Novels like This Monk Must Return to Secular Life
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- 151 Journey to the West: A Well-Connected Insider at Mount Ling, the Peacock Great King 西游：灵山关系户，孔雀大明王 [Journey to the West] [Not a Primordial Chaos-style story] Kong Xuan transmigrates into a bird’s egg. After hatching, he teaches his twin brother, the Great Peng, a lesson for trying to steal the Yin-Yang Two Qi Vase. Then, ravenous with hunger, he flies from the nest in search of something to eat. Kong Xuan sweeps across the land, devouring countless living beings, yet his hunger refuses to fade. Just then, a ball of golden light appears atop a distant snowy mountain, catching his attention. “L 3.7kReads8.6Score200Shelves
- 152 Wanwan Won't Listen 婉婉不听话 Wanwan Won't Listen 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 You Were Born a Rakshasa 卿本修罗 [The aloof Buddhist devotee driven mad by love × the bewitching enchantress who willingly imprisons her heart] He is the holiest Buddhist disciple; she is the most wicked temptress of a heretical sect. Yunzhi is ordered to destroy evil, yet catches Jinrao as she falls amid the mist and rain of Jiangnan. A pleasure boat conceals a deadly trap; in a snowy mountain cavern, their passion is ignited by a love poison... Rouge stains the monk’s robe he tears open, and as his prayer beads fall to the gr 262Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 Impossible to Resist: The Ascetic Buddha-Like Man Goes Mad with Desire for Me 欲罢不能，禁欲佛子为我痴狂入魔 [Sweet on the Outside, Dark Within Princess ✖️ Dark Through and Through Sacred Buddha’s Son] [Monster-Fighting and Leveling Up] [Low Rating Due to Few Votes] One thought can make you a Buddha; one thought can make you a demon. After transmigrating, Wen Hua unexpectedly became bound to a Buddha-conversion System. Her mission was to turn the future great demon who would destroy the world into a Buddha and save all living beings. But the demon was born with a demonic nature and had no conscience wh 400Reads8.7Score109Shelves
- 155 Peach Blossoms in Bloom: The Young Saintly Monk Enters the Mortal World 桃花夭夭：少年圣僧入了尘 [One-on-one, strong male and female leads, sweet romance] [A monk who has withdrawn from the world + a thousand-year-old peach blossom tree spirit; they start off fighting, then accompany each other on a little cultivation journey] The peach blossom spirit Yaoyao spent a thousand years cultivating before taking human form. She’d been mooching off people for nearly a decade when she ran into trouble with a young Daoist priest. Later, Yaoyao clutched her aching waist and glared at him. “You’re a m 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 Dark Awakening: Invincible After Falling into the Blood Buddha’s Clutches 黑暗觉醒：从堕入血佛开始无敌 Beneath the pavilion, the moon shines; on the far shore, a companion awaits. In the mortal world, all living beings face calamity! The last young man of a fallen sect only wants to live in seclusion and peace. But life is unpredictable, and the sect's enemies eventually find him. Nearly killed in their attack, he clings to his last breath and finds the divine pills treasured by his sect. He swallows hundreds of them in a fit of rage and, by a stroke of fate, awakens an invincible divine physique 988Reads8.2Score118Shelves
- 157 The Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial Review Has Gone Mad Again Today 大理寺少卿他今天又疯了 The Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial Review Has Gone Mad Again Today 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 I, Tang Sanzang, the Fierce Bandit of the Three Realms: The Sang in My Name Means Funeral! 我，三界悍匪唐三葬，葬礼的葬！ A Guide to Journey to the West: The Weak Monk = walking ginseng fruit = one bite grants immortality = Tang Sanzang??? He forced the System to crash from the start, and Tang Sanzang became the mother of all Systems, giving each of his disciples a System of their own! “What pilgrimage team? From today on, we're the Heaven-Blasting Gang!” Any little demon they met on their journey west could get a System just by joining the Heaven-Blasting Gang! The entire world of Journey to the West descended int 92Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 159 Without a System, I Joined the Heavenly Court from the Start 没有系统的我，开局投靠了天庭 This book has only one heroine. If that’s not your thing, please don’t flame me! (It’s also called From the Investiture of the Gods Calamity to the Journey to the West!) The Investiture of the Gods has just ended, and the Journey to the West has yet to begin. In that era, the Monkey King still sleeps inside his stone, Marshal Tianpeng longs for a fairy on the Lunar Star, the Tathagata has severed his guilt toward his master, and the Jade Emperor’s eyes are filled with ambition to rule the Three 10.4kReads8.0Score454Shelves
- 160 Eternal Life Funeral Rites: Tapping a Wooden Fish Lets Me Inherit the Dead's Possessions 长生送葬：敲木鱼能继承亡者遗物 [The protagonist and villains are both smart]+ [No female lead]+ [Longevity]+ [A sly schemer]+ [Stat-adding panel]+ [Behind the scenes] From the start, Li Chuchen, a funeral director, was breaking bowls and feasting at funerals, making his fortune off the dead! He gains the myriad arts of the heavens from the dead! He attains eternal Longevity from the dead! The dead are full of treasures! While others struggle to pursue immortality, Li Chuchen squats by a grave and taps his wooden fish once: [G 33.7kReads7.0Score4.3kShelves
- 161 Journey to the West: Collecting All the Laws from Mount Fangcun 西游：从方寸山开始采集万法 From the start, he finds himself at Mount Lingtai Fangcun, where he becomes the woodcutter who chops trees in Journey to the West. He gains a god-tier harvesting technique right from the start, stunning Patriarch Bodhi! Harvest anything and everything under heaven! Harvest Sun Wukong's Fiery Golden Eyes, Nezha's three heads and six arms, and the power of the Blood Sea! Harvest the stars of the heavens! The power of the Lunar River! Harvest the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation! Plot against the e 1.7kReads8.7Score105Shelves
- 162 Journey to the West! If I Become a Demon, Then No Buddha Will Remain on Spirit Mountain 西游！吾若成魔，则灵山无佛 You little Tathagata! I, old Sun, cannot be buried by Heaven or destroyed by Earth. Just wait until I break out of this realm of law. I will turn your Spirit Mountain upside down! He was suppressed. But the four pilgrims traveling through the mortal world to seek the scriptures still set out on their journey west. From then on, Sun Wukong was no longer called Fool, and Bajie no longer called him Brother Monkey. 856Reads8.7Score162Shelves
- 163 Crafting the Persona of a Holy Monk 打造圣僧人设 “Junior uncle, I saw you going out to drink and chase women that day. I’m going to tell the abbot.” “What cultivation technique do I practice? Answer me!!!” “Look in my eyes!!! Tell me, why? Speak!!!” “J-Junior uncle practices the Boy’s Cultivation.” “Exactly! How could a monk like me have any bad intentions???” “But, Junior Uncle, I clearly saw you drinking.” “Those who have left the secular world hold a cup close to their hearts. I was drunk, truly drunk!” “Junior Uncle, you’re so drunk your t 24.3kReads7.1Score1.9kShelves
- 164 Thriller Game: I Became Invincible by Tapping an Electronic Wooden Fish 惊悚游戏：从敲电子木鱼开始无敌 [Horror Game + Absurd Comedy + Infinite Levels + No Female Lead + Invincible + System] What era are we living in? Why are people still stockpiling traditional merit? After transmigrating, Hao Ren obtained an absurd Quantum Merit System that let him earn merit by purifying the paranormal. Before being selected by the horror game, he was timid and deferential, earning merit only by helping little old ladies cross the street. After being selected, Hao Ren tapped an electronic wooden fish to accumul 793Reads8.9Score103Shelves
- 165 I, Buddha, Am Truly a Good Person 佛爷我真是好人啊 [Weak System + No Romance + Slow Progression + More Traditional + Saintly Heroine, Don’t Read If You Dislike It, Thanks] When Shi Ran woke up, he had transmigrated to a strange world. There were no aloof immortals in the heavens, pure as the moon, nor compassionate gods and Buddhas filling the skies. Instead, the world was full of deranged, bizarre cultivators. Here, sacred scriptures were laden with taboo costs, and the slightest misstep in cultivation could mean death and the end of one’s path 476Reads8.7Score161Shelves
- 166 I Took Up Buddhism, and Now You're the Ones Suffering 我修佛了，你们痛了 [From universally disliked to universally adored + everyone faces a reckoning + no suffering for the heroine, only the trash men and women torment themselves + no romance + unconventional cultivation story] (After losing everything, the heroine awakens. She lets go of it all, her heart dead and her feelings extinguished. She renounces emotion and severs her ties to love, her heart dwelling in the empty gate.) Ye Miuo used to be the most envied young lady of the Xuantian Sect. She was loved by ev 6.5kReads8.5Score578Shelves
- 167 Honghuang: I Start Out as a Golden Cicada 洪荒：开局我是一只金蝉 Ye Bei transmigrated into the Primordial World and became a pathetically weak golden cicada, getting beaten up by a mantis. But he unexpectedly awakened a god-tier Devouring System. “Congratulations, Master. You devoured a bloodthirsty black ant mosquito and obtained the Divine Ability of Ten Thousand Incarnations.” “Congratulations, Master. You devoured a descendant of the Ancestral Dragon bloodline and obtained the Divine Ability to summon wind and rain.” “Congratulations, Master. You devoured 3.1kReads8.4Score183Shelves
- 168 Merit-Forging Wooden Fish: I, Xu Xian, Become the Strongest Python Husband 功德木鱼，我许仙成就最强蟒夫 After transmigrating as Xu Xian, he obtains a Merit System. Tapping a merit wooden fish earns him merit. Tap, tap, tap... Merit +1, Merit +1, Merit +1... With merit protecting him, Xu Xian's strength rises rapidly. He sets out on a cultivation path where he lives off women while preaching virtue. Bai Suzhen: “My husband is actually a true immortal blessed with merit?” Xiao Qing: “Hmph, I want you to help me cultivate...” Nie Xiaoqian: “Please spare me, young master...” Yang Chan, the Third Holy 10.5kReads7.8Score1.1kShelves
- 169 Journey to the West: I Took a Wrong Turn and Became the Junior Patriarch of the Jie Sect 西游：我迷个路，成了截教小老爷 Chen Xuanzang looked at his small hands. From the memories in his mind, he realized he had transmigrated into the eight-year-old Jiang Liuer. He decided to leave Golden Mountain Temple. Hopelessly bad with directions, he rescued a boy on the road. The boy was called Li Er, and the two became sworn brothers. On his way to steer clear of trouble, he got lost and met a green ox. Continuing west, he somehow ended up as the Jie Sect's young master. To revive the Jie Sect, Chen Xuanzang volunteered to 6.5kReads8.8Score503Shelves
- 170 I Became a Buddha, So Why Are the Cursed Rising Again? 我成佛后诡异复苏？ (No female lead) After transmigrating as Tang Sanzang and achieving enlightenment, he suddenly loses consciousness at the foot of Mount Ling. When he wakes, he discovers that he has somehow returned to Earth, while the gods and Buddhas have vanished. “What? The supernatural is returning?” “A Hell Apartment that issues missions on a timer?” “And this Hell Apartment has exactly eighteen floors. Could that have something to do with the Eighteen Levels of Hell?” “Mount Wutai has disappeared? Journey 348Reads9.0Score—Shelves
- 171 After Mistaking the Male Lead, I Slept with the Villain 认错男主后我把反派睡了 After Mistaking the Male Lead, I Slept with the Villain 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 Contemplation on Returning to the Source 妄尽还源观 A book that reveals the truth about the universe and life. This is a book that helps you know yourself, attain insight into yourself, realize your true nature, and awaken. It can help all those with the right karmic connections. The Path to Awakening and Growth The seven-year-old Dragon Girl became a Buddha in an instant, realizing her true mind upon hearing the true Dharma. She cast aside the thousand-year-old dragon pearl at once, and her greed and attachments vanished in an instant. With her 2.8kReads8.6Score338Shelves
- 173 Wuxia Crossover: Ten Years Imprisoned in the Sutra Library, Invincible the Moment I Emerge 综武：自囚藏经阁十载，出世即无敌 A three-foot blade in hand, Longquan steel; a young man rides through a border town. Ying Qi’s soul transmigrated into a world where the martial arts realms converged. He became the First Emperor of Qin’s ninth son, but disliked the deceit and intrigue within the imperial family, so he left Xianyang and joined Shaolin Temple as a lay disciple. Then he unexpectedly awakened the Bookworm System. As long as he carefully read a scripture, he could automatically extract its key information, grasp all 1.1kReads7.9Score194Shelves
- 174 A Children's Rhyme Sung from Within the Walls 墙中唱童谣 A Children's Rhyme Sung from Within the Wall 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 175 I Insist on Making the Emperor Steal His Minister's Wife 朕偏要君夺臣妻 I Insist You Steal Your Minister's Wife —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 Rejected by the Three Pure Ones, I Turned Around and Joined the Western Church 被三清嫌弃，反手拜入西方教 After transmigrating into the Primordial World, Lu Yun becomes a purple bamboo in the West, born with a damaged spiritual foundation. After countless hardships, he travels east to seek the Three Pure Ones as his masters. But the Supreme One ignores him, while the Origin One looks down on him. He joins the Jie Sect as an outer disciple, but is looked down on for his origins and constantly targeted by his fellow disciples! With no other choice, Lu Yun returns to the West and becomes a disciple of 8.7kReads8.8Score828Shelves
- 177 Japanese Horror: What? I'm Fighting Hellstar! 日恐：什么？我打地狱星！ Reincarnated as Chong Ying, only to find herself in a Japanese horror setting. A fellow patient next door has just given birth to Tomie, while she starts out with a long-dream script in which she dreams for a thousand years and will turn to dust within three months at the latest. Long-legged fish are stirring, a biohazard outbreak is imminent, human-head balloons are watching hungrily, and the Hellstar is drooling. World-ending disasters come one after another, while Kayako, Mamiya, and Sadako a 4.9kReads8.7Score342Shelves
- 178 She Was Wearing a Red Wedding Dress 她穿着红嫁衣 She Wore a Red Wedding Dress 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 A Cross-Border Forced Romance! The Ascetic Buddhist Big Shot Caught Me and Kissed Me Until I Cried 跨国强制爱！被禁欲佛子抓到亲哭 Forced Love | Cross-Border Romance | Powerful Hero and Vulnerable Heroine | Both Pure | Taking by Force | Power Above All | Older-Man Tension in Overdrive [Sinister, Abstinent Tycoon x Resilient, Sharp-Witted Darling] Xie Youli came to Nancheng alone to find her missing uncle, only to be caught up in a conspiracy. The Buddha-like tycoon who ruled from the pinnacle of power was impotent! And half a monk! She was forced to stay by his side to treat him... Thinking that she could leave once she got 3.1kReads—Score234Shelves
- 180 My Former Daoist Partner Keeps Chasing Me to Take Responsibility 前道侣追着要我负责 My Former Cultivation Partner Keeps Chasing Me to Take Responsibility 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 Horror Revival: I Am Monk Sanzang, Sanzang as in Burying the Dead 恐怖复苏：贫僧三葬，送葬的葬 [Horror Revival] [Invincible] [System] [Comedy] [This book is entirely fictional and has no connection whatsoever to reality.] After transmigrating into a world where horror had returned, he awakened the System for Delivering All Beings from Suffering. Only, the way it delivered people seemed a little... Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, depleted uranium bullets purify the six senses. Three thousand six hundred revolutions in a single breath, great compassion saves all the world! The Great Mighty Heaven 4.9kReads8.8Score376Shelves
- 182 The Rotten-Flesh Buddha 烂肉佛 Things get interesting when all the good people receive the punishment they deserve. A mass of rotting flesh crawls with maggots. The maggots raise their heads and look at Chou Zhengchu. “Chou Zhengchu, what do we look like to you?” “You look like Buddha to me!” 2kReads8.2Score272Shelves
- 183 Her Serpent's Tail Teases Only Her Beloved, Luring the Dutiful Monk Into the Mortal World 蛇尾只撩心上人，乖诱佛子入红尘 This novel has been selected for a comic adaptation, which is currently in production. It will be available on Fanqie later. [Some Angst at First, Then All Sweetness] "Master, let's cultivate together." "You audacious demoness! Don't you dare!" That was Qing Shu and the master's first meeting. As they supported each other along the way, the master realized he had fallen deeply in love with Qing Shu. Once he understood his own feelings, he found himself willing to do anything to stay with her for 2.6kReads9.0Score320Shelves
- 184 Day and Night, Hounded by Nezha, Yang Jian, and Sun Wukong 被哪吒杨戬孙悟空追堵的日日夜夜 [No romance + universally adored heroine + intense unrequited love + ships with everyone + myth retelling] After being transmigrated into Guanyin, Hua Lian is busy today helping the reborn Yang Jian mend his ways, tomorrow saving Nezha from a deadly fate, and the day after stopping Sun Wukong from turning evil. And that's not even counting the White Snake, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, or The Love of the Celestial Maiden and the Mortal. Even ancient myths are going wildly off the rails! E 2.5kReads9.3Score324Shelves
- 185 Sir, Please Stay 先生且留步 Sir, Please Wait 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 186 Journey to the West? No! Hear My Decree, Monks: March West to Spirit Mountain 西游？不！传贫僧法旨，西征灵山 At Little Leiyin Temple, Tang Sanzang recites a rebellious poem. At Eagle Sorrow Stream, the White Dragon sends a false letter? At Lion Camel Ridge, the demons arrange themselves by rank, while Tang Sanzang speaks fervently of his lifelong ambition? What would happen at the end of Journey to the West if Tang Sanzang grew stronger every time he took on a new disciple? Sun Wukong: “I'll storm Leiyin Temple and destroy Mount Ling. If I leave and never return, then so be it!” Zhu Bajie: “Tathagata's 8.4kReads9.0Score813Shelves
- 187 Journey to the West: I Was Away for Three Years, and My Home Was Robbed? 西游：贫道云游三年，家被偷了？ After transmigrating into Journey to the West, Ye Yun inherited a Taoist temple. As long as he remained within the temple grounds, he was invincible! But Ye Yun had grown tired of staying in one place all year round. So he spent three years traveling, experiencing the customs and culture of the Journey to the West world. But when he returned from his travels, he discovered that someone had torn down his temple and built the Temple of Rebirth in its place for Xuanzang to lecture in?! And whe 7.8kReads7.4Score597Shelves
- 188 Five Million to Buy Out a Tycoon Family: I'm the Queen of the Walled City 五百万买断豪门，姐在城寨当女王 Five Million to Buy Out the Rich Family, I'm Queen of the Walled City 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 EN Journey to the West: The Monk Who Doesn't Want to Retrieve the Scriptures 西游：贫僧不想取西经 “Wukong, kill all the male demons. Leave the female ones to your master.” “Good patron, allow this humble monk to teach you a lesson.” Sun Wukong: “Master, these demons are too powerful. I can't beat them.” “Wukong, stand aside. Let your master handle this!” 1kReads8.4Score155Shelves
- 190 Cultivation Is a Philosophy 修仙是门哲学 This is my story of cultivating immortality, an unknown story, a story full of mystery... [Short Story Collection] [At the End of Science Lies the Supernatural] [Understand the stories in this book, and you can cultivate immortality] I am a real cultivator living in the modern world... I seek to become an immortal, free and joyful as the heavens. Cultivate immortality through science, ascend through physics. 382Reads—Score106Shelves
- 191 The Young Master Himself, at Your Service, Madam Sea King 公子本尊，参见海王夫人 This Young Master Appears in Person to Pay His Respects to the Sea King's Wife 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 The General's Worthless Live-In Son-in-Law 将军的窝囊赘婿 The General's Pathetic Live-in Son-in-Law 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 The Buddhist Monk Next Door Is Here to Woo His Wife! 隔壁那佛子，是来钓妻的！ [Just started getting ratings, and the score is rising. Go ahead and give it a try.] ✓ Long-planned pursuit ✓ Buddhist monk × young nun Feng Xuanchen became a monk! Even two years later, the noble young ladies still couldn’t believe it. Their dream man, the God of War Prince of the Chaofeng Kingdom, had renounced the world! Yet there was never a shortage of fearless women throwing themselves at him, hoping to drag the peerless Buddhist monk back into worldly life. It was all in vain. - The empe 11.6kReads9.0Score1.9kShelves
- 194 Reborn to Pursue My Husband: The Top Scholar Says One Thing and Means Another 重生追夫：探花郎他口是心非 Reborn to Win Her Husband Back: The Top Scholar Pretends He Doesn't Care 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 BOSS Direct Hire? I’m the Heavenly Court’s BOSS BOSS直聘？我才是天庭的BOSS BOSS Wanted: I'm the Heavenly Court's BOSS 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 196 Journey to the West: Tracing All Worlds to Attain Enlightenment 西游之万界归源证大觉 The main setting is the world of Journey to the West, with elements from Black Myth, Primordial Journey to the West, The Four Journeys, Dragon Ball, and other works inspired by Journey to the West... Li Haiyi transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West. With his golden finger, he joined Fangcun Mountain. He learned the Thirty-Six Heavenly Transformations and the Northern Sea Cloud-Roaming Art, thinking they were ordinary transformation techniques. He never expected that the Heavenly Stem 10.4kReads8.5Score838Shelves
- 197 The Two-Faced Buddha 双面佛子 A female PhD reborn in the womb × a scheming young marquis Transmigration + physician heroine + both leads devoted only to each other + sweet romance He Jiaojiao, legitimate daughter of the Yong’an Marquis’s household, is set up by her former fiancé, And ends up sharing a room with Zhou Yunshen, the Zhenwei Marquis who has renounced the world to become a monk**! He says he searched for her for six years, and from now on, he’ll never let her go again! At the Peony Banquet, she is framed and falls 539Reads6.5Score109Shelves
- 198 After I Kissed the Campus Heartthrob Until He Cried 我把校草亲哭了以后 After I Kissed the Campus Heartthrob Until He Cried 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 Bro, Keep Simping for That Fake Sweetheart and I'll Go After Your Nemesis 哥，你再舔白莲花我就舔你死对头 [Training Her Brother + Training Her Husband + Girl Pursues Guy (Gives Up Halfway) + Guy Pursues Girl (Face-Slapping Comeuppance)] Sharp-tongued military rogue male lead vs. spoiled, rebellious female lead. They come from equally matched families. A hilarious, satisfying period romp where everyone is crazy! The female lead is a little selfish and morally dubious! In her previous life, her hopelessly lovesick older brother devoted himself to fawning over a fake innocent, only to meet a tragic end 19.9kReads8.1Score1.9kShelves
- 200 Master, Your Romance Luck Has Blossomed 大师，你桃花开了 [Silly Comedy + Sweet Romance + Fallen Princess + Fake Monk + Devoted Couple + Sharp Tongues] Before meeting Wuchen, Qin Yueliang only wanted to stand on her own two feet and take down anyone who coveted her beauty. After meeting Wuchen, all Qin Yueliang wants is to cling to him and let him take down anyone who covets her beauty. They first meet outside Jing'an Temple. “Master, I’m just a helpless young woman. If you don’t help me, I’ll die!” “Benefactor, take another look at the corpses at your 5.3kReads9.1Score718Shelves
