Novels like A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: It Begins with a Jade Bowl
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- 1 Gazing Toward the Immortal Path 凝望仙路 A borderland youth suffered from a grave illness. To stay alive, he had no choice but to be adopted by another family. But fate had other plans: by chance, he joined a cultivation sect, where he started out as an outer disciple burning charcoal... 1.6kReads7.8Score138Shelves
- 2 From Immortal Slave to the Dao 仙奴成道 [A true ordinary-protagonist story] [Not a do-gooder] [No brainless characters] [Decisive and ruthless] [Repays kindness and vengeance] [No System] This is the story of an ordinary boy who cultivates his way to immortality… The road to immortality is an ocean, and corpses are its boat! (This is a true xianxia novel about an ordinary protagonist. It doesn’t just emphasize the “immortal” side of xianxia, but also its “heroic” side. The story is full of laughs, tears, ruthlessness, and thrilling mo 14.6kReads8.4Score1.7kShelves
- 3 Cultivation Begins in a Mine 修仙从矿洞开始 A pure-mortal cultivation story: no System, no transmigration, a return to the traditional essence of cultivation! The protagonist is an ordinary mortal with no spiritual roots who enters a sect to mine spirit stones for a living. By chance, he survives a deadly disaster and awakens the Five-Colored Spiritual Marrow buried underground. This rare treasure, unseen in ten thousand years, reshapes his spiritual roots from within, unexpectedly condensing the rare Five-Element Spiritual Roots! From th 2.3kReads8.7Score188Shelves
- 4 A Mortal Asks the Heavens: I Wish to Become an Immortal 凡人问天我欲成仙 [Traditional fantasy] [No System] Her parents disappeared, and her village was slaughtered. The boy was taken in by an immortal sect out of pity, but his useless spiritual roots earned him nothing but scorn. Even his master was mocked for accepting him. His master gave him a tattered book and told him it was an ancient secret scroll. But word of his useless reputation spread, and he endured humiliation wherever he went. One day, he happened to return home and discovered that the mysterious littl 38.9kReads9.0Score3.9kShelves
- 5 Longevity: A Well-Connected Immortal Court Official Slacks Off in the Mortal Realm 长生：仙庭关系户下界摸鱼 [Immortal cultivation + no System + not a power fantasy + slow-paced + no female lead + pseudo-ensemble cast. Read with care if this isn’t your thing.] The mighty will of Heaven shines like a mirror, illuminating the causes and effects binding immortals and mortals alike. The countless living beings are like grains of sand, ground into the ashes of tribulation beneath mountains and rivers. A mysterious mirror hangs among the highest heavens, reflecting the lives of all beings in the Three Realm 215.1kReads9.0Score15.3kShelves
- 6 EN Mortal Bones, Immortal Destiny 凡骨 (The print edition is now available to buy online) The world's spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade: Heavenly Spiritual Bones. Second grade: Golden Spiritual Bones. Third grade: Mystic Spiritual Bones. Fourth grade: White Spiritual Bones. All the rest are ordinary bones, unfit for cultivation. Xu Taiping is an ordinary man with ordinary bones, yet he swears to prove to the cultivation world that ordinary bones can slay demons, ordinary bones can vanquish evil, and ordinary b 561.4kReads9.3Score72kShelves
- 7 I’m Stirring Up the Cultivation World with Grind Culture 我在修仙界搞内卷 [Print edition now available] After Qin Shu transmigrated into a book, she learned that she was a fraud who had taken her younger half-sister's place to cultivate immortality. After eight years of cultivation, her half-sister entered the Dao despite having been an ordinary mortal. Qin Shu's cover was blown in front of everyone, and the sect mercilessly cast her out, even though she had only reached the third level of Qi Refining. With her peerless beauty, she was turned into a cultivation furn 129.5kReads9.5Score52.2kShelves
- 8 I Saved the Entire Sect by Giving Up 我靠摆烂拯救了全宗门 (The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh 217.1kReads9.6Score24.3kShelves
