Ten Thousand Souls Banner, Human Emperor Banner: The Protagonist Is Tricked into Cultivating Demonic Arts by a Golden Finger Demonic Cultivator Elder 万魂幡人皇幡。主角被金手指魔修老爷爷忽悠修魔

1. 1 道 Fellow Daoist, Why Is Your Human Emperor Banner Belching Black Smoke? 道友，你这人皇幡怎么冒黑烟啊？ He An Is Simple贺安很简单Mystery1.1M WordsCompleted Even unorthodox paths can lead to Heaven! This poor Daoist has always been a bit timid. If I don’t pull up the roots after cutting the grass, I won’t be able to sleep at night! Heh heh heh... I, He An, am your great calamity! 81.3kReads9.3Score7.3kShelves

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   💥Highly recommended [Send a heart]: 600,000 words currently reading. The protagonist is a Taoist priest holding a flower, and his weapons are a flower umbrella and a human emperor's banner. He is also protected by the zombie ancestor Drought Demon. The protagonist is very vengeful, and if you anger him, your enemies will get a whole bunch of freebies.

2. 2 八 All Eight Empresses Betrayed Me: Reborn to Die of Regret 八女帝全背叛，重生悔到肠断 Li3 Feng李3疯Eastern Fantasy1.5M WordsCompleted [Reborn]+ [Wife-Chasing Crematorium]+ [Deep Regret]+ [Ridiculously Satisfying]+ [Absolutely No Reconciliation]+ [Commentary That’ll Make You Die Laughing]+ [Comedy] In his previous life, everyone envied Lu Ye, the Nine-Lives Heavenly Venerable. Not only did he have nine lives, he also had eight stunningly beautiful confidantes. Who could have imagined that when Lu Ye attempted to become a Heavenly Dao Saint, all eight of his confidantes would join forces to strike him down? Nine Heavens Sword 21.8kReads8.9Score2kShelves

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   A decisive and ruthless protagonist, he slaughters the righteous and then the demons, until the Human Emperor's Banner is overflowing.

3. 3 魔 Demonic Path System: All of China Is Actually Cultivating the Demonic Path! 魔道系统：文明华夏竟全是魔修！ Strange Sheep奇怪的绵羊Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Demonic cultivation System + invincible power fantasy + an entire nation cultivates demons + explosive action + no female lead] Bai Yang awakens a demonic cultivation System and learns that spiritual qi will fully revive in three years. In the meantime, ferocious beasts will appear all over Blue Star. To face the coming crisis, Bai Yang decides to become a demonic cultivator. But the damn System demands that he lead all 1.4 billion people of Huaxia in demonic cultivation! [Main Quest]: May ever 22.6kReads8.5Score2.2kShelves

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   ✨Perfectly in line with the topic! The protagonist obtains a cheat system for cultivating demonic arts, which not only allows the protagonist to cultivate demonic arts, but also allows the protagonist to lead all Chinese people to cultivate demonic arts. 💥The starting mission reward includes the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

4. 4 诡 Eerie Revival: I’m Covered in Taboos and Slaughter My Way Through the Haunted Realm 诡异复苏：我满身禁忌杀穿诡域 Eggplant in the Woods林子里的茄子Urban1.2M WordsCompleted “Since Heaven took pity on me and let me be reborn, I’ll fight my way through this terminally ill world in this life!” The occult returns. Monsters and demons roam, mountains of corpses and seas of blood spread, and screams fill the land. Only Divine Mark Masters are a light in this diseased world. Anyone with a pattern on their body has a chance of becoming a Divine Mark Master. One person has leukemia and transforms into a white-winged angel who metes out judgment in every direction. Another h 5.9kReads7.9Score849Shelves
5. 5 大 Great Qin: Emperor Qin Shi Huang, I Really Don't Want to Live Off You! 大秦：始皇帝，我真不吃软饭啊！ The King of Qin Circles the Pig秦王绕猪Historical1.5M WordsCompleted [The Analects + Hilarious + Cunning + Lighthearted + His Majesty Zheng + Shamelessly Stealing + Absolutely Outrageous] Qin Feng inexplicably transmigrates to the Qin dynasty before Qin unifies the six states, and the First Emperor overhears his thoughts. The two then embark on a hilarious daily battle of wits. “Qin Feng, tell me, what does ‘The Master does not speak of prodigies, force, disorder, or spirits’ mean?” “It means the Master doesn’t want to talk to you, and will use brute force to bea 45.1kReads9.5Score4.5kShelves

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   Dude, I finally found that book I read about a year ago, "The Banner of Ten Thousand Souls," after searching through my bookshelf for ages. I think that book is gone now, but the author is the same one who wrote this book. I know the title because I had it in my collection: "Playing with Me? Whose Protagonist Carries the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls?" The protagonist's name is Qin Feng.

6. 6 你 Have You Ever Held It In? And You're Writing a Book! 你憋过宝吗？你就写书！ Big Orange Is the One to Watch 96大橘为重96Urban464k WordsOngoing Read the signs of heaven and earth, divide the waters, seal spirits, nurture treasures, and suppress evil. The treasure seeker can sense spirits, lead sheep, and coax treasures out of hiding. Find a treasure, and it goes into the Imperial Treasury. A hundred years ago, thirteen gates to the grotto-heavens appeared out of nowhere, suspended above the mountains and rivers and anchoring the four seas. From that moment on, a whole new era set sail! There were martial arts techniques that could keep 871Reads8.4Score102Shelves
7. 7 功 Immortality Through Merit? I Hunt Evil Spirits! 功德成仙？我专收邪物！ Lone Lord孤爷Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted The serious version: Yin-Yang arts, the Eight Trigrams, feng shui, and fortune-telling are among the many mysterious professions widely practiced among the people. There is another profession in their ranks, whose practitioners call themselves “Treasure Collectors.” Treasure Collectors seek out all sorts of rare and precious treasures within their circles. The Daoist supreme treasure, the Dao Stele; the seven sacred scriptures of Tibetan Buddhism; Zhuge Liang’s mysterious Black Tortoise divinati 14.6kReads7.7Score1.2kShelves
8. 8 宇 Cosmic Lord Selection: I Can See Through Lottery Chests 宇宙领主选拔：我能透视抽奖宝箱 Bookworm for Ten Years十年书虫Urban2.2M WordsCompleted The myriad races of the universe wage endless wars. To govern and develop their territories, humanity establishes a feudal system, giving rise to one of the universe’s five greatest powers: the Cosmic Lord Academy. The Cosmic Lord Academy, a cradle for training humanity’s Star Lords, suddenly arrives on Blue Star to hold a recruitment trial, upending the planet’s established order and ushering it into a new era. Everyone: A life-or-death trial? Every wild civilization in the Primordial Star Doma 50.7kReads7.6Score7.2kShelves
9. 9 万 The Immortal Path of Ten Thousand Treasures: It Begins When the Dragon Maiden Abandons Me 万宝仙途，从被龙女抛弃开始 Not a Foodie不是吃货Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsOngoing [No System + Exotic Treasures + Invincible Cultivation] After transmigrating as a poor scholar, Lin Feng plans to earn an official title and lie flat for the rest of his days. Who would have thought that the carp he casually saved would turn out to be a stunning Dragon Maiden? After borrowing his primordial yang, she cruelly abandons him, leaving behind only a precious pearl and a jade slip. “Immortal and mortal are worlds apart. Our ill-fated relationship is over?” Lin Feng is speechless. What 4.9kReads6.2Score413Shelves
10. 10 在 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 Set Sail for the Eastern Sky启航东天Eastern Fantasy958k WordsOngoing 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 39.6kReads8.9Score3.3kShelves

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    You need to be patient and keep reading, but you'll find it gets more and more enjoyable as you go on.

11. 11 我 I'm a Taoist Priest. What's Wrong with Knowing a Few Spells? 我一个道士，会点法术怎么了 Hero Wu吴大侠Urban2.8M WordsOngoing Anti-cultural export + cultivation + livestreaming + Daoist priest + System + spreading the Dao in America + no couples + no female lead + no spiritual qi revival + scheming protagonist Also known as: Spreading the Dao in America, Shocking the Eagles Every Day Chen Xian, Daoist name Xuanyun, is known in the martial world as the well-mannered young Daoist, the Cultivator's Version of Homelander, and the Enlightened Master Who Follows His Every Whim. His motto: “This Daoist does whatever he wants! 57.4kReads9.0Score4.7kShelves

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    It's a modern cultivation novel with a smooth plot and a protagonist who doesn't act arrogantly, but it's still a satisfying read without needing supporting characters to make it compelling.

12. 12 重 Rebirth as a Demonic Cultivator: Starting with a Zombie Planet 重生魔修，开局捡到一颗丧尸星球 The World Is Ink天下墨矣Eastern Fantasy4.9M WordsOngoing 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 15.6kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves

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    One word: magnificent! [Smirk] However, writing about the Mirror of All Heavens was a bit tedious. [Smile]

13. 13 玄 Xuanhuan: Reading Fate's Book, I Defeat Every Young Prodigy with One Hand 玄幻：命书推演，只手败尽众天骄 Hu Lielie忽咧咧Eastern Fantasy933k WordsCompleted Gu Chen was an ordinary branch-family member of the Immortal Gu Clan. After his father died in the line of duty, he was given a job as a menial worker at a weapon-forging workshop. While smelting iron, Gu Chen fished a golden page hidden inside a lump of iron ore out of the furnace. This brought him a priceless treasure: the Book of Destiny, the Evolving Chapter. From that moment on, the wheels of his fate began to turn. Bystander A: “I can hardly believe it. The Immortal Gu Clan’s Profound S 301Reads6.4Score101Shelves

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    As a seasoned bookworm, I read over 2000 hours on my previous account, and now I've read over 800 hours on this new one. This is pretty good; the protagonist's cheat-like abilities are powerful, but it also highlights his individual combat skills. Although he has a sister and mother, they don't cause much trouble and stay within the family. Later on, the protagonist is mostly out there exploring on his own. The protagonist is a true genius; it's incredibly satisfying.

14. 14 从 I Start with Gu Refining and Grind My Way to the Dao of Ten Thousand Arts 从炼蛊开始肝成万法道尊 Gongsun Lizi Hotpot公孙离子烫Eastern Fantasy2.8M WordsOngoing [Gu cultivation] [Decisive and ruthless] [Invincible] [Demonic cultivator] On the Eternal Continent, demonic cultivators rip out souls to make banners and use young girls as furnaces. The righteous sects may seem noble and upright, but in truth they refine the common people into powerful medicines in hopes of ascending to immortality. Reborn in a cultivation world where mountain foraging is the foundation of training, Bai Yu unexpectedly becomes an errand disciple at the Gu Refining Peak of the 35.9kReads8.1Score3.1kShelves

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    These are all novels about demonic cultivation; the plots and stories are quite good, and they're enjoyable to read. Those who are interested can check them out.

15. 15 魔 Ten Thousand Volumes of Demonic Arts, So Why Is the Human Emperor Banner Glowing with Golden Merit? 魔功万卷，人皇幡冒功德金光？ Blazing Brush and Ink笔墨火火Eastern Fantasy3.5M WordsCompleted Zhou Huaxian transmigrates to a fantasy world and becomes the head of the Zhou family. He awakens a golden finger: the Myriad Demons Scripture. As long as he keeps developing his family, he can earn fortune points. With these points, he can create all kinds of demonic arts. Primordial Devouring Demon Art: plunder spiritual energy and lifespan! Lifespan-Burning Demon Art: burn lifespan to increase strength! Ghost Commanding Demon Art: control ghosts and raise an army of the dead! Yama Demon Sword 11kReads7.2Score1.1kShelves
16. 16 末 The Age of Declining Dharma: From the Start, I Blood-Sacrifice and Refine Corpses on Hong Kong Island! 末法时代：开局在港岛血祭炼尸！ Salty Fish Only Know How to Be Salty咸鱼只会咸Mystery3.1M WordsOngoing In the age of declining magic, all arts have vanished, and cultivating the Dao is harder than reaching the heavens! In his previous life, Zhao Shan was a great demon of the unorthodox path. Reborn in 1990s Hong Kong, he discovers that this is still an age of declining magic. The orthodox sects are a dead end, and the unorthodox schools are no better, so he has no choice but to keep following his own wicked path. But gradually, he realizes that something about this world seems a little off. On Do 64.6kReads8.6Score5.7kShelves
17. 17 深 The Abyss Invades, and I Awaken the Demonic Cultivator Class! 深渊入侵，我觉醒魔修职业！ Ninety-Nine Mountain九九山Urban707k WordsOngoing [Demonic Cultivator] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [No Power Scaling] + [Invincible Protagonist] + [No Heroine] He transmigrates to another world, where the Abyss invades and everyone awakens extraordinary professions! Gu Yue awakens as a demonic cultivator? What? Abyssal monsters can help me cultivate too? Slaughtering living beings brings karmic retribution, but killing Abyssal monsters makes you a hero? Gu Yue gazes at the vast inheritance of demonic cultivation secret arts and falls into deep 4.8kReads8.3Score348Shelves
18. 18 怪 Urban Legends: Who Let This Taoist Priest In Here? 怪谈：谁放这个道士进这里的？ Mao Erbai毛二百Mystery1.6M WordsCompleted This book has a short drama adaptation. Rules of Terror: This Taoist Priest Is Acting Strange. Now streaming [No Female Lead] [Hilarious] [Hotheaded Hero] [Supernatural] [National Destiny] Rules of Terror descend upon the world, and the Dragon Nation loses five rounds in a row. For the sixth round, Chen Yang is chosen to represent his country. Just as the nation assumes he is an ordinary nobody, Chen Yang takes off his jacket, revealing the yellow robe underneath. Chen Yang: "Yee-hee-hee! Ever s 16.3kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves

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    Highly recommended, it's incredibly good! 🔥🔥 This is a truly amazing and incredibly good novel. The main character is hilarious and incredibly funny. He descends into the world of supernatural tales, and during the Dragon Kingdom's five-game losing streak...🍁🍁 In the sixth match, Chen Yang, representing China, takes off his coat to reveal a yellow robe underneath, holding a peach wood sword. 🍀🍀 This series of actions completely terrifies the audience; everyone thought he was a Taoist priest.

19. 19 魔 The Demon Path's Crown Prince 魔道太子爷 Maple Drifts Past Chang'an枫过长安Eastern Fantasy5.3M WordsCompleted My name is Yun Fei, and from the start I had a useless meridian constitution, fit only to serve as a furnace. I thought I'd spend my life suffering under the bullying of those stunning immortal aunties... I mean, suffering terribly. I never expected you to ask me to restore the Demon Cult! It's only fair that the Heavenly Jade Saintess works for me, right? There's nothing wrong with a sword genius helping me seize territory, right? As the Demon Cult's leader, I'm entitled to slack off, right? 23.5kReads8.9Score2.4kShelves

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    All three are acceptable.

20. 20 道 Fellow Daoist, Why Is Your Human Emperor Banner Smoking? 道友，你这人皇旗怎么在冒黑烟？ Rain Above the Moon月上雨Eastern Fantasy362k WordsCompleted 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! 51Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 21 万 The Eternal Demon Emperor! 万古魔帝！ San Zui三最Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsCompleted [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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    🌿🌿①The protagonist fought against the demon for thousands of years, just to restore peace to the world. Because he did not seek fame or fortune, he was framed by someone with ulterior motives and accused of being the demon. The sect and family that had been peaceful for decades did not believe him and abandoned him. The protagonist finally realized the truth, turned to the dark side, and became the Eternal Demon Lord.

22. 22 开 Becoming a Demonic Cultivator from the Start: Fellow Daoist, Enter My Ten Thousand Souls Banner 开局成为魔修，请道友入我万魂幡 The One Flying in the Sky天上飞的Eastern Fantasy357k WordsCompleted [Demonic Cultivator + Major Villain + Cunning + Wildly Satisfying + Reincarnated Empress + Ruthless + Prodigy Showdown.] Chu Chen, the senior disciple of the Tianxuan Sect, devoted himself wholeheartedly to the sect, only for the Xuantian Sect to make him the scapegoat. After awakening the strongest demonic cultivation System, he gains the Myriad Souls Banner from the start. This time, he chooses to become a demonic cultivator, one who won’t let morality be used to manipulate him. With the My 278Reads6.3Score—Shelves
23. 23 开EN A Demon Heart at Birth: The Rise of an Unrivaled Monster 开局移植妖魔心脏，成为绝世凶物 Shacha Noodles沙茶面Eastern Fantasy5.1M WordsCompleted (No System, multiple female leads, neither wholly good nor wholly evil) Fang Ling possesses a Chaos Sacred Body. From the moment he was born, various factions fought to seize him. His heart, right eye, and precious bone were successively cut out… After being passed from hand to hand, Fang Ling was left on the steps of an ancient temple, barely clinging to life, by a kind-hearted stranger. No one knew that five peerless experts were secretly living in seclusion inside the temple. They had hidden 163.7kReads9.1Score17.4kShelves
24. 24 逼 You Forced Me to Become a Demon, and Now I'm the Demon Venerable. Why Are You Crying? 逼我入魔，我成魔尊了你们哭啥 Li Bai Is No Immortal李白不是仙Eastern Fantasy1.4M WordsCompleted [Decisive and ruthless + heroine regrets it + never forgives + villain protagonist + immortality + highly satisfying + traditional fantasy] In his previous life, after transmigrating, Gu Jian became the kindhearted and upright senior disciple. He treated his master like family and, amid the chaos of a troubled age, repeatedly protected the sect at the cost of severe injuries. To save his fourth junior brother, he even gave him his Supreme Bone. But afterward, that same junior brother falsely acc 4.6kReads7.2Score412Shelves
25. 25 开 Forced into a Demonic Sect from the Start, I Rise Straight to the Celestial God Realm 开局被逼入魔宗，我直升天神境 I'm Really Not the Great Dao我真不是大道Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsOngoing [Reborn] + [Utter remorse] + [Explosively satisfying] + [Absolutely no forgiveness] Chu Yuan, the senior disciple of the greatest sect under heaven, is falsely accused of practicing demonic arts. His master and the others humiliate him, then seal his cultivation with a demon-banishing spell, leaving him powerless... To prove he never practiced demonic arts, Chu Yuan starts cultivating again from scratch and climbs back to the peak. On the eve of the Demon God’s sacrifice of the world, he offers 205Reads6.2Score—Shelves
26. 26 逼 You Drove Me to Become a Demon, and Now You Want Me to Love You Again? 逼我入魔，还想让我再爱一次？ Liu Yue Bai柳月白Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsCompleted In his previous life, Li Xuan treated his master and junior sisters as his whole world, willing to risk everything for them. When his junior brother framed him, his junior sisters treated him with cold disdain and cruel words. His master drained his cultivation, crippled his natural talents, forced him onto the demonic path, and personally cut him down. The demoness who loved him more than life itself also perished for his sake, her body and soul destroyed. Given another chance at life, he let g 497Reads6.3Score106Shelves
27. 27 为 I Betrayed the Sect for the Demoness! 为了魔门妖女，我叛变了！ Reverend Guan Hua观花上人Eastern Fantasy738k WordsOngoing "You demoness, I'm a disciple of the righteous path. You want me to join the demonic sect? Dream on! I'd rather die!" Lu Yunchuan declared righteously. Three days later, gazing at the demoness in his arms, Lu Yunchuan shook his head. "What righteous path? Never heard of it. In this life, I'm sworn against the righteous path!" Lu Yunchuan, a disciple of the righteous path, had intended to vanquish demons and uphold justice throughout the land. But he was accidentally captured by a demones 20Reads5.8Score—Shelves
28. 28 诬 You Accuse Me of Demon Cultivation? Why Panic When I Really Turn to the Demonic Path? 诬陷我魔修？真转修魔你们慌什么 Standing Firm Alone岿然独存Eastern Fantasy109k WordsOngoing [Decisive and ruthless] [Overpowered protagonist] [Demonic cultivator] How do you prove your innocence when you’ve been framed? Easy… Just make the accusation come true. Then you weren’t framed in the first place, which means you’re innocent, right? … You accused me of cultivating demonic arts, and now I really am cultivating demonic arts. What are you so afraid of? Come on, come on, gather in my Banner of Ten Thousand Souls. “We Only Accused You of Demonic Cultivation, So Why Did You Make It Re 1Reads—Score—Shelves
29. 29 自 I Destroyed My Cultivation and Left Home, So Why Are You Crying Now That I’ve Become a Demon Cultivator? 自废修为叛出家，我成魔修你哭啥 Wielding a Light Sword执轻剑Eastern Fantasy235k WordsOngoing Three years ago, Lin Yang left home to seek experience after his family treated him with cold indifference. Three years later, when he returned to the Lin family, he was accused of colluding with demonic cultivators. Unable to prove his innocence, Lin Yang had no choice but to cripple his own cultivation to clear his name. After that, he left the Lin family. His hair turned white overnight, and he fell into demonic cultivation. From then on, his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds. One by o 2Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 30 天EN Heaven's Chosen? Monster? No, It's the Grind Emperor 天骄？妖孽？不好，是肝帝 That Mountain, That Sea那山那海Urban2.3M WordsCompleted [The top workaholic in high-martial arts fiction] [Panel-based cultivation] [Cosmic setting] [Cultivation and progression, not point allocation or speedrunning; the protagonist is a born grinder] In the interstellar age, alien beasts invade and evil gods lurk all around. Li Qingshan awakens a martial arts panel that can record any technique or martial skill. He needs no insight or talent, and faces no bottlenecks. As long as he trains hard, he can improve, and every breakthrough lasts forever! H 219kReads9.3Score25.7kShelves

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    Unorthodox practitioners, devoid of compassion, ruthless and cruel; those interested can take a look.

31. 31 末 Surviving in a Doomsday Apartment, While I Have Infinite Clones! 末日公寓求生，而我无限分身！ Ye Yu叶余Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.3M WordsOngoing Everyone across the globe is transported to a series of apocalyptic apartments! Everyone awakens a talent and struggles to survive in their apartment. Jiang Ye and his classmates are transported to the same beginner apartment! Classmate A: Listen up, I awakened an S-rank talent! Classmate B: That’s great! With an S-rank talent, we’re saved! Classmate C: We’re all classmates. We should help one another! Classmate D: Big shot with an S-rank talent, carry us to victory! Jiang Ye awakens an X-rank t 9.6kReads7.8Score929Shelves
32. 32 系 The System Gave Me Synthesis, and I Took on the Whole World 系统赐我合成，我打穿整个世界 Wang Wugen王五棍Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted [System] + [synthesis] + [feel-good power fantasy] + [army] + [no female lead] + [military conquest] Also known as: The Kid Who Conquered the World Through Synthesis Is Seriously Impressive. Bad news: I've transmigrated. Good news: I have a synthesis System. Bad news: I transmigrated right onto the road to military conscription. Good news: My predecessor was both a scholar and a warrior, and could single-handedly keep an entire bandit stronghold in line. As the only hope of the Mu clan's village 6.9kReads8.7Score587Shelves
33. 33 登 The Godhood Game: Starting by Kidnapping All of Humanity 登神游戏，从绑架全人类开始 Lu Ershi San陆贰拾叁Urban2.0M WordsCompleted [Not mindless wish fulfillment] [Decisive and ruthless] [Smart protagonist] [High-martial-apocalypse setting] See injustice on the street? Kidnap a vicious bandit and rob him blind. Be even more ruthless than the bandit himself. The world is in chaos? Kidnap a foolish emperor and trade him for a divine martial art, then kill him once you have the technique. Save the Blue Star? Don’t get the wrong idea. I just happened to be passing by. The truth is, I want to kidnap all of humanity! 20.8kReads7.8Score1.6kShelves
34. 34 年 Reborn in the Era of Abundance? Take a Seat in My Human Emperor Banner 年代重生极品多？人皇幡里坐一坐 A Worm Before the Three Pure Ones' Gate三清门前一条虫Urban605k WordsCompleted [Return of the Demon Patriarch + Pocket Dimension + Everyday Life + No Romance + Ruthless + Behind the Scenes + System] A generation's Demon Patriarch fails his tribulation and returns to a special era. Can't get enough to eat? Nothing warm to wear? Too many awful people around? Don't worry. I'll deal with whoever needs dealing with, take care of whatever needs handling, and send those who deserve to die into the Human Emperor Banner. 1.6kReads6.7Score105Shelves
35. 35 我 I Burn Corpses to Become a Saint in a High Martial World 我在高武世界焚尸成圣 I Love the Mortal World我爱红尘Urban431k WordsCompleted On the eve of the college entrance exam's martial arts test, Qin Fangtong becomes the laughingstock of the school. The martial arts prodigy of yesterday sees his grades plummet, and his own parents send him to work at a funeral home, all under the pretext of “making way for his younger sister.” Until the day he cremates his first corpse [Ding! Cremation successful. You have obtained the Endocrine Tempering Method!] […] The mental realm, Zhuangzi's Butterfly Dream, sanctifying the flesh, b 3.5kReads7.7Score235Shelves
36. 36 作 I Extend My Life by Doing Evil: Immortal in the High Martial World 作恶延寿，我在高武长生不死 Ya Qi鸦栖Urban625k WordsCompleted [Advanced Martial Arts + Fast-Paced Power Fantasy + Rapid Leveling + Crushing All Opposition + No Romance] In a world of advanced martial arts, the martial path flourished. Chu Sheng was reborn back to his senior-year sparring competition. His opponent was Ye Chen, who had crippled him in his previous life and loved to play the pig to eat the tiger. What else was there to say? He'd go all out and take him down! Ding! Serpent-Coiling Spear reached the state of returning to simplicity! Ding! Mount 9.9kReads8.5Score734Shelves
37. 37 提EN Logged In Early, and I’m Really Not a Plant! 提前登录，我真不是托！ The Macaque Has No Peaches猕猴没有桃Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsCompleted [Early Login + Game Descends into Reality + Invincible + Wish Fulfillment + No Female Lead] A game called Abyss of Sin appears. But a year later, the game descends into reality. Countless sinbeasts invade, and humanity is plunged into despair. When Lin An wakes up again, he discovers that he has transmigrated into the game as a native. Not only does he have a game interface, but players won’t enter the game for another year. Transmigration + rebirth + early login? All the buffs, stacked to the m 18kReads8.3Score1.5kShelves
38. 38 妖 A Chaotic Age of Demon Warriors: Absorb Beast Blood and Steal Their Talents 妖武乱世：吸纳兽血夺取天赋 I'm Not Ximen Chuixue我不是西门吹雪Eastern Fantasy3.5M WordsOngoing [Not a mindless power fantasy + Demons + Ferocious Beasts + Survival Through Caution + Decisive Killing + Evil Spirits + Extreme Path] (The number of foreign beasts he can assimilate increases with his cultivation realm.) After transmigrating into an ancient world in chaos, teeming with demons and ferocious beasts, Lin Sheng started from the very bottom as a slaughterhouse worker. To his delight, he discovered that by absorbing blood, he could assimilate all kinds of foreign beasts into his body 26.5kReads7.6Score2.9kShelves
39. 39 魔 Demon Cultivator: Heaven and Earth Are My Cauldron, All Living Beings My Elixir's Catalyst 魔修：天地为炉鼎，众生为药引 Huainan Beef Soup Noodles淮南牛肉汤面Eastern Fantasy716k WordsCompleted [Demonic outsider + Decisive and ruthless + No female lead + Fighting evil with evil + Demonic antihero + Satisfying read] An ancient cauldron from the primordial era can absorb the essence of heaven and earth and seize the fortune of all things. If this world devours people, then I'll devour this world. The young Ning Lu was once an ordinary student from China. By a twist of fate, he transmigrated into a world of cultivation at the age of twelve, his soul entering the body of another boy with t 210Reads—Score—Shelves
40. 40 双 I Travel Between Two Strange Worlds, But I'm a Ghost Cultivator! 双穿诡异世界，可我是鬼修啊！ A Xing Zai阿星仔Eastern Fantasy2.5M WordsCompleted Jiang Zhao transmigrated into a cultivation world and accidentally joined a sect of ghost cultivators. Everyone in the sect was wicked. Jiang Zhao spent every day treading carefully, as if walking on thin ice. Fortunately, at a critical moment, he awakened his golden finger. He obtained a portal that let him travel between worlds, linking his own to one where the paranormal was running rampant. That world was crawling with supernatural entities. Refine one D-rank entity, and your cultivation bre 19.3kReads8.3Score2kShelves
41. 41 重 Reborn as a Monster: I Am the Black-Mane Wild Boar King 重生妖魔：吾乃黑鬃野猪王 Invincible Starting with a Wild Boar无敌从野猪开始Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [Wild boar, exotic beast, gigantic, villain, gains cultivation by eating humans, not a bleeding heart, decisive and ruthless] Reborn as a wild boar, I can increase my cultivation by eating people. But they won’t let me eat them, and they even want to kill me. Fine, I’ll eat them all!!! 2.7kReads7.5Score190Shelves
42. 42 修 Cultivation: I Can Analyze and Perfect Techniques 修仙：我能推演功法 Rebel to Become an Immortal逆为仙Eastern Fantasy564k WordsCompleted The world is mired in the Five Turbidities, and spiritual energy is dwindling. Living beings suffer, and all under Heaven endure hardship. Lin Yuan possesses a Heaven-Peering Eye capable of improving cultivation techniques, and transmigrates into this world of cultivation. Here, unorthodox paths flourish, demons and monsters run rampant, and even sects treat their disciples as human ore to be mined. With mediocre talent, he constantly improves and strengthens his cultivation techniques to surviv 442Reads7.0Score—Shelves
43. 43 灵 Spiritual Energy Has Barely Revived, and Now Rabbits Have Become a Demonic Holy Land? 灵气刚复苏，兔子成魔道圣地了？ Chubby Matchmaker胖月老Urban256k WordsOngoing Good news: Jiang Chuan transmigrated back to three months before the spiritual qi revival and awakened a System. Bad news: The System only gave him demonic cultivation techniques, all of them utterly wicked. “That's nonsense. What's all this talk about demons? Saving the world and helping the people is the true holy path!” With a wave of their hands, the nation's leaders had the whole country take up cultivation. Three months later, spiritual qi revived and ferocious beasts ran rampant. Everyone 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    The whole country is practicing demonic cultivation, hehehe 🔥🔥🔥

44. 44 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score207.7kShelves

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    Ten days later, the suspense reaches its peak!!! (No harem, no clichés, no invincible characters, no system, no mindless plot, no wish-fulfillment story. Enter at your own risk if you mind these elements.) Just when I thought it was just an ordinary day, I found myself captured and brought to the Land of the End. Just when I thought I could escape by participating in death games, I discovered that everyone...

45. 45 邪 Heretical Cultivator: I Wield the Emperor’s Banner and Offer Cherry Blossoms to Heaven! 邪修：手持人皇幡，以樱花祭天！ Meow Wants to Get Rich喵要向财看Urban280k WordsOngoing [Invincible] + [No Female Lead] + [Villain] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [No Holding the Protagonist Back] Su Qi was reborn before the spiritual qi revival and obtained the Human Emperor Banner System. By imprisoning the souls of all things, he could increase his cultivation speed and gain different abilities depending on the number of souls he collected. So Su Qi wasted no time in going to the Sakura Kingdom and gathering every soul in the entire country into his Human Emperor Banner! When the s 219Reads7.2Score—Shelves

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    These books should be okay. Although there's no cheat-like protagonist guiding them through the demonic path, each protagonist has their own Human Emperor Banner. Since I haven't read them in detail, I don't know if there are any gaps in updates or any problematic parts. Please forgive me if there are! [Sad][awkward laugh]

46. 46 灵 Spiritual Qi Revival? I Got the Ten Thousand Souls Banner from the Start 灵气复苏？开局获得万魂幡 Quan Jiu权酒Urban233k WordsCompleted [Reborn + Invincible + Spiritual Qi Revival + No System + A Protagonist Who Is Neither Good nor Evil + Trampling the Cherry Blossoms!] Spiritual qi revives, and all manner of demons and monsters run rampant. I have an Emperor's Banner that can capture demons and monsters. “Fellow Daoist, why does your Emperor's Banner look so strange? It’s even giving off black smoke!” Chen Chang'an: “There’s no need to panic, fellow Daoist. The demons and monsters inside may be fighting. How about coming wi 20Reads—Score—Shelves
47. 47 人 Human Emperor Banner: Fellow Daoists, Help Me Become an Immortal 人皇幡：请道友助我成仙 Onion-Skin Yazi洋葱皮牙子Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsOngoing [Decisive and ruthless + insect control + soul refinement + cultivation + no female lead] Volume One, Li Yi: “Since leaving the mountain, I have slain tiger demons, taken in refugees, established a source base, aided Qingmu, slain fox demons, and saved hundreds of thousands of people.” “I campaigned across foreign lands, wiped out a million of another race, expanded our territory, and stepped over piles of corpses to establish my foundation. Ten thousand cultivators came to congratulate me.” Vol 1.2kReads7.3Score105Shelves
48. 48 拜 Come On, the Ten-Thousand-Soul Banner Is Super Cool! 拜托，万魂幡超酷的好嘛 The Third Crown Prince as a Boy少年三太子Urban551k WordsCompleted [Daily life + spiritual qi revival + no harem + irreverent + comedy] When spiritual qi revival begins and the gods descend, the world enters an age of the supernatural once more. Every living being struggles to survive in this great age, seeking transcendence. Su Yu obtains the Myriad Souls Banner in a dream. No, wait, the Human Emperor Banner. “Seriously, believe me, it really is the Human Emperor Banner!” “Then why is your Human Emperor Banner belching black smoke?” “That’s primordial violet q 412Reads5.7Score—Shelves
49. 49 灵 Spiritual Qi Revival: I Wreak Havoc Across the Myriad Worlds with the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls 灵气复苏：手持万魂幡肆虐万界 Lu Anluan陆安乱Eastern Fantasy118k WordsCompleted The Myriad Worlds' campaigns to expand their frontiers have caused spiritual qi revival in the ancient Immortal Realm of Shenzhou, which had long been cut off from the other worlds. With invasion from the Myriad Worlds imminent, the ancient Immortal Realm of Shenzhou has begun to fight for its survival. Everyone cultivates demonic techniques alongside spiritual energy technology, striking back hard against the Myriad Worlds. Lin Ran was chosen by the Heavenly Dao wills of both the ancient Immor —Reads—Score—Shelves
50. 50 轩 The Xuanyuan Sword and the Human Emperor Banner: You’re Calling Me a Demonic Cultivator? 轩辕剑，人皇旗，你说我是魔修？ Once Upon a Time话说从前Eastern Fantasy390k WordsOngoing Fellow cultivator, what sword are you holding? Jiang He: The Human Emperor Sword. And what's in your other hand? Jiang He: The Human Emperor Banner. Why is your Human Emperor Banner giving off black smoke? Jiang He: That's just its dark color. If you don't know what you're talking about, don't spout nonsense. Come on in and take a closer look! … The road to immortality stretches on, yet humanity has no place on it. The great clans vie for supremacy and treat humans like swine and dogs. I, Jiang —Reads—Score—Shelves

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