’t ill, and that what I see is the real world, would you believe me?” [Supernatural infinite flow / no special abilities / no female lead] 4.6kReads9.0Score566Shelves
13. 513 嫌 You Think I'm Weak? I Copy Divine Powers and Become a God of Slaughter 嫌我弱？复刻神通成为杀神 Bearing Guilt负辜Urban104k WordsOngoing (Ensemble Cast + Plot-Driven Power Fantasy + Decisive and Ruthless + No Female Lead/One Female Lead, Absolutely No Harem) [Always be wary of the people around you!!] [Otherwise... when night falls, someone in your home will surely die!!] When Zhang Yiming woke up, he saw these two eerie lines of bloody text. But there were only two people in his home: him and his mother! As soon as night fell, the ominous message came true. Blood-red claws pierced Zhang Yiming’s chest, and warm blood splattered 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is amazing! The synopsis said there was a female lead/no female lead, but the current plot confirms there is no female lead. Come at me if you dare!

14. 514 不 The Undying Starveling 不死饿殍 Yu Jinhe余瑾和Eastern Fantasy996k WordsOngoing Tomato Original: They all call me Shen Qianqiu, or the Undying Wretch. I survived the meat hooks used to butcher people for food, weathered the storms of the Tang and Song dynasties, and witnessed the flames of war under the Yuan and Ming... I have walked this mortal world for a thousand years. “They ate me for a thousand years. At last, they ate me into a god.” 3.3kReads—Score260Shelves

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    The previous chapter depicted a chase on the night sea, while this chapter shifts to a psychological battle behind closed doors. The atmosphere of each chapter is completely different, but the protagonist's "daring to talk even to a thousand troops" spirit remains consistent.

15. 515 高 High Martial Arts: A Blade That Slashes the Heavens 高武之刀斩苍穹 White-Robed Mortal Life浮生白衣Urban576k WordsCompleted He clawed his way out of a blood pool in hell, and returned as a walking calamity among mortals. His former name had long since burned away. Now, he is Zhang Mo, a vicious weapon born for nothing but annihilation! His blade is his tongue, and an unmarked stele bears witness. Every ringing stroke of his blade is the final word of countless lives. Tenderness? Loyalty? Dust in the wind! In his world, there is only the solitary peak of slaughter, watered with scalding blood. 5Reads5.3Score—Shelves

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    This book has no female lead; the protagonist is cold-blooded and ruthless, and the story is full of bloodshed and violence.

16. 516 直 Livestream: I’m a Professional Avenger, Wicked to the Core Yet Righteous at Heart 直播：专业复仇的我邪得发正 Authenticity Above All纯货至上Urban193k WordsOngoing [Revenge + No-Brains, Just Fun + Punishing Evil + Invincible] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Jue obtains a Revenge System and becomes an agent of heavenly vengeance. He becomes a avenger, seeking retribution on behalf of every victim and taking it out on every evildoer. Brutal murderers, twisted perverts, drug traffickers, child traffickers, organ traffickers, criminals who use mental illness as an excuse, and scum who prey on rural girls under the guise of charity... Every on 13Reads6.7Score—Shelves

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    [Sending hearts][Sending hearts]🎋🌳 This revenge novel is being broadcast globally, full of blood and violence, with no female lead and no saintly figures. However, it has already been revised several times at just 160,000 words. Brothers, read it while you can and cherish it.

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