Looking for Traditional Fantasy with One Female Lead or No Female Lead. No Harem Stories 求一本传统玄幻，单女主或者不要女主，别来种马文
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Mortal Bones 凡骨
The world’s spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade, Heavenly Spiritual Bone. Second grade, Golden Spiritual Bone. Third grade, Profound Spiritual Bone. Fourth grade, White Spiritual Bone. All the rest are mortal bones, with no chance of cultivating. Xu Taiping, born with mortal bones, swears to prove to the cultivation world that mortal bones can slay demons, mortal bones can vanquish devils, and mortal bones can ascend to immortality!
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Growing One Point a Year: From Country Bumpkin to Ancestor of the Immortal Realm 每年加一点从山野村夫成仙界道祖
[Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up
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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
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Stepping Into the Heavenly Realm 踏天境
[A great author's alt account, one heroine, ruthless and decisive. Highly recommended!] Legend has it that there is a realm where one can pursue cause and effect, erasing every trace of an opponent across time and space with a mere sliver of divine power. One can command life and death, make countless worlds rise and fall with a single thought, and annihilate all living beings. One can stand level with the Heavenly Dao, harness the order of the universe, and rule supreme throughout eternity. Thi
313.9kReads9.2Score33.6kShelves
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[Undying Flame] 【不灭薪火】
In the ancient era, emperors and sovereigns vanished into the river of history. The myriad Dao fell into turmoil, the gods of the heavens wailed, and no one could become an emperor. In the Primordial Era, supreme emperors defied Heaven and attained the imperial realm, but their glory was fleeting. In the end, the universe's age of spiritual desolation arrived, the myriad Dao fell silent, and all living beings and cultivators fell into a forced slumber. As the years passed, time buried everything
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The Cultivation World’s Sickly Number One 修真界第一病秧子
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
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Crow Immortal 鸦仙人
Crows cry in the cold night as a young man embarks on the path to immortality. Han Yu curls up in a corner of a dilapidated courtyard, barely clinging to life. Then a crow lands on his shoulder. “Hand over the treasure, boy, and this Daoist will teach you a skill.” The black-robed old Daoist's voice is hoarse. Han Yu hands over his ancestral token of immortal cultivation, but quietly makes a second copy in his palm. From then on, his path to immortality follows one ironclad rule: Anything I've t
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Investment Rewards Made Me the Top-Ranked Empress 投资返利，我成女帝榜一
After transmigrating into a martial arts world, Li Mo bound himself to an Investment System that let him see his targets' natural talents, destiny, and future. The better their destiny, the richer the rewards he received. Then he discovered that the aloof girl he'd grown up with had the highest-tier red destiny. She was destined to become an Empress who would rule the Nine Heavens and the Ten Lands. Lately, she seemed troubled about how to unblock her sealed meridians and reveal her talent ahead
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The Underworld Calls Me Little Master 地府叫我小先生
In ancient, remote places, all kinds of strange and terrifying things are bound to happen. And these things happen around Hua Jiunan. In fact, Hua Jiunan is part of them. For instance, he was born from a corpse!
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I Transmigrated into a Cultivation Novel, but Is This Actually a Women's Romance?! 穿越修仙文，但是疑似女频？！
[Cultivation, Ruthless Male Lead (Fourth Chapter Onward, He Starts Chopping, and Doesn’t Stop Until It’s Satisfying] He transmigrated into a cultivation world, but there was another soul inside his body. A woman! A lovesick, sweet little flower!!!!!!! And they had to take turns controlling the body every day. Shu Qiuqiao: I heard the protagonists in male-oriented novels kill people’s entire families at the drop of a hat and never bother with reason. Li Xia: That’s a complete slander! Who said th
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Purple Sun 紫阳
When the Hu invaded, he lost his family, his home, and his newlywed wife, who was taken from him. He searched for her across a thousand miles but failed to find her. Through a twist of fate, he embarked on the path of Shangqing cultivation. A pedantic scholar gained immortal arts, mastered the immortal way, saved the people, and brought order to the world.
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Tattered Robe 残袍
He lives in the war-torn Republic of China era. Though he possesses peerless mystical arts, he isn't a Taoist priest. He walks the line between good and evil, accompanied by an old cat that escaped from an ancient tomb. To be precise, it isn't a cat at all, but no one knows what it really is.
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Mortal Cultivation: Ten Thousand Corpses Forge an Immortal Bone 凡人修仙，万尸铸仙骨
Demonic cultivation + no System + scheming underdog + decisive and ruthless. This book is dark, so don't read it if that's not your thing. The moment Song Wen kills the frail little beggar and seizes his blood and soul, every cell in his body cheers and leaps with excitement. His mind races, and he knows that killing will be part of his life from now on. For survival and immortality, he'll stop at nothing: petty schemes, conspiracies, and ruthless slaughter. On the road to immortality, bones are
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The Undying Emperor’s Mentor 不死帝师
Observing the love and hatred of cultivators across the river of time from a perspective beyond life itself. He left a modest little town and entered the wondrous world of cultivation. His journey sped up and slowed down, moving forward or stopping to rest, but he never stopped walking. The Age of Declining Dharma, the Age of Emperors, the Age of Dark Turmoil… He appeared in every age, and the only thing he could do was watch old friends die with his own eyes, then see them off to their grave
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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
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The Path of Immortality: Striving for the Peak, Revised Edition 仙路争锋（精修版）
[Ordinary Protagonist] [Complete, Highly Rated] Cultivating immortality is like crossing a river, with countless horses and armies competing for the sails. The moment you choose this path, you've already entered a race through life that never stops. Winning takes more than the courage to charge ahead: you must also face countless blades of wind and swords of frost, along with bloody storms. The struggle begins even before you embark on the road to immortality...
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Return from the Forbidden Zone: One Sword Opens Heaven's Gate 禁区归来，我有一剑开天门
[Golden Age + Path to the Imperial Throne + One Female Lead + Prodigy Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless + Fast-Paced + Partly Ensemble Cast] The Age of Decline ends, and the shackles binding heaven and earth gradually fall away. A golden age dawns once more, and countless prodigies rise. Imperial heirs ascend to sainthood, prodigies from sacred lands awaken from divine source crystals, and ancient clans step back into the public eye... Ancient races return to fight for dominion over heaven a
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The Fox’s Allure 狐色魅人
[A new book from Zaizai: Nine Yin Girl is now live. We hope you'll show it lots of support. Thank you!] To save my parents' lives, I made a deal with a fox immortal. From then on, I opened a shrine and did good deeds. I devoted myself to worshipping the fox immortal and helping him achieve immortality as soon as possible, never expecting that he had other plans for me...
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The Yin-Walker 巡阴人
Applying makeup to the dead, reading the winds and assessing the land, preparing bodies for burial, and performing rites on the seventh day after death. Scorched corpses: cleaning the body, applying rouge, painting the features! Bodies cut in half at the waist: removing the organs, filling the cavities, and stitching the body back together! I was born into a family that made its living from the dead, so I grew up dealing with corpses. I’ve seen all sorts of bizarre ways to die and countless inex
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The Snake King’s Wife 蛇王夫
My father buried me as soon as I was born. A snake saved my life. When I turned eighteen, that snake found me and demanded I repay him by becoming his wife…
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The Dead Man's Makeup 死人妆
The old folks often say, “Men shouldn’t be born on the first day of the lunar month, and women shouldn’t be born on the fifteenth.” I was born on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, with the fate of an iron broom and a destructive bone marrow. The living despise me, and I bring death to my whole family, yet demons and ghosts have their eyes on me! Because of him, I also broke a taboo and became a woman of yin fate... To save me, my mother-in-law taught me the art of applying makeup to th
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The Diviner with the Evil Bone 邪骨相师
My name is Xiang Yin. According to my adoptive father, he took me in from a snake immortal. My adoptive father runs a funeral shop in a northern town. He foresaw that I was born with a gift for serving the immortals and would one day become the finest spirit medium. Everyone else says I'm a corpse-born child, steeped in darkness. Only my adoptive father treasures me, teaching me spells and skills. When I was seven, something strange happened. I sold a woman a pair of burial shoes in the midd
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After the Divorce, Her Powerful Family Came to Take Her Home 离婚后顶级娘家接她回家
[Divorce + Chasing His Wife to the Crematorium, But Failing + Beloved by Everyone + Feel-Good] Three years ago, Lu Anhe’s adoptive parents forced her to marry into the Li family for their own benefit, hoping she would bring good luck to Li Chengfei, who had become a vegetable. After the wedding, Lu Anhe tirelessly cared for Li Chengfei, and accidentally nursed him back to consciousness. But she never expected that the first thing Li Chengfei would do after waking up was ask her for a divorce.
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Lu Ling Feng Shui Shop 鹿灵风水铺
[Lighthearted paranormal suspense + mild horror + one-on-one romance + episodic stories] Lu Ling is forced to take over the feng shui shop her father left her and shoulder the Lu family’s duty as spirit-contractors. Only after she starts taking on cases does she realize that people can be far more terrifying than ghosts.
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I Am a Lady Tutor 我是女先生
I'm hard to kill. These were the words I heard from the moment I was born. A blind fortune-teller said I was a White Tiger Sha, a girl born with a boy's fate, innately tough and destined to bring misfortune to my husband, my children, and myself. Everyone in the village said I wouldn't survive. My yang energy was too strong. Even if they managed to keep me alive, I'd grow up to be an idiot. But my grandma, a spirit medium who presided over the altar, refused to give up. Every year, she burned a
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The Heavenly Coffin 天棺
Because of a joke, my grandmother’s spirit refused to leave after her death and insisted on taking me with her to the grave. Otherwise, my whole family would die. To save my family, I went into the grave with my grandmother...
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Lord of the Azure Heavens 苍穹雄主
Xia Xiao is a young man who loves wilderness survival and enjoys exploring all kinds of towering mountains and dangerous peaks. He has traveled across nearly every corner of the land. During another rainy season, he meets Qin Luan'er at the summit of Mount Hua. They share the same passion and agree to explore the Kunlun Mountains together, seeking answers to the unknown. But they accidentally stumble into a time-traveling sailing ship and embark on a fantastical journey through life...
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Breaking Through the Heavens 冲破苍穹
A carefree, sunny young man raised deep in the mountains grows, driven by his family’s vendetta, into an unrivaled Martial God on the Cangqiong Continent. By a twist of fate, he obtains six “Hongmeng Tokens” and breaks through the firmament to become the second ruler of heaven and earth, Qin Meng.
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Meditation Increases My Magic Power. This Taoist Will Be Invincible 打坐就能涨法力，贫道要无敌
[Not a mindless power fantasy] [Crushes every opponent] [From setbacks to triumph] [One explosive breakthrough after another] [The ways of the world] [Rapidly becomes invincible] Under a gloomy sky, demons run rampant and evil spirits abound. Ordinary people struggle to survive under the protection of extraordinary forces. Cultivation sects stand high above the world, Dao Lords look down on the ants with indifference, and the word “immortal” has become the greatest taboo. Young Li Qingyun is an
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My Heart Commands the Heavens 我心御天
[Male lead who isn't a Mary Sue + passionate action + comedy + playful references] A fateful connection begins with an interview at a bathhouse. A former genius wins the approval of a sharp-tongued old man, and the two embark on a partnership defined by love and rivalry! (P.S. This book pays tribute to some famous memes and iconic scenes from films and TV. I hope it makes readers smile. If you spot any, share them in the comments and join the discussion!)
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Bureau of Legend Management 传说管理局
(No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would
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Three Sins Against Heaven 问天三罪
[No System] + [Demonic cultivator] + [Decisive and ruthless] The gods choose the gifted. The demons choose those who never give up. My name is Chen Ze, and I was chosen by a demon. Of course, you can call me Gui Qing. Speak my name on the road to reincarnation, and Granny Meng will give you free soup. That day, I questioned the heavens three times. The gods and Buddhas across the realms said nothing, and I knew there was no place for me in this world anymore. In that case, I have no choice but t
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With a Three-Foot Sword on My Back, Who in This World Can I Not Slay? 背上匣中三尺剑，天下何人不可斩
[No System + Swordsmanship + Peerless Prodigy + One Heroine + Fiercely Protective Wife] Ye Ping'an had practiced the sword since childhood, becoming the greatest swordsman under heaven. He should have been the undisputed choice to become the next sect master of the Tianmen Sword Sect. But after his master was framed and imprisoned, Ye Ping'an was forcibly stripped of his cultivation overnight. The once-promising disciple became a cripple with shattered meridians. A fallen genius, cast out by his
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The Savage Bandit of the Great Wilderness 大荒悍匪
Everyone knows that the Classic of Mountains and Seas is actually a cookbook. Transmigrate across mountains and seas, and stew a Kunpeng with a phoenix, or cook a Zhujian with a black tortoise. In the demon wasteland, the countless great demons are dangers to everyone else, but Zhang Chu sees them as food. One bite of demon meat doubles his strength. One sip of demon blood sends his cultivation soaring. From then on, Zhang Chu goes farther and farther along the path of cultivating by eating demo
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I Have a Gourd Vine 我有一根葫芦藤
Other people have a spiritual root in their dantian, allowing them to absorb spiritual energy and cultivate. But inside Jiang Taihao’s dantian, there is only a gourd vine bearing seven little gourds. After his father is murdered, Jiang Taihao returns from his cultivation journey. Everything you owe me, I’ll make you repay. Everything you took from me, I’ll take back, one hand at a time. Those who harmed me, I’ll wipe out to the last branch of their families! Tremble beneath my feet, Nine Heavens
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The Boundary-Severing Stele 断界碑
[Traditional Fantasy + One Female Lead + Swordsmanship + Decisive and Ruthless + Highly Recommended!] The young Mu Fan awakens a Supreme Martial Vein and is hailed as a martial arts prodigy. But after an unexpected turn of events, his Supreme Martial Vein is crippled and all his cultivation is destroyed, leaving him a helpless invalid who suffers endless humiliation. A year later, his Supreme Martial Vein is reborn. Having witnessed the harsh realities of the world, Mu Fan grows stronger through
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The Divine Ability Tree: I Use the Great Dao to Connect All Laws 神通之树，我以大道，贯通万法
[Masterful survivalist cultivation + eerie cultivation + Tiangang divine powers + ruthless and decisive + no harem + not a bleeding heart] Born as the master of divine powers, I am the Dao Lord of the cosmos! The eerie invaded, the Heavenly Dao collapsed, and the cosmos was left in ruins… The gods and Buddhas of the heavens, the great powers of the Immortal Dao, all vanished overnight. The path to immortality was severed, the divine path fell silent, and demons and monsters ran rampant. Where ar
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The Legend of the Glimmer 微光传说
After my grandmother passed away, I unexpectedly transmigrated to another world during her funeral. With no cheat or special abilities, could I, like a dying flame, lead my family through the struggle to survive?
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Demon Soul Martial Emperor 妖魂武帝
[Must-read traditional fantasy + no System + decisive and ruthless + thrilling, high-energy story + over a million avid readers] Four years ago, when Ye Wuchen was just twelve, all nine meridians opened throughout his body and his martial soul awakened, shaking the entire Qin Kingdom. However... activating a mysterious tenth meridian caused his blood and qi to flow backward, creating the illusion that he had gone blind and lost all his cultivation. Everyone thought Ye Wuchen had become nothing m
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That Year, That Cicada, That Sword 那年那蝉那把剑
Holding a cicada from summer doesn’t necessarily mean holding the whole summer in your hand. But grasp that sword, and you hold an entire world of martial arts. Wield a three-foot blade of gleaming steel. Dream of becoming a revered Sword God, if only for a day. Be an invincible Sword Immortal, if only for a moment. Sever the headmaster’s treasured pagoda and knock the emperor’s crown from his head. He laughs aloud: “Eight kings with zithers, lutes, harps, and pipes; four imps with grotesque fac
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Our Sect Is Dirt Poor, but the Disciples Are Rolling in Money 宗门一贫如洗，弟子富得流油
[Transmigration + no System + no harem + lighthearted + martial world] “Want to become an inner sect disciple? With free room and board?” Unable to resist the temptation, Jin Xiaochuan charged straight into the Nine-Story Tower, only to discover that it was a demonic sect officially registered with the authorities.
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Beyond the Immortal Firmament 仙穹彼岸
Beneath the boundless celestial dome, the brilliance of an era is no more than a firework blooming in the blink of an eye. From above, the world stretches across countless ages. Through life and death, where have they all gone? Immortal sects, imperial dynasties, supreme holy lands: beneath the celestial dome, they are nothing but handfuls of earth. A thousand years of glory, reduced to ash in a single moment. In the depths of the ruins, embers stir to life. You and I vie to become trees that re
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A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: From Being Sold to an Evil Sect 凡人修仙：从被卖到邪宗开始
[Mortal Cultivation Style, No System, Cautious and Steady, Scheming and Deception] Ye Changqing takes the entrance exam to join an orthodox sect. After failing, he is sold to an evil sect instead. Step by step, Ye Changqing makes his way up from the bottom with the help of a stone bead that has a variety of uses. On the thorny path to immortality, Ye Changqing becomes an elder of the evil sect, a leading figure in the demonic path, and a leader of the orthodox path... (The evil sect is the evil
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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
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Roaring at the Heavens 怒啸苍穹
A humble scholar, whose only wish was to pass the imperial exams, bring honor to his family, and have a whole bunch of children to carry the Ling family forward. He thought he could control his own destiny and make everything unfold just as he planned. Sadly, things didn’t go his way. His fate was full of twists and turns, and one wrong step would send him plunging into an abyss...
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