Novels like You Were Told to Take Disciples! Why Did You Take a Whole Bunch of Protagonist Types?
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- 51 A Ghoul's Journey, Starting with Tokyo Ghoul 从喰种开始的食尸鬼之旅 First World: Tokyo Ghoul I/II (Complete) Second World: Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (Complete) Third World: Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory Arc (Complete) Fourth World: Akame ga Kill! (Complete) Fifth World: Tokyo Ghoul:re (Complete) Sixth World: FGO (Complete) Seventh World: Original World: Battle Royale (Complete) Eighth World: One Piece: Before the Summit War (Complete) Ninth World: Hellsing (Complete) Tenth World: Naruto (Complete) Eleventh World: Jujutsu Kaisen: Final Arc (Complete) Twelf 6.2kReads8.0Score563Shelves
- 52 Ten Thousandfold Returns: One Family, Nine Emperors, Guardians of All Clans 万倍返还：一门九帝，镇守万族 [Fantasy, System, taking disciples, raising an Immortal Emperor, building a faction, passionate action, a contest for supremacy among the myriad races] Li Daoran transmigrates into a fantasy world where humanity is weak and the myriad races vie for supremacy. He becomes the master of Lingyun Peak and obtains a System that rewards him for teaching disciples. Whenever he grants an opportunity to a disciple, he can receive a reward multiplied ten thousand times! [You gave your disciple a Vitality-R 12.6kReads8.3Score882Shelves
- 53 My Heaven-Defying Kidney-Tonifying System 我的逆天补肾系统 Han Gao's life hit rock bottom. His marriage was over, and so was his dignity. Just then, a mysterious delivery arrived at his door: an unremarkable thermos. From that moment on, he began quietly growing stronger... 1.5kReads6.3Score100Shelves
- 54 The Square Dance Leader Returned to the Village and Accidentally Made the Whole Place Famous 广场舞领队回村，一不小心带火整个村子 The Square Dance Leader Returns to the Village and Accidentally Makes the Whole Village a Hit 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 Father’s Woe System: Raising Homelander in Marvel 父愁者系统，我在漫威饲养祖国人 [Raising the Ancestral Treasure] [Ensemble Cast] [Black Noir + Marvel] [Invincible] Guan Fuyun transmigrated into Marvel, specifically the current American version, a chaotic Marvel Universe where demons ran rampant. The world was filled with drugged humans, superpowered people, Mutants, aliens, demons, gods, lunatics... It was a place of extreme chaos and danger. Luckily, he bound himself to the Father Avenger System, which made him invincible as long as he was raising a child. But... Why was t 2.4kReads8.8Score177Shelves
- 56 A Great Brawl of Technicians: A Tidal Wave of Skills Sweeps the Heavens 技师大混战，技能狂潮席卷诸天 [Infinite Flow] + [Ridiculous Skills] + [Lighthearted Comedy] The Gods’ Game suddenly descends, forcing all living beings to take part in round after round of games. This game sweeping across the heavens is a grand feast laid out by the supreme rulers. The male lead, Wei Ji, awakens the core skill [Man Among Men, Lu Bu] and the divine skill [Fated to Be Alone]. He becomes a celibate Lu Bu, invincible and peerless beneath the heavens. (There are frequent scenes of betraying his sworn fathers.) We 3.4kReads8.1Score206Shelves
- 57 If Killing Makes Me Stronger, Then I Am Destruction! 既然杀人加点，那我即是毁灭！ From the start, Chu He transmigrates onto a battlefield and becomes a soldier in the vanguard battalion. The bad news is that the vanguard battalion is storming a city, and he is right at the front of the death line! Run? The military judge is watching him like a hawk from afar. Retreat even a little and he'll be killed! Damn it, I'll fight! Chu He grabs his blade and charges forward, already prepared to start over. At the moment of mortal peril, the God of Slaughter System awakens! Each person 4.5kReads7.6Score319Shelves
- 58 EN I Left Home and Awakened as a Vampire 叛出家门后，我觉醒成吸血鬼 [Power fantasy + System + urban high martial arts + decisive and ruthless + one heroine] Su Ye transmigrates to a world where spiritual qi revival has made martial arts flourish. His biological father is one of Donghuang's Seven War Gods, his mother comes from a prestigious family, and his sisters are all geniuses! He should have had an unbeatable start, but instead he spent eighteen years away from home, while his entire family cared only about the adopted son who had taken his place. With neit 27.8kReads7.9Score2.8kShelves
- 59 After My Younger Sister Died, I Became His Wife 妹妹死后，我成了他的妻 After my younger sister died, I became his wife. 324Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 Trail of Shadows: The Mastermind 谍影迷踪之幕后玩家 The Spy’s Trail: The Player Behind the Scenes 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 I Hid in a Tavern for Five Hundred Years Before Learning It Was Journey to the West 酒馆苟了五百年才知是西游 [Steady as an old hound, never change maps, backstabbing] You obtain Ten Poisons Body-Strengthening Powder. It's deadly poison. You gulp it down, and you die; You obtain the Bloodthirsty Sword Art. Practicing it consumes your lifespan. You practice it, and you die; You obtain the Blissful Treasure Manual. To master this art, you must first castrate yourself. You wave your hand and slash yourself; You accidentally offend a powerful enemy. You sever your own meridians and are buried in a grave; Yo 3.7kReads6.4Score343Shelves
- 62 My Mom Was Serving Dishes from the Start, and I Turned My Life Around to Reform the World 开局妈传菜，迷途知返我调教世界 He transmigrates to a parallel world. From the start, he is cruelly manipulated by a beautiful classmate. A high school student facing the college entrance exams is saddled with tens of thousands in debt, driving his family into bankruptcy. While figuring out how to make money, he suddenly discovers that the culture and entertainment of this world have nothing in common with those of his previous life. Its culture is weak, and its people suffer from a profound lack of national confidence… Ev 12.8kReads7.9Score828Shelves
- 63 Xuanhuan: Doing Good Deeds Makes Me Stronger, Yet I'm Righteous to the Core 玄幻：做善事就变强，我正的发邪 [Decisive and ruthless] [If he doesn’t die, am I supposed to die?] [Monsters feel no pain] [I don’t waste words on people who can’t understand] [A protagonist like Duanmu Yan] After transmigrating to a world of ancient martial arts filled with countless powerful fighters, Shen Zhou acquired the Book of Merit. As long as he did good deeds, he could grow stronger. And so, he set out on a path of good works and merit. [Killed a gambler, successfully helped him kick his gambling habit. Good Deed Poi 157.1kReads8.9Score21.8kShelves
- 64 I Made the Aloof Top Student Lose His Cool 高冷学神被我整破防了 I Broke the Ice-Cold Academic Genius 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 EN The Embroidered Guard Yama: Killing Till the Empress Begs for Mercy 锦衣卫阎罗，杀到女帝喊不要 [Ruthless] [Expert at wiping out entire families] [Leaves no survivors] [Always here for a satisfying fight] [Just rated] Shen Qing transmigrates to the Great Wu Dynasty and becomes a member of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. This world has martial artists and ferocious beasts, and as soon as Shen Qing arrives, his superior pins a huge crime on him. But Shen Qing doesn't panic, because every time he kills someone, he can seize their traits. The more he kills, the stronger he gets. Looking back ov 36.3kReads8.2Score3.4kShelves
- 66 The Powerful Female Physician: After the Legitimate Daughter Refused Foot Binding, I Founded a Sect 女医权倾天下：嫡女拒裹脚后，我开宗立派了 The Female Physician Rules the World: After the Legitimate Daughter Refuses Foot Binding, I Found a Sect 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Liu Ruyan's Bewitching Captive Love 柳如烟的蛊心囚爱 Liu Ruyan’s Enchanted Captive Love 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 68 Invincible Alchemist 无敌炼药师 On the Sacred Martial Continent, martial artists reign supreme! And among them, alchemists are held in the highest esteem. Without an alchemist's help, a martial artist can never become truly strong! Ye Fei, a medical student, transmigrates to the Sacred Martial Continent and accidentally merges with the supercomputer Galaxy, which is said to be capable of calculating anything. And so begins the legend of an unrivaled alchemist! A demon god who has slaughtered billions comes seeking medicine? Ha 6.4kReads8.5Score730Shelves
- 69 The Super Genius’s Path to Immortality 超级天才修仙传 Lin Guanyin rises from a good-for-nothing with a useless spiritual root in a remote border town to a cultivation legend spanning the Three Realms. His story is a cultivation textbook in "extreme self-discipline and radical innovation." At three, he mastered the Basic Breathing Technique. Every day, he drew in qi at the hour of the Tiger without fail, using his "biological-clock precision qi-control method" to boost his qi absorption rate by 300 percent. Even his breathing followed the mathematic 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 Heartbeat Code in Quantum Stardust 量子星尘里的心跳代码 As the nanoscale "Light Particle Clan" raises fluorescent tides across a sea of atomic clouds, and virus messengers carry love letters written in base pairs through cell membranes, Lin Guanyin, the phosphorus-atom god of war, has already glimpsed the fateful foreshadowing of this microscopic epic in the faint glow of electron transitions. Wild and unruly, he shields the silicon-based girl from the crystal-cell fortress behind him. Facing an out-of-control army of free radicals, every broken chem 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 Flames of Yan and Huang 炎黄烟火 Lin Guanyin was an ordinary person living in the modern era. After an accident sent him back to ancient times, he embarked on a remarkable journey through the history of the land of Yan and Huang. In the Shang Dynasty, he witnessed the debauchery and tyranny of King Zhou of Shang, as well as the suffering of the common people. He also saw the slaves' miserable lives under the burden of exhausting labor. During the Zhou Dynasty, Lin Guanyin became involved in the power struggles among the feudal 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Super Hilarious Ultraman Battle and Upgrade System 超级搞笑奥特曼战斗升级系统 When overworked office drone Lin Guanyin stayed up late rushing to finish a proposal, he opened his eyes and found himself bound to the "Funny Ultraman Battle Level-Up System." The original Ultraman it summoned was a bona fide "comedian of light": striking cute peace signs before fighting monsters, then forgetting his lines before using his special move and calling it the "Spacium Express Delivery," leaving the alien villains questioning their very existence. To unlock stronger forms, Lin Guanyi 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 73 A Super Genius's Study Notes 超级天才学霸笔记 In the cutthroat world of campus life, there was one incredibly overpowered figure: Lin Guanyin. This guy started out with a genius-scholar persona, a brain better than a supercomputer, and an absolutely phenomenal talent for studying. He blazed ahead at full speed. His story of growing up was downright hilarious. While other students were still floundering in a sea of practice questions, he was already soaring through the universe of knowledge in a rocket. He could even dream of solving world-c 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 The Hilarious Ultraman Battle Upgrade System 搞笑奥特曼战斗升级系统 (Fingers tapping rapidly, an eerie light flickering on the screen) All right! Lin Guanyin is an utterly ordinary high school student. His grades are average, his looks are unremarkable, and he's the kind of guy who disappears into a crowd. But after an accident, he is struck by a mysterious light, and his life changes completely. He gets a combat-leveling System! The System is kind of a pain. Every time he levels up, he has to complete some bizarre task. For example, shouting "I'm the most hands 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 A Sacred Land's Daoist Heir from the Start, and You Want Me to Follow the Trash Talent Route? 开局圣地道子，你让我走废材流？ (Cultivation prodigy, decisive and ruthless, lighthearted, System, play the pig to eat the tiger, master of bullying the weak, fishing expert, multiple women) After transmigrating to a xianxia world, Qi Yuan never awakened a golden finger, but everything still went smoothly for him. He established his foundation in one year and formed his core in three. His peerless talent caused a sensation at the Taixuan Sacred Land, and he became its Daoist Heir at a young age, enjoying lofty status and unpar 91.8kReads8.6Score10kShelves
- 76 I’m This Invincible, So Why Do I Still Have to Take Disciples? 我这么无敌，为什么还要收徒 [No Female Lead + Taking Disciples] After Lin Xing failed to ascend, he unexpectedly arrived in the Great World of Xuanmu, where a System claiming to belong to the Supreme Fortune Sect bound itself to him. “Ding! Host, please recruit disciples far and wide and establish the strongest sect!” Lin Xing fell silent. Lin Xing was speechless. Lin Xing sneered. “Heavenly Dao, what the hell are you doing?” System: “Huh?” First Disciple Ye Lingfeng: A reborn soul who was betrayed in his previous life, hi 3kReads8.7Score295Shelves
- 77 A Fresh and Lively Cultivation Life: I Grind My Way to the Top 水灵灵的修仙日常：我卷成最强 Lin Guanyin, an apprentice at a pharmacy in Qingshi Town, is found to possess the rare "Chaos Water Spirit Root" during a spiritual root test. But because he absorbs spiritual energy in a haphazard way, he's written off as a good-for-nothing. Others mock him: "You can't even grasp water spiritual energy. What makes you think you can cultivate immortality?" But he clutches the dim spirit-testing orb and quietly resolves, "A good-for-nothing? Then I'll make every day flow like water and work my wa 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 The Divine Physician of the Countryside 乡野小神医 Li Qiusheng, a poor country boy, can't find a job after graduating from college. With no choice, he honors his mother's dying wish and returns to Houwan Village to become a live-in son-in-law. In doing so, he also becomes the village's only young man... 5.4kReads9.1Score763Shelves
- 79 Reincarnated as an Elf Child, but in a Goblin Nest 转生精灵孩子，但是哥布林巢穴 [Villain protagonist + mildly bizarre + loli mom + healing + no System] After struggling on his own through thick and thin, Liu Jie finally becomes the director of a company about to go public, only to get hit by a truck and sent to another world! Luckily, he’s reborn as the child of an adorable elf loli. Except… something seems off about where he was born and what his race is? …It’s already over! …Why is there a Goblin Slayer too? What the hell! 2.7kReads8.9Score223Shelves
- 80 Super Mutant Clown's Hilarious Upgrade AI System 超级变种小丑搞笑升级AI系统 Lin Guanyin: a name that seems to radiate the Buddha's light, yet he's a super-genius who can turn a laboratory into a fireworks factory. One day, while pulling an all-nighter to tune an AI, he accidentally jammed his ancestral clown mask into the mainframe. Congratulations, the world's first "Super Mutant Clown Comedy Upgrade System" has officially bonded with him! From then on, the life of this physics genius went completely off the rails. To unlock "Quantum Fluctuation Speed Reading," he firs 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Artificial Intelligence: A More Perfect, More Human Robot 人工智能更完美更人性化机器人 In 2025, artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, and robots have become part of everyday human life. Yet most have limited functions and lack human warmth. The protagonist, Lin Guanyin, is a genius engineer who dreams of building robots that are more advanced, more capable, and more humane than the products currently available. Lin Guanyin begins his research in a cramped laboratory, short on funding and working with outdated equipment, while skepticism surrounds him. But driven by his pas 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 China’s Super Genius All-Around Imperial Physician 华夏超级天才全能御医 Lin Guanyin was born into a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, but forged his own path. He mastered the essence of his family's inherited acupuncture and herbal remedies, while also honing the most advanced techniques of Western medicine. At a young age, he became a legend in the field of integrated Chinese and Western medicine. In the emergency room, he can use silver needles to stabilize patients on the brink of death, then remove millimeter-sized tumors with precision surge 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 The Ultimate Ultraman Transformation, Upgrade, and Growth System 最完美奥特曼变身升级成长系统 At twenty-eight, Lin Guanyin is a genius at the Xingyao Research Institute with seven PhDs to his name. On his way home from work, he picks up a glowing crystal core that fell from the sky and is instantly bound to the [Perfect Ultraman Transformation, Upgrade, and Growth System]! Other people’s transformations flash red after just three minutes. Lin uses his knowledge of quantum physics to optimize the System and achieve unlimited runtime. Others spend decades unlocking a single form, but he l 292Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 The Whole Sect Is Chewing Tree Bark, and You Say Spirit Rice Yields Thirty Thousand Pounds Per Acre? 全宗啃树皮，你说灵稻亩产三万斤 After transmigrating into the body of a destitute sect leader buried under a debt of thirty million spirit stones, he finds that the entire sect has only one little disciple left, so hungry he's chewing tree bark. Chen Mo looks at the mutated spirit rice in his storage space, yielding thirty thousand jin per mu, and smiles. “Let's start with a small goal: making sure everyone in the sect has enough to eat.” Three months later, Qingyun Sect is making a million spirit stones a month selling spirit 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 Taking Disciples: The Strongest Master System, a Hundredfold Billionfold Return 收徒：最强师尊系统，亿倍返还 [Taking disciples + leveling up + invincible + no female lead + System + epic worldbuilding] [The protagonist is decisive and ruthless, strong-willed and free, and bows to no one under heaven.] Ji Xuan transmigrated into another world and awakened the Strongest Master System. To his amazement, every disciple he took in had the potential to become a Great Emperor! In return, he received all sorts of generous rewards. [Ding! Host successfully recruited Huo Ling'er as a disciple. Reward: Sacred-gra 8.9kReads8.3Score722Shelves
- 86 The Seventeenth Night 第十七夜 The Seventeenth Night 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 You Said You'd Cultivate for Revenge, So Why Are You Pinning Your Master Down? 说好修行为复仇，摁住为师算什么 (Overpowered protagonist, lighthearted and funny, taking disciples, disciples disrespecting their master, many heroines, no angst) After transmigrating to a fantasy world, Lin Xiao scrapes his way up to become a Golden Core cultivator, and finally awakens the System within him. From then on, his teaching career takes off. A clan-destroying survivor who clawed her way out of the mud; a concubine-born daughter ostracized and targeted by her family; a once-adored genius who fell into mediocrity; a 17kReads8.6Score1.9kShelves
- 88 Hey, Old Man, Look! Our Makeshift Sect 老登，看！咱家的散装宗门 [System + Lighthearted Comedy + Slice of Life + No Female Lead (Forever Alone) + Slow Burn + Not Overpowered] A fish? A fox? A ghost? And a member of the demon race! My apprentice, are you really not going to find me a single human disciple?!! Fushan Zi’s forehead veins throbbed as he turned to look at his senior disciple. The man was lounging on a reclining chair, lazily waving a palm-leaf fan, looking perfectly at ease as he said, “Master, I don’t like hearing you say that. I really don’t! How 2.9kReads8.6Score302Shelves
- 89 After I Chose Divorce, My Wife Regretted It 我选择离婚后，老婆她悔疯了 After I Chose Divorce, My Wife Regretted It Too Late 295Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 After Graduating from a Top University, I Turned Around and Took a Security Job 从985名校出来，转头扎进保安岗 Graduated from a top-tier 985 university, then turned around and took a security guard job 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 The Kunlun Myth: The Hidden Immortal of Primordial Chaos 昆仑神话之混元仙隐 Beneath the moon, he meets an immortal and a beauty, their fates bound across three lifetimes as they cultivate to immortality. Destined across three lives and three worlds! A charming beauty who has barely seen the world! 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 I Invested in a Prodigy for a Century, and the Empress Calls Me Her Master 投资天骄百年，女帝称我为师 Across the Five Regions and Four Seas, heroes vie for the path to imperial power. Lu Chen transmigrated into this world and struggled for half his life, only to become a teacher at a small academy. He thought the dazzling, boundless world had nothing left to do with him, until his golden finger finally arrived. He could see everyone’s destiny, along with the troubles and trials they faced. As long as he taught them and answered their questions, he would receive generous rewards. The greater the 5.9kReads7.8Score495Shelves
- 93 Simplified Cultivation: I'm Really Not Physically Weak 修炼简化：我真不是体虚 Shen Zhexian transmigrates into a world of immortal cultivation and awakens the Great Dao Made Simple System. He discovers that cultivation can actually be this easy, though the ways it simplifies things are a little strange. The method for cultivating inner arts is simplified to coughing. The method for cultivating immortal techniques is simplified to staying up all night. The method for tempering the body is simplified to lying down. … From then on, the cultivation world gains a young master w 2.7kReads8.2Score198Shelves
- 94 In Search of Fate in the Weiwei Realm 寻命维维界 The protagonist, Liu Zhongyi, transmigrates to the world of Weiwei, where two great guardian gods descend from the heavens and identify him as the chosen one… In this world, cultivating immortality is forbidden. He must find five beautiful women, each associated with one of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and gain supernatural powers in order to save the world of Weiwei… This is a lighthearted comedy, full of foreshadowing, gripping twists, and constant surprises. Join 846Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 95 Arranged Marriage Is So Sweet 包办婚姻好香 Arranged Marriage Is So Good 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 The Grandmaster of the Way of Literature 文道祖师 [The Way of Letters, no System, traditional fantasy, decisive and ruthless, no-brainer] In this world, people can master literary energy through reading. Those who become scholars can travel between heaven and earth, move mountains and fill seas, and bring things to life with a stroke of the brush. But every book capable of imparting literary energy is monopolized by aristocratic clans and wealthy families. Ordinary people can't afford to read them. Now the court is in turmoil, and the Way of Le 18.7kReads8.1Score1.9kShelves
- 97 The White Moonlight Is Great, but I'm Taking the Baby and Running! 白月光虽好，但我会带球跑！ The Moonlight Is Lovely, but I'm Taking the Baby and Running! 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 98 I Told You to Meet the Deadline, Not Become Famous Overseas! 让你赶工期，没让你名扬海外！ Torrential rain is on the way, and the city is about to be hit by a flood. The urgent task of digging a thirty-kilometer waterway within ten days is one that no one in the engineering industry dares to take on. When Qin Feng accepts the job, the whole industry assumes he’s just trying to swindle money. When his fleet of hundred-ton trucks makes a comeback, everyone thinks he’s a monster. How does Qin Feng have so many hundred-ton trucks? But Qin Feng’s feats will amaze the world far beyond that. 5.4kReads7.5Score601Shelves
- 99 A Slacker at Work, Who Stumbled into the Rich-People Fast Lane 摆烂打工人，误闯富人赛道 A slacker office worker accidentally wanders into the rich kids’ world 68Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Twin Sins: I Expose My Brother's Conspiracy in the Morgue 双生孽：我在停尸房揭穿哥哥的阴谋 Twin Sins: I Expose My Brother's Conspiracy in the Morgue 22Reads—Score—Shelves
