Looking for Stories About Esoteric Cultivation, Where It Comes at a Cost or Risks Spiraling Out of Control 求诡异修行类的，修行有代价或者会失控

1. 1 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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   Book 1: The Heavenly Dao Collapses, Cultivation Has a Price; the higher the cultivation level, the easier it is to become a monster. The protagonist can use the world's cultivation manuals to find a way to avoid the price. It has rigorous logic, a grand world view, and involves many factions. Book 2: Slaying Demons Beyond the Dao, the Heavenly Dao Goes offline. This book uses a ranking system for cultivation (the Immortal Rank System). Immortal techniques are corrupted, and cultivation must adhere to the precepts, otherwise, one will become a monster. The protagonist can restore the true immortal techniques to avoid the price. The rest of the book is all about bizarre cultivation. [Top Post]

2. 2 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
3. 3 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
4. 4 修 Cultivation Is Seriously Toxic 修仙真有毒 Shanchuan Liqiu山川里秋Eastern Fantasy481k WordsCompleted [Uncanny cultivation + team expeditions and treasure hunting + super-handsome sword immortal + no saintly do-gooder + ruthless and decisive + no female lead + painfully bizarre + this world is far too dangerous] The old beggar raised two fingers in a sword gesture and cried, “Draw!” Blood spurted from his back. A bloody spinal column shot out of his flesh with a slippery hiss, turned into a streak of white light, and flew into the woods. Bai Xiaoyi stared, dumbfounded. Cultivation really is pois 2.5kReads8.5Score167Shelves
5. 5 全 Everyone Is an Evil Immortal!!! 全员恶仙！！！ There Are Mountains Beyond the Heavens天外有山Eastern Fantasy3.8M WordsOngoing Also known as The Whole Cast Are Evil Immortals and The Whole Cast Are Evil Immortals: I Have a Temple for Cultivating Immortals [No Angst] [Unhinged] [High Stakes from Start to Finish] There is a rumor of a temple somewhere in the world, with a patch of magical soil inside. Just treat a person as a "seed" and plant them in the soil, and they can become an immortal. Li Shiwu has spent ten years seeking immortality. At last, he finds the temple and plants himself in the soil, but he never expecte 207.6kReads9.0Score19.6kShelves

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   The cultivators in this world become increasingly bizarre as they cultivate, with the protagonist even possessing ten legs 🦵 and eyes growing from his hands 👀. However, he is still a good person overall.

6. 6 废 Wasteland of Flesh and Blood 废血肉土 Abyss Envoy冥渊使Sci-Fi & Apocalypse85k WordsOngoing The world is alive. Flesh spreads across everything, consuming it all. The creatures on the surface have been purged, but the flame of civilization will not be extinguished. One day, they will return... 10Reads—Score—Shelves

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   It's similar to a bizarre cultivation method. However, it has become a wasteland of flesh and blood. Living in this wasteland will cause you to inhale flesh and blood molecules and contract flesh disease. Once you get flesh disease, you only have ten years left to live. Only by constantly devouring can you slow down the symptoms. If you want to become stronger, you need to sacrifice your lifespan in exchange for devouring more flesh and blood molecules to become stronger. The price is your lifespan, and after you die, you will be transformed into an even more powerful monster.

7. 7 怪 The Bizarre Art of Cultivation 怪诞修仙学 Snail Goes to Heaven蜗牛上天Mystery1.3M WordsCompleted (No heroine, Eastern cosmic horror, no System, not invincible, grotesque aesthetics, not a rules-based horror, science and cultivation) The old man once said that cultivators, demons, and evil spirits turn into a pile of ash when they die. This is called tainted ash. Tainted ash contains all the energy they accumulated in life. Eat it, and you can kindle your life lamp and extend your lifespan. Leave it alone, and it will give rise to a tainted-soil resurrection! But there is one exception: bein 47.7kReads9.1Score7.3kShelves

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   🌲🌲A bizarre cultivation novel where immortals are indescribable beings. The premise is strange and captivating. Absurd and eerie. Highly rated with no female lead. 🌲🌲Many villages exist on the land, each with its own taboos. Remember not to break the taboos, or else…

8. 8 诡 Eerie Wuxia: My Life Simulator 诡异武侠：我的人生模拟器 I Don't Want to Lie我不想说谎Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsCompleted [Transmigration + Wuxia + Simulator + The Supernatural + One Female Lead (or No Female Lead) + Dark World + Passion] Shi Qing transmigrated to a wuxia world, where his life was in constant danger! Ahead of him, evil spirits killed and claimed lives. Behind him, bloodthirsty zombies ran amok! And lurking in the shadows were man-eating demons! Just as Shi Qing was lamenting his miserable fate, the Life Simulator System activated! As long as he killed these supernatural beings, he could start a lif 788Reads7.1Score—Shelves

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   Based on the title you provided and the following content, it all pertains to the treacherous path of cultivation. All methods of cultivation come at a price. There is no such thing as a free lunch; if there is, it's simply a larger lure. I highly recommend the third book, "The Horror Cultivation Record," as it's quite intellectually stimulating.

9. 9 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
10. 10 养 The Bird-Keeping Eunuch 养鸟的太监 Shu Ye书夜Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted More than twenty years after transmigrating, he is suddenly thrown into a dungeon and begins a wondrous path of cultivation. Every step on the path to cultivation is fraught with danger. Fortunately, his eyes gain the ability to see the information on all things, allowing him to avoid every threat. [This book absolutely has no female lead] [The blurb falls short, so please read the story] 1.7kReads8.3Score115Shelves
11. 11 变 After Becoming a Courtesan, I Took Up Cultivation on the Side 变身花魁后，我兼职做起了炼气士 Old Nanbei老南北Eastern Fantasy2.7M WordsCompleted (Gender-bender, not an invincible protagonist, Lovecraftian cultivation, the protagonist is “mentally ill”) A bizarre world, an age of drunken revelry and escapism. Here is the Shishen Dao, which imagines the “true self” and delights in toying with the world like a madman. There are the ancient Twelve Old Gods entrenched in Youzhou, creating what they consider to be grotesque “beauty” for mortals in absurd and bizarre ways. Beneath the ruins of the old Tang Dynasty lie black tentacles covered in 2.7kReads8.9Score307Shelves
12. 12 人 In the Divine Source, Trading Is Infinite 人在神源，无限交易 Broken Vitamin坏掉的维生素Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted [Text simulator + tabletop role-playing + folklore + wild imagination + lighthearted] [No heroine or one heroine] A text-based game called Divine Source appeared without fanfare. White text on a black background, it was so crude it looked as if it had been made with someone's feet. Its narrow text-only perspective and awkward controls meant players could experience the game only through its words. Was this a form of protection, or a limitation? Strangely enough, items from the game could actuall 10kReads8.0Score1.7kShelves

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    The third book is a severely underrated novel.

13. 13 孤 A Solitary Seeker of the Dao 孤独的寻道 Egg Fried Rice Fried Rice Egg蛋炒饭炒饭蛋Urban3.3M WordsCompleted The Dao has died! The laws have begun to fade! Only techniques remain, reaching into every corner of the world. Ye Ming, the hated, ill-fated loner, suddenly discovers he has a grandfather. Then his grandfather takes him to a new world. His new book, Envying the Dao, is now online. 39.7kReads9.0Score3.2kShelves

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    These books are all quite good.

14. 14 诡EN Eerie: Martial Path to Godhood 诡异：武道通神 Waiting for Dawn等待黎明Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted Mist swirls all around, and horrors run rampant! When the sun sets, Bao Xiang’s protection takes effect! Just as Zhou Yi, newly arrived in this world, was racking his brains to stay alive, a voice rang in his ears! “Yin energy +1,” “Yin energy +1,” “Yin energy +1”… 12.2kReads7.0Score718Shelves
15. 15 七 At Seven Years Old, I Was Chosen to Take Part in the Rules Horror Game 七岁的我，被选中参加规则怪谈 One-Sixth六分之一Mystery522k WordsCompleted No female lead + national fate + eerie mysteries + comedy + unconventional ideas Lin Yuan transmigrates to Blue Star, a parallel world, and is chosen to take part in a rules-based horror game. From the start, he activates an SSS-rank talent. [SSS-Rank Talent: Ghostbane] [Talent Effect 1: Rules are completely useless against you. When you break the rules of a horror scenario, the corruption of its world has no effect on you.] [Talent Effect 2: When a creature in a horror scenario feels negative e 58kReads9.6Score6.4kShelves
16. 16 我 I Spent Thirty Years Exhuming Graves and Collecting Bones in Dajing 我在大京开坟捡骨三十年 Li Er Bu Ha李二不哈Mystery363k WordsOngoing [The Path of Evil Cultivation: Grave Robbing → Bone-Reading Manual → Corpse-Raising Record → Reverse Cultivation of the Righteous Way → Corpse-Refining Cauldron → Updating…] Lin Sha wakes up to find that he has transmigrated to the chaotic Great Jing Dynasty, where he is a humble bone collector among a clan that migrated south. Carrying the Bone-Reading Manual with him, he discovers that every set of bones he collects earns him a random reward. And so, in this chaotic age crawling with demons an 1Reads8.1Score—Shelves
17. 17 诡 The Weird Path to Immortality: I Become a God in a Strange World 诡道长生：我在诡异世界封神 Xian Muo衔木oEastern Fantasy3.4M WordsCompleted [Eerie] [Gu cultivation] [A completely revamped power system] The blind Lin Hun is a corpse collector, a white-clad servant in his ninth life at the Demon Suppression Bureau. Born ill-fated, he cultivates the eerie path with his crippled body. He spends his days collecting, stitching, and refining corpses, surrounded by the Eerie. Then he unexpectedly awakens the divine Eerie art, "The Lifespan-Boiling Gu Cultivation Method": Use lifespan as fuel, boil up supernatural abilities, and cultivate Gu 23.6kReads8.2Score2.6kShelves
18. 18 斩 Godslayer Official: One Hundred Thousand Divine Temples Descend to the Mortal World 斩神官：十万神庙落凡尘 Pineapple, Let's Get Wild菠萝嗨起来Eastern Fantasy5.1M WordsOngoing [Traditional Fantasy + the Supernatural + Ruthless Action] [The comic adaptation is now available. Give it a try if you’re interested.] A hundred thousand shrines descend to the mortal world, as the land withers and the heavens grow barren, leaving lonely spirits in the wilderness. Who will soothe the living as they sing of their misery? Only I, the God-Slaying Official, can cut down the gods of this world! A hundred thousand shrines descend upon the mortal realm, and sinister deities wreak havo 33.5kReads8.7Score3.7kShelves
19. 19 食 The Demon-Eating Sutra 食魔经 I Love the Mortal World我爱红尘Eastern Fantasy624k WordsCompleted Lin Gou, who transmigrated after sacrificing his parents, thought he could slaughter his way through the world like the protagonist of a power fantasy. Sure enough, his golden finger arrived right on schedule, but it turned out to be a useless trap. No matter what he tried, he couldn't find a way to activate it. Then one day, the sun sank in the west, sending its aftershocks across several nearby provinces. Its terrible heat dried up the rivers and the moisture in the soil, and the most devastat 784Reads8.3Score110Shelves
20. 20 诡EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 Six Gourds六个葫芦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 231.9kReads9.5Score28.4kShelves
21. 21 诡 Weird Tales: From the Start, I Beat the Eight-Foot-Tall Woman to a Pulp 诡异，开局锤爆八尺夫人 Xu Moqing徐墨卿Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted The world of the uncanny was chaotic and lawless. Mountain demons, evil ghosts, phantoms, jiangshi, zombies, slit-mouthed women, Sadako, eight-foot-tall women, Bloody Mary… Every uncanny being once thought to exist only in the imagination was real in this world. Xu Changqing, a martial arts enthusiast, had ended up here by accident. He’d only wanted to scrape by and wait for death, but from the start, he was attacked by an F-rank entity from Sakura Country: the Eight-Foot-Tall Woman. To stay ali 11.3kReads8.7Score981Shelves

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    The first one is currently the best ancient-themed cultivation novel, with the entire text focusing solely on this cultivation method. The second one is a modern urban Japanese novel with many supernatural elements and supernatural powers. The third and fourth are also exciting ancient-themed cultivation novels, leaning towards high-level martial arts.

22. 22 诡 The Strange Path to Immortality: Cultivating Begins with Selling Paintings on the Street 诡道长生：从街头卖画开始修仙 Sweet and Sour Koi糖醋锦鲤鱼Eastern Fantasy693k WordsCompleted Gu Changsheng transmigrates to another world, the Great Shang Dynasty, where the Heavenly Dao has fallen into decline, demons run rampant, and cultivation techniques are perilous and uncanny. Fortunately, he awakens the ability to recreate portraits. Painting a portrait of a living being lets him acquire their techniques and skills, while also extending his lifespan. In Yinshan City, he paints a portrait of the Black Mountain Old Demon and comprehends a Heaven-tier cultivation art: the Yuan Moun 3.6kReads8.4Score226Shelves
23. 23 诡 Seeking Immortality in the Strange Realm: I Have a Divine Ability Tree 诡界求仙：我有一棵神通树 Calm Waters of the Xiang River湘水无波Eastern Fantasy3.0M WordsOngoing [Masterful survivalist cultivation + eerie cultivation + Tiangang divine powers + ruthless and decisive + no harem + not a bleeding heart] Born as the master of divine powers, I am the Dao Lord of the cosmos! The eerie invaded, the Heavenly Dao collapsed, and the cosmos was left in ruins… The gods and Buddhas of the heavens, the great powers of the Immortal Dao, all vanished overnight. The path to immortality was severed, the divine path fell silent, and demons and monsters ran rampant. Where ar 74.7kReads8.3Score6.9kShelves
24. 24 仙 The Immortal Fetus Mutant 仙胎异种 Jian Hanshan剑寒衫Eastern Fantasy457k WordsOngoing This is a grotesque world controlled by “immortals.” There are immortal pills grown in hearts, where flesh and blood serve as the soil; bone-ash baby formula made by burning corpses; and rich-blood immortal fruits growing from flesh. This is a savage immortal realm that is disgusting, diseased, ugly, and deformed. “I am an aberrant immortal fetus, an apocalyptic calamity that feeds on immortals. My name is Chen Yang, and I’ve had the good fortune to arrive in this filthy, sinister savage immorta 1.7kReads8.8Score127Shelves

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    Highly recommended! The latest and best-looking fantasy cultivation novel: ① In this world, there are spirits and monsters who use humans as medicine and raise them for food. The town is nestled in a sinkhole deep in the mountains. Due to its unique soil, suitable for growing a strange grain called Blood Rice, it is named Treasure Mud. Chen Yang is an outsider who has been in this primitive agricultural world for fourteen years. Everything began with rice blast, immortal embryos, and Gu poison. Mortals are raised as medicinal herbs; this is a morbid and deformed world, and I am the medicine to heal it. ...

25. 25 我 The Years I Spent Raising Corpses and Nurturing Ghosts in the Graveyard 我在坟场种尸养诡的那些年 I, Too, Am a Dragon Slayer我亦是屠龙客Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted Lin Feng wakes up as a tomb keeper in a world plagued by natural disasters and sinister calamities. The slightest mistake could cost him his life. Fortunately, he can plant corpses to raise ghosts, sowing dead bodies to reap all kinds of skills and ghosts. The Opera Ghost plays the Monkey King, bringing the seventy-two transformations to life and sweeping through the turmoil of the mortal world. The Embroidery Ghost mends everything under the sun, weaving a tragic song of a troubled age and craf 14.1kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves

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    These main characters use their abilities without any cost.

26. 26 修 Cultivation: I Can Analyze and Perfect Techniques 修仙：我能推演功法 Rebel to Become an Immortal逆为仙Eastern Fantasy564k WordsCompleted The world is mired in the Five Turbidities, and spiritual energy is dwindling. Living beings suffer, and all under Heaven endure hardship. Lin Yuan possesses a Heaven-Peering Eye capable of improving cultivation techniques, and transmigrates into this world of cultivation. Here, unorthodox paths flourish, demons and monsters run rampant, and even sects treat their disciples as human ore to be mined. With mediocre talent, he constantly improves and strengthens his cultivation techniques to surviv 442Reads7.0Score—Shelves

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    1. The burial of a corpse reveals a bizarre twist; the opening act of playing the Monkey King brings numerous changes, allowing one to glimpse deeper secrets. 2. A chance encounter with the Heavenly Eye unlocks the mysteries of bizarre cultivation techniques; only by becoming even more bizarre can one survive in this strange and unpredictable world. 3. Signing in for immortal techniques reveals a world with scarce spiritual energy and teeming with evil spirits; the only solution is to become even more bizarre. 4. A rigorously crafted world of mysterious resurgence; ghosts cannot be killed, only ghosts can defeat them. Watch as the protagonist uses even more bizarre methods to combat the bizarre.

27. 27 全 As the Supernatural Returns Worldwide, I Cultivate Immortality Alone 全球诡异复苏，我一人修仙 I Have a Sea我有一片海Mystery704k WordsOngoing [Supernatural Resurgence, Survival, The Only Cultivator, Invincible] When Lin Zhu opened his eyes, he found himself in a world of corruption and filth. The nine layers of the ghost domain devoured everything, while all living beings struggled in despair to survive among the evil spirits of hell. Life was wiped out, and the mortal world became a prison. Then a stick of spirit incense was lit in a forbidden zone for the living. Within the ghost domain, the Scripture of Salvation from the Supreme 2.1kReads7.9Score134Shelves
28. 28 恐 Horror Returns: I Feed Myself to Ghosts Just to Survive 恐怖复苏，我以身饲鬼只为活下去 Keyboard Ghost键盘鬼Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted The Starving Ghost breaks free, and three S-rank paranormal incidents erupt at once. The Ghost Riders' headquarters falls! While fleeing, Xia Feng is attacked by a ghost and mysteriously winds up in another parallel world. But this world still has ghosts! Ghosts cannot be killed. The only way to fight a ghost is with another ghost. The appearance of ghosts completely overturns materialism. As countless paranormal incidents unfold, regions across the globe begin to fall. Humanity is plunged into 6.9kReads8.4Score635Shelves
29. 29 邪EN World of Malevolent Spirits: My Flesh Conquers All 邪灵世界：我以肉身横推此世 A Hulking Man一魁梧大汉Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsCompleted This is a story about a body that can overpower anything. Darkness descended upon the Great Ye Dynasty, and evil spirits and ghosts lurked everywhere, killing without a trace. Faced with strange demons and sinister spirits, ordinary people could only tremble, cower in a corner, and wait for death. Jiang Dao transmigrated into this world with a Martial Arts Modification System. He could modify any martial art without limit just by looking at it. Mad Demon Staff Technique, Iron Shirt and Eagle Cla 2.1kReads8.8Score325Shelves

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    1. The protagonist, Jiang Dao, transmigrates with a martial arts modification system, allowing him to alter any martial art. Facing evil spirits, he delivers brutal, visceral blows—a muscle-based, domineering style novel. 2. The protagonist, Bai Lu, transmigrates and is reborn. Facing a bizarre resurgence, he awakens a system that allows him to become stronger by continuously adding points.

30. 30 人 Trapped in an Uncanny World: My Panel Makes Me a Martial Sage 人在诡异世界：我面板武圣 I'm Not Ximen Chuixue我不是西门吹雪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 14.8kReads8.0Score1kShelves
31. 31 妖EN Demon World: I Become a Martial Saint with the System! 妖魔世界：我以系统成武圣！ The Merciful Lion仁慈的狮子Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted Muscles + body-tempering martial arts + stat points + slaying demons and monsters + ruthless action! In a world of demons and monsters, human lives are as worthless as grass! Lu Shaolin is reborn in this world. Starting from the bottom, he uses the power of the System to smash through every obstacle, become a Martial Saint, and turn the tide! In truth, even the tiniest spark can set the grassland ablaze and burn away all corruption! 21.1kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
32. 32 大 The Great Dao Is Ruthless, Heaven's Mandate Has Forty-Seven 大道无情，天衍四十七 Wo Pi Fei我皮飞Eastern Fantasy486k WordsOngoing An ordinary senior in high school. A patient with severe paranoid delusions. A bizarre cultivation world of grotesque flesh and blood. A miraculous blue pill. A remnant of a noble clan being hunted down. A body that must eat people to survive. A Blood-and-Flesh Crossing engraved upon the heart, and the Creation Heart Sutra branded across the back... The Great Dao is merciless. Heaven’s calculations reach... forty... seven... 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    That's it! Highly recommended!! The author's use of the two worlds in the story is so original; cultivation comes at a price, and using techniques requires a bloody sacrifice. The author's writing is fluid!! Get this book popular soon!

33. 33 雾 Golden Pages in the Mist: The Secret Scroll of Immortality 雾中金页：长生密卷 Big-Headed T头很大的T君Eastern Fantasy370k WordsCompleted Horror Cultivation + No Female Lead + Decisive and Ruthless Wang Qingshan, a visitor from another land, arrives at Blackstone Castle in a world of dusk. A lost cultivation civilization, an age of desperate relics, rampant aberrations, a deranged world, and demonic corruption have made this already dark world darker still. Standing atop a mountain, Wang Qingshan looks at the shadow blocking out the sky above the mist and laughs wildly. “My power comes entirely from my own hard work.” “Golden page 276Reads6.5Score—Shelves

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    The latest and most captivating eerie and terrifying cultivation novel: ① Wang Qingshan, a modern-day office worker, unexpectedly transmigrates to the Twilight World's Black Stone Castle. He's recruited as a guide by the city lord's guard from another state. The story begins here: a lost cultivation civilization, a desperate era of relics, a world of madness, and demonic diseases, making this already dark world even darker. *Ding:* "Spirit detected, meets the basic recruitment standards of the Xuanxian Dao Sect. Opening the gate to Base 732."...

34. 34 长 Immortal Longevity Physician: Starting by Treating the Female Emperor 长生仙医：从给女帝治病开始 Limited-Dimensional有限二次元Eastern Fantasy4.2M WordsOngoing [Longevity]+ [No System]+ [Uncanny golden finger]+ [Cultivating the heart amid the mortal world] Main synopsis: In the second year of the Qianqi era of the Great Qian, two suns hang in the sky. The Retired Emperor is obsessed with cultivating the Dao, while the young emperor has only just taken the reins of power. Qi Le transmigrates here and becomes a low-ranking physician at the Imperial Medical Academy. He gains the talent [Treat the sick and save lives to increase your lifespan]. [You cured 57.2kReads8.2Score4.8kShelves

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    It looks really cool, I highly recommend it.

35. 35 我 I Perform Exorcisms in a Strange World 我在诡异世界跳大神 Lost Fish Mint迷途鱼腥草Mystery983k WordsOngoing My name is Chen Ping'an. I’m a con man, and not a very good one. I broke my neck while performing an exorcism. When I opened my eyes again, I was in a terrifying otherworld overrun by strange creatures, where night itself claimed lives. From the start, I had only an oil lamp on the verge of going out, the “Yin-Guarding Lamp,” and a cold number on the back of my hand: [Remaining lifespan: 50 years]. It wasn’t until I was backed into a corner that I awakened my ability to “summon gods by spending 520Reads6.0Score103Shelves

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    I recommend this weird novel; it's pretty good.

36. 36 我 Grinding for Experience in a Strange World 我在诡异世界中肝经验值 Loves Noodles with Chili Peppers爱吃面辣椒Eastern Fantasy458k WordsOngoing [Weird Cultivation + Stat-Point System] Zhou Yun was an overworked office drone from the modern world, but through a twist of fate, he transmigrated to an ancient world where the Heavenly Dao had collapsed and strange horrors were everywhere, becoming an ordinary hunter. Faced with a world full of horrors, he was lucky to awaken his own golden finger: a status panel that let him spend points to endlessly strengthen his abilities. With this power, he would seek the elusive path to immortality an 125Reads5.6Score—Shelves

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    The latest and most captivating fantasy/clash-themed, grind-heavy cultivation novel: ① Zhou Yun was originally a salaryman from modern society, but by chance, he transmigrated to an ancient world where the heavenly order had collapsed and strange phenomena abounded, becoming an ordinary hunter. Fortunately, he has his own cheat system, allowing him to infinitely enhance his various abilities through a skill point allocation panel. He will forge a unique path in this cultivation world.

37. 37 爆 Grinding Like Mad at the Dao, This Old Daoist Will Become an Immortal Yet 爆肝道法，道爷我终将成仙 The Cat Who Drinks Lattes喝拿铁的猫Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsCompleted [Supernatural Horror + Eastern Lovecraftian Horror + Chinese-Style Horror] Beneath a world that seems peaceful and serene, a twisted, horrifying darkness churns. When the Seven Stars align and obscure the Moon, a hundred fangshi dance a mysterious, bizarre ritual on a mountaintop, then set themselves ablaze. Torrential rain pours down. In the hazy mist, an indescribable silhouette of horror appears, and overnight, everyone in the city goes mad. Three bells ring from a temple. Countless monks’ co 43.1kReads8.6Score3.7kShelves

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    These books are quite good, especially the third and fourth, both written by veteran authors.

38. 38 烧 Burn Incense and Build Temples: The Paper Figures Want to Become Immortals 烧香立庙，纸扎人想成仙得道 Snail Goes to Heaven蜗牛上天Mystery484k WordsOngoing Synopsis: [No heroine, not invincible, no clichéd tropes, mystery and the supernatural, folk legends and strange tales, Chinese-style occultism, bizarre cultivation] The author has completed two novels of over a million characters: Gate of Guixu and Bizarre Cultivation. A dead branch buried in the belly, and even after death, one may cultivate immortality. The paper effigies used in funerals gain a spirit and become evil spirits, painted in human likeness to impersonate people. They don’t ea 637Reads8.7Score—Shelves
39. 39 蒸 The Steam Age: My Anchor Is a Flood of Gold Pounds 蒸汽纪元：我的锚点是金镑洪流 User10857711用户10857711Eastern Fantasy2.6M WordsCompleted Life in steam-era Britain, in a mysterious world of sequence potions. As Rain explores this world, he discovers that elves exist here too, and that a nation of Han Chinese lies to the east. To find his way home, Rain uses money to weave a path toward greater heights. 4kReads6.6Score350Shelves

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    Sequence Potion, Extraordinary Squad, Steampunk

40. 40 我 My Left Eye Is from the Olden Days 我的左眼是旧日 Clear River Never Changes清川不改Urban2.1M WordsOngoing [Lovecraftian horror + anomalous containment + supernatural powers + mystery + the uncanny] More than three hundred years ago, humanity received the "Pioneer Gilded Aluminum Plate" from a higher-dimensional world. Based on its pictographic writing, they provisionally translated its name as Shenhulu. At the same time, The entire world ascended to a higher dimension, and humanity evolved. Humans deciphered the arcane entities from higher dimensions recorded in Shenhulu. They also realized that the 50.9kReads8.7Score6.5kShelves

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    The first book has an interesting worldview: all the fear comes from a higher dimension. When the higher dimension comes into contact with reality, the fate of mankind changes, and all of mankind's efforts are in vain. This is what it means to destroy you. The second book's protagonist is both a body cultivator and a qi cultivator. In an era rife with strange phenomena, the protagonist grows to the pinnacle with the help of the Divine Tree.

41. 41 支EN The Pillar Project 支柱计划 The Universe Is Gaining Entropy宇宙在熵增Sci-Fi & Apocalypse1.9M WordsOngoing [Eerie] [Cthulhu] [Doomsday Descends] [Rebuilding Civilization] [Cultural Relics] [Culture] Xu Chen felt that studying history in this parallel universe had no real prospects, so after some maneuvering, he switched to medicine. He never expected that he had just jumped straight into the fire. What awaited him was fear in its most direct form. After a certain island nation dumped wastewater into the sea, unspeakable horrors arose from the depths. Eerie symptoms began appearing one after another, 38.7kReads9.2Score3.1kShelves
42. 42 序 Sequence: I Wake Up in a Locked Room and Have to Play a Fortune-Teller 序列：密室醒来让我扮演算命先生 DJ Lazy SheepDJ懒洋洋Mystery514k WordsCompleted [Pathway Sequences] [Local Cthulhu Mythos] [No Female Lead] [Exploration-Focused] [No System] [Not a Power Fantasy] “Your role is the Fortune Teller!” “[Play] your role well. It’s the key to [surviving] and even [escaping this place]!” “To get into character, first offer a stick of incense to the [Three Pure Ones]!” Qin Yangming wakes up in a sealed room with no memory. A card tells him to offer a stick of incense. He looks at the three conjoined, bloodied fingers... As more and more bizarre mon 1.6kReads8.8Score177Shelves
43. 43 开 From the Start, I Ate the Campus Beauty 开局我吃了校花 Lamplighter秉灯人Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Everyone has imagined that there might be something mysterious in this world, right? Have you imagined taking a train to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Have you imagined a beautiful senior pulling up in a Ferrari to hand you an acceptance letter from Cassell College at the school gates? Have you imagined that when you feel lost and alone, a swordsman from an ancient sect will descend from the sky and tell you, “You’ve been chosen!”? Congratulations. Your fantasies have come true. Th 13.4kReads9.1Score1.3kShelves
44. 44 请EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 102.6kReads9.5Score9.7kShelves
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 开 From the Start, I Was Born a Baby, and My Parents Are Kill-Matters Ghost-Riders? 开局成婴，父母竟是杀马特鬼火？ Taking the Most Brutal Beating挨最毒的打Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [No Female Lead] [Dark] [Doomsday] [Supernatural] [Killing Ghosts as a Child] This is an age when ghosts and monsters run rampant, people have lost their humanity, and life is cheap as grass. Cao Jianqiang was born an orphan. After a car accident, he arrived safely in this world with a growth panel and was able to meet his parents. To survive in this new world, newborn Cao Jianqiang had no choice but to begin a grueling journey of cultivation. [Complete 10,000 waves, receive 1 point of Constitut 7.1kReads8.5Score680Shelves
47. 47 犯 The Usurper 犯上者 Li Ma李马Urban2.7M WordsCompleted [The print edition has been signed, so read with confidence] (No System, no invincibility, plot-focused, explores human nature, not a formulaic power fantasy) (The protagonist grows and changes as the story unfolds) (An ensemble cast: supporting characters aren't one-dimensional, and respond with genuine emotions to the changes around them) No one knows when this world began to split in two. 218.8kReads9.4Score35.1kShelves
48. 48 邪 Evil God Moran! 邪神墨然！ Three Winds 11三风11Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted Why does the headless ghost in the hospital keep praying at midnight? Why does the skin-stealing ghost in the desolate mountain village wail without stopping? And why does the long-haired female ghost in the studio apartment shriek in the middle of the night? None of this is a distortion of human nature, much less a collapse of morality. It’s just that… someone’s having an episode! In an age when horror has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant, Bai Yuan, dressed in a hospital gown, smiled ca 155.2kReads9.3Score16.3kShelves
49. 49 从EN Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 The Cat from the Xu Family徐二家的猫Urban3.0M WordsCompleted Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 160.1kReads9.6Score18.1kShelves
50. 50 白 The White Bone Daoist Court 白骨道庭 Not a Minute to Spare兜里没有一分钟Eastern Fantasy1.7M WordsCompleted Cultivate true energy, build the foundation of the Dao, and manifest the Yin Spirit. The unorthodox path makes seeking the Dao difficult: refine baleful energy, taint the soul, and seek freedom for a fleeting moment. The heterodox path is arduous too: evade earthfire, dodge astral winds, and give birth to the Yang Spirit. A master of the unorthodox path is reborn. In this life, I will establish a Dao lineage, nurture Dao artifacts, and suppress an entire age. 15.8kReads8.9Score1.1kShelves

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    What a coincidence! There just happened to be a few novels about supernatural cultivation and immunity to consequences. These novels feature all sorts of bizarre and fantastical scenarios, and are quite good.

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