Bright Force, Hidden Force, Transformation, Great Perfection of the Innate Realm, Grandmaster, Self-Respect 明劲，暗劲，化境，先天大圆满，宗师，自尊，

1. 1 词 Trait Lock-In: From Dockside Laborer to Fist Over All Under Heaven 词条固化：从码头苦力到拳压天下 A Little Drunken Dream一两醉梦Urban1.1M WordsOngoing [Republican-Era Martial Arts] [Traits] [Gao Kai’s Extreme Martial Arts Style] [The Occult and Monsters] [Cthulhu Mythos Gods] [Strange Treasures and Arcane Arts] After transmigrating to this parallel version of Republican-era China, he faces hell difficulty from the start: his father has been angered to death, his younger sister is still a child, his right leg is crippled, and he’s been framed by a rich young master and branded a drug user. The only work he can manage is hauling heavy loads at 1.9kReads7.0Score112Shelves

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   All three books are set in the Republican era, all feature plot devices, and are promising reads.

2. 2 国EN National Martial Arts: Daily Settlement, Starting as a Rickshaw Puller 国术：每日结算，从黄包车夫开始 Wen Liu Que Gu闻柳却顾Urban1.9M WordsOngoing [Republican-era martial arts, demons and martial arts running rampant, ultimate-path cultivation, leveling, and a style like Gun Kai] At the end of the dynasty, warlords carved up the country from within, while Western powers circled from without. Their ironclad ships and cannons devoured the nation's fortune. Foreigners destroyed ancestral temples, severed dragon veins, and banned martial arts. The nation was on the brink of ruin and its people faced extinction! In the imperial court, nobles bo 340.1kReads8.4Score35.4kShelves
3. 3 拳EN Fist Over Mountains and Rivers: Ascending to Immortality Through Martial Arts! 拳镇山河，以武登仙！ Ren Wo Xiu任我秀Urban957k WordsOngoing In the early years of the Great Xin Republic, the former emperor, Tianyi, abdicated. The land fell into chaos, and the people suffered. Warlords fought among themselves, cults and rebels ran rampant, and Western powers came knocking with rifles and cannons. Monsters roamed, and ghosts ran wild! In such a turbulent age, every craft was more than a way to make a living. It was also a path of cultivation leading to the Great Dao. All things possess a spirit, and skill can reach the divine. There ar 81.6kReads8.5Score7.5kShelves
4. 4 我 I'm Just a Coolie, and You Want Me to Become the King of Shanghai? 我一个苦力，你让我当沪上王？ Huang Ermazi Here黄二麻子是也Urban1.0M WordsCompleted Original title: Republic of China: I'm a Big Tough Guy [An impassioned war of resistance! No System, no ripping Japanese soldiers apart with bare hands! Just bayonets in, blood-red blades out!] The protagonist, Lu Yin, transmigrates to Shanghai and joins the Paoge Society. With his three styles of internal martial arts and formidable skills, he takes on the Green Gang, the Hongmen, and other organizations in the glittering world of Shanghai... He navigates the underworld and battles warlords. Af 9.9kReads8.9Score759Shelves

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   This is a good book. It's a martial arts novel set in the Republican era. The protagonist is proficient in three major internal martial arts styles: Bajiquan, Xingyiquan, and Baguaquan. The early chapters feature various factions within the Jianghu (, the martial arts world) of the Republican era, including the Green Gang, Hongmen, and the Eight Gates. Later, he fights the Japanese…

5. 5 我 I’m a Grandmaster of Dark Force, Here to Call Off the Wedding and Get the Dowry Back 我，化劲宗师，上门抢婚彩礼不退 Hungry Snake贪吃蛇Urban633k WordsCompleted Spiritual qi revival. Humans and demons coexist, and in these turbulent times, human lives are worth no more than pigs and dogs in an age of peace! Just then, Ye Tian returns reborn with the Demon Refining Pot. In his helplessness, all he wants is to save the woman he loved in that life... 451Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Ancient martial arts realms: Ming Jin (manifest strength), An Jin (hidden strength), and Hua Jin (transformation strength).

6. 6 三 Turning Thirty, I Went Home to Retire and Became a Martial Arts God 三十而立，回老家养老到武道通神 The Long Night Stretches On, Dust of Ages长夜漫漫万古尘Rural Life811k WordsOngoing At thirty, Cao Yong and his wife are both laid off. Looking at the little over a million yuan left in his bank account, Cao Yong takes his wife and child back to their hometown of Orange Village, planning to spend the rest of his life there in retirement. Then, while practicing the Eight-Part Vajra Exercise one morning, a panel appears before his eyes: [Eight-Part Vajra Exercise: Beginner 1/100] He thinks it must be a joke. How could a health exercise turn into anything special? Ten days later, 10.6kReads—Score1.1kShelves

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   Who would have thought! Returning to the countryside to retire, he unexpectedly cultivates unparalleled martial arts. Intending to live out his remaining years in seclusion, he suddenly obtains a cultivation panel. Gathering herbs in the mountains, soaking in medicinal baths, and diligently practicing the Yi Jin Jing (Muscle/Tendon Changing Classic), his cultivation progresses by leaps and bounds. Little did he know he had already reached the pinnacle of martial arts. As his strength continues to grow, the layers of illusion in the real world begin to crumble, and the hidden truths of the world slowly surface. A retirement-style high-level martial arts story, interspersed with daily life and revelations—you won't be able to stop reading!

7. 7 朝 A Hound of the Imperial Court? You’ve Never Faced the Six Fan Gate’s Blades 朝廷鹰犬？没挨过六扇门的刀 Tian Yan天衍Eastern Fantasy5.8M WordsOngoing Also known as: Six Doors: Confiscating Estates and Wiping Out Clans [Transmigrate into a book + ruthless and decisive + single or no heroine] Reality isn’t a game, nor is it a storybook. Reality has rules, and breaking them brings retribution. My name is Li Jun Su. I paid the price for breaking the rules. After that, I was reborn. Unlike the real world, this world was dominated by martial arts, and the path to immortality flourished. Power mattered more than authority. The Great Qian Dyna 65.7kReads9.2Score4.8kShelves

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   Ancient martial arts six doors, the protagonist is not a saint, has a high IQ, clashes among peers, and competition among prodigies.

8. 8 我 I'm Just a Laborer, Don't Make Me a Martial God! 我只是个力工，别坑我做武神！ Tofu and Shredded Pork Vermicelli豆腐肉丝粉Urban1.6M WordsOngoing Purely hand-crafted + High-Martial Urban Fantasy + Clear Power Scaling + Brotherhood + Underworld + Powerful Background + Investing and Entrepreneurship + No System + Not Reborn Poor student Tang Song goes to meet a beautiful landlady late at night to look for part-time work, but unexpectedly obtains the Joyous Union Sect’s cultivation technique. From then on, he becomes a martial artist, tramples the underworld, and takes on powerful families and tycoons! Martial arts prodigies bow before him, 744Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The classification of realms in this book is similar to what you're looking for.

9. 9 武 Martial Cultivator 武夫 Never Knew the Cold in This Life平生未知寒Eastern Fantasy2.7M WordsOngoing Across the vast human world, demons lurk everywhere. Human lives are as worthless as weeds, and the people are treated like pigs and dogs. "The world needs to change." Standing by the Wei River, the young man smiled and said, "There are demons in this world, and I have a blade." 341Reads9.2Score—Shelves

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   Come on, I'll push it randomly too.

10. 10 开 From the Start, a Grandmaster of Internal Power: From Noble Clans to Imperial Dynasties 开局化劲宗师，从世家到帝朝 Love Chat情聊Eastern Fantasy200k WordsCompleted The emperor of the Great Qian Empire announces that he has been gravely wounded and is entering seclusion to pursue the Celestial Realm. In truth, he is colluding with the demon race. At court, officials and princes scheme and fight for power, all vying for the throne. Li Xuan, the eldest legitimate son of the Qingyang Li clan, raises an army with the backing of his family and his own plans, determined to overthrow Great Qian's rotten court. He will pacify the realm, wipe out the demon race, w 36Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 11 我 I, a Hunter, Rise Through Martial Arts 我我一个猎户修武道崛起 Chushan, Who Loves Spicy Chicken爱吃辣子鸡的楚山Eastern Fantasy502k WordsOngoing In the third year of the Tai'an era, a severe drought struck the north. Crops failed, and corpses of the starving littered the land. The new emperor was still a child, corrupt officials held power, and disaster relief was inadequate, leaving the dynasty's fortunes on the brink of collapse. Demons and evil spirits appeared everywhere, bandits roamed the wilderness, and calamities came one after another. Lin Hai transmigrated to this world, expecting to spend his whole life hunting for a living. B 221Reads—Score—Shelves
12. 12 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 3 million words, welcome to read!

13. 13 乱 Chaos and Famine: My Daily Divinations Fill My Storehouse with Food and Meat! 乱世荒年：我每日一卦粮肉满仓！ Rising From the Abyss风起于渊Historical2.0M WordsOngoing Hunter + farming + stockpiling grain before making a move + rebellion and conquest + ten kingdoms, countless beauties [Current fate star: Mountain dweller] [Today's fortune: Blessings and misfortune intertwined] [Great fortune: At the northern foothills of Second Black Mountain, a deer has died of old age in the mountains. Go there to claim its entire hide and carcass.] [Fair: At the foot of Little Black Mountain, a pheasant is caught in the brambles. Hurry over and you might find something extr 293.3kReads8.3Score23.8kShelves

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    This book also uses your level of mastery, hmm, it's pretty good, it's just that the updates are a bit slow.

14. 14 我EN I Have a Sword 我有一剑 Above Qingluan Peak青鸾峰上Eastern Fantasy4.3M WordsOngoing I wield a sword. Once it's drawn, nothing can stand against it! 2.1kReads9.3Score267Shelves
15. 15 加 Leveling Up: Starting with Bajiquan 加点：从八极拳开始 The One Who Loves Boiled Chicken in Chili Oil爱吃的钵钵鸡Eastern Fantasy235k WordsOngoing “With literature, Taiji can pacify the realm; with martial arts, Bajiquan can steady heaven and earth.” A collapsing fist shatters stone; an elbow strike cleaves the wind. When Bajiquan takes the field, who can stand against it? To kill one is to be a criminal; to kill ten thousand is to be a hero! Only after slaying nine million can one be the greatest hero of all! When his greatsword breaks, when his magic power runs dry, Li Nian, covered in blood, clenches his fists. With no way back, there's —Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 16 废 Wasteland Cao Cao: Starting by Taking Wives and Raising Children on the Frontier 废土曹贼：从边陲娶妻生子开始 One-Punch Maximum Damage一拳极致输出Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.9M WordsOngoing [Wasteland] [Doomsday] [Mechs] [Mechanic] [Musclebound] [Cautious Survival] [Long-form Narrative] Reborn in the wasteland frontier, Cao Dan has become a middle-aged nobody. Armed with nothing but the ability to handcraft spiral bullets, he gradually makes a life for himself on the frontier: taking a wife, raising children, building a home, and restoring Dongsheng. 36.5kReads7.8Score2.5kShelves

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    For those who love plot-driven stories, they're all equally captivating; a recommendation from an 18-year veteran reader.

17. 17 国 Chinese Martial Arts: Starting with Bajiquan, I Fight My Way Through a Turbulent Era 国术：开局八极拳，打穿激荡年代 The Cucumber in the Story故事的小黄瓜Urban451k WordsCompleted [Passionate Republican-Era Story + Bringing Glory to China + Taking on the Great Powers + Reviving Chinese Martial Arts] Li Zhendong’s soul transmigrates into the impoverished old era, where he becomes an ordinary disciple of Jingwu School. With the great powers closing in and Japanese warriors swaggering arrogantly, Huo Yuanjia has just passed away and Jingwu School is on the brink of collapse! At this critical moment, he awakens the Chinese martial arts inheritance System and gets max-level Ba 3kReads6.3Score155Shelves
18. 18 开 I Was Doomed by Her Schemes from the Start, but Luckily I Bloomed Late 开局被作毙，还好我大器晚上成 Old Bicycle单车老Eastern Fantasy265k WordsCompleted From the start, I was doomed by my own foolishness. Luckily, I have the Late Bloomer System. The Late Bloomer System awakens. Late as in late at night. It brings a little bit of System-shaking upheaval to this world’s martial arts. 44Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 19 高 High Martial: I Gained Traits from My Father's Keepsakes 高武：从父亲遗物开始获得词条 The Bear Who Fears the Cold怕冷的熊Urban920k WordsOngoing His father died in the line of duty, and with a mortgage to pay and younger siblings to support, Fang Mu is under immense pressure. But everything changes the instant he inherits his father's job and comes into contact with his father's belongings. Name: Type 1-2 Improved Pistol Trait: Pistol Shooting: Perfect Requirement: Fire one shot, Health ≥ 0.50 881Reads6.4Score109Shelves
20. 20 国 Chinese Martial Arts: From Bright Force to Ruling the Heavens with One Hand 国术：从明劲到只手遮天 What Became of the Vows We Once Made曾经的誓言是什么Urban360k WordsCompleted My name is Chen Mo, an insignificant nobody scraping by at the very bottom of the Great Xia Empire. Every day, I haul bundles of cargo heavier than my life itself at the docks, earning only enough copper coins to quiet half my hunger. Then one day, the foreman kicked Old Zhang’s leg and snapped it like a stick of firewood. Blood splattered across my numb face. In that moment, what flared in my chest wasn’t anger, but a pain that seared my heart! I knew that in an empire where might makes right a 931Reads—Score100Shelves
21. 21 六 Sixty-Year-Old Codger, Let Me Check Your Cards. I Love Friendships Between People of Different Generations 六十老登我要验牌，最爱忘年之交 Diving Bubble Fish潜水泡泡鱼Urban1.2M WordsOngoing At sixty, Wang Defa is trapped in a miserable life, with one foot in the grave and no hope for the future. After failing to find work, he suddenly gains the Joyous Fortune Card. By building up merit points and drawing cards, he can gain superpowers. From then on, he rises to success, and romance blossoms in his later years. Let the music play, and keep on dancing! 16kReads8.2Score1.9kShelves
22. 22 长 Longevity: Better to Live as a Coward Than Die Well 长生：好死不如苟活 Quarter Note 2五分音符2Eastern Fantasy838k WordsCompleted A no-heroine, immortal-longevity System cultivation story. Keep your head down when you should, and strike when the time is right. The protagonist, Li Shengchen, is just an ordinary person. He isn't exceptionally clever, and sometimes he's even a bit slow. But who says a slow bird can't take off early when cultivating immortality? When there's nothing to do, he listens to music at the pleasure quarter. When trouble comes, he gets right into the thick of it. Li Shengchen wants to keep a low prof 1.2kReads8.2Score101Shelves
23. 23 纹 The Little Farm Hidden in a Tattoo 纹身里的小农庄 Searching for Trees in the Wild野外寻树Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Yang Guang transmigrates to Earth with a maple leaf mark. In his third year as an orphan, he meets a young celebrity who claims to be his “arranged marriage partner,” eats an eel that unlocks a little world, and earns his first pot of gold. Then the rebellious Wu Lei, the mischievous Xiao Zu, the laid-back goddess, the food-loving Xiao Di... More and more celebrity friends flock to his little farm. All in all, this is a warm, leisurely story. 3.2kReads6.7Score217Shelves
24. 24 末 The Doomsday Gourd 末日葫芦 Borrowed Sand借沙Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.4M WordsCompleted No System, no rebirth, no zombies [Everyone says my ability is useless, but I still have my family's heirloom gourd] On the thirteenth floor of an apartment building, Zhou Qi continued hiding for months after the water and power were cut off, never leaving the city. On the coffee table lay the distributed books: The Apocalypse Survival Handbook, Basics of Spiritual Guidance, Basic Body-Tempering Technique, and others. A knock sounded at the door. “Zhou Qi, are you home? It's your wife.” “I know 5.6kReads7.1Score425Shelves
25. 25 我 I Choose to Farm in a Supernatural World 我在超凡世界选择种田 Ma Dingling, Who Loves Meat爱吃肉的吗丁啉Urban1.8M WordsCompleted A true farming novel, and I'm confident about it. [Farming + infrastructure building + adorable pets + wild imagination + funny everyday life + getting rich and leading the way + multiple heroines] No System, not a formulaic story. An alternate world. In this extraordinary world, there are only three paths to power: be born exceptionally talented, have a fortune to your name, or risk your life and grind yourself to the bone. Unfortunately, Lin Qingye has none of the three. His talent is rated F, 10.7kReads8.2Score1.3kShelves
26. 26 开 I Fuse Enlightenment Tea from the Start and Keep a Low Profile 开局合成悟道茶，稳健不出 Little Goose with a Cowlick呆毛的小鹅Eastern Fantasy2.1M WordsCompleted [System]+ [Synthesis]+ [Cautious]+ [Sneaky] Adapted into an animated series. Click the bottom right of the main text to watch. After transmigrating to the Immortal Realm, Lin Yuan was lucky enough to activate the Infinite Synthesis System. “Senior Brother, the secret realm is opening. Want to go together?” Lin Yuan: “No, I’m going into seclusion.” “Junior Brother, be careful when you visit the market. You should prepare a few things.” Lin Yuan: “Sure. I’ll prepare a billion little things.” “Elde 31.5kReads8.5Score3.2kShelves
27. 27 战 Half a Life on the Battlefield, Yet I Return as the Same Old War God 战死沙场戎半生，归来仍是旧武神 A Quick Silence反手一个沉默Urban2.7M WordsCompleted Wang Xian, a half-step Martial God at the eighth realm of Old Martial Arts, died on an alien battlefield protecting ordinary people, only to return in a dream to his youth in his senior year of high school. In my previous life, I achieved greatness late, reaching the peak of the half-step Martial God realm, only to stop at the eighth realm and die with regrets. In this life, I will use my self-created Starry Sky Body-Tempering Art to forge a starry sky martial body capable of devouring stars and 93.2kReads9.1Score7.1kShelves
28. 28 铠 Armor Hero: I Punch My Way Through the Armor Hero World! 铠甲：我以肉身打穿铠甲世界！ The Left Hand That Shrouds the Heavens遮天左手Anime Fanfiction503k WordsCompleted [Armor Hero 1]+ [Armor Hero 2]+ [Armor Hero 3]+ [Martial Arts]+ [Barbecue Expert]+ [No Female Lead] Armor heroes practice martial arts, and even mutant beasts are afraid! Lu Sheng, the Federation's strongest grandmaster, arrived in an unfamiliar world. It was only after living there for three years that he was shocked to discover that this world had monsters and armor. He also learned by chance that he lacked the physique required to summon armor. But that was all right. Martial arts had always 1.6kReads7.4Score100Shelves

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    One person can elevate the entire team

29. 29 修 Cultivation: Starting My Artifact Refining in the Shantytown 修仙：从棚户区炼器开始 Tomato Stewed with Salted Fish番茄炖咸鱼Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsOngoing Lin Song transmigrates into the body of a low-level artifact refiner in a shantytown built over a spirit-stone mine in the Western Wasteland. Burdened with debt and ravaged by spiritual poison, he struggles on the brink of starvation and spiritual devouring. Luckily, he has a game-panel System that lets him improve his skill proficiency and ignore cultivation bottlenecks. In the Western Wasteland, a land of extreme scarcity and desolation, Lin Song starts by repairing tools and risking his life 5.9kReads7.4Score505Shelves
30. 30 凡 The Long Road to Immortality 凡人漫漫修仙路 Bathing in Sunshine沐在晴天Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsOngoing [A grounded tale of an ordinary man: no formulaic plot, so it may not suit readers who like conventional tropes. Not a brainless power fantasy, with intelligent heroes and villains alike. No transmigration, no System, no overpowered golden finger, and no reincarnated great expert. Just the winding path of an ordinary mortal cultivating immortality.] Liang Cheng is an ordinary, poor boy from a small mountain village. With no miraculous stroke of luck or extraordinary talent, he relies on hard wor 6Reads7.1Score—Shelves
31. 31 修 Cultivation Simulator: Starting as a Rogue Cultivator 修仙模拟：从成为散修开始 The Wind and Snow Have Come风雪来兮Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsCompleted After transmigrating to a world of cultivation, Li Er decides to change his name first, then leave his sect and become a lone rogue cultivator. With the simulation System he has activated, he ventures through the cultivation world and sets out on a different path to immortality. With the weakest spiritual roots, he cultivates the strongest immortal arts. Ten years later... Li Er stands at the peak of the Immortal Realm and swings his sword toward the starry sky beyond it. The Great World of Evil 10.9kReads7.2Score677Shelves
32. 32 人 In the Modern World, I Use Attribute Points to Become a Superhuman 人在现代我靠属性点强化成祖国人 Soft Murmurs低声呢喃Urban715k WordsOngoing My name is Chen Mo. On my thirty-second birthday, my company laid me off, my wife divorced me, and my house was about to be repossessed. Then a fantasy prodigy System appeared before my eyes. “Don't bully a young man just because he's poor. Main character has encountered a broken engagement. Attribute +0.1.” Wait, does thirty-two still count as young? To support myself, I need to find a job first. Working security in a wealthy neighborhood sounds pretty good. Month one: Strength 1.0. The residen 250Reads6.6Score—Shelves
33. 33 暴 Making a Fortune in a Chaotic Era: My Proud and Alluring Wife 暴富在混乱年代，我家老婆骄又妖 A Bone一根骨头Urban1.8M WordsOngoing Get rich, hunt in the mountains and gather from the sea, discover a new world and new species, catch fish and hunt game. This is an everyday-life story! After transmigrating into a chaotic era, he wakes from a deep sleep to find his elder brother and sister-in-law have tied him spread-eagled to an old wooden bed. They’re forcing him to marry and spend the night with his bride. He assumes his new wife will be hideously ugly, but she turns out to be gorgeous, sweet, and adorably cuddly. Fu Wenbiao 40.7kReads8.0Score3.2kShelves
34. 34 鬼 Genius Lawyer: I Persuaded Someone to Surrender, and They Sent Me a Banner? 鬼才律师：劝人自首还被送锦旗？ Zuo You Jiang Nan左柚姜楠Urban2.9M WordsOngoing The renowned lawyer Zhou Yun became the young lawyer Zhou Yun. Thanks to his godlike case-solving logic, netizens called him a legal genius. A married scumbag seduces a woman, then refuses to take responsibility when she gets pregnant. The police won't even do anything. What should she do? Have them turn themselves in for the joint crime of bigamy. The police will definitely take the case, and with a confession and a pregnancy, there's a good chance the charges will be dropped. A cook who has wo 132kReads9.3Score15.1kShelves
35. 35 长 Longevity Begins as a Martial Guard Captain 长生从镇武校尉开始 Free and Easy Universe逍遥寰宇Eastern Fantasy2.4M WordsCompleted In the 30th year of the Qianning era, the Great Qian Dynasty had endured for 1,300 years. Its aging emperor clung desperately to life and obsessed over immortality, neglecting state affairs. The court fell into disarray, the land descended into chaos, and the people were left to starve... That year, Su Changqing transmigrated and became a Martial Guard Captain in the Great Qian Dynasty's Martial Guard Bureau... Those who follow me prosper. Those who oppose me perish! What rules of the martial wo 592Reads7.9Score105Shelves
36. 36 国 Chinese Martial Arts: I Have a Proficiency Panel 国术：我有熟练度面板 Soul Returns to the Southwest魂归西南Urban805k WordsCompleted A true world of traditional Chinese martial arts, with stages of bright energy, hidden energy, transformed energy, elixir energy, astral force, and finally shattering the void to behold the divine. A blue screen of light flickered in the air before him, displaying a column of data. [Name: Zhao Kong] [Essence: 0.7] [Qi: 0.6] [Spirit: 1.3] [Realm: None] [Martial Arts: Beginner Qingcheng Taiji (4/10)] Zhao Kong said, “You’re the worst golden finger I’ve ever heard of or seen. Your Host has to guess 3.2kReads—Score198Shelves

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    Several urban fantasy martial arts novels!!!

37. 37 7 Bureau 749: What's Wrong with My Heavy-Handed Policing? 749局：我暴力执法怎么了 Years Gone By22陈年往事22Mystery805k WordsOngoing [Fictional Setting] [Supernatural with a Fantasy Lean] Chen Nian is nineteen years old. He has a secret. In his previous life, he was a Daoist heir, skilled in exorcising demons and vanquishing evil spirits, with all manner of Daoist arts at his fingertips. Yet he never saw a real ghost before he died. In this life, he waited nineteen years, and finally, he saw one. Others encounter ghosts and lose their souls in terror. He lights up at the sight. Others pray to the gods and buddhas for safety. 14.6kReads—Score1.2kShelves
38. 38 我 I Can Simulate Life Infinitely 我可以无限模拟人生 Begonia in Its Prime时年海棠Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted [No female lead + semi-invincible protagonist + cautious growth] [Spending one tael of silver to simulate a life...] [Simulation results: At fifteen, you leave Qingshi Village and arrive in Ping'an Town, where you meet the Lin family. Later, you render a great service, and the Lin family rewards you with the Azure Sun Art.] [At thirty-two, you become a ninth-rank martial artist. But later, the Lin family is wiped out, and you fail to escape as well. You are killed at the age of thirty-two.] [You 3.8kReads6.8Score212Shelves
39. 39 国 My Traditional Martial Arts Were Debunked, Now I'm Famous Across the Internet 国术被打假的我，爆红全网 Black-and-White Angler黑白钓客Urban566k WordsCompleted “I was just having breakfast, and I transmigrated into the body of a handsome twenty-six-year-old martial arts grandmaster with millions of fans?” “But I just got exposed as a fraud, so why is someone shoving a microphone in my face?” “Ding! Congratulations, Host, on successfully transmigrating. You have obtained the Martial Arts Critical Hit System. Perform martial arts techniques to trigger critical hits on various skills and attributes.” “Ding! Host performed ‘Tiger Climbs the Mountain’ an 4.8kReads8.4Score203Shelves
40. 40 都 The Strongest Martial Emperor in the City 都市最强武帝 The Wound You Promised Me承诺过的伤Urban19.1M WordsCompleted When Yang Qi wakes up, his life is no longer ordinary. Beautiful women keep barging into it, leaving him at a loss. Since protesting is useless, he might as well accept it! 36.4kReads8.5Score4.5kShelves
41. 41 武 The End of Martial Supremacy 武极之末 Mu Rong Smiles木容笑笑Eastern Fantasy713k WordsOngoing The pinnacle of martial arts breaks through the void. It is the end of the martial path, the threshold to a higher world where one can seek the Great Dao and pursue immortality! Only when Liu Muyun reached that endpoint did he discover that the path to martial supremacy had only just begun! 6kReads6.4Score367Shelves

    Reader note

    The first book is about the myriad worlds, the calamity of humanity, and the struggle between all races in the universe! The second book is about the apocalypse of the myriad worlds, including Gu Long's heroes, Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Tang Dynasty, Storm Riders, Yang Shen, the Great Zhou Dynasty, Shrouding the Heavens, Journey to the West, and Investiture of the Gods! The third book is about survival for all and the invasion of games!

42. 42 横 Body-Tempering Reigns Supreme: I Charge All the Way to the End! 横练为王：我一路莽到底！ Jia the Second贾老二Eastern Fantasy2.2M WordsCompleted A reckless bruiser fears nothing! With an invincible, muscle-honed body, all you have to do is fight! (A feel-good story with no female lead, pure satisfaction from start to finish, no toxic plot points, and no protagonist suffering. Read with confidence!) There are countless martial arts under heaven, but muscles alone last forever! Demons and monsters run rampant, warlords carve up the land, gangs wield great power, and the dynasty grows weak. These are hard times, and for a martial artist to 6.3kReads7.6Score390Shelves
43. 43 末 The Doomsday Blade Abyss 末日刀渊 Mu Rong Smiles木容笑笑Male-Channel Fanfiction3.6M WordsCompleted He begins with the game Blade Abyss and steps into the Myriad Worlds! From low-martial-arts jianghu to mid-martial-arts rivalries, then shattering the high-martial-arts firmament; next, sweeping through the Small Thousand Worlds and roaming the vast Middle Thousand Worlds, until he finally takes command of the Great Thousand Worlds' Heavenly Dao and reaches the supreme realm of the primordial chaos! 🌙 In the Gu Long world, he becomes Li Xunhuan's disciple! ⚔️ In the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber 23.7kReads7.9Score2.1kShelves
44. 44 古 Ancient Martial Arts Master in the City 古武高手在都市 All Dust Returns to Emptiness一切尘空Urban1.9M WordsCompleted He is a mysterious practitioner of ancient martial arts, an assassin feared by nations around the world. A mission brings him to the city, where his romantic adventures begin. He unexpectedly ends up on a college campus, where he meets the campus beauty who becomes his lovely wife! 798Reads—Score105Shelves
45. 45 古 Awakening to Ancient Martial Arts: Heir to Bajiquan 古武觉醒：八极传人 Schrodinger's Eleven薛定谔的十一Urban1.3M WordsCompleted At the age of eight, Chen Hao began learning Bajiquan under the strict tutelage of his grandfather, Chen Yuanshan, unaware of the fate he carried. His parents' mysterious disappearance, his grandfather's deeply guarded past, and the copper coin engraved with the character “Xuan” all pointed to the same place: the ancient martial arts organization “Xuanmen,” hidden for a thousand years. After Chen Hao enters university, an unexpected martial arts match leads him into the world of ancient martial 2.1kReads5.2Score296Shelves
46. 46 国 Chinese Martial Arts: I Train to Become a God in My Dreams 国术：我在梦中修炼成神 Wind Chime Ferry风铃渡Urban570k WordsOngoing [Republican-Era Martial World] [The Ultimate Martial Arts Path] [No Mindless Protagonist] [No System, but with a Cheat Ability] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Hard-Edged Style] [Not an Over-the-Top Power Fantasy: Read at Your Own Discretion] [The Further It Goes, the Better It Gets...] Chen Lang has no idea why, but lately he's been having all kinds of strange dreams every night. For the past seven nights, he's dreamed of the gorgeous landlady, and spent each night in a wild embrace with her. Their d 346kReads8.0Score60.7kShelves

    Reader note

    The first book is about the myriad worlds, the calamity of humanity, and the struggle between all races in the universe! The second book is about the apocalypse, featuring Gu Long's heroes, Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, The Great Tang Dynasty, Wind and Cloud, Yang Shen, the Great Zhou Dynasty, Shrouding the Heavens, Journey to the West, and Investiture of the Gods! The third book is about martial arts for all!

47. 47 高 Republican-Era Martial Arts: From the Bao Family's Disowned Son to a Nation-Guarding Martial Sage 高武民国：从包家废子到镇国武圣 Inkfish Blossoms墨鱼生花Urban788k WordsOngoing “Guo Chun, what brand of body-tempering oil do you like?” “Stag!” “Oh, I use that too!” Martial arts schools, great clans, sinister forces, warlords, foreign concessions, imperial powers, the superhuman, immortals... Here, guns and cannons roar, martial prowess reigns supreme, gangs devour people, great clans crush lives, warlords carve up the land, and sinister forces run rampant. Bao Guowei transmigrates into this chaotic era of the Republic of China, a world that seems familiar but 303Reads5.0Score103Shelves

    Reader note

    This book is well-written and grounded in reality; it's not just a simple, beginner's guide. The author seems to have a penchant for traditional Chinese martial arts.

48. 48 国 The Ferocious Art of Chinese Martial Arts 国术凶猛 Plum of the Sea海上之梅Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Tai Chi, Xingyi, Bagua, Wing Chun, Chuojiao, Bajiquan... Though traditional Chinese martial arts have fallen into decline, their passion still burns! I hold fast to the spirit of traditional martial arts as I walk through a city of steel and concrete. What kind of brilliance will these ancient techniques unleash? My name is Wang Mo. I come from a fallen martial arts family and have practiced Xingyi since childhood. I may be just an ordinary person passing by you, yet I carry on my shoulders the 10.4kReads8.7Score971Shelves
49. 49 官 The Road to Power: One Man Takes Office, and His Whole Clan Rises with Him 官途：一夫当官，鸡犬升天 Mo Lihong魔礼红Urban5.8M WordsOngoing After a string of misfortunes, including his girlfriend betraying him and his promotion prospects being blocked, junior clerk Lu Tao encounters a mysterious benefactor and unlocks the door to good fortune. From then on, he goes from a nobody to the luckiest man around… 55Reads7.2Score—Shelves
50. 50 一 Heaven-Dominating Sword 一剑霸天 Eternal Night, Starry River永夜星河Eastern Fantasy9.6M WordsOngoing [A great author's alt account, one heroine, ruthless and decisive. Highly recommended!] Legend has it that there is a realm where one can pursue cause and effect, erasing every trace of an opponent across time and space with a mere sliver of divine power. One can command life and death, make countless worlds rise and fall with a single thought, and annihilate all living beings. One can stand level with the Heavenly Dao, harness the order of the universe, and rule supreme throughout eternity. Thi 341.3kReads9.2Score40.1kShelves

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