Looking for Cultivation Novels with a Female Lead Who's a Rogue Cultivator, Yes, a Rogue Cultivator 跪求女主是散修的修仙文，注意是散修哦。

1. 1 木 The Wood Spirit’s Return: Transcendence Begins with Being Cast Out by the Family 木灵归途：超脱从被家族抛弃开始 Gu Shan Yue孤山玥Fantastical Romance1.6M WordsCompleted [Born with a wood spirit root + strong female lead who grows over time + peerless alchemy and formations + no mindless power fantasy + no romance + happy ending] Born into the cultivation world, she tests as having a transparent spirit root at age five and is abandoned by her cold-blooded family in the Forest of Ten Thousand Beasts! After falling off a cliff, she fully awakens her memories of a past life, and the soul of a Chinese medicine practitioner returns to her. The family-inherited Natura 13.4kReads7.7Score2kShelves

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   This female protagonist is a rogue cultivator with a rather overpowered cheat ability. Because of her alchemy techniques, she becomes the object of the covetous eyes of the four major sects. Even though she's wanted and hunted by them, she doesn't suffer; instead, she infuriates them. Every single one of her pursuers falls into her hands. After a brief escape, she simply changes her appearance and continues cultivating to increase her strength. Until she's powerful enough, she doesn't waste any time and directly destroys the four major sects. After transcending worldly limitations, she returns to Earth to save the world.

2. 2 开 I Was Sent Flying from the Start, So I Support Myself by Robbing the Rich to Help the Poor 开局被拍飞，我靠劫富济贫养自己 Don't Mess with the Little Rabbit别惹小兔Fantastical Romance135k WordsOngoing [Villainess] [Mortal Cultivation] [Ruthless] [Lone Rogue Cultivator] [Selfish] [Fiercely Competitive and Grabby] At twelve, Shi Zheng was found to have a low-grade lightning spiritual root. The immortal said, "Slow cultivation, short life. I won't take you." Then flicked her two li away with a sleeve. She refused to accept it! She fought her way out of the mortal crowd, stealing cultivation manuals and opportunities, and selling out her teammates. While others worked, she robbed. While others t 612Reads—Score110Shelves

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   The female protagonist of this book is a rogue cultivator with a villainous character. She climbs up the ranks from among ordinary people step by step. She is not a good person, doesn't meddle in other people's business, is decisive in killing, fights if she can win, and runs away if she can't win. She never leaves any hidden dangers for herself!

3. 3 开 A Beggar from the Start, I Conquer the Cultivation World with Lucky Hints 开局乞丐，靠好运提示卷翻修仙界 Mo Zhuiying莫追影Fantastical Romance718k WordsOngoing [Strong Female Lead] [System] [No Romance] [Cultivation and Power-Ups] [Not a Doormat] [Snatching Opportunities] [Escape and Rise] [Playing It Safe] After transmigrating into ancient times as a little beggar, Chi Weiyang found herself from the start in a drafty ruined temple, facing a living hell. She thought she'd landed in a farming-and-survival story, but then the System started showing up right on time every day at five in the morning! “Ding! Today's lucky tip: Walk three hundred paces east 78.5kReads8.2Score11.6kShelves

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   This is a good book, very engaging, very suspenseful, the female lead is very cautious, and there's no romantic pairing.

4. 4 欲 Yearning for Immortality 欲求仙 Han Xidi寒兮帝Ancient Romance3.1M WordsOngoing Something seems off about this transmigration? If you transmigrate into the cultivation world as an utterly ordinary passerby, get a golden finger in the form of a useless panel from the start, get sold to a talisman shop owner to work, and nearly starve to death while in seclusion, is there any hope for a life like that? And does being abandoned count as having your parents sacrificed to the heavens? By the time Fang Mingliao finally reached the Golden Core stage, she realized that ninety-nine 11.9kReads8.8Score957Shelves

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   Female rogue cultivators should read this book.

5. 5 穷 A Poor Girl’s Daily Life as a Rogue Cultivator 穷鬼女散修的修仙日常 Dancing Lightly in the Mortal World红尘轻舞Ancient Romance2.4M WordsCompleted Xiao Han never imagined that she, an ordinary working girl who hadn't even finished middle school, would transmigrate one day. Fine, she transmigrated. But she had neither a pocket dimension nor a System, let alone a handy golden finger. She got none of the perks or welcome gifts that usually came with transmigration. That would have been bad enough, but other transmigrators took over someone else's body and fit right into local society. She, however, arrived in her own body, unable to speak the 49.9kReads9.2Score7.1kShelves

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   These are all novels with no romantic pairing and female protagonists. They're not saintly; the protagonists are decisive, calm, and ruthless—a classic survivalist style.

6. 6 女EN The Infinite Reset: A Side Character's Journey to Immortality 女配修仙，但是无限读档 Moon Facing the Sky月对空Ancient Romance1.2M WordsCompleted [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 74.6kReads9.4Score9.9kShelves
7. 7 修 Are Even the Background Characters in the Cultivation World This Strong? 修仙界路人甲都这么强的吗 Great God Floral Water大神花露水Ancient Romance882k WordsCompleted No romance, just a female-led cultivation growth story. Chen Xiaoman had planned to enjoy a carefree life in ancient times, relying on her medical skills while helping her brother earn an official degree and lead the whole family to prosperity. But after casually rescuing someone in the mountains, she discovers that this is no ordinary mortal world of ancient times. It is the legendary world of cultivation. Even more astonishingly, this is a cultivation world built around a novel featuring a fem 7.4kReads7.9Score635Shelves
8. 8 修 I Cultivated Too Hard, and Now My Entire Sect's Prodigies Beg Me to Become a God Soon 修仙太狠，满门天骄求我早日成神 Bright Blue灿蓝Ancient Romance1.1M WordsCompleted [No romance]+ [Leveling up and growth] When Li Yuan opened her eyes, she had become the most famous pushover in the entire sect. She gave spirit medicines to other people's cultivators and acted as cannon fodder on their trials. Was she both the gentle, generous junior sister and another fish in the pool of the genius senior brothers at Sword Peak? Her own strength was zero, and even her single-element spiritual root was fake!? Flip the table! Starting from scratch, she was going to cultivate! E 37.2kReads9.2Score5.7kShelves
9. 9 符 The Talisman Grandmaster Just Wants to Survive Until She's a Thousand 符箓老祖她只想苟到万岁 Loves Peaches超爱吃桃Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted [No Romance, No System, No Pocket Dimension, An Inspiring Journey of Growth] When Lin Xiaoman came to her senses, she discovered she had transmigrated to a bizarre world of immortal cultivation! Fortunately, she had a spiritual root! Unfortunately, with four spiritual roots, she was still just an ordinary person! But ordinary people have aspirations too. Lin Xiaoman embarked on the path of cultivation, practicing, drawing talismans, and growing spiritual rice and spirit plants... Her main goals 8.7kReads8.8Score1kShelves
10. 10 长 The Long-Lived Immortal Has a Portable Treasure Pavilion 长生女仙她有随身聚宝阁 Treasures Belong to the World天下归珍Ancient Romance1.0M WordsCompleted Tomato Novel This is an unconventional cultivation novel, unlike the usual stories about staying hidden to pursue immortality. The protagonist doesn't keep lying low forever, so if you only enjoy stories that all follow the same formula, feel free to move along. But if you'd like to try a different kind of cultivation journey, give this one a chance. [Trickster heroine + reincarnated in the womb + immortal longevity + cultivation + pocket dimension + cautious early game + gradual rise later + Tr 2.6kReads8.6Score341Shelves
11. 11 穿 I Accidentally Ascended After Transmigrating 穿越后一不小心飞升了 Just Writing Whatever就随便写写吧Ancient Romance639k WordsCompleted Transmigration + cultivation + no romance + ordinary passerby + keeping a low profile + a built-in golden finger Su Yan transmigrates. She opens and closes her eyes while leaning against a willow tree, and suddenly she's somewhere else. Isn't that amazing? “Waaah, waaah…” In the pitch-black dead of night, somewhere out in the wilderness, Su Yan hears sobbing behind her. Her hair stands on end. Tense from head to toe, she stiffly gets up and walks away, arms and legs moving in sync. If you can 3.8kReads9.0Score362Shelves
12. 12 贫 Just a Poor Rogue Cultivator. Why Are You Kneeling, Fellow Daoist? 贫穷散修一枚，道友何故下跪？ Knife, Medicine, Pen刀药笔Ancient Romance1.5M WordsCompleted [No romance, ensemble cast] [A goofy trio of wandering cultivators] [Female-led cultivation progression, few scenes involving children, skip if that bothers you] Song Li transmigrates into a cultivation novel as the evil female supporting character. After bullying the heroine, she is thrown by her own brother into the Abandoned Infant Pagoda, where she dies at the hands of countless vengeful infant spirits. Waking inside the pagoda, she looks at the crying spirits and says, “I can be your mother 31.8kReads9.4Score4.3kShelves

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    This book is really good, and it's a non-CP (couple) ensemble piece.

13. 13 修 Cultivating Immortality: It All Starts With Tricking a Treasure-Hoarding Mouse 修仙，从忽悠一只多宝鼠开始 Lazy Glutton Daoist馋懒道人Ancient Romance665k WordsCompleted Original work, no romance. One is a fragile college student who loves staying home to play games; one is a housewife out of touch with society; and one is a treasure-hunting mouse raised by a powerful rogue cultivator. There’s also another treasure-hunting mouse, raised by the first mouse, who only knows how to eat. This little team of four has less than two and a half brain cells between them. Their half-mentor, a powerful rogue cultivator and enemy of the cultivation world who has been holed u 160Reads8.8Score—Shelves

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    The female protagonist is a rogue cultivator. I accidentally transmigrated into this lighthearted and humorous story. The first few chapters are setup; you can skip them if you don't like them and read on to chapter eight.

14. 14 从 From Ant to Rogue Cultivation Powerhouse 从蝼蚁到散修大能 Born to Love Gathering Herbs天生我就爱采药Ancient Romance1.3M WordsCompleted [No Romance] With no sect to shelter her and no resources to rely on from the start, the transmigrated heroine proceeds cautiously, defies fate, and fights to survive among cultivators. In the end, she breaks through the limitations of a rogue cultivator and reaches a level of power no one else can match. 4.2kReads7.3Score456Shelves

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    All three books are finished; you can check them out. They all seem to be romance-free!

15. 15 修 Trafficking in the Cultivation World? The Nation Helps Me Become an Immortal First 修仙界拐卖？国家助我先成仙 Sima Yan, Who Loves Sled Dogs喜欢雪橇犬的司马炎Ancient Romance306k WordsCompleted Question: "What should you do if a System kidnaps you to the cultivation world and orders you to conquer the child of destiny?" Mu Sang is facing exactly that problem. The System bound to her is called the More Children, More Blessings System. As the name suggests, its task is to conquer its targets, or rather, to bear them children and continue their bloodlines. Isn't that just outright kidnapping and exploitation? She's not a baby-making machine! The System threatened that if she didn't compl 3.6kReads8.2Score663Shelves

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    Perfect match!!!

16. 16 恶 Wicked Cultivator: I Hold the True, Good, and Beautiful System and Become the Demon Emperor 恶女修仙，手握真善美系统成魔帝 You Lianqing犹怜青Ancient Romance725k WordsOngoing [Lone-wolf cultivation + no romance + System + native-born underdog + villainess + dual mastery of medicine and formations] Li Li has always been sharp-tongued and ruthless, with a fierce grudge against anyone who crosses her. She has been beaten countless times for it, yet she never learns her lesson. When she was ten, a monster calling itself the “Truth, Goodness, and Beauty System” came to her, back when she was still called Ding Er Ya, and forced her to do good deeds. Guided by the principle 18.9kReads9.2Score2kShelves
17. 17 我 I’m a Woman Playing a Saintly Father Figure in a Male-Oriented World 我，女的，在男频世界扮演圣父 Three-Colored Hibiscus三色木槿Fantastical Romance699k WordsOngoing [System + woman disguised as a man + fake saintess + irresistible charm + one-sided love + drama-queen heroine] Yu Zhaozhao was the most ordinary among the many transmigrators. All she wanted was to finish the missions in ten worlds, collect her ten-billion bonus, and be reborn into a comfortable life. But before she could get anywhere, the company went under. Yu Zhaozhao had just broken off her engagement to Long Aotian and thoroughly offended him. She felt as if the sky had fallen! Even gettin 2.6kReads8.6Score235Shelves
18. 18 穿 Reincarnated as a Debtor in the Cultivation World, I Ascend with a Multiverse Chat Group 穿成修仙界负婆，我靠诸天群飞升 LuLu99Ancient Romance171k WordsOngoing [Multiverse Cross-Plane Group Chat + Debt-Fueled Self-Rescue + Low-Class Rat-Girl Protagonist + Slight Harem Appeal + Traditional-Style Cultivation + Growth and Leveling] After transmigrating to the cultivation world, Chi Wanwan landed in a hellish situation from the start! There are so many people born with sacred cultivation physiques, so why is she the only one born with a useless body? Is it just because her name is an A-B-B pattern? A good-for-nothing with five spiritual roots, a tiny culti 42Reads—Score—Shelves

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    You can take a look at this one; it meets your requirements.

19. 19 巫 The Witch's Cultivation Journey 巫女修仙传 Zhao Zhao A Mu Mu昭昭阿木木Fantastical Romance483k WordsCompleted Sword Cultivator! As the meridians inside her were pulled out inch by inch, she made no sound. She simply counted silently to herself: three left... When she counted down to zero, Qin Tianba found herself still sitting cross-legged where she had been. She lowered her head and glanced at her shattered dantian. It was completely empty. So her spiritual root was gone! Next came her bones, picked out one by one until her flesh, left without anything to support it, collapsed in a heap. Qin Tianba tho 228Reads—Score—Shelves

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    I don't know why this book doesn't have a rating. If you like it, please leave a comment; if you don't, feel free to complain!

20. 20 丁 Grade-D Spirit Farmer, Now with Cheats 丁等灵农她开挂了 Li You You璃呦游Fantastical Romance542k WordsOngoing One heroine, no romance After her family sold her for thirty spirit stones, Bu Yan thought all her life held in store was three mu of barren fields and a drafty stone hut. Until she discovered When the greens she planted ripened, she gained “ten days' worth of cultivation.” When her radishes ripened, she learned a “Hemostasis Talisman.” As soon as she planted thorny vines, the System chased after her and shoved three Foundation-Nurturing Pills into her hands. Other cultivators advanced by medi 2.7kReads6.6Score270Shelves

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    A novel about a free-spirited cultivator farming and cultivating immortality.

21. 21 猫 The Demon-Cultivation Tale of Cat Lao Liu 猫老六修妖传 Life Is Like Jade人生如玉Eastern Fantasy2.6M WordsCompleted [Demon Cultivation | Immortal Cultivation | Comedy | Playing the Fool to Catch the Tiger | Ruthless and Decisive] Mao Laoliu was a wild, unrestrained fellow who accidentally came into possession of the Heavenly Toad, a supreme treasure from the Immortal Realm. The toad carried his soul across time and space to a world of immortal cultivators, where he was reborn in the body of a black cat. And so Mao Laoliu began his life as a demon cultivator… 8.6kReads8.7Score722Shelves

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    Cultivation, comedy, Lao Liu, completed, a mortal's tale

22. 22 扛 Carrying a Coffin on My Way to Cultivate Immortality 扛着棺材去修仙 Life Is Like Jade人生如玉Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsOngoing A young man from a once-prosperous family accidentally finds a jade seal coiled by a dragon. He never realizes that this powerful seal is not only a formidable weapon, but also a key to a world of advanced civilization… 61.1kReads8.5Score3.7kShelves
23. 23 不 I’ll Do Whatever It Takes to Cultivate Immortality 不择手段去修仙 Life Is Like Jade人生如玉Eastern Fantasy1.8M WordsCompleted Feel-Good Story + Comedy + Mortal Cultivation + No Harem + Xuanhuan + No System Belief: If you've got thick skin, you get the meat. Motto: If a problem can be solved by sweet-talking, never resort to force. Principle: If nobody messes with me, I'll mess with them anyway. Specialty: Play the pig to eat the tiger. I'm number one at showing off. A street punk from the 21st century accidentally obtains a rare treasure and transmigrates to a world overrun by immortals, demonic cultivators, and practi 11.1kReads8.8Score914Shelves
24. 24 修 Cultivation: I Have a Heaven-Devouring Pearl 修仙，我有一颗吞天珠 Life Is Like Jade人生如玉Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsCompleted By chance, an ordinary young man obtains the most powerful treasure in the Three Realms, the Heaven-Replenishing Pearl. From then on, he defies fate and changes his destiny, fighting his way from the human realm to the spirit realm, founding the world’s strongest people, then battling his way into the immortal realm for the sake of his obsession. He rises from humble beginnings in the mortal world and brings it all to an end in the immortal realm! 8.8kReads8.7Score597Shelves
25. 25 坠 The God Who Fell into the Demonic Path 坠入魔道的神 Life Is Like Jade人生如玉Eastern Fantasy2.4M WordsCompleted Legend has it that this world is bound by the Heavenly Dao, and only by devouring it can one empower oneself and rise to a higher plane. One day, a Heavenly Dao tomb from a higher plane descended into the mortal world and chose an infant, entering the child's body. From then on, a vast conspiracy gradually unfolded around this child. A lone star of ill fortune descended to the mortal realm, all living beings suffered, and the Divine Clan was destroyed. See how the heaven-chosen youth navigate 18.3kReads8.9Score1.7kShelves
26. 26 凡 Mortal Cultivation, Beginning with Starlight 凡人修仙，从星光开始 Life Is Like Jade人生如玉Eastern Fantasy2.0M WordsCompleted An ordinary boy is chosen by a star and sent from Earth to another world. His fate is changed forever, and he begins his cultivation journey in this unfamiliar land. He stumbles through cultivation, treading as carefully as if on thin ice, all so he can find his way home. But being reborn was simply a fate that had been ordained... 3.1kReads7.3Score229Shelves
27. 27 为 For That Dream, I Will Split Heaven and Earth 为了那个梦，我要开天辟地 Life Is Like Jade人生如玉Eastern Fantasy598k WordsCompleted Legend has it that everything in this world is an illusion. This world is merely a dream of yours. As long as you exist, this world exists. When you are gone, it will naturally crumble and vanish... Wang Bin lost his world, lost his dream. For the sake of that dream and the person he loved most, he would split open the heavens and cleave the earth. He would create that world... 506Reads—Score—Shelves
28. 28 逆 The Rebellious Xu Yao in the Cultivation World 逆女许瑶之修仙界 Shiyou Po礻由婆Fantastical Romance444k WordsOngoing Cultivation | No Romance | Transmigrated, Powerful Female Lead | Decisive and Ruthless Ensemble Cast. This is the official sequel to The Rebellious Girl Xu Yao. It’s recommended that you read the original first. Xu Yao and her companions travel through more than a dozen realms, great and small. Starting from nothing, they save up spirit stones, temper their life-bound treasures, master the Sacred Demon Body Art, seize secret realms and formations, unite the Central Island, and are named the Dem 206Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Time travel, wandering immortal, no romantic pairing, decisive in killing, likes to scheme against others, born with superhuman strength, rating just released, worth watching.

29. 29 逆 The Rebellious Daughter, Xu Yao 逆女许瑶 Shiyou Po礻由婆Ancient Romance104k WordsCompleted Transmigration, hunting, strong female lead, leveling up, ruthless and decisive. If you’re interested in this book, you can keep reading Against the Current: Xu Yao in the Cultivation World. The man set down his catch and sat across from Xu Yao as if they were old friends. “When did you learn to hunt? People in the village say you got over your idiocy and then went crazy. Is that true?” Xu Yao gritted her teeth. “Yes, I’m crazy. When I get really crazy, I eat people.” The man grinned. “Heh, I do 821Reads—Score—Shelves
30. 30 凌 Lingyun's Journey: Rising from Humble Beginnings 凌云行之起于微末 Gan Que甘鹊Ancient Romance1.7M WordsCompleted Beyond the Three Realms lie hidden worlds; within the Six Paths dwell countless peoples. There is no absolute opposition, only a world of myriad wonders. An ordinary mortal sets out on the journey! She breaks through desperate situations, changes her fate, seizes opportunities, and sees through people's hearts. With sheer grit and resilience, she shatters the heavens and defies immortality! After transmigrating, she finds herself in the body of a poor little girl about to be sold. After finally 3.4kReads9.1Score454Shelves

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    A rogue cultivator, rising from humble beginnings, determined to defy fate! Seemingly ordinary, he is actually cunning and calculating, seizing every opportunity to gain strength, scrambling for resources, avoiding confrontation, and accumulating power. Watch as he quietly climbs from an insignificant ant into a ruthless figure high above the heavens.

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