Novels like The Cultivation Madman
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- 51 Apocalypse Countdown: I Married the Commander of Time 末世倒计时：我嫁给了时间指挥官 Apocalypse Countdown: I Married the Commander of Time 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 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. 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 The Sword Fanatic 剑痴 [Feel-Good Power Fantasy, Lots of Beauties, Classic Xuanhuan, Ensemble Family Story, Swordsmanship, Decisive and Ruthless] He unexpectedly has a child from the start! He begins his journey to godhood through dual cultivation... The male lead has an extraordinarily special physique and endless romantic encounters. He breezes through Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and the Mahayana stage. A swordsmanship prodigy, he practices alchemy, makes talismans, and searches for treasure 1.1kReads8.1Score12614d adds
- 54 Five-Spirit-Root 五灵根 Seeing through the game is hard. Escaping the game is even harder. Becoming the one who moves the pieces is harder still! A young man from a fallen family finally develops an extraordinary five-element spiritual root, thanks to the sacrifices of ten generations of his family. Yet he is dismissed as the most good-for-nothing of all. Come and see: Mo Luo, the young man, seeking immortality and the Dao, searching for his chance, slaying demons and defying the heavens. Through joys, sorrows, parting 6.1kReads7.7Score48914d adds
- 55 Reborn as a Good-for-Nothing Bastard Son, I Defy Fate with a Spirit Spring and Fox 穿成废柴庶子，灵泉灵狐助我逆天 A wisp of divine soul carries a spiritual spring space as it transmigrates to the cultivation world of Cangxuan Star. Li Yang wakes to find himself the discarded good-for-nothing illegitimate son of the Marquis of Loyalty and Valor's household. His dantian is shattered, his stepmother has plotted against him, and he's plunged into mortal danger the moment he opens his eyes! Fortunately, the spiritual spring space has come with his soul. Its clear spring can cleanse his marrow and meridians, its 149Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Lord Dayan 凡人修仙之大衍神君 Dayan Shenjun was a prodigy blessed with extraordinary talent, yet his obsession with the art of puppetry kept him from reaching the Deity Transformation stage. Now, reborn with his memories intact and presented with a new opportunity, he has steeled his Dao heart. See how he advances to Deity Transformation, stands tall between the mountains and seas, reigns supreme among the hundred races of the Spirit Realm, and sets foot in the Immortal Realm. This is not a brainless power fantasy. The focus 10Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 57 The Immortal Clan: The Incense System Helps Me Prove the Dao 长生仙族：香火系统助我证道 [Farming] [Family Saga] [System] [No Saintly Protagonist] [More Children, More Blessings] If you enjoy family cultivation stories with an incense System, follow along. The opening has a few rough spots, but overall it's pretty good. The story moves at a steady pace. If you like it, please show your support. The author will see it through to the end! Wei Qingxuan, a ghost from the pleasure quarter, transmigrates into the body of a groom in a cultivation world. After a night of passion in a dream 17.1kReads6.4Score1.9k14d adds
- 58 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: I Awaken the Chaos Dao Body from the Start 凡人修仙：我开局觉醒混沌道体 (Classic fantasy, Chaotic Dao Body, ordinary man's rise, mortal cultivation, multiple female leads.) Ordinary man Lin Chen loses both parents in an accident and awakens the Chaotic Dao Body. From then on, he defies the heavens, rises to power, and avenges his parents. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Swallowing the Sun and Moon, Treading Across Realms 凡人修仙：我吞日月踏界行 [Mortal’s Journey] [Cultivation] [Spirit Beasts] [Pocket Dimension] [Alchemy] [Talisman Crafting] [Formations] [Swordsmanship] [Combat] [No System] [Not a Transmigration Story] [Not a Rebirth Story] A true mortal’s journey + sound values + no AI + ambitious and hardworking + slow-paced Immortals absorb immortal energy, while demons use demonic energy. Without either, one is just a mortal. The myriad worlds are vast, and the realms of immortals and demons are but a corner of them. Only the chaoti 404Reads—Score10514d adds
- 60 Crossing the Star River: A Mortal's Path to Immortality 星河渡，凡人修仙 [Qi Refining... Deity Transformation... Tribulation Transcendence] [Traditional Cultivation] [A Weak Golden Finger] [Thunder, Darkness, Fire, Metal, and Water Spiritual Roots] Ning Zhe, a person from Blue Star, possesses mutated spiritual roots of all five elements. Three mighty cultivators who had drifted into the Solar System chose him as a medium for locating the cultivation world, setting him on the path to immortality. While being transported from Blue Star to the cultivation world, Ning Zh 74Reads—Score714d adds
- 61 Transmigrated to the Ancient World to Hunt the Heavenly Wolf: Modern Weapons Hold the Frontier 穿越古代猎天狼：热武空间镇边关 Transmigrated to Ancient Times to Hunt the Heavenly Wolf: A Modern Weapons Space Guards the Frontier 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 My Stunning CEO Fiancée 我的绝色总裁未婚妻 A mysterious master slips into the city, where he becomes engaged to a beautiful, icy CEO, only to be rejected. Poor Shen Lang has no choice but to go out and look for food. Unexpectedly, one beautiful woman after another comes his way, and Shen Lang is swept into a whirlpool of romantic entanglements. Of course, his main goal is still to win over the icy CEO. 14kReads8.6Score1.2k14d adds
- 63 Cultivation: My Dantian Can Evolve All Things! 修仙：我的丹田能进化万物！ [Traditional Fantasy + Cultivation + Decisive and Ruthless + Growth] Bai Xiaotian, a village boy, accidentally saves an “immortal” on the verge of death and embarks on the path of Cultivation. With five inferior spiritual roots, is Foundation Establishment truly beyond his reach in this lifetime? No. He also has a mysterious spiritual field! A ten-year-old spiritual herb he plants evolves directly into an immortal herb ten thousand years old! A low-tier cultivation manual transforms in an ins 6.5kReads7.5Score65614d adds
- 64 Creator of a World United as One 世界大同缔造者 [Urban cultivation + traditional techniques + students and campus beauties + no System + humorous comedy + Immortal Realm + Divine Realm] Tang Yixuan saved a fox that had failed its tribulation. Its lingering soul took up residence in his spiritual platform. It was Tang Xiaowan, a Great Enforcer Golden Immortal from the Immortal Realm, who had escaped to Earth as a fragment of her divine soul during the war between gods and demons. Tang Yixuan’s family was bullied by a local tyrant. He couldn’t 1.4kReads9.1Score18214d adds
- 65 From Menial Servant to Immortal Emperor 杂役问鼎仙帝 Xiao Mi is a genius with a Chaotic Divine Physique, yet he can only support himself by working as a menial in his sect. With unparalleled talent, he makes a comeback and becomes the most dazzling genius of the Sword Dao Sect. If his chaotic meridians prevent him from cultivating, then he’ll use the common-as-dirt Tiger Subduing Fist to become the supreme Sword Emperor. If no one recognizes his Chaotic Divine Physique, then he’ll shatter the heavens and become the Divine Emperor of All Immortals, 2.3kReads8.0Score21514d adds
- 66 I'm Back After Cultivating Immortality 老子修仙回来了 Lin Chen, the strongest Immortal Venerable in the Immortal Realm, is renowned across the four corners of the world! But one day, when he wakes up, he discovers that he's returned to his youth. “I'm finally reborn.” He grins. From this moment on, the world will change because of him... 1.1kReads8.2Score16414d adds
- 67 Cultivation Maniac 修仙狂徒 A street thug transmigrates to another world and wakes up in the body of a fallen young master from a prestigious family. In his head, he carries a tattered, unreliable collection of talisman arts, while his heart harbors a few lecherous, roguish schemes. Watch him charm his way through the cruel world of cultivation and live the life of a spoiled young master on the path to immortality. 5kReads8.7Score69714d adds
- 68 A Rank-One Mortal Cultivator 一阶凡修 A classic mortal's path to immortality. With a mixed Five-Element spiritual root, the protagonist overcomes one obstacle after another through hard work and fortuitous encounters, rising to prominence in the cultivation world. Stages: Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Golden Core → Nascent Soul → Spirit Transformation → Void Refinement → Body Integration → Great Ascension → Tribulation Transcendence 4kReads6.8Score37714d adds
- 69 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 2.3kReads6.6Score22314d adds
- 70 Tales of the Uncanny: The Severing of Heaven and Earth 异闻录之绝地天通 [Traditional cultivation: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, Void Refinement, Body Integration, and Mahayana. No System, no female lead.] “I cultivate the Dao not to cling to life, nor to live an ordinary, insignificant existence. I do it to transcend life and death and take control of my own fate. Even if I die, it will be on the path to the Great Dao, fighting other people or battling Heaven and Earth. And if I become a mortal, I still wo 33Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Whales Fall with the Tide, Wind Rests on the Shore 鲸落于潮，风栖于岸 A whale falls with the tide, the wind comes to rest on the shore 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 72 Proving the Way Through Dust and Mud 尘泥证道 A flash flood swallows a village. Li Yang’s parents give their lives to protect him, and the fifteen-year-old flees to Beijiao with the black stone passed down through the Li family. He has no idea that this strange stone, which cannot be burned or shattered with a hammer, is an ancient treasure left behind by immortal cultivators. The moment his blood claims it, a half-acre spiritual field and a pool of immortal spring water unfold from his palm, along with an unbelievable law that makes time —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 From a Bottom-Tier Rogue Cultivator to a Cultivation Grandmaster 从底层散修开始肝成修仙大佬 When Lin Yi wakes up, he has become an unaffiliated Qi Refining cultivator in Huiyuan Immortal City, in the cultivation world. He discovers that he has awakened a stat panel. For any cultivation method, secret technique, supernatural ability, or skill, as long as he performs the required steps once, he gains one guaranteed experience point, regardless of how seriously he tries or what the final result is. “I'm in the perfect position! First, I'll keep my head down and develop quietly for a whil 13.2kReads6.9Score77714d adds
- 74 Cultivating Immortality Begins with Inheriting a City 修仙从继承城主开始 (The protagonist’s soul transmigrates to another world, no System, a steady-paced cultivation story about an ordinary person, with humor, a slow build, and plenty of schemes) Tour guide Tao Yiming transmigrates to another world and becomes the son of a city lord. By chance, he gains an opportunity to cultivate immortality... After learning the Heavenly Thunder Body-Refinement Art, Tao Yiming searches high and low for charging stations, luring down lightning to recharge. A hundred-year-old spirit 2.1kReads—Score12114d adds
- 75 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Starting as a Pig-Farming Servant 凡人修仙：从养猪杂役开始 [Spatial Storage + Farming + Beast Taming + No System + Illustrations in the Final Chapter] The little beggar Li Changqing was hoping to get a decent meal when, by a stroke of luck, he became a pig-raising servant in the Xuanming Sect. By chance, he activated the Beastskin Scroll of Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers, a gift from an old beggar. Time inside the scroll passed a thousand times faster than outside, and its spiritual energy was twice as potent. From then on, Li Changqing rais 603Reads6.4Score5814d adds
- 76 I Am the Carefree Supreme One 我为逍遥至尊 A sudden mutation occurred. A beam of light shot into the brow of the young man in white, and he was instantly wracked with such agony that he let out a heart-rending scream. After a long while, the young man's pain subsided. He discovered that new information had appeared in his mind. Unable to resist, he looked through it and was overjoyed to learn that the beam of light, which had shot from the ancestral jade pendant in his hand into his brow, was a cultivation technique. It was called the Un 1.4kReads8.7Score15914d adds
- 77 The All-Purpose Dad of the City 都市全能奶爸 A revered immortal failed to overcome his tribulation and transmigrated into another world. He never expected to suddenly find himself with an adorable little daughter, as pretty as a doll, whose mother was as beautiful as a celestial maiden! And so, the revered immortal transformed into a devoted dad who’d do anything to protect his daughter and a husband who doted on his wife. A dad who knows magic is unstoppable. This is destined to be a thrilling power fantasy about a peerless powerhouse rul 2.5kReads8.6Score40714d adds
- 78 Cultivation Begins in a Mine 修仙从矿洞开始 A pure-mortal cultivation story: no System, no transmigration, a return to the traditional essence of cultivation! The protagonist is an ordinary mortal with no spiritual roots who enters a sect to mine spirit stones for a living. By chance, he survives a deadly disaster and awakens the Five-Colored Spiritual Marrow buried underground. This rare treasure, unseen in ten thousand years, reshapes his spiritual roots from within, unexpectedly condensing the rare Five-Element Spiritual Roots! From th 2.3kReads8.7Score18814d adds
- 79 The Immortal Dao Is Unfathomable 仙道莫测 A modern archaeologist ventures deep into the Kunlun Mountains, where he unexpectedly encounters a psychic three-tailed white fox. Following it to a hidden cave, he chances upon a mysterious gray orb and is transported body and soul to a vast world of cultivation. From then on, he leaves behind his life as an ordinary mortal and joins a small sect in the martial world. Step by step, he advances on the path to immortality and breaks through one barrier after another. Watch as he defies the heaven 47Reads—Score214d adds
- 80 The Bronze Age: Blade Lord of Reverse Entropy 青铜纪元：逆熵刀主 The Bronze Age: Blade Lord of Entropy —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 A Hundred Wasted Meridians? I Have a Hundredfold Cultivation Space 百脉废灵根？我有百倍修炼空间 [Mortal Cultivation | Space Upgrades | No System | No Harem] Shen Qing, a good-for-nothing with a hundred-spirit-root constitution, unexpectedly acquires a mysterious space where time flows a hundred times faster: the [Tortoiseshell Cave Heaven]. Time passes a hundred times faster inside, and it also holds the immortal cultivation art "Evergreen Art". Plant a spirit herb for ten years, and it becomes a thousand-year-old immortal herb; Raise a spirit beast for a hundred years, and it becomes a te 12Reads—Score10014d adds
- 82 Cultivating Immortality Through Spatial Farming 修仙从空间种田开始 [Traditional Immortal Cultivation + Spatial Farming + Cautious Growth + Family Clan + Slow-Burn Leveling + Ordinary Man's Journey] Lu Qingxuan transmigrates, and from the start finds himself living on an island surrounded by monsters! Then a once-in-a-century monster tide strikes, leaving many clan members dead or injured and the old clan leader gravely wounded and near death. The clan is deeply divided, powerful enemies are watching closely, and the monsters in the sea are stirring... At the br 9kReads7.2Score65314d adds
- 83 I Have an Infinite Spirit Stone System 我有无限灵石系统 (Transmigration + System + daily life in the cultivation world + a smart protagonist + many love interests + spirit pets + decisive killing + laying low and developing early on + going on a killing spree later) The protagonist transmigrates from Earth to the cultivation world and acquires an infinite spirit stone System. What, you can’t win? Buy a mountain of spirit talismans and blast your enemies to death. Cultivation is too slow? No such thing. Just keep feeding it top-grade spirit stones. So 141Reads—Score1314d adds
- 84 I Picked Up a Cute Pet, and It's a Qilin 捡个萌宠是麒麟 I Picked Up a Cute Pet, and It's a Qilin 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Immortal Shadows, Dustbound Fate 尘缘仙影 He inherits a family heirloom ring, only to discover that it contains a whole world within. He had planned to finish college and then return home to stay by his parents' side. But some people have nothing better to do after a full meal, and they force Su Ming step by step down the abyss of Cultivation… 1.1kReads7.2Score10214d adds
- 86 I Transmigrated to the Cultivation World: Rising to the Top by Selling Fish 穿越修仙界：从卖鱼开始崛起 [Mortal cultivation, no System, rise from the bottom] After transmigrating, Ye Yu is kicked out of his family from the start. He has no choice but to scrape by as a fishmonger, until he offends a sect's holy maiden at the Yihong Brothel and has to flee to another city. In his new cultivation city, Ye Yu first buys two maids to calm his nerves, then invents a seal-based talisman-making technique, opening the floodgates to wealth. To keep growing stronger, Ye Yu builds airplanes and cannons. He’s 10.2kReads8.6Score80114d adds
- 87 The Big Hippo Family 大河马家 [Family clan + mortal cultivation + farming + not a power fantasy] Among the teeming masses and beneath the boundless Great Dao, demons run rampant across the Tian Xuan Continent, slaughtering all under heaven. Clans also rise everywhere, protecting the people. Ma Chao Feng wields a Red Dust Sword, battles peerless prodigies, and concocts astonishing pills. He covets a gentleman's wealth and delights in beautiful scenery. Can he lead the Heng Lang Ma Clan to triumph over its rivals, stand proudl 6.8kReads8.1Score41514d adds
- 88 My Secret Weapon Is a Mosquito 我滴杀手锏是只蚊子 [Urban High Martial Arts + Urban Fantasy + Supernatural Powers + Scheming Protagonist + Spatial Ability] Not long after graduating from college, Luo Feng was hoping to follow in his father's footsteps when his sworn brother and childhood sweetheart joined forces to betray him. A blow to the head left him mentally impaired, then his parents were murdered and his family fortune seized. Fleeing for his life, Luo Feng collapsed in a ruined temple, his blood staining the wooden fish-shaped stone. A s 164Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 Rust Breathing 锈蚀呼吸 Rusty Breath —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 Bai Qinghe’s Bumpy Road to Immortality 白清禾的坎坷仙途 Her father was eaten by a beast, her younger brother was swept away by the river, and her grandmother died from shock and grief. In an instant, her happy family was shattered. Her mother, the only family she had left, sold her into a squalid den for the sake of her own happiness! Bai Qinghe jumped from a cliff in despair. But she survived against all odds. By a twist of fate, she saved a Golden Core cultivator and gained entry to the vast, wondrous world of immortal cultivation. A Five-Spirit Ro 3.5kReads8.4Score34314d adds
- 91 Green Origin Immortal Manor 青元仙府 After a famine forces the young Fang Yang to be sold as a servant in the city, a strange ancient seal script character unexpectedly leads him to join a martial sect. By a twist of fate, a mysterious immortal mountain takes refuge inside him. One day in the outside world equals a year in the mountain, and from then on, thousand-year-old spirit herbs and ten-thousand-year-old immortal medicines are his for the taking... Fengyun Star, Azure Ancient Star, Canglan Star, Tianyuan Star, Qingliu Star, P 9.2kReads8.4Score92414d adds
- 92 A Mortal's Immortal Cultivation: Dual Cultivation of Sword and Body 凡人修仙之剑体双修 [Mortal-style cultivation] [Slow burn] [Cautious and careful] [No harem] [Driven by self-interest] [Not a bleeding heart] [No System] [Decisive and ruthless] Chen Xuan was once an assassin in the Darknight Hall. During a mission, he unexpectedly obtained a cultivation technique. He made the assassin's instinct etched into his very bones, caution, his highest principle. He treaded on thin ice with every step of his cultivation, carefully considering every possibility. He watched and waited whenev 852Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 93 The Immortal Path of the City: A World at My Side 都市仙道之随身世界 The Supreme Immortal of the Immortal Realm is ambushed by a traitor. His body and cultivation are destroyed, and a wisp of his remaining soul transmigrates to the mortal city, where he is reborn and awakens the divine artifact from his past life: the Heaven-Earth Chaos Tower. He opens up a world of his own. Seek treasures, glimpse the heavens, devour all things, refine all things, claim secret realms, gather spiritual materials... Take them all! All of them! The protagonist, Lin Tian, brings his 13kReads7.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 94 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. 33.6kReads8.6Score2.5k14d adds
- 95 The Dominating Chaos Art 霸道混沌诀 Born with a Chaos Physique, he obtains a cultivation method formed from primordial chaos at the dawn of creation, inherits a thousand years of memories from the patriarch, and gains a divine ring containing a pocket world of blessed grotto-heavens. He is accompanied by a transformed ginseng doll. He crushes vicious thugs and arrogant young masters with a single move, and wipes out demons and monsters with one punch. He punishes evil and promotes good, restoring clarity to the world. Whoever offe 2.5kReads8.3Score19114d adds
- 96 The Fox Immortal Descends to Face Her Love Trial: Frost on the Pillow as the Moon Sets over Qingqiu 狐仙下凡渡情劫：青丘月落枕上霜 The Fox Immortal Descends to Face a Love Tribulation: Frost on the Pillow as the Moon Sets over Qingqiu —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 I Saw the Killer's Face While Preparing the Campus Beauty's Body for Her Funeral 我给校花整理遗容时，看到了凶手的脸 While preparing the school beauty’s body for burial, I saw the killer’s face. 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Dream-Transmigrated as an Ancient Soldier: The Bloodsoaked General Who Fought His Way Out of a Mountain of Corpses 梦穿古代士卒：从尸山血海中杀出的铁血将军 Dreaming of Transmigration as an Ancient Soldier: The Iron-Blooded General Who Fought His Way Out of a Mountain of Corpses and Sea of Blood 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 The Spirit Eye That Sees Every Detail 秋毫灵眼 [Mortal’s journey + no System + no harem] Li Changsheng stumbled upon the Spiritual Eye of Fine Detail and began his path of cultivation. The road to immortality was as difficult as climbing to the heavens, like rowing upstream, where failing to advance meant falling behind. The cultivation world was full of deceit and treachery, its fortunes as unpredictable as the tides. Li Changsheng had no choice but to tread carefully, as if walking on thin ice. Though he had an ordinary three-element spiri 367Reads8.1Score10614d adds
- 100 Transmigrated as an Ancient-Era Playboy: The Heir Shocks the Entire Capital After Giving Up 穿越成古代纨绔：世子爷摆烂后惊艳全京城 Transmigrated into an Ancient Playboy: After the Heir Apparent Gave Up, He Amazed the Entire Capital —Reads—Score—14d adds
