Novels like From the Start, One Blade in Hand, Invincible Through Slaughter
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- 1 A Journey Without Illness 无疾之旅 During the Wanli era, demons lurked in the shadows, dark currents stirred, and ghosts roamed the night. Luo Wuj i, a Ming Dynasty Embroidered Uniform Guard, lived by three ironclad rules: “Those who bring calamity to the nation and its people must die! Those who threaten our land must die! Those who disrupt the balance between yin and yang must die!” He founded the Ming Dynasty Demon Suppression Bureau and took charge of Yujing Heaven. Corpses, ghosts, and demons alike trembled in fear at his na —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Ruling Over the Ages! From Town Young Master to Blade-Wielding Champion 横压万古！从小镇少爷到刀道魁首 [The Blade Dao, moving through a thousand blossoms untouched, a genius protagonist, and once the main character proves something, it stays proven.] The world is divided into five provinces: sword energy flourishes in the North, Confucian learning thrives in the South, Buddhist teachings abound in the West, strange demons roam the East, and Daoist arts reign supreme in the Central Province! Huang Yan, the third son of the Huang family in Qinghe Town, transmigrates from Blue Star with the talent t 893Reads5.9Score101Shelves
- 3 The Mountain and Sea Swordsmith 山海锻刀行 Ten thousand years ago, an immortal severely damaged the world's origin and established numerous restrictive laws, draining the world's spiritual energy and cutting off the path to immortality for everyone. Ten thousand years later, yao beasts run rampant and foreign races invade. Above, disciples of immortals hide in another realm, watching with hostile intent. Below, ancient fiends lie imprisoned in the abyss, ready to stir... For ten thousand years, no one could change this chaotic world, unt 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Blade Sovereign 刀尊 The path of martial immortality is shrouded in mist, where truth and illusion are impossible to tell apart. I have a blade that can cleave through endless sands, clear the skies for ten thousand miles, and bring every mountain, river, and starry sea into view! 1.6kReads8.2Score136Shelves
- 5 In One Year, I Went from Nobody to Unmatched Under Heaven 一年，我从草莽杀到天下无敌 [Name: Li Fan] [Age: Eighteen years and ninety-six months] [Identity: Ordinary person in the apocalypse, transmigrator to the Great Zhou, hunter on Qingyang Mountain, leader of the Martial Alliance…] [Martial Arts: Bloodburning Annihilation Slash, Long Breath Art, Mountain-Shaking Fist, Indestructible Diamond Body…] Before transmigrating, every extra day alive was a day gained. After transmigrating, I was determined to become as strong as I could. To grow stronger, I fought my way from 2.4kReads7.6Score137Shelves
- 6 Lone Blade at the Edge of the World 天涯孤刀 A boy who grew up among piles of corpses in the Valley of the Dead embarks on an irreversible path of revenge. Through one bloody battle after another, he transforms, like a lonely wanderer roaming the ends of the earth in search of the one hope that keeps him alive. He says his heart is dead and his blood has gone cold, yet he falls helplessly in love with a woman who can never give him a promise, but will change his life forever… He has few friends, but he is always ready to stand by th 997Reads8.7Score118Shelves
- 7 The Greatest Blade in History 千古第一刀 Xiao Li’s flying dagger never misses. A sword comes from the west: Heavenly Maiden of the Flying Immortal. What sparks will fly when the heir to the flying dagger meets a descendant of the Flying Immortal? New to the martial world and carrying a heavy responsibility, he sets out to eradicate evil and defend the righteous. But right and wrong are hard to tell, and one battle makes him famous. Who will brave life and death to follow him, and who will reluctantly let go, suffering night and day? Ho 2.3kReads8.8Score194Shelves
- 8 I Have a Blade 我有一刀 I am Ye Feng, born with an ordinary mortal body to a woodcutter, and I began my life in the army. I have no immortal roots, no treasured physique, no Dao weapon, and no supernatural powers. All I have is a saber, straight and unbending, advancing without retreat. Its blade points forward, slashing immortal roots, destroying treasured physiques, cleaving Dao weapons, and breaking supernatural powers. 2.2kReads8.3Score192Shelves
- 9 The Blade of the Master 师刀 Eyes like shooting stars, movements like lightning. A blade that kills, a sword that saves. This is a story about a young man and his blade. 5.6kReads9.0Score427Shelves
- 10 I Didn't Get into a Martial Arts High School, So I Had to Draw My Blade 没考上武者高中的我只好去拔刀了 [No System + leveling up + character growth + hard work alone] Synopsis: The protagonist's score on the martial artist entrance exam is switched, and a rich young wastrel takes his school place by impersonating him. Which matters more: family resources or cultivation talent? No System? Then I'll take a beat-up blade and fight my way from A to Z! 466Reads9.1Score101Shelves
- 11 The Imperial Court's Strongest Hound, Starting as a Brocade-Clad Guard 朝廷最强鹰犬，从锦衣卫开始 After transmigrating into a world where martial strength reigns supreme, Lin Xiao becomes a low-ranking Imperial Guard. By chance, he awakens the strongest Martial Arts System. With its help, he climbs the ranks step by step until he holds absolute power over the realm. At court, he commands authority, and a single word can decide whether any official lives or dies. Across the martial world, his blade dominates the four seas, and every major faction submits to him. 22kReads7.8Score1.1kShelves
- 12 My Cultivation Art Comes with Special Effects 我的功法自带特效 [Master the Iron Shirt technique and gain the special effect: Invincible Golden Body. Defend against all damage.] [Master the Heavenly Thunder Saber technique and gain the special effect: Threefold Thunder Tribulation. Unleash a thunder tribulation to lock onto and attack enemies.] [Cultivate with the Empress and gain the special effect...] Su Tian transmigrated through the Myriad Worlds and obtained the Heavenly Dao Special Effects System. Every cultivation technique he learned came with its ow 2.7kReads9.1Score315Shelves
- 13 The Broken Blade! 断刀行！ [No System + traditional fantasy + slaying demons and vanquishing evil + multiple heroines + passionate fantasy adventure] (A novel typed out one character at a time.) Wang Shan was drafted into the war against the demons in the Continent of the Provinces. After a century of bloodshed, he returned crippled and drained of strength. Having offended a great sect, he was abandoned by them. So he scattered his cultivation and returned the techniques to the sect, then descended the mountain alone to c 1.6kReads7.0Score114Shelves
- 14 Supreme God of Slaughter 无上杀神 Killing one is a crime. Killing ten thousand makes you a hero. Kill hundreds of millions, and you’re a hero among heroes! A lowly servant is beaten to death on the spot, only to unexpectedly inherit the legacy of the God of Slaughter. He cultivates the Five Palaces God-Slaying Art, and across the Myriad Worlds, among all the gods and demons, there is none he cannot kill! 15.8kReads8.8Score1.6kShelves
- 15 Reincarnation of Heaven and Earth 轮回乾坤 [One Female Lead] [Reborn] [Transformation] [No System] In a world where everyone is born a cultivator, people can live two lives as different genders. A cultivation prodigy with a mysterious past is forced to her death, then reincarnates in a new body with her memories gone. Can she reclaim everything that was once hers? A sect leader who values loyalty above all is killed by members of his own sect, while his Dao companion is framed and forced to her death by their enemies. Reborn in a new bod 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Living Must Keep Away 活人回避 Originally titled Living People, Keep Away. An antique set me on a desperate path. From then on, just to stay alive, I became a yin walker who dealt with the dead and the walking corpses. Three years searching for dragon veins, ten years locating acupoints, roaming between yin and yang, dealing in ghosts and spirits. I kept walking, struggling my way to where I am today. 2.7kReads8.9Score327Shelves
- 17 Heaven-Slaying Blade 斩天刀 [High-octane action + ruthless killing + devour everything + invincible blade mastery] Awaken an Overlord Physique from the start, capable of devouring anything! With the Great Desolate Cauldron in hand, refine your enemies in an instant! The vast land becomes a furnace, even absorbing the heavenly tribulations! Absorb, absorb, absorb! Devour, devour, devour! Whoever wins is the one in the right! 24.9kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves
- 18 The Woodcutter Swordsman 刀侠砍柴人 A hidden gem for when you’re short on books. Read with caution if you’re busy: after chapter 20, you may find yourself staying up all night, unable to put it down. Huang Ming crawled out of a pile of corpses in a mass grave... Ten years later... He had thought he was pretty weak. But why were his enemies, who claimed to be first-rate martial artists, even weaker than him? 3.3kReads7.6Score305Shelves
- 19 The Blade Masters of the Myriad Heavens Empower Me 诸天刀客加持我身 The age’s turmoil belongs to my generation; once I enter the martial world, the years rush by. Empires and ambitions are the stuff of idle talk; nothing compares to getting drunk beneath the human sky. Chen Sheng accidentally transmigrates to another world and becomes a blind boy. He thinks he’ll spend his life playing the erhu and singing for alms to scrape together enough to eat, wasting away ten years. But then he unexpectedly figures out how to use his golden finger. All he has to do is defe 20.2kReads8.6Score1.9kShelves
- 20 A Laid-Back Mentor? All My Students Are World-Destroying Threats 咸鱼导师？我的学生全是灭世级 Ye Ran transmigrates to a world of awakened superpowers and high-martial cultivation. He becomes a teacher at a high-martial arts university, and unexpectedly awakens the Master Teacher System. For every superpower or technique he examines, he can immediately spot its flaws and problems. As he guides people in correcting them, he receives rewards. A flawed ability: Devouring Ferocious Boar? In my eyes, you're one of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts, Taotie, still waiting to awaken! A healer who ca 6kReads8.5Score641Shelves
- 21 Snow Blankets the World, the Wind Carries the Blade 大雪满风刀 [No System, alternate history, political intrigue, a touch of cultivation, no mindless characters, no invincible heroes] A mysterious woman is imprisoned in the depths of the imperial jail. The first time jailer Yang Zhan met her, he cursed her, calling her shameless! From then on, she had a name... Bilian! 23.6kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
- 22 Demon Slayer of the Frozen Abyss 寒渊诛魔 I'm pleased to recommend my new book, Dustblade Suppresses the Palace Gate. Old friends and new, come join us in a world of wuxia, where the imperial court stands tall and the rivers and lakes stretch far and wide. Ordinary people lead extraordinary lives. They pursue vengeance and justice with abandon, and fight for their homeland and family. Each person pushes forward with all their might for the wishes they hold dear. 14.9kReads8.7Score1.3kShelves
- 23 The Peerless God of Slaughter: Grow Stronger by Killing Enemies 绝世杀神，杀敌就变强 After transmigrating to another world, I get an invincible golden finger from the start: I grow stronger every time I kill an enemy? Then I'm invincible right away! Whatever you say! Sheng Huai'an starts out as a low-ranking soldier on the frontier. As he kills enemy after enemy, he gradually becomes a peerless powerhouse and the supreme ruler. He defeats foreign races, battles the demon clans, and wages war across countless realms. He dominates the Chaos Sea and sweeps aside every foe. He prove 38.1kReads8.7Score2.7kShelves
- 24 Guarding Immortal Qin: Sixty Years of Devouring Demons in the Dungeon 镇守仙秦：地牢吞妖六十年 [Great Qin] [Invincible] [Embroidered Uniform Guard] [Passionate] [Imperial Hounds] [Supernatural Powers] [Xuanhuan] [Important note: All cultivation realms in this book follow the system issued by the General Administration of Sport of China: Hidden Origin, Illuminating Insight, Shining Light, Opening Yang, Jade Balance, Celestial Authority, Celestial Pivot, Jade Rotation, Celestial Hub] This is a Great Qin of immortal martial arts, where immortals and Buddhas bow their heads and demons flee fo 34.2kReads8.8Score2.7kShelves
- 25 The Extreme Path to Immortality 极道仙路 [No Goody-Two-Shoes Heroine, No Female Lead, No System, No Transmigration.] Follow your heart and pursue what you desire: that is the path to the ultimate immortal way. The Heavenly Dao? It is dead. The Demonic Heaven shall rise. This is an utterly brutal cultivation world where the strong rule and the weak are ants. My name is Zhao Wuji. In pursuit of the immortal path, I have no taboos. 11.4kReads8.9Score851Shelves
- 26 The Last Knife Seller 最后一个赊刀人 They are wandering prophets who travel the four corners of the world. Skilled in feng shui, they roam the mortal realm with a bundle of cleavers and scissors on their backs, and wherever they go, they leave behind a prophecy about what they have seen. “Keep this cleaver. If an elder in your family dies of consumption within five years, I'll come back to collect payment.” They are heirs to an ancient Daoist tradition from a distant place, able to pronounce life and death with ironclad certainty a 53.1kReads9.2Score5.1kShelves
- 27 Wuxia: Killing Enemies Earns Cultivation, and My Power Is Unfathomable! 武侠：杀敌爆修为，我功力滔天！ [Gain cultivation by killing enemies + ruthless and decisive + level up fast] This is a world full of powerful experts and sects: the Nine Sects and Six Gangs, the Eight Demonic Sects, the Three Daoist Orders, the Two Buddhist Temples, and the Great Qian imperial court, whose might holds the four seas in awe. The powerful see the weak as ants, while princes treat the martial world as a chessboard. Fortunately, Xiao Bieli activated the Kill to Gain Cultivation System. As long as he kills an enemy 85.9kReads8.7Score5.2kShelves
- 28 EN The Reticent Blade 刀不语 Someone once asked me, “What is the jianghu?” I thought for a moment. I thought of a jug of rough wine on the table, a distant figure walking away beneath the setting sun, a grave beneath the moon, and the cigarette burning down to ash in my hand right now. That person asked again, “Where is the jianghu?” I smiled and looked out the window. There were countless jianghus out there. One person is a story. Two people make a jianghu. 28kReads9.3Score3.2kShelves
- 29 Intrepid Blade’s Path in the Snow 雪中悍刀行 The jianghu is a beaded curtain. Great and small figures are its beads; great and small stories, the strings that bind them. And loyalty and affection are the spirit that gives those beads their luster. The story is drawing to a close. The final chapter will end with those words: “Waiter, bring us some wine.” 11.5kReads9.7Score585Shelves
- 30 EN Global Martial Arts: My Martial Arts Can Cultivate on Their Own 全球高武：我的武功能主动修炼 In a world of high martial prowess, my martial arts keep cheating on their own all day... No, wait! I just have moments of enlightenment and train hard for 24 hours a day, that's all! Ning Chuan had only planned to develop steadily and get into a good university. But during the hundred-day countdown ceremony before the college entrance exams, Thunder Sparrows attacked. Ning Chuan drew his blade and killed three in an instant! From then on, he began crushing everything in his path! At the genius 60.1kReads9.2Score5.2kShelves
- 31 The Doomsday Blade Abyss 末日刀渊 He begins with the game Blade Abyss and steps into the Myriad Worlds! From low-martial-arts jianghu to mid-martial-arts rivalries, then shattering the high-martial-arts firmament; next, sweeping through the Small Thousand Worlds and roaming the vast Middle Thousand Worlds, until he finally takes command of the Great Thousand Worlds' Heavenly Dao and reaches the supreme realm of the primordial chaos! 🌙 In the Gu Long world, he becomes Li Xunhuan's disciple! ⚔️ In the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber 24.5kReads7.9Score2.2kShelves
- 32 There’s a Ghost Inside Me 我的体内有只鬼 Vengeful ghosts awaken, and a hundred ghosts roam the night. Jiang Xiao transmigrates into this world for no apparent reason and finds himself surrounded by demons and monsters. But then he discovers that his shadow can devour ghosts without limit and gain their abilities. [Successfully devoured the White Mist Ghost. Ability acquired: Mist Form] [Successfully devoured the Hanging Ghost. Ability acquired: Shackles] [Successfully devoured the Bronze Ghost. Ability acquired: Copper Skin] [Successfu 20.7kReads9.3Score2.4kShelves
- 33 I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死 From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While 168.8kReads9.8Score19.3kShelves
- 34 EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 102.2kReads9.5Score9.6kShelves
- 35 EN Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 160.2kReads9.6Score18.1kShelves
- 36 EN Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力 [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na 333.1kReads9.7Score43.5kShelves
- 37 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
