Novels like The Great Emperors' Forbidden Zone: After My Master Died, I Went Mad
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- 1 The Ancestor's Path, Beginning with a Golden Core Immortal Clan! 从金丹仙族开始的老祖之路！ There are already plenty of stories that start with a Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment family. I want to write one about a Golden Core family beginning its revival. The synopsis is a bit weak, but if you're interested, come read the first fifty chapters. [Family Saga] [Genius] Traditional cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deification 391.6kReads8.8Score47.4kShelves
- 2 The Spoiled Young Master Is an Evil God, and All His Followers Are Beauties 纨绔大少是邪神，眷属全部是美女 [The ratings just came in, and they’re going to soar] [Showing off in public] [Multiple heroines] [No toxicity or angst] [Divine and insane] [Highly intelligent villains] [Epic battlefields] The Evil Gods cast their gaze down from the stars. Their mutterings worm into the soul, and their corruption makes flesh betray the will. Cities writhe beneath their skins, while people mutate in ignorance. The Empire, the forbidden zones, and the rulers enthroned high above have long since written humanity 265.2kReads9.2Score31.3kShelves
- 3 The Floating City in the Freakish Sea 畸海浮城 [A World of Strange Realms] [Backrooms-Inspired Setting] [Dark Humor] [Monstrous Creatures] [Light Apocalypse Scavenging] [Uncovering the Truth] The original world has shattered into countless eerie pocket worlds: A silent city where the sun never rises, A man-eating forest where every tree walks, An endless wasteland forever watched by a giant eye... And also, A colossal Buddha traveling beneath the city, Moving walls of steel rebar mixed with rotting flesh, A black humanoid figure stan 138.2kReads9.1Score13.5kShelves
- 4 Gazing Across the Four Seas 观四海 This isn't a conventional web novel. It features multidimensional space, rotating and traversing time sequences, and a diverse world of mutated races (beastfolk, insect races, marine life, and more), with varied narrative styles, interlocking plotlines, major foreshadowing, and tightly closed logical loops. The male lead, Qin Wei, can communicate with marine life and is also the chosen one most trusted by the Insect Queen. He seems to keep awakening as time turns, yet fails again and again. He m 225Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 I'm Already the Lord of the Universe, and You're Still on Earth? 我都宇宙之主了，你们还在地球？ Xu Que awakens his golden finger and gains the ability to draw talents! Talent One: [Immortality] Gain one year of life every day, with no limit. Talent Two: [Heaven-Defying Insight] Gain one point of insight every day, with no limit. Talent Three: [Hundredfold Critical Hit] Your cultivation progress gets a hundredfold boost every day! Talent Four: [Your Life Is Mine] Kill someone and gain an extra life, with no limit. Talent Five: [I Carry a Healing Spring] Recover 1% of any injury every second 433.6kReads8.5Score51.8kShelves
- 6 My Brother Is Calling for Help, but Grandpa Says Never to Look Back 弟弟在求救，祖父却说千万别回头 My younger brother was calling for help, but Grandfather said, "Whatever you do, don't look back." 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 From the Start, I Was an Invincible Great Emperor, Ruling the Ages Alone! 开局大帝境无敌，一人独断万古！ Mu Chen emerged from Earth, passed through Yinghuo, entered Beidou, reached Ziwei, and battled the Eternal Realm. After tens of thousands of years, he finally perfected the Ancient Desolate Sacred Body. Invincible and peerless for a million years, his physical body ultimately could not withstand the ravages of time. In the shattered Immortal Realm, across the boundless Sea of Boundaries, one ancient supreme being after another, beings once driven away like dogs, awoke and watched him covetously! 1.5kReads6.4Score139Shelves
- 8 I Escaped That Cannibalistic Old Street with Nothing but a Skewer of Candied Hawthorn? 我逃出那条吃人的老街，只靠手里的一串冰糖葫芦？ I escaped that man-eating old street with nothing but a skewer of candied hawthorn berries in my hand? 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 EN Who Removed the Exit Button from My Xianxia Game? 谁把我仙侠游戏退出键扣了？ At first, I only wanted to create a fresh account for a holographic xianxia game... I had already selected the highest difficulty, simply to roll a better spiritual root and sell the account. But then... can someone tell me where the exit button is? Where did my enormous game exit button go? 366.2kReads8.5Score41.9kShelves
- 10 I Turned My Sister into a Doll, Now I Challenge the Gods Above 把妹妹制成人偶，我剑指漫天诸神 [Dystopian + dark comedy + grand worldbuilding + thrills and heartbreak] In the summer of Year 1048 of the Pillar Calendar, Luo Li once again pushed open the glass doors of the Civil Affairs Application Bureau. To obtain a license to kill a girl and use her flesh and blood to awaken a sleeping puppet. “Public Safety Bureau of Laiyin City reminds you: kill without a license and lose everything; kill with a license and benefit your whole family.” “Want to kill someone? Getting a license is har 121.5kReads9.4Score14.4kShelves
- 11 My Father Pretended to Be Mute, and My Boyfriend Lied to Me 装哑的父亲和骗我的男友 A father who pretends to be mute and a boyfriend who deceives me 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Sixty Years of Demon Slaying: This Taoist Gets Stronger with Every Kill! 甲子荡魔：这个道士杀怪就变强！ [Animated adaptation now airing] There are only fake tragic twists, no real ones, so enjoy without worry! [Decisive and ruthless] [Dark cultivation] [Slow burn] [Gender equality] [No female lead] [Sword immortal] War and calamity rage across the land, monsters run rampant. The human world is a furnace, and its people are mere weeds. Shen Hui transmigrates one day and becomes a Taoist priest at Qingfeng Temple on Qilu Mountain. He intends to spend each day meditating and cultivating qi, pursuing 274.5kReads8.5Score35.5kShelves
- 13 Across the Far Side of the Stars 跨越星空彼岸 After Chu Wuyi's mother passed away and his father went missing, a mysterious jade pendant left behind by his father began to glow with a strange light during his fourth year of college. In a dream, Chu Wuyi saw The True Explanation of Time and Space. From then on, he embarked on a journey of cultivation and searching for his father... This world isn't as peaceful as it seems on the surface, and humanity isn't its only inhabitant. Who lit the sparks beyond the starry sky? 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Record of Raising an Otherworldly Supreme 异界至尊养成记录 In another world, with cards that blot out the sky, speak my true name and my magic knows no bounds. This is the story of a young man from Blue Star who transmigrates to another world, using summoning cards to earn money, raise a child, and stir up all kinds of trouble. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 If I’d Known, You Needn’t Have Made Me Transmigrate 早知如此，大可不必让我穿越 [System runs in the background, ordinary-person cultivation, not a wish-fulfillment story, tactical spell battles, starting from scratch] Tang Zhen was among the luckiest transmigrators out there. In the eighteenth year after his transmigration, thanks to a spell-copying System with simple mechanics but ridiculously powerful functions, he became the leader of the greatest generation of prodigies in a thousand years of cultivation. The pillars of the righteous sects looked after him with great ca 23.5kReads8.8Score2kShelves
- 16 The Haunted House 2 诡舍2 The eternal night has come, and absurdity runs rampant. A thick pollution blankets the sky, while pitch-black eyes look down upon the world. Carrying a flame, we press slowly onward. Humanity's sun will be kindled by human hands. 317.9kReads8.8Score35.3kShelves
- 17 The True Heiress Returns with Her Metaphysical Powers, and Her Wealthy Family Begs Her to Stop Setting Up a Stall 玄学真千金归来，豪门全家跪求别摆摊 The Metaphysical True Heiress Returns, and Her Entire Wealthy Family Begs Her to Stop Setting Up a Fortune-Telling Stall 644Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 After I Was Reborn, I Gave Up My Guaranteed Admission, and He Panicked 重生后我放弃保送，他慌了 After I Was Reborn, I Gave Up My Guaranteed Admission, and He Panicked 406Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Madness Is Great: I'm a Medicine Vessel from the Start! 癫点好啊：开局就是药人圣体！ [Fantasy Brainstorming] [Unhinged] [Unorthodox Cultivation] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Shameless] While everyone else transmigrates and gets to be a genius from the start, he transmigrates into the cultivation world's biggest pyramid scheme: the Myriad Medicine Sect. Here, every disciple is short-lived, the elders are leading the charge in going crazy, and the slogan is, "Cultivate with pills, reach the top of the world." Just as he's about to grab his bucket and run, the System awakens. He sw 221Reads—Score153Shelves
- 20 There's No Water Left on Red Sun Star 赤阳星没水了 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Upscale Residential Area Ahead, Impostors Keep Out 前方高档小区，伪人止步 This is a world overrun by impostors. Yu Tang is a night-shift security guard of the highest caliber. His job is to stay at the security post, identify impostors, and alert the relevant organizations so they can deal with them, making sure none slip into the residential complex at night. But this job isn’t easy. It seems the impostors aren’t the only things he has to deal with here… … Wealthy homeowner: “Xiao Yu, take this ten thousand yuan for now. I’ve got an important client coming at 3 a.m. 68.5kReads8.5Score7kShelves
- 22 A Dark Fairy-Tale World from Scratch 从零开始的黑暗童话世界 When a foul-mouthed soul with few morals and a hunting instinct etched into its very bones transmigrates into a dark world utterly consumed by “indescribable evil,” where every fairy tale has been twisted in the worst possible way, it discovers that it has become the legendary “Fairy Tale Hunter.” Its task is not to weave beautiful dreams, but to carry out the most brutal “purge” with hands stained by the blood of fairy-tale characters. 47.1kReads9.1Score5.6kShelves
- 23 Night's Pardoner 赦夜人 [The author has a completed title on the Top Peak list, “The Usurper (Below the Upper City).” Read with confidence!] [Ensemble Cast] [No System] [Not Invincible] [Plot-Focused] [Dark Tone] [Not Mindless] [Character Growth] Every shift from day to night is a silent contest of survival. After nightfall, the world becomes a playground for the Blighted. A special light source can offer humanity brief protection. Some live high above, beneath the lights. Others cling to life in the mud. No matter how 266.6kReads9.0Score28.4kShelves
- 24 Master of the Game 神操手 After nine lives, can he escape his shackles? Can cultivating through code create a miracle? A seasoned spirit hunter starts out with a wronged spirit in tow and faces Hell-level difficulty from the start: Should he lie flat, or break free of his shackles? The One-Line Chasm, Soul-Eater Forest, the Inspection Team... The clues to extending his life point to the Guardian of the Abyss, locked away inside a ward. But when he risks his life to reach the Hall of Ten Thousand Clans, he discovers it is 86Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 The Righteous Sect's Leader Slacks Off, and the Female Demon Comes Knocking 正道第一宗摆烂，女魔头找上门了 [Defying the master and seducing the disciple + multiple heroines + a touch of yandere + System + daydream simulations + angst and sweetness, but overwhelmingly sweet] [Also known as: Daydream Simulation: Why Are the Fairies Showing Up at My Door?] My name is Xie Ci. I was raised by a beautiful master and grew up in the foremost sect of the righteous path. But my talent is mediocre. Okay, it's terrible. After eighteen years of cultivation, I'm only at the ninth level of Qi Refining and just can' 28Reads—Score211Shelves
- 26 Starting with a Dormitory Manhunt, I Slay Every Ghostly Evil God 从宿舍逃杀开始斩尽幽诡邪神 [Communicate with the Future] [Monsters Lurking] [Rules That Kill] [Power-Up System] [Supernatural Sequences] [Everyone Has a System] [No Female Lead] "Chu Xuan, if you're awake, don't speak. Don't make a sound... You'll be the next one to die!" "These are the rules of the day-and-night killing game. If you want to get out alive, you have to find and kill the monster!" After transmigrating back to his college days, Chu Xuan planned to use his foresight to make money and lie flat. But he never ex 248kReads8.8Score31.1kShelves
- 27 Reborn, I Deliberately Emptied My Storage Space 重生回来，我故意清空了空间 When I Was Reborn, I Deliberately Emptied My Storage Space 2.3kReads—Score—Shelves
- 28 A Lovebird in Captivity, a Prison of Desire 爱之囚鸟，欲之樊笼 [The rating will go up] [A realistic story] [If you still believe in love] Xu Lin suddenly remembers that today is the anniversary of his wife Zhao Siyan's death. A year ago, his wife Zhao Siyan and his mother-in-law Feng Bailu were in a car accident. Zhao Siyan died mysteriously, while Feng Bailu was left paralyzed in bed. 22.5kReads6.6Score1kShelves
- 29 In Search of Fate in the Weiwei Realm 寻命维维界 The protagonist, Liu Zhongyi, transmigrates to the world of Weiwei, where two great guardian gods descend from the heavens and identify him as the chosen one… In this world, cultivating immortality is forbidden. He must find five beautiful women, each associated with one of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and gain supernatural powers in order to save the world of Weiwei… This is a lighthearted comedy, full of foreshadowing, gripping twists, and constant surprises. Join 667Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 30 An Alien Country Bumpkin Forces Me to Become a Smirking Dragon King 外星土狗逼我做歪嘴龙王 Magical realism, no System, and not a wish-fulfillment story. A Chinese teacher whose manuscript was rejected secretly studies Dragon King fiction, uncovers the secrets of the universe, gets unbelievably lucky, shocks everyone, and conquers the world! 50.5kReads8.9Score4.9kShelves
- 31 I Started by Devouring Gods and Rose Against the Current 我从吃神开始反向晋升 [Urban high martial arts] [Ensemble cast] [No System] The gods descended upon the world, and the Ascenders appeared. At the age of eighteen, everyone can choose a unique path to godhood within the Ascension Tower. But Jiang Qi’s left eye is connected to a forbidden zone. Within the forbidden zone, he embarked on a strange path: he can ascend as long as he eats monsters. The world obtains everything from the Ascension Tower. And my ability is... [When I write the first sentence, the universe coll 235.7kReads9.1Score22.5kShelves
- 32 EN Late Bloomer Destiny? But I'm a Genius! 命格大器晚成？可我是天才啊！ [Genius protagonist, cautious, a slow burn at first, incredibly satisfying later] [Destined One: Jiang Ping] [Destiny: Late Bloomer] [Traits: Unwavering perseverance, sure to succeed] [Art: Longevity Cultivation Art, Level One (99/100): Practice ten times a day, master it in ten days] Jiang Ping looked at the information about his destiny and fell silent. The first day wasn't even over, and he seemed to be on the verge of mastering the art. Huh? This has to be a joke, right? Aren't I suppose 148.8kReads7.5Score9.2kShelves
- 33 The Reservoir of Returning Waters 回流之坝 Does surviving tribulation have to mean facing a lightning tribulation? It could also mean a trial of love! In a world of spiritual energy, every stale cultivation trope is cast aside. A middle-aged man steps into a secret realm in his mortal body, exploring it one step at a time until his soul and body are completely set free. As he investigates the spiritual energy beneath heaven and earth, he uncovers the ultimate truth hidden from the world. 97Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Six Hundred Million Years of Evolution: From Trilobite to Mythic Progenitor 进化六亿年，从三叶虫到神话始祖 [Beast Protagonist] [No System] [No Romance] [Never Takes Human Form] (Also known as Supernatural Evolution: Beginning 600 Million Years Ago) In 2030, humanity finally discovered the secret of evolution. Aether: a strange energy that spreads from the planet’s core in the form of tides. It can accelerate the rate of mutation in a population millions of times over, enabling a leap in life’s evolution and entry into the supernatural realm. Just as the Awakened defeated the other species that had e 122.6kReads9.1Score12.8kShelves
- 35 The First Day After I Was Reborn, My Whole Family Wanted Me Dead 重生后第一天，全家想让我死 On the First Day After I Was Reborn, My Family Wanted Me Dead 125Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 The First Traveler 第一寰客 [Chinese-Style Supernatural Powers] [Abstract Instances] [Puzzle-Solving Challenges] [Team-Based Adventures] Delusion is the reflection of reality; madness is the ultimate clarity! After an exam, Fang Lai is chosen to become a Traveler and take part in a game organized by the Heavenly Dao called the “Delusion Realm.” He discovers a place filled with strange and wonderful things, a world of bizarre sights. Follow logic and you're a weakling; ignore logic and you're dead. He also discovers that ev 54.3kReads9.2Score5kShelves
- 37 I Watch the World from the Azure Heavens, Smiling as Emperors Rise and Fall 我于青冥观世间，笑看诸帝主沉浮 [Ensemble cast + longevity + great emperors + sacred and divine physiques + double pupils, and more] The world cultivates the Great Dao, walks the road to emperorhood, seeks the Azure Beyond, and pursues immortality. Yet few know my name. They all call me the Lord of the Azure Beyond. My name is Zhou Tian, an immortal who watches from the sidelines. … The ancient beginning of the fully matured Saint Spirit; after a thousand years in hiding, the dragon emerges as an emperor! A single breath of Z 14.4kReads8.8Score843Shelves
- 38 Daily Life of a Mining-Type Beast Tamer 挖矿系御兽师的日常生活 Beast Tamer is a noble profession. Most people associate it with wealth, protection, and power. But they don’t know that one major at Beast Taming University is called: Environmental Survey and Development. Xiao Sui has regretted choosing this major more than once. The only time he’s happy is when he finds precious ore in certain secret realms. What’s wrong with environmental surveying? It’s absolutely fantastic. (The ratings just opened, so they’re on the low side. A 7.1 opening score is alread 184.6kReads8.8Score20.3kShelves
- 39 EN Immortal Cultivation: This Is How the Unorthodox Do It 修仙：旁门左道就是这样的 [Classical-style cultivation] [No System] [Growth] [The clash between new and old cultivation methods] [The passage of time] [Some farming and management] [No level suppression] [Decisive and ruthless] [Fellow Daoist, rent a set of internal organs and a brain to help you cultivate!] [When you practice the Golden Core, you can dig up your ancestors and have them help you cultivate] [My family has a lineage stretching back ten thousand years, with the bones of a hundred thousand grandmaster martia 146.7kReads8.5Score12.8kShelves
- 40 Revolutionizing the Qing: A Changing Era of Self-Strengthening 革清：自强变局 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 128.3kReads9.1Score8.4kShelves
- 41 EN Sequence: The Forbidden Scholar 序列：禁忌学者 [Cthulhu + Leveling Up + Cautious Protagonist + Despair] This is a broken world. Giant insects are migrating through the wasteland, shadows from the depths of the sea are rising into the shallows, and human cities are rotting from the foundations up. Lu Yuan transmigrates into this world and gains the ability to see the little line of gray text in the corner of his vision. Whatever he looks at, he gains points in. [Imperial Language: +1] [Pharmacology: +0.1] Countless points of experience gradua 137.8kReads8.3Score15.4kShelves
- 42 The System Abandoned Me, So I Took the Heavenly Dao as My Father 系统弃我不顾，我认天道为父 [No female lead + no System + traditional cultivation + comedy + bloody slaughter] Fifteen-year-old Li Chuyi finally awakens a System, only for it to try to run away before the day is out. Fortunately, before leaving, the System tells Li Chuyi to make the Heavenly Dao of this world his godfather. From then on, Li Chuyi becomes the Heavenly Dao’s godson, the darling of the world, blessed with good fortune. He finds money on the road and stumbles across so many senior cultivators’ graves that he c 26.6kReads9.2Score4.2kShelves
- 43 Everyone, Aim at the Idea King and Take the Safety Off 全体都有！瞄准点子王打开保险 Jiang Chen transmigrates to a parallel world and signs up for the reality show Three People Walk Together, One Can Teach Me, ready to stir things up. From the start, he awakens the Three People Walk Together, There’s Bound to Be a Mastermind System! The Mastermind, the Man of Action, and the Whatever Bro. In the low hills and foul waters, kindred spirits meet; in the barren mountains and harsh lands, the three big shots make their home! Three people, three schemes, and Jiang Chen is the lunatic 206.2kReads8.5Score22.4kShelves
- 44 Carrying a Coffin to Bury the Mortal World, Immortal for Ninety Thousand Years 背棺葬人间，长生九万年 [Immortality + System + coffin-making + claiming lives + ultimate villain look + no female lead] Lu Wusheng transmigrates to a fantasy world and inherits a shop that sells incense and candles. Making paper money every day increases his lifespan. Placing people in coffins increases his cultivation. And so, over the long years, Lu Wusheng begins an endless cycle of making money and coffins, hunting down souls and claiming lives. In the endless river of time, Lu Wusheng has witnessed ghost kings ma 2.5kReads8.8Score237Shelves
- 45 EN Journey to the West: Master Wants to Tell Another Story 西游：师父又要讲故事了 [Type]: Journey to the West / historical Xuanzang / retracing the Journey to the West / Buddhist cultivation / not the Primordial World / only a great calamity setting / no conspiracy-driven plot. Guanyin Bodhisattva had been having a terrible headache lately. A great calamity was about to begin, and the Buddha had ordered him to find a Pilgrim and bring him to the Western Heaven to undertake the Journey to the West. Everything had originally been arranged. But this Pilgrim seemed a little stran 129kReads9.3Score13.6kShelves
- 46 Legends of Jiuzhou Yunhua: Storms 2 九州云华风雨传说2 Legends of Wind and Rain in Jiuzhou Yunhua 2 169Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Moon Endures, and All Things Eventually Become Strange 恒月长存，万物终成怪异 Two suns, three moons, and one that goes dark. A hundred cities, eight clans, all sharing one world. Chen Mianmian. Male. Race: Moon. Hobby: collecting the bizarre. At first, he thought he had two Systems: Crimson Rainbow Moon and Frost-Clear Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could become someone else’s System, holding the fate of all living things in his hands. The Eighth Era, also known as the Evermoon Era, saw humans, witches, elves, bloodkin, ghosts, demons, and spirits together w 272.1kReads9.1Score57.1kShelves
- 48 God of Chaos! 混沌之神！ [This book is also known as: Nine Revolutions Profound Art | In the later stages, Xin Mo will overpower the Great Sage and Erlang, because he cultivates the complete Nine Revolutions Profound Art.] [An exceptionally long character-growth arc in the early stages] [Every five chapters form a little story arc. I put my heart into every word, and hope you enjoy it!] Civilization has fallen, a new age of chaos has begun, and humanity's darkest impulses spread without end... He emerged from the chaos 7.7kReads—Score651Shelves
- 49 I Bragged on Bihu, So Why Did the Government Take Me Seriously? 我在逼乎吹牛，国家怎么当真了 [No System + Slow Pace + White Moonlight + No Harem + Building the Nation Through Industry] In 2011, just before the high school class divisions, Gu Yu was reborn. The first thing he did wasn’t buy lottery tickets or invest in property. He switched to the humanities track and took the seat beside Su Nian. The second thing he did was borrow her computer and post a prediction on Zhihu that no one would believe. The European debt crisis, mobile internet, digital payments, new energy vehicles, artif 170.9kReads8.8Score14.8kShelves
- 50 Unparalleled Throughout the Ages 冠古绝今 Spiritual qi revival, mythology descends! Olympus, the gods of India, and deities from every heaven appear in the mortal world to reap their harvest. Whispers from the Old Ones crawl out of the abyss, and unspeakable horrors erode reality. Zhang Guangu, whose fate twists and turns and who endures countless tribulations, eventually discovers that he is the product of an ancient god's leader and the source of Earth's cultivation civilization fused together. He deduces the laws, dismantles divine a 12Reads—Score102Shelves
