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- 51 Immortal Exorcist 祓仙 A heads-up: Senior Sister is not the female lead! The protagonist and she have no romance! There are plot elements similar to cuckolding, so don't read if that's not your thing! Traditional xianxia, no System, no levels. The main story: Cultivators prey on mortals, and the protagonist kills every last one of them. 153Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 52 Founding the Unorthodox Path: I Refine Zombies in Another World 旁门做祖：我在异界炼僵尸 There are eighteen kinds of zombies: blood zombies, stone zombies, wood zombies, cotton zombies, armored zombies... Chu Shan inherited the art of corpse refinement from a black jade tablet. He refines countless zombies into an army and becomes the founding patriarch of a forbidden school! The supernatural realms of the otherworld: Apprentice, Official, Master, Legendary, Calamity... 131Reads6.8Score814d adds
- 53 The Immortal Sects Rejected Me, So I Entered the Mortal World to Forge My Own Path for Eternity 仙门不收，我红尘入道独断万古 Everyone carries a flame of mortal dust that burns away their spiritual roots, cuts them off from spiritual energy, and locks their lifespan. They are treated like straw dogs. Li Changhuo was an ordinary man, without spiritual roots. He rose from humble beginnings, yet ten thousand years later, he would become a nightmare spoken of with dread throughout the cultivation world. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: “However vicious you are, can you be worse than Daoist Changhuo? Even if you and I 31Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 54 A World of Strange Tales: Cultivating the Unorthodox Path 志怪世界，左道修行 [Monsters] [Gods and Buddhas] [Unorthodox Cultivation] [Supernatural Powers] Spiritual energy has dried up, Mount Buzhou has collapsed, and heaven and earth have fallen into chaos. This world is no longer the immortal mountain paradise of ancient times. It has become a slaughterhouse where unorthodox practices run rampant and humans, ghosts, and monsters live side by side. The path of cultivation is broken, and the sages of old have gone far away. Only a group of unwilling pioneers remain. Under 16.4kReads6.6Score1.5k14d adds
- 55 The Dao of Cultivation: After Failing the Exams, the Old Scholar Gives Up on the Imperial Examination 修道：落榜后老秀才不考科举 Li Wenxuan transmigrates into the body of a fifty-year-old failed scholar who had hanged himself from a branch in the southeast. As he arrives, the branch snaps, and he narrowly escapes death. Since the original owner is already dead, his body bears the signs of a corpse, and he is taken into the Ghost Domain by the ghost scholar Wang Yunsheng. Through a series of coincidences, Li Wenxuan obtains some methods of cultivation. Already fifty years old in this life, he chooses an unorthodox path, wi 199Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 56 My Evil Arts Are Fully Mastered, and You Want Me to Descend the Mountain and Save All Beings? 邪法大成，你让我下山普渡众生？ [Decisive and ruthless] [Invincible] [Unorthodox methods] [Gu magic] [Dark arts] Yin and Yang are reversed, morality has collapsed, and monsters run rampant. In this chaotic age, bones litter the wilderness and no rooster crows for a thousand miles. Xu Xuan transmigrated into a strange world. He mastered the dark arts at Qingfeng Temple, then awakened a Merit System. Determined to fulfill his master’s hopes, he set off to travel the mortal world and save its people. Taking on the identity of a s 30Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 57 Raising Corpses and Ghosts, Enjoying Wealth in the Mortal World 炼尸养鬼，红尘富贵 [Raising Corpse Ghouls and Ghosts, Living in Worldly Luxury.] [Iron-Clad Corpse, Bronze-Clad Corpse, Silver-Clad Corpse, Gold-Clad Corpse, Corpse Demon.] Ordinary people are born, grow old, fall ill, and die, struggling through the pain of reincarnation. Why should immortals live forever, watching the world change? With his miraculous Yin-Yang Cauldron, Xin Meng absorbs the turbid qi of heaven and earth and turns yin back into yang. He refines zombies and raises female ghosts, embarking on the p 684Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 58 Evil Spirits Revive: This Brute Is More Savage Than the Ghosts! 邪灵复苏：这个莽夫比鬼凶！ In a parallel world, night reigns supreme and daylight never breaks. Evil spirits and ghosts lurk everywhere, killing without a sound. Faced with these monstrous, malevolent beings, ordinary people can only await their deaths, despair written across their faces. Yu Wentuo transmigrates into the body of an unlucky man and finds himself trapped in a deadly predicament: pick up ghost money, and die on the seventh day after your death. In his previous life, Yu Wentuo was known as the “Blood-Handed B 72Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 Tales of the Strange: Turned Into a Donkey by a Demon Priest from the Start 志怪世界：开局被妖道变成一头驴 [Transmigration + supernatural folklore + System + grow stronger by slaying ghosts and monsters + cultivating immortality + level up by defeating enemies] Gods and demons run rampant, and ghosts roam the night. Li Shixiang transmigrates to a world of gods and spirits, carrying an illustrated compendium of strange tales. He slays demons, monsters, ghosts, and gods, earning all kinds of rewards. He undergoes corpse liberation and takes elixirs, studies talismans, formations, and scriptures, refin 392Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 60 If I Don't Destroy You Today, My Daoist Heart Will Crumble 今天不灭你我道心得毁 No female lead, no System, pure Taoist magic, no stupidity, and solid logic. A humorous male lead, a mischievous weasel spirit, and a cold-blooded Lord Xiao. Fang Hao of the Jing Sect. The last surviving heir, cautious to a fault, afraid that one careless mistake will end the lineage and bring shame upon his ancestors. So he has no choice but to... settle every score and repay every grievance. What happens today gets dealt with today. No putting it off. If I don't wipe you out today, that's simp 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 Strange Cultivation: I Can Copy the Cost of Cultivation 诡异修仙：我能复制修行代价 Gu Chang'an discovers that he has transmigrated into a bizarre world of cultivation, where every path of cultivation comes at a price. Few who embark on the path enjoy smooth sailing. The rest either mutate and fall into depravity, becoming mindless monsters, or die without leaving so much as a corpse. Worse still, some attain immortality only to suffer endlessly for all eternity... Thinking that fate had left him struggling at every turn, Gu Chang'an unexpectedly discovers that he can copy and 433Reads6.4Score11014d adds
- 62 In an Age of Demons, I Become Invincible by Eating Rotten Flesh 妖魔乱世，从生吞腐肉开始无敌！ [Ultimate-strength progression] [Smash everything] [Decisive and ruthless] [Body part transplantation] [Nonhuman] Lin Muchen dies of cancer and transmigrates into a world overrun by demons. In this world, demons run rampant and ghosts wreak havoc. Human life is cheap as grass. Fortunately, Lin Muchen has a Heaven-Swallowing Creation Cauldron. Devouring the flesh and blood of demons earns him Flesh Points, which he can spend to strengthen himself. To avoid being swallowed by a demon, Lin Muchen i 30Reads—Score214d adds
- 63 I Swatted a Mosquito, and You Say It’s a Savage Evil Beast? 拍死蚊子，你说是凶残邪兽？ [Everyone Awakens Powers + Superpowers + Wish-Fulfillment + No Romance + Decisive and Ruthless + Monster Drops + System] World war breaks out, and monsters descend upon the world! People can only gaze in despair at grotesque abominations, cunning demons, and colossal creatures from the boundless depths of space. But Li Mu can use his talent to extract souls and create all kinds of cards, including equipment, attributes, and monster-pet eggs... On the eve of the great change, Li Mu casually swatt 1.1kReads7.3Score15214d adds
- 64 I'm Not Joking, the Other Side Really Has 1.4 Billion Demon Cultivators! 没开玩笑，对面真有14亿魔修！ [Spiritual Qi Revival]+ [Everyone Cultivates Demonic Arts]+ [High Martial]+ [Myriad Races Descend]+ [Overwhelming Power]+ [Conquering the Universe] After ten thousand years of reincarnation, Spiritual Qi Revival begins. Blue Star, one of the universe’s ten ancient civilization planets, dormant for ages, finally welcomes the return of a golden age of cultivation. However, when Gu Yan awakens the “Humanity: Kindling System,” he sees not a glorious future, but a blood-soaked calamity... Six mon 993Reads8.4Score10114d adds
- 65 The Unorthodox Path to Immortality: Ancestor of the Yin Sect 旁门登仙：阴门道祖 The righteous sects choose disciples by talent, the demonic sects by character, but the unorthodox sects are a chaotic mix of people from every walk of life. Jiang Feng transmigrates to the Three Wonders Temple of the Unorthodox Sect with the Yin Book. By offering up resources, he can derive cultivation arts, master divine abilities, and forge magical artifacts. In an age teeming with prodigies, he will carve out a path to immortality! 1.8kReads8.0Score16914d adds
- 66 A Blood-Fed Path to the Ghost Realm 血饲鬼途 At a mass grave, I raised a ghost. It was nothing but a tool to help me survive. The essence blood of my clansmen, the flesh and blood of geniuses, the souls of the entire clan... All became fuel for refining ghosts! The stronger the ghost, the fiercer its backlash? Then I’ll use stronger restrictions and deeper schemes to keep it my slave forever! I’ll rob cultivators, slaughter cities, go undercover, kill my master, and refine ghost children... I’ll stop at nothing. With demonic arts that reac 159Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 67 Lord of the Unorthodox Path 左道之主 I’m hard at work on my new unorthodox-cultivation novel, which is guaranteed to debut next month. Next year, I plan to finish a million-word unorthodox-cultivation novel. Even if it’s not good, I’ll keep writing!!! Don’t ask why. Let’s just say I have the Gu of Perseverance (Yaksha grinding its teeth). [Using evil to stop evil] + [Not a traditional power fantasy, don’t read if that’s not your thing] + [If you won’t work hard at cultivation, let’s be brothers in my Banner of Ten Thousand Souls] + 233Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 68 Righteous Energy from the Unorthodox Path 左道正能量 I gaze up at the world from hell, and glimpse the path of slaughter that swallows all living things! I do not seek enlightenment through contemplation of white bones. I strip away flesh and blood to ascend to the heavens! Ascend to the heavens, prove the Dao through white bones, and roam free! Alas, the immortal path is distant. Smash open its gates and claim the golden robe! 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 Jiangshi: Patriarch of the Unorthodox Dao 僵尸：左道祖师 When he wakes up, he has transmigrated to a world of zombies. As a modern man, who could resist the allure of supernatural power? Unfortunately, his constitution is poor and his aptitude is lacking. He can only struggle on alone. But if the path to immortality is closed to me, then I'll forge a path of my own. 3.1kReads7.1Score12714d adds
- 70 Heterodox Arts: Beginning My Cultivation by Refining the Entire Village 旁门左道：从炼化全村开始修行 I'm working on a new novel in the same genre. My grand goal for 2026: finish my first million-word novel. Longtime readers, stay tuned. [Corpse Control, Cursecraft, Raising Little Ghosts]+ [Eight Hundred Schemes Up His Sleeve]+ [Master of Disguise]+ [Sneaky Schemer]+ [Voldemort] My name is Chen Xiu. If you become my enemy, it's to the death. That's why people in the business like to call me “Daoist Wuyou.” I always say: pay me, and I'll solve your problems… A child lights a lamp, a vengefu 3.8kReads7.2Score25614d adds
- 71 I'm a Witcher in a World of Evil Spirits 我在邪祟世界当巫师 [Adaptation-friendly]+ [Mind games]+ [Western fantasy]+ [Collection]+ [Synthesis]+ [Eldritch weirdness] “How am I supposed to deal with it if I don't take my potions?” “People say evil spirits are hard to handle. Maybe you just haven't taken enough medicine.” In a world of bizarre evil spirits, Lin Ke'en became a secret-potion wizard. [Monkey droppings]+ [Powder of evil-spirit essence]= [Exorcism potion] Lin Ke'en glanced at the toilet at home. “They're the same species, aren't they? Why does it 684Reads6.5Score10314d adds
- 72 In Name, the Son of Heaven; in Truth, a Strange Emperor 名为周天子，实为诡皇帝 (No level suppression + Never take a loss + Smart main and supporting cast + Serious writing, not a comedy + Immune to the cost + Semi-fantasy) Absurdity, decay, and chaos are the age-defining marks of the uncanny. Sheep herd their shepherds. The patterns on the ceiling flow. A sea vessel crashes into a city wall... This is an age without immortals, a world haunted by the uncanny. With calamities caused by the uncanny before him and pursuers behind, in this age of rampant horrors and rebellious 936Reads7.0Score10214d adds
- 73 Supernatural: A Great Thousand Record, Starting with the Corpse-Eating Worm Ascending the Steps 灵异：一本大千录，开局苍蜣登阶 Harvest System. The beginner's gift pack is actually the Great Thousand Record! A secret manual for inflicting brutal flesh-and-blood torment on yourself. If you want to get stronger, you can only torment yourself! He never thought he'd ever use this lousy golden finger in his life. Until one day, he found himself standing outside a mental hospital. He tore off one of his fingernails. Whoosh! As excruciating pain struck, the nail transformed into a bullet and shot out, piercing the eerie creatur 17Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 74 Hong Kong Crossover: Good Can't Overcome Evil 港综：正不胜邪 How can an ordinary human survive after transmigrating to a supernatural anthology world? There is no System in this story. If that's not your thing, please move along! Uncle Jiu: You evil creature! I could tell at a glance that you're not human! Qianhe: Fellow Daoist? Daoist my foot! Simu: Good heavens, why is this monster so powerful? Ma Danna: Pah! Who are you calling Miss Ma? Jiang Chen: What in the world is this thing? 22Reads5.7Score—14d adds
- 75 Mortal Cultivation: Starting by Draining My Senior Brother Dry 凡人修仙，从吸干师兄开始 [Mortal-style cultivation] [Demonic cultivator] [Decisive and ruthless] Born with the makings of a demonic cultivator, he accidentally joins a demonic sect and embarks on the path to immortality, taking one steady step at a time until he reaches the far shore of eternal life. Hard work always pays off. For a cultivator, what could be a better golden finger? 292Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 76 Burn Incense and Build Temples: The Paper Figures Want to Become Immortals 烧香立庙，纸扎人想成仙得道 Synopsis: [No heroine, not invincible, no clichéd tropes, mystery and the supernatural, folk legends and strange tales, Chinese-style occultism, bizarre cultivation] The author has completed two novels of over a million characters: Gate of Guixu and Bizarre Cultivation. A dead branch buried in the belly, and even after death, one may cultivate immortality. The paper effigies used in funerals gain a spirit and become evil spirits, painted in human likeness to impersonate people. They don’t ea 608Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 77 Rising to Power Through Paper Effigy Craft 从纸扎术开始崛起 [Cultivation, Unorthodox Sects, Eastern Fantasy, No System, Slow Burn] When Xu Yu learned that he had transmigrated into the son of a tenant farmer in an ancient world, and that the dynasty ruling it was called the Great Qian, he knew something was amiss. As it turned out, this foreign dynasty, with a history of four hundred years, was entering an age of chaos. Fortunately, he seized his chance and became a disciple of an unorthodox sect. In this world of demons and spirits, that was the only wa 8.2kReads7.4Score70414d adds
- 78 From the Start, Covered in Tentacles, I’ll Devour Every Ancient God 开局全身长满触手，我会吃光古神 [No Female Lead] [Lovecraftian Cultivation] [Horror] [Dark] (A few chapters in the middle may be a little slow, but after that things get completely unhinged.) What is cultivation? Feeding on spirits? People? Immortals? Is human nature good? Is it evil? Who am I? What is right? What is wrong? An unlucky man encounters an ancient god for no apparent reason. Chaotic, jumbled memories, hidden indescribable horrors, a world tainted by corruption. Along the way, he encounters all kinds of bizarre sup 12Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 79 The Legend of Qi Refiners: I Refine Natural Gas 炼气士传说之我炼天然气 At worst, I'm a mutant. You're the ones who are freaks. Daring to swing your blade at your own crotch naturally makes your divine powers stronger. There are countless freaks in the world, and there's always one that matches your taste. I'm terrifyingly strong now. This is a world of qi cultivators. Everyone else cultivates spiritual energy, immortal energy, demonic energy, baleful energy, and so on. But the protagonist cultivates swamp gas (stinky, flammable), stupidity (confuses and paralyzes) 200Reads6.8Score10614d adds
- 80 Divine Descent 降神 You have Daoist arts to cultivate immortality; I have spirit-summoning arts that can commune with the gods. Cultivating immortality comes with conditions. You need either natural talent and immortal bones, or a fortuitous encounter and spiritual roots. To achieve anything in your cultivation, you also need a cheat. But what if you're just an utterly ordinary person? You have nothing: no talent, luck, good fortune, or even the grit to work hard. You're no pretty boy, and you're not young, either. 951Reads6.2Score11314d adds
- 81 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
- 82 The World of Five Turbidities 五浊世界 (No System. A traditional xianxia style.) In this eerie world, everything is going wrong. The higher a cultivator's realm, the more dangerous they become, filled with mutations, corruption, and evil! Even the Buddha has become abnormal, and the will sent down by the Heavenly Venerable is full of malice. This world is beyond saving... Wang Quan transmigrated with the supreme Buddhist relic he had begged for in his previous life. All he wanted was to survive in peace! 1.3kReads5.6Score12414d adds
- 83 My Brother Refines Corpses, I Cultivate Ghosts, and We Slaughter a City from the Start 兄弟炼尸我修鬼，开局屠城 Coming from Blue Star to the world of cultivation, Sun Mu and Feng Chuan, brothers who would lay down their lives for each other, plunge headfirst into a world ruled by immortals and demons, where the strong prey on the weak. While others seek immortality by joining prestigious sects and mastering orthodox techniques, the two take the darkest and most sinister path of all. Sun Mu cultivates the lost forbidden art, the Ghost Fiend Scripture, feeding ghosts with his soul and flesh. At a grand cere 80Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 Ten Thousand Insects Shroud the Heavens 万虫遮天 From bait for the insects to lord of all insects! A brutal immortal path paved with blood and tears, a struggle for survival amid insects and schemes! Han Qing, a farm boy, sees his fate shattered while serving alongside his father. The cold and ruthless cultivation sect treats mortals like grass, abducting him and his fellow villagers to serve as blood food for spirit insects! Devoured by countless insects and surviving by the narrowest margin, he becomes a lowly insect-feeding slave. After wit 12.1kReads8.3Score1.1k14d adds
- 85 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
- 86 Cultivation: Proving the Dao Through Corpses 修仙：以尸证道 “The world misunderstands me far too much. I’m actually a righteous cultivator.” An excerpt from Liu Qing’s collected sayings. Liu Qing was an ordinary rogue cultivator who knew that, with his poor natural aptitude, he had no chance of successfully establishing his foundation. Fortunately, after transmigrating, he got a golden finger. It was mostly broken, but it could still produce corpses. Armed with a demonic cultivation manual, he began his path to immortality. “Blood Devouring Art: absorb v 451Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 87 Great Qian Martial Saint: Starting with Stat Allocation 大乾武圣：从面板加点开始 In the 1,356th year of the Great Qian era, the emperor was obsessed with immortality and neglected state affairs, leaving the court in disarray and the realm in turmoil. Within the realm, sects stood in great numbers and princes established their own kingdoms. Beyond its borders, powerful enemies surrounded it, leaving the people to suffer in misery, with famine and death stretching for miles. That year, Li Heng transmigrated to this world. He gained an Experience System, allowing him to master 1.2kReads6.0Score10214d adds
- 88 Cultivating Demonic Arts in America 在美利坚修魔道 Lin Xiu, a demonic cultivator who transmigrated from the cultivation world, possessed a young Chinese man who had just illegally entered the United States. The newly arrived Lin Xiu promptly killed him, then inherited the demonic cultivator Lin Xiu's cultivation experience. He soon realized that this place called America was perfect for cultivating demonic arts. As the saying goes, “Land of the free, where gunfights happen every day.” People die in shootings every day, and the resentment here is 522Reads—Score10014d adds
- 89 Fellow Daoist, Stay Alive, or This Poor Priest Won’t Be Able to Sleep 道友不死，贫道睡不着啊 Unorthodox paths have existed since ancient times! The righteous despise them, and the heretical sects reject them. Gu Xiu, proprietor of Zero Affairs, is an unorthodox cultivator registered with Bureau 749. Those in the mystic arts who want to show him respect call him the Celestial Evil Daoist. Those who don’t will kindly call him Old Demon Gu in their dying moments. “Our grudges are settled. Now, fellow cultivator, please go and die. Otherwise, I won’t be able to sleep!” 67Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 90 Jiangshi: A Gu Cultivator in Uncle Nine’s World 僵尸：九叔世界里的蛊修 No System + no transmigration + slow burn: an ordinary man’s all-or-nothing path to immortality. Meng Hai, a nominal disciple of Uncle Jiu, has poor cultivation aptitude. In this Age of Declining Dharma, he can’t cultivate orthodox Daoist arts. By chance, he obtains the inheritance of Gu cultivation and becomes a practitioner of unorthodox arts. From then on, he sets out on his unorthodox path, refining Gu to harvest spiritual power and attain immortality! 734Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 91 Uncle Nine: Why Is Your Human Emperor Banner Smoking Black! 九叔：你这人皇帆，怎么冒黑烟！ You raise ghosts and refine corpses, and you tell me you're from the Maoshan Sect? Su Jun stared at his cheap master in shock, his face full of disbelief. His eyes seemed to say, Are you messing with me? Master: “Wild Maoshan is still Maoshan!” After transmigrating into Uncle Nine's world, he becomes the disciple of a villainous feng shui master. The feng shui master plots against him, making him a cannon fodder pawn in the scheme to take down Uncle Nine. See how Su Jun defies fate and changes h 136Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 92 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. 368Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 93 Doing Bad Deeds Makes Me Stronger, but I'm in the World of Dao of the Bizarre Immortal 做坏事就能加修为，但我在道诡世界 The moment I opened my eyes, I found myself in the hands of a demonic heretic who made me offer up my lifespan every day to refine pills. I was bound to die sooner or later. After finally managing to escape, I tried to call the authorities, only to discover that the righteous sects weren’t any better. But... [Poison your master: cultivation increases] [Slaughter your fellow disciples: cultivation increases] [Steal a candied hawthorn skewer from a child: cultivation increases] To stay alive, Chu 61Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 I Feed on Insects, Yet I'm the Evil Heretic 以身饲虫，我就是邪魔外道 [No System]+ [No Female Lead]+ [No Transmigration]+ [Decisive and Ruthless]+ [Demon]+ [Stops at Nothing]+ [Insect Taming]+ [Mortal's Path to Demonic Cultivation] Also known as My Bugs Are Really Cowards, When the Heart Dies, the Demon Is Born: The Demon Cicada and My Rebirth, and Have You Ever Seen a Demon with Such Pure Magic Power? His parents never saw him as their son, his younger siblings never saw him as their brother, and the world's loathing was everywhere. Even looking up was a sin. So 3Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 95 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
- 96 Eerie Immortals and Buddhas: I’m in Perfect Mental Health 诡异仙佛：我的精神状态好极了 [Cultivation through mental illness? Lovecraftian beast taming? A strange-dream System? Abnormal immortals and Buddhas?] “Beneath the heavens, see into the human heart; beyond Heaven's Gate, strike down the gods. A bewildering dream ends with a sudden awakening; the struggle along the path is steeped in blood and bones. Strange horrors run rampant, the common folk suffer; immortals and Buddhas shut their eyes and turn deaf ears. I would offer myself as a sacrifice, in exchange for everlasting pe 15Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 97 Addicted to Killing Immortals 杀仙有瘾 They like to take on human form and come to the mortal world to have fun. But they forget the way back. I hear their deep, mournful cries in the rain, coming from the other side of the mountain. My favorite thing is sitting in a damp rocking chair, watching the immortals die one after another in the mortal world… 27Reads8.9Score714d adds
- 98 The King of Hell Returns: Not to Become an Immortal, but to Cultivate the Ghostly Way 阎君归来，不为成仙，只修鬼道 A hundred years ago, the Lord of the Netherworld disassembled his body and passed away. The laws of the underworld collapsed, and reincarnation fell into chaos. A hundred years later, the Nine Stars aligned and the Big Dipper hung upside down. Yan Chuan, a good-for-nothing young clan lord who had been humiliated and jilted, had his spiritual platform shattered by a tribulation of lightning, and memories of his past life came flooding back! He had once been the Netherworld Yama who held power ove 5Reads—Score114d adds
- 99 I Rule the Supernatural World with Fake Manuals 我靠假秘籍横行灵异圈 An ancient manuscript fragment that can turn fakes into the real thing has brought a martial-arts brute into the world of the supernatural. “You fiend! Beg all you want, I still won’t let you go!” “When I was at my most lost, I spent the whole night wandering around Shancheng and didn’t run into a single ghost.” Only when his true energy flowed without end and his martial form became perfectly integrated did Fang Yuan discover a whole new world of martial arts. Martial arts need style. “Buddhist 30Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 100 Two Mouths, One on Each Side: I Am the Immortal Who Devours Demons 左右两张口，我乃食妖仙人 [Unorthodox cultivation + no female lead + xianxia treasures] I may be a transmigrator, and before I transmigrated, I might even have been descended from an immortal or a god. I was born with a supernatural gift, but my natural talent is mediocre. So I resolve to hunt demons. In doing so, I lose an eye and an ear. A left-handed cultivator saves me and takes me on as his disciple. Later, he dies... upholding the principles he believes in. As he lies dying, I ask, “Could you just not save people?” 2.4kReads8.5Score20814d adds
