Looking for a Cultivation Novel with a No-Nonsense Protagonist, Something on Par with I’m Getting Seriously Competitive in the Cultivation World 求修仙文，不圣母，《我在修仙界搞内卷》有一拼的

1. 1 小 My Little Martial Uncle Really Doesn't Push Herself. She Just Wants to Kill the Female Lead 小师叔真不卷，她只想杀女主而已 Mo Caiwei莫采薇Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Ensemble cast] [People say the blurb did this book a disservice. I'm no good at writing blurbs, so just read the story.] Reincarnated as a doomed female supporting character destined for a gruesome death? No problem. Kill the heroine from the start, wreck the plot, and reset everything. This time, I'm the heroine. The original heroine was a pitiful girl born to a concubine. She had a lowly start but a powerful protagonist's aura. No matter what danger she faced, she always escaped disaster, ros 75.7kReads9.5Score10.1kShelves

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   I have so many books about cultivating immortals, but not the Holy Mother [Thinking]! The first book has reached the end now, and the author just needs to give an extra chapter [to send my heart]! It is definitely not the Holy Mother, after all, the heroine was a weakling who was targeted at the beginning! The second book is much funnier than the first one, the heroine is the group favorite and the king of scrolls, and drives everyone around her, so that they have to scroll [laughs] The third book is one that I can't wait to pull the author out to show off. It's so beautifully written (♥∀♥). She actually dares to update it slowly. Isn't she afraid that I will climb the wall? [Crying], only two updates [Crying] [Crying] [Crying], the heroine is so great! For the fourth book, I have to reprimand the author here. It has been more [wronged] after so many geniuses before, but I am still reluctant to give up and feel sad as a bookworm. Closer to home, there is no book that is not about cultivating immortals or about the Holy Mother, believe me!

2. 2 小 Little Junior Sister Sobs and Pouts, Yet One Sword Destroys Heaven and Earth 小师妹哭哭唧唧，但一剑毁天灭地 Wei Xiaoxi未小兮Ancient Romance3.5M WordsCompleted After transmigrating into a book, Ye Linglong becomes the vicious cannon-fodder villainess in a cultivation novel. With terrible aptitude, she even coerces the heroine into taking her into the top sect during the Cultivation Tournament. After joining, she opposes the heroine at every turn and eventually dies a miserable death. To enjoy a long, happy life, Ye Linglong immediately gives up on coercing the heroine and turns around to join the worst sect in the cultivation world. She’s done being th 418.4kReads9.6Score47.5kShelves
3. 3 修 The Cultivation World’s Sickly Number One 修真界第一病秧子 Paper Tiger纸老虎Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 322.7kReads9.7Score31kShelves
4. 4 小 My Junior Sister Is Overpowered, Yet Ridiculously Goofy 小师妹明明超强却过分沙雕 The Princess Isn't Going Home公主不回家Ancient Romance1.9M WordsCompleted (The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh 255.3kReads9.6Score27.6kShelves
5. 5 我 I Stir Up Trouble in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界搞内卷 Cong Yue丛月Ancient Romance3.2M WordsCompleted [Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn 157.1kReads9.5Score21.4kShelves

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   They are all very beautiful, and the second one personally thinks it is the best.

6. 6 穿 After Becoming a Cultivation Novel's Female Side Character, I Don't Want to Be Cannon Fodder 穿成修仙女配后不想当炮灰 Knife, Medicine, Pen刀药笔Ancient Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Female-Led Cultivation, No Romance] [Mutated Wind Spirit Root + Hidden Weapons] Reincarnated as the villainess in a cultivation novel, she gets the best setup possible: the Northern Border’s greatest beauty and a genius disciple with a mutated Wind Spirit Root. But since she isn’t destined to be the heroine, Duan Jiaojiao decides to stay away from her and turn down the powerful Canglan Sect, joining the “pickpocket sect” Kongkong Sect instead. Who could have guessed that this much-hated “pickpo 8kReads9.2Score898Shelves
7. 7 功 Seal of Merit 功德印 Green Robes in Misty Rain青衫烟雨Ancient Romance1.9M WordsCompleted A thousand years later, the former demoness bears a Merit Seal and embarks on a new life, guiding people toward goodness and accumulating merit. Little does she know that the very first person she meets is so wicked he draws the wrath of both gods and men. Get him to mend his ways? Forget it. I might as well die again. 204Reads9.1Score—Shelves
8. 8 重 The Reborn Senior Sister Doesn’t Want to Work Hard 重生大师姐不想努力了 Glass Salted Fish玻璃咸鱼Ancient Romance1.8M WordsCompleted As the sect’s senior disciple, Song Wu had always worked diligently, trained hard, and taught her fellow disciples, all to protect the sect’s reputation. But her fiancé thought she wasn’t gentle or considerate enough. Her fellow disciples called her rigid, strict, and lacking in compassion. Even her master, the sect leader, advised her to be more generous and kind. Heartbroken, Song Wu forced a breakthrough and lost her life. She never expected to be reborn at a time before she had even become t 1.4kReads8.8Score303Shelves
9. 9 仇 Sacrifice Your Enemies to the Heavens, and Your Power Knows No Bounds 仇人祭天，法力无边 Your Robe Lingers in My Heart子衿悠我心Ancient Romance730k WordsCompleted [Strong female lead + no romance + feel-good power fantasy] A mission-taker stole Yu Xuan’s body, claiming to avenge her, then wiped out her clan and married the enemy she hated most! Reborn, Yu Xuan is ready to settle every score and repay every grievance! Whether it’s the mission-taker or the damn System, she won’t let a single one of them off! 4.1kReads9.1Score420Shelves
10. 10 谁 Who Let This Guy Become the Senior Brother? 谁让这小子当大师兄的？ Rain Falls from South of the City to the West城南有雨落城西Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsCompleted The second junior brother is the chosen one of the plane. The third junior brother is reborn. The fourth junior brother is an ancient Sword Immortal reincarnated. The junior sister is the future Demon Empress. Everyone from top to bottom is a hidden powerhouse! Ouyang, the eldest senior brother, gives a crooked grin. “Well, then I guess I'll have to use cheats!” 166.5kReads9.4Score16.4kShelves

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    These are all fairy tales, the plots are interesting and not ordinary, the characters are real and realistic, some are humorous and light-hearted, some are convoluted and some are poorly written.

11. 11 大 After Her Lazy Plans Failed, the Eldest Senior Sister Went Mad 大师姐摆烂不成功后成疯批了 Fang Jüliang房踽凉Ancient Romance513k WordsCompleted Ning Ran is the senior disciple of the head of Mu Tian Sect. In the cultivation world, she was the first to reach Foundation Establishment in five hundred years, the first to form a Golden Core, the first to reach Nascent Soul, and the first to attain Divinity Transformation. Ning Ran is the pride of Mu Tian Sect and a role model for all its disciples. She is dutiful and spends every day cultivating and teaching her junior brothers and sisters. She always puts the sect’s honor first, and wheneve 3.8kReads9.1Score494Shelves
12. 12 五 The Five-Star Review Guide to Immortal Cultivation 五星好评修仙指南 A Little Tree in the Desert沙漠一颗小树Sci-Fi & Apocalypse200k WordsCompleted Delivery rider Lu Xiaobei mistakenly accepts a mysterious order. The Qingyang virus is implanted in his primordial spirit, turning him into a quantum vessel in the struggle between the cultivation world and modern capital. When tribulation thunderclouds become subprime mortgage tribulations and five-star ratings turn into a plague of the mind, he wields a crowbar of bad-review comments to fight the algorithmic gods of Meituan along the Dark Web’s Silk Road. From quantum pirate raids to metaverse —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I recommend this book. It's about cultivating immortality from an alternative perspective. It's not very good in the middle period, but it's really interesting to learn more about after 30 chapters.

13. 13 叛 After Leaving the Sect, the Eldest Senior Sister Founds Her Own 叛出宗门后，大师姐她另立门派 Drunk on Jade, Bathed in Clear Wind醉玉清风Ancient Romance245k WordsCompleted [Farming-style cultivation, with a male lead but a light romance. The heroine is more career-focused.] Yue Yunxi, senior sister of the Xuantian Sect, was raised by her master from childhood. Though she couldn't cultivate, she was the sect's treasured darling. But when she turned eighteen, her master and fellow disciples conspired against her, draining her blood to improve her junior sister's aptitude and activate the sect's supreme treasure. She thought she was as good as dead, but her Hongmeng 8Reads6.1Score—Shelves

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    "That's right!" The little girl with sky-high pigtails and a red bellyband next to the boy said pretentiously: "My eldest brother is very fierce. He cuts people every day and won't eat if he doesn't cut them!" "Yes, when my mother was still alive, she beat me every day, but I didn't even eat when she beat me. I had to cut me down before I could eat. I'm asking you if you're afraid!" Middle-aged monk:... Are these two children seriously ill?

14. 14 厨 The God of Cooking and the Demon Beasts: Oh No, We're the Ingredients! 厨神，妖兽：不好，我们成食材了 Jiu Yu九语Eastern Fantasy6.7M WordsOngoing A chef transmigrates to a fantasy world and awakens the strongest Chef God System. Whenever someone praises a dish he makes, his talent, physique, and insight improve. Well, this is an instant takeoff. What's more, his dishes have special effects: they can strengthen the body, nourish one's health, and clear away hidden injuries… The entire sect goes wild. From the Ancestor, Supreme Elders, and Sect Master to the servant disciples, everyone goes crazy for a taste. The Sect Master say 83.1kReads9.1Score6.8kShelves
15. 15 我 Going Wild with Involution in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界：疯狂搞内卷 Little Yuan Darling小缘宝贝Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Yun Miaomiao slept through the night and woke up in the cultivation world. Boo-hoo… In this world where the strong prey on the weak, people kill each other for treasures at the drop of a hat. She wants to go home so badly. To avoid getting killed, Yun Miaomiao grits her teeth and throws herself into the rat race, pretending to be weak while secretly staying strong. As she keeps pushing herself, she somehow becomes a genius in everyone else’s eyes, the envy of all. (No romance) 812Reads8.7Score104Shelves
16. 16 满 A Household of Jokers, and My Junior Sister Is Absolutely Unhinged 满门逗比，师妹她疯批了 A Thousand Winds in a Clear Sky晴空千风Ancient Romance774k WordsCompleted Fang Xiaoli transmigrates into the role of a shoddy substitute heroine. The real heroine is coming after her with a forty-meter broadsword, and the original book keeps warning her in real time: a huge wave of party-wipe crises is closing in! Fang Xiaoli thinks, “Holy crap, I really can’t thank you enough! Senior Brother up ahead, wait! Please pick me up!” And so she’s taken to the “fiercest, most evil” sect, the Tianming Sect, full of villains. At last, she’s safe. But why does something feel of 202Reads8.3Score—Shelves
17. 17 那 The Cultivators We Used to Chop Up Together 那些年，我们一起砍过的修仙者 Squirrel Under the Mushroom House蘑菇屋下的松鼠Eastern Fantasy2.1M WordsCompleted (Everyman’s cultivation + no System) Unlike traditional xianxia, don’t read if that’s not your thing. That year, a seven-year-old boy took his little sister into the cultivation world. Then all the cultivators went crazy! When you set out to cultivate, it doesn’t matter if you have talent, treasures, or lucky opportunities. But there’s one thing you must remember: there’s one person you must never provoke. Even though this person isn’t a cultivator at all. His blade is faster than light, so fast 150.7kReads9.3Score15.7kShelves
18. 18 打 After Infiltrating the Enemy: I Slaughter Them Left and Right 打入敌人内部后：我嘎嘎乱杀 Snore When Things Get Tough遇到困难打呼噜Ancient Romance928k WordsOngoing [Love interests to choose from + cultivation + romance as a sideline] The story of how I lost my memory, infiltrated the enemy ranks, rose through the ranks, and won myself a handsome man. The dignified, aloof, peerlessly beautiful young sect master looked at the heartless woman before him and said with a faint smile, "I'll give you one more chance. Pursue me." The crazy young heir from the mortal world wore an amused smile. "Be my test subject. You're the best candidate." The purehearted eldest 22Reads—Score—Shelves

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    This is a book about cultivating immortals!

19. 19 玄 Xuanhuan: Teaching Cultivation in Another World 玄幻：我在异界教修仙 Fisherman's and Woodcutter's Thatched Cottage渔樵草庐Eastern Fantasy253k WordsOngoing The clash of the Great Dao and its laws, the conflict between immortals and gods! Five Elements Daoist arts clash with forbidden spells from another world, while Daoist swordsmanship goes head-to-head with otherworldly War Gods. Prove the truth of the myriad Great Daos and attain the rank of a True Immortal, then use a True Immortal's power to slay false gods. A boy from a mountain village sets out on the Daoist path to immortality, carrying our Daoist lineage to every corner of the world. —Reads—Score—Shelves
20. 20 师 Junior Sister, Stop Competing! Our Sect Is Already Invincible 师妹别卷了，我们师门已经无敌了 Delicate and Soft身娇体软Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [Silly fun + pampered by the whole group + no romance + invincible] Yu Danlian is eating baby octopus when she accidentally transmigrates into a cultivation world. A Foundation Establishment cultivator takes her as a disciple, then dumps her on seven senior brothers who are supposedly just as good-for-nothing as she is. The senior brothers, who have been pretending to be good-for-nothings, are thrilled when their new junior sister turns out to be the real deal. The eldest teaches her Buddhism. T 6.3kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves

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    I personally think these books are very good, many of them are time-travel novels, many of them are also very funny, and very silly (●°u°●)​" The novel, especially the penultimate one, has a very fresh material selection. The heroine is a sword.

21. 21 惊 What?! The Beloved Little Junior Sister Is the Strongest in All Nine Provinces! 惊！团宠小师妹竟是九州最强者！ Didi Yuan迪迪圆Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted (Complete; no romance, invincible protagonist, hilarious, face-slapping, pure feel-good fun) The moment Qing Jiujiu transmigrated, she was bound to an Invincibility System! By accident, she crawled into her master's bed and fell fast asleep. Master: ??? The whole sect was in an uproar! The senior brother, second senior brother, third senior brother, fourth senior brother... all 108 senior brothers were stunned! Of all the beds the junior sister could sleep in, she had to choose her master's! The 3kReads9.3Score609Shelves
22. 22 小 After My Junior Sister Tried Every Way to Die, the Whole Sect Defied Heaven 小师妹疯狂作死后，全师门逆天了 You Ke Lili柚可里里Ancient Romance705k WordsCompleted [No CP + Hilarious Found-Family Cultivation] Ye Qingyue transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder villainess who keeps courting death by stealing the heroine's opportunities, only to have her spiritual veins crippled by the heroine and die a miserable death. To live happily and keep herself alive, Ye Qingyue joins the Hidden Profound Sect, mocked by the entire cultivation world, and soon becomes the apple of everyone's eye! The sect may be a little poor, but that's no problem: sh 182Reads7.3Score—Shelves
23. 23 妖 Born with Demon Eyes, the Unhinged Heroine Does Whatever She Pleases 妖瞳降世，疯批女主张扬无忌 Mi Zhi弥止Ancient Romance513k WordsCompleted [Romance included] [Cultivation] [Ancient setting] [Transmigration] [Genius] She came from the twenty-sixth century, bringing her heaven-defying supernatural ability to the Cultivation world. Her cultivation talent also left the entire world in awe. Five spiritual roots, a useless spiritual root? But what if they were top-grade five spiritual roots? The crowd cried out in disbelief. “Th-this is a Chaos Spiritual Root, something you only see once in a hundred years!” At the disciple selection cer 2.4kReads9.1Score448Shelves
24. 24 穿 Transmigrate into a Book: No One Understands Arrogance Better Than I Do 穿书之没人能比我更懂嚣张 Chenchen Little Darling晨晨小宝贝Ancient Romance984k WordsCompleted [Signed for print publication] –– Fu Zhu died suddenly after staying up all night watching shows and reading novels. She still remembers that just before she died, she was reading a novel called The Useless Girl Warrior Who Defies Heaven. –– Then she became Bai Li Fu Zhu, the female villain who opposes the novel's hero and heroine. –– This villain is different: she isn't jealous of the heroine or interested in the hero. She simply can't stand the two of them acting more arrogant than her and ste 57.9kReads9.3Score8.5kShelves
25. 25 一 The Sword Everyone Wants to Claim 一把所有人都争夺的剑 Shu Jiu束啾Ancient Romance489k WordsCompleted The young girl Su Xiaoxiao transmigrates for no apparent reason and becomes a sword. The owner by her side changes again and again. From the perspective of a mere bystander, she watches everyone go mad over her. There’s no CP. I’m a sword, so I can’t get up to anything. Also, don’t call me a misogynist. When men get what they deserve, why don’t you criticize me then? What, is that discrimination? It’s just a novel. Why are there so many saints around? 46Reads5.8Score—Shelves
26. 26 废 Good-for-Nothing’s Rise: I Cultivated to the Supreme Realm with Rare Characters 废材逆袭：我靠冷僻字修成至 Legend of the Six Swords六剑传奇Eastern Fantasy342k WordsCompleted Leng Yunxiao is electrocuted in a fire at a cultural center and transmigrates to the world of cultivation. When he wakes, he has become the useless young master of the Leng family in Yancheng: a spoiled heir with no spiritual roots. Then his parents die under mysterious circumstances, his engagement is broken off, his leg is crippled, and he is cast out of his home. The only ones who remain by his side are the ancient book he brought with him, the Dictionary of Rare Chinese Characters, and his m —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A refreshing novel about cultivating immortality with a brand new vision! The novel uses "rare words" as golden fingers, with novel and clever ideas. In terms of character setting, the biggest highlight of this book is the past life identity of the protagonist Leng Yunxiao - a researcher at the Cultural Center. This setting not only provides the rationality for "Golden Finger", but also gives the character a bookish and resolute core, which is different from the reckless protagonist in traditional fantasy novels who rely on pills, bloodlines or systems to counterattack. The maid Chang Xiyue has gradually grown from a "tool person" to an independent Taoist couple. Her emotional line is not abrupt, and her true feelings in adversity are touching. The plot development follows the classic "waste counterattack" framework: time travel → humiliation → awakening → cultivation → revenge → sublimation. The intense "triple combo" of breaking off an engagement, seizing a child, and breaking a leg in the first three chapters quickly arouses the reader's emotions. Each subsequent unlocking of a rare word corresponds to a jump in combat power, and the pace is bright and fast. What is particularly valuable is that in the middle period, the main line of revenge is sublimated into the feelings of family and country against foreigners (Moyuan Sect, Nether Sect), and the pattern gradually opens up. Compared with similar novels, this book is unique in its creativity of using "uncommon characters" as a training medium, avoiding the common "alchemy + exercises" or "system panel" routines. The integration of Chinese cultural elements adds to its recognition. All in all, this is a masterpiece of fantasy with a solid concept and intensive exciting points.

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