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A Useless Martial Soul? I Defy Heaven's Will, Evolve, and Shock the World 废武魂？我，逆天进化，震惊世界
[Multiple heroines + shocking, passionate action + fairies and demons with unexpected sides + hilarious, outrageous “filial sons”] The thrills never stop after he leaves the mountains, and neither do the schemes. Luo Fanchen, a legendary heartbreaker and “playboy,” transmigrates and is dragged back to a village by his demoness wife from the very start. He awakens two heaven-defying, mysterious martial souls, encounters fairies and demonesses, and pulls one outrageous stunt after another… In this
248.1kReads9.5Score20.8kShelves
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The Immortal Cauldron's Curious Tale 仙鼎奇缘
Matthew was an ordinary mortal who had lived in a city full of cultivators ever since he was a child. After an accident, he came into possession of a treasure cauldron. With its help, Matthew successfully embarked on the path of cultivation. (This book has no female lead.)
21.6kReads8.0Score2.5kShelves
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Wind and Rain on the Path of the Dust-Mote Immortal Abode 微尘仙府风雨道途
The path of immortality comes like wind and rain, then passes like dust. Even with ambitions soaring to the clouds, one still needs fortune's favor. See how a mere junior steward of a sect, aided by an Immortal Lord's estate, stirs up wind and rain and gathers dust, rising from humble beginnings to turn the tides in the heavens.
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Five Elements Tower 五行塔
[No System] A young man unexpectedly arrives in a world of immortal cultivation. He has only a Five-Element Spirit Root, making cultivation difficult. Fortunately, he obtains the peerless Five Elements Longevity Art, specially designed for cultivating with a Five-Element Spirit Root, along with a heaven-defying little tower that can improve the quality of pills and magical treasures, and turn trash into treasure. Watch him ascend the path to immortality, prove the Dao of Longevity, and endure fo
45.7kReads8.7Score5.7kShelves
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After Being Possessed, I Found a Profound Heaven Immortal Herb 被夺舍后，我捡到玄天仙草
[Traditional cultivation fantasy + decisive and ruthless heroine + mutated dual immortal roots + no transmigration, no System + two heroines] [Includes a space that appears later, spiritual fields, alchemy, formations, talisman-making, and raising spirit insects] The young Yang Che accidentally fell into a cultivator's cave dwelling and obtained the Ancient God Art and a mysterious spiritual herb, the Nine-Leaf Black Sun Fruit! He learned to cultivate spirit herbs, make pills and talismans, set
46.8kReads8.7Score4.9kShelves
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From a Jar of Spirit Herbs to the Dao Ancestor of the Immortal Realm 从一罐灵草到仙界道祖
[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
61.6kReads9.1Score6.3kShelves
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Immortal Fate Through Spirit Eyes 灵眼仙缘
[Mortal’s Journey] One step onto the path of cultivation, and after ten thousand years, one becomes an immortal! By a stroke of fate, a country bumpkin stumbles into the world of cultivation, a world beyond the wildest imaginings of ordinary people. He cultivates his power and awakens his spiritual sense, farming as he trains, gradually finding his footing in the complicated and treacherous cultivation world. After thousands upon thousands of years, he ultimately rises above the vast worlds and
4.8kReads8.8Score311Shelves
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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
14.2kReads8.7Score882Shelves
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The Snake Heavenly Emperor 蛇天帝
An old snake from the village accidentally swallowed a human elixir and gained intelligence, setting out on the path to immortality. With a mysterious little cauldron and a cultivation technique that can transform it into a dragon, the snake has only ten short years to live, so it must seize every moment. This is the story of an old snake becoming an immortal. [Original title: The Old Snake’s Path to Immortality (Snake Ancestor). A manga adaptation is currently being serialized.] [No System, tra
107.9kReads9.2Score8.7kShelves
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Mortal Blood! 凡血！
[Exceptional talent] [No brainless characters] [Foundation Establishment] [Golden Core] [Mortal cultivation] [No System] [No harem] Lin Fan is an ordinary mortal born in “Short-Lived Village,” yet he is determined to become an immortal whose life lasts as long as Heaven itself. By a twist of fate, Lin Fan takes part in the Seven Mysteries Sect’s entrance trials. Though he is destined never to become a cultivator, with the help of a mysterious copper bottle in his possession, he works hard one st
12.8kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves
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The Spirit Gourd’s Path to Immortality 灵葫芦修仙记
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...
152.9kReads9.0Score10.9kShelves
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The Spirit Cauldron’s Immortal Fate 灵鼎仙缘
An ordinary child from a mountain village is kidnapped and trafficked when he is young. He spends his days poorly clothed and hungry, with his life constantly in danger. Thanks to his cautious nature, he struggles to survive... until one day he encounters the mysterious world of cultivation. From then on, thousands of years pass, the seas turn to mulberry fields, and the world changes beyond recognition...
2.6kReads8.4Score235Shelves
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I Stir Up Trouble in the Cultivation World 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
155.5kReads9.5Score24.2kShelves
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The Immortal Inkstone 仙砚
Huang Xing, a biology professor, is suddenly sabotaged, and his academic career is left in ruins. When he returns home in despair, he unexpectedly awakens an ancient inheritance slumbering inside an ancestral inkstone. He thinks it is a generous gift from fate, but as he cultivates, he gradually discovers that it may all be a trap carefully laid by someone close to him. Betrayed by family and toyed with by fate, Huang Xing must choose between the path of cultivation and the bonds of blood. Each
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Playing the Ancient Immortal Path 玩古仙途
Ancient artifacts conceal strange secrets, and ordinary mortals dare knock on the gates of immortality. Young Fang Chen seeks out mysterious relics buried by time, and comes across a jade pendant with its own space. Through the struggles of the apocalypse, he parts layer upon layer of mist. Is the world a prison, or a game? Wherever he looks, a road lies ahead! He cultivates immortality all the way, and in the end, the young man attains the Great Dao!
866Reads6.2Score—Shelves
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The Xuantian Bracelet 玄天镯
Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core... Zhang Yan, an ordinary mortal, obtains the Xuantian Bracelet, which can accelerate time within its spatial realm. Ran Tian, a powerful figure from the True Immortal Realm, uses the spatial treasure Xuantian Bracelet to battle the Dragon King of Ten Thousand Demons and seal him away. But Ran Tian is gravely wounded as well. On the verge of death, fearing the demon dragon might obtain the treasure and break the seal, he tears through space and
17.1kReads8.2Score2kShelves
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A Dao Heart Reaching for the Heavens 道心参天
The new book, “The Age of Demons: Cultivating the Unorthodox Path to Immortality, Starting with the Livestock-Creation Method,” is now available. [No System, no harem, traditional xianxia, decisive and ruthless, mortal cultivation.] Cultivation is about questioning your own heart. Yu Xian, an orphan from Dayushu Village, formed a bond with a great elm tree. Before dying, the Elm Tree Matriarch opened his spiritual root, and from then on he embarked on the path of cultivation. Using the elm’s spi
186kReads9.1Score25.8kShelves
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Pagoda Immortal Fate 宝塔仙缘
[Mortal cultivation, no System, pocket dimension, medicinal garden, immortal pets] Even an ordinary person can encounter great opportunities. A country boy carrying the Three Treasures Glazed Pagoda is captured by an evil cultivator and forced to serve as a test subject. But a misfortune turns into a blessing, setting him on a bizarre and arduous path to immortality. From then on, he uses the pagoda to grow spirit herbs, raise immortal beasts, refine pills, craft talismans, and cultivate forbidd
136.2kReads9.2Score16.2kShelves
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Mortal Cultivation: From the Start, I Guard the Scrap Pill Room 凡人修仙，开局看守废丹房
[Mortal-style cultivation + no System] Su Shier, a village boy of mediocre aptitude, is forced to embark on an endless, arduous path to immortality in pursuit of revenge for a blood feud. It is a world of deceit, the law of the jungle, scheming, and hardship... The road ahead is long, the way fraught with danger. Though this humble mortal must fight through every obstacle, he swears to forge his own path to immortality.
190.9kReads8.9Score19.8kShelves
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A Mortal's Quest for Immortality 凡人寻仙
[Mortal's journey + no System + no harem + no transmigration] Ye Zhou, a village boy, awakens his spiritual root thanks to a small family-inherited gourd that can change the age of medicinal herbs, and embarks on a long journey of cultivation. Everyone schemes against everyone else, danger lurks everywhere, and affection is as thin as paper. Steadfast determination and a sharp mind are his only supports. Millions of years later, he climbs the road to immortality, survives the tribulation of ligh
5.6kReads8.6Score527Shelves
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A Mayfly in the Immortal Sea 仙海蜉蝣
[Ordinary-mortal cultivation + no System + no harem] A wandering cultivator, a speck of dust. The protagonist, Lu Luan, is a little independent cultivator at the second stage of Qi Refining, wandering among the mountain towns of the mortal world. He is fourteen, and ever since the old master who adopted him died, he has drifted from place to place through this world of cultivation... Note: The protagonist sometimes joins sects, but only as stepping stones, and never stays long. The story focuses
18.1kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
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A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Starting with an Ancestral Pendant 凡人修仙：从祖传神秘吊坠开始
[Classic mortal cultivation | No System | Ruthless and decisive | Master of dirty tricks | Scheming] [Alchemy, artifact crafting, body cultivation, formations, beast taming] [Traditional cultivation realms] This is the story of a master of dirty tricks coming into his own. His arrival will eventually become a mudslide sweeping through the Three Realms. After experiencing the joys of sabotaging others, one demonic cultivator has an epiphany. As a heart-stealing arsonist, he always has fairies sec
58.3kReads8.7Score5.7kShelves
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Beyond Immortal Cultivation 修仙之上
Beyond cultivating immortality, is there still a path to becoming an immortal? A young boy from a mountain village stumbles into the world of cultivation after a brush with danger. From that moment on, he embarks on a twisting, treacherous, yet extraordinary path of cultivation...
6.1kReads8.3Score435Shelves
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Mortal Cultivation: Refining Qi to Attain Immortality 凡人修仙，炼气长生
[Mortal cultivation] [One female lead who serves as a supporting character] [This book has already been adapted into two animated manhua] [Nearly four million characters so far] Su Chen was born a commoner. After both his parents died, he made a living herding cattle for a landlord. One day, soldiers and bandits came through, killing people and wiping out his village. He barely escaped, and a cultivator who happened to pass by took him into an immortal sect. From then on, he embarked on the path
56.8kReads8.3Score4.1kShelves
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The Green Vine's Mortal Cultivation Journal 青藤凡修记
[Mortal Cultivation + No System] + [Farming] One night, bandits massacred the remote village of Qingtian. The young Zhang Ling was lucky enough to escape. Fleeing in a panic, he got lost in the mountains, where he encountered a mutated vine. It somehow parasitized his body, and from then on, his body began to change. Later, through a twist of fate, he came into contact with the world of cultivators and embarked on the path to immortality. Along his journey of cultivation, he used a mysterious li
5.7kReads7.8Score458Shelves
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A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality 凡人修仙记
[Xuanhuan] [Mortal Protagonist] [No System] [Slow Burn] [Swordsmanship] [Mystery] After a war that lasted ten thousand years, heaven and earth shattered, three races stood side by side, and divine artifacts sank into oblivion. A mountain boy with no spiritual roots sets out from the mortal world to avenge a great wrong, enduring hardship after hardship. With one sword, he forges ten thousand; with his Dao heart, he enters a demonic tribulation! Wielding the sword in his hand, he cannot kill ever
120.9kReads8.9Score7.1kShelves
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A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: I Found a Cultivation Manual from the Start 凡人修仙：我开局捡到修仙功法
(Traditional Xuanhuan, ruthless and decisive, mortal cultivates immortality, no System, underdog's rise, multiple heroines) Lin Chen, a cowherd boy, suffers constant bullying from a young age. By chance, he obtains a damaged cultivation manual, and from then on steps into the cruel world of immortal cultivation, where the strong prey on the weak.
55Reads6.3Score159Shelves
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