A Must-Read for Readers in a Slump, Highly Recommended by Veteran Readers! 书荒必看，资深老书虫力荐！
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I Am Not the God of Drama 我不是戏神
The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa
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The Thousand-Faced Thief King 千面贼王
My name is Xiao Wu. I was a wild child no orphanage could keep in check. At nine years old, I charged into this dog-eat-dog world. I saw through it then: living was like clinging to a moving train. You either held on or fell and were crushed to pieces. The first steamed bun I stole wasn’t because I was hungry. I wanted to see whether these hands that picked pockets could grab fate by the throat. The juvenile detention center, the shelter, and the detention center were my schools. The thieves wer
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Spy Code Name: I’m the Useless Barbed Wire 谍战代号我是废物铁丝网
He is the lowest-ranking undercover agent in the Military Statistics Bureau, yet he can spot Japanese spies in a vast crowd. He is also an expert operative, infiltrating enemy-occupied territory to assassinate traitors who sell out their country and vanish without a trace. Because: “Scanning Eye” in operation...
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Slay the Gods 我在精神病院学斩神
A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled
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The Gods’ Foolish Game 诸神愚戏
I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m
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Mortal Bones 凡骨
The world’s spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade, Heavenly Spiritual Bone. Second grade, Golden Spiritual Bone. Third grade, Profound Spiritual Bone. Fourth grade, White Spiritual Bone. All the rest are mortal bones, with no chance of cultivating. Xu Taiping, born with mortal bones, swears to prove to the cultivation world that mortal bones can slay demons, mortal bones can vanquish devils, and mortal bones can ascend to immortality!
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The Emperor's Gold Medal County Magistrate 皇家金牌县令
[Farming + lighthearted fun + transmigration] Fang Zhengyi transmigrates to the Great Jing dynasty and becomes a county magistrate. After seven years of work, he has created his own earthly paradise. He’d planned to live out his days as a carefree little emperor. In the thirteenth year of the Jinghe era, the emperor of Great Jing travels incognito and accidentally wanders into Taoyuan County... The moment the emperor enters the county, he is astonished! The many strange and wondrous things leave
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Mortal Blood! 凡血！
[Exceptional talent] [No brainless characters] [Foundation Establishment] [Golden Core] [Mortal cultivation] [No System] [No harem] Lin Fan is an ordinary mortal born in “Short-Lived Village,” yet he is determined to become an immortal whose life lasts as long as Heaven itself. By a twist of fate, Lin Fan takes part in the Seven Mysteries Sect’s entrance trials. Though he is destined never to become a cultivator, with the help of a mysterious copper bottle in his possession, he works hard one st
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Underworld Tyrant: Those Who Follow Me Prosper, Those Who Oppose Me Perish! 黑道暴君：顺我者昌，逆我者亡！
[Class Belle, I'm out of prison, and you'll pay for what you did!] After being framed by the class belle he loved, Wang Erchui was wrongfully imprisoned for three years. The misery of prison transformed the once gentle boy into a hardened man. Only after getting out and taking revenge, making the class belle pregnant in his fury, did he gradually realize there was a terrifying truth behind it all. It turned out that what had ruined his life was never this love affair, but a vast web of conspirac
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The Way Home 归途
[Tao Dongling vs. Chen Zhaolai] [Top-Tier Novel + Two Male Leads + Urban Life + Everyday People + Hard Work + Happy Ending + Sweet Romance + Realistic] There’s a little shop along the route Tao Dongling has been driving lately, where you can park, eat, and stay the night. It’s pretty cheap and clean, and the owner is quiet, handling all the work inside and out by himself. Then one day, Tao Dongling said to the owner, “Brother Lai, every time I come here, I don’t want to leave.” Chen Zhaolai took
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The Nine Tribulations of Heavenly Evolution 九劫天衍
The youth kneeling in the ruins is the last ember of the Tianyan Sect! With a crippled body and four spiritual roots, Lin Yan guards the ruined sect gate alone. At death’s door, he uses his blood to open the forbidden “Myriad Tribulations Abyss.” Nine tribulations temper his bones; his meridians shatter and his marrow burns. The will of the sect’s first patriarch thunders: “Only those who face nine deaths without regret can inherit my true path!” When Lin Yan emerges from the abyss, reborn, the
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Rising to Chancellor 拜相
Back then, Xue Ji insisted on entering government service. Once he did, he advanced one careful step at a time. Suspicion and political maneuvering, friends and rivals, love and bloodshed: in the affairs of the court, fortunes rise and fall. Who can escape unscathed? The sordid details... cannot be spoken of, cannot be spoken of. Xue Ji, courtesy name Qingzhi Chen Shao, courtesy name Jie'an
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You Were Told to Go Undercover, Not Take Over the Underworld 让你卧底，没让你统一黑道
[Undercover in the underworld + ruthless and decisive + no sanctimonious do-gooding + sharp as a tack] Brothers, this book once had over 500,000 readers following it, and kept that readership for several months. Quite a few people have adapted it into absurd animated videos and AI short dramas. I’m not a touchy person. You can post videos without my permission, but shouldn’t you at least show me a little respect? Couldn’t you include the original book title and the author’s name? Using Foqin’s n
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A Steely Official's Path: I Rise to the Pinnacle of Power 铁血官途：我登权力之巅
Being an official is a skill. Jiang Yiming had barely started his job when he was sent down to Yangwan Village. After helping a county leader through a personal crisis, he was promoted three ranks in one go! See how Jiang Yiming wins people over from every side, deftly foils all kinds of traps, and lives by his creed: "Hold office for a time, and bring benefits to the people."
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The Underworld: Ruling the World 黑社会：雄霸天下
The campus beauty he'd loved for three years was brutalized and killed! Chen Xuewen, who had done nothing, was framed and sent to prison! His honest, hardworking parents both died horribly while seeking justice for him! After nineteen years of living by the rules and obeying the law, Chen Xuewen finally saw the true face of the world. “Those who kill and burn their way to riches wear golden belts, while those who build bridges and roads leave no bones behind!” “If others can kill and burn, why
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Infinite Fusion: My Bonded Gu Have All Become Immortals 无限融合，我的本命蛊都成仙了
A bloody catastrophe shattered a dynasty that had ruled for a thousand years. Li Yuan, its sole surviving prince, concealed his identity and fled to the southern frontier, where he joined the Gu Master lineage and unexpectedly awakened a Gu-Insect Synthesis System. Lords from every corner of the land, demons and monsters, and the various martial-world factions were all looking for him. They wanted to use his bloodline as the key to unlock the Martial God treasure left behind by the founding empe
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关
Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year.
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The Cowherd Boy’s Encounter with an Immortal 牧童遇仙记
Qingshan Village is A Mu’s hometown. Outside the village lies a forbidden place, Misty Mountain, which is actually an entrance to the Immortal Realm. Qing Li, a disciple of the Nine-Turn Profound Sect, fell into demonic ways after peering into the forbidden art of immortality and was hunted by his fellow disciples into the mortal world. The Nine-Turn Resurrection Herb grows in the lowest level of hell, the Infinite Purgatory. It must be picked with a pure heart, or the herb will wither and the p
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Sloppy Hormones 潦草的荷尔蒙
A contemporary slice-of-life novel: urban romance, campus life, the workplace, and marriage. How fleeting life is! I just want to savor every moment to the fullest., Male lead: Qin Fang
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My Stunning Heiress 我的倾城大小姐
After beating up a perverted professor in a fit of anger, he is forced to drop out and sell barbecue. But then he keeps running into a cool, elegant CEO, a pure-hearted rich girl, and even his ex-girlfriend, who has been waiting for him all along... Caught in a whirlpool of romance, which way will he go?
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National Medicine: One Man Keeps a Top-Tier Hospital Afloat 国医：一个人撑起一家三甲医院
Why do expert department heads from the country's top hospitals keep showing up at a neighborhood clinic? Why do renowned experts and professors from across the country so often visit a township health center? Yun Heng, a master's graduate in traditional Chinese medicine, had just started his new job when he offended the hospital's department head and was driven out. With no choice but to make a living at a neighborhood clinic, he somehow turned a township community health center into a national
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Oh No! The Little Zombie Accidentally Became a Big Shot 糟糕！小丧尸一不小心就成了大佬
[Apocalypse x food hoarding x devoted couple x sweet romance x little zombie heroine x super badass, high-output hero] Torrential rain, typhoons, tsunamis, thunderstorms, the disappearance of Earth's magnetic field, zombies, monsters, supernatural abilities, and more... Congratulations, you've entered the main storyline of the apocalypse. The whole world is about to be reshuffled. From here on, survival depends on your life, your luck, and yourself. - While everyone else is still screaming in a
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Natural Disasters from the Start: I Hoard a Hundred Billion in Supplies and Win by Doing Nothing 开局天灾，我靠囤百亿物资躺赢
[Post-Apocalyptic World + Reborn + Spatial Storage + Stockpiling + Pets + Slice of Life] (Available in print; the short drama and motion comic are now streaming) In a post-apocalyptic world of natural disasters, only the fittest survive. Typhoons, floods, extreme cold and heat, earthquakes, tsunamis, insect plagues, acid rain… After struggling to survive for three years in the apocalypse, Jiang Ning met a miserable death. Reborn three days before the end of the world, she seizes the advantage, r
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I Stir Up Trouble in the Cultivation World 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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Superpowers: I Have a Replication Mirror 超能：我有一面复刻镜
[Gods Descend, Calamity Begins] When cultivators from the divine realm invade Earth, superpowers and modern weapons become humanity's last line of defense! Can Gou Chen and Adam, Earth's only two superpower academies, shoulder humanity's future? What kind of hidden strength does Huaxia, hailed as the Chosen Nation, possess? This is a feast for the Godslayers! A young man gains the power to replicate abilities. With a mortal body and the power of the world in his hands, he will ultimately slay th
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If I Were Dong Xian, the Infamous Handsome Man Who Ruined History, Here's How I'd Win Over the Entire Court 假如我是历史祸水美男董贤，且看我如何拿下满朝文武
If I were Dong Xian, the infamous beauty who brought chaos to history, see how I win over the entire imperial court.
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My Princess Consort Is a Goofball 我家王妃是逗比
Overnight, she transmigrates into the body of a minister’s daughter. Her father doesn’t care for her, her mother doesn’t love her, and now they’re forcing her to get married! She hears she’s to marry the emperor’s most favored prince? She likes princes: they’re loaded! She hears the prince she’s to marry is crippled? She likes crippled men: they’re easy to boss around! With her remarkable medical skills, she cures the prince’s legs. She originally planned to keep him around as her backer, but wh
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Above the Throne: One Proof, Permanent Mastery, Plus Three Experience Points 王座之上：一证永证，经验加三
A meteor known as Wimlis fell, and Blue Star entered an age of cataclysm. Creatures mutated, supernatural powers awakened, and monstrous beasts rampaged across human lands. Hidden realms opened, and elves, demons, angels, dragons, vampires, cultivation... fantasy and mythology returned to the world. I, Lin Xiao, became the strongest hunter through my own hard work and sweat! Swing the sword! [Swordsmanship-Lv1: Experience +3]
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By Your Side 陪你
[Complete] The first time Yu Yin got a good look at Zhang Ji, he had a dimple in his right cheek. When he smiled, even the sunlight seemed to favor him. “Hey, classmate, what’s your name?” “Yu Yin. The ‘Yu Yin’ in ‘the lingering sound of a melody.’” “I’m Zhang Ji. The ‘Ji’ in ‘clear skies after rain.’ Will you vote for me when we choose our class monitor?” She quietly answered, “Sure.” Zhang Ji did become class monitor, and he looked out for her a little. At first, Yu Yin didn’t read much into i
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The Little Miracle Doctor of the Mountain Village 山村小神医
Fools are blessed! After Wang Tiezhu was beaten into an idiot, he unexpectedly gained his ancestor's legacy. From then on, he pursued both medicine and cultivation. He only wanted to be a handsome man who kept a low profile, but trouble always came looking for him. When he finally trampled all his enemies beneath his feet, Wang Tiezhu could only sigh helplessly: “I want to keep a low profile too, but my strength won't let me!”
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Son-in-Law, Please, I’m Begging You, Spare Me 女婿，求求你，饶了我吧
He had been a live-in son-in-law for two years, and everyone thought he was a good-for-nothing they could trample underfoot. Only on the day of the divorce did they learn that he was richer than a nation and wielded power over the whole world!
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Shocking! Powerful Figures from Everywhere Come to Pay Their Respects to the Useless Son-in-Law 震惊，各路大佬都来拜见废婿
Born to rule, he lost his parents to murder as a boy and disappeared for years. Now he returns to the city as the supreme king of the world's underworld. Watch as he changes the course of the world and rises to the very pinnacle of power.
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The Peerless God of War 盖世战神
He is a peerless God of War, famed for his unmatched achievements. To repay a meal from years ago, he willingly became a live-in son-in-law... A tiger fallen on the plains is bullied by dogs. But when the tiger returns to the mountains, the sky will be stained red! For the past three years, you have endured humiliation for my sake. For the rest of our lives, I will make sure you shine brighter than anyone!
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The Record of Slaying Gods Beneath the Heavens 凌天诛神录
A heaven-abandoned body, unable to cultivate, is actually a peerless prodigy... He encounters the Empress of the Immortal Realm, subdues a weapon spirit, and gains powerful divine arts. From then on, he turns his fortunes around at every step... Like an immortal, a demon, and a monster all at once, watch how Wang Xuan reaches the pinnacle and uncovers the greatest secret in the world... Also known as: Dual Cultivation of Immortality and Demonic Arts
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The Path to a Thousand Dao 万道成神
With a sweep of his sleeve, he stirs the clouds and turns the rain; with a single punch, heaven and earth crumble! This is a magnificent world, a world of martial artists where the strong rule supreme. An ancient battle to confer the gods enraged the heavens, unleashing celestial thunder and earthly fire. The continent shattered into nine regions and eighteen provinces, ushering in an era of decline. After the battle, the peak experts vanished without a trace, and the cultivation and development
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The Heavenly Dao Shocks the Gods 天道惊神
An ancient jade pendant conceals a secret unknown to the world of immortal cultivation! An ordinary young man leaves home to defy fate and change his destiny! A declining cultivation clan is tossed about in the storm! Thrilling pursuits! Cunning, ruthless plots! The immortal and demonic factions alike make their moves, all to seize the secret in the young man's hands!
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Immortal Martial Sovereign 仙武至尊
Qin Yun was the son of an Immortal Emperor in the immortal realm, but he was framed, robbed of his Chaos Immortal Bone, stripped of his cultivation, and had his memories sealed by his father before being cast into the mortal world. When his memories awakened, he swore to take everything back, destroy the Immortal Dynasty once and for all, and make those who had once framed him pay in blood. “When I, Qin Yun, return to the immortal realm, your Immortal Dynasty will fall. Those who once hurt me, j
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The Heaven-Defying Cauldron 逆天鼎
[A ten-million-word epic of traditional fantasy, no System + one female lead + ruthless action + overpowered wish fulfillment, packed with nonstop excitement!] “You and I are worlds apart, saint and mortal. You’re nothing but a dog in the mortal realm!” On the day of his engagement, Ye Yan’s fiancée, a saintly prodigy, tore up their marriage contract in front of everyone and destroyed his father’s keepsake! Unable to bear it any longer, Ye Yan unsealed his Myriad Paths Emperor Physique! He poss
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My Lord, Are You a Woman? 主公，你是女子？
[Publication rights signed] [Strong heroine + political intrigue + turbulent times + power struggles + ensemble cast] She’s fleeing from the start, a female warlord in a chaotic age. Lin Zhihuang, originally named Lin Zhihuan, transmigrates as a county magistrate’s daughter, only to find tens of thousands of refugees attacking the city from the start! While others transmigrate into palace or household intrigue, she transmigrates straight into a chaotic age and a desperate flight from famine. The
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This Top Scholar Plays by His Own Rules 这个状元路子有点野
[Farming + imperial examinations + alternate history + lighthearted] My Parents Flipped the Table and Quit, So I Want to Take the Imperial Exams Too Just as Wang Xuezhou was about to reach the peak of his life, he transmigrated. The good news: in this life, his parents were loving, and his siblings got along. The bad news: the whole family was pinching pennies to fund his eldest uncle's studies. They had next to nothing and were living on coarse grain and wild greens. But before he could flip t
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The World’s Morals Have Regressed by Three Hundred Years. What’s That to Me? 天下道德倒退三百年，关我什么事
[Search Tomato to watch the short drama: The Third Greatest Stratagem of All Time] Gao Yang transmigrated to the Great Qian Dynasty just as the Empress ascended the throne and began recruiting talent from across the land. So he volunteered himself as a poison strategist! The Empress: “Suppose you personally wiped out your enemy's entire family. As you looked at the bodies scattered everywhere, you suddenly realized there was still a child in the house. What would you do?” Gao Yang: “I'd say, ‘Re
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Keep Moving Forward, Young Man 少年且前行
Bearing the hopes of his disabled parents and supported by every uncle and elder in Kaoshan Village, Wang Yan arrived in Binhai carrying a fertilizer sack full of the future. He stepped onto campus and began his journey toward changing his life…
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The Spirit Gourd’s Path to Immortality 灵葫芦修仙记
Er Gouzi is an honest, hardworking farmer. His greatest dream is to save up enough to buy a few acres, become a small landowner, and marry a buxom, strong-legged wife. Then his life would be perfect. But after an accident leaves him with a gourd and an old swindler talks him into it, he blunders into the path of immortality and gets dragged into conflict. Even so, he never forgets his original goal: he just wants to farm...
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The Fourth Calamity: Infinite Conquest 第四天灾：无限征服
The animated series "The Stars Descend: I Summon Players to Conquer the Wilderness" is now streaming on Hongguo. If you enjoy animated series, please go check it out and show your support. The Wilds Continent is home to countless races, where the strong prey on the weak. After transmigrating to the Wilds Continent, Lin Feng discovers that the human race is one of the weakest species there. Though they have many people, other races keep them penned up and enslaved. At this critical moment, Lin Fe
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Building the Greatest Immortal Clan in the Universe, Starting with a Withered Tree 从枯木开始打造寰宇第一仙族
[Ensemble Cast + System + Clan Saga + No Female Lead + The Protagonist Isn’t Human!] Clan Chief, this is bad! One of our people is injured! Quick, take them to the Divine Tree! Clan Chief, this is bad! One of our people is on the brink of death! Quick, take them to the Divine Tree! Clan Chief, this is bad! One of our people just passed away! Quick, take them to the Divine Tree. We can’t let the body get cold on the way! Reincarnated as a frail locust tree, Ji Yang only wanted to bask in the sun,
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Divine Zombie King: I Am the Doomsday Calamity 神级尸王：我即是末日天灾
[Apocalypse + Rebirth + Stockpiling Supplies + Evolving Zombies + Violent Aesthetics] Lin Dong is reborn on the eve of a terrifying apocalypse, and gains a storage space. A normal person would stockpile huge amounts of supplies, food, and water. But Lin Dong buys vast quantities of raw meat and fresh blood. Because... he is about to become a zombie! Flesh and blood are the source of a zombie's power. As long as it eats meat, it can keep evolving. A zombie fed on plenty of flesh grows at a terrif
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Sequence: God Eater 序列：吃神者
[Published quality guaranteed, alternate high-level martial arts world + ensemble political intrigue + vast, unorthodox slow-burn setting + everyone says it gets better the more you read] A giant bird devours the sun, and all things undergo drastic changes. Bizarre immortal gods. Humanity's superpowered sequences. Everyone wants to become a god in this world, but they do not know how. They say that eating whatever you need replenishes it, but eating food can never make you a god. If you want to
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