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- 51 With Enough Effort, Even an Iron Pestle Can Be Ground into a Needle 只要功夫深，铁杵成针 With enough perseverance, even an iron rod can be ground down to a needle. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Nine Tribulations Forge the Heavenly Gate 凡人修仙：九劫铸天阙 [Transmigration into a fantasy world] [Decisive and ruthless] [One female lead] A tribulation is both an obstacle and a stepping stone; both suffering and opportunity; both the stripping away of illusion and the transcendence that comes from overcoming hardship. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 The Shanhai Pass Chronicles 山海关记 Records of Shanhaiguan 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 The Chaos Alchemy Furnace 混沌丹炉 He has one more spiritual root than even someone with all eight elements in their mixed spiritual roots. By chance, he activates the little iron gourd his grandfather gave him before he died, only to discover that it is a Chaos Alchemy Furnace. Thus begins his path to immortality. He tramples prodigies, crushes the outstanding, and slays countless enemies... With a pill in hand, the world is his! Genius protagonist + golden finger + no System + fantasy + cultivation + invincible + cultivation wo 15kReads8.3Score1.4kShelves
- 55 Chronicles of the Nine Heavens 九霄战记 [Underdog comeback, two heroines, fiery battles.] On the Xuanwu Continent, strength reigns supreme. The Six Primordial Gods command all things. The first step in martial arts is opening the meridians; when power settles in the dantian, it becomes a Profound Core. When the elements gather around you, you become a Martial Warrior; the beginning of true strength is the Martial Master. Soaring through the nine heavens makes you a Martial King; swallowing mountains and rivers makes you a Martial Vene 114Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 A Brush for History, Truth Endures 青史笔，真相留 A brush to record history, the truth preserved —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 In the Snowfall at Qingshan, Someone Returns Home 雪落青山有归人 Where Snow Falls on Green Mountain, Someone Returns 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 The Chaos Pill God 混沌丹神 The young genius Gu Yun was branded with a divine seal by an ancient god race. His spiritual power weakened, and he became the acknowledged weakling of the Qingshan Sect, demoted to menial work. His father was implicated as well, stripped of his position as clan head and imprisoned in the heavenly prison of their enemy, the Feilu Clan. Then Gu Yun uncovered a hidden secret within himself and struck a deal with an ancient god. In the ancient god's chaotic realm, spiritual herbs could grow without 5.2kReads8.4Score671Shelves
- 59 The Phoenix Sings Across the Nine Heavens, Empress of All Under Heaven 凤鸣九天，母仪天下 The Phoenix Sings to the Nine Heavens, Empress of All Under Heaven 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 Immortality Across Worlds 跨界长生 I don’t just have the Chaos Pearl, which can open up a small world where I can grow spirit herbs and raise spirit beasts. I also have the Chaos Green Lotus Cauldron, which can be used for both offense and defense, as well as cooking and pill refining. Still not enough? I have the Great Evolution Cosmic Sword Formation too. Just see if I can skewer you. Still not enough? In the Chaos Green Lotus Realm, I can just stand there and let you hit me. If you can even knock out a single hair, you win. Th 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 The Hongmeng Daoist Canon: Supreme Cultivation Arts 鸿蒙道经，无上功法 The Hongmeng Daoist Canon, a supreme cultivation art. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 A Spirit Herb Garden in the Palm of My Hand 掌上一座灵药园 Just started getting ratings, so the score will go up (mortal cultivation, spatial abilities, spirit herbs, alchemy, spirit pets, sword cultivation; entirely handwritten; one female lead; slow-burn, but the story is hitting its stride). He starts out with three spiritual roots, but will eventually acquire the rest. His rune-based spatial golden finger will level up as his cultivation improves. Yi Shun unexpectedly obtains a celestial grotto realm: a hundred mu of spirit fields for growing spirit 2.9kReads6.1Score236Shelves
- 63 The Immortal Emperor Was Hunted Down, Reborn with a Tower to Kill Them All 仙帝被围猎，携塔重生杀杀杀 Su Yichen, Immortal Emperor of the Zixiao Immortal Realm, unexpectedly obtained the supreme treasure, the Heaven-Swallowing Demon-Suppressing Pagoda. Envious emperors plotted against him and surrounded him, and he died with hatred in his heart. To his surprise, the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda carried a wisp of his divine soul and brought him back to life against the natural order. After being reborn, Su Yichen was astonished to discover that he had lived through three lifetimes. In his previous liv 477Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 64 The Entertainment Gala: My Journey Through a Parallel World 文娱盛典我的平行世界征途 After transmigrating to a parallel world with the entirety of Earth’s culture, he flourished in music, literature, film, and variety entertainment, triumphing wherever he went and ultimately becoming a legendary superstar. 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 I Reach the Pinnacle of the Cultivation World Through the Laws of Evolution 我用演化法则登顶修仙界 Li Sen, a middle-aged wage slave, transmigrates into the world of cultivation and becomes a young beggar named Li San. Immortality becomes his greatest pursuit. The cultivation world is full of wonders, and Li Sen’s path to immortality is a hard one. From the start, he doesn’t even have a bowl. Luckily, he has a golden finger: a seven-colored crystal seed. He has a vague sense that the seed was formed by compressing the energy, laws, and other things from two worlds when he transmigrated. Bound 763Reads—Score100Shelves
- 66 The Cloud Venerable: A Hero’s Shadow 云尊侠影 Yun Yong was born into an ordinary family. He thought he would simply live a quiet, unremarkable life for a few decades before meeting his end. But fate is unpredictable, and disaster can strike at any moment. A hunting trip changed the course of his life completely. From then on, he set out on the fantastical, unknown path of cultivation. ...See how this ordinary man overcomes every obstacle on the path of cultivation, stays true to the righteous way, and endures trial after trial, ultimately 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Immortal Realm of Heroes: The Legend of Lingyun Heavenly Venerable 仙侠神域：凌云天尊传 At the moment the Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation tore through the Qinglan Continent, Ye Chen, a young man from the Northern Province, rose from the ruins clutching half of a bloodstained jade token. The Nine Suns Pill Canon in his arms glimmered with a bloody light. He made Lingfeng City his game board, built a business empire with the “Breeze Chasing the Moon Step,” and cleaved through the battlefield of gods and demons with the “Void Nine Suns Sword,” embarking on an against-heaven journey from —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 I Have a Money-Grubbing System 我有个死要钱的系统 Wang Fan's Journey: Snowfall City, Beiming Kingdom, Xuanwu Continent “Fighting prodigies, going on adventures, transforming: all of it takes money to get started.” “But why do you have to ask for money every time? Is money really that easy to earn? Can you stop being so practical? Fine! Fine! Fine! I'll pay. Sigh... A worker's life, a worker's soul. By the end, you've worked yourself hollow.” “Ding! Host, give me back your Innate Dao Body! Give me back my god-tier cultivation manual! You keep s 513Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 After Transforming, I Farm Resources in Every World 变身后，我在各个世界薅羊毛 [Note: This story includes a System, multiple transmigrations, a gradual shift into the background, gender transformation, and near-invincibility. Please check whether these elements are for you.] He Nian transmigrated by chance to another world, a continent of immortal cultivation, only to find herself transformed into a little girl who couldn’t speak. The world was in turmoil, with wars raging everywhere. What would become of He Nian? How could she survive? After overcoming one challenge after 121Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 70 A Strange Romance in the World of Alchemy 丹尘奇缘 A menial disciple, busy doing odd jobs to earn a few spirit stones, is timid, afraid of death, and cares only about spirit stones. Everyone looks down on him, even his childhood sweetheart and cultivation partner, who abandons him. Then one day, he gets his hands on an iron gourd, and his life changes forever. A rise from humble beginnings + modest and low-key + immortal mansion realm + hidden depths + emotionally dense male lead + inspirational + xianxia + cultivation 2.8kReads8.9Score261Shelves
- 71 The Divine Healer: The Peerless Young Lady Is the Phoenix Chosen by Fate 神医倾城：绝世大小姐是天命凰女 [Master of medicine and poison + beloved lucky star + Imperial Phoenix space] She was the heir to a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. One day, she transmigrated into the body of Jun Qingyan, a peerless beauty with powerful magic. But her timing couldn't have been worse. Jun Qingyan had just been crippled by her own younger sister, who had severed her hands and feet, cut her tendons, destroyed her spiritual root and meridians, and gouged out her face and eyes. Even her fiancé 220Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 The Supreme Sword God of Mortal Cultivation 凡人修仙之无上剑神 Fellow cultivator, wait up! If you were sent to cultivate in the world of immortal cultivation and given four choices out of twelve from the start, what would you pick? How far do you think you could go in this brutal world of cultivation? Nascent Soul? Deity Transformation? Or even further? 1. Early-stage Golden Core cultivation (random technique, top-grade Golden Core) and two fake-core puppets 2. Early-stage Golden Core cultivation (top-grade Golden Core sword cultivation technique) 3. Profou 1.8kReads5.4Score105Shelves
- 73 Nine Deaths Divine Pill Art 九死丹神诀 Pills can be used for medicine, but they can also help one cultivate martial arts. On a dark and stormy night, Jiang Kong has his inner strength drained by his childhood sweetheart and is left crippled. By chance, he obtains an ancient, mysterious cultivation art: the Nine-Deaths Pill God Manual. From then on, he enters the martial path through alchemy, cultivating both alchemy and martial arts. He forges a Pill God Cauldron, gathers undying flames, condenses Nine-Deaths Pills, and awakens the C 1.1kReads8.8Score170Shelves
- 74 The Alchemist 丹师 To refine pills, one must calm the mind and steady the breath, letting stillness flow without end as qi enters the dantian. The breath stirs below the navel, flowing continuously. Clasp both hands over the navel, let the pill fire glow warmly, settle the six senses, and forget both self and world. This is the way of pill refinement! At the pinnacle of the pill path, heaven and earth become the furnace, and all creation becomes the herbs! A wisp of essence from the sun and moon, refined into a pi 9.2kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves
- 75 Cultivation: I Got a Pair of Eagle Eyes from the Start 修仙：开局获得一双鹰眼 [War-torn xianxia] + [not a wish-fulfillment novel] + [no System] No matter the era or where you go, this xianxia world is full of endless conflict and constant warfare! The male lead is captured and imprisoned in a dungeon. His eyesight is so poor that he can only make out blurry figures. Later, an eagle saves him and gives him a pair of special eyes, restoring his vision. Only then does his journey into cultivation truly begin! Unexpectedly, he gains one golden finger, then another... The key 416Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Mortal Gu Immortal: I Transmigrated into a Cultivation Matchmaking Show 凡人蛊仙：修仙从穿越对口开始 Professor Qin Feng, a leading authority on heredity, saw his dream of genetic evolution shattered. Taking the Classic of Myriad Gu as his key, he combined modern technology with the sinister art of Gu cultivation, using the genes of all life on Earth to forge a “Divine Gu.” On the day it matured, global forces hunted him down. As his beloved betrayed him and a bullet pierced his heart, the blood essence in his chest awakened the Divine Gu and unleashed a world-ending thunder tribulation. The Div 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 Immortal Destiny in Tianling Valley 天灵谷仙缘 Also known as [Cultivating Immortality as a Mortal: Finding a Red Stone Necklace from the Start] [Treasures]+ [Beauties]+ [Leveling Up]+ [Formations]+ [Invincible Treasures]+ [A Life with Cheats] The male lead was an ordinary mortal who happened upon a golden finger: a red stone necklace. Inside the necklace was a special being who could talk and called herself Weiwei! Weiwei wasn’t a soul, yet she had always existed! With Weiwei’s help, the male lead struggled to begin his path of cultivation. 212Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 From the Start, I Devour Demonic Beasts and Forge Artifacts to Subdue the Heavens 开局吞妖兽，我在异界炼器镇诸天 [Mortal’s cultivation journey + golden finger + quick transmigration face-slapping] An accident sends Zheng Guan’er, a jewelry designer, to a world of cultivation. To his utter surprise, the patterns he used to decorate jewelry turn out to be ancient magical arrays here, and he’s the only one who knows how to make them! The unfortunate part is that his body can’t cultivate. He becomes a blacksmith instead. While others cultivate, he trains his body, and he can still take on ten opponents at once 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 I Asked You to Forge Weapons, So How Did Your Weapon Spirit Cleave Through the High Martial World? 让你炼器，你器灵咋横断高武了？ [Urban high-martial arts + forging + artifact crafting + feel-good power fantasy] Su Qiye transmigrates into a high-martial world plagued by ferocious beasts. Orphaned, with only mediocre martial talent, he fails the martial arts exam with a dismal score! With no other choice, he takes over an enchanted artifact shop, only to unexpectedly bind himself to the [Creator System]. His D-rank talent as an Enchanter instantly becomes an SSS-rank Lord of Enchanting! When an artifact recognizes its maste 34Reads—Score—Shelves
- 80 I Have an Infinite Spirit Stone System 我有无限灵石系统 (Transmigration + System + daily life in the cultivation world + a smart protagonist + many love interests + spirit pets + decisive killing + laying low and developing early on + going on a killing spree later) The protagonist transmigrates from Earth to the cultivation world and acquires an infinite spirit stone System. What, you can’t win? Buy a mountain of spirit talismans and blast your enemies to death. Cultivation is too slow? No such thing. Just keep feeding it top-grade spirit stones. So 126Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Quick Transmigration: Saving the Beautiful, Strong, and Tragic White Moonlight Who Died Young 快穿：拯救早逝的美强惨白月光 [Comic adaptation in production] [Complete] [Cool, independent, capable heroine + devoted hero who respects her completely] [1v1, both pure, both strong + not self-righteous + sweet romance + top-tier romantic tension + both characters are smart and logical] A quick transmigration story. Due to the characters' backgrounds, in some of the small worlds neither of them has their memories. Every small world is a fragment of the heroine's soul: they are all Shen Zhining. The hero transmigrates betwe 4.7kReads9.5Score513Shelves
- 82 A Rank-One Mortal Cultivator 一阶凡修 A classic mortal's path to immortality. With a mixed Five-Element spiritual root, the protagonist overcomes one obstacle after another through hard work and fortuitous encounters, rising to prominence in the cultivation world. Stages: Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Golden Core → Nascent Soul → Spirit Transformation → Void Refinement → Body Integration → Great Ascension → Tribulation Transcendence 4kReads6.8Score390Shelves
- 83 The All-Purpose Cultivation Simulator 全能修仙模拟器 Xue Shixiang was discussing business with a beautiful woman in a private room when a sudden wave of heat made him lose consciousness. A few minutes later, an ambulance arrived, but our protagonist had already left Earth. The Jiuzhou Continent is an immense world of cultivation, divided into nine great regions. Each has its own unique cultivation traditions and ruling dynasties, all different in their own way. In the Great Xia Dynasty, the Xue family is extraordinarily powerful, with three genera 98Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 From Menial Alchemist to Immortal: I Start by Combining Failed Pills 炼丹房打杂，从废丹合成开始修仙 Qin Feng transmigrates into a menial worker at the Qinghefang alchemy workshop, where his daily duties are washing medicinal herbs, disposing of failed pills, and cleaning. With a mixed spiritual root, he thought he would never become an immortal in this life, but then he suddenly gains an unlimited synthesis panel. Any item can be synthesized to improve its quality: Discarded pills become low-grade pills, low-grade pills become inferior pills, then medium-grade pills, top-grade pills, and beyon 9.2kReads8.2Score974Shelves
- 85 Qi Cultivation Art 练气决 The Qi Cultivation Method is a cultivation manual that guides beginners into the mysterious world of qi refinement. Starting with the most basic search for a sense of qi, it gradually delves deeper, explaining in detail the many secrets and techniques involved in qi cultivation. In this book, readers follow carefully designed steps to shut out the noise of the outside world and calm both body and mind. Through specific postures, breathing techniques, and concentration exercises, they learn to s 620Reads7.0Score129Shelves
- 86 Immortal Jade, Dust, and Destiny 仙玉尘缘 Lin Mu, a lowly servant of the Qianyu Sword Sect, accidentally discovers that the jade pendant left to him by his parents contains three mu of spiritual farmland. From then on, he uses the pendant to grow spiritual herbs and medicinal plants, earn a fortune in spirit stones, buy flying swords and magic treasures, and refine miraculous pills. Thus begins his rise in the cultivation world. 328Reads7.7Score101Shelves
- 87 The Heavenly Dao Cauldron 天道鼎 A magical little cauldron can store merit energy. Kill a bandit chief and gain a wisp of low-grade merit energy. Kill a Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator and gain a wisp of mid-grade merit energy... I cultivate the Chaos Heavenly Dao Art, which can turn merit energy into cultivation. The more villains I kill, the more merit energy I gain. And the faster my cultivation improves. Scum and demonic cultivators are nourishment on my path to immortality... 2kReads7.9Score241Shelves
- 88 The Spirit Eye That Sees Every Detail 秋毫灵眼 [Mortal’s journey + no System + no harem] Li Changsheng stumbled upon the Spiritual Eye of Fine Detail and began his path of cultivation. The road to immortality was as difficult as climbing to the heavens, like rowing upstream, where failing to advance meant falling behind. The cultivation world was full of deceit and treachery, its fortunes as unpredictable as the tides. Li Changsheng had no choice but to tread carefully, as if walking on thin ice. Though he had an ordinary three-element spiri 373Reads8.1Score106Shelves
- 89 Lotus-Born Pill Venerable 莲生丹尊 Ji Shiyi, a country boy from a mountain village, unexpectedly gains a space linked to a twin lotus. One day in the outside world equals one month inside. With the lotus space, Ji Shiyi survives a famine and saves the grandfather who raised him. By a twist of fate, Ji Shiyi embarks on the path of cultivation. Everyone knows how difficult cultivation is, and everyone wants to pursue it. While everyone fights tooth and nail over a single spirit plant in a secret realm, Ji Shiyi says, “How did you k 13.3kReads9.1Score1.6kShelves
- 90 The Demoness Descends: The Heroine Is on Another Killing Spree! 天降妖女：女主她又杀疯啦！ [Transmigration + Genius + All Elements + Beast Taming + Spatial Powers + Alchemy + Past and Present Lives + No Saintly Protagonist] Bai Sinan, a woman from the twenty-first century, is struck by lightning and transmigrates into the body of the legitimate daughter of a general’s household in the Shengzhan Kingdom! That’s not all. Without any memories, she finds herself facing an attempt on her life as soon as she transmigrates! Luckily, a godlike beauty descends from the heavens at the crucial m 468Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 The Tale of the Green Pearl's Immortal Fate 青珠仙缘记 [Ruthless, scheming, one heroine, gradually turns villainous later on, no limits. Marketing, livestreaming, and building an internet in the cultivation world, turning it into a cultivation-world Las Vegas] 275Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 92 A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Legacy Immortal Mansion 凡人修仙之传承仙府 [Mortal cultivation, no System, one female lead, decisive and ruthless.] An ordinary country boy stumbles upon an immortal manor containing a legacy, and from then on, Yang Hao embarks on the path of cultivation. Inside the manor, he can grow spirit crops, craft artifacts and pills, raise spirit pets, and access an unparalleled legacy. See how he rises from humble beginnings, slays demons and vanquishes evil, and steadily becomes the strongest, roaming freely across the Myriad Worlds. 1.1kReads8.0Score—Shelves
- 93 Hongmeng Supreme 2 鸿蒙至尊2 [Reborn Immortal Emperor] [Alchemy, Artifacts, Formations, and Talismans] [Multiple Heroines] [Building a Faction] [Invincible] [Spatial Powers] [Small World] When chaos first emerged, the forces of creation gave birth to eight supreme primordial divine artifacts: the Hongmeng Supreme Tower, the Chaos Pearl, the Heaven and Earth Cauldron, the Hongmeng Supreme Sword, the Luo River Diagram, the Chaos Bell, the Heaven and Earth Eight Trigrams Mirror, and the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disc. When th 795Reads8.2Score105Shelves
- 94 Lone Star Shatters the Dao 孤星破道 The Lone Star Shatters the Dao 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 A Story of Playing Hard to Get 欲擒故纵的故事 A story of playing hard to get 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 The Book of Borrowed Fortune: A Vermilion Brush Decides Fate 借运簿：朱砂判命 The Borrowed Fortune Ledger: Vermilion Sand Reads Your Fate 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 A Story of Casting a Brick to Attract Jade 抛砖引玉的故事 A story meant to inspire others —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 The Dragon Lies Hidden in the Eastern Palace: The Invincible Crown Prince 东宫龙潜，无敌太子 The Crown Prince in the Eastern Palace, a hidden dragon, invincible and peerless 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 A Single Talisman Seals the Heavens 一符封天 In Jinyun City, Lin Su, a young woman from Jinyun Academy, was kidnapped during the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern fair and thrown off a cliff on Jinyun Mountain. She survived against all odds and encountered Yang Baiyi, the leader of Heaven's Village, and Master Wuchao. This awakened her cultivation physique, and she even became Dao companions with Yang Baiyi, bound together as one. Lin Su rapidly advanced along the path of talisman cultivation. Following its stages from Heaven, Earth, Black, and 2.4kReads9.4Score263Shelves
- 100 The Genius Girl with a Pocket Dimension 自带空间的天才女娃 Medicine, a space, transmigration, martial arts, and romance. A medical doctor transmigrates into a newborn. After her birth, the wild beasts deep in the mountains all kneel in the same direction. Her medical space comes with her. At one, she grows medicinal herbs, digs for jade, plants fruit trees, and opens a jade shop. At four, she dreams that her brother has been poisoned and heads to the border to save him. All four divine beasts follow her. When she grows up, she excels in both medicine an 2.4kReads7.4Score361Shelves
