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- 1 Legend of the Shipwright 舰修传奇 Xu Nuo, a star warrior from the interstellar age, accidentally transmigrates into a world of cultivation. “Fellow cultivator, you're a sword cultivator, right?” a cultivator asks Xu Nuo, who is carrying a sword case on his back. “Ship cultivator? Yeah, I guess so!” Xu Nuo replies. “Excellent! With a sword cultivator joining us, our chances in this trial have improved considerably. As a sword cultivator, you must be very powerful. Sword cultivators have always had some of the strongest attacks.” 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Who Told You to Modify the Starship Like That? 谁让你这么改装星舰的？ [System + Interstellar Warfare + Farming + Rising to Lordship + Comedy + Power Fantasy] Wang Xiaohu, a seasoned sci-fi fan, obtains the universe’s most advanced starship modification system. From then on: Space pirate: “Why the hell does a light destroyer have a planet-buster cannon?!” Veteran starship design master: “There’s no way any battleship can reach that speed! Impossible, absolutely impossible!” Five-star Imperial general: “Young people these days have no respect for the rules!” A 17Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 3 Urban: Bodyguard to a Wealthy Heiress 都市：成为豪门千金的贴身保镖 In the eyes of the interstellar raiders, asteroid-dwelling creatures are nothing more than “experience fodder” in their game. Cultivation arts and secret manuals are like game skills, mastered with a single click. It was only when they encountered a tiny Blue Star that they changed their tune. A Demon Venerable named Li Chang'an summoned the ancient demons Chiyou and Xingtian, along with the demonic star Houqing, from Blue Star, then led a host of cultivators into battle, armed with super-nuclea 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Immortal Way Among the Stars 星河仙道 Wang Dao, a transmigrator from 21st-century Earth, first transmigrates to a world resembling the Republican era, on the verge of the end of the age of cultivation. In that world, he struggles to survive, then founds a religion and gathers boundless power from the people's devotion before breaking through the world's boundaries and ascending. But the void is perilous, and his ascension fails. At the most perilous moment, he is lucky enough to reach a starry world where the supernatural flourishes 524Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 5 Using Technology to Master the Cultivation World 科技玩转修行界 Jiang Cheng was a boy who hated cultivation. When he was struck by lightning, he unexpectedly gained knowledge of Earth’s technological civilization. From then on, he wielded technology as his power. What dazzling sparks would fly when technological civilization met the cultivation world… 219Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 6 A Tech Genius in the Cultivation World 修仙世界的的科技大佬 Sun Yi, a top weapons expert in the galaxy, was unexpectedly reborn in a parallel world where cultivation reigned supreme. When he arrived, he found that the humans who called themselves cultivators possessed a higher level of power and could break free of their genetic limits, yet still used the most primitive weapons. What a waste! Determined to develop the most powerful spirit-energy weapons, Sun Yi became a cultivator and soon invented the first spirit-energy rifle. After that, there was no 248Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 7 Everything Connected: I Handcraft Planets in the Wasteland 万物互联：我在废土手搓星球 In the 21st century, a technological explosion sent humanity down an evolutionary path known as the Scholar's Way. In an era where connections mattered, most resources were held by interstellar megacorporations. Lin Mo was an orphan who completed his nine years of compulsory education by scavenging through trash. Then one day, he obtained the [All Things Connected] template, gaining the ability to perceive energy and listen to all things. What? The odds of awakening a supernatural ability are 5.1kReads8.1Score60514d adds
- 8 Jiyuan Sect 纪元宗 Daji's fox tail sweeps across the battlefield between the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Is that a bewitching crimson glow that will topple a dynasty, or a glimmer safeguarding the spark of humanity? Beneath the heavenly music of the Celestial Court, does a paradise for the gods lie hidden, or an alien civilization's colonial fortress? The thunderous sound of Pangu creating heaven and earth: is it a hero's swan song, or the opening move in a conspiracy by a mysterious race to control the ages? Qin S 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 From the Start: A Starship of Spacefaring Women Invites Me to Be Its Captain 开局：星际女兵邀我当舰长 Wang Teng used to be nothing but a corporate grunt. After transmigrating to an interstellar world where technology has developed in all the wrong directions, he finds himself still stuck as a grunt. To escape that fate, he has no choice but to inherit his family's two apartment buildings, collect rent, and live an ordinary life. But then, one day... while carrying a basket of groceries and humming a tune, he suddenly gets “taken hostage”! What?! I'm a captain now? What?! The fleet is on the verg 3.3kReads6.7Score32614d adds
- 10 The Demigod's Grief 半神之殇 Gonggong, in his fury, struck Mount Buzhou. The heavenly ladder collapsed, severing the link between Heaven and Earth. People believed that gods and mortals had simply been separated forever. They never knew the shattered thing was actually the shackles enslaving all creation. Above the vast dimensions, the “Divine Realm” looked down upon an experimental field called “Earth.” So-called ascension was merely a brutal selection process, a chance to become the kindling of a higher-dimensional civili 263Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 Bound to a Small World Tree: The Dragon Nation Rises Because of Me 绑定小世界树：龙国因我而崛起 [Little World Tree + Growing Black Technology in a Pocket Dimension + Tech Supremacy + Everything Made by Hand] Qin Yi's pocket dimension was supposed to grow melons, but the melons never came. He planted beans, but no beans grew either! Just after the New Year, Qin Yi was about to return to the city for work when, blessed with impossibly good luck, he formed a contract with the Little World Tree and gained access to its world-tree dimension. With help from the dimension and the Little World Tre 2.8kReads8.5Score18014d adds
- 12 Interstellar Cultivation Begins with a Desperate Escape 星际修仙从逃亡开始 Sci-fi, interstellar travel by spaceship, cosmic exploration, and cultivation among the stars If you love interstellar travel, space exploration, and diverse interstellar civilizations, come on in! This story focuses on exploring civilizations and the unknown! The protagonist transmigrates into the body of an immortal imprisoned by the Cosmic Evil Clan. Once an immortal who strode freely across heaven and earth, he has become a wanted fugitive in the cosmos. A mysterious Immortal Ancestor teache 309Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 13 EN I Start by Building a Computer by Hand to Bring the Cultivation World to Heel 从手搓电脑开始镇压修仙界 (Cultivation + technology + wild imagination) Why does everyone get a System after they transmigrate? Yi Xuan will tell you that even after transmigrating, you still have to rely on technology. As the gods and immortals filling the sky looked across at him, Yi Xuan smiled and pointed to the starships behind him. “Have you made up your minds? How about sitting down and talking instead?” 2.6kReads8.4Score22314d adds
- 14 I Founded a Mechanical Demonic Sect in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界创立机械魔教 Technology VS cultivation: pistols dominate Qi Refiners, rifles hunt Foundation Establishment cultivators, artillery slaughters Golden Core cultivators, and missiles annihilate Nascent Souls... Our slogan is: "The flesh is weak; ascend through machinery." 455Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 15 When a High-Tech Civilization Enters the Age of Cultivation 当超科技文明穿进入修仙时代 This is the most advanced civilization in the universe today. There are no flashy phenomena here, only the reasoning and breakthroughs found at the very limits of science. When an advanced technological civilization runs short of energy, a struggle for resources is bound to erupt. Hello, my name is Kexing. Ke as in science, Xing as in excitement. I will be in full charge of carrying out this mission to travel through a black hole. [Beep beep beep] [One person is assigned to this mission. Verifyi 31Reads—Score214d adds
- 16 I'm in the Three-Body World, and My Cultivation Blows the Droplets to Bits! 人在三体世界，我修仙干爆水滴！ [This is not a mindless, fast-paced power fantasy. The author knows the original work inside out and treats it with great respect. Almost all the worldbuilding, including cultivation, fits within the original framework. You can enjoy this even if you haven't read the original.] Fun Version: Two hundred years from now, the Trisolarans' probe, “Droplet,” arrives in the Solar System. Chu Ming: “Who says humanity has no Great Emperor?!” He swings his palm, and the Droplet is shattered to pieces! 165Reads9.3Score10614d adds
- 17 Star Martial Firmament 1 星武苍穹1 In the future Solar System, humanity colonizes the stars, only to accidentally awaken a slumbering martial civilization. To save his younger sister, who suffers from a genetic disease, young Lin Fan resolutely embarks on a perilous journey into astral martial arts. As technology and martial arts converge among the stars, the story takes readers on a tour of the Solar System’s magnificent vistas, lets them experience the boundless allure of martial arts, and shows them the light and darkness of h 329Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The End of the Universe 全宇宙的尽头 Using Earth as its model, this novel depicts the future development of human technology, society, and relationships. No matter how far technological civilization advances, its ultimate pursuit is to push each individual to the limit, much like cultivation, though the methods differ. Einstein once speculated that the end of technology is theology. This book also explores cultivation, but unlike other cultivation novels, it interprets and understands cultivation from the perspective of science and 971Reads8.8Score10914d adds
- 19 My Starship Game Ships Become Real? I Spent a Fortune on a Million Ships 星际手游反馈战舰？我氪出百万舰 “The ten thousand Silent Behemoth-class carriers you own in the game have been transferred to real-world shipyards.” “The one hundred thousand Flawless Nebula-class patrol cruisers you own in the game have been transferred to real-world shipyards.” “The five hundred thousand Wandering Sanctuary-class battlecruisers you own in the game have been transferred to real-world shipyards.” “The one million Dreadnought Orca-class destroyers you own in the game have been transferred to real-world shipyard 2.2kReads8.9Score18414d adds
- 20 An Evolutionary Journey Without Playing by the Rules 进化之旅，不讲武德 [Spiritual powers + body cultivation + universe + technology + fantasy + myriad races of the heavens] On the planet of Cape Town, at the edge of the Milky Way, young Lin Hao had been living an unremarkable life. But an unexpected encounter completely changed his fate: an unknown energy crystal entered his body and reconstructed his cells, granting him extraordinary physical and mental powers. His life form began to evolve, breaking through its limits time and time again. From controlling microsc 135Reads7.3Score20014d adds
- 21 Stars Stir Across a Thousand Clouds 星动千云 Xing Dong is just an ordinary member of the millions of cultivators, or perhaps he doesn't even know that he's a cultivator. If fate exists, then perhaps he was born to toil. If cultivators have prodigies, then perhaps he is just a background character. Beneath the boundless Heavenly Dao, this is the helpless cry of an ordinary cultivator, and the black-and-white battle 375Reads—Score11014d adds
- 22 A Modern Female Rogue Cultivator's Astral Travels 现代女散修的元神漫游记 A female rogue cultivator from the city wanders into a ruined temple and unexpectedly finds a strange book capable of revealing the universe's ultimate secrets. From then on, she can leave her body in spirit form and encounters all kinds of supernatural events in the city. She often befriends the Black and White Impermanence, thinking she is about to ascend, but this wildly imaginative astral adventure through the city has only just begun! It turns out there are all sorts of ways to cultivate bo 73Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 23 String! Antimatter Universe: Crossing Over 弦！正物质宇宙：跨越 A hard-science-fiction novel. Please add it to your bookshelf and follow the author! This is an imaginative, alternate-universe science-fiction series featuring an explosive surge in technological development, conflict and integration between Earth and alien civilizations, sweeping interstellar wars, and an interstellar alliance made up of numerous civilizations. It has a vast cosmic and technological setting, and ultimately explores a clash with higher-dimensional forces. I hope you’ll enjoy it 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 Magic's Industrial Revolution 魔法之工业革命 This novel starts off a little slowly. The first ten chapters mainly lay the groundwork. Transmigrate into a world of magic and combine magic with technology! Take inspiration from Minecraft redstone circuits to create [Logic] magic arrays! Apply the principles of magic to build refrigerators, guns, cannons, and mechs, and invent more efficient machines! Free people from manual labor, boost productivity, create wealth, and spark an Industrial Revolution in a world of magic. [Raises a gun] T 11.7kReads9.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 25 The Age of Gods: My Followers Can Build Nuclear Bombs 神祇时代：我的信徒会造核弹 In the twilight of the gods, divine powers have scattered across the land, and anyone can become a god! Lin Chen was an early-admission student at the Imperial Capital Royal Academy, but after awakening the lowest-grade deity, he was expelled… Luckily, he also awakened a super technology System! So while everyone else believes in magic, his followers are convinced that technology is the greatest power of all! Heard your followers can conjure fireballs? Sorry, mine can build nuclear bombs! 13.9kReads8.7Score1.5k14d adds
- 26 I Took a Temp Job, Only to Be Classified as a National S-Level Secret 当个临时工，竟被国家S级加密了 [Cutting-edge technology + disasters + interstellar adventure + war + passion + bandits + System + supernatural abilities] Lin Luo, an intern on the verge of being fired, gains a Super Gene System that can modify human genes. When Eagleland is proudly developing its eighteenth-generation supersonic aircraft, people in Huaxia are flying through the sky on swords, overtaking them and shocking the world! When aliens from a Level Nine civilization arrive on Earth, swaggering with supreme arrogance, 8.7kReads8.9Score63814d adds
- 27 The Age of Technological Cultivation: I Can Boost Comprehension 科技修仙纪元：我能加持悟性 [Cyberpunk Technology] + [Cultivation System] [Prodigy] + [Cheat-Level Comprehension] + [Power Fantasy] + [The Sword That Breaks All Laws] A ring with folded-space storage, a complete collection of circuit-integrated talismans, supreme immortal bones enhanced with ultra-fine nanotechnology, spirit treasures worn as armor, technology-based foundation building… When the world of technology collides with the world of cultivation, feathered immortals clash with starships, and planet-destroying warsh 23.7kReads8.8Score1.8k14d adds
- 28 Mecha: Can Your Beast Tamer Beat a Gundam? 机甲：你的御兽能打过高达吗 [Mecha + Beast Taming + Light Comedy + A power fantasy, but not a pure power fantasy (the protagonist isn't invincible from birth, so readers who want him to mindlessly slaughter his way through the story should steer clear) + Relatively rigorous plot logic (note: the plot logic is rigorous, not the setting. A fantasy setting can't be made to conform entirely to reality).] [A Tongqian production: only the best!] Beast Tamer: “My spirit beast is a fire-type Earthflame Jiao. It's a hundred meters 1.4kReads9.1Score60014d adds
- 29 Cross-Time Trading: I Trade a Bottle of Water for Nuclear Fusion 超时空交易：我一瓶水换核聚变 [Cross-Time Trading + Tycoon + Technology + Incredibly Satisfying] "The Super-Time Trading Platform is recruiting Blue Star agents. Base salary starts at 100,000." Su Yu had just lost his job when he happened upon this recruitment ad. He clicked on it just for a laugh. Then he became a Blue Star agent for the Super-Time Trading Platform, able to trade goods with people across different eras and worlds. A ton of rice could get him 50 kilograms of gold from a trading partner in a wasteland world? 29.2kReads8.7Score2.5k14d adds
- 30 You Were Told to Make Deals, but You Changed the Era 让你做交易，你引领了时代 [The only supernatural power on Blue Star. The main world has no ancient martial arts or cultivation world: I alone wield a unique power.] [Adapted into the short-form drama My Friends Are Everywhere Across the Heavens] He transmigrated to Blue Star and became a wealthy tycoon, only to be poisoned and given six months to live? Just as his hopes were fading, Jiang Da became a member of the Hypertemporal Club, gaining connections to countless worlds. Cultivation worlds. Interstellar worlds. Lord w 30.7kReads8.9Score2k14d adds
- 31 EN This Cultivator Comes from Earth 这位修士来自地球 [Cyber cultivation] [Hardcore cultivation techniques] [the Myriad Worlds] A grand epic with a very long buildup. Readers who prefer fast-paced, feel-good stories may want to steer clear. The story reaches the stars in Volume Three. The cyberpunk element in this book chronicles how Shenzhou gradually evolves from a modern civilization into a cyber-cultivation civilization. It doesn't start out in a cyberpunk world. The setting unfolds gradually, and the cyber-cultivation theory doesn't begin unti 26kReads8.9Score2.7k14d adds
- 32 EN Reborn Without a Cheat—Because I’m a Planet! 穿越没有金手指，因为我是星球 [World creation + behind-the-scenes mastermind + transmigration + planets + planetary consciousness + civilization development + lords + conquest + the Myriad Worlds] Zhang Yang transmigrates, but from the start he has no golden finger. Instead, he transmigrates into a ball: a planet! A planet lord must constantly simulate the planet's development and the rise and fall of its civilizations to raise the planet's level. While other planet lords are still pondering which direction their civilizatio 11.6kReads9.3Score95514d adds
- 33 Xinghe Yuan 星河元 [Global High Martial Arts] [Cosmic Stars] [Burning Passion] [Epic-Length Story] At a certain point in time, a mysterious beam of light from the cosmos pierced the void and entered the body of a newborn baby on Earth. Nangong Zhui was born amid strange omens. As the vessel for this mysterious beam, was his fate decided from the moment he was born? Hi, everyone! I'm an orphan. My parents left me the year I was born. I was originally a member of an ancient sect, but for certain reasons, I was bro 624Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 The 1950s: Starting Out as a Wanderer, I Make My Home in the Deep Mountains 50年代：隐居深山从流浪开始 Tags: (farming + reclusive life + family saga + harem + science fiction + interstellar + universe) (Entirely hand-written, no AI) (Author’s note at chapter 3480: I’ve been writing this book for over three years. Its rating went from 9.4 to 8.9, and its readership has fallen from several hundred thousand to forty or fifty thousand. It was once a huge hit, and then it faded into obscurity. Many readers have probably come across it more than once, but very few have made it to the later chapters. (S 33.8kReads8.9Score2.4k14d adds
- 35 Between Two Worlds, with an Armored Tide at My Back 穿梭两界，我的身后是钢铁洪流 [Travel Between Two Worlds] + [Calling in the Parents] + [Steel Torrent] + [Mechanical Fantasy] + [Across the Stars] + [Smart Characters] Ultimate Summoning Technique: Motherland, I need you! Transmigration means hacking through thorns and blazing a trail, struggling through hardships, facing deadly battles and danger at every turn. After fighting tooth and nail in another world to carve out a tiny territory, the enemy is about to reach his gates. The foolish nobles have abandoned my country. Th 46.7kReads9.3Score3.2k14d adds
- 36 Flying Immortal on a Warship: I'm a Ship Cultivator in a Xuanhuan World 御舰飞仙：我在玄幻当舰修 [Overwhelming firepower] [Unmatched technology] [One heroine] [No brainless characters] A young captain arrives in this world of fantasy, bringing with him the Xihe, a warship that once ruled the seas of stars. No matter how you fly through the heavens or shatter mountains and rivers, even the arrogant cultivators must bow before the miracle known as “science.” Rift cannons, two-dimensional foils, light-particle strikes, black hole bombardments... Mechanical golden cores, electronic nascent soul 21.3kReads9.4Score2.2k14d adds
- 37 The Creator's Taboo 造物主的禁忌 (This book has been years in the making and revised over a hundred times. From the first volume to the last, it will tell one complete, expansive story, with a large cast, suspense, and a touch of brain-teasing mystery. From time to time, the author will offer summaries or hints in the author's notes.) A creator's greatest taboo is making a life more perfect than their own! The gods created humanity and shackled it with birth, aging, sickness, death, memories that slip away like sand, and endles 238Reads9.0Score16114d adds
- 38 EN Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力 [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na 333.1kReads9.7Score43.5k14d adds
- 39 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
- 40 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5k14d adds
