Looking for Cultivation Stories That Aren't Too Over-the-Top 想看修仙文不太爽。
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One Sword, One Flask, One Universe 一剑一酒一乾坤
[Swordsmanship + Wine Immortal + Fantasy Xianxia + One Heroine + Mutual Devotion + Humanity’s Survival] A year ago, the boy watched his father shoulder his sword, slay demons, and save humanity, never to return. A year later, the boy arrives at Qingyun with only a sword and a jug of wine. Shunned by all, he is confined to the peach blossom grove. The sword his father called the “Sword of Protection” stands in the most prominent place in the Qingyun Sect, yet the world calls it the “Sword of Sham
79.2kReads9.3Score8.3kShelves
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I Transmigrated into a Cultivation Novel: I Follow the Heroine and Snatch Up Her Leftovers 穿进修仙文:我跟在女主后面捡漏
The Blazing Heaven Continent is a bizarre world where both gods and demons exist. Mo Wanli was just an ordinary office worker. All she did was read a rebirth novel and complain that the heroine's golden finger was too powerful and the supporting heroine was too stupid. For that, she was dragged into the world of the book. The most important thing was that she wasn't the heroine or the supporting heroine. She was a minor maid to a supporting heroine who appeared for less than one chapter before d
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Transformed into a Sickly-Sweet Little Girl, I Just Want to Cuddle My Big Sister 化身病娇萝莉,只想和姐姐贴贴
[Yandere]+ [Plot-driven]+ [1v1]+ [Scheming villain]+ [White-haired little girl]+ [Pure love]+ [Technological world] In his previous life, Lin Mu had never been in love and longed to experience a sweet romance. But suffering from a terminal illness, he eventually died alone at home. After dying, he transmigrated to another world. He thought he would be just like the characters in novels. He'd awaken some kind of golden finger or get an invincible System or something. But after arriving in thi
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Reborn: Mimic Beast 重生:拟态兽
[Eerie Creatures] [Transmigration] [Reborn] [Gender Swap] [Alternate World] [Transmigration to Another World] [Urban] [Fantasy] [Mostly Slice of Life] After “Feng” dies, it transmigrates to another world and becomes a blob of flesh and blood. This creature can mimic the appearance of anything it eats. After an accident, “Feng” lives in this world under someone else’s identity. This doesn’t seem to be Earth, since the world’s layout is clearly different. As it gradually gets used to life here, it
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Fusing the Genes of Ten Thousand Races, I Hunt in the Main God Space 融合万族基因,我狩猎主神空间
[Ruthless + invincible + bloodthirsty + fusion and mutation + giant creatures + infinite worlds + evolves from a snake + transformation + mimics a black-haired loli, later becomes a white-haired loli] Devour a tardigrade, obtain its genes, fuse them, and gain the ability to adapt to extreme environments. Devour a titan beetle, obtain its genes, fuse them, and gain immense strength. Devour a poison dart frog, obtain its genes, fuse them, and gain a poisonous body. Devour an alligator snapping tur
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The Wicked Junior Sister Won't Reform, So She Wreaks Havoc on Everyone in the Sect 恶毒师妹不洗白在宗门创死所有人
[Publication deal signed] Jiang Que transmigrates into a cultivation novel as the vicious female supporting character, doomed to a tragic fate and destined to be nothing but a foil for the heroine. The heroine is aloof and otherworldly, while Jiang Que is just a woman; the heroine is blessed with extraordinary talent, while Jiang Que has only her life to lose; the heroine has suitors everywhere, while Jiang Que has never even held a man's hand. Even worse, the day she transmigrates into the bo
66.8kReads9.4Score8.6kShelves
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Dark Face Reading 黑相术
After I lost my sight, a matchmaker set me up on a date, and I met a girl. She wasn’t human… One night, as we slept, I touched her tail.
21.9kReads8.9Score2.8kShelves
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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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Getting Stronger: It Starts with the State Forcing Me to Marry 变强:从国家强制送老婆开始
[System + supernatural abilities + spiritual qi revival + urban fantasy + older woman/younger man romance] Chen Lie transmigrated to another world, Blue Star, and from the start someone was offering him a wife? In that case, he supposed he could make the sacrifice and get married. In this world, people with supernatural abilities were everywhere, and powerful experts emerged one after another. If he wanted to reach the top, he had no choice but to keep getting stronger. The witches were being op
13.1kReads7.4Score1.1kShelves
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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
131.1kReads9.5Score33.1kShelves
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Cultivation 修仙
A story of ordinary mortals, with no System, no harem, and no transmigration. The cultivation stages are Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul… A young boy shoulders the burden of supporting his family. While gathering herbs, he accidentally falls off a cliff. At the crucial moment, a mysterious pearl appears, turning disaster into fortune and leading him into the world of cultivation. He takes one step at a time on the path to immortality, living freely and at ease.
34.6kReads8.5Score2.7kShelves
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Even Heaven's Will Dares Not Provoke Her, Yet You Stole Her Divine Bone 天道都不敢惹她,你居然夺她神骨
In her previous life, she was the God Realm’s strongest goddess of war. Her brilliance shone too brightly, so she was cruelly set up on her wedding night. Her divine bones were ripped out, her bloodline stolen, and her loved ones murdered! When she awakens, she has been reborn in the body of a concubine-born daughter from a small family on a low-level continent. She thought that without her divine and demonic bloodlines, her cultivation speed would be far slower than before. Unexpectedly, she tu
30.5kReads9.1Score2.5kShelves
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Cultivating Immortality Is a Tough Job 修仙是件苦差事
A regular mortal cultivation story! No System, no transmigration! A fragmentary cultivation manual set Mo Xun on the path to immortality. He has no powerful connections and a poor spiritual root, but he does have black soil that can speed up the growth of spirit herbs. A cool head and steady temperament are the only things he can rely on to survive. Later, he even picks up a jokester for a companion, though it isn’t a person! This is a cultivation story about an ordinary mortal, with smart chara
11.3kReads8.7Score702Shelves
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Sorry, She Wants to Be the Heavenly Emperor Too Much 对不起,她太想做天帝了
[No rivalry between women + punishing scumbags + satisfying revenge + unconventional heroine undergoing tribulations + ensemble cast + strong female lead] Content warning: The heroine is not a qualified heir to the Celestial Court from the start. She faces trials and setbacks, yet steadily strives for the highest position. This is not a mindless power fantasy. Also, she is not the kind of character who gives her whole heart to one person. She may have lovers, but none will ever have her complete
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Ao Guang's Tale: The Love Tribulation of the Rainmaking Sea God 敖光传:司雨镇海之神的情劫
[Not a Nezha story + set after the War of the Witches and Demons + love tribulation + divided divine soul + vast difference in status + bittersweet romance + joy after hardship + rekindled love] Dragon King Ao Guang rules over the Four Seas and the Eight Wastelands, commanding the Four Seas and earning the respect of the Three Realms. Ao Guang's love is the love of a god: powerful, domineering, and eternal. But he always looks down at her from on high, never truly entering her world to understan
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This Mage Is a Little Improper 这个魔法师有点不正经
This is the Continent of Kings, where Eastern and Western civilizations meet. Here, powerful martial arts and dazzling magic abound. It is home to many races, including humans, magical beasts, dragons, elves, and dwarves. A mischievous young man from the household of a general in a small kingdom possesses peerless martial talent and awakens a gift for magic. Forced by a family vendetta to pursue strength, he wields twin blades wreathed in lightning and overcomes trial after trial. Behind each st
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The Supreme Sage of Alchemy 丹道第一圣
As a max-level alchemist, is it really that unreasonable to eat pills for every meal? And learning martial arts to become invincible for self-defense makes perfect sense, right? The year's breakout hit [No System, genius protagonist, invincible lead, ensemble cast]
187.4kReads9.3Score22.4kShelves
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Heavenly Abyss 天渊
(The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw
939.6kReads9.4Score83.8kShelves
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The Ultimate Underdog 万古第一废材
[Invincible, Fiery, Fast-Paced, Constant Updates, Strongly Recommended by Hundreds of Millions of Readers!] A hundred thousand years ago, everyone was like a dragon, and all could cultivate the martial path. After the Calamity Transformation, the Heavenly Dao collapsed and the gods fell, leaving behind only an ancient tower of reincarnation. A hundred thousand years later, martial cultivation had become a matter of bloodline. A trash bloodline was no better than an insect and could not cultivate
265.5kReads9.0Score21.3kShelves
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Misty Rain Tower 烟雨楼
[The print edition is now available nationwide at all major retailers] "Traditional xuanhuan" "No harem" In the land of Jiuzhou stands a tower called the Misty Rain Tower. Its master, Li Qingzhi, is hailed as a peerless prodigy, holding life and death in his hands beneath the cover of night. Yet what the world doesn’t know is that someone else stands behind the Misty Rain Tower, its true founder. Using the guise of a spoiled young master as cover, he manipulates the winds and clouds and plots ac
882.1kReads9.6Score212.5kShelves
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A Mortal's Ascension to Immortality 凡人飞仙
[Mortal Cultivation] He tossed an immortal herb into a black jar, and it kept pouring out more! A village boy accidentally obtained a black jar that could duplicate supplies, and so began his journey to immortality. Is cultivating immortality difficult? I have mountains of pills to help me! Are powerful enemies everywhere? I’ll wipe them out with handfuls of talismans! Born with a useless spirit root, he defies fate and becomes an Immortal Ancestor! Shu Han proves the Great Dao to the world, bec
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The Divine Emperor of the Nine Dragons 九龙神帝
Emperor Su Chen, ranked first among the Ten Titled Martial Emperors, was invincible and unrivaled throughout the ages. Just as he was about to ascend and become a god, he was betrayed and killed by a close friend. By a stroke of fate, he was reborn as a young man five hundred years in the past, beginning an against-all-odds legend as he swept aside countless prodigies! In this life, every regret must be made right! In this life, every enemy must be crushed beneath my feet! In this life, I will r
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The Primordial Divine Ruins 太古神墟
A mysterious boy’s memories were sealed by his master. He emerged from the Primordial Divine Ruins. He starts by farming spirit fields, but this lowly servant is actually terrifying beyond belief. With a kitchen knife in hand, the world is his. Leading a pack of great demons, he is invincible. Bound by fate to chaos, who in the Myriad Worlds could possibly stand against him? A leaky spirit body? Wrong! My dantian has three hundred and sixty-one chambers. A mixed spirit root? Wrong! My spirit roo
142.8kReads8.8Score21.4kShelves
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King of Eternity 万古之王
Ye Wushuang, the young master of a fallen family, was married into his bride’s family. On his wedding night, he was framed for making advances on his sister-in-law and died with hatred in his heart. At the moment of his death, he merged with the memories of his previous life as a Heavenly Emperor and fully awakened. His old enemies now sit securely at the very peak of the heavenly realm. His former disciples have become peerless powerhouses. The women he once loved still wait eagerly for his ret
92.8kReads9.1Score4.3kShelves
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The Mortal's Immortal Gourd 凡人仙葫
Er Gouzi is an honest, hardworking farmer. His greatest dream is to save up enough to buy a few acres, become a small landowner, and marry a buxom, strong-legged wife. Then his life would be perfect. But after an accident leaves him with a gourd and an old swindler talks him into it, he blunders into the path of immortality and gets dragged into conflict. Even so, he never forgets his original goal: he just wants to farm...
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Dreaming Back to the Forty-Two Records: A Quest for Souls 梦回四十二录,寻魂记
Amid the endless river of reincarnation, a lone spirit embarks on an unknown journey of discovery. Each lifetime is like a mysterious forbidden land shrouded in mist, waiting to be revealed. In the first life, they fall into the strange and unpredictable territory of the dragon clan, with danger lurking at every turn. In the second, they endure countless hardships to escape a terrifying snake's den, only to stumble into a new crisis. In the third, they are trapped in a dragon's lair and a tiger
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