Are Buddhist Sects and Traditional Fantasy Really That Niche? 佛门➕传统玄幻，真的太冷门了么？

1. 1 高 High Martial: This Monk Is Such a Show-Off 高武：这个和尚太能装了 Lie Flat or Give Up, Pick One躺平摆烂二选一Eastern Fantasy1.1M WordsOngoing “Zhenxuan, the temple has made it clear time and again: no cultivation during Standing Committee meetings!!” After transmigrating into a martial arts Buddhist sect, Zhenxuan awakens a Buddhist gift: [Get stronger by showing off]. Heaven’s Dao classifies showing off as an extremely rare Buddhist gift. Every time he shows off, his cultivation skyrockets, but the side effect is that he becomes terrified of death to his very core. He’s the most cautious monk in the temple, yet the biggest show-off 43kReads8.4Score2.8kShelves

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   This one is pretty good.

2. 2 我 I've Turned into a Dragon, and You Say the Cultivation Manual Is Fake? 我都化龙了，你说功法是假的？ Sweet Potato Monster红薯怪Eastern Fantasy329k WordsOngoing [Play It Safe + Invincible + Invincible + Invincible + Invincible + Invincible + Dragon Transformation...] "Heh, bet you didn't expect this: the Dragon Transformation Art you've been cultivating is fake!" "Fake? Have you ever seen... a true dragon?" Xu Qingshan's entire body was covered in golden scales. His form swelled and transformed into a dragon, growing to a length of who knew how many tens of millions of miles in an instant. He soared into the sky in a fury, blotting out the heavens and t 803.7kReads8.1Score123.3kShelves

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   I found this recently, it's still watchable.

3. 3 我 I Practice Buddhism in an Ancient World That Never Existed 我在不存在的古代行佛 Tai Xuanjin钛铉金Urban2.1M WordsCompleted Old Xu set off on an impulsive hiking trip that took him tens of thousands of miles from home. Who could have guessed he would transmigrate to an ancient world that never existed, enter a mountain temple, and inherit Buddhist Vajra meditation, gaining the power to deliver demons and monsters to the afterlife and heaven-defying comprehension? He thought he was about to embark on the path to immortality, but in the end, he still had to face everyday concerns: food, clothing, and shelter. After arr 1.8kReads6.9Score148Shelves

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   That's fine.

4. 4 我 I Took Up Buddhism, and Now You're the Ones Suffering 我修佛了，你们痛了 Zhu Zhu茱祝Ancient Romance537k WordsCompleted [From universally disliked to universally adored + everyone faces a reckoning + no suffering for the heroine, only the trash men and women torment themselves + no romance + unconventional cultivation story] (After losing everything, the heroine awakens. She lets go of it all, her heart dead and her feelings extinguished. She renounces emotion and severs her ties to love, her heart dwelling in the empty gate.) Ye Miuo used to be the most envied young lady of the Xuantian Sect. She was loved by ev 6.5kReads8.5Score578Shelves

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   This is pretty good, but it's for female readers, do you want it? It expresses some basic Buddhist concepts well in the form of a novel, and it has a fantasy element that makes it interesting.

5. 5 楞 Shurangama Altar 楞严坛 The Great Shurangama Mantra楞严大咒Eastern Fantasy831k WordsOngoing This book is adapted from the Shurangama Sutra and covers all of its important teachings. The first volume is exactly 500,000 words and serves as a prequel to the novel. The main story begins in Volume Two. If you only want to read the story, start with Volume Two. If anything is unclear, go back to Volume One to learn how it all began. 246Reads—Score—Shelves

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   A novel adapted from the Surangama Sutra, by author Zhenxiu

6. 6 修 Cultivate Demonic Arts, Practice Buddhism, Realize the Truth, Become a Buddha’s Heir 修魔功，习佛法，悟真意，成佛子 Seven-Seven Nights七七夜夜Eastern Fantasy800k WordsCompleted [High Martial Arts + Invincible + No Female Lead + Weak System + Not a Villain] Su Jie transmigrates and becomes a young novice monk. After living an utterly ordinary life at Jinshan Temple for three years, his Daily Sign-In System suddenly awakens. Su Jie is overjoyed. He imagines using the System to become invincible and watch the world go by, only to discover that it isn't quite what he expected. [Congratulations, Host, on awakening the Daily Sign-In System. From now on, the System will autom 4.2kReads8.1Score315Shelves
7. 7 打 Crafting the Persona of a Holy Monk 打造圣僧人设 I Was Snatched Away by a Monster Again我又被妖怪抓走了Eastern Fantasy2.3M WordsCompleted “Junior uncle, I saw you going out to drink and chase women that day. I’m going to tell the abbot.” “What cultivation technique do I practice? Answer me!!!” “Look in my eyes!!! Tell me, why? Speak!!!” “J-Junior uncle practices the Boy’s Cultivation.” “Exactly! How could a monk like me have any bad intentions???” “But, Junior Uncle, I clearly saw you drinking.” “Those who have left the secular world hold a cup close to their hearts. I was drunk, truly drunk!” “Junior Uncle, you’re so drunk your t 24.3kReads7.1Score1.9kShelves

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   A bookworm of ten years, highly recommends it!!!

8. 8 西EN Journey to the West: Master Wants to Tell Another Story 西游：师父又要讲故事了 Hermit Xia Mu夏木山人Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsOngoing [Type]: Journey to the West / historical Xuanzang / retracing the Journey to the West / Buddhist cultivation / not the Primordial World / only a great calamity setting / no conspiracy-driven plot. Guanyin Bodhisattva had been having a terrible headache lately. A great calamity was about to begin, and the Buddha had ordered him to find a Pilgrim and bring him to the Western Heaven to undertake the Journey to the West. Everything had originally been arranged. But this Pilgrim seemed a little stran 129kReads9.3Score13.6kShelves
9. 9 地 The Ksitigarbha Heart Lamp: My Seven Years in the Buddhist Sect 地藏心灯：我在佛门这七年 Gandharva City Lord乾闼婆城主Urban347k WordsCompleted Yu Ming graduated with a degree in Chinese literature. At the age of twenty-four, he shaved his head at Qingya Temple and took the Buddhist name Jue Xing. The year he entered the monastic life, he received a lamp: the Ksitigarbha Heart Lamp. It could reveal the obsessions of the dead, and those of the living, too. Over the next seven years: He helped a scholar who had been dead for three hundred years sit the final imperial examination. He witnessed the fury of a mountain lord and the deceit of 113Reads—Score—Shelves

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   At twenty-four, I resigned from my job and became a monk, spending seven years at Qingya Temple by the sea. Everyone knew the temple had a Medicine Buddha Hall, where twelve Yakshas guarded the surrounding landscape; no one knew that I carried within my heart a Ksitigarbha Heart Lamp, passed down through generations. At the bottom of the West River, sand miners, their obsessions unyielding, were trapped; children cried at night, their cries tinged with the river's chill; those trapped in the past each had their own lingering attachments. In my seven years as a monk, I saw clay figures and genuine hearts; I guided departed souls and myself. Later, I took off my robes and returned to the secular world, only to understand that true spiritual practice is never confined to the meditation cushion.

10. 10 只EN The Only One Using the System for Normal Cultivation 只有我在坚持使用面板正常修仙 Qing Chen青沉Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsOngoing [Absurd] + [Defying Heaven] “I told you, even though I’m from the Heaven-Defying Sect, at heart I’m a traditional cultivator. I’m not some heaven-defying god.” “What? You say I practice the blade every day and don’t cultivate spells or techniques, so how could I become a powerhouse? Are you saying I cheated?” “Rubbish. It’s all because I want to get closer to ordinary people. Don’t talk about hacks or cheating. I’m not that kind of person.” The Daily Life of Cultivating at the Heaven-Defying Sec 75.4kReads9.0Score7.8kShelves

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    There are monks inside, and aliens are being watched.

11. 11 从 A Little Demon Monk Came Down from Foshan 从佛山上下来个小妖僧 Little Gray, Who Loves Life爱生活的小灰Eastern Fantasy685k WordsOngoing “She gave her life for this little monk, and this little monk gave her up for the world.” I, Wang Ziyong, an abandoned prince, became the darling of the whole of Foshan, but I was cursed with a damned destiny: to become the Buddhist Son Hong Shan. I only wanted to muddle through, tease my grandfathers, and escape my fate. Then the day of the selection of the Buddhist Son arrived, and everything changed... Everything in this world is predetermined. Every cause bears its fruit. Every feeling holds 147Reads—Score—Shelves

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    New book recommendation! Written by a friend, the writing is excellent. The early chapters have both tear-jerking and comedic moments. Highly recommended! The imagery is vivid, and the details are top-notch!

12. 12 鬼 Ghost Buddha 鬼佛 A Page of Books一页书Mystery2.0M WordsCompleted I was the first murderer in history. After I died, I fell into Hell and was cursed by the Ten Yama Kings. I returned to the mortal world as an immortal. I became the source of all sin: as long as murderers exist among the living, my sins will endure. From then on, I walked the earth as a ghostly Buddha, urging people to do good. When I encountered someone who wanted to kill themselves, I took them to the City of the Wrongfully Dead in the underworld to show them what awaited suicides in Hell. Wh 149Reads—Score—Shelves

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    [Laughs][laughs]

13. 13 佛 A Rogue Monk 佛门狂徒 Shen Mo沈默Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsCompleted The Ancestral Buddha foretold: eighty-four thousand years from now, Buddhist teachings will vanish and the Dao’s lineage will be severed. This is an age in which demons run rampant across the world. Lu Yang, a Buddhist disciple, is reborn with the "Heavenly Book of Demon Subduing". He tempers his body into an indestructible diamond and cultivates divine arts to vanquish demons within, embarking from then on upon a cultivation path that defies heaven. He points to the sky with his left hand and t 1.2kReads—Score144Shelves
14. 14 武 Buddha Venerable of the Martial Way 武道佛尊 Ye Hualei叶花泪Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsCompleted Though he was a monk, he gave in to worldly desire. Though he wanted an ordinary life, he accidentally killed someone. Cast out of the monastery, Wuyun was no longer a monk. Bearing a heavy burden, he set out on a brand-new path. Some say that path was never right for him, yet he forged an unconventional way forward all the same. His weakness in the early stages serves only to set the stage for the powerhouse he will become. 141Reads—Score—Shelves
15. 15 佛 Buddha's Bone 佛骨 Affliction Is Enlightenment烦恼即菩提Eastern Fantasy361k WordsOngoing In the vast world, all is illusion. To seek the Great Dao, one must free both body and mind. Legend has it that when the Buddha left the mortal world, he left behind a seven-colored Buddha bone. A monk who obtains it becomes a Buddha on the spot, while a Daoist who obtains it ascends to immortality… 57Reads—Score—Shelves
16. 16 恐 Horror Revival: I Am Monk Sanzang, Sanzang as in Burying the Dead 恐怖复苏：贫僧三葬，送葬的葬 Loves Apple Pie爱吃苹果派Urban1.6M WordsCompleted [Horror Revival] [Invincible] [System] [Comedy] [This book is entirely fictional and has no connection whatsoever to reality.] After transmigrating into a world where horror had returned, he awakened the System for Delivering All Beings from Suffering. Only, the way it delivered people seemed a little... Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, depleted uranium bullets purify the six senses. Three thousand six hundred revolutions in a single breath, great compassion saves all the world! The Great Mighty Heaven 4.9kReads8.8Score376Shelves
17. 17 你 You Have the Great Vehicle Sutra, but I Have the Giant Vehicle Sutra 你有大乘真经，我有巨乘真经 Silent Death寂殁Eastern Fantasy489k WordsCompleted My new work is here! 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! 527Reads8.7Score—Shelves
18. 18 穿 After I Transmigrated, I Became Buddha, Saving All Living Beings 穿越后，我成了佛祖普渡众生 One Word Says It All一语言之Eastern Fantasy120k WordsCompleted [No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions] This is a special book: the protagonist can see your comments, so if you have something to say to him, you can talk to him directly. A word of warning: this book believes that the guilty should be killed, and the innocent should be spared. After transmigrating to another world, he grows stronger by absorbing the power of deities. Bearing the legacy of Chinese civilization, he awakens divine power and in 108Reads—Score—Shelves
19. 19 我 I’m a Monk, but That Doesn’t Mean I Won’t Kill 我当和尚，但不等于我不杀生 Daoist Lingdi灵笛道人Eastern Fantasy297k WordsCompleted Deng Ru was the inheritor of a Buddhist lineage devoted to killing in the twenty-first century. Unlike other lineages, which prized peace and compassion, this one believed in stopping killing with killing, answering violence with violence, and overcoming evil with evil. It killed, but never saved souls. Unfortunately, Earth in the twenty-first century was a modern, civilized society, where trying to stop killing with killing would get you arrested on the spot. Fortunately, Heaven had left him a 471Reads8.4Score—Shelves
20. 20 佛 Buddha's Insight 佛通 Laughing Aloud at the Vast Sea沧海放声笑Eastern Fantasy214k WordsCompleted This is a traditional wuxia world: no System, no transmigration, only personal grudges and affections, and the conflicts of the martial world. While being pursued, the young Li Muyi falls into an abyss in his desperation. Fate spares him, and he turns misfortune into fortune, accidentally mastering the peerless art known as “Buddha's Divine Power.” To avenge his family's blood feud and uphold justice, Li Muyi battles the evil organization known as the Ironblood Palace. After countless dangerous 88Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 21 重 Reborn at Shaolin: From Servant to Ancestor of Ten Thousand Buddhas 重生少林：我从杂役到万佛之祖 Feng Jingcheng, Who Loves Pomeranians喜欢博美的风敬诚Eastern Fantasy534k WordsCompleted A world of high martial arts and profound mysticism. The jianghu is home to sects; above them stand dynasties and sacred lands, while beyond lie demon clans and demonic realms. Those who cultivate martial arts to the highest levels can move mountains and fill seas, and glimpse the secrets of immortality. Shaolin Temple was once a top Buddhist sanctuary in this world, but it declined after a cataclysm a thousand years ago. It shut its gates and retreated into seclusion, and the outside world now 441Reads—Score—Shelves

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22. 22 小 Little Monkey Sun Wukong 小猴孙悟空 By the Riverbank fhx在河之洲fhxEastern Fantasy32k WordsCompleted Through the story of Sun Wukong’s growth, this book introduces children to traditional culture, including China’s beautiful legends and idiom tales. It combines learning with fun, subtly helping children develop a sound sense of right and wrong and good character. 12Reads—Score—Shelves

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    It cleverly handles the monsters and ghosts that are difficult for children to understand and parents to explain.

23. 23 退 Call Off the Engagement? I Transmigrated into a Book, and the Powerful Men Regret It 退婚？我穿书，大佬们后悔莫及 Million Subscriptions百万订Ancient Romance182k WordsCompleted “Break off the engagement? No, I’m the one divorcing you.” That day, as snow and wind swept through the city, I tore up the marriage contract, left the Su family, and headed for the highest seat of judgment in the Starfall Sea. Afterward... Xie Tingyun betrayed his sect for me, Lin Yan burned his family records for me, and Master Liuli built a continent-spanning intelligence network for me. They all thought I wanted revenge. But I simply opened the Code and said softly to the nobles kneeling acr 3Reads—Score—Shelves

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    That day, as snow blanketed the city, I tore up the marriage certificate, stepped out of the Su family home, and walked towards the highest court seat in the Starfall Sea. "From this day forward, all the guilty shall be pardoned." 🤔💎🤩💎🎉

24. 24 一 A Single Thought for All Life 一念苍生 Old Man Green Bamboo青竹翁Eastern Fantasy325k WordsCompleted Traditional fantasy + no System + decisive and ruthless “If you’re going to do it, become a core disciple. An outer disciple? Not interested…” “I became someone’s disciple so I’d have connections when I needed to cut people down. Otherwise, why would I bother?” “Above the Profound Venerable realm, I’m no weaker. Below it, I’m invincible…” Little Ye Chen spends all day trying to lie low in the mortal world and enjoy his freedom. But against his will, he’s dragged to the Immortal Realm, the Divine 42Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Traditional fantasy, presentable!

25. 25 佛 The Path of the Buddha 佛途 Not Very Happy高不兴Urban548k WordsCompleted I do not cultivate my body, for I have already attained an invincible golden body. A heart free of distractions is itself the Buddha, so what use is Buddhahood? Nine wells appeared one after another, and strange transformations followed in quick succession. Demons are easy to save, but the human heart is hard to fathom. What is it that I am protecting? That’s right: the one pure land in my heart. That is the path to Buddhahood! 12Reads—Score—Shelves

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    ①: 🌈Amitabha Buddha, this humble monk not only knows Mahayana Buddhism but also some martial arts. ❇️Kill those who deserve to be killed and save those who deserve to be saved. ❇️Killing without saving doesn't mean I can't save people… ②: 🌈Demons are easy to convert, but the human heart is unpredictable. ❇️Guard the only pure land in your heart. 💫🈶A low-budget urban version of "Havoc in Heaven"…

26. 26 民 A True Record of Folk Secrets and the Great Way of Cultivation 民间绝学大道修仙实记 Great God神大大Urban189k WordsOngoing This book was written by a genuine folk practitioner of Daoist cultivation. It is intended for later generations of practitioners who may need it, and records the practice process as it really happened, along with real supernatural phenomena, folk tales, and Daoist secret arts. This book is suitable for: People with an immortal spirit attached to them Those who practice Daoist cultivation or mind-training methods People with somatic symptoms People with schizophrenia People with dissociative ide 78Reads—Score—Shelves
27. 27 洪 The Azure Bamboo Way of the Primordial World 洪荒青竹道 The Great-Horned Deer Who Loves Bracken爱吃蕨菜的大角鹿Eastern Fantasy793k WordsOngoing [No Female Lead] [No Conspiracy Theories] [Hongjun and the Six Saints Are Not Villainized] After transmigrating into the Primordial World, I became one of the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots, the Bitter Bamboo, and took the Daoist name Qing Xuan. Rooted in the barren West, I became sworn brothers with Jieyin and Zhunti, and together we made a grand vow. While others fought to the death amid the Calamities, we quietly farmed in the West. We nourished the desert with Three Lights Divine Water 22Reads6.2Score—Shelves

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    I recommend this book. The protagonist travels to the prehistoric world and becomes sworn brothers with Jieyin and Zhunti to repair the western earth veins. Later, together they re-establish Buddhism and the protagonist becomes the "Amitabha Buddha." His benevolent self transforms into Guanyin Bodhisattva to save people from suffering. It's a unique prehistoric novel.

28. 28 佛 I, Buddha, Am Truly a Good Person 佛爷我真是好人啊 Jiao Lu Zhi蕉鹿之Eastern Fantasy1.3M WordsOngoing [Weak System + No Romance + Slow Progression + More Traditional + Saintly Heroine, Don’t Read If You Dislike It, Thanks] When Shi Ran woke up, he had transmigrated to a strange world. There were no aloof immortals in the heavens, pure as the moon, nor compassionate gods and Buddhas filling the skies. Instead, the world was full of deranged, bizarre cultivators. Here, sacred scriptures were laden with taboo costs, and the slightest misstep in cultivation could mean death and the end of one’s path 476Reads8.7Score161Shelves

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    Great deal! Great deal!

29. 29 点 Lighting the Lamp on the Way Home 点亮回家的灯 Not Today今非今日Urban179k WordsOngoing When the virtual kills the real, who lights the lamp of awakening? Yang Fan's fingers trembled over the keyboard. The screen's cold light illuminated her dark circles. In the surveillance footage, her brother Yang Yi was leaving home for the last time. The hood of his black sweatshirt was pulled low… —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    When the virtual kills the real, who is lighting the way home to awaken people?

30. 30 红 Immortal Dust on the Red Path 红道仙尘 Pre-Qin Qi Cultivator先秦炼气士Eastern Fantasy128k WordsOngoing "Do you know what it means to live forever?" "It means eternal immortality, never dying through the ages, living as long as heaven and earth, and shining alongside the sun and moon." "But... so what? In the end, you can only watch helplessly as the beauty you love grows old and your closest kin turn to dust, powerless to do anything..." "The seas change and the years pass. The fate of all living things is to return to dust and earth..." "For the sake of immortality... I lost everything..." Stand 1Reads—Score—Shelves

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