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1. 51 人 Humanity's Salvation Plan: Hold On, Human Civilization! 人类拯救计划：苟住，人类文明！ Ten Thousand a Day一天一万Urban1.4M WordsCompleted June, 2025 AD. The guardian of human civilization, the greatest scientist in the history of the Milky Way, a living history of humanity, a scholar whose knowledge bordered on omniscience, the one who rebooted civilization and ushered in a new era, a great man who cared for humanity as if it were a protected species… When Qin Yu was given the chance to make three wishes, he thought carefully, then solemnly made these three wishes. Wish One: Absolute immortality. No matter how much time passes, or 17.5kReads8.7Score1.5kShelves
2. 52 弃 Surviving on a Forsaken Star: Combine Identical Junk into Brand-New Gear 弃星生存：相同垃圾合成全新装备 Wang Zilü王自律Sci-Fi & Apocalypse3.1M WordsCompleted After the Second Era, Earth became the largest technological junkyard in the Milky Way. A scavenger's cloak billows in the wind as Cheng Qi stands atop a mountain of trash. [Similar technological object detected] [Beginning synthesis] [Damaged Nanny Bot], [Safety-Guard Nanny Bot], [Environment-Adaptive Nanny Bot]! [Mechanical Exploration Shoes], [Mechanical Exploration Leggings], [Jet-Powered Turbine Boots]! [Surgical Assistant Gloves], [Intelligent Assistant Gloves], [Gravity-Field Adjustment G 803.5kReads9.1Score169.2kShelves
3. 53 我 I Can Reload Infinitely, and See Through Every Hidden Card 我无限回档，洞悉所有底牌 Six Gourds六个葫芦Urban2.0M WordsCompleted This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 364.8kReads9.5Score46.3kShelves
4. 54 每 Growing One Point a Year: From Country Bumpkin to Ancestor of the Immortal Realm 每年加一点从山野村夫成仙界道祖 Purple Spirit Wind and Snow紫灵风雪Eastern Fantasy6.1M WordsCompleted [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 847.8kReads9.7Score96.6kShelves
5. 55 穿 I Transmigrated Without a Golden Finger Because I’m a Planet 穿越没有金手指，因为我是星球 Jinwan Fights Tigers巾晚打老虎Eastern Fantasy706k WordsCompleted [World creation + behind-the-scenes mastermind + transmigration + planets + planetary consciousness + civilization development + lords + conquest + the Myriad Worlds] Zhang Yang transmigrates, but from the start he has no golden finger. Instead, he transmigrates into a ball: a planet! A planet lord must constantly simulate the planet's development and the rise and fall of its civilizations to raise the planet's level. While other planet lords are still pondering which direction their civilizatio 15.1kReads9.3Score1.2kShelves
6. 56 全 Everyone Builds a Planet: Creating an Invincible Zerg Army from the Start 全民星球：开局打造无敌虫族 Master Jieshan戒善大师Eastern Fantasy837k WordsCompleted Qin Tian transmigrated to a world where everyone was a Creator. Here, everyone had the chance to fuse with a planet and build their own planetary civilization! Some fused with savage beast planets to build beastfolk civilizations, where savage beasts roared and pierced the sky. Some fused with technological planets to build technological civilizations, where fleets of starships swept across the universe. Some fused with spirit-energy planets to build cultivation civilizations, where a single tho 1.3kReads8.7Score129Shelves
7. 57 直 Livestream: Proving the Existence of an Infinite Multiverse from the Start 直播：开局证明无限多元宇宙 Become a God成神Urban1.3M WordsCompleted [Livestreaming: I’m leading the evolution of civilization] After transmigrating, Jiang Zhe becomes the host of a science education program. He gets bound to a System. To his surprise, he discovers that all he has to do is explain science to earn an endless stream of rewards. Using scientific theories from his previous life, he proves from the start that the world is fake and that infinitely many multiverses exist. “...” “Nuwa mended the sky by repairing the moon and the earth.” “Ancient civiliza 16.6kReads8.7Score1.7kShelves
8. 58 我 I'm a Type II Civilization with a Dimensionality Reduction Strike, Isn't That Perfectly Reasonable? 我一个二级文明有二向箔很合理吧 Chen Erlan陈二懒Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.0M WordsCompleted [Technology + Disaster + Interstellar + Tech Tree] In the year 2050 AD, the Sun is affected by an unknown force, and a helium flash is imminent! Is Earth on the brink of destruction? No matter. I’ll handle it! Is the Trisolaris system’s Proxima Centauri civilization about to invade? No matter. I’ll handle it! Are advanced civilizations locked in conflict across the dark universe? No matter. I’ll handle it! … Starting with controlled nuclear fusion, the protagonist, Lü Yongchang, ushers humanity 87kReads9.6Score9.4kShelves
9. 59 从 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 Mu Feng Feng木风峰Eastern Fantasy2.1M WordsCompleted [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, 102.6kReads8.8Score14.2kShelves
10. 60 让 You Asked Me to Be an Assassin, So I Used Puppets to Stage the Perfect Accident 让你当杀手，你用人偶制造完美意外 Wild Dog Taoist野狗道人Urban617k WordsCompleted Lin Qi inherited the craft passed down through his family and became a puppeteer capable of making ghost puppets. These puppets house evil spirits and can possess the living. His ancestors used them to carry out mercenary work. To cover his younger brother’s exorbitant leukemia treatment costs, Lin Qi has no choice but to make ghost puppets and punish evildoers in exchange for handsome rewards. To punish this person, Lin Qi sends out a ghost puppet. In one bizarre case after another, Lin Qi uses 911Reads—Score113Shelves
11. 61 你 That Trait of Yours Is Great. It’s Mine Now! 你的词条很好，现在是我的了！ Desperate Big Updates绝望的大更Eastern Fantasy1.6M WordsCompleted After transmigrating into a world ravaged by demons, Wang Shouyong became their food. He was about to be eaten. What should he do? Help, answers wanted urgently! Just when all hope seemed lost, he discovered that devouring demons let him steal their attributes. And so... Eat a phoenix raw, [Attribute stolen: Immortal and Indestructible] Eat a flood dragon raw, [Attribute stolen: Hidden Dragon Bloodline] Eat a Taotie raw, [Attribute stolen: Devour Heaven and Earth] You want to eat me? I’m the one 9.3kReads7.9Score861Shelves
12. 62 无 Infinite Deaths: Each Death Gives Me Another Golden Trait 无限死亡，死亡一次多一个金词条 Zhui Yi追夷Urban1.9M WordsCompleted [High Martial Arts + Wish-Fulfillment + Overwhelming Power + Game-Like Life + Decisive and Ruthless + Simulator] This is a cataclysmic era in which everyone practices martial arts! Earth has expanded to a million times its original size! Countless ferocious beasts roam the underground caverns, and martial artists have become the stars of the age. Luo Xiao is just an ordinary student at a martial arts college, but he unexpectedly awakens a simulation System. Each simulation not only grants him p 25.2kReads8.0Score3kShelves
13. 63 收 After Adopting the Down-and-Out Female Lead, I Died Horribly in Front of Her 收养落魄女主后，惨死在她面前 Li Huan离焕Eastern Fantasy1.0M WordsCompleted [In your first simulation, you transmigrate to a cultivation world.] [You become a refugee fleeing famine. Along the way, you save an abandoned baby girl and become her older brother.] [You depend on each other and become one another's only support.] [At the end of the simulation, you shield the grown girl and give your life to hold off a horde of demonic cultivators. You die, and the light in her eyes goes out too.] [In your second simulation, you transmigrate to a world where steam and mag 126.2kReads9.1Score14.3kShelves
14. 64 高 High Martial: My Cells Can Evolve Without Limit 高武：我的细胞可以无限进化 Late Summer Knows the Cicadas半夏知蝉Urban2.0M WordsCompleted When Qin Yi wakes up, he has transmigrated into a chaotic high-martial world teeming with countless races, where humanity is in decline. He’s become a commoner at the bottom of society with no martial arts talent, liver cancer, and just three months to live. Just as he despairs, he gains a personal status panel and awakens the [Adaptive Cellular Evolution] talent. As long as he isn’t killed instantly, he can adapt to his surroundings without limit and evolve endlessly! Endure the scorching flame 1.1kReads8.3Score177Shelves
15. 65 武 Martial Arts Are Too Cutthroat: I Became Invincible Before Finishing My Freshman Year 武功太内卷，大一没读完我无敌了 Staying Home to Breathe Formaldehyde宅家吸甲醛Urban2.5M WordsCompleted In a world of high martial prowess, my martial arts keep cheating on their own all day... No, wait! I just have moments of enlightenment and train hard for 24 hours a day, that's all! Ning Chuan had only planned to develop steadily and get into a good university. But during the hundred-day countdown ceremony before the college entrance exams, Thunder Sparrows attacked. Ning Chuan drew his blade and killed three in an instant! From then on, he began crushing everything in his path! At the genius 64.6kReads9.2Score5.4kShelves
16. 66 神 The Divine Ability Tree: I Use the Great Dao to Connect All Laws 神通之树，我以大道，贯通万法 Calm Waters of the Xiang River湘水无波Eastern Fantasy3.0M WordsOngoing [Masterful survivalist cultivation + eerie cultivation + Tiangang divine powers + ruthless and decisive + no harem + not a bleeding heart] Born as the master of divine powers, I am the Dao Lord of the cosmos! The eerie invaded, the Heavenly Dao collapsed, and the cosmos was left in ruins… The gods and Buddhas of the heavens, the great powers of the Immortal Dao, all vanished overnight. The path to immortality was severed, the divine path fell silent, and demons and monsters ran rampant. Where ar 84.5kReads8.3Score7.1kShelves
17. 67 集 Wielding the Strongest Superpowers, I Sweep Through the Apocalypse 集最强异能于一身横扫末世 Starry Dream and Fated Romance星梦辰缘Sci-Fi & Apocalypse2.4M WordsCompleted [Zombie apocalypse · No System · No rebirth · One heroine · Squad growth · Ensemble cast · Strong protagonist · Decisive and ruthless] The apocalypse arrives, and staying alive becomes the greatest challenge. Scarce supplies, zombies everywhere, terrifying mutated beasts, and… human nature under the apocalypse all turn survival into a nightmare. Shaoguang → Kaiyang → Yuheng → Tianquan → Tianji → Tianxuan → Tianshu → Yinyuan → Dongming Lighting up each star grants an ability. Everyone else gets a 153.6kReads9.0Score13.2kShelves
18. 68 不 The Undying Starveling 不死饿殍 Yu Jinhe余瑾和Eastern Fantasy891k WordsOngoing Tomato Original: They all call me Shen Qianqiu, or the Undying Wretch. I survived the meat hooks used to butcher people for food, weathered the storms of the Tang and Song dynasties, and witnessed the flames of war under the Yuan and Ming... I have walked this mortal world for a thousand years. “They ate me for a thousand years. At last, they ate me into a god.” 3.8kReads—Score307Shelves

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    The dialogue density is so high that there is almost no idle writing. The auctioneer said, "Whoever gets this book can control half of Guangzhou" - this is to explain the value of the account book to readers. Po Meng said that "a general's destiny is needed to extend his life" - this is to explain to the readers why He Batayue is needed. Li Ming said, "This is an imperial criminal" - this is to explain Gu Ming's identity to the readers. All the lines are narrating, and none of them are filled with words.

19. 69 逆 You Traitorous Disciple, Only You Can Cure Your Master's Poison 逆徒，师尊的毒只有你能解 Ten Thousand Miles of Setting Sun, Moon Over the River万里残阳江上月Eastern Fantasy292k WordsCompleted Her revered master, Ling Shuangyue, is poisoned by the Heartburning Ice Soul toxin, and only dual cultivation with someone of a pure Yang constitution can cure her. To save his master, her young disciple Lu Qingsheng is forced onto the path of a rebellious disciple who dares to pursue his master. From circulating energy through their souls to joining their bodies as one, from curing the poison to falling in love, the two endure life and death together before finally ascending side by side. The w 944Reads—Score101Shelves

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20. 70 师 Master, Give Me a Hug 师尊，抱一下 Ten Thousand Miles of Setting Sun, Moon Over the River万里残阳江上月Fantastical Romance267k WordsCompleted [Tragic romance] Yun Qingyao, a cold and aloof immortal who has severed herself from emotion, takes in Gu Chang’an, an orphan carrying the bloodline of a Demon God. One falls in love and loses all his cultivation; the other sinks into darkness and becomes a demon, consumed by love. Immortals and demons follow different paths, and fate drives master and disciple to die for each other. Amid turmoil in the Three Realms, tangled love and hate, and countless trials, they ask only to be together in th 126Reads—Score—Shelves
21. 71 逆 Rebellious Disciple: My Master Can’t Hide It Anymore 逆徒：师尊她藏不住了 Ten Thousand Miles of Setting Sun, Moon Over the River万里残阳江上月Fantastical Romance334k WordsCompleted After transmigrating into the body of a good-for-nothing villain in a sect, Lin Ye awakens the Destiny Plundering System! He discovers the secret of his aloof master disguising herself as a man, just as she is poisoned and loses all her cultivation. He snatches every opportunity meant for the Son of Destiny, steals pills and inheritances, and humiliates one genius after another with face-slapping. Who could have guessed that his icy master would go from hating him to falling for him, and that sh 3Reads—Score—Shelves
22. 72 蛋 Egg Fried Rice Grants Me a Temporary Godlike Skill 蛋炒饭赐我临时神技 Zhang Sirui张撕瑞Urban108k WordsCompleted This morning, I ate egg fried rice and got jacked; Tonight, I ate egg fried rice again and threw up. After eating it, I can actually understand the language of beasts! After eating it, I’m as strong as an ox! After eating it, my sense of taste sharpens and gives my career a boost; After eating it, I can sense danger and turn misfortune into fortune. Too bad the effects are temporary, but something’s better than nothing. I’ll keep a level head. 9Reads—Score—Shelves

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    Urgency is like a law, it's too confusing

23. 73 千 The Legendary Han Xin, the Greatest General of All Time 千古第一将韩信之千古传奇 Wuchuan Hua无船滑Eastern Fantasy439k WordsCompleted Han Xin was born a beggar, so where did he learn his astonishing military strategies? Where did he master such superb swordsmanship? How did he win every battle without a single defeat? Why were his victories so decisive, with large-scale clashes against his opponents so rare? How were his battlefield instincts and judgments so precise? This book recounts every one of Han Xin’s legendary exploits in detail. 5.3kReads8.4Score490Shelves
24. 74 被 Struck by Lightning, I Awakened X-Ray Vision 被雷劈后，觉醒透视眼 I'm a Girl我是妹纸Urban315k WordsCompleted He got struck by lightning while delivering food, and woke up able to see through everything! It all started when he cut open a piece of rough stone everyone called “dog crap” and found imperial green jade inside. Food delivery rider Lin Long embarked on a path to riches through antique appraisal and stone gambling. Wealth, beautiful women, and power came one after another. 24Reads—Score241Shelves
25. 75 重 Reborn in the 1980s 重生于80年代 The Hardheaded Old Man头铁老汉Urban12.8M WordsOngoing (Period drama, no System, no golden finger, an alternate modern history, revelations drawn from authentic historical records and events) Moral standards vary with money! If you’re already this rich, why repeat the miserable life you had in your previous one? Every regret must be made right! Following the passage of time and based on the facts, the story looks back at this period of history through the protagonist’s eyes. The reborn story of an ordinary man, rising from humble beginnings to becom 37.7kReads8.8Score2.3kShelves
26. 76 老 Teacher, Stop the Lecture. The Government Is Here 老师别讲了，国家都来人了 Blue Peak Commoner青峰布衣Urban1.5M WordsOngoing The rating just came out, so it’ll rise later. Lin Yu, a high school math tutor, died while saving a drowning student. When he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated into his counterpart in a parallel world: A notoriously bad lecturer at Jianghai University, known for teaching easy-credit classes. The previous Lin Yu was not only infamous for his classes, but had also harassed female students and been placed on the department’s list for dismissal. His teaching evaluation was in three days. If he 104.4kReads8.3Score11.9kShelves

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