Cultivation Novels About the Hardships of Training, with No Romance or Very Little 修仙题材，艰难修行，没感情线或者感情线少

1. 1 布 A Commoner's Path to Immortality 布衣仙途 Sima of the Left Bank左岸司马Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsCompleted No treasures that can turn back time, no miracle tools that can make herbs grow faster, and no powerful backers! Just an ordinary country boy, relying on his grit, intelligence, caution, and resolve, without cheats or pills, rising step by step from humble beginnings to greatness and forging his own path to immortality! 16.2kReads9.0Score2kShelves

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   For those who are currently watching it, don't just open up a bunch of emotional lines. Human emotions are very precious. It's really disgusting to see a bunch of girls clinging to each other. I'm gay and don't like to see that. XxnI punch one person at a time.

2. 2 凡 Mortal Bones 凡骨 Master of One Update壹更大师Eastern Fantasy8.3M WordsCompleted The world’s spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade, Heavenly Spiritual Bone. Second grade, Golden Spiritual Bone. Third grade, Profound Spiritual Bone. Fourth grade, White Spiritual Bone. All the rest are mortal bones, with no chance of cultivating. Xu Taiping, born with mortal bones, swears to prove to the cultivation world that mortal bones can slay demons, mortal bones can vanquish devils, and mortal bones can ascend to immortality! 631.1kReads9.3Score94kShelves

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   The first book uses human bones to subdue demons, slay demons, move mountains, and fill the sea... The second book is about survival in secret rooms, death games, battle royales... These... Are just the beginning... The third book "I can't retreat, because there are millions of people behind me..."

3. 3 十 Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score233.7kShelves
4. 4 从 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. 194.5kReads9.6Score23.3kShelves
5. 5 神 The Divine Fire Path 神火大道 Among Mulberries and Pus桑间濮上Eastern Fantasy2.7M WordsOngoing Mortal-style cultivation, no female lead, no golden finger Zhuang Yu, a boy from an ordinary fishing village, gets the chance to join the Qingyang Sect, a cultivation sect. There, he obtains a crude cultivation manual called The Divine Fire Ascension Art. Through countless dangers in the cultivation world, he gradually rises from a kind and honest young man to a ruthless overlord in his own right. [Lower Five Realms]: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Trans 6.8kReads8.5Score432Shelves

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   Meets the requirements and can be called a good book

6. 6 穿 Reincarnated as a Debtor in the Cultivation World, I Ascend with a Multiverse Chat Group 穿成修仙界负婆，我靠诸天群飞升 LuLu99Ancient Romance171k WordsOngoing [Multiverse Cross-Plane Group Chat + Debt-Fueled Self-Rescue + Low-Class Rat-Girl Protagonist + Slight Harem Appeal + Traditional-Style Cultivation + Growth and Leveling] After transmigrating to the cultivation world, Chi Wanwan landed in a hellish situation from the start! There are so many people born with sacred cultivation physiques, so why is she the only one born with a useless body? Is it just because her name is an A-B-B pattern? A good-for-nothing with five spiritual roots, a tiny culti 34Reads—Score—Shelves

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   You can read this book, it's difficult for casual cultivators

7. 7 六 Six Lifetimes as a Daoist 六世为道 My Pen Is a Blade落笔为锋Urban179k WordsOngoing A legend in the military and an unrivaled soldier, he awakens his bloodline and activates a divine body in a fit of rage after his beloved is murdered. From then on, he cuts down the superpowers of every nation that threatens Huaxia and purges the scum of the cultivation world. He uncovers the mystery behind the fall of the Heavenly Realm, ascends the Thirty-Sixth Heaven, and ventures into an unknown void. He stirs up the Three Thousand Worlds and saves the six lives of his beloved. He comprehen 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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   A myth in the military, a peerless soldier king. Because his lover was killed, he awakened his bloodline and activated his divine body in anger. From then on, he killed all the superpowers of various countries that invaded China and wiped out all the scum in the world of cultivation. Uncover the mystery of the fall of heaven, ascend to the thirty-sixth heaven, and break into the unknown void space. Stir up the Three Thousand Realms and save your beloved for six lifetimes. Enlighten the ultimate way, master reincarnation, and break the danger of extinction in the universe. Let's see how he narrowly escaped death, turned danger into danger, and stepped onto the throne of the supreme god. There are cities, prehistoric times, cultivation, and fantasy here. Dear readers, please give me a little motivation and a little time, and I will show you one by one. I will try my best to write every chapter and every section.

8. 8 凡 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Swallowing the Sun and Moon, Treading Across Realms 凡人修仙：我吞日月踏界行 Invincible Dao Heart道心无敌Eastern Fantasy589k WordsOngoing [Mortal’s Journey] [Cultivation] [Spirit Beasts] [Pocket Dimension] [Alchemy] [Talisman Crafting] [Formations] [Swordsmanship] [Combat] [No System] [Not a Transmigration Story] [Not a Rebirth Story] A true mortal’s journey + sound values + no AI + ambitious and hardworking + slow-paced Immortals absorb immortal energy, while demons use demonic energy. Without either, one is just a mortal. The myriad worlds are vast, and the realms of immortals and demons are but a corner of them. Only the chaoti 1.6kReads—Score161Shelves

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   Authentic fantasy, handwritten. A pure mortal was captured by a bird and got the chance to become an immortal. He killed the demon bird and embarked on the path of becoming an immortal. Condensing Qi → Foundation Building → Yuan Dan → Yuan Ying → Yuan, all handwritten, no AI, sword cultivation, formation, elixir

9. 9 柳 Liu Mu's Path to Immortality 柳沐修仙传 Neither Thinking Nor Worrying不思不忧Eastern Fantasy343k WordsOngoing Traditional immortal cultivation. An aging Qi Refining rogue cultivator finds Liu Mu among a crowd of beggars, and discovers he can cultivate the Primordial Chaos Scripture. After the old cultivator passes away, Liu Mu buries him, then encounters a cultivator who falls from the sky. The cultivator tries to possess Liu Mu, but Liu Mu kills him instead! He claims the treasures on the cultivator's body, and with them begins a legendary journey of immortal cultivation. 41Reads—Score—Shelves

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   If you are interested, you can take a look

10. 10 凡 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: I Have a Heaven-Defying Bamboo Tube 凡人修仙：我有逆天竹筒 Tianhai Shanling天海闪灵Eastern Fantasy4.3M WordsOngoing [Mortal-style cultivation] [No System] [No transmigration] [Sword cultivator] Wang Jian, the son of a farmer, is found to have a mixed spirit root with four attributes. But to join Lingyun Palace, one needs a spirit root with at least three attributes. Since he failed to meet the requirements, he should have been destined to never cultivate immortality. But after Wang Jian's parents offered up a century-old willow-heart spirit herb, the immortal master of Lingyun Palace reluctantly accepted him 1.5kReads6.8Score125Shelves

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    Very good wwds

11. 11 神 Chronicles of the Cataclysm in Shenzhou 神州浩劫录 Gu Taiyan古太研Eastern Fantasy785k WordsOngoing The boy who left the mountains, Jiang Hen, searches for and joins a cultivation sect, one step at a time… He initially thinks he's a good-for-nothing with five-element spiritual roots, but his cultivation speed is astonishingly fast… What's more, the protagonist comprehends the laws of space while still in the Qi Refining stage… From there, he rises step by step from menial disciple to personal disciple, then from personal disciple to the sect's holy son… 3.7kReads7.8Score325Shelves

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    This is it! Very nice!

12. 12 大 Great Luo 大罗 Luo Tianxingyu罗天星雨Eastern Fantasy206k WordsOngoing [Traditional cultivation + cunning schemer + decisive and ruthless + ordinary mortal's journey] [Realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Dao Origin, Dao Union] Lin Yuan unexpectedly finds an ancient tomb containing a jade pendant identical in shape to his family's heirloom, but with the colors reversed. He accidentally enters a dreamscape, where he obtains a cultivation method called the "Primordial Scripture." It allows him to refine all 132Reads—Score118Shelves

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    You can read this

13. 13 山 Mountain Lord, Skylark: I Pacify the World with the Immortal Dao 山君，云雀，我以仙道平天下 Wang C王CEastern Fantasy454k WordsOngoing I have a scripture that can transform all scriptures. I possess myriad arts, and the heavens kneel to listen. One life is suffering; the second is fate. I want all my lives to return to one. Li Bodu was reborn as a tiger. He thought that by no longer being human, he could grow flowers, listen to streams, and live carefree in the mountains and forests. But the world is fickle, and people's hearts are as sinister as demons. With a trace of kindness in his heart, he set out on a grand and sweeping 998Reads8.2Score—Shelves

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    My lord, are demons immortals?

14. 14 回 The Reservoir of Returning Waters 回流之坝 Lu Qi, Who Loves Liangfen and Duck Intestines爱吃凉粉鸭肠的路七Eastern Fantasy713k WordsOngoing Does surviving tribulation have to mean facing a lightning tribulation? It could also mean a trial of love! In a world of spiritual energy, every stale cultivation trope is cast aside. A middle-aged man steps into a secret realm in his mortal body, exploring it one step at a time until his soul and body are completely set free. As he investigates the spiritual energy beneath heaven and earth, he uncovers the ultimate truth hidden from the world. 114Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The most realistic novel about cultivating immortals, with no cheats, tricks or systems.

15. 15 凡 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Beginning the Nine Heavens of Reincarnation 凡人修仙：从九天轮回开始 Carving the Past雕刻过往Eastern Fantasy2.7M WordsCompleted [Mortal cultivation, no System, pocket dimension, medicinal garden, immortal pets, wildly satisfying] Begging you, dear readers, to leave a good review. The author is a maniac who just keeps grinding away. Even mortals can have great opportunities: he gains the ability to return to nine days earlier after dying and creates the Myriad Laws as One technique. Captured by an evil cultivator and used as a cauldron to test a cultivation technique, he unexpectedly turns misfortune into fortune and emba 770Reads5.6Score—Shelves
16. 16 无 The Wordless Book of Mortals 无字凡书 Vanishingde Kaleidoscope消失de万花筒Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsOngoing [Original work, not plagiarized; tightly plotted; ordinary-mortal cultivation; no System; intelligent protagonist; no harem.] Character introduction: Fan Tian is a twenty-three-year-old unemployed young man who lives off rental income. After writing "I want to go to the world of immortal cultivation" in a blank book, he opens his eyes and really does transmigrate. He has five spiritual roots, works as a menial servant, and tends an herb garden. He also has a "book" that squeezes spirit stones ou 14.7kReads8.2Score1.3kShelves

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    There is no system for mortals to cultivate immortality, there is a golden finger, there is no wisdom, it is not brainless, the logic is clear, the plot can withstand scrutiny, you need to use some brains when watching it. ,

17. 17 师 Junior Brother, Don’t Cultivate Immortality Like That 师弟，别这么修仙 Softly Falling Words轻落语Eastern Fantasy3.9M WordsCompleted By a stroke of fate, Lu Changsheng is brought into a sect and becomes the junior disciple of Qingyun Peak. Having seen how brutal the path of cultivation can be, he decides to keep a low profile and hide his true abilities. While his senior brothers cultivate, he sleeps. While his fellow disciples take part in trials, he slacks off. Under countless watchful eyes, he does the same thing day after day for ten years, never wavering in his commitment to being a quiet schemer. Until one day, everyone 64.1kReads9.0Score5.6kShelves

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    001. Mortals cultivate immortality, Jinlan cultivates immortality, and starts cultivating immortality by bribing people to join the sect. 002. If I hadn't been short of money and struggled to practice, I would have been invincible. 003. One person, one pot and one sculpture come to practice the difficult practice.

18. 18 开 The Cheat-Wielding Lad Takes the Cultivation World by Storm 开挂小子玩转修仙界 Silly Little Dog Yuanbao元宝小傻狗Eastern Fantasy6.5M WordsOngoing [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 38.8kReads9.0Score4.2kShelves
19. 19 逆 Defying Heaven Through Cultivation: I Can Become Invincible Just by Lying Down 逆天修仙：躺着就能无敌 Yu Shu Mu羽书木Urban648k WordsCompleted [Urban cultivation, invincible from start to finish, feel-good, multiple heroines, decisive and never takes abuse] A young man from a mountain village is betrayed by his fiancée. By chance, he obtains a heaven-defying treasure and begins his path to invincibility! Watch as he overpowers powerful clans, takes on grandmasters, and shakes the Myriad Worlds! But was all of this predestined, or carefully arranged? [This story is entirely fictional. Please don’t assume it has anything to do with you.] 6.2kReads8.5Score602Shelves
20. 20 尘 A Journey Through the Mortal World: Thanks for This Chance Encounter 尘世之旅：寄，感谢这场萍水相逢 Vast Sea, Cloud Ink瀚海云墨Eastern Fantasy295k WordsCompleted Serious version: What happens when a transmigrator and someone who descends from another world come together? An unexpected tribulation, a visitor from another world, and a long-buried secret from history. Beneath the Heavenly Dao, flowers bloom from bone-deep pain, black hair turns white, and the ends of the earth are crossed. If the strongest martial power alone can represent absolute justice, are the sacrifices of those who fly into the flames utterly meaningless? Not-so-serious version: They 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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    War-oriented (remember to rate)

21. 21 月 Moonlight Flying Sword 月光飞剑 Liu Ningduochang刘宁多昌Eastern Fantasy528k WordsCompleted This novel blends elements of history, wuxia, cultivation, and mythology. The protagonist, Gongsun Shan, is a wretched young man born into an ordinary family. Disaster strikes his family, and his father is killed by soldiers. The soldiers seize him as a dwarf slave to be sent as tribute. He escapes by jumping off a cliff along the way, and is saved by the wandering swordsman Zi Ruoshui. With nowhere else to go, Gongsun Shan makes his savior Zi Ruoshui his master, follows him to study martial art 16Reads8.9Score109Shelves

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    An unconventional story about mortals cultivating immortals and heroes, with elements of ancient Sui and Tang Dynasty styles. It is a fusion of multiple elements and is very creative!

22. 22 逆 Defying Fate: Li Feiyu 逆天改命之厉飞雨 The Wind Was So Strong It Threw Out My Back风大闪了腰Eastern Fantasy300k WordsCompleted After finishing A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, did you still want more? Like me, do you have too many lingering regrets? Mo Caihuan, who loved but could never be with the one she loved; Zhang Tie, reduced to a puppet; or Venerable Xuangu, whose grand ambitions were never fulfilled? This story seamlessly continues the original's setting. There is no transmigration or rebirth, no golden finger and no spiritual roots. See how Li Feiyu, an ordinary man with his life hanging by a thr 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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