Novels like So What If I’m a Prodigy?
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- 1 I Gathered the Divine Treasures and Kept a Low Profile Until I Became Invincible 集齐神物的我苟到无敌 Chen Zhou is brought to a xianxia world by a bead, and opportunity falls right into his lap as soon as he transmigrates. After seeing how dangerous and cruel the world of cultivation is, he decides to keep his treasures safe and lie low until the end of time. 1.5kReads8.5Score10214d adds
- 2 Longevity Through Martial Arts: From the Start, My Golden Body Was Indestructible 武道长生：开局金身不朽 [Extremely Popular Fantasy] When Xu Ping'an wakes up, he has become a constable in the capital prefecture of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The empress has just ascended the throne, the realm is in turmoil, demons are everywhere, and strange phenomena run rampant. To protect himself, he diligently practices martial arts… Indestructible Golden Body, First Layer: His qi and blood surge like smoke from a beacon! Indestructible Golden Body, Second Layer: His qi and blood surge like a mighty dragon! Indestr 4.9kReads8.7Score34814d adds
- 3 Immortal and Undying: A God-Slaying Executioner in Another World 长生不死：在异界当刽子手斩神魔 (Fantasy + Immortality + Transmigrate + Executioner + Pets + Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger + Keep a Low Profile and Grow Stronger + Ruthless and Cunning) After Xu Xuan transmigrates, he awakens the Qi and Blood Orb, which lets him steal lifespans by killing people and live forever. Born into a family of executioners, he wields a ghost-head executioner's blade: publicly, he beheads evildoers; in secret, he slays demons and fiends, gods and devils. All for the sake of eternal life and a clear cons 7.8kReads8.5Score49914d adds
- 4 EN Family Fled at the Start, But My Proficiency Was Just Maxed Out 开局家人跑路，可我熟练度刚刷满 [No heroine] [Cheat-powered cultivation + grinding for immortality + unbeatable workaholic] Heaven rewards diligence! Ten years after transmigrating and reincarnating in a world of immortal cultivation, Yue Shuo finally activated his cultivation character panel. He could see his attributes and proficiency. [Talent: Reborn as a Human (Purple)] (Reborn as a Human: Comprehension +50%, Spiritual Sense +50%) [Taijiquan (Tier One): 500/2000 (Perfect)] (Beginner: Your sluggish body feels a little more 15.5kReads8.4Score1.1k14d adds
- 5 Xuanhuan: I Simulate Becoming a God While Listening to Music in the Brothel 玄幻：勾栏听曲的我，模拟成神 [Fantasy, simulator, playing it safe, no female lead, exploration and progression; not pure wish fulfillment.] [Important note: In real life, he plays it safe. Most of the story takes place in simulations.] Jiang Yifeng transmigrated as the eldest son of the Jiang Merchant Guild in the Great You Kingdom. He thought this was an ancient society where he could spend his whole life lounging in the pleasure houses, listening to music, and taking it easy. But five years after he transmigrated, a simul 70.7kReads8.4Score8.3k14d adds
- 6 Two-Faced Cultivation: A Dog in Public, a Ruthless Fiend in Private 双面修仙：人前老狗，人后狠人 [Longevity] + [Cautious cultivation] + [Mortal's journey] + [Transmigrated in body] + [No romance] + [Not celibate] + [Decisive and ruthless] + [No self-sacrificing saint] (Fights between any two characters will generally last no more than one chapter. This isn't a fast-paced power fantasy. Follow an ordinary man's journey to becoming the ultimate survivor. If that's not for you, don't read.) Lin Xiao transmigrates to another world for reasons unknown. Enjoy wealth and luxury? Surround himself w 19.3kReads8.4Score1.4k14d adds
- 7 Immortals Hidden Among the Common Folk 市井藏仙 Zhao Mu transmigrates to the Great Jin dynasty and gains the power to grow young again. Whenever one life reaches its end, he returns to his youth, living forever without ever dying. For fifty years, I serve as an official at the entertainment bureau, leisurely watching celebrated courtesans dance and seeing every beauty the world has to offer. I live through the rise and fall of dynasties, watching wise rulers bring peace and foolish emperors plunge the realm into chaos. I roam the rivers and l 71.7kReads8.4Score6.2k14d adds
- 8 Longevity: Cultivating Through Martial Arts Until the Immortals Die of Old Age 长生：以武入道熬死修仙者 The System is unreliable. The moment he transmigrated, the Heavenly Dao killed him. Luckily, the beginner's gift pack he'd received beforehand had already made Li Yuanchang immortal. And so, an ultimate survivor was born. What are peerless prodigies and undefeated emperors? Under the erosion of time, they're all fleeting illusions. No matter how dazzling you are, in the end, you can't withstand the merciless passage of time. He lived through the rise of technology. He also witnessed the sp 24.4kReads8.5Score1.7k14d adds
- 9 The Great Dao Dies, but I Live On; Even as Spiritual Energy Dries Up, I Remain Evergreen 大道死而我不死，灵气枯竭我长青 [Immortality + no System + not a power fantasy + fictional setting + slow-paced] [The story mainly follows the protagonist as he travels and witnesses the changes after spiritual energy dries up.] Have you seen an age of prosperity, when spiritual energy was abundant, countless races rose to prominence, and geniuses shone like stars in the sky? But have you ever lived through an era when spiritual energy ran dry, all magic withered, and the Great Dao died? Have you seen a vast immortal dynasty g 41kReads8.9Score3.6k14d adds
- 10 Immortal Travel of Longevity 长生仙游 An accident brings Chen Changsheng to a world of immortals and martial arts, but he is surrounded by a curse that lets him live only from dawn to dusk. From then on, he comes back to life for just one day every three years, then falls asleep again, trapped in an endless cycle. Yet because of this, immortals from all walks of life mistake him for a sage who has attained the Dao. By a fortunate twist of fate, he embarks on the path of cultivation, searching desperately for a way to break the mayfl 5.4kReads8.9Score75414d adds
- 11 Eternal Immortality: A Jailor Hiding Out in the Heavenly Prison 长生万古：苟在天牢做狱卒 [Smart characters, no brainless plotlines]+ [No System]+ [Cautious survival]+ [Immortality]+ [No heroine]+ [A sly schemer]+ [Political intrigue]+ [Prudent and cautious] Zhang Wu transmigrates to a cultivation world and becomes a jailer in the Imperial Prison from the start. For officials, the end of the road is the Imperial Prison. For soldiers, it is dying on the battlefield. For those in the martial world, it is getting killed in a vendetta. None of them meet a good end. If he wants to survive 38kReads9.1Score3.2k14d adds
- 12 EN Eternal Prudence: Starting with a Suona, Funeral Rites to Immortality 长生苟道：开局吹唢呐，送葬修仙 [Immortal Cultivation + Comedy and Memes + Ordinary Protagonist + Heroine + Laying Low + Status Panel] Bai Yu transmigrated to an immortal-cultivation world. From the start, he was immortal, and performing funerals made him stronger. Bury a grandmaster martial artist and gain a max-level Golden Bell Shield, with the vitality of a dragon! Bury a Nascent Soul cultivator and gain a top-tier Heavenly Spirit Root, with extraordinary talent! Bury an Immortal Emperor of the Myriad Worlds and gain the T 51.5kReads8.9Score4.2k14d adds
- 13 Longevity: A Well-Connected Immortal Court Official Slacks Off in the Mortal Realm 长生：仙庭关系户下界摸鱼 [Immortal cultivation + no System + not a power fantasy + slow-paced + no female lead + pseudo-ensemble cast. Read with care if this isn’t your thing.] The mighty will of Heaven shines like a mirror, illuminating the causes and effects binding immortals and mortals alike. The countless living beings are like grains of sand, ground into the ashes of tribulation beneath mountains and rivers. A mysterious mirror hangs among the highest heavens, reflecting the lives of all beings in the Three Realm 215.4kReads9.0Score15.3k14d adds
- 14 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
- 15 EN In the Cultivation World, I Can Go 50-50 with Anyone 人在修仙世界，和谁都能五五开 In Li Zhoujun's fortieth year after transmigrating to become the mountain lord of an immortal sect, he finally obtained a System that let him match anyone fifty-fifty. Are you a ten-thousand-year-old monster who has spent ages hidden from the world? I'm your equal. Are you an unparalleled Immortal Emperor of peerless elegance? I'm your equal. Are you a demonic fiend whose very name strikes terror into people's hearts? I'm your equal. 64.7kReads9.1Score5.5k14d adds
- 16 EN As Long as I Outlive You All, I Can Be Invincible 只要把你们都熬死，我就能无敌 Cultivation is a path toward immortality, but one’s lifespan eventually runs out. That is why cultivators must keep advancing, becoming saints and emperors to extend their lives. Chen Xia, however, was the complete opposite. Ever since he transmigrated, he had been immortal, and he had also gained a stat-allocation System. For every year he lived, he earned one attribute point. And so, a legend arose throughout the Myriad Worlds about an ultimate schemer. “A gentleman’s revenge is never too late 69.6kReads9.3Score6.6k14d adds
- 17 EN Fantasy: Starting Blind, I Cultivate with an Erhu 玄幻：开局瞎子，从拉二胡开始 (The short drama is now streaming: Fantasy: Beginning with Two Springs Reflect the Moon) [Spending Life + Grinding and Lying Low] "Once a song breaks the heart, where in all the world can one find a kindred soul?" From the start, he transmigrated as a blind man and became a street musician. [Two Springs Reflect the Moon: LV2 (1/10000) Effect: Unblocks qi and blood, opens the meridians, dispels dampness, and warms the body] He is a blind street musician who wipes out an entire gang for 143.4kReads9.6Score14.9k14d adds
- 18 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
- 19 EN Legend Management Bureau 传说管理局 (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no brainless decisions, and no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if any of that bothers you.) Du Yu dies an untimely death right at the beginning of the story. Hoping to secure a better spot in his next life, he takes a job with the Bureau of Legendary Tales. His job is to return to legends that have gone off course and put their plots back on track. He never expected that the first mission assigned to an ordinary mortal like him would 167kReads9.6Score21.2k14d adds
- 20 EN Mortal Bones, Immortal Destiny 凡骨 (The print edition is now available to buy online) The world's spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade: Heavenly Spiritual Bones. Second grade: Golden Spiritual Bones. Third grade: Mystic Spiritual Bones. Fourth grade: White Spiritual Bones. All the rest are ordinary bones, unfit for cultivation. Xu Taiping is an ordinary man with ordinary bones, yet he swears to prove to the cultivation world that ordinary bones can slay demons, ordinary bones can vanquish evil, and ordinary b 555.1kReads9.3Score68.8k14d adds
- 21 God-Tier Choices: This Beast Tamer Is a Little Too Fierce 神级选择：这个御兽师有亿点生猛 [Beast taming + choices + comedy + nonsense + one female lead (no female lead) = ?] When Chen Shu wakes up, he finds that he has transmigrated to a parallel world where beast taming reigns supreme, and he has bound himself to a Divine-Level Choice System! Every choice he makes earns him all kinds of rewards! With the System’s help, his pets grow increasingly monstrous: a slime that can sit on a dragon and crush it to death, a husky that can blast a phoenix to tears with elemental skills, and a.. 178.4kReads9.7Score21.7k14d adds
- 22 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
- 23 EN The Creatures That We Are 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 479.8kReads9.7Score65.9k14d adds
- 24 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
