Novels like In the Depths of Dongyuan: The Immortal Beneath the Earth
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- 1 From the Start, I Became a Sacrifice? I Sacrificed the Whole Village Instead! 开局成为祭品？我反手祭献全村！ A world rife with the uncanny: a village that regularly sacrifices people, ignorant villagers, and a village chief with sinister intentions… Du Xuancheng possesses a System that can complete and improve cultivation techniques. After transmigrating to this eerie world of immortal cultivation, he discovers that he has been chosen as the next sacrifice almost as soon as he arrives. To avoid being sacrificed, Du Xuancheng begins a series of desperate attempts to save himself… But as his cultivation 8Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 2 The Eerie Cultivation World: I Can Waive the Price 诡异修仙世界：我能豁免代价 Foundation built on white bones, golden cores formed from flesh and blood, Nascent Souls that beguile and corrupt… This is a cultivation world filled with the uncanny. If mortals wish to cultivate and become immortals, they must pay unimaginable costs and overcome terrible trials. Even though Hu Yun, who transmigrated here, could hardly accept this world, the crisis looming ahead left him no room to live in peace. Fortunately, when he transmigrated, he brought a System with him. It allowed —Reads—Score114d adds
- 3 I Tour the World to Offer Sacrifices, and All the Gods Bow 我巡天下祀，诸神皆叩首 [Chinese Folk Customs + Supernatural Cultivation + Eerie Mystery Cases + A Cast of Human Characters + Mutual Redemption + One Female Lead] A bowl of hot rice suddenly appears in the General’s Shrine, which has been sealed for sixty years. Pei Zhaoye is ordered to open the shrine and inspect it. To his surprise, the statue that has never opened its eyes steps down from the altar and bows before him. “Your sinful god welcomes... Mr. Lu.” But Pei Zhaoye’s surname is not Lu, and he remembers nothing 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Eerie Cultivation: Chant My Name! Worship My Form! 诡异修仙：颂吾名！拜吾形！ —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 The Eerie Path to Immortality: I’ll Slaughter Every Immortal in the World! 诡道异仙：我屠尽世间一切仙！ [Dark Cultivation] [Ruthless] [No Saintly Protagonist] [Everyone Is a False Immortal] [No Female Lead] [The Heavenly Dao Is Dead] After transmigrating to a cultivation world, Lu Lingyi discovers that everyone has gone mad. Meditation and breathing techniques drain your lifespan; seeking enlightenment and contemplating Zen means paying tribute to the Heavenly Dao. Those sages with an immortal bearing and immaculate Venerables are all man-eating monsters in their true forms. The Heavenly Dao seals —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 I Spent Thirty Years Exhuming Graves and Collecting Bones in Dajing 我在大京开坟捡骨三十年 [The Path of Evil Cultivation: Grave Robbing → Bone-Reading Manual → Corpse-Raising Record → Reverse Cultivation of the Righteous Way → Corpse-Refining Cauldron → Updating…] Lin Sha wakes up to find that he has transmigrated to the chaotic Great Jing Dynasty, where he is a humble bone collector among a clan that migrated south. Carrying the Bone-Reading Manual with him, he discovers that every set of bones he collects earns him a random reward. And so, in this chaotic age crawling with demons an 1Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 7 Uncanny Martial Arts: I Can Ignore the Cost 诡异武道：我能无视代价 In the Great Che Empire, year thirty of the Yangye era, the dynasty is tottering, and the people of Yanzhou are suffering terribly. Foreign powers invade, seize territory, and carve up Yanzhou. Floods ravage the south, drought grips the north, and natural disasters strike one after another, leaving corpses strewn everywhere. Warlords carve up the land, a million bodies lie dead, and blood fills the rivers. And worse, indescribable beings appear with alarming frequency, while chaos and filth suff 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 The Immortal of Uncanny Arts 诡术道仙 Comedy, the supernatural, and Taoist cultivation Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever encountered some strange and uncanny supernatural event? Have you ever wondered why there are records of gods and ghosts in this world? By a twist of fate, Weiran's life begins a journey of adventure and cultivation. There is no end to the strange supernatural incidents, the mysterious clan that peers into the Heavenly Dao, the chuunibyou youth Weiran who enters the Dao through the sword, and Muxi, the haugh 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 They Called Me a Freak, but I’m Actually a Powerful Being Reborn 被说怪胎，不好意思我是大能降世 Time slipped quietly by like the wind. Luo Sheng had been born into this world for seventeen years. Whenever he was alone, he would rub the three belly buttons on his stomach and recall what his Third Aunt had told him. “Do you know why your parents abandoned you in the wilderness? Because you’re a freak.” “You have three belly buttons. You crushed your two older brothers to death inside your mother’s womb, and the other two belly buttons belonged to them.” Perhaps some stroke of fortune wou 10Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 10 Eerie: I Can Ignore the Price 诡异：我能豁免代价 In the first year of the Xian Era, under the Great Cheng Dynasty. Ye Zhe wakes to find himself in a strange dynasty and an eerie world of cultivation. In this world, every path of cultivation comes at a price! Corpse drivers become the corpses they drive; spirit mediums become sustenance for the spirits they serve. Scholars watch their bodies decay even as they pursue the Three Immortalities. Cultivators mutate into monsters yet still proclaim that they have attained the Dao. In villages and tow 3Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 11 The Cost of Cultivation? Whatever, I Can Restore the Source! 修行代价？无所谓，我可以返源！ (The protagonist aims to save the world and has principles. No female lead. There are word games after Chapter 58, so don't read if you dislike them.) No one knows when pollution and distortion first descended upon the world. No one knows when cultivation began to exact a price, either. The lofty gods don't care, for they still look down upon all living beings. Even if those beings wail in anguish, what does it matter to them? The powerful figures at the world's summit don't care, either. They'r 236Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 12 Cultivating Immortality in This World Is a Little Too Weird 在这个世界修仙有亿点点诡异 [Everyday life + Lovecraftian cultivation + lighthearted + eerie] Chen Ke transmigrates to a cultivation world. After countless hardships, he finally finds a cultivation sect. But after successfully joining, he discovers that everything here gives off an unusual air... “The first step in cultivation is called the Body Tempering Realm. As the name suggests, it means tempering your body and casting off your mortal flesh. Only by constantly strengthening your physique can you truly set foot on a br 3Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 13 Spiritual Qi Revival: I Slay Gods and Demons by Adding Stats 灵气复苏，我靠加点斩神魔 Three years ago, a comet trailing vast amounts of mist and dust crashed into Blue Star, plunging into the ocean. The immense clouds of dust and fog slowly spread across the entire planet, triggering a global pandemic. Since then, strange events have emerged one after another: small animals suddenly mutating, blurry shadows appearing in mirrors at midnight, animal remains resembling mermaids washing up by the sea, and nameless alleys disappearing... There are even rumors that the laws of physics 5Reads6.3Score214d adds
- 14 An Immortal Descends to the Mortal World 仙人临世 [Eerie Cultivation] [Decisive and Ruthless] [The Age of Declining Dharma] [Not a Conventional Power Fantasy] One crimson night, the supernatural was born. From then on, evil spirits ran rampant across the land, monsters roamed free, and night became taboo. In the Age of Declining Dharma, primordial energy was nearly exhausted. Cultivators had to consume blood and flesh and refine monsters before they could set foot on the path of cultivation. As time went on, cultivators across the land grew inc —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Fruits of the Mortal World: Surviving in a Strange Cultivation World 红尘道果：我在诡异修仙世界求生 I transmigrated… I came to a strange world. This world seems to be heading inexorably toward ruin. I shouted at the top of my lungs, but the people around me walked farther and farther away, their faces expressionless. Only when I pushed my way out of the crowd did I see that at the end of the road lay the sigh of gods and demons. [Xuanhuan]+ [Apocalyptic Survival] At the end of the world, is there any chance of a miracle of life? 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 This Might Be the Grand Finale 疑似已经大结局 [Girls' Love + Horror Cultivation + Female Lead Is the Top and Never Backs Down + A Cultivation World Riddled with Transmigrators] Horror cultivation, with the female lead killing her way through everything! The Heavenly Dao pursues her relentlessly, until she finally flips the table in a rage! Writhing chunks of flesh, twisted cultivators, a bunch of useless immortals drawing salaries without doing their jobs, and a warped world consciousness?! Was becoming cannon fodder after transmigrating in 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 The Daoist Has Gone Mad 道爷疯了 [Supernatural Horror + Eastern Lovecraftian Horror + Ruthless and Decisive + Cold-Hearted + Frenzied and Deranged] Lu Shushan woke up... His dead wife was the bride in a ghost marriage, and he was the groom! Lu Shushan woke up again... A perfectly ordinary life, dull beyond belief. Lu Shushan woke up at last... He was Xuanxiao, a Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain, adrift on the eerie Sea of the Dead. All around him were frenzied immortals and Buddhas, man-eating strange gods, and a world gone 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 Containment Breach! A Hundred Ghosts Run Wild Inside Me! 收容失效！我体内百鬼夜行！ I've died once, so now the world has to go mad with me. Can't cultivate? Then I'll stuff cultivators inside me and use them as batteries! A mighty Soul Formation expert? I'll make tens of millions of incarnations and overwhelm them by force! An Integration realm ancestor? I'll activate the Gambler of Delusions and bet that his "destiny" becomes mine, reducing him to an ordinary mortal in a single second! [Ding! Containment Protocol initiated. Nation-ending calamity "The Mourner" detected. En 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Immortal Exorcist 祓仙 A heads-up: Senior Sister is not the female lead! The protagonist and she have no romance! There are plot elements similar to cuckolding, so don't read if that's not your thing! Traditional xianxia, no System, no levels. The main story: Cultivators prey on mortals, and the protagonist kills every last one of them. 153Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 20 The Strange Chronicles of Cultivation 诡异修仙录 “Why me? Why does it have to be me? No, I’m not crazy, I’m not crazy. This world is crazy!” “It’s fake. All of this is fake, hahaha~” 5Reads—Score114d adds
- 21 I Burned One Hundred Thousand Volumes of Demon Tomes 我焚了十万卷妖书 I burned a hundred thousand volumes of demon books, thinking I was protecting the mortal world. Then the hundred-thousand-and-first volume arrived from an ancient temple in the wilderness, bearing only my pen name. I asked three veteran handwriting experts to examine it, and they all said I had written it. That night, the old expert who had authenticated it died suddenly, clutching a waist token from the Imperial Observatory. I began to suspect one thing: Were the hundred thousand volumes of dem —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 The Strange World: Train by Adding Points and Avoid the Cost 诡异世界：加点修炼豁免代价 After transmigrating to another world, it takes sixteen years for him to discover that he has become a humanoid medicinal plant in someone else's herb garden. Fortunately, he sees through the danger, improves his cultivation, and is rescued by a constable. Thus begins his path of cultivation. [The blurb doesn't do it justice. Read the story itself.] 283Reads6.4Score1914d adds
- 23 Running a Sect in a Strange Cultivation World 苟在诡异修仙世界经营宗门 [Xianxia fantasy + summoning players + wild imagination + ensemble cast transmigrates together + eerie cultivation + no System] Du Chang transmigrates to a bizarre cultivation world and becomes the last inheritor of the Soul Sect, the Wraith Sect. Tasked with revitalizing the sect, he discovers that he can summon players from Blue Star. From then on, the sect’s development hurtles inexorably off the righteous path. Player: “Sect Master, are we really supposed to go around without clothes?” Du Ch 5Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 24 Seventh-Rank Sitting in Oblivion 七阶坐忘 In a mysterious realm, the Heavenly Dao is in disorder, ghosts and monsters run rampant, and the gods have yet to appear... Which world does Shen Duan truly belong to? With a spirit-lantern in hand, he wields a sword to startle demons and ghosts, uses talismans to banish evil, a bone flute to drive out demons, and a jade pendant to gather souls. He listens to the whispers of ghosts, summons a golden bell, opens the realm of souls, and cultivates the seven stages of Sitting in Oblivion. He rails 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 25 This Cultivation World Seems a Little Off 这个修仙世界好像不太正常 A hundred years ago, the Strange Star descended, bringing endless horrors to this world. From then on, the world plunged into endless madness and chaos. A hundred years later, Yu Qingming has just transmigrated here and is nearly strangled to death by a horror right from the start. He begins cultivating immortality to protect himself, only to discover that cultivation in this world... seems a little off... “The path to immortality: absorb strange energy, build a strange foundation, form a strang 720Reads5.4Score6114d adds
- 26 The Whole Class Transmigrates to an Eerie Cultivation World: All the Girls in Class Are My Cheat 群穿诡异修仙：全班女生是我外挂 [Uncanny Cultivation] [Multiple Female Leads] [Character Growth] [Building an All-Female Sect] I transmigrated into a cultivation world with all the girls in my class. The System foisted a sect master position and a useless spirit root that couldn't cultivate on Wang Chu. With disaster looming, he had no choice but to lead the girls in his class to establish a sect and take a very different path to success: Living off women while still calling the shots! Raise them right, and a peerless empress 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 27 Golden Pages in the Mist: The Secret Scroll of Immortality 雾中金页：长生密卷 Horror Cultivation + No Female Lead + Decisive and Ruthless Wang Qingshan, a visitor from another land, arrives at Blackstone Castle in a world of dusk. A lost cultivation civilization, an age of desperate relics, rampant aberrations, a deranged world, and demonic corruption have made this already dark world darker still. Standing atop a mountain, Wang Qingshan looks at the shadow blocking out the sky above the mist and laughs wildly. “My power comes entirely from my own hard work.” “Golden page 261Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 28 The Strange Immortal Records: The Whole World’s Memories Have Been Altered 诡仙录：全世界都遭到认知篡改 [Eerie]+ [Cultivation]+ [Lovecraftian]+ [Warhammer]+ [The Foundation]+ [One Female Lead] Sight, hearing, smell, and touch are merely the brain's interpretation of sensory signals. If cognition itself is compromised, how can you be sure that anything you perceive is real rather than an illusion? This is a tainted world. The pills that cultivators eagerly seek are actually living insect eggs, while the beautiful, aloof sword pavilion immortal maiden was long ago refined into a long sword of twiste 461Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 29 Chronicles of the Phantom: Bound by the Old Ones 诡影录：旧日之缚 Cthulhu Mythos + Western Middle Ages + No System + Mental Cultivation Christopher, a modern-day librarian obsessed with the Cthulhu Mythos, had his consciousness transmigrate while reading an obscure old book. He awoke as a down-on-his-luck private detective struggling to survive in Victorian London. At first glance, the world was all steam engines and rigid social conventions, but Christopher keenly sensed the sinister secrets lurking in the shadows beneath the gas lamps: strange reports of dis 1Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 30 The Eerie Cultivation World: This Spiritual Energy Is Poisonous! 诡异修仙世界：这灵气有毒！ [Weird Cultivation] [Unrivaled Genius] [Clan Cultivation] The Heavenly Dao has been infected by a virus, turning what was once an ethereal world of immortal cultivation into a hell teeming with the bizarre. But humanity's creativity and vitality are astounding. By pursuing multiple paths of cultivation side by side, people create a new golden age. Spirit apertures, divine abilities, innate skills, the bizarre, strange tales, and rules. Ji Han says: I'm the most bizarre thing in this world! 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Cultivating Immortality in the Haunted Realm 诡域修仙 So many people have transmigrated to the world of the Strange Domains! In this cultivation world of bizarre rules and haunted realms, who dares claim they cannot be defeated? Who dares call themselves invincible? You want to seal me away? Even a Deity Transformation cultivator couldn't manage that back then! And now you think a mere fake Nascent Soul can do it? Back in my day, I pointed my sword at the Nine Heavens and stepped into the Nascent Soul stage, slaughtered the human race amid mountain —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 The Age of the Five Turbidities: I Can Ignore the Costs of Cultivation 五浊恶世：我能豁免修炼代价 With the Qing court gone, the warlords gorged themselves! The lands of the East fell into a long era of warlord rule, and before long, famine, plague, and the ravages of war had engulfed the whole country. It was a time of the Five Turbidities, an evil age when people were cruel, abandoned the path of virtue, held crooked views, and embraced heresy. No living thing escaped harm. Cultivators had no pure energy to feed on. One after another, they were polluted in body and mind by the roiling turbi 10Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 33 The Ghost-Type Mage of the Supernatural Republican Era 神鬼民国之耿鬼法师 A transmigrator from another universe transmigrates again, landing in the Republic of China era as a weak little Daoist novice. From the start, he also has a scheming, inept master who treats him like a tool. To stay alive, Xiao Mengde decisively turns on his cheap master... Watch as the protagonist grows stronger in this vast and turbulent world of gods and ghosts, carves out a place of his own, and ultimately travels through time in pursuit of the pinnacle of the Dao... 8Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 34 Strange Cultivation Begins with Planting Swords 诡异修仙从种剑开始 Unorthodox techniques, a bizarre cultivation world. Every act of cultivation comes at a price. Resentment gives rise to the eerie, the eerie brings calamity, calamity becomes tribulation, and tribulation rules over all living things. If cultivation is this painful, let someone else cultivate immortality for me. I will forge my realm from flesh and blood, stack bones into a throne, and build my path to transcendence. 368Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 35 Transmigrating Into a Lovecraftian Cultivation World? No Fear, I’m a Materialist 穿越克系修仙？不怕，我唯物主义 No female lead + Lovecraftian cultivation + horror + ensemble cast (The million-word original is complete. Surely you’ll come in and take a look?) Three souls merge, seven spirits become one. A flesh-and-blood hell, a corpse turned into a puppet. How can you survive after transmigrating into a Lovecraftian cultivation world? Su Rang raises his gun and takes aim. “Friend, how about a little acute iron poisoning?” When he transmigrates back, his world has been overrun by ghosts and monsters. Yin e 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Cthulhu: I'm Done Being Human 克苏鲁：我不当人了 [Mutation] [Contamination] [Cthulhu] [Servants] [Path to Godhood] [Penitent Monk] [Plague Doctor] [Living Machinery] I arrived in a world polluted by the Ancients, carrying the attributes of pain and death. Higher civilizations, systems of sin, servants of the Old Kings, the depths of dreams. The path to godhood has opened. Seek the substance hidden in the deepest reaches of the soul. Amid the transfer of power from Old Kings to New Kings, ascend to the vastest and most profound celestial palace 6Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 37 Weird Cultivation: I'm the Real Evil One! 诡异修仙，我才是真正邪魔！ [Cthulhu] [Demonic Cultivation] [Strange and Horrifying] [Ruthless] [No Heroine] [Madness] [Pathological] A strange world. Abnormal gods and Buddhas. Who knows what kind of immortal path ‘I’ cultivate? Who knows what kind of Dao ‘I’ attain? Who knows what ‘I’ really am? This world is wicked, mad, violent, abnormal... How should ‘I’ live in it? What must ‘I’ do to survive? I can’t figure it out! I can’t figure it out!!! In that case, then... Anything that beguiles ‘me’, kill it! Anything that cor 239Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 38 The Eerie Way to Immortality 长生道诡 The Heavenly Dao is uncanny, and immortality is hard to find. Mysterious forbidden zones of life descend, humanity struggles to survive, and cultivation begins to grow uncanny as well... The order of the past has vanished without a trace. Strange and uncanny phenomena will rule the world. All he wants is to stay alive... 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 The Strange Dao: You Slaughtered My Entire Village, Yet You Still Want Buddhism to Flourish 道诡：屠我全村还想佛门大兴 Also known as Cagebound Immortal. Plot-driven + no System + traditional fantasy + everyone is scheming From the moment he was born, Zhao Fan lived in a perfect world. When he was seventeen, a golden Buddha appeared out of nowhere and shattered his peaceful life. He suddenly realized that everything was no more than an illusory dream, like a bubble. Buddhas that devour people, immortals who flay them alive. What was wrong with this bizarre world? Were there no normal people at all? He wanted to b 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Rewind a Billion Times: I Suspect Transmigration Is Fake! 逆亿，我怀疑穿越是假的！ Dream: a dream spanning a thousand autumns. Marsh: a place where waters gather. Perhaps, once enough people have died, someone named Mengze will appear. (Expected to wrap up at 400,000 words. If you can get into it, you might find yourself smiling from time to time, though it'll be a bitter smile. Updates are irregular, so it's best read at a leisurely pace.) 8Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 41 Folk Supernatural Cultivation: Starting as a Water Carrier 民俗诡仙，从挑水汉开始 I became the lowliest water carrier in this haunted city. Here, you mustn’t draw water from a well in the middle of the night, you mustn’t touch the bucket beneath the locust tree, and no matter who knocks, a door without a lit lantern will never open. I trembled as I hauled water for countless households, carrying both the city’s livelihood and its unspeakable rules, believing I could survive by keeping my head down. That was until I saw the shadow hanging over the city, while everyone else act 459Reads5.6Score10414d adds
- 42 Parasitic Cultivation: A Worm from the Start 寄生修仙：开局一条虫 Cultivation is nothing but making wedding clothes for the alien races! Ascension is the world's greatest scam! The Foundation Establishment Pills that help people break through are actually insect eggs! The marrow-cleansing and bone-forging process is just expelling the insect race's filth! As the only one who sees the truth, I will devote my entire life to saving humanity from its misery. I will fight to the death! 39Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Weird Fantasy: I Carry the Peerless Poison Demon with Me 诡异玄幻：我随身携带着盖世毒魔 [Traditional fantasy, no heroine, no System, poison cultivation, Gu cultivation, unconventional cultivation, a world unlike any other.] After arriving in a Miao frontier world where everyone raises Gu and knows how to use poison, Nie Yu discovers that he not only knows a hundred ways to poison someone, but also has three hundred Gu techniques. More terrifying still, the ultimate boss from a game is following him around… 66Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 The Blade, the Eerie, and the Corpse: The Wen Record 刀诡尸闻录 What is supreme? To become an immortal or a Buddha, to see all things as straw dogs, all for the fruit of immortality. What is the Other Shore? Half-mad and half-demon, balancing the Heavenly Way with a mortal heart, raising a blade to sing a song of sorrow. … In the thirty-seventh year of the Daqi era, the Tang clan reigns supreme, while immortals and demons run rampant. A humble corpse-sewing craftsman hiding among the common folk has his body refined into a corpse furnace by the "Supreme." Sn 440Reads8.2Score10614d adds
- 45 Qi Devours the Void: The Old Records of Xuandu 炁噬归墟：玄都旧日簿 The ancient gods are about to awaken from their seals. On a night when blood seeps from the bronze cauldron, Chenxing Jin locks away the disturbance in the spiritual leyline. The Great Wall of Black Mist collapses, and before the clan elder mutates, he slips him half a Qi-Gathering Pill. The Dragon-Severing Stone cracks, a bone blade grows from within his body, and a fading phantom voice cuts to the bone: "What you guarded was never the seal." 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Sin of Immortality: The Corruption of Heaven's Will 长生孽：天道污染 Three thousand years ago, the Heavenly Dao died. Its corpse became strange spiritual energy that nourished all things in the world. From then on, cultivating immortality was no longer a journey to transcend the mortal world and ascend to immortality. It became a path of mutation leading to madness. Foundation Establishment cultivators grew compound eyes, Golden Core experts turned into mounds of flesh, and Nascent Soul ancestors became the indescribable servants of ancient gods. Yet people grew 425Reads6.6Score4914d adds
- 47 Do Not Ascend 不要飞升 An old saying has been passed down through the cultivation world: Do not ascend. Ancient murals warn future generations: Do not ascend! Oracle-bone inscriptions carved on turtle shells and animal bones say: Do not ascend. When a new head of a cultivation family takes over, the first thing they must remember is: Do not ascend! “What? I’m just a food-delivery guy. What are you talking about, ascending or not?” 68Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 The Most Realistic Cultivation 最真实修仙 [Heartbreak + Hellish Trials + Weak Beginnings + Cultivation + Realism + Most Miserable Protagonist + Immortality] Qin Feng has no protagonist aura, no golden finger, and no so-called heavenly luck. In this cruel world of cultivation, he lives worse than a dog every day. A man’s knees are worth their weight in gold, but Qin Feng has none to spare. He can only beg for his life to eke out a wretched existence. This is the most realistic story of an ordinary man cultivating immortality, seeking ete 162Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 49 Fellow Daoist, Help Me Ascend to Immortality 道友，且助我飞升 [Dark] [Cthulhu] [No System] [Uncanny and Mad] The Xuanhuang Heavenly Venerable, covered in tentacles; the Mother Goddess of Life, a mass of seething chaos; and the Emperor of the Abyss, who transcends dimensions, presiding over the Immortal Heaven. Mortals twisted by chaotic evil, cultivators driven mad, a lower world where reality and illusion are tangled together: the myriad beings and images of the Three Thousand Great Paths are all a feeding ground for the indescribable. Mu Feng, a transmig 206Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 50 Cthulhu: Reclaiming the Glory of the Black Hand 克总：重铸黑手荣光 [Adventurer + Cthulhu + urban fantasy + mastermind + superpowers] As a pawn of Cthulhu, Su Ming has his dreams replaced every night with adventures on a bizarre island where Cthulhu is sealed away. Other people’s cheats treat their Hosts like beloved children, but mine wears its malice right out in the open. At least it’s honest about it. Since rivals are enemies, there’s nothing wrong with setting a trap for the Deep One fishmen, right? And since I’ve already trapped them, it’s only fair to kil 24Reads—Score—14d adds
