Looking for Cultivation Novels with a Female Lead Like Emperor Ruthless 求女主类似狠人大帝那样的修仙文
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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
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The Whole Sect Are Simps, but the Junior Sister Is a Real Menace 全宗都是舔狗，小师妹是真狗
[The physical edition of One Thought, Phoenix Rising is available on all platforms] Feng Xi transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder female side character, and the day she enters the book is the day she is doomed to die. To stay alive, she does everything she can to leave the heroine's sect, the Hunyuan Sect, and join the Xuantian Sect instead. Oh! All five of her senior brothers are the heroine's devoted admirers in the book, and each one dies more miserably than the last. Feng
198.3kReads9.5Score27.7kShelves
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So Strong It’s Outrageous, So Lazy It Incenses Gods and Men 强的令人发指，懒的人神共愤
"Feel-good power fantasy"[Words Become Law]+ [Overactive Imaginations]+ [Ensemble Cast] Original title: I’m a Master, So Why Don’t I Know It? Xiao Ranshu suspects this world has gone mad! The dog she picked up is the fearsome Wolf King, renowned for his incredible combat prowess? The servant she hired while out shopping is a great sea monster from the merfolk? That silly rabbit is a Taotie that feeds on dragons... Xiao Ranshu slams the table in fury. “Bullshit! My pets are sweet, cute, and obedi
48.1kReads9.4Score5.7kShelves
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Senior Sister, Drop the Act. You're the Tight-Lipped One in the Whole Sect 师姐别装了，整个宗门数你嘴严
[Cultivation + ensemble cast + stronger woman/ weaker man + 1v1 + sweet romance] [Max-level reborn Nether Ancestor Soul Master × arrogant, cheeky young master of the Fox Clan] Everyone knows that the eldest direct disciple accepted by the master of Dragon Transformation Peak in the Lingxiao Sect is a peerless genius of this age, with terrifying talent. She is also respectful toward her master and devoted to her fellow disciples. Every disciple in the Lingxiao Sect admires her wholeheartedly and
43.8kReads9.5Score5.8kShelves
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A Very Serious Cultivation Novel 一本非常正经的修仙小说
[Unhinged faction + ensemble cast + absurdist faction + comedy faction] No couples Not your typical cultivation story. ⚠⚠⚠ Extremely absurd [important point ⚠⚠⚠] Jian Bingwu invites her to see the scenery: Jian Bingwu is good. Jian Bingwu pushes her off the Immortal-Slaying Terrace: Jian Bingwu is bad. Jian Xieyun happily goes to meet her: Jian Xieyun is silly. Jian Xieyun gets pushed off: Jian Xieyun is miserable. But she’s a member of the divine race. Why push her off the Immortal-Slaying Terr
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The Heroine Wants My Spiritual Root? I'll Ascend and Become an Immortal! 女主挖我灵根？我直接飞升成仙！
Shen Shuli transmigrates into a cultivation novel as a cannon-fodder female supporting character, a fake heiress, and has her spiritual root ripped out almost as soon as she arrives! To save her life, she uses a cannon-fodder male supporting character from the Dragon Soul Sect to escape the Ten Thousand Swords Sect! While treating the male character's master, she joins the Dragon Soul Sect. Her senior brothers are all cannon fodder who exist to pave the way for the heroine, and the Dragon Soul S
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Trapped for Ten Thousand Years, I Emerged as a Powerful Figure 被困万年，出来已是大佬
Note: This is the cultivation-world arc of a story about a female cultivator who transmigrates to a bygone era and finds a dragon vein. Cheng Junyi was born after the spiritual qi revival in the apocalypse. Her immortal path seemed smooth, but then she suddenly transmigrated to an era where everything required ration coupons. She also found a dragon-vein spirit. After finally finding a way to leave, she was tricked by a Divine Venerable and sent to the Mesozoic Era. She was trapped there for ten
19.1kReads9.0Score6.3kShelves
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The Sect Is Shocked: Our Beloved Junior Sister Is a Powerful Demon 宗门震惊了：团宠师妹是魔族大佬
[Xianxia Fantasy + Beloved by Everyone + Play the pig to eat the tiger + Dual Cultivation of Immortal and Demonic Arts + Revenge] [Completed] The heroine is sweet, gentle, and adorable, with a sweet exterior and a dark heart. In public, the hero is a sect master; in private, he’s her lovesick puppy. She is Shi Yun, the founding ancestor of the demon clan. After a thousand years of slumber, she has awakened inside the body of a young girl. The girl had a pitiful fate. She was born with a rare mu
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I Saved the Entire Sect by Giving Up 我靠摆烂拯救了全宗门
(The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh
218kReads9.6Score23.4kShelves
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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
136.9kReads9.5Score33.7kShelves
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Yet You Betrayed the Spring's Grace 却负春恩
[Print edition now available. Search for Ascending to the Clouds on any platform to buy] [Original titles: Ascending to the Clouds / Loathing the Vermilion Walls] [High-IQ Palace Intrigue + Pure-Hatred Heroine + No Disposable Characters] [No transmigration, no rebirth, no golden finger] [The blurb doesn’t do it justice. Please go read the story] How do you become an emperor’s favorite concubine? A prestigious family? A good education? A gentle, respectful, modest, and accommodating nature? Unfor
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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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Back in the Capital, the Brilliant Miss Is Famous Across the Land 回京后，神算大小姐名满天下
[No romance + metaphysics + fortune-telling + satisfying read + secret identity + ghost-catching + lighthearted, no angst~] Yun Zhuo of the Xiao family was abandoned as a child. When her relatives come looking for her, she decisively returns to the capital to become a thorn in their side. Her birth mother says she’s uncouth and illiterate? But in the blink of an eye, she’s welcomed into the capital’s circle of master scholars, discussing poetry and prose and interpreting the fate of the world. T
152.2kReads9.6Score20.5kShelves
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Just a Poor Rogue Cultivator. Why Are You Kneeling, Fellow Daoist? 贫穷散修一枚，道友何故下跪？
[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
35.9kReads9.4Score5kShelves
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A Guide to Leveling Up the Twin Prodigies of Shenzhou 神州双骄升级指南
[Signed for publication] (Many personal interpretations; do not apply a formula) [Teaming up with my nemesis to carve through the cultivation world + a couple with incredible chemistry and real personality + two powerful genius leads growing together + grand overarching plot + explosive tension + a touch of ensemble cast + Jiang Lang Cai Jin HE] A violent, arrogant woman vs. a sharp-tongued, scheming man Fiery! Battle-focused! A cultivation novel driven by plot and brains, with a hero and heroin
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Don't Mess With Her! The Rogue Immortal Lady Cultivates the Path of Slaughter! 别惹！散仙娘娘她修的是杀戮道！
[Strong female lead + powerful from the start + romance + plot-driven feel-good story + happy ending] [Female lead stronger than the male lead] [Male lead has few scenes but a complete romantic storyline] [Morally gray villainess heroine] Si Jinchao, the Three Realms’ number one rebel. She was fated to be stillborn, yet came into the world as a coffin-born child. Even her very existence defied the will of Heaven. Heaven wanted her frail and sickly, her life full of misfortune, her days wretched
5.8kReads9.3Score865Shelves
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I’m a Heartless Sword Cultivator, Hunted by My Dao Companion from the Start 我，无情道剑修，开局被道侣追杀
[Ridiculous Ensemble Cast + Strong Female Lead GB + Healing and Redemption + Unconventional Everyone-Loves-Her] An emotionless-path sword cultivator is being hunted by her Dao companion. What should she do? Asking online, this is urgent! Mini-scenes: What, you pledged your lives to each other the first time you met an emotionless-path sword cultivator? What, the legendary fearsome phantom spirit is just a glutton? What, the most beautiful woman in Bianjin is actually like that in private? What,
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The Immortal Sword and the Dragon-Bone Maiden 长生剑龙骨女
With dragon bone in my body, I split the heavenly tribulation with a single sword. In this world, everyone reveres the Heavenly Dao and fears heavenly tribulations. Only I use my body as a furnace and treat lightning tribulations as the supreme nourishment. They stole my dragon bone and plundered my fortune, believing they had cut off my path to immortality by following Heaven's will. Little did they know that I would thereby embark on a domineering path against Heaven! The world seeks Heaven, 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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Yaya Grows Potatoes and Rebuilds the Divine Realm Along the Way 芽芽种土豆，顺便修神界
When five-year-old Zhang Yaya (Ruo Ya) is pushed down a dry well by her cousin, all she can think about is, “I haven’t eaten the half piece of wheat bread Ma hid.” But when she opens her eyes again, she is not only back from the dead: the red mark between her brows can make the weeds around the well grow wildly. She has no idea that the little goddess Xibao, a Chaos spirit root who fled after the divine realm collapsed, now lives inside her. The year fragments of the divine realm rained down, a
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One Move from This Shameless Junior Sister, and the Experts of the Nine Provinces Are All Stunned 缺德师妹一出手，九州大佬全麻了
Lu Lingyou transmigrates into a novel about a universally adored heroine, only to become the cannon-fodder female supporting character. The original owner was useless at everything and always the first to take the blame. The heroine killed a fellow disciple? The heroine leaked the sect's secret techniques? The heroine was secretly involved with the Demon Clan's holy lord? She got blamed for all of it. In the end, she died horribly amid the cheers of the entire cultivation world! Lu Lingyou says
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The Imperial Phoenix Descends! The Divine Phoenix Soars! The Foolish Young Lady Takes Over 帝凰临！神凤倾！痴傻小姐拽翻天
(The main story and all bonus chapters are complete.) [Traditional growth-focused female lead + beast taming + all-element talent + no saintly do-gooder + equally matched leads + sweet and satisfying story. There is a male lead. The heroine grows stronger over time, with slow progression at first and rapid leveling later. She isn’t invincible, and pretends to be weak while secretly being strong in the early story. Please don’t read if that’s not your thing.] She is the finest heir to a reclusive
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The Evil King’s Obsession: The Genius Madwoman Slays Her Way Through the Three Realms 邪王嗜宠：天才狂妃杀遍三界
[Spirit spring space + all attributes + unmatched healer and poison master + no saintly heroine + two powerful leads + sweet, satisfying romance] She was an heir to an ancient martial arts family, a woman who once commanded the world. One transmigration later, she becomes an ugly good-for-nothing. After repairing her dantian, she awakens a five-element spiritual root, breaks through to the innate sacred body, bonds with divine beasts, concocts divine pills, forges divine artifacts, and builds he
27kReads9.3Score3.7kShelves
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Proud Above the Azure Sky, the Peerless Imperial Princess Goes on a Killing Spree! 傲世苍穹，绝色帝姬她杀疯了！
[One true pairing + pocket dimension + two powerful leads + satisfying revenge + divine beasts + rebirth] Cool, proud imperial princess vs. scheming, peerlessly beautiful Phoenix Lord She had been the most noble imperial princess in the Dragon Realm. But while weakened from undergoing tribulation, her own dear cousin forcibly extracted her bloodline. Her body died, but her soul endured, merging with the legitimate daughter of a family who was known as a fool. Reborn, she acted decisively, took d
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Game Invasion: Addicted to Snatching the Male and Female Leads' Destinies 游戏入侵：抢男女主机缘会上瘾诶
[Game Invasion + No Romance + Leveling + Lone Wolf + Gaming] (Also known as: Game Invasion) After being reborn, the first thing Yu Xunge did was go home and make her younger brother down a bottle of liquor, causing him to miss the first game beta test. In her previous life, she didn't learn until she was dying that he had been scheming against her from the shadows all along. She was merely the villainess in a wish-fulfillment novel about a live-in son-in-law... Every bit of malice she suffered w
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The Magic School Junior Who Can Do Anything, from Pranks to Making Trouble 魔法学校小学妹，沙雕搞事啥都会
[Not Western fantasy: a Chinese-style magic academy, absurd comedy + ensemble cast + hilarious daily life, with romance] [A ridiculous heroine causes trouble and leads everyone astray: a bunch of lunatic students hilariously learning magic] Li Wenyin woke up in a magical world and struggled to survive at a top-tier Chinese-style magic academy. She cut up the school flags to make uniforms, stole textbooks and sprinted for her life, and made the deans so furious their eyes nearly popped out. She w
114.1kReads9.6Score13.1kShelves
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Cultivation: Everyone Thinks She Has Powerful Backing 修仙，所有人都以为她背景很强
[No romance, heroine’s growth + five-element spiritual roots + single-minded pursuit of immortality] Wu Weiyang is determined to cultivate the Dao and become an immortal, but she was born with five-element spiritual roots, considered the worst talent in the cultivation world. She refuses to give up. If her aptitude is poor, she’ll make up for it with hard work. If hard work isn’t enough, she’ll add a little luck and a little perseverance. When she gradually begins to stand out, everyone says, “H
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I Broke Off My Engagement to the Chosen One, and Now I'm a Five-Element Spirit Root Ordinary Girl Obsessed with Cultivation 退婚龙傲天，五灵根凡女沉迷修仙
[Traditional cultivation + devoted 1v1 couple + alchemy and talisman-making + growth and leveling up + everyone is a native] Lin Lin, the legitimate daughter of a general’s household in the mortal realm, is tested and found to have a useless five-element spiritual root. Her fiancé, meanwhile, has the rarest lightning spiritual root, making their already awkward engagement so embarrassing it could bore a hole through the floor. That very night, Lin Lin has a prophetic dream. Her fiancé is the shi
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She Just Wants to Lie Low, but They Keep Forcing Her to Rebel 她想咸鱼躺，非逼她造反
[Screen adaptation rights sold] Lu Songli transmigrated into a book and became the cannon-fodder first wife of Xie Zhan, the male lead of The Powerful Minister's Beautiful Young Second Wife. In the book, her friend Zhao Yutan, who returned in glory from a place of exile, would steal her husband. The two of them carried on behind her back while she was gravely ill, and their affair literally angered her to death. Lu Songli was about to roll up her sleeves and tear into the cheating scumbag and
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Transmigrated as a Treacherous Minister's Legitimate Daughter, She Plays the Part to Perfection 穿成奸臣嫡女，她本色出演
[Transmigrate into a book + Career-focused early on + Sweet romance + One-on-one romance + Both leads are devoted to each other] [Two-faced, ruthless minister's daughter × Wild, formidable iron-faced general] The ruler of the business world transmigrates into a book overnight, becoming the daughter of the treacherous chancellor. She throws her weight around and commits every kind of evil, with the label “vicious supporting female character” practically branded onto her. She's madly pursuing the
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Even as a Fake Heiress, I’ll Still Daringly Embrace Doing Nothing 就算是假千金也要勇敢摆烂
[Print edition launching across all platforms on August 9, 2025] When Shen Yue was twelve, she accidentally fell into a pond while feeding the fish. That was when she learned the truth: her parents weren’t her real parents, and her five older brothers weren’t really her brothers. She was the Mu family’s fake heiress! Faced with a future where she was destined to lose everything, Shen Yue decided to get ahead… by lying down. If she was going to lose it all anyway, she might as well lie back and
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The Fake Heiress Stole My Fate, So After I Was Reborn, I Took Her Out 假千金夺我命格，重生后我嘎了她
[Rebirth + punishing scumbags + satisfying wish fulfillment] Ren Ran had an easy life for her first eighteen years, then spent the next eight plagued by bad luck. Her maternal grandparents, mother, and younger brother died one after another. Her scumbag father took over the company, and she was thrown out of the house to live on the streets. She’d be robbed just walking down the road, and flowerpots would fall from the sky when she approached a building. Whenever she got a job at a company, it w
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Ugly Duckling! Extra! The Big Shots Take Her Home 丑小鸭！路人甲！大佬们抱她回家
[Face-slapping satisfaction] [Everyone’s darling, universally adored] [Clever heroine; CP with Sheng Yuxiao after she comes of age] Li Xiaoya was born in a poor mountain village. Her mother died when she was three, and her father ran off with his lover. When she was seven, the crew of the show Life Swap came to the village and picked Li Xiaoya at first sight. But when filming began, they suddenly replaced her with the village chief’s granddaughter. The village chief’s granddaughter later went to
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My Whole Family Are Cannon Fodder, but After They Read My Mind, They Rebel 满门炮灰读我心后，全家造反了
[Physical edition of "Claiming the Pearl 2" goes on presale October 17 at 7:30 p.m.] [Mind reading + System + adored by the whole family + transmigrate into a book + play the pig to eat the tiger] Qiao Jiaojiao had accumulated so much virtue in her past life that the Old King of Hell granted her a rebirth with all her memories intact, plus a golden finger: a Virtue Points Shop. Qiao Jiaojiao was thrilled to start her new life, only to discover she hadn't been reborn at all. She'd transmigrated i
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