Cultivation, Transmigration, and Ghost Hunting, but Nothing Mindless 修仙，穿越，抓鬼，不要无脑的

1. 1 玄 Mysticism: A Female Cultivator Reborn as a Wicked Old Lady, Living Life on Her Own Terms 玄学：女修穿成极品老太独自美丽 Get Rich Quick Pear暴富梨Mystery1.8M WordsCompleted [Mystical arts, satisfying read, no romance] Su Ran fails to advance and transmigrates into the body of a shrewish old woman in another world. The original owner is a notorious local spirit medium who makes a living by swindling people. She's a selfish, lazy old woman. As soon as Su Ran arrives, she's nearly thrown in jail, and only escapes thanks to her ghost-catching skills. The family she rescues escorts her home with drums and gongs, only to find her five children setting up a memorial shrin 3.3kReads8.8Score395Shelves

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   The heroine fails to become a god and becomes a goddess through time travel. She has children and is very filial to the heroine. The heroine is responsible but not too much. She ensures that her children are not bullied and provides help in the early stage. Later, she leaves home and continues to be a goddess. The heroine is very powerful but not a holy mother. She only intervenes when others need it and does not meddle in other people's business.

2. 2 小 The Junior Sister Is So Sweet and Gentle, Yet She Kills Without Spilling Blood! 小师妹超乖超软，但嘎人不见血！ Don't Eat Fried Shrimp不吃炸虾Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [Slap people and kill people, both without missing a beat] [Main story complete] After transmigrating into a tragic cultivation novel, Jiang Wu became the pitiful, self-sacrificing heroine doomed to suffer. System: Host, even though the male lead crippled your cultivation and wants your life, he loves you. Jiang Wu: Kill him. System: Host, even though your senior brother bullied you for the sake of the female lead, one day he'll come to his senses and regret it terribly. Jiang Wu: Kill him. Syst 15.3kReads8.9Score2.3kShelves

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   I think it meets your requirements completely. She is a super smart heroine. The white and black colors are very interesting.

3. 3 九 Uncle Nine: Simplifying Cultivation Starting at the Funeral Parlor 九叔：从义庄开始简化修仙 Half a Step Through the Years半步年华Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted [Uncle Jiu + charity hall + Taoist priest + growth + System + cultivation + cunning schemer] Lin Luo transmigrates to Uncle Jiu’s world and becomes his eldest disciple. After ten years of keeping a low profile, he finally awakens the Simplification System! Every skill and cultivation method can be simplified! The Shangqing Breathing Technique is simplified: breathe! The Shangqing Great Grotto Scripture is simplified: breathe deeply! The Shangqing Lightning Fist is simplified: generate static ele 42.3kReads8.9Score4.1kShelves

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   A very nice book

4. 4 我 I Become a Taoist Priest in Uncle Jiu's World 我在九叔世界当道士 Lord Bi Zhi笔知大人Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted He accidentally transmigrated into the legendary Uncle Jiu universe. In a world full of ghosts and monsters, of course he had to cling to Uncle Jiu. With Taoist cultivation techniques, the righteous Uncle Jiu, and the mysterious Maoshan sect, watch as the young Taoist travels through the world of the undead alongside Uncle Jiu, bringing you all of Uncle Jiu’s classic iconic moments. 13.6kReads8.5Score803Shelves
5. 5 邪 Evil God Moran! 邪神墨然！ Three Winds 11三风11Mystery3.1M WordsCompleted Why does the headless ghost in the hospital keep praying at midnight? Why does the skin-stealing ghost in the desolate mountain village wail without stopping? And why does the long-haired female ghost in the studio apartment shriek in the middle of the night? None of this is a distortion of human nature, much less a collapse of morality. It’s just that… someone’s having an episode! In an age when horror has returned and vengeful ghosts run rampant, Bai Yuan, dressed in a hospital gown, smiled ca 153.7kReads9.3Score16.5kShelves

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   Whenever the clock strikes midnight, the ghost face tattoo on Bai Yuan's neck opens his third eye. The stumps wandering around the anatomy room and the bloody eyes hiding behind the library bookshelf eventually turned into the fishy sweetness exploding on his tongue. The classmates thought he was shaking, but in fact it was the excitement of being extremely hungry. Chen Qingli's chalk suddenly broke, and red rules appeared on the blackboard: It is forbidden to have an appetite for ghosts. It is forbidden to look directly into the teacher's pupils. It is forbidden to discover... You are also a ghost. The setting is very interesting. When the classroom floor tiles cracked, there were eighteen levels of the afterlife. When the sixth article of the school rules became "edible classmates" (Dark Cultivation of Immortals + Weird Stories about School Rules, Human Skin Lesson Plans/Ghost-Eating Level Up/Teacher-Student Life and Death Game) --- ✨ High-energy memory points 1. Horrifying contrast: Use "student ID card/blackboard writing/school rules" and other campus elements to reconstruct the horror context 2. Novel setting: "Eating ghosts and cultivating immortals" system - swallowing resentment to break the situation, eating fear to forge the soul 3. Multi-layered identities: The teacher is suspected of being the mastermind behind the scenes, and the protagonist is between the predator and the prey 4. Rule collapse: The three bloody school rules hint at the critical point between human nature and ghost nature 5. Visual impact: "Ghost face tattoos open eyes", "Cinnabar pills hide human teeth" and other weird images. It is very interesting and a very good novel. The protagonist can become stronger by eating ghosts. It is very interesting.

6. 6 黑 Dark Face Reading 黑相术 Old Dog of the Barren Mountains荒山老狗Urban2.5M WordsCompleted 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. 21.6kReads8.9Score2.7kShelves

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   A wonderful book of dark metaphysics that subverts cognition! When traditional physiognomy collides with the dark and treacherous secret laws, every deduction of flesh and bone physiognomy hides a life-and-death situation. Using facial bones as a compass and blood lines as a star map, the protagonist wanders in the gray area between yin and yang, exposing the disguises of the powerful and uncovering the fatal curse. The intertwined family secrets and the game of human nature in the book are more brain-burning than suspense, and more soul-stirring than horror! Open it and enter the game. Do you dare to face this "people-eating" physiognomy chessboard?

7. 7 全 The Entire Police Station Is Waiting for Me to Explain Ghosts with Science 全警局都等我用科学解释鬼魂 Xixi's Night Owl兮兮的夜猫Two Male Leads421k WordsCompleted [Two men + supernatural mysteries + equally matched leads + sweet romance and crime-solving + transmigration] [Materialist Detective Captain X Ancient Master of the Mystical Arts] Good news: I failed my tribulation, but didn’t quite die. Instead, I transmigrated into a government employee with a secure job. Bad news: This body has cervical spondylosis and a strained lower back. I’m out of breath after just a few steps, and I have to handle corpses every day. Good news: I still have all my mystic 5kReads8.8Score1kShelves

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   Metaphysics bosses are going crazy in the scientific community! I can touch corpses to examine them, draw charms to drive away ghosts, and lead a team to refute rumors. It's so versatile~

8. 8 系 Immortality System: I Outlived Everyone 系统赋我长生，我熬死了所有人 One Durian No. 3一只榴莲3号Eastern Fantasy5.6M WordsOngoing 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 532.9kReads9.4Score46.3kShelves
9. 9 异 Cultivating as a Nonhuman: From Mountain Fox Demon to Nine-Tailed Great Sage 异类修仙，从山中狐妖到九尾大圣 The Sky Is Lazy天空是懒懒的Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsOngoing [Demon cultivation] + [Demon clan great sage] + [No female lead] + [Mystical arts and magical combat] + [Numerous treasures] Being human is hard. Being a fox is even harder. Overnight, I transmigrated and was born a fox, setting foot on the path to immortality as an outsider! Su Xinglan refused to remain a little mountain demon. Fortunate enough to obtain the treasure of the Great Dao, the Book of Langhuan, he vowed to cultivate nine tails that reached the heavens! Yet the immortal sects saw me 2.4kReads8.4Score213Shelves

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   Beautiful, highly recommended

10. 10 驴 Hiking with My Girlfriend, the Travel Blogger 驴友女朋友和我爬山 Fragrance-Chasing Youth追香少年6k WordsCompleted Hiking with My Girlfriend, the Outdoor Enthusiast 4.4kReads—Score—Shelves

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    My buddy's girlfriend invited me to climb a dangerous peak with me, and my heart beat out of control on the cliff! She looked back and smiled, was it a heartbeat or an abyss? At an altitude of 8,000 meters, the lack of oxygen can't hide the taboo temptation. Every step is the pull of betrayal and desire... "Don't let me fall, please."

11. 11 诡 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 766.4kReads9.6Score136.5kShelves

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    This book is mainly about the male protagonist collecting puzzle pieces through various blood gates. Every small chapter in it is very exciting. The one that impressed me the most is the Rain Prayer Village. The people who looked up could scare me so much that I didn't dare to go to the toilet in the middle of the night. I really recommend it!!!!!!

12. 12 在 It’s Just Too Satisfying to Cultivate Demonic Arts in a Doomsday World 在末日世界修魔也太爽了吧 Set Sail for the Eastern Sky启航东天Eastern Fantasy949k WordsOngoing When five billion people transmigrated to a cultivation world, each became a low-level demonic cultivator teetering on the edge of death. And when tens of millions were dying every day... What would you do if you were one of them? Lie low for a thousand years, become invincible, then finally emerge? Or charge ahead and fight until heaven and earth were turned upside down, and the sun and moon lost their light? Luckily, you discovered a door in your sea of consciousness leading to a zombie wo 64.4kReads8.9Score5.8kShelves
13. 13 三 Third Sister 三姐 Li Sitong李肆瞳Urban5.5M WordsOngoing “If you don't talk about the world's troubles to everyone you meet, then you're someone who lives free of the world's troubles.” Never think too highly of people's hearts, and never underestimate human nature. Nothing is colder than human nature, nothing more chilling than people's hearts. Be a little kinder to yourself. A life in this world is hard-won, and every tribulation is fate. This is the strange coming-of-age journey of an innocent young man. Ordinary people dream of becoming immortals, 137kReads9.2Score6.8kShelves

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    They are all very good-looking and not brainless.

14. 14 农 The Imperial Tutor's Road to the Civil Service Exams 农门帝师的科举之路 Ju He雎禾Historical1.0M WordsCompleted Imperial Examination, One-on-One Romance After an accident, a young man from the modern era transmigrated into the Great Qian Dynasty. Looking at his family’s dilapidated brick house, Qi Wenyu wondered how he would make a living from then on... 22.5kReads9.2Score2.1kShelves
15. 15 宠 He Spoiled His Concubine and Neglected His Wife. Reborn, I Broke Off My Engagement to the Scumbag and Married the Prince 宠妾灭妻，重生我退婚渣男嫁王爷 Zhi Zhi之知Ancient Romance640k WordsCompleted The physical book is available on all major platforms. Formerly titled Riding the Phoenix. [Reborn + Powerful Female Lead and Male Lead + Nation and World + Political Schemes] Before the age of seventeen, Shen Yu was the legitimate daughter of a military family who could wield a blade and charge into battle. After seventeen, she became the frail wife of Jiang Manor's Vice Minister Jiang. Her father and brothers died in battle, and the entire Shen family was honored for their loyalty. Bearing 108.4kReads9.5Score15.5kShelves
16. 16 师 My Junior Disciples Are All Overpowered, So I Have to Cheat! 师弟们都是大佬，那我只能开挂了 Rain Falls from South of the City to the West城南有雨落城西Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsCompleted The second junior brother is the chosen one of the plane. The third junior brother is reborn. The fourth junior brother is an ancient Sword Immortal reincarnated. The junior sister is the future Demon Empress. Everyone from top to bottom is a hidden powerhouse! Ouyang, the eldest senior brother, gives a crooked grin. “Well, then I guess I'll have to use cheats!” 133.5kReads9.4Score12.2kShelves
17. 17 谁 Who Taught Him to Cultivate Like This? 谁教他这么修仙的？ Ling Duoqing令多情Eastern Fantasy4.5M WordsCompleted [Blue Star, evil cultivators, no harem, invincible protagonist, comedy, goofball humor, transmigration. If that bothers you, don't read.] [An established author’s new book, backed by twenty million characters of experience. I like setting up plot threads, so if something seems unreasonable, give it a few chapters.] A new disciple who had just joined the sect rushed in, panicking: “Master, this is terrible! Big Brother robbed someone!” “Don’t make such a fuss. Your senior brother is securing bene 113.5kReads8.8Score11.1kShelves
18. 18 我 I Really Didn't Rely on My Disciple 我真没靠徒弟 Silent Sigh叹气无声Eastern Fantasy1.9M WordsCompleted [Raising disciples + lighthearted comedy + hot-blooded action. The protagonist isn’t instantly invincible. Some angst, so don’t read if that’s not your thing.] “What? The number one sword immortal of Da’an and the Medicine Emperor of the Southern Domain are disciples of a mere Body Tempering martial artist?” “Give me a break. Do you really think someone who could teach a sword immortal and a Medicine Emperor is only at the Body Tempering realm?” “Exactly! Do you know how the Rift-Splitting Gorge 42.6kReads9.1Score4.4kShelves
19. 19 仗 Sword in Hand, Wine in Tow, a Dashing Wanderer 仗剑，载酒，惊鸿客 Sweet Potato Monster红薯怪Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted [Prodigy + no System + Swordsmanship + Lighthearted + Immortality] The fake prodigy: “Life and death don’t matter. If you’ve got a problem, fight me.” The real prodigy: “I want to draw my sword.” “No, you don’t,” said the leaders of the Daoist sects, the Buddhist Venerable, and the Demon Cult Master, trying to talk him down. Across this vast and boundless land, who will determine its fate? I have a sword, its white blade stained red by the mortal world. A vast and magnificent sky stretches a 25.2kReads8.2Score2.3kShelves
20. 20 死 After Death, My Wife Preserved My Corpse, and I Evolved from a Zombie 死后被妻子养尸，我从僵尸进化 The Classic of Mountains and Seas Courier山海经搬运工Mystery1.2M WordsCompleted [Zombies + Corpse-Raising + Corpse-Driving + Body Retrieval + Folk Customs + Romance + Ancient Mythology + Classic of Mountains and Seas] (Volumes 1–7: After I died, my wife raised my corpse, transforming me from a zombie into the Ancestral Corpse.) (Volume 8: After my wife died, I raised her corpse, transforming her from a zombie into a female drought demon.) In my previous life, my wife was the Yellow Emperor's daughter. She died after being sacrificed to the gods, and I raised her corpse unti 32.1kReads9.2Score3.4kShelves
21. 21 民 Tales of Folk Taboos 民间禁忌杂谈 Su Wan苏皖Urban2.7M WordsCompleted A pig butcher never slaughters a pig with five toes. The village guardian never guards a village with a temple. A feng shui master never selects a lair of an evil dragon. A midwife must wash her hands in rooster’s blood. There are three hundred and sixty trades in the world, and every one has its rules. Are these ancient, mysterious rules really nothing more than empty formalities? If I told you that some rules must never be broken, because breaking them means death, would you believe me? 8.8kReads8.0Score1.3kShelves

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    The horror atmosphere in the book is created extremely well, as if readers are brought into a world full of evil spirits and curses. The author uses delicate brushstrokes to describe gloomy scenes, strange sounds and mysterious black shadows, making readers' hearts beat faster and sweating while reading. Whether it's an abandoned hospital, an old mansion, or a gloomy forest, they are all portrayed vividly by the author, making people feel as if they are actually there.

22. 22 我 With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼 Purple Dream Wandering Dragon紫梦游龙Mystery10.2M WordsOngoing The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead! 794.8kReads9.4Score51.4kShelves
23. 23 借 Borrowing Yin Lifespan 借阴寿 Five Dou of Rice五斗米Mystery2.5M WordsCompleted Have you ever slept wearing burial clothes? Don’t try it. I did once, and that night... My name is Li Yiliang. I was born with a shortened lifespan, and my birth caused my mother to die in childbirth. But one night when I was eighteen, my mother came back and said she wanted to take me with her... My grandfather told me to sleep in burial clothes, then gave his own life to help me escape that fate. From then on, my life was never free of strange and uncanny things... 4.5kReads8.9Score392Shelves
24. 24 活 Taboo of the Living 活人禁忌 Ninth Master of the Thieves' Sect盗门九当家Mystery1.9M WordsCompleted When I was nine, I found myself in mortal danger! To save me, my grandfather made a decision that would change my life forever... 16.2kReads9.2Score2kShelves
25. 25 麻 The Seer in Hemp Robes 麻衣天相 Lao Heini老黑泥Mystery1.0M WordsCompleted Feng shui techniques can kill without spilling blood or save lives without anyone noticing. Fortune-telling and divination can reveal one's fate, but no reading should reveal everything, for the ways of Heaven are unpredictable. My name is Jiang Sheng. I was born with a yang body but an yin fate, destined for a life of hardship. My grandfather named me “Sheng,” hoping I could win half a move against Heaven and live a good life. My grandfather arranged nine marriages for me so I could overcome th 12.3kReads8.6Score2.5kShelves
26. 26 麻 The Feng Shui Master in Hemp Clothes 麻衣风水师 Idler A Qi闲人阿七Mystery2.2M WordsCompleted I was born with twelve fingers, and my hands have no palm lines. A fortune-teller said I had the rare fate of a heaven-cursed debt collector, doomed to bring death to everyone around me. To save me, Grandpa decided to return to the martial world and defy fate. He arranged three marriages for me, but on the night of the engagement, he died. Eight evil spirits came to take him away! 82.5kReads8.7Score6.2kShelves
27. 27 天 The Fated Guardian of the Village 天命守村人 Forget the Sorrow of Parting忘记离愁Mystery6.7M WordsCompleted I was born slow-witted, destined to become the village guardian. To defy fate and change my destiny, my grandfather found me a stunning child bride. Unfortunately, she ran away, and my grandfather had little time left to live. Before he died, he told me I must not leave the village for twelve years, or disaster would surely befall me. 3.1kReads6.8Score755Shelves
28. 28 废 The Useless Prince: Why Are You Forcing Me to Become Emperor? 废物皇子：为何要逼我做皇帝？ The Wind of the 80s80年代的风Historical4.0M WordsCompleted He is the empire’s useless prince! But his own father, the emperor, wants him dead. The crown prince wants him dead. His brothers all want him dead. Even the most beautiful woman under heaven wants him dead! To survive, he trains an invincible army and builds a hidden paradise. He brings the Hundred Schools of Thought to heel, drawing capable ministers, mighty generals, and reclusive masters from every corner of the land to his side. All the beauties under heaven dream of becoming his bride. Ami 85.7kReads9.3Score9.8kShelves

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    Travel through the world of immortality! 👊The male protagonist of Sheniu opens the way with his talk, is good at refining alchemy and refining weapons, tearing white lotus flowers with his hands, stepping on hypocrites, and counterattacks all the way to become the top in the fairy world✨!

29. 29 你 Why Provoke Him? Even the Weakest in His Sect Is a Great Emperor 你惹他干嘛？他宗门最弱都是大帝 Mihoyo, Watch Out米忽悠看刀Eastern Fantasy3.2M WordsOngoing (Invincible protagonist + taking disciples + sect upgrades + ruthless and decisive + expansive worldbuilding + ensemble cast + gradual build-up + the pacing is a little slow for the first 200,000 words, then becomes explosively fast) “You have to pay to cultivate immortality?” “You even have to grease palms to get a spot?” “And pay the sect thirty taels of silver every month?” “You have to serve as a menial for half a year before you can even get a chance to study immortal arts?” “You came first 114.2kReads8.5Score7.7kShelves
30. 30 逍 The Carefree Crown Prince 逍遥太子传 Yan Shisan烟十叁Historical5.0M WordsCompleted [Daily updates] + [Alternate world] + [Lighthearted] + [No angst] + [Wildly satisfying] + [No System] Ye Xun transmigrated. From the start, he was the Crown Prince of Great Xia, but unfortunately, he had already been deposed. Still, Ye Xun had no lofty ambitions. He only cared about money. All he wanted was to be an idle prince, indulging in wine and women and resting his head on a beauty’s lap. But things didn’t go as planned. Ye Xun had no intention of stirring up trouble again, yet he w 29.2kReads9.0Score3kShelves

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    Not my brother, I can be the emperor, plus my brother is a time traveler, how dare you?! [Shock]

31. 31 大 Great Qin: From the Start, I Get Ten Times Lu Bu's Combat Power with Sign-In 大秦：开局签到十倍吕布战力 You in the Wind风中的你Historical2.3M WordsCompleted Ying Yu transmigrates to the Qin Dynasty and becomes the First Emperor's sixth son. The First Emperor faces a crisis, and the Nation-Protecting Sign-in System activates. From the start, he signs in for Lu Bu's template, extending the First Emperor's life and increasing his own combat power tenfold. He slays Zhao Gao and obtains the peerless divine general Zhao Yun! The Xiongnu invade. He signs in at the Great Wall and gets the Snowstorm Dragon Cavalry, wiping out the Xiongnu! The six kingdoms re 30.5kReads9.0Score3.4kShelves
32. 32 开 Immortal from Birth: Everyone Thinks I'm Invincible 开局长生不死，谁都以为我无敌 No Longer So Young以非当年少Eastern Fantasy7.2M WordsOngoing Chen Changan stayed by his beautiful master's side for ten thousand years. He neither aged nor died, yet he was never able to cultivate. In the end, his master drove him away, and he traveled through the mortal world with his companion, the qilin Da Huang. After returning to the Chen family, he obtained a natural embryonic pearl and finally acquired a method of cultivation. Even Chen Changan never imagined that his cultivation talent had actually been lying in the womb all along? 166.4kReads9.0Score11.2kShelves
33. 33 朕 I'm Shocked! The Prodigal Son Is Actually a Demonic National Preceptor! 朕震惊了，败家子竟是妖孽国师！ Strolling in the Wind漫步风中Historical2.7M WordsCompleted He transmigrates into the Da Feng Dynasty as the son of the Duke of Ying, a notorious fool and wastrel known throughout the capital. Lin Chen cracks his knuckles. “If I’m the duke’s son, who do I have to fear?” And so Lin Chen charges headlong through life, from the capital to Jiangnan, from temples to court, from the northern frontier to the grasslands, leaving a fearsome reputation in his wake. Da Feng’s merchants are stunned. “Wait, you became the richest man in Da Feng. How is that being a w 83.1kReads8.7Score7kShelves

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