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- 151 Cultivating as I Please, Starting with the Breeze! 肆意修行，从得到清风开始！ [Heaven-grade Wind Spirit Root] [No taunting and face-slapping] [No System, transmigration] [One heroine] [Sword cultivator] [Wind cultivator] [Classical xianxia] [Traditional fantasy] The protagonist appears in Chapter Three. When everything in the world is predetermined, the disciples of every powerful faction are set in stone. Their fates are decided before they are even born, and everything that lies ahead is likewise controlled by a small number of cultivators. Powerful cultivators continuo 231Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 152 Clan Cultivation: Our Ancestor Is Far Too Cautious 家族修仙：我家老祖太稳健了 [Family cultivation + invincible among peers of the same realm + multiple heroines + plenty of chapters to binge] [Foundation Establishment in three years! Ascend in a hundred! Attain the Dao and become the Supreme Immortal Emperor in a thousand!] [The neighbor has a treasure-gathering basin, but I have a treasure-exchanging basin!] [The imitation Heaven and Earth Cauldron will help me reach the Heavenly Palace!] A Qi Refining family from the start? And a destitute family with barely a few membe 17.4kReads7.5Score1.7kShelves
- 153 Xianxia: A Dog Owner's Life of Cultivation 仙侠：养狗人的修仙生活 (Beast Taming + Farming + Clan Building + Ordinary Protagonist + No System) (No female lead; female characters are all just tools.) In a cultivation world where the strong prey on the weak, Zhang Tian starts from the very bottom as an ordinary young cultivator at the Qi Refining stage. To pursue the path to immortality, he begins raising spirit dogs, spirit bees, and spirit insects, building spirit fields, spirit lakes, and spirit orchards, and establishing a power of his own. Step by step, he c 112Reads8.3Score101Shelves
- 154 The Legend of Sui Xian 岁仙传 Ten thousand years ago, Zhongtu swept across the Xiaonan Realm, destroyed the Tower to Heaven, wiped out its legacy, and created a vast sea within a bottle, stretching ten thousand li. Ten thousand years later, Duan Qing, born in the Woliu Inn of the Xiaonan Realm, unexpectedly embarked on the path of cultivation. Braving countless dangers and matching wits with his foes, he made his way back to Zhongtu. What waves will he stir up this time? 5.6kReads8.6Score600Shelves
- 155 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: I Awaken the Chaos Dao Body from the Start 凡人修仙：我开局觉醒混沌道体 (Classic fantasy, Chaotic Dao Body, ordinary man's rise, mortal cultivation, multiple female leads.) Ordinary man Lin Chen loses both parents in an accident and awakens the Chaotic Dao Body. From then on, he defies the heavens, rises to power, and avenges his parents. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 Cultivation: I Have an Attribute Panel 修仙，我有一个属性面板 [Ordinary-person cultivation, cautious early on and bold later, decisive and ruthless] After gaming all night, Zhang Qingxiao suffers a sudden heart attack and transmigrates to a world of immortals and demons. With mediocre talent, he becomes a servant disciple of the small Changsheng Sect, reaching the third level of Qi Refining only in his thirties. He thinks his hopes of immortality are over, but it turns out he brought a status panel along when he transmigrated. Whether he practices cultivat 9.6kReads7.8Score643Shelves
- 157 The Sword Falls Beyond the Clouds 剑落云霄 A disciple of the Tianlong Temple transmigrates into another world with three martial arts manuals: the Northern Darkness Divine Skill, the Six Meridians Divine Sword, and the Lingbo Microstep. Through constant training and battle, he masters the Kunpeng Transformation and reaches the pinnacle of this other world with his swordsmanship. 3.5kReads8.8Score373Shelves
- 158 The Profound Heaven Cultivation Chronicle 玄天修仙录 Zhang Yuanjing, an early Foundation Establishment cultivator of the Xuantian Sect, only wants to keep his head down in the cultivation world and live a quiet, stable life. Even when people call him “Rat Daoist” and his peers mock him, he never goes to dangerous places or gets caught up in perilous situations. But without immortality, everything ultimately comes to nothing. With his lifespan nearly at its end and death close at hand, he has no choice but to take a gamble. By luck, he breaks throu 13.6kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves
- 159 Apocalypse: More Children, More Blessings, Picking Up Campus Goddesses Everywhere 末世多子多福，校花女神到处捡 [Invincible + apocalypse outbreak + school beauty + celebrity + decisive and ruthless + profit above all + wish-fulfillment] The apocalypse erupted in a parallel world. A zombie virus spread across the globe, drastically reducing the human population. To ensure humanity would not go extinct, the collective consciousness of humankind granted Su Lin a System. With the System’s help, Su Lin, who had always been looked down on, began his path to invincibility. 522Reads6.8Score108Shelves
- 160 A Mortal's Quest for Immortality 凡人寻仙 [Mortal's journey + no System + no harem + no transmigration] Ye Zhou, a village boy, awakens his spiritual root thanks to a small family-inherited gourd that can change the age of medicinal herbs, and embarks on a long journey of cultivation. Everyone schemes against everyone else, danger lurks everywhere, and affection is as thin as paper. Steadfast determination and a sharp mind are his only supports. Millions of years later, he climbs the road to immortality, survives the tribulation of ligh 5.5kReads8.6Score481Shelves
- 161 Immortal Venerable Mingyang 明阳仙尊 [Proficiency panel] + [Sage Alchemy Body] + [Genius protagonist] + [Female lead] One day, Han Yang woke up to find that he had become the young master of a cultivation family in the Foundation Establishment realm. In his previous life, he had been a low-level civil servant. From the start, he awakened a proficiency panel: every cultivation technique and skill, once mastered, stayed mastered, and the more he practiced, the stronger he became! When he reached Foundation Establishment, he awakened 226.3kReads8.0Score23kShelves
- 162 The Cultivating Shen Family 修仙沈家 By some stroke of luck, he gets to live another life. In this world where everyone seeks immortality, he gains the ability to exist as long as his family does. As long as his family survives, he will live forever. To ensure his family’s survival in this world, he struggles to survive, eventually turning it into a great clan. PS: Multiple heroines, but definitely not a womanizer. A family-clan story about a family’s growth. 4.4kReads7.9Score240Shelves
- 163 Reborn as the Villainess, I Take the Heroine Cultivating Immortals and Winning Handsome Men 穿成恶毒女配，带女主修仙收美男 [Two Female Leads, Strong Women, 1v2, Transmigrate Into a Book, Villainess, Take the Female Lead Cultivating Immortality and Finding Handsome Men, Mystery and Deduction] Chu Yunxi was the original story's villainess. For some inexplicable reason, Yunxi transmigrated into the book and took her place. A fragment of the Heavenly Dao's consciousness took the form of a book spirit and gave her a mission: change the tragic fate of the original story's female lead, Murong Ling, and stop her from fallin 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 Chronicles of the Mystic Origin Dao 玄元道途录 Watch how Lin Xuan grows from weak to strong. Welcome, everyone! If you spot any shortcomings, please point them out. I’m grateful to you all. Your encouragement is the source of my inspiration. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 The Strongest Cultivation Method: Stellar Evolution 最强修仙法星辰衍变 A new kind of high-IQ cultivation novel, bringing together the best elements of the genre. After tens of billions of years, the universe gradually evolved from primordial chaos into a world imbued with spirit and suitable for life. In their quest for power and immortality, living beings embarked on the long path of cultivation. By the Primordial Era, the cultivation world had reached its peak. A cultivator accidentally obtained a divine treasure born of nature. It recorded the universe’s creati 299Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 166 Xuanhuan: My Sect Is Unrivaled 玄幻：我的宗门强无敌 [Sect Building + Invincible + Lighthearted + Passionate + Comedy + Feel-Good] The sect is on the brink of destruction after the death of its master and the betrayal of its senior disciple. At this moment of crisis, Lin Tian awakens the Super Sect System and becomes the new sect leader of Lintian Sect. “Heavenly Dao Sacred Physique, Spirit Qi Hall, magical artifacts and treasures, cultivation level-ups…” With the System's thoughtful rewards, Lin Tian's cultivation soars. The dilapidated sect come 25.8kReads8.8Score3.4kShelves
- 167 You Sent Me to Be Your Cultivation Furnace. Now You Regret It? 把我送去做炉鼎，现在你后悔了？ Wang Ritian was originally a cultivator with five spiritual roots. His clan believed he had no hope of advancing, so they sent him to a witch's home to serve as her cultivation furnace. Later, he awakened an against-heaven talent, and the clan's cultivators regretted their decision bitterly. They begged him on their knees to return to the clan! Wang Ritian simply said, "You only know to turn around after you've banged your head against a wall, and only know to wipe your nose when the snot reache 3.2kReads8.6Score331Shelves
- 168 The Lingxiao Sect Bankruptcy and Restructuring Plan 凌霄宗破产重组计划 [Traditional cultivation]+ [Sect farming]+ [Comedic daily life]+ [Passionate battles]+ [Ridiculous antics]+ [System upgrades]+ [Raising disciples] Twenty years in the cultivation world, and still only at Qi Refining. Then the sect System suddenly came online: [Quest: Recruit five disciples within the time limit!] [Failure penalty: Instant death!] A ruined mountaintop, a toxic atmosphere, and no capital from the start. From then on, everything took a sudden turn: Other sects' Alchemy Peaks toil o 109Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 The Su Family's Spirit Rice 苏家灵稻 [Fast-Paced Farming, Family Saga, Ensemble Cast, Management, Conquest, Multiple Heroines, Wits and Strategy] Su Fusheng had lived under someone else’s roof for fifteen years. With his meridians blocked, he was slapped in the face and called useless by the Chen family steward, and couldn’t even keep the iron pot off the stove. A letter from his father arrived, telling him to marry into another family and look after their spirit fields for five years. He laughed. No one knew that the green bead 101Reads—Score—Shelves
- 170 Ruling the World: I'm the Richest Man in the Cultivation World 镇世：我在修仙界当首富 "You shouldn't be too much like Wang Mo!" That's how everyone who knows Wang Mo describes him. Wang Mo transmigrates to the Great Wilderness Realm. Other people cultivate with pills, hard training, and seclusion. He gets ahead by scamming people, making money, and getting struck by lightning. He's so shameless he practically smokes, and even his farts take a detour. Calling him that is practically a compliment. His motto is "win people over with virtue." His catchphrase is "Don't mess with 148Reads—Score—Shelves
- 171 My Golden Core Is a Star, and You Call This Cultivation? 金丹是恒星，你管这叫修仙？？ [High-Martial World + Invincible Power Fantasy + Decisive and Ruthless + Heaven-Defying Comprehension + The Races of the Starry Sky…] Chen Han transmigrates to a high-martial world and awakens the world's tenth SSS-rank talent: the Immortal Spirit Dao Body, the greatest talent for cultivating immortality. But this world has only martial arts traditions. No matter how high his cultivation talent, his ceiling is merely the Qi Refining stage, making him weaker than even a first-tier martial arti 17.1kReads6.9Score2.1kShelves
- 172 Cultivation: Starting with a General Store 修仙：从一间杂货铺开始 Two fifty-year-old spirit ginseng roots can fuse into one hundred-year-old spirit ginseng root? Two low-grade magic artifacts can fuse into one mid-grade magic artifact? Two low-grade pills can fuse into one mid-grade pill? With enough energy, anything can be fused! 10.2kReads8.7Score712Shelves
- 173 The Cultivator Family's Azure Jade Immortal Gourd 修仙家族之青玉仙葫 He transmigrated to the cultivation world and became a member of a minor cultivation family. The path to immortality was arduous, but he had the precious Azure Jade Gourd, was skilled in both formations and artifacts, and loved the treasures and divine formations of the Investiture of the Gods. See how he uses these things to lead his family to become a great clan of cultivators. 10.5kReads8.4Score867Shelves
- 174 Cultivation: From House Phoenix to Great Immortal 修真：从家凤到大仙 The good news is that Chen Yu transmigrated! The bad news is that he transmigrated into the body of a little rooster! Another piece of good news: this is a cultivation world! Another piece of bad news: he may not have more than a few months to live! Of course, the one thing worth celebrating is that he received the transmigrator’s basic allowance: a System! 15.5kReads8.7Score1.4kShelves
- 175 Cultivating Immortality Starts With Finding a Little Cauldron 修仙从拣到小鼎开始 On a bitterly cold winter day, Zhang Yiqun is forced by his uncle to chop firewood. Just as hunger and cold are getting the better of him, a bronze cauldron falls from the sky, smashing through a tree and leaving a huge crater. The cauldron can automatically absorb spiritual energy and duplicate items, helping him solve the problem of going hungry. But when he enters the world of immortal cultivation, he discovers the cauldron's powers go far beyond that. It can heal wounds, refine pills, and ev 949Reads9.0Score154Shelves
- 176 Supreme Comprehension, Beginning with the Indestructible Heavenly God Art 顶级悟性，从不灭天神诀开始 [One Female Lead] + [Swordsmanship] + [Genius] + [Traditional Fantasy] + [the Myriad Worlds] The Sword Realm is one of the universe's eternal, indestructible realms! Three hundred thousand years ago, the Sword Ancestor, lord of the Sword Realm, led three thousand Sword Gods into battle against a mysterious force. Not one of them ever returned, sending shockwaves throughout the Myriad Worlds! The gates to the Sword Realm were sealed, cutting it off from the outside world! Three hundred thousand y 13.3kReads8.7Score1.1kShelves
- 177 A Transmigrator's Everyday Life as a Sword Cultivator 穿越成剑修的日常 A cultivation novel with no System, a genius protagonist, a focus on swordsmanship and combat, and no female lead. Cultivation realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Deification... Swordsmanship realms: Sword Tempering into Astral Force, Sword Astral Force into Qi, Sword Qi Resounding Like Thunder, Sword Qi Transforming into a Rainbow, Sword Light Splitting into Forms, Refining the Sword into Threads, Sword Piercing All Laws, Sword Giving Birth to All Laws.. 5.5kReads7.7Score332Shelves
- 178 EN Cultivation Starts with Copying Spirit Roots 修仙从复制灵根开始 Announcement: The animated drama adaptation of "Immortal Gift Reflected in the Mirror: From No Spiritual Root to Dao Ancestor of Ten Thousand Arts" is now streaming! [Sword Cultivator] [Alchemist] [Ordinary Protagonist] [Slow Pace] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Talent Copying] Su Bai transmigrates into the body of an ordinary third prince. But in this world, mortal power is merely a petty path, while cultivating immortality and achieving eternal life is the Great Way! To his dismay, Su Bai discovers 15.3kReads7.9Score1.3kShelves
- 179 System: I Grind My Way into an All-Round Cultivator 系统：肝出个全能修仙者 [System + Farming + Beast Taming + Slow-Burn + Everyday Life + Leveling Up] In an ordinary village, an ordinary baby boy is born. A loud cry rings out. “Ding! [Learning] skill activated!” And just like that, Jiang Lan transmigrates, bringing a Skill System along with him. As long as he does something that fits a skill's description, he can keep gaining experience. Once he has enough, he can level up and gain branch abilities. [Learning] grants insight. [Teaching] lets him pass on skills. [Farmin 2kReads7.9Score139Shelves
- 180 Mending the Broken Cauldron: The Lu Family's Rise in Cultivation 残鼎复元：陆家修仙崛起路 Traditional cultivation + slow-burn progression + cautious protagonist + family-focused + mortal's perspective + no System + pseudo-ensemble cast Realms: Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Core Formation → Nascent Soul... On the Tianyuan Continent, sects monopolize resources, leaving little room for small and mid-sized clans to survive. The Lu family, on the remote frontier, is one such clan: spiritual energy is scarce, cultivation methods are incomplete, they are trapped at Qi Refining, a 29.2kReads7.7Score2.1kShelves
- 181 Five Elements Grotto-Heaven: I Cultivate in Secret and Become an Immortal Through the Eight Trigrams 五行洞天，我靠八卦苟成仙 Portable grotto-heaven + mortal cultivation + divination + alchemy + artifact crafting + spirit insects + spirit beasts. After inheriting the legacy of his ancestor, King Wen of Zhou, Ji Chang, he comprehends the Art of the Zhou Yi Eight Trigrams, allowing him to discern opportunities, locate dragon veins and auspicious sites, and see fortune and misfortune at a glance. He gradually unlocks a portable Five-Element Grotto-Heaven secret realm! Its area keeps expanding, and the flow of time within 127Reads—Score271Shelves
- 182 From the Start, I Sign In as the Invincible Ancestor of the Ye Family 开局签到，我是叶家无敌老祖 (Sign-in, behind-the-scenes, cautious cultivation, invincible, ancestor, Great Emperor) He gets a sign-in System from the start. His family is invincible, his backing is invincible, and he himself is invincible. Behind the scenes, he cultivates his family and contends for supremacy across the Myriad Worlds. Above him, four founding ancestors of t 11.7kReads7.8Score696Shelves
- 183 From a Bottom-Tier Rogue Cultivator to a Cultivation Grandmaster 从底层散修开始肝成修仙大佬 When Lin Yi wakes up, he has become an unaffiliated Qi Refining cultivator in Huiyuan Immortal City, in the cultivation world. He discovers that he has awakened a stat panel. For any cultivation method, secret technique, supernatural ability, or skill, as long as he performs the required steps once, he gains one guaranteed experience point, regardless of how seriously he tries or what the final result is. “I'm in the perfect position! First, I'll keep my head down and develop quietly for a whil 13.2kReads6.9Score777Shelves
- 184 Cultivating Immortality Begins with Inheriting a City 修仙从继承城主开始 (The protagonist’s soul transmigrates to another world, no System, a steady-paced cultivation story about an ordinary person, with humor, a slow build, and plenty of schemes) Tour guide Tao Yiming transmigrates to another world and becomes the son of a city lord. By chance, he gains an opportunity to cultivate immortality... After learning the Heavenly Thunder Body-Refinement Art, Tao Yiming searches high and low for charging stations, luring down lightning to recharge. A hundred-year-old spirit 2.2kReads—Score128Shelves
- 185 I Arrived in the Cultivation World from the Start, and the System Gave Me an Invincible Body 开局降临修仙界，系统赐我无敌身 [This is a lighthearted, entertaining story with both satisfying moments and everyday life. It's about a man who becomes invincible, establishes a sect, and enjoys life along the way!] After Lin Xiao transmigrates to the Tianxuan Continent, he is forced into a deep sleep by the System because he is too weak. When he wakes again, he discovers that a hundred thousand years have passed, and he has somehow become a Great Emperor, rising straight to the top of this world. The System also suddenly app 11.5kReads8.4Score688Shelves
- 186 Urban Cultivation, Beginning in the Late Nascent Soul Stage 从元婴后期开始的都市修仙 [Urban cultivation + Nascent Soul cultivator returns to the city + play the pig to eat the tiger + invincible + campus beauty + enjoying mortal life] After graduating from high school, Lin Xuan sets off on a trip and unexpectedly transmigrates to the cultivation world. After a thousand years of arduous cultivation, he finally reaches the great perfection of the late Nascent Soul stage. But during a desperate escape, a streak of white light sends him back to Blue Star. A full thousand years have 3.1kReads6.4Score277Shelves
- 187 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
- 188 The Wu Clan's Path to Immortality 吴氏家族成仙路 The story of an ordinary person who grows stronger step by step in the cultivation world with the help of the Ghost Valley Eight Desolations interface. (The golden finger isn’t very obvious and doesn’t come up often.) A new writer and a new book. I’m not good at writing blurbs. 2.5kReads6.4Score111Shelves
- 189 The Great Zhou Dynasty’s Number One Immortal Merchant 大周第一仙商 Chen Lu transmigrates to a xianxia world, born with blocked meridians and unable to cultivate. After lying low for more than twenty years, he schemes across the realm, holding power in one hand and wealth in the other. Without the talent to cultivate, he proves the Dao through business, step by step becoming the Great Zhou Dynasty's foremost immortal merchant! A humble birth is no disgrace. The ability to bend and rise again is what makes a true man! “Lay down your butcher's knife and become 788Reads8.9Score102Shelves
- 190 I Have a Spirit Ring That Can Grow Crops 我有灵戒能种田 [Mortal’s Journey] [Inspirational] [No Female Lead] [Clever Protagonist] A strange illness in a mountain village and a peculiar ring changed Ye Qing’s life forever. The world is full of surprises. Who says an ordinary mortal can’t become an immortal? 248Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 Don't Call Me Ancestor, I'm Just a Foundation Establishment Cultivator 别叫我老祖，我只是个筑基修士 [Mortal-style cultivation] + [No heroine] + [No System] + [No golden finger] + [A naturally gifted talent] + [Careful, step-by-step planning] + [Smart characters]. Also known as: "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Xiang Zhili" At the age of six, Xiang Zhili of the Xiang family in Great Jin is found to possess a Metal Heavenly Spiritual Root. From then on, he sets out on a cultivation path, vying with fate itself. Ambushed during Foundation Establishment, he learns that “guarding a 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 192 Top-Tier Talent: Ascending Through the Game 顶级天赋，游戏飞升 Cultivation Game #Genius Protagonist #Invincible Protagonist #No Heroine #Sword Immortal A cultivation game called Featherfall Heaven suddenly appears in the real world. By entering the game, you can obtain cultivation techniques and embark on the path of cultivation. You may even get the chance to seek immortality and ascend to the Immortal Realm. All the abilities and items players obtain in Featherfall Heaven can be brought directly into the real world. Zhang Yuhe passes the screening and qua 28.2kReads8.2Score2kShelves
- 193 The Entire Clan Ascends to Immortality 举族飞升 [One heroine + family saga + gifted protagonist + not a wish-fulfillment story + no System] The world of cultivation is merciless. Those who seek immortality struggle and scheme against one another, trusting no one. Shen Ruixuan is a prodigy from a Qi Refining family, born with a body blessed by fortune. Watch as he leads his family to rise above the brutal world of cultivation and ascend to the Immortal Realm. Realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Soul Depart 10.4kReads8.4Score607Shelves
- 194 Kill One Person, Gain One Year of Life. How Will You Respond? 杀一人增寿一年，阁下如何应对？ A long-life cultivation novel: [Proficiency] [Sign-In] [Family] [Sect] [Immortal Officials] A middle-aged, paunchy man transmigrates to the cultivation world and becomes a young rogue cultivator. Just as he is worrying about rent, he discovers that he has a Proficiency System, and can also claim a sign-in reward every year. Every time the protagonist kills a demon beast or a cultivator, he gains an extra year of life. From then on, immortality is no longer a dream. In the early days, the protago 22.1kReads8.1Score2.3kShelves
- 195 Cultivating to Immortality Through a Billion Practices 亿练成仙 [Farming and Cultivation] [Slow-Paced] The demon race rules the world, and countless demons roam the land. Cultivation sects establish market towns, spread the teachings, and revive the Dao. They inspire more people to embark on the path of Qi Refining, carrying on the work of those who came before. Li Yinian, a young man who transmigrated here, relies on his talent for making up for his shortcomings through hard work to stand out among the spirit-seed tenant farmers… 18.7kReads8.1Score1.6kShelves
- 196 Demon Refining the Nine Heavens: The Abandoned Cat Devours the Sky 妖炼九霄之废猫噬天 Wang Feng was reborn, only to become the most ordinary little kitten. Watch as he sheds his demon form, rises against the odds despite his mediocre aptitude, and enters the ranks of the top cultivators. The name Wang Feng resounds throughout the myriad worlds as he looks down on the Five Elements and roams freely across the nine heavens! Realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deification, Void Refining, Body Integration, Mahayana... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 From Wandering Cultivator to Clan Founder 从散修到建立家族 (This is not a mortal-focused cultivation novel, but a family-clan story, though the protagonist starts out as a rogue cultivator.) The playful child Zhou Yang gets lost while playing in the woods with his companions and comes across a seriously injured cultivator who has passed out. Though Zhou Yang looks after him, nothing helps. Before dying, the cultivator passes on the way of cultivation to Zhou Yang. From then on, Zhou Yang embarks on the path of cultivation, rising from a lone rogue culti 28.4kReads8.4Score2kShelves
- 198 Surviving the End of the Dao: Building Infrastructure in a Fantasy World 道末求存：我在玄幻世界搞基建 A modern corporate drone's soul ends up in the body of a good-for-nothing disciple in a fantasy world. He cultivates his heart, comprehends the Dao, masters the laws of chaos, and joins forces with his team to save the Blue Star! Break through the dimensional wall! Save the multiverse! Create a new era! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 199 Wang Xiaoming's Cultivation Journal 王小明修仙记 Across the long river of time unfolds a moving history of an ordinary man's cultivation journey, the story of a common man's growth as he cultivates his strength, his heart, and his path to immortality. Wang Xiaoming leaves his mountain village and rises in the mortal world. As the world changes, he ascends to immortality in the blink of an eye. 7.5kReads9.0Score715Shelves
- 200 Laughing My Way Through a Perilous Path to Immortality 笑闯凶险仙路 Ye Bufan, a useless mortal unable to cultivate, obtains a Nascent Soul spiritual treasure. Traditional cultivation, slow-burn and cautious, no brainless decisions, no harem, no female lead, the Myriad Worlds, decisive and ruthless, and an invincible protagonist. The cultivation realms are Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, and beyond… 11Reads—Score—Shelves
