Novels like A Savage World in Chaotic Times
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- 51 This Goddess of the Luo River Is a Little Unhinged 这个洛神有点癫 [Historical Fantasy, Derivative Fiction, Transmigration to Another World, Strong Female Lead, Everyone's Darling, Modern-to-Ancient Transmigration, Transmigrate into a Book] I was plain-looking and short and chubby. After graduating from an ordinary college near home, I got an administrative job at a tiny company owned by a friend of the son of my second aunt's husband's great-uncle. My salary was barely enough to live on. I had no house, no car, no partner, and parents who didn't care for me. M 4Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 52 I Opened a Shanhai Kindergarten in the Stars 我在星际开山海幼稚园 Bai Ze, who knew all things under heaven, accidentally stepped into a rift in time and space and transmigrated to the interstellar era. After getting a job at a kindergarten, he discovered that great demons like Hundun and Bifang were there too. They had not only turned into little children, but had also been mistaken by the childcare worker for abandoned children with disabilities! Bai Ze was close to tears. With no money to his name, all he could do was work hard to earn money to support the b 442Reads8.9Score101Shelves
- 53 The Classic of Mountains and Seas Returns: The Legend of the Undying 山海复苏：不死传说 The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Eastern mythology, not the prehistoric cultivation system; a post-apocalyptic spiritual qi revival, evolving zombies, an alien invasion, and a struggle for supremacy among all races. In the pre-Qin era, the myths of Earth held sway. All races could take human form and cultivate by absorbing the pure qi of heaven and earth to cleanse their own turbid qi. This practice was known as qi refinement. Alien forces used mysterious red and yellow qi to corrupt the Milky 113Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 54 The Legend of Shan Hai Xi Yao 山海曦鳐传 [Chaste Heroine + Soul Transmigration to Another World + Beast World + Love Triangle with a Merman and a Snake] She transmigrates to the fantastical Great Wilderness, where humans, gods, and beasts live together, and beasts can transform into gods. What’s she supposed to do? She falls for the handsome Wen Yao fish god, then gets forced into a possessive romance by the nine-headed serpent Xiang Yao. Can she handle it? 39Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 55 Beast Taming: Transmigrating to the Wilderness with a Bagua Mirror, I Roam the World 御兽：穿越蛮荒，持八卦镜走天下 [A multitude of giant beasts + primeval ecology + genius protagonist + slow burn + one heroine] Feng Bei fell off a cliff. When he opened his eyes again, everything had changed. A monstrous python capable of splitting mountains and shattering stone lurked beneath the earth. A hundred-zhang-long dragon hid amid the river mists. Flocks of cranes, blotting out the sky, soared above the thunderclouds. On a mountain peak beneath the moon, packs of scorched-wood wolves howled at the heavens. Strange b 190Reads6.3Score114Shelves
- 56 The Right Way to Tame a Nine-Tailed Fox Husband 论驯养一只九尾狐老公的正确方法 [The main story is complete!] On the first day of school at Kunlun High, Wei Zhi is the only human in his class, and he's just a tiny bit panicked. The girl in front of him is a gluttonous Taotie who snacks every chance she gets. Behind him sits a weepy Zhufu beast whose tears bring floods. Diagonally across the room is a flashy Golden-Winged Great Peng obsessed with domineering CEO novels. And beside him is a nine-tailed fox who keeps eyeing him like a tasty treat. Wei Zhi: Oh no! Nine-tailed f 3.9kReads9.4Score629Shelves
- 57 Cracking the Classic of Mountains and Seas: Digging Through the Myriad Realms 破解山海经：挖穿诸天万域 November 3, 2025, 11:45 p.m. Miaoyuan Village, Jiuyi Mountain, Hunan. A deep rumble of engines shattered the otherwise utterly quiet rural night. A convoy of seven jeeps and pickup trucks bearing special geological survey markings entered the village. With a clear destination in mind, they pulled into the village committee courtyard. A massive, unusual celestial body was about to enter Earth's orbit, inevitably on a collision course with the planet. Every department immediately began devising pl 303Reads6.3Score110Shelves
- 58 The Age of Beast Taming: I Have a Classic of Mountains and Seas 御兽时代：我有一本山海经 [Beast Taming] [Classic of Mountains and Seas] [Unofficial History] [Gods Awaken] [One or Two Heroines] (The unofficial history in this novel is entirely fictional and for entertainment only. Please don't take it seriously.) The great secrets of Ancient Xia, Imperial Shang, and Heavenly Zhou; the legends of Immortal Qin, Divine Han, and Sacred Tang; the unofficial historical tales of Daoist Song, Demonic Yuan, Martial Ming, and Monster Qing... Lin Yan transmigrates to a beast-taming world, awake 19kReads8.4Score2.1kShelves
- 59 Card-Based Beast Taming: My Trump Card Is a Mythical Beast from the Classic of Mountains and Seas 卡牌御兽：我的底牌是山海异兽 [Card Crafting + Beast Taming + No Romance + Growth-Oriented Female Lead + Mythical Beasts of the Classic of Mountains and Seas] A sudden accident awakened Su Yunzheng’s memories of her previous life. In a wasteland apocalypse teeming with mutant beasts, even an ordinary little flower by the roadside could kill without a trace. The living conditions were brutal. Only humans who mastered card-based beast taming could barely hold their own against them. Su Yunzheng: “I’ve seen this episode. All I 1.2kReads9.0Score100Shelves
- 60 Beast Talismans for All: From the Start, I Had the Classic of Mountains and Seas and Conquered the World 全民兽符：开局山海经，横扫全球 Calamities invaded, and global fog zones, abysses, and wormhole dungeons appeared one after another. Monsters ran rampant, and danger came hand in hand with treasure. Only by becoming a beast tamer and summoning powerful beasts could people stand a chance. The Sakura Nation summoned Yamata no Orochi and swept through the wormhole dungeons in its territory. The Goryeo Nation summoned Guisan and dispelled every forbidden fog zone. The Eagle Nation summoned Venom and kept swallowing up the weaker n 6.2kReads8.4Score740Shelves
- 61 Oh No! I Eat Too Much, and the Ruthless Villain Has His Eye on Me 完蛋！太能吃，被凶狠反派盯上 [Entertainment Industry] [Comedy] [Big Qilin x Little Taotie] To help his older brother win back his “former fiancée,” Tao Yan goes to Shanhai Entertainment, a company rumored to be guarded by a terrifying Fire Qilin. On his first day, faced with a whole building infused with the powerful spiritual energy of a Fire Qilin, Tao Yan, still a growing cub, only dares to sneakily remove the batteries from the lucky cat at the company reception desk. The timid little thing thinks, “I'll start by ruini 1kReads9.4Score214Shelves
- 62 The Book of Seals of Mountains and Seas 山海封印簿 The ideal of a global community versus social Darwinism Mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas cross into our world: divine beasts battle a host of ghosts, heroic spirits fight evil spirits, and the Way of the King clashes with the Way of Hegemony! Mortals converse with demons, while the primordial spirit becomes entangled with the conscious spirit. Season One: Tame beasts, level up, and set out on your journey; collect divine beasts, refine magical artifacts, and advance along t 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 The Tale of the Silver Flood Dragon 银蛟传 [Metaphysics + Suspense + Taoist Magic + Historical Relics + Mythical Beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas + Folk Mysteries] Legend has it that the Dragon-Locking Well imprisons a wicked dragon guilty of an ancient crime. But when Zhuang Jiang, a junior clerk at the Cultural Relics Protection Institute, finds a piece of a jiao's horn at the bottom of the well, she discovers a silver-white jiao sealed inside it. From then on, the ten thousand ghosts hidden in a calligraphy album, the dea 200Reads7.2Score119Shelves
- 64 The Demon King Tricked Me Into Dating 妖王骗我谈恋爱 [A romance-averse, goofy and adorably clueless little demon × a self-conquering, aloof and tsundere Demon King] [Everyone's darling + Demon Realm + Mutual devotion + Lighthearted comedy + Sweet romance throughout + Classic of Mountains and Seas] One day, the supreme Demon King of the Demon Realm suddenly began doting on a little parasol tree spirit, smiling every day and even sharing her bed! The demons at the Bureau of Mountain and Sea Affairs, long tormented by the situation, refused to believ 1.4kReads9.4Score148Shelves
- 65 Rain Falls on Wushan: The Crane Returns 巫山有雨：鹤归 [Woman disguised as a man + 1V2 + character growth + everyone's secret identities + ensemble of gods + sweet and heartbreaking moments + slow-paced, expansive worldbuilding + focus on the fall of an era] A female forensic doctor wakes up in the corpse of a man in the Great Wilderness, takes a two-faced little green tea as her master, and gets relentlessly pursued by a lovesick River God. From the start, she has no memories and no System. She plans to quietly help build up a primitive tribe, but 189Reads9.3Score100Shelves
- 66 A Gluttonous Feast: I Devour Mountains and Seas in the City 饕餮盛宴：我在都市吞山海 [A Modern-Day Classic of Mountains and Seas] [No Romance] [Primordial Ferocious Beasts] [Sharp-Tongued] [Feel-Good Story] (Caution: The protagonist is nearly invincible, but begins the story sealed and with incomplete powers.) (He becomes imposing later. At first, his power leaks out in all the wrong ways.) (New mythical beast characters: illustrations will be posted in the author's notes at the end of the chapters.) Have you ever been captivated by the strange and wondrous mythological world of 7.2kReads8.9Score644Shelves
- 67 The Shan Hai Ring 山海戒指 This is a mirror universe, with an Earth-like terrestrial planet called Earthstar. Its planetary system is known as the Xuanyang System, and the stretch of stars overhead is called the Milky Way, though the stars visible through a telescope are not the same ones. For billions of years, this universe has remained sealed off. Lin Qian’an, once a hopeless romantic, naively believed his first relationship was true love. After the breakup, he lost heart. His second relationship, begun on a whim, turn 173Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 68 Special Operations Bureau 特事行动科 One thousand three hundred and ninety years ago, under the emperor’s direction, human adepts gained control of the “Void” and used it to create the “Wall,” which separated the real world from the anomalous one. After more than six centuries of effort by adepts from various schools, the anomalous remnants in the real world were finally purged, leaving humanity with a world of its own. Anomalous creatures became demons, ghosts, gods, and monsters in tales of the strange. As time passed, the adepts 1.7kReads7.0Score204Shelves
- 69 The Imperial Preceptor Fears Nothing 国师她无所畏惧 Xue Fei, Grand Preceptor of the Great Abyss, wakes from a nap to find that the Great Abyss is gone, the crown prince of its enemy nation has been reincarnated several times, and she is sitting in a coffin, staring wide-eyed at a group of strangely dressed people. An earthquake sweeps across the deserts of northwestern Huaguo. In its aftermath, an ancient tomb appears in the sands. Archaeologists hurry to the site and, after countless hardships, finally reach the main chamber. Then the coffin ope 2.6kReads9.1Score222Shelves
- 70 A Western Fantasy World? I'm the Dragon Lord of the Great Wilderness! 西幻世界？我！大荒龙君！ [Su Qing style + gradual leveling and evolution + lighthearted comedy + gaming + multiple emotional storylines + multiple heroines + zany adventures + partial farming elements + yandere + siscon + harem] Li Zhu transmigrates to the continent of Aelria, the setting of a game. “I remember my game template was a dragon. I wonder if I'll be a sturdy red dragon or a green dragon with powerful soul abilities?” “Holy crap, why am I a draconic beast? System, save me from this useless start!” [Obtained G 41.8kReads8.1Score4.4kShelves
- 71 Don't Fall in Love with Your Emergency Rations 不要和储备粮谈恋爱 After waking from a nap, Bai Jue unexpectedly transmigrated from the world of Mountains and Seas to the interstellar realm, only to become a useless young master who had tried to catch his lover cheating and ended up getting himself killed. With no other choice, he beat up the scumbag and kicked the mistress, then picked up a dragon to keep as emergency rations. Scumbag: "Bai Jue, I know I'm the one you love most!" Bai Jue: "You're ugly and weak. What makes you think you can say that?" The giant 2.1kReads9.4Score316Shelves
- 72 Nonsense! How Could the Little One I Raised Be a Villain? 胡说！我养的崽怎么可能是反派 Other people transmigrate with a golden finger to protect them, becoming invincible dragons among men without lifting a finger. Xu Lingguang transmigrates badly injured, with creditors everywhere and danger waiting the moment he steps outside. Xu Lingguang: I might as well find a rope and hang myself! But dying is out of the question. All he can do is somehow muddle through. To escape his enemies, Xu Lingguang hides in Ailao Mountain. They say the Chenghuang clan lives in Ailao Mountain. The Ch 14.8kReads9.4Score2kShelves
- 73 I, Sun Wukong, Am Invincible 2: The Other Shore 我孙悟空无敌2彼岸世界 [The Strongest Sun Wukong in History] [A Continuation of the Journey to the West] The second installment in the Great Sage Returns series. The prequel, I, Sun Wukong, Am Invincible, is complete, and the sequel, The Great Sage Returns 3: Endless Journey, is now updating! “Immortality... origins... our journey leads to the endless other shore...” In the chaos realm, Wukong revives from the Coffin of Chaos. He now possesses the most powerful force in all of chaos, yet the secrets hidden behind the 10.7kReads9.5Score844Shelves
- 74 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 12.8kReads9.5Score1.9kShelves
- 75 Slay the Gods: Zhuzhao and Youying, the Long Road of Raising a Child 斩神：烛照幽荧，养崽路漫漫 (Slow progress at first, faster later. Lots of original settings and added plotlines. Two male leads, canon pairings broken up. Proceed with caution if that bothers you.) Ning Yuze, a fourth-year college student, died suddenly from overwork and unexpectedly transmigrated into the world of Slay the Gods. He became one of the residents of an orphanage in Cangnan City. Unfortunately, with no memories of his childhood, he had no guard against society and told the truth, only to be mistaken for a men 4.8kReads9.4Score565Shelves
- 76 My Days Catching Dragons in the Arctic 我在北极抓龙的日子 In the modern world, you're telling me those rare and exotic beasts actually exist? My name is Xu Yuan. After nine years of compulsory education and three years of high school that no human should have to endure, I stood out and got into a... pretty terrible university. I thought I was about to begin four years of lying flat at college. In my first month on campus, two soldiers took me all the way to the freezing Arctic. And that's how my... well, bizarre and downright absurd dragon-catching lif 86.6kReads9.0Score9.6kShelves
- 77 The Savage Bandit of the Great Wilderness 大荒悍匪 Everyone knows that the Classic of Mountains and Seas is actually a cookbook. Transmigrate across mountains and seas, and stew a Kunpeng with a phoenix, or cook a Zhujian with a black tortoise. In the demon wasteland, the countless great demons are dangers to everyone else, but Zhang Chu sees them as food. One bite of demon meat doubles his strength. One sip of demon blood sends his cultivation soaring. From then on, Zhang Chu goes farther and farther along the path of cultivating by eating demo 102.9kReads9.0Score7.1kShelves
- 78 I’m a Max-Level Ancestor. What’s Wrong with Raising a Few Hundred Million Kids? 我满级老祖，养亿点崽子怎么了 The short drama adaptation, My Xuanmen Ancestor, Why Do My Kids Spoil Me So Much?, is now streaming. [Spirit monsters + wish fulfillment + wacky comedy + supernatural + absurd humor + a mash-up of everything + no male lead (the heroine shines on her own)] (All the spirit beasts in the main cast have pictures. The full collection is in the book’s featured posts, so feel free to check them out!) After Shi Ruyi, the last heir of the Xuanmen, restores her body and descends the mountain, she discover 16.8kReads9.4Score2kShelves
- 79 Where the Sword Rises, Storms Gather 剑起风云 In these turbulent times, it is not the world that is in chaos, but people’s hearts. The Gu family, loyal servants of the Tianfeng Kingdom, are heroes through and through. But fate is fickle. The heir to this illustrious military family spent twenty years in a daze, becoming the target of countless whispered insults and mockery. Then, on the young heir’s twentieth birthday, memories of his previous life suddenly returned. What troubles him most is realizing he seems to have done a lot of foolish 47.3kReads9.0Score5kShelves
