Novels like The Mist That Shrouds the Heavens
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Mist That Shrouds the Heavens, best match first.
- 151 Mortal Realm Martial Venerable: One Punch Shatters Chaos 凡界武尊：一拳碎混沌 Lin Chen, a body-tempering apprentice, is humiliated by a powerful clan and watches as the demon race slaughters his town. At death’s door, he awakens a bronze fragment left behind by his father. From then on, he shatters his constraints with his fists and rises against all odds! He slays demons and seizes treasures in the Black Wind Mountains, then establishes an alliance against the demons in Qingfeng Town. With only his Body Tempering cultivation, he stands against a Grandmaster and unites th 25Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 152 A Full-Element Mage God at Eighteen, One Man Subdues the World 十八岁全系法神，一人镇压全世界 (The rating just came out and is a bit low, but it will go up later.) [Power fantasy]+ [Powerful family background]+ [Skills personified] Lin Mo transmigrates to a world where everyone changes class and awakens as a [blank-slate mage] with no elemental affinity. Without a specific talent, he can't learn high-level elemental skills. Fortunately, he comes from a prominent family, so Lin Mo decides to lie flat and live the easy life of a rich second-generation heir. But then his skills come to life 145.6kReads7.8Score7.3kShelves
- 153 A Rogue Poison Strategist, the Empress Dowager Says I'm So Bad 痞子毒士，太后直呼你好坏 [Transmigration + no System + lighthearted entertainment + multiple women] “King Fengmei, you already have a harem of wives and concubines. You still want to be my father?” “The court is in turmoil. To put an end to the consort clan’s meddling in government, I am willing to marry the Empress Dowager!” With the Empress Dowager’s peerless beauty, how could Tu Yile let her go? Tu Yile transmigrates into the Great Feng dynasty as a beggar?! To save his life, he answers the imperial proclamation. 16.9kReads9.0Score1.8kShelves
- 154 The Vermilion Bird Calls 朱雀鸣 This is an irreverent fantasy cultivation novel. Readers used to traditional cultivation stories may find it a little jarring. But if you're just as irreverent, then you're in the right place. This book is all about having fun. 20.4kReads8.9Score2.3kShelves
- 155 Inn · Lights Out · Ask Not About Revenge 《客栈·熄灯·莫问仇》 Inn, Lights Out, Ask Not About Revenge 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 Willow Branches Forged into Blades 《折柳成刀》 Willow Branches Forged into Blades 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 157 The Reclusive Peak Master: Gifts for Taking in Disciples, Reaching the Peak of Shrouding the Heavens 苟道峰主：收徒返还，问鼎遮天 (The protagonist is weak at the start. If you can’t stand him playing it safe and holding back, you can skip ahead and start reading when his cultivation reaches the Four Extremes, at Chapter 49.) Lin Xuan transmigrates to the Big Dipper World two thousand years before Ye Fan arrives. He becomes the weakest peak master of Qingyun Sect in the Eastern Wasteland of the Big Dipper Star Region and activates the Disciple-Acquisition Return System. From the start, he picks up a pair of siblings with 65Reads5.5Score161Shelves
- 158 Ten Days to the End: Qi Xia Enters a Rule Horror 十日终焉：当齐夏进入规则怪谈 [Power fantasy + Rules Horror + mind games + light high-martial-arts elements + genius protagonists] In a high-martial-arts world, spiritual qi revival has begun. On their eighteenth birthday, everyone has a chance to awaken a web-novel ability. Some awaken the ability from Slay the Gods and summon Lin Qiye from the start. Some awaken the ability from Exotic Beasts and summon Gao Yang from the start. Some awaken the ability from Great Strength and summon Jiang Nan. However, when everyone was tra 17.1kReads7.1Score2.1kShelves
- 159 Commanding Spirits Across the Heavens 御灵苍穹 Spirit Taming the Firmament —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 Xuanhuan: Picking Up Lucky Bags in an Immortal's Livestream 玄幻：我在仙人的直播间捡福袋 [Traditional xuanhuan, plot-driven, not an invincible protagonist story. He faces trouble head-on, acts logically, doesn’t kill indiscriminately, grows stronger, and has no harem. Comedy + Passion] Alternate title: Xuanhuan: I Pick Up Lucky Bags in an Immortal’s Livestream After transmigrating to a small world of immortal cultivation and waiting twenty long years, Lu Fan finally receives his golden finger. It’s a Myriad Worlds Disc where he can watch the livestreams of geniuses from countless wo 6.8kReads7.8Score760Shelves
- 161 Northern Wind Falls Upon a Turbulent World 逆乱寰宇北风落 [Epic Saga + the Myriad Worlds + Partly Wish-Fulfillment + One Heroine + Traditional Fantasy + Rebirth] When the barriers between realms become a prison and blood feuds are carved into his very bones, a young man challenges the heavens with his mortal body, vowing to rekindle the last sparks of the crumbling Dragon Domain. “The Nine Heavens have fallen and the Dragon Domain lies adrift? Then I will make myself the Dragon Domain's final line of defense!” In the Dragon Domain, the young man sets o 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 The Crossroads of Graduation Season 毕业季的十字路口 The Crossroads of Graduation Season 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 163 The Phoenix Reborn from the Ashes 凤凰涅槃、浴火重生 A phoenix reborn from the ashes, rising anew through the flames 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 Working as a Dorm Supervisor at a Remote Factory, Protecting 80,000 Women Workers 在深山大厂做宿管，守护八万女工 Li Xingchen, a descendant of a mysterious family, had just been crowned the nation's top scorer on the college entrance exam when his parents were struck by eighty-one bolts of violet heavenly lightning and vanished without a trace! Believing his parents dead and left with empty pockets, he was forced to drop out of school and dive headfirst into a massive foreign-owned corporation with a hundred thousand employees, taking on a hellishly difficult job: dorm supervisor for eighty thousand female 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 The Mad Senior Sister Is Rebellious to the Bone, Drawing Her Sword to Slay the Original Story 疯批师姐一身反骨，拔剑创死原著 After an accident, Xie Zhao is born into a cultivation novel full of ridiculous Mary Sue clichés. She becomes the hapless senior sister who has her sword bone and spiritual root personally dug out by her master to save the female lead, the child of destiny. Xie Zhao, the designated plot device, smiles faintly. “...Great.” The System curls up its little body and trembles. This has nothing to do with it. In the original novel, the heroine Yu Rongrong has an adorable, sweet face and a somewhat scat 1.2kReads9.1Score177Shelves
- 166 The Great Emperor's Reforging: From the Mortal Spirit Realm to the Hongmeng Summit 大帝重修：从凡灵界到鸿蒙巅 Once Qingzhou's greatest prodigy, he reached the ninth level of the Qi-Attraction Realm at just twelve years old. Then, overnight, his cultivation plummeted, leaving him a good-for-nothing heir stuck at the first level of the Body Tempering Realm. For three years, his family turned a cold shoulder, while broken engagements and humiliation came one after another. Only a young woman from the Luo family honored their betrothal. When a bully beat him to the brink of death, a mysterious voice rang ou —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 The Urban Wanderer 城市穿梭者 City Hopper —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 The Medical Hero of Shennongjia: Yin Chengzhu 神农架之医侠尹成竹 Born in Shennongjia, famed as “Central China's Most Beautiful Mountain and River,” the protagonist, Yin Chengzhu, came into the world amid the Buddha's light at Yanzi Gorge, the mysterious emergence of spiritual energy at the Shennong Altar, the protection of the iron-hardened fir's divine roots, and the clear, reflective waters of Dajiu Lake. Bright and clever from childhood, he had an extraordinary bearing. His father, Yin Sinong, and his mother, from the Shan family, were heirs to a family of 23Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 169 Rejuvenation System: The Old Gatekeeper Meets a Goddess 回春系统，门卫大爷遇见女神 When 70-year-old psychology professor Li Tianyang was bound to a “System,” all he wanted was a quiet life as a security guard. But S-rank goddesses kept coming his way. An investment bank CEO was being harassed by a rich playboy? A single round of tai chi sent the guy to his knees, begging for mercy. A legal queen was framed by her ex-husband? Microexpression analysis made the mole crack on the spot. Every time he met a goddess, he grew five years younger and gained a superpower: hawk-eyed vis 149Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 Guardian of the Deep Sea’s Lost Pearl 深海遗珠守护者 Guardian of the Deep-Sea Pearl 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 The Clean God Is Invincible 洁神无敌 A hundred thousand years ago, in the primordial age, demons ran rampant and gods clashed. The world of cultivation flourished, the great deities took their places, and order reigned across the Three Realms. A hundred thousand years later, legends have faded, the Heavenly Dao shows no mercy, and the gods have fallen. In this godless age, on an ordinary day, a divine emperor is reborn into the world amid wondrous portents. He finds himself in the Zhao family, one of the four great clans of Huizho 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 172 749 Bureau Paranormal Archives 749局灵异档案 Do you know about Bureau 749? Some say it was a secret organization directly overseen by the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, specializing in research on defense technology and the human body. Others say it was actually responsible for all sorts of cutting-edge technology, including alien technology and mysterious powers. Still others say it was a mysterious organization devoted to researching supernatural phenomena. I never knew which of these rumors were tru 2kReads8.0Score230Shelves
- 173 A Strange Man of the Republic 民国奇人 The Republic of China was an era of upheaval, teeming with extraordinary people. In those chaotic times, the martial world was vast. As the saying goes, “The heroes of our age emerge amid the world's turmoil; the seven extraordinary figures of the Republic are here.” But who were these seven? There was a Daoist priest who cried, “In prosperous times, Buddhist temples thrive on incense while Daoists hide away in mountain retreats. In troubled times, the Bodhisattvas turn a blind eye, so the Old L 15kReads9.2Score1.4kShelves
- 174 A Complete Guide to Bazi 八字通晓 Eight Characters Made Clear is really just two names put together. Whose names are they? Tan Bazi, a man, and Jiang Tongxiao, a woman. At Tangfeng Cave, Guan Jixu and Fang Zhinan received the true teachings of Immortal Masters Xu and Guan, among others. They founded the Taihua East Peak School of Destiny Studies, enthroning as its patriarch and as deputy patriarch. From then on, Tangfeng Cave and Taihua East Peak became two important forums for destiny studies. The st 999Reads8.1Score220Shelves
- 175 Books Are Useless? Why Are You Kneeling When My Words Make the Law? 读书无用？我言出法随你跪什么？ (Slow burn + ensemble cast + not a wish-fulfillment story) For thousands of years, the immortal, martial, and sword paths have flourished across the realm of the Nine Provinces. Here, only the survival of the fittest and the rule of the strong matter. The people at the bottom, the ordinary folk, can only crawl on the ground and survive by accepting handouts. Until one day, a scholar founded an academy. To the court, he said: “Govern with virtue, and you will be like the North Star, fixed in its 13.1kReads7.5Score1.3kShelves
- 176 High Martial: Why Work Hard When You've Already Achieved Immortality? 高武：努力？都长生了谁还努力啊 Alternate title: The Long Road of a Laborer's Immortality [High-Martial Arts Immortality + Cautious King + Lighthearted + Fast-Paced] The world undergoes a great transformation, and strange beasts invade. Gu Bai is an ordinary person who gains an immortality golden finger and begins his journey to eternal life. Ten years pass, and everything has changed. A hundred years pass, and his old friends have passed away. A thousand years pass, and Gu Bai has become a top powerhouse, while his old friend 10kReads8.5Score849Shelves
- 177 Conquering the Primordial World, Starting with an Awakening Bloodline! 征战原始，从觉醒血脉开始！ [Bloodline Warrior] [Farming and Development + Artifact Refining] [No System + Slow-Burn + Unique Races] After his soul transmigrates into primordial times, he arrives in another world! Here, Wang Chuang discovers that shamans are real, tribes have guardian spirits, and bloodline warriors bear tattoos. The hunters of the tribe say, "The world beyond is crawling with ferocious beasts. The skies belong to dragons and birds, while the wate 15.2kReads7.7Score1.2kShelves
- 178 The Highest Good Is Like Water, Which Benefits All Things Without Contending 上善若水，水善利万物而不争 The highest virtue is like water: water benefits all things and does not contend 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 179 Everything Changed After My Father Drank Crane's Crown Red 自从爹爹喝了鹤顶红，一切都变了 [Everyone’s Darling, Multiple Husbands, Female Emperor, Punishing Scum, Dad Handles Everything] As the heroine of a transmigration novel She wasn’t the one who transmigrated, and she wasn’t reborn either. No matter, her father was! She had no System and no golden finger. No matter, her father had them! She was born timid and a good-for-nothing. No matter, her father was a ruthless man. She spent sixteen years wandering outside before finally returning home. Her father, once so powerful he had th 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 180 Iron Horses and Icy Rivers Haunt My Dreams, For I Live to Defend Our Homeland 铁马冰河入梦来，此生只为守山河 Iron Steeds and Icy Rivers Haunt My Dreams; In This Life, I Live Only to Defend Our Homeland 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 181 On the Brink of Conflict 剑拔弩张 Tension was mounting 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 Watch What You Eat and Get Moving 管住嘴，迈开腿 Watch what you eat, and get moving 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 I Logged In Ten Thousand Years Early, but I’m the Mastermind Behind It All 提前一万年登录，但我是幕后黑手 (Ensemble cast · Western fantasy · world creation · epic · players arrive · protagonist never takes the stage, remaining purely in the background) After unexpectedly acquiring an ancient book, Chen Jiu becomes the Creator. With enough Creation divine power, Chen Jiu can do anything. There are only three ways to obtain Creation divine power. First, the world periodically repays him with Creation divine power. The stronger the world, the greater the reward. Second, whenever an epic, world-sha 31.2kReads8.5Score3.4kShelves
- 184 A Lifetime of Martial Arts 一生武功 This is the story of Wang Han, who failed the Bayes' theorem exam administered by the God of Physics and Technology and was banished to the mortal realm. There, he became cultivation partners with Huang Zhumiao, one of the Seven Fairy Maidens from Heaven, and underwent trials to advance his cultivation. Wang Han studied the Seven Injuries Fist. Every morning, he did push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups, then sat cross-legged and ate Shizhen Yifang ginseng paste for his health before soaking in medici 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 185 I’m Already a Great Luo Golden Immortal, So How Are You Only Martial Saints? 我都大罗金仙了，你们怎么才武圣 [Journey to the West] [Mount Fangcun] [Chat Group] [Stat-Boosting] This novel is set in the world of Journey to the West. Whether or not you've read Journey to the West, everyone knows that the power levels in its world are off the charts compared to the Myriad Worlds. Ning Chen transmigrates into this world and is shocked to discover that everyone calls it the Hellish Divine Realm. The reason is that this world has no novel called Journey to the West. Those who enter the Divine Realm either com 321kReads8.5Score34.7kShelves
- 186 The Supreme Immortal of the City 都市巅峰仙尊 In my past life, you looked down on me. In this life, I’ll leave you eating my dust! Chen Mo, a great cultivator of the Deification Realm, sneaks into a forbidden area with his junior sister. After dying there, he is reborn on Earth as a high school senior. Chen Mo discovers that his junior sister has also been reborn on Earth, a thousand years in the past! His first love from his past life? Chen Mo couldn’t care less. The most beautiful woman of his past life? Chen Mo takes her on as his maid. 2.3kReads8.4Score879Shelves
- 187 A 29-Year-Old in a White Shirt, and the Big Shot Says I Have a Bright Future 29岁白衬衫，大佬说我前途无量 At fifteen, he enrolled at Imperial College London, majoring in business economics and strategy. Four years later, he graduated with both bachelor's and master's degrees. At nineteen, he returned to China to pursue a doctorate at Peking University. Four years later, he earned his doctorate, holding dual degrees in economics and law at the age of twenty-three. He put down his pen and joined the military, earning three first-class merits in just a few short years. After an accident forced Zhang Mi 70.5kReads8.3Score6.1kShelves
- 188 Cultivating Immortality: I Have a Mysterious Space 修仙我有一个神秘空间 A fishing village boy with an inferior spiritual root is recruited into an immortal sect as a menial disciple. By a twist of fate, he obtains the ancient spiritual treasure, the Void Mirror, and rises against all odds. From Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul, he tramples the geniuses of every immortal sect underfoot and takes the world by storm! 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 The Useless Disciple of the Hehuan Sect Is a Sword Cultivator 合欢宗的废材是剑修 The Useless Member of the Hehuan Sect Is a Sword Cultivator 196Reads—Score—Shelves
- 190 EN I Start by Handing Over a Cultivation World, and the Nation Wants Me to Become an Immortal First 开局上交修仙界，国家让我先成仙 “Chief, I request permission to hand over an unclaimed cultivation world.” “This world is rich in resources and abundant in spiritual energy. I recommend taking it over as soon as possible.” Lu Li transmigrates to a cultivation world and becomes a low-ranking mine slave in a demonic sect. Without an old master or a System to guide him, he thinks he'll have to cultivate the hard way. But by chance, he awakens a twin-fish jade pendant that can contact Huaxia. The news shocks the entire country, an 262.1kReads9.2Score32kShelves
- 191 Go with the Flow, Secure Your Gains 顺流者生，落袋为安 Go with the flow, and take your profits 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 The Legend of the Iron Book 铁书传 The book flopped and hardly anyone reads it. I'm writing purely for love of it. [Martial world + Imperial court + Revenge] Over ten bloody years, she grows from an orphan whose family was slaughtered into the Blood Shadow Rakshasa, a name that terrifies the martial world. With a single blade, she cuts down her enemies, yet cannot cut through a carefully woven death trap. This martial world is no longer a mere clash of blades and swords. At the Pavilion of Listening to the Wind and Watching the 44Reads—Score—Shelves
- 193 The Jade Wave Immortal Lake 碧波仙湖 The Emerald Lake of Immortals 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 194 No Way! This Demonic Cultivator Is Way Too Righteous! 不是吧？这魔修过于正义！ [Ensemble cast + No female lead + Invincible hero + Fast-paced + Gets better the more you read + Characters aren’t one-dimensional] (Every character has their own distinctive personality.) Yan Qing transmigrates into a popular action anime called Martial Arts Across the Nine Heavens. Identity: The top prodigy of the Demon Sect. Original ending: He acts like a lovesick puppy, gives his rival his spiritual root, and gets humiliated to death. Faced with such a cannon-fodder ending, Yan Qing is furi 21.4kReads8.8Score1.8kShelves
- 195 Slay Demons, Devour Sins, Drive Out Evil in the North! 斩妖吞孽，北极驱邪！ “The Great Emperor of the North Pole, Ziwei Yuxu, commands the stars above, governs the myriad laws in the middle, and rules Fengdu below. He is the lord of all the stars in the heavens, and the Northern Pole Exorcism Office is his duly appointed authority.” “Isn’t the Exorcism Office an internal Celestial Court department that judges matters involving ghosts and gods? Why call it a military bureau?” “Do you know what a ghost is?” “Isn’t a ghost just a ghost?” “The Taishang Tiantan Yuge says: ‘A 96.4kReads9.1Score10kShelves
- 196 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
- 197 After My Family Abandoned Me, I Destroyed a Golden Core with a Snap of My Fingers 被全家抛弃后，我弹指灭金丹 After five years of trials, I returned home, only for my family to force me to kneel and serve as a stepping stone for my cousin. A grand elder seated high in the immortal ranks glared down at me and rebuked, “Useless fool, hurry up and offer the last of your worth!” I lowered my head with a faint smile and leisurely lit a cigarette. Through the swirling smoke, a sliver of the might of an Immortal Emperor from ten thousand years ago emerged. The Golden Core elders in the hall instantly fell to t 122Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 The Legend of Lu Laoqi 陆老七传奇 In the province of Rehe during the Republican era, a catchy rhyme circulated through the martial world: “Lu Laoqi, Li Changjiu, undefeated throughout Rehe; the Beggar, Detective, and Master Shang; Dalong, Qingshan, and Zheng the Crooked; the Driver, Drunkard, and Wang Chaojie; Pockmark, Du Wu, and Liu Minghu; the Twin Fiends, Kou Haiyang, and Yu Xingba.” It vividly described the eighteen peerless fighters of Rehe at the time. Ranked first was Lu Yishan, a boy from a poor family in the province. 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 The Fairest Is That Crimson Flower 最美是那一朵血花 The Most Beautiful Flower Is a Bloodstain 48Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 Master the Market Swings, Follow the Trend 波段为王，顺势而为 Ride the waves, and go with the trend —Reads—Score—Shelves
