I've Recently Gotten Into Xianxia Fantasy Novels, Preferably Ones Where the Characters Have Some Sense 朕最近迷上了修仙玄幻文,最好是带脑子的。
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Cultivation: Reborn in Another World to Build the Strongest Sect 修仙:重生异界打造最强宗门
[Mortal cultivation + no System + no cheat + relying on skill!] Young scientist Sun Yi transmigrated into the world of immortal cultivation and became a menial disciple with neither talent nor connections. But using the knowledge, experience, and courage of someone from Earth, he successfully latched onto the sect's most powerful patron. Then he set about reforming the sect and developing all kinds of new technology! [Invented a detection radar]: It can locate all kinds of rare treasures, demon
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A Mortal's Path to Greatness 凡人的通天之路
An unknown mortal finds a rare treasure and embarks on a thorny path of cultivation. The road to the heavens is never easy. It must be forged through endless conflict, step by step toward worlds without end. He has seen the splendors of the world, yet never forgotten who he was.
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Ten Thousand Lifetimes of Reincarnation: Immortals Like Abysses, the Dao Dust 万世轮回:仙如渊,道为尘
Chen Yan has died countless times. Every time he breathes his last, he is reborn on some day in his long life, bringing his cultivation with him. His cultivation stacks, and so do his memories. But reincarnation is no salvation. Instead, it drives him into an even deeper despair. “Senior Brother, what lies at the end of the Immortal Dao?” Chen Yan has lost count of how many times he has answered this question, and he has never given the same answer twice: “It is a prison, an abyss of reincarnati
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Dao Gui's Path to Immortality 道癸仙途
A country boy gains a fortuitous opportunity and sets sail for adventure, then returns in triumph. He catches a glimpse of the colorful world of immortals, yet sees bones littering the path to the Dao. Let’s see what kind of wonders Lin Xuan, a lad from a mountain village, can accomplish in this vast and turbulent world of cultivation~
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The Ancient Ring Spirit 上古戒灵
[Mortal cultivation, no System, decisive and ruthless, not stupid] The foremost divine craftsman in the Immortal Realm, Lu Ban, spent his entire life forging the Ring Spirit, an immortal artifact hailed as the greatest of the ancient immortal artifacts. Then, all of a sudden, he vanished along with the Ring Spirit.
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Eternal Dust 恒尘
[A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality] [Xuanhuan] [Cunning Protagonist] [Genius-Focused] [Ensemble Cast] I’m a scholar, not much good in a fight. Please go easy on me! The arrival of one ordinary scholar somehow marks the beginning of a grand game in the cultivation world. Is he the chosen one of fate, or merely one of many discarded pawns? Heaven endures, people change by the day, and the Dao is ever shifting. Who says the cultivation world must grow weaker with each generation? We i
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The Prequel to Wushi: Not Wuzhong, Yet Wuzhong 《无始前传》不是无终,亦是无终
The Prequel to Without Beginning is not Without End, and yet it is also Without End
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The System Abandoned Me, So I Took the Heavenly Dao as My Father 系统弃我不顾,我认天道为父
[No female lead + no System + traditional cultivation + comedy + bloody slaughter] Fifteen-year-old Li Chuyi finally awakens a System, only for it to try to run away before the day is out. Fortunately, before leaving, the System tells Li Chuyi to make the Heavenly Dao of this world his godfather. From then on, Li Chuyi becomes the Heavenly Dao’s godson, the darling of the world, blessed with good fortune. He finds money on the road and stumbles across so many senior cultivators’ graves that he c
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Marry a Dao Companion and Cultivate the Truth: Faithful to the Great Dao and to You 既娶道侣又修真,不负大道不负卿
After transmigrating to the cultivation world and becoming a low-level rogue cultivator, the protagonist finds that his predecessor was attacked and lay unconscious for three months. Having taken over someone else's body, he is about to be kicked out of the market because he can't renew his lease when the Cultivation Arts System appears! Whatever you know, I know. Whatever you don't know, well, I know that too. In short, I know everything. From then on, the protagonist begins his rise to success
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Cultivation in Another World: A Soul Transmigration Chronicle 魂穿异世修仙录
Zhang Qianyuan transmigrated into a useless cultivation body, only to awaken an innate Thunder Spirit Root. Just as he thought he could turn his fortunes around and ascend to immortality, he learned a cruel truth from the ancient treasure, the Four Directions Cauldron: the so-called ascension was actually a harvesting scam that the Upper Realm had been plotting for ten thousand years! All the prodigies were lambs waiting to be slaughtered. So be it. He would wield thunder as his sword and the ca
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The Spiritual Hound Follows the Stream 灵犬缘溪行
Lang Xi, a modern woman well past fifty, wakes up to find that she has transmigrated into a golden age of cultivation. From the start, she's a VIP at a garbage dump, so hungry she's fighting dogs for food. Luckily, there's always a way out. She reaches out at random and finds her destined “mastermind,” a magical spirit dog! Forced together, the woman and dog have to master wilderness survival: pitching tents, digging up wild vegetables, using leaves to take care of business, and scrubbing down t
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After My Spiritual Root Was Stolen, the Villainous Group Took Me In 被挖灵根后,我被反派团捡走了
[Transmigrate-into-a-book body double + no romance + satisfying growth story + sect regrets too late] After transmigrating into a book, Sang Yao learns she's a disposable stand-in in a story about the unattainable ideal beauty. The ideal beauty is adored by everyone; Sang Yao is hated by everyone. The ideal beauty has countless admirers; Sang Yao has countless people hunting her. The ideal beauty is sweet and gentle; Sang Yao is just herself. To make matters worse, as soon as she transmigrated i
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Sharp-Tongued and Trouble-Seeking, the Saintess Turns the Cultivation World Upside Down 嘴贱手又欠,圣女她撩翻修仙界
She has a sharp tongue, sticky fingers, and a weakness for handsome men... After Yu Xiaoxiao was killed with a single stab, she transmigrated to the world of cultivation and embarked on a strange and hilarious journey to immortality. There were plenty of handsome men in the cultivation world, and every one of them was exactly her type... Yu Xiaoxiao was in heaven. She happily cultivated and happily admired the handsome men... Most of the time, she couldn't resist flirting with them a little, too
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Xuanhuang: I Have a Poison Pill That Fills Me Up Even If I Die 玄荒:我有一口毒丹,死了也能满
From the start, I was surrounded by beasts and survived thanks to a single “bio-chemical poison pill.” A mysterious ancestral spirit possessed me, and from then on, I embarked on the path to immortality. Other people cultivate through hard work. I cultivate by... coming back to life!
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Where Is My Sword? 吾剑何在
No transmigration into a book! No System! Pure xianxia and fantasy! No mindless power fantasies, no instantly reaching level 999 with one slash. Every battle tests one's character, strategy, and will. The protagonist has faced failure and doubted himself, but he will surely rise again from the ruins and reclaim the Dao in his heart. He will wield conviction as his sword, resolve as its edge, his flesh and blood as his shield, and an unyielding spirit as his bones. He will break through every dem
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The Immortal Path of Crimson Blood 赤血仙途
In a world of immortal cultivation, the protagonist Lu Li starts out as an unknown nobody. But when he steps into Medicine King Valley, the wheels of fate begin to turn. He grows stronger step by step, slays evil spirits with his sword, defies fate, and breaks through the barriers of life and death in pursuit of transcendence, ultimately becoming the ruler of the Three Realms.
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The Demon Dao Begins with Strange Tales 妖道从志怪笔记开始
[Mortal cultivation] + [Low-key collection of strange tales] + [Light xianxia and the uncanny] + [Myriad Worlds] + [Unorthodox arts] + [Xianhu style] The fading flame of a fox that never got the chance to repay a debt of gratitude illuminates a scholar’s path to immortality. One mysterious, uncanny tale after another becomes a guiding beacon for cultivators. World after world bears the traces of immortals. Mortal: Haunted by foxfire, practices demonic arts. Qi Refining: Tends foxfire, cultivates
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I Transmigrated into a Tragic Romance and Started Cultivating Immortality 穿到虐文里我修仙了
(No romantic tension, no male lead, no romance. Maxed-out beauty and strength, with a light, exaggerated writing style!) [Cool, powerful heroine + dual cultivation in music and swordsmanship + genius protagonist + ice spirit root + Supreme Yin Divine Physique + no romance + immortal sect goddess + struggle for supremacy in a grand age] “I have a melody. Would you all care to listen?” An Shu transmigrates into a book, becoming the heroine of a heart-wrenching tragedy? The story hasn’t even begun,
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The Deposed Empress: I Save Lives Through Near-Death Experiences and Rise to the Throne 废后:我靠死线救人登至尊
His cultivation is crippled, his family is slaughtered, and he is branded with infamy. Shen Mo becomes the biggest laughingstock in the world. At the brink of despair, he awakens the Eye of Truth, which can see the source of things, distinguish truth from falsehood, and spot flaws in all techniques. From then on, he needs no blade, only his eyes: At a broken engagement, he exposes a fake pill. At an auction, he smashes a counterfeit treasure in an instant. At an ancient ruin, he saves a dragon v
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While Others Cultivate Immortality, I Cultivate My Fate. Even the Heroine Can't Outlast Me 别人修仙我修命,女主也没我命硬
[Transmigration into a book, cultivation, strong female lead, System, fire spiritual root, no romance] Chu Luo transmigrates into a cultivation world and binds herself to a Destiny System, starting off with her luck reduced by 9,999 points. It turns out that she and her twin sister share the fate of twin flowers on a single stem. All of Chu Luo's luck has been drained by her elder sister, the heroine of the original novel. Worse, her own family wants to kill her outright so the heroine can becom
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After Becoming a Cultivation Novel's Female Side Character, I Don't Want to Be Cannon Fodder 穿成修仙女配后不想当炮灰
[Female-Led Cultivation, No Romance] [Mutated Wind Spirit Root + Hidden Weapons] Reincarnated as the villainess in a cultivation novel, she gets the best setup possible: the Northern Border’s greatest beauty and a genius disciple with a mutated Wind Spirit Root. But since she isn’t destined to be the heroine, Duan Jiaojiao decides to stay away from her and turn down the powerful Canglan Sect, joining the “pickpocket sect” Kongkong Sect instead. Who could have guessed that this much-hated “pickpo
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I'm the Cannon Fodder Villainess. So What If I Give Up? 我,炮灰女配,摆烂怎么了!
Sheng Xi transmigrates into a novel about a heroine adored by everyone, becoming a cannon-fodder supporting character whose only purpose is to serve as a stepping stone for the beloved heroine! Faced with a deadly start, Sheng Xi wisely backs down and heads down the mountain in the middle of the night to find a new sect where she can lie flat. Hmph. Whoever wants to be a stepping stone can do it themselves. Her new sect has simple relationships and no performance reviews. Every one of her se
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Just a Poor Rogue Cultivator. Why Are You Kneeling, Fellow Daoist? 贫穷散修一枚,道友何故下跪?
[No romance, ensemble cast] [A goofy trio of wandering cultivators] [Female-led cultivation progression, few scenes involving children, skip if that bothers you] Song Li transmigrates into a cultivation novel as the evil female supporting character. After bullying the heroine, she is thrown by her own brother into the Abandoned Infant Pagoda, where she dies at the hands of countless vengeful infant spirits. Waking inside the pagoda, she looks at the crying spirits and says, “I can be your mother
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Reborn to Cultivate Immortality: The Supporting Actress Gets the Heroine’s Script 重生修仙:女配拿了女主剧本
The Yun family of Cangyun City has two daughters. The legitimate daughter, Yun Yue’e, has a Water Spirit Root and the destiny of a phoenix. Her parents dote on her, and her master cherishes her. The concubine-born daughter, Yun Nian, is desperate for her parents’ attention. She willingly becomes her elder sister’s shadow, practices the Yun family’s forbidden arts, takes her injuries, and clears the path for her. Yun Nian thinks this might finally make her father spare her a glance, but she neve
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I Died a Miserable Death from the Start: My Chaos Zodiac Beast Devours All 开局憋屈而死:我混沌生肖吞万物
Zhu Li transmigrated, and his humiliating death makes him want to bang his head against a wall: A hemorrhoid burst while he was using the toilet, and he transmigrated straight into the body of a useless beast-spirit cultivator, a once-in-a-century misfortune in the cultivation world. Everyone gets two chances to awaken a ferocious beast spirit from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. They can devour and mutate, transforming into fearsome beasts. But he awakened nothing at all, and the entire sect
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You Don't Know What a Spiritual Root Is? Then How Did You Cultivate Immortality? 你不知道灵根?那你怎么修的仙?
[No Cliches] [Idealism] [Brand-New Cultivation System] [Magnetic Field Powers] Yuan Chu: "Master, is it really impossible to cultivate without a spirit root?" Master: "What's a spirit root?" Yuan Chu: "You don't know what a spirit root is? Then how did you cultivate immortality?" Master: "What's an immortal?" Yuan Chu: "Huh?" After transmigrating from Blue Star, Yuan Chu discovers that he has no spirit root and cannot cultivate immortality. So he decides to lie flat and give up, spending every d
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One Quick Calculation, and I Know You’re a Fugitive! 掐指一算,你是逃犯!
Su Chen, a top-tier celestial master, transmigrates to the 1990s and becomes a widower with the same name. His wife has just died, and his five children are crying for food. After searching the entire house, he finds only ten yuan. Without hesitation, Su Chen takes the money to Chunming Street, the busiest street in the city, and puts an ad in the newspaper: “Fortune-telling. If I'm wrong, you don't pay.” “Granny, your daughter didn't go missing. She's in the stove at your son-in-law's house.” A
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I Transmigrated to the Cultivation World: Ruoyi's Path to Immortality 穿越修仙界,若怡的修仙之路
Fang Ruoyi, an orphan, fell ill with a terminal disease. Just when she had despaired of life, she actually transmigrated. Yes, transmigrated, and not in the way books describe, with her soul taking over someone else's body or being reborn as a baby. Her whole body transmigrated into a world where people could cultivate immortality. For the tumor in her brain and the chance to live longer, she resolutely embarked on the path of cultivation.
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I Cultivated in the City Until I Reached the Immortal Emperor Realm 我在都市修行到仙帝境
[A reborn Immortal Emperor returns to Earth, only to become the Third Human Emperor! One sword strike severs three hundred thousand years!] The greatest Immortal Emperor of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands was betrayed and had his soul refined by the Imperial Sovereign! Yet a wisp of his shattered soul awakens inside the body of a young Earthling, Ye Haotian. Even more astonishing, the blood of the Human Ancestral Dragon flows through his veins. He is the very Third Human Emperor foretold by Ying
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My Junior Sister Goes Berserk and Gets Rich, Then Reaches Godhood by Courting Death 师妹发癫暴富,作死一路成神
No CP, no System, not a wish-fulfillment story, no brainless plot, no face-slapping, no doting on the protagonist by everyone. Half sweet, half angst. The heroine is weak early on, and there are lots of foreshadowing details. Don't read if that bothers you. Synopsis: After finally winning 300 million in the lottery, she transmigrated into a book without spending a single cent. In a fit of anger, she first destroyed the System, then transmigrated as a villainess. She could go home if she died, so
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A Leaf Enters the Dao: The Sages Battle for Heaven 一叶入道:诸圣争天
Other cultivators defy the heavens and seize spiritual energy to cultivate. He cultivates by starting a fire and brewing rough tea. This is a cruel cultivation world where the Sages use the universe as a game board and all living beings as their pieces. Lu Yu, an abandoned child of the Buddhist sect with no spiritual roots and a lifelong stutter, nevertheless comprehends a shocking path to cultivation in a traveling theater amid the bustling mortal world. While gods and Buddhas plunder the bount
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Hey, You! Do You Really Have to Be This Low-Key?! 你小子!用不用这么低调!!
The immortal, undying ancient dragon left behind only a rotting corpse. The phoenix, unafraid of death, was reduced to a single broken root feather. The auspicious qilin, surrounded by good fortune, could not foresee its own death. The Black Tortoise, master of countless laws, had its shell forcibly stripped away. The cemetery of the gods still stands, watching the ruins endure for millennia, while grass and trees flourish and fade through the seasons. Who dares claim to be immortal… The years t
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Aspiring to the Imperial Throne 问鼎皇尊
[Growth-Focused | No System | Fresh Setting | Expansive Worldbuilding] When chaos first stirred and the world was born, how many ages passed in the endless struggle for supremacy? In the Chaos Realm, gods and demons came into being, only to vanish into the river of history after countless ages. In the Beast Star Domain, savage beasts roamed the wilderness, yet even they could not escape fate, disappearing from heaven and earth. The Icebound Era began, and no life remained in the world. In the Pr
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The God of Bad Luck Incarnate 霉神在世
[Wish Fulfillment (Steady Pace)] + [Genius] + [Leveling Up] + [Transmigrates in Body] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [No Saintly Protagonist] + [Intrigue and Planning] + [Multiverse War] "Some say I was born with both misfortune and good fortune: misfortune in plain sight, good fortune hidden in the shadows!" "Some call me a bringer of disaster!" "Some covet my talent and the power within me, while others see me as the one who can break the deadlock!" "The conflicts between countless universes are
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Void Saint Lord: All Paths Return to One 虚无圣主:万法归一
[Mortal cultivation + multiple heroines + exhilarating wish fulfillment + play the pig to eat the tiger + no System] Things get mildly exciting at first, then really take off after Chapter 180. Please be patient. Lin Feng gently pushes open the wooden door and steps into the inner room. His master, Mu Feiyan, emerges slowly from behind the screen beside the bed, dressed in a thin gauzy robe that barely conceals her graceful figure. Lin Feng freezes on the spot. His gaze sweeps over her fair ja
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I Only Refuse to Betray the World 不负天下而已
[Cultivation setting + no rebirth + no transmigration + not a wish-fulfillment novel] A kind person may be swept along by the ways of the world and fall into darkness; A great villain with blood on his hands may also turn over a new leaf through a single act of kindness; Li Chenxi is one of the rare people who, even after experiencing a major upheaval, can still hold fast to his true nature; The fates of people like him are often more troubled than those of ordinary people; They are usually eit
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Six Paths of Reincarnation: The Prison of Heaven and Earth 六道轮回:乾坤牢笼
[Traditional Fantasy] [Overpowered Protagonist] [Eastern Elements] [The Myriad Worlds] [No formulaic tropes, no System, no mindless plot, no wish fulfillment] The gods moved their pieces, burying one dazzling golden age after another. Emperors who had reached the peak of the Great Dao were toyed with like ants, right in the palms of their hands! The gods schemed against those who dared defy heaven, slaughtering their entire clans and leaving only the legitimate heir alive, his Rinnegan gouged ou
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The Wu Clan's Path to Immortality 吴氏家族成仙路
The story of an ordinary person who grows stronger step by step in the cultivation world with the help of the Ghost Valley Eight Desolations interface. (The golden finger isn’t very obvious and doesn’t come up often.) A new writer and a new book. I’m not good at writing blurbs.
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Li Chengdao 李承道
Special forces soldier Li Chengdao accidentally transmigrates into a strange valley. He transforms the valley and ventures out of the mountains. Using the valley as his base, he establishes his own Heavenly Dao Group in the cultivation world. He opens the Li Medicine Hall to heal the sick and help the people. He makes his fortune through spirit-root wine, branches out into every industry, and becomes the richest man under heaven. He establishes the free Heavenly Dao Academy and trains a wealth o
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Silver Needles in Hand, the World Is Mine to Roam 银针在手,天下任我走
With a silver needle in hand, I can go wherever I please.
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A Flickering Flame Rekindled, a Warm Life Ahead, Growing Old Together at Last 烬火重燃,温暖余生,从此与君偕老
The Embers Rekindle, Warming the Rest of Our Lives. From Now On, We'll Grow Old Together
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Before the Confiscation, I Transmigrated with My Pocket Dimension and Became the Empress 穿越抄家前,携空间母仪天下
Transmigrated Before the Confiscation, She Uses Her Space to Become the Nation's First Lady
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I Picked Up a Wife in the Deep Mountains, and She's the Empress 深山捡个老婆是女帝
I Found a Wife in the Deep Mountains, and She Was an Empress
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Reborn in My Final Year of High School, My Acupuncture Skills Reach Perfection 重生高三,一手针灸术出神入化
Reborn in My Senior Year of High School, With Acupuncture Skills So Refined They're Almost Divine
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Reborn as a Noble Consort, Her Needlework in the Phoenix Palace Shapes the Realm 重生贵妃,凤阙针华定乾坤
Reborn as a Noble Consort: Needlework at the Phoenix Palace to Secure the Realm
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A Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctor Transmigrates on Her Wedding Day and Becomes the Empress 中医女穿越大婚之日,母仪天下
A Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctor Transmigrates on Her Wedding Day and Becomes the Empress
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After Her Soul Transmigrated, She Went on a Killing Spree 魂穿后,她杀疯了
After Reincarnating into Her Body, She Went on a Rampage
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I Picked Up a Cat, and She's the Empress 捡个猫咪是女帝
I Picked Up a Cat, and She Turned Out to Be an Empress
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I Picked Up a Fox, and It's the Young Lord of the Qingqiu Fox Clan 捡个狐狸,是青丘狐族的少主
I Picked Up a Fox, the Young Lord of the Qingqiu Fox Clan
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Hunting in the Deep Mountains, with a Spirit Fox by My Side 深山猎途,灵狐相伴
Hunting in the Deep Mountains, with a Spirit Fox by My Side
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