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. 251 龙 Dragon Raja: Snowbreak Iris, Eternal Prisoner 龙族：断雪鸢尾·永生囚徒 Rabbit Bug 666兔Bug6669k WordsCompleted Dragon Raja: Broken Snow Iris · Prisoner of Eternity 7Reads—Score—Shelves
2. 252 空 The Garden of Sinners: The Magician, Have You Ever Seen Nothingness? 空之境界：魔术师·你见过‘无’吗？ Rabbit Bug 666兔Bug666Female-Channel Fanfiction16k WordsCompleted The Garden of Sinners: Magician · Have you ever seen “nothingness”? 40Reads—Score—Shelves
3. 253 职 Workplace Release: I Became a KPI Survival Expert 职场放生：我成了KPI生存大师 Rabbit Bug 666兔Bug66610k WordsCompleted Workplace Release: I Became a KPI Survival Expert 6Reads—Score—Shelves
4. 254 开 Three Days to Live from the Start: Does the Horrific World Want Me Dead? 开局三天寿命，诡异世界要我死？ Cicada in Autumn秋下蝉Eastern Fantasy189k WordsOngoing [Eastern Cosmic Horror + Survival + System + Lifespan as Currency + The Curse of Immortality] “Dalang, it’s time to take your medicine, ” When Chen Chuan is pinched awake by his eerie wife, the eyeball floating in the medicinal broth is staring straight at him. On the first day after binding to the Lifespan-for-Power System, he’s thrown into a living hell from the start: His eerie wife forces him to drink “pregnancy medicine” mixed with human-faced insect eggs; The villagers are nothing but skel 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Strange immortality, a world of cannibalism, the protagonist kills Eastern monsters with kryptonian life, this book is good to read,

5. 255 无 Between Life and Death 无死之间 Shu Ming树茗Mystery561k WordsOngoing (This story has no transmigration at the beginning, no rebirth, and no mindless point allocation or crafting System. It is simply an ordinary nobody’s strange sci-fi journey to power.) Wangchuan has just graduated from college and hasn’t found a job yet. He’s an ordinary person, or, to be more specific, unemployed. (The job market is rough.) Now he’s heading to a reunion with his college classmates. (Might as well get dinner out of the way, too.) Wangchuan wasn’t exactly on friendly terms with t 13Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Very normal setting

6. 256 寒 Tears of the Frosty Night Star Core: Yaya and the Sprout Mouse’s Hidden, Treacherous Path 寒夜星核泪：芽芽与萌鼠的渊隐逆途 Rabbit Bug 666兔Bug6668k WordsCompleted Tears of the Star Core on a Chilly Night: Yaya and the Sproutmouse’s Hidden Path of Reversal 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Bring it on! Cthulhu, the tentacle monster! 👌🏻

7. 257 众 After the Fall of the Immortals 众仙陨落之后 The Mountains and Rivers Hear Nothing山川不闻Eastern Fantasy144k WordsOngoing That day, after a rain of light fell beneath the night sky, it seemed as though nothing had happened. People went on living as usual. But why is it that anyone who enters the mountains at night never returns, moon-gazers are found as nothing but bones the next day, and the sound of insects crawling begins to come from the statues of the gods… —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The creepy cultivation system, the horror and the supernatural, and the novel plot quietly kick off with a strange sacrifice. Just because of a trivial verbal promise, the protagonist steps into the corrupted world of immortals and begins a thrilling and endless journey. Terror and thriller are intertwined, and his life hangs on a thread. Don't miss it!

8. 258 穿 I Transmigrated to an Eerie World, Only to Become Human Rations 穿越诡异世界，却成了人类口粮 I'm Really Not Sick我真的没病啊Eastern Fantasy200k WordsOngoing [Extremely oppressive] [Not a power fantasy] [Dark] [Slow burn] I’m not crazy! Those memories are affecting me! “Shuoshuo, who… are you talking to?” Hu Shuo looked toward the door. “Dad! What took you so long? Mom’s been here for ages.” He picked up the chicken leg in his hand and offered it to Yang Man. “Mom! You have some too.” Hu Zhijun stared at his son, whose mouth was covered in blood, and spoke in a trembling voice. “Son, your mother is sick. I’m the only one who came to see you today.” “ —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   This book has one point of strength and three points of price... Twisted

9. 259 我 The Horror Novel I Edited Came True 我修改的恐怖小说成真了 The Fish Tail That Doesn't Eat Cats不吃猫的鱼尾巴Mystery107k WordsOngoing (System + transmigrate into a book + wild imagination + weird tales + Cthulhu + mind-bending) “Welcome to the hell you wrote.” Li Yan, an online fiction editor, casually rejected a cliched horror novel and sneered, “So stale! The logic makes no sense!” The very next second, he was dragged into the book, becoming the prey of the “cliche plot” he himself had written! Even more terrifying, he discovered he could “rewrite the plot”! This wasn’t an escape game. It was a battle to slay the gods! B —Reads—Score—Shelves

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   This new book is definitely not available on the market, and it's very interesting [Love]

10. 260 妖 Monsters? Gods and Demons? Take It Up with My Cheat Menu 妖邪？神魔？跟我的修改器说去吧 Mo Erchi莫尔赤Eastern Fantasy106k WordsOngoing [Martial extremity]➕ [Totems]➕ [Eerie]➕ [Cunning]➕ [Twisted]➕ [Massive muscles]➕ [Multiple cultivation paths]➕ [Decisive and ruthless] As the Empire's magnificent form appears in broken shards of five-colored light, as the demons' trampling footsteps linger in smoke and agony across the world, the surging flood of it all is reflected in Chen Ning's eyes. Demons, monsters, beasts, and men are all buried in the furnace of flesh and blood. War rages, and rivers run red. Powerless! Only strengt —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Ji Dao Ryu, crazily criticizes the sinister protagonist, and pushes the body aside

11. 261 诡 The Heretical Path 诡道邪修 Luoluo's Library落落的图书馆Eastern Fantasy271k WordsOngoing [Uncanny cultivation + Cthulhu + decisive and ruthless + intelligent protagonist] The uncanny has descended upon this world, and demons run rampant. Even the path of cultivation is steeped in an eerie atmosphere. For ordinary people to cultivate, they must alter their bodies until they become inhuman. Foundation Establishment cultivators must dig out their own spiritual roots and implant them in other things. Only after breaking through the Foundation Establishment stage can they retrieve them. —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The new book on cultivating immortality through the devious way, this book has a huge layout.

12. 262 残 Broken Light 残破的光 Wutianwutian无天wutianAnime Fanfiction70k WordsOngoing Long Yuan transmigrated to a parallel world, where he recovered the shattered light of his past life amid despair. As darkness descends upon the world once more, he can only struggle forward and face it alone, determined not to let this world fall into ruin like the one before. But that fractured light will not last forever. When it finally fades, the world will face... 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    You can give it a try

13. 263 走 The Autobiography of a Wandering Earth Immortal 走地仙自传 Shiju Renshan士居仁善Mystery604k WordsOngoing [Tomb robbing is illegal. Do not put yourself to the test of the law.] [Tomb Robbing + Mystery + Antiques Appraisal + Stories + Alternate History] I once took the blame for someone else and quietly spent three long years in prison. I never imagined that the moment I stepped out of that cage, the course of my fate would change so quietly. I entered the trade of “earth-walking immortals,” thinking it would only be a brief detour. Little did I know that once I entered this line of work, I’d be enta 2Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I think these are a bit slow to write. You can add them to a bookshelf to keep them up.

14. 264 蛊 Gu Watch 蛊观 Shiju Renshan士居仁善Mystery844k WordsOngoing [Folklore and the Supernatural + Urban Superpowers + Gu Poison Mysteries + A Young Man’s Coming of Age + Family Revenge] Want revenge? Want to change your fate? Want to take back everything that should have been yours? Then come raise gu. Each talisman bears a karmic debt; each gu can end a life of suffering. The upper three talismans can alter life and death, the middle three can transform the body, and the lower three can change the heart. Which will you choose? The Life-Bearing Talisman takes 3Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 265 诡 Immortal Through Cunning Arts, I Can Ignore the Cost 诡术成仙，我能免疫代价 The Designer's Ambition设计者言志Urban853k WordsOngoing [No female lead] [Eerie cultivation] [Urban setting] [Modern technology aids cultivation] Some eerie arts require you to destroy your own eyes. Others demand that, as a child, you cut off your limbs at the roots, then leave them immersed in a vat for three years. Some can only be mastered by driving a wooden spike into your head. After Yu Xiu transmigrates into this world, he is lucky enough to gain the ability to access an information feed, allowing him to learn eerie arts without paying their 161Reads5.4Score122Shelves

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    It definitely meets your requirements. It looks good. I highly recommend it.

Other lists with Dragon Raja: Snowbreak Iris, Eternal Prisoner