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- 1 You Can Only Parasitize One Host? I Can Do It Infinitely 你们只能寄生一个？我能无限寄生 In Blue Star Year 32,553, the planet was struck by an extraterrestrial body, devastating all life. As if that were not enough, an alien species appeared, which the people of the past called Parasite Beasts. They are divided into Yin Beasts and Yang Beasts, opposing kinds that prey on each other. Both need a Host to reach their full strength. Parasite Beasts can infect any living creature no smaller than themselves. Yin Beasts devour all of their Host's thoughts and take control of the body, whil —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Cultivation Was a Scam All Along 修仙原来是骗局 Shen Fuyin's family was slaughtered by ghosts, and he was saved by a white-robed young master. He accepted the book the young master gave him, but gradually realized that the cultivation method was the Ghost Dao. As the story unfolds, Shen Fuyin discovers that the white-robed young master is the Ghost King, while he himself is merely... —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Parasite: A Life Ruled by Insects 寄生：被虫支配的人生 [Complete, so you can read with peace of mind.] [If I ever turn into a “bug,” you must kill me without hesitation!] [Bold, awakened policewoman] x [Incredibly powerful, hereditary bug hunter] Bei Qiao is a rookie criminal police officer in Penang. Strange incidents have been occurring across the city lately. While investigating, she encounters Nan Yun from the Special Incident Investigation Division at a crime scene. She learns that the incidents are all caused by “bugs” living inside human bod 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Reincarnated as a Parasite 转生成寄生虫 After an accident, the protagonist comes back to life in another world and is reborn as a parasite, beginning a new life there. But they never expected that their fate in this other world had been arranged by someone else… 2.3kReads—Score—14d adds
- 5 Parasitic Awakening 寄生觉醒 [Transmigration + apocalypse + evolution + bloodsucking + single female lead + decisive and ruthless] Yi Ke transmigrated to an apocalyptic world overrun by mutated creatures. Here, anyone with enough vital energy could awaken and evolve. Vital energy could only be increased gradually through cultivation and eating high-level mutated creatures. Yi Ke gained the ability to suck blood. He could directly absorb the vital energy of other Awakened and mutated creatures, using it to evolve and figh 1Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 6 Super Parasite Girl 超级寄生少女 Abandoned on her eighteenth birthday, she doesn't discover her parasitic ability until later. Men, bosses, animals: once she chooses a Host, a new beginning awaits. As one mystery after another is unraveled, she finds herself caught up in yet another. Taking life lightly becomes Zhi Yuan's way of dealing with the world... The story gets going after chapter 40, and the thrills start after chapter 80. If it's no good, you can hit me. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 The Strongest Parasite in History 史上最强寄生虫 [Mid-Length Novel Contest] The Seven-Soul Bug from Lingxing comes with the strongest System. It catches ghosts and saves gods, helps spirits fulfill their wishes, joins Maoshan, masters the great way of talisman cultivation, and saves Earth from disaster. Volume One: Middle School Campus Arc. Acquire magical treasures, redeem cute pets, visit the dissection room, and go to the funeral home. Save Guan Yu, stew a fox spirit, and use X-ray vision to gamble on jade stones. Volume Two: High School Ma 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 I Am a Parasite in the Entire Ecosystem 我寄生在整个生态圈 He discovers that he has been reborn in a world where immortals and gods keep humans like livestock, monsters run rampant, and eerie beings sit high upon divine thrones. Dong Mo says he is not worried in the slightest. He perfects the martial arts, overcoming the barriers immortals and gods created to prevent ordinary people from advancing, and pioneers technology so they can defend the way. But when immortals, gods, and eerie beings suppress martial arts and dismantle technology in an attempt t 137Reads5.8Score1914d adds
- 9 Parasitic Cultivation 寄生修仙 I am the Immortal Venerable of the Kunlun Immortal Palace. I am also a monster, parasitized and assimilated by the insect race. The Grand Elder ordered me down the mountain to take on disciples. He said there was a child in White Crane Village known as the “Child of the Gods,” and that the boy might have real potential. But I discovered something. As the little boy bowed to become my disciple, a...golden larva flashed in his eyes! 294Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 I Parasitize the Myriad Worlds 我寄生诸天万界 Zhang Yang obtains the Myriad Worlds Parasite System, which lets him transmigrate across the Myriad Worlds. He can inhabit other people's bodies, becoming a life-form much like Venom, and grow stronger by devouring their flesh and blood. To increase his strength, he tempts each Host into working with him. Once powerful enough, he seizes control of the Host's body and transforms into a great demon, devouring all living things until he has consumed the entire world. Some people want revenge, some 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Reborn in a Bizarre World: I'm a Parasite 重生诡异世界：我是一条寄生虫 It's dangerous out here. Don't go into the wild unless you have to!! This is a world on the brink of death. After a car accident, Jiang Lin'an arrives here, reborn as an inconspicuous parasite with the ability to devour. Martial arts, secret medicines, human grafting, curses, evil spirits, sinister artifacts, ghosts and gods, knights, dragons, elves... It's also a world full of wonders. The Great Wei Kingdom is flourishing in martial arts, while sword and sorcery are gradually fading in the west 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Immortal Cultivators, This Is Shocking! Ascension Turns Out to Be a Scam 震惊修仙者！飞升原来是一场骗局 The age of cultivation arrives, and demons and monsters run rampant. All I wanted was to keep my head down and ascend, but when I saw my girlfriend use a Buddha-sized Susanoo, I was forced to become one of humanity's two shining stars. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 I'm a Parasite, So Why Are You Asking Me to Save the World? 我一个寄生体，你让我当救世主？ [Apocalypse + decisive and ruthless + no saintly do-gooder + villain protagonist + smart characters] At first, no one paid any attention to the disaster. It was just a simple murder, an ordinary car accident, the extinction of... an entire village. Overnight, the world changed beyond recognition. Only gradually did everyone realize that this disaster had everything to do with each and every one of them! An unknown virus of uncertain origin swept across the globe. It followed no pattern and had n 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Insectoid World: Transmigrated as a Parasitoid Wasp 异世虫族，穿越成为寄生蜂 Lin Ying transmigrates and becomes a bee-person, landing in a spiderweb from the start. Luckily, he obtains the System in time, unlocking the [Imitative Parasitic Techniques] layer by layer. So he’s a parasitic wasp after all? Well, that’s fine. Anesthesia, parasitism, taking over a body, possession, behavioral control, mental control: the techniques’ effects grow more and more outrageous. His carefree life after transmigrating starts with bullying spider-girls... 63Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 Insect Apocalypse: From the Start, I Bond with the Insect Queen! 异虫末世：开局寄生异虫母皇！ In 2027, extreme heat melts the Antarctic ice, awakening countless ancient alien insects! They take over every corner of the planet, and the apocalypse begins! While struggling to survive, Xu Qingfeng is betrayed by his girlfriend, who dotes on her younger brother. He is reborn on the day of his wedding. This time, he won’t make the same mistakes! He calls off the wedding on the spot and returns the betrothal gifts. From now on, they can each fend for themselves. Just as Xu Qingfeng prepares to 489Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 16 The Whole Class Transmigrates to an Eerie Cultivation World: All the Girls in Class Are My Cheat 群穿诡异修仙：全班女生是我外挂 [Uncanny Cultivation] [Multiple Female Leads] [Character Growth] [Building an All-Female Sect] I transmigrated into a cultivation world with all the girls in my class. The System foisted a sect master position and a useless spirit root that couldn't cultivate on Wang Chu. With disaster looming, he had no choice but to lead the girls in his class to establish a sect and take a very different path to success: Living off women while still calling the shots! Raise them right, and a peerless empress 1Reads—Score23314d adds
- 17 Cultivating Immortality in This World Is a Little Too Weird 在这个世界修仙有亿点点诡异 [Everyday life + Lovecraftian cultivation + lighthearted + eerie] Chen Ke transmigrates to a cultivation world. After countless hardships, he finally finds a cultivation sect. But after successfully joining, he discovers that everything here gives off an unusual air... “The first step in cultivation is called the Body Tempering Realm. As the name suggests, it means tempering your body and casting off your mortal flesh. Only by constantly strengthening your physique can you truly set foot on a br 3Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 18 Cultivating the Uncanny Way: The Years Before I Became a Daoist Venerable 诡道修仙：成为道尊的那些年 [Lovecraftian Cultivation]+ [Supernatural]+ [Folklore Mystery] A black kite cries out, while gods and Buddhas remain asleep. The world is full of deluded fools, yet people blame themselves for being unrestrained. Beneath this eerie, absurd sky screen, every truth is evil. Shatter the mirror of lies, and what you see is nothing but another falsehood. When black and white merge and the dividing line between opposing forces is broken, good and evil can turn gray in a single thought. Perhaps that is 2Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 19 From the Start, My Girlfriend Dismembered Me and Sacrificed Me to Cthulhu 开局被女友肢解献祭给克苏鲁 [Sequences + power fantasy + no System + reborn] [God] type sequence creature: [The Lord]. [Rule] type sequence creature: [The Eternal Clock]. [Growth-type] sequence creature: [Fear]... All kinds of bizarre, terrifying sequence creatures invade the globe. The twenty-first century faces annihilation, and humanity is no longer at the top of the food chain. Ye Lai: “I’m reborn, but I died, and my girlfriend dismembered me. Then Cthulhu brought me back to life... I became the human Cthulhu fears mos 166Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 20 This Cultivation Is Absurd 这个修仙太离谱 After passing the test at Xuanyun Valley, Lin Zhou became an entry-level disciple. But this cultivation thing was completely absurd. … What? You’re telling me this is a Foundation Establishment Pill? It’s clearly an egg! What? The Golden Core stage is that bug spinning a cocoon inside my dantian? And the Nascent Soul stage is when the bug breaks out of its cocoon and turns into a baby that looks exactly like me? Are you sure this bug isn’t some kind of parasite? 90Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 21 The Sky Without a Trace 苍穹无痕 This book is also known as Reborn: From the Spirit Martial Continent to Slay Immortals and Gods [Classic fantasy] [Mortal's path to immortality] [Slaying immortals and gods] [Spirit pets] [Spirit Martial Continent] [His growth: Begins at age 8, enters the Dao at 9, joins a sect at 10, becomes famous across the continent at 11, and reaches the rank of an earthly immortal at 15. From then on, he roams the mortal world freely.] In his previous life, Lin Shu fought against the Divine Realm and was 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 I Keep a Low Profile Cultivating Immortality in a Strange Era 我苟在诡异时代修仙 [Big Shot] [System] [Eerie] [Apocalypse] Chen Jian, a consummate slacker, transmigrates. After twenty years of struggle, he finally becomes an immortal, only to discover that something is wrong with the Celestial Court as soon as he arrives. (This is an apocalypse novel. Many readers have taken issue with the first chapter, so let me repeat: this is an apocalypse novel!) 57Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 23 My Suicide Attempt Failed, and a Monster Parasitized My Heart 开局自杀失败，心脏被怪物寄生 [Anomalous Creatures] [Mild Horror] [Decisive and Ruthless] P.S. This book is a slow burn. I hope all you handsome and beautiful readers will be patient. Thanks! This is a world being devoured by anomalous creatures. A usually kind and friendly neighbor splits open when no one is around. A centipede-like bus tears down the road, running amok. The faceless man who appears only in mirrors can kill people in the real world. Shen Jiuge, whose heart has been parasitized, fails to take his own l 858Reads8.2Score11014d adds
- 24 The World Is So Broken, Even the System Wants to Run Away 世界太崩坏，系统都要跑路 [Transmigrator, open your eyes. I'm your golden finger, the System you're about to ditch and run away from. This world is too dark and broken for me to handle. I'm out!] “No, System! You can't leave! How am I supposed to survive without you?!!!” [What does that have to do with me? Poor unlucky soul, you're facing an apocalypse where an Evil Eye devours the sun; dark shadows haunt the world beneath a shroud of gray mist; artificial intelligence goes rogue; bizarre rules are everywhere; the dead r 201Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 25 Supreme Parasite: Becoming a God by Parasitizing the Campus Belle 至高寄生：从寄生校花开始成神 The purple ring locks away the sun and moon; demons rise to fill the sky! When humanity can only cling to life in a desolate wasteland, a young man from another world finally escapes the cage that held him captive for six years… 546Reads7.1Score10414d adds
- 26 National Destiny MC: The Parasites Have Arrived 全民国运MC之寄生虫降临 A national-fate crossover fanfic that brings together numerous Minecraft mods and fan animations, including [Escape: Parasites] + [Cthulhu] + [Abyssal Kingdom] + [Fungi] + [Flood] + [Alien Insectoid Swarm] + [Flesh] + [Shapeshifter] + [Prion] + [Annoying Villagers] + [Put Yourself in Their Shoes]. There is no protagonist in this book, because everyone is the protagonist of this world. Whether an anonymous nobody whose name is unknown, or a worker or a farmer, everyone will shine in their own way 89Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Heavenly Demon Scripture 天妖经 An unconventional cultivation novel with grotesque elements, nothing but torment for the protagonist, no harem, and an ensemble cast. Suffering fills every line. The style is unusual, and there is no female lead. The protagonist goes through a great deal of torment in the early stages. The pacing is slow at first, and the writing is rather bleak, though it still has its funny moments. Major twists arrive in the middle and later parts, making for a very satisfying read, and the style shifts somew 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 Parasitic Cultivation: I Can Rewind After Death 寄生修仙：我能死亡回档 [A protagonist who grows over time, not a power fantasy] Twisted immortals and Buddhas, undying monsters, and a chaotic Heavenly Dao. Cultivate qi by planting insect eggs in your dantian, establish your foundation by spinning them into cocoons and hatching them into insects... Su Muran transmigrates here and awakens an infinite-rewind golden finger called Rebirth. He becomes an entry-level disciple of the Qinglan Sect. A cultivation path plagued by parasites, a road to immortality that turns you 622Reads7.0Score10214d adds
- 29 This Cultivation World Seems a Little Off 这个修仙世界好像不太正常 A hundred years ago, the Strange Star descended, bringing endless horrors to this world. From then on, the world plunged into endless madness and chaos. A hundred years later, Yu Qingming has just transmigrated here and is nearly strangled to death by a horror right from the start. He begins cultivating immortality to protect himself, only to discover that cultivation in this world... seems a little off... “The path to immortality: absorb strange energy, build a strange foundation, form a strang 711Reads5.4Score6114d adds
- 30 Mutant Cultivation: I Became Someone Else's Clone 变异修仙，我成了别人的分身 Martial arts leading to the Dao + System + cultivation + decisive action + multiple heroines + multiple perspectives through different clones. Fast-paced, unconventional wish fulfillment. If that’s not your thing, please don’t read. Thanks for your support! Make the sea of suffering a boat, ferry people to salvation, see clearly into your own nature, prove your innate potential, and plant the seeds of karma beneath the Bodhi tree. Dawn’s rosy glow sweeps away the dust, dew-washed clouds cleanse 6Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 31 The Strange Immortal Records: The Whole World’s Memories Have Been Altered 诡仙录：全世界都遭到认知篡改 [Eerie]+ [Cultivation]+ [Lovecraftian]+ [Warhammer]+ [The Foundation]+ [One Female Lead] Sight, hearing, smell, and touch are merely the brain's interpretation of sensory signals. If cognition itself is compromised, how can you be sure that anything you perceive is real rather than an illusion? This is a tainted world. The pills that cultivators eagerly seek are actually living insect eggs, while the beautiful, aloof sword pavilion immortal maiden was long ago refined into a long sword of twiste 452Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 32 Strange Cultivation Begins with Planting Swords 诡异修仙从种剑开始 Unorthodox techniques, a bizarre cultivation world. Every act of cultivation comes at a price. Resentment gives rise to the eerie, the eerie brings calamity, calamity becomes tribulation, and tribulation rules over all living things. If cultivation is this painful, let someone else cultivate immortality for me. I will forge my realm from flesh and blood, stack bones into a throne, and build my path to transcendence. 359Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 33 Cthulhu: I Just Want to Cultivate Immortality 克苏鲁：我只想修仙啊 In my past life, I worked myself to death. In this life, I, Yun Chen, will devote myself to cultivating immortality and achieving eternal life! [Ding! You have become an Apostle of the Old Ones!] Quit it, I want to cultivate immortality! [Ding! You have obtained the Whisper of the Ancient Gods!] Cut it out, Squidward! [Ding! You have obtained the Twisted Dream!] I just want to cultivate immortality! [Ding! You have obtained the ability to summon Cthulhu!] Yun Chen: … Squidward, you're amazi 16Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 34 The Dao-Proving Deception 证道骗局 An Immortal Emperor? Just livestock penned up by the Upper Realm! I thought reaching the Immortal Emperor realm would make me invincible. But on the day I was crowned, I saw my fellow disciples being slaughtered and eaten. Immortal Emperors are controlled like walking corpses, and the Immortal Realm is nothing but a pigsty. Still dreaming of becoming an immortal? It's all a scheme by those at the top. (Dark conspiracy) + (a completely new system) + (intelligent antagonists) Note: This is an unco 199Reads5.7Score10214d adds
- 35 The Toad Monster of Gourd Mountain 葫芦山里蛤蟆怪 A toad monster in Calabash Mountain devours heaven and earth, becoming a great demon. The story of a toad that runs rampant across the world. 389Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 36 Tentacles from the Start, Then I Meet a Beautiful Girl 开局触手，遇见美少女 Tentacle-chan's Daily Life of Body Snatching tells the story of a nonhuman consciousness from another world that, on the brink of annihilation, accidentally takes up residence inside a high school girl named Sakurai Hotaru. Thus begins a symbiotic daily life filled with contradictions and struggles. To survive, the consciousness, which calls itself “Tentacle-chan,” must hide behind Hotaru's identity and carefully adapt to the rules of human society. Yet its very existence quietly changes Hotaru 123Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 37 Horror Has Descended: Don’t Shoot, I’m Not a Demon 恐怖降临：别开火，我不是恶魔 My name is Lin Mo. I was infected by zombies, but I’m not one of them, and the investigators are on my trail. I’m a gunsmith, so why did a gun grow out of my bones?! The Awakened protect this world, and I want to fight for it too! Wait… why does everyone keep calling me an SSS-rank demon?! 337Reads7.1Score10014d adds
- 38 A Thousand Eyes on the Path of the Uncanny 诡道千眼 "Eerie Cultivation" "Classic Power Progression" "One Female Lead" "No System" Chaotic Daoist arts, uncanny immortals and gods. Cultivators soar through the skies and burrow underground, surviving three calamities and five tribulations as they walk the path to immortality. Ordinary people toil away, endlessly tilling the fields, with neither life nor death in their own hands. The refugees struggle through the blustering snow. Those who collapse today will be someone else’s next meal. They are str —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Dao Hides, the Gods Vanish 道隐神匿 [Cultivation]+ [Cthulhu Mythos]+ [Supernatural Powers and Spells] From the twisted shadows looking down on all living things atop Baiyu Jing, to the bizarre feast of writhing flesh in Kunlun's Jade Pool, to the enormous pupils prowling and spying in the weak waters of the Yellow Springs: when the gilded splendor of Taoist temples and Buddhist monasteries fades, and the gods of the heavens no longer heed the prayers of mortals, when the moral codes of the court and the martial world fall away, th 145Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 40 Fellow Daoist, Help Me Ascend to Immortality 道友，且助我飞升 [Dark] [Cthulhu] [No System] [Uncanny and Mad] The Xuanhuang Heavenly Venerable, covered in tentacles; the Mother Goddess of Life, a mass of seething chaos; and the Emperor of the Abyss, who transcends dimensions, presiding over the Immortal Heaven. Mortals twisted by chaotic evil, cultivators driven mad, a lower world where reality and illusion are tangled together: the myriad beings and images of the Three Thousand Great Paths are all a feeding ground for the indescribable. Mu Feng, a transmig 206Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 41 Ascension Is a Trap: The Humans of the Upper Realm Feed on My People 飞升是陷阱，上界人族以我族为食 [Blue Star is the highest plane, and Blue Star's people are invincible] Frog Saint: I was a prodigy of the frog race, born with extraordinary talent. In my youth, I roamed the world undefeated and became the supreme ruler of the demon realm. Today, I broke through to the legendary realm and ascended to the upper world. I thought I would rule for all eternity, but instead I found corpses strewn everywhere and the remains of my people scattered across the land. Countless legendary demon emperors h 460Reads6.9Score10114d adds
- 42 Parasitic Supernatural Being: I Directed the Return of Horror 超凡寄生：我一手导演了恐怖复苏 Ghosts and gods roam everywhere; the human world is a living hell. This is a world visible only to Li Xiangyang: ghosts and gods lurking everywhere, terror following close behind, people disguising themselves with painstaking care, and ordinary folks who don’t understand and shun him... His predecessor took his own life in despair. But Li Xiangyang, who transmigrated here, is right at home. Holding a bug that just fell off his own body, he murmured, “I wonder which lucky soul will receive my gen 1.2kReads7.9Score10014d adds
- 43 The Red Moon Descends: I Can't Tell Them Apart, I Really Can't 红月降临：分不清，我真分不清啊 [Mystery and mind games + eerie cultivation + Cthulhu + Infinite Flow + not a power fantasy + monsters + mythology + horror] The brain doesn’t know the eyes exist, so why did “eyes” come into being? Why are our eyes on the front of our heads instead of the top? Is it because we’re afraid of seeing something? Is humanity a complete organism, or are we just the part of the brain that develops consciousness while parasitizing a body? Could Earth be a stage built for us by a higher civilization? Do 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 Starting with Cancer Cells, I Created a Fake Eldritch World 从癌细胞开始，缔造伪诡秘世界 [Cancer Cells + The Bizarre + Spiritual Qi Revival + One Female Lead] My name is Xu Youxin! A few months ago, I suddenly fainted and was rushed to the hospital. In the end, I was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. The doctors said I had no more than a year to live. I had lost all hope and was just waiting to die. Then I suddenly started to feel that something was wrong with the cancer cells in my body. Every day, I hear a few words repeating in my head... Something like... flesh and blood... 623Reads7.0Score10614d adds
- 45 Horror Across the Heavens: I Fight Monsters with the Weird and Evil with the Wicked 恐怖诸天：我以诡制诡，以邪镇邪 “What?!” “That Lin Yan is a righteous grand judge? Then why is he surrounded by black qi?” “Don’t call him by his name! Every ghost, monster, and demon across the Three Realms of the heavens trembles and falls to its knees at the sound of those three characters!” “What are the three characters?” “He rejects the evil spirits of the eight wildernesses. He is the Lord Yan!” Lin Yan stumbled into a world of terror spanning the heavens. While others ran for their lives at the sight of ghosts, he hunt 32.3kReads7.3Score2.6k14d adds
- 46 In the Depths of Dongyuan: The Immortal Beneath the Earth 洞渊深处：地底仙 [Lovecraftian Cultivation] + [Eerie] + [Madness] + [Classic of Mountains and Seas] Immortals aren’t in the heavens. They’re underground! Ever since returning from exploring a cave, Chen Si has finally understood this truth! The immortals told him: “Use blood to power the formation, and offer sacrifices to all spirits.” He will follow their example, using human blood and flesh to forge his path to immortality! Is this truly an ascent through a grotesque transformation of flesh and blood, or merel 1.5kReads8.4Score22314d adds
- 47 The Uncanny Path: I Told You to Cultivate, So Why Have You All Gone Mad? 诡道：让你们修真，你们都疯了？ You were told to slay your inner demon, so why did you kill your whole family? You were told to suffer a little, so why are you skinning people and tearing out their bones? [Protagonist in torment + unhinged protagonist + Chinese horror + Lovecraftian urban cultivation + not mindless + satisfying power fantasy + more torment early on, more payoff later] [Readers in a normal state of mind, enter at your own risk. This book is all about madness. The first twenty chapters move quickly to get to the 112Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 48 Immortal Through Cunning Arts, I Can Ignore the Cost 诡术成仙，我能免疫代价 [No female lead] [Eerie cultivation] [Urban setting] [Modern technology aids cultivation] Some eerie arts require you to destroy your own eyes. Others demand that, as a child, you cut off your limbs at the roots, then leave them immersed in a vat for three years. Some can only be mastered by driving a wooden spike into your head. After Yu Xiu transmigrates into this world, he is lucky enough to gain the ability to access an information feed, allowing him to learn eerie arts without paying their 95Reads5.4Score12214d adds
- 49 I Have Ten Million Years to Live: Deriving Countless Arts 我有千万年寿元：衍化万般诀 [Cunning + ruthless protagonist + decisive killing + dark world] Demons wreak havoc in the human realm, and cultivators must pay a “price” to cultivate. But Chu Sanzai can derive new cultivation arts and practice them directly! “The Flesh-Eating Art requires you to eat human flesh while it's still alive? I'll derive the Taotie Art, which lets me increase my cultivation by eating ordinary food!” Derive! The Eight-Nine Arcane Art, Dao Eyes, Corpse-Driving Steps... The Xiangyang Dynasty is corrupt, 634Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 50 The Immortal of Strange Cores 怪核之仙 [Invasion by Transmigrators + Occupational Combos + A Touch of Cosmic-Horror Folklore + Dark Tone] Kill your family to cultivate immortality? Hurt others to become a Buddha? Overnight, the entire world suddenly began cultivating as one. An Qinghe thought it was a dream, until his own parents tied him up. Only then did he realize that it was all real... Cultivators have invaded the modern world, seizing people's bodies and souls! But right now, all An Qinghe wants to know is... why do they say he 1kReads9.0Score11414d adds
