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- 1 I've Lived for Two Thousand Years 我长生了两千年 [Immortality]+ [Urban]+ [play the pig to eat the tiger]+ [Spiritual Qi Revival] I am Bai Fan, an immortal. I once held the highest offices in the empire, sharing a cup with Emperor Qin Shi Huang as we discussed the rise and fall of dynasties. I once journeyed to ancient Egypt, standing atop a pyramid that pierced the clouds and discussing the world with a pharaoh. I also founded ancient powers that stood firm through the ages, unshaken even after dynasties fell. Now I have awakened once more in —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 I Really Am Immortal 我真的长生不老 Across thousands of years of history, Gao Fei was still alive, his appearance unchanged. How had he come to this world? Why was he immortal? Those were the answers Gao Fei had always sought. Every hundred years, he endured a deadly trial. During that time, he lived like an ant. But who could have guessed that this man, dismissed by everyone as useless and incompetent, was a god whom all looked up to? He was behind every ancient family. Every powerful figure had received his help. He was richer t 36Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 3 After Five Thousand Years of Longevity, My Great-Granddaughter Exposed Me! 长生五千年，我被曾孙女曝光了！ Zhou Chen. An undying man. He once entered the state of Chu and saved the future First Emperor, who was being held hostage at the time, making the later emergence of an emperor for the ages possible. He once taught the Champion Marquis to venture a thousand li into the desert and establish a monument at Mount Langjuxu. He once took on the guise of a writer to record how Wang Xuance conquered a kingdom single-handedly. Many years later. When he returned to an old residence, he met his great-g 60Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Awakening After a Hundred Million Years of Immortality 长生亿万年后醒来 Ye Fan has lived for hundreds of millions of years. Countless followers have become great reclusive clans. After waking from his final slumber, Ye Fan finds his wife and child, only to discover that they have been locked in an iron cage. To protect them, Ye Fan decides to take back all the forces he has cultivated over thousands of years... 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Immortal from the Start, I Only Want to Hide in My Sect and Refine Trash Pills 开局长生只想苟在宗门炼废丹 Transmigrate + survivalist path + decisive and ruthless + golden finger + play the pig to eat the tiger + humorous protagonist The protagonist, Li Changshou, transmigrates to the Xuantian Continent, into Lijia Village in the Great Li Kingdom. From the start, the Blood Spirit Sect captures him to use as a blood bag, but he awakens the Longevity Seed. Follow Li Changshou as he makes a comeback from having a low-grade Five Elements spiritual root! When facing powerful opponents, he quietly puts eve 311Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 6 Twenty Thousand Years of Immortality: Dai Xiaomei Seeks Me Out to Become a Disciple and Join the Monastery 长生两万年，呆小妹找我拜师出家 An immortal pats my crown, and with our hair tied together, I receive eternal life! Eternal life spans the cosmos, brought forth by chaos! Jiang Xuan is the only immortal in all of heaven and earth. From the ancient mythic civilizations to the primitive age of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, he has witnessed humanity’s birth and the development of its civilization with his own eyes. He lived through the final age of the Primordial Era, enlightened the Three Pure Ones, and taught the huma 32Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 7 I’ve Lived for Five Thousand Years, and My Daughter’s Cry for Help Exposes Me 活了五千年，被女儿的求救电话曝光了 He had lived for more than five thousand years, witnessed the battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou, seen the world's splendor and desolation, and watched countless dynasties rise and fall. He was capable of anything. There was little in the world he couldn't do. He had friends all over the world, yet no family by his side. When he awoke from his long slumber, he unexpectedly received a desperate message from his daughter... 28Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 8 Urban: I've Lived for Five Thousand Years 都市：我活了五千年 Zhou Tian is the only immortal in the world. He lived through the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, watched the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods unfold, once traveled to Europe and set off the Renaissance, and once moved among the nations during the World Wars. But an unexpected Nirvana turned him into the foolish son of an ordinary family, and he gained a younger sister. His family fell apart, and his sister was nearly violated. Then, in a single moment, he awoke and transformed f 101Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 9 Tycoon: The Doorman Awakens a Beauty Cashback System 神豪：门卫大爷觉醒美女返现系统 [Tycoon] + [Middle-Aged Man] + [Beautiful Women] + [Cashback] + [Ultimate Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Zhang Facai, a 58-year-old university gatekeeper, was swindled out of all his relocation compensation by the adopted daughter he had raised, leaving him deeply in debt. Then he suddenly awakened a Beautiful Women Cashback System. As long as he bonded with a stunning beauty, spending money on her would earn him cashback. Make money! I have to make money. Zhang Facai swore he would father a son of hi 796Reads6.1Score10014d adds
- 10 After Ten Thousand Years, I Finally Have a Wife and Kids 活了万年终于有了老婆孩子 I am an immortal who has crossed the endless river of time. For certain reasons, all these years I have had no children and no family... until one day, someone told me I had a daughter. 447Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 11 I've Lived for Tens of Thousands of Years 我活了上万年 I’ve been alive for tens of thousands of years, and I’m so fed up. I drank poison, but my body digested it. I tried hanging myself, but the rope snapped. I tried drowning, but I drank all the water. I just can’t die. If anyone can kill me, I’ll thank your ancestors for eighteen generations. 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 I Slept from the Primordial Era to Modern Times 我从洪荒睡到现代 He slept through the primordial age and awoke in the modern world! To break through to the Quasi-Saint realm in seclusion and prepare for the Great Calamity of the Investiture of the Gods, Li Feng, a Great Golden Immortal, began to sleep! When he awoke, he found himself in the modern world! After realizing the Grand Supreme Elder Lord had used him as a pawn, Li Feng began reincarnating in the underworld like mad... Life after life, after a hundred cycles of reincarnation, he finally... became a 97Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Heavenly Way Gone Astray 天道迷途 Born amid bloodshed and raised in the wilderness. Everyone calls him an idiot. Amid countless jeers, he bursts onto the scene and shocks the world. One mystery after another unfolds. The sky tears apart, the earth collapses, bones pile up like mountains, and rivers run red with blood! The wheel of fate turns anew, and he is destined to become someone else’s stepping stone! In this life, will he break free of fate, or be made into a stepping stone once more? He contains the Daoist resonance of th 203Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 14 I, the Immortal 我，长生者 After living for thirty thousand years, one unexpected accident leaves him with a wife and a daughter! Having always refused to face the pain of separation and death, how will he deal with his wife and daughter? 28Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 15 Urban: My Thousand-Year Immortality Is Exposed 都市：长生千年的我暴露了 Yang Fan, an immortal who has lived for thousands of years, has grown tired of history’s turbulent changes and wants nothing more than to enjoy a peaceful retirement. He lives quietly in the countryside for decades, until his great-granddaughter takes him on a trip to Shanghai, where his identity is accidentally revealed, causing a global sensation. Government officials, scholars, and wealthy people from around the world rush to his city, hoping to learn the secret of immortality or the truth ab 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 After Winning Thirty Million, I Returned to the Countryside to Live the Good Life 中奖三千万后，我回农村躺赢了 Lin An wins thirty million and returns to his village to lie flat. When his great-uncle comes asking for a loan, he grins sheepishly and offers him a cigarette. “Uncle, I only won a few tens of thousands.” The next moment, his phone lights up: monthly interest, 52,000 yuan. His ex-girlfriend messages him: “I heard you won the lottery?” He replies, “Congratulations,” then leaves her on read. Villagers gossip behind his back: “He won a few tens of thousands and came back acting all high and mighty —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 A Hundred Thousand Years of Immortality 长生十万年 A hundred thousand years is too long. Seize the day. What would it look like when Ye Fan, after living for a hundred thousand years and witnessing all the world's joys and sorrows, had disciples spread across the land... 1.2kReads6.7Score14314d adds
- 18 A Long-Lived One Resides in the Book Mountain! 书山有位长生者！ [Longevity] [Xianxia] [Invincible at every realm] [Carefree] [Plot-driven] [A touch of ensemble cast] [Slow burn?] Who in all the land hasn't heard that there is a true immortal on Book Mountain? For as long as anyone can remember, word has spread throughout the world that Book Mountain is home to an immortal. At first, most people didn't believe it. Perhaps the common folk took it as truth for lack of better judgment, but the reclusive cultivators who spent their lives in the mountains mostly d 261Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 19 Ten Thousand Years of Life in the City 都市长生一万年 He had cultivated for nine thousand years, from ancient times to the modern day. He had wanted to keep a low profile, but his strength wouldn't let him. Fine, I'll admit it: I'm the world's richest man and its supreme powerhouse, hidden among ordinary people. 343Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 A Hundred Thousand Years of Immortality 长生十万年 In a nutshell: An immortal monster who has lived for a hundred thousand years merges his soul with that of a modern youth and returns to the city. He plays the fool while outsmarting his enemies, makes up for the regrets of his past life, shows off and woos women, rules the city, and puts every troublemaker in their place. Official version: A hundred thousand years of life, with seas turned to fields. He retreated to Zhongnan Mountain, looking on calmly as the world passed by. He once traveled w 179Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 21 Immortal for Billions of Years, and I’ve Only Been Alive a Few Decades 长生，我也就活了几十亿年 He was the first being in the world, born alongside it at the dawn of creation when Pangu split the heavens and earth. Over the endless ages, he lived alone on prehistoric Earth, kept dinosaurs for company, taught Nuwa to mold humans from clay, passed on the Dao to the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and witnessed the Investiture of the Gods... And now, this peerless being, carrying billions of years of experience, has unexpectedly arrived on Earth. See how he conquers the world and takes life as a ga 218Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 22 The Great Fish That Sailed Through Time and Space 划过时空的大鱼 I woke to find myself in a vast, boundless grassland... I had no idea that I was at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty... The half-sunken sun was as red as blood, as though foreshadowing the tragic scene that was about to unfold! The enemy still hadn't launched a direct attack, but the killing intent on the battlefield had already congealed into something solid. The immense pressure left me unable to breathe! ...Only the last sliver remained, hanging over the distant peak of Mount S 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Back in the City, I Can Do Whatever I Want 重返都市，为所欲为 [Multiple Heroines + Decisive and Ruthless + Invincible + No Saintly Do-Gooder + Return of the Strong] Three years ago, Xu Qing’s family was destroyed. His soul transmigrated to the Cangyuan Realm, where he cultivated for three thousand years and attained the Dao as the Azure Emperor! Back on Earth, he lost his soul and spent three years in a daze. Three years later, his soul returned. He cultivates peerless divine arts, commands life and death and the forces of yin and yang, seizes fate-defying 3.5kReads7.6Score34314d adds
- 24 After a Billion Years of Immortality, I Return to the City Invincible 长生亿万年，回归都市我无敌 He lived for hundreds of millions of years, witnessing the fall of gods and the extinction of the demon race. He saw Pangu split the heavens from the earth, Kuafu chase the sun, and Nuwa mend the sky. He joined the Yellow Emperor in defeating Chiyou, and even helped Qin Shi Huang unify the Six Kingdoms. A hundred years passed like a dream; seas became fields. He mastered fate and destiny, able to defy heaven and change a person’s lot. He knew medicine well enough to bring the dead back to life. 169Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 25 You Slandered My Virtue. Now That I’ve Returned from Cultivation, Why Are You Crying? 污蔑我清白，修仙归来你哭什么 Chu Yue, Tianhai’s most beautiful CEO, is as noble as a brilliant star in the sky, the dream woman countless men can only admire from afar. Yet Li Junye knows that in private, this beautiful CEO loves calling him “Master”… 253Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 An Immortal Who Began in Great Qin 从大秦开始的长生者 Here is the synopsis generated for this novel: Lin Yun, a modern man, unexpectedly falls into the flames and smoke of the Warring States era. After more than a decade has passed, he realizes that he is immortal and never ages. To solve this mystery that has baffled the ages, he travels through the various states and witnesses the flourishing spectacle of a hundred schools of thought contending. In the State of Zhao, the wheels of fate begin to spin wildly. At a critical moment, he saves the youn 151Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 Across Five Thousand Years 纵横五千年 He couldn’t die, and he couldn’t ascend. So Jiang Yu stubbornly kept living for five thousand years... 1.2kReads7.8Score15214d adds
- 28 I Have Lived for Eighty Thousand Years 我活了八万年 Ten thousand years ago, Li Changsheng raised a dog. A thousand years ago, Li Changsheng planted a Green Lotus. A hundred years ago, Li Changsheng took in a little boy. Later, the dog became the fearsome Black Demon Emperor, the Green Lotus transformed into the Azure Emperor, and the little boy became a Saint of the Human Race. This is a story about immortality: a young man who has lived for tens of thousands of years and has no idea when it will end. When he wakes once more, the bustling city is 1kReads7.7Score10514d adds
- 29 The Man Who Lived for Three Thousand Years 长生三千年的男人 He once sought immortality alongside Qin Shi Huang, commanded troops alongside Han Xin, discussed matters of state with Emperor Taizong of Tang, and roamed the land with Emperor Zhengde. He studied ingenious mechanisms with Lu Ban, discussed the arts of divination with Zhang Liang, judged cases between the living and the dead with Bao Zheng, and sampled every delicacy under heaven with Su Shi… His traces can be found throughout the river of history. His immortality continues, and the future will 958Reads6.1Score10514d adds
- 30 I’ve Lived for a Hundred Thousand Years 我活了十万年 Fifty-eight years ago, he fell into a coma. Fifty-eight years later, he woke up. No one knew that what seemed like fifty-eight years had actually been a hundred thousand years for him. This is an invincible journey of "I'm your grandpa!" 363Reads6.3Score10214d adds
- 31 Immortality System from the Start: Unlimited Lifespan Boosts 开局长生系统，寿命无限加持 [System]+ [Everyday Life]+ [Lighthearted]+ [Keeping a Low Profile] Ding Xiaofan accidentally transmigrated to a world of immortal cultivation and obtained the Longevity System. As long as he kept completing System tasks, he could increase his lifespan without limit. “Let go of that beauty and let me handle this.” Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have completed the task of rescuing a beauty. Your lifespan has increased by one month. “Don't come any closer! I really don't know martial arts.” Ding 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 I Can Trade Time 我能交易时间 Su Ye has a terminal illness and less than a year to live. Then, he suddenly gains the ability to trade time. He goes into business, traveling all over the world and reselling the time he buys from other people to wealthy tycoons. From then on, a legend about a time merchant spreads across the world. And the world gains an unprecedentedly wealthy tycoon! 317Reads5.4Score10114d adds
- 33 Urban: I Was Reborn as the CEO's All-Purpose Butler 都市：我穿成了霸总的全能管家 [Comedy]+ [Parody]+ [System] Lin Mu transmigrates into a melodramatic CEO novel as the domineering CEO's butler. The CEO is always barking orders like, “Within an hour, I want the entire Wang family bankrupt and apologizing to Baibai!” Or, “Within two hours, get designers from all over the world to create the most luxurious dress for Baibai!” As an ordinary person, Lin Mu had already resigned himself to getting fired. Who could have guessed he would be bound to an All-Purpose Butler System? No m 238Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 34 Centenarian Veteran: I Grow Stronger by Killing Enemies, Slaughtering All the Heavens 百岁老兵：杀敌升级，我屠戮诸天 [Supernatural Martial Arts] + [Overwhelmingly Invincible] + [Blood-Pumping Power Fantasy] + [Decisive and Ruthless] Primordial power awakens, and martial arts rise! Jiang Feng transmigrates to a high-martial world where martial arts reign supreme. He serves in the army for thirty years, defending against the myriad races and surviving battle after battle without ever abandoning his original ideals. Unfortunately, his talent is too poor for him to make any progress in martial arts, so he leaves t 40Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 35 My Beautiful Beloved 我的倾城佳人 The down-on-his-luck male lead may be poor, but he's got a strong sense of justice. Somehow, he ends up meeting several lovely women. One night, he knocks on a widow's door just to borrow a pack of sanitary pads for a girl. He thinks his luck with women has finally turned, only to discover she's gay! When will the male lead finally find a girlfriend? Or will he just keep going farther down the road of lifelong singleness? 2.5kReads8.7Score14914d adds
- 36 Lover with a Pure Heart 素心恋人 You’re the person I love most. For you, I could deceive anyone in the world, even myself. That’s how desperately I love you. Even if you have to lie to me, please keep it up a little longer, and make the lie a little more convincing... 273Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 37 My Identity as a Cultivator Has Been Exposed 我修真者的身份被曝光了 What? This chair is made of Yunze agarwood and costs two million each? What? This isn't scrap jade, but a Seven-Colored Jade Emperor worth ten million a piece? What? That's not a loach, but an extinct Black-Whiskered Dragon? Fang Yan and Xia Xue were speechless! They'd wanted to expose their best friend's broke, stingy boyfriend, only to get face-slapped again and again. It turned out every gift he gave his wife was a rare treasure, the kind you couldn't necessarily buy even if you had the money 35Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 38 Uncle 大叔 Play the fool, then pounce like a tiger; sing songs, woo girls, play the zither, and slay enemies. That’s Li Jiawen’s ideal life! 138Reads8.6Score10214d adds
- 39 I Lived for Ten Thousand Years 我活了一万年 After ten thousand years as an Immortal Emperor, he has grown tired of scheming and returns to the modern world to live an ordinary life! He feeds his goldfish, plays with his kitten, tends his plants, and enjoys a quiet, comfortable life... But he never expected the immortal energy inside him to be so potent. From that day on, a carp breathed in a little immortal energy and became a dragon; a peony inhaled some and became an immortal, the Peony Fairy; a fox ate one of his watermelon seeds and t 59Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 40 This Streamer Is 100 Years Old? And He Still Picks Yasuo in a Split Second? 这个主播100岁？还秒选亚索？ [Centenarian] + [Livestream] + [Feel-Good Cultivation] + [Hilarious Comedy] What? This streamer is 100 years old? What? This streamer instantly picked Yasuo? What? This 100-year-old streamer competed in professional tournaments and even won the national championship?! What? This 100-year-old streamer entered the Olympics and won ten gold medals? What? This streamer is Livestreaming a tutorial on cultivating immortality? Years later, his granddaughter gazed at her great-grandpa, who was a hundred 8Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 41 My Great-Granddaughter Exposed My Thousand-Year Immortality on Livestream 长生千年的我被曾孙女直播曝光 “Grandpa, who are you really? Why are all those big shots kneeling on the ground?” “Me? I’m just an ordinary person!” 59Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 From the Start, I Was an Old Master, but Mistaken for an Unrivaled Demon Lord 开局老爷爷，我被误认成绝世魔头 A million readers are following this epic masterpiece! Transmigration + rebirth + System + big shots + no female lead + immortality + endless wild speculation My name is Xue Mo, but everyone calls me the Blood Demon. I want to cultivate immortality, but the author says I have no talent for cultivation. I’m eighteen, yet I look like an eighty-year-old man. I’ve been to all five great orthodox sects and all five great demonic sects. Every one of them sealed its gates the moment I left. I don’t wan 511Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 43 I’ve Lived for Ten Thousand Years, and All I Want Is to Die 长生万年，我只求一死 Also known as: "Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation, Returning Invincible" and "The Immortal Emperor Comes Down the Mountain, and the Old Ancestors Kneel" From the start: An Immortal Emperor returns to the city with ten thousand years of cultivation! The world has changed beyond recognition! His disciples have all become the founding patriarchs of powerful families! They all want to marry their family’s finest women off to him! Then he suddenly discovers that he already has a wife and daughter, an 82Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 44 An Old Man's Path to Immortality: From the Start, I'm the Grand Elder of the Mystic Sect 老头修仙：开局就是玄门大长老 (Old-man story, no return to youth, no CP, multiple identities, less action later on, satisfying payoff in the later stages) A beginner System is caught in a spacetime rift while trying to transmigrate. Fragments of a transmigrator's soul and memories are absorbed by Mu Huairen, a Foundation Establishment cultivator nearing the end of his lifespan. Using the [Strongest Elderly Profession System], Mu Huairen wildly creates secret identities in the cultivation world. The fiery journey of an elderl 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Showbiz: Immortal for Millennia, Exposed on a Reality Show! 娱乐：长生万古，被向往曝光了！ Born in the Spring and Autumn Period, he has lived through the ages. He debated the arts with the Six States, and outshone the Hundred Schools of Thought. He danced with his sword atop Mount Tai, and Ying Zheng hailed him as an immortal master. He sat meditating by the Wu River and watched the Hegemon King fall in the west. He roamed the world during the prosperous Tang dynasty, and his reputation as the Drunken Immortal eclipsed even Li Bai. As the fifth season of Mushroom House begins, the cam 195Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 46 After Nine Thousand Years of Immortality, I Was Exposed on a Livestream 长生九千年，我竟被直播曝光了 + [Urban] + [Feel-good power fantasy] + [Longevity] + [Invincible] + [Young women] + [Passionate] + [Lighthearted] + [Showbiz] + [Cultivation] + [New author, please go easy on me] He once helped the First Emperor of Qin seize the throne, advised Confucius on writing the Spring and Autumn Annals, showed Shennong how to taste the hundred herbs, and taught Suiren how to make fire by drilling wood. He once helped the Han emperor fight the Xiongnu and taught Zhuge Liang the Eight Tr 359Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 I'm a Dog, Damn It 老子是条狗 While driving passengers, taxi driver He Yifei unexpectedly ran into his first love, Zhou Zhou. He bragged to her about how well he was doing, but she saw right through him. When paying her fare, she kindly gave him an extra two hundred yuan, but the gesture only wounded He Yifei's pride. Seeing the huge gap between their lives now, He Yifei, who had always been fiercely proud, decided to work hard and live up to what a man should be! What a man fears most is meeting the woman he wants to protec 761Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 48 I Built the Hall of Eternal Life 我打造了长生殿 Shen Xun obtains a chip from the future. From then on, he commands lifespan, defies fate, and builds a hall for immortals! There are thirty million prodigies in the world, but I alone dare to call myself peerless! I am God! When I open my eyes, the world had better stay quiet. 441Reads5.2Score10314d adds
- 49 The Yin-Yang Spirit Medium 阴阳出马仙 [Transmigration + Urban + Supernatural Powers] He transmigrated to another world, and from the day he was born, there was nothing special about him. He thought he would live an ordinary life, but then he attended a bizarre and mysterious wedding and began his path of cultivation. Curse magic, sorcery, a hundred evil spirits of the netherworld, a nine-headed serpent, a mysterious stone coffin... One strange event after another came his way, constantly plunging him into danger. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Immortal for Hundreds of Millions of Years 长生亿万年 Billions of years ago, Fang Yi was born amid primordial chaos. To him, the river of time was no more than a little stream. The gods and demons of the myriad heavens were nothing but countless specks of dust before him. This time, he would rule the Heavenly Dao, and he quietly enrolled at a school! “Don't even think about provoking me. My power is beyond your imagination...” 385Reads6.3Score—14d adds
