Novels like The Hearthstone Continent
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Hearthstone Continent, best match first.
- 151 Reborn in the Apocalypse: I Stocked an Entire Building and Won with My Little Brother 重生末世：我囤满楼带弟躺赢 (Strong Female Lead, Apocalypse, Adorable Younger Brother) In the third year of the apocalypse, natural and man-made disasters keep piling up. Su Nian'an had given her all to help her best friend, but that friend and her boyfriend teamed up to shove her into a horde of zombies. As she died, she watched them divide up her supplies, her hatred eating into her bones. When she opens her eyes again, she has returned to ten years before the apocalypse began. The billions in her bank account are still 6.1kReads—Score50214d adds
- 152 China's Card Master 华夏制卡师 [Content Warnings!!! 1. Cards ≠ mythology. Card Master ranks and material energy are what matter. For example, a Platinum-ranked Golden-Horned King is stronger than a Black Iron-ranked Nuwa. Everything follows the basic energy system of cards. 2. The protagonist can make low-ranked cards with high status right from the start. He can continue investing materials in them later, and they can advance along with his Card Master rank. His initial cards are also his core deck. He'll upgrade them step b 2.6kReads9.2Score24414d adds
- 153 Survival by Sequence: At Eighteen, I Slaughtered Ghosts Like Weeds 序列求生：那年十八，杀诡如麻 The new book, Sequence: Creator, is now being serialized. Welcome to follow along. Thanks, crabs! Single sequence + no female lead + endless supernatural horrors + sequence potions + road survival + stockpiling supplies + decisive and ruthless + smart protagonist "This is the news. The time is 10:10 a.m. on October 10, 2035. Please remember this moment of perseverance in the darkness. So far, all 31 major cities of Daxia, including Shencheng, Yancheng, Yuzhou, and Hushi, have been confirmed as 49.8kReads7.0Score3.9k14d adds
- 154 The Underworld of a Small Town 小镇江湖 Summer, 1997. Chengxiang Town, Sichuan. Chen Dong, a young hoodlum, guarantees a loan for someone and ends up owing thirty thousand yuan, unaware that it is all a trap set by Bai Laosan. What Bai Laosan wants is the storefront his family owns in the heart of the old-town redevelopment zone. Lawyers, police officers, and thugs armed with paint take turns showing up at his door... With nowhere left to turn, Chen Dong clings to one stubborn belief: the shop is the last spark he can give Ye Qiong, a 41Reads—Score10614d adds
- 155 The Godlike Card Master 超神御卡师 Taming, contracting, training, evolving, mutating, cultivating, battling… This is a world where Card Masters and card beasts reign supreme. Secret realms, ruins, sacred grounds, battlefields beyond the realms… They can be found in every corner of the world. Endless battles! Unbreakable bonds! When the shadow of annihilation descends, who will become the ray of light that pierces the darkness? 5.7kReads8.4Score46414d adds
- 156 Demon-Sealing Card Master: Sealing Demons Makes Me Stronger 封魔卡师：封印魔物就变强 [Beast Taming + Fusion + No Female Lead + No System] Blue Star has suffered constant invasions by demonic creatures. During one such invasion, Zhao Mo unexpectedly awakens a special ability: he becomes a Demon-Sealing Cardmaster. By killing demonic creatures, he seals them into cards and uses them to fight. By fusing cards, he can improve their level and quality, while their species may also change. Humanity’s nine lines of defense grow more dangerous with each one! Three-Headed Demon Dragon? Mo 4.9kReads8.0Score34214d adds
- 157 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 1.1kReads9.0Score10014d adds
- 158 I Devour All Things and Rise to the Top of the Heavens Through Feedback 吞噬万物我靠反馈登顶诸天 An overworked factory hand transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing disciple and awakens the Devour All Things System! Plants and herbs, pills, monsters and enemies, treasures and techniques: whatever he devours makes him stronger, letting him fuse them straight into Heaven-ranked martial skills and high-grade spiritual treasures! He hides his strength in the outer sect and trounces the sect’s geniuses. Eight grand elders compete to take him as their disciple and give him divine weapons 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 159 The Tower of Dark Dust and Bright Moon 暗尘明月楼 He spent his whole life achieving nothing, made it to the age of forty-nine, and then transmigrated. As if transmigrating weren't strange enough, he transmigrated into someone his own age. The average life expectancy in this world was only forty-eight, so he'd already lived to a ripe old age. Worse still, he had a whole family to support. In his new life, he had no official position or power, no land, and no money. He was dirt-poor, with nothing but the title of marquis to his name. The title wa 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 160 The Final Years of the Great Yong: A True Record 大雍末年：实录 [Traditional cultivation and political intrigue, no transmigration, no System, no golden finger. Meticulously researched setting and dialogue that feels like people speaking in the original Chinese.] Wu Zheng was once a constable, but an accidental turn led him onto the path of immortality. He once wielded the power of the imperial court to repel demon beasts, and within a sect, he protected all living beings. But when the beasts retreated, people’s hearts began to stir. He saw the political mac 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 A Temp Worker Gets Set Up by the Powers That Be, Then Descends to Earth in the Apocalypse to Master Time 临时工被资本做局，末世下凡到地球修时间 A temp worker was set up by capitalists and descended to Earth during the apocalypse to cultivate time. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 Plunge! 坠！ I was born in a small city blanketed in coal dust. By chance, I reunited with the girl who had once lived next door, whom I hadn't seen in many years. There were many versions of the rumors about her past, and it was hard to tell truth from fiction. This time, she slowly told her own story. I had just finished reading Fallen. Her life had some similarities to Mo Huai's in the book, but the differences between them were fundamental. I wrote down this memory not to compare whose fate was more trag 93Reads—Score—14d adds
- 163 The Book of Fated Bonds 兰因簿 [Underworld Temp Worker + Civil Service Bureaucrat + Yin-Yang Romance] Do you think Fengdu opens its gates to the human world only on the Ghost Festival? It doesn't. The gates of the netherworld don't wait for any one particular festival. They stand open every day, day and night. Do you think that once you cross the Naihe Bridge and drink a bowl of Meng Po's soup, all love, hate, and longing will vanish without a trace? That's not true either. Countless obsessions will wander the depths of 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 The Hidden Origin 隐秘起源 That day, an aberration of flesh and paint blotted out the stars. They said I was an abomination that should never have existed. As the countdown to the apocalypse writhed in my mind, as a hidden door opened before me, as secret mutations began spreading beyond control, I finally cried out, “Love and hope will never die!” 64Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 The Tenth Day's End: A Troublemaker's Paradise 十日终焉乐子人 The End of Ten Days: Mischief Maker 29Reads—Score114d adds
- 166 The Game Invaded, and I Was the First to Collect the Divine Cards 游戏入侵，本小姐率先集齐神卡 Game invasion, cards for all, divine card upgrades, beast-taming giant wolves, one heroine, summoned apostles, apocalyptic monsters, stockpiling cards to become invincible, reborn for revenge, ruthless killing, an invincible protagonist, and a blazing start. The Duoluo Continent tears through the dimensional barriers, and a card game forcibly invades reality! Monsters besiege cities and demons run rampant. The old order collapses completely, leaving people to rely on supernatural cards just to s 96Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 167 Starting Out as a Yu-Gi-Oh! Temp Worker 从游戏王打工开始 Hanyu Junyo gets picked up by Chicken Sauce from the start and begins working. It’s my responsibility to protect Chicken Sauce, who’s known as the hostage of the millennium! Even a complete beginner at card games can make a bold run at Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelist Kingdom arc is a bit messy because of the rules, so feel free to skim it or skip it. The rules get refined later, and the duels become more rigorous too. 3.1kReads9.3Score27114d adds
- 168 I Can Summon Immortals by Annoying People 我气人能召唤神仙 Lin Fan, a 996 office drone, transmigrates into the cultivation world and becomes its lowest-ranking servant disciple: at the first level of Qi Refining, dressed in rags, cheated out of his pills, and spending every day chopping wood and cleaning the outhouse. Just when he thinks life could not be more miserable than instant noodles, he activates the "Annoy People, Summon Gods System" by mouthing off: "Mouth off to people to earn Summoning Points. Save up enough, and you can summon Chinese gods 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 The Great Dao From the Start: I'm So Bored! 开局大道：我好无聊！ [The Myriad Worlds + scheming + lighthearted comedy + loves making mischief + no female lead] What’s it like to become the Great Dao from the start? Su Nan can tell you: it’s worse than working 996! o(╥﹏╥)o After becoming the Great Dao, Su Nan was terribly bored, so he created clone after clone to explore the Myriad Worlds... Su Nan: “Explore what? Nobody’s allowed to go!!” Su Nan: “Who’ll play with me if you all leave!!!” Su Da: “Boss, I want to go.” Su Nan: “Take this flying kick!” Su Da: “Aah 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 Reborn in Another World as a Live-In Son-in-Law 魂穿异世成赘婿 Reborn in Another World as a Live-In Son-in-Law 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 The Evil God Descends: I Am the Creator of Magic Cards! 邪神降临：我，魔卡创造者！ Evil gods have returned to this world, and the supernatural is running rampant. Lin Ye transmigrated here and bound himself to a God-Tier Card System. Slay supernatural creatures and evil spirits to obtain white cards. Add just one ingredient to a white card, and you can craft a card with mysterious powers! White card + a bundle of thread = Puppeteer [Ability Card] White card + an old rag doll + a bloodstained dagger = Gothic Lolita Maid [Servant Card] White card + a mirror + a supernatural shad 1kReads8.8Score14914d adds
- 172 The God-Tier System: The Strongest Card Supplier in the Apocalypse 神级系统末世最强卡牌供应商 Fang Fan transmigrated into the apocalypse and obtained the strongest Card Supplier System. Ding! He opened a Legion Card and got a Yellow Turban Army legion! Ding! He opened a Weapon Card and got the divine weapon, the Heaven Reliant Sword! Ding! He opened an Angel Card and got a level-100 angel boss... 3.2kReads7.8Score47814d adds
- 173 Death Row Inmate from the Start: My Immortal Palace Levels Up Without Limit 开局死刑犯：我的仙宫无限升级 [The rating has just been posted and will rise later] After being reborn, underground kingpin Huang Yu is framed and sentenced to death. As the lethal injection floods his veins, the dormant Netherworld Immortal Palace, Hall of Reincarnation, awakens within him! A hundred years pass in the immortal palace for every instant in the outside world. Huang Yu returns from years of prison cultivation with the Nine Nether Soul Devouring Art perfected. His Nine Nether Ghost Eyes see through the underworl 1.2kReads8.6Score10714d adds
- 174 Cultivating Immortality with Mortal Bones: From the Frontier to the Ninth Heaven 凡骨修仙记：从边陲到九霄 “You have no spiritual roots, Lin Chen! All you're fit for in this life is sweeping the Scripture Pavilion!” The steward's roar rang through the sect's main hall. A prodigy snatched the Xuanyuan Cauldron from Lin Chen's arms and tossed it into the mud with a clang. “You think a piece of junk like this is worth keeping?” But as Lin Chen hovered on the brink of death in the Myriad Souls Grotto, the mysterious cauldron suddenly blazed with light. Scatter a handful of dirt, and it reveals the coordi 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 Online Gaming: The Deathly Rivers and Lakes 网游之死亡江湖 Adapted by Hongguo. Dive right in for an immersive experience! Game invasion + death game + humanity’s fight for survival + high-level martial arts and cultivation + deadly games This is the true story of a die-hard death-game fan, and the diary of Zhang Fan, a player of Death Jianghu. It all begins with Zhang Fan’s own experiences. The good news: You can actually bring your in-game abilities into the real world! The bad news: Death in the game really can kill you! The horrific death of his 94kReads7.3Score10.3k14d adds
- 176 The Rise of Humanity in Honghuang 洪荒之人族崛起 After the goddess Nuwa created humanity, the human race was weak and could only cling to the Wu clan’s protection to survive. Jiang Shi transmigrates to the primordial world and becomes one of the first humans. He also becomes close friends with a Wu priestess named Xiao Tu, with whom he can talk about anything. “The Wu and the demon clans are bound to fight.” “The Three Pure Ones aren’t on the same side, either.” “Zhurong and Gonggong are going to fall out.” “Mount Buzhou is going to collapse!” 8.2kReads8.5Score55514d adds
- 177 Go to Sleep, I'm Here 睡吧，我在呢 Go to sleep. I'm right here. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Quest for the Dao in Chaos 混沌问道 A single falling leaf slays every enemy in the world. A withered leaf becomes a sword, slaughtering gods and demons across the heavens! One man, one sword: he traverses the path to immortality, forges the Heavenly Dao, and looks down upon the ages. The Abandoned Lands? No, they are where chaos began! The youth Chen Hao came from the chaos. His Emperor’s Embryo was cut from him, yet he gained a Chaotic Physique, setting the war-torn age into motion! Alone, he stands across the river of time, sole 3.5kReads8.4Score27814d adds
- 179 Transmigrate to the Tang Dynasty: From Good-for-Nothing Scholar to Pillar of the Nation 穿越大唐，从废柴书生到护国柱石 Transmigrated to the Tang Dynasty: From Good-for-Nothing Scholar to Pillar of the Nation 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 Midnight Entry: Clear the Dungeon to Survive (Season 3) 午夜入场，副本通关才能活下去(第三季) Midnight Entry: Clear the Dungeons to Survive (Season 3) —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 181 Chinese History That Gets You Hooked from the First Page 一读就上瘾的中国史 A sweeping series on the historical patterns of five thousand years of Chinese history, helping you build a rational, objective, and pattern-seeking framework for a new way of thinking! This series is, in fact, a history book even more captivating than a novel. Starting with the Qin and Han dynasties, it covers the Jin dynasties, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Song, Liao, Jin, and Xia dynasties, the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and the Taiping Heavenly Ki 36.1kReads9.5Score5k14d adds
- 182 Heavenly Divine Sect 御神天宗 A country youth with no connections joins the Yushen Sect and cultivates against all odds. His talent is merely average, so he makes little impression in the sect, but his knack for brewing spiritual wine by himself leads him to uncover the secrets of cultivation by chance. Keep your head down. I can make a comeback! 6.5kReads8.5Score67814d adds
- 183 Everything Is in the Cards 一切尽在卡牌中 [A blend of cards and cultivation, spiritual qi revival, futuristic sci-fi, interstellar transmigration, intertwined civilizations, and a power behind the scenes] When Earth's civilization falls and humanity is ruled by an alien civilization, people are divided by their aptitude into upper citizens, citizens, and lower citizens. Xie Rulong is an ordinary crystal card master from the lower district. By chance, he discovers that the spiritual power he awakened ten years ago allows him to travel to 4.1kReads8.8Score47814d adds
- 184 The Top Outdoor Adventure Streamer Nearly Died Live on Camera 户外探险第一网红，差点死在直播间 The biggest outdoor adventure streamer nearly died live on camera 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Whoever I Write About Dies: First My Best Friend, Then My Ex-Girlfriend 我写谁谁死，先写好兄弟，再写前女友 Whoever I write about dies. First my best friend, then my ex-girlfriend 161Reads—Score114d adds
- 186 Longevity System: I Added Stats and Lived to the End of Time 长生系统加点，我活到了时间尽头 [No tragic twists + not a power fantasy + no formulaic tropes + no brainless plot + lighthearted and witty] > The protagonist has longevity, yet somehow can't keep his head down. He charges ahead full of enthusiasm, only to run into a Nascent Soul ancestor. He thinks it's a lucky chance, but nearly gets himself killed. Even going outside means running into a powerful Golden Core cultivator. This is downright terrifying! > “I, Su Chen, am clearly just a lowly Qi Refining cultivator. How could I p 179Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 Empresses in the Palace: A Rules-Horror Tale 甄嬛传之规则怪谈 Empresses in the Palace: Rules of the Strange Tales 21Reads—Score114d adds
- 188 Guo Xiaoqi’s Love Story 郭小七的爱情 Guo Xiaoqi was born into a rural family obsessed with having sons. She had little schooling, but was very beautiful. As an adult, she was pursued by a married man. The two did everything they could to finally get married, but married life was not as wonderful as they had imagined, and she endured all kinds of hardship. After many twists and turns, she finally understood that she could rely on no one but herself. 509Reads8.9Score3714d adds
- 189 An Octogenarian Womanizer Takes Chinese Showbiz by Storm, Starting with Xiong Ba 八旬老汉渣遍华娱从扮演雄霸开始 College student Zhou Rui transmigrates into the body of an eighty-year-old man in a parallel world. He is frail with age and on the verge of death. Just as he thinks he has only a few days left to live, he unexpectedly awakens an Entertainment Roleplay System! As long as he successfully plays various film and television characters, the System lets him win that character's abilities and treasures through a lottery! Ding! Congratulations, Host, you have successfully played Xiong Ba and obtained th 11.3kReads7.9Score86014d adds
- 190 The Immortal King's Fall 仙王坠 He was once Cangming, Immortal King revered throughout the heavens, half a step from becoming a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, able to decide the fate of all realms with a single thought. Yet during his tribulation of transcendence, his childhood sweetheart drained his essence with a Soulbond Pact, while his sworn brother pierced his Violet Palace with a Dao-Slaying Spear. His Dao fruit shattered and his true spirit scattered. He tore through the void and fell, battered body and all, into the lower rea 450Reads—Score3314d adds
- 191 Goddess Summoner 女神召唤师 Also known as The Goddess Summoner Transmigrating into the Supreme Primordial Realm, Chen Yu awakens the “Time Card Summoning Art.” He can rouse heroic spirits sleeping in the river of time and bring them back to fight! Chen Yu declares: “I only want goddesses!” “If you’re with me, even if you aren’t a goddess, I’ll train you into one!” “Because I can rank up cards!” Emergency Nurse (White N) → Healing Angel (Blue R) → Crimson Ashen Wings (Gold SSR) → Mother Earth (Mythic UR)! Moonshadow Archer 14.4kReads9.1Score1.9k14d adds
- 192 This World Is Such a Mess! 这个世界好混乱啊！ Who am I? Where am I? Am I dreaming? Everyone in the world seems strange. What was that I heard… My heart hurts so much. At last, I picked up my knife… I died… I came back to life, but I no longer had a heart… This is a world with just one continent and a few islands, and it is on the brink of an eerie apocalypse. Can someone without a heart feel the warmth and coldness of human life? How can I hold on to my heart in a world gone mad? Why can I calmly watch the living die right before my eyes? 225Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 I Return from the Forbidden Zone 我自禁区归来 [No System / No Transmigration / No Rebirth / No Cliches / No Harem. If you want a brainless power fantasy, this isn't for you.] After the Fall Power descended, countless protective barriers appeared across Huaxia, guarding its cities, towns, and villages. Inside the barriers, people were safe. The lands beyond them were known as the Forbidden Zones, because anyone who spent a day in one would lose their mind and turn into a terrifying Fallen Beast. When Bian Ning woke up, he found himself inexp 57Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 A Literature PhD Transmigrates and Is Reborn, Rising to the Throne 文学博士穿越重生，登顶皇位 A literature PhD transmigrates and is reborn, then ascends to the throne. 43Reads—Score314d adds
- 195 Half a Lifetime of Enduring, Half a Lifetime Beloved 半生隐忍半生卿 When Gu Yan was nine, his dying father entrusted him to his old classmate, Shen Dean. From then on, he lived under the same roof as the Shen family, growing up alongside their daughter, Shen Wan. She was the cherished daughter of the household, while he was the child of an old friend. An invisible wall separated their stations in life. Yet she had warmed him with porridge on cold nights, and he had shielded her from the rain that poured across the city. Love took root in their everyday closenes 247Reads8.2Score10314d adds
- 196 Creatures of the Three Realms, Listen Up: I Am the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Titiankong 三界众生，听好了，我乃齐天大圣孙替空 Hear me, all beings of the Three Realms! I am the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Tifukong 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 The Woman in the Plain Skirt 素裙女子 [Fast-Paced Power Fantasy] [Unbeatable Swordsmanship] [Relentless, Blood-Pumping Action] With a sword in hand, ten thousand demons submit! I wield a sword: who can stand against me? At the peak of the universe, a woman in a plain dress stood atop the chaos for a long, long time... [This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental.] 11.7kReads8.8Score77314d adds
- 198 This Human Martial Saint Is Nearing the End of His Life! 这位人族武圣大限将至！ Time is running out. Let’s kill to our hearts’ content! In the age of high martial arts, the war with the alien races has briefly subsided. Humans and aliens coexist, chaos spreads, and monsters run rampant... Gao Yuan transmigrates and becomes a Martial Saint of the human race. The good news: From the start, he’s at the pinnacle of human combat power. The bad news: He pushed himself too hard during the war, and doesn’t have long to live. “With only ten years left, I’ve spent so many years scrap 6.9kReads7.9Score38414d adds
- 199 Hong Kong Crossover: Off-the-Charts Luck, Snatching Chicken from the Start 港综：孕气爆表，开局截胡山鸡 Also known as Hong Kong Crossover: A Stroke of Lady Luck, Stealing Chicken from the Start Lin Yaozu transmigrates into a Hong Kong crime drama universe and gets a confession from a beautiful woman from the start. What! You’re Ke En? Doesn’t that mean I’m seducing the Second Sister-in-Law? But I honestly had no idea. Whatever. The System awakens, and Lin Yaozu decides he’s done playing nice... Drink the strongest liquor, date the hottest girls, and build the most powerful business empire! Lin Yao 58.2kReads7.3Score4.2k14d adds
- 200 The Red Mist Descends: The Star Abyss Rift 红雾降临，星渊裂隙 The Red Mist Descends, the Star Abyss Rift Opens 1Reads—Score—14d adds
