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- 51 Gu Yue Locks Your Heart 蛊月锁君心 A clear-headed editor transmigrates into a book VS an unhinged young master of the Miao borderlands: she takes the plot apart, while he falls head over heels. ◆ The male lead really does go crazy and become obsessive, but the female lead gradually sets him straight. ◆ The romance is full of intense push and pull, while the plot blends political intrigue and the art of Gu. Expect constant high-stakes twists. ◆ Features plenty of Miao culture, Gu battles, the truth behind a substitute, and court i 110Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Honkai: Star Rail: A Hellish Start and My Gu Poetry System 崩铁：地狱开局和我的蛊诗系统 [Honkai: Star Rail fanfic · Nine-Turn Immortal Venerable style · poetry-powered bursts · decisive and ruthless · no female lead · gender swap in Chapter 9, which lasts a long time] You transmigrate to the world of the Star Rail and become a failed artificial human, destined to share Rappa's fate. Imprisoned in a laboratory and about to undergo human experimentation, you suddenly awaken the [Poetry System]! The big moment of this book: In Chapter 9, you go straight for the Hunt. If everyone's goi 42Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 53 A Bug Cultivator by the Azure Sea 碧海虫修 [Beast Taming] + [raising insects] + [ordinary protagonist] + [no female lead]. A boy raised on a fishing island by the sea is drafted into the Five Tigers Sect, a seafaring gang. From then on, his fate changes. He awakens his spiritual aptitude, sets out on the path of cultivation, uses a spirit gourd, and raises spirit insects. The magnificent world of cultivation gradually reveals its mysterious side to him. 501Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 54 Farming and Raising Gu: I Have a Daily Intelligence System 种田养蛊：我有每日情报系统 The [Gu Era] update is complete. The full public beta is officially underway. In ten seconds, every human on Blue Star will be dropped into this game! From the start, you get a blessed land and one vital Gu. You must develop your blessed land to gather resources and refine Gu to grow stronger. Only then can you survive in this brutally hostile world. After entering the game, Wang Ju was lucky enough to obtain the Daily Intelligence System. [Intelligence One (Purple): Fortune-Surpassing Gu (Keywo 627Reads6.2Score104Shelves
- 55 Venerable of the Gu Dao: I Can Raise the Success Rate of Gu Refining 蛊道天尊，我能提升炼蛊成功率 Humans are the spirit of all things, while Gu are the essence of heaven and earth. Li Si transmigrated to a world ruled by Gu and awakened a Gu Refining System. By spending spirit points, he could increase his chances of successfully refining Gu, but spirit points could only be obtained through killing... 3.2kReads6.3Score234Shelves
- 56 The Mad Immortal of Gu Poison 炼蛊疯仙 In this world, Gu is supreme, and the lives of ordinary people are as worthless as ants. The young Gu Feng begins in the Sealed Demon Valley. To survive and grow stronger, he is willing to use any means necessary. Bowing and scraping is only my disguise. Refining Gu to become an immortal is my ultimate goal. I was never good. So how can I be called a demon? I’m no saint. Why should I pretend to be above it all? Heaven and earth are Gu, and all things are Gu. Gu Masters have nine ranks, and I’ll 2.2kReads6.2Score103Shelves
- 57 Mingyuegang's 14th Book 明月岗第14本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 332Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Gu Watch 蛊观 [Folklore and the Supernatural + Urban Superpowers + Gu Poison Mysteries + A Young Man’s Coming of Age + Family Revenge] Want revenge? Want to change your fate? Want to take back everything that should have been yours? Then come raise gu. Each talisman bears a karmic debt; each gu can end a life of suffering. The upper three talismans can alter life and death, the middle three can transform the body, and the lower three can change the heart. Which will you choose? The Life-Bearing Talisman takes 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 Gu Master: Starting with the Dreamweaver Gu 蛊师：从获得衍梦蛊开始 Huang Ting was traveling through Miaojiang, exploring secluded places, when one misstep sent him tumbling off a cliff. He transmigrated into the Gu World. (You can follow the story without reading the original; the setting is gradually introduced.) Here, the Gu path flourishes, with countless wondrous and bizarre uses. Here, people are treacherous and scheme against one another... Here, clans and sects hold sway, making it hard for those at the bottom to rise. Here, no one is free; all living be 214Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 60 The Gu World: Legend of the Demon Immortal 蛊界之魔仙传 I've just taken down Immortal Venerable Ju Yang's Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, and now I'm riding an eight-rank Immortal Gu House called the Hanging Sword Pavilion to the Southern Border battlefield. Among my companions, my Demon Venerable brother is busy slaughtering everything in sight, little Bai, who seeks excitement, is getting ready to stab us in the back, kindhearted Old Bai is worrying about the danger we're all in, and the ambitious Hei Loulan has just come aboard, still unaware of 55Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 61 I Have a Gu-Refining Panel 我有一张炼蛊面板 Gu are the true essence of Heaven and Earth, while humans are the most wondrous of all living things. People control gu in their search for survival, life, and the Dao. This is a world where people raise gu, use gu, and refine gu. There are Lifespan Gu, which grant immortality; Emperor Gu, which let you conquer the world; Fortune Gu, which bring boundless good luck; and Travel Gu, which let you wander freely through the world. … 8Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 62 EN Global Class Change: Even Gods Are Materials for My Gu Refining 全民转职：神明都是我的练蛊材料 The universe undergoes a strange transformation, and games and the supernatural descend upon reality. Monsters run rampant, secret realms and dungeons appear, and horrors are beyond counting. Beyond the Nine Provinces, countless races watch with predatory eyes. This is an age when everyone changes class. Only by becoming a class holder, leveling up, and growing stronger can you take part in the great struggle of this world. After transmigrating here, Cao Xiaochun awakens the only hidden class on 150Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 63 The Universe Reversed from the Start: Whoever Comes Has to Take a Hit 开局乾坤反转，谁来都得吃一击吧 [Fantasy] [Cultivation Techniques and Games] [Fantasy Concepts] [Reborn] [Transmigrate] [Revenge] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Doesn't Kill Randomly] Li Shi'an was a Chinese student from Earth. By a twist of fate, he transmigrated to this world. Born with the Rinnegan and accompanied by celestial phenomena, he was later plotted against by his enemies and lost both eyes. After turning to darkness, he became a mighty Demon Venerable. Drawing on five hundred years of experience, he roamed the world, on 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 The Outcast: Gu-Bound Ghost Child, Rising to the Pinnacle! 一人：蛊身鬼童，登临绝顶之上！ Unable to cultivate one’s nature, powerless to cultivate one’s life. The only path to cultivation is Gu techniques. Bring every sect’s cultivation arts together under the way of Gu, and become an immortal Gu master. The Eight Extraordinary Skills, Dan Shi, secret arts from Buddhism and Daoism: if there’s something to be gained, I’ll leave nothing untouched! The thirty-seventh name on the list of those involved in the Jiashen Rebellion, destined to unleash another calamity no less devastating tha 2.5kReads8.5Score162Shelves
- 65 The Demon Venerable's Eternal Life: A Sequel 魔尊永生：续写 My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what drives me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 647Reads9.2Score124Shelves
- 66 The Age of Gu Masters: From the Start, My Toad Swallowed the Campus Belle 蛊师时代：开局我的蛤蟆吞了校花 [Gu Refining + Beast Taming + Spirit Pets] Wang Xiao transmigrates to another world, where everyone is a Gu Master. They refine and raise Gu, then rely on spirit Gu to fight and wield tremendous power! Every kind of spirit Gu has different abilities! The Vajra Ant Gu has immense strength and is known as a tank on the battlefield! The Bloodshadow Mantis Gu is like an invincible swordsman. Its pair of scythes inspire terror wherever it goes! The Heavenly Wolf Spider Gu has peerless venom and overw 644Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 67 Calamity Gu Master: Starting with Living Human Gu Feed 灾厄蛊师：从活人蛊粮开始 [Not a saint] + [Decisive and ruthless] Mo Chen claws his way out of the desperate plight of being “food for living Gu.” With cunning and ruthlessness, he advances step by step through the cruel world of cultivation, seizing resources and refining, cultivating, and mutating calamity species, until he becomes the “Calamity Gu Master” who makes the entire Great Calamity Era tremble. 80Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 The First Book by Bingleng De Gouliang 冰冷的狗粮的第1本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 492Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Gu World: Demonic Path Gu Master 蛊界：魔道蛊师 [Note: The protagonist has not read the original novel!] Not a wish-fulfillment story. A Gu-world fanfic, no invincibility, and plenty of setbacks. Man is the spirit of all living things; Gu are the true essence of heaven and earth. Chen Jiedao accidentally transmigrates into the Gu world. 37Reads5.5Score—Shelves
- 70 The Gu Insect Chronicles 捉蛊记 On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, take a pair each of ghost-faced butterflies, large gray moths, white butterflies, and red admirals. Catch hornets, venomous bees, silkworms, venomous snakes, centipedes, and toads, then grind them into powder. Three days later, scald them with boiling water. Add a woman's hair, fingernails, menstrual blood, poisonous fungi, and plants such as datura, then grind everything into powder. Thus is the gu poison made. If a woman has been wounded in love and u 2.3kReads9.2Score304Shelves
- 71 EN Urban Gu Cultivation: Starting with Raising Gu 都市蛊修：从养蛊开始 Fresh out of high school, Jiang Yiming left the mountains and entered a factory, where he got a brutal taste of life in the working world. He thought that was how he’d spend the rest of his life. Then a System that let him raise Gu appeared out of nowhere, setting him on the path of Gu cultivation. Three-Legged Golden Toads, Eight-Winged Singing Snakes, Emperor Cicadas, Nine-Tailed Earth Scorpions, Seven-Colored Ghost Spiders... These strange and wondrous Gu insects opened his eyes and gradually 3.3kReads8.0Score237Shelves
- 72 EN Evil Insect God 邪虫神 Between righteousness and evil, on the boundary between good and wicked, lies heresy. Reborn in the Spirit Realm Continent, Huo Hai possesses a secret art for raising insects and vows to bring it to its fullest potential. Rare spiritual techniques, heavenly treasures, beauties: he gathers them all under his command, becoming the Insect God of a generation. 2.8kReads8.0Score390Shelves
- 73 Global Gu Refining: I Can Calculate the Best Paths for Combining Gu 全球炼蛊：我能推演合炼路线 Su Ze transmigrated to Blue Star, a parallel world where everyone cultivates Gu. After activating a God-Tier Deduction System, he could work out every possible refinement path for primordial Gu worms. Wouldn’t that make him invincible? [Dead Man’s Skull] + [Blood of One’s Closest Kin] = [Blood Skull Gu] [Stonehide Boar] + [Nine-Toothed Rake] + [Black Bristleback] = [Tianpeng Gu] [Swift Baboon] + [Time Meteorite] + [White Pony Gu] = [Time Flies Like an Arrow Gu] [Netherworld Butterfly] + [Fortune 7.7kReads8.5Score802Shelves
- 74 I Start with Gu Refining and Grind My Way to the Dao of Ten Thousand Arts 从炼蛊开始肝成万法道尊 [Gu cultivation] [Decisive and ruthless] [Invincible] [Demonic cultivator] On the Eternal Continent, demonic cultivators rip out souls to make banners and use young girls as furnaces. The righteous sects may seem noble and upright, but in truth they refine the common people into powerful medicines in hopes of ascending to immortality. Reborn in a cultivation world where mountain foraging is the foundation of training, Bai Yu unexpectedly becomes an errand disciple at the Gu Refining Peak of the 35.5kReads8.1Score3kShelves
- 75 The Outcast: The Strongest Gu Master 一人之下：最强蛊师 “Nobody needs me. There’s no place for me in this world...” Leaning against a tree, the girl curled up into a ball and spoke helplessly. “So, I choose to...” Before she could finish, the boy suddenly cut her off. “Then I’ll give you a new choice. Become my Gu. I need you, and I’ll make the world accept you!” 3.4kReads8.7Score260Shelves
- 76 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
- 77 Insectoid Maze City: A Tentacle Girl’s Handbook for Raising Her 异虫迷城：触手娘的养育手册 “No System” + “No Formulaic Plot” + “Not Invincible” + “A Relatively Slow Burn” Darkness falls, and humanity is kept in captivity behind towering walls. Beyond them roam vicious, rampaging alien insects and eerie, walking corpses. Inside the walls, people indulge in sensual pleasures, intoxicated by wealth and the perverse tastes of high society. There are also disguised alien insects wearing human skin, who take pleasure in hunting people. The insects eat people and leave their bones behind. Th 7.8kReads8.8Score715Shelves
- 78 Tomb Raiding: Inheriting the Gu Immortal’s Legacy, I Slaughter My Way Through the Tomb-Raiding World! 盗墓：蛊仙传承，杀穿盗墓世界！ Li Yu transmigrates into the world of tomb raiding and becomes the last surviving Gu master of the Jiuli Clan. He inherits King Xian's legacy and ultimately earns the title of Gu Immortal. Corpse-eating beetles? Corpse turtle elixirs? They're all the finest nourishment for my Gu. The Huo family's undying worm, capable of creating wormholes. The flying centipede, able to soar through the skies and burrow underground. The Corpse Turtle King, whose poison is the deadliest in the world. Fatty: “Mast 10kReads8.5Score724Shelves
- 79 The Miaojiang Gu Chronicles 苗疆蛊事 The calamity of witchcraft and poison is spoken of only by people in the countryside. Many people who are unknowingly caught up in it have no idea it exists. Friends, do you really think there are no extraordinary people in this vast land of China? You do? No! No! No! Do you want me to tell you that I’m a poison-raising practitioner from the Miao borderlands? All right, come on in and let’s dish… 13.8kReads9.3Score2kShelves
- 80 A Mortal's Path to Immortality: The Purple-Scaled Snake Guides the Way 凡心踏仙紫鳞蛇引道 [Mortal’s journey➕no System➕dual cultivation of thunder and gu➕farming and raising gu] A country boy suffers hardship after hardship, then happens upon a thousand-year-old giant serpent by chance. It teaches him a cultivation technique and gives him a priceless treasure, setting him on the path to immortality. Every step tempers his bones; every gu is cultivated with care. Do not assume you were the first to set out; someone else may have left even earlier. Do not blame the road for being rough. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 The Bloodwing Cult Master of the Myriad Worlds 诸天万界之血翼教主 The protagonist, Zhou Yuan, binds himself to the Myriad Worlds Cult Leader System. He had planned to transmigrate into a famous wish-fulfillment novel and rise to the top, but instead he accidentally lands in Zhongzhou and inherits the legacy of the Immortal Venerable's first life: the Bloodwing Demon Cult. Joining forces with Wuji, he breaks through the barriers between worlds and explores the Myriad Worlds! (Three new arcs have since been added: the Cangwu Cultivation Realm, the One Piece worl 3.7kReads—Score141Shelves
- 82 Gu King Ajie 蛊王阿杰 [Fantasy + Gu Arts + Comedy + Rebirth + Hidden Identity + Mystery + Feuds + First Person] “Reborn to defy fate and slay the Blood Demon, break the curse and ascend to Emperor, unrivaled among the gods!” [Laughing out loud! Can Gu King A Jie cut his way through a fantasy world with this trick?] Miao Awei (roaring): Miao A Jie, prepare to die! He kicked me off a cliff in the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons. When I opened my eyes again, I had been reborn three years in the past. Miao Cuihua (poundi 105Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 83 I Opened Gu Jars for Everyone's Lifespan, and I Can See the Hints 全民寿命开蛊罐，我能看见提示 [Decisive and ruthless], [No female lead], [Gu cultivation] After a cataclysm, Gu jars descended upon the world. Anyone could spend their lifespan to open a jar, obtain all kinds of unusual Gu, and gain immense power. Some were incredibly lucky and drew a Regression Gu, which could turn back time and space. Some drew a Sword Gu and became invincible sword immortals. Others were incredibly unlucky and drew a Death Gu, dying on the spot. This is a world where lifespan and Gu reign supreme. Gu can 66.3kReads8.8Score8.2kShelves
- 84 Beast Taming: All My Beast Companions Are Assassin Types 御兽：我的兽宠，全都是刺客系 [Beast Taming + Gu Insects + Assassin-Type + No Romance + Decisive and Ruthless + No Transformation + Cthulhu Mythos + Lone Wolf + Countless Hidden Trump Cards...] (No System, but he does have a golden finger!) The eerie invasion begins, and the Ten Evil Kings appear. The continent is in danger at every turn! Chen Fei, still a freshman, obtains the Killing Codex. As long as he kills, he can rapidly improve his demon beasts’ strength, aptitude, and skill proficiency. Restriction: He can only form 18.8kReads9.0Score2.6kShelves
- 85 I Made a Pact with the Gods: Tomb Raiding and Gu Poison Made Me Rich! 我与神明画押，盗墓炼蛊发家！ Su Jing transmigrates into a world that combines various tomb-raiding stories and awakens the Gu Master System from the start, refining the Spring and Autumn Cicada! Spring and Autumn Cicada: Wields the power of time and can turn it back within a limited area! He joins the Iron Triangle in Worm Valley to seek out exotic insects and beasts. Blood-Draining Dragon Boa Gu! It can control blood mist, and anyone who touches it dies! Impervious to blades and bullets, fire and water! Blade-Winged Eagle 18.6kReads9.1Score1.7kShelves
- 86 High Battle Clouds: Heroes Languish in Solitude 阵云高：英雄寂寞 Genius protagonist, no System, ruthless and decisive. Li Chengfeng, a genius formation master, uses formations to cultivate all kinds of mutated spirit insects. At last, he achieves a first-grade Golden Core. Just as everything seems to be going his way, he encounters a genius of the Ghost Clan. After a fierce battle, the Ghost Clan Golden Core cultivator dies, while Li Chengfeng, gravely wounded, is swept into a spatial black hole. A new legend is about to begin. 1.2kReads—Score149Shelves
- 87 Master of All Skills 全技大师 What? A Supreme Immortal Aperture Physique? I only get one chance, and they made me this useless body? Damn it! No! I'm different from them. I have a hidden quest built in! 438Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 The Immortal Path of the Insect Emperor 虫皇仙途 [Entire novel written by hand, no AI + spirit insect pets + beast taming + traditional cultivation + no transmigration + no System + lighthearted comedy + richly developed characters + survival through caution] The lowly servant Ye Lin accidentally awakens the Insect Emperor bloodline and opens the Ancient Insect Emperor Ring. From then on, he has a whole swarm of strange spirit insects at his side. An unfathomable number of ants devour the heavens and consume the earth. A tiny white snake beats 45.1kReads9.2Score4kShelves
- 89 Infinite Fusion: My Bonded Gu Have All Become Immortals 无限融合，我的本命蛊都成仙了 A bloody catastrophe shattered a dynasty that had ruled for a thousand years. Li Yuan, its sole surviving prince, concealed his identity and fled to the southern frontier, where he joined the Gu Master lineage and unexpectedly awakened a Gu-Insect Synthesis System. Lords from every corner of the land, demons and monsters, and the various martial-world factions were all looking for him. They wanted to use his bloodline as the key to unlock the Martial God treasure left behind by the founding empe 93.1kReads9.0Score11kShelves
- 90 The Immortal Path? The Path of Death! 仙道？死道！ [Horror Cultivation] + [Survival at All Costs] You are what you eat, so eating bitterness won't make you a better person. Only eating people will. An immortal once said, “If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.” Humans are the spirit of all things, born with immortal bodies and prized as heavenly medicine. In the cultivation world, the only way to cultivate is to absorb the power and fortune of others! That's why ordinary people are kept as living cauldrons. If you don't consume others, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 Reborn in the Hehuan Sect, I Refine My Master into a Slave 重生合欢宗，师尊被我炼化成奴隶 [No System + no clichés + villain protagonist + multiple female leads + bizarre + ruthless and decisive, no saintly behavior] “Would you pick the Seven Fairies or the Seven Spider Demons?” “Only kids pick the fairies. Those who know, know.” “What if you really transmigrated to the Joyful Union Sect, where there are only female demons? They're fanatically devoted to the male body and worship you as a god?” “Wouldn't that be heaven on earth?” “Heh.” The young man smiled faintly. “I'm afraid it wou 86.1kReads9.4Score9.9kShelves
- 92 Eternal Demon 永魔 Traditional cultivation. The protagonist is ruthless and merciless, no holier-than-thou hero, no heroine, dark fiction! No System!! If you want to become an immortal in the heavens, you must climb the road to immortality over the bones of others. This isn't AI-generated. I wrote it by hand!!! 3.2kReads5.4Score316Shelves
- 93 In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库 An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan 1.3kReads—Score107Shelves
