Novels like I Refined a Pill in Another World
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- 101 A Strange Romance in the World of Alchemy 丹尘奇缘 A menial disciple, busy doing odd jobs to earn a few spirit stones, is timid, afraid of death, and cares only about spirit stones. Everyone looks down on him, even his childhood sweetheart and cultivation partner, who abandons him. Then one day, he gets his hands on an iron gourd, and his life changes forever. A rise from humble beginnings + modest and low-key + immortal mansion realm + hidden depths + emotionally dense male lead + inspirational + xianxia + cultivation 2.9kReads8.9Score259Shelves
- 102 The Pureblood Hongmeng Art 纯血鸿蒙诀 [Mortal cultivation ★ Logical and well-reasoned ★ Foreshadowing everywhere ★ Ingeniously crafted ★ A refreshing plot ★ Delicate prose ★ An expansive world ★ An uplifting theme ★ Come cultivate immortality alongside the hero!] In a village in the mortal realm of Qingyun Continent, a young man named Chu Feng is born with a useless Five-Element Spiritual Root. His path to immortality is thwarted as he seeks to save the girl next door, but then he meets Old Ren, who came from the Spirit Realm, and l 323Reads6.2Score102Shelves
- 103 The Violent Pill Venerable 暴力丹尊 Chen Xuan, the Immortal Pill Venerable, was killed in an explosion while refining pills. He was reborn on the Wind and Cloud Continent. All he wanted was to quietly refine pills and level up, but somehow he ended up having to protect a fifteen-year-old girl. Fighting enemies? Chen Xuan tossed out a powerful hallucinogen, and the battlefield instantly descended into chaos. Cultivating? He casually refined pills that doubled the effects of the Profound Spirit Pill, and his level shot up without a 1.2kReads7.9Score101Shelves
- 104 Cultivation: Starting by Invoking the Gods 修仙：从请神开始 [No heroine + no romance + cultivation + everyday life + slow pace + some angst] A strange soul came to inhabit the body of a baby who had been abandoned at birth. In a dilapidated, abandoned temple, a child with a third eye on his forehead opened his eyes and quietly gazed at the imposing, solemn statue of an unknown deity. I might be dying. The eye on his forehead blinked as the swaddled child thought to himself. He was too small to do anything. He might not be able to save himself. The child 467Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 105 Mending the Broken Cauldron: The Lu Family's Rise in Cultivation 残鼎复元：陆家修仙崛起路 Traditional cultivation + slow-burn progression + cautious protagonist + family-focused + mortal's perspective + no System + pseudo-ensemble cast Realms: Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Core Formation → Nascent Soul... On the Tianyuan Continent, sects monopolize resources, leaving little room for small and mid-sized clans to survive. The Lu family, on the remote frontier, is one such clan: spiritual energy is scarce, cultivation methods are incomplete, they are trapped at Qi Refining, a 29.2kReads7.7Score2.1kShelves
- 106 The Otherworldly Myriad Worlds Summoning System 异世之万界召唤系统 On the brink of death, Xiao Chen activates the Myriad Worlds Summoning System, which lets him summon powerful beings, divine weapons, and cultivation techniques from across the Myriad Worlds to serve his own ends! As the System levels up, Xiao Chen discovers that what he summons are not just abilities, but also tangled webs of cause and effect, old grudges, and debts. The Blood Fiend Sect's schemes, the royal family's plots, and the threat of an invasion from another plane come one after an 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 A Mortal Ventures into the Immortal Realm 凡人闯仙界 Traditional cultivation, not a power fantasy, with smart characters, no female lead, and a journey from Qi Refining to Deification and then Mahayana I am Venerable Shen. Please don’t call me Shen the Runner. The modern-day mortal Shen Mu accidentally stumbles into the immortal realm. With no System, no golden finger, and no old-timer mentor, how does an average-talented man become the revered Venerable Shen? The story of a modern mortal cultivating immortality in the immortal realm. 33Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 108 Cultivating Immortality, Starting with a Pocket Realm 修仙，从有仙府开始 [Ordinary Mortal]+ [Immortal Abode]+ [Longevity]+ [Monster Hunting and Leveling]+ [All-Around Cultivation] Fellow cultivators, the further you read, the better this book gets. An ordinary man is framed, thrown into a deep dungeon, and eventually escapes by chance. At the most dangerous moment, a jade pendant containing a teleportation array transports him to a cultivation sect. His aptitude is exceptionally poor, and it takes countless hardships before he unlocks the secret of the space inside t 2.9kReads8.2Score232Shelves
- 109 The Immortal Record of Ten Thousand Treasures 万宝仙录 [Mortal cultivation] [No System] [Decisive and ruthless] [Fast-paced] A young man comes into possession of a blank heavenly tome and discovers, by chance, that it can derive every immortal cultivation technique in the world and describe every rare treasure. From that day on, he knows everything there is to know on the path to immortality. 9.8kReads8.5Score836Shelves
- 110 On the Road to Immortality: The Strongest Alchemist 仙路争锋之最强炼丹师 Lin Xuan, a sword cultivator prodigy born with a Dao-rhythm spirit physique, takes up alchemy to break through the limits imposed by a lack of resources. Building on the way of alchemy and wielding the way of the sword as his edge, he rises amid the whirlpool of sect infighting and the war between humans and demons. Step by step, he advances through Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul, reaching the pinnacle of the human realm and making his mark on the world. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Peerless Alchemy God 绝世丹神 He returns to a world ten thousand years in the past, where martial arts reign supreme and powerhouses are everywhere, while the path of alchemy is only just beginning to flourish! Qin Feng, a god-tier alchemist, possesses countless pill recipes and knows every kind of medicinal technique. He embarks on a frenzied quest to refine pills and concoct medicines, advancing the art of alchemy through his own efforts. At the same time, he cultivates all kinds of top-tier techniques and meets countless 1.1kReads8.8Score162Shelves
- 112 From the Start, I Ran Into a Taotie and Began Practicing the Longevity Art 开局偶遇饕餮，修炼长生功 [Not a Saintly Do-Gooder + Master Schemer + Lighthearted + Daily Life + Well-Reasoned Traditional Daoist Cultivation] After dying unexpectedly, the protagonist encounters an escaped Taotie in the Underworld. Their souls merge, and they transmigrate to another world, where he pursues immortality. The protagonist likes to keep a low profile. The first dozen or so chapters mainly cover traditional Daoist cultivation and the world’s background. The story takes its time to get going and isn’t a power 908Reads8.8Score104Shelves
- 113 Drain Her Blood to Save His Beloved 抽干她的血，救他的白月光 Drain her blood to save his beloved. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 Lotus-Born Pill Venerable 莲生丹尊 Ji Shiyi, a country boy from a mountain village, unexpectedly gains a space linked to a twin lotus. One day in the outside world equals one month inside. With the lotus space, Ji Shiyi survives a famine and saves the grandfather who raised him. By a twist of fate, Ji Shiyi embarks on the path of cultivation. Everyone knows how difficult cultivation is, and everyone wants to pursue it. While everyone fights tooth and nail over a single spirit plant in a secret realm, Ji Shiyi says, “How did you k 13kReads9.1Score1.6kShelves
- 115 The Tale of the Green Pearl's Immortal Fate 青珠仙缘记 [Ruthless, scheming, one heroine, gradually turns villainous later on, no limits. Marketing, livestreaming, and building an internet in the cultivation world, turning it into a cultivation-world Las Vegas] 270Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 116 EN Xuanhuan Fantasy: The System Grants Me a Chaos Pearl 玄幻：系统送我混沌珠 [Fantasy + System + Wild Imagination + Traditional Style + Power Progression + Transmigration + the Myriad Worlds + Decisive and Ruthless + Domineering] Yang Lingtian was so hooked on fantasy novels that he stayed awake for five days and nights. He longed to soar through the sky like a protagonist, hold mountains and rivers in his hands, shatter the stars, and look down on the nine heavens. But just as excitement surged through him, everything suddenly went black, and he thought he saw his great 4.3kReads7.6Score362Shelves
- 117 Cultivating Immortality as a Servant of the Ghost-Controlling Sect 从御鬼宗杂役开始修仙 [Mortal Cultivation + Enlightenment + Talisman Crafting + Alchemy] When Ouyang Zemu wakes up, he discovers that he has become a menial disciple of a demonic sect. Not only does he have to work himself to the bone every day, but one wrong move could cost him his life. Fortunately, he has a treasure that grants him peerless comprehension. With a cheat like this, why stay a menial disciple? Ouyang Zemu decisively leaves the mountain to become a rogue cultivator, starting from the most basic spells 7.7kReads8.3Score502Shelves
- 118 Lone Star Shatters the Dao 孤星破道 The Lone Star Shatters the Dao 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 Luminous Stardust 灵动星尘 [A Mortal’s Path to Immortality Begins with Fishing] [Traditional Fantasy + Spatial Farming + Beast-Taming Spirit Pets + Two Strong Leads + One Female Lead + Formations and Talismans + Puppet Mechanisms + Soul Control and Demon Subjugation + Spells of Every Element + Steady Progression + A Universe in the Dantian + Strong Prose + No System] The sky stretches without end, calamities strike one after another, and people are as fleeting as mayflies, while the stars are but specks of dust. The Starf 287Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 120 Alchemy: I'm Just a Little Better Than Everyone Else 炼丹：我比别人强亿点点 Li Yuntian is an unaffiliated cultivator with an exceptional spiritual root and extraordinary talent. After an against-the-heavens divine artifact recognizes him as its master, he makes a name for himself refining pills in the marketplace and is admitted to the outer sect of the Taixu Sect. He vies for treasures in secret realms, outshines all rivals with his alchemy, tramples the young prodigies of every sect, battles the sea folk and demons, protects his beloved, and ultimately reaches the Nas 178Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 A Mortal's Path to Immortality 凡人之修仙问道 [Mortal cultivation] + [No transmigration] + [No System] + [Decisive and ruthless]: A poor country boy obtains a Mystic Spirit Pearl, joins a martial sect, and embarks on an endless, treacherous, dog-eat-dog path of cultivation, full of schemes and hardships. The road to the Great Dao in the cultivation world stretches on without end, and the path to immortality is perilous. See how an ordinary country boy struggles to cultivate. Mortal Realm: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formatio 860Reads8.2Score106Shelves
- 122 A Story of Playing Hard to Get 欲擒故纵的故事 A story of playing hard to get 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 The Book of Borrowed Fortune: A Vermilion Brush Decides Fate 借运簿：朱砂判命 The Borrowed Fortune Ledger: Vermilion Sand Reads Your Fate 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Asura Alchemy God 修罗丹神 The Heavenly Blade Demon God Qin Yang reaches the Half-Step Overlord realm, but loses his beloved wife. At enormous risk, he resolutely uses the Reincarnation Sacred Bell to return to his youth. A beautiful senior sister becomes his bodyguard, a top heiress becomes his maid, and a pill maiden from a mighty alchemy sect begs to serve as his handmaiden. A pure-hearted saintess, a bewitching demoness, an imperial princess, and an elven queen, each a peerless beauty, all flock around Qin Yang. But h 7.3kReads8.4Score1.1kShelves
- 125 A Story of Casting a Brick to Attract Jade 抛砖引玉的故事 A story meant to inspire others —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 126 The Dragon Lies Hidden in the Eastern Palace: The Invincible Crown Prince 东宫龙潜，无敌太子 The Crown Prince in the Eastern Palace, a hidden dragon, invincible and peerless 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 127 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—Shelves
- 128 Cultivation: I Got a Pair of Eagle Eyes from the Start 修仙：开局获得一双鹰眼 [War-torn xianxia] + [not a wish-fulfillment novel] + [no System] No matter the era or where you go, this xianxia world is full of endless conflict and constant warfare! The male lead is captured and imprisoned in a dungeon. His eyesight is so poor that he can only make out blurry figures. Later, an eagle saves him and gives him a pair of special eyes, restoring his vision. Only then does his journey into cultivation truly begin! Unexpectedly, he gains one golden finger, then another... The key 411Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 The Wordless Book of Mortals 无字凡书 [Original work, not plagiarized; tightly plotted; ordinary-mortal cultivation; no System; intelligent protagonist; no harem.] Character introduction: Fan Tian is a twenty-three-year-old unemployed young man who lives off rental income. After writing "I want to go to the world of immortal cultivation" in a blank book, he opens his eyes and really does transmigrate. He has five spiritual roots, works as a menial servant, and tends an herb garden. He also has a "book" that squeezes spirit stones ou 7.5kReads8.2Score667Shelves
- 130 Immortal Destiny in Tianling Valley 天灵谷仙缘 Also known as [Cultivating Immortality as a Mortal: Finding a Red Stone Necklace from the Start] [Treasures]+ [Beauties]+ [Leveling Up]+ [Formations]+ [Invincible Treasures]+ [A Life with Cheats] The male lead was an ordinary mortal who happened upon a golden finger: a red stone necklace. Inside the necklace was a special being who could talk and called herself Weiwei! Weiwei wasn’t a soul, yet she had always existed! With Weiwei’s help, the male lead struggled to begin his path of cultivation. 212Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 Siheyuan: Every Child in the Courtyard Is Mine 四合院，满院都是我下的崽 When He Daqing woke up one morning, his appearance had changed! He had been a handsome, dashing, charming young man, so striking that flowers bloomed at his sight, everyone adored him, and car tires burst when he passed by! He’d spent all night drinking with a few good-for-nothing friends, and when he woke up, he looked like this! A bald forehead! A stiff, expressionless face, with two dark circles under his eyes standing out sharply. And the worst part wasn’t even that! It was his age! What the 3.1kReads8.7Score129Shelves
- 132 Dreaming of the Xia Dynasty 梦归夏朝 Why does it have to belong to any one category? I am the “Book Between Worlds,” transmigrating across five thousand years! [Xuanhuan] [Honghuang] [Sci-fi] [History] [Alternate Universe] [Soul Transmigration] [War] [Court Politics] [Business Battles] What Kuafu caught and punched straight through was not the sun. Drink this medicinal soup! It's the antidote to Meng Po's Soup! Enough is enough! This is intolerable! That foreigner is clearly insulting the Huaxia people in public! A man would rather 1.2kReads9.5Score107Shelves
- 133 The Divine Soul Pill Emperor 神魂丹帝 After ten years of perseverance, the young man is brutally killed when his fiancée steals his martial soul! After transmigrating and awakening a mysterious martial soul, Qin Lang vows never to let anyone else control his fate again! He will cultivate like mad and shatter his fiancée’s scheme! He will grow stronger and take control of his destiny! He will laugh proudly across the world and become an Emperor of Alchemy! 3.2kReads8.8Score262Shelves
- 134 Hand Over the Treasure, or I’ll Release the Demon 不拿宝贝我就放妖 "Hand over all your treasures!" "If you don't, I'll really release the demons!" Bearing a wondrous demon bell, he brings peace to the world of cultivation. He learns countless arts and wreaks havoc across the many planes. He is a harbinger of calamity. Wherever he goes, disaster follows. His wits may be dull, yet women always seem to favor him. He commands the demons of myriad worlds, roams the boundless cliffs and frontiers, brings them under the laws of Heaven, and reshapes the Heavenly Da 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 135 “Seeking a Child for a Large Reward” Isn’t a Scam, It’s Fate “重金求子”不是骗局，是缘分 “Paying a Huge Sum for a Child” Isn't a Scam, It's Fate 185Reads—Score—Shelves
- 136 A Nude Model’s Brush with the “Casting Couch” 当平面模特，遇上“潜规则” Working as a Fashion Model, I Encountered “Casting Couch” 115Reads—Score—Shelves
- 137 This Alchemist Plays Dirty 这个炼丹师玩的真脏啊 Eastern fantasy, a world of immortal cultivation, no tired old tropes. The daily life of a lunatic cultivator: no pressure, just easygoing fun. I think it’s hilarious, anyway, though most readers find it bizarre. There’s no tragic, angst-filled plot. The protagonist, Huang Liang, accidentally transmigrates and sells novels in the cultivation world, only to have them pirated. He starts an online business, only to have it brutally seized. His human-puppet dolls are so well-made that nobody buys t 4.3kReads8.7Score427Shelves
- 138 Immortal Fate of the Flowing Clouds 流云仙缘 [Cultivation] + [Pocket Dimension] + [Family] + [Power Fantasy] Across the boundless seas, countless sea beasts roam. The strong can turn the world upside down, while the weak struggle even to meet their most basic needs. Everyone has to fight against heaven and earth. Follow an ordinary young member of a small family as he travels farther and farther along the path of Cultivation! 276Reads7.3Score137Shelves
- 139 EN This Talisman Master Is Doing Scientific Research 这个符师竟然搞科研 [Contending for Supremacy + One Female Lead + Science and Technology] Chen Mu, a programmer, unexpectedly died from overwork during a 996 work schedule and was reborn in a fantasy world. There, he combined computer science with the runes of the fantasy world, becoming a rune inventor. Rune guns, rune printers, rune puppet legions, rune warships, rune missiles, rune satellites... If I don't have a golden finger, I'll make one myself. Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. 2.4kReads8.4Score245Shelves
- 140 Master Math and Science, and Even Cultivation Is No Problem 学好数理化修仙都不怕 [Not a Power Fantasy] [Bargain-Bin Technology] [Mostly Everyday Cultivation] [Title: Master Math and Science, and Even Immortality Won't Scare You!] Musk, whose soul has crossed over from Blue Star into the cultivation world, stands at a crossroads of fate. What choice will he make? Using modern knowledge, he builds a network of interests of his own, growing step by step from a useless nobody into a master strategist. When billions of demon beasts unleash a once-in-a-century tide, the fruits of 47Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 141 999X Cultivation System 999倍修炼系统 One minute of cultivation grants 999 times the experience, sending his cultivation level soaring! One step grants 999 times the experience in movement techniques, advancing him to divine rank! One punch grants 999 times the experience in boxing, advancing him to divine rank! One glance at alchemy grants 999 times the experience in alchemical mastery, advancing him to become a divine-grade alchemist! One glance at a sword-intent stele activates 999 times the comprehension, allowing him to grasp p 348Reads8.1Score112Shelves
- 142 Supreme Immortal Path: The Genius Alchemist 仙路至尊之天才炼丹师 Li Yishan, an outer sect disciple of the Qingyun Sect, chance upon an ancient wonder, the Grand Compendium of Primordial Alchemy. Through alchemy, he rises within the sect, advancing from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and beyond, step by step reaching the pinnacle of the mortal world. He competes for supremacy on the immortal path and comes to dominate the continent. 1.7kReads—Score237Shelves
- 143 The Red Ballot of Qingxi Village 青溪村的红选票 The Red Ballot of Qingxi Village —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 The Moonlight's Dreamweaver 白月光的织梦人 The Dreamweaver of the White Moonlight 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 After Reincarnating as a Farmer's Daughter, I Built a Fortune with My Pocket Dimension 穿成农女后我靠空间发家致富 After Reincarnating as a Farm Girl, I Built a Fortune with My Pocket Dimension 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 Rescuing Stray Cats Awakened My Unique Primordial Beast Power 救助野猫，成就了独特的万兽本源之力 Rescuing a stray cat led him to awaken the unique power of the Origin of All Beasts. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 Reborn as the Medicine King 重生药王 A legendary Medicine King is reborn in childhood. The lover who risked everything and shaped his life, his loyal brother-in-arms who died on the battlefield, the demonic beauty feared by all, and old acquaintances from the past keep appearing by his side. He has only one goal: to leave no regrets in this life. In this life, he will cut down prodigies and destroy his enemies... When wild, he will drink every last drop of wine in the martial world, 13.7kReads9.0Score2kShelves
- 148 Cultivation Begins After I Get Hit on the Head 修仙从被人敲闷棍开始 Zhou Bufan is a fortune-teller in a park, a man at the very bottom of society who barely scrapes by through scams and deception. After making an unwanted advance out of lust and getting knocked out from behind, he unexpectedly transmigrates to a corner of the Jiuzhou Continent. There, he finds a cultivation manual and a storage pouch, and accidentally activates the space inside his ancestral jade pendant. From then on, he begins a carefree life of immortal cultivation. See how this former con ma 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 Cold Moonlight Beneath the Snow 月光雪下冷 Medicine and poison + golden finger + reborn “It hurts, it hurts so much.” Dongfang Wan'er looks at the knife in her chest, then up at the one holding it: the younger sister she has always cherished. “Why?” Dongfang Wan'er asks, looking at the person before her in anguish. “Heh, Crown Prince Brother, this stupid woman is still asking why!” Dongfang Mingzhu leans sweetly against the Crown Prince. “You're no longer of any use. Crown Prince Brother got what he wanted, so of course you're useless n 1.4kReads9.4Score211Shelves
- 150 The Little Black Alley: I Pinned My First Love Against the Wall 小黑巷子：我壁咚了初恋 The Dark Alley: I Pinned My First Love Against the Wall 136Reads—Score—Shelves
