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- 1 Perfect World: My Clan Subdues the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths 完美世界：吾族镇压九天十地 [Overpowered Protagonist] [Power Fantasy] [Faction Building] “Wenlan” is an eternal ancient clan whose name makes the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths tremble. It suppresses every upheaval across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. One clan can fight to the very end, stand against every foe in the Nine Heavens, and quell every calamity in the Ten Earths. After the Age of Great Annihilation, humanity grew weak. Then a taboo-level genius emerged from the Wenlan Clan. He alone suppressed the geniuses of co —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Eternal Life in Shrouding the Heavens: From the Start, I Scam a Supreme From the Forbidden Zone 长生遮天：开局碰瓷黑暗禁区至尊 [Longevity, invincibility, lighthearted, Great Emperor, family, myriad heavens, System, cunning and cold-hearted, ruthless] As the son of the Heavenly Emperor, Ye Tian had his bones dug out to make medicine, but at last awakened the Collision System! Ye Tian's outrageous moves are unbeatable! [Host takes ten times the damage dealt back and inflicts it on the opponent! If the opponent dies, you automatically inherit their Dao fruit!] The Supreme of the Dark Forbidden Zone marvels at Ye Tian's Gre 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Shrouding the Heavens: I Became the Forbidden Zone Emperor from the Start 遮天开局：我成了禁区大帝 An ordinary otaku who loves a fantasy novel is brought by the System into its world and takes over the body of a Great Emperor from a forbidden zone. In an age when fully accomplished emperors fought against the heavens, he lends them a hand, hides within the forbidden zone, and helps humanity survive that dark era. In the end, he reaches a realm where he can shield the sky with one hand. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Supreme God of Leg Hair's Ninth Book 腿毛至高神的第9本书 Devour the boundless earth, wield the Chaos Tower, battle the darkness! Split open the heavens and earth! Liu Qingming: “I've spent my whole life walking on thin ice. I don't know if I'll make it to the other shore!” Dark creature: “That insult sounded just like a dog barking.” 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Ruthless One’s First Disciple: Defying Fate and Shrouding the Heavens 狠人首徒，逆袭遮天 The protagonist inherits the Great Emperor Ruthless’s Dao, continues the legend of the Ruthless One, and searches for opportunities step by step, transforming and growing along the way! This book has no cheat powers and no System. Every opportunity is found by the protagonist, whether by chance or through necessity... 944Reads6.9Score11714d adds
- 6 Perfect World: The Fall of an Emperor 完美世界：帝落 In the distant Era of Emperor's Fall, one cultivator shone across an entire age, swept aside every foe, and claimed the supreme throne of Emperor. Alone, he crossed the boundless Boundary Sea, seeking to quell the Dark Turmoil. 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Shrouding the Heavens: The Emperor's Son 遮天之帝子 After the Saints come the Great Emperors, right? What comes after the Great Emperors? And what does it mean to become an immortal? How can one become a Saint? By becoming one after the Primordial Era, like the human race, or by achieving it before the Primordial Era, like the ancient races? A path to sainthood through the Three Corpses: my Saint will rival a Great Emperor! Watch a shameless college student carve out a path to the heavens among the stars. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Xuanhuan: The Strongest Ancestor from the Start! 玄幻：开局最强老祖！ Zhou Zhengdi was born into a fantasy world and became the youngest patriarch of the ancient Zhou family during the primeval era. Since the end of an epoch was approaching, the Heavenly Dao changed and the path to becoming an emperor was severed, crushing every cultivator’s hope of attaining the Dao. So the Zhou family sealed Zhou Zhengdi in divine source until the next epoch. When Zhou Zhengdi awoke again, 130,000 years had passed. A new epoch had begun, ushering in a golden age. Countless prodi 330Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 9 Shrouding the Heavens: The Creation Cultivation System 遮天之造化修炼系统 Supreme across the myriad worlds, I alone cover the heavens! A stirring song from the bloody road to the throne, a God-King worthy of song and tears, the peerless Ruthless Great Emperor... Looking back along the way, all that remains are mountains of withered bones. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Xuanhuan: The Eternal Emperor's Son, Raising the Desolate Heaven Emperor From the Start 玄幻：万古帝子，养成荒天帝开始 [Ridiculously satisfying and invincible + cunning and domineering + ruthless + a vast world] Ye Chen transmigrates into an ancient clan and becomes the emperor’s son of his family. His parents are supreme emperors of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, as well as peerless geniuses of their age and even the protagonists of their era? What? His mischievous parents say the path to invincibility starts in childhood, and they actually want to take him into seclusion in the vast mountains for ten thousan 24Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 11 Xuanhuan: I, the Fully Realized Sacred Body, Transmigrate Between Two Worlds 玄幻：我大成圣体穿越两界 Also known as: [Fantasy: Invincible Through the Ages, Starting with Taking the Celestial Emperor as a Disciple] [This Immortal Court Is Insane. Everyone’s an Immortal King?] [Starting with a Fully Grown Sacred Body, All His Disciples Are Celestial Emperors] [Dark Upheaval: The Whole World Begs for the Immortal Emperor’s Return] Su Yun transmigrates into a fantasy world as a fully grown Sacred Body. In the twilight of his life, he binds the Myriad Worlds Disciple-Recruiting System. This gives him 2.1kReads6.3Score10014d adds
- 12 I Sat in Meditation for Millions of Years from the Start, Until a Reborn Empress Dug Me Up 开局坐化亿万年，被重生女帝挖出 (Passionate action + swagger + invincibility) I, Lu Changsheng, restart my life if I fail to become an immortal within an era. Across nine lives, I reached the pinnacle every time, bore the Mandate of Heaven, and attained the Great Emperor's Dao! Yet I could never find the gate to the Immortal Realm! After living out the full span of my ninth life, I was sent into the Nine Heavens Dragon-Patterned Ancient Coffin, where I waited through endless ages to live a tenth life! I, Leng Wushuang, am a tr 4.8kReads8.1Score53514d adds
- 13 I Become the Lord of a Forbidden Zone from the Start, and Even Emperors Can Only Guard the Gate 开局成为禁区之主，大帝只配看门 [Invincible from the start + taking disciples + building a faction] Qin Mu transmigrates into a fantasy world and lands in the dilapidated forbidden zone of life, the Heavenly Forbidden Zone. He assumes he will have to lie low there for the rest of his life. But the System suddenly activates, immediately rewarding him with an Emperor's cultivation and the Emperor-realm immortal beast, the Primordial Divine Bull! It also orders him to recruit disciples, strengthen the forbidden zone, and make it 21.1kReads8.6Score1.7k14d adds
- 14 Prodigy Rankings: I, Descended into the World with Double Pupils and Supreme Bones 天骄榜:我，降世，重瞳至尊骨 [A grand age of rivalry, with the protagonist crushing all opposition] [The protagonist has a villainous gene, but the System plays a minor role] [One heroine] At the end of the Ancient Era, Chu Wuchen transmigrated into a fantasy world. Born into an immortal clan, he possessed double pupils and a Supreme Bone from birth. An era later, he emerged from his sealed slumber. By then, the Prodigy Rankings had appeared, and the nine immortal realms and countless clans were in an uproar. In this rare g 9.9kReads8.3Score64514d adds
- 15 Villain: Forbidden Zone Divine Son! I Hunt the Heavenly Dao 反派：禁区神子！我狩猎天命大道 Villain protagonist + invincible background + overwhelming power fantasy + no pretending to be weak + battles across the myriad heavens + slightly yandere heroine The Forbidden Zone of Time and Space, a graveyard for time and space. Kong Wudao, divine son of the forbidden zone, was unrivaled among the era’s greatest prodigies. Finding life dull, he willingly sealed himself away in the Heavenly Mountain of Time and Space. Countless years later, the Great Dao changed, and the myriad heavens entere 13.3kReads8.5Score1k14d adds
- 16 Martial Dao Shakes the Three Thousand Realms 武映三千道 Xu Wuzhou transmigrates and is astonished to discover that he has become a live-in son-in-law, a universally recognized good-for-nothing parasite who even ended up in his bride's best friend's bed on his wedding night. He accidentally wanders into a brothel while out for a meal. His aloof wife is utterly disappointed in him, and his father-in-law sends him off to the family martial arts hall, leaving him to sink or swim. But transmigrating grants him a battered Samsara Bowl that can only be repa 6.2kReads8.5Score67314d adds
- 17 Xuanhuan: I Have a Sacred Body, and from the Start I Marry a Born Dao Embryo 玄幻：我圣体，开局迎娶先天道胎 Lu Yuan transmigrates into a fantasy world and becomes a collateral clansman of the Lu family, a top clan in the Eastern Wilderness. Though his birth isn't lowly, the tragedy is that he possesses the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body. In this Age of the End of Dharma, this constitution makes cultivation impossible. It's practically no different from a crippled body, a hellish start from the very beginning. Just as Lu Yuan thinks he'll spend his life in obscurity, the family elders suddenly arrange a 53.2kReads8.7Score4.6k14d adds
- 18 EN Xuanhuan: Invincible, Starting with an Innate Holy Body and Dao Embryo 玄幻：无敌从先天圣体道胚开始 [Morally gray protagonist, lots of fights and immortal battles! Vast world + swordsmanship + battle for the path to the throne + invincible power fantasy + overwhelming family backing + fake System + creating a perfect world] After the Battle of the Origin’s Destruction, the Nine Immortal Domains were born. Later, the immeasurable tribulation arrived without warning. The heavens were engulfed in karma, darkness revived, and a world-ending war began, shattering the Immortal Domains. A new era daw 20.1kReads8.9Score1.6k14d adds
- 19 EN The Great Emperors' Forbidden Zone: After My Master Died, I Went Mad 大帝禁区：师傅死后，我疯了 [At the end of the immortal path, who stands supreme? One glimpse of red hair, and the Dao is lost.] (Not a wish-fulfillment novel. A brain-teasing, increasingly captivating long story.) “My eldest senior brother is reborn. In his previous life, he was an ancient-era Great Emperor.” “My second senior brother transmigrated from another world, one where technology and shady shortcuts coexist.” “Our junior sister is the little princess of the Ji family, peerless in swordsmanship and unrivaled in ta 36.4kReads9.3Score3.3k14d adds
- 20 Asura Heavenly Emperor 修罗天帝 Eight years ago, a sudden upheaval struck Thunderclap Ancient City overnight. Qin Ming, the young lord of the city, was sent to Qingyun Sect as a servant, while two hundred thousand residents were driven into the Great Azure Mountain and enslaved. Eight years later, after tempering his spirit and entering the martial path, the unyielding youth awakens as a demon of slaughter and rises against the heavens. Give me a blade, and I can shatter the sky. Give me a sword, and I can point it toward the 26.6kReads9.2Score3.1k14d adds
- 21 My Years as a Con Artist 我做老千的那些年 The short drama adaptation of the Old Cheater series is now streaming on Red Fruit and Tomato. Come check it out! I'm a professional gambler. At the table, I can turn the odds on their head. But I want to use my own experience to tell you a simple truth: stay away from gambling. Because nine out of ten games are rigged, and you lose every time! 453.4kReads9.5Score46.3k14d adds
- 22 EN Starting as the Peak Master: Signing In for an Ultimate Emperor Armament! 开局成为首座，签到极道帝兵！ [Lighthearted daily life + invincible + Backer Sect + call for reinforcements when unable to win + schemer + no martial ethics + longevity] Because he had died once before, Hua Yunfei always put staying alive first. He had hidden away on Daoyuan Peak for a hundred years, performing sign-in for a hundred years. [Beep, congratulations to the Host on completing one hundred years of sign-in and obtaining the Ultimate Emperor Weapon: the Chaos Bell] The Dark Blood Era arrived, plunging Heaven an 137.4kReads9.2Score7.8k14d adds
- 23 EN Immortality System: I Outlived Everyone 系统赋我长生，我熬死了所有人 Observing the love and hatred of cultivators across the river of time from a perspective beyond life itself. He left a modest little town and entered the wondrous world of cultivation. His journey sped up and slowed down, moving forward or stopping to rest, but he never stopped walking. The Age of Declining Dharma, the Age of Emperors, the Age of Dark Turmoil… He appeared in every age, and the only thing he could do was watch old friends die with his own eyes, then see them off to their grave 585.5kReads9.4Score60.3k14d adds
- 24 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 102.2kReads9.5Score9.6k14d adds
- 25 EN Villain: My Little Brother is the Chosen One 反派：我的弟弟是天选之子 "Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain 342.2kReads9.5Score38.8k14d adds
- 26 The Ninth Special Zone 第九特区 After the catastrophe, the land was scarred beyond recognition. Food was scarce, resources were in short supply, and the situation was chaotic... A young man who had fought his way out of an undeveloped zone, with endless yellow sand at his back, came alone to District Nine to make a living. Yet he never expected to meet a few good friends by chance, rise to prominence in the chaotic era over a single thought, and embark on a legendary journey... 210.2kReads9.6Score22.4k14d adds
- 27 EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 492.8kReads9.7Score69.4k14d adds
