Please Recommend Immortal Cultivation Stories with a Normal Female Lead, No Goofballs or Doting Ensembles 求女主是正常的修仙小说，不要推沙雕、团宠之类

1. 351 流 A Million Turning Paths to Immortality 流转仙路千万间 Smiling Gracefully含笑窈窈Fantastical Romance525k WordsOngoing [Cultivation + sword cultivator + adored by everyone + one heroine with multiple male love interests + all male leads devoted only to her + beautiful and powerful + female-centered] Water Qingyue, the senior disciple of Qingyun Sect, is exceptionally powerful, gentle, and considerate. Everyone loves her, flowers bloom in her presence, and she is truly the number one beauty in the cultivation world. The old-timers never do the right thing. They refuse to do good, but do every bad thing imaginable 286Reads—Score100Shelves

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   The heroine is a gentle and beautiful woman, a senior sister who cultivates ice spiritual roots in swordsmanship. She is extremely talented and powerful. She is not a bitch or aggrieved. She is the first among the geniuses, a heartthrob, and has many male protagonists.

2. 352 荒 The Tough Guy on a Deserted Island 荒岛的猛男 Blockbuster-Level Mastery爆款高境界Urban1.2M WordsOngoing A shipwreck left the cruise ship He Dun was aboard in trouble, and he washed up on a deserted island. Nine other people were stranded on the island with him. 102Reads6.5Score—Shelves
3. 353 皇 The Palace’s Number One Tough Guy 皇宫第一猛男 Blockbuster-Level Mastery爆款高境界Historical2.0M WordsOngoing Ying Zheng, a modern overworked young man, dies suddenly from working overtime and has his soul transported into the body of Xiao Caizi, a young eunuch who was just killed after offending the powerful. He also obtains the Fake Eunuch System and begins cultivating the Divine Art of the Fake Eunuch. In a palace rife with schemes and human malice, he steadily climbs to the pinnacle of life! 10.9kReads6.5Score573Shelves
4. 354 炮 A Cannon Fodder Cultivator: She Kicks the Protagonist Aside and Takes the Throne 炮灰修仙，她踹翻主角自己上位 Pipi Loves Tangerines爱吃橘子的皮皮Ancient Romance537k WordsCompleted [Cultivation + no romance + growing female lead] Jiang Yu is a cannon-fodder character who transmigrated into a cultivation novel. After dutifully completing her part in the plot, she immediately makes a run for it. But then she gets dragged into the battle between the heroine and the supporting female characters. After nearly dying several times, Jiang Yu has had enough. She's going to seize every opportunity from them and claim the top spot. Heroines, supporting characters, all of you can get 4.9kReads9.0Score422Shelves

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   These three books are neither group favorites nor crazily criticized literature.

5. 355 青 The Strange Fog of Qingyang 青阳诡雾 Tang Tang de Pang Pang唐唐de胖胖Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted The fallen empress Yue Chan of her past life is reborn as a young disciple of Qingyun Temple, carrying the secret Taiyin arts and the divine power to purify corruption. She planned to cultivate again in quiet obscurity, but the strange phenomenon that accompanied her drawing in spiritual energy alarmed all sides. Then, when someone sabotaged her during a trial in a secret realm, she struck back and killed her powerful enemy, revealing her edge for the first time. She honed her sword and made a n 6Reads—Score—Shelves

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   She originally wanted to hide her identity and rebuild silently. However, his special physique and skills caused the heaven and earth phenomenon of "moonlight filling the body" when he introduced Qi into the body, which aroused concern and suspicion both inside and outside the sect. Subsequently, she had to show her edge again and again in secret realm trials, outer sect competitions and other events, and was therefore involved in the whirlpool of grudges with the affiliated family "Bibotan Zhao Family" and the large sect "Qixia Sect", growing rapidly amidst crises and opportunities.

6. 356 修 How to Get By in the Cultivation World on Looks Alone 修真界只靠脸怎么混 Qiu Ming丘明Fantastical Romance100k WordsOngoing Luo Mi has had a rough life. At seventeen, she met a master who was both arrogant and overbearing. He brought her back to a sect tucked away in the mountains, where she discovered several others. Every one of them was aloof and seemed to take a dislike to her. No matter, she couldn't stand them either! A bunch of pretty faces and nothing more. Their sect was so poor it could barely keep the lights on, so they had to earn a little money to support their ramshackle home. The group entered the high 37Reads—Score—Shelves

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   You can take a look at this one, it's a more traditional revenge novel about cultivating immortals. The heroine is the best in archery, but she is also very successful in swordsmanship. In fact, her magic skills are not bad either.

7. 357 大 Three Thousand Great Daos, Playing the Zither to Become an Immortal 大道三千，抚琴为仙 No Wind Without Rain不有风兼雨Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [Traditional cultivation + no romance, female-led story + strong heroine + not a saint + level-up progression] After disaster struck Zihuang City, its young lord, Sang Zi, was reborn in the Nine Provinces of the lower realm. From then on, her eyes veiled in white silk and a Zihuang zither in hand, she journeyed across the Nine Provinces, seeking the path to immortality and ascending straight into the clouds. Cultivating the Dao and pursuing immortality: a path that defies heaven. Forget the mort 751Reads7.0Score104Shelves
8. 358 以 A Peerless Heiress Who Conquers the World with Poetry 以诗倾华，绝世大小姐倾天下 Yu Yi Who Likes Doctor Jin喜欢金医生的于薏Ancient Romance219k WordsCompleted She was once an overworked wage earner crushed by life, and also a “poetry fanatic” with a head full of books. One day, she transmigrated and became the good-for-nothing eldest young lady of the Illusory Spirit Continent. With her mastery of poetry, she defied fate and changed her life! She wielded poetry as a weapon, summoned spirit beasts, and shook the world! At the poetry tournament, one poem, “Winter Plum,” made her famous across the land. She opened a school and won over countless student 99Reads—Score—Shelves

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   Painting beasts with poetry and walking with them

9. 359 一 One Sword Cleaves Open the Path to Immortality 一剑劈开登仙路 The Life of Dried Fish鱼干的生活Fantastical Romance163k WordsOngoing [Survivalist path] [Overachiever] [Cautious] [Master of score control] On a planet where even having spiritual roots means paying a spiritual-root tax, Liu Ya is born a slave, abandoned by her family, sold on the black market, and made a cultivation companion. That's when her path to cultivation begins. She keeps a low profile every step of the way, playing it safe and working herself to the bone, with more secret identities than anyone can count. Even after she leaves everyone far behind to tak 8Reads—Score—Shelves

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   The heroine was born at the bottom of the mortal world, and cultivated immortality with her own diligence along the way, carrying a big secret. Keep going all the way, constantly subbing for your own strength

10. 360 开 A Hundred Billion in Debt from the Start? I Refine the World with Ten Thousand Voices 开局就欠债百亿？我靠万声炼天地 Sleepy Under the Lamp at Midnight困灯夜半Fantastical Romance223k WordsOngoing [No romance + Clever heroine who outsmarts the odds + Everyone has a brain + Plot-driven + Ensemble cast + Long-term foreshadowing] On her thirty-first day in the cultivation world, Du Chuanxing had just finished a month of waitressing at an inn. Before she could even warm the five hundred low-grade spirit stones she’d earned, the woman inside her jade pendant took them all. The woman told her she owed ten thousand high-grade spirit stones. The equivalent of tens of billions. If she couldn’t pay 5Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It's a non-traditional fairy tale but the heroine is normal. It's slow but the plot behind it is really interesting.

11. 361 反 Fighting the Rat Race Isn't Enough, I Want to Give Up Completely 反内卷还不够要摆烂 Qin Shili秦时梨Ancient Romance537k WordsOngoing [No cheat guide, no transmigration, no being reborn + an ensemble cast of five + episodic trials + two gentle souls + mainly told from the heroine’s perspective] All disciples of the same sect and equally happy to slack off, the main cast are the first to realize that, in the cutthroat world of immortal cultivation, they should band together, embrace idleness, and resist the rat race. If anyone asks why, it’s because you love yourself, bestie. Slacker No. 1: You can’t step into the same river tw 10Reads—Score—Shelves

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    A rare gentle heroine on the market. No rebirth, no time travel, no strategy, local group portraits + unit copies. The main line has two gentle CPs, and the secondary lines are Little Sun and Hei Hu. The main female TV, no camera, all plots are centered on the female protagonist. The main plot flow, no female competition, the emotional line is relatively light, and there are many foreshadowings.

12. 362 凡 A Mortal Woman's Cultivation: Starting with My Sect's Destruction 凡女修仙：从开局被灭宗门开始 Simi Is a Kitty西米是只喵Fantastical Romance536k WordsOngoing [Mortal cultivation + female lead + no romance + slow burn + no System + diligence makes up for talent] A mortal life passes in the blink of an eye. Beauty fades, and a century later, all that remains is a mound of yellow earth. Countless people are trapped in the bitter sea of worldly troubles, tossed about by love, hatred, anger, and delusion. Only by seeking immortality and pursuing the Dao can one achieve eternal life. Yet the path of cultivation defies the heavens. One careless step can lea 37Reads—Score—Shelves

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    No cp, ordinary girl cultivating immortality

13. 363 寒 A Cold Light Appears in the World 寒光现世 Endless Dark Shadows玄影绵绵Ancient Romance100k WordsOngoing Han Guang Xian Shi is a fantasy novel set in another world. Cultivators are divided into seven ascending ranks: Zhe, Jie, Hun, Zong, Tian, Zun, and Shen. Each rank has four ascending stages: Pure, Radiant, Mystic, and Gifted. The world is now divided into three kingdoms: Qingying, Minggu, and Yueshang. 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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