Ruthless Protagonists, No Goody-Two-Shoes, Fast Pace: I'm Out of Books to Read 杀伐果断，不圣母，节奏快，书荒

1. 1 寿 I Died of Old Age, Only to Learn My Ancestor Was Han the Demon? 寿终正寝，告诉我祖先是韩老魔？ 99 Seven九九柒Eastern Fantasy894k WordsCompleted Han Tian transmigrates to a small world of immortal cultivation, hoping to use his knowledge from another world to cheat his way to the top. Reality promptly slaps him hard across the face. After sixty-seven years of cultivation, he still can't gather a single trace of spiritual energy. Han Tian gazes dazedly at his frail, aging body and lets out a quiet sigh. He has spent most of his life using the advanced ideas he brought with him to turn the Han family from a struggling minor clan into one o 3.9kReads7.1Score258Shelves
2. 2 凡 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Starting with an Ancestral Pendant 凡人修仙：从祖传神秘吊坠开始 Chu Dong楚冬Eastern Fantasy7.5M WordsOngoing [Classic mortal cultivation | No System | Ruthless and decisive | Master of dirty tricks | Scheming] [Alchemy, artifact crafting, body cultivation, formations, beast taming] [Traditional cultivation realms] This is the story of a master of dirty tricks coming into his own. His arrival will eventually become a mudslide sweeping through the Three Realms. After experiencing the joys of sabotaging others, one demonic cultivator has an epiphany. As a heart-stealing arsonist, he always has fairies sec 58.6kReads8.7Score5.8kShelves
3. 3 凡 Mortal Cultivation: From the Start, I Guard the Scrap Pill Room 凡人修仙，开局看守废丹房 Maple Boat Seeks Zen枫舟问禅Eastern Fantasy9.0M WordsOngoing [Mortal-style cultivation + no System] Su Shier, a village boy of mediocre aptitude, is forced to embark on an endless, arduous path to immortality in pursuit of revenge for a blood feud. It is a world of deceit, the law of the jungle, scheming, and hardship... The road ahead is long, the way fraught with danger. Though this humble mortal must fight through every obstacle, he swears to forge his own path to immortality. 182.6kReads8.9Score19kShelves
4. 4 修 Cultivating Immortality, I Shatter the Firmament 修仙破苍穹 Overlord Blade霸刀Eastern Fantasy3.3M WordsOngoing [Mortal’s journey + no System + foreign races + immortal pets + supreme secret realm + sect] A young man ventures into the mountains and accidentally obtains a manual. After passing an examination, he joins the local sect, the Azure Dragon Gang. One night, an old man catches him cultivating. The young man becomes his disciple and learns that he has five spiritual roots, which will make cultivation extremely difficult. By chance, he obtains a mysterious little green bottle. The liquid inside cont 16kReads8.4Score1.4kShelves
5. 5 修 Cultivation: My Magical Treasure Is a Spellbook 修仙：我的法宝是魔法书 Purple Yam Pudding Cup紫薯布丁杯Eastern Fantasy675k WordsCompleted A great war broke out in the Wizarding Universe, causing its source core to contract. With no other choice, the source perished alongside its foe, compressing the entire universe into a book: a supreme treasure that contained the source of all things and carried the powerful aura of wizarding magic. Amid endless darkness and an unknown number of millennia of solitude, a book, red from cover to cover, drifted silently toward an unknown destination... 101Reads—Score—Shelves

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6. 6 凡 The Path to Immortality 凡成仙路 Mr. Toudou土逗先生Eastern Fantasy853k WordsOngoing Reborn as a good-for-nothing illegitimate son, he has two astonishing souls sealed within him: a carefree Immortal Emperor who once commanded the stars, and Zhou Hua, an alchemy grandmaster who reached the very source of life. When the Immortal Emperor’s memories of alchemy merge with the grandmaster’s life essence in a desperate moment, Meng Fancheng embarks on a path unlike any other. He “steals” the Immortal Emperor’s legacy, reinterprets alchemy through a defiant approach to fate, and estab 253Reads9.3Score—Shelves

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   Absolutely decisive in killing, it is not a novel about cultivating immortals with the plot of the Holy Mother.

7. 7 凡 A Mortal's Rebellion Against Han: I Choose the Demonic Path 凡人逆韩：宁尊魔途 Fan Zhi凡止Male-Channel Fanfiction1.8M WordsOngoing Ning Zun's Immortal Path: A Salaryman's Cultivation Journey, Carving a Path to Immortality with His Sword When the exhaustion of working 996 hours a week meets the morning light of a cultivation world, overworked salaryman Ning Bufan transmigrates into the world of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality. While everyone else is busy clinging to Han Li, he draws the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword, determined to become the number one sword cultivator in Tiannan and rewrite the regrets of the 3.4kReads—Score447Shelves
8. 8 凡 A Mortal, the Ultimate Couch Potato in the Cultivation World 凡人，修仙界最强苟王 A Wisp of Cloud and Smoke一支云烟Male-Channel Fanfiction125k WordsOngoing Also known as A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Li Feng's Legend, A Mortal's Journey: The Second Most Cautious Cultivator in Cultivation History, and A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Starting with a Mysterious Ancient Cauldron. Li Feng transmigrated to the world of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality and acquired a mysterious ancient cauldron capable of duplicating all things. With this heaven-defying advantage, Li Feng would make the art of “borrowing things” flourish. 136Reads—Score—Shelves
9. 9 凡 Mortal Cultivation: Ten Thousand Corpses Forge an Immortal Bone 凡人修仙，万尸铸仙骨 Swimming Champion游泳冠军Eastern Fantasy4.7M WordsOngoing Demonic cultivation + no System + scheming underdog + decisive and ruthless. This book is dark, so don't read it if that's not your thing. The moment Song Wen kills the frail little beggar and seizes his blood and soul, every cell in his body cheers and leaps with excitement. His mind races, and he knows that killing will be part of his life from now on. For survival and immortality, he'll stop at nothing: petty schemes, conspiracies, and ruthless slaughter. On the road to immortality, bones are 95.9kReads8.9Score7.8kShelves
10. 10 凡 Ordinary Man Zhang Tie: I Have a Twin Fish Pendant 凡人张铁，我有一枚双鱼佩 The Weasel Sitting in the Temple Hall黄皮子坐庙堂Male-Channel Fanfiction315k WordsOngoing [Golden finger + no System + multiple heroines + decisive and ruthless] Zhang Tie transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation, where he meets his good friend Han Li. But his master, Mo Juren, has sinister plans, so Zhang Tie has no choice but to find a way to match wits with him. Zhang Tie, who possesses the Twin Fish Pendant, and Han Li, who possesses the Heaven Palming Bottle, join forces to explore the world of cultivation. The two brothers face danger after danger as they seek the path 1Reads—Score—Shelves
11. 11 凡 A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality 凡人修仙记 Wutong Youyou梧桐悠悠Eastern Fantasy5.0M WordsOngoing [Xuanhuan] [Mortal Protagonist] [No System] [Slow Burn] [Swordsmanship] [Mystery] After a war that lasted ten thousand years, heaven and earth shattered, three races stood side by side, and divine artifacts sank into oblivion. A mountain boy with no spiritual roots sets out from the mortal world to avenge a great wrong, enduring hardship after hardship. With one sword, he forges ten thousand; with his Dao heart, he enters a demonic tribulation! Wielding the sword in his hand, he cannot kill ever 121.2kReads8.9Score7.2kShelves
12. 12 天 The Heavenly Master Descends the Mountain: My Fiancée Is a Rich Heiress 天师下山我的未婚妻是豪门千金 Night Wanderer夜不归Urban292k WordsCompleted T an Jiu, a disciple of a reclusive Daoist sect, is sent down the mountain by his grandfather with their family’s secret arts and a compass. He heads to Jiangbei to honor five marriage contracts arranged by their ancestors. New to the city, he keeps a low profile, but when he first meets his fiancée, Lin Qianqian, at the Lin family home, he catches the housekeeper’s son, Li Wei, and her best friend, Chen Ling, plotting something vile. They plan to use a wicked spell and an aphrodisiac to defile 4Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Subdue demons, catch ghosts and fall in love

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