High-Martial Arts, High-Martial Arts, High-Martial Arts! Looking for a Rousing High-Martial Arts Story, Preferably Without a Female Lead. 高武高武高武高武，求高武热血，最好是没女主。

1. 1 综EN Wuxia World: My Blade-for-Hire, Pay-to-Win Power-Up 综武：我捉刀人，氪金变强 King of Slacking Off While Writing码字摸鱼王Male-Channel Fanfiction1.4M WordsCompleted [Swordsman] [Lone Wolf] [No Female Lead] Su Chen transmigrates into a world of martial arts and awakens the [Pay-to-Grow Stronger] System. As long as he spends money, he can get stronger. No cultivation technique? Spend money! A talent for cultivation that's too poor? Spend money! Progress too slow? Spend money! From then on, making money to spend on getting stronger becomes Su Chen's only goal. And, naturally, he becomes a bounty hunter who gets things done for cash. As long as the price is rig 15.7kReads7.3Score89514d adds

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   Su Chen transmigrated to a martial arts world and immediately activated the "Pay-to-Win" system. No money? Pay up! Poor talent? Pay up! Slow cultivation? Pay up again! From then on, making money and spending money became his only goal. He became the most famous ghostwriter in the martial arts world—as long as the money is right, he'll cripple even the Heavenly King for you! Zhang Sanfeng came to him: "The six major sects are forcing me to abdicate, I can't intervene, what do you think..." Su Chen waved his hand: "Hang the head of the Shaolin abbot in the Zhenwu Hall, arrange it!" Zhu Wushi was anxious: "Didn't you agree to help me rebel and become emperor?" Su Chen sneered: "Zhu Houzhao is offering even more!" Nangong Pushe brought a deposit of 100,000 taels: "I have four enemies." Su Chen nodded: "100 million, I'll take care of them all for you." Years later, Su Chen stood on the top of Wudi City and beheaded Wang Xianzhi with a single stroke. When someone asked him about the path of cultivation, he held up three fingers: "Pay up, pay up, and pay up again!"

2. 2 天 Awakened by Heavenly Treasures: I Can Engrave Anything 天物觉醒：我能刻印一切 The Leaf Riding the Wind御风而行的葉子Urban3.7M WordsOngoing [Publication Contract Signed, Safe to Read][Tales of Youth][Everyone Has Common Sense][Absolutely Wonderful][Magic][Distinctive Characters][No Female Lead] My name is Jin Feichen. Draped in the twilight of my youth, I once thought I would muddle through life, relying on taxpayers to support me forever. I thought that would be my fate. However, all of that came to an end on a rainy afternoon. Youth is a grand stage. On that evening when rain poured down in torrents, the stage reached out to me, a 266.5kReads9.5Score22k14d adds

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   The first two books are really good.

3. 3 全 Global Awakening: The Divine Healer 全球觉醒：神级治疗者 Yan Zhiyi言之一Urban902k WordsCompleted Over a thousand years ago, secret realms descended, and countless portal sites appeared all over Blue Star, linking it to countless secret realms. All kinds of beasts, demons, magical plants, and other secret-realm creatures emerged, inflicting devastating damage and losses on humanity. At the same time, a new profession called Awakeners appeared among humans. From then on, the world entered the age of universal awakening. P.S. The protagonist is a healer. His skills are mostly healing, support, 13.1kReads8.8Score83114d adds
4. 4 高 High Martial: From the Start, I Inherit Yang Jian's Legacy 高武：开局获得杨戬传承 The Shepherd牧羊的人Urban1.3M WordsCompleted This is a vast world. It offers many different paths to transcendence. Nations vie for supremacy, and countless races stand side by side. Then a human youth named Du Bai rises to prominence. At last, people learn what a true prodigy is. He enters the Dao through martial arts and forges an unbeatable legend! “Geniuses are merely my ticket in.” “If you don't cultivate, seeing me is like a frog at the bottom of a well looking up at the moon.” “If you do cultivate, seeing me is like an ant looking u 7.2kReads7.5Score41914d adds
5. 5 我 I Can Improve the Quality of My Superpowers 我能提升异能品质 Duck at the Door门前鸭Urban1.5M WordsCompleted [Invincible + Comedy + Everyday Life + No Angst] Huaxia can’t contain him anymore, so they send him abroad. The protagonist never behaves like a normal person: he charges people to use the school toilets, lists the school for sale online, steals his classmates’ red bellybands, swindles black-market con artists, robs the black market, hauls exotic beasts away in a sack, sells his superior’s car, and then goes abroad to cause trouble. What? You have an SSS-rank ability? Sorry, all of my abilities 35.2kReads8.8Score4.5k14d adds

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   Two must-read books for martial arts enthusiasts

6. 6 我 From the Start, I Chose the Fist Cultivator Class and Shattered Fate with My Bare Hands 我开局转职拳修，以双拳击碎命运 Demon's Path魔行Urban1.9M WordsCompleted In this age of countless marvelous talents, no one expects anything from a pair of frail fists! The human realm has swords that outshine all creation, spears that sweep through armies, fire that burns everything, and lightning that shatters the sky! Young people have so many options, and everyone gravitates toward the coolest, most stylish, and most powerful abilities! Only one stubborn boy chooses to train the frail fists in front of him. Everyone thinks he’s gone mad! Until the day disaster st 62.4kReads9.2Score7.1k14d adds
7. 7 主 The Protagonist Has a Tough Life? I'm the Villain, So He Gets All the Side Effects 主角命硬？我反派，副作用全给他 Black Scholar in Ink墨下黑士Urban234k WordsCompleted [Ultimate Power Fantasy + Violent Antagonist + Ruthless and Decisive + Transferring Side Effects] After nine lifetimes as an antagonist, Han Yu was crushed by the protagonists’ plot armor nine times because he had no cheat. At last, he awakened the Malice-Reversal Side Effect System. The side effects of anything done with malice toward Han Yu could be transferred to the person responsible! So you’re the protagonist? You’re tough to kill? You beat up the little guy, so now the older one comes aft 111Reads6.2Score—14d adds

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   It's a high-fashion martial arts novel set in the city, but it doesn't have a female lead.

8. 8 我EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 Three Nine Sound Domain三九音域Urban4.0M WordsCompleted The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds

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   It's incredibly good, super beautiful, and has no female lead.

9. 9 诡EN The House of Dread 诡舍 The Sound of Wind and Rain at Night,夜来风雨声丶Mystery2.1M WordsCompleted [Infinite-flow + Mild Horror + Survival + One Female Lead] A driverless bus carried a group of cursed people to a strange black lodge… Inside the lodge stood a door stained red with blood. At regular intervals, the cursed were forcibly dragged through the blood-red door and into terrifying worlds, where they had to complete horrifying events… After Ning Qiushui survived one bizarre and terrifying story after another inside the lodge, narrowly escaping death each time, he discovered that none of 705.5kReads9.6Score103.9k14d adds
10. 10 你 You Call This a D-Rank Ability? 你管这叫D级能力？ Shang Die商迭Urban5.6M WordsOngoing Five million words, plenty to read [Mind games] [Strategizing] [Intricate plot] [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] Transmigrating three years ago brought Xu Ye to an unfamiliar world! In this world, Void Demons invade and Void Beasts run rampant! Humans have abilities that allow them to become Void Hunters and fight to protect humanity! Xu Ye awakens an SSS-grade ability by chance, only to discover that it lets him understand and use D-grade abilities alone! His beloved dies tragically in the belly 40.6kReads8.7Score3.2k14d adds
11. 11 开 I Enlisted from the Start, and You’re Telling Me I’m a Minor? 开局入伍，你告诉我这是未成年？ Little Ghost of the Six Realms六道小鬼Urban1.1M WordsCompleted Frontier Corps: I volunteer to join the Chinese Frontier Corps, to give my life on the front lines of the border and forge a new Great Wall with my flesh and blood. I will slay monsters and demons, uphold the spirit of the military, fight to the death without retreat, and defend China! Night Corps: I volunteer to join the Chinese Night Corps, to devote myself to the eternal night and watch over China. I will protect the people, slay monsters and demons, and fight on until my dying breath! Dawn C 3.2kReads8.4Score34014d adds
12. 12 大EN The Gravekeeper of Great Xia 大夏守墓人 Rain Falls, Bamboo Turns Cold雨落竹冷Urban1.6M WordsCompleted Ten years ago, after three consecutive days of blood moons, ghosts, gods, strange-eyed beings, and eerie tales began arriving one after another… As the mysterious and the occult descended upon the human world. As terror and despair roamed the land. As human beings, should we kneel and bow our heads, break down in tears, or…draw our blades? This is a brand-new era. And this era belongs to the supernaturals! After stepping through the door to the supernatural, Su Bai saw a whole new world. And i 36.8kReads9.0Score4.7k14d adds
13. 13 你 What Can You Martial Artists Do Against Me, a Cultivator? 你们练武的拿什么跟我修仙的斗？ What a Load of Nonsense离了个普Urban1.2M WordsCompleted On the night of Huaxia’s eighty-first sexagenary year, the stars changed. The universe was like a pool of muddy water suddenly purified, and cosmic energy poured down upon Earth, where spiritual energy had long since withered. Ancient legacies gradually reappeared in the world, and the legendary vicious beasts awoke alongside them. When the human body can withstand modern weapons, what kind of sparks will fly between martial artists and technology? The protagonist is practically invincible, 2.9kReads8.8Score24914d adds
14. 14 星 Rising Among the Stars, Starting from Blue Star 星空崛起，从蓝星开始 May You Pluck the Immortal Osmanthus仙桂愿君折Urban3.2M WordsOngoing [No System, one heroine, multiple viewpoints, slow burn, high martial arts, outer space later, no mindless pretending. Skip if you’re not into that.] Two hundred years after spiritual qi revival, the entire world had changed beyond recognition. Fang He, an ordinary student at Jiangling High School, endured a year of nightmares before the clouds finally parted. He merged with the soul of another version of himself from a parallel timeline. Soon, people everywhere began talking about him. First, h 37.8kReads8.5Score2.7k14d adds
15. 15 妖 Demon Corpses Aren't Edible? Quick, Send It to My Family's Crematorium While It's Still Warm 妖尸不可食？快，趁热送我家火葬 Sallow Little Face小脸蜡黄Urban2.9M WordsCompleted [High Martial] [Passionate] [Demonic beasts invade] [Not reborn] [Funny] If you want a lone-wolf protagonist, you can swipe away. The protagonist, Jiang Ping, is a passionate young man. He can be calculating, and he can be moved. He’s a real person, with classmates, friends, parents, and teachers. Spatial rifts opened, and demonic beasts invaded the land. Everyone knew that demonic beast corpses were inedible, and eating them would turn you into a contaminated being. By chance, Jiang Ping obtain 112.6kReads8.8Score16.2k14d adds
16. 16 高 High Martial: The World Changed When I Woke Up 高武：睡醒之后，世界变了 Three Feet of Fireworks三尺烟火Urban1.2M WordsCompleted [Urban + No System + Martial Artists + Feel-Good Power Fantasy] He wakes up one morning. It seems the world he knew has been completely replaced overnight. Martial arts, martial artists, combat techniques, cultivation arts... Demon clans run rampant, foreign races invade, and internal strife never ends. Watch as an ordinary man either lives a life of mediocrity, lost in the vast sea of humanity, or masters the martial path and rises to the top of the world. 51Reads6.1Score—14d adds
17. 17 开 Death Sentence from the Start: How Can I Survive Without a Heart of Stone? 开局死刑：我不心狠怎么活？ When the Brush Falls, the Wind Runs Wild笔落风荒Urban6.2M WordsOngoing [Six million words, it's ready to binge!] [Decisive and ruthless + dark revenge + invincible protagonist] [Killing grants energy, breaking through realms is as easy as drinking water! That's what it means to be invincible!] Long Kai transmigrates into the body of a death-row prisoner, and starts out in prison! The System awakens: Kill! Kill! Kill! He kills his way from prison to the stars, from mortal to Dao Lord. He kills until his power runs wild, until he stands invincible beneath the heavens 21.4kReads6.6Score1.7k14d adds

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    In a world of high martial arts, spiritual energy is reviving! Starting with a death sentence? Then fight your way out! With the system in hand, sweep through everything in your path. I possess a sword that can sever eternity, cut through countless realms, slaughter immortals, and save countless lives!

18. 18 退 The Retired Judge Goes on a Rampage in Horror Games 退休判官在惊悚游戏杀疯了 Chu Jiujiu楚九九Mystery856k WordsOngoing [No heroine, no romance, infinite instances + invincible from the start + urban supernatural + helping ghosts get revenge + occasional livestreaming] Retired Judge Lu Yi is dragged into the Grievance-Quelling System. He’s rehired for overtime as soon as he retires, and he’s more resentful than a ghost! . The female ghost says in a hollow voice, “You can’t leave unless you help me fulfill my wish...” Lu Yi grabs her head and swings her around like a meteor hammer! Lu Yi: “Are you coming with me 821Reads9.0Score10314d adds

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    [No female lead, no romance, infinite flow + invincible at the start + urban supernatural + revenge for ghosts + some live streaming] Retired judge Lu Yi is pulled into a resentment-pacifying system. He's rehired and already working overtime, his resentment even greater than the ghosts'! A female ghost says in a chilling tone: You can't leave unless you help me fulfill my wish... Lu Yi grabs the female ghost's head and swings it like a meteor hammer! Lu Yi: Are you willing to come with me, or do I have to beat you until only your head is left to come with me? A male ghost: I beg you to help me kill the murderer who took my life. Lu Yi smiles slightly and shows the murderer's entire family's heads. Lu Yi: Buy one get N free, grand opening sale! A teacher who turns a blind eye to bullying: You must have a problem to be targeted, it takes two to tango! Lu Yi slaps her, sending her flying ten meters, and asks her: Does this slap make a sound? Spiritual energy depleted, faith lost; the underworld collapses, reincarnation falls apart. He sweeps away the grudges that have accumulated across the land, cleansing the wandering souls of the mortal realm; he unlocks the memories of past lives, rebuilding the order of the six realms. The plot flows smoothly, and Brother Lu is incredibly powerful! [Heavy punch][Heavy punch]

19. 19 妖EN The Pig-Slaying Saber Dances in a World of Monsters and Mayhem! 妖诡乱世，你杀猪刀法还成精了？ Just Want Lu Bai就要鹿佰Eastern Fantasy3.3M WordsOngoing Lin Feng was born into a chaotic world plagued by demons and monsters. For sixteen years, he never had enough to eat or wear. Three months ago, his father, the family’s sole breadwinner and a master who had reached the completion of Skin Tempering, was killed by demons and monsters. His mother, younger sister, and he were left to struggle through life. Just as they were about to reach their limit, the government office began recruiting, and Lin Feng hoped his status as a soldier’s family member 23.7kReads7.6Score2.1k14d adds

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    🍉🍉🍉Lin Feng was born into a chaotic world of demons and monsters. For sixteen years, he suffered from hunger and cold, and his father was even killed by demons, leaving his family struggling to survive. Seeing that life was unbearable, he tried to join the government, but was targeted and betrayed, even his fiancée broke off their engagement. Just when his family was about to starve, he awakened a cheat ability: eating increased his cultivation, and killing allowed him to absorb evil energy! By chance, Lin Feng became a butcher, and even the pigs in the slaughterhouse trembled in fear. He wielded his butcher's knife with increasing skill, and his cultivation soared, quickly catching up to his father's cultivation level of over a decade. The gang leader asked him, "What kind of swordsmanship is that?" Lin Feng was bewildered: "It's from butchering pigs!" The county magistrate was shocked: "How can you control your sword with your qi?" Lin Feng calmly replied, "I learned it from butchering pigs!" The demon was even more distraught: "How did your swordsmanship become so powerful?" Lin Feng sneered: "Who says a butcher's knife can't cut down demons!" From a poor commoner to the path of immortality, Lin Feng used a butcher's knife to cut down all the demons, sects, and gangs that had oppressed him!

20. 20 天EN Heaven's Chosen? Monster? No, It's the Grind Emperor 天骄？妖孽？不好，是肝帝 That Mountain, That Sea那山那海Urban2.3M WordsCompleted [The top workaholic in high-martial arts fiction] [Panel-based cultivation] [Cosmic setting] [Cultivation and progression, not point allocation or speedrunning; the protagonist is a born grinder] In the interstellar age, alien beasts invade and evil gods lurk all around. Li Qingshan awakens a martial arts panel that can record any technique or martial skill. He needs no insight or talent, and faces no bottlenecks. As long as he trains hard, he can improve, and every breakthrough lasts forever! H 220.7kReads9.3Score26k14d adds

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    The protagonist's advantage isn't instant level-up, but rather the result of relentless grinding. The plot is also quite enjoyable and straightforward. (No female lead)

21. 21 人 The Martial Saint of the Mortal World: I Cultivated Low-Level Martial Arts into Immortal Martial Arts 人间武圣，我将低武练成了仙武 Doomsday Heavenly Emperor末世天帝Eastern Fantasy426k WordsOngoing Su Hao wakes up to find himself a blacksmith’s apprentice in a small town. The land is ravaged by war and overrun with demons. He has no money, no influence, and no sense of security. He is thoroughly ordinary, yet discovers that whenever he breaks through in a skill or martial art, his [aptitude] and [comprehension] can increase without limit! [Fine Jade], [Born Talented], [Unparalleled Prodigy], [Once in a Century], [Sage by Birth], [Child of Destiny]! [Iron Shirt]: Skin like bronze, bones l —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    😏😏😏 Su Hao woke up to find himself an apprentice blacksmith in a small town. Amidst war and chaos, demons roamed freely. He was penniless and powerless, feeling utterly ordinary. But the moment he swung his hammer, a system notification sounded: "Ding! Breakthrough to the Iron Shirt Realm, unlocking [Talented Jade]!" At Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment, he became [Exceptionally Gifted]; at Golden Core and Nascent Soul, he became [Peerless Genius]; successfully transcending tribulation, he instantly became [Born Saint]! The more Su Hao forged iron, the more monstrous his talent became. He learned any martial art with ease, mastered it instantly, and even innovated upon it. He scratched his head: "Where exactly is the ceiling of my talent?" Faced with a world ravaged by demons, Su Hao decided: to become a saint through martial arts and suppress all ages with sheer force! This is a journey of reversal from blacksmith to martial saint. Watch as he uses his hammer to forge his path to sainthood, winning every time, and hammering demons until they question their existence!

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