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- 1 With Poor Aptitude, I Have a Tenfold Cultivation Space 资质低下，我有十倍修炼空间 In Great Xia on Blue Star, a young man suffering from a terminal illness unexpectedly receives a jade pendant from a mysterious stranger. After another car accident, he is transported to a cultivation world, where an eventful life awaits him. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Immortal Cultivation Space 长生修仙空间 A white jade slip, a treasured Buddhist relic, falls into the hands of a down-and-out young noble. Watch as he carefully advances step by step, enters the Immortal Sect, and seeks revenge for his family’s destruction. See how, on this continent, he uses his intelligence and ingenuity to build everything from nothing and gradually rise to become the supreme ruler of the mortal realm... 488Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 3 I Transmigrated into a Book, Exhausted Myself Doing Workout Check-Ins, and Turns Out I’m an NPC 运动打卡穿书累成苟原来是npc You have to run, run, run from the start. If you don’t run, you’ll be struck by lightning. Run until you reach Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul. I transmigrated into a book, but never got to use my golden finger. Every important scene in the book was something I had to watch from the sidelines. I’m so done. A Thousand and One Nights is online, and I’ve become an NPC? Hehehe! Don’t run, everyone! Sit back and enjoy being terrorized by NPCs in an escape room. 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Immortal Abode 仙府 After unexpectedly entering the world of cultivation, Xia Qi thought he would roam freely beneath the heavens, just as he had always dreamed. But he discovered that he had an inferior spirit root muddled with all five elements. His cultivation was slow, and he would never amount to much in his lifetime! Though his talent was poor, he knew the secret of a treasure that even immortals would envy. He had barely enjoyed a few carefree days in the cultivation world before realizing that danger lurked 2.2kReads7.9Score218Shelves
- 5 This Evil Cultivator Is Surprisingly Righteous 这个邪修，有点正 [Eastern Fantasy, Master-Disciple Comedy, No System, Misunderstandings, Cautious Cultivation, Power Fantasy, Subverting Expectations, Lightning Techniques, Genius, Play the pig to eat the tiger, Decisive and Ruthless] My demonic cultivator master lied and told me he was the leader of the righteous path! I believed him and devoted myself wholeheartedly to exterminating evil, defending the righteous, and slaying demons. One day, my master got caught trying to flirt with a female ghost because h 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Keeping a Low Profile as a Landlord in the Cultivation World 苟在修仙界当地主 When programmer Jiang Xiaoman wakes up, he discovers he's become the most unfortunate guy in the cultivation world: afflicted with the incurable Spirit-Eroding Gu, his spiritual root ruined, and less than a hundred days to live. His dad is missing, his family is broken, and he's completely at a loss. With death by poison fast approaching, Jiang Xiaoman angrily hurls the script aside. “What kind of cursed start is this?! I worked myself to death and transmigrated here, not so I could switch maps 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Immortal Path in the Mortal World Begins on Blue Star 人间仙途从蓝星开始 A mighty expert is hunted across time and space and hides in the remote mountains of Blue Star. Chu Jun happens upon him while traveling, and unexpectedly discovers that Blue Star doesn't even exist in the present world. With the expert's help, a man, a wolf, and a fox embark on the path to immortality and begin a long journey toward transcendence. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Cultivator Side Character Refuses to Be the Wronged Party in a Broken Engagement 修仙女配不当退婚冤种 Luo Tianjiao transmigrated. She became the fiancée of a male lead in a broken-engagement story: the cannon-fodder heroine who humiliates him from the start, gets face-slapped midway through, and dies without a whole body by the end. To make matters worse, the moment she opened her eyes, her foot was planted on a muddy osmanthus cake. A young man knelt on the ground, hatred in his eyes enough to tear her apart. Luo Tianjiao: ... Is it still not too late to apologize? She stayed up all night readi 12.7kReads8.4Score1.5kShelves
- 9 With Ten Thousand Clans Ruling the World, Humanity Rises by Fleeing, Fighting Monsters, and Surviving 万族林立人族一路逃荒打怪崛起 [Chi You] [Floods Ravage the Land] [Flight from Famine] [The Shadowless Shou Ren Tribe] [Gong Gong Builds Levees to Control the Flood] Demons ran rampant and floodwaters engulfed the land. The human tribes were driven from their homes, scattered and fleeing, struggling to survive. Chi You invented smelting and led the human tribes in forging divine weapons. Together with Yin Lingzi, who had cultivated from a firefly, and the Great Shaman Jiu Feng, he exterminated demons. He also worked with Gong 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 With a Spiritual Spring in My Pocket Dimension, I Keep a Low Profile While Cultivating, Shocking Everyone 手握空间低调修炼，惊爆众人 The world undergoes a sudden transformation, and spiritual qi is revived. After her divorce leaves her heartbroken, Shi Ran accidentally unlocks a pocket dimension and unexpectedly sets foot on the broad road to immortal cultivation. From then on, she cultivates immortality while raising her child. Who could have guessed that her aloof ex-husband would shamelessly cling to her... 1.6kReads8.8Score127Shelves
- 11 Others Cultivate Immortality with Spirit Roots, but I Draw Talismans Until I Become a God 别人修仙靠灵根，我靠画符肝成神 Ye Zhen woke up to find himself a lowly independent cultivator in You Shan Fang. His ancestors had all been talisman masters, but after three generations of a single line, the original owner had turned out to be a good-for-nothing with four spiritual roots, stuck at the second level of Qi Refining and only able to draw first-level Diamond Talismans. With almost no savings left and creditors demanding payment, Ye Zhen felt his heart sink. Fortunately, he awakened an attribute panel that improve 2kReads6.9Score134Shelves
- 12 His Lies Are the Truth 他的谎言，就是真理 His Lies Are the Truth 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Immortal Path Through the Mystic Mirror 奇镜仙途 Zheng Dabao, a poor boy from a mountain village, had thought he would spend his whole life in that remote, impoverished place. But a fateful encounter in the mountains completely changed the course of his life! By chance, he obtained the legacy of a mysterious cultivator, which led him into the enigmatic world of cultivation. He also unexpectedly acquired the wondrous Spiritlight Mirror, gaining the heaven-defying ability to deduce cultivation techniques. With boundless longing for cultivation a 3.3kReads8.0Score387Shelves
- 14 The Peerless Immortal Fate 绝鼎仙缘 Bandits invade and wipe out an entire village. To avenge the massacre, Nie Yun embarks on the path of immortality. With the stone cauldron his grandfather entrusted to him before dying, Nie Yun acquires countless resources and transforms the Five Elements Spiritual Root, said to be the hardest to cultivate, into a peerless Chaos Sacred Body. The stone cauldron has an extraordinary origin. It was once hailed as the number one treasure in the Immortal Realm, and its immense power made the myriad r 6.2kReads8.8Score594Shelves
- 15 A Fortuitous Encounter on the Path to Immortality 仙路奇遇 No System, no goody-two-shoes protagonist, a story about an ordinary mortal. Three years after Chu Nan was reborn, he accidentally obtained a mysterious jade bottle. Just as he was about to be cast out by his sect, this unexpected stroke of luck changed everything. He began cultivating spirit herbs, found ten-thousand-year-old herbs with ease, and saw his cultivation soar after taking them, reaching the Profound Realm in one bound. Powerful enemies fell like dogs driven from their homes. From th 293Reads6.5Score100Shelves
- 16 After Picking Up a Little Dumpling, I Became the Internet's Darling 捡个小团子后，我成了全网心尖宠 After Picking Up a Little Bundle of Joy, I Became the Internet’s Darling 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Graduation Isn't Goodbye, You'll Be Mine for the Rest of My Life 毕业不散场，余生皆是你 Graduation Isn’t Goodbye; You’re My Everything for the Rest of My Life 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 From the Start, I Turn the Tables While Fleeing Famine 开局逃荒直接掀桌 Su Xiaoya transmigrated. Well, that was fairly normal! At least she was still human. And she had a spiritual spring space, a System... Farming? She could cultivate immortality all the same. But why did the whole story seem to be getting more and more warped? Never mind the old men and women leaping over rooftops. Why had even the little kids become strongmen? And sure, they were fleeing famine, but why had all kinds of monsters and demons shown up too? Luckily, the Su family ancestor was impress 132Reads7.6Score130Shelves
- 19 Clan Cultivation: Immortal Fate of the Heavenly Tome 家族修仙：天书仙缘 [Mortal cultivation, no System, spatial abilities, farming, ensemble cast, slow burn, spiritual roots, beast taming, alchemy, artifact crafting, formations, soul cultivation, body cultivation, family cultivation] With a supreme Book of Destiny in hand, he cultivates the Great Dao and becomes a true immortal. With his own strength, he leads his clan to stand proudly atop all the worlds, determined to take control of the fates of all living beings! See how the Wang clan, confined to a remote corne 670Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 20 Urban Mysticism: The Stunning Fortune-Teller Is a Force to Be Reckoned With 都市玄算：绝色卦师飒爆了 Urban Mysticism: The Stunning Diviner Takes the World by Storm 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Secret Art of Qingwu: The Mystic Maiden Who Protects the Nation 青乌秘术，护国玄女 The Secret Arts of Qingwu: The Nation-Protecting Mystic Maiden 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Cultivation Cannon Fodder: I Snatched Every Opportunity from the Start 修仙炮灰，开局卷走所有机缘 [Cultivation + satisfying revenge + no romance] After Su Jin dies, she transmigrates into a book, becoming a cannon-fodder supporting female character with the same name in a world of cultivation. She learns that her fate is to be framed by the heroine, have her spiritual root dug out and her dantian destroyed, then be thrown into the Ten Thousand Beasts Cave, where low-level demonic beasts will devour her until not even a scrap remains. Su Jin refuses to accept it. To escape her cannon-fodder f 54.1kReads7.7Score6.3kShelves
- 23 The Good-for-Nothing Strikes Back: I Claim the Heavens with the Power of the Elements 废柴反攻，我以元素之力问鼎苍天 The so-called “good-for-nothing” of the Zhan family, Zhan Tian, awakens nine types of martial spirits in a single day, launching himself into an incredibly powerful path of cultivation. He even creates a miraculous dantian and unexpectedly obtains a source of spiritual energy. Growing a heavenly-grade spirit herb in his dantian or forging a top-grade spirit weapon is just a matter of course! He ascends to the Immortal Realm in his twenties and earns the title of Death-Defying Immortal! After att 3.6kReads8.7Score494Shelves
- 24 Dugu Qiubai: The Sword Hidden from the World 独孤求败：剑隐江湖 Dugu Qiubai: The Sword Hidden from the Martial World 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Night Watcher of the Mystic Sect: Shadows in the Haunted Tower 玄门守夜人：阴楼诡影 Night Watcher of the Mystic Sect: Ghostly Shadows in the Yin Tower 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Beware of Fire, Thieves, and Best Friends 防火，防盗、防闺蜜 Beware of Fire, Thieves, and Your Best Friend 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 A Happy New Year's Day with the Whole Family, and Fun Times Year After Year 元旦阖家欢，岁岁有趣事 A Happy New Year for the Whole Family, with Fun New Stories Every Year 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 Transmigrate Between Two Worlds, Uphold the Way of Medicine, Save All Living Beings 穿越两界，不负医道，不负苍生 Transmigrate Between Two Worlds, Uphold the Way of Medicine, and Serve All Living Beings 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Lost on the Path: You Are All Mere Ants 迷途之尔等皆蝼蚁 Heaven granted humanity supreme intelligence, placing us at the top of all creation and allowing us to enjoy every beautiful thing in the world, but it gave us only a limited lifespan. Humans are greedy by nature, and it's hard for us to be content with the happiness we have. After experiencing all the world's delights, people began to resent how swiftly their short lives passed. They sought cultivation and immortality, longing for eternal life, unaware that the Immortal Realm had already fallen 83Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Sharp-Tongued Beauty: The Gorgeous Jinx Takes the World by Storm 绝色毒舌：美女乌鸦嘴飒翻全场 A Stunning, Sharp-Tongued Beauty: The Sassy Jinx Takes the World by Storm 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Transmigrated as a Child, I Became the Pillar of the Family 穿越孩童，成了全家的顶梁柱 Transmigrating as a Child, I Became the Pillar of the Whole Family 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Mortal Alchemy Immortal 凡人丹仙 [Mortal’s journey, no System, ensemble cast] Chen Ping is an orphan and a cowherd. Thanks to an immortal sect token left by his mother, he is taken to the cultivation world by a disciple of a cultivation family to work as a servant and child bridegroom. He later awakens a bloodline inheritance in the Way of the Elixir, and starts making a home for himself in the cultivation world through alchemy. From then on, he ascends the road to immortality, strides forward to the song of his own making, and 9.3kReads8.0Score1.2kShelves
- 33 A Martial Artist in the Endless Wilderness 无尽蛮荒的武者 An endless wilderness stretches across the world, where giant beasts roam in countless numbers. The strange lie in wait, and all races vie for supremacy. Born weak, humanity can only cling to a tiny corner of the world... 12.1kReads8.1Score834Shelves
- 34 Cultivating Immortality, Starting with a Pocket Realm 修仙，从有仙府开始 [Ordinary Mortal]+ [Immortal Abode]+ [Longevity]+ [Monster Hunting and Leveling]+ [All-Around Cultivation] Fellow cultivators, the further you read, the better this book gets. An ordinary man is framed, thrown into a deep dungeon, and eventually escapes by chance. At the most dangerous moment, a jade pendant containing a teleportation array transports him to a cultivation sect. His aptitude is exceptionally poor, and it takes countless hardships before he unlocks the secret of the space inside t 2.9kReads8.2Score232Shelves
- 35 The Dao Crumbles: A Carefree Wandering Immortal 道堙，闲散游离仙 Thirty thousand years have passed, and immortals are no more in this world. Time wields a mighty force, turning seas into mulberry fields. A carefree Daoist priest, lucky enough to escape the calamity that destroyed the Dao, has spent ten thousand years in seclusion. Now he wanders the mortal world. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 I Gathered the Divine Treasures and Kept a Low Profile Until I Became Invincible 集齐神物的我苟到无敌 Chen Zhou is brought to a xianxia world by a bead, and opportunity falls right into his lap as soon as he transmigrates. After seeing how dangerous and cruel the world of cultivation is, he decides to keep his treasures safe and lie low until the end of time. 1.5kReads8.5Score102Shelves
- 37 The Supreme Sage of Heaven and Earth 天地至圣 In a world where might makes right, those born with spiritual roots are hailed as innate powerhouses! He was once the target of everyone's ridicule, the famous good-for-nothing of his clan. For seven years, Wu Hui endured in silence and suffered countless humiliations, only to awaken a heaven-defying physique! He unlocked the Five Elements Pearl and gained spiritual roots of all five elements! Command the five elements! Unite yin and yang! Master heaven and earth! Become the supreme sage of the 5.3kReads8.0Score623Shelves
- 38 Cultivating Immortality, Starting with Stealing Chickens 从偷鸡开始修仙 [Mortal cultivation, no System] This is a world of cultivators, where all cultivation techniques are based on spiritual energy. By a twist of fate, Xie Fan, a lonely young man, comes into possession of a bronze figurine capable of cultivating true qi. From then on, he embarks on a path to immortality unlike anyone else's. He meets a lovely woman, learns extraordinary techniques, suffers betrayal, and braves perilous dangers. He saves his beloved, explores secret realms, ventures through the Cent 530Reads7.6Score104Shelves
- 39 The Gray Wolf Howls at the Moon 苍狼啸月 The Azure Wolf Howls at the Moon 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Hand Over the Treasure, or I’ll Release the Demon 不拿宝贝我就放妖 "Hand over all your treasures!" "If you don't, I'll really release the demons!" Bearing a wondrous demon bell, he brings peace to the world of cultivation. He learns countless arts and wreaks havoc across the many planes. He is a harbinger of calamity. Wherever he goes, disaster follows. His wits may be dull, yet women always seem to favor him. He commands the demons of myriad worlds, roams the boundless cliffs and frontiers, brings them under the laws of Heaven, and reshapes the Heavenly Da 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 I Became a Refugee, Found a Wife, and Built the Great Yan Kingdom 穿成流民捡个妻，反手建个大炎国 Reborn as a refugee, I find a wife and build the Great Yan Kingdom 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Cultivator Boy Comes Down from the Mountain 修仙少年下山 The highest virtue is like water: it benefits all things. The spring breeze brings rain, quietly nourishing all life. Heaven is a master craftsman, shaping all things as one. Thus, human nature is good from the beginning, and righteous energy nurtures all living beings. Heaven and earth are imperfect, yin and yang complement each other, and the five elements counter one another. Only righteousness endures. When heaven and earth first opened, energies were in chaos, corroding one another until 469Reads6.9Score100Shelves
- 43 EN A Commoner's Path to Immortality 布衣仙途 No treasures that can turn back time, no miracle tools that can make herbs grow faster, and no powerful backers! Just an ordinary country boy, relying on his grit, intelligence, caution, and resolve, without cheats or pills, rising step by step from humble beginnings to greatness and forging his own path to immortality! 14kReads9.0Score1.6kShelves
- 44 Beast Taming Tower 御兽塔 [A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality] [Beast Taming] [play the pig to eat the tiger] [No harem] [One heroine] [Qi Refining] [Foundation Establishment] [Core Formation] The young Chen Xuan accidentally unlocks the Beast Taming Tower and embarks on the path to immortality. A golden dragon? Dragons are beasts, aren't they? One slash of my sword will take it down! The Ancient Dragon City? The dragon clan's sacred land, where immortals are forbidden to enter? Nothing can stop Chen Xuan! The 28.7kReads8.4Score4.1kShelves
- 45 I Have a Qi-Refining Gourd 我有一尊练气壶 In Suolong Town, a place of exile, there stands a tavern. The landlady has a scar on her face, yet she is the reflection of the entire Ancient Immortal World! Before they could marry, the young couple Lu Jian and Yan Chunshu were attacked by a great demon. They narrowly escaped with their lives, but Lu Jian, a constable, secretly let a suspect go. As a result, both husband and wife were exiled to Suolong Town, where they had their son, Lu Que. Years later, the young Lu Que met the tavern’s landl 15.5kReads8.7Score1.8kShelves
- 46 The Supporting Character Who Transmigrated into a Book: The Empress Is Always Eavesdropping on My Thoughts 穿书配角：女帝她总在偷听我心声 Supporting Character After Transmigrating into a Book: The Empress Is Always Eavesdropping on My Thoughts 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Rule Horror: The Red-Lacquered Building 规则怪谈：红漆楼 Rule Horror: The Red-Painted Building 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 A President Arrested a President 总统抓了一个总统 A President Captures a President 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 After I Transmigrated, I Activated the Spirit-Devouring Gene System 穿越后，激活噬灵基因系统 After Transmigrating, I Activated the Spirit-Devouring Gene System 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 I Found a Pocket Dimension and a Medicinal Herb Garden, and Now I'm Doing Research in the Immortal Realm 捡到空间药田，我在仙界搞研发 [Portable pocket world with medicinal fields + solo cultivation + building a faction + no female lead + no harem] Lin Feng came across a portable pocket world with medicinal fields that accelerated the growth of spirit herbs. Combining Blue Star technology with the world, he cultivated technical talent and got into product research and development. Later, he discovered that the pocket world’s laws were complete enough to let other people enter, so he moved his people and laboratories inside. Pro 163Reads6.1Score—Shelves
