A Fantasy Novel That's Not Overpowered or Wish-Fulfillment, with a Steady Pace 一本不无敌，不爽文，节奏适中玄幻文。

1. 1 万 The Eternal Demon Emperor! 万古魔帝！ San Zui三最Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsCompleted [Villain + invincible domination + System + three emperors from one family + building a faction + ruthless decisiveness + ultimate power fantasy + the plot becomes legendary in the middle and later stages] Gu Changge transmigrates into a fantasy world and binds himself to the Demon God System. As long as he keeps killing, he can quickly and easily increase his demonic cultivation and obtain all kinds of heavenly treasures! From there, he rises against all odds, founds the Heavenly Demon Cult, an 23.7kReads8.9Score2.6k14d adds
2. 2 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 197kReads8.8Score7.4k14d adds
3. 3 开EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 Purple Spirit Wind and Snow紫灵风雪Eastern Fantasy6.1M WordsCompleted [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 515.8kReads9.7Score69.9k14d adds

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4. 4 十EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 Pest Control Team Member杀虫队队员Mystery3.2M WordsCompleted 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds

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   This must be a masterpiece!

5. 5 综 Film and TV Crossover: Just Do Good 综影视：但行好事 Green Beats the Banana Plant绿打芭蕉Female-Channel Fanfiction386k WordsCompleted Primarily "Empresses in the Palace" and "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace" Very little palace intrigue + very little original content + can be read as a Qing-era transmigration story + peaceful daily life + no character assassination of the original cast + lots of original settings + sweet romance A scheming, power-hungry emperor who recognizes no one as his equal vs. a clear-eyed, perceptive, tactful consort Du Zhiying travels through various derivative worlds, hoping to become a virtuous person 5.5kReads9.1Score34114d adds

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   Unbelievable! The loves and hates of emperors! Hahaha!

6. 6 御 Beast Taming: I Bring the Divine Beasts of the Classic of Mountains and Seas to Rule Another World! 御兽：我让山海经神兽君临异界！ Mu Qiu牧秋Urban3.4M WordsCompleted No one knows how many years ago the Demon Gods descended, bringing death and disaster in their wake and ushering in a cataclysm that nearly wiped out all life on Earth. Terrifying alien monsters, powerful savage beasts, spreading miasma and demonic plagues... as well as lands from unknown ancient civilizations, primordial ruins, and secret dungeon realms all emerged into the open. Who can shoulder the burden of saving all life on Earth? Mages? Swordsmen? Warriors? Priests? Gunslingers... None of 908Reads6.8Score11614d adds

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7. 7 才 Only Three Years Old, and the Whitewashing System Is What? 才三岁，洗白系统什么鬼？ The Northern Gray Wolf Starved into a Dog北方苍狼饿成狗Eastern Fantasy1.2M WordsCompleted Su Yun transmigrates into a book as the great villain, except a thousand years too early! He's three years old this year. What is this Whitewashing System? [After you fall into darkness, your mother dies of grief. Reverse cause and effect and bring her back to life.] Su Yun looks at the impossibly healthy most beautiful woman under heaven and tentatively calls her “Mom.” [Quest complete. Reward: Bone of the Dao's Beginning!] The quests take a strange turn after that. [Slaughter the entire sect. 12.4kReads7.8Score1.8k14d adds
8. 8 师EN 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!” 124.5kReads9.4Score12.5k14d adds

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   Pretending to be weak while actually being strong, a satisfying read.

9. 9 修 Cultivation: Starting Out as a Cook at a Refining Shop 修仙：从在炼器铺当厨子开始 Just Forget It就这样忘记Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsCompleted New Title: The Timid Servant Is Actually a Master Synopsis: An outer-sect servant who’s always rushing around doing odd jobs to earn spirit stones is assigned a mission alongside a beautiful immortal maiden. He’s timid, afraid of dying, unambitious, and cares only about spirit stones, earning him the maiden’s complaints and disdain. But when the situation gets serious, he leaves her utterly stunned: who would have thought this kid was actually a master? [Rise from the Bottom + Humble and Unassum 20.2kReads8.8Score2k14d adds
10. 10 诸EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 Ninety Autumns in January一月九十秋Urban3.7M WordsCompleted I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5k14d adds

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    🔥A mind-blowing twist in *The Gods' Fool*! The most insane protagonist in history wreaks havoc on the gods' gambling game!🔥 "I swear I never lie—but who says I'm human?" As the evil gods sit around the gambling table using humans as chips, Cheng Shi laughs and tears up the rulebook: His left hand grips the power of the "Fate of Lies," his right hand crushes the crown of the "God of Truth," and he throws out a royal flush in this apocalyptic game— "Gambling with your life? Fine, but first prove you're not my illusion."

11. 11 飞 A Thousand Shadows in Flight: An Extra Story from The Divine Artifact: Heaven's Eye 飞花千影，神器之天瞳番外篇 Clear Maple and Bright Moon清枫朗月Eastern Fantasy40k WordsCompleted Misfortune is what good fortune depends on, and good fortune is where misfortune lies in wait. Fortune and calamity are intertwined and can turn into one another at any moment. The world is ever-changing, but the Heavenly Dao alone endures, and the cycle of reincarnation never ceases... This story is a side story to the second installment of Divine Artifact: Heavenly Eye. The writing style is a little different from that of the original novel's first installment. I hope fellow readers will enjoy 4Reads—Score—14d adds

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    This book perfectly matches your requirements. Add it to your bookshelf. It's not very long, but it might require a bit of brainpower. However, it's absolutely fantastic.

12. 12 从 I Start with Gu Refining and Grind My Way to the Dao of Ten Thousand Arts 从炼蛊开始肝成万法道尊 Gongsun Lizi Hotpot公孙离子烫Eastern Fantasy2.8M WordsOngoing [Gu cultivation] [Decisive and ruthless] [Invincible] [Demonic cultivator] On the Eternal Continent, demonic cultivators rip out souls to make banners and use young girls as furnaces. The righteous sects may seem noble and upright, but in truth they refine the common people into powerful medicines in hopes of ascending to immortality. Reborn in a cultivation world where mountain foraging is the foundation of training, Bai Yu unexpectedly becomes an errand disciple at the Gu Refining Peak of the 35.5kReads8.1Score3k14d adds

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    I want to cultivate demonic power, where there are no Buddhas under heaven. Personally, I think the rating is too low. It has a system, is purely grindy, and isn't the kind of story where you're invincible from the start. Women are kept if they're useful, but killed if they pose a threat.

13. 13 凡EN Mortal Bones, Immortal Destiny 凡骨 Master of One Update壹更大师Eastern Fantasy8.3M WordsCompleted (The print edition is now available to buy online) The world's spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade: Heavenly Spiritual Bones. Second grade: Golden Spiritual Bones. Third grade: Mystic Spiritual Bones. Fourth grade: White Spiritual Bones. All the rest are ordinary bones, unfit for cultivation. Xu Taiping is an ordinary man with ordinary bones, yet he swears to prove to the cultivation world that ordinary bones can slay demons, ordinary bones can vanquish evil, and ordinary b 557.8kReads9.3Score70.2k14d adds

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    This one is good.

14. 14 我 I Found the Falling Treasure Money 我捡到了落宝金钱 Inkstone Scholar砚墨客Urban983k WordsOngoing As a longtime novel reader, I've read well over a hundred books, but most start strong and then go downhill. They pour enormous effort into the early chapters, only to end badly or go on hiatus midway through. Very few actually make it to the end! So I want to take the opposite approach. The early pacing will be quick, and the protagonist's cultivation will advance rapidly. But once he has gained a measure of strength and enters the Immortal Realm, a world with a prehistoric backdrop, the truly 14Reads—Score—14d adds

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    This book is worth reading. The protagonist is intelligent, decisive, and not reckless or overly sentimental. There are also no endless chase scenes.

15. 15 养 My Adoptive Father Is Scum? My Undercover Identity Is Exposed! 养父是人渣？我卧底身份被曝光！ Don't Take My Kidney别嘎腰子Urban1.9M WordsCompleted Also known as: “Memory Trial: My Name Cleared,” “I'm Not a Great Villain,” and “Who Is the Undercover Agent?” An undercover police officer is brought to trial and sentenced to death. A live broadcast of his memories reveals a major case spanning thirty years. Brothers who could betray him at any moment, colleagues with multiple identities, friends secretly plotting behind the scenes. In this dark forest of distrust, no one dares reveal who they really are. As the truth is pieced together bit by 3.7kReads9.0Score38614d adds

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    I absolutely love these books, they're a classic collection!

16. 16 让 I Asked You to Scavenge, and You Found a Nuclear Bomb? 让你捡破烂，你捡出来核弹？ Two Meals a Day一天饿两顿Urban1.1M WordsCompleted [Feel-good] [Comedy] [Livestream] [No Romance] [Lighthearted] Su Yun transmigrates into a parallel world and joins the show The Strongest Challenger, where he draws the job of “scrap collector.” From the moment he finds a Type 38 rifle, things start getting weird. Police: “You’re just a scrap collector, so why are you always running into corpses?” Online viewers: “I told you to collect scrap, not solve crimes!” Military: “Holy crap! A pilgrimage of beasts! The Imperial Seal! The tomb of a Qin dy 19.2kReads8.8Score2.1k14d adds
17. 17 诡 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 Clouds Can Smile云会笑Mystery1.4M WordsCompleted [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 135.6kReads9.5Score11.8k14d adds
18. 18 让 You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend 让你当收尸人，你直接解刨了前女友 Ye Wusheng夜无声Mystery4.6M WordsOngoing In anatomy class, the corpse turns out to be my ex-girlfriend... After that, I went through all sorts of unbelievable things. A bus that only goes up, never down, and runs straight to a reservoir. An old scholar tree in the hospital, lush with branches and leaves, that swallows people whole. A giant catfish by the Qingshui River, begging people for help every night. And a deadly brothel hung with human skin, open for business without end. It went on and on, as if it would never come to an end... 61.3kReads9.4Score2.3k14d adds
19. 19 开 From the Start, I Have Hundreds of Millions in Hell Money: I'm Invincible in the Age of the Uncanny 开局冥币亿万：诡异时代我无敌 Sis, Don't Be Like That姐姐别这样Mystery4.5M WordsOngoing [Supernatural horror + apocalypse + tycoon + ghost money + rules + comedy + no heroine + fast-paced power fantasy (buys a supernatural-horror site by chapter 7, keeps buying everything without dragging things out, and buys an entire city in 200,000 words) + mid-story twists + late-game rule deduction] The supernatural apocalypse arrives, and evil ghosts run rampant. Within the rules, ghosts cannot kill people. While countless people struggle to survive the apocalypse, carefully searching for a w 144.3kReads9.4Score15.5k14d adds
20. 20 游 Game Invasion: I Became Emperor Before the Players Transmigrated 游戏入侵：我称帝了玩家才穿越 Xiao Chu Still Hasn't Slept潇楚还没睡Eastern Fantasy3.9M WordsOngoing [Transmigrating ahead of time + political scheming + dynastic power struggles + succubus + worlds merging] This book is also known as [I, the Empress's Fiancé, the Strongest Villain Behind the Scenes]. After waking up, Xia Chen finds himself logged into the mysterious game from his previous life ahead of schedule, starting out as the legitimate son of the Marquis of Zhendong. What? I have a younger brother named Xia Hao, who seems to have a mysterious bone inside him? It looks just like the lege 451kReads9.1Score45.8k14d adds

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21. 21 重 Reborn as the Urban Immortal Venerable 重生之都市仙尊 Luo Shu洛书Urban12.8M WordsCompleted Luo Chen, once a supreme immortal, is ambushed and reborn on Earth. Though he holds an ordinary position in society, he faces contempt from his girlfriend, ridicule from his rival in love, his parents' miserable lives, and threats and provocations from the scions of wealthy families. He swears to change his unfair fate, stand at the pinnacle of the world, and show everyone that he, Luo Chen, was once here. 26.5kReads9.0Score1.5k14d adds

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    I've been following this novel for five years, and it's truly excellent and worth reading.

22. 22 都EN Already an Immortal, Now You Add Me to a Newbie Transmigrator Group? 都快成仙了才拉我进穿越萌新群？ Loves Pickled Fish爱吃酸菜鱼Eastern Fantasy847k WordsOngoing [Chat Group + Invincible + the Myriad Worlds + A Fierce Dragon Crossing the River + Sweeping All Before Him + Unshakable Dao Heart] Chen Yi transmigrated into the cultivation world eight hundred years ago and blazed his way to the Tribulation Transcendence stage. Just as he was facing his eighty-first Immortal Ascension Tribulation, trying to outwit it once again, he was suddenly pulled into a chat group called the Transmigrators' Mutual Aid Group of the Myriad Worlds. The group was full of newb 2.3kReads9.0Score21214d adds

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23. 23 九EN Nine Star Hegemon Body Art 九星霸体诀 Ordinary Magician平凡魔术师Eastern Fantasy18.7M WordsOngoing Was he an Alchemy Emperor reborn, or had he fused with another soul? Long Chen was a talentless youth whose spiritual root, spiritual blood, and spiritual bone had been stolen. Relying on the divine alchemy techniques in his memories, he cultivates the mysterious Nine-Star Hegemon Body Art, pierces through layer upon layer of mystery, and uncovers a world-shaking plot. He commands the universe in his palm, treads upon the sun and moon, and suppresses evil spirits and wicked gods. Rumor has it in 209.6kReads9.3Score10.9k14d adds

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    The overall concept is seamless, the logic is rigorous and meticulous, and the quality is excellent.

24. 24 重 Reborn with a Baby as My New Accessory 重生喜提奶娃挂件 White-Robed Mortal Life浮生白衣Eastern Fantasy174k WordsCompleted After dying suddenly and being reborn, he finds himself a hunter in a mountain village. Chen Mo has barely celebrated getting the “immortality” cheat when he discovers this body is a mixed blessing: his wounds heal quickly, but he feels twice the pain; he’ll stay young forever, but has to watch out for people who might cut him open to study him! And to make matters worse, he has to provide for five-year-old cutie Xiao Sui… —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    This is a good book, worth recommending. The protagonist is rather timid, but the content is quite touching.

25. 25 道 The Way Begins, the Struggle for the Way 道起道争 Scattered Remnants of the Past错落曾经Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsOngoing When Heaven and Earth first came into being, the myriad paths descended, yet eternal enslavement became the fate of every race. When the sinister Dao sweeps through the heavens with a blood-red fog, devouring all creation, and the ominous Dao spreads like a plague, corroding the foundations of the myriad paths, the entire cosmos becomes a flock of lambs waiting for slaughter. Lin Jin, a young man from a remote border town, rises to prominence after accidentally obtaining a fragment of the source —Reads—Score—14d adds

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    Unlike traditional cultivation novels, *The Rise and Fall of the Dao* emphasizes the essence of "struggle"—cultivation is like rowing against the current; if you don't advance, you fall behind, and if you fall behind, you die. Every breakthrough the protagonist makes is the result of struggling against heaven, against others, and against himself. There are no cheap victories in this book; every opponent is intelligent, and every battle is thrilling. If you're tired of mindless wish-fulfillment novels and crave a logically rigorous cultivation story with a solid world-building, then this novel is definitely worth reading. The Great Dao is ruthless; only struggle matters. *The Rise and Fall of the Dao* awaits your challenge!

26. 26 穿 Even with a System After Transmigrating, I Still Have to Work Hard 穿越有系统还得勤劳 Loves the Windy Scenery喜欢吹风景Eastern Fantasy113k WordsOngoing An uplifting, satisfying story. The protagonist transmigrates with a System, but still has to work hard. It combines modern Three-Body concepts with a cultivation system. Completing System missions earns rewards, and the protagonist roams the cultivation world, from the heavens above to the depths below. —Reads—Score—14d adds

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