Looking for a No-Cliche, Traditional Cultivation Story That Starts From Scratch 求无烂梗，正统修仙，从零开始修仙文
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Black Myth: Whoever Bullies Wukong, I’ll Bring Down the Heavens! 黑神话：谁欺负悟空，大师姐我掀了这天！
[No romance + Journey to the West + adored by everyone + unbeatable workaholic + face-slapping] After transmigrating into a book, Yan Wuling becomes the high-risk character known as the Eldest Senior Sister. She spends seven years being a lazy freeloader to save her own skin. Only when she meets a little monkey seeking the Way to immortality does she realize she has transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West! Yan Wuling: “What? You want me to disrupt the great calamity of the Journey to
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The Immortal Cultivation Journey of Ling Xiaodong 凌小东修仙记
In the world of cultivation, resources come first. To get the resources they need for cultivation, cultivators take part in all kinds of trials. Some fight to the death against demonic beasts, some risk their lives in secret realms, and some set traps to kill others. Ling Xiaodong thinks it is all far too dangerous. Watch as he follows a very different path to immortality.
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The Path of the Dashing Emperor 风流帝尊之路
Multiple heroines, including plenty of older women. On the Xuantian Continent, strength reigns supreme. Lu Fan, a once-in-a-generation genius, bursts onto the scene, battles the finest talents under heaven, and sweeps all before him until he stands unrivaled. This is the story of a young clan member who grows into an invincible Imperial Venerable.
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Spiritual Qi Revival: Starting My Cultivation Journey with Farming 灵气复苏：修仙从种地开始
[Spiritual qi revival+Interstellar+Cultivation+Ensemble cast elements+Secret identity+Fake and real heiresses+Farming] Jiang He opens her eyes to find that she's gone from being an overworked employee earning 3,500 yuan a month to a useless cultivator with five spiritual roots in a cyberpunk cultivation world. As the real heiress, she's humiliated at every turn. Resentful wage slave Jiang He makes her position clear: anyone who wants to indulge them can go ahead, but she won't. After beating up
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The Whole Sect Are Simps, but the Junior Sister Is a Real Menace 全宗都是舔狗，小师妹是真狗
[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
196kReads9.5Score26.1kShelves
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Just a Poor Rogue Cultivator. Why Are You Kneeling, Fellow Daoist? 贫穷散修一枚，道友何故下跪？
[No romance, ensemble cast] [A goofy trio of wandering cultivators] [Female-led cultivation progression, few scenes involving children, skip if that bothers you] Song Li transmigrates into a cultivation novel as the evil female supporting character. After bullying the heroine, she is thrown by her own brother into the Abandoned Infant Pagoda, where she dies at the hands of countless vengeful infant spirits. Waking inside the pagoda, she looks at the crying spirits and says, “I can be your mother
35.2kReads9.4Score4.8kShelves
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While Others Cultivate Immortality, I Cultivate My Fate. Even the Heroine Can't Outlast Me 别人修仙我修命，女主也没我命硬
[Transmigration into a book, cultivation, strong female lead, System, fire spiritual root, no romance] Chu Luo transmigrates into a cultivation world and binds herself to a Destiny System, starting off with her luck reduced by 9,999 points. It turns out that she and her twin sister share the fate of twin flowers on a single stem. All of Chu Luo's luck has been drained by her elder sister, the heroine of the original novel. Worse, her own family wants to kill her outright so the heroine can becom
8.3kReads9.3Score1.1kShelves
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I’m Stirring Up the Cultivation World with Grind Culture 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
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Clones Are Pointless Unless You Use Them to Stir Up Trouble 分身，不用来搞事情将毫无意义
[No Saintly Heroics]+ [No Female Lead]+ [Ensemble Cast]+ [Everyone Is Evil]+ [Stirring Up Trouble]+ [Just Here for the Fun]+ [The Main Body Is a Master at Laying Low] This is a story about someone who uses his clones to stir up trouble, seize resources, and pursue immortality. Being a clone is hard. You're either causing trouble or on your way to cause trouble. A step-by-step guide to destroying a sect, a dynasty, or even... the entire cultivation world. New to the cultivation world, with no con
13.1kReads8.4Score1.1kShelves
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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
241.5kReads9.7Score27.6kShelves
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Transmigrate Into a Book About the Hehuan Sect? Whatever, I'm a Catastrophe 穿书合欢宗？无所谓我是泥石流
[Everyone stays pure, plus bonus chapters for the whole cast] Xu Tiaotiao, an unremarkable little artist, transmigrated into a book, becoming an insignificant cannon-fodder character in an indescribable story set in the Hehuan Sect. Her entire role in the book was already over the moment she opened her eyes. She should have meekly stepped aside for the heroine. But! She still wanted to live! Surviving in this godforsaken place, crowded with playboys and scheming beauties, was a real challenge. L
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The Side Character in a Cultivation Novel Becomes Everyone's Favorite Through Farming 修仙文路人甲通过种田成为万人迷
[Transmigrate into a book + cultivation + becoming beautiful + everyone’s favorite + male rivalry and romantic battleground] After spending ten years as a menial disciple in the cultivation world, Yu Wanqing finally realizes she has fallen into a cultivation harem novel full of female rivalry! Watching the female side characters meet miserable ends, she decides to cling to her golden finger and keep a low profile while she grows stronger. Her golden finger is an unbelievably powerful farming d
14.9kReads8.3Score1.6kShelves
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I Only Refuse to Betray the World 不负天下而已
[Cultivation setting + no rebirth + no transmigration + not a wish-fulfillment novel] A kind person may be swept along by the ways of the world and fall into darkness; A great villain with blood on his hands may also turn over a new leaf through a single act of kindness; Li Chenxi is one of the rare people who, even after experiencing a major upheaval, can still hold fast to his true nature; The fates of people like him are often more troubled than those of ordinary people; They are usually eit
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The Reborn Supporting Lady at Five and a Half 重生女配五岁半
[Fantasy + Past and Present Lives + Spatial Artifact + Supporting Female Character + Sword Cultivator + No Romance] In her previous life, A Xue was weak and helpless. Her dantian was destroyed, and she died a miserable death in a secret realm. She was reborn at just over five years old, on the eve of Xuantian Sect's disciple recruitment. There was still time to change everything. In this life, A Xue dumped the scumbag, trampled the heroine from her previous life, took her spatial artifact, and s
21.4kReads9.3Score2.2kShelves
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After a Hundred Years of Sign-Ins, Her Laid-Back Secret Identity Was Exposed 签到一百年，她的咸鱼马甲被爆了
After transmigrating into a fantasy world, Dan Yao was assigned to grow flowers in Hundred Flowers Valley because of her poor aptitude. Just then, the Lazy Sign-In System activated. As long as she signed in anywhere with spiritual energy, she would receive a reward. Signing in at Hundred Flowers Valley earned her the Seven-Star Sword Art. Signing in at Tianshu Peak earned her the Hundred Flowers Codex. Signing in at the forbidden grounds behind the mountain earned her the ancient divine weapon S
14.1kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
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The Supporting Female Cultivator: Starting as the Sect Patriarch! 女配修仙：从当宗门师祖做起！
The night before Xu Yi was to become the senior disciple of Xuanji Sect, she had a dream. In it, she was consumed by jealousy of the new junior sister, committed every sort of evil, and ultimately met a grisly end, her bones ground to dust. With the junior sister's initiation just around the corner, Xu Yi shut her eyes, gritted her teeth, and left with all her belongings to lie low. But she never expected to fall into a secret realm the moment she left the sect, where she was trapped for two hun
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Cultivation: A Second Spiritual Root Helps Me Live Forever 修仙：第二灵根助我长生
An old Foundation Establishment cultivator addresses the children below him: “Spiritual roots determine whether one can cultivate immortality. The Great Dao has no form, and neither do spiritual roots...” Young Yi Ze stares at the green vine inside his body. “Why is my spiritual root different from what he described...?” After transmigrating to the Tianyan Continent in the Youlan Cultivation World, Yi Ze finds a mysterious green vine growing alongside him. It becomes his second spiritual root, a
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After My Divorce, I Embarked on the Path to Immortality 离婚后我开启了仙途
A real man can't go a single day without power, and a true man can't go a single day without money. When you have neither power nor money, people will nitpick you no matter how good you are, and look down on you no matter how well you treat them...
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With a Pocket Dimension, I’m Unbeatable at Cultivation and Farming 我有空间在手，修仙种田无敌手
[A power-up journey + farming + cultivation + sweet and satisfying + one-on-one romance + a little chuunibyou] Yan Qingyan survived the apocalypse for three years, only to be dumped into the cultivation world by her suddenly upgraded space. She was already dull-witted by nature, and then she had the bad luck to offend a brainless second-generation cultivator who bullied men and oppressed women. Her dantian was destroyed in a single day, and eighteen years of cultivation went up in smoke! You wan
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I Became an Embroiderer and Cultivated Immortality With the System 穿成绣娘后，我靠系统修仙
Jiang Yue transmigrated into this world and gained a handsome child husband. Then she discovered that even lighting a fire earned her experience points, and that she could level up to learn Fireball. Embroidery quickly leveled up to the mastery stage, letting her thread a needle with effortless precision. Then she began training in the art of flying needles. Before she knew it, she had entered the immortal path through martial arts and embarked on the road to immortality!
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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
301.2kReads9.6Score32kShelves
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The Cultivators We Used to Chop Up Together 那些年，我们一起砍过的修仙者
(Everyman’s cultivation + no System) Unlike traditional xianxia, don’t read if that’s not your thing. That year, a seven-year-old boy took his little sister into the cultivation world. Then all the cultivators went crazy! When you set out to cultivate, it doesn’t matter if you have talent, treasures, or lucky opportunities. But there’s one thing you must remember: there’s one person you must never provoke. Even though this person isn’t a cultivator at all. His blade is faster than light, so fast
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Li Dakai’s Record of Cultivation 李大开修仙记
[Mortal Cultivator Style, No System, Decisive and Ruthless, Not Mindless, Funny] I, Li Dakai, began cultivating immortality at the age of fifty. A slow-burn cultivation fantasy with a satisfying payoff. The story unfolds gradually, with every turn grounded in reason! Fellow cultivators, please don’t be put off by the title. New chapters every day at exactly 5:10 p.m.!
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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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Urban: Ten Years of Cultivation, and I’m Unrivaled the Moment I Descend the Mountain 都市：修仙十年，下山即无敌
The new book has built up a backlog of chapters and can be found on the author's homepage. It tells the story of the hundred thousand years after this book. [Expert Descends the Mountain + Invincible Cultivation + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Decisive Killing + Multiple Realms] The Great Dao is flawed, and spiritual energy has withered. A mighty cultivator who had survived the tribulation traveled the world. By chance, he discovered a peerless prodigy born with a spiritual physique, forcibly took
267.5kReads9.1Score22.9kShelves
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The Immortal Cultivation Path of a Waste Physique 废体修仙路
[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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I’ll Do Whatever It Takes to Cultivate Immortality 不择手段去修仙
Feel-Good Story + Comedy + Mortal Cultivation + No Harem + Xuanhuan + No System Belief: If you've got thick skin, you get the meat. Motto: If a problem can be solved by sweet-talking, never resort to force. Principle: If nobody messes with me, I'll mess with them anyway. Specialty: Play the pig to eat the tiger. I'm number one at showing off. A street punk from the 21st century accidentally obtains a rare treasure and transmigrates to a world overrun by immortals, demonic cultivators, and practi
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