Novels like A Cultivator from a Poor Family
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- 1 Life in the Immortal Realm Is Too Hard, So I Fled to the Lower Realm to Become a Big Shot 仙界太难混，润去下界当大佬 [Lighthearted + Hilarious + Everyday Life + Bandit] Xu Kaitian transmigrates to the Immortal Realm, thinking that becoming an immortal will let him do whatever he wants. Instead, even newborn babies are Immortal Venerables! With no backing and no immortal bones, this outsider takes 10,086 low-level jobs and barely scrapes by for two and a half years! Then he suddenly awakens a gateway between the two realms... In the lower realm, he establishes a sect, takes in disciples by the thousands, and ma 115Reads6.2Score112Shelves
- 2 The Primordial Heavenly Dao 元天道 In the primordial chaos of ancient times, the Nine Heavens and Nine Earths stretched beneath a vast divine realm. Countless ages passed after Pangu, the Creator God, merged with Heaven and Earth. Then, in Pangu’s world, a young beggar named Yang Shuo caught the eye of Donghua, one of the Heavenly Court’s Seven Immortal Lords who Guard the Realms. Donghua took him to a secluded valley and taught him for a hundred years. After the Immortal Lord departed, Yang Shuo relied on his skills and sharp mi 203Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 3 The Ultimate Survivor's Chronicle: Cultivating Immortality Through Risk Management 苟王实录：风险修仙 After transmigrating to the cultivation world, Lin Jingyuan becomes a walking “troublemaking machine,” ripping off aristocratic clans and teammates alike. Wherever he goes, someone is bound to get swindled! A top-tier formation master and talisman expert, he refuses to follow the beaten path, specializing instead in all manner of absurdly bizarre talismans and strange formations. One “Half-Body Invisibility Talisman,” which only makes the upper half of the body invisible, sparks a blood feud be 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Edict of the Immortals, Shatter the Demons 敕仙破魔 [Beast Taming + Swordsmanship + Spirit Root Affinities + Demon Refining + Awakening + Power Fantasy] Command the power of spirit beasts; Master the way of the sword; Draw upon your own spirit root; Defeat the demons threatening every corner of the world. In this land, cultivation realm is not the only measure of a person's strength. The true key to terrifying power is raising powerful spirit beasts and cultivating the unique talents of your own spirit root affinities. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Cultivating to Immortality as a Mortal: Starting with a Small Family After Transmigration 凡人修仙，从穿越小家族开始 Synopsis: [Ordinary-person cultivation] + [No System] + [Keeping a low profile] + [Beast Taming] + [Alchemy] + [Talisman-making] + [Artifact forging] + [Formations] A web-novel author dies suddenly at his computer after writing too much in a rush to publish his work, The Immortal Path. His soul transmigrates, and he is reborn in another world of cultivation. Who is the mysterious skeleton on the strange altar in the forbidden depths of the Dark Sea? How did those ancient golden characters, desce 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Seeking Immortal Destiny Through the Dao 道问仙缘 Cultivation takes opportunity, perseverance, and great wisdom. This book tells the story of an ordinary mortal who, thanks to a single stroke of fortune, journeys across the world of cultivation and ultimately attains the Dao and ascends to immortality. 734Reads8.0Score104Shelves
- 7 Cultivation: Eating My Way Across the World 修仙：吃遍天下 The Wang family, the foremost cultivation clan in the Eastern Wilderness, is home to a multitude of geniuses and powerful cultivators. Only the ninth young master, Wang Yupò, has no interest in cultivation. He only cares about eating. At the Spirit-Root Assessment Ceremony at age sixteen, he was so hungry that he bit into the Heaven-Inquiring Stele, awakening the ancient Taotie bloodline. From then on, while others absorbed spiritual energy, he ate five meals a day; while others studied jade s 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Demon Mirror: A Major Breakthrough to Nascent Soul 魔镜：元婴大突破 Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core… Give this book a little time, and I think you’ll enjoy it. (Demonic cultivation, multiple heroines, no System, decisive and ruthless, with a touch of absurd humor and a darker tone. If that’s not your thing, don’t read.) Li Dabao, an ordinary mortal, gets his hands on a spatial magic mirror, which contains a demonic statue as well. It seems like he’s stumbled upon a great opportunity, but in reality, he’s being led step by step into a huge trap 1.5kReads6.8Score101Shelves
- 9 Cultivation: I Told You to Raise Insects, Not Bloodwinged Mosquitoes 修仙：让你养虫，你养血翅黑蚊 [Lighthearted] [Funny] [Fast-Paced] From the start, he wakes up under a bed in the Yihong Courtyard and awakens the [Super God-Tier Intelligence System]. [It provides unlimited cultivation-world intelligence every day.] [The guy on the bed accidentally acquired the Blood-Winged Mosquito, the young form of the Mosquito Taoist. He’s in post-orgasm bliss right now, completely off guard.] [Another transmigrator is about to arrive and steal the Blood-Winged Mosquito. Defeat him to obtain his System, 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Cultivating Immortality, Starting with Fish Head Wine 修仙，从鱼头酒开始 [Unconventional cultivation + lighthearted feel-good story + comeback + multiple heroines + social savvy] Qian Jin transmigrated into a world of cultivation, where he became a good-for-nothing with a mixed spiritual root, rejected by the immortal sects. In a place where only strength and cultivation mattered, everyone thought he was beyond saving. But Qian Jin refused to play by the usual rules. Others relied on cultivation. Qian Jin relied on connections. A meal of fish head and wine won o 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Tale of the Immortal Devourer 噬仙记 [Eerie parasitic cultivation x traditional cultivation] [No System, no rebirth] [The protagonist is no saint] [A gradual descent into darkness] A village boy tormented in every way by his stepmother receives a message from his dead mother in a dream and gains a cultivation method that lets him seize other people’s spiritual power. But after he passes the spiritual-root test, he discovers that the immortal cultivators are not what they seem... The monster-infested Myriad Demon Ridge, a heavenly d 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Di Yuan A's First Book 帝元啊的第一本书 [Traditional Eastern fantasy, star-force xianxia, no heroine] The immortals are elusive, and all beings yearn for them. The power of the immortals is what all beings seek. Yet all immortals take everything in the world and make it their own. Thus it is said: the immortals devour all beings. There was once an ordinary young man. He became an immortal. Then he destroyed the immortals. 22.7kReads7.6Score1.2kShelves
- 13 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 2.2kReads7.9Score218Shelves
- 14 This Evil Cultivator Is Surprisingly Righteous 这个邪修，有点正 [Eastern Fantasy, Master-Disciple Comedy, No System, Misunderstandings, Cautious Cultivation, Power Fantasy, Subverting Expectations, Lightning Techniques, Genius, Play the pig to eat the tiger, Decisive and Ruthless] My demonic cultivator master lied and told me he was the leader of the righteous path! I believed him and devoted myself wholeheartedly to exterminating evil, defending the righteous, and slaying demons. One day, my master got caught trying to flirt with a female ghost because h 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 A-Zhen, Are You Serious?! I Made a Real Immortal Emperor at the Anime Convention 阿珍你来真的啊！漫展搞个真仙帝 [A Satisfying Story with Brains] [Loads of Illustrations] [Leave your brain here. Leave a message and rate the book to earn interest while we provide benefits for your family] [If this book isn’t funny, the author will send you 50 yuan and admit you’re Qin Shi Huang] [About being ruthless and decisive: friends who kill people often know it’s easy to kill, but hard to dispose of the body. The protagonist’s solution is to grind them to ashes] [Pan Zhou Dan is a verb] The strongest Immortal Emperor —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Useless Senior Disciple: I Get Stronger Just by Sleeping 废材大师兄：睡觉就能变强 (Fantasy, playing it safe, a sly schemer, transmigration, play the pig to eat the tiger, standard Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core stuff.) Fast-paced, hilarious power fantasy! The protagonist, Wu Yong, is a nobody pulling an all-nighter on Tomato, reading a fantasy novel. Suddenly, his phone blazes with light and sucks him inside. He transmigrates straight into a cultivation world and, with the System’s golden finger, plays the pig to eat the tiger all the way from low-leve 339Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 17 At 14, I Became the Head of the Household: Dream Comes True Borrowed Money to Start a Business 14岁当家，”梦成真”借钱做生意 Running the Household at Fourteen: 'Meng Chengzhen' Borrows Money to Start a Business —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Chronicles of the Immortal Cultivation Era 修仙纪元录 A man with no memories inherits the legacy of an unknown great power. Using the Buddhist-Demonic Treasure Mirror, he travels through the heavens, collecting the Great Ways of myriad worlds and fusing all techniques into one. He creates his own path, transcends cause and effect, and ascends to the pinnacle. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 I Don't Want Anything from You 我不稀罕你这里 I Don't Want Anything from You —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 What Kind of Job Is That? 啥差事 What Kind of Job Is That? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Heir of the Great Clarity 太清传人 No transmigration, no System, no spiritual roots, no wise old man at his side, and no decisive scheming that spans the ages. Just an ordinary scholar with a bit of a temper, who accidentally mistakes a soul collector for a ghost and takes one step onto the path to immortality. From berating the Dragon Lord to wielding his sword against Kunlun, he takes on “the renewal of humanity” in a struggle against “the eternal mandate of Heaven,” breaks the fixed order of immortals and gods, and reshapes th 3.6kReads7.5Score335Shelves
- 22 An Extraordinary Immortal Destiny 不凡仙缘 [Mortal Cultivation + No System] A young man is caught in a sudden, thick fog and inexplicably transported to a strange world. After receiving a celestial maiden’s teachings, he embarks on the path of cultivation. Many years later, having achieved success in his cultivation, he returns to his hometown, only to uncover its shocking secret... Realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Deification 487Reads8.5Score104Shelves
- 23 The Broken Cauldron of Creation: I Became a Great Shaman by Scavenging Junk 造化残鼎：全靠捡破烂修成大巫 There are no true wastes in this world, only truths that remain incomplete. In Lin Yuan’s sea of consciousness sat a broken cauldron, missing an ear and a leg, its surface covered in verdigris. For five years, it had consumed his blood and essence, and sealed his meridians. Today, the cauldron was finally ready. The Creation Cauldron mends everything incomplete in the world! Incomplete cultivation manuals? Mended! The crude "Savage Bull Art" becomes the ancient "Great Shaman Golden Body Art", al —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Ghosts Celebrate New Year 鬼过年 Ghosts Celebrate the New Year 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 I Started as a Sentient Spirit, and Cultivation Is All About Keeping Up Appearances 开局灵智体，修仙全靠装 (Not a bleeding heart) (Decisive and ruthless) (Innovative and enterprising) Cultivation takes more than talent, opportunities, and lucky encounters. You also have to know how to put on an act. Life is a play, and cultivation is no different. Those who can act are the ones who live the longest. Lu Qing crawled out of a heap of corpses and used his wits to make his way through the world. With a demon in his left hand and an immortal in his right, he fought demons and immortals alike, embodying bo 54Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 26 Villain: It’s All a Joke from the Start 反派：开局就是乐子 Zhao Gang’s many vile deeds were too much even for the gods to tolerate. They forced him into a stroke of extreme bad luck, then banished him to another world. Zhao Gang cursed up a storm, and his string of profane greetings moved the gods. They gave him a System and sent him to face off against the male leads of various stories, successfully taking him from a perilous situation where he had a one-in-nine chance of survival to a stable ending where he was doomed to die. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 I Returned from Cultivation and Gained a Son 修仙归来多了个儿子 (No System, no harem: a hilarious, passionate fantasy cultivation novel) While others practice swordsmanship, he hammers iron, chops wood, and does headstands. While others study immortal arts, he learns to charge trees like a bear. While others fly on swords, he swings through the air like Tarzan. When others fight, they throw fireballs and lightning bolts, looking impossibly cool. He grabs his opponent, pins them down, and beats them in the face. Others strike with a single sword thrust straig 409Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 28 The Realm of Immortal Aspirations 望仙境 [A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality] [No transmigration] [No System] [One heroine] The grandfather who had been by his side for nine years turned into a black cat when he died... He always thought he was an ordinary country boy, only to discover he had a shocking background... His older sister is hidden inside an immortal pearl and possesses countless cultivation techniques, yet she cannot teach him any of them... He has the worst spiritual roots in the world, yet is accepted into the 120Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 29 A Mortal’s Fateful Encounter with Immortal Pu 凡人之仙蒲奇缘 {No System} {Mortal’s journey} {Not a saint} A seven-year-old boy joins a cultivation sect by chance. After ten years of grueling practice, he is still stuck at the fifth level of Qi Refining. Growing disillusioned with the Dao, he leaves the sect and escapes into the secular world, hoping to enjoy an easy life by relying on his cultivator status. But an extraordinary encounter from his childhood keeps driving him forward. As a rogue cultivator, he wanders among the sects and clans of the Hundre 566Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 30 The Divine Path to Immortality 神途仙路 Wu Xiaoqi is found to have an exceptionally rare mixed spiritual root and is taken in as an outer sect disciple by Tianhe Sect, a third-rate cultivation sect. Before he can learn much magic, his sect is destroyed by another sect. When he returns to his hometown, he discovers that every villager has been slaughtered. Fortunately, Wu Xiaoqi is blessed with great fortune as he wanders the martial world, and one wondrous encounter after another eventually sets him on the path to a comeback. He leave 22Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 31 A Cautious Cultivator: My Sister and I Become Gods with the Pure Bottle 苟道中人，我与姐姐净瓶成神 [Mortal’s Journey + Slow Burn + Playing It Safe + No Harem] Alternate title: A Good-for-Nothing Water-and-Fire Spirit Root? Watch Me Become a God! A mysterious black dog falls from the sky, shattering the quiet life of Gou Sheng, a cowherd who had always been content just to get by. Gou Sheng has good-for-nothing water-and-fire spirit roots. Water and fire should be incompatible, leaving him with no chance of reaching immortality. But a mysterious black dog and a jade purification bottle turn 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 I’m a Mortal with Five Spiritual Roots 凡人我是五灵根 Chen Yixuan was born into an ordinary family and transmigrated into the world of mortals. His life goal changed from “becoming a civil servant” to “living forever”! Born with dual spiritual roots, he was nevertheless assigned a cultivation technique meant for five spiritual roots, turning him into a good-for-nothing with artificial five spiritual roots. But how could a good-for-nothing ever attain the Great Dao of immortality? How could he avoid the original owner’s deadly pitfalls? Opportunity! 2.3kReads—Score207Shelves
- 33 The Messy Business of Cultivation 修仙的那点破事 In cultivating immortality, I seek eternal life. In cultivating immortality, I seek a perfectly clear Dao heart. In cultivating immortality, I seek great freedom and carefree ease. Only mortals have to make choices. As for this immortal, I want it all. Jiang Liu meets his wonderful master, a handsome man who has captivated thousands of young women. From then on, he embarks on the great path of cultivation and begins a journey to become invincible. [Satisfying Power Fantasy] [Humorous and Witty] 6Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 34 An Immortal Path Without Roots 无根仙途 A classic mortal cultivation story, with no System and no female lead, but featuring a golden finger: a world inside a cave abode that can speed up the growth of spirit herbs. The villains aren't dumbed down, and the characters are well developed. I hope you'll give it a read! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 The Celestial Pivot's Quest for Immortality 天枢问长生 [Genius protagonist] [Lighthearted] [Laid-back] His parents die from the start, and an immortal maiden breaks off their engagement. Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west... He has the script of a protagonist in his hands, but unfortunately, the protagonist isn't him, Zhang Jiuzhang. As the poem goes: A warm family, a cozy home A little childhood sweetheart, a little boy 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Journey to the Immortal Realm 临仙行 [Mortal cultivation] [No System] [Traditional xianxia] Seeking immortality is like walking by night along the edge of an abyss. When Ning Ping was young, his village was utterly destroyed in a battle between immortals. Born with a mystical soul, he was even abducted and presented to someone as a gift. Fortunately, while fleeing for his life, he came upon the mysterious treasure known as the Tianyan Cauldron. It not only helped him escape, but also let him rise to even greater heights and embark 12.2kReads8.6Score1.2kShelves
- 37 Fate, 缘分， Fate, 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Mortal's Prequel 凡人前传 In the servant quarters, Han Li felt the green bottle burning hot against his chest as he listened to his master “earnestly” teach him the Evergreen Art. Cold sweat soaked through his coarse shirt. He had already tasted the benefits of “false qi,” and even caught a whiff of the poisonous incense from his master’s medicine furnace. When that old bastard staged his fake death, Han Li gripped the ripened thousand-year-old vermilion fruit in his sleeve, his eyes flashing coldly. This time, it was my 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Shameless! Two Liang 无耻！二两 From the start, he’s streaking across a desolate mountain! Lin Erliang awakens the Old Sixth Ambush System. Following the righteous path to cultivation means certain death; only underhanded ambushes can make him invincible! A brick to strike down prodigies, a sack to tie up sages! A thousand years of death to shatter their resolve, underhanded arts to subdue ten thousand sects! While others play fair, he specializes in sneak attacks! While others cultivate the Great Way, he cultivates shameles 1.3kReads—Score106Shelves
- 40 I’m Incomprehensible 我深不可测 A good-for-nothing office drone unexpectedly awakens the “Four Keeps” superpower: always leave yourself an out, hold back a little when you speak, keep a backup plan, and don't use up all your good fortune. He only wants to keep his head down and slack off, but the entire company mistakes him for a profound master. Thus begins his hilarious, forced rise to success. Li Buyi originally just wanted to keep being useless, but he discovers that the more he “holds back,” the more absurd things get: · 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 The Heaven-Piercing Stele 通天碑 Xie Xuan, a young man from the Canglan Continent, was regarded as a good-for-nothing in cultivation. By chance, he obtained a fragment of the Heaven-Connecting Stele. This peerless divine artifact, said to have sealed the Chaos Demon God, shattered and scattered across the worlds when the path to immortality was severed ten thousand years ago. It split into ten pieces, each containing one of the ten forces of origin. Rising from the mire, Xie Xuan made formations the foundation of his strength, 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Greatest Scoundrel of All Time 万古第一贱帝 On the Tianyuan Continent, Sages are hailed as gods. The invincible Martial Sage returns to his youth. The regrets of the past will be made right! Old scores will be settled! In this life, I’ll shake the world with my cultivation and stir up the heavens with my swagger! “So what if I’m a spoiled wastrel? Your young master here has money to burn.” “So what if those cultivation manuals are priceless? Your young master here can get his hands on them in a snap.” “Everything in this world, good or ba 2kReads8.1Score232Shelves
- 43 Saint King's Bone 圣王骨 Ning Tuo, the Northern Prince, had his bloodline power stolen by his elder brother, the Crown Prince. Reduced to a cripple, he was sent to an enemy kingdom and forced to become a hostage son-in-law. But on the journey, he awakened an unrivaled talent for manipulating time and became the heir to the Heaven-Severing lineage. He could seize heavenly secrets and destinies above, and sever fortunes and opportunities below. No matter how peerless a prodigy you were, every opportunity that came your wa 1.1kReads8.2Score106Shelves
- 44 My Name Is Zhu Chongba: A Bowl from the Start 我叫朱重八开局一个碗 Don’t let the title fool you: the story is even more ridiculous than it sounds. My name is Zhu Chongba, from Fengyang, Anhui. Occupations: cowherd, monk, beggar, rebel, emperor. Starting equipment: a chipped bowl. Completion reward: the whole world. When I was born, the whole room glowed red. Actually, the neighbor’s house was on fire, and my father had to pay him three chickens. When I was a monk, I rang the bell and came up with “The Tune That Wakes the Hungry.” The abbot said I had insight. I 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Farming in an Immortal Manor 仙府种田 Ye Ling is a humble herb-gathering disciple from a poor family. By chance, he obtains a jade pendant containing an immortal estate, and from then on embarks on the true path of cultivation. Within this miraculous immortal estate are a wooden cabin, several acres of spiritual fields, and secluded valleys and mountaintops shrouded in drifting clouds and mist. Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation… He gathers herbs and refines pills in the cultivatio 31Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 46 This Streamer Gets It: He Made a Million Toxic Positivity Gurus Cry 这主播能处：怼哭百万毒鸡汤 [Outspoken Zhang San + A streamer worth following] Ye Feng transmigrates to a parallel world and awakens the Insulting People System. From the start, he refuses to work overtime and tears into anyone who tries to guilt-trip others! Shameless boss: “Leaving right on time is so inconsiderate. I haven’t even left yet, and you’re just going to walk out?” Ye Feng: “What do you expect me to do after work, stay and keep vigil over your corpse?” Bus auntie: “Young people have no sense. He doesn’t ev 354Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 47 Jiang Ziya's Memoirs 姜子牙回忆录 In a nutshell: A hundred-year-old good-for-nothing who can't do anything right is forced by Heaven to appoint 365 gods, yet somehow fails to secure a divine title for himself. Still, he thinks it was worth it. In a little more detail: At seventy-two, Jiang Ziya went up the mountain to study the Dao, but after forty-three years he still hadn't learned a thing. After coming back down, the wind blew away the flour he was trying to sell, a wolf made off with the mutton he was selling, and his butch 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 What? You Want Me to Go to Heaven and Find a Fairy Wife? 什么？让我上天找个仙子当媳妇 [Scheming, devious, shameless, anything but innocent, a sly old fox, stealthily growing stronger, genius, ridiculously powerful, maybe funny, a little outrageous, utterly unserious] Why does the underwear of Shushan’s tens of thousands of female disciples keep disappearing? Why does Shushan’s Seven-Colored Glazed Chicken shriek in the middle of the night? Why do Shushan’s elixirs and spirit herbs keep getting stolen…? When Zhang Yu, Shushan’s laziest, most useless, most infuriatingly crafty, opp 5kReads8.1Score453Shelves
- 49 The Cultivation World of Endless Competition 内卷修仙界 [Mortal cultivation! + play the pig to eat the tiger] [New book: Mortal Cultivation, Using Formations to Outsmart People Just to Farm] From servant disciple to rogue cultivator, clan elder, and founder of his own faction, the mortal Luo Yi begins his climb up the social ladder from the very bottom of the cultivation world. The cultivation world is caught in an arms race, and it’s the cultivators’ lives that are at stake. A nobody without a golden finger who wants to rise through the ranks has no 284Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 50 Peerless Mad Immortal 绝世狂仙 In a world where the strong survive and the weak are eliminated, a young man cast out by his clan endures countless hardships, progressing from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, then to the Golden Core realm, and finally forming a Nascent Soul. Follow the protagonist as he cuts through every obstacle and forges ahead on the path to immortality. 1.1kReads8.3Score101Shelves
