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Why Cultivate Immortality When You Can Just Raise Vines? 修什么仙，养藤就好了
[Half farming novel] [Enlightenment-focused cultivation] [Not pure power fantasy, slow-paced] He keeps a low profile and lies low in the early stages. There aren’t many satisfying power-fantasy moments, as the focus is on building a foundation. This isn’t entirely a farming novel, but a story about an ordinary person with no say in his own fate. The family is wiped out later on, so there’s no need to mourn them. The Jiuyi Realm is a land of mountains. The mountains are full of demons. Humans an
2.1kReads8.6Score258Shelves
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My Days at the Immortal Cultivation Administration 我在修仙管理局的日子
Why was a woman running down the road in the middle of the night, barely dressed? Construction workers called the police after digging up a living person. On a rainy night, a figure was seen in the sky, getting struck by lightning again and again. Was this a distortion of human nature, or a collapse of morality? Ye Ping'an, a university graduate who couldn't find a job after graduation, stumbled into the Cultivation Management Bureau and began working for the government. He has to arrest cultiva
13.2kReads8.4Score943Shelves
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From the Start, I Had Eternal Life: Laying Low in the Mortal Realm Until I Ascended 开局长生，苟在下界吃土飞升
[Immortal cultivation + no System + not a power fantasy + slow-paced + no female lead + pseudo-ensemble cast. Read with care if this isn’t your thing.] The mighty will of Heaven shines like a mirror, illuminating the causes and effects binding immortals and mortals alike. The countless living beings are like grains of sand, ground into the ashes of tribulation beneath mountains and rivers. A mysterious mirror hangs among the highest heavens, reflecting the lives of all beings in the Three Realm
218kReads9.0Score15.3kShelves
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Peerless Secret Words: The Spirit Heavens Chronicle 绝世密言：灵天记
Through fantastical stories, this book explores the mysteries of the universe and explains the principles of life, helping readers understand why people live. In doing so, it can help them put their worries aside and embrace life's experiences with greater optimism and energy!
982Reads9.4Score120Shelves
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I Ascended, but My Master Blew Up 我飞升了，但师尊炸了
[No System] [Cautious] [Everyday Life] [Comedy] [Scheming] [Half Immortal] On the first day Su Mo ascends to the Immortal Realm, his master blows himself up. The path to immortality is full of hardship. With his senior brothers and sisters helping him, Su Mo's immortal path is about to be cut short. After managing to keep his head down in the Immortal Realm, Su Mo discovers that the big shots there really have nothing better to do! He starts a livestream and immediately sparks a war between immo
3.4kReads7.9Score269Shelves
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First Rate! 第一流！
[No female lead, no formulaic tropes, not a power fantasy. Excellent writing and a first-rate plot. If that’s not your thing, don’t read.] Year thirty-one of the New Era. Snow fell in the bitter cold of winter. Many things happened that year. The Divine Church gained a new Divine Son, the Buddhist faith saw thirty-six golden lotuses bloom, and a madman emerged from a crumbling Taoist temple. The North Sea churned, threatening to swallow heaven and earth. A tiny blade of grass grew in the De
70.5kReads8.5Score7.5kShelves
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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
218kReads9.6Score23.4kShelves
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Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批
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
248.3kReads9.7Score28.4kShelves
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After the Whole Sect of Villains Heard My Thoughts, They All Went Crazy 全宗反派听我心声后，集体发疯了
[Ensemble Cast at a Cultivation Sect + Rebirth + Mind Reading + Beloved by Everyone + Absurd Comedy + Putting Scumbags in Their Place] The little junior sister, whose merciless Dao Venerable husband had killed her to prove his Dao, was reborn. She returned to a time when her sect was still intact. The moment she saw her master, she burst into tears: “Master, you’re about to sacrifice yourself for love and abandon us!” “Once you’re gone, each of us will die more horribly than the last!” The eldes
6.1kReads9.4Score896Shelves
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My Junior Sister Is Gifted, but Lacks Virtue 小师妹天资绝卓，但五行缺德
[Absurd comedy, transmigration, no romance, irreverent cultivation] While other people transmigrated into wealth and privilege, Chi Yu became a lowly servant in a sect, bullied by everyone and forced to wash even her junior sister's chamber pot. She decisively quit that miserable life and fled in the dead of night with a sack over her shoulder. She had planned to quietly be a good girl, but her cunning, shameless nature was already deep in her bones, and it turned out to be contagious. After Chi
12.7kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves
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A Zombie Transmigrates into the Cultivation World and Becomes the Pride of the Whole Sect 丧尸穿越修仙界，成了全宗门骄傲
[Sang Sang the Zombie: A Fresh Premise + Hilarious, Guaranteed to Cheer You Up + No Romance + Everyone's Favorite + Extraordinary Talent] (Note: The rating is very low because it just opened. This book has a great reputation, so enjoy!) Sang Sang is a genuine, bona fide zombie, but she transmigrates to the unfamiliar world of cultivation. In her eyes, cultivators' brains are the most delicious food. Master's brain is the tastiest. I'll have a bite first. Senior Brother's brain is pretty tasty to
5.6kReads8.7Score636Shelves
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Transmigrated Into a Book: No One Understands Arrogance Better Than Me 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
56kReads9.3Score7.3kShelves
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I Was a True Immortal, Yet I Never Knew 我本真仙不自知
The Five Aggregates and Four Kinds of Form Revealed in the Pure Nature The form of self, the form of others, the form of sentient beings and those who live through their allotted years, My own experience, others' experience, the experience of sentient beings across time and space, My thoughts, others' thoughts, the countless thoughts of sentient beings, My attachments, others' attachments, the myriad attachments of sentient beings, My transformations, others' transformations, the transformations
546Reads—Score142Shelves
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The Song of Enlightenment: A Timeless Masterpiece by Master Yongjia 永嘉大师千古神书之证道歌
A divine book, a divine book! A book that can boost your wisdom, unleash your imagination, fill you with energy, awaken you to life, and make you unstoppable with cheat-like powers! Now launching with a bang! The Pure Nature Reveals the Five Aggregates and Four Kinds of Form The self, other people, sentient beings, and those who live out their allotted years: The feelings of the self, of others, and of sentient beings through time and space; The thoughts of the self, of others, and the countless
1.3kReads6.9Score275Shelves
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The Book of Enlightenment: A Guide to Beating the Game of Life 开悟神书，人生游戏通关指南
A divine book, a divine book! A book that can boost your wisdom, unleash your imagination, fill you with energy, awaken you to life, and make you unstoppable with cheat-like powers! Now launching with a bang! Seeing Things as They Are Cling to appearances, and you fall prey to delusion; let go of appearances, and all becomes divine. Donning a robe, one plays gods and demons, with countless faces for each. Each face takes countless forms, yet none can be grasped. Like reflections in a mirror, se
2.7kReads8.7Score507Shelves
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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
318.8kReads9.6Score36.1kShelves
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I Hunt Down Transmigrators in Ancient China 我在古代抓捕穿越者
The protagonist, Long Chen, transmigrates into an ancient world. But it turns out that world is full of transmigrators. They belong to many different factions. Long Chen, himself a transmigrator, receives a mission: eliminate every other transmigrator. …
2.3kReads—Score126Shelves
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If I’d Known, You Needn’t Have Made Me Transmigrate 早知如此，大可不必让我穿越
[System runs in the background, ordinary-person cultivation, not a wish-fulfillment story, tactical spell battles, starting from scratch] Tang Zhen was among the luckiest transmigrators out there. In the eighteenth year after his transmigration, thanks to a spell-copying System with simple mechanics but ridiculously powerful functions, he became the leader of the greatest generation of prodigies in a thousand years of cultivation. The pillars of the righteous sects looked after him with great ca
34.6kReads8.8Score3.4kShelves
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I Turn My Five Organs into Swords and Slay My Way Through the World of Immortal Cultivation 我！五脏化剑，炼腑杀穿修仙界
[No System + Lone Cultivator + Righteous to a Sinister Degree + Too Lazy to Explain, You Can Listen If You Like + Harem] Also known as The Five Viscera Become Swords, the Six Bowels Become Palaces, and I Cultivate Into a Sword Immortal Modern urban setting. During the spiritual qi revival, Li Changhong discovers to his despair that his girlfriend is the fated partner of Ye Chen, the domineering protagonist who loves face-slapping! After being humiliated and slapped in the face, he refuses to acc
3.6kReads8.8Score304Shelves
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Global Cultivation: I Can See the Prices of Items 全民修仙：我能看见物品价格
[Mortal cultivation, slow burn]+ [Characters stay smart]+ [No mockery, no good-for-nothings]+ [Quality writing] (If you like power levels spiraling out of control, this isn’t for you.) “Old man, that gourd of wine looks good. I’ll give you one spirit stone for it.” After getting what he wanted, Shen He immediately poured the wine into his mouth. It was fake spirit wine mixed with crushed spirit stones, completely worthless. What he wanted was the gourd! The Thunderfire Immortal Gourd! A primordi
130Reads8.6Score—Shelves
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In Lizhu Cave Heaven, I Write Five Thousand Years of Chinese History 人在骊珠洞天，撰写华夏五千年
Chen Wuyou transmigrates into a fantasy world and decides to become a novelist. He takes up his brush and writes down five thousand years of splendor from his previous life in this new world. The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors! Yu the Great, who wanted to forge the Nine Tripod Cauldrons anew! Qin Shi Huang, who had no desire to learn foreign languages! The Han dynasty, declaring, “If the enemy can invade, so can we!” And, in the end, a community of shared destiny.
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Cultivating Clan: I Am the Guardian Spirit Stone 灵石仙族
(The animated series is now available, and the first print edition is on sale. Its title is "Blackstone: Bloodline Awakening". Search for it on any platform.) (All six volumes are complete. There’s plenty to read, so dig in!) [Family saga + ensemble cast + no System + not saintly + slow burn + the protagonist is a stone + behind-the-scenes machinations + no female lead] Volume 1: Winds Rise over Song Mountain (complete) Volume 2: Clash of the Origin Condensation Realm (complete) Volume 3: Riding
61.2kReads9.1Score6kShelves
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Bestowed with a Hundred Blessings 授天百禄
“I was once an almighty immortal, but I was brought down by a wicked schemer! My family abandoned me! My sect cast me out! They even severed my immortal meridians! Reborn into a new life, I will rebuild my immortal body, storm the Immortal Realm, and take back everything that belongs to me!” “Now for the question: who’s willing to set up a shrine for me at home and offer incense every day?” At some point, a joke began circulating throughout the Ten Kingdoms. No one expected that one day, when th
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Dark Xianxia: My Master Is a Female Ghost 黑仙侠，师父是女鬼
The male lead dies suddenly while testing Black Myth: Wukong and wakes up in another world. He doesn’t know whether he has transmigrated, fallen into the game, or stumbled into a conspiracy.
96Reads8.1Score—Shelves
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Witch, Where Are You Running? 魔女，哪里跑
Li Potian, a disciple of an immortal sect, is unfortunately captured by the Demon Realm and turned into a cultivation furnace. He thinks he is doomed, but his extraordinary gifts unexpectedly make him the ultimate cultivation furnace in the world. From then on, he rises and falls through the Three Realms, embarking on a magnificent life.
128Reads6.3Score—Shelves
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The Deer-Hunting Chronicles: The Art of Qimen Dunjia 逐鹿记之奇门遁甲
The story centers on the Nine Palaces and Qimen Dunjia, drawing on the Book of Changes, the Six Ren and Taiyi methods of divination, and the customs and landscapes of the Qin and Han dynasties. It rationally depicts the fates of the characters associated with the nine palaces: Kan, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Zhong, Qian, Dui, Gen, and Li. It also weaves together the Nine Heavens, the Nine Earths, the Nine Kingdoms of the Northern Wilderness, the Nine Demons of the West, the Nine Tribes of the South, and th
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Reborn as the Urban Immortal Venerable 重生之都市仙尊
Luo Chen, once a supreme immortal, is ambushed and reborn on Earth. Though he holds an ordinary position in society, he faces contempt from his girlfriend, ridicule from his rival in love, his parents' miserable lives, and threats and provocations from the scions of wealthy families. He swears to change his unfair fate, stand at the pinnacle of the world, and show everyone that he, Luo Chen, was once here.
32.1kReads9.0Score1.7kShelves
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