Classic Fantasy: A Sword-Cultivation Prodigy Who Is Neither Invincible nor Useless 传统玄幻，修剑天才，不无敌，不废材
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Cultivation: Starting with the Right Choices 修仙：从正确选择开始
(The rating will rise once it has just been released) Decisive and ruthless + genius + willing to do anything to achieve his goals + multiple love interests, no fixed pairing Bai Xu has a superior-grade spiritual root, with no useless-talent trope The novel hits its stride after Chapter 12 and takes off from there Bai Xu, an overworked wage earner, wakes up one day and finds himself transmigrated to a cultivation world. Before he can even process his memories, he watches the steward in charge of
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Heaven-Dominating Sword 一剑霸天
[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
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Aspiring to the Imperial Throne 问鼎皇尊
[Growth-Focused | No System | Fresh Setting | Expansive Worldbuilding] When chaos first stirred and the world was born, how many ages passed in the endless struggle for supremacy? In the Chaos Realm, gods and demons came into being, only to vanish into the river of history after countless ages. In the Beast Star Domain, savage beasts roamed the wilderness, yet even they could not escape fate, disappearing from heaven and earth. The Icebound Era began, and no life remained in the world. In the Pr
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A Broken Cauldron Helps Me Cultivate Immortality 破木鼎助我修仙
[Mortal cultivation + no System + Divine Wood Cauldron + fantasy world] A brother and sister went into the mountains to forage. His younger sister found a broken wooden cauldron and gave it to her brother to use as a bowl. Suddenly, she spotted an immortal flying through the sky on a sword. “Hey, immortal up there! Hello!” At her greeting, Ye Yao was kidnapped, and her brother Ye Fan was knocked unconscious. When Ye Fan woke up, he burst into tears, only to run into a passing fairy-like young wo
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No Life in the Mortal World 尘间无生
[Sword cultivator + genius + dual bloodlines of demon and immortal + ruthless + no transmigration + no System + not a saint] One man, one sword, roaming a world of dust for ten thousand miles. Amid broken walls and ruins, he beholds all the suffering beneath the sun. May there be no frost and wind to silver our hair, no sorrow to weigh on our hearts, and may every year bring peace and warmth. Life is fleeting, its meetings and partings like smoke, its fortunes and declines ever-changing. May eve
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I Touched the Immortal's Crown, and the Empress Turned Yandere! 我抚仙人顶，女帝变病娇！
[Carefree Slacker × Yandere Empress] [Unbeatable Among His Peers, Yet the Big Shots Have Their Eyes on Him!] [Traditional Fantasy] [No Harem, No System, No Clichés, No Mindless Plot] He Yuan’an is the most laid-back outer disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect. He’s never going to cultivate, not in this life. He thought he could coast through life until he dropped, but then three Great Emperors suddenly showed up at his door. Terrified, he grabbed his belongings and ran, only to trip over a broken-
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Six Paths of Reincarnation: The Prison of Heaven and Earth 六道轮回：乾坤牢笼
[Traditional Fantasy] [Overpowered Protagonist] [Eastern Elements] [The Myriad Worlds] [No formulaic tropes, no System, no mindless plot, no wish fulfillment] The gods moved their pieces, burying one dazzling golden age after another. Emperors who had reached the peak of the Great Dao were toyed with like ants, right in the palms of their hands! The gods schemed against those who dared defy heaven, slaughtering their entire clans and leaving only the legitimate heir alive, his Rinnegan gouged ou
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- 8 Heavenly Abyss 天渊 (The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw 974.8kReads9.4Score97.1kShelves
- 9 EN Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼 [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 868.8kReads9.6Score66.1kShelves
- 10 Shattering the Starry River with Martial Might 武碎星河 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] 183kReads9.1Score21.1kShelves
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Sign-In at Qinglan City: I'm Really Not the White-Robed Sword Immortal 签到青岚城，白衣剑仙真不是我啊
[System + invincible + swordsmanship + low-key + power fantasy + no heroine] Cang is Heaven, Xuan is the Dao. Heaven and earth are profound and vast; the sword's path shall flourish forever. In the Cangxuan Realm, might makes right. There are nine stages of cultivation, each one a whole new level. Mortal → Spirit Awakening → Profound Mastery → Return to Truth → Enlightened Heart → Seeking the Dao → Knowing Heaven → Shattering the Void → Transcendence. Qi Jin'an transmigrates to the Cangxuan R
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Sword Cultivator of the Mortal Body 凡体剑修
[Cultivation, Fantasy] + [Swordsmanship] + [Decisive, Blood-Pumping] + [No System] During the sect tournament, Lin Xuan was publicly humiliated and demoted to an outer disciple. Elder Wu declared that if he failed to reach the eighth level of Qi Condensation in three months, he would be expelled from the Spirit Sword Sect. Everyone laughed at him as a good-for-nothing in the immortal path, someone whose life was worth less than grass. Who could have guessed that as soon as he arrived at the oute
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The Dao-Cutting Art 诀天道
(No mindless protagonist, no clichéd plot, a cunning lead, fully realized characters, no System, twin swords) The twin swords ring out, cleaving the heavens. Let souls be severed and bones torn out as you will. The world shall know no more bloody storms. I am both demon and god! With everything shattered, can it be made whole again? Faced with the shackles of fate, he will cut them apart with his twin swords! The gods and demons wage war for a hundred years. The Heavenly Dao is merciless, treati
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The Path of the Myriad Spirits Sword 万灵剑途
[Sword Cultivator] [One Female Lead] [Fierce and Passionate] [No System] [Genius] Tens of thousands of years ago, Lu Qingxuan, the greatest Emperor in the Divine Realm, fell in the Far North! Tens of thousands of years later, demons run rampant and the people suffer. Humanity is weak, reduced to livestock for others to feed on. Lu Qingxuan is reborn and once again embarks on the path of cultivation. Rising from humble beginnings, he defies the heavens, slaying demons wherever he finds them and d
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Peerless Sword Maniac 绝世剑狂
Transmigration with no System + traditional fantasy + slow-paced + swordsmanship + revenge + devouring + the Myriad Worlds…
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Two Souls, Two Lives: I'm Invincible on the Path to Immortality! 双魂双命：修仙路上我无敌！
[No female lead, genius ice-attribute sword cultivator, character growth, decisive and ruthless] “Death Dao Intent, manifest!” A black yin fish appeared before Gu Jianqiu. “I myself have not comprehended the Dao Intent of Life.” “Yet the Dao has myriad paths.” “Killing... can also be the ultimate realm of ‘death’!” At a thought, the baleful aura around him spread, and the Dao Intent of Slaughter bloomed like thorns. “Without life, I shall prove death through slaughter, and use death... to perpet
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After My Bride Was Stolen, I Proved the Great Dao Through Yin and Yang 被抢亲后，我以阴阳证大道
I entered the Dao by defying heaven with yin and yang. After surviving death nine times, I forged an indestructible Primal Chaos body. The day I point my sword at the heavens and shatter the Celestial Palace, I will reshape the laws of this world. The gods and buddhas filling the skies will all become stepping stones on my ascent to heaven.
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The Mighty Little Constable 神通小捕快
“One leaf riding the wind, roaming ten thousand miles; a dashing constable, famous throughout the land.” The most righteous men are often those society looks down on, and heroes rise from the streets. The spring breeze and I are both passing travelers, but your name alone belongs to the martial world. Ye Fei, a lowly errand boy at an inn, is rejected by the Su family because he's nothing but a nobody who runs errands! Who could have guessed that after getting drunk, saving a beauty, and catching
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After My Engagement Was Broken Off, I Started Raising an Empress 被退婚后，我开始养成女帝
[Just got a rating, it will rise later] [Bestselling hit] [Multiple Heroines] [Ultimate Power Fantasy] [A Powerful Background] [The More You Read, the More You'll Love It] Above the path of immortality lies a realm that must be broken through to truly live forever. But this realm is perilous. Even immortals can perish within it, so it is known as the Tribulation Immortal Realm. Legend has it that there is an object in the world called the Immortal-Burying Pearl. Whoever obtains it can control th
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Exiled from the Start, I Forge a Hundred Thousand Swords on the Frontier 开局被流放，我在边疆种出十万剑
Xie Kaishan is stripped of his heir's title and exiled to the desolate province, given nothing but a land deed and a stretch of barren earth. The county office demands grain, the people have nothing to eat, and the immortal sects declare that mortals have no chance of attaining the Dao. Yet he can sow lost laws and reap them as crops: a single ear of sword-rice opens a sword aperture, while a field of spirit rice strengthens an entire city's people. Others choose the gifted for their sects; he f
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The Cheat-Wielding Lad Takes the Cultivation World by Storm 开挂小子玩转修仙界
[Funny and lighthearted + Upgrade spirit stones + Refine pills + Humorous cultivation + No System] You rascal, you can upgrade spirit stones and pills? Confess everything and I won’t hit you! Yuan Xiao, a country boy, accidentally saves a divine thief from the immortal realm. With nothing but shameless audacity, he snatches the heaven-defying treasure, the Tianqi Pearl, and becomes a rich cultivator. Making money and upgrading are no problem at all! With two absurd, troublemaking spirit beasts a
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Nameless and Formless 无名无相
[Traditional Fantasy] Qin Shui was a carefree young master of the Qin family. When his father lost a family power struggle and was purged, Qin Shui had no choice but to conceal his identity and wander the world. He had planned to build up his strength and return to take revenge on the Qin family, but unexpectedly got caught up in an internal conflict that had divided humanity for thousands of years. As Qin Shui grows stronger step by step, he also uncovers the mysterious veil surrounding this wo
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I Kissed the Demon Dog’s Toes and Became a Cultivation World Troublemaker 亲吻魔犬脚趾，我成了修仙乐子人
[System shenanigans + absurd comedy + light power fantasy + no farming] Other cultivators slay demons and vanquish monsters, reaching for the heavens, but my very first cultivation quest is to kiss a demonic hound’s toe?! After awakening the Taiji Fun-Seeker System, the more ridiculous the quest, the more outrageous the reward! Fairy dresses, lace gloves, bizarre abilities... As long as I keep the antics coming, my cultivation skyrockets! No protagonist torture, no frustration, no melodrama, jus
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Reborn as the Cannon-Fodder General's Wife, I Took Up My Blade and Cut Down the Enemy's God of War 刚穿成炮灰将军夫人，我提刀砍翻敌国战神
I’d Just Reincarnated as the Cannon-Fodder General’s Wife, So I Took Up My Blade and Cut Down the Enemy Nation’s War God
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The Emperor Star Descends 帝星临
The day his engagement was broken, he turned around and wrote a letter of divorce. “Today you cast me aside like a worn-out shoe. One day, you’ll be reaching for me and find I’m beyond your grasp.” The night a meteor fell, the young prodigy lost all his cultivation and became the laughingstock of Qingyang City. On the day of his wedding, the saintess tore up their engagement in front of everyone. He picked up his brush, wrote a letter of divorce, and made a three-year pact. Everyone thought
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- 26 Martial Spirit Era: Throne of Soul Seals 武魂纪元：魂印王座 In a border town in the Tianshu Domain, young Lin Chen awakened a low-grade Yellow-rank mortal stone soul seal and was mocked as a good-for-nothing soul seal the likes of which appeared only once in a thousand years. But who could have guessed that the despised, useless seal was actually the nascent form of a one-in-ten-thousand Chaos Soul Seal? The broken soul-seal compass his father left behind set him on the path to the pinnacle of the Soul Origin Realm: Form a pact with a Chaos Spirit Turtle 12Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Legend of Qin: Trails of the Dream Immortal 寻秦记之云梦仙踪
Transmigrated into the Warring States era, only to become an ingredient for immortal cultivation? Why keep this Heavenly Dao around until the New Year? Watching the "immortal seed" squirm in his dantian, Xu Shenwu finally understood that ascension was all a lie. The spiritual energy ordinary people painstakingly cultivated for a thousand years was nothing but fertilizer for the great medicine grown for the immortals of the Upper Realm! The year he transmigrated to Yunmeng Mountain, he spent a wh
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- 28 EN Path to Immortality Among the Stars 星路仙踪 In the modern world, a passage to another realm appears on Blue Star. Wang Yu is among the first people to enter a cultivation world through their dreams. In a daze, he embarks on the path of cultivation in order to survive! The Great Dao is merciless. On the path of cultivation, failing to advance means falling behind! By becoming a supreme cultivator, one can enjoy endless longevity and bring the power of cultivation back to Blue Star, saving its future. The cultivation world faces an apocalyp 171.9kReads9.1Score15.2kShelves
- 29 Sword, Moon, Zither, and Star 剑月琴星 [Xuanhuan] [Mortal Protagonist] [No System] [Slow Burn] [Swordsmanship] [Mystery] After a war that lasted ten thousand years, heaven and earth shattered, three races stood side by side, and divine artifacts sank into oblivion. A mountain boy with no spiritual roots sets out from the mortal world to avenge a great wrong, enduring hardship after hardship. With one sword, he forges ten thousand; with his Dao heart, he enters a demonic tribulation! Wielding the sword in his hand, he cannot kill ever 115.5kReads8.9Score6.9kShelves
- 30 EN Mortal Bones, Immortal Destiny 凡骨 (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 557.8kReads9.3Score70.2kShelves
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Divine Wonders of the Nine Heavens 九霄神迹
One sword cleaves the nine heavens, while the firmament stretches across boundless realms. Lin Yuan, an ancient sword cultivator, overturned the entire world through the love and hate in his heart, leaving behind shattered realms and endless secrets buried in time. Shen Cang, a mortal youth, awakens amid the chaos of a troubled age and breaks free of the limits of an ordinary man. He journeys across the nine heavens, parts the mists of time, and sets in motion the gears of fate that have stood
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Rebellious Sword God 逆剑神尊
Across three thousand cultivation realms, the world stretches without end. Countless domains stand side by side, and myriad races vie for supremacy. The foundation of cultivation lies in one's spiritual root. Spiritual roots are divided into nine grades. Grades one through three are mortal roots, with mediocre talent; even after a century of cultivation, reaching the Golden Core stage is difficult. Grades four through six are spiritual roots, allowing one to join a great sect and offering hope
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Late Eastern Han: One Sword Strike, and I Unleash the Three Kingdoms' Age of Chaos 东汉末年，我一剑斩出乱世三国
My name is Dou Yu. My grandfather was a great general second only to The Outcast, and my father was the greatest swordsman under Heaven, yet I became an orphan. In the year of Jiazi, I unexpectedly inherited Zhang Jue's legacy. From then on, I entered Luoyang, enrolled in the Imperial Academy, and severed my ties to the mortal world. This is a different kind of late Han chaos. Everyone upholds Confucianism as orthodox, while the Hundred Schools and Nine Schools are relegated to the demonic and h
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The Ink Talisman Shocks the Gods 墨符惊神
To clear his father's name, Chen Yan takes half a copy of the Ink Scripture and investigates a series of murders. He discovers that every victim was connected to a "smuggled inkstick case" from ten years ago. At the brink of death, he awakens an ability: although his left hand can't hold a brush steady, he can dip his fingertips in ink and draw living talismans. Wherever the ink qi reaches, evil spirits are revealed. In the end, he exposes the mastermind as a fugitive from the smuggling case, no
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- 35 My Junior Fellow Disciple Holds a Grudge 我家小师弟有点记仇 My name is Xia Tian. Beneath the immortals, all are ants. Above the immortals, I slaughter with wild abandon! Heh heh heh... Who in this world dares stand in my way? ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ —Reads—Score—Shelves
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Steel and Sunflower 钢与葵
This is a serious, dark-toned epic fantasy set on an imaginary continent. It features multiple protagonists, intricately interwoven plotlines, and a profound world. Its many elements include historical realism, political intrigue, steampunk, Cthulhu, mystery, and character growth. It is a slow burn, but never drags. Welcome to a world that belongs to no heroes. Here, pure light does not triumph over darkness. Instead, faith and fate clash in a bloody struggle. Supernatural powers are not blessin
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- 37 Divine Veins of the Sword Sect 剑宗神脉 A new work is here! You're welcome to read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy them. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! The Divine Veins of the Sword Sect is the first book in the Zhong Clan Trilogy. —Reads—Score—Shelves
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