Any Cultivation Stories Where the Protagonist Isn’t Framed in Chapter One, with a Genius Protagonist? 有没有修仙文，第一章不是被污蔑，天才流
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Transmigrated Into a Substitute Puppet, I Took Up Sword Formation Dual Cultivation 穿成替死傀儡，我直接剑阵双修
[Strong Female Lead + Power Progression + Slow Burn + Past and Present Lives + Ensemble Cast + Passionate Adventure + Redemption] The past-life arc is underway! Come join us~ Transmigrated into a book as the heroine’s puppet? Or a fake replacement meant to lure the villain into a trap and kill him? Chi Mian: “This script is trash. Tear it all up and start over!” Kill the heroine, seize her opportunities, make a contract with a divine beast... Chi Mian carves out a path of her own. She thinks her
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The First Great Mess in the Cultivation World 修仙界第一混乱
“Sect Master Sun, your sect is now a renowned sword sect in the northern cultivation world. What is your opinion of Dean Xu?” “I often tell people in the know that Dean Xu is my idol. People hunt him down, and he still tries to make friends and strike deals with them. He raises disciples until they reach Foundation Establishment, then stops teaching them and sells them off to other sects. Now his students are everywhere, and his people are all over the place.” “And how do the senior members of
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Subduing the Yin, Also Known as: My Stepmother Is Ruthless 伏阴【又名：后妈很凶残】
[Ancient martial arts + two powerful leads + settle it with a fight + young genius + older love interest + child + cultivation] “Yuxi! Someone’s forcing me to drink!” When a certain rich kid tried to force his sister to drink, Qi Yuxi simply sliced off the bottle cap with one hand, then stuck it into the solid wood table. Everyone’s mouths fell open in perfect O’s. “You’re a practitioner of ancient martial arts!” Practitioners of ancient martial arts are a mysterious class of people unknown to
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You Want Me to Give the Heroine Her Fortune? I Kill the System from the Start 让我给女主送机缘？开局反杀系统
[The ratings are low because the book was just listed] [Genius junior sister with a lightning spirit root ✖️ sickly, beautiful second senior brother (the book’s big boss)]+ [The System doesn’t make it past three chapters]+ [Neither lead is reborn or transmigrates]+ [Romance]+ [Character growth and power progression] A voice claiming to be a System suddenly appeared in Qin Zhi’s mind, ordering her to give other people opportunities. Otherwise, she would be punished with an electric shock. But she
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Driven to Death by a Cultivator’s Mistress? I’ll Raise My Sword to the Nine Heavens 被修仙外室逼死？我提剑杀上九霄
[Power fantasy, a female lead who begins as a villain and turns righteous, no transmigration, no rebirth] Only when she was dying did Li Fu learn why she could never defeat her husband's mistress, Huayue. It turned out that beyond this world lay a realm of cultivation. Huayue had come from that realm. With Taoist magic at her command, there was no way Li Fu could ever beat her. Tortured, skinned, and dismembered, Li Fu was abandoned by everyone and died after enduring every kind of suffering. Ho
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She Rules the Cultivation World, While Her Disciple Turns into a Puppy 修仙界她横着走，徒弟养成哈巴狗
As his master lay dying, he stroked Gu Gugu's head. “My life's ambition was to mend relations between humanity and the demon race.” “Legend has it that in ancient times, humanity lowered its flags to half-mast in mourning for a member of the demon race, the highest honor they could bestow.” “Gugu, I want you to become someone humanity will lower its flags to half-mast for.” After her master died, Gu Gugu charged alone into the human race's prodigy trial grounds and slaughtered 468 human prodigie
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My Junior Sister Says Even a Madman Is a God 小师妹说神经也是神
Jiang Zhu transmigrates into a novel about a girl adored by everyone, as a disposable female side character. The junior apprentice sister is gifted and loved by all, while the side character has cultivated for years and is still useless. In the end, she's pushed out to take a blade for the junior sister and dies miserably in the street. She opens her eyes to the sight of a whole sect full of hopeless sycophants, and Jiang Zhu wants to die. The heroine's suitors are everywhere. How about I bec
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After Transmigrating into a Book, I Fell into the Ancestor's Pool 穿书后我掉进了老祖池中
After Sui Rao transmigrates into a book, she becomes a cannon-fodder supporting character in a master-and-disciple novel. She had planned to coast through life as a second-generation cultivator, but in the end, she can't resist the power of the plot. Her uncle quickly bundles her up and dumps her at Tianji Sect, the foremost sect in the cultivation world. The night before she is to become someone's disciple, her memories awaken, but by then it's too late to run. Bian Ci, the founding ancestor of
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My Boyfriend Is a World-Destroying Dragon Overlord 我的男友是灭世龙傲天
[Two Male Leads + Sweet Romance + Master and Disciple + Everyone's Favorite + Both Inexperienced + Coming of Age] The novel is complete. It's sweet, super sweet, incredibly sweet! At first, Lan Xi treated Ji Lingyue properly as his master. After all, Ji Lingyue was the chosen one of this world: unbelievably powerful, perfect-looking, and generous... But he was just way too good to me! He taught me cultivation, spent money on me, held my hand when we went out, and stayed by my side day and night.
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Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批
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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Transmigrated Into a Book: No One Understands Arrogance Better Than Me 穿书之没人能比我更懂嚣张
[Signed for print publication] –– Fu Zhu died suddenly after staying up all night watching shows and reading novels. She still remembers that just before she died, she was reading a novel called The Useless Girl Warrior Who Defies Heaven. –– Then she became Bai Li Fu Zhu, the female villain who opposes the novel's hero and heroine. –– This villain is different: she isn't jealous of the heroine or interested in the hero. She simply can't stand the two of them acting more arrogant than her and ste
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After Slacking Off, Senior Sister Became the Cultivation World’s White Moonlight 师姐摆烂后成了修真界的白月光
In her previous life, Xiling was a hopeless do-gooder. She was gentle, considerate, and devoted to looking after her junior brothers and sisters, yet everyone despised her. In her previous life, she ignored the hostage threat from the demonic cultivators and acted decisively to save everyone, but was accused of disregarding human life and being cold-blooded. Meanwhile, the heroine, who cried all the time and couldn’t do a thing, became known as the “kind and gentle goddess.” Fine. This time, I’m
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The Infinite Reset: A Side Character's Journey to Immortality 女配修仙，但是无限读档
[No romance, an absolutely massive golden finger, carefree cultivation, fighting monsters and leveling up] What happens when a cannon-fodder supporting heroine gains the ability to reload infinitely... Bad spiritual roots from the start? Reload and try again. Can’t win the sect tournament? Reload and try again. A secret realm full of danger? Reload to avoid every danger and collect every rare treasure. Offended a high-ranking cultivator? Even with just a 1% chance of success, keep reloading thro
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Cold, Untouchable Moonlight? No! I'm the Villain Chosen by Fate 清冷白月光？不！我是天命大反派
[System-driven + villainess protagonist + egoist + top prodigy + near-invincible power fantasy + no romance (no male consorts)] After transmigrating, Nan Xian becomes a fake prodigy used by a top family to save face. She is about to fight the real prodigy. Should she just wait to die? No rush, the System is here to help. [Ding! The Ultimate Villain System is at your service.] [Humiliate your arrogant fiancé and get a divine beast mount as a reward.] Nan Xian: Kill him. Her younger siblings are d
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I Was Supposed to Be the Top Sword Cultivator, So Why Is It the Sword of Being a Jerk? 说好第一剑修，怎么是犯贱的贱
[Physical edition preorder opens at 7:00 p.m. on the 22nd] [Hilarious, absurd, no-romance power fantasy + meme references + the female lead is the root of all evil] [One female lead corrupts every prodigy] At the sect entrance examination, everyone else was busy testing their spiritual roots. I was busy scamming people. Chi Miao transmigrated into the cultivation world ten years ago and got bound to a System that could only be unlocked after she committed a hundred scams. It promised she could b
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One Sword, One Flask, One Universe 一剑一酒一乾坤
[Swordsmanship + Wine Immortal + Fantasy Xianxia + One Heroine + Mutual Devotion + Humanity’s Survival] A year ago, the boy watched his father shoulder his sword, slay demons, and save humanity, never to return. A year later, the boy arrives at Qingyun with only a sword and a jug of wine. Shunned by all, he is confined to the peach blossom grove. The sword his father called the “Sword of Protection” stands in the most prominent place in the Qingyun Sect, yet the world calls it the “Sword of Sham
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Xuanhuan: My Sect Is Too Powerful 玄幻，我的宗门太强了
Ye Xuan transmigrates to a fantasy world and becomes Qing Fengzi’s disciple. He inherits the role of sect master and binds himself to a System. Completing missions to take on disciples earns him heaven-defying resources that help his sect develop at astonishing speed. Daily sign-ins bring surprise rewards, too. Every disciple he takes is a prodigy, and under his guidance and with abundant resources, they grow rapidly. See how Ye Xuan leads his sect from obscurity to dominance over the fantasy wo
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After Returning Invincible, I Slaughtered the Heavens! 无敌归来后，我杀尽诸天！
The Burial Grounds of Heaven, the most mysterious place in the world, is said to be capable of burying the heavens, the earth, and all living beings! Fang Chen accidentally entered the Burial Grounds of Heaven, where nine supreme powerhouses took him as their disciple and passed on a legacy that reached the heavens. Three years later, he emerged from the Burial Grounds of Heaven and challenged the world: who could stand against him?
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Xuanhuan: The Invincible Heir Apparent, Whom the Empress Begs to Spare Her! 玄幻：无敌世子，女帝跪求放过！
[Invincible + Transmigration + Overwhelming Power + No Hiding + No Playing Weak] Ling Xia transmigrated and became the heir to the Prince of the North. Something wasn't quite right. His younger brother, a Child of Destiny, would one day master divine arts and return for revenge. His fiancée, the Empress, was dead set on abolishing the vassal states and killing every prince! What a mess. But no one knew… The Land Immortal everyone dreamed of becoming? Ling Xia had reached that level at the age of
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I Was Imprisoned for Five Years. Now I’m Out, What Are You Panicking About? 囚禁五年，我出狱你们慌什么
The Lord of Yanxia has been gravely ill for years, and his designated successor is still young. His eldest son, third son, and fifth son are vying for the throne, each commanding the great clans, sects, and aristocratic houses of the martial world. Regional leaders openly declare that they will not obey the Yanxia capital's ruler, while the Four Great Commanders of Yanxia remain neutral. Xiao Junlin, lord of Junlin Hall in Yanxia, was framed five years ago by three of the Lord of Yanxia's sons.
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After I Started Drawing Cards, Why Are All the Chosen Ones Clinging to Me? 抽卡后，气运之子怎么都缠上来了
Short drama and comic adaptation now available [Immortal cultivation card-draw System + play the pig to eat the tiger, beautiful, strong, and satisfying + one soul in two bodies + a battlefield of competing suitors + irresistible to men + romantic tension but no official couple + hilarious, absurd, drama-loving female lead + all male leads are pure] [The female lead is the strongest by the end!] Xia Wantang transmigrates into a cultivation novel with an ensemble of male leads, becoming a cannon-
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A Man Disguised as a Woman Becomes the Holy Maiden 男扮女装当圣女
[Genius lead + everyone’s favorite + single + first love + funny and lighthearted + invincible lead] Lin Yuan is a player of a fantasy game. He unexpectedly arrives in the fantasy world, saves an elder of the Taiyin Sacred Land and successfully becomes his disciple. He thinks he’s about to level up, grow stronger, and marry a rich beauty, but then discovers the sect only accepts women?! With no other choice, he disguises himself as a woman to sneak in, and never in a million years expects to be
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I Saved the Entire Sect by Giving Up 我靠摆烂拯救了全宗门
(The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh
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Immortal Martial Emperor 仙武帝尊
Nine thousand years ago, the Immortal Martial Emperor led a million divine generals into the ancient primordial wilderness. Not one of them returned, and only a wisp of true fire remained in the world. Nine thousand years later, Ye Chen, a discarded disciple, was driven from his sect and left with nowhere to go. By a twist of fate, he came into possession of the true fire and set foot on the path of immortal martial cultivation once more. This is a world where gods, demons, immortals, and Buddha
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Unrivaled Talent Across the Ages, Crushing Three Thousand Emperors with One Hand! 天赋万古无双，只手横推三千帝！
Martial arts return, ferocious beasts run rampant, and countless races invade, competing with humanity for supremacy! The young Su Hong awakens a System and starts with a talent unmatched throughout the ages. A C-rank martial art takes one second to learn, two seconds to master, and three seconds to perfect! An SSS-rank martial technique takes one day to learn, seven days to master, and one month to reach perfection! What's more, every enemy he defeats earns him Martial Arts Points. Spend Martia
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The Immortal Treasure Basin 聚宝仙盆
[Mortal cultivation] [No System]. By a twist of fate, He Pingsheng, an outer disciple of the Taixu Sect, obtains a [Cornucopia] and embarks on the path of cultivation. Place a low-grade [Qi-Gathering Pill] into the basin, and one day later, it becomes two pills, both of them top-grade. Put in an ordinary cultivation technique, and it becomes a Heaven-tier technique. Treasures, medicinal herbs, spirit stones, and more can all be placed inside and enhanced. From then on, He Pingsheng walks toward
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Elm Immortal 榆仙
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
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Chen Buqi, the Little Taoist 小道士陈不欺
Hello, everyone. My name is Chen Buqi. My professions include Taoist priest, locksmith, cook, phone repairman, driver, and tomb-raiding consultant…. I have too many to list them all. I was raised by my master and martial uncle! They were both incredible! I only learned that after coming back from my first year out in the world. Because I liked to play around, I also squandered a lot of techniques that people would have envied! Fortunately, I devoted myself to physiognomy and mastered two special
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I Was Reborn as the Villainess, So Why Are You Calling Me the Light of Righteousness? 穿成反派大小姐你叫我正道的光？
[No Romance, Pure Power Fantasy] Su Zhuo transmigrates into a book as the fake heiress of an immortal sect. As the protagonist’s sworn enemy, she’s doomed if she stays in the holy land for long. Without hesitation, Su Zhuo joins a villainous sect, saving herself ten years of detours! Her new sect is full of powerful figures: a fiercely protective master, a formidable mistress, genius fellow disciples, and her, who can simply lie flat. Su Zhuo thinks, “The sect’s scenery is so lovely. I’ll take i
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First Rate! 第一流！
[No female lead, no formulaic tropes, not a power fantasy. Excellent writing and a first-rate plot. If that’s not your thing, don’t read.] Year thirty-one of the New Era. Snow fell in the bitter cold of winter. Many things happened that year. The Divine Church gained a new Divine Son, the Buddhist faith saw thirty-six golden lotuses bloom, and a madman emerged from a crumbling Taoist temple. The North Sea churned, threatening to swallow heaven and earth. A tiny blade of grass grew in the De
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Analyze All Things: From Fisherman to True Lord of Water! 剖析万物，从渔民到水德真君！
Li Huoyuan transmigrated to the Great Industry Dynasty and became a fisherman. While everyone else was struggling just to survive, Li Huoyuan used his golden finger, "Analyze All Things," to rapidly improve his abilities. [You analyzed a fish and gained "Favor of the Waters." You now command water.] [You analyzed a crab and gained "Mighty Claws." Your grip can crush solid rock.] [You analyzed a cultivator and gained the "No Taboos" fate. You can learn any cultivator's techniques without them con
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This Is a Martial Arts World—Why Are You Teaching Immortal Cultivation? 武者世界，你怎么教人修仙
This is a world where martial strength reigns supreme. Lin Bei transmigrates into a small mountain village. Using the tai chi practiced by an old man in the park, he tricks children who can't train in martial arts into believing it's a cultivation method even more powerful than martial arts. Then a martial artist whose dantian has been crippled happens to hear of Lin Bei's reputation. With the attitude of giving it a try, he asks to become Lin Bei's disciple, saying that if Lin Bei is a fraud, h
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The White Bone Daoist Court 白骨道庭
Cultivate true energy, build the foundation of the Dao, and manifest the Yin Spirit. The unorthodox path makes seeking the Dao difficult: refine baleful energy, taint the soul, and seek freedom for a fleeting moment. The heterodox path is arduous too: evade earthfire, dodge astral winds, and give birth to the Yang Spirit. A master of the unorthodox path is reborn. In this life, I will establish a Dao lineage, nurture Dao artifacts, and suppress an entire age.
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Refinement Effects Multiplied Ten Thousandfold: How Will You Respond? 炼化效果翻万倍，阁下如何应对？
[Cultivation] + [Cautious] + [Play the pig to eat the tiger] + [Invincible] + [Random bonus multipliers] + [Farming] + [Longevity] Han Yuan was reborn in the Cultivation Realm. What could he do about the lack of resources? No need to panic! How about trying out random bonus multipliers? Swallow a Spirit-Gathering Pill, and its effects increase by 300%! Activate a Spirit-Gathering Array, and its efficiency increases tenfold! Understand one spirit script, and get nine more! Cultivate with multipli
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I Scrape By and Live Forever in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界苟且长生
Transmigration + Mortal Cultivator + Laying Low + Cautious and Steady + Decisive and Ruthless + No Saintly Heroics After transmigrating, Lin Changsheng discovers that he has arrived in a world of cultivation. With the complete memories and inheritance of a great cultivator who has formed a core, plus the talent [Heaven Rewards Diligence], Lin Changsheng lays out a long-term plan to keep a low profile and live forever. He treats others kindly in the cultivation world, making talismans and practic
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Cultivation: We’re Serious About Taking Down the Male and Female Leads 修仙，弄死男女主，我们是认真滴
[Cultivation, ensemble cast, feel-good novel, with a tiny bit of romance near the end; it can also be read as having no couples] The good news: spiritual qi revival has come to Earth, and Su Yunqi has not only awakened an ability, but is also among the most gifted of them all. The bad news: all the students in their Daoyuan class died at the hands of ability users from other countries while protecting ordinary people as they evacuated. The souls of the seven, who had been lamenting their unfa
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The Whole Sect Is Full of Crazy Villains, Only the Junior Sister Is a Goofball 满门反派疯批，唯有师妹逗比
After transmigrating into a book, Ye Linglong becomes the vicious cannon-fodder villainess in a cultivation novel. With terrible aptitude, she even coerces the heroine into taking her into the top sect during the Cultivation Tournament. After joining, she opposes the heroine at every turn and eventually dies a miserable death. To enjoy a long, happy life, Ye Linglong immediately gives up on coercing the heroine and turns around to join the worst sect in the cultivation world. She’s done being th
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The Drifting Immortal Path 飘浮仙路
“I never imagined that I, Haoyu Divine Lord, a mighty Divine Lord, would actually die here... here!” So he began to perform a forbidden art he had once stumbled upon. “Heaven and earth, the way of all things, the soul of my life, the path of my body... condense... condense... gather...!” Haoyu Divine Lord let out one final, mournful cry. All that remained was the Universe Diagram, slowly drifting into a rift in space until it disappeared from sight. A conflict sparked by a divine artifact s
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The Way Begins, the Struggle for the Way 道起道争
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
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Eternal Gate 永恒之门
The gods and demons wage war, the myriad worlds collapse, and only the Eternal Immortal Realm endures. After countless ages, a battle god named Zhao Yun gathers the essence of heaven and earth and reforges the primordial universe. From the depths of the underworld, he fights his way to the Eternal Immortal Realm and, in the name of the divine, rules over the myriad paths. From then on, his words become legend.
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