Looking for Dark Cultivation: Resources Are Monopolized, and the Protagonist Is Ruthless and Determined to Live Forever 求黑暗修仙，资源被垄断，主角杀伐果断努力长生。

1. 1 被 After My Golden Core Was Stolen, I Awakened the Spiritual Root of Heaven and Earth 被夺了金丹后，我激活了天地灵根 Trouble at Chize池泽生变Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsCompleted Sequel: Bad News! My Dad Married Into Another Family, and I Became a Carefree Rogue Cultivator [Survivalist Cultivation + Not a Power Fantasy + Daily Life + Farming + No Female Lead + Ruthless + Old Schemer + System + Dark + Lone Wolf + Rogue Cultivator] Chen Si had a single Wood Spiritual Root, and his master, Daoist Changsheng, poured everything into cultivating him as a supreme elixir. On the day Chen Si formed his Golden Core, his master took it for himself. After escaping with a Void-Evasio 18.4kReads8.1Score1.1kShelves

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   This one is similar; there are guards at the end of every road, and no matter which path you take, you'll die. The protagonist has to forge his own way out. Everyone's a master strategist, constantly plotting and scheming against each other. It's worth reading.

2. 2 仙 The Immortal Path? The Path of Death! 仙道？死道！ Jue Love ScarJue恋殇Eastern Fantasy3.0M WordsCompleted [Horror Cultivation] + [Survival at All Costs] You are what you eat, so eating bitterness won't make you a better person. Only eating people will. An immortal once said, “If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.” Humans are the spirit of all things, born with immortal bodies and prized as heavenly medicine. In the cultivation world, the only way to cultivate is to absorb the power and fortune of others! That's why ordinary people are kept as living cauldrons. If you don't consume others, —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The first book is about raising a human-eating gu (a type of poisonous insect), a dark cultivation novel where everyone is evil, and those with high cultivation levels eat those with lower levels—it has a Cthulhu vibe and is very addictive. The second book is bizarre; the protagonist has an immortality and specializes in demonic arts, crushing everything in his path—it's incredibly good. The third book features a protagonist who travels between two worlds, cultivating demonic arts on a zombie planet and cultivating immortality amidst zombies.

3. 3 列 Above the Immortals 列仙之上 The Orange in the Sky天上的橙子Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsOngoing The Undying Disease is a curse that makes a person's lifespan burn away twenty times faster after infection. One year alive means twenty years of aging. But until their lifespan runs out, their body cannot die and their soul cannot perish! No matter how grave the injury, they recover completely! After Li Jiu contracted the Undying Disease, he had no choice but to cultivate the quick-path demonic arts that everyone else considered tantamount to suicide if he wanted to survive! Gold-Eating Magneti 6.3kReads8.6Score442Shelves
4. 4 重 Rebirth as a Demonic Cultivator: Starting with a Zombie Planet 重生魔修，开局捡到一颗丧尸星球 The World Is Ink天下墨矣Eastern Fantasy4.9M WordsOngoing This novel has been adapted into a comic. Chu Xuan transmigrates to the Cangxuan World and becomes a demonic cultivator in the Wuji Sect. To cultivate the demonic path is to seize the essence of heaven and earth and take the finest of all things. Slaughter countless millions, and you can become a supreme Demon Venerable. But killing is forbidden by the Heavenly Dao of the human race. The righteous sects also wiped out the Wuji Sect. Just when all seemed lost, Chu Xuan happens upon a blood mirror 15.6kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
5. 5 何 What Is an Immortal? What Is a Demon? 何为仙！何为魔！ Beyond the Mortal World逸于凡尘Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsOngoing In the shadowy reaches of the demonic path, he cultivated for thousands of years. At last, hunted by the Immortal Realm, he had no choice but to open a secret realm: the Heavenly River Pavilion. He returns to the past! Schemes against all heroes! Decisive and ruthless! Profit above all else!!! All to find the Dao he seeks. The world may seem ever-shifting, but it is your own heart that lacks resolve. This world changes endlessly and without warning. How can you know whether what lies ahead is 2.2kReads9.3Score216Shelves

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   The protagonist's personality is solely driven by self-interest; he's ruthless and decisive. Moreover, he's a reincarnated protagonist, unlike other brainless stories where the protagonist, after being reborn, causes trouble and then gets humiliated when others come knocking. In this story, the protagonist doesn't go looking for trouble; he meticulously plans everything based on his knowledge from his previous life. Furthermore, the characters are incredibly intelligent—in other words, they are normal characters, not the kind who become less intelligent when they encounter the protagonist.

6. 6 修 Cultivating Immortality, Starting with Buying Low and Selling High 修仙，从倒买倒卖开始 The Unknowable River不知人河Eastern Fantasy177k WordsOngoing [Ordinary protagonist, no System, patchwork setting, multiple secret identities, cultivation through levels of existence, infinite journeys through the heavens] (The second world, Blue Star, opens in Chapter 48: an eerie-dungeon version.) (Rumor clarification: the golden finger is rigid and barely functional.) (The second dungeon, Sunshine Apartments, opens in Chapter 76.) In the cultivation world, I tread carefully. In other worlds, call me Daoist Grandpa! Xue Tong arrives in a pseudo-tradit 1kReads—Score119Shelves

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   The heavens are boundless, traversing countless worlds. The latest chapter has opened the second world, the bizarre Blue Star… There are nine realms in total: Qi Sensing, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Spirit Refining… I'm done for, I don't know if I can salvage it. I'll be updating one chapter daily, and occasionally two chapters.

7. 7 窃 The Heavenly Theft Record: All Living Beings Build My Dao Foundation 窃天录：众生筑我道基 Kitty Bro 114514小猫老弟114514Eastern Fantasy160k WordsCompleted Xuanhuan + dark fantasy + no System + ruthless and decisive + ungrateful + no moral constraints + self-interest above all + no female lead + a new premise you’ve definitely never seen before The rating just went live! It’ll go up! Spiritual roots are brands stamped on livestock before slaughter. Ascension is the final ceremony that delivers them to the platters of those above. Lu Jin was born without spiritual roots, yet he is the only “loophole” in this immortal-cultivation farm. He can see 38Reads—Score—Shelves

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   I highly recommend the first new book I just discovered. This author has eight years of writing experience. The protagonist is ruthless and morally ambiguous, the world-building is very fresh, the plot progresses cleanly and efficiently, the action scenes are great, and it doesn't drag on. The writing is solid, the pacing is excellent, and the updates are consistent, often with bursts of new chapters. So far, the reading experience has been superb. As long as it doesn't fall apart later, I feel this book has the potential to become a top-tier read. For those of you experiencing a reading slump, this is a good time to start stocking up. Highly recommended! The other two books are also very good.

8. 8 凡EN Mortal Cultivation: Ten Thousand Corpses Forge an Immortal Bone 凡人修仙，万尸铸仙骨 Swimming Champion游泳冠军Eastern Fantasy4.8M WordsOngoing Demonic cultivation + no System + scheming underdog + decisive and ruthless. This book is dark, so don't read it if that's not your thing. The moment Song Wen kills the frail little beggar and seizes his blood and soul, every cell in his body cheers and leaps with excitement. His mind races, and he knows that killing will be part of his life from now on. For survival and immortality, he'll stop at nothing: petty schemes, conspiracies, and ruthless slaughter. On the road to immortality, bones are 96kReads8.9Score8.2kShelves

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   Decisive and ruthless, not a saint.

9. 9 争 Striving for Immortality 争仙 I'm Zhang Dapao, Everyone Fears Me我张大炮谁都怕Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted [A classic mortal cultivation story + no System + Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Core Formation] Archaeology expert Wang Zheng transmigrates to the cultivation world, bringing with him a double-sided bronze mirror unearthed from an unknown ancient tomb. While tending cattle one day, he spots a block of ice floating down the stream. To his surprise, someone is sealed inside... 16.4kReads8.5Score1.5kShelves

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   The first two books fit perfectly. As for the third book, as you all know, it's about Zhao Wuji, the leading figure in the dark cultivation world.

10. 10 万 Ten Thousand Lifetimes of Reincarnation: Immortals Like Abysses, the Dao Dust 万世轮回：仙如渊，道为尘 One-Man Show Ultra独角戏ultraEastern Fantasy2.8M WordsOngoing Chen Yan has died countless times. Every time he breathes his last, he is reborn on some day in his long life, bringing his cultivation with him. His cultivation stacks, and so do his memories. But reincarnation is no salvation. Instead, it drives him into an even deeper despair. “Senior Brother, what lies at the end of the Immortal Dao?” Chen Yan has lost count of how many times he has answered this question, and he has never given the same answer twice: “It is a prison, an abyss of reincarnati 66.7kReads8.7Score3.6kShelves
11. 11 鬼 Master of Ghostly Fate 鬼命之主 White Little White Cloud白小白云Eastern Fantasy889k WordsOngoing With a useless System and a ruthless Host, Mo Li, born a villain, will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. He has always believed in one creed: either be forsaken by everyone or ascend to the very top. 3.4kReads6.7Score277Shelves

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    This villain is ruthless. He almost killed the protagonist in the first ten chapters. Then he casually killed the female lead's sister.

12. 12 魔 The Demon Sect Is Draining My Talent? Good Thing I Can Be Reborn for Ten Thousand Lifetimes! 魔宗耗人材？还好我有万世重生！ Driving Rain and Gale骤雨疾风Eastern Fantasy609k WordsOngoing [Decisive and ruthless]+ [Underdog comeback]+ [Reborn and plotting]+ [A villain with roots in righteousness but a heart as black as ink] Chen Zheng transmigrates to the world of cultivation, only to be captured by a demonic sect. Everyone here is a “talent”! The weak have no right to survive and can only be used up as expendable resources! Luckily, Chen Zheng binds the [Reincarnation Scroll] from the start. Whenever he dies, he can start over, inherit part of his legacy, and receive a word-trait 43Reads8.1Score—Shelves

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    It's good, no need to check the rating.

13. 13 修 Cultivation Harms People? I Died and Became an Ancestor, Face-Slapping Everyone! 修仙害人？我死成老祖打脸全场！ Bamboo Horse, Mountain Stream竹马山溪Eastern Fantasy555k WordsOngoing He transmigrated into a world of immortal cultivation, joined a celestial sect, and awakened a death-reset System. Li Ren thought he had landed the perfect script for eternal life: unlimited trial and error, and immortality was guaranteed. But a series of bizarre, terrifying deaths soon taught him a hard lesson. “Junior Brother, I’ve opened my heart to you. Why won’t you hand over yours to me?” “Junior Brother, if you turn around and look at me, I won’t believe your head is empty.” “...” After b 60Reads6.8Score—Shelves
14. 14 开 From the Start, I Castrated Myself: After 999 Resets, I Became the Demon Ancestor 开局自宫，回档999次成魔祖 Lone Boat on the Desert漠上孤舟Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsOngoing [Survive in the Blissful Demon Sect, Starting with Self-Castration] [Survivalist path] [Rewind] [Blissful Sect] [Surviving in a demonic sect] Just after transmigrating to the cultivation world, Zhou Ping is kidnapped and taken to the Blissful Sect to undergo its entrance trials. Within two hours, those whose bones are corroded by love poison will die; those who surrender to lust will die; and those with mediocre potential will die too! To resist the fire consuming his body, Zhou Ping resolutely 1.6kReads8.5Score103Shelves
15. 15 诡 Proving Immortality with Strange Bones 诡骨证仙 Demon Cultivator Shinichi魔修新一Eastern Fantasy3.3M WordsOngoing [Dark fantasy + traditional cultivation! The protagonist follows a sinister path, ruthless and decisive, and is no saint! If that isn't your thing, don't read.] The immortal path is false virtue, built on lives sacrificed to establish one's foundation. Lu Li crawls out of a pit of corpses, using bones as a lamp as he walks a path only a true demon would dare take. From then on: killing, seizing souls, refining bones, devouring the heavens. If I attain the Dao, I will slaughter every immortal. F 82.8kReads8.2Score9.6kShelves
16. 16 开EN A Demon Heart at Birth: The Rise of an Unrivaled Monster 开局移植妖魔心脏，成为绝世凶物 Shacha Noodles沙茶面Eastern Fantasy5.1M WordsCompleted (No System, multiple female leads, neither wholly good nor wholly evil) Fang Ling possesses a Chaos Sacred Body. From the moment he was born, various factions fought to seize him. His heart, right eye, and precious bone were successively cut out… After being passed from hand to hand, Fang Ling was left on the steps of an ancient temple, barely clinging to life, by a kind-hearted stranger. No one knew that five peerless experts were secretly living in seclusion inside the temple. They had hidden 163.7kReads9.1Score17.4kShelves

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    [Top Post] The protagonist is a genius who lost his entire clan at a young age, leaving him as the sole survivor. He possesses a naturally occurring chaotic holy body, but his heart, eyes, and two bones were removed. Later, he was adopted by five of the world's most wicked individuals, learning their supernatural powers and becoming the ruthless and decisive Juejuezi. Don't use your brain while reading this book! [Smirk][Smirk][Smirk]

17. 17 仙EN The Harsh Road to Immortality: Built on White Bones 仙路难行，白骨筑长生 Octopus Who Loves Watermelon爱吃西瓜的章鱼Eastern Fantasy3.5M WordsOngoing “Rules? On the road to immortality, my rules are the only rules!” [Mortal Cultivation of Demonic Arts] [Founding a Demonic Cult] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Profit Above All] (Already at the Nascent Soul stage, with plenty of content to enjoy) Protagonist Qing Chen: He knows when to yield and when to stand firm, is utterly self-serving, greedy for money and women, and will stop at nothing to achieve immortality! He will found a demonic cult, dominate the world, and climb step by step to the very to 80.9kReads9.1Score7.5kShelves
18. 18 人 The Immortal Food of Mankind 人种仙食 Big-Headed T头很大的T君Eastern Fantasy6.5M WordsOngoing "Weird Cultivation, Behind-the-Scenes Story" The Tang Dynasty: strange things are coming. When Li Qing transmigrated here, he thought Mr. Huayue had kindly taken him in. Little did he know that the man saw him only as livestock to be raised for food. At the brink of life and death, the jade tablet on Li Qing revealed its power, gravely wounding Mr. Huayue and allowing him to escape. But the danger was far from over. The scheme of the Six Paths and Eight Immortals to devour all living beings had 37.9kReads8.8Score3.4kShelves

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    Time travel + cheat system, behind-the-scenes plot, no female lead, fantasy saga

19. 19 诡 The Immortal Path of the Uncanny 诡道仙路 Big-Headed T头很大的T君Eastern Fantasy2.6M WordsCompleted [Uncanny cultivation, no female lead, mortal protagonist] A black sun hangs in the sky, and the Uncanny Realm invades! Mortal Zhou Yi transmigrates into this world and makes a living by writing for others. One day, starving and freezing, he is hired by the sinister Shopkeeper Dong to copy ancient texts. By chance, he activates a beast-hide Bagua diagram and uses it to refine a perfect uncanny technique, killing the sinister shopkeeper. As he cultivates, he discovers that this world has long been 11.9kReads8.4Score1kShelves

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    In the cultivation of immortality, humans are all resources; those interested can take a look.

20. 20 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 2.3kReads8.8Score137Shelves
21. 21 笑 Laughing My Way Through a Perilous Path to Immortality 笑闯凶险仙路 Holding Smoke, Sleepless in the Night执烟夜无眠Eastern Fantasy391k WordsOngoing Ye Bufan, a useless mortal unable to cultivate, obtains a Nascent Soul spiritual treasure. Traditional cultivation, slow-burn and cautious, no brainless decisions, no harem, no female lead, the Myriad Worlds, decisive and ruthless, and an invincible protagonist. The cultivation realms are Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, and beyond… 11Reads—Score—Shelves

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22. 22 无 The Immortal Path Without Dao 无道仙路 Big-Headed T头很大的T君Eastern Fantasy3.1M WordsCompleted [No female lead + ordinary mortal protagonist + brutal cultivation; From the Start: A Broken Piece of Jade Reveals the Secrets of Immortality, The Terrifying Road to Immortality, Mystery, Immortal Paths, and the Angler, The Strange Path to Immortality are updated simultaneously] There was no road in the world to begin with. A road appears when enough people walk it. Wudao found a mysterious piece of fine wood glowing with purple light and arrived in the world of cultivation. It was a brutal plac 18.4kReads8.6Score1.1kShelves

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    The foreshadowing is terrifyingly deep. A minor villain in the early stages later overthrows a powerful figure in the Immortal Alliance, with a plot spanning over a thousand chapters. [Already hooked][Already hooked][Already hooked] The despair of social stratification: upper-level immortals lock in resources, while lower-level cultivators can't even afford Foundation Establishment Pills. The protagonist steals cultivation techniques using "Purple Light Wood," farming, crafting talismans, and setting up formations, carving out a path to survival from the ashes. [Upvote][Upvote][Upvote]

23. 23 魔 Immortal Disciple of the Demonic Path 魔道仙徒 Moonlit Daoist Acolyte明月道童Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsCompleted [No cheat, no transmigration, exceptional comprehension + Genius + Cunning + One female lead + Highly intelligent + Ruthless] If the earlier chapters feel too frustrating, start reading from Chapter 162, Dream 1. (This is not a wish-fulfillment novel, not a harem, not an invincible protagonist story, and is somewhat dark. The leads love and kill each other. The romance isn't particularly exciting, either. If you prefer sweet romance, multiple heroines, or no heroine, please go easy on me.) [Also 6.3kReads8.5Score501Shelves

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    This book truly meets your requirements. Resources are monopolized by the major powers, and the lower-level cultivators have no access to them at all. The protagonist is a mortal with a low-grade spiritual root. But that's not the main point of this book, you know? Later on, this root will be upgraded to an immortal root. The reason for this upgrade involves something else, and you'll understand when I explain it this way. The protagonist's spiritual root is inferior to others, so he steals other people's spiritual roots. He uses the stolen roots to join immortal sects or obtain resources for cultivation. The writing is really excellent.

24. 24 欲 Desire! Gu? Immortality! 欲！蛊？仙！ Er Tong from Afar来自远方的二筒Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted (Dark fantasy, no System. The protagonist is the author's idea of a villain. Multiple heroines. If that's not for you, don't read.) Ten thousand years ago, the so-called righteous sects planted a Prosperity Tree. It twisted the spiritual veins and tampered with the laws of Heaven, dividing the world into two realms: The Land of Prosperity, where flowers bloomed every day, fruit ripened all year round, and gold and jade filled every home; And the Land of Declining Dharma, where nations fell into 24kReads8.9Score3.6kShelves

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    This one book is an absolute masterpiece.

25. 25 重 Reborn in the Hehuan Sect, I Refine My Master into a Slave 重生合欢宗，师尊被我炼化成奴隶 Lone Smoke over the Long River长河孤烟Eastern Fantasy3.6M WordsOngoing [No System + no clichés + villain protagonist + multiple female leads + bizarre + ruthless and decisive, no saintly behavior] “Would you pick the Seven Fairies or the Seven Spider Demons?” “Only kids pick the fairies. Those who know, know.” “What if you really transmigrated to the Joyful Union Sect, where there are only female demons? They're fanatically devoted to the male body and worship you as a god?” “Wouldn't that be heaven on earth?” “Heh.” The young man smiled faintly. “I'm afraid it wou 86.8kReads9.4Score10.1kShelves

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    Extremely complex, highly recommended. Both main characters are ruthless.

26. 26 杂 No Future as a Servant Disciple? I’ll Master Pills and Artifacts to Seek Immortality 杂役弟子没出路？丹器双修谋长生 Helping Elderly Ladies Every Day天天扶老奶奶Eastern Fantasy3.7M WordsOngoing [Mortal cultivation, no System, decisive and ruthless, no saintly heroics, cautious, a nobody rising to power] Ye Feng transmigrates to another world and fights his way up to become the bandit chief of Black Wind Stronghold. From the start, he kills Duan Shui Liu, an inner disciple of the Xuantian Sect, and obtains a Bagua Furnace that enhances alchemy and artifact forging. After bribing the gatekeeper, he enters the Xuantian Sect to cultivate and begins his adventures in the world of cultivatio 20.4kReads8.1Score1.9kShelves
27. 27 凡EN Mortal Bones, Immortal Destiny 凡骨 Master of One Update壹更大师Eastern Fantasy8.3M WordsCompleted (The print edition is now available to buy online) The world's spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade: Heavenly Spiritual Bones. Second grade: Golden Spiritual Bones. Third grade: Mystic Spiritual Bones. Fourth grade: White Spiritual Bones. All the rest are ordinary bones, unfit for cultivation. Xu Taiping is an ordinary man with ordinary bones, yet he swears to prove to the cultivation world that ordinary bones can slay demons, ordinary bones can vanquish evil, and ordinary b 561.4kReads9.3Score72kShelves
28. 28 穿 I Transmigrated to the Cultivation World: Rising to the Top by Selling Fish 穿越修仙界：从卖鱼开始崛起 Helping Elderly Ladies Every Day天天扶老奶奶Eastern Fantasy4.7M WordsCompleted [Mortal cultivation, no System, rise from the bottom] After transmigrating, Ye Yu is kicked out of his family from the start. He has no choice but to scrape by as a fishmonger, until he offends a sect's holy maiden at the Yihong Brothel and has to flee to another city. In his new cultivation city, Ye Yu first buys two maids to calm his nerves, then invents a seal-based talisman-making technique, opening the floodgates to wealth. To keep growing stronger, Ye Yu builds airplanes and cannons. He’s 10kReads8.6Score800Shelves
29. 29 从 From a Bottom-Tier Rogue Cultivator to a Cultivation Grandmaster 从底层散修开始肝成修仙大佬 Always Helping Elderly Men Cross the Street天天扶老爷爷Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted When Lin Yi wakes up, he has become an unaffiliated Qi Refining cultivator in Huiyuan Immortal City, in the cultivation world. He discovers that he has awakened a stat panel. For any cultivation method, secret technique, supernatural ability, or skill, as long as he performs the required steps once, he gains one guaranteed experience point, regardless of how seriously he tries or what the final result is. “I'm in the perfect position! First, I'll keep my head down and develop quietly for a whil 13kReads6.9Score778Shelves
30. 30 凡 A Mortal's Path to Immortality: Steady Growth with a Heavenly Spirit Root 凡人修仙，天灵根的我稳健发育 Tongzi Who Loves Strawberries爱吃草莓的桐子Eastern Fantasy349k WordsOngoing Cultivation aptitude is divided into nine grades. The first is called Mortal, the second False, the third through fifth True, and the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth are Yellow, Black, Earth, and Heaven. Ye Hao transmigrates to the world of immortal cultivation and starts from the beginning as an orphan with a Heavenly Spirit Root. His cheap master tries to possess him right away, but fails. After learning how treacherous people in the cultivation world can be, Ye Hao decides to cultivate caut 112Reads6.6Score—Shelves
31. 31 宗 My Sect Thinks I'm Too Ruthless? I'll Join the Imperial Court Instead 宗门嫌我狠辣？我转身加入朝堂 Wu Liang Ye武梁耶Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted This book has been adapted into a short drama and several comic versions under the same title. [Decisive and ruthless + merciless + wildly satisfying + fast-paced] Xiao Ren transmigrates to an ancient world of powerful martial artists and becomes a personal disciple of the Spirit Talisman Sect. His talent is exceptional, and the sect leader takes him on as a disciple. His abilities surpass everyone else in the sect! But during a sect mission, Xiao Ren is accused of being too ruthless after he sl 47.1kReads8.0Score5.2kShelves

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    💥Highly recommended! [Decisive and ruthless][Incredibly satisfying][Fast-paced] Xiao Ren transmigrates to a high-martial-arts ancient world, becoming a disciple of the Spirit Talisman Sect. His exceptional talent earns him the sect leader's acceptance, making him the most talented member of the sect! However, during a sect mission, Xiao Ren is criticized for being too ruthless after slaughtering countless bandits! Xiao Ren: "Evil is evil, regardless of age or gender! Repent? Maybe in the next life!" Master: "You scoundrel, unrepentant, defying your elders! You're punished by being confined to the back mountain!" Amidst the hypocritical accusations of the entire sect, the Fate Choice System arrives. Xiao Ren sneers, "I don't need your punishment, I'll expel myself!"

32. 32 玄EN Fantasy: Simplified Cultivation, From Minion to Overlord 玄幻：简化功法，从喽啰开始成霸主 Di Tian帝天Eastern Fantasy4.7M WordsOngoing [Decisive and Ruthless] [No Level Suppression] [Crush Everything] That year, the nobody Chu Qing refused to stand in the background in a hemp robe and bare feet, waving flags and shouting slogans. Now, a thousand-year empire, sects that dominated their regions, and the heroes of the martial world were all rising at once, like dragons and serpents. Then I, Chu Qing, would trample the streets beneath my feet until the bones of nobles littered them, and burn the imperial treasury until its splen 8.1kReads8.2Score1.1kShelves
33. 33 天EN Heaven's Chosen? Monster? No, It's the Grind Emperor 天骄？妖孽？不好，是肝帝 That Mountain, That Sea那山那海Urban2.3M WordsCompleted [The top workaholic in high-martial arts fiction] [Panel-based cultivation] [Cosmic setting] [Cultivation and progression, not point allocation or speedrunning; the protagonist is a born grinder] In the interstellar age, alien beasts invade and evil gods lurk all around. Li Qingshan awakens a martial arts panel that can record any technique or martial skill. He needs no insight or talent, and faces no bottlenecks. As long as he trains hard, he can improve, and every breakthrough lasts forever! H 219kReads9.3Score25.7kShelves
34. 34 穿 Transmigration: Surviving in a World Overrun by Demons 穿越：在妖魔横行的世界里苟活 Three Drumbeats三通鼓Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsOngoing [No System + No levels + No female lead + Character growth] [Because the protagonist has only just transmigrated, he may seem a little too softhearted at first. As the story develops and he goes through more, he'll change. Dear readers, please don't condemn the book right from the start.] Li Zhi is an ordinary person who somehow transmigrates into a world overrun with monsters and ghosts. Here, he must face all kinds of powerful monsters and ghosts, as well as people armed with deadly weapons or 94Reads6.1Score—Shelves

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    The latest novel in the genre of Mortal Cultivation: ① Yongguo, the male protagonist Li Zhi, was originally an ordinary person from the 21st century. He accidentally traveled through time and space to this village and was adopted by an old man named Old Man He. Unexpectedly, Old Man He urgently needed an alchemy assistant. Coincidentally, Immortal Master Liu was looking for a suitable disciple, and Li Zhi thus stepped into a world of cultivation full of mystery and danger.

35. 35 武 Shattering the Starry River with Martial Might 武碎星河 Demon Night妖夜Eastern Fantasy7.9M WordsCompleted Gods look down from the stars, while demons roar in hell. This is a fantastical world where countless races vie for supremacy and gods and demons run wild. A poor young man takes up his blade and fights against the current. He will become the king of this world! [The animated adaptation of this book, Shattering the Star River with Martial Might, is now airing] 182.1kReads9.1Score21.1kShelves
36. 36 凡 A Mortal’s Demonic Cultivation: The Profound Yin Chronicles 凡人修魔：玄阴传 One Big White一只肥大白Eastern Fantasy2.3M WordsOngoing [Mortal-world setting + satisfying read but no overpowered, arrogant hero + genius protagonist + decisive and ruthless + demonic cultivation + technical approach to cultivation + creates his own techniques and secret arts later on + slow burn + Xuanguxian template + skips the mortal-world opening] Xiao Qing is reborn in the cultivation world carrying a mysterious jade pendant. After testing as a three-element spiritual root, he unexpectedly joins a demonic sect. Once there, Xiao Qing relies on h 49.7kReads8.6Score4.9kShelves

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    The four paths of demonic cultivation: corpse demon and blood demon.

37. 37 魔 The Reborn Demon Lord Becomes the Ninth Prince and Is Forced to Be a Good Person 魔尊重生为九皇子，被迫当好人 No Pearl Is Lost in the Vast Sea沧海不遗珠Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsOngoing “Hypocrisy + training + multiple heroines + political scheming + darkness + yandere” (If you don't like it, don't read!) In his previous life, he slaughtered cities and destroyed kingdoms in pursuit of eternal life. In this life, the System forces him to become “the world's greatest good person.” Within the imperial palace, the crown prince is ruthless, the other princes circle like wolves, and the consort watches him like a hawk. He must play the harmless, benevolent Ninth Prince while wield 9.7kReads9.0Score992Shelves

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    Domestication + Hypocrisy + Multiple Women + PUA + A combination of kindness and coercion + Intrigue + Thrilling story + Dark elements + Intellectual battles*

38. 38 清 The Immortal Path of Qingyuan 清源仙途 Flatbread with Three Pork Tenderloins烧饼加三里脊Eastern Fantasy2.6M WordsCompleted I’ve been an avid reader for twenty years, especially fond of cultivation novels about ordinary people. Of all the books I’ve read, my favorites are A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, Renegade Immortal, The Path of a Cultivation Sect Leader, Xuanchen Daoist Path, True Spirit Nine Transformations, and Qinglian Peak. On a sudden whim, I decided to write the kind of xianxia story I’ve always wanted to read: no overpowered cheat or mysterious old master, just an attempt to portray a cult 13kReads8.2Score995Shelves

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    A bookworm for twenty years, especially fond of mortal cultivation novels, among which "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality," "Against the Gods," "The Path of the Cultivation Sect Leader," "The Path of Xuan Chen," "Nine Transformations of the True Spirit," and "The Peak of the Azure Lotus" are my favorites. Suddenly, I had the idea to write my own version of the Xianxia genre, without overpowered characters or powerful backers, striving to present a realistic world of cultivation as I envision it. Orphaned at a young age, he relied on his clan for support, only to witness the deaths of his people as he grew up. Neglected by his family and only wanting to live a carefree life, fate brought him his nemesis. Unsuitable for leadership, he now had to shoulder the honor and disgrace of his entire clan due to various circumstances. Wang Xuanyi turned back, taking one last, poignant look at the place where he had grown up, before leading his children and flying away into the distance without looking back… This book tells the story of a small Foundation Establishment clan that, through generations of effort, grows into an immortal clan… Completed at 2.6 Million words, welcome to read!

39. 39 修 Is Cultivation Really That Hard? My Techniques Train Themselves! 修仙难？可我的功法会自己努力！ Second-Grade Tea二品茶Xianxia300k WordsCompleted (Mortal cultivation + a sudden turn toward saintliness + unscrupulous tactics + ruthless and merciless + instant refinement) Liu Yun transmigrates to the world of cultivation. With his four-spirit-root aptitude, he fights his way forward by any means necessary, killing for treasures and struggling through every hardship until he reaches the eighth layer of Qi Refining. His poor aptitude keeps him from breaking through, until the Creation Spirit Treasure, the Heaven Rewards Hard Work Mirror, awak 940Reads5.6Score102Shelves

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    Honestly, I would naturally recommend this book first. The protagonist obtains all his resources through murder and robbery, and he is ruthless and vicious in killing and stealing treasures.

40. 40 克 Cosmic Horror Cultivation: I Can Reverse Time 克系修仙：我能逆转时间 Plop Fish扑通鱼Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsOngoing (No heroine, no invincibility, no brainless protagonist, plot-driven, a protagonist who eats people. Things get really exciting after he breaks through to the Nascent Soul realm!) Ye Xiang transmigrates into a Lovecraftian cultivation world and develops an eye condition. The world he sees is unlike the one ordinary people see: perception turned upside down, Buddha statues made of insects. The Great Dao has vanished, towers of corpses float in the air, and two dark moons hang overhead. What is re 1.6kReads9.0Score157Shelves

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    The protagonist of a dark cultivation world grows stronger step by step.

41. 41 没 I Can’t Afford to Cultivate, So I’ll Rob People. I’ll Take Any Dirty Job in This World 没钱修仙去打劫，此界黑活我来接 Liu Huaqiang1刘华强1Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsOngoing [Spirit Lands are Limited, but Cultivators are Infinite. So Prices Have Always Been Set by Other People.] Thirty-five years after transmigrating to the cultivation world, Niu Er is still an odd-job disciple at the fifth level of Qi Refining. With four spirit roots, the worst possible aptitude, and only a few low-grade spirit stones each month, he has to ration even his fasting pills. At thirty-five, he leaves the mountain penniless. Blackwater City. Rogue cultivators. Dirty jobs. As long as yo 1.5kReads6.4Score121Shelves
42. 42 挖 Mining My Way to Immortality: From the Start, I Stumble Upon the Chaos Empress! 挖矿修仙：开局捡漏混沌女帝！ The Lazy Salted Fish咸鱼好悠哉呀Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsOngoing Huang Pan transmigrates into a cultivation novel titled Ten Thousand Transmigrators Sweep the Cultivation World!!! The transmigrators wield all kinds of heaven-defying golden fingers, including the “Time Bank,” which lets them trade with time. There’s the “Land-Controlling Bottle,” which accelerates the growth of spirit herbs. There’s the “Ancient Scroll of Ninety-Nine Reincarnations,” which can simulate the future. There’s the “Protagonist Halo,” which lets its owner become the protagonist. 845Reads7.9Score101Shelves

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    This is an incredibly dark and unforgiving story. The protagonist will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. It's not a mindless wish-fulfillment novel; it's super engaging.

43. 43 烟EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 A Night of Misty Rain一夕烟雨Eastern Fantasy9.5M WordsOngoing [The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac 868.2kReads9.6Score68.1kShelves

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    Behind the scenes, intrigue and power struggles unfold; money talks! Rare artifacts and divine weapons are used to force cultivation, yet progress is as slow as a snail's pace! Resource monopoly in cultivation! The three sons of the Li family, disguised as playboys, plot their schemes. Watch how they unravel the maze with only money at their disposal!

44. 44 修 Cultivating the Demonic Path, Building My Foundation Through Slaughter 修魔成道，杀生筑基 Jia Chou Mo Hai甲丑末亥Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [Demonic Cultivation] [Cold-Blooded and Ruthless] [Decisive and Merciless] [The Dark Side of Human Nature] [The male lead is an ordinary man. There are women, but no female lead.] Consume treasured elixirs to gather qi and improve your cultivation and spells. Xu Sanyan was born among bandits and knows that human life is as worthless as grass: if you don't kill, you'll be killed. To stay alive, he severs the compassion in his heart and unleashes the evil within. To obtain a cultivation manual 21.3kReads8.7Score1.6kShelves

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    "Compassion? That thing wouldn't last three episodes in the cultivation world! I'll slaughter an entire city just to gather enough blood sacrifice materials for Foundation Establishment!" [Already hooked][Already hooked][Already hooked] The protagonist, Xu Sanyan, is a bandit in a chaotic world. To survive, he joins a demonic sect. His master's first lesson is "personally slaughtering a village to refine corpses." High-energy throughout with no dull moments, from blood-refining corpse puppets to controlling scapegoats, he reveals one trump card after another, a cure for those with a saintly complex. [Upvote][Upvote][Upvote]

45. 45 灵 Supernatural Revival: Wielding a Mirage from the Start 灵异复苏：开局驾驭海市蜃楼 Origin Demon God起源魔神Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted (No female lead, no CP, no morals, no limits, hypocrite, dark and self-serving) The supernatural returns, and vengeful ghosts run rampant. The human world is a living hell, with suffering everywhere. Ghosts cannot be destroyed! Only ghosts can fight ghosts! Order is on the verge of collapse, and truth is about to crumble. Reborn amid taboos, I cast aside my conscience and let my humanity die. “Anyone who makes me unhappy for even a moment will be unhappy for the rest of their life!” “Why stop at 15.2kReads8.2Score1.3kShelves
46. 46 诡EN Immortals of the Eldritch Path: I Begin by Sacrificing Myself 诡道异仙：开局献祭我自己 Chen Duocai陈多财Eastern Fantasy320k WordsCompleted [Lovecraftian Cultivation + Mystery + Supernatural Folklore + Instance-Based Plot] [Instance Progress: Paper Puppet, Evil God Temple, River God’s Descent, Former Dynasty Tomb…] From the start, I was set up. I didn’t want to pave the way for someone else, so I sacrificed myself! I never expected that, after losing my physical body, I’d open up a new, sinister path to immortality. But the further I cultivate, the more I can’t help wondering: are immortals even real in this world? Ye Qianfan looks 12kReads8.4Score1kShelves
47. 47 全 Global Mutation: The Mutant Frenzy of Trillions of Lives 全球畸变：亿兆生命的变异狂潮 Turbid One浊人Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.0M WordsCompleted Meat blossoms sprout from the soil, and fangs grow from the flowers. The old order awakens all around them. To it, humble humanity is nothing but vermin to be exterminated. Mount Fuji erupts, and the entire Sakura Isles are ripped up and hurled at Huaxia. The magnetic poles flip, super-earthquakes strike, towering tsunamis rise, and the seven continents are squeezed together by a giant hand. Abnormal memes, twisted reality, and layers of overlapping worlds: as the boundary between physics and co 14.1kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
48. 48 仙 The Land Every Immortal Sect Must Fight For 仙家必争之地 Xia Mi XL虾米XLUrban3.0M WordsCompleted [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 16.1kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
49. 49 没 Of Course I Don’t Look Human, I’m an Immortal! 没有人形就对了，因为我是仙啊！ Fei Xizi肥西子Eastern Fantasy564k WordsCompleted [Cultivation] [Nonhuman] [Eerie] Do not look upon my form. Do not imitate my ways. Do not learn my nature. In White Cloud Temple, I comprehended the Great Dao and gained an immortal fruit, winning freedom and bliss. Li Changmeng thinks he has the bearing of an immortal. Tentacles all over my body? That's the Thousand-Armed Immortal Physique, unmatched at controlling objects! Evil eyes all over me? Those are spirit-bright eyes of wisdom, seeing through illusions and revealing the truth! Unprompte 3.9kReads7.1Score430Shelves
50. 50 大 The Great Demon Reborn 大魔苏生 Little Sweetheart Who Loves Horses喜欢马匹的小甜心Eastern Fantasy758k WordsOngoing (Cultivation with Lovecraftian horror) (No female lead) The sages have vanished, and all living beings have fallen! How can we cross this sea of suffering? Only slaughter leads to the shore! Mo Lu is steeped in demonic nature, possessed by all three poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion. He does no good deeds, preferring instead to kill and burn. Yet in this chaotic world of cultivation, he is like a carp leaping through the Dragon Gate, or a tiger returning to the mountains. Just see what path 4.6kReads8.9Score392Shelves

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