Looking for Cultivation Novels with a Slower Pace and Thoughtful, Well-Written Adventures 求修仙文，不要修的太快，历练内容不无脑的
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The Little Villainess Has a Mind of Her Own 小反派她有自己的想法
[Cultivation] + [Fake System] + [Everyone’s Darling] + [Also Known As: How Am I Supposed to Save You, My Master?] Probably no romance. The System told Shen Ya, “We’re the villains. Our goal is to apprentice ourselves to the most powerful master, beat up the male lead, kick the female lead, and become the most hated villains in the cultivation world.” Little Shen Ya nodded, then threw her arms around the legs of a passerby with peerless beauty. Along with her brain-addled System, she joined a sma
23.7kReads9.1Score4.5kShelves
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Honghuang: I'm a Female Version of Tongtian, with Infinite Charm 洪荒：我女版通天，魅力无限
Primordial World. Don't like it? Don't complain. After transmigrating into the Primordial World, she becomes Tongtian. Once her eldest brother takes human form, he becomes an old man; once her second brother takes human form, he becomes a middle-aged man. But when she takes human form, she becomes an absolutely stunning mature beauty. Can someone tell her why? But she discovers that this Primordial World isn't what she expected. The innate divine beings all dutifully do their part, devoting them
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Honghuang: I Really Don't Want to Become the Dao Ancestor 洪荒：我真的不想当道祖
He transmigrated to the Primordial World and became Hongjun. At first, he only wanted to avoid following the same old path and escape the fate of merging with the Dao and being confined in a dark room at Zixiao Palace for ages. But somehow, things gradually started to go wrong. He had just set the gender of the innate divine being he had created in this world as male. “Luohou, don’t copy me just for a little merit and fortune. You’ve even changed yourself into a woman. That’s going too far.” He
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While the Heroine and Her Rival Fight, the Little Junior Sister Sobs and Snatches the Prize 女主女配互掐小师妹哭唧唧捡漏
After a mutated white tiger tricked her into signing a "contract of indentured servitude," the baffled little dumpling Dou Dou suddenly landed in the cultivation world. Her first thought upon arriving: "Find a master to raise me!" - She got into Qingyun Sect thanks to her rare light spiritual root and became the disciple of a master who loved spanking her. Dou Dou angrily set herself a goal: "Ascend on the spot! Beat up my master!" - Her senior apprentice sister was the Chosen One. One sweep of
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Mu Yi, the Oddball of the Cultivation World 慕忆，修真界的一朵奇葩
After transmigrating into a book, Mu Yi discovers she's nothing but the female lead's tool and runs away that very night. She joins Shangqing Sect, one of the five great sects. Thinking of the original host's memories from three lifetimes, Mu Yi decides that instead of skulking around, she'd rather hit back hard. She makes her name so famous throughout the cultivation world that those scumbags wouldn't dare lay a finger on her. The good news: She's famous. No one in the cultivation world has nev
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Reborn: Bringing Honor to the Music Cultivator’s Path 重生之我为音修发扬光大
In her past life, Ye Qingqing was the senior disciple of the Tianshui Sect. She worked diligently and taught her younger sectmates, only to be exploited by them. Her sect master favored the troublemaking junior sister, who eventually killed Ye Qingqing in a secret realm. Reborn, Ye Qingqing refuses to become the sect master's disciple. Instead, she turns to Half-Garden Adept of Qingxuan Mountain in the Tianshui Sect, keeps her distance from her ungrateful junior sectmates, and sets out to be an
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My Little Martial Uncle Really Doesn't Push Herself. She Just Wants to Kill the Female Lead 小师叔真不卷，她只想杀女主而已
[Ensemble cast] [People say the blurb did this book a disservice. I'm no good at writing blurbs, so just read the story.] Reincarnated as a doomed female supporting character destined for a gruesome death? No problem. Kill the heroine from the start, wreck the plot, and reset everything. This time, I'm the heroine. The original heroine was a pitiful girl born to a concubine. She had a lowly start but a powerful protagonist's aura. No matter what danger she faced, she always escaped disaster, ros
74.3kReads9.5Score10.4kShelves
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The Little Fairy Is Taking It Easy 小仙摆烂中
Zhang Xiaoxian transmigrated to a continent where people could cultivate immortality. But she had no interest in living forever. All she wanted was to slack off. Unfortunately, someone in her family was caught up in the rat race, and not content with pushing themselves, they insisted on dragging her into it too. Zhang Xiaoxian was exhausted and begged them to leave her alone.
2.8kReads8.3Score287Shelves
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Transmigrating Along the Slow Road to Immortality 穿越之修仙路慢慢
Sang Jiu transmigrated to another world. By chance, she suddenly learned that it was a cultivation world where people could cultivate immortality. She might not be as gifted as the geniuses around her, but fortunately, she had a fairly good dual spirit root. She joined a cultivation sect and began her own path to immortality. No romance.
1.3kReads8.0Score100Shelves
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The Eccentrics I Met During My Cultivation Years 修仙那些年遇到的奇葩
Chu Yan is a little native of the cultivation world. Just as she was about to be separated from her family, the once-in-a-decade recruitment drive held by the major sects came around. At five years old, Chu Yan set out alone on this wondrous path to immortality. Along the way, Chu Yan realized her luck was nothing special. Thankfully, the resources her parents had left behind kept her from having a hard time. She had planned to follow her parents' instructions and cultivate her way to ascension
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Transmigrate Into a Book as a Genius Junior Sister, and the Villains Fight to Spoil Me! 穿书天才小师妹，反派们争着宠！
[Aloof, scheming master VS unhinged, mischievous little troublemaker, 1v1, sweet and doting] + [Transmigrate into a book and slack off, silly comedy] When Shen Wan opened her eyes, she had become a cannon-fodder female character in a cultivation novel, about to be drained, disfigured, and have her spiritual root dug out by the heroine? She immediately slapped her across the face. “Who do you think you're taking advantage of?” To enjoy a carefree life, lie flat, and grow old in comfort, Shen Wan
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I Refuse to Steal Luck, and My Fierce Little Junior Sister Is Having a Blast 拒绝薅气运，狂拽小师妹乐翻了
[Pocket Dimension + Nine Elemental Talents + Cute Spirit Beasts + Cultivation and Growth] Chu Yang was the heroine of a book, but a woman who transmigrated into a book stole her fortune, turning her into a miserable supporting character while her white-lotus sister took the heroine's place. Unexpectedly, after being reincarnated in Huaxia, she suddenly returned one day to the moment her sister had tested her spiritual roots in her previous life. Right there, she snatched the jade pendant from he
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The Cool-Hearted Music Cultivator Swings Her Sword and Silences the Entire Cultivation World 清冷乐修一挥剑，反手沉默修仙界
[Romance pairing, one-on-one, happy ending, both physically and emotionally faithful, equally powerful] [Statement: This is 100% original. I started writing it on April 1, 2023! Stop copying my opening and stealing my ideas. Have you no shame?] Cool and aloof, perfunctory junior sister × unpredictable half-demon senior brother A genius musician dies during a concert tour and, after death, transmigrates into a book, becoming the cannon-fodder second female lead in a Mary Sue cultivation romance.
5.7kReads9.1Score894Shelves
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The White Moonlight Tossed Aside the Script and Joined the Immortal World's Villain 白月光她扔了剧本，投奔仙界反派
[Female lead: slyly keeping a low profile while thinking she's the hunter / Male lead: sweet on the outside, dark within, and willing to be the prey] Gu Nanyan transmigrated into a cultivation novel about a stand-in and was forced to play the supporting role for an entire lifetime. After painstakingly following the plot to the end, she never expected to be reborn in the novel's world. Gu Nanyan: “I really can't thank you enough!” Thinking back on the previous life's plot, she had barely made it
43.9kReads9.1Score9.3kShelves
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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
36.2kReads9.4Score5.2kShelves
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When Sword Cultivation Failed Me, I Took Up Both Alchemy and Cultivation 剑修无望后，我丹法双修
Cultivation + Reborn in the Womb + Alchemy + Coming of Age + Not a Sword Cultivator + No Romance Reborn in the womb as an ordinary village girl, I thought I’d live out my life according to plan. But who could have guessed that cultivating immortality was actually possible? From then on, I set foot in the world of cultivation. My spiritual roots and talent are pretty good, but there’s no shortage of people more gifted than me. I don’t have a top-tier cultivation background. I did meet an old ance
37.6kReads9.1Score4.8kShelves
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After Refusing to Redeem My Reputation, the Cultivation World Became Obsessed with Me 拒绝洗白后，修真界对我搞崇拜
[A satisfying takedown of trash men + no misunderstandings or substitute-lover tropes + an incredibly cool heroine later on + a classic coming-of-age story + no System!] In her previous life, she was betrayed by a scumbag, treated unfairly by her master, and hated by her fellow disciples, who called her a fake, a hypocrite. In the end, she was thrown into the Abyss of Ten Thousand Demons and barely survived! Reborn into a new life, Su Lengyan decides to cut ties with everyone. She trains hard
20.3kReads9.3Score2.2kShelves
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I’m the Favored Son of Heaven in the Cultivation World 我在修真界做天之骄子
No heroine + no romance + a goofy comedy (P.S. This is a silly, funny slice-of-life story, so don't take it seriously!) A story for female readers. If you're feeling down, come take a look! My dear readers, the world may be full of disappointments, but please believe that hidden in all the cracks and bumps are the little sweets fate has secretly tucked away. If you're unhappy, imagine you're the protagonist and grow alongside them! The author will write you a joyful, carefree world. What does it
37.9kReads8.9Score4.1kShelves
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It’s My First Time as a Female Lead, Even Though I’m a Man. What’s Wrong with Being a Little Scheming? 我男的第一次当女主，茶点怎么了
[One Soul, Two Bodies + Green Tea Heroine + Villainous Demon Body + Slightly Depraved and Into Weird Stuff! + No Harem, No Marriage! + Somewhat Like a Female Lead's Perspective in a Male-Oriented Novel! + Fantasy, Read the Tags Carefully Before You Dive In] [Male Soul, Transmigrate, >Demon Body, Change Fate, >Heroine] Su Yu transmigrates to another world and becomes a three-colored crow demon. The three-colored bloodline is coveted by everyone, and wherever Su Yu goes, someone wants to refine hi
6.2kReads9.0Score611Shelves
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The Immortal Maiden Praised by the Cultivation World Has No Morals 修仙界交口称赞的仙子她没有道德
Synopsis: The main story has no CP, with a touch of “everyone loves the heroine.” Don’t be overly pure and proper. There’s some scheming, but not much, so readers looking for a high-IQ, meticulously researched story may want to steer clear. The pacing is on the slow side. A strong heroine, not a doting-wife story, but with a touch of “everyone loves her.” It’s perfectly natural for strength to be attractive. If that bothers you, don’t click in and give me your money. “Putting makeup on your butt
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If You Don't Understand Redemption, I Know a Thing or Two About Going Mad 如果你不懂救赎发疯我也略知一二
Cultivation, no CP, ensemble cast, everyone loves the protagonist, and a woman disguises herself as a man. She presents as male in the early stages and female later, and will reveal her secret identity. The heroine's descent into darkness: an innocent young man as pure as the breeze and bright as the moon -> a brash, arrogant heaven-blessed prodigy -> a beautiful, unhinged figure who is neither wholly good nor evil -> an unattainable, heartbreakingly perfect beloved who is stronger than everyon
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I Saved the Entire Sect by Giving Up 我靠摆烂拯救了全宗门
(The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh
220.8kReads9.6Score23.3kShelves
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The Thought Bubbles Above My Head Roast Everyone Equally 头顶心声表情包，平等创飞所有人
[Gossip + Inner-Thought Reaction Stickers + Nonsensical Cultivation + Comedic Female Lead, Powerful Male Lead + A Total Nutcase on the Inside] Lin A Jiao transmigrates into a villainess who serves as the contrast to the heroine in a pampered heroine novel. On her very first day, she finds herself in a chaotic scene where she’s trying to seduce her master! Later, the male supporting characters are supposed to chase her down and grind her bones to dust... To her amazement, all five senior brothers
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After My Junior Sister Transmigrates into a Villainess, She Uses the Script to Save Her Whole Family 师妹穿成恶女后手拿剧本救全家
After finally making a name for herself in the cultivation world by raising pigs, Ruan Fuxi is struck by lightning and sent into a CEO romance novel. She becomes the arrogant, dim-witted fake heiress, while the heroine is the real heiress. When Ruan Fuxi transmigrates, the original owner is about to hurt the heroine. Her eyes roll back. Stop! Stop! Her family knows she isn’t their biological daughter, yet still dotes on her. And somehow, not one of them gets a happy ending. Ruan Fuxi is furiou
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I Was Supposed to Be the Top Sword Cultivator, So Why Is It the Sword of Being a Jerk? 说好第一剑修，怎么是犯贱的贱
[Physical edition preorder opens at 7:00 p.m. on the 22nd] [Hilarious, absurd, no-romance power fantasy + meme references + the female lead is the root of all evil] [One female lead corrupts every prodigy] At the sect entrance examination, everyone else was busy testing their spiritual roots. I was busy scamming people. Chi Miao transmigrated into the cultivation world ten years ago and got bound to a System that could only be unlocked after she committed a hundred scams. It promised she could b
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I’m Stirring Up the Cultivation World with Grind Culture 我在修仙界搞内卷
[Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn
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How Strange! The Whole Cultivation World Is Fighting to Take Me as Their Personal Disciple 邪门！全修真界都在抢我当亲传
[Publication deal signed] Jiang Que transmigrates into a cultivation novel as the vicious female supporting character, doomed to a tragic fate and destined to be nothing but a foil for the heroine. The heroine is aloof and otherworldly, while Jiang Que is just a woman; the heroine is blessed with extraordinary talent, while Jiang Que has only her life to lose; the heroine has suitors everywhere, while Jiang Que has never even held a man's hand. Even worse, the day she transmigrates into the bo
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Wandering Cultivation Across Worlds 综穿：漫漫修炼路
The flowers look the same year after year, but the people change with every passing year. That year, the Kunlun Mountains were buried in snow, and the blizzard raged. Someone reached out to her and said, “Don’t be afraid, my disciple. Come home with me.” She began as an ignorant child who climbed the mountain to seek the Way, then became a young woman, a princess, and a bearer of her nation’s burdens. After countless schemes, she paid the price of her soul scattering to keep her sect safe. When
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The Villainess Sweeps the Cultivation World with a Card-Drawing System 恶毒女配靠抽卡系统横扫修仙界
[Transmigrate into a book + power fantasy with a strong female lead + silly comedy + leveling up + card-draw System + everyone's favorite + no romance] Li Ran transmigrated into a cultivation novel as the wicked female supporting character. The original character was the half-sister of the universally adored heroine. Jealous of her in every way, she even fell for the heroine's fiancé and tried to use underhanded tactics to make him marry her. In the end, he ran her through with a sword. Li Ran l
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Reborn as a Mad Villainess, She Becomes Invincible by Doing Nothing 穿成反派疯批，她靠摆烂无敌
[Slacker System + Reward Returns + Beast Taming + Two Female Leads (The main story is complete, so jump right in)] (A silver-tongued street rogue vs. a cold, cunning demoness) Ruan Dongling transmigrates into a cultivation novel and has her spiritual root ripped out from the start. Faced with a disastrous beginning, she decides to give up and slack off. To her surprise, she gets bound to a Slacker System. After her spiritual root is transplanted into the original heroine... [Ding! Host successfu
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Everyone in My Sect Is Crazy, but the Junior Sister Is the Most Laid-Back 放眼师门皆疯批，小师妹她最咸鱼
Huangfu Jiao is an office drone. If she had to sum herself up, she’d say she’s a rich second-generation heiress, an orphan, and a landlady. With money and free time, she’s turned herself into the legendary couch potato. If she can lie down, she won’t sit. If she can sit, she won’t stand. One day, she transmigrates to the cultivation world and becomes the sect’s most useless little nobody, with a worthless spirit root. Her master relentlessly whips her into shape, day and night. Her quiet, chubby
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A Thousand and One Ways to Get My Disciple Back on the Righteous Path 劝徒弟回正道的一千零一种手段
[No Romance] + [Scheming Heroine] + [Apprentice Turns Evil] + [Self-Service System] + [The Sects Are Both Incompetent and Reckless...] Tao Junlan accidentally dies and transmigrates to the cultivation world, becoming Zhenjun Fengqi of Huajian Sect. The System drops off a script and disappears. It gives her just one goal: save the world! Tao Junlan studies the script. In the original story: She has a disciple whose true form is a husky, a half-demon with a volatile constitution, who can't stop th
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Lu Qingran's Cheat-Code Path to Immortality 陆清然的开挂修仙路
[Transmigrate into a book + lottery System + cultivation + the male lead only appears briefly in the final chapter, so you can read it as having no romance.] After scraping by for six years in the apocalypse, Lu Qingran inexplicably finds herself inside a cultivation novel she read shortly before dying in her previous life. She has become the younger cousin of a brainless, lovesick female side character who won’t survive ten chapters. The tragic part is that she only read ten chapters! Once the
8kReads9.1Score716Shelves
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The Villains Heard My Gossip-Fueled Thoughts—and Had a Collective Meltdown 反派听我吃瓜心声后，集体崩溃了
[No romance + mind-reading and gossip + cultivation transmigration + adored by all, lying flat] Lan Yue transmigrated into a cultivation novel and acquired a gossip System for the Three Realms. She could improve her cultivation just by indulging in gossip, so she decided to lie flat and be as carefree as a happy little marmot in a melon field. What she didn’t know was that, thanks to the gossip System, everyone around her, even the beasts, could hear her thoughts. [Nothing to do today, so I
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Cultivation University: She Cultivates the Way of Heaven 修仙大学，她修的是天道
(Modern cultivation with no romance + academy life + spiritual qi revival) Also known as: An Undergraduate’s Daily Life at the Academy of Alchemy Five hundred years ago, a Taoist priest said that people should believe in science, then took off on a flying sword. From that day on, Blue Star officially entered the age of spiritual qi revival. Tang Jian Yue is an undergraduate studying alchemy at Jiangnan University. With only a fire spiritual root, she isn’t particularly outstanding. So Tang Jian
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One Move from This Shameless Junior Sister, and the Experts of the Nine Provinces Are All Stunned 缺德师妹一出手，九州大佬全麻了
Lu Lingyou transmigrates into a novel about a universally adored heroine, only to become the cannon-fodder female supporting character. The original owner was useless at everything and always the first to take the blame. The heroine killed a fellow disciple? The heroine leaked the sect's secret techniques? The heroine was secretly involved with the Demon Clan's holy lord? She got blamed for all of it. In the end, she died horribly amid the cheers of the entire cultivation world! Lu Lingyou says
44.7kReads9.1Score5.7kShelves
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The Villainous Demon Lord Is Actually a Pretty Little Loser 反派魔尊竟是漂亮小废物
[Transmigrate into a book + villain + supporting female character + fantasy + sweet romance] Le Zheng Qian transmigrates into a book as the vicious supporting female character. Calmly drawing her sword, she tears up the script, then draws talismans, makes pills and forges weapons, setting out to reach the peak of life. Along the way, she picks up a pretty little weakling who shares a name with the original story’s gloomy, terrifying Demon Venerable, a mass murderer who is always threatening to d
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The Whole Sect Is Full of Crazy Villains, Only the Junior Sister Is a Goofball 满门反派疯批，唯有师妹逗比
After transmigrating into a book, Ye Linglong becomes the vicious cannon-fodder villainess in a cultivation novel. With terrible aptitude, she even coerces the heroine into taking her into the top sect during the Cultivation Tournament. After joining, she opposes the heroine at every turn and eventually dies a miserable death. To enjoy a long, happy life, Ye Linglong immediately gives up on coercing the heroine and turns around to join the worst sect in the cultivation world. She’s done being th
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