Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Beyond... Cultivation 炼气期筑基期……修仙
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The Mortal's Cultivation Journey: Ancestor of Talismans 凡人修仙之符祖
[Mortal's journey, no System.] Xu Changshou, a young cowherd, is brought into the world of cultivation after saving an errand disciple of the Green Immortal Sect. He later awakens a bloodline jade talisman and obtains a legacy in the Dao of Talismans. Starting with the art of drawing talismans, he steps onto the path of cultivation, ascends to immortality, slays demons, attains eternal life, questions the heavens, creates the Great Dao of Talismans, and achieves the rank of Talisman Ancestor.
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- 2 Slow Cultivation with Five Spiritual Roots? I Have a Hundredfold Spirit Herb Space 五灵根修炼慢？我有百倍灵药空间 Born with all five spiritual roots, Lu Qinghe can only become a menial disciple of an immortal sect. Then he discovers a pocket dimension where spirit herbs grow a hundred times faster. From century-old herbs to millennium-old herbs and ten-thousand-year-old immortal medicines, they are all within his reach. Lu Qinghe grows spirit herbs, refines immortal pills, raises spirit beasts, and cultivates divine abilities. Even with all five spiritual roots, he can still set foot on the path to immortal 86kReads8.0Score6.7kShelves
- 3 A Mortal's Cultivation of Immortality: Portable Space 凡人修仙之随身空间 An ordinary village boy stumbles upon a portable space, and from then on, Wu Fan embarks on the path of cultivation. He grows spirit herbs and medicines, makes pills, and trains inside the space. Watch as he rises step by step to become the strongest of all, unrivaled across the Three Realms. 34.4kReads8.6Score2.7kShelves
- 4 EN The Immortal Treasure Basin 聚宝仙盆 [Mortal cultivation] [No System]. By a twist of fate, He Pingsheng, an outer disciple of the Taixu Sect, obtains a [Cornucopia] and embarks on the path of cultivation. Place a low-grade [Qi-Gathering Pill] into the basin, and one day later, it becomes two pills, both of them top-grade. Put in an ordinary cultivation technique, and it becomes a Heaven-tier technique. Treasures, medicinal herbs, spirit stones, and more can all be placed inside and enhanced. From then on, He Pingsheng walks toward 398.9kReads8.7Score30.5kShelves
- 5 The Immortal Cultivation Path of a Waste Physique 废体修仙路 [Everyone knows I can't practice martial arts, but I'm actually a powerful immortal cultivator...!!!] Because of his constitution, the protagonist Chen Qun can't practice martial arts. By chance, however, he embarks on the path of immortal cultivation. To the astonishment of his family elders, he uses his strength as an immortal cultivator to easily resolve the crisis facing his family, then gradually enters the world of immortal cultivators to explore and make his way... (Note: The stages of cu 24.4kReads8.9Score2.6kShelves
- 6 Immortal Cultivation in the Cauldron 鼎中修仙记 [Ordinary-person cultivation, no System, no transmigration, traditional immortal fantasy] A simple village boy dreams of cultivating immortality. When Lin Yuan unexpectedly obtains a small bronze cauldron, he sets foot on the path to immortality. I have a sword that can cleave ten thousand miles of sky. I have a cauldron that can turn the world upside down. I have a person who can shake heaven and earth. 4.5kReads8.6Score471Shelves
- 7 Elm Immortal 榆仙 The new book, “The Age of Demons: Cultivating the Unorthodox Path to Immortality, Starting with the Livestock-Creation Method,” is now available. [No System, no harem, traditional xianxia, decisive and ruthless, mortal cultivation.] Cultivation is about questioning your own heart. Yu Xian, an orphan from Dayushu Village, formed a bond with a great elm tree. Before dying, the Elm Tree Matriarch opened his spiritual root, and from then on he embarked on the path of cultivation. Using the elm’s spi 162.2kReads9.1Score18.7kShelves
- 8 The Peerless Medical Emperor 绝世医帝 Unable to cultivate, yet he mastered peerless medical arts. Refining medicines and pills came as easily as eating and drinking, and even ninth-grade Emperor Pills were effortless for him to make. Yun Mo, whose medical arts had reached the divine, raised a God Emperor of astounding strength. Yet the God Emperor he had treated as his own child suddenly turned against him, bringing about his death. When he opened his eyes, Yun Mo discovered that he had not only been reborn, but could also cultivate 20kReads8.9Score2.4kShelves
- 9 A Cultivator in the Martial Arts Continent 武道大陆的修真者 On a continent where martial arts reign supreme, Gu Xiangfei is mediocre at cultivation. By a twist of fate, he obtains the Chaos Star Pearl and becomes a cultivator. After overcoming countless trials and hardships, he breaks free of the martial continent and sets out on his own path to immortality. 13kReads9.0Score1.3kShelves
- 10 Cultivating Immortality as a Clan, Soaring to the Ninth Heaven 家族修仙，凌云九天 A family-centered story featuring a pocket dimension, farming, alchemy, formations, and crafting. In a world where the strong prey on the weak, a small cultivation clan rises step by step from obscurity to the pinnacle of power. Follow Lin Zufeng as he leads his family to grow stronger, journeying from the cultivation world to the spirit world and finally to the immortal world. 12.3kReads7.7Score847Shelves
- 11 The Whole Village Eats Wild Greens, While I Lead My Kids in Cultivation and Farming 全村吃野菜，我带崽崽们修仙种田 [Farming + pocket dimension + cultivation + transmigration + strong heroine + feel-good story + making a fortune] Xiao Ying died unexpectedly while exploring an immortal estate, then became a vicious mountain village woman in Chenjia Village who sold her children and was addicted to gambling. Her eldest daughter knelt by the bed, desperately begging her not to sell her. Her eldest son was so despondent he nearly bashed his head in, while another son and daughter had already been sold off to serv 2.9kReads8.6Score369Shelves
- 12 Supreme Immortal Path: The Genius Alchemist 仙路至尊之天才炼丹师 Li Yishan, an outer sect disciple of the Qingyun Sect, chance upon an ancient wonder, the Grand Compendium of Primordial Alchemy. Through alchemy, he rises within the sect, advancing from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and beyond, step by step reaching the pinnacle of the mortal world. He competes for supremacy on the immortal path and comes to dominate the continent. 1.7kReads—Score237Shelves
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Han Li: With the Little Bottle in Hand, the World Is Mine 韩立：小瓶在手，天下任我走
Lin Feng had mediocre talent, and his master started raising him as a vessel for possession as soon as he became his disciple. In his darkest hour, he found a mysterious jade pendant. The pendant produces green liquid at its center, which can bring spirit herbs to maturity ten times faster. Its [Replication] ability turns one pill placed in the center into two overnight. Its [Enhancement] ability transforms an ordinary cultivation technique into a Heaven-tier technique! Resources? I've got infin
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- 14 Bewitching the Heavens: I Never Meant to Save the World 狐媚诸天：我自无心渡苍生 [Male soul in a female body, inside a fox demon's skin] [A great demon in women's clothes] [Bewitching all living things] [Devouring and evolving] [Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox] [Bond with Han Li] [Strong female lead, feel-good power fantasy] This is beyond ridiculous! I transmigrate into the cultivation world, and from the start I'm a tiny vixen? What the heck? On the outside, I'm a stunning fox demon who can steal souls with a glance. Inside, I'm a straight man through and through, struggling with —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Han Li: From the Start, a Little Bottle Takes Me All the Way to Dao Ancestor 韩立：开局小瓶，一路爽到道祖境 Lin Feng, a young man from a mountain village, uses his family's ancestral jade pendant to accelerate the growth of spirit herbs, break through bottlenecks, and decipher cultivation techniques, launching a cheat-fueled path to immortality. In the Qi Refining stage, he instantly kills Foundation Establishment elders. In the Core Formation stage, he sweeps aside his sect's enemies. In the Nascent Soul stage, he rides a Kun across the boundless sea. The moment he ascends to the Spirit Realm, he rul 893Reads8.1Score104Shelves
- 16 Ning Rongrong's Soul Transmigrates Into a Mortal, Making Her Han Li's Little Sister 宁荣荣魂穿凡人成韩立小妹 [Farming]+ [Secret-realm exploration]+ [Conspiracies and power struggles]+ [Robbery and leveling up]+ [Scheming young lady Ning Rongrong]+ [Ten-thousand-year-old expert at keeping a low profile, Han Li] Who could have imagined that Ning Rongrong, the pampered young lady of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan in Douluo, would wake up in the body of Han Li’s own little sister in the Mortal World? Even more absurdly, while everyone else has to rely on luck when testing their spiritual roots, she tu 224Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 A Beauty's Skin, an Immeasurable Immortal 美人皮，无上仙 [Overworked Office Drone Transmigrates] + [Cross-Dressing Master] + [Clever Cultivation Battles] + [Emperor-Tier Legacy] + [Decisive Killing] + [Every Villain Is Smart] Overworked office drone Lin Zhou dies from working overtime and opens his eyes in the middle of a hunt in the cultivation world. He has barely arrived when three major sects surround him, all because the stunning beauty's skin he wears is actually the mortal remains of the Xuanyi Female Emperor, who fell ten thousand years ago! 239Reads—Score112Shelves
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Nascent Soul Master, Is It Really Too Much to Transmigrate to the City and Become Invincible? 元婴大佬，穿越都市无敌不过分吧
[Two million words and counting] Mortal Realm + Cultivation Realm + Immortal Realm + Divine Realm (nearing the finale, so stockpile chapters and then binge!) Zhang Xuance had just survived his tribulation and advanced to the Nascent Soul stage when the Ten Elders attacked him. In the end, he was reborn on Blue Star. As Zhang Xuance explored step by step, he discovered that Blue Star was not as simple as it seemed. When he returned to the cultivation world, Zhang Xuance discovered that the world
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The Divine Beggar Comes Down the Mountain 神丐下山
[Overpowered Urban Fantasy] [Immortality and Godhood] [Multiple Heroines] At the age of three, he was driven out of his home by his second uncle. Then he met a mysterious old beggar, who taught him the supreme cultivation technique, the Heavenly Evolution Art. From then on, he grew at an astonishing pace. He travels across Earth, the Spirit Realm, the Immortal Realm, and the God Realm, breaking through layer after layer of the heavens. He reaches the pinnacle of the Immortal Realm, then ascends
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- 20 War God: Wolf Soul 战神狼魂 A new book is out. Please check it out: When Ye Yunfan was five, he was kidnapped by human traffickers. Luckily, his master rescued him, kept him by his side, and taught him medicine and martial arts. Ten years later, he enlisted in the army. At eighteen, he was sent to the northern frontier, where he fought his way through one challenge after another. A few years later, he led a special unit renowned around the world, the Wolf Soul. He earned the title of Wolf Emperor, with four Wolf Kings unde 1.9kReads7.3Score182Shelves
- 21 Reborn as a Hero of the War Against Japan 重生之抗日英雄 Reborn as a Hero of the War Against Japan 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Transmigrated as an Ancient Chinese Special Forces Soldier with a Sword 穿越之古代「利剑」特种兵 A Special Forces Soldier with a Sword Transmigrates to Ancient Times 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 Reborn to a Bright Future 重生后前程似锦 A Bright Future After Being Reborn 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 I Saved the Whole Village, but Couldn’t Protect My Brother 我救了全村，却没有保护好兄弟 I Saved the Whole Village, but Failed to Protect My Brother 99Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Fist Beneath the Mountain 山下的拳 Fists Beneath the Mountain 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Beggar God Emerges 丐神出世 The Beggar God Emerges 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 I Love You, Ice-Cold CEO, Like a Mouse Loves Rice 冰山女总裁我爱你就像老鼠爱大米 I Love You, Ice-Cold CEO, Like a Mouse Loves Rice 36Reads—Score—Shelves
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No Future as a Servant Disciple? I’ll Master Pills and Artifacts to Seek Immortality 杂役弟子没出路？丹器双修谋长生
[Mortal cultivation, no System, decisive and ruthless, no saintly heroics, cautious, a nobody rising to power] Ye Feng transmigrates to another world and fights his way up to become the bandit chief of Black Wind Stronghold. From the start, he kills Duan Shui Liu, an inner disciple of the Xuantian Sect, and obtains a Bagua Furnace that enhances alchemy and artifact forging. After bribing the gatekeeper, he enters the Xuantian Sect to cultivate and begins his adventures in the world of cultivatio
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I Start by Handing Over a Cultivation World, and the Nation Wants Me to Become an Immortal First 开局上交修仙界，国家让我先成仙
“Chief, I request permission to hand over an unclaimed cultivation world.” “This world is rich in resources and abundant in spiritual energy. I recommend taking it over as soon as possible.” Lu Li transmigrates to a cultivation world and becomes a low-ranking mine slave in a demonic sect. Without an old master or a System to guide him, he thinks he'll have to cultivate the hard way. But by chance, he awakens a twin-fish jade pendant that can contact Huaxia. The news shocks the entire country, an
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Demon Mirror: A Major Breakthrough to Nascent Soul 魔镜：元婴大突破
Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core… Give this book a little time, and I think you’ll enjoy it. (Demonic cultivation, multiple heroines, no System, decisive and ruthless, with a touch of absurd humor and a darker tone. If that’s not your thing, don’t read.) Li Dabao, an ordinary mortal, gets his hands on a spatial magic mirror, which contains a demonic statue as well. It seems like he’s stumbled upon a great opportunity, but in reality, he’s being led step by step into a huge trap
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- 31 The Xuantian Bracelet 玄天镯 Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core... Zhang Yan, an ordinary mortal, obtains the Xuantian Bracelet, which can accelerate time within its spatial realm. Ran Tian, a powerful figure from the True Immortal Realm, uses the spatial treasure Xuantian Bracelet to battle the Dragon King of Ten Thousand Demons and seal him away. But Ran Tian is gravely wounded as well. On the verge of death, fearing the demon dragon might obtain the treasure and break the seal, he tears through space and 21kReads8.2Score2.4kShelves
- 32 The Ninth-Rank Artifact Crafter 九品炼器师 [A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality] [Artifact Refining] [A Young Man’s Rise] [Industrialization] [Fantasy Warfare] [Ensemble Cast] [Comedy and Satire] [Slow Burn] Young Qian Duoduo transmigrates through space! As a mortal, he starts from scratch! Thrown into prison, he’s facing certain death from the very start! If he doesn’t want to die, he’ll have to fight! To make matters worse, his bargain-basement master, a skinny old man, puts him over the fire to roast! If you want to read abo 23.5kReads9.1Score1.9kShelves
- 33 EN Trampling Misfortune, I Seek Immortality in Chaotic Times 脚踩不祥，我于乱世证长生 [Mortal Cultivation] Chen Changming, a menial disciple of a sect with no hope of reaching Foundation Establishment, discovers that something is seriously off about the body-tempering technique he switches to: the more he practices it, the stronger it gets. After a hundred repetitions, its power increases tenfold, and one punch can shatter a thousand-pound boulder! After a thousand repetitions, its power increases a hundredfold, and his body can withstand a Golden Core magic treasure without a sc 50.7kReads8.3Score4.2kShelves
- 34 EN Cauldron of the Medicine God 药神鼎 (Mortal cultivation + no System + lighthearted + not a saint + multiple female leads + fast-paced) At the Foundation Establishment stage, he wins over a Nascent Soul uncle-master and a Core Formation senior sister; at the Deity Transformation stage, a Mahayana saintess. See how Ye Fei, an ordinary mortal, encounters one lucky opportunity after another and joyfully cultivates toward immortality. It starts slowly, but gets better and better as it goes. If something doesn't make sense at first, try 78.1kReads9.0Score8.5kShelves
- 35 Yin Immortal 阴仙 Born inside a coffin, the young man honors the dying wish of the old caretaker of the charity cemetery and personally sends his sworn younger sister to join an immortal sect. After she enters the sect, he accidentally stumbles into the Yin Mountain of a Hundred Ghosts and has no choice but to embark on the path of ghosts… Thus begins the legendary cultivation journey of a ghost cultivator wielding a ghost blade, slaying giant demon overlords and cleaving immortal sect masters in two… 16.3kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
- 36 The First Great Mess in the Cultivation World 修仙界第一混乱 “Sect Master Sun, your sect is now a renowned sword sect in the northern cultivation world. What is your opinion of Dean Xu?” “I often tell people in the know that Dean Xu is my idol. People hunt him down, and he still tries to make friends and strike deals with them. He raises disciples until they reach Foundation Establishment, then stops teaching them and sells them off to other sects. Now his students are everywhere, and his people are all over the place.” “And how do the senior members of 175kReads9.5Score30.6kShelves
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The Seven-Star Path to Immortality 七星仙途
The Revised Soul Refining the Seven Stars is a monumental fantasy novel newly conceived and written on the basis of the original Soul Refining the Seven Stars. It depicts a world where soul cultivators, spell cultivators, and body cultivators coexist, while ghosts and monsters roam unchecked. It explores profound truths about divination, reincarnation, and the transformations of the universe, and portrays the conflicts and helplessness that come with pursuing love, hatred, passion, and revenge w
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A Broken Cauldron Helps Me Cultivate Immortality 破木鼎助我修仙
[Mortal cultivation + no System + Divine Wood Cauldron + fantasy world] A brother and sister went into the mountains to forage. His younger sister found a broken wooden cauldron and gave it to her brother to use as a bowl. Suddenly, she spotted an immortal flying through the sky on a sword. “Hey, immortal up there! Hello!” At her greeting, Ye Yao was kidnapped, and her brother Ye Fan was knocked unconscious. When Ye Fan woke up, he burst into tears, only to run into a passing fairy-like young wo
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Ascension Begins with the Primordial Chaos Art 飞升，从天地混沌诀开始
[Traditional cultivation fantasy + decisive and ruthless heroine + mutated dual immortal roots + no transmigration, no System + two heroines] [Includes a space that appears later, spiritual fields, alchemy, formations, talisman-making, and raising spirit insects] The young Yang Che accidentally fell into a cultivator's cave dwelling and obtained the Ancient God Art and a mysterious spiritual herb, the Nine-Leaf Black Sun Fruit! He learned to cultivate spirit herbs, make pills and talismans, set
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The Five-Element Waste Spirit Root: I Have a Treasure-Gathering Golden Toad 五行废灵：我有一只聚宝金蟾
[Mortal Cultivation] [Smart Protagonist] [One Female Lead] [Decisive and Ruthless] At eighteen, with a fake Five-Element Spirit Root, was his path to immortality already doomed? Wang Han was a hunter from the countryside. By a twist of fate, he entered Leiyang Pavilion, only to be made a nominal "Core Disciple" and, in truth, reduced to chopping wood in the back hills. His poor aptitude earned him the label "useless spirit root," while the declining sect's leader treated disciples like disposabl
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I Accidentally Swallowed an Immortal Pill from Qin Shi Huang's Tomb 误吞了秦皇陵仙丹
After a relic was stolen from Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum, Wang Hao, a recent university graduate unemployed in his rented apartment, accidentally came into possession of one of the stolen artifacts. The elixir of immortality that Qin Shi Huang had sought so desperately ended up changing the life of a poor young man more than two thousand years later…
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The Tale of a Confucian Scholar's Immortal Cultivation 儒生修仙传
Tomato Original, traditional cultivation, Eastern fantasy [Ordinary Mortal, Decisive and Ruthless, Cunning, Playing the Pig to Eat the Tiger] A scholar with no prospects in the imperial examinations might as well cultivate immortality. A scholar who had hoped to continue taking the imperial examinations ended up as an inconspicuous aide in the county office, burying himself in case files every day and thinking that his life would amount to nothing but exhausting paperwork. Who could have guesse
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Submit Obediently, or Be Conquered 乖乖臣服，否则征服
[Fast-paced wish fulfillment | Multiple heroines] With only seven days to live, Xiao Xiaohuo descends the mountain. He can only overcome the poison and start a new life by winning over the women named in four marriage contracts! He checks into an inn after dark and gets some attentive service. A female officer bursts in and catches them red-handed. He takes a closer look at her ID. Xia Bingbing! She's the fiancée he's supposed to visit tomorrow to propose marriage!
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- 44 After Dropping Out, I Became the Female CEO's Bodyguard 退学后我成了女总裁的贴身保镖 [Invincible] [Multiple Heroines] [Spatial Powers] [All-Rounder] [Fast-Paced] [Wish-Fulfillment] When Chen Fan jolts awake, he finds himself trapped in a women's bathhouse and is falsely accused, forcing him to leave school. His campus beauty girlfriend abandons him. With nowhere else to turn, he enters a mountain cave, where he encounters the legacy of an Immortal Emperor and masters both medicine and martial arts! He awakens a Pure Yang Divine Body. He spends a year cultivating in a secret real 19.2kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
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After Ascending, I Discovered My Boyfriend Is a Male-Focused Power Fantasy Hero 飞升后发现，男友竟是男频龙傲天
[Transmigrating into a Male-Oriented Novel + Fantasy Cultivation + Rise of the Phoenix-Proud Heroine] Both the female and male leads are upright young prodigies, not villains or protagonists who kill without batting an eye. If you prefer cold and heartless characters, please look elsewhere. Shi Wanwan was born into an isolated primitive village and thought she had landed in a story about farming and building up a settlement in ancient times. She peacefully set about developing the village, teach
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- 46 Quick Transmigration: Judge Her by Her Deeds, Not Her Heart, Because Her Heart Is Shameless 快穿：论迹不论心，论心她超无耻 [Cultivation Quick Transmigration] [Spirit Spring Space] [Strong Female Lead] [One-on-One Romance] [Multiple Male Leads] [No Fixed Male Lead] [Male Leads Are Chaste] [Everyone Is Evil] [No Saintly Protagonist] After surviving for fifteen years amid mountains of corpses in the apocalypse, Mo Chenchen had long since seen the warmth and coldness of human nature for what they were. When she opened her eyes again, she had become a good-for-nothing concubine-born daughter of a cultivation clan, tormen 89.9kReads8.6Score7.6kShelves
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Li Chengdao 李承道
Special forces soldier Li Chengdao unexpectedly transmigrates to a strange valley. He transforms the valley and makes his way out of the mountains. Using the valley as his base, he builds his own Heavenly Dao Group in the world of immortal cultivation. He establishes the Li Family Medical Hall and heals the sick. He makes his fortune with spiritual-root wine, branches into every industry, and becomes the richest man under heaven. He establishes a free Heavenly Dao Academy and cultivates a great
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- 48 Reborn as a Fish, Riding the Waves Until All Seas Bow 重生为鱼，逐浪而行，万海臣服 Reborn as a fish, I ride the waves until every sea submits. 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Silver Needles in Her Hands: The Beautiful Immortal Doctor Lives Among the Common Folk 素手银针：美人医仙隐市井 Silver Needles in Her Delicate Hands: The Beautiful Immortal Healer in Hiding Among the Common Folk 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 A Phoenix Man Transmigrates Into a Son-in-Law and Makes Tofu 凤凰男穿越成赘婿做豆腐 A Phoenix Man Transmigrates to Become a Live-In Son-in-Law and Make Tofu 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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