Novels like Immortal Longevity in Strange Tales: The Romantic Scholar
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- 51 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Dragon Knight from the Start, and What a Joy to Live Off Others 聊斋：开局龙骑士，软饭真香 [Liaozhai fan fiction + mythology fan fiction + classical cultivation + living off a woman + no System] After being reborn in a world of Liaozhai and mythological tales crawling with demons and monsters, he’s lucky enough to become the male lead of The Tale of Liu Yi. That’s Liu Yi, the man of iron who refused to become the Dragon King’s live-in son-in-law and refused to live off a woman, only to end up marrying the Dongting Dragon Princess anyway and gaining immortality through her. This time, 1.4kReads6.4Score100Shelves
- 52 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Wives Make Me Stronger, and I Marry a Painted Skin from the Start 聊斋：娶妻变强，开局迎娶画皮 After ten years of studying, Li Yu had no idea demons existed. Then, one day, a painted-skin demon changed its face, and he finally saw the truth. He gained a System that made him stronger every time he took a wife. Looking at the painted-skin demon applying makeup before her mirror, he had to choose between dying and running away. He chose to go inside. “Painted-skin demons are ugly?” “No, no. You just don't understand the joy of manually swapping faces with AI.” “Yan Lingji, the top goddess of 103Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 53 Seeking Immortality, Starting by Becoming Yan Chixia's Disciple 证道长生，从拜师燕赤霞开始 Also known as: Attaining Immortality, Starting by Becoming Yan Chixia’s Disciple An overpowered System and a path to immortality. Lin Yu transmigrates to the Tang Dynasty and is reborn as a seventh-rank county magistrate. He thinks he has landed a civil service job that will keep him fed and clothed, only to discover that he is actually in the world of A Chinese Ghost Story. What good are money and power here? When ghosts and monsters show up, won’t they just suck him dry and leave him a corpse? 742Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 54 Twenty Years of Sign-Ins at Lanruo Temple, Then the Mighty Heavenly Dragon Descends! 兰若寺签到二十年，大威天龙降世！ After transmigrating into a mythological world overrun by monsters, he starts out as a disciple of Lanruo Temple! Fortunately, he awakens a god-tier sign-in System. By checking in at a different location every day, he can earn all kinds of rewards! Sign in at the Scripture Pavilion and receive the Great Might Heavenly Dragon! Sign in at the Hall of the Great Hero and receive the Tathagata Palm! Sign in at the City of Wrongful Death in Hell and receive the Diamond Dharma Body! Twenty years later, 3kReads5.3Score225Shelves
- 55 Reborn as a Flood Dragon: I Take Wives and Concubines in Liaozhai 重生蛟龙：我在聊斋娶妻纳妾 More children, more blessings + Dragons + Cultivation + Bloodline Evolution In the world of Liaozhai, the gods and Buddhas of the heavens have mysteriously vanished, leaving the world to demons and monsters. Ye Yan transmigrates here and becomes a flood dragon demon king, gravely wounded and on the verge of death. At this very moment, the centipede demon Pudu Cihang is trying to kill him and take his core, while the Black Mountain Old Demon of the underworld covets his powerful demonic body. Ye 11.9kReads7.2Score1kShelves
- 56 I Was Born an Immortal of Strange Tales 我本聊斋仙 A foolish ruler sits upon the throne, while his ministers attack one another with accusations. Corrupt officials scheme to line their pockets, and powerful clans seize the people’s farmland. The human way wanes, and the people suffer. In the shadows, all manner of demons and monsters gradually emerge, along with countless strange tales and uncanny happenings. Gao Ge finds himself in such a world by accident. True to his carefree nature, he becomes an immortal traveler, wandering the four corners 4.7kReads8.8Score381Shelves
- 57 I Play Dirty in the Immortal Heroic World 我在仙侠世界打闷棍 Zhao Fantian, a security guard famously known as a good-for-nothing, is forced to transmigrate into a world of immortals after performing a heroic deed. The worst fate most people face when they transmigrate is starting out with just a dog. But he starts out in a situation that means certain death. Where are the legendary old masters and golden fingers? Even worse, he discovers that he has transmigrated into a book, and apparently it’s a horror novel. In a world where fox spirits are everywhere 6.9kReads8.8Score557Shelves
- 58 I'm Xu Xian, and I'm Going to Change My Fate 我是许仙我要改命 Xu Xian died after getting carried away celebrating his wedding and drinking two glasses of baijiu. Xu Xuan, a man from Earth, merged with his soul. Xu Xuan became Xu Xian. Knowing that his new wife, Bai Suzhen, was a snake, he was torn: should he sleep with her or not? It was a test of character. What troubled him even more was that this was a mythical world where mortals were tools of the gods and Buddhas in heaven. And the owner of his body, Xu Xian, was an important tool. “Ding! Fortune Enha 3.5kReads8.8Score259Shelves
- 59 Heir to the Great Sage, Here to Settle Every Score in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio 大圣传人，专治聊斋各种不服 An ancient book that fell from the sky changed the life of an eighteen-year-old from Northeast China. The moment Wang You’an opened it, he instantly mastered the Seventy-Two Transformations of the Earthly Fiends. The Somersault Cloud, the Golden Cudgel, and the Great Sage’s divine armor all returned to him. At the same time, another side of the human world slowly unfolded. A woman’s sobs drift from an ancient temple in the dead of night. Foxfire flickers in an abandoned mansion. Paper figures at —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 Strange Tales from the Start? But I’m Yang Jian! 开局聊斋？但我是杨戬啊 [No System + Chinese-Style Horror + Time-Limited Transformation + Yang Jian + Extreme Contrast and Thrills] After transmigrating into the demon-infested world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Yang Jian runs straight into a century-old Painted-Skin Ghost that specializes in tearing out human hearts. There is nowhere to run! No System chiming in. No old master living in a ring. His only trump card is the Holy Erlang True Lord sleeping inside him, whose name sounds just like his own: Yang Ji 6.4kReads8.2Score636Shelves
- 61 Black Lotus Wutian 黑莲无天 Before Hongmeng came into being, the Great Emperor Pangu wielded the ancient primordial artifact, the Pangu Axe, and cleaved apart the primordial chaos, creating the Nine Ancient Realms! First: the Divine Realm; second: the Immortal Realm; third: the Human Realm; fourth: the Demon Realm; fifth: the Buddha Realm; sixth: the Shaman Realm; seventh: the Devil Realm; eighth: the Netherworld Realm; ninth: the Nine Suns Realm! After Emperor Pangu gave form to the Nine Ancient Realms, extraterrestrial d 1.7kReads8.0Score193Shelves
- 62 The Hardship of Taking It Easy 清闲难享 No Peace in Leisure —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Traveling Through the Heavens, Starting in Uncle Jiu's World 从九叔世界开始穿梭诸天 Xie Wen transmigrates into the world of Uncle Jiu, becoming another disciple under the tutelage of the Sages of the Heavens. He gathers the Five Qi in his chest in Uncle Jiu’s world, opens the Three Flowers Above the Head in The Outcast, transcends tribulation and becomes an immortal in the Strange Tales world, then travels through endless worlds to become a Great Luo being, transcending everything. 2.9kReads7.9Score146Shelves
- 64 Ancestral Master of the Strange Realm 诡境道祖 A parallel world, overrun by the supernatural. Cities may sleep through the dead of night, but the supernatural invasion never stops. You can’t tell whether the person beside you will still be themselves tomorrow. You can’t know whether the terrifying dark gate will open beside your bed tonight. And you can’t imagine the endless, terrifying unknown that awaits every eighteen-year-old in the “college entrance exam.” In this horrifying world, Ye Bai discovers, “Huh? I have a golden finger!” … A c 828Reads8.4Score100Shelves
- 65 Hong Kong Noir, Uncle Jiu's World: Marrying Ren Tingting from the Start 港综九叔世界：开局迎娶任婷婷 Hong Kong action films + supernatural anthology + Uncle Jiu + multiple heroines + System + female ghosts. Lu Hao begins cultivating in Uncle Jiu’s world and, with the help of the System, rises to the pinnacle of life. He has everything: magical arts, immortality, and beautiful companions. Lu Hao won’t let a single thing pass him by. 4.5kReads6.8Score303Shelves
- 66 Reborn in Another's Body: Dalang, Let's Go Home 借尸还魂之大郎，我们回家吧 Reborn in Another's Body: Dalang, Let's Go Home 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Lord Guan's Descent to Exorcise Demons 关帝君降魔 Lord Guan Subdues Demons 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 The Skeleton's Revenge 骷髅的复仇 The Skeleton’s Revenge —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Me: From a Little Mulberry Tree to the World-Piercing Fusang Tree! 我：从小桑树到通天扶桑树！ When he opened his eyes, he had become a little mulberry tree beside Lanruo Temple. Yan Chixia: “Monster! Stay away from the sacred tree!” “That's right, I am a sacred tree who has attained immortality!” Jiang Bo quickly caught on. The Tree Demon Grandma was dumbfounded. “Wait, why is he a sacred tree while I'm a monster?” [Ding! You plundered and devoured a locust tree with a thousand years of cultivation and gained 1,103 evolution points.] [Ding! You spent 1,000 evolution points, and your spir 1.4kReads8.3Score125Shelves
- 70 Tales of the Embroidered Shoe's Spirit 绣鞋魂记 The Embroidered Shoe's Spirit 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 I Can Only Fight Monsters, and That Lets Me Cultivate? What Is This, Liaozhai? 只会打怪，就能修仙？什么聊斋！ From the start, he accidentally eats a dragon's egg, gets chased by the dragon, and stumbles into the world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! Kill the monsters, keep the pretty spirits! Then he discovers that killing ghosts and monsters lets him gain their abilities! Magical treasures, cultivation techniques, buried riches? Wait, can he also score treasures and techniques by taking in spirits? Any way of recruiting them works~ 160Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Strange Tales from Liaozhai 聊斋奇谭 Pu Liuxian's greatest wish was once to explore the world's most wondrous and mysterious places and phenomena. Then one day, he found himself in a world overrun by ghosts and monsters. Here there were immortals, demons, ghosts, and monsters. At first, he traveled everywhere in search of the world's ghost stories, hoping to make a fortune from them. Later, he met more people and more ghosts, and glimpsed hidden truths about the world through his own stories. It turned out that the ghost realm was 260Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 73 Dark Strange Tales: I'm a Demon NPC, So What If I'm a Little Ruthless? 黑聊斋：我是妖人NPC狠点咋了 Black Strange Tales is a dark, eerie, and terrifying cultivation game. It features martial arts masters like Left Thousand Households, as well as monsters and demons like the Black Mountain Old Demon and Nie Xiaoqian. Ji Chang transmigrates into a demon-ravaged, perilous game world and becomes a scholar in the Great Yu Dynasty. He's also the only Strange-Tale Investigator. Every time he verifies a bizarre tale or records an unusual incident, he gains a supernatural ability or spell. With the pow 4.9kReads8.9Score317Shelves
- 74 The Strange Path to Immortality: Cultivating Begins with Selling Paintings on the Street 诡道长生：从街头卖画开始修仙 Gu Changsheng transmigrates to another world, the Great Shang Dynasty, where the Heavenly Dao has fallen into decline, demons run rampant, and cultivation techniques are perilous and uncanny. Fortunately, he awakens the ability to recreate portraits. Painting a portrait of a living being lets him acquire their techniques and skills, while also extending his lifespan. In Yinshan City, he paints a portrait of the Black Mountain Old Demon and comprehends a Heaven-tier cultivation art: the Yuan Moun 3.6kReads8.4Score226Shelves
- 75 EN Heaven's Chosen Villain: I Can See People's Life Scripts! 天命大反派：我能查看人生剧本！ Villain + Script + Destiny + Decisive and Ruthless + One Female Lead + Adrenaline-Fueled Wish Fulfillment + Martial Arts + Fantasy Su Changqing transmigrates into a mixed martial arts world, proves himself the supreme martial arts saint, and starts out with the Tyrant Saber, the Indestructible Vajra Divine Art, and the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill, sweeping through the martial world! Hulong Manor! The Best in the World! Embroidered Spring Blades! A Chinese Ghost Story! Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils! 16.1kReads8.6Score879Shelves
- 76 The Soul Ferry Bell Shatters, and Ten Thousand Souls Return to Silence 渡魂铃碎，万魂归寂 The Soul-Ferrying Bell Shatters, and Ten Thousand Souls Return to Silence 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 From Minor Unorthodox Cultivator to Primordial Spirit Dao Lord 从旁门小修到元神道君 [Overpowered protagonist + ordinary mortal's journey + ruthless style + Immortal Gourd style + Deep Blue stat boosts + decisive and merciless + cautious cultivation + unorthodox methods + steady and prudent + cultivation + Daoist priest + Strange Tales + longevity + Primordial Spirit] In an immortal world, what could be better than being a young Daoist who admires beautiful women, loves flying swords, raises venomous insects, draws talismans, refines pills, and enjoys a long, carefree life? Unfo 15.4kReads8.3Score1.1kShelves
- 78 Warring States: I Told You to Be a Playful Young Lord, but You Actually Defeated Bai Qi? 战国：让你当纨绔，你竟打败白起？ From the start, he had a fief of his own. He reclaimed farmland, built roads, smelted steel, and trained elite troops. The unscrupulous young lord: “Land, grain, wealth, beautiful women... I want it all!” Reborn in the state of Chu, he beats the state of Qin to a pulp! 609Reads8.8Score119Shelves
- 79 Tales of Strange Happenings in Snow City 雪城志异 A collection of short tales of the strange and supernatural, including ghost stories and even stories about aliens! Each story is only a few hundred words, so you can finish one in no time. Strange happenings and supernatural tales, demons and ghosts, tree spirits and fox fairies! Let your imagination run wild! Everyone is welcome to read! 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 Wandering Through the Heavens 漫步诸天 After waking from a dream, I found the world had changed. Here, gods and ghosts exist, along with demons and monsters. There is a Celestial Realm and an Underworld, Dragon Palaces in the Four Seas, ghostly women who paint their faces, fox spirits and snake demons. Tigers and wolves can become bloodthirsty, savage demons, while plants and trees can gain spirits and yearn for love... A fox spirit, grateful for his kindness, offers herself to him. A lonely female ghost offers to share his bed. A D 44.3kReads8.4Score2.9kShelves
- 81 The Bystander Who Transmigrated into Horror Movies 穿越在恐怖片里的路人甲 Everyone else who transmigrates gets the protagonist treatment, with treasures and beautiful women at their side. Li Haotian transmigrated as a mere nobody, and into a horror-movie world, no less, surrounded by demons and monsters. With his own life already in danger, he still had to complete assignments. Fortunately, he was lucky enough to gain the skill of having every wish granted: call to Heaven, and Heaven answers; call to Earth, and Earth responds. All kinds of immortals looked out for him 21.5kReads7.9Score1.3kShelves
- 82 Arrogance Ruins Your Life! 傲娇毁终生！ Pride Ruins Everything! 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 The Confucian Sword Immortal: Ten Years of Study, Righteousness Sweeps Across the Heavens 儒剑仙：读书十年，浩气荡青天 After transmigrating into the body of a down-and-out scholar, Chen Ning studies diligently, determined to travel to the capital and sit the imperial examinations. It is only when he accidentally touches his maid's fox tail that he discovers this world is nowhere near as simple as it seems! Luckily, Chen Ning awakens the Confucian Sage System in time, allowing him to slay demons and study every day. [You studied the Analects and grasped a divine ability: Purple Qi at Your Side] [You recited The G 11.9kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
- 84 Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: I Asked You to Repay Your Debt, Not Paint Skins and Ghosts 聊斋：让你还债，没让你画皮画鬼 [Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio + Bizarre Cultivation + No System + Subverting Expectations + Folk Supernatural Tales + Becoming a God Through Painting + Dark Tone + Lovecraftian Horror + Clever Protagonist + Decisive and Ruthless + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] Transmigrating into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, I find myself trapped in the deadly predicament of The Painted Skin from the start, and saddled with an unpayable debt to the dead? Don't panic. I have a White Bone Brush tha 817Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 Fourteen Years of Hunting Ghosts (Complete in Five Volumes) 十四年猎诡人（全五册） Li Yifan’s spine-chilling ghost-hunting chronicles! A contemporary Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio! A spine-chilling record of ghost hunts! First posted on Tieba, it topped 100 million views within three months! The acclaimed mystery writer Li Yifan’s breakthrough work, now with the unpublished continuation added! Every ghost was once a living person. I’m a professional ghost hunter. I turn the compass, circle the place with red 11.8kReads9.6Score2.2kShelves
- 86 My Family's Pressuring Me to Marry? I'll Bring Home a Northeast Bride Instead! 家里催婚？我反手带了个东北媳妇回家！ Your family pressuring you to marry? I’ll turn around and bring home a wife from Northeast China! 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 Wangzai Xiao Qiao's Rise to Glory Against All Odds 旺仔小乔的逆风封神 Wangzai Xiao Qiao’s Comeback to Stardom Against All Odds 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 Jujutsu Kaisen: Rewriting Causality, I Turned the Shibuya Deadlock on Its Head 咒术回战：因果逆写，我掀翻了涉谷死局 Jujutsu Kaisen: Rewriting Cause and Effect, I Turned Shibuya's Deadly Fate Upside Down 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Tianxuan Paranormal Affairs Office 天玄灵异事务所 - [Infinite Flow + Urban Supernatural + Chinese-Style Horror + Folk Legends and Hauntings + Celestial Master Exorcists + Heirs to the Daoist Tradition + Heterochromatic-Eyed Heroine + Haunted House Tales + Episodic Stories + Folk Taboos] - Hidden deep in the bustling streets is an inconspicuous supernatural affairs office called Tianxuan. - No one dares touch the folk taboos of this world. Haunted houses are plagued by unsolved horrors, abandoned villages and ancient mansions seethe with resentm 1.2kReads—Score101Shelves
- 90 Thorny Nun: Father, Don't Look Back. Leave the Three Thousand Rioters Outside to Me! 荆棘修女：神父，别回头，外面那三千暴徒交给我！ Thorn Nun: Father, Don't Look Back. Leave the Three Thousand Rioters Outside to Me! 67Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 The Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends Transformations 地煞七十二变 The seventy-two transformations of the Earthly Fiends each grant a supernatural ability. A mysterious book with a yellow cover sent Li Chang'an back to the ancient world. Every demon he killed earned him a new ability. Painted-skin ghosts, zombie kings, spider demons... one after another fell beneath his sword. Communing with the netherworld, swordsmanship, demon-slaying... one supernatural ability after another emerged from the book. After he wiped out a hundred ghosts and looked around with hi 37.7kReads9.3Score4.5kShelves
- 92 The Whole Village Calls Me a Lazy Wife, but My Hunter Husband Flirts with Me Every Night 《全村笑我懒汉媳，猎户夫君夜夜撩》 The Whole Village Calls Me a Lazy Wife, but My Hunter Husband Flirts with Me Every Night 184Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Forbidden Zone Heartbeat 禁区心动 A Heart Stirred in the Forbidden Zone 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 Attack on Titan! 进击的巨人！ Attack on Titan! 331Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Naruto: I Defy the Heavens for Tsunade, and My Six Paths Golden Body Rejects Every Beauty 火影：为纲手逆天下，我六道金身拒尽红颜 Naruto: I Defy Heaven for Tsunade, and My Six Paths Golden Body Rejects Every Beauty 183Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 A Bone of Startling Grace 惊鸿骨 The Stunning Bone 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 Naruto: Six Paths Naruto Wins Sakura Back, While Hinata Shakes Konoha as His First Wife 火影：六道鸣人抢回小樱，雏田为正妻震木叶 Naruto: Six Paths Naruto Wins Sakura Back, While Hinata Shakes Up Konoha as His One True Wife 107Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 Life-Eating Firefly 噬命萤 Life-Devouring Firefly 355Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 Rain Beneath the Eaves: Some Loves Can Only Reunite in the Rain 檐下雨，有些爱，只能在雨里重逢 Rain Beneath the Eaves: Some Loves Can Only Reunite in the Rain 591Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Ten Years of Frost: In the End, Even Fate Was Hard to Defy 十载寒霜：终是难敌天命 (Male-oriented, xuanhuan, immortal cultivation, xianxia, wuxia, sword cultivator, slow burn, heart-wrenching, multiple female leads, war) He was once the Crown Prince of the Xiaoyao Kingdom, and also the fiancé Shangguan Baili had waited ten years for. On the day his kingdom fell, his face was disfigured and he was left on the brink of death. Shangguan Baili saved him with her own hands. But she failed to recognize the man before her. Taking him for a lowly good-for-nothing with nowhere to go, s 7.4kReads9.3Score738Shelves
