The Great Book Drought Showdown: Bring Your Books, Put Them Up for Debate, and Take on the Rebuttals 书荒大舞台,有书你就来,拿书PK接反驳
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The Weakest Summons? A Demon Contract Maxes Out My Talent from the Start 召唤最弱?开局恶魔契约天赋拉满
[Infinite Flow] + [power fantasy] + [lighthearted] + [comedy] (No female lead) (Dungeon-focused plot) He chooses the bottom-tier Summoner class, only to awaken a demonic contract enhancement rune that lets him trade his maximum HP for summoned creature talents. “Summoners are weak? I’ll max out my talents. So, how will you deal with that?”
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Beast Taming: From the Start, I Got a Monkey and a Cheat 御兽:开局一只猴,一个挂
[Beast Taming + Simplification + No Romance + Lighthearted Wish Fulfillment] Yi Tian transmigrates to a world of beast taming and obtains a Simplified Beast Taming System. Anything related to beast taming can be simplified. From the start, he forms a contract with a stone monkey that loves liquor! They say stone monkeys have no evolution path? Then I'll create one! Add a staff, some armor, and a cloud to ride on. Nice, that's got the right feel! When the assembled geniuses see the stone monkey s
75.2kReads9.1Score10kShelves
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The Three-Foot Heavenly Abyss Sword, the Blind Man, and the Heartless Killer 三尺天渊剑,瞎眼男子,无心狠人
[Decisive and ruthless + play the pig to eat the tiger + no System + cold and merciless] Xiao Luochen transmigrates into a world of political intrigue written for female readers, becoming the disowned son of a declining family. From the start, his cultivation is crippled, and his childhood sweetheart, the heroine, kicks him out of the house. Then the vicious villainess snatches him away, intent on abusing and tormenting him? This crazy, vicious villainess is completely unhinged! What? The heroin
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This Sword Immortal Is Too Powerful 这个剑仙太强了
[2021 Invincible Novel] Tens of millions of years ago, he swept across the Nine Heavens with a broken sword. Millions of years ago, he severed the heavenly chasm with a rusted sword. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, he cleaved the vast worlds apart with a wooden sword... Today, he has returned!! The Nine Heavens unite, and the heavenly chasm sinks into the abyss; The countless paths of the vast worlds coexist and thrive together. As he searches for his memories, he discovers traces of himself
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The Immortal’s Long-Lived Tomb 长生仙墓
Lu Changsheng possesses the Eternal Immortal Body, living forever through the ages, never to die. Over countless years, he has roamed through a myriad of worlds and accumulated boundless experience. He has served as a carefree Immortal Emperor, run a tavern and sold wine, founded a sect as the mysterious and carefree sect leader, and opened a clinic as a master healer who saves lives. He has also wielded a three-foot sword, sweeping across the world with his sword energy as the Azure-Robed Sword
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Honghuang: The Cautious Golden Crow, Whom the Demon Clan Begs to Come Down from the Mountain 洪荒:稳健金乌,妖族跪求我出山
From the start, he chooses to become the Third Golden Crow, the brother of Dijun and Taiyi. Knowing how the story goes, how could he stand by and watch the tragedy of the Witch-Demon Tribulation unfold? In this life, he stays holed up on the Sun Star, refusing to venture out, determined to be a cautious Golden Crow. Until one day, the Wu Clan conquers the entire Primordial World and begins attacking the Sun Star. Lingxiao emerges from the Sun Star, and the darkest hour of the Wu Clan begins! Eve
28.5kReads8.7Score2.7kShelves
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Immortality System: I Outlived Everyone 系统赋我长生,我熬死了所有人
Observing the love and hatred of cultivators across the river of time from a perspective beyond life itself. He left a modest little town and entered the wondrous world of cultivation. His journey sped up and slowed down, moving forward or stopping to rest, but he never stopped walking. The Age of Declining Dharma, the Age of Emperors, the Age of Dark Turmoil… He appeared in every age, and the only thing he could do was watch old friends die with his own eyes, then see them off to their grave
535.2kReads9.4Score46.6kShelves
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From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古,苟到天荒地老
[Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up
781.1kReads9.7Score91.1kShelves
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You Sent Me to Die in the Army, So How Did I Become a Federation Marshal? 让你当兵送死,你杀成联邦元帅?
[Attribute point allocation + ruthless combat + interstellar warfare + power fantasy + from private to marshal] In the interstellar age, Li Feng suffered one devastating blow after another. His family marriage partner looked down on him and found an adopted daughter to take her place in the marriage. Then, having lost his value as a marriage prospect, he was framed by a cousin from his clan and forced to join an independent reconnaissance ship in the Border Defense Force, where the death rate wa
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I'm Zhang San, and I Want a Word with the Rules of the Paranormal! 我张三,要和规则怪谈谈谈!
[Horror + eerie + hilarious + satisfying + national fortune = a serious novel] The Supreme Rules descend, selecting multiple people at random from each country to become Ascenders and take part in the Ascension Exam! Those who perform well earn high scores and even extra rewards. They can improve their own abilities and bring unexpected ascension to their country. But fail the exam, and death may be waiting for you, along with endless torment. Even your country may be beset by supernatural event
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Beast Taming: In the Urban Legend Dungeon, I'm the Lazy King from the Start 御兽:怪谈副本,开局我是懒大王
[Rules-based horror + beast taming + comedy + System + no romance] The protagonist isn't a bleeding heart! (This isn't traditional beast taming or a national-fate rules horror story, so feel free to dive in.) After waking from a night's sleep, Lin Yu found himself transmigrated into a parallel world where people mainly made contracts with the supernatural. He was also a soon-to-be senior in high school, training to become a supernatural beast tamer?! "All I did was stay up late watching Blue Fox
10.7kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
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Global Lifespan Lottery: Only I Can Choose the Rewards 全球寿命抽奖:只有我能指定奖励
The apocalyptic game arrives, and lifespan becomes the only currency! The various wheels of fortune dropped by monsters can only be spun by spending lifespan! Some people spend ten years of their lives and draw a life-extending pill that grants them another hundred years! Some people spend a hundred years of their lives and draw powerful abilities that let them defy fate! Some people spend a thousand years of their lives and draw a terrifying beast tide that threatens an entire city's popula
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Logged In Early! How Can I Lose After Rebirth? 提前登录!重生的我怎么输?
[Character build] [Health bar] [Horrors] [Martial artists] [Sequence] In 2035, a fully immersive game called Dark Realm hit the market and instantly took the world by storm. But a year later, the game descended into reality. Flesh-eating horrors, murderous foreign races, and paranormal Ascendants brought about the apocalypse and drove humanity to extinction. Zhang Qing is reborn two years earlier and is shocked to discover that his headset has returned with him. So he logs in ahead of time! Rebo
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The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀?抱歉,我才是真正不死
This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to
291.2kReads9.5Score34.8kShelves
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Global Lord: Am I the Only One with a Fallen Empire? 全民领主:唯独我是堕落帝国?
This is a cruel age. When the War Game descended, it decreed that every race across countless planes must become a game lord upon reaching adulthood and join the meat grinder of the war between races. Yet Gao Qiang stares at the type of territory he’s been given, lost in thought. [Fallen Empire] [This empire stood at the pinnacle long before any known nation. They once possessed everything. They once knew everything. Until they grew tired of it all, becoming lazy and decadent. But! They are powe
39.3kReads9.0Score3.5kShelves
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I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命,请让我从容赴死
From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While
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Apocalypse Commissioner: Step by Step to the Top! 末世委员长:一步步走到最高!
I Became the Commander-in-Chief in the Apocalypse Apocalypse + raising a massive army + hard-core stats + characters with brains Just as the apocalypse arrives, Gu Chengyuan obtains the War System and starts raising a massive army, sweeping through the apocalypse with an unstoppable tide of steel! The blurb doesn't do it justice. Please read the story.
102.1kReads9.0Score7.5kShelves
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Arena Breakout: Taking the Squad to Fight the Japanese 暗区突围:带男团抗日
“Target closing in. Requesting suppressive fire.” “You're not getting away!” “You're up against an expert.” “Drop your weapons, or you'll regret it!” The Japanese division commander stares in bafflement at the men before him, who have practically shoved the Pharaoh right into his mouth. (This is Tianshui Star, a parallel world to Earth. Everything that happens here is unrelated to real history. The author has no intention of disrespecting history or promoting anything harmful, so please don't re
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Urban Legends: Who Let This Taoist Priest In Here? 怪谈:谁放这个道士进这里的?
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
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Azure Tyrant 湛蓝暴君
“What? You’re creating a biological disaster? Arrest them!” “Huh?! You’re trying to summon the Zerg? That’s completely insane! Seize them!” “Whoa! Why are you bringing an alien along? Are you planning to build up a whole army? Hands on your head, get down on your knees!” The many Chosen Ones from different realms cried out, “Run! The Evil God’s lackeys are here!” Li Si, a man devoid of emotion, wanted to become normal. Representing his realm in the Contest Across the Myriad Heavens, he became an
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The Game Becomes Reality: I Built the Most Ancient Immortal Clan 游戏成真,我打造了万古第一仙族
Li Xiang happened upon a cultivation-clan simulator. He discovered that the descendants in the game would offer him all kinds of strange sacrifices. “Thank you for your blessing, Ancestor! Our clan has become the greatest family in the world!” “Quick, offer the Ancestor a sacrifice! Please accept this immortal artifact!” “Ancestor, we’ve conquered the Immortal Realm!” “…” Then one day, The members of the Li clan appeared on Earth in flying boats, arriving in a vast procession. Under the astonish
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Give It Up, Eagle Sauce. Outside Are All Huaxia Star Destroyers 收手吧鹰酱,外面全是华夏歼星舰
[Technological Superpower + Hawkish Patriotism + Strategic Intimidation + South Heaven Gate Project + Cold Nuclear Fusion + Interstellar Civilization + Multidimensional Universe = ?] Lin Mo, formerly chief engineer of the South Heaven Gate Project, transmigrates to Blue Star’s Huaxia and becomes Professor Ai’s student. He awakens a strategic intimidation technology System: by targeting hostile forces such as the Eagle Nation with strategic intimidation, he can continually unlock future technolog
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Between Two Worlds, with an Armored Tide at My Back 穿梭两界,我的身后是钢铁洪流
[Travel Between Two Worlds] + [Calling in the Parents] + [Steel Torrent] + [Mechanical Fantasy] + [Across the Stars] + [Smart Characters] Ultimate Summoning Technique: Motherland, I need you! Transmigration means hacking through thorns and blazing a trail, struggling through hardships, facing deadly battles and danger at every turn. After fighting tooth and nail in another world to carve out a tiny territory, the enemy is about to reach his gates. The foolish nobles have abandoned my country. Th
47.3kReads9.3Score3.6kShelves
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From the Start, I Have Hundreds of Millions in Hell Money: I'm Invincible in the Age of the Uncanny 开局冥币亿万:诡异时代我无敌
[Supernatural horror + apocalypse + tycoon + ghost money + rules + comedy + no heroine + fast-paced power fantasy (buys a supernatural-horror site by chapter 7, keeps buying everything without dragging things out, and buys an entire city in 200,000 words) + mid-story twists + late-game rule deduction] The supernatural apocalypse arrives, and evil ghosts run rampant. Within the rules, ghosts cannot kill people. While countless people struggle to survive the apocalypse, carefully searching for a w
122.4kReads9.4Score12kShelves
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I Spoke with the Ancients, and the Secret of My Immortality Was Exposed 对话千古,我长生的秘密被曝光了
My name is Zhang Liang. I’m a fine young man from the 21st century: I love good food, beautiful women, and having fun. I’ve just transmigrated, and now I’m in an ancient age of myth, where evil spirits roam everywhere, countless strange beasts lurk, and mysterious shamans hold sway. But I’m not afraid. I’ve got a video game character template, so I can level up and change classes, and I come with countless resurrection tokens. I can live forever! My name
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Backrooms Exploration Notes Backrooms后室探索笔记
[Exploration across levels] + [Rigorous and realistic] + [Plausible plot] + [Easy to get into] + [No brainless characters] A meticulously researched Backrooms survival and exploration story, based on the Wikidot version of the Backrooms, featuring images from the original documents as well as original artwork. “If you noclip out of reality in the wrong place by accident, you’ll end up in the Backrooms. There’s nothing but the stench of damp carpet, the maddening monotony of yellow, the endless
38.5kReads9.5Score5.3kShelves
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Monitor Man: I Vow to Flush G-Man Down the Drain 监控人:誓要把gman冲下水
After Lu Renjia gets smacked in the face with a phone, he unexpectedly transmigrates into the world of Skibidi Toilet and Cameramen, becoming an ordinary camouflage-headed Cameraman. When he discovers that he can be reborn endlessly and grow stronger by killing Skibidi Toilets... G-Man: I've had it! Why is there always another camouflage Cameraman messing things up whenever we plan to deal with a Titan? Titan Cameraman: The camouflage Cameramen have been just as useful as a Titan in the battles
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Writing a Diary in the Jie Sect, Tongtian Gets Played for a Fool 人在截教写日记,通天被玩坏了
Ying Yuan woke up one day to find that he had transmigrated to Mount Kunlun in the Primordial World. He had become an evil dragon, formed from the power of wickedness at the dawn of creation. As an innate evil dragon, he was steeped in wickedness and burdened by karma. The Human Religion refused to take him in, the Chan Sect despised him and called for his death, and the Dragon Clan of the Four Seas wanted nothing to do with him. With no other choice, he joined the Jie Sect as an outer sect disc
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Immortal Martial Ming: My Father Is a Great Luo Immortal, So Bark All You Want! 仙武大明:家父大罗,你再狗叫?
[Short drama now streaming] The Embroidered Guard: From the start, I had the Great Compassion Fu, and can cultivate martial arts to sainthood [Devouring cultivation] [Great Ming Embroidered Guard] + [traditional style] + [mystery and deduction] + [decisive and ruthless] + [jianghu and court] + [political power struggles] Zhang Lin accidentally transmigrates to the Great Ming Dynasty. He intends to use his limited knowledge of history to give the dynasty a taste of modern shock, only to discover
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If You Won't Write the Memorial, Why Are You Going on the Northern Campaign? 不写出师表,你北什么伐呀!
“This place is so delightful, I could forget all about Shu!” Liu Shan, who left behind this timeless saying, thought he had died. But when he opened his eyes again, he had become Zhao Gou, the emperor of the Great Song. With none of Zhao Gou's memories, he gazed at the officials filling the court and fell into deep thought. They have a chancellor here too? The name Qin Hui might not sound like much, but surely he's as capable in both letters and arms as my foster father! Hmm? Wait, why is there
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The Blind Swordsman Draws His Blade, First to Slay the Fox Demon Bride 瞎子拔刀,第一刀先斩狐妖娘子
[Invincible Hero + Drinking and Roaming the Jianghu + Living for Revenge and Retribution + Draw Your Blade and Strike Down Any Foe] This world is home to demons. Fox demons, tiger demons, dragon demons, stone demons, sound demons, eye demons, and food demons. There are also demon slayers, who can kill demons. Lu Xiaoyao transmigrated here with a Demon-Sealing Register. Every demon he slays earns him a reward. Cultivation, martial skills, lifespan, spiritual treasures... Unfortunately, things wen
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Charge One Silver Coin More, and Even the Great Emperor Has to Pay 贪一银加一点大帝来了也得交银子
The Red Fruit short drama is now available: As a Brocade Guard, I Hold All the Power. Is That a Problem? (Ruthless and decisive + no distinction between good and evil, only different sides + clear-headed. In short, rest assured and enjoy the read. Go away if you're a bleeding heart.) On the Xuanqing Continent, people revered the martial path to its very limits, even seeking immortality and the Dao. Li Hanjiang transmigrated to this continent, into the territory of an empire called Chiyan. Perhap
31.5kReads8.7Score2.7kShelves
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Liu Xie at the End of Han: One Slap Shatters Lu Bu's Dream of Invincibility 汉末刘协:一巴掌打碎吕布无敌梦
[Three Kingdoms] [Invincible] [Emperor] [Behind the Scenes] What was the main reason for the decline of the Eastern Han? Power was controlled by great clans, aristocratic families protected one another, and powerful landowners seized more and more land. The court seemed full of officials, but behind them lay a vast, intricate web. Above, the ruler became a caged bird for them to toy with. Below, the people became fish in their net, there for them to exploit. After transmigrating into the world o
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Alas, Immortal 嗟仙
[The human side of cultivation, ensemble cast, no golden finger] Now that order has been established in the cultivation world, fighting and killing are no longer the norm. What matters more is navigating human relationships. Zhu Xiaosuo rises from an ordinary mortal to an immortal, one step at a time, in the name of “saving face.”
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The Longevity Sword, the Immortal of the Mortal Realm 长生剑,红尘仙
[Steady even in the thick of things, sharp-minded, kind-hearted, skilled in both combat and scholarship.] [Upright values, a conscience, and unmatched strength. Keep a low profile to the extreme, and you can afford to live boldly.] A little Taoist priest who has not yet mastered his skills arrives on the Flowing Cloud Continent. True to his unwavering Taoist convictions, he slays demons, exorcises evil, and upholds justice. This book is also titled The Longevity Sword, the Immortal of the Mortal
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Was I the One Being Conquered? 被攻略的竟是我自己?
[One heroine + she pursues him + not a wish-fulfillment story + being won over + no cheat powers + mild yandere] A first love is probably someone no man can ever forget, and Yan Feng is no different. His first love was so perfect that even after all these years, he still couldn’t get her out of his mind. Then one day, a young woman in the prime of her youth who claimed to be the daughter of an old acquaintance showed up at his door, hoping to repay the kindness he had shown her with food and she
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