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- 1 Honghuang: I Owe the Heavenly Dao Billions of Merit Points from the Start 洪荒：开局欠天道亿万功德 The protagonist's true spirit enters Honghuang and binds itself to a Heavenly Dao credit card. From the start, he goes on a wild spending spree: an innate immortal Dao embryo, an innate Chaos supreme treasure, innate divine demon techniques... He gets everything! Before he knows it, he has racked up billions of merits in debt! Just then, the credit card warns him: if he doesn't repay the overdue balance, heavenly punishment will descend and his soul will be annihilated! Holy crap! To stay alive, 911Reads5.6Score107Shelves
- 2 Honghuang: I Became the Merits of the Great Dao 洪荒：我变成了大道功德 [Honghuang] [System] [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] Li Ming transmigrated to Honghuang, only to discover that he had become a mass of merit from the creation of heaven and earth. Jieyin and Zhunti: “You dog Li Ming! Give us back the Bitter Bamboo and the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree...” The Three Pure Ones: “Senior Li Ming is the real deal. When there’s trouble, he actually steps up!” Nuwa: “Senior, my Lingzhuzi can do a backflip...” Hongjun: “This man is the greatest obstacle to my union with the 3.4kReads7.0Score179Shelves
- 3 Honghuang: I Transmigrate into the Heavenly Dao, but I’ll Never Merge with It! 洪荒：穿越成天道，绝不合道！ As soon as Xiao Dao wakes up, he discovers he has transmigrated into the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World. What? Hongjun invites me to sit in on his lectures? Di Jun and Tai Yi are fighting to bring me magical treasures? The Nine Heavens Breathing Soil that lets Nuwa become a sage is destined for me? I get to control the great calamities of heaven and earth? Kunpeng and the Witch Clan have come from far and wide to make me their big brother? No way, no way. How did I become the busiest perso 46Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 4 Honghuang: I Transmigrated into the Heavenly Dao and Built the Supreme Honghuang 洪荒：穿越天道，打造至高洪荒 The Supreme Primordial World! “A Golden Immortal can open up a world of their own and endure for all eternity!” “A Taiyi Golden Immortal contains three thousand great worlds within their body. With a single thought, heaven and earth can be reduced to nothing!” “A Daluo Golden Immortal exists throughout past and present, beyond the constraints of time and beyond the control of any being!” Ye Yun transmigrates to the Primordial World and becomes its Heavenly Dao! He starts at the peak! But thi 1.3kReads7.2Score103Shelves
- 5 I Just Want to Keep a Low Profile, but I Discover the Heavenly Dao Is My Grandson 只想苟的我，发现天道竟是我孙子 Li Hao transmigrates into the primordial world, carrying supreme magical power without even knowing it. With no special background and no System, all Li Hao wants is to lie low until the Age of Dharma’s Decline. But for some reason, all sorts of baffling people keep showing up to claim him as family. From then on, he gains countless descendants across the primordial world. Tongtian: “I’ve always regarded you as my teacher, and now you’re telling me you’re my father!” Nuwa waves her flag and chee 23Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 6 Honghuang: Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin from the Start 洪荒：开局九龙拉棺 [Chaos + Primordial World + Invincible + Peak from the Moment of His Emergence] At the very heart of Chaos, upon the pulse of the Great Dao of Chaos, stood a colossal bronze coffin. It was ten thousand zhang wide and one hundred thousand zhang tall, with more than half of it embedded in the earth, like a giant sword reaching for the heavens. Countless Dao marks were engraved on the bronze coffin, with the Three Thousand Great Daos being just one of them. Around the coffin, nine lifelike Chaos st 6.9kReads7.2Score383Shelves
- 7 Honghuang: I Am Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Steadfast for Countless Eons 洪荒：吾为东皇太一，稳健亿万载 Check out my new book, Betrayed by Tongtian and Abandoned by the Three Clouds, I Will Show No Mercy! Click my avatar to read it. From the start, he transmigrates as the Three-Legged Golden Crow, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and awakens a God-Tier Choice System. Knowing the plot of the Witch-Demon Tribulation, he chooses to keep a low profile, quietly build his strength, and devour Dijun before he can take shape, awakening the Twelve Grades of the Great Luo Three Flowers. In this life, the demon race h 3.6kReads8.1Score170Shelves
- 8 EN Primordial Era: Pangu's Special Permit, I Dare to Smite the Heavenly Dao! 洪荒：盘古特许，天道我也敢劈！ What the Heavenly Dao can manage, I can manage. What it can't manage, I can manage too! Act first and report later, with Pangu's special permission! When chaos first formed, a wisp of wandering spirit entered it and became the Thunder Demon God Xuanxiao. He saw through the fated destruction of the three thousand Demon Gods and resolutely sided with Pangu, fighting alongside him. But when the Demon Gods rose up and turned against him, he was obliterated beneath immense pressure, leaving only a wi 32.7kReads8.0Score2.7kShelves
- 9 Honghuang: I Took Human Form as the Chaos Bead, and Hongjun Means Nothing to Me 洪荒：我混沌珠化形，鸿钧算个毛 Hongjun, Yinyang, Yangliu: We are Chaos Gods and Demons, existing since before the world was created. We secretly crossed into the Primordial World, peerless among all! The Three Pure Ones: We are of the Pangu Orthodox Lineage, transformed together into the Three Pure Ones and bearing the merit of creating the world! The Wu Clan: We are of the Pangu Orthodox Lineage, peerless in our physical bodies. We will restore our Father God's glory! Dijun, Taiyi, Zulong, Shiqilin: Our origins are peerless 720Reads7.3Score106Shelves
- 10 From the Start, I Was a Chaos Great Golden Immortal, and All the Sages Were Stunned 开局混元大罗，圣人全都懵逼 Lin Yu transmigrates into the Primordial World and becomes an outer disciple of the Jie Sect. A Geometric Multiplication System, as if bestowed by the gods. Cultivation grants him multiplied benefits, with no limit to how many times they can multiply. And it’s not just cultivation. Deriving cultivation techniques and comprehending laws work the same way. Lin Yu plans to keep his head down, develop quietly, and grow stronger in secret. But he never expects the System to be so powerful. In less th 46kReads7.1Score3.4kShelves
- 11 As the Heavenly Dao, I Save the Myriad Worlds 天道的我拯救万界 After awakening, he discovers that he has become the Heavenly Dao of a world. Through his own tireless efforts, he guides his world step by step toward the center stage of the myriad heavens. In this world, the Chosen Sons of Heaven and Systems are constantly at odds. The myriad races take turns fighting for dominion, technology clashes fiercely with Cultivation, and individual power continually struggles against the collective will. The ruler of a System world glares angrily at the System befor 10.6kReads8.7Score711Shelves
- 12 Honghuang: I Am the Daoist Sect's First Disciple 洪荒：我为道门首徒 Lu Qing transmigrated to the Primordial World and transformed into an innate spiritual root. On the day he took human form, the Six Saints gathered and the Great Dao itself came to celebrate. In the end, he became a disciple of the Three Pure Ones, their shared disciple and the foremost disciple of the Daoist school. In the Zixiao Palace, the Dao Ancestor asked the Six Saints, “Who among you believes is fit to rule the Heavenly Court?” Taishang: “Lu Qing is steady in his conduct and kind by natu 32.2kReads8.9Score2.6kShelves
- 13 EN Honghuang: The Cautious Golden Crow, Whom the Demon Clan Begs to Come Down from the Mountain 洪荒：稳健金乌，妖族跪求我出山 From the start, he chooses to become the Third Golden Crow, the brother of Dijun and Taiyi. Knowing how the story goes, how could he stand by and watch the tragedy of the Witch-Demon Tribulation unfold? In this life, he stays holed up on the Sun Star, refusing to venture out, determined to be a cautious Golden Crow. Until one day, the Wu Clan conquers the entire Primordial World and begins attacking the Sun Star. Lingxiao emerges from the Sun Star, and the darkest hour of the Wu Clan begins! Eve 44.9kReads8.7Score4.3kShelves
- 14 Honghuang: The Ancestral Dragon’s Last Will Reveals I Have a Saint for a Younger Brother 洪荒：祖龙遗嘱，我有个圣人弟弟 Transmigrating into the Era of Creation, he became the younger brother born alongside the Ancestral Dragon: the Nether Dragon! During the Dragon-Han Tribulation, Demon Ancestor Luohu and Dao Ancestor Hongjun were both scheming over the fate of the Three Clans. Long Ming had intended to resolve the Dragon Clan's crisis, but then he awakened a seclusion System. Long Ming could only urge the Ancestral Dragon to stay within the boundless Four Seas. But the Ancestral Dragon wouldn't listen. After the 20.5kReads8.1Score1.3kShelves
- 15 I Was Too Lazy, So Yuanshi Rejected Me and I Joined the Jie Sect 因为懒，被元始嫌弃后我拜入截教 Yun Lin died suddenly from overwork and transmigrated to the Primordial World, where the System presented him with a choice. Choice One: Possess the finest natural talent in all the Primordial World. Cultivate diligently, and you are certain to become a saint! Choice Two: Receive the blessing of Pangu's will, comprehend the Law of Strength, fulfill Pangu's final wish, and strengthen the Primordial World! Choice Three: Gain boundless fortune, suffer no disasters or calamities, and enjoy constant 27.1kReads9.1Score2.8kShelves
- 16 EN Primordial Styx: Blood God Avatars Spread Across the World 洪荒冥河之血神分身遍天下 The short drama The Strongest Styx Rewrites the Primordial World is complete. Fellow Daoist fans of short dramas, feel free to click in and check it out. A soul from the future transmigrates to the Primordial World and becomes Minghe. He awakens before anyone else and uses billions of clones to lay down a grand formation that morally coerces the entire Primordial World. He attains the Dao before Hongjun. A golden wheel of Great Dao merit shines across the Primordial World. The Heavenly Dao is so 30.1kReads8.6Score2kShelves
- 17 Spiritual Qi Revival: I Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger 灵气复苏：我在扮猪吃虎 Lin Chen transmigrates into a world where spiritual qi has revived. Since he didn't awaken a talent, his teachers, classmates, and family see him as a complete good-for-nothing, and even his girlfriend breaks up with him. Awakened ones? What's that? I'm an unparalleled cultivator! Across the Myriad Worlds, no matter how peerless or brilliant you are, no matter how you shake the ages, I can suppress you with a wave of my hand. I have enemies in every direction and factions all around me. No matte 72.1kReads8.6Score7.7kShelves
- 18 Honghuang: I, Hongjun, Am Really Not the Villain 洪荒：我鸿钧真不是反派 [Comedy + Satisfying Revenge + No Female Lead] Tongtian One: I am Tongtian. I will never found a sect. Tongtian Two: I am Tongtian. I will never become a saint. Tongtian Three: I am Tongtian. I will never confer the gods. King Father of the East: I will build the strongest Heavenly Court. Zhao Gongming: I will expose Hongjun's conspiracy. The transmigrators descend upon the Primordial World, naturally believing themselves righteous and making it their mission to overthrow Hongjun's rule. All Hon 14.1kReads9.3Score913Shelves
- 19 I, the Steadfast Golden Crow, Just Want a Wife and a Quiet Life! 我，稳健金乌，只想娶妻过日子！ [Steady Everyday Life + Striving for Immortality + The Red Flag Stays, the Colorful Flags Flutter] In the primordial world, another era-ending calamity is upon them. The Wu Clan has grown too powerful, and no one can stand against them. If things continue this way, all living beings will be doomed. A gathering of ancient powerhouses and leaders of the myriad races assembles at the Sun Star. They plead with the Sun God, Fuguang, the only Golden Crow beneath the heavens and the foremost being belo 86.4kReads9.0Score7.7kShelves
- 20 Honghuang: From the Start, I Spoil the Plot for Nuwa 洪荒：开局给女娲剧透 [Primordial world + behind-the-scenes scheming + wild imagination] Chen Xuan transmigrates into the Primordial World as a little white dragon. His arrival sends the whole world wildly off course... Nuwa: “Becoming a saint through merit isn’t what I want. I’m going to sever the Three Corpses!” The Two from the West: “The West is far too barren. Starting today, we’re joining the East!” Tongtian: “The calamity of the Investiture of the Gods is upon us. All Jie Sect Disciples, follow me onto the Inv 43.3kReads9.1Score4.4kShelves
- 21 The Seven Kings Reunite, and Judgment Descends 七王重聚，审判降临 [Decisive and ruthless + high martial arts + comedy + King of Slaughter + plot-driven power fantasy] Distant bells toll! The horns of war spiral through the air! Eagles survey the earth! Vultures feast on all living things! The Sword of Judgment hangs high! An ancient king descends! Slaughter! The prologue to an absurd apocalypse! Slaughter! The finale of a false golden age! At the end of the last century, the vast and devastating War of the Gods, sparked by the Radiant Army and the Eternal Nigh 96.8kReads8.6Score6kShelves
- 22 Slay the Gods: After the Seraphim Looked Down on Me, I Rose Straight to Supreme God 斩神：炽天使嫌弃后我直升至高神 [Slay the Gods fanfiction + no female lead + Supreme God from the start] After transmigrating into the world of Slay the Gods, Jiang Ye became the neighbor of the protagonist, Lin Qiye. But Jiang Ye had been completely ordinary since birth. He had awakened no Forbidden Ruins, and he didn’t even have the golden finger that transmigrators were supposed to get. To gain the power to survive, he plotted a deception to fool the gods. But just as the Seraph was about to choose Jiang Ye as its agent, 51.8kReads9.2Score6.4kShelves
- 23 I've Been AFK for a Trillion Years, and I'm Richer Than the Heavenly Dao 挂机万亿年，我比天道还有钱 [Invincible + Building a Faction + Laid-Back + Nurturing] After idling for a trillion years, I built the strongest family! World Will: Dad Ye, I want to reinforce the world's barrier. Could you give me some pocket money? I'll rub your feet. Will of Heaven: Big Boss Ye, someone's been secretly siphoning the world's essence lately. Could you lend me some money? Whenever people mention Ye Suifeng, one word comes to mind. Filthy rich beyond all reason! 49.1kReads9.3Score4.2kShelves
- 24 EN I, Laying Low from the Primordial World to Journey to the West 我，从洪荒苟到西游 Mu Chen transmigrates to the Primordial World, becoming an ethereal spirit with no fixed form. He starts out utterly weak, but unexpectedly awakens the Starsea Fishing Choice System. “Congratulations, Host! After fishing for a hundred years, you've obtained a replica of the Four Swords of Zhu Xian!” “Congratulations, Host! After fishing for a thousand years, you've become a Taiyi Mystic Immortal!” “Congratulations, Host! After fishing for ten thousand years, you've attained the rank of Great Luo 35.2kReads9.2Score3.2kShelves
- 25 EN You're Speedrunning High-Level Martial Arts While Others Suffer? 别人练功吃苦，你直接速通高武？ [Signed for publication] [High martial arts + wish fulfillment + total domination + fast-paced + ruthless] “Ye Li, your opponent this time is my boyfriend. You’re no match for him, so hurry up and forfeit...” “You knocked him to his knees?!” “Ye Li, why did you apply to the top of the five great academies? Didn’t your teacher tell you not to get complacent and to keep your feet on the ground... You’ve already been granted early admission?!” “Ye Li, this strange beast rules the whole region. We’r 142.9kReads9.1Score10.8kShelves
- 26 Quick Transmigration: The Demon King Wrecks the Plot 快穿之大魔王崩坏剧情 (No romance, brainless wish-fulfillment.) The heroine is an overbearing, chuuni, unhinged supervillain. She isn't human! She has no human morality and is rotten to the core. Anyone seeking justice or a saintly heroine should stay away. She takes the scumbag's path and leaves scumbags nowhere to go. If she can solve something with violence, she won't waste a word. She's a master of every kind of scheming green tea and black lotus trick: if you can imagine it, she can do it. A mama's boy ends up w 29.6kReads9.5Score3kShelves
- 27 EN The Monsters I Created! 我创造的怪物！ [Behind the Scenes + Ensemble Cast + Cosmic Horror + No System + No Romance] Also known as: Dark Revelation Gods and demons, dragons, and the apocalypse were once fairy tales. The mysteries of this world have faded from sight, yet someone has brought those long-lost things back into the public eye. And every clue, every lead, points to a man named Chen Ye. “Friends, would you cast off this flesh and join us in embracing evolution?” Extended blurb: Sequence 001: The Mimic Sequence 002: The Deep O 64.6kReads9.2Score5.9kShelves
- 28 EN My Junior Disciples Are All Overpowered, So I Have to Cheat! 师弟们都是大佬，那我只能开挂了 The second junior brother is the chosen one of the plane. The third junior brother is reborn. The fourth junior brother is an ancient Sword Immortal reincarnated. The junior sister is the future Demon Empress. Everyone from top to bottom is a hidden powerhouse! Ouyang, the eldest senior brother, gives a crooked grin. “Well, then I guess I'll have to use cheats!” 124.3kReads9.4Score12.3kShelves
- 29 EN The Horrors Are Hard to Kill? Sorry, I'm the Truly Immortal One 诡异难杀？抱歉，我才是真正不死 This book has been signed for publication, so enjoy it with confidence. [Death Regression + Foreknowledge of the Future + Kill the Saintly One First + Dark Tone + Supernatural Resurgence] After accidentally transmigrating to a world invaded by the supernatural, Fang Xiu awakens the ability to return from death, also known as turning back time. Whenever he dies, time rewinds to just before his death. In this perilous and uncanny world, he could have laid low, but instead he chooses to announce to 231.9kReads9.5Score28.4kShelves
- 30 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5kShelves
- 31 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
- 32 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 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4kShelves
