Faith-Based Apothesis Stories Only. No Everyone-Becomes-a-God Stories. If You're Too Blind to Understand, Don't Bother. 信仰封神，不要全民神明，眼瞎看不懂别来。
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Enshrining the Gods Through Folk Rites: I Claim Divinity Through the People's Faith 俗祀封神：我以民心立神位
Lin Ye, a modern researcher of intangible cultural heritage, guarded the Book of Folk Worship of All Spirits left by his grandfather for fifteen years, only for the museum director to dismiss it as scrap paper and clear it out. A bolt of electricity pierced his soul, sending him into the Great Yu Dynasty, where he became a scattered folk deity of Mount Deadwood, on the verge of disintegrating. His divine essence was broken, his incense offerings had ceased, and only three dying old men still re
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Starting as an Evil God, I Turn Over a New Leaf 从邪神开始洗白上岸
[Cthulhu Mythos] [Potions] [No Female Lead] [Partly Behind the Scenes] In this era, when industry was just beginning to emerge, the true gods had long since withdrawn from the world. Trains and airships existed only on paper, the aristocratic system remained firmly in place, and class tensions were still building, nowhere near a breaking point. From the start, Ander transmigrated into the body of a weakling evil god. Fortunately, he had a gift from his Blue Star mom to help him survive, but from
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Mythic Arena: Ying Zheng from the Start, May His Reign Last Forever 神话擂台：开局嬴政，既寿永昌
The Mythic Arena descends, and the native gods of every nation appear one after another. The Japanese have Amaterasu, India has Shiva, and America has Odin... Only the Chinese pantheon is missing, and China is defeated. But the gears of fate begin to turn backward. Su Ming is reborn, with the complete Chinese divine genealogy in his hands. Have you ever heard of Qin Shi Huang, the eternal First Emperor, who slew the Western God King with a mortal body... The Monkey King answers the call. All liv
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Dream Masters for All: My Dreams Come from China's Ancient Past 全民梦师：我的梦境来自千古华夏
[Chinese Gods + Underworld and Heavenly Court + Dreamweaver + Livestreaming] Giant star beasts descended, and the final battle began. Countless civilizations fell, and a rift opened in the heritage of Chinese civilization! Only those who awakened as one-in-ten-thousand dreamweavers could stand against the star beasts! Su Mu transmigrated to this world. From the start, he awakened an S-rank talent and joined the global dreamweaver entrance exam! First question: Create a dream of a dead world. Whi
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The Gods Dare to Attack Huaxia? Summon the Ancestors! 神明犯我华夏，请老祖复苏
[Fast-paced, no female lead, satisfying, similar to Record of Ragnarok] In a parallel world, the gods awaken, seize control of nations, and unleash a global war. But China is a land without gods, and countless deities seize the chance to invade. June 024: The Yata no Orochi clan of Sakura Country invades. Modern weapons fail, and one hundred thousand soldiers from the Eastern Theater Command take up blades to fight. The East China Sea runs red with blood, and not one survives. September 024: The
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I Pretend to Be an Immortal, While the Sky Screen Misleads the Ancients 我伪装修仙人，天幕忽悠古人
[Sky Screen Reactions + Behind-the-Scenes Deception + Modern-Day Sole Supernatural Practitioner + Historical Spoilers + No Female Lead] Cultivation is a uniquely Chinese tradition passed down for thousands of years, and it once enjoyed a vast following in ancient times. Qin Shi Huang sought immortality in the Eastern Sea, Emperor Wu of Han held a Fengshan ceremony on Mount Tai, and Emperor Taizong of Tang became obsessed with elixirs... The ancients longed to become “immortals” who would live fo
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I Only Scared a Few Primitive People, So How Did I Become a God? 我只是吓了些原始人怎么变成神了
Urban fantasy + no System + deities + behind-the-scenes scheming + spiritual qi revival (fake) + no saintly do-gooders and no indiscriminate killing By a stroke of luck, Song Fengyang gained the ability to travel between worlds. He'd only meant to play at being a god and scare some primitive people, but he never expected to become a real deity! At first, all he wanted was to make a good living and keep the primitive people who worshipped him well-fed and healthy. But it turned out this place w
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With a Godhood of Lies, I Attained the Divine Seat of the True Warrior 我以谎言神格，成就真武神位
[I Alone Hold the Law] [Faith Becomes Divinity] [Behind the Scenes] An evil god descends, and Zhou Ze obtains the divine essence of lies. He tells a lie, becomes a god, and opens the gates between reality and fantasy. In the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, he obtains the Divine Stone of Mending Heaven and forges the core of his divine kingdom. In the Three Kingdoms world, he encounters the divine general Guan Yu and comprehends the divine office of courage. In the Water Margin world, he gathe
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I Deceive the Masses and Craft Secret Identities to Become a God on Their Worship 骗众生，编马甲，我香火成神了
Deng Ru died of sudden cardiac arrest while night fishing by a pond. He transmigrated into a poor fisherman with no aptitude for cultivation in a world of immortals. Deng Ru made his living by fishing. Life was hard, but at least it was peaceful. He thought he would go on living that way forever. One day, after another fruitless fishing trip, he was about to head home when he suddenly heard some faint voices. “Fool! Do you think you’re the only one who can’t bear to part with your little fish? W
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Reborn as a Fish: A Decade to Become a Flood Dragon, a Century to Become a Dragon 重生为鱼，十年成蛟，百年化龙
Someone once saw a towering divine peak at the end of the river of time. That was my dragon horn. Someone once saw the sun and moon traveling side by side in the primordial void of the universe. Those were my dragon eyes. All living beings across the Three Realms, Nine Heavens, and Ten Lands worship me as their totem and call me Dragon Lord. The immortals of the Thirty-Three Celestial Heavens bow to me as their master and hail me as the Ancestor of Immortals. Creation, destruction, eternal life,
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After Receiving My Taoist Ordination: I Became an Immortal Envoy of the Heavenly Court! 授箓之后：我成为了天庭仙使！
(The sanctimonious character in the book is dead.) The protagonist, Luo Jie, transmigrates into the body of a pig in a world of Daoist magic. After being rescued, he becomes a Daoist acolyte. Once he cultivates to the next realm, he is appointed Deputy Judge of the Northern Polar Exorcism Bureau and Administrator of Exorcism Affairs for the Southern Changshang Palace, an immortal official of the ninth rank. He can travel to Blue Star and absorb incense offerings to grow stronger.
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The Land God's Promotion Diary 土地公升职记
[Quality guaranteed across 5 million characters. Feel free to bookmark and enjoy!] He transmigrates into the world of Sword and Fairy and becomes the lowest-ranking Earth God. Relying on the incense offerings of the spirits in the wilderness, such as weasels, foxes, rats, hedgehogs, and snakes, he grows stronger step by step and establishes a clan of immortals. He teaches weasels to lay bricks, foxes to tell stories, rats to mint coins, and pythons to sail the seas... Starting out as an Earth Go
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I Am a God in the Spirit Realm 我在灵界当神灵
The Spirit Realm is born, and the living beings of Blue Star go wild with excitement. Even a beggar on the roadside might stumble upon the authority of a god of the Spirit Realm and ascend to its divine throne. But after the celebration comes the lucky ones' doom. Some have their thrones toppled by beings from countless worlds; some are assimilated by their divine rank and become new gods; others are abandoned by their followers and fall into the abyss. As the saying goes, those unworthy of thei
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Strange Phenomena Run Rampant: I Investiture the Gods in Another World 诡异横行：我在异世敕封神明
[No System] [No Female Lead] [Relatively Slow-Burn] [Character Growth] Zhang Xuan is from Jibei Province. According to his grandfather, their family is a direct descendant of the Jiangxi Longhu Mountain lineage. His grandfather named him Zhang Xuan, saying he had the talent to attain the Dao. He hoped Zhang Xuan would become a figure like the Celestial Master Zhang Daoling, and that future generations would call him Zhang Daoxuan. But Zhang Xuan scoffed at the idea and didn’t believe a word of i
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From Wild God to True God: Proving the Dao Through Incense Offerings 从野神开始，以香火证道真神
[No Female Lead + Slow-Burn] After an accident, Song Xuanqing transmigrated to a strange world where immortals no longer existed and gods and Buddhas had vanished. In this world, monsters and evil spirits ran rampant, ghosts devoured people, wicked arts flourished across the land, and immortal mountains, gods, and Buddhas were nowhere to be found. Demons wreaked havoc, ghosts caused chaos, and heretical practitioners used evil arts to eat people and refine pills. Ordinary folk lived in constan
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A God from the Start, and His Female Followers Beg to Serve Him! 开局成神，女信徒跪求侍奉！
Yesterday, Lin Beixuan was still enjoying the 998 package. The next day, he became a god, but a lowly god in a remote mountain village! A clay statue of a god, a dilapidated temple battered by wind and rain. Yet he awakened a Divine System, gathering followers and enjoying their offerings! The pure and adorable campus beauty: I am willing to serve Immortal Venerable Beixuan for the rest of my life! The haughty and captivating daughter of the richest man: I want to build a golden statue for Immor
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Transmigrate to Another World and Start as a Mountain God 穿越异世从山神做起
[Lighthearted and fun] [An otherworldly system of immortals and gods] [The protagonist becomes a mountain god, but is more human than divine. If that’s not your thing, don’t read.] [No female lead] Li Yuan is the disgrace of transmigrators. While everyone else transmigrates as a live-in son-in-law, an invincible agent, or an almighty emperor, he transmigrates into a rock and spends several thousand years on a mountain. Until one day... A golden book descends from the heavens, and Li Yuan becomes
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Traveling Between Two Worlds, I Become the Strongest Earth God! 两界穿梭，最强土地神！
(A new book with a low rating, by an author with over a decade of experience and more than twenty million words published) Every three li has a Land God, and every ten li a City God. Every mountain has a Mountain God, every stretch of river a River God, and even every well has its own Dragon King. This is a world teeming with deities. The faith of ordinary people has already been divided up, with a corresponding deity ruling every territory. The mighty gods named in the Investiture List are reno
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The Divine Dynasty: The Throne Is Mine to Grant, and Even Heaven Dares Not Confer It 神朝纪这神位朕不给天也不敢封
A max-level powerhouse is reborn in the ruins of the Divine Path. With incense offerings in his left hand, he establishes a divine kingdom and builds the Heavenly Court. With dragon energy in his right, he vies for supremacy and opens the Underworld. He crushes the Immortal, Martial, and Confucian paths, ultimately becoming the strongest construction boss in the Three Realms as the world ascends.
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Immortals Enter the Haunted Gate 仙临诡门
(Lighthearted, funny, passionate, transmigration, System) (Warning: This work contains too many elements. Please put your brain somewhere safe before reading. We accept no responsibility for lost brains!!!) Xiao Huan transmigrates by accident to a run-down mountain village. Just as he thinks he’ll spend the rest of his life in peace, a big black dog appears before him… Dog: “I start out as a dog, and get all my gear by licking.” Xiao Huan: “Behold, a poem: The waters of the great river come down
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One Body, Two Souls, Sacrificed to the Gods 一体双魂献祭神灵
[Western fantasy + gods + Cthulhu + transmigration + behind-the-scenes scheming + slow-burn power fantasy] “While the whole world worships the gods, I’ll make the gods themselves my offerings.” Zhao Xin only wanted to cure his terminal illness and live out his days in peace. He never expected to accidentally drag the entire world into the mess. Stealing faith, raising cults, creating divine servants, sweet-talking goddesses... Everything strayed from his script. By the time he realized what
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The Light God from the Start 开局光明神
(Gods + behind the scenes + satisfying power fantasy) By a stroke of luck, a poor young man obtains the divine essence of the God of Light and becomes the God of Light, though his divine power is weak. To build up his power, he travels everywhere impersonating figures from myth and stealing the faith of the masses! Donghua, the Immortal of the East; Lü Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals; Apollo, the Greek sun god; Odin of Norse mythology: all these gods and immortals are secret identities he ha
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Incense Offerings Are Poisonous: I Become a God Through Civilization 香火有毒，我以文明成神道
In this age of dwindling magic, I will kindle civilization as a flame and build upon the foundation of contracts. From the ruins, I will raise a new Celestial Court where anyone can become a god, and gods and mortals rule together. The old gods are dead, and the Heavenly Dao has collapsed. Lin Yan transmigrates into the body of a dying beggar in the Great Wilderness. When he wakes, the villagers are sacrificing a child to appease the “River God.” What he sees is not devout faith, but a viscous,
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