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- 1 Life Simulation: I Stand Above Time 人生模拟，我在时间之上 Zhang Xuan got a simulator called the “Salvation Plan.” [Simulation evaluation: You wasted your entire life. Utterly useless.] “Useless, am I? I won't stand for that!” [Congratulations! You have obtained the golden trait, Undying and Imperishable. No substance can destroy you, and your life has no end.] [Congratulations! You have obtained the golden trait, Invincible Under Heaven. Anyone who fights you is no match for you.] [Congratulations! You have obtained the golden trait, River of Time. Tim 215Reads7.9Score103Shelves
- 2 Analyze All Things: From Fisherman to True Lord of Water! 剖析万物，从渔民到水德真君！ Li Huoyuan transmigrated to the Great Industry Dynasty and became a fisherman. While everyone else was struggling just to survive, Li Huoyuan used his golden finger, "Analyze All Things," to rapidly improve his abilities. [You analyzed a fish and gained "Favor of the Waters." You now command water.] [You analyzed a crab and gained "Mighty Claws." Your grip can crush solid rock.] [You analyzed a cultivator and gained the "No Taboos" fate. You can learn any cultivator's techniques without them con 292Reads7.2Score132Shelves
- 3 Transmigrating into a Minor Villain from the Start, the Reborn Protagonist Wants to Kill Me 开局穿越小反派，重生主角要杀我 [Villain + crafty schemer + martial soul + lighthearted + high martial arts + the Myriad Worlds + not an invincible protagonist] What do you do after you transmigrate? What do you do after transmigrating into a minor villain who won't survive ten chapters? And what do you do when the protagonist, reborn and determined to kill you, comes after you? Xu Fei is about to lose his mind. He actually transmigrated into a novel he'd read, becoming a minor villain who won't survive ten chapters. From the 1.5kReads7.7Score102Shelves
- 4 Xuanhuan: I Can See the Life Panel 玄幻：我能看到人生面板 Tang Ping is reading a young woman’s face when he unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of an outer disciple in a fantasy sect. He awakens the Face-Reading System, which lets him view people’s life profiles! Curious, he takes a look at his newly arrived junior sister. “ [Name]: Lin Xi [Cultivation]: Second Level of the Origin-Nascent Realm [Fortune]: Favored by Heaven (Gold) [Potential]: Celestial Beauty (Gold) [Ending]: Reaches the Full Completion of the Grand Void Realm, becomes known as th 3.3kReads8.2Score243Shelves
- 5 Emails from the Future: My Golden Finger Is Myself 未来邮件，我的金手指是我自己 [Timeline + Gacha + Future Knowledge + Comedy] Yi Yan receives an email supposedly sent by his future self, who claims to be living an ominous old age. It says Yi Yan is about to confess successfully, then face an invasion by alien beasts, have his girlfriend stolen, get his leg broken, lose his father to a gruesome death, and see his family destroyed. Yeah right. What kind of nonsense is this? Which jerk is pulling a prank on me? The next day, the events described in the email begin happening o 1.3kReads8.2Score168Shelves
- 6 This Support Player Is All Business 这个辅助很正经 [Academy + System + Spiritual qi revival + Support class] Reborn in a parallel world, he finds himself in an era when dimensional rifts and abyssal realms descend, and demons, monsters, ghosts, and spirits run rampant. After four hundred years of intermittent warfare, humanity has finally entered a brief era of peace. Fate Masters, products of the times, have built a new society. Su Naiwen, a man of “excellent character and virtue,” awakens a support-type fate class and reluctantly takes the unr 7.9kReads8.9Score530Shelves
- 7 King of the Grind: I Worked My Way to Tears, Along with Countless Prodigies 卷王之王，从肝哭亿万天骄开始 In a world where the Age of Cultivation has begun, he gains the talent to make up for shortcomings through hard work. Fang Che discovers that his talent seems to have a tiny little problem. … Talent: Make Up for Shortcomings Through Hard Work Cultivation: Third Qi Refining Level Diligence: 1000 Shortcomings to Make Up For: [Spiritual Root], [Spiritual Sense], [Alchemy], [Talismans], [Formations], [Combat] … As long as he cultivates diligently, he can earn [Diligence] to make up for the areas whe 17.7kReads8.8Score2kShelves
- 8 Touch Anything, and My Talent Levels Up 触碰万物，我的天赋能升级 Ye Tian transmigrates to a parallel world dominated by people with supernatural talents, but his own ability is an F-rank water talent. He can only cultivate the F-rank Water Sprinkling Technique, and everyone assumes he's destined to become a sanitation worker. But he discovers that simply touching water lets him absorb its power, continually upgrading his F-rank water talent to E-rank, D-rank, C-rank, and even S-rank. He puts his hand on a gas stove and gains a fire talent. He buries himself i 14.4kReads8.8Score1.3kShelves
- 9 Detective Conan: The Superpowered Demon King 柯南之超能力大魔王 [One Female Lead: Ai Haibara] As a superpowered individual, Yeyue works hard to pass as an ordinary person in the world of Detective Conan. He can use different superpowers when he meets different people, so he's made it his goal to make as many friends as he can. He's Ran and Sonoko's lifesaver, the big brother of the Junior Detective League, an old friend of Dr. Agasa, a partner to Shiho Miyano, and Kaito Kid's senior. Toru Amuro says, "He's the patron of the biggest gang, the Mudshen Society, 7.5kReads8.9Score579Shelves
- 10 Randomly Got a Weird Skill? Don’t Panic, Just Have Fun With It 随机到怪技能？不要慌，要啸着玩 The phases of the moon suddenly changed! Everyone gained a special skill, changing the fate of people across the globe! The disabled, lonely old man Wang gained the skill [Accessible Wheelchair]. From then on, every time something was stolen nearby, wheelchair tracks appeared all over the walls... Old Wu, who ran a shop, gained the skill [Your Shop Is Guaranteed to Thrive]. The very next day, the entire village joined forces to smash up his funeral-clothes shop. College student Xiao Li gained th 18.8kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
- 11 Global Class Change: I Can Stack Artifact Affixes Without Limit 全民转职：我神器词条无限叠加 Lu Cang transmigrated to a world where everyone could choose a class. Instead, he awakened as a B-rank Armorer. His class had only one special feature: he could equip every type of gear. Fortunately, Lu Cang awakened the Divine Gear Compendium. He could synthesize every divine artifact in the world! And he could combine all of their stats into one! From then on, Lu Cang was unstoppable! Nuclear Annihilation Bow + Million-Split Bow = one basic attack that fires a million nuclear annihilation arro 35.2kReads9.1Score3.3kShelves
- 12 Divinity: The Awakening of the Military Soul, Mythology Is Bound to Descend 神祇：军魂觉醒，神话终将降临 In a world of deities, transcend dimensions and become a god! The Yellow Springs Road of the Forgotten River, the Flowers of the Other Shore, and the Bridge of Helplessness. With a three-spirit altar of heroic spirits, undead, and gods and demons, rebuild Fengdu’s ghost realm, forge the supreme netherworld, and roam the Myriad Worlds! 28.9kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
- 13 The Empress Was Once a Pitiful Little Girl, and I Adopted Her 女帝还是小可怜，被我收养 [Rebirth + power fantasy + genius protagonist + empress + races vying for supremacy. The pace may be a little slow at first. After 100,000 words, he becomes the strongest prodigy at his level; after 200,000 words, no prodigy can match him; after 300,000 words, they get back together; after 700,000 words, he has become an invincible Heavenly Emperor across all the heavens.] A thousand years ago, she was a little beggar. A thousand years later, she had become the Empress of the Heavens, revered b 25.1kReads9.0Score2.9kShelves
- 14 Where I Am Is Where the Jianghu Is 我所在之地，便是江湖 “Cultivators are people too, and people die.” Chen Dao sits at the table, staring at the calligraphy and painting before him. After a moment of silence, he says softly, “Pass down the order. Tell our Dao Gang brothers to get ready for tonight’s operation. The target is the Tianxian Restaurant.” “Keep it quiet. I don’t want my father finding out that there’s a band of bandits outside the city who belong to his precious son.” In a secret chamber somewhere in the Chen residence. Chen Dao’s 1.8kReads8.9Score672Shelves
- 15 Dream Masters for All: My Dreams Come from China's Ancient Past 全民梦师：我的梦境来自千古华夏 [Chinese Gods + Underworld and Heavenly Court + Dreamweaver + Livestreaming] Giant star beasts descended, and the final battle began. Countless civilizations fell, and a rift opened in the heritage of Chinese civilization! Only those who awakened as one-in-ten-thousand dreamweavers could stand against the star beasts! Su Mu transmigrated to this world. From the start, he awakened an S-rank talent and joined the global dreamweaver entrance exam! First question: Create a dream of a dead world. Whi 24.2kReads9.1Score2.9kShelves
- 16 My Martial Skills’ Special Effects Are Maxed Out, and I’m Slaying My Way Through the High Martial World! 武技特效拉满，我杀穿高武！ A high-martial-arts world. The strong thrive, while the weak perish. Lin Tian is weak, so he gets bullied and is as insignificant as an ant in this troubled age. This makes no sense! My martial skills have reached divine mastery, and you're still cutting my benefits? It's not that the benefits are worth much. Taking them is simply better value for money. What no one knows is that Lin Tian has awakened the Martial Skill Special Effects System. “Please purchase the A-rank effect, Myriad Thunder Su 23.4kReads8.9Score1.9kShelves
- 17 The White Bone Daoist Court 白骨道庭 Cultivate true energy, build the foundation of the Dao, and manifest the Yin Spirit. The unorthodox path makes seeking the Dao difficult: refine baleful energy, taint the soul, and seek freedom for a fleeting moment. The heterodox path is arduous too: evade earthfire, dodge astral winds, and give birth to the Yang Spirit. A master of the unorthodox path is reborn. In this life, I will establish a Dao lineage, nurture Dao artifacts, and suppress an entire age. 15.8kReads8.9Score1.1kShelves
- 18 Everyone Digs for Treasure, but Only I Can See the Hints 全民挖宝，只有我能看到提示 [First release anywhere online + no saintly heroine + satisfying story + decisive and ruthless + gleefully slaughtering everything] “Shocking! Shocking! The whole world is shocked! Daddy Ma spent one billion yuan to buy ten Super Treasure Maps and finally dug up a Nine-Turn Golden Elixir. He has now attained immortality!!!” “Good news, good news! A high school senior used a Treasure Map to dig up an ancient golden elixir. From now on, my fate is mine to control!” “Rumor has it that netizen Ye us 70.2kReads8.8Score4.6kShelves
- 19 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 93.8kReads9.0Score11kShelves
- 20 As Long as They Have Health Bars, I'll Kill Even the Gods 只要有血条，神明也杀给你看 [Hunter: You can see the health bars of all things, and every attack is guaranteed to deal damage, even to gods!] [Stalker: Stealth through the darkness, hunt beneath the light!] [Executioner: The time for your sentence has come!] “Come on, come on, take a blade!” “Immortal? Once your health bar hits zero, you die!” “As long as it has a health bar, I can kill it, even if it’s a god!” The dark side of the world, a shattered map, strange creatures from the abyss... There is no light behind them, 130.1kReads9.3Score14.6kShelves
- 21 EN Fantasy: Starting Blind, I Cultivate with an Erhu 玄幻：开局瞎子，从拉二胡开始 (The short drama is now streaming: Fantasy: Beginning with Two Springs Reflect the Moon) [Spending Life + Grinding and Lying Low] "Once a song breaks the heart, where in all the world can one find a kindred soul?" From the start, he transmigrated as a blind man and became a street musician. [Two Springs Reflect the Moon: LV2 (1/10000) Effect: Unblocks qi and blood, opens the meridians, dispels dampness, and warms the body] He is a blind street musician who wipes out an entire gang for 141.6kReads9.6Score14.7kShelves
- 22 EN Call Me the Ghost Messenger 请叫我鬼差大人 After the Eternal Night, terror returned. Ten miles of desolate graves, eerie singing. An old man searching for his arms, a headless baby... They kept piecing their bodies back together, unleashing an even more terrifying aura. In the wasteland, even a severed hand could destroy heaven and earth. In this world of darkness and despair, a post office appeared and vanished from view... A mysterious young man, a postal carriage traveling through the void... One blood-red letter after another became 102.6kReads9.5Score9.7kShelves
- 23 EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 538.9kReads9.7Score71.1kShelves
- 24 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 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8kShelves
- 25 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 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5kShelves
