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- 1 You're Told to Bloom Late, and You Refine Your Body a Hundred Thousand Times? 让你大器晚成，你十万重炼体？ Jiang Tianyu transmigrates into a world of advanced martial arts, becoming an ordinary, middle-aged collateral relative of the powerful Jiang family. After decades of training, he is still just a lowly blacksmith in the Body Tempering Realm. Childless and unmarried, he has spent his whole life as a bachelor. He thought this was all his life would amount to. Who could have guessed he was a late bloomer? His aptitude suddenly awakened, and his Body Tempering cultivation broke through without limit 3kReads8.3Score25314d adds
- 2 The Hemp-Robed Wanderer 麻衣行者 [Mortal's journey, traditional Xuanhuan, System, passionate, no mindless power fantasy] In the final years of the Great Zhou, natural disasters and human calamities ravaged the land. Bandits and rogue armies ran rampant, a heretical cult rose again, and the great edifice teetered on the brink of collapse. Martial artists were ranked in nine grades, with the first grade supreme and the ninth the lowest. Yet even a ninth-grade martial artist could hunt tigers and leopards. A martial artist must pr 13.8kReads8.0Score93314d adds
- 3 High Martial: From the Start, I Inherit Yang Jian's Legacy 高武：开局获得杨戬传承 This is a vast world. It offers many different paths to transcendence. Nations vie for supremacy, and countless races stand side by side. Then a human youth named Du Bai rises to prominence. At last, people learn what a true prodigy is. He enters the Dao through martial arts and forges an unbeatable legend! “Geniuses are merely my ticket in.” “If you don't cultivate, seeing me is like a frog at the bottom of a well looking up at the moon.” “If you do cultivate, seeing me is like an ant looking u 7.2kReads7.5Score41914d adds
- 4 EN Martial Arts Devour the Stars 武噬星空 [High Martial] + [System] + [Enlightenment] + [Leveling] + [Long novel] After transmigrating to a High Martial world, Chu Feng has only the lowest-level E-rank ability. But one month before the college entrance exams, he awakens the Enlightenment System. While others toil for decades to master their cultivation techniques, Chu Feng only needs to spend enlightenment points to understand them in an instant. “Congratulations, Host! You have successfully comprehended the Basic Body-Tempering Method. 28.9kReads8.4Score2.8k14d adds
- 5 Unrivaled Talent Across the Ages, Crushing Three Thousand Emperors with One Hand! 天赋万古无双，只手横推三千帝！ Martial arts return, ferocious beasts run rampant, and countless races invade, competing with humanity for supremacy! The young Su Hong awakens a System and starts with a talent unmatched throughout the ages. A C-rank martial art takes one second to learn, two seconds to master, and three seconds to perfect! An SSS-rank martial technique takes one day to learn, seven days to master, and one month to reach perfection! What's more, every enemy he defeats earns him Martial Arts Points. Spend Martia 110.2kReads8.3Score8.3k14d adds
- 6 Demon Corpses Aren't Edible? Quick, Send It to My Family's Crematorium While It's Still Warm 妖尸不可食？快，趁热送我家火葬 [High Martial] [Passionate] [Demonic beasts invade] [Not reborn] [Funny] If you want a lone-wolf protagonist, you can swipe away. The protagonist, Jiang Ping, is a passionate young man. He can be calculating, and he can be moved. He’s a real person, with classmates, friends, parents, and teachers. Spatial rifts opened, and demonic beasts invaded the land. Everyone knew that demonic beast corpses were inedible, and eating them would turn you into a contaminated being. By chance, Jiang Ping obtain 112.6kReads8.8Score16.2k14d adds
- 7 From the Start, I Chose the Fist Cultivator Class and Shattered Fate with My Bare Hands 我开局转职拳修，以双拳击碎命运 In this age of countless marvelous talents, no one expects anything from a pair of frail fists! The human realm has swords that outshine all creation, spears that sweep through armies, fire that burns everything, and lightning that shatters the sky! Young people have so many options, and everyone gravitates toward the coolest, most stylish, and most powerful abilities! Only one stubborn boy chooses to train the frail fists in front of him. Everyone thinks he’s gone mad! Until the day disaster st 62.4kReads9.2Score7.1k14d adds
- 8 Wuxia: Killing Enemies Earns Cultivation, and My Power Is Unfathomable! 武侠：杀敌爆修为，我功力滔天！ [Gain cultivation by killing enemies + ruthless and decisive + level up fast] This is a world full of powerful experts and sects: the Nine Sects and Six Gangs, the Eight Demonic Sects, the Three Daoist Orders, the Two Buddhist Temples, and the Great Qian imperial court, whose might holds the four seas in awe. The powerful see the weak as ants, while princes treat the martial world as a chessboard. Fortunately, Xiao Bieli activated the Kill to Gain Cultivation System. As long as he kills an enemy 85.9kReads8.7Score5.2k14d adds
- 9 Death Sentence from the Start: How Can I Survive Without a Heart of Stone? 开局死刑：我不心狠怎么活？ [Six million words, it's ready to binge!] [Decisive and ruthless + dark revenge + invincible protagonist] [Killing grants energy, breaking through realms is as easy as drinking water! That's what it means to be invincible!] Long Kai transmigrates into the body of a death-row prisoner, and starts out in prison! The System awakens: Kill! Kill! Kill! He kills his way from prison to the stars, from mortal to Dao Lord. He kills until his power runs wild, until he stands invincible beneath the heavens 21.4kReads6.6Score1.7k14d adds
- 10 EN Eternal Prudence: Starting with a Suona, Funeral Rites to Immortality 长生苟道：开局吹唢呐，送葬修仙 [Immortal Cultivation + Comedy and Memes + Ordinary Protagonist + Heroine + Laying Low + Status Panel] Bai Yu transmigrated to an immortal-cultivation world. From the start, he was immortal, and performing funerals made him stronger. Bury a grandmaster martial artist and gain a max-level Golden Bell Shield, with the vitality of a dragon! Bury a Nascent Soul cultivator and gain a top-tier Heavenly Spirit Root, with extraordinary talent! Bury an Immortal Emperor of the Myriad Worlds and gain the T 51.5kReads8.9Score4.2k14d adds
- 11 EN Cultivation Clan: My Fortune Space 炼气家族，我有一个造化空间 [Traditional Cultivation + Slow-Burn Progression + Close-Knit Family + Ruthless + Both Parents Alive. Spatial Realm + Mortal + Cautious + Schemer + Not a Good-for-Nothing] [Realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation...] Li Qingyuan was born with congenital heart disease and died young. He transmigrates into the cultivation world before birth, into a family of Qi Refiners. Once he learns that this is a world of cultivation, seeking immortalit 76.5kReads8.2Score5.6k14d adds
- 12 Who Let Him Become a Ghost Constable? 谁让他当鬼差的？ After dying, Su Fan transmigrates into the body of a spirit in the Three Realms and becomes a soul-reaping ghost constable in the Underworld. From then on, the whole culture of the Underworld changes. “First of all, let me make this clear: I’m not the one who corrupted the culture of the Underworld. Ghost constables are supposed to reap souls. I’m just doing my job.” “If you can’t keep up with me, don’t blame me for changing the culture.” With that, Su Fan walks out through the Gate of Hell, car 78.2kReads9.3Score6.1k14d adds
- 13 EN Heaven's Chosen? Monster? No, It's the Grind Emperor 天骄？妖孽？不好，是肝帝 [The top workaholic in high-martial arts fiction] [Panel-based cultivation] [Cosmic setting] [Cultivation and progression, not point allocation or speedrunning; the protagonist is a born grinder] In the interstellar age, alien beasts invade and evil gods lurk all around. Li Qingshan awakens a martial arts panel that can record any technique or martial skill. He needs no insight or talent, and faces no bottlenecks. As long as he trains hard, he can improve, and every breakthrough lasts forever! H 220.7kReads9.3Score26k14d adds
- 14 EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 515.8kReads9.7Score69.9k14d adds
- 15 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds
