Highly Rated Traditional Wuxia Must-Reads, Please Recommend Some ASAP!!! 高分必读传统武侠，速求！！！
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A Jianghu Prelude 江湖前传
Since ancient times, those without virtue or principle have occupied mountains as bandits; the righteous and benevolent have occupied them as kings; while those who embody virtue, principle, righteousness, benevolence, and wisdom have made them their home. Those of great virtue in the past are now petty villains; those once without honor now strive to make a living and look after themselves. Yet in times of chaos, the capable emerge in droves. Those who have found the Way hold fast to their true
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Chronicles of the Jianghu: The Sword-Seeking Art 江湖风云录：寻剑诀
[Traditional fantasy] [Wuxia] [One heroine] [A young man’s coming-of-age] Winter nights, cold water and grass; frost and rain fall on autumn flowers. Jiangnan has many worldly souls; in an instant, their hair turns gray. A lonely sword is slick with rain; a fan sweeps freely through the clouds. Leaning back, laughing at the east wind; sleeves flutter as slanting snow falls. Behold the shifting tides of the martial world, where chivalrous hearts uphold justice and grudges are settled with pleasur
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Outsider of Shenzhou 神州方外人
[Chinese-Style Superpowers] [One Female Lead] [Not a Power Fantasy] On an ordinary day, all the people of Huaxia were dropped onto an unfamiliar planet seemingly stuck in the Stone Age. The alien atmosphere gave rise to the "Outlanders," people with supernatural abilities. As Huaxia rebuilt its civilization and fought bloody wars against other races, it eventually came to dominate the Shenzhou Continent. A strange Outlander named Qin Wuyang was said by everyone to have seven personalities. He hi
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Transcending the Martial Arts World: Daily Breakthroughs 穿越武侠世界，每天获得一点突破
[Wuxia + Transmigration + Rebirth + Decisive and Ruthless + Slice of Life + One Heroine + Invincible] In the land of Shenzhou, might makes right. Sects hold sway over the realm, and the people live in misery. Lin Feng transmigrates into the body of a poor hunter and awakens a System that gives him one breakthrough point every day! His martial arts advance one level each day. He masters every martial art under heaven and becomes invincible. He slays demons, exterminates fiends, strikes down immor
36.7kReads7.9Score2.4kShelves
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A Sword-for-Hire in the Martial Arts Multiverse, Beginning with Lu Xiaofeng 武侠诸天从陆小凤开始的加钱剑客
A ruthless man who would stab the driver to death before getting run over by a dump truck transmigrates into the world of The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng. Every time he makes it through a world, he gains another golden finger. He strikes without mercy, and the Lone Goose Sword never leaves survivors in its wake. He only wants to do whatever pleases him. Life is but a great dream. When he wakes, he knows exactly who owes him what. Gongsun Daniang, a femme fatale, kill! Lin Xian'er, a femme fatale, kill
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Tales of the Canal and the Sea 漕海风云录
The fires of the martial world light the land, while a common man’s hot blood stains the setting sun. In the chaos of the late Qing, the waters of the Huangpu River churned with blood. Foreign warships crushed the livelihoods of canal workers, while opium’s black tide soaked the land of China. The court grovelled, officials colluded with foreigners, and heroes of the martial world swore blood oaths, their blades and swords tearing through the long night. Xiao Tianfeng, the Red-Browed Hero, raise
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Blood Chronicles of the Setting Sun 残阳血记
On the bloody night of 1644, Yan Xuanfeng, a Jinyiwei officer, detonated explosives and died for his country. His loyal servant fled south with the orphan and entrusted the swaddled baby Yan Hengyun to Wudang. The child carried three sparks vital to Chinese civilization: the Sunset Sword, the Star-Pattern Compass, and a sheepskin map. Yan Hengyun grew up on Wudang Mountain. At fourteen, he descended the mountain and roamed the martial world under the name Lingyun. He befriended Bai Wugou, Mu Qi
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The Sword Qi Ballad of Mountains and Rivers 山河剑气歌
The Jingkang Catastrophe tears the land apart and stains rivers and mountains with blood. Lu Huaizhen, a young swordsman burdened with a blood feud and half of a mysterious jade token, is swept into the whirlpool of the Song-Jin standoff and the conflicts of the martial world. As he searches for the truth, he faces the question, “Is martial arts meant for killing or for protecting?” He struggles to choose between family vengeance, national hatred, and the limits of chivalry. From the ferocity of
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The Azure Blade Chronicles of the Late Tang 残唐青锋录
Historical setting: From the Tianfu era of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang (901) to the first year of Kaiping under the Later Liang (907). Regional warlords vie for power, and Zhu Wen usurps the Tang dynasty. Core plot: The former dynasty’s imperial jade seal, the Heavenly Mandate Treasure Mirror, resurfaces in the martial world, sparking a struggle among rival factions. Dou Yanfeng must fulfill his family’s mission and protect the national treasure, while Huangfu Che is drawn into the conflict as he
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The Big Dipper Splits the Purple Tenuity 北斗裂紫微
In the final years of the Western Jin dynasty, the Five Barbarians ravaged China and the heartland fell. Imperial authority crumbled as the Ziwei Star split apart, while foreign armies trampled the land. The central conflict revolves around the Seven Divine Weapons of the Big Dipper, said to be capable of turning China's fate around, and the prophecy that the Ziwei Emperor Star will be restored: “Where Ziwei splits, the Han banners rise”; “The Big Dipper swallows Ziwei, and Chixiao will break t
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The Mighty Little Constable 神通小捕快
“One leaf riding the wind, roaming ten thousand miles; a dashing constable, famous throughout the land.” The most righteous men are often those society looks down on, and heroes rise from the streets. The spring breeze and I are both passing travelers, but your name alone belongs to the martial world. Ye Fei, a lowly errand boy at an inn, is rejected by the Su family because he's nothing but a nobody who runs errands! Who could have guessed that after getting drunk, saving a beauty, and catching
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Seven Days of Possession 七日着魔
Demons are temptation and desire, chaos and disorder, destruction and upheaval. Demons dwell in the obsessions of all things; anything can become demonic. So long as all things endure, the demonic path will endure. After the protagonist’s corpse lay unclaimed for seven days, he awoke on the seventh day and forged a demonic body. Since Heaven has given me this chance to live again, rather than remain one of the numb masses in this mortal world, I would rather become the one and only primordial de
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The Swordheart in the Ashen Shadow 烬影剑心
In the dying years of the Song, with the realm shattered and storms gathering, the land is plunged into endless turmoil and suffering. Shen Yanqiu is an ordinary man who carries a sword embryo and bears a blood feud. He resolutely sets out on the path of the martial world, enduring one trial of life and death after another and transforming through hardship like a phoenix rising from the flames. He forges an unyielding sword with righteous virtue and nourishes its spirit with the Literary Heart
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Wielding My Sword Across Ten Thousand Miles, Starting as a Down-and-Out Killer 纵剑万里，从落魄杀手开始
[In short: Being an assassin is just the System's doing and a way to make a living. The protagonist isn't a cold-blooded selfish man; he's a knight-errant, not a puppet of an assassin organization. He decides for himself whom to kill and whom to spare. If that's not your thing, don't read.] This is a dazzling world. Martial artists cross rivers and seas and shatter mountains, while occultists manipulate yin and yang and the five elements, and divine the secrets of fate. The many schools and ways
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Heaven-Dominating Sword 一剑霸天
[A great author's alt account, one heroine, ruthless and decisive. Highly recommended!] Legend has it that there is a realm where one can pursue cause and effect, erasing every trace of an opponent across time and space with a mere sliver of divine power. One can command life and death, make countless worlds rise and fall with a single thought, and annihilate all living beings. One can stand level with the Heavenly Dao, harness the order of the universe, and rule supreme throughout eternity. Thi
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The Blade of the Master 师刀
Eyes like shooting stars, movements like lightning. A blade that kills, a sword that saves. This is a story about a young man and his blade.
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Heaven Does Not Answer 天不应
Three myriad mounds of yellow earth and white bones, a sword's light like a shadow, the moon like wine. The spring breeze cuts through all the world's troubles. Tell me, peach blossoms, will you turn white-haired too? In the year 547 of the Yong'an era, a pitch-dark snowstorm fell over Kuhai County, a border county in southern Qi. In a dilapidated temple outside the county, Wen Chaoshen found a crippled woman, gravely injured and on the verge of death. He thought she was merely a refugee in dist
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The Silent Blade 刀不语
Someone once asked me, “What is the jianghu?” I thought for a moment. I thought of a jug of rough wine on the table, a distant figure walking away beneath the setting sun, a grave beneath the moon, and the cigarette burning down to ash in my hand right now. That person asked again, “Where is the jianghu?” I smiled and looked out the window. There were countless jianghus out there. One person is a story. Two people make a jianghu.
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From This Day On, I Am a Martial Arts Legend! 从此武林，我就是神话！
(A plot-driven, volume-based story that has reached a million words without falling apart. The protagonist grows step by step into an overlord.) The purest blend of martial arts worlds, drawing from Jin Yong, Gu Long, Huang Yi, Wen Ruian, and Ma Rongcheng’s The Storm Riders, as well as screen stories such as The Great Protector, Qin’s Moon, Shui Yue Cave, The Magic Sword, Divine Weapons, Son of Heaven, and Pili. (The plot is changed, but the characters’ personalities are not. You can enjoy it ev
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Wuxia: Invincible Vajra from the Start, Crushing All the Way 武侠：开局金刚不坏，一路平推
Wang Yi arrives in a martial arts world and becomes a Brocade Guard of the Great Fate Dynasty! Here, martial arts flourish, and the strongest can shatter the void! Wang Yi obtains the [Supreme Martial Arts System], starts with an indestructible body, and forges an invincible physique. Every punch lands with full force as he begins his unstoppable march! He shatters Shaolin's Vajra Demon-Subduing Formation with one punch and comprehends the Black Pagoda's Tendon-Transformation Classic! He defeats
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Wuxia: Killing Enemies Earns Cultivation, and My Power Is Unfathomable! 武侠：杀敌爆修为，我功力滔天！
[Gain cultivation by killing enemies + ruthless and decisive + level up fast] This is a world full of powerful experts and sects: the Nine Sects and Six Gangs, the Eight Demonic Sects, the Three Daoist Orders, the Two Buddhist Temples, and the Great Qian imperial court, whose might holds the four seas in awe. The powerful see the weak as ants, while princes treat the martial world as a chessboard. Fortunately, Xiao Bieli activated the Kill to Gain Cultivation System. As long as he kills an enemy
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