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1. 51 双 Two-Person Train Survival: I’m the Only One with a Split Personality 双人列车求生：唯独我是双重人格 50 Wants to Go Pro50想打职业Sports304k WordsOngoing A global survival game with two-person trains. Every so often, each train comes across a station dungeon. Exploring it yields survival supplies and train components. In addition, everyone awakens their own talent. Trains also receive an initial bonus based on how well their partners work together. But when Li Chen entered the game, he discovered that he was the only one on his train! Because he... had a rare case of dissociative identity disorder! The system detected 100% compatibility between L 86Reads7.6Score—Shelves
2. 52 全 The Global Game Turned Me into a Boss, and I Went on a Player-Mauling Rampage 全球游戏，变成Boss虐疯玩家 Heaven's One True Water天一真水Sports711k WordsOngoing The game has merged with reality. No one was reborn ten years into the past, no one got an NPC template, and no one even got a fortune in game currency. Just one little accident happened. Everyone else merged with a personal System and became a player. Xu Mubai became the Newbie Village Boss. What the hell? Players can revive, NPCs can respawn, and the mighty Fourth Calamity army is unstoppable. Can I, the Boss, revive too? Xu Mubai asked. The Almighty Main God replied: You’re a World Boss, so y 83Reads7.0Score—Shelves
3. 53 致 Dear Players: The Air in This Server Is About to Become Private Property 致各位玩家：本服空气即将私有化 World-Destroying Emperor灭世大帝Urban1.9M WordsCompleted (The print edition has been published under the title The Final Ownership Era) [The Ultimate Owner] [Synopsis: The stars are my candlelight, the orbits my sash, and civilization my game board. It is my mercy that lets all life flourish in my garden, where no one has to measure each breath in money.] Like millions of others, Ling He was unexpectedly pulled into a war game. Outside, countless races watched hungrily. Within, humanity schemed against itself. Some wanted to become emperors, standing 70.6kReads8.8Score9.2kShelves
4. 54 反 You Want Me to Take the Backlash for My Enemy? Then I'll Just Cheat! 反噬仇人扛？那我可要开挂了！ Hard Candy Blossom硬糖花红Urban445k WordsCompleted “My little book of grudges can transfer every negative status effect I suffer to my enemies?” “Side effects from potions and pills, flaws in cultivation techniques and martial skills, the costs of forbidden arts, spiritual energy spent in battle... Even injuries can be transferred?” “Hehehe! Then I’m done playing nice!” Using too many potions and pills can destabilize your foundation and limit your martial potential? Who cares about the side effects? Just gulp them down! Cultivation techniques a 394Reads6.0Score100Shelves
5. 55 觉 The First Day I Awakened Regression, I Went Straight Back to Infancy 觉醒回溯第一天，直接回到婴儿期 Xiao Shan Qing Lü Lan晓山青绿蓝Urban618k WordsCompleted [High Martial] + [Rapid Growth] + [I Want It All] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [Top-Tier Multiple Talents] + [Unlimited Rewinds] + [Always One Step Ahead] On the first day after transmigrating, Chen Yu awakened the ability to rewind time. He thought he was about to embark on a heaven-defying path, but in this life, his mother died giving birth to him, his father never cared for him, and his half-siblings had never once given him a second glance. The son of the mighty Xuanjiang family, he went hun 519Reads5.8Score101Shelves
6. 56 洪 Honghuang: I’ll Come Clean, I’m the Ancestor of Wisdom! 洪荒：摊牌了，我就是智慧祖巫！ Duo Lai Dreams哆来做梦Eastern Fantasy2.5M WordsOngoing [Primordial World + Investiture of the Gods + Journey to the West + invincible + comedy + scheming + play the pig to eat the tiger] Wu Tian transmigrates into the Primordial World and becomes a member of the Wu Clan. Unlike the others, he has no interest in fighting and killing. He just wants to stay behind the Ancestral Shamans, occasionally offer them advice, cultivate cautiously, and attain the Great Dao. Why fear the Calamity of the Wu and Yaoguang Clans? As long as he can hang on until the 103.4kReads8.9Score14.4kShelves
7. 57 大 My Freshman Internship: You Went to Site 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 Gaara's Sand我爱罗的沙Urban3.9M WordsOngoing [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 666kReads9.5Score50.8kShelves

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   Ten super good books, especially Lu Taisui who likes to wear civil and military sleeves, Devil Ren Dakeng, Chen Ling who mocks the natural disaster, Qin Yu who cultivates immortality, Chu Xinghe, the undercover agent of heaven, and Qin Siyang, the son of the crow's choice!

8. 58 这 Something's Off About This Demon Prince 这个魔子不对劲 Yi Qingfeng弈青锋Urban5.7M WordsCompleted The Sacred Heavenly Gate stands across the vault of heaven, while the Space-Time Demon Abyss lays waste to the mortal world. When twelve spirit springs burst forth from the earth, and the moon no longer belongs to humanity... Where will we go from here? A world of gods? A world of demons? No. This is a world that belongs to humanity! I will take up the crown that no one else dared to bear and become the king of a new era. My name is Ren Jie! A man should live to be a hero! 199.3kReads9.4Score18.8kShelves
9. 59 我 I Am Not the God of Drama 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 1.8MReads9.9Score184.4kShelves
10. 60 我 I'm Here to Turn Up the Heat in the Cultivation World 我来给修仙界上点强度 The Angler Who Catches Big Fish钓鱼佬钓大鱼Eastern Fantasy2.3M WordsOngoing [Comedy][Sneaky Schemer][Lighthearted][Absurd][Gets Better the Further You Read] [This book focuses on comedy and fun. The pace is somewhat slow, so please do not read it if that bothers you.] Year 17,863 of the Cultivation Calendar When Emperor Qin Yu became an immortal and ascended, powerful figures from every realm came to see him off. Firecrackers exploded, and everyone had tears in their eyes as they murmured their farewells. Sect Elder: “He's leaving. This scourge is finally leaving. We ca 156.8kReads9.1Score13.1kShelves
11. 61 我 I Just Want to Destroy the Sect, So How Did I Become a God Against All Odds? 我只想毁灭宗门，咋逆天成神了 Moonlit Night明月夜色Eastern Fantasy7.5M WordsOngoing Reborn into the number one sect under heaven: it should have been a perfect start. But Chu Xinghe discovered that his cultivation path was a little unusual. Could he become invincible under heaven just by destroying his own sect? Building the number one sect under heaven wasn’t easy, but surely destroying it wouldn’t be hard? Chu Xinghe soon discovered that it really wasn’t easy. He racked his brains trying to bring down his own sect, but why did every attempt only make it stronger? Countless ye 90.3kReads9.3Score6.5kShelves
12. 62 序 Sequence: God Eater 序列：吃神者 No Brain, Just Cerebellum不要大脑要小脑Urban4.2M WordsOngoing [Tomato 2026 Male-Focused Fiction Most Popular Author, Ranked Number One] Published in print, quality guaranteed. An alternate high-martial world, ensemble cast and political intrigue, no nested plot twists, a slow-paced story with a grand setting. Readers all say it gets better the further you read. Giant birds swallow the sun, and all things undergo dramatic change. Strange, immortal gods, and humanity's superpowered sequences. Everyone wants to become a god in this world, but they have no ide 878.6kReads9.3Score104kShelves
13. 63 说 You Said Lightning Was the Weakest. So How Can Yours Evolve Without Limit? 说好最弱雷电，怎么你能无限进化 The Wind Is Howling Tonight今晚的风儿甚是喧嚣Urban4.3M WordsOngoing On Blue Star, vicious beasts run rampant. Everyone can awaken an ability and has a chance to become a powerful force, feared across the land! Yet Xu Jingming, who transmigrated here, had only an E-rank ability. Fortunately, the Deep Blue System appeared, upgrading his weak E-rank electric ability into S-rank Purple Firmament Divine Thunder! That’s not all. Every time he kills a vicious beast, he earns ability points. Spend ability points to raise his level and strengthen his skills. “Deep Blue, 259.8kReads9.0Score20.4kShelves
14. 64 禁 A Short-Lived Forbidden Spell Caster? I Have an Undying Body 禁咒师短命？我拥有不死之身 Eat the Little Almond吃掉小杏仁Urban3.9M WordsOngoing Ye Lin transmigrates to a world overrun by demons and monsters, where he gains an immortal body. Because changing jobs in this world costs a fortune, he exploits a bug and sells his own organs to scrape together enough money to take part in the job-change ceremony. On the day of the ceremony, he becomes an SSS-rank Forbidden Spellcaster, but everyone around him mocks him. That's because SSS-rank Forbidden Spellcasters have to sacrifice their lifespan or their flesh to cast spells, so they're usu 254kReads8.8Score21.4kShelves
15. 65 从 Building the Greatest Immortal Clan in the Universe, Starting with a Withered Tree 从枯木开始打造寰宇第一仙族 Mu Feng Feng木风峰Eastern Fantasy2.1M WordsCompleted [Ensemble Cast + System + Clan Saga + No Female Lead + The Protagonist Isn’t Human!] Clan Chief, this is bad! One of our people is injured! Quick, take them to the Divine Tree! Clan Chief, this is bad! One of our people is on the brink of death! Quick, take them to the Divine Tree! Clan Chief, this is bad! One of our people just passed away! Quick, take them to the Divine Tree. We can’t let the body get cold on the way! Reincarnated as a frail locust tree, Ji Yang only wanted to bask in the sun, 95.4kReads8.8Score13.6kShelves
16. 66 蝉 The Cicada Project 蝉计划 Moonlight Old Rascal明月老贼Urban4.7M WordsCompleted [Spiritual qi revival + crafty schemer + comedy + meme references + one heroine] As spiritual qi revived, Jiang Bai unexpectedly arrived in the age of the fifth mysterious tide. Everything he knew had faded with the passage of time. The world had been utterly transformed, familiar places and people were gone, and the career he had once fought for had turned to dust. The past was beyond recall. In this chaotic, dark age, order had long since collapsed, civilization was no more, and the shadow of 94.1kReads9.3Score10.5kShelves
17. 67 别 Everyone Else Exorcises Ghosts, but I Marry Them. I Can't Live Like This Anymore 别人捉鬼我娶鬼，这日子没法过了 Farshore Inkman远涯墨客Eastern Fantasy197k WordsOngoing Bao Bufan, a good-for-nothing Daoist from Mount Longhu, is kicked out of his sect for peeking at his senior sister while she bathed. He scrapes by through scams and cons. One day, he takes a job hunting ghosts. He plans to swindle the client and run, but the century-old vengeful ghost Su Wan'er forces him into a marriage contract: "Cheat on me, and you'll get the full physical castration package!" By day, he pretends to be a Daoist and catches ghosts, splashing zombies with virgin boy's urine an —Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Readers, listen to me, this book is worth reading. It is not easy for the protagonist to practice cultivation, and the road ahead is difficult and dangerous. As we shoulder the heavy responsibility and move forward, a huge conspiracy is brewing. If you can take a look, you will be happy forever. I don't care much about the writing, so I look forward to comments and likes. Please mention any shortcomings and accept them with an open mind. Thank you!

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