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- 1 I Cultivate Immortality Through the Ages 我在历史中长生仙游 Li Changsheng transmigrates to ancient times and unexpectedly gains the golden finger of immortality! Thus begins a journey from history into the world of cultivation. He is a clerk in the imperial prison, witness to the rise and fall of dynasties! He is a grandmaster who guards the nation, looking on with a smile as the martial world settles its grudges! He is an immortal who has lived forever, staying in the mortal world for one reason alone! From the martial world to the fields, from temples 830Reads7.6Score10214d adds
- 2 Immortality, a Rusty Sword, and the Ages of History 长生，锈剑，览千秋 [Immortality + Lighthearted with a Touch of Angst] “What in this world could make an immortal bow his head?” Chen Yuan: “See the rusty sword in my hand?” He is the Heavenly Strategy General who suppresses demons and evil, wielding a halberd across the battlefield. He is a fallen general of a conquered nation, crushed by fate, with nothing left in life but the chill of autumn. He is a mad beggar wandering the streets of a small town, arguing with children and squaring off against butchers. He 2.5kReads8.6Score26914d adds
- 3 I’m Immortal, So What’s Wrong With Laying Low? 我都长生了，苟点怎么了？ (The rating was just released, and it’ll go up later!) [Longevity]+ [Lifespan Sacrifice System]+ [Traditional Cultivation]+ [Brand-New Body-Training System]+ [A Cautious Old Hand]+ [Invincible]+ [the Myriad Worlds]! Lin Mo transmigrates to the Tianyuan Realm and binds himself to the [Lifespan Sacrifice System]. Sacrifice a certain number of years, and it takes that many years to cool down; Live for a certain number of years, and that becomes the maximum number of years he can sacrifice. By sacri 45kReads6.4Score6.1k14d adds
- 4 I Hid in a Tavern for Five Hundred Years Before Learning It Was Journey to the West 酒馆苟了五百年才知是西游 [Steady as an old hound, never change maps, backstabbing] You obtain Ten Poisons Body-Strengthening Powder. It's deadly poison. You gulp it down, and you die; You obtain the Bloodthirsty Sword Art. Practicing it consumes your lifespan. You practice it, and you die; You obtain the Blissful Treasure Manual. To master this art, you must first castrate yourself. You wave your hand and slash yourself; You accidentally offend a powerful enemy. You sever your own meridians and are buried in a grave; Yo 3.6kReads6.4Score33414d adds
- 5 I Was Once a Man of the Mortal World, So Where Did I Go Wrong in Seeking Immortality? 本是红尘客，何处惹长生 A Daoist who came to this world was born immortal, yet always feared the vast mortal world below the mountain. Only after his master passed away did the Daoist finally venture into that world, following his master’s dying words. “Where the mountain grows fusu, the marsh holds lotus blooms.” Only after descending the mountain did the Daoist slowly begin to understand the words spoken in the past. Yet the Daoist remains trapped in immortality, unable to find release. This is the story of a Daoist 1.4kReads8.7Score13614d adds
- 6 I Live Forever, Unfazed Even If the Sky Falls 我长生于世，天塌不惊 [A slice-of-life cultivation story + traditional Chinese medicine + no female lead + no tragic twists + alchemy] Since ancient times, few things have been more regrettable than a hero growing old and a beauty turning gray. An aging hero is bound to be bullied. A beauty with gray hair is no longer adored. No matter how peerlessly gifted and invincible you are, or how breathtakingly beautiful, you cannot escape the power of time. Having witnessed the changing seasons and savored the world's ups an 5.8kReads8.8Score51014d adds
- 7 Longevity: A Thousand Autumns and Ten Thousand Years Begin with Playing the Lute to a Cow 长生：千秋万载从对牛弹琴开始 [Longevity] [Lighthearted] [Everyday Life] [No Angst] [No Female Lead] [Keeps a Low Profile Early On] The Longevity Score plays the melody of Longevity. One gains it, and ten thousand bones perish! Yun Qiancheng unexpectedly transmigrates to a fantasy world, where he also finds a Longevity Zither in his hands. Playing it grants him additional years of life. Later, he obtains the legendary Longevity Score, which lets him drain his enemies' lifespans and learn all kinds of techniques simply by pla 2.3kReads8.6Score49114d adds
- 8 The Immortal's Cautious Path: Starting with Escorting Prisoners 长生苟道：从押送犯人开始 In the 365th year of the Dasong era, Li Changshou transmigrates into the body of a lowly escort guard. In this world, imperial power is absolute, martial artists run rampant, and even immortals exist who can split a river with a single finger. It seems that using martial arts to defy the law has become the norm. As a low-ranking guard, he encounters a ruthless beauty prisoner and a band of bandits as soon as he makes his debut. What can he do? He's utterly desperate! Fortunately, the sudden appe 8.4kReads7.5Score68114d adds
- 9 Cultivating Through Reincarnation: Starting with the Imperial Examinations 轮回修仙：从考科举开始 [The rating has just been released, and will probably rise later...] Changsheng transmigrated to another continent and obtained the golden finger of reincarnation and rebirth. Isn't that the standard package for a protagonist? In another world's immortal cultivation realm, he reincarnates again and again, ultimately embarking on the path of cultivation, reaching the summit, and proving the Dao of immortality. 71kReads8.2Score4.5k14d adds
- 10 In the Face of Strength, What Does a Big Shot Even Matter? 在实力面前，大佬算什么东西 [Lighthearted + Everyday Life + Immortality + Transmigration + System] From the start, Jiang You is immortal and ageless, and awakens a Lifespan System. He has already won at the starting line the moment he transmigrates. Isn't cultivation ultimately just a matter of who can live longer? If your talent is lacking, just grind harder. Add a little technology and some ruthless tricks, and as long as you keep pushing yourself, success is bound to come. This is the story of a cultivator's rise to gre 1.4kReads9.2Score10114d adds
- 11 Immortal and Undying: Taking It Easy in the Cultivation World 长生不死，我在修仙界悠哉度日 [A laid-back daily life, not mindless, farming-style cultivation, not a power fantasy, with an exceptionally gentle protagonist.] The pace may be slow at first, but the story gets more exciting as it goes on. He had once lived through the golden age of the cultivation world, when spiritual energy was abundant, countless races vied for supremacy, and prodigies filled the skies like stars, too many to count. He had also lived through the depletion of spiritual energy, when all manner of magic vani 2.8kReads8.8Score23514d adds
- 12 I Transmigrated into a Prince's Mansion and Became Immortal 穿越王府后长生不死 [No heroine, depending on your perspective] + [Monk story] An immortal touches my head, and I receive eternal life when my hair is tied up. Li Changxiao returns to ancient times and gains the talent of immortality. He is a royal grandson of the Great Qin, once learning the sword from the Sword King, drinking with the God of Slaughter, and composing poetry with a Sage. He is a hidden wanderer of the Great Han, traveling north to the Xiongnu and assimilating countless people. He is a physician of 7.9kReads8.6Score43314d adds
- 13 Eternal Life: Beginning My Immortal Journey as a Prison Guard 长生万古：从狱卒开始长生不死 [Play the pig to eat the tiger] + [No System] + [No female lead] + [Immortality] + [Cautious survival] + [Smart characters] + [Story-driven] Lin Ming transmigrates to the Song Dynasty. He has no special talents, except that he lives longer than other people. His starting point is everyone else’s finish line. For him, martial arts and cultivation are merely ways to protect himself, more like side pursuits. To keep the secret of his immortality safe, he never takes a Dao companion, yet he is a reg 17.6kReads7.3Score1.4k14d adds
- 14 I Am Immortal, and I Bide My Time Until I Become an Unrivaled Immortal Emperor 我长生不死，苟成绝世仙帝 “I, Chen Jing, cultivate immortality. I don’t care about winning today or tomorrow. All I want to know is, after endless ages have passed, which of my enemies will still be alive?” After transmigrating to another world, Chen Jing acquired the Dao Fruit of ‘Longevity.’ It could keep him alive forever, but he had no way to protect himself, so he had no choice but to take up martial arts and the path of immortal cultivation. Poor aptitude? If others cultivate for ten years, I’ll go into seclusion f 18.4kReads7.2Score1.5k14d adds
- 15 I Have a Disease. Its Name Is Immortality 我有病，病名，长生 [Longevity] [Daily life] [Eras] [Not really a System] … I was sick, terribly sick. From that day on, I fell into a deep sleep. I slept for so long, then woke up, then fell asleep again, for longer and longer stretches. … I thought medicine would cure me. But it didn’t. … Later, I fell asleep again. And woke up again. I looked around, bewildered. My family was gone, and so was Nancheng. I had come to a strange place, where immortals and immortal sects existed. … I thought cultivating immortality 8.3kReads9.2Score89414d adds
- 16 Cultivating for Immortality: Starting as a Sect Errand Boy 长生修仙：从宗门杂役开始 [Immortal Cultivation] [Ultimate Caution] [Steady and Calculating] [Decisive and Ruthless] [No Female Lead, Fast-Paced Power Fantasy] Chen Tian transmigrates to the world of immortal cultivation and is immortal from the start, with an endless lifespan. What’s more, every 100 years he lives, he randomly receives a divine reward. These might include every kind of cultivation craft, a divine storage space, or a divine avatar, among others. Then Chen Tian gets it. To cultivate immortality, all you h 4.8kReads6.8Score27014d adds
- 17 Longevity: One Life from the Start, and All My Cultivation Depends on Laying Low 长生：开局一条命，修为全靠苟 [Long-life cultivation, lighthearted and humorous] Everyone says that only by embarking on the path of cultivation can one ascend to the Dao and prove one's immortality. Yet in this vast world, not a single cultivator has ever been known to achieve eternal life. But Jiang Mu reached the end of the cultivation path on the very day he transmigrated: eternal life and immortality. Though born with terrible spiritual aptitude and unable to cultivate, his cultivation level increases with the passage o 13.6kReads8.5Score1.1k14d adds
- 18 Immortal for Eternity, Healing the Cultivation World 长生不死，我在修仙界悬壶济世 A slow-burn, heartwarming story that only gets better as it goes. Gu Bai transmigrated into a cultivation world. Though his aptitude was ordinary, he gained the ability to live forever. The road to immortality was long, and Gu Bai didn’t want to provoke anyone. He only wanted to keep his head down in the cultivation world and witness its prosperity. But as he watched his friends and loved ones grow old around him, he could do nothing to help them. Gu Bai decided to cultivate the way of medicine. 7.9kReads8.7Score49914d adds
- 19 Longevity: From Wandering Alone in the Mortal World to Everlasting Through the Ages 长生：从红尘独行，到万古长青 [Wuxia + longevity + ensemble cast + wandering the martial world] [Lighthearted and funny & occasionally rousing & no female lead & no tragedy] … [Reach a lifespan of one thousand years to unlock a feature (add points to martial arts): once you master any martial art in the world, you master it forever!] [Reach a lifespan of ten thousand years to unlock a feature…] [Reach a lifespan of one hundred thousand years…] From the start, he was all alone, until he stumbled upon a longevity panel. Eve 28.5kReads7.9Score2.1k14d adds
- 20 I've Been Laying Low for a Billion Years, and Now I'm Unbeatable 悄悄苟了亿万年，我已无敌手 [Invincible + Immortality + Keeping a Low Profile + Cultivation + Comedy + Slow Growth] After transmigrating into a world of cultivation, Lin Yu gains immortality from the start. Every year he stays alive earns him another attribute point. Lin Yu has an epiphany: As long as he outlives all his opponents, he'll become invincible! So he decides to keep a low profile. Any enemy he can't defeat can be left to grow old and frail before he steps in to deal with them. And if he accidentally outlives on 11.5kReads7.6Score1.1k14d adds
- 21 Longevity: I Won't Leave the Mountain Until I'm Invincible 长生：不苟到无敌，绝不出山 After transmigrating and being reborn, Chu Chen obtained an Immortal Dao Fruit, and from then on, the world had another immortal. He laid low among ordinary people, seeking a way to cultivate immortality and witnessing dynasties rise and fall. He laid low in cultivation sects, witnessing the birth of immortal sects. He laid low in a supreme immortal dynasty, witnessing eras change. Millions of years, billions of years: all for the sake of attaining true immortality. 5kReads8.3Score22714d adds
- 22 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 272.9kReads8.5Score34.9k14d adds
- 23 Longevity: Others Cultivate Immortality While I Train in Martial Arts 长生：别人修仙我练武 [Immortality + Playing It Safe + No System + Behind the Scenes + Humorous Everyday Life!] [Slow-paced, not a wish-fulfillment story. Read at your own risk!] They say you shouldn't show off, or you'll get struck by lightning. Bai Yu didn't listen, and got struck by lightning. Reborn as a martial arts prodigy, his golden finger is a tree that grants him eternal life. After becoming invincible among mortals, Bai Yu sets out on the path to immortality, only to get a harsh reality check just as he's 19kReads8.0Score1.7k14d adds
- 24 Immortal Cultivation: A Celestial Touch Bestows Eternal Life 仙侠：仙人抚我顶，我授仙人长生 Gu Ning'an accidentally transmigrated to a world of immortals and heroes, where he came across an immortal cultivation manual called The Daoist Path. After years of practice, he mastered its techniques and killed a tiger with a single finger. Feeling capable of making his way in the world, Gu Ning'an descended the mountain and traveled for five years. Over those five years, he explored the martial world and mortal life, made new friends, and slew demons. Then one day, he spotted a copy of The Da 18.8kReads8.9Score2.1k14d adds
- 25 The System Bound the Wrong Person, Forcing a Side Character to Follow the Protagonist's Script 系统绑错人，龙套被迫走主角剧本 After transmigrating to the world of cultivation for eighteen years, Long Tao had accepted his fate and was ready to lie flat. Then, at long last, a System suddenly appeared! But instead of getting the treatment reserved for a protagonist, he got… “Binding error. Host is not the chosen one. Your luck is too low to unlock the shop.” “Unbinding is impossible. Host must complete System missions in place of the chosen one, then hand over any opportunities and rewards obtained along the way. Mission 109.3kReads8.7Score8.6k14d adds
- 26 The Journey of Tianhen 天痕行 [Traditional Xuanhuan] [Exploration and Travel] [Heavenly Marks and Wonders] [Ensemble Cast and Friendship] [No System] [Coming of Age] [The World Unfolds Gradually] On the Tianhen Continent, humans and demons coexist, and the ancient world has left countless traces behind. Some traces endure through the ages, bearing powers and mysteries all their own. They are known as Heavenly Marks. Some spend their entire lives in pursuit of them, while others fight over them without end. But no matter how 8Reads—Score12214d adds
- 27 Proving the Dao in the Mortal World, I Am a True Immortal Among Men 红尘证道，我为在世真仙 [Transmigration + xianxia + lighthearted + invincible hero + showing off] A song of the mortal world, a tale of immortal dreams. Su Mu was a transmigrator. To perfect the cultivation system he had created, he ventured into the mortal world to hone himself. He traveled north and south, seeing humans, immortals, gods, demons, monsters, and strange creatures. With a broken sword, a bamboo hat, a handful of coins, and an old mountain goat, he slew demons in a lake and discussed the Dao in the fa 18.6kReads8.8Score1.5k14d adds
- 28 I Refuse to Join the Rat Race of Cultivation. After Ten Thousand Years as a Slacker, I'm Invincible 拒绝内卷修仙，咸鱼万年我无敌了 [Immortality + Laid-Back Protagonist + No Romance + Invincible + AFK Power Growth] He transmigrates into a cultivation world obsessed with competition. Li Qi binds himself to the Laid-Back System and gains an immortality buff. As long as he stays alive, he gets a random attribute point every day. It's no big deal if he's not strong enough. He'll just lie low for a while. “So you're the Golden Core old monster, huh?” “Give me a hundred years. I'll crush you then!” “So you're an immortal?” 9.5kReads8.5Score65814d adds
- 29 Strange Tales of Longevity 长生异闻 This is the story of an immortal who asks, amid the endless flow of time: What does it truly mean to live forever? If you haven't followed time to its very end, who can claim to be immortal? (Not a power fantasy, not a saintly protagonist, slow progression) In this book, martial artists already fall under the umbrella of cultivators, and martial cultivation is one branch of cultivation. Without a spiritual root, one's true energy will not undergo a transformation. This is a tale of strange occur 4.7kReads8.4Score26014d adds
- 30 Immortal for All Eternity: I Lie Low Until I Become Invincible Across All Realms 长生不死，我苟到万界无敌 [Immortality + Resurrection + Lighthearted + No Tragedy + Lying Low + Spiritual Qi Revival + Cultivation + Multiple Female Leads + Gets Better as It Goes] Lin Bai transmigrated to the cultivation world and obtained an Immortality System. Every year he lived earned him one attribute point, and every thousand years gave him a chance to resurrect! But just after transmigrating, he nearly attracted the Heavenly Dao’s notice. The System could only stay behind to invade and deceive the Heavenly Dao, l 9.8kReads7.9Score87814d adds
- 31 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—14d adds
- 32 Ten Billion Years of Immortality: I Lay Low Until I Become an Immortal Emperor 长生10亿年，苟成仙帝再出山 [Relaxed + Everyday Life + Witty and Funny + Extreme Caution... Enter at your own risk!] Qin Shou is reborn into a world of cultivation, where a [Myriad Worlds Fortune Wheel] appears in his mind. He can spin it once a day. But after 59 straight years of getting nothing but [Thanks for Playing], Qin Shou is on the verge of despair. At last, when Qin Shou is 60 and about to die of old age, he wins the “Myriad Worlds Fortune Grand Prize”! [Chaos Spirit Root: One of the nine highest-grade spirit roo 5.5kReads7.9Score40014d adds
- 33 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—14d adds
- 34 Godly Game: High Melee Damage and High Ranged Damage 神明游戏：近战伤害高远程高伤害 [Apocalypse + Game System + Multiple Worlds + Power Fantasy] The further you read, the more exciting this book gets, and the bigger its world becomes! The first world is overrun with zombies; the second is a realm of demons and spirits pursuing cultivation! The Divine Game suddenly descends, and Zhang Wu is forcibly selected to participate. His sole main quest is staring him in the face: [Become a God]. His first stop is a zombie apocalypse. Zhang Wu hunts zombies to accumulate evolution points 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 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? 366.6kReads8.5Score42.1k14d adds
- 36 A Pastry Chef Slacking Off in the Siheyuan 四合院里摸鱼的糕点师傅 A food blogger transmigrates to 1948. Does mentoring apprentices bring triple returns? “No Qin family, no Lou family, no hostility.” While everyone else who transmigrates into a siheyuan is busy fighting scoundrels and seizing opportunities, Shen Yan just wants to live like a lazy salted fish: as a pastry chef at a grocery store, he has little work and few worries. After work, he takes the homemade pastries from his pocket dimension, sits by the courtyard gate, cracks sunflower seeds, and watche 73.7kReads7.7Score4.3k14d adds
- 37 I Prove the Truth of Immortality Through the Eight Trigrams 我以八卦证真仙 “Others cultivate techniques. I cultivate the Dao, a Dao of my own making!” Across three generations, ordinary people created the Eight Trigrams. Xu An spent his whole life as a village schoolteacher, only to learn at the end that he had three years left to live. Drunk and alone, he angrily berated cultivators for fighting with their magic. By chance, he obtained a cultivation manual. From then on, he completed the Eight Trigrams and entered the immortal sect. True immortals live high above the 3.1kReads9.0Score28314d adds
- 38 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 2.5kReads8.8Score23314d adds
- 39 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 443.4kReads8.5Score53.3k14d adds
- 40 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. 21.5kReads6.6Score1k14d adds
- 41 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' 20Reads—Score114d adds
- 42 Longevity: Cultivating Through Martial Arts Until the Immortals Die of Old Age 长生：以武入道熬死修仙者 The System is unreliable. The moment he transmigrated, the Heavenly Dao killed him. Luckily, the beginner's gift pack he'd received beforehand had already made Li Yuanchang immortal. And so, an ultimate survivor was born. What are peerless prodigies and undefeated emperors? Under the erosion of time, they're all fleeting illusions. No matter how dazzling you are, in the end, you can't withstand the merciless passage of time. He lived through the rise of technology. He also witnessed the sp 24.4kReads8.5Score1.7k14d adds
- 43 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. 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 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. 79Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 Spiritual Qi Revival: Starting to Slay Evil in a Mountain Village 灵气复苏，从山村斩邪开始 As spiritual qi revival swept the world, night grew unnaturally dark and ghostly flames spread across the land. A hundred ghosts roamed at night, and myriad races descended upon the world. Lin Fan happened upon a rusty sword that passed on its power to him. He unearthed ancient cultivation manuals and shared them with his village companions. Wild boars mutated, skeletons crawled from their graves, and ghosts attacked at night. A hundred ghosts slaughtered the village as the myriad races fought f 3.3kReads—Score36114d adds
- 46 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 14.5kReads8.8Score84014d adds
- 47 Cultivating Immortality Begins with Eternal Life 修仙从长生不死开始 A short drama with the same title is now available. If you're interested, go check out Cultivation Begins with Immortality. System + transmigration + keeping a low profile Lin Jiang transmigrates to the world of cultivation and gains a longevity sign-in System. Sign in for one day, gain one year of lifespan. Lin Jiang: “Cultivation doesn't seem all that urgent after all. I'll take my time.” (Not a dark, overpowered power fantasy. If that's not your thing, proceed with caution.) 39.7kReads8.2Score4.1k14d adds
- 48 I’ve Lived for Millions of Years, and I Don’t Want to Prove Myself and Become an Emperor 长生千万年，我才不想证道成帝 [Longevity + ensemble cast + rise to emperorhood + traditional xianxia flavor + epic style + no System] (Also titled: "Ten Million Years of Life, and I Still Don’t Want to Ascend to Emperorhood") Jiang Mu was the most dazzling prodigy of his era. He defeated every contender favored by Heaven’s Mandate, and should have attained the Great Dao and become an emperor. Yet in the end, the Great Dao did not acknowledge him, and he was denied the throne. Could living forever really be a sin? Unwilling t 41.7kReads7.8Score2.8k14d adds
- 49 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 14Reads—Score10214d adds
- 50 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." 10Reads—Score—14d adds
