Looking for Cultivation Novels with Smart Characters, Good or Evil 求智商在线的修仙文，正派反派都行。
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The Floating Sky Never Falls 浮天不落
The floating sky never falls; the immortal sect endures forever. This is a story about a genius who lacks for nothing: talent, resources, or powerful connections. There are no brainless villains who show up just to help the protagonist level up, nor is the protagonist a tragic figure who builds a huge harem. Instead, there are all kinds of worldbuilding details the author, a hopeless settings fanatic, just couldn't resist writing, bringing to life my own personal dream of cultivating immortality
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Nonsense! How Could the Little One I Raised Be a Villain? 胡说！我养的崽怎么可能是反派
Other people transmigrate with a golden finger to protect them, becoming invincible dragons among men without lifting a finger. Xu Lingguang transmigrates badly injured, with creditors everywhere and danger waiting the moment he steps outside. Xu Lingguang: I might as well find a rope and hang myself! But dying is out of the question. All he can do is somehow muddle through. To escape his enemies, Xu Lingguang hides in Ailao Mountain. They say the Chenghuang clan lives in Ailao Mountain. The Ch
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GB: A Dragon Who Knows How to Cuddle Is the Luckiest GB：会撒娇的龙龙最好运
[GB Female-Dominant Romance + Both Leads Are Devoted + Sweet Short Story] Gu Jinyue is a big shot at the Administration Bureau and a top enforcer on annihilation missions. To this day, she has never encountered a mission that gave her a headache. But just as she's about to retire, a friend forces her into a baffling mission to "train a world administrator." Gu Jinyue, who has always only killed people, falls silent. What on earth is she supposed to teach this kid? And what is her mission target
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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
187.6kReads9.6Score25.6kShelves
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The Cultivation World’s Sickly Number One 修真界第一病秧子
The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou
320.2kReads9.7Score31kShelves
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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
30.8kReads9.5Score5.4kShelves
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Little Junior Sister Sobs and Pouts, Yet One Sword Destroys Heaven and Earth 小师妹哭哭唧唧，但一剑毁天灭地
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
420.9kReads9.6Score47.9kShelves
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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
258.7kReads9.6Score27.9kShelves
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I Stir Up Trouble in the Cultivation World 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
157.9kReads9.5Score20.6kShelves
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The Rare Female Who Became the Most Popular in the Galaxy 稀有雌性成为星际万人迷
[Interstellar beastfolk + female supremacy and male subordination + beloved heroine + male rivalry and a battle royale + everyone is chaste] Su Miantang transmigrates into the body of a rare female and awakens SSSS-rank pheromones that make everyone fall for her. A group of powerful figures from across the stars pursue her frantically, hoping to receive her soothing touch so they won't turn into beasts. The White Tiger God of War, the lion prince, the panda king, the dragon chieftain... powerful
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Beasts of the Beast World, Don’t Fall Too Hard: She’s Only Flirting for Fun 兽世雄性别太爱，她就随便撩撩
[Beast World + Sweet Romance + Multiple Male Leads + Unexpected Contrasts + Everyday Life + No Catfights Between Women] Fighting champion Nan Yue transmigrates into a beast world. Severely undernourished even by the standards of its females, she reaches adulthood and decisively chooses a mate. The only problem is that apart from being handsome, he doesn't seem very strong. After activating a card-drawing System, she decides it's pretty useless. All it gives her are minor boosts to her physical a
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The Female Emperor Feng Lixi and the Heavenly Gate Order 雌皇凤里牺之天门令
[Strong heroine, matriarchal society, cultivation, fantasy, war, multiple male leads] (This is an epic-length novel! Four chapters updated daily, with bonus chapters for tips or five-star ratings. Updates at noon, around 12–1! Complete, so read without worry.) Hua Luoluo, a new-drug researcher betrayed by both her boyfriend and her best friend, accidentally stumbles into another world and gets caught up in the [Empress Beast War]. Alongside countless [Awakened Ones], she fights for the one and o
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I Give Up! She’s Crazy and Brilliant, and Nobody Dares Mess with Her 跪了，她又疯又天赋超群！惹不起
“If the author says there's no romance, then there really isn't.” She became the saintess of one of the Four Great Sacred Lands, with exceptional talent, a prestigious position, and a decent fortune. And yet, with such an impressive setup, she was destined to be a cannon-fodder villain in countless stories about male and female leads. To avoid being won over or defeated, and to stay alive, she had no choice but to strike first. Oh, did I hit too hard? My mistake, my mistake. Go recover, then com
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Reborn as a Demonic Cultivator: From the Start, I Found a Zombie Planet 重生魔修，开局捡到一颗丧尸星球
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
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Don’t Talk Nonsense If You Don’t Know: This Is a Daoist Spirit Root 不懂别乱说，我这是道灵根
Whether the righteous path is a foot higher or the demonic path a yard higher, I ask only one thing: “Can I attain immortality?” Qin Feng transmigrated, and was lucky enough to take an ethereal old man as his master. Who knew the old man was an elder of the Demon Sect! The cultivation world was merciless, and the Demon Sect was a place where the strong preyed on the weak. Weak and helpless, Qin Feng could only keep a low profile and lie low if he wanted to survive. Unexpectedly, after keeping hi
18.2kReads8.6Score1.3kShelves
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Transmigrate into a Book: No One Understands Arrogance Better Than I Do 穿书之没人能比我更懂嚣张
[Signed for print publication] –– Fu Zhu died suddenly after staying up all night watching shows and reading novels. She still remembers that just before she died, she was reading a novel called The Useless Girl Warrior Who Defies Heaven. –– Then she became Bai Li Fu Zhu, the female villain who opposes the novel's hero and heroine. –– This villain is different: she isn't jealous of the heroine or interested in the hero. She simply can't stand the two of them acting more arrogant than her and ste
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Help! The New Junior Sister Is a Tortoise 救命！新来的小师妹是只王八
[Ensemble cast + no male lead] Li Yang transmigrates into a book, going from a young, eccentric woman to a little turtle in a wish-granting pool inside an illusion. Who would’ve thought she’d land in a love triangle from the start, with the male lead and the main villain fighting over her. According to the original story, she’s eventually contracted by the original male lead and becomes his greatest trump card on his path to immortality. She spends her entire turtle life taking hits for him: blo
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Senior Sister Is Just a Little Zen, Not Weak 大师姐只是性格有点佛，又不是弱
In her previous life, Jiang Yan pushed herself to the limit and became a peerless prodigy, only to be treated like a tool by her sect. Things did not go well. Her junior sister framed her for cultivation deviation. Her master refused to believe her, and the sect turned against her. In the end, while being hunted down, she chose to die alongside her junior sister. When she woke again, she was back on the day new disciples were recruited. Jiang Yan was done with it all. So she chose to join an obs
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The Great Dao Dies, but I Live On; Even as Spiritual Energy Dries Up, I Remain Evergreen 大道死而我不死，灵气枯竭我长青
[Immortality + no System + not a power fantasy + fictional setting + slow-paced] [The story mainly follows the protagonist as he travels and witnesses the changes after spiritual energy dries up.] Have you seen an age of prosperity, when spiritual energy was abundant, countless races rose to prominence, and geniuses shone like stars in the sky? But have you ever lived through an era when spiritual energy ran dry, all magic withered, and the Great Dao died? Have you seen a vast immortal dynasty g
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Don't Mess with the Junior Sister: Those Maniacs Are All Her Senior Brothers 别惹小师妹，那些疯批都是她师兄
[Family bonds, raising an adorable child, all kinds of senior brothers, growing up, healing] Bei Wan was kidnapped. At four years old, she was abducted and brought to the Cangyan Sect. But the way the people in this sect get along seems a little strange... Her eldest senior brother is gentle and refined, with a mild smile on his face and kind words on his lips. But when he fights, he takes down one kid with every swing. Her second senior brother was born a harbinger of calamity and is incredibly
15.7kReads9.3Score2.5kShelves
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I Swapped Sects with the Real Heiress: I Ascended, and She Was Sacrificed to Heaven 和真千金互换宗门，我飞升她祭天
[The animated comic adaptation is now available] In her previous life, Ye Qingning transmigrated into a cultivation novel and became the fake heiress. But after failing to win over the second male lead, the world unexpectedly restarted, and Ye Qingning was reborn on the day before she was due to leave for Luoyun Sect. Unexpectedly, the real heiress, the heroine, was reborn too. She even pretended to be kind and suggested they trade sects. Penglai Sect was the foremost immortal sect, but in her p
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Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春
[Print edition now available] Sang Nian accidentally climbs into the world of cultivation and becomes the vicious supporting female character who meets a tragic end in the book. System: Your mission is to marry the male supporting character, Xie Chenzhou, abuse him, humiliate him, and then get killed by him. Sang Nian: OK (brandishes little whip) (hits herself) (collapses with a thud) System: (silence) (stares at the sky) System: Mission changed. Win him over, or go mine coal. Sang Nian: (smiles
340.7kReads9.5Score48.9kShelves
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Everyone in the Sect Is Crazy, So I Max Out My Luck Instead 满门皆疯批，小师妹反手气运拉满
[Everyone's Darling + Ensemble Cast + Lighthearted + No Love Rivals + System] After Yun Yici transmigrates into a book, she's bound to a damnable fortune System. By earning the favor of those destined for great things, she can exchange their affection for fortune points and unlock draws. But after finally joining the sect at the heart of the story, she discovers that she's arrived two hundred years before the plot begins. Fortunately, her ethereal yet unreliable master has impossibly high standa
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The Poor Little One Is Hated by Everyone, but the Villains Help Her Run Wild 小可怜是万人嫌，反派们带她发疯
[An all-villain pampered heroine + regret and redemption + rebirth + mind-reading + mutual salvation] Yu Xi is a half-demon child who was abandoned. Just before she starves to death, a sect of immortals takes her in. She thinks she has found a home, unaware that everyone in the sect despises the lowly demon race. Her master hates her, her senior brothers don't care for her, and even the sword spirit runs off with someone else. No matter how hard she tries, she remains universally loathed for ove
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Reborn to Cultivate Immortality: My Birthmark Awakens, and I Become the Dao Lord 重生修仙：胎记觉醒，我即道君
[Mortal's Journey + Golden Finger + Conquer the World + Anti-Cliché] I thought that if my heart embraced the universe, the world would know no bounds; I thought immortals could summon the Milky Way and wash away humanity's woes, yet I saw them sweep their sleeves through the clouds, laughing at mortals as if they were ants; I thought I was simply myself, and that my sword would turn with the edge of my heart, yet I saw the hidden hand manipulating my fate; I ask the heavens! If you gave me life,
3.9kReads9.1Score269Shelves
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My Divine Lord Husband Dotes on Me Fiercely 神尊夫君狠狠宠
[Satisfying read + two equally powerful leads + adorable child + reborn + sweet romance] A powerful couple from the Heavenly Realm and the mortal world. To protect the Chaos Venerable Mo Yuanming, the God of War Liu Xiyan fell into the abyss while shielding him from a tribulation. He went mad with grief and became the Lord of the Netherworld, defying the heavens to search for her. After reincarnating, she lost her memories. With love as their blade and their souls as the guide, they journey from
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The Demon Lord and Immortal Venerable’s Road to a Day Job 魔尊仙尊打工路
[No System, no transmigration, light comedy, with parallel storylines in the human, immortal, and demon realms] Yun Zhi is a revered Immortal Venerable, but after being ambushed, she falls into the mortal world. Surviving the ordeal, she decides to... watch Li Juetian go to work. Li Juetian is a supreme Demon Venerable who suddenly lands in the mortal world, naturally burdened with an important mission... to work, earn money, and sample every delicacy the human world has to offer. After trying t
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My Junior Sister Says Even a Madman Is a God 小师妹说神经也是神
Jiang Zhu transmigrates into a novel about a girl adored by everyone, as a disposable female side character. The junior apprentice sister is gifted and loved by all, while the side character has cultivated for years and is still useless. In the end, she's pushed out to take a blade for the junior sister and dies miserably in the street. She opens her eyes to the sight of a whole sect full of hopeless sycophants, and Jiang Zhu wants to die. The heroine's suitors are everywhere. How about I bec
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The Reckless Abandoned Daughter: The Poisonous Consort Strikes Hard 弃女轻狂：毒妃狠嚣张
A 21st-century all-around agent transmigrates and nearly falls victim to her own mother’s murderous hand. They call her a good-for-nothing who can’t cultivate, worse than a beggar? Bai Huang gives a cold laugh. With a rare treasure in hand, all five of her elemental talents are unleashed. Even the War God has to step aside if he wants to take her as a disciple. She adopts adorable spirit pets, and all beasts bow to her as a crowd of underlings eagerly awaits her favor. A master of both medicine
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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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After Being Reborn Eighteen Times, I Clung to My Sharp-Tongued Master's Coattails 重生十八次后我抱了毒舌师尊大腿
Only after Yan Xi had died eighteen times did the Heavenly Dao finally give her a cheat. At last, she remembered the woman who had caused her to die and lose her cultivation time and again: Liu Qingyun, the transmigrated heroine with a System cheat who simply wouldn’t stay dead. Yan Xi declared, “Once I finish this pork knuckle, I’ll get up and take her on. After dying so many times, who here can say they’re tougher than me?” Then a certain old ancestor, famous for shamelessness and for remainin
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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
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I Became the Junior Sister of the Seven Deadly Sins and Gave Up Trying 穿成七大罪的小师妹后我摆烂了
[No romance + Strong heroine + Everyone has a one-sided crush + Seven Deadly Sins theme + Not a cultivation novel] Puran was a spiritual stone in a temple, but her tribulation ended in failure. A thunderbolt shattered her to pieces, and she transmigrated. Puran: “...Buddha, am I allowed to swear?” The good news: She gained seven senior brothers after transmigrating. The bad news: Every one of them is handsome, powerful, and tragic. But don't worry, your savior is here! The aloof and fallen Pride
10.7kReads9.5Score1.7kShelves
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So Popular! The Real Heiress Takes the Entertainment World by Storm by Squandering Her Wealth 超火！真千金靠败家爆红娱乐圈
[Hilarious + Showbiz + Everyone's Darling + Transmigrate Into a Book + Absurdist + Live-Stream Variety Show + True and Fake Heiresses Don't Tear Each Other Down] Feng Xixi transmigrates into a book and becomes the real heiress of a billionaire family. As the heroine's foil, the real heiress keeps making one terrible decision after another. Thinking of the real heiress's miserable fate, Feng Xixi decides that knowing your place is important: She absolutely won't cause trouble for the billionaire
33.8kReads9.2Score5.6kShelves