Any Cultivation Novels With a Rough Start and a Satisfying Payoff Later? 有没有前期比较惨，后期比较爽的修仙文？
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Senior Sister, Drop the Act. You're the Tight-Lipped One in the Whole Sect 师姐别装了，整个宗门数你嘴严
[Cultivation + ensemble cast + stronger woman/ weaker man + 1v1 + sweet romance] [Max-level reborn Nether Ancestor Soul Master × arrogant, cheeky young master of the Fox Clan] Everyone knows that the eldest direct disciple accepted by the master of Dragon Transformation Peak in the Lingxiao Sect is a peerless genius of this age, with terrifying talent. She is also respectful toward her master and devoted to her fellow disciples. Every disciple in the Lingxiao Sect admires her wholeheartedly and
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The Supporting Actress Cultivates Immortality, While the Protagonist Is Sacrificed to Heaven 女配修仙，主角祭天
On the night before becoming the disciple of Immortal Venerable Yanchen, Sang Ying discovered that she was the villainess in a cultivation novel about a master and his disciple! She was the foil to the pure and kind heroine, a delicate white lotus. Not only did she force the male lead to take her as his disciple, she also tried to steal what belonged to the heroine. In the end, she died at the hands of one of the heroine's admirers, and her pure ice spirit root became the catalyst for repairing
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Yu Zhao Reborn: Cutting Ties and Settling Scores 虞昭重生断恩仇
Original novel of the short drama "After Switching to the Heartless Path, My Senior Brothers Wept and Begged for Forgiveness" In her previous life, Yu Zhao spent her whole life fighting Ye Congxin to win back the affection of her master and five senior brothers. In the end, she became a traitor despised by everyone and was killed by the very master she loved. Reborn, she gave up trying to mend her relationship with her master and senior brothers, and took the initiative to cultivate the Heartles
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The Mercenary King Reborn in a Fantasy World, Slaying His Way Back to Earth 佣兵之王重生玄幻，一路杀回地球
[Traditional fantasy + no System + cultivation progression + decisive and ruthless] On the boundless Lingwu Continent, martial arts, spiritual cultivation, demonic cultivation, formations, alchemy, artifact crafting, and countless other cultivation paths intertwine to create a dazzling age. Jiang Feng transmigrates and is reborn here. Watch as he grips the Blade of Shura and climbs step by step to the highest heavens, looking down upon all living beings.
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A Mayfly in the Immortal Sea 仙海蜉蝣
[Ordinary-mortal cultivation + no System + no harem] A wandering cultivator, a speck of dust. The protagonist, Lu Luan, is a little independent cultivator at the second stage of Qi Refining, wandering among the mountain towns of the mortal world. He is fourteen, and ever since the old master who adopted him died, he has drifted from place to place through this world of cultivation... Note: The protagonist sometimes joins sects, but only as stepping stones, and never stays long. The story focuses
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Book Transmigration: From the Start, I Mistook the Protagonist for a Minion 穿书：开局错把主角当小弟
[Two male leads + beautiful but tragic characters + cultivation + transmigration into a book + descriptions of illness and frailty + slow-burn romance + reportedly a bit of an ensemble cast + lighthearted and harmonious] Yan Ping transmigrated into a world of cultivation and diligently trained for over a decade. But after nearly being captured and turned into a sword, he regained his modern memories and realized he had transmigrated into a book. What’s more, he was the biggest tool character in
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The Dark and Dashing Senior Sister Has the Cultivation World Going Crazy 阴暗师姐她超帅，修真界全疯了
[Publication pending] [No romance + ensemble cast + strong female lead + sect life + everyone’s a little crazy] [The main cast are unhinged and shameless. The heroine is fiercely independent, loyal, and more than a little mad] Xie Qing transmigrates into a book as a cannon-fodder supporting character and finds herself struggling to survive in a sect full of slackers. Who wants to pick a fight with the heroine? Xie Qing will set the whole cultivation world straight. She encourages her world-weary
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You Want to Steal My Spiritual Root? I'll Make You Regret Being Born! 想拔我灵根？我让他后悔出生！
[The story is complete. Silly comedy + expert scumbag-bashing. Not recommended for reading while eating.] Blown into a cultivation novel and turned into a cannon-fodder supporting heroine? A miserable death wasn't happening right away, and she'd had enough of working herself to the bone in her previous life. This time, she would do whatever it took to slack off in comfort! But after being forced to switch sects, she discovered that her new master was none other than the notorious pervert sect le
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My Junior Sister Is Overpowered, Yet Ridiculously Goofy 小师妹明明超强却过分沙雕
(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
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You Destroyed My Dantian This Morning, Now I’m Burning Paper at Your Grave 上午毁我丹田，下午在你坟前烧纸
[The physical edition of One Thought, Phoenix Rising is available on all platforms] Feng Xi transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder female side character, and the day she enters the book is the day she is doomed to die. To stay alive, she does everything she can to leave the heroine's sect, the Hunyuan Sect, and join the Xuantian Sect instead. Oh! All five of her senior brothers are the heroine's devoted admirers in the book, and each one dies more miserably than the last. Feng
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After Her Body Was Dumped, She Became the Villain Legion’s Cherished Darling 被抛尸后，她成了反派军团家团宠
[Print Edition of One Thought, Ashes Return to the Mountain: Preorders Open September 27 at 7 p.m.] Her own sister ripped out her phoenix bone, stole her talent, and tossed her into the Demon Rift like a dog! But against all odds, she survived and became the little demon girl cherished in the palms of the monsters living in the Demon Rift! The monsters of the Demon Rift: “Anyone who lays a hand on Niannian declares war on our entire demon clan!” She returns to the Five Continents, cuts down her
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The World Is Stunned: My Haunted House Connects to the Underworld 震撼全球，我的鬼屋通地府
Complete [cathartic power fantasy + play the pig to eat the tiger + powerful protagonist + punishing scum + ghosts and monsters + business management] Terminally ill with cancer, Li Miao meets a Taoist priest who tells her that she’s been plagued by bad luck and is near death because someone stole her fate. The only way to survive and reclaim her fate is to return to her hometown and inherit a haunted house. She assumes it’s just an ordinary haunted house, but when she arrives, she discovers
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The Chaos Creation Scripture 混沌造化经
[2022's breakout fantasy hit] A hundred clans in the human world, ten thousand sects under heaven. Gods and Buddhas across the heavens, asuras in hell. This world is full of powerful beings, but let me ask you one thing: who can stop my sword?
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A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: With a Useless Spirit Root, I Can Make Spirit Herbs Grow 凡人修仙：废灵根，我能催生灵药
[Speed-Growing Spirit Herbs + Corpse Refining + Raising Spirit Insects + No System + Ordinary Mortal Cultivation] My alluring female master wants to refine me into a nourishing pill made from flesh and blood, while my senior brother wants to possess my body...! Fortunately, the ancestral purple gourd can actually speed up the growth of spirit herbs! Century-old jade grass and ten-thousand-year-old immortal fruits ripen one after another, and my cultivation advances by leaps and bounds! Three yea
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You Mocked My Mixed Spiritual Roots, Now I'm Invincible and You're Crying? 嫌我杂灵根，我无敌了你们哭什么
Xiao Yun transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation, convinced that as someone from another world, he must have extraordinary talent. But the test reveals he has a mixed spirit root! He is even rejected as a servant disciple. With no one else willing to take him in, the senior sister of Little Bamboo Peak gives him a home. That very day, he completes the Qi Refining stage, and masters every cultivation technique as soon as he learns it... At the Seven Peaks Tournament six months later, the
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After I Transmigrate: From Fool to the Greatest Under Heaven 穿越后：从傻子开始到天下第一人
(Transmigration + special forces + live-in son-in-law + empress + poet god + gourmet food + no supernatural powers + no System + no harem) Xiao Yin was a doctoral student who graduated from a military academy. He never expected to transmigrate into the body of a fool so poor he couldn't even afford a meal. Using modern knowledge, he hunted rabbits, caught wild boars, made roujiamo, and opened a hot pot restaurant… Soon, he became the richest man in the world. He formed special forces, establishe
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The Useless Spirit Root 废草灵根
[No System, ordinary mortal cultivation] A man with a mixed spiritual root containing all ten elements accidentally obtains the supreme treasure, the Chaos Talisman, and embarks on the path of immortal cultivation. He tramples prodigies, slays countless enemies, and leaves mountains of corpses and seas of blood behind. When he looks back, nothing remains but mounds of bones!
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The Peerless Immortal Fate 绝鼎仙缘
Bandits invade and wipe out an entire village. To avenge the massacre, Nie Yun embarks on the path of immortality. With the stone cauldron his grandfather entrusted to him before dying, Nie Yun acquires countless resources and transforms the Five Elements Spiritual Root, said to be the hardest to cultivate, into a peerless Chaos Sacred Body. The stone cauldron has an extraordinary origin. It was once hailed as the number one treasure in the Immortal Realm, and its immense power made the myriad r
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Eight Desolations Body-Refining Art 八荒炼体术
Ye Huan, the Sacred Lord of the once-greatest sect in the realm, the Demon Puppet Sect, is besieged and killed by numerous Emperors while fighting for the realm’s supreme treasure, the Eight Desolations Cauldron. He then enters the cycle of reincarnation and merges souls with Ye Huan, the wastrel son of a military family. A good-for-nothing laughingstock? My body-tempering art is indestructible. Who can stand against me? A family in decline? My alchemy is peerless in the realm. How could I fail
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The Ferocious Art of Chinese Martial Arts 国术凶猛
Tai Chi, Xingyi, Bagua, Wing Chun, Chuojiao, Bajiquan... Though traditional Chinese martial arts have fallen into decline, their passion still burns! I hold fast to the spirit of traditional martial arts as I walk through a city of steel and concrete. What kind of brilliance will these ancient techniques unleash? My name is Wang Mo. I come from a fallen martial arts family and have practiced Xingyi since childhood. I may be just an ordinary person passing by you, yet I carry on my shoulders the
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The Origin of the Great Dao 大道本源
[Traditional xuanhuan + no System + passionate power progression] On the Eternal Continent, strength rules. Martial artists soar through the skies and burrow beneath the earth, strike across the nine heavens, seize stars and pluck the moon, and stand above all who came before and after. Born into humble circumstances, Ye Qing had his rare Dragon Martial Vein stolen. But what seemed like a misfortune turned into a blessing: he awakened the supreme Martial Vein, unrivaled throughout history, and b
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Divine Eye, Sacred Healer 神瞳圣医
Ye Chen goes with his girlfriend to the civil affairs bureau to register their marriage, but they’re in a terrible car accident. He’s disfigured while protecting her. After waking from a three-month coma in the hospital, he discovers that his girlfriend has married the wealthy heir who caused the crash! Consumed by grief and rage, Ye Chen is fortunate to inherit the power of a jade pendant, awakening three divine eyes and learning an unnamed cultivation technique! From then on, he dominates the
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The Miscellaneous Cultivator 杂修
[Everyone knows I can't practice martial arts, but I'm actually a powerful immortal cultivator...!!!] Because of his constitution, the protagonist Chen Qun can't practice martial arts. By chance, however, he embarks on the path of immortal cultivation. To the astonishment of his family elders, he uses his strength as an immortal cultivator to easily resolve the crisis facing his family, then gradually enters the world of immortal cultivators to explore and make his way... (Note: The stages of cu
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Mortal Cultivation: A Mysterious Stone from the Start 凡人修仙，开局得奇石
[Mortal cultivation | No System | No female lead | Powering up by defeating monsters | Everyday life in the cultivation world] Lin Shisan, a country boy, is found to be a cultivation waste with the weakest spiritual root. A stone passed down through his family opens the path to cultivation, and his determination carries him forward. The road ahead is shrouded in uncertainty, but the boy stands tall and walks with firm steps. The protagonist is kind-hearted, resilient, cautious, and decisive. If
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My Dantian Shattered from the Start, Yet I Gained Invincible Divine Powers 开局丹田破裂，成就无敌神通
A heaven-defying mutated dantian from ancient times forges an unparalleled legend and gives rise to the Great Martial Ancestor!
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The Day I Was Betrayed, I Inherited an Unparalleled Legacy 背叛当天，我继承了绝世传承
I have an unparalleled inheritance. Isn’t it perfectly reasonable to slap my traitorous fiancée in the face?
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A Cripple from the Start, I Shake the Eight Wilds with Dragon Power 开局废人，我以龙力震八荒
The Jiang family was caught up in a conspiracy and consumed by a raging fire. Tang Chuchu risked her life to pull Jiang Chen from the flames. Ten years later, Jiang Chen returned in glory to repay his debts of gratitude and avenge his family. He would repay Tang Chuchu for saving his life. He would avenge the destruction of the Jiang family. Jiang Chen appeared before Tang Chuchu. “From now on, as long as I’m here, you’ll have the whole world.”
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Immortal Martial Emperor 仙武帝尊
Nine thousand years ago, the Immortal Martial Emperor led a million divine generals into the ancient primordial wilderness. Not one of them returned, and only a wisp of true fire remained in the world. Nine thousand years later, Ye Chen, a discarded disciple, was driven from his sect and left with nowhere to go. By a twist of fate, he came into possession of the true fire and set foot on the path of immortal martial cultivation once more. This is a world where gods, demons, immortals, and Buddha
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Reckless Rogue Down the Mountain: Miss, Please Behave Yourself 下山狂徒：姑娘，请自重
[Master’s wife + Urban setting + Play the pig to eat the tiger + Invincible] Chen Xuan, a young man from a tiny mountain village, arrives in the city and has the underworld of the world bowing before him, while powerful elites compete to flatter him. Just what makes him so compelling?
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From the Start, Selling Muscle-Building Tonics at a Street Stall 开局地摊卖大力
[The Dali anime premieres on July 29. Search the title on Tomato to watch the PV.] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Muscle-Boosting Potion? Detoxifying Soybeans? Lucky Cherries? They can't keep them in stock! The world's top tycoons, richest men, popular streamers, and strongest experts all come to buy them. Jiang Nan: "I'm not even a tiny bit interested in money!
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Max-Level Goddess’s Guide to Winning Hearts [Quick Transmigration] 满级女神撩人攻略[快穿]
[Season One and Season Two of the short drama based on this book, Quick Transmigration: The Lovesick Male Lead Is Jealous Again, are now streaming. The print edition, titled He's Jealous Again, is available in Volumes One and Two.] Qu Yan is famous among quick transmigration agents for being beautiful, seductive, spoiled, and carefree. She has never failed a mission. No matter how arrogant and unruly a man may be, eventually he will become The cold, domineering CEO: “Be a good girl, darling. I
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Eight Adorable Babies: Mommy Is So Popular 八胎萌宝：妈咪太受宠
After an accident, Xia Zhu spent a passionate night with a mysterious man. She gave birth to eight babies and became the laughingstock of the entire Imperial City! Four years later, her adorable genius children shocked the world. The most powerful man in the Imperial City was cold and ruthless, yet he doted on her above all others. She became the most envied woman in the world.
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Nine Dragons Carry the Coffin 九龙抬棺
The night of my grandfather's funeral, I carried a stone tablet at the front of the procession to lead the way. I didn't dare look back, because the eight evil spirits carrying the coffin were behind me...
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