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- 1 Being a Demonic Cultivator Isn’t So Bad 当个魔修也挺好 The protagonist transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation and unexpectedly joins a sect of cultivators. A cautious cultivator's story, with no System, following the ordinary-mortal path. Passing the time by scavenging for bargains and collecting corpses, amid the chaos of the mortal world. Adding brothers to the Human Emperor Banner. I'm dead. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Banner of Ten Thousand Demons: Why Are All the Builders of Huaxia Demonic Cultivators? 万魔幡：基建华夏竟然全是魔修 [Demonic Path + Universal Cultivation + Hilarious and Invincible + Power Fantasy + Villain] With graduation just around the corner, Zhang Fan suddenly receives a confession from the campus belle, but unexpectedly activates the Demonic Path System. He learns that five years from now, the Myriad Worlds will invade Blue Star. Zhang Fan decides to come clean to the Chinese authorities. (Mission 1: Whether I’m a demon or an immortal, I decide.) (Mission 2: May every Chinese person become a demon and 115Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 I Cut Ties with My Family and Turned to Evil, Leaving Them All Regretful and Distraught 断绝亲情，一念成魔，全家悔疯了 [Murderous from the Start] [Super Genius] [Invincible] [System-Powered Troop Building] Chen Fei transmigrates into a fantasy world. His father is the head of the Lin family of Yaohaicheng, and his mother is the eldest princess of the ancient Zhuge family! He thought he had drawn a winning hand from the start, only to discover that he was yet another worn-out good-for-nothing? His former body's potential was nothing more than the weakest, Yellow-grade Martial Soul, worlds apart from the Heaven-gr 3.3kReads8.1Score20414d adds
- 4 Apocalypse: I’m a Demonic Cultivator, and the Nation Helps Me Level Up 末世：我一个魔修，国家帮我练级 [Apocalypse + demonic cultivator + travel between two worlds + fresh premise + steady updates + no saintly heroine] Blue Star faces an extinction-level crisis at the hands of alien beasts. They pollute everything, and monsters and mutated humans run rampant. The world is on the brink of destruction. Han Jie, a demonic cultivator, suddenly discovers that slaughtering alien beasts and absorbing their souls makes his cultivation advance at an astonishing pace. What’s more, the beasts’ bones and cor 680Reads8.3Score10014d adds
- 5 You Forced Me to Become a Demon, and Now I'm the Demon Venerable. Why Are You Crying? 逼我入魔，我成魔尊了你们哭啥 [Decisive and ruthless + heroine regrets it + never forgives + villain protagonist + immortality + highly satisfying + traditional fantasy] In his previous life, after transmigrating, Gu Jian became the kindhearted and upright senior disciple. He treated his master like family and, amid the chaos of a troubled age, repeatedly protected the sect at the cost of severe injuries. To save his fourth junior brother, he even gave him his Supreme Bone. But afterward, that same junior brother falsely acc 4.6kReads7.2Score39814d adds
- 6 Cosmic Horror Cultivation: I Can Reverse Time 克系修仙：我能逆转时间 (No heroine, no invincibility, no brainless protagonist, plot-driven, a protagonist who eats people. Things get really exciting after he breaks through to the Nascent Soul realm!) Ye Xiang transmigrates into a Lovecraftian cultivation world and develops an eye condition. The world he sees is unlike the one ordinary people see: perception turned upside down, Buddha statues made of insects. The Great Dao has vanished, towers of corpses float in the air, and two dark moons hang overhead. What is re 1.6kReads9.0Score15414d adds
- 7 I’m the Only One in the World Who Can’t See the Supernatural 全世界只有我看不见诡异 That day, the heavens showed strange signs, and terrifying entities beyond human understanding descended upon the world en masse. They took all sorts of forms and each followed different rules for killing. They were collectively known as the Strange Entities. “You all keep telling me the strange things have invaded, but where are the ghosts?” “Isn't this just an ordinary Barbie doll?” “What? It attacks anyone who brushes its hair?” “I plucked out every strand and nothing happened. How do you exp 11.5kReads8.0Score91914d adds
- 8 It’s Just Too Satisfying to Cultivate Demonic Arts in a Doomsday World 在末日世界修魔也太爽了吧 When five billion people transmigrated to a cultivation world, each became a low-level demonic cultivator teetering on the edge of death. And when tens of millions were dying every day... What would you do if you were one of them? Lie low for a thousand years, become invincible, then finally emerge? Or charge ahead and fight until heaven and earth were turned upside down, and the sun and moon lost their light? Luckily, you discovered a door in your sea of consciousness leading to a zombie wo 39.3kReads8.9Score3.3k14d adds
- 9 Immortal Cultivation: From the Start, I Ran a Coffin Shop and Refined Zombies 长生修仙：开局棺材铺炼僵尸 [Long-life cultivation + time-rewinding cloth + zombie refinement + unorthodox cultivation] After transmigrating to a vast world of immortal cultivation, Ji Changqing uses a time-rewinding cloth to repeatedly return to his youth, improve his aptitude, and make up for his shortcomings. He refines numerous zombies to protect his path, and ultimately becomes an immortal ancestor. “This spirit herb hasn’t been growing long enough... Time-Rewinding Cloth, speed it up by a hundred years...” “Why is th 13.3kReads8.5Score1.1k14d adds
- 10 Slay the Gods: Madman? Con Artist? Is This Novel Even Serious? 斩神：疯子？骗子？这小说正经吗 (Daoist horror + the Myriad Worlds novel + haven’t decided what comes after the first Daoist horror novel yet + System + ensemble cast; don’t read if that’s not your thing) Li Zang transmigrates into the Slay the Gods world and binds to the Myriad Worlds Leisure System. He can’t cultivate by himself, but simply reading the novels supplied by the System makes him stronger, grants him the protagonists’ abilities, and can even let him summon those protagonists for help. The very first novel is Daoi 16.8kReads8.6Score1.8k14d adds
- 11 Our Sect Is Dirt Poor, but the Disciples Are Rolling in Money 宗门一贫如洗，弟子富得流油 [Transmigration + no System + no harem + lighthearted + martial world] “Want to become an inner sect disciple? With free room and board?” Unable to resist the temptation, Jin Xiaochuan charged straight into the Nine-Story Tower, only to discover that it was a demonic sect officially registered with the authorities. 61.8kReads8.7Score4.3k14d adds
- 12 I Am the Blood Lord, and All Living Beings Are My Blood Slaves 吾为血主，众生皆为血奴 [Slaughter] [Blood Princess] [Tentacles] [Corpse Refining] [Devouring] [No System] Fang Mo, the eldest young master of the Fang family, was the best cultivator among his peers and a widely acclaimed genius in Luoyun City, the focus of everyone’s attention. Unexpectedly, on the day the Heavenly Sword Sect came to recruit disciples, his family treated him as a pawn and discarded him. He was left gravely wounded and crippled. A few days later, news spread that Fang Mo had been poisoned to death. Th 11kReads8.5Score74214d adds
- 13 Wuxia Crossover: I Use the Jianghu to Shake the Imperial Court 综武：我以江湖动朝堂 My name is Jiang Yin. I'm a wandering martial artist who takes jobs for pay. With a sword and a finger, I sweep through the martial world. Before I knew it, all my enemies were dead, while my friends were scattered across the land. 42.8kReads8.9Score3k14d adds
- 14 Demonic Path System: All of China Is Actually Cultivating the Demonic Path! 魔道系统：文明华夏竟全是魔修！ [Demonic cultivation System + invincible power fantasy + an entire nation cultivates demons + explosive action + no female lead] Bai Yang awakens a demonic cultivation System and learns that spiritual qi will fully revive in three years. In the meantime, ferocious beasts will appear all over Blue Star. To face the coming crisis, Bai Yang decides to become a demonic cultivator. But the damn System demands that he lead all 1.4 billion people of Huaxia in demonic cultivation! [Main Quest]: May ever 23.2kReads8.5Score2.2k14d adds
- 15 Even Ghost Messengers Say the Hotpot at My Restaurant Is Delicious 我开的火锅店，鬼差吃了都说好 Low-key version She dropped out of school at thirteen and worked as a chef until she was nineteen. With the savings Lin Ye had scraped together over those six years, he opened a hot pot restaurant. Who could have guessed his venture would get off to such a poor start, with business so slow the place was about to close? Just as he was wondering what to do next, two customers showed up on the restaurant's final night and changed his life... Grim Reaper: “Boss Lin, your hot pot is so spicy. It 31.6kReads9.1Score2.8k14d adds
- 16 749 Bureau: From the Start, I Became a Zombie 749局：开局变成僵尸 "Ruthless and decisive" "All monsters deserve to die" "I’m a monster? Then I deserve to die too!" "No female lead" "A slightly slow start" "Takes off later" Li Buguo is an online absurdist streamer who makes a career out of wild antics. On the Ghost Festival, just as he was making his comeback, a strange beast being hunted by Bureau 749 happened to pass by and pierced his chest. It sent him straight through the open Gates of Hell, only for a ghost to kick him back out. He became an exceptionally 71kReads8.9Score7.8k14d adds
- 17 The Eternal Demon Emperor! 万古魔帝！ [Villain + invincible domination + System + three emperors from one family + building a faction + ruthless decisiveness + ultimate power fantasy + the plot becomes legendary in the middle and later stages] Gu Changge transmigrates into a fantasy world and binds himself to the Demon God System. As long as he keeps killing, he can quickly and easily increase his demonic cultivation and obtain all kinds of heavenly treasures! From there, he rises against all odds, founds the Heavenly Demon Cult, an 23.7kReads8.9Score2.6k14d adds
- 18 I Use Summoning to Revive Blue Star Civilization Across the Galaxy 我靠召唤在星际复苏蓝星文明 [Two male leads + the protagonist has maxed-out combat ability] As the hope of the entire village of ten thousand demons, Ye Chen studies hard for decades and finally gets into college. But after falling asleep, Ye Chen inexplicably transmigrates to an interstellar world where people summon creatures. He even becomes the useless fake young master in a story about the real and fake young masters, his mental sea destroyed and his fiance cheating on him with the real young master. He's left green 12.8kReads9.5Score1.9k14d adds
- 19 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. 15.8kReads8.9Score1.1k14d adds
- 20 Rebirth as a Demonic Cultivator: Starting with a Zombie Planet 重生魔修，开局捡到一颗丧尸星球 This novel has been adapted into a comic. Chu Xuan transmigrates to the Cangxuan World and becomes a demonic cultivator in the Wuji Sect. To cultivate the demonic path is to seize the essence of heaven and earth and take the finest of all things. Slaughter countless millions, and you can become a supreme Demon Venerable. But killing is forbidden by the Heavenly Dao of the human race. The righteous sects also wiped out the Wuji Sect. Just when all seemed lost, Chu Xuan happens upon a blood mirror 15.6kReads9.1Score1.2k14d adds
- 21 After Death, My Wife Preserved My Corpse, and I Evolved from a Zombie 死后被妻子养尸，我从僵尸进化 [Zombies + Corpse-Raising + Corpse-Driving + Body Retrieval + Folk Customs + Romance + Ancient Mythology + Classic of Mountains and Seas] (Volumes 1–7: After I died, my wife raised my corpse, transforming me from a zombie into the Ancestral Corpse.) (Volume 8: After my wife died, I raised her corpse, transforming her from a zombie into a female drought demon.) In my previous life, my wife was the Yellow Emperor's daughter. She died after being sacrificed to the gods, and I raised her corpse unti 31.9kReads9.1Score3.3k14d adds
- 22 I Am Uncontainable 我，无法收容 [Lighthearted] [Everyday life] [Managing containment facilities] (Peaked at 600,000 active readers and has updated steadily for over a year.) The sun burned beneath the deep sea, while roots spread across the sky. Gears grew from people’s bodies, and upside-down cities fell like meteorites. Fang Jiu once thought that these things, which existed only in fantasy, had nothing to do with an ordinary man like him. That was until his head was chopped off one night... (The pace is slower from the start 181.9kReads9.3Score27.1k14d adds
- 23 The Immortal Food of Mankind 人种仙食 "Weird Cultivation, Behind-the-Scenes Story" The Tang Dynasty: strange things are coming. When Li Qing transmigrated here, he thought Mr. Huayue had kindly taken him in. Little did he know that the man saw him only as livestock to be raised for food. At the brink of life and death, the jade tablet on Li Qing revealed its power, gravely wounding Mr. Huayue and allowing him to escape. But the danger was far from over. The scheme of the Six Paths and Eight Immortals to devour all living beings had 38.1kReads8.8Score3.4k14d adds
- 24 EN Mortal Cultivation: Ten Thousand Corpses Forge an Immortal Bone 凡人修仙，万尸铸仙骨 Demonic cultivation + no System + scheming underdog + decisive and ruthless. This book is dark, so don't read it if that's not your thing. The moment Song Wen kills the frail little beggar and seizes his blood and soul, every cell in his body cheers and leaps with excitement. His mind races, and he knows that killing will be part of his life from now on. For survival and immortality, he'll stop at nothing: petty schemes, conspiracies, and ruthless slaughter. On the road to immortality, bones are 96kReads8.9Score8.2k14d adds
- 25 Cultivating Immortality as an Outer-Door Servant 从外门杂役开始修仙 [Mortal's Journey + No System + No Golden Finger + No Female Lead + Not Invincible + Not a Wish-Fulfillment Story + Fast-Paced + Decisive and Ruthless] A young man from the modern world accidentally transmigrated and stumbled into the path of immortality, struggling onward in his quest to become an immortal. The road to immortality was harder than ascending to heaven. Faced with countless dangers, his resolve to seek the Dao remained as solid as stone. Fang Qing transmigrated here and started ou 2.3kReads6.2Score10614d adds
- 26 EN Anomaly Containment Facility, You're Containing Me, a Human? 诡异收容所，你收容我一个人类？ [No System]+ [No Heroine]+ [Cthulhu]+ [No Tired Tropes] (Also known as: Sequence: Ascension to Godhood) The Dark Prison has merged with reality, and bizarre creatures are invading the world through the “Gates.” An organization has quietly emerged, calling themselves the Wardens. They keep the bizarre creatures behind the “Gates,” and capture and contain any that make it into the world. Lu Xiao accidentally fell into the Dark Prison and lived there alone for three years. After the Wardens discove 51.7kReads9.2Score5k14d adds
- 27 EN King of the Apocalypse! 末世之王！ [Apocalypse + Rebirth + Stockpiling Supplies + Evolving Zombies + Violent Aesthetics] Lin Dong is reborn on the eve of a terrifying apocalypse, and gains a storage space. A normal person would stockpile huge amounts of supplies, food, and water. But Lin Dong buys vast quantities of raw meat and fresh blood. Because... he is about to become a zombie! Flesh and blood are the source of a zombie's power. As long as it eats meat, it can keep evolving. A zombie fed on plenty of flesh grows at a terrif 77kReads9.3Score6.4k14d adds
- 28 Oh No! I’m One of the Seven Deadly Sins, and I Got MVP! 哎呀！我七原罪，得了MVP！ [Dark comedy + hilarious + ruthless action + global setting + unconventional ideas + one heroine + near-invincible protagonist + power fantasy with a brain (or without one)] Horror games descend upon the world. Those chosen to participate must face challenges of inhuman difficulty. Though the games are full of torment, they also offer people a chance to gain supernatural powers. Life or death. A meteoric rise, or losing everything. But Lu Ce, who has been unable to feel pain since childhood, fee 142.3kReads9.3Score16.9k14d adds
- 29 Me, a Cultivation Big Shot: How Much Stronger Can I Get? 我，修仙大佬强亿点怎么了 "Soul Ferryman + No Romance + Story Arc Adventures + Spiritual Qi Revival + Cultivation + Invincible" Yun Miao, a cultivation powerhouse who has lived for thousands of years, sets out to uncover her origins. She volunteers to become a ferryman, guiding vengeful ghosts to the afterlife. The ghosts are full of resentment, hatred, and longing. She works diligently, her heart as firm as stone, yet can never uncover the mystery of her origins. Until one day... The Taoist priests of the Xuanmen 27.1kReads9.2Score5.5k14d adds
- 30 The Eerie Spirit Medium: My Doll Can Really Manifest Spirits 诡异降神师：我的娃娃真能显灵 [Ghosts in the Book!] [Dark Tone!] [Villain Protagonist!] [Urban Supernatural!] [Horror Aesthetic!] [Invincible from the Start!] A sinister doll saws someone to pieces, a red-clad vengeful ghost claims lives at the airport, a hundred ghosts hunt people down along a ten-mile street, the dead rise again in a crematorium, and corpses dance wildly in an abandoned hospital... None of these things happened to me. They are all stories I wrote. My name is Yang Ning. I am an heir to the Ling Men, a profe 135.6kReads9.5Score11.8k14d adds
- 31 EN After a Thousand Simulations, I Have a Speedrun Strategy for Escape Games 模拟一千次，我有逃生游戏速通法 [Print edition on sale February 21 at 7 p.m. Please show it lots of support!] [Infinite-flow + fast-paced + funny + invincible protagonist + no female lead + no angst for the protagonist] [Across the four streets, east, south, west, and north, ask around and find out who’s the boss] [Don’t compare yourself to others. Just look at you: who do you think you are?] The White Tower descends, and the entire world enters death-instance mode. Zheng Xun, bound to an infinite simulation System and forced 214.3kReads9.6Score36k14d adds
- 32 After Slaying My Way Through Instances, I Raise an Evil God by the Rules 杀穿副本后，我在规则里养大邪神 The print edition is now available under the title: The Fall of the Gods (Not for the faint of heart: nonhuman entities and terrifying monsters.) Yin Xiu has lived in a town governed by rules for six years. Normal players follow the rules and clear instances to stay alive. Yin Xiu, however, stays in town day after day. He doesn’t leave, clear instances, or go near the monsters. He does the bare minimum, takes it easy, and has practically settled into retirement. The town’s monsters have had thei 103.2kReads9.7Score14.5k14d adds
- 33 EN Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 160.2kReads9.6Score18.1k14d adds
- 34 EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 513.4kReads9.5Score39.7k14d adds
- 35 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5k14d adds
- 36 EN The Creatures That We Are 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
- 37 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 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds
- 38 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 992.2kReads9.9Score158.5k14d adds
