Why Are Apocalyptic Novels So Bad These Days? Any Recommendations? 现在的末世怎么都那么差了,求推荐
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In the Apocalypse Livestream, the Nation Became the Top-Ranked Tycoon 末世直播间,国家竟成榜一神豪
[Apocalypse, transmigration, mutations, disasters, livestreaming, comedy, System, wish fulfillment] Ye Xiao is incredibly lucky. He’s always complained that life is boring, and now he’s transmigrated! Ye Xiao is terribly unlucky. He’s transmigrated into an apocalypse crawling with mutated creatures! Ye Xiao is incredibly lucky. He’s got a System! Ye Xiao is terribly unlucky. His System doesn’t let him stockpile supplies or give him super strength. It makes him livestream instead! Ye Xiao is losi
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The Top Player Runs Rampant Through Dungeons and Abducts the Evil God 顶级玩家杀疯副本,拐跑邪神
The print edition is now available under the title: The Fall of the Gods (Not for the faint of heart: nonhuman entities and terrifying monsters.) Yin Xiu has lived in a town governed by rules for six years. Normal players follow the rules and clear instances to stay alive. Yin Xiu, however, stays in town day after day. He doesn’t leave, clear instances, or go near the monsters. He does the bare minimum, takes it easy, and has practically settled into retirement. The town’s monsters have had thei
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How Embarrassing! I Turned into a Zombie and Ran Into My Wolfish Ex-Boyfriend 社死!变丧尸后,遇上狼狗前男友
[Goofy Zombie Heroine + Flesh-and-Blood Evolution + Immortal Body + Powerful Badass] Chu Ge is completely useless, so she voluntarily sticks her hand into a zombie's mouth. Following the philosophy that if you can't beat them, join them, she figures she'll save herself at least thirty years of trouble. She finally gets her wish and joins the zombie horde, contributing her share to the apocalypse. She'd planned to become a mindless, shambling corpse. But heaven has it in for her: somehow, she tur
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Global Zombie Outbreak: The Evil Seeds Descend 全球尸变,恶种降临
[Apocalypse + Survival + Zombies + Human Nature + Powerful Male and Female Leads] When he wakes up, the entire world has been struck by a bizarre virus. Everyone infected turns into a highly intelligent killing monster. The once-bustling campus instantly becomes a living hell. Here, honesty, friendship, kindness, and everything else have ceased to exist. He only wanted to lie low and survive, but from the start he is locked in a room full of monsters. He thinks certain death is inevitable, but u
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I Get Apocalypse Protagonists Government Jobs 我给末世主角们发编制
(A feel-good power fantasy, with a beautiful, badass heroine who confiscates golden fingers) “Sheng is the boss around here. She's ruthless and doesn't waste words. Cross her, and she'll take you down!” In the year 2323 of the Star Era, the apocalypse is about to begin. Some people awaken their powers early, while reborn people are already making their moves… As the head of a new department, Sheng An is responsible for recruiting and leading all the powered and reborn individuals, preparing for
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I Was Still in High School When the Apocalypse Began 我还是个高中生就遇上了末世
[Post-apocalyptic + Silly Memes and Jokes + No Goody-Two-Shoes + Comedy + A Constant Stream of Snark] [Features multiple kinds of apocalypses, not just a zombie apocalypse] On the very first evening study session of his sophomore year of high school, Zhu Haoge witnessed a murder with his own eyes. The apocalypse broke out the next day. This is bad! I'm still in high school. How did the apocalypse start already? At least he had a cheat. Wait! Where's the cheat I was promised? What's this little b
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Doomsday Echoes: I Am the Savior of the Apocalypse! 末日回响:我就是末日救世主!
Blue rain began to fall from the sky. Unknown monsters suddenly descended upon this world. Human society collapsed in an instant. No cheats, no protagonist's halo, no spiritual qi revival! Every step we take leads us closer to despair! To those who died at the very beginning of the apocalypse, I envy you, because you never had to experience a despair more despairing than death. My name is Chen Ge. I will witness the coming of the apocalypse.
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Apocalypse Descends: Global Power Outage 末世降临:全球断电
The electromagnetic radiation and high-energy charged particles released by a solar storm will trigger violent activity in the upper atmosphere and near-Earth space. They can disrupt Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signals, interfere with high-frequency radio communications, completely cut off high-frequency communications along aviation routes, damage electronic components, and destroy optical systems. ...When that happens, there will be no phones, computers, internet, Wi-Fi, or even
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Apocalypse Godfather: I Have a Gang of Crazy Brothers 末世教父,我有一群疯子兄弟
(No System, passionate, brotherhood, not an invincible protagonist, high martial arts) (Ensemble cast, every character has a distinct personality and their own moments to shine) A young man framed and imprisoned by his own boss unexpectedly gains the blood of the Demon Ancestor and awakens as a superpowered fighter, embarking on a path of revenge. The story of a group of youths from the bottom of society fighting their way up. A legend about a young man who rises to become the Underworld Emperor
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Oh No! The Little Zombie Accidentally Became a Big Shot 糟糕!小丧尸一不小心就成了大佬
[Apocalypse x food hoarding x devoted couple x sweet romance x little zombie heroine x super badass, high-output hero] Torrential rain, typhoons, tsunamis, thunderstorms, the disappearance of Earth's magnetic field, zombies, monsters, supernatural abilities, and more... Congratulations, you've entered the main storyline of the apocalypse. The whole world is about to be reshuffled. From here on, survival depends on your life, your luck, and yourself. - While everyone else is still screaming in a
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After the Apocalypse, the Pretty Female Side Character Is Outrageously Lucky 末世后漂亮女配运气好麻了
[Stockpiling + System + island dimension + fantasy continent + fighting monsters and leveling up + all kinds of loot] Hua Diao is a little-known star, and her life is just one long string of misfortune. She chokes on water, gets food stuck in her throat, gets fish bones lodged in her mouth, and even runs into falling objects while walking down the street. Her constant bad luck often lands her in the trending topics, but she never manages to become popular. Then one day, a fish ball gets stuck in
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Game Invasion: The Cannon-Fodder Villainess Rules Every Instance 游戏入侵:炮灰女配主宰所有副本
Reborn, Wu Yue finally learns that she's nothing more than a vicious cannon-fodder supporting character in a book. She has no mental power or awakened abilities, gets crushed by the heroine, a delicate, qipao-wearing charmer adored by everyone, and is eventually torn to pieces by evil spirits after being used as bait. She immediately decides to stay far away from the leads, find a hidden instance that nobody knows about, and lie flat like a lazy salted fish for the rest of her life. But a change
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Doomsday Descends: A Hundredfold Drop Rate, Loot with Every Strike 末日降临:百倍爆率刀刀爆物资
[Game Stats] [No Romance] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Invincible Protagonist] [Absolute Egoism] [Pure Wish Fulfillment] No saintly heroes allowed!!! After surviving ten years of the apocalypse, Lin Ziluo was reborn on the day the apocalypse game arrived. When he came to, the first thing he did was kill his campus crush, the girlfriend who had betrayed him and ruined his life for ten years. Unexpectedly, he activated a System that could grant him countless golden fingers. His first golden finger: Ab
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Apocalypse Rebirth: The Big Shot Starts by Stockpiling a Million Supplies 末世重生:大佬从百万囤货开始
[Apocalypse + ruthless heroine + System storage space + stockpiling supplies + infrastructure building + strong female lead + an outrageously powerful golden finger!] Han Qingxia, a hardened survivor who struggled through ten years of the apocalypse, is betrayed by her base while it’s under siege by zombies. She opens her eyes and finds herself back half a month before the apocalypse! Her deadbeat father, awful grandmother, and stepmother are still trying to force her out of her home so her brot
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The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区
After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey...
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The Wind Rises in Longcheng 风起龙城
Sixty years after global disaster, the Little Freeze has ended. Governments across the living zones begin reclaiming large stretches of unadministered land awaiting development, reorganizing resources and ushering in a full-scale recovery. These twenty years are also known as the “Golden Twenty Years.” It's a dazzling new age: new zones rise one after another, politics sets the stage while capital puts on a show, and ambitious schemers are everywhere. Heroes and strongmen, treacherous warlords a
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Doomsday: I’m Surviving Against All Odds with My Four Roommates from Hell 末日,我带寝室四大冤种绝地求生
Apocalypse, zombies, comedy, absurd humor, mutations, survival, multiple female leads. When the zombie virus suddenly breaks out, the whole world descends into chaos. Those who survive face more than just zombie bites: they also have to contend with one another. I struggle to stay alive with my four hopeless dorm mates, and we get into plenty of hilarious situations along the way. In the end, nobody knows whether humanity can defeat the virus.
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With the Heavenly Dao Legacy in Hand, I Make Goddesses from the Three Realms My Slaves 天道传承在手,豢养三界女神为奴
[A Fresh New Premise] [Apocalyptic Imagination] [An Unmissable Read] [Apocalypse + Rebirth + Invincible + A Huge Harem + 100 Illustrations + Ruthless + Mythology Returns + Taoist Arts + Superpowers + Inheritances from Gods and Demons + Inheritances from the Hundred Schools of Thought] The apocalypse arrives, zombies run rampant, and mutated beasts are everywhere. Jiang Yu, a young Taoist priest, is betrayed and brutally murdered by his brothers. Reborn before the apocalypse, he steals the inheri
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Doomsday: A World of Women, and I'm Having the Time of My Life 末日:全女生的世界,我爽到飞起
[Invincible] [Apocalypse] [More Children, More Blessings] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Profit Comes First] [Beautiful Women Are Just Supporting Characters] The evil scientist Yang Zhuli unleashes a virus that wipes out men. Over 95% of men worldwide are infected and turned into bloodthirsty zombies. Li Yun, an unremarkable food delivery driver, is one in ten thousand: he is immune to the virus. In the perilous Apocalypse, Li Yun is lucky enough to be chosen by the System and gain a powerful doomsday
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Spatial Ability's Biggest Slacker: Stockpiling Ten Thousand Tons of Pork Before the Apocalypse 空间系老六,末世先囤一万吨猪肉
[Apocalypse + Rebirth + Spatial Ability + Stockpiling Supplies + Ruthless, No Saintly Savior + Building a Faction] “Mr. Chen, your one hundred family buckets of fried chicken have arrived.” “Mr. Chen, your one hundred roast ducks have arrived.” “Boss Chen, your ten thousand tons of pork have arrived.” Chen Luo, known as the Void King, relied on his unmatched ability to lie low until every survivor had died. In the whole world, only monsters remained; there were no humans left. With nothing left
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Apocalypse: I Told You to Stockpile Supplies, Not Goddesses 末世:让你屯物资,没让你屯女神
[Apocalypse + rebirth + no zombies + spatial dimension + no goody-two-shoes protagonist] When the apocalypse strikes, Xiao Ran is murdered and eaten by his wife and her family. Only as he dies does he learn that his son isn’t even his, and that he’s been nothing but a pathetic man raising another man’s child. But he is reborn three months before the apocalypse, and he gains access to an enormous spatial dimension! From the start, he divorces his vicious wife, wins the lottery, storms the stock m
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Reborn with Infinite Supplies, I Become a Big Shot in the Apocalypse 重生后我携无限物资在末世当巨佬
[Rebirth + Pocket Space + Strong Heroine] In her previous life, Yun Shuhuai was betrayed by her lover because of her rare special ability. He held his new lover close and personally sent Yun Shuhuai to the operating table of a mad scientist, where she endured inhuman torture and died. When she wakes up three years earlier, before the apocalypse arrives, she discovers that she has her pocket space and abilities that are even stronger than before. The endless land in her space produces a steady su
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Apocalypse: From the Start, I Seize an SSS-Rank Superpower 末世:开局我夺取了SSS级异能
[Superpower Evolution] [Egoism] [Reborn] [Dark Humor] [Early Development, Lone Wolf] [Multiple Heroines, Skip if You Mind] A meteor shower descended, and the whole world collapsed into ruin. Most people turned into terrifying monsters, while animals and plants ceased to be resources for the survivors and became hunters instead. The meteor shower also brought star crystals, which could yield extraordinary food, weapons and equipment, evolution potions, and bloodlines with supernatural abilities..
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Doomsday Evolution: The Myth Reawakens 末日进化之神话复苏
The greenhouse effect melts the polar ice caps, unleashing ancient viruses that have lain buried underground for billions of years. Modern cities become ruins, and the apocalypse arrives! All kinds of life on Earth begin undergoing bizarre evolutions! Mutants from sci-fi movies and divine beasts from mythology appear one after another! What future awaits humanity? Reborn into a new life, Han Zhong vows to defy fate, rise to power, and lead all evolved creatures!
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Apocalypse Descends: I Slay Gods and Demons with My Longblade! 末世降临:我以长刀斩神魔!
[Apocalypse Survival, Spiritual Qi Revival, Destiny Wheel, Gods and Demons Descend, Blood-Pumping Action!] The world was transformed by the supernatural. Monstrous beasts ran rampant, darkness rose, and the killing never stopped! Zhang Qing was reborn ten years in the past and obtained the Destiny Wheel. He rose through slaughter and was reborn in the darkness! He established the Luosheng Gate, became a dark-night asura, and roamed the night, wiping out evil across the world! With the long blade
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Eerie Revival: I’m Covered in Taboos and Slaughter My Way Through the Haunted Realm 诡异复苏:我满身禁忌杀穿诡域
“Since Heaven took pity on me and let me be reborn, I’ll fight my way through this terminally ill world in this life!” The occult returns. Monsters and demons roam, mountains of corpses and seas of blood spread, and screams fill the land. Only Divine Mark Masters are a light in this diseased world. Anyone with a pattern on their body has a chance of becoming a Divine Mark Master. One person has leukemia and transforms into a white-winged angel who metes out judgment in every direction. Another h
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I Awakened the Ten Halls of Hell, and My Ex Begged Me to Take Her Back 觉醒十殿阎罗,前女友跪求复合
[SSS-Rank from the Start, Elegant and Unbeatable, Plenty of Trump Cards, No System] Hey, everyone! My girlfriend, the campus belle, dumped me right from the start. But I didn’t panic. As the reincarnation of the Netherworld Emperor, I immediately awakened the SSS-Rank Ten Halls of the Underworld! What? As a transmigrator, I don’t have a System? Still, no need to panic! I have the innate Forbidden Red Paper Umbrella! Let the invading foreign races come, let the myriad realms descend! Draw the swo
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The Strongest Zombie 最强丧尸
Infected with the zombie virus from the start, I find that countless zombies ignore me in this apocalyptic society? They want to get into my shelter. The goddesses and beauties of the past compete for my attention, while the rich beg to shower me with treasures!!
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My Vampire Girlfriend Wants to Bite Me, but I’m the Zombie King 吸血鬼女友要咬我,可我是僵尸王
Zhang Xuan was reborn before the zombie outbreak. He obtained the corpse-refining art passed down by his ancestors and refined himself into a Heaven-Cutting Ancestral Zombie, surpassing the Four Great Ancestral Zombies! The zombie apocalypse began, and Zhang Xuan, now a ferocious zombie, emerged from his lair! “So you’re a zombie, huh? You think you can take on a jiangshi?” “You had your chance, and you still couldn’t do a thing! Are you trying to tickle me?” And the beauty who spent a night wit
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In the Horrific Apocalypse, I Change Classes into an SSSS-Rank Celestial Master 恐怖末世,我转职为SSSS天师
[Destruction-tier talent + horror resurgence + game mechanics reflected in reality + invincible power fantasy + ruthless and decisive] Ye Sheng transmigrated to a world of ghost domains, where ghost-domain games had merged with reality and ghosts ran rampant! Ghost-domain secret realms, dungeons, and abysses were everywhere! To survive, everyone had to choose a class and level up like crazy! At first, Ye Sheng chose the Daoist class, which had a pitiful D-rank rating. His adoptive parents looked
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Stockpiling a Hundred Billion in Supplies: An Assassin Squad Clears the Apocalypse 囤百亿物资,杀手小队通关末世
(Female-led story, zombies, team-based, decisive and ruthless, not a bleeding heart) Bai Yaoyao, ranked number one on the assassin leaderboard, awakened a spatial ability after the apocalypse began. She led her brothers from the organization to carve out a path through the carnage and reach the top of the apocalypse's Ten Strongest list. Yet, in the end, she still died in the apocalypse's tenth year, cut to pieces by an Emperor-rank spatial zombie. She thought her life was over. But when she ope
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Natural Disasters from the Start: I Hoard a Hundred Billion in Supplies and Win by Doing Nothing 开局天灾,我靠囤百亿物资躺赢
[Post-Apocalyptic World + Reborn + Spatial Storage + Stockpiling + Pets + Slice of Life] (Available in print; the short drama and motion comic are now streaming) In a post-apocalyptic world of natural disasters, only the fittest survive. Typhoons, floods, extreme cold and heat, earthquakes, tsunamis, insect plagues, acid rain… After struggling to survive for three years in the apocalypse, Jiang Ning met a miserable death. Reborn three days before the end of the world, she seizes the advantage, r
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Honor of Kings: At AG, I'll Lead Menglei to the Championship 王者:人在AG,我带梦泪夺冠
[KPL + Meng Lei in the early stages + Yi Nuo later on] Yi Nuo: When it comes to top-tier marksmen, I’m not as good as Nian Xia! FIY: Nian Xia’s side-lane play is the real nightmare! Cat God: I don’t deserve the title of Mage King. Nian Xia is far more qualified! Hua Hai: I thought I was the strongest jungler, but meeting Nian Xia made me realize I was wrong! Zi Yang: Nian Xia is the true number-one shot-caller! … Nian Xia, a gifted teen who stayed up late grinding for the national server ranking
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The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世,我囤积了百亿物资
Doomsday + reborn + massive stockpiling + playing it safe + unlimited space + dark revenge, no saintly protagonist The world enters an ice age. The freezing apocalypse arrives, and 95% of the planet's population perishes! In his previous life, Zhang Yi was killed by people he'd helped because of his kind heart. Reborn one month before the freezing apocalypse, Zhang Yi awakens a spatial ability and begins frantically stockpiling supplies! Short on supplies? He empties the hundred-billion-yuan war
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Reborn in the Apocalypse: Stockpiling and Farming with My Whole Family 末世重生,带全家囤囤囤,种种种
[Stockpiling + farming game + male-oriented, no romance + natural disasters + higher-dimensional lifeforms] [The male lead isn't the strongest. He can't destroy everything in an instant, and he isn't cold-blooded. Every member of the team has a role to play.] One day, two suns appeared in the sky. At first, no one paid any attention to it, until one disaster after another began to strike. Humanity finally realized that the twin suns marked the beginning of the apocalypse. Sandstorms, torrential
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Natural Disaster: Leading My People into a New World 天灾:带领族人开启新世界
[Apocalypse + rebirth + spatial storage + family + survival] He is a nationally renowned young entrepreneur, a mysterious man reborn, and an avenger who has returned from the hell that was the apocalypse! Kill his enemies from the start? No. What he wants more is for his friends and family to survive. Nothing matters more than staying alive. Stockpile supplies, build an impregnable fortress, establish order, and preserve the dawn of human civilization!
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Doomsday Farming: Whatever Happened to the Cold Wave? 末日种田:说好的寒潮呢?
Apocalypse + reborn + farming + stockpiling supplies + mutations + exploration Lin Feng is reborn ten days before the disaster. He also gets a planting space. Heh heh, now he’s going to take off. Mortgage the house, max out online loans. Build a safe house. Ten days later, the cold wave is delayed?? Thirty days later, the debt collectors finally call... Time speeds up for every living thing inside the planting space? I’ve got my own use for that. The neighbors want to steal my food? Sorry, my fi
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Apocalypse Disasters: The Life of an Ordinary Person 末世天灾:小人物的生活
Male-Oriented + Natural Disasters Only + Space + Keeping a Low Profile + Reborn + No Zombies I want to write a book without all that stuff about neighbors killing the protagonist or girlfriends betraying him. Just a story about someone quietly keeping his head down and surviving. Before being reborn, Zhang Ming kept a low profile in Eagle Sauce Country. He was killed while out searching for food. After being reborn, he awakens the pocket dimension in the bracelet on his wrist. This time, Zhang M
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In the Apocalypse, I Live It Up Among the Living and Keep Myself Alive 天灾末世我在人间享乐偷生
Natural disasters and the apocalypse, stockpiling supplies, a pocket dimension, no zombies or mutations, and no female lead. The male protagonist faces one extreme natural disaster after another: torrential rain, extreme cold, extreme heat, plague, polar night, polar day, earthquakes, and tsunamis! And then there are his savage fellow survivors!
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Cultivating in Dreams: From Mortal to Supreme 梦中修行,从凡人到至高
After transmigrating to the world of immortal cultivation, he spends ten years searching for a way forward, yet can barely make any progress. Fortunately, he has a golden finger that lets him weave dreams. So he painstakingly lays his plans, finally waiting for cultivators to arrive. From then on, he cultivates in dreams and proves the Dao in dreams! He turns illusion into reality and ultimately becomes an unrivaled Immortal Venerable.
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Mr. Bo, Your Wife Is on Another Date Again 薄总,太太又跟人去约会了
On the day Shen Wanci divorced, their divorce agreement suddenly leaked online and became a top trending topic in minutes. The reason for the divorce was marked in red: The husband was impotent and unable to fulfill his basic marital obligations. That evening, a man cornered her in the stairwell. His voice was low. “Let me prove whether I have a problem.” After her divorce, Shen Wanci went from being a humble clerk to the youngest leading expert in the field of cultural relic restoration. Then s
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