Looking for Cultivation Stories, but Nothing Formulaic (I'm Tired of Those) 想看修仙题材的 不要那种死套路(看腻了)
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You Want to Dig Out My Golden Core for the Heroine? I’ll Send the Whole Sect into My Imperial Banner 挖我金丹给女主？全宗进我人皇幡
[Strong heroine + morally ambiguous + decisive and ruthless + outwardly virtuous + no romance] Jia Ying transmigrates into a cultivation novel and becomes the villainous supporting female character, a foil to the heroine, Ruan Jiaojiao. After her golden core is stolen, she looks at her mixed spiritual roots and damaged foundation, then resolutely embarks on the path of demonic cultivation! You dared to steal my golden core? Then every last member of your sect is going into my Human Emperor Ban
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The Bear Clan Rises: A Hilarious Diary of the Bear Who Keeps Holding Everyone Back 熊族崛起拖后腿熊熊搞笑日记
[No romance · No golden finger · Not a wish-fulfillment story · Cultivation · Farming · Fluffy creatures · Set in a cultivation world where men and women are equal, with just a little favoritism toward women] A little bear (female) accidentally ate a high-grade spirit herb. At the brink of death, she awakened memories of her past life… as a third-year college student in the 21st century… The little bear says: If I'd been in high school, I could have figured out a thing or two about cultivation.
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Little Junior Sister Acts Frail and Tricks the Entire Cultivation World! 小师妹装柔弱，戏耍整个修仙界！
After transmigrating, Mu Yunqing found herself as the villainous little cannon-fodder character in a novel, hated by everyone, with even flowers wilting at the sight of her. The sword the heroine wanted? She snatched it! The spiritual fruit the heroine picked from the Demonic Beast Abyss? She snatched it! The heroine was exceptionally talented and gifted, while Mu Yunqing had terrible aptitude. Her own father had to pull strings to get her into the inner sect. With someone backing her, she kept
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Claiming a Father from the Start! The Cultivation Villainess Doesn't Suffer for Even a Second 开局认爹！修真女配一秒都不被虐
From the start, Meng Jiaojiao is being abused, so the moment she transmigrates into a book, she reveals who she is: “Dad, help! I'm your daughter!” The First Sect's leader immediately panics and protects his daughter, while her five villainous senior brothers rush to defend their little sister! The Xuanjian Sect, which punishes criminals, is dumbfounded. How did this orphaned criminal suddenly become the First Sect's beloved treasure? They're in deep trouble now! After claiming her father on
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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
56kReads9.3Score7.3kShelves
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I'm the Cannon Fodder Villainess. So What If I Give Up? 我，炮灰女配，摆烂怎么了！
Sheng Xi transmigrates into a novel about a heroine adored by everyone, becoming a cannon-fodder supporting character whose only purpose is to serve as a stepping stone for the beloved heroine! Faced with a deadly start, Sheng Xi wisely backs down and heads down the mountain in the middle of the night to find a new sect where she can lie flat. Hmph. Whoever wants to be a stepping stone can do it themselves. Her new sect has simple relationships and no performance reviews. Every one of her se
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The Number One Support Keeps Refusing to Act Human 辅助一姐又又又又不当人了
Female-led power fantasy, no romance, academy, passionate, team-focused A modern young Taoist, cursed with the Five Flaws and Three Deficiencies, starves to death one day and transmigrates to a parallel world, where she is bound to a Wealth System. As long as she earns money, she can gain energy points to buy all kinds of amazing goods. This world is crawling with strange beasts, and humans are awakening and evolving too. Si Junni has never been one to sit still, so she’s thrilled and resolves t
23.4kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
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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
16.9kReads9.2Score2.7kShelves
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When Sword Cultivation Failed Me, I Took Up Both Alchemy and Cultivation 剑修无望后，我丹法双修
Cultivation + Reborn in the Womb + Alchemy + Coming of Age + Not a Sword Cultivator + No Romance Reborn in the womb as an ordinary village girl, I thought I’d live out my life according to plan. But who could have guessed that cultivating immortality was actually possible? From then on, I set foot in the world of cultivation. My spiritual roots and talent are pretty good, but there’s no shortage of people more gifted than me. I don’t have a top-tier cultivation background. I did meet an old ance
36.5kReads9.1Score4.6kShelves
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After Becoming the Youngest Junior Sister of an Immortal Sect the Cultivation World Went Crazy for Me 穿成仙门小师妹后修真界为我疯狂
Ning Yue died and transmigrated into a cultivation world. Terrified, she immediately stripped off her clothes. Only when she saw the familiar flame-shaped birthmark on her shoulder did she finally relax. At least it was still her own body! To survive, Ning Yue threw herself into cultivation and earned a place at one of the five great sects. True to the principle of being a jack of all trades and master of none: Alchemy? Easy! Her cooking skills in her previous life were top-notch! Talisman-makin
23.8kReads9.2Score4.1kShelves
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I Became a God Through Showing Off [ Transmigrated to Another World ] 我靠凡尔赛成神【穿越异世】
Can you believe it? Ji Hua transmigrates into a novel her best friend was reading. The bad news: She’s transmigrated, and there’s no way back. The good news: The novel’s main story has already ended, and the identity she’s transmigrated into is quite prestigious. The novel Good-for-Nothing Mage is about two good-for-nothing leads who rise to success. It’s worth mentioning that both the male and female leads each have a beloved person they can never forget. And here’s the best part: the male lead
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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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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
248.3kReads9.7Score28.4kShelves
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The Supporting Actress Cultivates Immortality: I Only Want to Be a Music Cultivator 女配修仙：我只想做个音修
[Music cultivator + xiao, guqin, flute, konghou + strong heroine + progression fantasy + water and wood spiritual roots] Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul… The heroine is the most beautiful. She starts out with a low cultivation level and has to grow step by step. It’s a satisfying power fantasy, but not a mindless one. In the twenty-fifth century, musician Lin Yin transmigrates into a novel titled The Beloved True Heiress Is Also the Cultivatio
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Mess With Her? Are You Crazy? My Junior Sister Isn’t Really Useless 惹她？疯了！师妹又不是真废材
[Complete] [Strong male and female leads + sweet romance + not a saint] In her previous life, Yun Luan was a “lazy supporting character.” After accidentally pushing the heroine off Soulbreak Cliff, she thought she could rest easy. In the end, the heroine unexpectedly found her path to immortality, then wiped out the entire Yun family. Reborn, Yun Luan decides to start cultivating so she can protect her family. She joins a cultivation sect, but at first the sect pays her little attention because
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While Others Command Ghosts, I Cultivate Immortality; While Others Fear, I Covet 他人驭鬼我修仙，他人恐惧我贪婪
[Highly recommend this divine novel: The Strange Resurgence: I Can Transform into a Great Demon] [Not invincible, clever protagonist, focused on leveling up, horror, hilarious, dark worldview, a high-dimensional golden finger crushing a lower-dimensional world] Nightmares erode reality. Cities and skyscrapers that once disappeared return, now filled with terrifying high-level supernatural beings. When the final day arrives, the whole world falls into darkness, and one strange god after another
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The Immortal Sect Is Ungrateful? The Universally Hated Junior Sister Goes Solo 仙门忘恩义？万人嫌师妹单干了
Shen Zhu transmigrates into a villainous cannon-fodder role in a story where everyone dotes on the heroine. The junior sister is adored by all and blessed with the Heavenly Dao's favor. Her aloof master loves her in silence, while three genius senior brothers compete for her affection and grow jealous over her. The Demon Realm's Demon Venerable is willing to play third wheel for love just to win her favor, the injured Demon King of the Monster Realm clings to her, and the mortal emperor falls fo
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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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Spring Comes Across the Cold Branches 寒枝渡春来
[Max-level alchemy grandmaster enters the beginner village + slice of life + family bonds + a touch of ensemble cast] (There is a male lead: Shen Zhuochuan) What should you do when you transmigrate into the body of the frail, doomed-to-die-early older sister of a heroine? Everyone knows that protagonists like Long Aotian and Feng Aotian tend to have tragic backstories. Their families are wiped out, or their parents die. After reading the original story and learning that she was destined to di
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Perhaps I Wasn't Meant to Die 或许我命不该绝
(Reincarnated into cultivation from birth + no romance + everyday life + slow burn + growing heroine) I was reborn with all my memories intact, only to end up in a frail, sickly body. At least I had a cultivation system to keep me alive as my golden finger. Fang Yue diligently set out on the path of cultivation to prolong her life. But how did her golden finger end up going offline halfway through her cultivation? Still, her lifespan had returned to normal, her aptitude was pretty good, a
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I’m Stirring Up the Cultivation World with Grind Culture 我在修仙界搞内卷
[Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn
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I Became an Extra and Got Pregnant by the Immortal Venerable 穿成路人甲怀了仙尊崽崽
What should an office worker do after staying up late reading a novel and transmigrating into a cultivation story as a supporting female character? Of course, stay away from the fake-sweet heroine and save her own life. Enjoying the drama while cultivating is pretty wonderful, too! Seeing the plot change, she believes the light of justice is shining on her. Then an accident happens, and she discovers her belly is getting bigger. What’s going on? Aren’t cultivators not supposed to get pregnant so
10.8kReads8.2Score898Shelves
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The Villainess Says Nothing, She Just Keeps Stealing Opportunities 女配不语，只一味抢夺机缘
[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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Xuanhuan: Watching the Protagonist in the Cultivation World 玄幻：在修真界围观主角的二三事
Bai Nanxing accidentally transmigrates into a book and becomes a low-ranking cultivator in the cultivation world. As timid as a mouse, she wants no part in the protagonists' love and hatred. All she wants is to quietly cultivate her own path to immortality. She keeps her head down every step of the way. Keeps her head down.
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My Junior Sister Takes Down Every Young Prodigy with Cheesy Pick-Up Lines 小师妹用土味情话干翻各路天骄
(The short drama My Junior Sister’s Cheesy Pickup Lines is now available.) After gaming for three days and two nights without sleep, internet-addicted girl Xu Wu, unsurprisingly, had an unexpected outcome: she died suddenly. Who would have thought that when she opened her eyes, she’d transmigrated into a book and become the female lead’s foil? The female lead cultivates the heartless path, while the original Xu Wu was a lovesick fool. The female lead is loved, openly or secretly, by countless pr
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Geniuses Are Everywhere, but the Little Junior Sister Is the Real Big Shot 天才满地跑，小师妹才是真大佬
[Romance, scum-bashing and face-slapping, stirring up trouble and setting people up, scheming and unhinged junior sister versus mysterious senior brother who falls for her on his own, one-on-one, both devoted to each other, ensemble cast.] Feng Ning transmigrated into a cultivation novel as the disposable fake heiress who was tortured to death by a deranged, lovesick male supporting character. The male lead wants to dig out my spiritual root? I stab him thirteen times, each blow lethal. My famil
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Shocking! The Holy Sons and Daughters Are All So Awful 惊！圣子圣女们竟然都缺德
[Absurd humor and memes + no romance + laugh-out-loud comedy + ensemble cast] With a loud crash from the heavens, Chun Jin met her end on the spot. Dying was bad enough, but then she transmigrated into a book, and not only that, she became a character everyone hated! As the saying goes, a doting older brother spoils his little sister. In the original story, Chun Hanwen was the unluckiest guy around. Even a dog would have left its mark on him. But a joke should never be made at a person's expe
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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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So What If I Lack Morals? I’m Already Number One in All of Jiuzhou 什么仙道天道？呵！我修的是杀道
[Print edition out September 12 + refuses to look back + satisfying growth story + ensemble cast] In her past life, Wanwan died at the hands of her master and six senior brothers, pierced through the heart by seven swords and left without a whole body. Her master only loved her little junior sister, and her senior brothers only doted on her. When the little junior sister lost her Golden Core, they dug out Wanwan's to replace it. When the little junior sister was wronged, Ye Wanwan was made to su
169.6kReads9.4Score15.1kShelves
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Ghost Stories from the Coffin Shop 棺材铺灵异故事
By fate's design, I went from being a truck driver to a shop assistant at a coffin shop. Little did I know that this one decision would send me down a completely unconventional path, making me earn my living from what people call the business of the underworld!
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The Path of Ten Thousand Immortals: A Cultivator’s Rules for Laying Low 万仙道途：当老六的修仙法则
[Transmigrate] [Madness] [No System] [Crafty Schemer] [Investiture of the Gods] A slow-burn, high-quality power fantasy that gets more exciting as it goes. Thank you all for your support! Li Yi inherits the present-day immortal position of Zhao Gongming, who was enshrined as the Golden Dragon, Wish-Granting, Orthodox One, Dragon and Tiger, Black Altar True Lord. What if you have no resources? Develop steadily, swindle and deceive, tear up the roof tiles, put on an air of mystery, use others to k
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Sweet Wife Gets Out of Prison, Then the Capital's Young Master Whisks Her Home 甜妻出狱，被京圈太子爷拐回家
“Will you marry me?” “I don’t want a bride price, a house, or a car. I only want a marriage certificate!” After getting out of prison, Yun Mu is desperate to stop her parents from marrying her off to the disabled, disfigured Third Young Master of the Quan family. So she asks a stranger to marry her right there on the street. She had no expectations, yet she finds herself a devastatingly handsome husband. Her husband says he’s just an ordinary man. He also says loving him will lead nowhere. Yun M
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After Marrying My Best Friend’s Uncle, I Became the Apple of a Powerful Man’s Eye 嫁给闺蜜小舅后，稳坐大佬心尖宠
[One true pairing + age gap + sweet romance + putting scumbags in their place + male lead acts proper but is deeply devoted] [Poor, pitiful heroine + powerful rich male lead + winning her back] Su Mian was cheated on by her scumbag senior and her own younger sister! To cheer her up, her best friend Cheng Xinran took her to a bar. They unexpectedly ran into her uncle, Li Shilin… “Xinran, is this your classmate?” “Yes, she’s my best friend at university. Her name is Su Mian. Mian, as in ‘sheep.’”
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Lord of Eternal Corruption 永蚀之主
[Nontraditional Savior] Eastern Fantasy + Cthulhu + Sequence Evolution + Dark + Passionate (High Conflict + Fast Pace). Mysterious, Suspenseful Horror + Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland (Richly detailed settings well suited for screen adaptation).
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The Stars Above Are Beyond My Reach 星落银辰不可及
Synopsis of Starfall: Beyond Reach On a stormy night, modern-day girl Mu Jiuyao is caught in a bizarre car accident. Her phone's Startrack app flashes a warning: "Interdimensional passage opening." Starlight appears on her arm, and the Milky Way sweeps her into another world. When she wakes, Mu Jiuyao finds herself on the Tianxuan Continent, surrounded by the smell of herbs and blood. She also hears people discussing how the original owner of her body, a good-for-nothing, hasn't died after all.
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