Novels like The Dao-Proving Deception
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- 51 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 273Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 52 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 16Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 My Water Vat Is an Ascension Pool 我家水缸是飞升池 Ye Changqing’s fish tank became an ascension pool for a low-dimensional world. One day, the tank suddenly began to glow, and a tiny black dog the size of a thumb crawled out, barking, “This Emperor devours the heavens and swallows the earth! One bite can swallow thirty million stars!” Ye Changqing pinched up a crumb of dog food and held it out. The dog went wild. “Dad! A divine treasure! I’ll be your pet!” Next, a haughty sword immortal half the size of a fingernail, an ancient emperor the size 5Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 54 The Uncanny Path: I Told You to Cultivate, So Why Have You All Gone Mad? 诡道：让你们修真，你们都疯了？ You were told to slay your inner demon, so why did you kill your whole family? You were told to suffer a little, so why are you skinning people and tearing out their bones? [Protagonist in torment + unhinged protagonist + Chinese horror + Lovecraftian urban cultivation + not mindless + satisfying power fantasy + more torment early on, more payoff later] [Readers in a normal state of mind, enter at your own risk. This book is all about madness. The first twenty chapters move quickly to get to the 112Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 55 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 452Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 56 The Dao Hides, the Gods Vanish 道隐神匿 [Cultivation]+ [Cthulhu Mythos]+ [Supernatural Powers and Spells] From the twisted shadows looking down on all living things atop Baiyu Jing, to the bizarre feast of writhing flesh in Kunlun's Jade Pool, to the enormous pupils prowling and spying in the weak waters of the Yellow Springs: when the gilded splendor of Taoist temples and Buddhist monasteries fades, and the gods of the heavens no longer heed the prayers of mortals, when the moral codes of the court and the martial world fall away, th 145Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 57 The Long Road to Immortality 长生路迢迢 A person’s life often passes through three stages. In youth: Who rules the endless void? I’ll write the annals of eternity. In middle age: When the time is right, heaven and earth lend their strength; when fortune fades, even heroes lose their freedom. In old age: The Dao dies, and demons are born! Many years later, Mu Changsheng looked back on his life and could only sigh: “Immortality is hard to attain. Eternal life is beyond hope!” The Nine Realms are a world where anyone can cultivate, a wor 45Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 Parasitic Cultivation: I Can Rewind After Death 寄生修仙：我能死亡回档 [A protagonist who grows over time, not a power fantasy] Twisted immortals and Buddhas, undying monsters, and a chaotic Heavenly Dao. Cultivate qi by planting insect eggs in your dantian, establish your foundation by spinning them into cocoons and hatching them into insects... Su Muran transmigrates here and awakens an infinite-rewind golden finger called Rebirth. He becomes an entry-level disciple of the Qinglan Sect. A cultivation path plagued by parasites, a road to immortality that turns you 622Reads7.0Score10214d adds
- 59 Ascension Is a Trap: The Humans of the Upper Realm Feed on My People 飞升是陷阱，上界人族以我族为食 [Blue Star is the highest plane, and Blue Star's people are invincible] Frog Saint: I was a prodigy of the frog race, born with extraordinary talent. In my youth, I roamed the world undefeated and became the supreme ruler of the demon realm. Today, I broke through to the legendary realm and ascended to the upper world. I thought I would rule for all eternity, but instead I found corpses strewn everywhere and the remains of my people scattered across the land. Countless legendary demon emperors h 460Reads6.9Score10114d adds
- 60 The Evil Immortal of the Ghostly Path 诡道邪仙 (In the style of Daoist Unorthodox, all immortals are evil, eerie cultivation, no female lead, two worlds) My best friend, Li Changye, escaped from a psychiatric hospital. He said that spiritual energy in our world had run dry, the path to immortality was severed, and the immortal pill in his hand was the only ticket to the immortal realm. After he force-fed me the pill, I really did arrive in a world as beautiful as a celestial paradise, filled with birdsong and flowers. But beneath the beauty 8.6kReads6.4Score78314d adds
- 61 Burn Incense and Build Temples: The Paper Figures Want to Become Immortals 烧香立庙，纸扎人想成仙得道 Synopsis: [No heroine, not invincible, no clichéd tropes, mystery and the supernatural, folk legends and strange tales, Chinese-style occultism, bizarre cultivation] The author has completed two novels of over a million characters: Gate of Guixu and Bizarre Cultivation. A dead branch buried in the belly, and even after death, one may cultivate immortality. The paper effigies used in funerals gain a spirit and become evil spirits, painted in human likeness to impersonate people. They don’t ea 608Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 62 From the Start, Covered in Tentacles, I’ll Devour Every Ancient God 开局全身长满触手，我会吃光古神 [No Female Lead] [Lovecraftian Cultivation] [Horror] [Dark] (A few chapters in the middle may be a little slow, but after that things get completely unhinged.) What is cultivation? Feeding on spirits? People? Immortals? Is human nature good? Is it evil? Who am I? What is right? What is wrong? An unlucky man encounters an ancient god for no apparent reason. Chaotic, jumbled memories, hidden indescribable horrors, a world tainted by corruption. Along the way, he encounters all kinds of bizarre sup 13Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 63 A National Broadcaster's Undercover Visit to an Elementary School Uncovers a Family of Heroes 总台记者暗访小学，查出满门忠烈 Recently, insiders revealed that a well-known elementary school was suspected of serving children pre-made meals. The incident has drawn widespread attention and discussion from all walks of life. After an in-depth investigation, reporters interviewed a girl around eleven or twelve years old. The girl was not only a staunch supporter of pre-made meals, but claimed they tasted great! Just as netizens were preparing to tear into her, they learned that she came from a single-parent family and lived 199Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 64 Xingyun A's First Book 星云阿的第1本书 A new work is here! 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! 93Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 I Become a Creator God and Build the Myriad Worlds 我成为创世神，打造诸天万界 [Creation Flow + Behind-the-Scenes Flow + World-Building Flow + Harvesting Flow + Herding the Myriad Worlds Flow] At the beginning of time, who first spread the teachings? Who created the Myriad Worlds? Who created all living beings? And who became the shadowy hand that blotted out the heavens, destroying one era after another? Who were the ancient emperors, and who were the forbidden origins they fought against? … It all began when Lin Qing found a Chaos Brush and a Heavenly Book. And so, he c 5Reads5.5Score514d adds
- 66 How Dare You Call Me an Evil Spirit? I’ll Win You Over with Virtue 竟敢污蔑我是邪祟，看我以德服人 [Traditional Daoist arts, internal martial arts, spirits and evil entities, ghosts, gods, demons, and immortals, power fantasy, decisive and ruthless] When an evil god's spiritual root turns into the Tree Lord and bears fruit shaped like babies, spirits and evil entities roam everywhere. When the flesh spirit is defiled and flesh and blood congeal into a malevolent deity, people kneel and worship. When the incense offerings to a lesser deity flourish, eerie thoughts quietly descend into the worl 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Eerie Revival: From the Start, I Became a Coffin Ghost 诡异复苏：开局成为棺材鬼 Standing before you is the strongest evil spirit of the age of supernatural resurgence: Zuo Feng [Author's Note] There's no point in keeping spoilers under wraps now, since there won't be any more chapters. Yu Xin had the same identity as Jin Songxi: she was one of Zuo Feng's teammates before he was reborn. She had learned about all this a long time ago, which was why she guided Zuo Feng step by step to the train, where the Flower Snatcher was imprisoned and controlled. Her later appearance in X 746Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 68 Divine Descent 降神 You have Daoist arts to cultivate immortality; I have spirit-summoning arts that can commune with the gods. Cultivating immortality comes with conditions. You need either natural talent and immortal bones, or a fortuitous encounter and spiritual roots. To achieve anything in your cultivation, you also need a cheat. But what if you're just an utterly ordinary person? You have nothing: no talent, luck, good fortune, or even the grit to work hard. You're no pretty boy, and you're not young, either. 970Reads6.2Score11814d adds
- 69 After the Fall of the Immortals 众仙陨落之后 That day, after a rain of light fell beneath the night sky, it seemed as though nothing had happened. People went on living as usual. But why is it that anyone who enters the mountains at night never returns, moon-gazers are found as nothing but bones the next day, and the sound of insects crawling begins to come from the statues of the gods… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 70 Cultivating the Uncanny Dao: I Can Trade Away the Price of Cultivation 诡道修仙：我能置换修行代价 [Demonic cultivation + cold-blooded and ruthless + decisive killing + loss of humanity] [Women appear, but there is no female lead] Cultivation comes at a price! A pretty young girl clutches a stinking corpse and gnaws at it. A swordsman in white sniffs the long strips of cloth used to bind a village woman’s feet. Rotting flesh lurks beneath the golden body of the Buddha, while writhing maggots dwell beneath the skin of immortals. Cultivators are neither free of worldly attachments nor pure of e 10Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 71 The World of Five Turbidities 五浊世界 (No System. A traditional xianxia style.) In this eerie world, everything is going wrong. The higher a cultivator's realm, the more dangerous they become, filled with mutations, corruption, and evil! Even the Buddha has become abnormal, and the will sent down by the Heavenly Venerable is full of malice. This world is beyond saving... Wang Quan transmigrated with the supreme Buddhist relic he had begged for in his previous life. All he wanted was to survive in peace! 1.2kReads5.6Score11914d adds
- 72 A Thousand Eyes on the Path of the Uncanny 诡道千眼 "Eerie Cultivation" "Classic Power Progression" "One Female Lead" "No System" Chaotic Daoist arts, uncanny immortals and gods. Cultivators soar through the skies and burrow underground, surviving three calamities and five tribulations as they walk the path to immortality. Ordinary people toil away, endlessly tilling the fields, with neither life nor death in their own hands. The refugees struggle through the blustering snow. Those who collapse today will be someone else’s next meal. They are str —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 73 Beneath the Bare Canopy 赤裸穹隆 A diligent, good-hearted young man wanders into the martial world without even realizing it. The farther he goes, the deeper he gets. Perhaps he is a good person, perhaps a bad one. He takes in the scenery along the way and meets all kinds of people and experiences. He gains and loses, and finds fortune or misfortune. 8.3kReads8.6Score1.1k14d adds
- 74 I Am the Creator. I Duplicated Blue Star and Shocked the World 我造物主，复制蓝星，震惊全球 After Li Rui transmigrated to Blue Star, a parallel world, he discovered he had a terminal illness. He had already prepared himself to accept his fate. But then he suddenly obtained a world-creation simulation System. It could create a world and simulate the evolution of countless species within it, allowing him to advance his own level of existence. Li Rui, who had already given up hope, immediately activated the System. A planet identical to Blue Star suddenly appeared in the solar system. 527Reads6.3Score3114d adds
- 75 Starting with a Hundred Billion Spirit Stones, I Become the Richest Man in the Cultivation World 百亿灵石开局，我在修仙界当首富 Feel-good power fantasy\Female-led story with a domineering heroine\Career-focused\No romance\Dark cultivation\Progression fantasy Setting: The more powerful and revered a cultivator is, the lower their moral standards. The more righteous a sect claims to be, the less scrupulous it is. Heroine: An honest sword cultivator who gets talked into becoming a total pervert. In the heroine’s world, there are no cultivation partners, only human cauldrons. She’s more powerful than anyone in the Joyful Uni 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 The Immortal of Strange Cores 怪核之仙 [Invasion by Transmigrators + Occupational Combos + A Touch of Cosmic-Horror Folklore + Dark Tone] Kill your family to cultivate immortality? Hurt others to become a Buddha? Overnight, the entire world suddenly began cultivating as one. An Qinghe thought it was a dream, until his own parents tied him up. Only then did he realize that it was all real... Cultivators have invaded the modern world, seizing people's bodies and souls! But right now, all An Qinghe wants to know is... why do they say he 1kReads9.0Score11414d adds
- 77 Refining Lifespan into Immortality 炼寿成仙 The protagonist is deceived by his best friend from the start and dies abroad. After being reborn in another world, his temperament changes completely, leaving him exceptionally wary. [Cautious + Survivalist + Master Actor + Ruthless + Merciless + Relentless + Potion Addict] A little black bottle can drain the lifespan from anything. A single drop of life essence can grow a thousand-year-old divine medicine. While powerful beings in the other world scrimp and save century-old herbs to practice m 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 Using the Great Thousand Record from the Start, the Campus Beauty Kisses My Heart 开局使用大千录，校花轻吻我心脏 [Fan fiction] + [System] + [Daoist Horror] + [supernatural urban setting] + [dark tone] + [no female lead] + [Cthulhu Mythos] In a world where supernatural abilities reigned supreme, Zhao Tianming awakened the lowest-ranked D-class ability, self-healing, in front of everyone in Class Three. Faced with the whole class mocking him, Zhao Tianming smiled more brightly than anyone else, then challenged the entire class. Just as everyone assumed he had lost his mind under the pressure, they had no ide 81Reads—Score11114d adds
- 79 The Lord of Tainted Blood 秽血真君 As the ancients said: “A person walking the Great Way is a cultivator of the Dao. The blazing sun ahead is the Great Way. The road behind, where one turns back, is the tangled mortal world. The flowers and bright fruit along the roadside are the many kinds of desire. At the summit, a cliff with no road onward, one gazes down at heaven and earth and sees how small they are: this is enlightenment.” “With no road ahead, there is only the heavens. What then?” “Heaven has no master. The one who comma —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 Above the Floating Heavens 浮天之上 [Traditional fantasy, not a power fantasy, no romance] His clear eyes have gazed across the ages. This is a vast world, where the Sea of Buried Heaven gives birth to the Myriad Worlds, while nine celestial heavens drift above the sea. This is the homeward journey of a lost soul. So what if you are invincible beneath the heavens? A single lifetime among mortals is worth more! Li Yuan: “I watched the mortal world turn into a sea, then the sea become the mortal world again. I clung to the past and 122Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 81 I Am the Creator 我是造物主 He Yang was gravely ill and had little time left when he chanced upon the Creation System. Countless worlds came into being at his fingertips. Super technology? Evolution in the apocalypse? Or ancient gods and great sages? From then on, a thought could bring a world into being, and another could destroy it. Wealth? Fame and fortune? Or something else? He Yang said he wasn't interested in any of that (with Jack Ma's face). What he pursued was a carefree path to transcendence! 17Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 82 My Split Personality Spawned a Ghost 人格分裂出一只诡 This book has been discontinued. A new book set in the same world is on my homepage. I didn't handle things well earlier for various reasons, and I want to apologize to everyone again. I've replaced almost all of the original text, so there's basically nothing left to read. The book will be hidden after 15 days without updates. Instance One: Twin Ghosts of the Deserted Village (Completed) Instance Two: Ghost of the Forest Ranger (Completed) Instance Three: Spirit of Insatiable Desire (Ongoing) I —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 God of the Spirit Realm 灵界之神 In the Spirit Domain World, spiritual energy is abundant, and everyone can cultivate. Only Qin Zhen, despite possessing an innate spirit body, has a source of spiritual power that has run dry. Was this the will of Heaven itself, or was there another reason? He roams the world and cultivates along the way. Little by little, a tremendous secret begins to emerge... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 84 Nine Mounds: The Mandate of Heaven Returns to the Ruins 九丘：天命归墟 [Xuanhuan] In the beginning of the Great Primordial Era, filth was sealed in the lower realm. As the ages turned and turbid evil spread, the lower realm slowly fell into ruin, trapping all living beings within. The upper realm was divided. Some wanted to abandon it; others wanted to save it. Unable to reach a decision, they settled on a compromise: casting down a source of hope. Whether it would bring blessing or disaster was left to fate. Beichen is an orphan whose identity is a mystery, accomp 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Ruins of the Ashen Hour 烬时墟 At the end of time, I knelt and dug through the bones of three thousand eras with my own hands, planting the very first seed. They said the Tree of Eternal Life was a celestial blessing that could create an immortal abode. But no one ever told me Its roots devour time. When its flowers bloom, old friends turn to dust. With every inch the immortal abode rises, my flesh withers a little more. Until today, when an Ember Butterfly Flower bloomed at the crown of the tree. On its petals was written th 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 86 The Six Paths Confer Divinity 六道封神 The path of spiritual cultivation: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Transformation, Void Refinement, Body Integration, and Great Ascension. The path of body tempering: Copper Body, Hundred Shatters, Thousandfold Weight, Ten Thousand Pythons, Space Shattering, Star Breaking, and Heaven Sealing. A classic fantasy tale with one female lead, no System, and the Myriad Worlds, where hundreds of races stand side by side. Watch Fang Tian take one steady step after 172Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 God's Throne Across Ten Thousand Realms 万域神座 Reborn tens of thousands of years later, the Master of the Heavenly Tome discovered that all the fish he had raised back then had become Dragon Clan emperors. The little beggar he had casually helped had become an empire's God of War, and the willow tree he planted after discussing romance with the Empress had become a peerless goddess... Even the most unsuccessful of them, the dullard who read while riding an ox, had become the academy's founding patriarch... “My greatest failure in life was cu 82Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 88 The Mastermind: From the Start, I Created Devil Fruits 幕后黑手：开局创造恶魔果实 Cui Zuo, the strongest player in the cycle of reincarnation, is reborn as a boy. To face the powerful enemies who are about to arrive, he has no choice but to reveal his final trump card: the Devil Fruit Tree. The Glint-Glint Fruit, the Op-Op Fruit, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, the Soul-Soul Fruit, the Ice-Ice Fruit, the Magma-Magma Fruit: one powerful and outrageous Devil Fruit after another is created by Cui Zuo. To collect enough emotional energy and set the most earth-shattering events in mot 266Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 89 The Red Moon Descends: I Can't Tell Them Apart, I Really Can't 红月降临：分不清，我真分不清啊 [Mystery and mind games + eerie cultivation + Cthulhu + Infinite Flow + not a power fantasy + monsters + mythology + horror] The brain doesn’t know the eyes exist, so why did “eyes” come into being? Why are our eyes on the front of our heads instead of the top? Is it because we’re afraid of seeing something? Is humanity a complete organism, or are we just the part of the brain that develops consciousness while parasitizing a body? Could Earth be a stage built for us by a higher civilization? Do 56Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 Black Myth: Investiture of the Gods 黑神话：封神榜 Ten thousand golden rays veil the cold iron, while the pill furnace boils eternally with the blood of the living. He cleaves divine bones to forge his broken body, then sweeps clean the thirty-three heavenly gates! The true Investiture of the Gods is no jade register of immortality. It is a table where people are eaten. Two hundred years after the Investiture of the Gods War, mortals are boiled alive into immortal pills. The gods who died in battle long ago have their skin flayed and bones ripp 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 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 167Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 92 I Got Dismembered in a Weird Tale, but the System Insists I’ve Become an Immortal 人在怪谈被分尸，系统硬说我成仙 [Rule Horror] [National Fortune Livestream] [System Misinterpretation] [Dual Rules] [Mentally Ill Protagonist] [Subverting Expectations] [Lots of Twists] Bad news: I’m mentally ill, and I’ve been dragged into a Rule Horror scenario! Good news: I have a System! Bad news: The System is acting crazy and insists I’m in a world of immortal cultivation! Good news: It really does give out rewards! Rule One: Do not enter the cafeteria late at night! [System: Zen Master Huiming invites you into the templ 3.4kReads5.3Score45014d adds
- 93 Cultivation: Drawing Vengeful Ghosts to Help Me 修仙，从画厉鬼当帮手开始 There was once an art student who, ever since he transmigrated into a Cultivation Realm plagued by evil gods, found himself surrounded by strange happenings: calamities ran rampant, vengeful ghosts devoured people in broad daylight, prodigies’ spiritual roots vanished overnight, and Golden Core Ancestors were corrupted into abominations while in seclusion… Yet the culprit behind it all was merely someone who had learned to paint with lifelike skill on the Blue Star, allowing him to summon indes 1.2kReads7.7Score10314d adds
- 94 Divine Powers Sweep Through the World of Immortal Cultivation 神通横推修仙世界 Demons run rampant, strange monsters abound, and the people can barely survive. Jiang Xiu, a transmigrator, relies on a cultivation academy to take one step at a time toward immortality. The Spellcraft Department, the Artifact Refining Department, the Formation Department... Divine abilities flatten other worlds. 708Reads7.0Score10514d adds
- 95 Dark Journey to the West: I Illuminate the World and Attain Sainthood Through Merit 黑暗西游：我普照人间，功德成圣 Bai Jing transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West and became the Star Officer of the Rooster. He had been looking forward to a carefree, leisurely life as an immortal, but soon realized something was wrong with this version of Journey to the West! “Why has the Mighty Miracle God descended to the mortal realm today?” “Hahaha, I get my stipend at the start of the month and go hungry by the end. Today, at last, it’s my turn to descend and collect a hundred thousand people as my stipend. 14Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 96 As the Mastermind Behind the Scenes, I Usher in an Age of the Supernatural! 我为幕后主宰，开启超凡时代！ [Behind the Scenes + Ensemble Cast + Bestowing Supernatural Powers + Upending the World + Urban Superpowers] While others transmigrated to rule the world, Lu Qi only wanted to go home. Lu Qi found himself in a dark, despairing world. Fortunately, his blood could create gods. When a small, frail weakling awakens the power of giants... When a feeble, sickly patient gains an immortal body... When an avenger consumed by rage learns to travel through space... When the old world's order is shattered b 1.8kReads6.7Score10814d adds
- 97 The Inner World of Wuxia 里武侠 A world of Lovecraftian horror with martial arts. (Someone called it a strawberry dumpling today, which was a little…) The hard parts of writing martial arts are the fights and the worldbuilding. For Lovecraftian horror, it's keeping the unknown unknowable. I think I've done a pretty good job with the fights, and I hope everyone enjoys them. As for the Lovecraftian story, all I can say is that this is basically Lovecraftian Musou. After all, the protagonist has a giant alarm clock-like ability s 4Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 98 I'm Already SSS-Rank, Is Delivering Food a Crime? 都SSS级了，我送外卖犯法吗？ [Apocalypse + Livestreaming + Food Delivery + Lighthearted and Heart-Pounding] [Orders can be late, but defending our homeland cannot wait.] [After I smashed a D-rank beast with one punch, the National Special Bureau assigned me an armored delivery vehicle.] The System said I was the toughest food delivery guy around. I told it, “You’re wrong!” “I’m the best delivery guy among the fighters.” When I livestreamed myself punching a Sickleclaw Beast, I thought I’d get five hundred in tips at most. T —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 The Unorthodox Path 正道旁门 Life itself is a form of cultivation. Even after enduring hardship and upheaval, or straying onto an unorthodox path, as long as one keeps the righteous way in one's heart, one will find one's way back to it. Laozi said: Know glory, yet keep to disgrace; be the valley of the world. Be the valley of the world, and constant virtue will be fulfilled; return to the uncarved block. This is a relatively traditional fantasy novel, with a style and story structure closer to classic martial-arts fiction. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 Wasn’t He a Tyrant? How Did He Turn Into a Clingy Puppy? 不是暴君吗？怎么变成了粘人小狗 [Two male leads / forced love / everyone is drawn to him / love triangle drama / both are virgins / angst first, sweetness later] [Madly devoted, obsessive puppy × aloof, haughty kitty. They love and hate each other, and neither can escape the other.] Yu Wei was a man about to marry into the imperial family as the emperor's consort. But on his wedding day, the ruler of the enemy state, Jin Yan, took away his dignity in front of his husband. The reason was nothing more than a game Jin Yan wanted 395Reads8.0Score10114d adds
