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  1. 1 Mortal Bones 凡骨 Eastern Fantasy8.3M WordsCompleted The world’s spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade, Heavenly Spiritual Bone. Second grade, Golden Spiritual Bone. Third grade, Profound Spiritual Bone. Fourth grade, White Spiritual Bone. All the rest are mortal bones, with no chance of cultivating. Xu Taiping, born with mortal bones, swears to prove to the cultivation world that mortal bones can slay demons, mortal bones can vanquish devils, and mortal bones can ascend to immortality! 647.3kReads9.3Score77kShelves
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  2. 2 The Lost City of Exotic Beasts 异兽迷城 Urban3.0M WordsCompleted [The new book The Maze of Inversion has begun serialization. Updates come at 9 p.m. every evening. Please continue to support it.] Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 504.8kReads9.7Score65.3kShelves
  3. 3 Mysterious World: Sleep and Die from the Start 神秘世界:开局睡觉就会死 Urban2.2M WordsOngoing [Infinite Flow + Horror + Interstellar + Passionate Growth + Cthulhu] [Former title: Help! The Men Are Going Extinct] Men are on the verge of extinction, and at the same time, a 'mysterious world' capable of saving them has been discovered. Li Xiaoshuai, who chose the 'mentally ill' sequence, gradually encounters everything the universe has to offer during his missions as he prepares for the Human Race's Genius Tournament... 1.9kReads8.3Score173Shelves
  4. 4 Hell Is Empty, and Evil Spirits Walk the Earth 地狱空荡荡,恶灵在人间 Mystery1.5M WordsCompleted This is a horror novel centered on mystery, a traditional supernatural story with no System and no cultivation. The setup is lengthy, there are many mysteries, and the truth is revealed gradually. A mysterious apartment brings endless nightmares. To escape, you must complete the nine tasks assigned by the apartment. Hunted by evil spirits, mocked by ghosts, and consumed by resentment, everyone will be trapped in a terrifying cycle of death and rebirth, played out in blood. “All who are ruled by 573Reads8.6Score100Shelves
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  5. 5 The Divine Cage Game 神笼游戏 Urban2.2M WordsOngoing In a dazzling technological future, a powerful being descends, calling itself a god and ruling over all. Everything becomes a game for the gods. The gods become humanity’s sole objects of faith. Above all faith, humans are the pieces and the gods move them. The world is a cage, and this is a game ruled by the gods. The gods rule everything! The gods create the games! The gods make the rules! Rule One: Every human must take part in the game. You need a ticket to compete, but the winner takes all, 33.2kReads9.3Score2.9kShelves
  6. 6 Infinite-Flow Mythology: I Can Evolve All Things 无限流神话:我能衍化万物 Eastern Fantasy439k WordsCompleted [Mythology + the Weird + infinite-instance progression + cards + relic containment objects + ?] An era perishes, civilization begins anew, and the surviving humans are trapped behind towering walls. The Old Gods refuse to fade away. They summon living beings into bygone eras to begin a game. Qin Daotu transmigrates into this world and awakens the ability to evolve all things. [Class Card: Swordsman] evolves into [Sword Immortal] [Skill Card: Wisdom Sword] evolves into [The sword slays the flesh; 6.8kReads9.0Score587Shelves
  7. 7 Apocalypse Descends: I Slay Gods and Demons with My Longblade! 末世降临:我以长刀斩神魔! Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.7M WordsCompleted [Apocalypse Survival, Spiritual Qi Revival, Destiny Wheel, Gods and Demons Descend, Blood-Pumping Action!] The world was transformed by the supernatural. Monstrous beasts ran rampant, darkness rose, and the killing never stopped! Zhang Qing was reborn ten years in the past and obtained the Destiny Wheel. He rose through slaughter and was reborn in the darkness! He established the Luosheng Gate, became a dark-night asura, and roamed the night, wiping out evil across the world! With the long blade 15.1kReads8.0Score1.1kShelves
  8. 8 Surviving the Apocalypse: I Can Sublimate Everything 末世求生:我能升华万物 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.7M WordsOngoing [Apocalypse + divine skills + supernatural abilities + the Seven Deadly Sins + ruthless and decisive + opening with an overpowered move + invincible power fantasy] ♫ Gently awaken your sleeping heart, slowly open your eyes… When Lu Ming woke up, he discovered that all of humanity had been transported to the Jialan Galaxy. The apocalypse had descended upon the Jialan Galaxy. Mutants were invading, and humanity’s first priority was to survive in the resource-starved, perilous wasteland. But Lu Min 46.8kReads8.8Score3.7kShelves
  9. 9 The Full-Time Sword Cultivator 全职剑修 Sports4.4M WordsOngoing [Qingjiu's New Novel] Lin Jichen was a master at the Dao Enlightenment Realm in Eight Wastelands, the strongest spell cultivator under heaven. He should have had countless admirers, the power to command the winds and rain, and an boundless path to immortality. But after his lover and sworn brother both betrayed him, he was tricked into entering the lair of Zhulong, a Level-to-Immortality Realm boss. In the end, he died in the jaws of a beast, his body and soul destroyed. Unexpectedly, fate gave 31.6kReads9.1Score1.1kShelves
  10. 10 Yin Immortal 阴仙 Eastern Fantasy7.3M WordsOngoing Born inside a coffin, the young man honors the dying wish of the old caretaker of the charity cemetery and personally sends his sworn younger sister to join an immortal sect. After she enters the sect, he accidentally stumbles into the Yin Mountain of a Hundred Ghosts and has no choice but to embark on the path of ghosts… Thus begins the legendary cultivation journey of a ghost cultivator wielding a ghost blade, slaying giant demon overlords and cleaving immortal sect masters in two… 18.7kReads8.8Score1.7kShelves
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  11. 11 I'm a Villain, So Why Do Players Worship Me Like a God? 我一反派,玩家将我奉若神明? Sports257k WordsOngoing [Villain + players + online game NPC + decisive and ruthless + cunning and calculating + interstellar] Qin Yi, a top-ranked player in “Starlight,” unexpectedly returns to the game’s closed beta during an interstellar war and becomes an NPC with an SSS-rank talent. Knowing exactly how players think, he decides to keep the army of respawning players under his control. In the year XXXX of the Star Calendar, representatives of the players gather to speak passionately at the largest player hub in “St 4Reads8.6Score—Shelves
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  12. 12 Honkai: Star Rail: Dreaming of the Starry River 星穹铁道:揽星河入梦 Anime Fanfiction1.1M WordsCompleted [Honkai Impact 3rd] [Honkai: Star Rail] [Honkai: Star Rail] It was an evening when ashes fell from the sky. A woman stood at the entrance to an orphanage, holding a black umbrella. “Since your wish in this life has been fulfilled, come with me.” “I just want to make sure: you have a taciturn older brother and a younger sister addicted to the internet. You’re divorced and widowed, and your ex-husband is buried?” “Of course!” “And you guarantee this is a normal, loving family, not some notorious i 19kReads9.6Score1.9kShelves
  13. 13 The Skeleton Lord's Growth Journal 骷髅领主的成长日记 Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsCompleted I unexpectedly transmigrated to another world. Others became immortals or Buddhas, while even the less fortunate got to rise from being nobodies. But when Gu Erdan got here, he realized he had nothing to look forward to. Because this guy had become a skeleton soldier! And not just any skeleton soldier, but a low-grade, headless, battle-damaged wreck of one! Life is hard, so the skeleton sighed. Looking at his body, without an ounce of flesh on it, Gu Erdan decided he would show everyone how to m 5.1kReads9.1Score646Shelves
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  14. 14 Growing One Point a Year: From Country Bumpkin to Ancestor of the Immortal Realm 每年加一点从山野村夫成仙界道祖 Eastern Fantasy6.1M WordsCompleted [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 839kReads9.7Score86.8kShelves
  15. 15 Horror Movie NPC Goes on a Killing Spree in a Terror Game 恐怖片NPC在惊悚游戏杀疯了 Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted [Horror + comedy + power fantasy + no female lead (male protagonist has no romantic pairing)] A horror game swept across the world. Fu Yan, an NPC from a horror movie in a higher plane of existence, was accidentally dragged into the game. Fu Yan: Since you've all gone to the trouble of inviting me, I won't hold back. From then on, the “horror game” was plunged into the shadow of someone named “Fu Yan”... Horror NPCs: Please, don't come any closer! Livestream viewers: Can someone do something abo 80.4kReads9.6Score10kShelves
  16. 16 Horror Tavern: I Only Raise the Most Ferocious Creatures 恐怖酒馆:我只养大凶之物 Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted Tucked away in a quiet alley is a strange tavern that can grant your wishes, as long as you’re willing to set up a terrifying idol in your home... 10.9kReads9.4Score1.1kShelves
  17. 17 Honghuang: I Am Hongjun, and I Take Out the System from the Start 洪荒:我鸿钧,开局干掉系统 Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [Comedy + Satisfying Revenge + No Female Lead] Tongtian One: I am Tongtian. I will never found a sect. Tongtian Two: I am Tongtian. I will never become a saint. Tongtian Three: I am Tongtian. I will never confer the gods. King Father of the East: I will build the strongest Heavenly Court. Zhao Gongming: I will expose Hongjun's conspiracy. The transmigrators descend upon the Primordial World, naturally believing themselves righteous and making it their mission to overthrow Hongjun's rule. All Hon 17.2kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves
  18. 18 Lord of Sacrifice 献祭之主 Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted [A new book from a veteran author, guaranteed quality and regular updates.] [No System, beast taming, high martial arts, fantasy] Chen Gu transmigrates into a fantasy world where martial artists reign supreme and strength is everything. However, most people have no talent for martial arts. For ordinary people, the only way to reach the top is to spend nine years studying beast-taming theory and become a... Beast Tamer! While others cautiously spend their few spirit stones at the beast market, ch 5.7kReads8.6Score541Shelves
  19. 19 Unbelievable! I’m Just Coasting Through the Apocalypse 惊呆了!我在天灾末世当咸鱼 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse874k WordsCompleted [Natural disasters + apocalypse + pocket dimension + spiritual spring + strong female lead + feel-good story + no CP] Reborn overnight, Fu Manman swore she would never again let others carve her up like fish on a chopping board! She would rise to power! Unlock a pocket dimension, sell off her property, and stockpile supplies! At first, she only wanted to be a laid-back couch potato in the apocalypse! But somehow, people who didn't know what was good for them kept provoking her! In the end, even 3.2kReads8.7Score282Shelves
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  20. 20 Doomsday Descends: A Hundredfold Drop Rate, Loot with Every Strike 末日降临:百倍爆率刀刀爆物资 Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.1M WordsCompleted [Game Stats] [No Romance] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Invincible Protagonist] [Absolute Egoism] [Pure Wish Fulfillment] No saintly heroes allowed!!! After surviving ten years of the apocalypse, Lin Ziluo was reborn on the day the apocalypse game arrived. When he came to, the first thing he did was kill his campus crush, the girlfriend who had betrayed him and ruined his life for ten years. Unexpectedly, he activated a System that could grant him countless golden fingers. His first golden finger: Ab 166.6kReads9.4Score15.8kShelves
  21. 21 Clan Cultivation: I Am the Clan's Guardian Spirit Beast 家族修仙:我为镇族灵兽 Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsCompleted [Mythical beast story, no human transformation, no romance, ensemble family saga] Reborn as a Blackwater Mystic Serpent named Mo Xuan, he gains a Clan Guardian Spirit Beast System and forms a bond with the Zhou family patriarch. He becomes the Zhou family's guardian spirit beast, and from then on, their fortunes rise and fall together. As the family gradually grows stronger, Mo Xuan also becomes one of the most powerful beings, and the name of the Zhou beast-taming family eventually resounds thr 53.2kReads9.3Score4.9kShelves
  22. 22 Honor of Kings: What Do You Mean, a Trickster? I'm Just a Sunny, Cheerful Guy 王者:啥老六?阳光开朗大男孩懂 Sports405k WordsOngoing [Live streaming + esports + hilarious troll + no female lead] The sunny, cheerful Su Bei binds to the Ultimate Troll System. He can earn all kinds of rewards by ambushing people. From the start, he gets top-tier game sense and Lanling King-level skills, then runs into Shuye and Bai Yi in a match. His signature Lanling King play leaves Bai Yi getting killed over and over until she breaks down crying. As troll heroes like Angela, Zhong Kui, Shouyue, and Mozi gradually unlock... Everyone who runs i 806Reads8.9Score—Shelves
  23. 23 With No Talent for Cultivation, I Can Only Return to Martial Arts 没有修仙天赋的我只能重拾武道 Urban10.5M WordsOngoing [Carefully planned haymakers + overwhelming force + mind-blowing feats = brain storage area] “Locking your health bar? What are you locking? A little cheating doesn't count as cheating, get it?” Everyone knows that the highest level of competition often uses the simplest methods. In a fantasy world crawling with cultivators and teeming with countless races, Lu An is an ultimate being with a perfect six-sided stat sheet. He only excels at one thing: using his peerless wisdom to convince people th 34.8kReads8.9Score2.2kShelves
  24. 24 The Blood of Youth: Senior Brother, Please Split the Sky with Your Sword 少年歌行:有请师兄一剑开天 Anime Fanfiction466k WordsCompleted [No heroine, the male lead stands alone, no breaking up couples] A prodigy emerged from Qingcheng Mountain, entering the Mysterious Realm of Spirit Travel at just seventeen. Zhao Yuzhen: Everyone says my swordsmanship is unmatched, that I guard Qingcheng alone with my sword and forced the Demon Sect to take an eight-hundred-mile detour. But they don't know that back then, my senior brother spat out a burst of sword energy that swept across those eight hundred miles. My senior brother, Zhou Huanz 22.6kReads9.3Score1.3kShelves
  25. 25 I Have Scratch Cards: Surely Becoming a Dao Ancestor Is No Problem? 我有刮刮卡,当个道祖没问题吧? Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsCompleted My name is Dao Anran: Dao as in “sanctimonious,” and Anran as in “sanctimonious.” All I want is to make money and help beautiful women in need. Anyone who gets in my way, no matter how difficult, must die!!! 3.1kReads8.7Score173Shelves
  26. 26 Eternal Immortality: A Jailor Hiding Out in the Heavenly Prison 长生万古:苟在天牢做狱卒 Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted [Smart characters, no brainless plotlines]+ [No System]+ [Cautious survival]+ [Immortality]+ [No heroine]+ [A sly schemer]+ [Political intrigue]+ [Prudent and cautious] Zhang Wu transmigrates to a cultivation world and becomes a jailer in the Imperial Prison from the start. For officials, the end of the road is the Imperial Prison. For soldiers, it is dying on the battlefield. For those in the martial world, it is getting killed in a vendetta. None of them meet a good end. If he wants to survive 75.9kReads9.1Score7kShelves
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  27. 27 I Can Reload Infinitely, and See Through Every Hidden Card 我无限回档,洞悉所有底牌 Urban2.0M WordsCompleted This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 370.8kReads9.5Score48.4kShelves
  28. 28 Above the Celestial Master 天师之上 Urban3.1M WordsCompleted [Everyone Changes Class + No Harem + Passionate Action + Multiple Classes + Invincible Leveling] A hundred years ago, otherworldly races invaded at will, bringing humanity to the brink of extinction. To fight back against the demon beasts, everyone undergoes a class change at the age of twelve. Only by becoming a class-changer and continually leveling up can one reach the pinnacle of the world! On the day of his class change, Ye Xiang became a Taoist priest with a natural level of ten. But Taois 73.5kReads9.0Score7.5kShelves
  29. 29 Trapped in an Uncanny World: My Panel Makes Me a Martial Sage 人在诡异世界:我面板武圣 Eastern Fantasy2.2M WordsCompleted Martial arts + System stat upgrades + supernatural resurgence! The supernatural resurgence brings a crumbling dynasty, warring warlords, chaos across the land, and suffering among the people. Bai Lu is reborn in this world as a lowly hired laborer. With the wisdom gained over two lifetimes and the power of his awakened System, he practices martial arts, studies secret techniques, slays monsters, and punishes the wicked amid the chaos. Martial arts, demonic arts, immortal techniques, and secret t 18.1kReads8.0Score1.2kShelves
  30. 30 Grain for Starships: I Stockpiled High Tech at Rock-Bottom Prices 粮食换星舰:我用白菜价囤高科技 Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Cross-Time Trading + Tycoon + Technology + Incredibly Satisfying] "The Super-Time Trading Platform is recruiting Blue Star agents. Base salary starts at 100,000." Su Yu had just lost his job when he happened upon this recruitment ad. He clicked on it just for a laugh. Then he became a Blue Star agent for the Super-Time Trading Platform, able to trade goods with people across different eras and worlds. A ton of rice could get him 50 kilograms of gold from a trading partner in a wasteland world? 35kReads8.7Score3.2kShelves
  31. 31 The End of Ten Days 十日终焉 Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.8MReads9.9Score227.2kShelves
  32. 32 Another World: The Rise of an Industrial Empire 异界:工业帝国崛起 Eastern Fantasy829k WordsOngoing [Industry VS Magic] [The road to evolution: Britain → America → People's Democracy → International Democracy] Fighter engines roared as they charged at wyverns. Grenadiers gripped their rifles and advanced on mages. A flood of steel rolled over the corpses of magical beasts. When freedom and equality confront slavery and privilege, when human liberation faces sacred magic, that is when mages have the most to fear. A nation created by commoners, with no nobles or privileged class, founded in the 414Reads9.3Score—Shelves
  33. 33 Reborn: The Regent Prince Dotes on Me to the Heavens 重生后我被摄政王宠上了天 Ancient Romance582k WordsCompleted In her past life, she trusted the wrong person and fell in love with the cold-hearted, ruthless Chu Changqing. Her entire family was executed. Her beloved father was framed for colluding with the enemy and betraying his country. He was tortured with a thousand cuts and put to death by slow slicing. Her eldest and second eldest brothers, who had doted on her since childhood, were framed during a military campaign, beheaded, and left hanging from the city walls to rot in the sun. Her third brother 221Reads7.2Score—Shelves
  34. 34 Roguelike Desert Island 肉鸽荒岛 Urban323k WordsOngoing Humanity lives on a small island called Ignorance, surrounded by an obscure ocean. The sea is boundless and holds endless secrets, but we should not sail too far or probe too deeply., H. P. Lovecraft When they wake, everyone finds themselves inside an unfamiliar cave; After leaving the cave, they realize the land beneath their feet is a deserted island in another world; They begin struggling to survive on the island. Then, on the seventh day, a prompt sounds in their minds, and they become “play —Reads—Score—Shelves
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