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- 1 Defying Heaven: From Mortal to Chaos Dao Ancestor 逆天而行：从凡人到混沌道祖 Chen Guanshui was an ordinary boy born with the Five Elements spirit roots, which were considered good-for-nothing, and was forced to enter a cultivation sect. While everyone mocked him and declared his path to cultivation doomed, he rose from humble beginnings, mastering alchemy and artifact crafting until his name resounded far and wide. Yet as his cultivation advanced, he discovered that the so-called ascension to immortality was actually a cruel deception that had endured for countless ages. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Seven Years Later, I Return With Our Child, and My Ex-Husband's Family Begs for Forgiveness 七年后，我携崽归来前夫全家跪求原谅 Seven Years Later, I Return with Our Child, and My Ex-Husband’s Entire Family Begs on Their Knees for Forgiveness —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 The Withered-Bone Blooming Sword: I Forge a Blade from Soul Bones to Slay the Immortal Firmament 枯骨生花剑：我以魂骨铸剑斩仙穹 Sword of Blossoms from Withered Bones: I Forge a Sword from Soul Bones to Slay the Immortal Firmament —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Max-Level Expert Returns to the Village 满级大佬回村 The Max-Level Expert Returns to the Village 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 After the Top Professor Was Invited Back to the Village 顶级教授被请回村后 After the Top Professor Was Invited Back to His Village —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 After the Metaphysics Master Was Returned 玄学大师被退货后 After the Feng Shui Master Was Returned —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 I Wrote My Way to Godhood in an Infinite-Flow World 我在无限流里写小说封神 I Wrote My Way to Godhood in Infinite-Flow Novels —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 I Found a Bug in a Rules-Horror Game 我在规则怪谈里卡了bug I Got Stuck on a Bug in a Rules-Based Horror Story —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 Bride of the Haunted River 诡河新娘 Bride of the Haunted River —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Apocalypse Rebirth: My Supplies Can Buy the Whole World 末世重生：我的物资能买下全世界 Apocalypse Rebirth: My Supplies Can Buy Up the Whole World —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 After Binding to the System, I Made My Ex-Husband's Entire Family Kneel and Beg for Mercy 被系统绑定后，我让前夫全家跪着求饶 After Being Bound to a System, I Made My Ex-Husband's Entire Family Kneel and Beg for Mercy —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 The Golden Canary of the Seventies 七零年代金丝雀 The Canary of the 1970s —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 The Ex-Wife Stand-In Won't Put Up with Him Anymore 替身前妻她不伺候 The Stand-In Ex-Wife Won't Serve Him Anymore —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 The Well by My Front Door 我家门口那口井 The Well Outside My House —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Ninth Master in Hemp Robes: The Second Tale of a Haunted Bed in the Old House and Vengeful Ghosts Claiming Lives Night After Night 麻衣九爷：第二篇老宅阴床，夜夜索命冤魂 The Ninth Master in Burial Clothes: Part Two, The Haunted Bed in the Old House, Vengeful Spirits Claim Lives Night After Night —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Ninth Master in Hemp Robes: The Third Tale of a Ghost Opera Blocking the Road and a Yin Procession Borrowing the Way 麻衣九爷：第三篇鬼戏挡路，阴班借道 The Ninth Master in Burial Clothes: Part Three, Ghost Opera Blocks the Road, the Yin Troupe Borrows the Way 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Withered Bones Slumber for a Hundred Thousand Years 枯骨沉眠十万载 The ancient battlefield of gods and demons, where countless millions of corpses have lain for untold millennia. The most ordinary skeleton wakes up. It has no memories or name, and its body is covered in cracks. Even a beetle could bite through its leg bone. But it doesn’t want to fall apart. Starting today, it will live. It begins by scavenging, learning to devour, to cultivate, and to survive in this land of death. What it doesn’t know is that the shattered bead inside its skull once held 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Ninth Master in Hemp Robes: The First Tale of a Haunted Grave and a Feng Shui Plot That Wiped Out a Village 麻衣九爷：第一篇头七凶坟，全村灭门风水局 Ninth Master in Hemp: The First Tale, The Murderous Grave on the Seventh Night and the Feng Shui Trap That Wiped Out an Entire Village —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Strongest Mortal: I Can Control Time 最强凡人：我能掌控时间 [Slightly overpowered hero + passion + many love interests + many brothers-in-arms + growth] Are mortals nothing but sacrificial dogs? I’ll show you what it means to live forever without cultivating! I don’t have a sect to protect me? Why would I need one? Every one of my brothers has the bearing of a Great Emperor! I chew on thousand-year-old spirit herbs for fun. I eat saint-grade spirit pills like candy! What’s wrong with an ordinary mortal like me running wild in the cultivation world? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 She Won't Wear the Wedding Dress 她不披嫁衣 She Won’t Wear the Wedding Dress —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Awakened: I Grow Stronger by Chopping Trees 觉醒后：我砍树就变强 [Invincible Protagonist]+ [Low-Profile]+ [Scheming]+ [Slow Burn] (It gets better after the first hundred chapters, so please be patient) Also known by the titles: “Senior Sister Framed Me, So I Kissed Her Back,” “Senior Sister, I Really Didn’t Steal Your Underwear,” “Senior Sister, Hear Me Out,” and “Cultivation: My Aloof Senior Sister Is Pursuing Me” Lu Hao awakens memories from a past life and grows stronger just by chopping wood, but accidentally gets on the wrong side of his cool and distant 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Breaking Through the Immortal Peaks 踏破仙峰 I was once a sword, and together with my master I defeated countless foes. Sadly, we were ambushed. With death at our door, my master burned all his blood essence to send me away. I drifted for hundreds of thousands of years, lost all my memories, and was reborn in a small mountain village. My parents were murdered, and I made my way to town. There, I met the love of my life, who avenged them for me. I awakened the Saint Sword Physique, but then discovered that I had no sword heart. I found some —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 One Bell Subdues Ten Thousand Arts, One Sword Slays a Thousand Foes 一钟镇万法，一剑斩千仇 Though Pang Long was born with a flawed spiritual root, he had an exceptionally kind heart. His father therefore named him heir, and his older brother willingly stepped aside. Yet the family’s resources were continually seized by collateral branches; Liu Yanran tore up their engagement in public; sect prodigies repeatedly trampled and humiliated him in the street; and, hoping to curry favor with a top sect, the family elders joined forces with a great sect’s young master to slaughter Pang Long’s 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 You’re a Demon, and You’re Talking to Me About the Law? Does That Make Sense? 你一个魔头和我讲法律，合适吗？ Special forces soldier Ling Feng transmigrates as the Demonic Path's Holy Son. The moment he opens his eyes, someone tries to assassinate him, so he immediately puts the culprit on a KPI assessment list: "Failed assassination means a performance penalty!" The Demonic Palace is so broke it's rattling, and the righteous sects call him a pervert every day. Ling Feng finally snaps: "You call me heartless? I'll make the demon clans study literacy and take civil service exams! I'll sell pills at rock- —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Seeking Eternal Life, Not Becoming a Withered Skeleton 凡人修仙：觅长生，不枯骨 Yun Yang had three spiritual roots and was accepted as an outer disciple of the Xianling Sect. Thus began his journey of cultivating immortality in another world. “What? I’m standing right next to you, and you’re planning how to kill me!” “What should I do? Two big shots are fighting right over my head, and neither can detect me. Should I risk it all for a fortune…?” “The man standing before you is the future Supreme of the Survival Path, the Demon Emperor who embodies boundless love.” “Zhao Rit 185Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Cultivating Immortality, Starting as a Constable 从捕头开始修仙 Shen Mo, a junior constable at the county yamen, stumbles upon the heaven-defying secret art Spirit Control while investigating a horrific case in which an entire family was massacred! Others cultivate immortality through insight. He does it by controlling people! With nothing but a mortal body, he fearlessly slays immortals and seizes their arts, taking his first step on the path to immortality. He thought he was on his way to a bright future, but instead, an immortal cultivation clan took him 1.9kReads—Score19714d adds
- 27 I Speak Chinese, and You Say My Words Make Things Happen? 我说汉语，你说我言出法随？ Wang Xiao was originally a college student on Blue Star. After an accident, he transmigrated to a world of immortal cultivation, where he stumbled upon the fact that the cultivation techniques in this world were written in Chinese characters. Sect disciple talent test: His talent lit up every test pillar, alarming the sect’s founding ancestor, who made an exception and promoted him to an inner disciple. Hunting a demonic beast mount: At a single word from him, all the beasts submitted. He could 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Ancient Immortal-Suppressing Pagoda: From the Start, My Clan Owes a Blood Debt 镇仙古塔：开局家族满门血债 Gongsun Yu, young master of the Gongsun family of Guiyuan City, was framed during the family tournament. His loved ones were slaughtered, his engagement was torn up in public, and his entire foundation was crippled before he was abandoned in a deadly valley of ferocious beasts. At death’s door, the ancient Immortal-Suppressing Tower and Heaven-Slaying Sword awakened. He returned carrying a boundless hatred, crossed mountains of corpses and seas of blood to settle accounts with his sworn enemies, 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 I, Liu Xiu, Have a Crippled Spiritual Root 我，刘秀，废灵根 A useless spirit root? What do you mean, useless? It’s proof of the road I’ve traveled! Watch Liu Xiu, starting out as an ordinary mortal with a useless spirit root, climb step by step to the very top. Then we’ll see who the real immortal is! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 The Devouring Dao 噬道传 [Devouring + System + Domains + Food + Multiple Heroines] “My buddy's lived for sixteen years and hasn't even cursed at anyone. And you're telling me he's the top assassin?” “Over a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators are surrounding a Golden Core powerhouse?” He formed a hand seal with one hand, and his domain unfolded!!! Someone who has lost all meaning in life couldn't possibly have so many sweet, silly people by his side… 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 A Fate of Immortality! 长生缘！ Chen He unexpectedly finds an earthen jar. Inside is a small world with a spiritual mountain, a spiritual river, and strange spirit fruits. Determined not to waste this immortal opportunity, Chen He sets out with his parents, Chen Shan and Li Qin, on a journey of cultivation to seek immortal fate, find the path to immortality, and pursue eternal life. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Xianran 仙苒 [Slow-burn ordinary mortal cultivation] + [No System, weak golden finger, relying entirely on hard work and cunning] + [Twelve secret realms] Xiao Ran is an utterly ordinary village boy, drawn into the path of immortal cultivation by an old feud. The road to immortality is exceptionally arduous. Just because I don't pick a fight with anyone doesn't mean no one will pick one with me. With a mixed spiritual root, he can only make up for its shortcomings through other means, cultivating the secret 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: A Commoner Shatters the Heavens 凡人修仙：布衣踏碎九霄天 Born in an orc tribe, Ye Mo is the son of a human slave. With no animal ears or tail, he has been branded a lowly half-breed since childhood and suffered endless abuse and humiliation. After his mother dies a horrible death, he is chosen as a sacrificial offering. At the brink of despair, his ancestral Inkbone Spirit Pendant awakens, and an ancient immortal art enters his body. From then on, the castoff of the wilderness takes hold of an immortal path that defies fate! When the orcs bully me, I 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: From the Start, I Find an Ancient Mythical Beast 凡人修仙：开局捡到上古奇兽 A traditional Cultivation novel, a story of an ordinary man becoming an immortal hero. Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Deification... Spirit pets, alchemy, formations, artifact crafting, talismans, puppets... This is not a mindless power fantasy. The book is now over five million words long, and the power scaling, timeline, logic, plot, and characters have all held up. Since it was published, the book has been updated with three chapters a 3.6kReads7.3Score36114d adds
- 35 The Mortal’s Rebellion Against the Spirits 凡骨逆灵记 Li Yan transmigrates into this world, only to face the most despairing start imaginable: born with “no spiritual seed and a mortal physique,” he has no path to cultivation. Will the mind of a business tycoon in his previous life become a laughingstock in this one? No! He brings modern economics into the cultivation world, refining pills on assembly lines, managing spirit herbs through supply chains, and turning his sect into an interdimensional conglomerate. He even creates his own cultivation t 26Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Steady Cultivation: From the Start, I Obtained the Devour-All-Things Entry 稳健修仙：开局获得吞噬万物词条 [Mortal Cultivation + Steady Cultivation + Survivalist Path + Longevity + Trickster + No Female Lead/Single Female Lead + Traits + System] My name is Li Mu. As a proper rogue cultivator, I pick up what others don't want and go where others won't. As for the great opportunities everyone else fights over, I don't care about them. "Consume?" "Consume it! Of course we have to consume it!" "One percent consumed..." "Hey, System, aren't you going to do anything? What do you mean, stuck at one percent? 1.9kReads—Score22414d adds
- 37 The Flourishing Nine Provinces 九州鼎盛 In this world, rare beasts and humans coexist. Rare beasts are ranked in tiers: Immortal, Divine, Heavenly, Earthly, Profound, and Yellow. Even powerful creatures like dragons, phoenixes, qilin, and kunpeng are only Immortal-tier rare beasts, while the Four Spirits, the Four Fiends, and ancient mythical beasts are Divine-tier rare beasts. There are also ordinary rare beasts, as weak as Earth's animals and with no rank at all. Humans can form contracts with rare beasts and grow alongside them. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: A Chronicle of What I Saw and Heard 凡人修仙：见闻录 Traditional fantasy: no System, romance, rebirth, or transmigration. There are treasures, martial skills, cultivation techniques, stories, and tangled relationships. No one is purely good or purely evil; everyone is caught up in conflicting interests. This is not a wish-fulfillment story, so patience is required. Yuan Hao should have been an inner sect elder’s disciple, enjoying the sect’s generous benefits and everyone’s admiration. But a cruel twist of fate made him a menial disciple instead, 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 An Immortal Sect Disciple's Cultivation Record 仙宗弟子修仙记 [Mortal cultivation + no System + space + farming + decisive and ruthless] Li Wenda, a descendant of a Nascent Soul cultivator, joins an immortal sect as a direct disciple. This is the story of how he cultivates step by step until he ascends to immortality. He obtains a treasured relic from an ancient sect, containing an boundless world. Step by step, he develops the space until it slowly becomes a world of its own. I may not have a little green bottle, but I have plenty of spiritual fields. Wit 71Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 40 Niu Dali's Heaven-Defying Cultivation Journey 牛大力逆天修仙记 [No System, traditional cultivation, no tired old tropes, reborn] My Great Hammer Can split the sky! Can crack the earth! If people stand in my way, I'll destroy them! If Heaven wrongs me, I'll destroy it utterly! Niu Dali stood at the pinnacle of the Immortal Realm and let out a ferocious roar~ Years later, after achieving mastery in cultivation, Niu Dali told everyone: “My name is Niu Dali. I'm from Earth, a social elite from Huaxia. I transmigrated to the Xuan Zhen Continent by accident. I ne 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Starting as a Young Medicine Garden Keeper 凡人修仙：从看守药田小童做起 [No System + Decisive and Ruthless + One Female Lead + Mortal Cultivation + Rise from Adversity + Attain the Supreme Dao] In a remote fishing village, a boy named Su Li found a mysterious white jade Bodhi bracelet by the sea. After his father was lost at sea, a mysterious Daoist guided him to the disciple selection trials of Kaiyuan Sect. But the tests revealed that his spiritual root was poor, so he was assigned to tend the medicinal fields as a young caretaker. Then, by chance, Su Li activate 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Sword Slashes the Nine Heavens 凡人修仙：剑斩九天 A traditional cultivation novel about an ordinary mortal, with no System and no transmigration. When Heaven collapses, tyrants hold sway, resources are monopolized, the path to immortality is severed, the land is devoid of spiritual energy, and all living beings are enslaved. What turmoil will a young child, who depends on his mother as they eke out a living in the fields, stir up when he leaves his village and enters the world of cultivation? What is an immortal? What is cultivation? Cultivator 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Sign-In from the Start! My Sect Is Full of Mythical Powerhouses 开局签到！我的宗门全是神话大佬 From the start, all he has is a dilapidated Taoist temple. A sign-in instantly summons the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, whose staff smashes the gods across the skies to pieces! After transmigrating across countless worlds of the gods, Chu Wuji becomes the last sect master of the “Heavenly Court,” which is on the verge of being wiped out. Foreign gods lay siege to his gates, ready to tear him limb from limb, while the sect's legacy faces extinction! At this critical moment, the “World's Strongest 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Art of the Green Lotus 青莲造化诀 I have a secret art called the Azure Lotus. Born of chaos, it is neither born nor destroyed. It can defy heaven and come into being, follow heaven's will, and do as it pleases... My name is Li Qingxiao, a third-rank formation master who was reborn after being set up. On a different cultivation continent, I will tell a different kind of cultivation story. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 One Cultivation Manual Takes Me Across the Immortal Realm 一部修仙功法闯仙界 At the dawn of the Source Universe, all was chaos. A red strange stone from the outer universe fell into it, absorbed the chaotic energy, and transformed it into ancestral qi, opening up a new world. Countless realms formed within the Source Universe. The Source Realm was the original realm, also known as the Ancestral Realm. The strange stone became five innate treasures, which came into the possession of the five postnatal Celestial Emperors of the Source Realm. The Many-Eyed Emperor joined fo —Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 46 The Immortal Opening Mirror 开仙镜 [The human heart is unfathomable] [The world is cruel] [Scheming] [Slow burn] [Sensitive readers beware] [Soul transmigration] [A cautious underdog's comeback] [Play the pig to eat the tiger] [Eastern cultivation fantasy] [One female lead] Wang Xiaoji spent ten lifetimes doing good deeds and should have attained godhood, but his soul was stolen and his body taken from him. After his soul transmigrates into the cultivation world, he hopes to keep his head down until he grows strong. Instead, h 92Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 The Beggar Boy Wields the Primordial Heaven and Earth Cauldron 乞讨少年，我掌先天天地鼎 Once the Dao Ancestor of the ages, he was betrayed by his closest friend, besieged by the heavens, and killed in the mortal realm. He was reborn as Lin Yu, an ordinary young man from Lin Family Town. On the day he turned eighteen, his fiancée climbed the social ladder by tearing up their engagement contract in front of everyone. Lin Yu was beaten to death. As he hovered on the brink of death, his ancient divine soul awakened, resonating with a fragment of the innate supreme treasure, the Heaven 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 The Six Paths Confer Divinity 六道封神 The path of spiritual cultivation: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Void Refinement, Body Integration, and Great Ascension. The path of body tempering: Copper Body, Hundred Shatters, Thousandfold Weight, Ten Thousand Pythons, Space Shattering, Star Breaking, and Heaven Sealing. A classic fantasy tale with one female lead, no System, and the Myriad Worlds, where hundreds of races stand side by side. Watch Fang Tian take one steady step after 172Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Three Lifetimes of Slaying Immortals 三世斩仙 [Slow build] + [Ruthless] + [One heroine] + [Invincible among peers] + [Demonic cultivation] + [No angst] Immortals see all mortal beings as ants. I will trample heaven and earth in the form of an ant. The line between immortal and demon is but a thought. I choose to become a demon, yet I can also seek the Dao and become an immortal. Watch how this mediocre young scholar from a remote mountain village takes one step after another into cultivation and onto the immortal path. See how he kills, sla 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 A Mortal’s Path to Immortality 凡人点仙途 [Mortal's Journey to Immortality] [No System] [Underdog's Rise] If you enjoy underdogs making a comeback and a slow-paced journey to immortality, why not give this story a try? There's no pocket dimension or one-click duplication here, just an inconspicuous incense burner. The protagonist, Du Jiang, is a village boy who happens upon the incense burner of the local Earth God while picking tea. The burner can imbue all things with power, and its incense can temper one's spiritual sense. With the b 66Reads7.5Score10314d adds
