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Any Novels About Ancient Qi Practitioners, the Kind Who Refine Essence into Qi? 有没有古代练气士的小说?就是炼精化气那种

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  1. 1 Qi Refiners in the River of History 历史长河中的炼气士 Eastern Fantasy380k WordsOngoing He once witnessed the King of Qin unify the six states and the rise and fall of dynasties. He lived through Emperor Wu of Han’s campaigns against the Xiongnu, and the decree that any who offended the Han would be put to death. He heard of the elegant lives of the Wei, Jin, and Three Kingdoms eras, and the openness of the Zhenguan and Kaiyuan periods… He is a Qi Refining cultivator. Qi Refining cultivators breathe in vital energy to attain immortality. This is a tale of immortality through the ag 5.2kReads8.7Score318Shelves
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  2. 2 I Was Just Playing a Cultivation Game, I Didn't Mean to Cultivate for Real 只是玩个修仙游戏,没想真修仙啊 Eastern Fantasy574k WordsOngoing [Slow burn] [Cultivation sect] [Youthful passion, clashes between geniuses, laughter and tears, things that must be done and people who must be left behind] [The further you read, the better it gets. If you don’t believe me, read the latest chapter first, then decide whether to keep going] [No ridiculous plot where a Foundation Establishment cultivator defeats a Nascent Soul expert, or a Deity Transformation battle looks like a scuffle among lackeys] Lu Chenxing learns the hard way why you shoul 15.4kReads8.1Score1.6kShelves
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  3. 3 Who Said You Could Really Cultivate Immortality? 谁让你真修仙了? Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [Lighthearted] [Invincible protagonist] [Comedy] Qin Luo transmigrates to a cultivation world overrun by monsters and demons. To protect himself, he goes to the Longhu Temple to study under a master, only to discover that his teacher is a fake Taoist who makes a living by swindling people. In the first year, his master tells Qin Luo to meditate and cultivate. He gazes within himself and integrates the foundation of the Great Dao. In the second year, his master tells Qin Luo to scrimp and save. H 32.8kReads8.9Score2.7kShelves
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  4. 4 Within the Shouzhuo Monastery 守拙观中 Historical500k WordsCompleted Chen Shouzhuo was born during the famine years of the Republic of China. He lived through war, hunger, and the pain of losing loved ones, while his body was ravaged until it became “a cauldron riddled with holes.” At the dilapidated Shouzhuo Temple in the Qinling Mountains, he encounters his Daoist fate and turns a century of China’s turbulent upheavals, from the suffering of the Republic of China and the flames of the War of Resistance to the founding of the nation, reform and opening up, the t 177Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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  5. 5 Me, a Prodigy? 我,妖孽也 Urban634k WordsCompleted There are two kinds of cultivators in this world. One follows a proper, orthodox lineage, whether practicing the righteous arts or demonic cultivation. Either way, they have a master. The other studies from books and practices blindly on their own. These are commonly known as self-taught outsiders, or fox-spirits practicing Zen. An Lin belongs to neither the orthodox sort nor those self-taught outsiders who blindly follow books. By observing the “phenomena” within himself, he grasps the true mea 252Reads—Score—Shelves
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  6. 6 Taiyi of the Daoist Sect: I Should Never Have Descended to the Mortal Realm 道门太乙:本座就不该下凡 Eastern Fantasy267k WordsCompleted Absolutely no AI content, conceived entirely by a human mind. No System, no naive protagonist, pure Taoist tradition. A serious heads-up: This is a traditional, carefully written story with a somewhat slow start. It picks up after eight chapters. Pingdan, a beggar of unknown origins, unexpectedly encounters a member of the Three Purities sect. To repay his master’s kindness, he travels thousands of miles, keeps his promise, and honors the dead. Who could have known his complicated past would co 498Reads—Score—Shelves
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  7. 7 I Transmigrated into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and Became a Disciple of the Laoshan Taoist from the Start 穿越聊斋之开局拜师崂山道人 Eastern Fantasy468k WordsCompleted In the world of Liaozhai, demons and monsters run rampant. Li Qingxuan, a cancer patient from the twenty-first century, accidentally transmigrates into the world of Liaozhai and gains top-tier cultivation talent. From the start, he becomes a disciple of a Daoist master from Mount Lao, learning immortal arts and slaying demons. Step by step, he uses his mortal body to refine essence into qi, refine qi into spirit, refine spirit to return to the void, and refine the void to unite with the Dao, ult 1.1kReads7.0Score—Shelves
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  8. 8 From a Spring and Autumn White Snake to a Dragon, I Have a Simulator 从春秋白蛇化龙,我有模拟器 Eastern Fantasy737k WordsCompleted Fu Hai transmigrates into a parallel ancient world and becomes a white snake kept in the palace of the State of Wu during the Warring States period. The white snake was considered a treasure, and Fu Hai thought he'd spend his whole life cooped up there. Fortunately, he awakened a simulator and gained the abilities [Otherworld Simulation] and [Transformation]. He escaped the Wu palace and began his gradual evolution into a dragon. During the Warring States period, Fu Hai fought tigers and wolves 1.5kReads7.6Score139Shelves
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  9. 9 Cultivation? What a Load of Crap 修仙,修个屁的仙 Eastern Fantasy194k WordsOngoing Wang Hao never expected to transmigrate too, and into a cultivation world at that. Before transmigrating, he often read novels about modern people transmigrating to cultivation worlds, and noticed that after arriving, they forgot all about modern technology. They couldn't make the most of their advantages as transmigrators. Wang Hao thought, If I transmigrate, I'll definitely use my modern mindset and technological knowledge to become a true cultivation big shot. Then, all of a sudden, Wang Hao —Reads—Score—Shelves
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  10. 10 Cultivating Immortality as an Outer-Door Servant 从外门杂役开始修仙 Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsOngoing [Mortal's Journey + No System + No Golden Finger + No Female Lead + Not Invincible + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Fast-Paced + Decisive and Ruthless] A young man from the modern world accidentally transmigrated and stumbled into the path of immortality, struggling onward in his quest to become an immortal. The road to immortality was harder than ascending to heaven. Faced with countless dangers, his resolve to seek the Dao remained as solid as stone. Fang Qing transmigrated here and started ou 1.9kReads6.2Score109Shelves
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  11. 11 I Can Only Fight Monsters, and That Lets Me Cultivate? What Is This, Liaozhai? 只会打怪,就能修仙?什么聊斋! Mystery398k WordsCompleted From the start, he accidentally eats a dragon's egg, gets chased by the dragon, and stumbles into the world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! Kill the monsters, keep the pretty spirits! Then he discovers that killing ghosts and monsters lets him gain their abilities! Magical treasures, cultivation techniques, buried riches? Wait, can he also score treasures and techniques by taking in spirits? Any way of recruiting them works~ 85Reads—Score—Shelves
  12. 12 Growing One Point a Year: From Country Bumpkin to Ancestor of the Immortal Realm 每年加一点从山野村夫成仙界道祖 Eastern Fantasy6.1M WordsCompleted [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 847.8kReads9.7Score96.6kShelves
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  13. 13 Pagoda Immortal Fate 宝塔仙缘 Eastern Fantasy5.1M WordsCompleted [Mortal cultivation, no System, pocket dimension, medicinal garden, immortal pets] Even an ordinary person can encounter great opportunities. A country boy carrying the Three Treasures Glazed Pagoda is captured by an evil cultivator and forced to serve as a test subject. But a misfortune turns into a blessing, setting him on a bizarre and arduous path to immortality. From then on, he uses the pagoda to grow spirit herbs, raise immortal beasts, refine pills, craft talismans, and cultivate forbidd 135.9kReads9.2Score16.3kShelves
  14. 14 The Supreme Sage of Alchemy 丹道第一圣 Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsCompleted As a max-level alchemist, is it really that unreasonable to eat pills for every meal? And learning martial arts to become invincible for self-defense makes perfect sense, right? The year's breakout hit [No System, genius protagonist, invincible lead, ensemble cast] 191.2kReads9.3Score23.6kShelves
  15. 15 An Old Man's Immortal Cultivation! 老人修仙记! Eastern Fantasy3.6M WordsCompleted [Mortal Cultivator Style, No System, Decisive and Ruthless, Not Mindless, Funny] I, Li Dakai, began cultivating immortality at the age of fifty. A slow-burn cultivation fantasy with a satisfying payoff. The story unfolds gradually, with every turn grounded in reason! Fellow cultivators, please don’t be put off by the title. New chapters every day at exactly 5:10 p.m.! 34.6kReads9.1Score3.7kShelves
  16. 16 The Spirit Gourd’s Path to Immortality 灵葫芦修仙记 Eastern Fantasy4.3M WordsOngoing Er Gouzi is an honest, hardworking farmer. His greatest dream is to save up enough to buy a few acres, become a small landowner, and marry a buxom, strong-legged wife. Then his life would be perfect. But after an accident leaves him with a gourd and an old swindler talks him into it, he blunders into the path of immortality and gets dragged into conflict. Even so, he never forgets his original goal: he just wants to farm... 151.9kReads9.0Score10.8kShelves
  17. 17 The Immortal Path of the Insect Emperor 虫皇仙途 Eastern Fantasy4.3M WordsOngoing [Entire novel written by hand, no AI + spirit insect pets + beast taming + traditional cultivation + no transmigration + no System + lighthearted comedy + richly developed characters + survival through caution] The lowly servant Ye Lin accidentally awakens the Insect Emperor bloodline and opens the Ancient Insect Emperor Ring. From then on, he has a whole swarm of strange spirit insects at his side. An unfathomable number of ants devour the heavens and consume the earth. A tiny white snake beats 59.8kReads9.2Score6.1kShelves
  18. 18 Who Let This Guy Become the Senior Brother? 谁让这小子当大师兄的? Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsCompleted The second junior brother is the chosen one of the plane. The third junior brother is reborn. The fourth junior brother is an ancient Sword Immortal reincarnated. The junior sister is the future Demon Empress. Everyone from top to bottom is a hidden powerhouse! Ouyang, the eldest senior brother, gives a crooked grin. “Well, then I guess I'll have to use cheats!” 157.8kReads9.4Score15.4kShelves
  19. 19 Tricked into Cultivating Immortality 被骗去修仙 Eastern Fantasy2.2M WordsOngoing [Decisive and ruthless + smart protagonist + mortal’s Cultivation] Cultivation? I was tricked into it... Wang Hao was an unremarkable young man in the 21st century. After an accident in which he saved someone, a strange old man tricked him into cultivating. Faced with schemes, plots, and deadly dangers at every turn, how will he use his wits to survive in this Cultivation world where the strong prey on the weak...? 569Reads8.8Score—Shelves
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  20. 20 The Mortal's Path to Immortality 凡人修仙途 Eastern Fantasy664k WordsCompleted An ordinary country boy happens upon half a cultivation manual and a mysterious bracelet, setting him on the path of immortal cultivation. Rising from humble beginnings, the young man cultivates the Five Elements arts and practices secret divine abilities. He masters the seventy-two transformations of the Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends, proves his Dao, and roams free on the path to immortality... 2.2kReads8.0Score182Shelves
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  21. 21 I Have a Double-Wood Xi 我有一个双木夕 Eastern Fantasy3.0M WordsOngoing (Slow-paced) Please note! To be clear, this is a story with many elements, categorized as fantasy with an imaginative premise. It is NOT Western fantasy!!! The first volume introduces the backgrounds in which the various protagonists grew up. The story gradually unfolds from the second volume onward. This is a slow-paced book in a fast-paced era, so please be patient and read the author's first hundred chapters before you come back to flame me, okay? This story is entirely fictional. Any resembl 2.9kReads9.4Score260Shelves
  22. 22 The Record of Wen Shi’s Attainment of the Dao 文始证道录 Historical528k WordsCompleted The Record of Attaining the Dao through the Way of Wen Shi uses the shifting stars as its guide to tell the story of Yin Xi. After natural and human-made disasters strike Hangu Pass, he follows the stars’ guidance and leads the people in rebuilding their homes. From the Ji star bringing warmth and erasing the scars of an earthquake, to the Shen star shining brightly as the new city walls are built; from the Dipper’s handle pointing west to herald a bountiful harvest, to the Zhen star gleaming a 35Reads—Score—Shelves
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  23. 23 The Daoist Record of Crown Prince Xuanyuan 玄元太子修道录 Eastern Fantasy648k WordsOngoing The Crown Prince Xuanyuan is the Great Emperor Zhenwu. He was once a prince of a kingdom, but his devotion to the Dao led him onto the path of cultivation. Born to the royal house, his heart yearned for the Dao; he left his splendid estate for the mountains and springs. By lamplight, he studied the scrolls and sought the true covenant; amid purple mists, he tended the altar and refined cinnabar and lead. He cast off the trappings of the world and turned toward Wudang, dwelling among the cliffs a 111Reads—Score—Shelves
  24. 24 The Record of Laozi’s Westward Journey and the Passing of the Lamp 老君西行传灯录 Historical682k WordsCompleted In ancient China, at the end of the Zhou dynasty, royal authority was waning, the lords were at war with one another, and the realm had fallen into chaos. At this time, a wise man quietly appeared: the founder of Daoism, the Supreme Lord Lao. Seeing the turmoil in the world, Lao decided to travel west and spread the Dao, hoping to ease humanity’s suffering and strife. Along the way, Lao rode a green ox, crossing towering mountains and enduring countless hardships and dangers. At Hangu Pass, he 71Reads—Score—Shelves
  25. 25 The Dashing Taoist 风骚道士 Urban337k WordsOngoing The genius Taoist Long Yun arrives in the city of Tianshui, where he accidentally falls into a trap carefully laid by his master and becomes the Tang family's live-in son-in-law. From then on, he solves one mystery after another: chronic illnesses that have resisted treatment, bizarre supernatural incidents, wondrous Feng Shui formations, and sinister ghost stories. See how this genius Taoist's journey into the mortal world leads to a series of romantic love stories between immortals and mortals 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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  26. 26 The Jolly Taoist 欢乐道士 Eastern Fantasy2.1M WordsCompleted Little Taoist: “Magic and stuff isn't scientific at all. It's just a way to fool outsiders and earn a living.” Some Master: “Isn't that just an excuse because you can't learn magic at all?” Some Immortal: “The Taoist master is a peerless writer, learned in ancient and modern times, surrounded by wives and concubines, revered by all under heaven and in the heavens above, unmatched by anyone, and hated by both humans and gods... Ahem, I mean, revered by both humans and gods! The next five thousand 1.2kReads8.3Score108Shelves
  27. 27 The Super Little Daoist 超级小道士 Urban2.2M WordsCompleted Gu Tian, a womanizing young Taoist and master of the Daoist sect, is born with the Five Virtues gathered in his body and clad in a flowing-light armor. Sent into the mortal world by his master to cultivate, he sets off a humorous, hilarious, and wish-fulfillment adventure... 213Reads7.4Score—Shelves
  28. 28 High Battle Clouds: Heroes Languish in Solitude 阵云高:英雄寂寞 Eastern Fantasy2.8M WordsOngoing Genius protagonist, no System, ruthless and decisive. Li Chengfeng, a genius formation master, uses formations to cultivate all kinds of mutated spirit insects. At last, he achieves a first-grade Golden Core. Just as everything seems to be going his way, he encounters a genius of the Ghost Clan. After a fierce battle, the Ghost Clan Golden Core cultivator dies, while Li Chengfeng, gravely wounded, is swept into a spatial black hole. A new legend is about to begin. 1.3kReads—Score106Shelves
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  29. 29 Moonlight Flying Sword 月光飞剑 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 19Reads8.9Score109Shelves
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  30. 30 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: I Found a Cultivation Manual from the Start 凡人修仙:我开局捡到修仙功法 Eastern Fantasy424k WordsCompleted (Traditional Xuanhuan, ruthless and decisive, mortal cultivates immortality, no System, underdog's rise, multiple heroines) Lin Chen, a cowherd boy, suffers constant bullying from a young age. By chance, he obtains a damaged cultivation manual, and from then on steps into the cruel world of immortal cultivation, where the strong prey on the weak. 55Reads6.3Score159Shelves
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  31. 31 Useless? I Awakened the Eternal Divine Physique from the Start 废物?我开局觉醒了万古神体 Eastern Fantasy382k WordsCompleted (Traditional fantasy, no System, fantasy, underdog's rise, cultivation, Ancient Divine Physique, decisive and ruthless, multiple heroines) Ye Chen, young lord of the Ye family, is unable to cultivate because of his blocked meridians. Mocked as a once-in-a-century failure, he awakens the Ancient Divine Physique and rises against the heavens. 411Reads6.1Score102Shelves
  32. 32 The Good-for-Nothing’s Rise: From the Start, I Obtained the Chaos Pearl 废材逆袭,开局获得混沌珠 Eastern Fantasy271k WordsCompleted (Traditional fantasy, no System, good-for-nothing rises to greatness, Chaos Pearl, multiple heroines) Lin Feng, a collateral clan member of the Lin family in Qingyang City, was born with a blocked dantian and branded a good-for-nothing at cultivation. He endured constant bullying from the clan’s direct line. At his darkest hour, he accidentally awakened the mysterious jade pendant he had worn since childhood. It turned out to be the Chaos Pearl. Not only did it repair his dantian, it also create 477Reads—Score112Shelves
  33. 33 Cultivating Immortality as a Mortal: I Awaken the Chaos Pearl from the Start 凡人修仙,我开局觉醒混沌珠 Eastern Fantasy94k WordsOngoing (Traditional fantasy, Chaos Pearl, ordinary person strikes back, mortal cultivation, Eastern xianxia, cultivation.) Lin Chen, an ordinary man, is framed and has his dantian destroyed. By chance, he obtains the Chaos Pearl, and from then on rises against the heavens. —Reads—Score—Shelves
  34. 34 The Great Lord of Spirit Treasures: Forging Immortality with Spirit Treasures 灵宝大道君,我以灵宝铸长生 Eastern Fantasy87k WordsOngoing Immortals transcend the Three Realms and stand outside the Five Elements, attuned to the Dao. With every breath, the cosmos is born and destroyed; with a glance, the sun and moon rise and fall. Across worlds as countless as the sands of the Ganges, through the four corners and eight wilds, and over boundless seas, true dragons and divine phoenixes wield immeasurable Dharma bodies, blocking out the sky with a flick of the finger. Wei Chan transmigrates into a young boy living in the wilderness an 2.6kReads—Score784Shelves
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  35. 35 Siheyuan: I'm Bang Geng's Biological Uncle 四合院:我是棒梗亲叔叔 Male-Channel Fanfiction1.7M WordsCompleted My new book, From the Start: Jia Dongxu Offers His Wife and Daughter, is out now. If you’re interested, feel free to check it out. Thanks for your support! I transmigrated. In my previous life I was a chef, and now I’ve become the heir to a traditional Chinese medicine practice. That’s not the important part. The real problem is that my biological mother is Jia Zhangshi, my sister-in-law is Qin Huairu, and I have a backstabbing nephew named Banggeng. What am I supposed to do? Asking for help onl 108Reads8.5Score—Shelves
  36. 36 Three Kingdoms: I Hold the Registers and Suppress the Ghostly Path 三国:我,执箓镇鬼道 Historical157k WordsOngoing Gender: Male Species: Human Specialty: Uneducated and unskilled, though he occasionally recalls fragmented bits of knowledge from the future. Evaluation: C- aptitude, lazy and content with the status quo Ghost Records Name: Huang Liao, courtesy name Boju Gender: Male Species: Ghost Specialty: His body has long since been ruined by drink and lust. Prospect rating: D-. A complete failure, bottom of the barrel, with a bleak future. 109Reads—Score—Shelves
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  37. 37 The Qi Cultivator in the Countryside 田园练气士 Eastern Fantasy130k WordsOngoing Ordinary boy Su Yi accidentally transmigrates to a vast and boundless cultivation world, where he awakens the mysterious Carefree System and unexpectedly gains the companionship of Ling Yu, a celestial bird with humanlike intelligence. Unlike traditional cultivators, Su Yi has no interest in the conventional path of leveling up and face-slapping. He would much rather cultivate spiritual fields in a tranquil mountain valley and grow rare spiritual plants, or explore ancient ruins among the mounta —Reads—Score—Shelves
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