Novels like Steam Lord: Rising from the Colony
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- 151 Longevity: I Played It Safe in the Cultivation World Until It Became an Asylum 长生：我把修仙界苟成了疯人院 Longevity: I Survived Until the Cultivation World Became an Asylum 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 152 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 294Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 153 A Witch's Golden Trait? I'll Snatch It First as the Villain! 魔女金词条？我反派先薅为敬！ [Japanese-Style Western Fantasy] [Multiple Heroines] [Love Rivalry] [Attribute Copying] [Sword and Magic] (Signed for a print publication, so read with confidence!) "Oh! Miss Witch, you're the most alluring beauty in the world!" "Heh, so you've finally noticed my flawless face." "No, no, no..." Lin En shook his head solemnly. "I mean your [Elemental Affinity], [Potion Mastery], [Exceptional Talent]..." "Those attributes are just too good!" He burst out laughing. "We're all buddies here. Mind if 426.7kReads9.2Score95.6k14d adds
- 154 Something's Not Right About This Mage 这个魔法师不对劲啊 Western Fantasy / Lord / Magic / Church / Knights / Vampires / Two Heroines Not a wish-fulfillment story, and no slaughtering enemies from the start. The setting gradually develops from low magic to high magic, so proceed with caution if that’s not your thing. Give me a little patience, and I’ll give you a vast and wondrous world! Lanny transmigrates into a world where magic is just beginning to flourish. It is chaotic, backward, poor, and ignorant. Starting as a minor country no 13.5kReads7.8Score1.3k14d adds
- 155 You Said It Was a Battle for All, So What Do You Mean by Setting Up a Monopoly? 说好全民争霸，你搞垄断什么意思 (The print edition has been published under the title The Final Ownership Era) [The Ultimate Owner] [Synopsis: The stars are my candlelight, the orbits my sash, and civilization my game board. It is my mercy that lets all life flourish in my garden, where no one has to measure each breath in money.] Like millions of others, Ling He was unexpectedly pulled into a war game. Outside, countless races watched hungrily. Within, humanity schemed against itself. Some wanted to become emperors, standing 55kReads8.8Score6.4k14d adds
- 156 A Mage? No, I'm a Scientist 法师？不，我是科学家 Traditional Western fantasy. If you’re looking for a fast-food read, this isn’t for you... A legendary tale of the geologist Linge, who accidentally transmigrates to another world... Magic, battle qi, empires, elves, dwarves, dragons. No System. 17.4kReads8.5Score1.9k14d adds
- 157 Defying Fate: I Used a Billion-Dollar Lever to Hostile-Takeover the Heavenly Dao 逆转天命：我用百亿杠杆恶意收购了天道 Defying Fate: I Used a Ten-Billion-Yuan Lever to Hostilely Acquire the Heavenly Dao 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Global Deities: The Myriad Worlds Marketplace System 全球神祇：万界商城系统 [Farming + cultivation + System + war + development + management] This is an era in which everyone can awaken a divine realm and become a god. With the Myriad Worlds Marketplace System, Yang Fan trades for countless cultivation techniques, magical treasures, and divine weapons from the Myriad Worlds. He builds the realms of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, and cultivates his divine realm's followers into Pangu. He wages war across countless worlds, slaughters myriad races, comprehends divine authori 3.7kReads8.1Score27614d adds
- 159 The Legendary Witcher of the Middle Ages 中世纪的传奇猎魔人 [Western Fantasy] [Soulslike] [Dragons] [Mythology] [Adventure] An unknown soul awakens in another world, carrying an unknown mass of flesh as it journeys onward. Scattered laws are the steps to godhood. I am both hunter and prey. My power is my only weapon, and my deepest curse! 44.4kReads8.3Score6k14d adds
- 160 The Legend of Beland 贝兰德传说 Survival or death, rebirth or ruin, conquest or enslavement? War is an inevitable choice on the path to a race's survival! A human youth who grew up in an orc camp accidentally uncovers the secret behind a race war buried for ten thousand years. Magic and battle aura shine side by side, dragons dance with magical beasts, and the age-old feud between humans and orcs continues. Elegant elves, brutal dwarves, mysterious sea folk, and the vanished giants all make their appearance, as the continent o 3.8kReads8.8Score39014d adds
- 161 Epoch: Child of the Plane 纪元：位面之子 [Striving + Wizarding World + Wizards + Planar Ascension + Pursuit of Truth + Planar Wars + Space Fortress] He transmigrates to another world, only to discover that his new body belongs to a slave. After relentless effort, he finally changes his status. What? This is a supernatural world, and ordinary people are still at the very bottom of society. Knowledge changes fate, but how can he change his when he cannot even read? Only hard work and an indomitable will keep driving him forward. The road 1.8kReads6.4Score10514d adds
- 162 Failed to Reincarnate as the Bone King, Then Met a Vampire Princess 转生骨王失败遇到吸血鬼公主 [Multiple Heroines] [System] [Smart Characters] [Farming and Leveling Up] [Western Fantasy] [Showing Off and Face-Slapping] “I’ve been reincarnated?” System: “Please choose the character you will be born as.” “Spider Girl, Slime, Goblin, Birdman... What kind of ridiculous choices are these?” “Wait, isn’t this Bone King?” “I’ll take this one!” “Oh, come on! I just reincarnated as Bone King, and now I’m up against a max-level Paladin and a top-tier High Priest. How am I supposed to play this?!” Od 5.5kReads8.6Score74714d adds
- 163 Lord: From the Start, I Begin by Abducting a Princess 领主：开局从强抢公主开始 [Western Fantasy + Hardcore Technology + Multiple Heroines + Conquest] I transmigrated into the body of a debauched count, waking up just as a princess was about to “serve” me. Her inner thoughts: “I’m going to tear you limb from limb.” Outside the door, a Church Inquisitor had already arrived: “The princess has been corrupted by a demon. Anyone involved will be burned at the stake.” My life hung by a thread. But no one knew I was an electrical engineer. And even fewer knew I could hear women’s 7.5kReads8.2Score86914d adds
- 164 After the Hero Retires 勇者退休之后 [Slow burn + another world + nearly invincible + multiple female leads] [Let me say it again: this is NOT a single-female-lead story!!!!] After speedrunning another world, the hero runs out of quests and has no choice but to retire. Can an ending where he doesn't build a harem and only defeats the boss really count as a happy ending? What? You say you like me? No way! Hey, hey, hey, I've got a guide for fighting monsters, but is there a guide for romance? (P.S. The plot described above is total 6.8kReads7.8Score48014d adds
- 165 Roar, Kobold! 咆哮吧！狗头人！ [Western fantasy + lords + all races + elves + angels + undead + Titans + cross-world invasion + conquest + non-human races] My name is Wang Teng, and I transmigrated! The good news: I'm still alive. The bad news: I'm living like a dog, as a kobold's dog. The good news: I finally don't have to be a workhorse anymore! The bad news: Even kobolds need a house to get married! 104Reads—Score13914d adds
- 166 Steampunk: I Own an Ironclad City 蒸汽朋克：我有一座铁甲城 In a steampunk world of diverse races and countless living beings coexisting, people worship ironclad cities! Furnaces provide power, heavy weapons defend one’s dignity, and armor offers the strongest protection. Every mobile ironclad city is an independent power. Each ironclad city is a hunter roaming the wasteland, but all ironclad cities are also prey in the eyes of those more powerful! The strong devour the weak. Such is the law of survival in this world... Li Yingguang transmigrates here an 587Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 167 The Heresy Inquisitor Who Moonlights as a Women's Prison Warden 兼职管理女子监狱的异端审判官 Elves, witches, dragon girls, nuns, beast-eared girls, succubi, angels… Inside the prison is a group of troublesome beauties. Outside it are hordes of damned heretics. The gods watch over all things, and the cage of rules binds everything. [All heretics must be judged!] Order alone is eternal. 48.7kReads8.6Score5.4k14d adds
- 168 Transmigrated as Hu Hai: From the Start, I Kill Fu Su to Save Meng Tian 穿越胡亥：开局杀扶苏救蒙恬 The moment I opened my eyes, I had become Hu Hai. Qin Shi Huang had just breathed his last. Zhao Gao was smiling at me, Li Si was still hesitating, and Fusu was about to be sentenced to death. And I was the puppet who, according to history, would lose the empire in just three years. If I followed the script, I’d kill my own brother, trust Zhao Gao, rule as a tyrant, and eventually be forced to take my own life. I didn’t want to die. So I had to become emperor: a real emperor, not a marionette in 130Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 Qi Refiners in the River of History 历史长河中的炼气士 He once witnessed the King of Qin unify the six states and the rise and fall of dynasties. He lived through Emperor Wu of Han’s campaigns against the Xiongnu, and the decree that any who offended the Han would be put to death. He heard of the elegant lives of the Wei, Jin, and Three Kingdoms eras, and the openness of the Zhenguan and Kaiyuan periods… He is a Qi Refining cultivator. Qi Refining cultivators breathe in vital energy to attain immortality. This is a tale of immortality through the ag 5.4kReads8.7Score35714d adds
- 170 My Family Stole My Fate? I Poisoned Them in Return and Sent Them to Hell 全家偷我命格？我反向投毒送他们下地狱 My whole family stole my fate? I poison them in return and send them all to hell 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 I Transmigrated into Another World as a Pauper Prince, and I Just Want to Take It Easy 穿越成异世界穷鬼王子的我只想躺 [No System] + [Farming] + [Military] + [Western Fantasy] Office drone Lin Yuan transmigrates to another world, becoming a down-on-his-luck prince in a medieval realm. He hopes to live out a quiet life on the frontier, but after a chance encounter with a noble female knight, he embarks on a fantastical journey to overthrow the feudal age and usher in the Renaissance. 98Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 172 My Years as a Princess in the Middle Ages 我在中世纪做王女那些年 Hua Xiaoxia had only just started her career when she suddenly fainted after an intense stretch of overtime, then somehow transmigrated. Unfortunately, she hadn't transmigrated to ancient China, where she could live out her dream of becoming a noble consort or princess. Instead, she landed in a world she knew nothing about: the Dark Middle Ages. Xiaoxia: “All right, I'll just lie flat. No exhausting work, no mom nagging me to find a boyfriend. I'll just enjoy life!” Reality: “Dear, want to lis 2.1kReads9.0Score20914d adds
- 173 Game of Thrones: Attia, the Great Emperor of the Holy Flame 权游之圣焰大帝阿提亚 Atia was born beneath the Red Comet. Her mother was a princess of Yidi, but after fleeing alone to Westeros, she could only become Prince Daemon's mistress. Atia swore she would earn glory for herself and her mother through her own efforts. So what if I'm a bastard? I have the dragon Tiamat. One day, I'll make the whole world grovel at my feet!!! 986Reads6.5Score6014d adds
- 174 The Oriental Emperor in Another World 异世界的东方帝王 This is a slow-burn story, so please bear with it, dear readers~(^◇^)/ [No System + Western fantasy + conquest + farming + lord + war + slow burn] From the start, a bolt of lightning turns him into a prince of a dynasty. Just as he is about to lead an invincible fleet on an expedition across the ocean, a whirlpool sweeps him and his ships into another world. When he opens his eyes, two moons hang overhead, and humans, elves, and beastfolk are fighting in a chaotic brawl. Zhu Jingyao looks down a 296Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 175 EN Lord: Becoming a War Criminal After the Villain's Ruin 领主：反派破灭后开始当战犯 [Western Fantasy + Farming + Magitech + World Conquest + Slow Burn + Multiple Races + Multiple Heroines + Fake System] After transmigrating into a game, Lin En becomes the duke’s third son and receives a System. He works hard to achieve a world of happiness, only to get the bad ending and be exiled to a baron’s territory. The happy life he dreamed of is now impossible. After arguing with the System, Lin En makes his decision. If I can’t play gacha games, I’ll play Paradox games. The national wil 13.9kReads8.3Score1.1k14d adds
- 176 Scientific Tomb Raiding: I Melted Through the Bronze Gate with Aged Vinegar 科学镇墓：我用老陈醋熔穿了青铜门 Scientific Tomb Guardianship: I Melted Through the Bronze Gate with Aged Black Vinegar 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 Nightmare Space: It Has to Have Nightmares 梦魇空间，一定要有梦魇 [Mastermind] [Spiritual Qi Revival] [Source of the Supernatural] [Building the Main God] [Dream Dungeon] [No Female Lead] Infiltrate the dreams of entire groups and collect nightmares. Build dungeons, recruit apostles, bring forth the supernatural, and transform the age. If the supernatural means fabricating laws and trampling the world, and if the strong must have their own path and dreams, what kind of path would you take? When the boundary between truth and illusion is broken, and reality an 6.7kReads6.2Score1.4k14d adds
- 178 Chat Group: Starting with Nothing but Information Sharing 聊天群：从只有信息互通开始 [Choice One: Receive one random special bloodline] [Choice Two: Receive a random sum of at least one billion] [Warning: Different choices lead to different futures. Consider carefully before making your choice.] Not fan fiction 21.5kReads9.0Score2.1k14d adds
- 179 The Age of the Gods: My Followers Are Sea Snails 全民神祇时代之我的眷属是海螺 (Global Deities + Follower Development + Divine Realm Building + Golden Finger + One Heroine) Qin Mo transmigrates to another world where everyone has a chance to awaken as a deity, cultivate followers, build a divine realm, and kindle their divine fire. Everyone: “His core follower is a zero-star sea snail! It's just seafood.” Qin Mo: “In my divine realm, even a sea snail can become a god!” (The early story focuses on developing followers, while the later story centers on conflicts between plan 906Reads7.0Score10514d adds
- 180 Global Deities: I Charge Through the Heavens with Green Skins! 全民神祇：我靠绿皮莽穿诸天！ [Ork Horde-Building + Total Domination + No Saintly Heroics + So Thrilling It Makes Your Scalp Tingle!] A mushroom at the start? No, my greenskins can smash the heavens and worlds! Li Fusheng transmigrates into the vast universe where everyone can become a god, awakening the weakest possible mushroom follower species. When the first greenskin orc crawled out of a spore, he smiled. “Orks!” Trait 1: Infinite Reproduction (They multiply by spores. One ork equals a million-strong army.) Trait 2: Waa 26.8kReads7.5Score2.8k14d adds
- 181 I Asked You to Explain the Scenery, Not Reboot Earth's Motherboard! 让你科普风景，你把地球主板重启了？ You Asked Me to Explain Scenic Spots, and I Rebooted Earth’s Motherboard? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 Dream of the Red Chamber: With the Jia Family's Fall Imminent, I Shorted Their Fortune and Fled with Daiyu 红楼：抄家倒计时，我靠做空贾府携黛玉跑路 Dream of the Red Chamber: With the Jia family on the brink of ruin, I short-sell their assets and flee with Daiyu. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 From the Start, I Become a Slave: My Subordinates Force the Yellow Robe on Me 开局成奴隶：被手下黄袍加身 Luo Xia transmigrated to the continent of Calradia with the Mount & Blade System, only to open his eyes and find himself a slave. Survival, rebellion, plunder: the brutal Middle Ages taught Luo Xia how hard it was to live with dignity. He led those who followed him in amassing wealth and searching for a way out. As Luo Xia's followers grew in number, so did their ambitions. He went from bandit chief to mercenary commander to noble lord. Luo Xia cried out, “Who put this imperial robe on me? Who p 3.2kReads9.0Score23214d adds
- 184 Reincarnated in Another World from Scratch 从零开始转生异世界 No System, a gradual growth story, Japanese-style Western fantasy, otherworldly adventure, slow-paced, ordinary person reincarnated in another world, everyday life at the heart of it, multiple heroines-----------------A world of swords and magic, a world for adventurers. The story of a bewildered, naive boy who gradually grows into a man who can stand on his own, a story about an ordinary person. This world is full of riches, but danger comes with them. Ringo, a hero summoned from another world 68Reads—Score10014d adds
- 185 A Life Reversed: This Villager Is Too Strong 逆转人生：这个村民太强了 Out of nowhere, Du Wen transmigrated into a medieval war game and became an ordinary NPC. By all rights, with a System, his life should have been pretty comfortable. But as he thought back over the past twenty-odd years, Du Wen couldn’t help sighing. He had poor talent and a bad background, and knew nobody. It was a living hell of a difficulty setting. Worse, because of his NPC template, his level was permanently locked at 20, leaving him barely as strong as an ordinary knight. In this war- 2.4kReads8.7Score18214d adds
- 186 Superstring Wizard 超弦巫师 Li Cha, the young master of a baron's castle, is used to looking at all sorts of things in this magical medieval world through the lens of science. Werewolf transformations just don't seem to obey the law of conservation of mass. At this rate, old man Lomonosov is going to turn over in his grave. Li Cha thought it was time to catch a werewolf and study it... 2kReads8.2Score14714d adds
- 187 I Studied for a Century, Yet You Beat Me with Three Generations of Martial Arts? 我百世寒窗，抵不过你三代从武？ [Cosmic setting + power progression + fast-paced + changing worlds] “Your family has been in business for three generations. How does that compare to my three lifetimes of studying through hardship?” “Your family has practiced martial arts for three generations. How does that compare to my ten lifetimes of living off others?” “Your family has been prestigious for ten thousand years. How does that compare to my hundred lifetimes of accumulated experience?” Gu Bai transmigrated into a high-mar 43.1kReads8.0Score3.8k14d adds
- 188 Adventures in Another World: Starting an Adventurers' Guild 异界冒险：从组建冒险团开始 [Dungeons & Dragons] [Mount & Blade] [Adventurers] [Legions] Man-eating Goblins, cultists who sacrifice people, dragons who love listening to humans wail in the flames, and demons coveting human souls... Wol decided to bring his talent for leveling up through killing to this otherworld! But one person can't achieve much alone, and adventuring parties of four or five are far too limited. Raising the battle standard high, he sent his countless troops thundering across the battlefield. “When my ent 60.1kReads8.8Score5.8k14d adds
- 189 You’re a Male Incubus. Does It Really Make Sense for You to Be a Priest? 你一个男魅魔，当神官真的合理吗 [Western Fantasy]+ [Cleric]+ [Scheming]+ [No System] After transmigrating into a succubus of the demon race, Green discovered that, according to the timeline, the demons were destined to be wiped out. No way. He, Green, couldn't allow that to happen. But everyone else was left confused. Demon: “Hey, how can you, a demon, use the divine arts of a human cleric?” Human Saintess: “Wait a minute, is that how divine arts work? Are those divine incantations from a bratty little girl?” Human Saintess: “ 6.4kReads8.8Score73314d adds
- 190 The Continent of Carlos: Rise 卡洛斯大陆：崛起 A transmigration story set in another world resembling medieval Europe. Xu Chen unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of Tris Dillin, the youngest young master of the Dillin family, and begins a grand, eventful life of his own. (Farming + Conquest + Political Intrigue) The blurb doesn’t do it justice. Come on in and see for yourselves! 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 Framed for a Crime, I Awakened Memories of the Myriad Worlds 被栽赃后，我觉醒了诸天记忆 [A feel-good power fantasy with no frustrating setbacks] [Fantasy imagination + cultivation] [the Myriad Worlds + a contest among myriad races] [golden finger] [No saintly do-gooder] [Father and son grow together] [Blue Star ascends to a higher dimension + cosmic-scale stakes] The Myriad Worlds contain countless parallel worlds, with innumerable beings sharing the same origin scattered throughout them. Bound by the balance of space and time, these counterparts will never meet. Across countless 688Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 192 Song of Defiance Beneath the Heavens 天穹逆歌行 The Wilds Beneath the Firmament: A Hymn of the Wayfarers We are the kin exiled by the stars, climbing as we fall. When the Milky Way spills into a sheer cliff, the comet sleeping in our fingerprints suddenly awakens. The mark forgotten by all the gods burns in our palms, a route through the sky in defiance of flight. Look! These scarred backs are wings forged by our ancestors from thunder. Every scar sings of eternity, sings of stubbornness, orphaned and alone. In an age when time itself fle 242Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 193 Suspect Lin Yuan: I Used Chemistry to Hold All of Humanity Hostage 嫌疑人林渊：我用化学绑架了全人类 Suspect Lin Yuan: I Held All of Humanity Hostage with Chemistry 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 194 Wizard Lord: Turns Out My Golden Finger Is Women 巫师领主原来我的金手指是女人 A young man from Earth is sent by a cement truck, commonly known as a mudhead truck, to the mysterious world of wizards Luo Lin has terrible talent. He doesn’t advance to the rank of a first-level wizard until his hair has turned white, and he hasn’t even had a chance to enjoy his increased lifespan when the wizarding world is destroyed. Luo Lin begins another journey of transmigration, struggling to survive in the terrifying, otherworldly world of the high-dimensional Abyss. One day, by pure ch 13.2kReads8.4Score1.1k14d adds
- 195 I’m a Marksman, So What If I’m Unbeatable in Melee? 我一个射手，近战无敌怎么了？ [System] [Western Fantasy] [Multiple heroines] [Plenty of daily life] [Plenty of battles] From the start, he is exiled to the border as cannon fodder. After distinguishing himself, he earns his superior's favor and becomes one of his personal guards. But the more he thinks about it, the less sense it makes. Why are there women's voices coming from a certain colleague's room? This military camp is way too chaotic! He sees that this colleague wears full plate armor every day and seems calm and co 24.2kReads9.0Score2.5k14d adds
- 196 Ruling America: The Showbiz Tycoon 纵横美利坚，文娱霸主 The beaches of America are filled with blonde bombshells. After transmigrating to the America of 1992 in a parallel universe, Zhou Qingshan finds an entertainment wasteland. There is no Lord of the Rings, no Terminator. He builds a business empire by rewriting works from his past life. 5.2kReads7.9Score36514d adds
- 197 Thirty Days to Live: With Brain-Computer Tech, I’ll Ascend with 1.4 Billion Chinese People 绝命三十天：我用脑机，让十四亿华夏集体飞升 Thirty Days to Live: I Use Brain-Computer Interfaces to Ascend with 1.4 Billion Chinese People —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 The Song Dynasty’s Bugs: A Programmer’s Fixes and Refactoring 大宋的BUG：码农的修复与重构 A modern architect transmigrates to the Northern Song, bringing along an AI connected to the civilization of the future. He sparks a Renaissance and sets off the Industrial Revolution ahead of schedule, turning a dynasty into the engine of human civilization. In this world, there is no sea of blood from colonialism, no devastation from the two world wars, and no shadow of nuclear weapons. Shaped by the benevolence of the East and the finest technology, human civilization sets out early toward th 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 Witch-Raising Handbook: There's Something Off About My Water Magic 魔女养成手册：我的水魔法不对劲 [Witch + Priest + Nurturing + Divine Being + Mindwashing] After transmigrating into the body of an illegitimate son of an earl, Wayne is treated as a political gift from the start, meant to be presented to the 67-year-old pope. Wayne flees overnight and becomes a priest in a small border town. He thinks he can enjoy a leisurely life, lazing around, tending flowers, and occasionally hearing noblewomen's confessions. But on his very first day at work, the two witches he rescued from a slave ma 41.1kReads7.9Score4.9k14d adds
- 200 I Handed Over a Portal Through Time, and the Nation Took Me to Crush 1937 with Superior Technology 上交时空门：国家带我降维横推1937 I Hand Over a Time-Space Gate: The Nation Takes Me to Crush 1937 with Superior Technology —Reads—Score—14d adds
