Novels like The Pill Emperor Returns
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- 51 Cultivating to Immortality as a Mortal: I Just Want to Be Free, Not Kill Anyone 凡人修仙，我只想逍遥，不想杀人 (Mortal’s journey + underdog’s rise + farming + cultivation + pocket dimension + foodie + play the pig to eat the tiger + scheming + invincible + spirit beasts + lie flat) Zhou Yi was an ordinary mortal who transmigrated into a cultivation continent. He wanted only a carefree life and had no intention of getting caught up in conflict and bloodshed. But things never went as planned, and he kept getting dragged into one crisis after another. Fortunately, he had the Chaos Pocket Dimension by his si 1kReads6.2Score101Shelves
- 52 Marry First, Cultivate Immortality Later: Wielding a System to Battle the Heavens 先娶老婆再修仙，手握系统战诸天 [Rivalry between physiques]+ [One heroine]+ [System]+ [Invincible]+ [Building a faction]+ [Decisive and ruthless]+ [the Myriad Worlds] If nobody sells me out, I won't sell anyone out! What? You want to sell my dad? Then I'll activate my System and sell you off for a handsome price! Ding! The Origin of the Universe System has been bound. Host, create a faction or marry your destined Dao companion as soon as possible to activate the System. From then on, Di Xuan began his step-by-step journey to i 867Reads6.3Score101Shelves
- 53 You Were Hired as a Menial, but You Bankrupted the Alchemy Alliance 让你当杂役，你把丹盟干破产了 [Transmigration + System + Farming + Comeback + Alchemy] I transmigrated into a menial servant and couldn’t even get near the spirit herbs? After binding to the Myriad Ages Alchemy Scripture System, I can analyze the medicinal properties of anything! You’ve monopolized high-grade spiritual medicines? Sorry, I can use a single weed as a perfect substitute. At one-tenth the cost, with effects that blow yours out of the water! From floor-sweeping servant to founding patriarch of the sect, I lead 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 Divine Alchemist 神级炼丹师 On the Martial Peak Continent, alchemists reign supreme. Luo Ming was a courier in his previous life, but after accidentally transmigrating, he obtained the Everything Delivery System. As long as he has money, space and time are no problem. What, you want the Three-Flavored True Fire? No problem. If you have the cash, we can work anything out. How about the World-Creating Sacred Flame for a little extra? Need a way to boost your combat power? No problem. As long as you have money, we have peerle 672Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 55 Divine Master of Pills and Talismans 丹符神尊 Jian Zhengfeng sat in seclusion for eight years, poring over ten thousand volumes of scripture, all to comprehend the Great Dao Treasury in a single moment! The Demon God Art, the Song of Weiyang, the Profound Spirit Manual, and the Great Dao Treasury: four extraordinary books, but only the Great Dao Treasury contains ten million true meanings! Spirit talismans are needed to draw talismanic charms, set up formations, refine artifacts, and forge flying swords. Even superior-grade spirit pills req 8.7kReads8.9Score983Shelves
- 56 A Heart of Loyalty Defies Heaven 丹心逆天 Synopsis: Huang Haifeng, the castoff of the Huang clan, is scorned and mocked because he cannot gather alchemical flame. But after unexpectedly discovering the ancient text The Art of the Alchemical Heart in the mountains behind his home, he glimpses a new hope. Huang Haifeng studies the text day and night, using the fire within his heart as a guide to begin his journey in alchemy. After countless failures, he successfully refines his first unusual pill and gradually begins to make a name for hi 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 The Son-in-Law Pill Emperor 赘婿丹帝 Ye Wushuang, a legendary imperial tutor, is unexpectedly reborn as the useless son-in-law everyone loves to mock. He knows everything there is to know about alchemy and martial arts! He is a master of every kind of barrier and formation! A genius? Sorry, eight of the Ten Great Demon Gods are my disciples! An aristocratic clan? Sorry, half the ancient clans are my descendants! Back in the day... The Divine Emperor poured tea and ran errands for me, the Pill God went out to buy things for me, and 2.4kReads7.9Score252Shelves
- 58 The Chaos Alchemy Furnace 混沌丹炉 He has one more spiritual root than even someone with all eight elements in their mixed spiritual roots. By chance, he activates the little iron gourd his grandfather gave him before he died, only to discover that it is a Chaos Alchemy Furnace. Thus begins his path to immortality. He tramples prodigies, crushes the outstanding, and slays countless enemies... With a pill in hand, the world is his! Genius protagonist + golden finger + no System + fantasy + cultivation + invincible + cultivation wo 15kReads8.3Score1.4kShelves
- 59 Supreme Pill and Martial Arts 丹武至尊 Ning Yue, a prodigy in both alchemy and martial arts, is surrounded by enemies and killed atop the Heavenly Demon Peak. He is reborn in the body of the eldest young master of the fallen, third-rate Ning family. When he opens his eyes, he's already onstage at an alchemy competition. What? They actually need to refine a mere Qi-Gathering Powder? Anyone could do that! With a single gesture, Ning Yue condenses qi into a pill, bringing the residents of a remote town a taste of a genius's astonishing 4.9kReads8.3Score542Shelves
- 60 The Divine Art of Five Elements Cultivation 五行修神诀 A country boy accidentally stumbles upon an unparalleled cultivation technique left behind in the mortal world by ancient gods and demons. With the Dragon God and a vast harem at his side, he sets out to slay demons and vanquish evil... then gradually conquers the realms of immortals, demons, and gods, achieving unrivaled supremacy! 911Reads6.6Score125Shelves
- 61 The Nine Suns Pill God 九阳丹神 One of the three Supreme Pill Kings, the Carefree Pill King, was hounded to death over the cultivation world's greatest technique, the Nine Suns Emperor's Art. Two years later, he was reborn into an ordinary family under the assumed name Yang Zhen. He battles powerful foes, refines divine pills, and devours heavenly fire, ultimately looking down upon heaven and earth as the God of Fire. 983Reads8.6Score129Shelves
- 62 The Divine Doctor and Sword God 神医剑神 I have a needle that can dispel the world's misfortunes, and a sword that can sweep away injustice beneath the heavens. You ask where I come from? I come from Earth! 49Reads7.4Score—Shelves
- 63 A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Beginning with the Clan's Great Migration 凡人修仙，从举族迁徙开始 [Mortal's Journey, No System, Shores of Qionghai, Sea-Beast Immortal Pets, Spatial Treasure] As a child, the protagonist moves with his clan to a small fishing village on an island along the shores of Qionghai. He accidentally obtains a spatial treasure, but falls into the hands of pirates. Surrounded by danger, he turns misfortune into fortune and embarks on a difficult path of cultivation. The spatial treasure raises sea demons and immortal beasts. He practices weapon crafting, studies formati 228Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 64 The Chaos Pill God 混沌丹神 The young genius Gu Yun was branded with a divine seal by an ancient god race. His spiritual power weakened, and he became the acknowledged weakling of the Qingshan Sect, demoted to menial work. His father was implicated as well, stripped of his position as clan head and imprisoned in the heavenly prison of their enemy, the Feilu Clan. Then Gu Yun uncovered a hidden secret within himself and struck a deal with an ancient god. In the ancient god's chaotic realm, spiritual herbs could grow without 5.2kReads8.4Score671Shelves
- 65 Turns Out, I'm the Lord of the Tongtian Sect 原来我是通天教主 Xie Yun, one of Earth's “Five-Good” young men, transmigrates to a cultivation world and gets the Qingping sword from the start, along with Kui Niu, a “cat-like pet beast.” After crossing paths with the chuuni girl Su Xuan, he embarks on a hilariously ridiculous journey through the world of cultivation. 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 The Peerless Medical Master 盖世医尊 “A finished masterpiece, a must-read this year” [Urban cultivation + classic serialized fiction] A hundred years drift by, a dream spans three thousand. Beneath Canglan’s banner, an immortal who cannot die. On a rainy night, someone tossed him into the alley behind a bar. A bolt of lightning struck, and the yin-yang jade pendant on his chest shattered with a sharp crack. And so the story began… 3.9kReads8.4Score428Shelves
- 67 The Martial Alchemist 武炼丹尊 Su Ling, a supreme alchemist in his former life, happened upon the ancient treasure known as the Heavenly Demon Pearl, only to be ambushed and killed by treacherous villains. Five hundred years later, Su Ling is reborn in the body of a good-for-nothing young master of the Su family, and embarks on a path that defies the heavens. Cultivating both alchemy and martial arts, who dares claim the title of Supreme? Only I, Su Ling! 12.7kReads8.4Score1.9kShelves
- 68 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 3.6kReads8.5Score433Shelves
- 69 I'd Rather Be a Rogue Than an Immortal 只羡流氓不羡仙 [Witty rogue + cautious cultivation + multiple heroines] A young hooligan ventures into the desolate capital and chances upon a ridiculous romantic encounter. He obtains an extraordinary Soul-Calming Cauldron and begins cultivating the Tyrannical Yang Immortal Way. The fantastical Nine Provinces continent faces another tribulation of the Heavenly Dao. I am a hooligan, and I will crush the prodigies of this troubled age. Yin and yang in harmony, I roam the world as a carefree immortal. Three Trib 354Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 70 The Otherworldly Alchemist 异世丹帝 Brotherhood runs deeper than the sea, while one smile from a beauty can topple a city. My peerless alchemy arts shatter the firmament. I am the Emperor, I am the King! A supreme Alchemy Emperor from the immortal realm was betrayed by his subordinates and transmigrated to another world. With his mastery of pills, he rises at a lightning pace. Supreme techniques, peerless elixirs, divine artifacts: watch me shatter the firmament, ascend to the heavens, and become the greatest legend of all! Master 7kReads8.5Score787Shelves
- 71 Immortal Venerable, King of Talismans 符王仙尊 Tang Qingshan accidentally transmigrates to the cultivation world, penniless and forced to make a living by drawing spirit talismans. By a stroke of luck, he activates a tiger-head inkstone and gains the finest inheritance in the art of talismans. Along the way, he slays demon beasts, crafts spirit talismans, searches for spirit veins, and cultivates divine abilities... until he becomes the Immortal Talisman Sovereign! 469Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 72 Peerless Talisman Master 绝世符神 [Clever protagonist + power-ups + wish fulfillment + complete] “You can make pills and break through quickly? One Spirit-Gathering Talisman of mine can increase your cultivation speed tenfold, even a hundredfold!” “You can forge weapons, crafting divine arms that can cleave the stars? I have Nine Heavens Thunder Talismans that summon heavenly lightning, reducing everything within a thousand miles to ash with a single strike!” “You’re an expert in formations, adept at both offense and defense? I 3.5kReads8.3Score837Shelves
- 73 The Empire's Number One Playboy: A Heavenly Beauty Seeks My Hand in Marriage from the Start 帝国第一纨绔：开局天娇神女求娶 [One heroine] [White-Haired Asura] [Asura System] Luo Xiu transmigrated into a xuanhuan world while still in his mother's womb. He was born with a head of white hair, eyes like a sea of blood, and brows sharp as bloodied blades. With jade-like skin and an Asura's face, he was born to be a slayer! At fifteen, he awakened the Asura System! Unlike ordinary people, he did not need to cultivate. He only had to keep fighting, and the System would turn the vitality of those he killed into Asura energy, 2.2kReads6.6Score137Shelves
- 74 The Number One Talisman Master 第一神符师 Cultivation is expensive. Really, really expensive! Su Liang, a girl from a small town, is short on money. Really, really short on money! So while other people play, she draws talismans. While they sleep, she makes pills. While they chat, she crafts spiritual weapons. Is she really that dedicated? Don’t ask. She’s just broke. With no money, she can’t buy spiritual source stones. With no money, she can’t enter spiritual veins to cultivate. With no money, she can’t afford high-grade materials. Wit 534Reads8.3Score103Shelves
- 75 Hand-Building a Super Engine, Charging Through the Miyako Strait 手搓超级引擎，怒闯宫古海峡 Hand-Building a Super Engine, Storming the Miyako Strait 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 The Bystander’s Revenge 旁观者的复仇 The Bystander’s Revenge 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 My Medicine Cauldron Can Refine Pills Automatically 我的药鼎能自动炼丹 P.S. The young Xu Yufan transmigrates from Earth, bringing a miniature universe with him. Within this miniature universe, spiritual energy is so dense it seems almost tangible, and spirit herbs grow dozens of times faster than those in the outside world. It also contains a black medicine cauldron that can refine pills automatically! [Transmigration + no System + ordinary-person cultivation + fast-paced + no female lead + cultivation + decisive and ruthless + no saintly protag 1.2kReads8.4Score141Shelves
- 78 Peerless Immortal King 无双仙王 [Traditional Cultivation] + [Feel-Good Story] + [Nearly Invincible Protagonist] As a child, the male lead was given a cultivation technique called the Primordial Unity Art by an immortal. And so his journey of immortal cultivation began. Alchemy? Taming beasts? Wielding artifacts?… He can handle it all with ease! Sect Master: “This boy is the holy son of our sect. Anyone who bullies him is showing me no respect!” Senior Brother: “Why was Shu Hui born if there was already a Wushuang?” Second —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Immortal Ascension and Devouring 羽化吞仙 [Traditional Xuanhuan + richly drawn ensemble cast + decisive and ruthless + invincible among his peers] He seeks not to become an immortal. He only wants ordinary people, in a world where every rule has been set and the will of Heaven looms above, to forge a path that defies Heaven and changes their fate! “Immortals won't block the path of mortals. Mortals will open the heavens themselves!” 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 The Horror Game Begins: Please Draw Your Cheat Ability 惊悚游戏开始，请抽取您的外挂 [Immortal and indestructible + no female lead + nearly invincible + decisive and ruthless + satisfying power fantasy + building a faction + powerful protagonist] A horror game descends upon the world. Qin Feng is unsurprisingly chosen as a player, and breaking the game’s rules means death. As someone who transmigrated, Qin Feng successfully activates a cheat System, with a different cheat for every instance. In the Dark Forest Battle Royale instance, Qin Feng draws 99 E-rank Red Dragon cheats an 45Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 World-Hopping: Ru Yan's Endless Rebounds 综穿：如烟反复横跳 A crossover fanfic featuring multiple film and TV series. I watch and write as I go, so the plot differs from the original. The protagonist’s soul transmigrates, and they have a different body in every world. No powerful family or connections to rely on. When they’re out in the world, they make up their identity as they go. No fixed pairing, no romance, just attraction at first sight. Keeping a low profile and building strength in the early stages, doing whatever they want later... 104Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 82 Douling Continent: I Became the Pope from the Start 斗灵大陆：开局成为教皇 After transmigrating to the Douling Continent, he accidentally devoured the soul of the original owner, who had returned reborn, and learned how the future would unfold. I’m the young clan leader of the exalted Light God Clan and the pope of the Temple of the Goddess of Light, and you’re telling me to fight fair? Long Xingchen, Lei San, you’re as good as dead. I won’t give you the chance to grow in secret. 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 The Divine Soul Pill Emperor 神魂丹帝 After ten years of perseverance, the young man is brutally killed when his fiancée steals his martial soul! After transmigrating and awakening a mysterious martial soul, Qin Lang vows never to let anyone else control his fate again! He will cultivate like mad and shatter his fiancée’s scheme! He will grow stronger and take control of his destiny! He will laugh proudly across the world and become an Emperor of Alchemy! 3.2kReads8.8Score262Shelves
- 84 Nine Deaths Divine Pill Art 九死丹神诀 Pills can be used for medicine, but they can also help one cultivate martial arts. On a dark and stormy night, Jiang Kong has his inner strength drained by his childhood sweetheart and is left crippled. By chance, he obtains an ancient, mysterious cultivation art: the Nine-Deaths Pill God Manual. From then on, he enters the martial path through alchemy, cultivating both alchemy and martial arts. He forges a Pill God Cauldron, gathers undying flames, condenses Nine-Deaths Pills, and awakens the C 1.1kReads8.8Score170Shelves
- 85 The Immortal Qin Alchemist 仙秦炼丹师 [Cultivation] + [Alchemy] + [the Myriad Worlds] + [Cautious Protagonist] + [Building a Solid Foundation] [Realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Separation, Soul Division, Body Integration, Void Cavern, Tribulation Transcendence, Great Ascension...] This book has few conflicts and a slow, leisurely pace. Life is tiring enough already, so I hope this story can bring everyone a little relaxation and joy. After transmigrating to a cultivation world, he beco 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 The Immortal Abode 仙府 After unexpectedly entering the world of cultivation, Xia Qi thought he would roam freely beneath the heavens, just as he had always dreamed. But he discovered that he had an inferior spirit root muddled with all five elements. His cultivation was slow, and he would never amount to much in his lifetime! Though his talent was poor, he knew the secret of a treasure that even immortals would envy. He had barely enjoyed a few carefree days in the cultivation world before realizing that danger lurked 2.2kReads7.9Score220Shelves
- 87 Slaying Gods in the City of the End Times 我在末法都市斩神 After unexpectedly obtaining an ancient inheritance inside the Kunlun barrier, Gao Yi thought he was in for a simple urban cultivation story. That was, until he saw Shennong’s remnant soul return from a bloody battle and heard Xuanyuan whisper that a seal in another world would break in ten thousand years. He ruthlessly swept through the urban cultivation world, while the woman he loved, Lin Wanqing, burned away her soul for him. The ten-thousand-year deadline is near. Gao Yi stands atop the hea —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 A Strange Romance in the World of Alchemy 丹尘奇缘 A menial disciple, busy doing odd jobs to earn a few spirit stones, is timid, afraid of death, and cares only about spirit stones. Everyone looks down on him, even his childhood sweetheart and cultivation partner, who abandons him. Then one day, he gets his hands on an iron gourd, and his life changes forever. A rise from humble beginnings + modest and low-key + immortal mansion realm + hidden depths + emotionally dense male lead + inspirational + xianxia + cultivation 2.8kReads8.9Score261Shelves
- 89 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 1.9kReads8.4Score253Shelves
- 90 I Take 3,000 Women to Build an Empire in the East Sea 我带3000女性，东海建帝国 I Lead 3,000 Women to Build an Empire in the East China Sea —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 I Just Passed the Scholar Exam, and You’re Telling Me This Is a Cultivation World? 刚中秀才，你说这是仙侠？ [No harem + no characters losing their wits + decisive and ruthless + ancient cultivation + doting father + comedy + crafty schemer] Su Yuanchen transmigrates. The good news is that he's a landlord's son and has no worries about food or clothing. The bad news is that his father is an idiot. In other families, fathers and sons may be loving, or the sons may be unruly and give their fathers grief. But in his family, everything is backward: Su Yuanchen has to be both son and father. “Dad, I've left 172Reads6.7Score104Shelves
- 92 The Foolish Immortal Pill Emperor 傻仙丹帝 Chang Sheng, a young alchemy apprentice in the Celestial Court, is an expert in the art of alchemy. After being framed and forced to reincarnate, he unexpectedly ends up in the body of an idiot. So he decides to keep up the act and play dumb to the end... Pretending to be a fool while secretly outsmarting everyone: what's not to love? 3.6kReads8.9Score432Shelves
- 93 Reborn: The Mechanic's 1988 重生：机械师的1988 If you could be reborn, what would you most want to do? Ye Cheng doesn't know what other people would say. He only wants to be a good man, take good care of his wife, and make up for the guilt and regrets he will carry in the future. But when he really returns to 1988, he realizes that nothing is as simple as he imagined... 491Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 94 Qingya Sword Immortal 青崖剑仙 The path to immortality is fraught with danger, and human nature is cold. The strong rule, their hearts as icy as stone. The weak are lowly, their lives worth no more than blades of grass. Xu Xiaoshan, a boy from the mortal world, is fortunate enough to embark on the path to immortality. With the sword in his hand, he will carve a ray of sunlight into this frigid world of cultivation and bring it a touch of warmth. 18Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 95 Reborn from a Beggar: The Overlord of the Immortal Realm 重生从乞丐做起之仙界枭雄 [Mortal’s journey · stats-focused · no System · struggle for supremacy · traditional fantasy · transmigration · xianxia fantasy · Eastern fantasy] Modern man Chu He transmigrates to a world of cultivation. How will he rise from beggar to ruler of the immortal realm? 7Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 96 After I Transmigrated, I Forged a Bloodstained Path to Immortality 穿越以后，我铸就血色仙途 [Fortune-Blessed Immortal Dynasty + Transmigration + Ruthless Protagonist] Yuan Yu unexpectedly transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation, only to have his entire family slaughtered by his enemies almost immediately. Fortunately, his spirit root awakens a golden finger, allowing him to escape disaster. With no other choice, he sets out on a long journey of cultivation, but the road to immortality is rugged and stained with blood. Yet the journey is also filled with breathtaking sights: A 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 The Supreme Venerable of Alchemy and Martial Arts 丹武宇尊 The continent has gone tens of thousands of years without producing a single Supreme. The Supreme inheritance has been lost. An alchemy emperor of his generation, devoted to refining pills, uses all his talent to create a Supreme Pill. Just as he is about to help the continent produce another Supreme, he is betrayed by his disciple and dies beneath the pill tribulation. After being reborn, he focuses on his martial cultivation. While obtaining an inheritance, he unexpectedly discovers that the S 31.4kReads9.0Score3.6kShelves
- 98 The Supreme Alchemy Sovereign 极道丹皇 The genius youth Yang Chen was crippled by his father's enemy. By chance, he obtained the legacy of the Pill Emperor. With peerless techniques as his foundation and his family's unparalleled bloodline as his source, he rose to the heavens and shattered the firmament with martial might! 1.9kReads8.6Score298Shelves
- 99 Lotus-Born Pill Venerable 莲生丹尊 Ji Shiyi, a country boy from a mountain village, unexpectedly gains a space linked to a twin lotus. One day in the outside world equals one month inside. With the lotus space, Ji Shiyi survives a famine and saves the grandfather who raised him. By a twist of fate, Ji Shiyi embarks on the path of cultivation. Everyone knows how difficult cultivation is, and everyone wants to pursue it. While everyone fights tooth and nail over a single spirit plant in a secret realm, Ji Shiyi says, “How did you k 13.3kReads9.1Score1.6kShelves
- 100 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Divine Shennong Cauldron Descends from Heaven 凡人修仙：天降神农鼎 [Mortal Cultivation] [Shennong Cauldron] [One Heroine] [Ancestor of Caution] [From Qi Refining to Spirit Transformation and Mahayana] A guide to becoming an Ancestor with the Shennong Cauldron by playing it safe! Scenario One: You have the Shennong Cauldron. How should you cultivate immortality? Play it safe, absolutely. Hide away on Great Sage Peak and watch the clouds roll by as the sect rises and falls! Scenario Two: You have spirit stones. How should you spend them? Don’t spend them! Not a s 10Reads6.5Score—Shelves
