Novels like The Scholar’s Sword Qi Runs Deep
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- 151 Northern Wind Falls Upon a Turbulent World 逆乱寰宇北风落 [Epic Saga + the Myriad Worlds + Partly Wish-Fulfillment + One Heroine + Traditional Fantasy + Rebirth] When the barriers between realms become a prison and blood feuds are carved into his very bones, a young man challenges the heavens with his mortal body, vowing to rekindle the last sparks of the crumbling Dragon Domain. “The Nine Heavens have fallen and the Dragon Domain lies adrift? Then I will make myself the Dragon Domain's final line of defense!” In the Dragon Domain, the young man sets o 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 152 Thirteen Lots for the Wayfarer: The Volume of Evil, White Flowers 过客十三签·恶之卷·白花 Thirteen Lots for Passersby: Volume of Evil: White Flower 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 153 Thirteen Lots for the Wayfarer: The Volume of Love, The Person Behind the Mirror 过客十三签·爱之卷·镜背人 Thirteen Lots for Passersby: Volume of Love: The Person Behind the Mirror 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 154 Thirteen Lots for the Wayfarer: The Volume of Sorrow, Saving a Meal 过客十三签·哀之卷·留饭 Thirteen Lots for Passersby: Volume of Grief: Saving a Meal 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 155 Thirteen Lots for the Wayfarer: The Volume of Anger, Whip Beneath the Pagoda Tree 过客十三签·怒之卷·槐下鞭 Thirteen Lots for Passersby: Volume of Anger: Whipping Beneath the Pagoda Tree 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 Thirteen Lots for the Wayfarer: The Volume of Fear, Night Suona 过客十三签·惧之卷·夜唢呐 Thirteen Lots for Passersby: Volume of Fear: Night Suona 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 157 Thirteen Lots for the Wayfarer: The Volume of Joy, Paper Groom 过客十三签·喜之卷·纸新郎 Thirteen Lots for Passersby: Volume of Joy: Paper Groom 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 158 Martial Dao Emperor 武道大帝 Born into humble circumstances, Luo Xiu has only average talent. But by chance, he fuses with a treasure formed from the origins of the laws of life and death. From then on, he carries the Wheel of Life and Death within him, commands reincarnation, creates supreme divine arts, and becomes a great emperor who stands above all, past and present! 6.1kReads8.6Score254Shelves
- 159 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
- 160 The Blade of the Master 师刀 Eyes like shooting stars, movements like lightning. A blade that kills, a sword that saves. This is a story about a young man and his blade. 5.6kReads9.0Score427Shelves
- 161 A Nationwide Online Game: I’m the Only One Who Changed Class to a Chinese Sword Immortal 全民网游：只有我转职华夏剑仙 The virtual game Domain of the Gods has merged with reality, and everything in the game, from items to power, has carried over into the real world. Some people chose the mage class and unleashed forbidden spells that laid waste to the heavens and earth. Some chose the priest class and could bring the dead back to life and restore flesh to bare bones. Some chose the mechanic class and controlled star-destroying warships to sweep across the cosmos. This is an age when Western classes reign supreme 3.6kReads9.0Score317Shelves
- 162 The Sword Dynasty 剑朝 The Martial World Continent stretches without end. Four supreme races dwell here. Humanity battles the gods with magic, fights demons hand to hand, and clashes with immortals. Blood dyes the heavens, yet they fear nothing. A reborn young man rises from the endless mountains, carving a path through every obstacle as he climbs step by step to the summit. With nothing but the three-foot sword in his hand, his sharp edge can reac 20kReads8.7Score1.7kShelves
- 163 Playing the Prodigy From the Start, I Became Supreme Across the Ages 开局扮演天骄，终成万古至高 [Deception-focused] [Making a splash in front of others] [A sharp mind]! After awakening the divine ability of Karma, Zhang Yan can draw upon the fruits of his future cultivation in advance. To become an immortal, he decides to pose as a prodigy, tricking his sect into giving him resources so he can cultivate more efficiently! And so, to everyone else, Zhang Yan… Comprehends profound, obscure manuals of divine arts in a single breath! Refines supreme-grade mystic pills that even grandmaster alch 8.1kReads8.5Score503Shelves
- 164 From the Start, I Had a Heavenly Spirit Root: I Can Steal Fortuitous Encounters 开局天灵根：我能掠夺机缘 Chen Yan transmigrates to a cultivation world and obtains the Fortune System. Each day, he can earn Fortune Points and improve his own luck. Low-grade fortune: Give a junior fellow disciple pointers on spell techniques and gain a chance at sudden enlightenment. Mid-grade fortune: Help an elder forge a magical artifact and obtain the Heavenly Earthly Spirit Fire, Glazed Golden Flame. High-grade fortune: Circulate the Qianyuan Art for one cycle and comprehend the secrets of the tenth level of Qi R 2.2kReads6.9Score128Shelves
- 165 The Peaceful Inn 安心客栈 The jianghu has its own tales to tell. Why see everything under heaven? Young man, don't ask how rough the road ahead will be. The young man asked, “What is the jianghu?” The old man replied, “Ride your horse, cross the river, and plunge into the mortal world.” 2.7kReads8.9Score176Shelves
- 166 My Wife Is Always Trying to Kill Me 我家娘子总想弄死我 “Gu Chuan, are you plotting a rebellion?!” “Your Majesty, I’ve been wronged!” “Then why are the commander of the Xuanyue Army, the White Lotus Sect’s Holy Maiden, the Shadow Guards, the Queen of Jialan, and the Daoist Sect’s itinerant cultivator all with you?!” Gu Chuan swears that all he wanted at first was to lie flat. But the longer he lay low, the more people gathered around him. He had no choice but to mount his horse and take up arms to bring peace to the land! In the first year of the Wuh 14.1kReads8.8Score1.4kShelves
- 167 Asura Sword God 修罗剑神 Born with a supreme divine meridian, the youth fell from grace into the mortal world because of his kind heart. His boundless resentment awakened the Divine Demon Token, granting him the legacy of the supreme overlord of the divine realm. His body was tempered with the true blood of the Ten Primordial Ferocious Beasts, and he rose to power against all odds! With a mortal body, he battles the gods and Buddhas who fill the heavens. He asks: how much are worldly bonds worth, and what is the truth o 21.1kReads8.8Score1.9kShelves
- 168 A Literary Youth in the Han Dynasty 大汉文艺青年 [History] [Alternate World] [Transmigration] [Witty and Humorous] [Multiple Heroines] Fan Li, a rogue who runs a bar, undergoes Transmigration into ancient times. One poem stuns the literary world, and one song brings listeners to tears. From his initial, desperate flight to making his first splash at a grand literary gathering; from showing off his divine prowess at Chongli Terrace to fighting bloody battles in a lone northern fortress, the rascal laughs and curses his way through it all. In t 4.6kReads7.8Score343Shelves
- 169 A Hundred Thousand Levels of Qi Refining in the Womb, Invincible from Birth! 娘胎练气十万层，落地即无敌！ Sign-In to 100,000 Levels in the Womb: I Opened My Eyes and My Whole Family Fell to Their Knees! The Xuanwu Continent is about to be turned upside down! Golden light suddenly shoots into the sky from the belly of the Chu family’s good-for-nothing young lady. Three Golden Core elders raid the family home in the dead of night, only to be sent to their graves with a single glance from a newborn baby! “That’s it? You think you can lay a hand on my mother?” Wrapped in swaddling clothes, Chu Chen wigg 2.6kReads7.6Score326Shelves
- 170 EN The Supreme Sword Immortal 剑道第一仙 I am the sword cultivator of the mortal world through the ages, the foremost immortal above all the heavens. 1kReads9.2Score144Shelves
- 171 The Great Dao Is the Pinnacle 大道为巅 [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is serializing now and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Ning Yuan bears the blood of an emperor and has had his six senses sealed. He ends up stranded in a peerlessly perilous place, but turns misfortune into fortune when the greatest Sword God of all time takes him in. He becomes the Fist Ancestor's disciple, coming and going through the deadly land as if it were deserted, digging for treasures and farming. From then on, he vow 11.7kReads9.2Score961Shelves
- 172 In a World of Immortals and Martial Arts, My Simulator Lets Me Sweep the Prodigies 仙武世界，有模拟器的我横扫天骄 (The Myriad Worlds + no female lead + feel-good power fantasy) After transmigrating into an immortal martial world, Qi Changfeng awakens the Immortal Martial Simulation System. He comprehends the Great Dao in simulated worlds and travels through the Myriad Worlds with his soul. In the primary world, he fights far and wide, crushing every prodigy with his fists. The characters are intelligent, and there are no brainless villains. His goal is the supreme peak. The protagonist is never put through 6.6kReads8.5Score354Shelves
- 173 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 28.5kReads7.9Score2.1kShelves
- 174 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 12.1kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
- 175 Bai Xiaoshang 白晓殇 A dragon's spirit lies hidden in the abyss for years, then rises to the clouds in a single stroke. The death of Huang Rong, once hailed as the world's most beautiful woman, is merely the beginning. The Northern Dragon royal family, the five surnames and seven clans, and the martial world of the five regions: a storm of blood and violence still lies ahead. 236Reads—Score—Shelves
- 176 Sword Seed 剑种 One female lead, no angst. A sixteen-year-old boy with a sword case on his back sets out to wander the world for the first time. He only wants to recover the remains of his elders. Step by step, he uncovers the secrets of the sword case and masters one peerless famous sword after another, until he becomes the sharpest sword in the world. 6.7kReads9.1Score673Shelves
- 177 Tales of the Dark River 暗河传 The Dark River can assassinate imperial relatives in the capital and destroy powerful clans and sects in the wilds. It is the foremost assassin organization, feared by all martial world figures. But the Dark River's leader, the Grand Patriarch, is growing old, and his control over the organization is gradually slipping away. After the Grand Patriarch is gravely wounded during a mission to kill Tang Er, the second master of the Tang Clan, several family heads within the Dark River send assassins 7.1kReads9.3Score893Shelves
- 178 As the Most Popular Senior Brother, I Just Want to Clock Out 身为万人迷大师兄的我只想下班 Lu Fengmian transmigrates and gets bound to the Max-Level Senior Brother System. He thinks he's about to enter a supreme-protagonist power fantasy, but the System's goal is actually to become the perfect senior brother to the entire sect?! - Everyone in the sect knows that Senior Brother Lu Fengmian is the very model of perfection. His cultivation is unfathomably deep, he treats others with gentle courtesy, and he is fair and selfless. He's the sect leader's favorite, the light of his fellow dis 65.5kReads9.1Score8.1kShelves
- 179 Heavenly Dao Overlord Body Art 天道霸体诀 [Traditional xuanhuan + no System + passionate power progression] On the Eternal Continent, strength rules. Martial artists soar through the skies and burrow beneath the earth, strike across the nine heavens, seize stars and pluck the moon, and stand above all who came before and after. Born into humble circumstances, Ye Qing had his rare Dragon Martial Vein stolen. But what seemed like a misfortune turned into a blessing: he awakened the supreme Martial Vein, unrivaled throughout history, and b 20.7kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
- 180 No Life in the Mortal World 尘间无生 [Sword cultivator + genius + dual bloodlines of demon and immortal + ruthless + no transmigration + no System + not a saint] One man, one sword, roaming a world of dust for ten thousand miles. Amid broken walls and ruins, he beholds all the suffering beneath the sun. May there be no frost and wind to silver our hair, no sorrow to weigh on our hearts, and may every year bring peace and warmth. Life is fleeting, its meetings and partings like smoke, its fortunes and declines ever-changing. May eve 2.3kReads—Score111Shelves
- 181 Heaven-Slaying Blade 斩天刀 [High-octane action + ruthless killing + devour everything + invincible blade mastery] Awaken an Overlord Physique from the start, capable of devouring anything! With the Great Desolate Cauldron in hand, refine your enemies in an instant! The vast land becomes a furnace, even absorbing the heavenly tribulations! Absorb, absorb, absorb! Devour, devour, devour! Whoever wins is the one in the right! 24.9kReads8.9Score1.6kShelves
- 182 There's No Water Left on Red Sun Star 赤阳星没水了 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 Lord of the Night 夜幕之主 What’s so great about inheriting the throne? A kingdom you conquer yourself is the one you can rule with confidence. He commands Nightfall, one of the three great assassin organizations, and a single word from him decides who lives and dies. He also controls the Four Seas Merchant Alliance, one of the ten great trade guilds, and is richer than an entire nation. Once that useless prince leaves the capital, he soars like a dragon released into the sea. He raises the Banner of a Hundred Battles in 22.8kReads8.6Score2.1kShelves
- 184 Heavenly Dao, Prove Yourself 天道，请自证 You saved them, but he was the one enshrined in gold. After he has basked in the incense of countless worshippers, even your name will be erased without a trace. Su Yan is determined to tear down that golden statue. He tempers his bones with the dust of monuments, opens a realm with an old inkstone, and reveals the truth through white stone. Carrying fragments of masterworks, he uses evidence to break divine powers and strips away, layer by layer, the merit stolen by the powerful. From reclaimin 51Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 A Chaotic World from the Start 开局伴生混沌世界 Bearing the Primordial Chaos Origin, he transmigrates to the Eight Ancient Domains and becomes the Blood Son of the Asura Domain. When he awakens one day, he contends with billions of prodigies and sets off endless upheaval. The moment Ning Xuanyuan emerges from the Asura Ancestral Grounds, the world begins to tremble… 10.3kReads8.8Score865Shelves
- 186 After Coming Down from the Mountain, Jingyi Went from Orphan to Prince 下山后，景怡从孤儿变成了王爷 Jing Yi is the son of a Jiuzhou envoy and a princess of the Elven Kingdom. The Perfected Void dug him up, mistaking him for a ginseng root. Through a twist of fate, he became the prince consort of both the Jiuzhou Kingdom and the Lazi Kingdom, as well as the live-in son-in-law of the Prince of Ji. He fell in love with a princess of the Elven Empire... He endured countless hardships and was eventually burned, leaving him in a vegetative state. Jing Wuming is the son born to Jing Yi after a night 50Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 187 Xuanhuan: Invincible with the God King Physique 玄幻：从神王体开始无敌 Jiang Chen transmigrated into a fantasy world and obtained the God-Tier Choice System. [Ding! The System has issued your first mission…] [Choice 1: Choose the identity of an ordinary person. Mission reward: one trillion taels of gold] [Choice 2: Choose the identity of a cultivator. Mission reward: God King Physique] Jiang Chen: “Do I even have to think about it? I've transmigrated into such a dangerous world. Could an ordinary person survive? What good is a pile of money?” Jiang Chen decisively 14.3kReads8.8Score1.5kShelves
- 188 A Thousand Years for All the People 万民成岁 Can nine sacks of seeds topple a dynasty? With 117 living people written into the death registers, Xin Ye flees into the White Salt Wasteland and takes up the path of cultivation through farming once more. By farming with his own hands, he glimpses the earth's ley lines. When many people farm together, the furrows become an array. He wants the iron cavalry coming to collect grain to see that the ridges beneath their feet can trap an army, the hundred wells in the village can suspend rivers, and 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 Immortal for Eternity, I Come, I See, I Am Invincible 长生万古，我来我见我无敌 There was an old man at the Heavenly Sword Dao Sect who brought back an eleven-year-old mortal boy from the ancient burial grounds of Heaven. From that day on, the world learned what it meant to truly sweep across the ages and be invincible beneath the heavens! The boy, Gu Changsheng, turned his back on all living beings and murmured softly: "If you do not cultivate, seeing me is like a frog in a well gazing at the moon in the sky." "If you do cultivate, seeing me is like a mayfly gazing at the 34.5kReads8.0Score2.2kShelves
- 190 The Floating Sky Never Falls 浮天不落 The floating sky never falls; the immortal sect endures forever. This is a story about a genius who lacks for nothing: talent, resources, or powerful connections. There are no brainless villains who show up just to help the protagonist level up, nor is the protagonist a tragic figure who builds a huge harem. Instead, there are all kinds of worldbuilding details the author, a hopeless settings fanatic, just couldn't resist writing, bringing to life my own personal dream of cultivating immortality 38.3kReads8.8Score3.9kShelves
- 191 I Was Hunted to the Ends of the Earth for Being Too Handsome 因为长得太帅，被追杀到天涯海角 Liu Paopao, the Northern Hero, was as famous as Zhan Zhao, the Southern Hero, because he had mastered an extremely mysterious and terrifying martial art: the Sky-Splitting Sword. This supernaturally fast sword technique was so swift that it was completely invisible. It also allowed him to launch attacks from the sky, blotting out the heavens and the sun. Using his mind’s eye and sword energy, he could fill his enemies with such intense fear that they were unable to move, leaving them helpless at 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 Slaying the Dragon 斩龙 I’ll turn my hand to clouds and my palm to rain! I’ll defy fate and turn the world upside down! I’ll kill everyone who wronged me and wipe out every hypocrite! A down-and-out security guard with extraordinary skills rises to the top in the game. 5.4kReads9.0Score559Shelves
- 193 The Chaos Devouring Heaven Art 混沌吞天诀 [Passionate Fantasy + Over-the-Top Action] Lu Chenxuan, a God of War in the Immortal Realm, is punished for his outstanding service and framed, stripped of his immortal meridians, and banished to the mortal world. By a twist of fate, he obtains the Chaos Heaven-Devouring Art! Nothing in this world is beyond its power to devour. I, Lu Chenxuan, shall soar above the nine heavens 31.4kReads8.9Score2.5kShelves
- 194 Xuanhuan: I Awakened a Heavenly Fire Spirit Body from the Start 玄幻：我开局觉醒天火灵体 (Classic fantasy, Heavenly Flame Spirit Body, immortal cultivation, fantasy, decisive and ruthless, no saintly heroine, no System, satisfying power fantasy) After Lin Chen’s parents met with an accident, he awakened the Heavenly Flame Spirit Body. From then on, he defied the heavens, rose to power, and sought revenge for his parents. 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 A Sword Comes from the Ninth Heaven 一剑九天来 [Not your typical story + no System + no mindless power fantasy] "You say you've never seen a real dragon? Come on over, I've got one living inside me..." "You don't know what the three great schools' treasures are? What a coincidence, take a look at these things I've got..." "What! You still don't know who I am?" "I, Xu Qingbai, emerged from seclusion as a Confucian scholar and entered the world as a sword immortal. I cultivate both immortal and martial arts! One punch can shatter mountains and 21kReads8.4Score1.2kShelves
- 196 Supreme Asura 至尊修罗 Prove the path of love through slaughter, and write the name of the Asura in blood! Corrupt villains rule, and chaos engulfs the age. A steel-hearted young man rises through sheer perseverance. After his father is murdered by a traitor and two hundred thousand brothers-in-arms give their lives with courage, Mu Feng, a battle-hardened youth raised amid the army's bloody campaigns, obtains the Asura Scripture and begins an against-all-odds journey of revenge. Slay the petty and destroy the wicked, 2.8kReads8.8Score343Shelves
- 197 Wielding a Sword to Carve Dragons 仗剑雕龙 (Original martial arts fiction, multiple heroines, no transmigration, no System, not a do-gooder, not a villain) Is the martial world really just about killing people? When Lin Tu first stepped into it, that's what he thought. Then he took part in the Golden Cauldron Tournament, the Poetry Duel, the Golden Light Martial Debate... and even a grand war fought by the people of the martial world. He met one legendary figure after another: the Eight Wanderers, sect leaders from great schools, peerles 2.3kReads7.2Score217Shelves
- 198 From the Start, My Sword Falls in the South Sea as I Scheme for the Nine Provinces 开局剑落南海，我布局天下九洲 Three million characters and counting, with plenty to binge. The strongest contender in this niche across the entire web. Not a nanny story + original plot + settling arguments with reason + settling arguments with a sword A slow burn, but the writing speaks for itself. With a flask of wine at his waist and a sword on his back, a young man heads north, wanting to see a world and the hearts within it that are neither wholly good nor wholly evil. I, Ning Yuan, have a dream: of righteousness, of th 7.8kReads8.8Score507Shelves
- 199 Sword in Hand, Wine in Tow, a Dashing Wanderer 仗剑，载酒，惊鸿客 [Prodigy + no System + Swordsmanship + Lighthearted + Immortality] The fake prodigy: “Life and death don’t matter. If you’ve got a problem, fight me.” The real prodigy: “I want to draw my sword.” “No, you don’t,” said the leaders of the Daoist sects, the Buddhist Venerable, and the Demon Cult Master, trying to talk him down. Across this vast and boundless land, who will determine its fate? I have a sword, its white blade stained red by the mortal world. A vast and magnificent sky stretches a 17kReads8.2Score1.5kShelves
- 200 The Strongest Man to Emerge from the Heavenly Prison 从天牢走出的强者 Eight years ago, Qin Zimo was the great general who protected the Nanxuan Kingdom, renowned throughout the heavens and feared by every nation. Now, Qin Zimo has emerged from a dark, icy prison, and the winds of change are rising once more. 7.9kReads8.9Score638Shelves
