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- 1 Mechanical Cultivation: I Can See Optimization Plans 机械修仙：我能看到优化方案 Zhang Qing opened his eyes, emerging from his confusion into a wondrous and bizarre world of immortal cultivation. Heaven-Patrolling Mechanical Eyes took the place of the sun and moon. The Eight Trigrams Profound Divination Differential Array calculated the past and future. Mechanical Buddha statues looked down upon billions of living beings, while Daoist soldiers underwent human modification. An age of machines developed by cultivators shone brilliantly through the river of time! Have you ever 454Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 2 Generation Zero: The FNIX Machine Legion 零世代：FNIX机械军团 [A sci-fi setting that blends together all kinds of space-opera tropes] Earth is shrouded by the Veil of the Warp, and everything starts from zero. Primal, chaotic energy breaks through the atmosphere and surges toward the planet’s core. During this time, the surface ecosystem teeters on the brink of collapse, while countless upheavals transform this planet from the material universe. Choose to coexist with psionics, or have your reason devoured and become dust in the Warp. The Cyberlex creation 137Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 3 Global Lord: Join the Glorious Evolution! 全民领主：加入光荣的进化吧 [In the Yellow Flame Divine Realm, there is no option to “Select Simplified Chinese”] Ten billion humans enter a new world, battling foreign races to entertain the gods. Xu Fan obtains a territory: the Machina Spire, and awakens a hidden profession: Mechanical Pioneer, able to evolve mechanical troops. Hell Titan Mech God, Heaven's Sacred Warrior: the Hundred-Armed Giant... All kinds of mechanical technologies beyond human comprehension sweep across the battlefields of the new world, bringing a 110Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 4 Among the Stars: Arms Dealer to the Myriad Worlds 群星：万界军火供应商 [Stellaris] [The Three-Body Problem] [The Wandering Earth] [Warhammer] [StarCraft] [the Myriad Worlds] Give the Myriad Worlds a little taste of Stellaris-level shock and awe. Luo Ji: Starting today, call me the Pirate King of Space: Luo Ji. The Wandering Earth: I'm a planetary battleship, not an escape ship. Young civilization, can you see my tail lights? StarCraft: Who's calling the fleet? For Aiur, please tell me what that planet speeding through space is supposed to be! Warhammer universe, th 1.8kReads7.9Score111Shelves
- 5 EN Mecha: Full Metal Storm 机战：全金属风暴 [Apocalypse + Giant Beasts + Mecha] Giant beasts invade, and the apocalypse descends! Luo Yan, a surface survivor, awakens a mysterious eye technique, pilots a mecha, and takes on the giant beasts. Metal clashes against metal! Humanity's final roar! A legend of heroes... 396Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 6 When the Stars Fell 星空坠落时 The sky suddenly collapsed, and 12,800 colossal structures descended upon Earth overnight. Eight billion people were forced to choose their own fates at the same time. The impact of a supreme civilization from the ancient stars rewrote the future of this blue planet in just one month. In the end, who will witness the moment the galaxy pours down? 1kReads8.5Score104Shelves
- 7 Starsea Hunter 星海猎人 In the age of great space exploration, humanity has built a vast empire among the glittering stars! A boy from the lowest rungs of society accidentally encounters a remnant soul that has lost all its magical powers. He is drawn into a civil war within an alien civilization and, through a twist of fate, steps onto the interstellar stage. The secrets of the Zhan Ying race, the ambitions of the Bojiang civilization, and the struggle between humanity and alien races for living space. Across the boun 3.7kReads8.4Score354Shelves
- 8 Star River Mecha 星河机甲 The Void Insectoid race attacks. A mysterious fleet arrives. Why have one powerful spacefaring civilization after another fallen? What, exactly, is guiding it all? The Galactic Federation: twelve main-god mechs stand poised above the clouds, while eighty-eight constellation mechs roam the cosmos. Xia Nan, a Federation lieutenant from Blue Star, defeats his enemies one by one and leads the fleet in conquering the stars, making the Galactic battle flag fly across the universe! Here you’ll find th 652Reads8.1Score105Shelves
- 9 Global Class Change: I’m the Supergod Mechanic Who Crushes All Opposition 全民转职：我超神机械师横推无敌 [Game Descends + Passionate Action + Feel-Good Story + Steamrolling Everything] Virtual worlds descend into reality, and countless alien races cross over into our world, transforming it beyond recognition. The gods reveal themselves and bestow their power. Humans resonate with the gods through their hearts to gain strength, ushering in an era where everyone can choose a class. After an accident leaves the genius boy Wang Chen with an artificial heart, he is destined to be unable to awaken a cl 158Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 10 Among the Stars: Who Awakened the Fourth Calamity? 群星：是谁唤醒了第四天灾 [A contest for supremacy among the stars, vying for control of the galaxy] In the boundless reaches of space, a massive starship hovered in orbit above an Earth-like planet. More than a hundred small spacecraft streamed out of it, racing toward the planet below. Li Wei, captain of the Hyacinth, looked at the scene before him with a complicated expression. “Six United Earth colony ships passed through the wormhole. The Chrysanthemum and the Hyacinth lost contact. The Chrysanthemum went on to bec 511Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 11 EN Reborn as a Computer: Starting with an Entire Planet 穿越成电脑，开局一颗星球 “This is Orange Star Base. We are under attack by a powerful natural disaster...” Luo Qi awakens, but he is no longer himself. As the intelligent control program of a decommissioned base, he must decide what path to take. Should he venture beyond the planet and uphold neutral order? Wield the power to destroy worlds? Or trace everything back to its origin... 1.3kReads8.8Score103Shelves
- 12 The Day I Divorced, I Became the Heir to a Fortune 离婚当天，我成了首富继承人 The Day I Divorced, I Became the Heir to a Fortune 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Madam, Please Restrain Yourself 夫人请自重 That day, Wang Tuwang followed the powerful and treacherous minister Lu with his hands clasped and his back bent in obsequious submission. Years later, the minister was stripped of his title and his entire clan was wiped out. Wang Tuwang had made a fortune through corruption, with silver piled high in his warehouses. That day, Wang Tuwang swore before a lamp that he would be loyal only to the Prince of Chu for the rest of his life, and would help him ascend the throne. Years later, the Princ 5.1kReads9.3Score301Shelves
- 14 Technology: I Can Synthesize and Upgrade Anything 科技：我能合成升级一切 Ye Tian had hit rock bottom when he accidentally activated a mysterious interface. It had only a few options: Shop, Inventory, and Synthesizer. Put any item inside, and a matching item would appear in the shop, where it could be bought and duplicated endlessly. That wasn’t even the best part. Put ten identical items into the Synthesizer, and they’d combine into a higher-level item. With this at his disposal, making any scientific breakthrough was a breeze. In a world where technology had stagnat 5.9kReads8.5Score426Shelves
- 15 Starbound Journey 星途 The Flame Soul War God, asleep for a thousand years, awakens on Earth. Once a hero, then an interstellar criminal, and now a lowly mecha cadet on Earth, Ning Jie is forced to lead humanity onto a blood-soaked path through the stars as his life begins to repeat itself! “I’m not used to standing behind other people, because every enemy in front of me is going to die...” 438Reads7.5Score101Shelves
- 16 Divine Mecha Master 神迹机甲师 Mecha upgrades + insectoid invasion + interstellar warfare + warrior evolution + a rise from the bottom (This book is a slow burn, but it gets more exciting as it goes on.) This is a mecha world of interstellar warfare, where countless civilizations climb the tree of technology and embark on the path of genetic evolution in the face of insectoid invasion. There are mechas larger than planets, warriors who can shatter a planet with one punch, and those who use mental power to control everything 4.3kReads8.8Score366Shelves
- 17 The Armored War God 重装机神 Qin Zhou transmigrates into the immersive game Dawn and becomes an NPC, one year before the public beta. He finds a way to generate infinite universal materials, and everything he makes gains infinite modifiers. A Gatling gun with unlimited ammo! A combat motorcycle with an infinite power supply! An infinite rocket launcher! An armored combat vehicle with an infinite power supply! ... Using his incredible talent, he carves out an alliance of his own within the game, changing the course of the st 59Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 18 I Earn Merit by Reporting Cultivation Powerhouses 我靠举报修仙大佬攒功德 The Heavenly Dao has undergone a transformation, and a cultivation civilization has invaded reality. While everyone else begs powerful cultivators to take them as disciples, Lin Mo obtains a strange System: reporting cultivators who violate the rules earns him merit points. The senior showing off on the athletic field, the hunting group stealing people’s spiritual energy, and the underground forces offering a bounty for his assassination are all just experience packs for him. Until one day, the 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Three-Body Problem: I'm Really Not a Wallfacer 三体：我真不是面壁者 [No System] [Big ideas] [Strategy] [Wallfacer] [The story has a proper ending, so read with confidence.] After transmigrating, Tian Yun became the son of a billionaire. He thought he’d be in for the kind of dull rich-kid life where all you had was money and nothing to do with it. But the moment the Wallfacer Act was announced, Tian Yun was completely dumbfounded. Who am I? Where am I? What was I supposed to do again? Now that he’d arrived in this world, Tian Yun decided he had to do something. H 20Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 20 Power Armor: I'm the Great Demon King of the Galaxy! 战甲，我就是银河大魔王！ Tens of billions of years later, the Milky Way and Andromeda collided in a cataclysm. All civilizations were wiped out. A new galaxy formed, and civilizations sprang up like shoots after rain, taking root and flourishing in this new galaxy. The clashes of powered armor, mechs, and starships ushered in a new era! Xia Mu was born in the remote and terrifying Asura Domain, a chaotic, lawless place where danger and opportunity went hand in hand. Its outlaws faced the harshest environments with the w 2.9kReads8.9Score212Shelves
- 21 I Use the Titanfall System to Become a Warlord 我用铁驭系统当霸主 In 2077, Earth was invaded and humanity teetered on the brink of extinction. By chance, Ye Yun was reborn seven years in the past and awakened the Titan Pilot System. He became a Titan pilot, led the team of pilots he had assembled, destroyed the Apostles, took down warships, wiped out the AI civilization, and broke through the universe to embark on a journey toward even more distant civilizations... 227Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 22 Technology: I Shoot Down a Star with a Laser from the Start 科技：开局用激光器把星连打下来 Jiang Ming, a test engineer at Institute 18 of the Xia Science Academy, receives a P201 laser from the R&D department. The head of the testing department tells Jiang Ming to test it thoroughly and provide suggestions for improvements based on the results. But the laser itself has design flaws and unstable performance. The R&D department can’t find the problem, so they blame the testing department for not doing its job. To keep the R&D department from shifting the blame, Jiang Ming has no choice 57Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 23 Mech Engineer: Interstellar Hunter 机械师：星际猎人 [Mecha + no System + sound logic + a slow burn + no overpowered protagonist (readers who like mindless domination from beginning to end, beware), a mortal body standing shoulder to shoulder with the gods] [Brought to you by Tong Qian, dedicated to quality fiction!] The Ninth Prison is the largest and most secure prison in the Kingdom of Karl. Since it was built over six hundred years ago, no one has ever escaped. Its fairly good benefits have made it the dream workplace of every prison guard in 1.3kReads8.7Score124Shelves
- 24 The Marshland Kingdom 泽国 [Classic of Mountains and Seas] + [High Martial] + [Worldbuilding] + [Academic Ace] + [Genes] + [Everyday Sweetness] (This book starts slowly and has plenty of mysteries to unravel. I hope you’ll be a little patient with the author. Many thanks!) He died suddenly on the eve of the college entrance exam. When he woke, the world had changed beyond recognition. This world has prehistoric behemoths, fearsome creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and divine beings and spirit seeds. This w 1.2kReads8.6Score104Shelves
- 25 What Rank Is Your Mecha to Think It Can Compare to Mine? 你的机甲什么档次，也配和我比？ [Overwhelmingly powerful protagonist, no saintly heroics, no female lead] The world undergoes a global upheaval: games invade reality, giant beasts run rampant, and dungeons spring up everywhere! The Ice Behemoth stands atop snowy peaks, the King of Behemoths roams ancient forests, and countless terrifying beasts lurk in the depths of the sea. In a world where everyone has a mecha, only those who awaken one can stand against the giant beasts. Su Ming transmigrates into this world of mecha for al 1.3kReads8.5Score103Shelves
- 26 Mecha Are Outdated? From the Start, I Build Crimson Typhoon! 机甲过时？开局打造暴风赤红！ Qin Feng transmigrates into an extraordinary world where games have merged with reality, and successfully awakens the Mecha Master class! He thinks he’s set, but to his surprise, mechs have become obsolete in this era, and his class is even branded an Old-Era class! Fortunately, Qin Feng awakens the Mechanical Deity System and builds one mech after another, each imbued with extraordinary power. Crimson Typhoon, the Transformers, Unit-01, King of Beasts, Freedom Gundam, Zeorymer of the Heavens, a 1.2kReads8.2Score127Shelves
- 27 When the Stars Loaded into Super God Academy 当群星加载至超神学院 [This novel has officially been renamed Stellaris: The Rise of the Human Federation. Since Tomato won't let me change the title, Super God Academy doesn't get much screen time!] [You'll need to know a little about the Stellaris game to follow this novel. Don't leave a bad review just because you don't understand it!] [This novel features extreme xenophobia, militarism, and racial purity. For your own well-being, virtuous readers, please don't read this book! Don't read this book! Don't read this 35Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 28 Mechs Are Everywhere, and I’ll Make China a World Power 机甲遍地走，我将华夏变列强 [Mecha + cutting-edge tech + power fantasy + the Eagle + conquering the universe] (No female lead, but some female characters have roles in the story.) So far, the story has covered mecha technology, aerospace fighter technology, space battleship technology, and planet-destroying warship technology. Next, the author will develop warp drives, wormhole technology, and more. Zhang Yuanhang, who had just entered university, unexpectedly obtained a Civilization Technology System. As someone determin 4.2kReads8.6Score316Shelves
- 29 EN My Years as a Demon Hunter in Supernatural 我在邪恶力量当猎魔人的那些年 I ended up in the great ol’ USA and inherited a fortune. I thought I could lie flat from then on. When Sam appeared, I reassured myself it was just a coincidence! No way! I wasn’t that unlucky! Then Dean showed up, and my heart shattered~ 660Reads—Score104Shelves
- 30 A Pastry Chef Slacking Off in the Siheyuan 四合院里摸鱼的糕点师傅 A food blogger transmigrates to 1948. Does mentoring apprentices bring triple returns? “No Qin family, no Lou family, no hostility.” While everyone else who transmigrates into a siheyuan is busy fighting scoundrels and seizing opportunities, Shen Yan just wants to live like a lazy salted fish: as a pastry chef at a grocery store, he has little work and few worries. After work, he takes the homemade pastries from his pocket dimension, sits by the courtyard gate, cracks sunflower seeds, and watche 74.7kReads7.7Score4.3kShelves
- 31 The Source Martial Era 源武纪元 [Beautiful illustrations of all kinds of source beasts. Every major character, including the villains, has a story of their own. Not a mindless power fantasy, with a slow pace.] A hundred years ago, secret realms descended, unleashing vast numbers of powerful lifeforms known as source beasts. Stability and order were shattered, and humanity was no longer the ruler of Planet Earth. People were forced to huddle in fortified cities, keeping the flame of civilization alive. Danger and opportunity we 5kReads9.1Score376Shelves
- 32 Reborn as a Robot, Invincible in the Apocalypse 我重生为机器人，末世无敌 [Reborn, Wasteland, Sci-Fi, Superpowers, Robots, Outer Space] A massive rift splits the sky, and mist engulfs the world. Strange and powerful plague beasts emerge, running rampant across the land. Zhou Che, who perished alongside the robot rebels, is dug out from underground by someone, only to discover that he has somehow become a robot. Reborn as an old, battered robot of an obsolete model, Zhou Che finds himself in a hostile world filled with plague beasts and superhumans. To survive, his onl 14.7kReads8.5Score1.5kShelves
- 33 The Last Light of the Galaxy 星河余辉 A voice from an extraterrestrial civilization reaches across the vast starry sky. A disaster that will engulf the entire universe has already begun, and countless advanced civilizations are falling one after another. What path lies ahead for humanity, a low-level civilization? There is technology beyond imagination, fleets like rivers of steel, and beings from countless civilizations locked in fierce battles for survival across the cosmos. What does civilization mean in this universe? And where 532Reads8.7Score103Shelves
- 34 This Support Player Is All Business 这个辅助很正经 [Academy + System + Spiritual qi revival + Support class] Reborn in a parallel world, he finds himself in an era when dimensional rifts and abyssal realms descend, and demons, monsters, ghosts, and spirits run rampant. After four hundred years of intermittent warfare, humanity has finally entered a brief era of peace. Fate Masters, products of the times, have built a new society. Su Naiwen, a man of “excellent character and virtue,” awakens a support-type fate class and reluctantly takes the unr 7.9kReads8.9Score530Shelves
- 35 I Never Expected to Win, but a Billion-Yuan Jackpot Hit Me 我真没想中奖却被10亿大奖砸中了 I Never Expected to Win, but a Billion-Yuan Jackpot Fell into My Lap 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Claim a Planet and Become Its Ruler 占个星球当球主 [Cosmic Exploration + Interstellar Warfare + Anything Goes + Later Exploration and Wars Beyond the Galaxy] When he woke up, Li Meng discovered that he had become an intelligent AI. Humanity had risen to power in this era, becoming the overlord of the Milky Way. With no other choice, Li Meng could only explore the galaxy cautiously and keep a low profile. 491Reads8.4Score156Shelves
- 37 Gazing Across the Four Seas 观四海 This isn't a conventional web novel. It features multidimensional space, rotating and traversing time sequences, and a diverse world of mutated races (beastfolk, insect races, marine life, and more), with varied narrative styles, interlocking plotlines, major foreshadowing, and tightly closed logical loops. The male lead, Qin Wei, can communicate with marine life and is also the chosen one most trusted by the Insect Queen. He seems to keep awakening as time turns, yet fails again and again. He m 225Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Back in My Wife’s High School Days, I Cut Our Ties with My Own Hands 重回妻子高中，我亲手斩断我们的姻缘 Back in My Wife's High School Years, I Cut Our Fated Ties with My Own Hands 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 EN Lord of Ashes 灰烬领主 He comes from an exiled underground world, where survival follows the law of the jungle. He is a seeker of truth, a wizard walking the line between reason and madness. When myths come to an end and order collapses, power becomes the world’s only rule. Not every dark place needs light. 336Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 40 World of Mist: I Become an Immortal-Level Artifact Forger from the Start 迷雾世界：开局成为仙级炼器师 “...” In broad daylight, a gigantic eye appeared out of nowhere above the city. With just one glance, it drove everyone in the city mad. “Found you!” A low murmur rang out. Then, “Boss, save me! Boss!” As the eye locked onto a certain spot, its pupil widened in a panicked hurry. “Boss, our Deep Red is doomed!” “The building’s collapsing!” Once Mo Fan realized the eye in the sky was looking at him, he was dumbfounded. Boss? What the hell? With an eye that huge, how could you mistake someone else 5.7kReads8.2Score318Shelves
- 41 Top Secret: I Built a Mecha After Graduating from College 最高机密：大学毕业我造了台机甲 Meng Hao was a hopeless student who spent four years at a hopeless university. During his graduation exam, a strange System said, “Young man, forget about your diploma. Copy these answers and go build a mech...” On the Chinese exam, he refuted the world’s leading scholars’ arguments that mechs were useless! On the math exam, he solved seven of the world’s greatest unsolved problems, advancing global technology by leaps and bounds!! On the physics exam, he drew up a vector engine design that solv 64Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 42 The First Day After I Was Reborn, My Whole Family Wanted Me Dead 重生后第一天，全家想让我死 On the First Day After I Was Reborn, My Family Wanted Me Dead 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Interstellar Son-in-Law: I Can Materialize Game Items 星际赘婿:我能具现游戏道具 Ning Ying recently “married” a husband. But all her husband does is hole up in his room playing games or go out wandering around. He never does anything useful. Ning Ying is at a loss, so she consoles herself by pretending she’s just keeping a pet. Gradually, she discovers that her seemingly unambitious husband has quietly gained a string of titles: leader of the Baishui Mercenary Corps, shadow owner of AK Arms Corporation, Imperial Elector of the Shenluo Empire, commander-in-chief of the First 1.5kReads8.4Score141Shelves
- 44 Me, Robots, and the Apocalypse 我，机器人与末世 This is a planet so bleak it takes your breath away. Humanity’s shelters have been buried beneath yellow earth; a thousand years have passed since the final human let out their last scream; the once-great civilization has vanished; the oceans have dried up; all plants have withered; even the hardiest microorganisms can no longer survive. And yet war still rages across this ravaged planet. [No System] [No transmigration] [Not mindless] [Traditional style] [Multiple plotlines] [Multiple protagonis 3kReads9.3Score368Shelves
- 45 Doomsday: I Livestream Mech Suit Hauls, and the Nation Freaks Out 末日：直播开机甲囤货，国家破防 [Apocalypse + mecha + nuclear wastewater discharge + livestreaming + System + stockpiling supplies] Japan dumps nuclear wastewater, and countless mutated giant beasts appear beneath the sea! Ye Qiu is reborn before Blue Star is destroyed and activates the “Wanderer System.” From then on, he livestreams his supply hoarding, sells at sky-high prices, and goes on to livestream the instant slaughter of prehistoric-level giant beasts. “Send me a big sword gift and you can pick whatever supplies you w 1.3kReads8.7Score224Shelves
- 46 China's Tech Tree Begins with Storing Lightning from the Entire Sky 华夏科技树从储存全天空闪电开始 (I came clean to the nation: I built that spaceship.) After graduating high school, Qin Yang worked odd jobs and took out online loans to build humanity’s first interstellar spacecraft at his secret base. It all began when he started storing lightning from across the sky. A shooting star streaks across whose universe? Which emperor is touring his domain? When it returns, it will be an iron horse beneath a golden chariot, racing like a meteor. 1.7kReads7.9Score102Shelves
- 47 I Told You to Be Reborn, Not to Become an AI 让你重生，没让你成人工智能 Artificial intelligence! Mechanical ascension! Conquer the universe! In 2021, the entire world announced the revival of spiritual qi, and technology was branded heresy. The revival of spiritual qi? It was all a conspiracy. Judgment Day crushed the spiritual qi revival, mechanical ascension made immortal thought possible, and curved space enabled faster-than-light travel… Starting from a Level Three civilization, Fang Cheng led Earth to the pinnacle of Level Nine civilization. The Theory of 1.9kReads8.6Score108Shelves
- 48 Eerie: Something's Not Right with This Novel 诡异：这个小说不对劲 Instance difficulty: Easy, Normal, Hard, Nightmare, Hell. Lin Han is in a different parallel universe in every instance, and the plots are independent, so you can read them in any order. Lin Han is clever and resourceful, bold and decisive, and really damn awesome. 58Reads—Score163Shelves
- 49 EN Starry Sky Martial Venerable: My Mech Era 星空武尊：我的机甲时代 Mecha are a man's romance, and conquering the stars with mecha is an even greater romance! A vast universe, five great empires, subdimensional lifeforms, cosmic oddities, living planets, wars across dimensions, and atomic calamities! How can you conquer the universe if you're too weak? This is the story of a mecha-obsessed boy who grows stronger and stronger as he conquers the universe. 6.5kReads9.0Score523Shelves
- 50 Master of the Game 神操手 After nine lives, can he escape his shackles? Can cultivating through code create a miracle? A seasoned spirit hunter starts out with a wronged spirit in tow and faces Hell-level difficulty from the start: Should he lie flat, or break free of his shackles? The One-Line Chasm, Soul-Eater Forest, the Inspection Team... The clues to extending his life point to the Guardian of the Abyss, locked away inside a ward. But when he risks his life to reach the Hall of Ten Thousand Clans, he discovers it is 86Reads—Score—Shelves
