Seeking Cultivation Novels with a Corpse-Refining, Ghost-Raising Protagonist 求修仙的小说，主角是炼尸养鬼
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Rebirth as a Demonic Cultivator: Starting with a Zombie Planet 重生魔修，开局捡到一颗丧尸星球
This novel has been adapted into a comic. Chu Xuan transmigrates to the Cangxuan World and becomes a demonic cultivator in the Wuji Sect. To cultivate the demonic path is to seize the essence of heaven and earth and take the finest of all things. Slaughter countless millions, and you can become a supreme Demon Venerable. But killing is forbidden by the Heavenly Dao of the human race. The righteous sects also wiped out the Wuji Sect. Just when all seemed lost, Chu Xuan happens upon a blood mirror
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- 2 Raising Corpses and Ghosts, Enjoying Wealth in the Mortal World 炼尸养鬼，红尘富贵 [Raising Corpse Ghouls and Ghosts, Living in Worldly Luxury.] [Iron-Clad Corpse, Bronze-Clad Corpse, Silver-Clad Corpse, Gold-Clad Corpse, Corpse Demon.] Ordinary people are born, grow old, fall ill, and die, struggling through the pain of reincarnation. Why should immortals live forever, watching the world change? With his miraculous Yin-Yang Cauldron, Xin Meng absorbs the turbid qi of heaven and earth and turns yin back into yang. He refines zombies and raises female ghosts, embarking on the p 676Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 3 A Mortal's Path to Immortality: I Begin by Refining Corpses 凡人仙途，我从炼尸开始崛起 [Classic ordinary-mortal cultivation + no transmigration + no System + no saintly protagonist + ruthless and merciless + unattached beauties] An orphan caught between life and death is taken in by a fallen evil-path cultivator whose cultivation has been destroyed, and inherits his master's legacy. Thus begins his journey into the cultivation world, where the strong prey on the weak. He bides his time among the major sects and prominent clans, then moves between the demonic and evil paths, gradua 4.1kReads8.6Score332Shelves
- 4 EN Mortal Cultivation: Ten Thousand Corpses Forge an Immortal Bone 凡人修仙，万尸铸仙骨 Demonic cultivation + no System + scheming underdog + decisive and ruthless. This book is dark, so don't read it if that's not your thing. The moment Song Wen kills the frail little beggar and seizes his blood and soul, every cell in his body cheers and leaps with excitement. His mind races, and he knows that killing will be part of his life from now on. For survival and immortality, he'll stop at nothing: petty schemes, conspiracies, and ruthless slaughter. On the road to immortality, bones are 96kReads8.9Score8.2kShelves
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Spirit Corpse 灵尸
A newly ascended zombie god was slain by the combined forces of the four great sects. Filled with resentment, the Corpse God cast a curse before dying. From then on, every corpse in the world would become a zombie, and the world was overrun by the undead.
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The Heavenly Master of Reverse Fortune 逆运天师
[Originally titled The Reversed-Fate Celestial Master and Those Years of Helping Ghosts Harm People] [Multiple Female Leads] [Supernatural Evil Cultivation] [Controlling Paper Dolls, Consecrating Yin Compasses, Refining Copper-Coin Ghost Treasures, Making Corpse Puppets, Raising Ghosts, Practicing Yin Fiend Arts] [Cultivation Ranks: New Ghost - High-Grade Ghost - Yin Soldier (Yin Soldier Ghost Path) - Ghost King (Ghost King Evil Path) - Ghost General (Netherworld Ghost General) - Great Demon - F
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Immortal Cultivation: I Have a Heart for Refining Corpses 修仙，我有一个炼尸之心
By a twist of fate, a young man joins a sect of immortal cultivators and steps into the mysterious, cruel world of cultivation. Just as he’s at a loss, he awakens the Heart of Corpse Refining. Not only does it grant him far greater vitality than ordinary people, it also lets his refined corpses advance in cultivation alongside him!
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The Immortal Dynasty of Corpse Controllers 控尸仙朝
[Fantasy + power struggles + corpse control and leveling up + corpse refining + patience + dark fantasy] Legend has it that in ancient times, there was once a Corpse Emperor. He commanded a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, with a million corpse soldiers under his banner. Wherever they went, no living thing remained. The Heavenly Dao punished him, and the art was erased completely, vanishing for ten thousand years. No one could have imagined that it would return to the world. Fewer still c
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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
[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
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- 10 Cultivating Immortality as a Survivor of the Yin Ruins 从阴墟遗民开始修仙 Yin energy persists, and neither sun nor moon appears. This is the Yin Ruins. The Yin Ruins stretch across myriad worlds, devouring the heavens as strange demons run rampant. In the Lingxuan Realm, Mount Tai’a has thirteen peaks: Lingxiao, Xuanyue, Bixia, Qiulong, Luoyun, Wangyue, Changjian, Yanyan, Xuanji, Qiyun, Jiexing... The protagonist is a lowly survivor of the Yin Ruins. He enters Tai’a, becomes a true immortal, and crosses the Yin Ruins. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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Mortal, Blood-Path Demon Immortal 凡人，血道魔仙
[Mortal cultivation + no System + no heroine + demonic cultivator + ruthless and decisive] Homebody Xun Yong accidentally cuts his finger while fiddling with an unknown five-clawed dragon cauldron. He is inexplicably sucked inside and transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation. There, he ends up a miserable slave, forced to go hungry every day and constantly bullied. It changes his outlook on life completely. After accidentally saving a demonic cultivator, he enters the Yinxu Temple and be
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The Ghost Emperor in the City 鬼帝在都市
Lin Yu was once a good-for-nothing whom everyone could bully. Then, in an accident, he devoured the remnant soul of the Netherworld Ghost Emperor, one of the five great Ghost Emperors of the Ghost Realm. From then on, his timid nature changed, and he began capturing and devouring ghosts to grow stronger.
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Cultivating Immortality Begins with Marrying into the Underworld 修仙从赘入冥府开始
[High IQ] [Wild Imagination] [Lighthearted Humor] [Multiple Female Leads] After entering the underworld following his death, Wu Ming looks at the painting of a young girl slaying demons before him and says to his father-in-law, "Is this the daughter you said would marry me? A paper doll?" His father-in-law replies, "Dear son-in-law, don't panic. The painting may not move, but it has a voice!" A bewitching voice rings out: "Husband." Her tone is so tender and alluring it seems to melt his bones.
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Immortal Fairy Auntie, I Really Don't Like Demonic Sects 仙子阿姨，我真的不喜欢魔道宗门
[Mortal cultivation] + [scheming] + [edge-of-your-seat suspense] + [plots and schemes] + [plenty of beautiful women] A young man accidentally obtains a spatial treasure, only to be transported to the scene of a battle between two cultivators. He unintentionally saves a beautiful immortal maiden who has been struck by a deadly poison, and she takes him back to her sect. Thus begins his path of cultivation. Later, he discovers the jade pendant’s heaven-defying abilities, and begins raising spirit
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A Mortal’s Path of Demonic Cultivation 凡人修邪传
[Mortal Cultivation] [Unorthodox Path] [Corpse Cultivation] [No Female Lead] [Careful Planning] Can't cultivate without a spiritual root? The protagonist turns himself into a half-corpse, then cultivates techniques meant for corpse refiners and becomes an unorthodox cultivator. From then on, he refines corpses, drives ghosts, commands beasts, raises poisonous insects, and controls souls, doing whatever it takes to cultivate. [This isn't a story built around wild ideas. The early chapters take th
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- 16 A Rogue of the Mortal World 俗世妖人 Xiu Xu from Bazhong is in the mountain city, where he owns an offline murder mystery game shop. He was once a top-tier Werewolf player, comes from a family of feng shui masters, and is suffering from end-stage pancreatic cancer. When his grandfather died, he left behind a peerless beauty with no sign of life. To stay alive, Xiu Xu had no choice but to bring his whole family along, leading a group of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled relatives as they punched their way through the South Heaven Ga 6.8kReads8.7Score666Shelves
- 17 The Years I Spent Raising Corpses and Nurturing Ghosts in the Graveyard 我在坟场种尸养诡的那些年 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
- 18 EN Heavenly Calamity 劫天运 I was schemed against before I was even born. I was born with all five yin traits and naturally attracted vicious ghosts. A knowledgeable fortune-teller said I wouldn’t live past seven, and that after I died, someone would turn me into a blood-clothed child ghost to harm others. To save me, my grandmother arranged for me to marry a child bride, and I was able to live in peace... I’d been scraping by since childhood, and had long since grown used to enduring whatever came my way. But my grandmoth 12.3kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
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Cultivating Immortality as a Mortal, Proving Immortality Through the Blood Path! 凡人修仙，血道证仙！
[Mortal's Journey, no System, no harem, decisive and ruthless, increasingly ruthless, righteous and demonic paths, traditional xuanhuan cultivation] The story takes a while to get going. In his previous life, Song Yi was a low-level salesperson. He transmigrates into the body of an orphan who shares his name. As soon as Song Yi takes the entrance test, he attracts unwanted attention before even joining a sect. To protect himself, he is forced into a staggering conspiracy... Starting from the
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- 20 The Uncle Jiu Universe: I Became Uncle Jiu's System! 九叔世界：我成为了九叔的系统！ The blurb is a struggle, but the story is pure fun! No ships. Uncle Jiu is the protagonist. Even after getting a System, he won't pair up with Zhigu or Miqilian! [Only Uncle Jiu gets a System. Uncle Jiu shows off in every way and carries everyone to victory. He visits parallel zombie-movie worlds to show off.] Uncle Jiu is chosen as the Host from the start! Uncle Jiu: “So this is the System's power? Becoming an immortal and founding a lineage really could happen!” Mao Xiaofang: “Daoist Lin, you' 2.2kReads8.9Score155Shelves
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The Miaojiang Gu Chronicles 苗疆蛊事
The calamity of witchcraft and poison is spoken of only by people in the countryside. Many people who are unknowingly caught up in it have no idea it exists. Friends, do you really think there are no extraordinary people in this vast land of China? You do? No! No! No! Do you want me to tell you that I’m a poison-raising practitioner from the Miao borderlands? All right, come on in and let’s dish…
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- 22 Cultivation: A Match Made in Love, Inseparable as One 修仙：郎情妾意，你侬我侬 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 349Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 23 The Art of Coffin Mountain 棺山术 Feng Lin is a small-time shopkeeper who runs an antique store in a flea market. While renovating an old house on the premises, he discovers a secret room hidden in a wall at home. In a corner of the cramped room sits a locked red wooden chest. Inside, he finds several objects: a palm-sized gold belt plaque, a badly worn ancient book on Dunjia sorcery, another ancient Ming Dynasty book recording numerous secrets, and a fragmentary map. The chest holds many secrets. Family secrets stretching from 259Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Old World Ends, a New Era Begins 末世旧时代结束新时代来临
A master con artist from a bygone era transmigrates to Tianshui Star through a family heirloom jade talisman, only to discover a thriving economy and an abundance of easy marks. Just as he’s about to make his move, the talisman sends him a message: the apocalypse will arrive in seven days. Then it burrows into his head and goes dormant. Long You is dumbfounded. Could this be payback for all the innocent young women he’s wronged? What a brutal start. Forget it, he’ll just give up and lie low... W
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The Dao Rhythm of Formation Clouds and Insect Arrays 阵云高虫阵道韵
“I transmigrated by accident and stumbled into an unknown land. Spiritual energy surges here, yet the air is thick with a strange aura. The stars seem to swirl beneath my feet, and time and space dance around me. Now, a traveler who merely took a wrong turn searches for a way out of this mysterious and uncanny world. But he knows that every adventure is a gift life has given him.”
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It’s Just Too Satisfying to Cultivate Demonic Arts in a Doomsday World 在末日世界修魔也太爽了吧
When five billion people transmigrated to a cultivation world, each became a low-level demonic cultivator teetering on the edge of death. And when tens of millions were dying every day... What would you do if you were one of them? Lie low for a thousand years, become invincible, then finally emerge? Or charge ahead and fight until heaven and earth were turned upside down, and the sun and moon lost their light? Luckily, you discovered a door in your sea of consciousness leading to a zombie wo
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- 27 The Eternal Demon Emperor! 万古魔帝！ [Villain + invincible domination + System + three emperors from one family + building a faction + ruthless decisiveness + ultimate power fantasy + the plot becomes legendary in the middle and later stages] Gu Changge transmigrates into a fantasy world and binds himself to the Demon God System. As long as he keeps killing, he can quickly and easily increase his demonic cultivation and obtain all kinds of heavenly treasures! From there, he rises against all odds, founds the Heavenly Demon Cult, an 22.8kReads8.9Score2.5kShelves
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The Last Knife Seller 最后一个赊刀人
They are wandering prophets who travel the four corners of the world. Skilled in feng shui, they roam the mortal realm with a bundle of cleavers and scissors on their backs, and wherever they go, they leave behind a prophecy about what they have seen. “Keep this cleaver. If an elder in your family dies of consumption within five years, I'll come back to collect payment.” They are heirs to an ancient Daoist tradition from a distant place, able to pronounce life and death with ironclad certainty a
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- 29 A Yin Corpse Brought Me to the Mortal World: The Living, Keep Away 阴尸送我来人间，生人退避 My name is Luo Ansheng. I was delivered by a Yin Corpse. A Yin Corpse brought me into the world, and a hundred ghosts fought over their food. All manner of fearsome beings gathered, eager to devour my flesh and essence. After I gave them a good beating, they settled down and began competing to protect me. 4.2kReads8.8Score397Shelves
- 30 A Young Feng Shui Master Betrothed to a White Tiger at Birth 少年风水师，出生就和白虎定亲 At the Human Skin Inn, a hundred ghosts carry a coffin. A yin corpse borrows a life. A demon child lies hidden in a Buddhist womb… From the moment I was born, my father pledged his life to arrange my engagement to a White Tiger. Because of that, I embarked on a little-known path… 5.9kReads9.2Score541Shelves
- 31 The Last Paper Effigy Maker 最后一个扎纸人 The art of paper effigies can bridge the worlds of yin and yang, perform rites for the dead, and summon the King of Hell. Cut yellow paper, weave bamboo strips: paper horses travel a thousand miles, and paper figures summon spirits. With one stroke to paint their eyes, the King of Hell appears, striking terror into all directions and sending ten thousand ghosts into hiding! By the time the art of paper effigies reaches Chen Mo, he is its last practitioner. He assumes this ancient, mysterious cra 16.7kReads8.5Score1.7kShelves
- 32 Horror Tavern: I Only Raise the Most Ferocious Creatures 恐怖酒馆：我只养大凶之物 Tucked away in a quiet alley is a strange tavern that can grant your wishes, as long as you’re willing to set up a terrifying idol in your home... 6kReads9.4Score804Shelves
- 33 The Divine Qilin 麒麟神相 I was born with a Qilin by my side. To save me, my grandfather peeled off his own human skin and gave it to a nine-tailed fox. That day, dead trees bloomed again, and all the beasts came to pay their respects! 10.8kReads9.4Score1.2kShelves
- 34 Dark Face Reading 黑相术 After I lost my sight, a matchmaker set me up on a date, and I met a girl. She wasn’t human… One night, as we slept, I touched her tail. 23.3kReads8.9Score2.8kShelves
- 35 Monsters Run Rampant, and I, Invincible in This Age, Descend the Mountain to Save the World 妖魔横行，当世无敌的我下山救世 [Overpowered Protagonist] [Feel-Good Story] [Refined and Laid-Back] [Longevity] "There's too much negativity in society these days. The demons and monsters lurking in the cities will grow stronger. The world is already crawling with them, though people don't know it. One day, they'll erupt. On that day, everyone who has lost their faith will take it up again. They'll pray to Buddha, to God, to the immortals, begging them to save..." "Hold it, old man. That's only true if he hasn't come down from 33.8kReads9.0Score3.2kShelves
- 36 The Supreme Taoist: Subduing Ten Thousand Ghosts 道门太上：万鬼伏藏 Offer blood to Heaven and slaughter every evil. The Daoist arts are the strongest of all. The protagonist, Li Changsheng, masters the supreme arts of the Daoist sect and makes a solemn vow: he will not ascend until he has eliminated every demon and evil spirit under Heaven. He willingly seals his cultivation between Heaven and Earth, remaining in the mortal realm for thousands of years! 22.2kReads9.4Score1.7kShelves
- 37 The Ghost Way, Midway Through Life 半路鬼道 Smart male lead + one heroine On the night of the Ghost Festival, the living send off the dead, burn incense, make offerings, and burn joss paper. But that night, I heard a ghost calling for a soul… The gong sounds, the night grows dark, and the road to the Yellow Springs is hard to travel… With talismans to guide the way and the departed to show the path, summon the gods and command the ghosts: only then can one master the Ghost Path between Yin and Yang! 6.6kReads8.9Score486Shelves
- 38 Tales of the Strange in Western Hunan 湘西异闻录 [A friendly warning: This book has no System. It's funny and terrifying, with suspense and clever twists throughout, plus plenty of passion and brains. The more you read, the better it gets.] When I was four, I was kidnapped and taken to a cursed village to be sacrificed alive. A fox spirit risked her life to save me, and secretly pledged herself to me for life. To marry my fox bride, I venture deep into the Miao Valley, tread the Nether River Gorge, and walk the boundary between Yin and Yang. I 6.1kReads9.1Score593Shelves
- 39 Eerie: There's a Female Ghost Inside Me 诡异：我体内有一只女诡 (No System, multiple heroines, eerie atmosphere, slow-burn romance; romance is the main focus) One day, Lin Can had a nightmare. In it, he watched the world change color, the sun and moon reverse, and monsters run rampant. Corpses littered the land, and everything was bizarre and surreal. From that day on, Lin Can had nightmares every night. As they continued, he gradually realized that something seemed wrong with his eyes, too. Walking down the street, he saw towering buildings turn into ruins, 12Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 40 Borrowing Yin Bones, Wife of the King of Hell 借阴骨，阎王妻 To keep me alive, my grandfather threw me into a mass grave and buried me with nine stunningly beautiful female corpses. But he never expected someone to cut open my chest and dig out my bones, leaving me on the brink of death… 8.3kReads8.9Score835Shelves
- 41 Master of Time, the One True God in All the World 时间主宰，世间唯一真神 [Invincible urban fantasy] [Easy, brain-off fun] [Male lead is something of a villain] On a bustling street stands a very unusual shop. It sells no remarkable goods, only colorful glass marbles imbued with mysterious powers... Wherever the shop goes, strange things are bound to happen. A person is torn into pieces and then put back together without a single mark or scar! Someone in their twenties suddenly turns into a white-haired old man! Glass marbles with supernatural powers! A ruthless, sava 514Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 42 I Saved Thousands of Female Prisoners Alone and Won the Empress’s Heart 我一人拯救万千女囚，俘获女帝 Not a wish-fulfillment novel. No System. Deep in the mountains of Northeast China lies a village where every woman is breathtakingly beautiful, yet none can ever leave. Chen Daming only went on vacation, but wound up wandering into a haunted place, eating two and a half jin of expired immortal pills, and gaining a heap of useless superpowers. The seemingly worthless protagonist takes on the responsibility of protecting patriarchal civilization as the matriarchal civilization that ruled Earth for 1.4kReads8.9Score196Shelves
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Even If They Classify Me as Mentally Ill, I’ll Still Cultivate Immortality 就算精神病分类我也要修仙
When a wisp of spiritual energy from Zhongzhou drifted to Earth, Earth's Heavenly Law awakened, yet also fell into slumber. This gave rise to two worlds: a bizarre world and the real world. Yang Wuxian was affected by the bizarre forces while cultivating, and so... Yang Wudao began!
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Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Starting as the Martial World’s Supreme 魔道祖师：从武林至尊开始
At seventy, Yan Nantian is the uncrowned king of the martial world, with cultivation at the peak of the Xiantian realm and a System that grants him permanent proficiency. He should have been able to look down on all under heaven. But the cold words on his System panel, “Remaining lifespan: 15 years,” haunt him relentlessly. At the end of the martial path, his lifespan is running out. Even his immense power and influence are like a corpse in its grave. Just as despair takes hold, Zhang Long, a cl
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Demonic Cultivation: Raising Billions of Ghosts 魔道修仙：养鬼亿万
Also known as: Cultivating Demonic Arts: I Have a Tiger Demon's Clone The clone never takes human form! Reader advisory: This book is full of female ghosts, and all the demon beasts he raises are female! Liu Feng, the protagonist, transmigrated into a world of immortal cultivation while still in his mother's womb. After absorbing spiritual energy and entering the Qi Refining stage, he unlocked his golden finger and gained a Soul-Devouring Tiger clone. The Soul-Devouring Tiger clone comes wit
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