Fantasy or High-Martial-Arts Novels with Smart Characters, No Idiocy, and No System 全员智商在线,不无脑,无系统的玄幻或者高武文
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The Haunted House 诡舍
[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
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The Beasts We Ate Until We Burst Back Then 那些年,我们一起撑死的异兽
“We transmigrated to a world where martial strength reigns supreme and countless races stand side by side.” “There are also exotic beasts.” “Original body, you have to keep us alive. Our lives are in your hands.” “Ha! Just some exotic beasts. Watch me take them down with a sliding tackle!” “I’ll tackle them too!” “Huh? Looks like we stuffed it to death.” “Nice.” … “Could you all be quiet for a minute? My head’s about to explode.” Qin Ze looked at the countless versions of himself surrounding hi
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A Young Dragon from the Start, and You Really Think I'm a Beggar? 幼龙开局,你真把我当乞丐?
Gods run rampant, and strange creatures are everywhere. In a world gripped by fear, where anyone might undergo a monstrous transformation, a lowborn boy emerges from an old graveyard. He carries a mysterious space where killing strange creatures lets him absorb their power and conjure items. [Legendary creature, Jade-Eyed Corpse: Its eyeballs can peer into the Yellow Springs and read the scriptures of the dead. Requires a sixth-rank martial artist who has mastered a pupil technique.] The sevent
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Limitless Breakthroughs: In a World of High Martial Arts, Hard Work Is Rewarded 无尽破限,我在高武天道酬勤
Chen Yan possesses a tree that can produce the source of all things. Train with dedication, and it yields a Fruit of Great Strength. Master a technique, and it yields a Fruit of Truth. Temper your body through breathing exercises, and it yields a Sacred Body-Tempering Fruit... Chen Yan possesses a heart that can break through the limits of infinity. Others need to drink potions to awaken. Chen Yan breaks through every shackle and achieves the supreme awakening! Others can gain immense strength t
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Four Thousand Years in Space, and I Really Can't Die 星际四千年我真的不死不灭
[Funny] [Passionate] [Shameless] [Ensemble Cast] [Pop-Culture References] A devious warrior An individualistic commander A flashy assassin A sniper who likes to fight head-on The four idiots of the human race wreak havoc across the universe. A novel with a shameless plot and an even more shameless author.
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The System Abandoned Me, So I Took the Heavenly Dao as My Father 系统弃我不顾,我认天道为父
[No female lead + no System + traditional cultivation + comedy + bloody slaughter] Fifteen-year-old Li Chuyi finally awakens a System, only for it to try to run away before the day is out. Fortunately, before leaving, the System tells Li Chuyi to make the Heavenly Dao of this world his godfather. From then on, Li Chuyi becomes the Heavenly Dao’s godson, the darling of the world, blessed with good fortune. He finds money on the road and stumbles across so many senior cultivators’ graves that he c
24.5kReads9.2Score2.9kShelves
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The Not-So-Cold Magician 不太冷的魔术师
[Publication Contract Signed, Safe to Read][Tales of Youth][Everyone Has Common Sense][Absolutely Wonderful][Magic][Distinctive Characters][No Female Lead] My name is Jin Feichen. Draped in the twilight of my youth, I once thought I would muddle through life, relying on taxpayers to support me forever. I thought that would be my fate. However, all of that came to an end on a rainy afternoon. Youth is a grand stage. On that evening when rain poured down in torrents, the stage reached out to me, a
353.1kReads9.5Score31.7kShelves
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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
58.2kReads8.5Score5.9kShelves
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Carrying the Dao Through Literature, Chinese Poetry Shakes the Nine Provinces 以文载道,华夏诗词镇九州
“What is a Confucian?” “Confucianism: a stroke to the left and a stroke to the right make a person. Rain nurtures all things, and all living beings have needs. Meeting the needs of good people is what it means to be a Confucian.” “What is benevolence?” “To hold a sharp sword and be unmatched beneath heaven. That is benevolence.” The Divine Continent is vast and boundless. Nine provinces, four seas, and one hundred thousand mountains. The Great Xia Dynasty rules the Central Plains like a crouchi
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Longevity: From the Start, I Played the Suona and Buried Myself Through the Ages 长生:开局吹唢呐,我独葬万古
[Immortal Cultivation + Comedy and Memes + Ordinary Protagonist + Heroine + Laying Low + Status Panel] Bai Yu transmigrated to an immortal-cultivation world. From the start, he was immortal, and performing funerals made him stronger. Bury a grandmaster martial artist and gain a max-level Golden Bell Shield, with the vitality of a dragon! Bury a Nascent Soul cultivator and gain a top-tier Heavenly Spirit Root, with extraordinary talent! Bury an Immortal Emperor of the Myriad Worlds and gain the T
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Conquest: From the Start, I Summon Zhao Zilong 争霸:开局召唤赵子龙
[System + political intrigue + mind games! The story only gets better as it goes] Ji Ping’an, a die-hard Three Kingdoms Kill player, passes out while gaming. When he wakes up, he’s transmigrated to the Dayu Dynasty and, by some fluke, become its biggest doormat of a son-in-law: the princess’s husband. He also activates a Three Kingdoms Heroic Spirit System. With enough gold, he can summon any general, strategist, warlord, or beauty from the Three Kingdoms. From then on, Ji Ping’an sets out to ge
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One Marching Song Shatters the Confucian Way of the World 一首从军行,震碎天下儒道
[Traditional slow-burn + long-term foreshadowing + Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, ghosts, demons…] Ning Jin transmigrates to the vast land of the Xuan Kingdom. After living there for more than a decade, he is astonished to discover that Confucians, Daoists, Buddhists, demons, and ghosts all coexist in this world. From then on! Drawing on the poetry and writings from his past life, Ning Jin steps onto the Confucian path. As he gradually adapts to this wondrous cultivation world, he makes another
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Eleven Madmen 十一个疯子
My new book, Nine Hells: The Strange Nuo, is now out! It’s a sequel to this one. You can find it on my profile. Come check it out! (Not mindless, no harem, no System, and not a conventional power fantasy. Please read with that in mind.) From the day you were born until now, have you ever had doubts like these? “Do I really exist?” “Does the world really exist?” “Why do I exist?” “And why does the world exist?” “Is my existence inevitable? If I die, will the world keep existing?” “At the moment m
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Ironblooded Late Ming 铁血残明
In the late Ming dynasty, Spain and Japan gradually restricted the outflow of silver, reversing the capital inflow that the Ming had enjoyed since the early sixteenth century. The commercial and smallholder economies that coexisted under the Ming were both hit by deflation. Combined with the effects of the Little Ice Age, one domino after another fell, plunging the realm into chaos. In the eleventh month of the sixth year of the Chongzhen reign, the roving rebels crossed the river south of Mianc
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The Immortal Cultivation Idea King: The Fairies of the Hehuan Sect Have All Gone Mad 修仙点子王,合欢宗仙子们都疯了
(No System + With spirit stones, anything goes + Lighthearted power fantasy) A whole new experience, a different kind of cultivation. Put the Harmony Sect fairies in white stockings. We’re not betting on their taste, just on their lust. Install streetlights in immortal cities and build the first city in the immortal realm that never sleeps. Roll out the red carpet for the prodigies and big shots. Only the most charming and influential female cultivators qualify. … … Li Moxu, Earth’s Swordbeare
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I Told You to Spend Big on Cultivation, Not to Keep a Female Sword Immortal 让你氪金修仙,没让你包养女剑仙
[Signed for publication, read with confidence] [One heroine] [Fresh premise] [Virtual girlfriend raising + pay-to-power-up] My name is Chen Huai'an. I have cancer, and I'm about to die. Lately, I've gotten hooked on a game where you raise a virtual girlfriend. I spend money to buy her cultivation techniques and magical treasures. Even though my wallet is empty, I couldn't be happier. I always thought it was just a game, until one day my virtual girlfriend gave me a pill. The next second, the pil
274.1kReads9.3Score44.8kShelves
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Blessed Beyond the Heavens 仙福齐天
What is cultivation really for? To strengthen the self and seek the path to immortality? Or to break free of fate’s shackles and grasp life’s true meaning? Perhaps to find a sanctuary for the soul and gain the power to challenge the heavens? No. None of those. At least, not for Li Chuan. He’s here to enjoy the blessings of an immortal…
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Damn! Why Is the Crown Princess Surrounded by Suitors Everywhere? 可恶!怎么到处都是长公主的鱼!
[Short drama of the same name] [The Princess's World of Flowers] Now streaming [Content warning: The female lead is not exclusive, but all the men are, so read with caution] [Schrodinger's playgirl × a whole lot of men] [Lighthearted, not a serious historical drama] [Original title]: Too Many Men Are Such a Hassle. Who Should I Spoil? Wen Yu transmigrates into the Great Sheng Dynasty as its beautiful, useless, brainless eldest princess. After learning that the original owner drowned by accident
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The Art of Fortune-Telling by Chinese Characters 测字有术
When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get
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The Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoarded a Hundred Billion in Supplies 冰河末世,我囤积了百亿物资
Doomsday + reborn + massive stockpiling + playing it safe + unlimited space + dark revenge, no saintly protagonist The world enters an ice age. The freezing apocalypse arrives, and 95% of the planet's population perishes! In his previous life, Zhang Yi was killed by people he'd helped because of his kind heart. Reborn one month before the freezing apocalypse, Zhang Yi awakens a spatial ability and begins frantically stockpiling supplies! Short on supplies? He empties the hundred-billion-yuan war
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Spatial Ability's Biggest Slacker: Stockpiling Ten Thousand Tons of Pork Before the Apocalypse 空间系老六,末世先囤一万吨猪肉
[Apocalypse + Rebirth + Spatial Ability + Stockpiling Supplies + Ruthless, No Saintly Savior + Building a Faction] “Mr. Chen, your one hundred family buckets of fried chicken have arrived.” “Mr. Chen, your one hundred roast ducks have arrived.” “Boss Chen, your ten thousand tons of pork have arrived.” Chen Luo, known as the Void King, relied on his unmatched ability to lie low until every survivor had died. In the whole world, only monsters remained; there were no humans left. With nothing left
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Reckless Rogue Down the Mountain: Miss, Please Behave Yourself 下山狂徒:姑娘,请自重
[Master’s wife + Urban setting + Play the pig to eat the tiger + Invincible] Chen Xuan, a young man from a tiny mountain village, arrives in the city and has the underworld of the world bowing before him, while powerful elites compete to flatter him. Just what makes him so compelling?
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