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- 51 Mysterious Tales 1 神秘故事1 The story follows Lin Yan, with a corroded bronze bell known as the Moon-Eater Bell at its center, linking a series of supernatural incidents and mysteries surrounding his past. Lin Yan is a young man struggling to make ends meet. After discovering the bell by chance in a university district slated for demolition, he encounters one bizarre event after another that defies common sense: a food delivery rider floating in midair, strangers with no shadows, and the revelation that he may be connecte 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 The Sky-Mending Immortal Gourd 补天仙壶 [Mortal Cultivation] [No System] [Cautious and Slow-Burn] [No Mindless Power Fantasy] [Logical] [Engaging] Lin Feng is a low-ranking laborer disciple of the Xuantian Sect. With a worthless spiritual root and no backing, he can only struggle to survive at the bottom of the sect. By a stroke of luck, he obtains a mysterious, evolving immortal gourd. Put snake bones into the gourd, and they can become spirit snakes; put incomplete cultivation arts into it, and the techniques will complete themselve 14.8kReads7.7Score2.1kShelves
- 53 A Row of Lovesick Tears 相思泪成行 Heartache brings tears in streams. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 Old Dreams of Chang'an, Joy Locked Away 长安故梦，锁清欢 An Old Dream of Chang'an, Love Locked Away —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 The Path to Immortality 步道长生 (High-IQ protagonist + decisive and ruthless + no female lead + no bleeding-heart heroics + ordinary-person cultivation + merciless) Why has no one ascended in hundreds of thousands of years? Why have those who became immortals fallen? In pursuit of the Great Dao of Immortality, Chen Changsheng discovers that the road to eternal life is full of lies, schemes, and betrayal. In the end, he abandons mercy and uses ruthless methods to tear open the cultivation world's secrets, slaughter all who stan 898Reads6.5Score100Shelves
- 56 Yin-Yang Finger 阴阳指 Yin and yang are the way of Heaven and Earth, the guiding principles of all things, the parents of change, the origin of life and death, and the dwelling place of the divine. The power of life and death begins with yin and yang. The Five Elements generate and overcome one another; yin gives rise to yang and brings death, while yang gives rise to yin and brings destruction. This is the natural way of things. As the old saying goes: A doctor doesn't call at your door, the Dao is not lightly passed 95Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 57 The Mortal's Immortal Abode 凡人仙府 After waking up in the cultivation world, I find that an evil cultivator is about to possess my body. What am I supposed to do? Luckily, I get a little gourd, and there's even an acre of spirit farmland inside. Taking pills, meditating, and following the path to enlightenment as a minor rogue cultivator. Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Deification... 3kReads6.2Score267Shelves
- 58 Extreme Survival Begins with Eagle Claw Kung Fu 极限求生从鹰爪功开始 After transmigrating to a miniature world resembling ancient China, where demons, ghosts, spirits, gods, and immortals roam, Zhuang Meng brings along the cheat he had in his previous life: the Extreme Battle Talisman. He overcomes every challenge, fights his way through countless worlds, and ultimately reaches heights no one else can approach, living the life he wants. Other people's secret techniques and cultivation methods can double their strength. With his cheat, Zhuang Meng can multiply his 192Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 59 The Immortal Path of the Treasure Cauldron 宝鼎仙途 A classic mortal cultivation story: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul... The rogue cultivator Lu Xuan accidentally transmigrates to the world of immortal cultivation, where he’s driven out of the market district and left to fend for himself! Luckily, he finds a mysterious treasure cauldron. One month inside it equals three years outside. This lowly rogue cultivator takes one step at a time and eventually ascends to the Immortal Realm... He becomes the Primordial Da 2.1kReads6.3Score127Shelves
- 60 The Hilarious President: Old Han’s Diary of Governing the Nation 搞笑总统：老憨的治国日记 The Comical President: Old Han's Diary of Governing the Country 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 The True Immortal of the Five Elements 五行真仙 After waking up, an ordinary mortal finds himself reborn in a dangerous, mysterious world of cultivation. From the start, he is a minor rogue cultivator with five spiritual roots. By chance, he finds a mysterious little gourd at the market, setting him on an extraordinary path to immortality... [Mortal cultivation, rogue cultivators, spiritual roots, pills, magical treasures, roaming the immortal sea] 1.7kReads6.1Score146Shelves
- 62 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—Shelves
- 63 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Lord Dayan 凡人修仙之大衍神君 Dayan Shenjun was a prodigy blessed with extraordinary talent, yet his obsession with the art of puppetry kept him from reaching the Deity Transformation stage. Now, reborn with his memories intact and presented with a new opportunity, he has steeled his Dao heart. See how he advances to Deity Transformation, stands tall between the mountains and seas, reigns supreme among the hundred races of the Spirit Realm, and sets foot in the Immortal Realm. This is not a brainless power fantasy. The focus 10Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 64 A Villain? I Forge Sequences into Godhood! 反派？我炼序列成神！ [Book Transmigration] [Han Li] [Magic Bottle] [Fervent Adventure] [Ensemble Cast] [Villain's Comeback] [Sequence Evolution] [Mutant Spiritual Root] [Decisive and Ruthless] > First thing to do after transmigrating into Mo Juren: destroy Zhang Tie's puppet and steal Han Li's opportunity! > No small green bottle under the cliff, but I dug up a rusty demonic bottle instead > From then on, everything took a wild turn: > Mix poison and you get a phantom assassin; refine discarded pills into a mountain 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Slow Cultivation with Five Spiritual Roots? I Have a Hundredfold Spirit Herb Space 五灵根修炼慢？我有百倍灵药空间 Born with all five spiritual roots, Lu Qinghe can only become a menial disciple of an immortal sect. Then he discovers a pocket dimension where spirit herbs grow a hundred times faster. From century-old herbs to millennium-old herbs and ten-thousand-year-old immortal medicines, they are all within his reach. Lu Qinghe grows spirit herbs, refines immortal pills, raises spirit beasts, and cultivates divine abilities. Even with all five spiritual roots, he can still set foot on the path to immortal 84.8kReads8.0Score6.5kShelves
- 66 Inkstone at the Heart of the Business World 商海砚心 The Inkstone of Commerce —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 The Cultivator Boy Comes Down from the Mountain 修仙少年下山 The highest virtue is like water: it benefits all things. The spring breeze brings rain, quietly nourishing all life. Heaven is a master craftsman, shaping all things as one. Thus, human nature is good from the beginning, and righteous energy nurtures all living beings. Heaven and earth are imperfect, yin and yang complement each other, and the five elements counter one another. Only righteousness endures. When heaven and earth first opened, energies were in chaos, corroding one another until 449Reads6.9Score100Shelves
- 68 The Immortal-Burning Chronicle 焚仙记 Not a wish-fulfillment story! Don’t read if that’s not your thing! Traditional cultivation fantasy, with a slower pace! [A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality] [Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire] [Sword Cultivator] [Alchemy] The Heavenly Fire Glazed Lamp, a supreme treasure of the Immortal Realm, was accidentally shattered during a battle and fell into the lower realm. Tens of thousands of years later, Han Fusheng, magistrate of Longming County in the Yan Kingdom, was framed by villains and d 8.1kReads8.2Score738Shelves
- 69 The Five-Element Waste Spirit Root: I Have a Treasure-Gathering Golden Toad 五行废灵：我有一只聚宝金蟾 [Mortal Cultivation] [Smart Protagonist] [One Female Lead] [Decisive and Ruthless] At eighteen, with a fake Five-Element Spirit Root, was his path to immortality already doomed? Wang Han was a hunter from the countryside. By a twist of fate, he entered Leiyang Pavilion, only to be made a nominal "Core Disciple" and, in truth, reduced to chopping wood in the back hills. His poor aptitude earned him the label "useless spirit root," while the declining sect's leader treated disciples like disposabl 2.3kReads6.6Score216Shelves
- 70 Whales Fall with the Tide, Wind Rests on the Shore 鲸落于潮，风栖于岸 A whale falls with the tide, the wind comes to rest on the shore 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 The Mortal's Path to Immortality 凡人修仙途 An ordinary country boy happens upon half a cultivation manual and a mysterious bracelet, setting him on the path of immortal cultivation. Rising from humble beginnings, the young man cultivates the Five Elements arts and practices secret divine abilities. He masters the seventy-two transformations of the Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends, proves his Dao, and roams free on the path to immortality... 1.5kReads8.0Score141Shelves
- 72 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
- 73 Realm of Immortality: The Quest for Eternal Life 不朽之境：永生的追寻 A young man with sealed, undetectable meridians sets out on the path of cultivation when his father falls gravely ill. Empowered by the Jade of Chaos, he climbs to the pinnacle of the Dao and becomes an immortal being. Though born with a mortal body, his unyielding will lets him defy heaven and cultivate. With a spirit artifact's body, he has attained an eternal form, yet remains tormented by love. Together, they bring this magnificent world to life! Qi Refining, Spirit Void Realm, Origin Mansio 95Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 Take the Fall for Another, Guard the Escort with Your Life 李代桃僵，以命护镖 Take another's place, protect the escort with one's life 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 The Chaos Jade Reveals Its Power: One Day of Cultivation Equals Ten Years 混沌玉显威，修炼一日抵十年 The Primal Chaos Jade Unleashes Its Might: One Day of Cultivation Equals Ten Years 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 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
- 77 Mortal Cultivation: Refining Qi to Attain Immortality 凡人修仙，炼气长生 [Mortal cultivation] [One female lead who serves as a supporting character] [This book has already been adapted into two animated manhua] [Nearly four million characters so far] Su Chen was born a commoner. After both his parents died, he made a living herding cattle for a landlord. One day, soldiers and bandits came through, killing people and wiping out his village. He barely escaped, and a cultivator who happened to pass by took him into an immortal sect. From then on, he embarked on the path 78.8kReads8.4Score7.6kShelves
- 78 Transmigrate and Rise from Good-for-Nothing to Dragon Lord 穿越废柴逆袭，万道龙尊露锋芒 Transmigrating as a Good-for-Nothing, I Rise to Prominence, and the Ten Thousand Dao Dragon Lord Unleashes His Power —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 The Dao Diagram's Path to Immortality 道图升仙录 [4.8 million words, complete. A long cultivation novel with a satisfying ending and no abandoned plotlines] [A hundred cultivation instances for you to explore] [Traditional cultivation + clan cultivation + spiritual herb space + alchemy + weapon forging + Ancient Desolate Dao Diagrams] A poor young man from Immortal Cat Valley has no parents and is a humble spirit farmer with only three mu of spirit fields. He awakens the Eight Ancient Desolate Dao Diagrams: the Immortal Zhi Medicine Diagram, w 10.6kReads8.0Score992Shelves
- 80 Cultivating Immortality 9 修仙9 On Lingfeng Continent, there was a naive young man named Wang Xiaoer. His name had a distinctly rustic ring to it. Wang Xiaoer was an ordinary farm boy from Wang Family Village at the foot of the mountain. His greatest pleasure each day was chasing the village's old hens around, dreaming of getting an extra chicken leg for dinner. One day, Wang Xiaoer was wandering aimlessly in the woods behind the village as usual when he suddenly heard a strange clattering sound. His curiosity was instantly p 4Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 81 I Have an Infinite Spirit Stone System 我有无限灵石系统 (Transmigration + System + daily life in the cultivation world + a smart protagonist + many love interests + spirit pets + decisive killing + laying low and developing early on + going on a killing spree later) The protagonist transmigrates from Earth to the cultivation world and acquires an infinite spirit stone System. What, you can’t win? Buy a mountain of spirit talismans and blast your enemies to death. Cultivation is too slow? No such thing. Just keep feeding it top-grade spirit stones. So 126Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Unintentionally Seeking Immortality 无意问仙 [Mortal's Journey] [No System] [Cultivation Through Caution] Li Wuyi was an ordinary man who delivered food part-time after work, until a small silver stone drew a bolt of heavenly lightning that sent him into the cultivation world. With no backing and no one to rely on, he had little access to spirit stones, pills, or magical treasures. Luckily, a small space hidden deep within his sea of consciousness could produce spirit liquid and accelerate the growth of spiritual plants. Qi Refining, Fou 478Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 83 I Picked Up a Cute Pet, and It's a Qilin 捡个萌宠是麒麟 I Picked Up a Cute Pet, and It's a Qilin 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 84 A Mortal’s Path to Immortality: From Herb Boy to Master of the Heavenly Dao 凡人修仙，从药童入道，执掌天道 [Multiple heroines + Immortal Realm + Divine Realm + Hongmeng Realm + Chaos Realm + Primordial Beginning] Even an ordinary person can have a great stroke of fortune. After surviving countless brushes with death, he turns misfortune into a blessing. He sets out on a rough and winding path to immortality. He lives each day with his life on the line. The past is too painful to look back on. When he unifies all the worlds, who would ever have guessed? The ruler of all worlds was once an ordinary per 11.5kReads8.3Score1.1kShelves
- 85 Nezha’s Path to Immortality 哪吒修仙诀 A dragon lurks in the abyss; a wise man hides among the people. When among others, hold your tongue to stay clear of trouble. When things are going well, keep your plans to yourself to avoid disaster. When beset by hardship, conceal your feelings so you can grow stronger. Those who aspire to great things keep them in their hearts and act on them. Only by keeping a low profile can you move forward steadily and go far. Yang Lin spends all day immersed in the world of immortal cultivation, caring n 92Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 The Apocalypse: Reborn with a Modifier, I’m Invincible 末世，带着修改器重生，我无敌了 [Post-apocalyptic survival + modifier + infinite storage + trillions in supplies + infinite talents + ruthless and decisive + nonstop thrills] Reborn in the apocalypse, he uses a modifier to change his attributes: strength +… constitution +… mental power +… agility +… He stockpiles trillions of supplies in an infinite inventory. With no weapons or equipment, he sneaks into 6.3kReads8.4Score567Shelves
- 87 Han Li: From the Start, a Little Bottle Takes Me All the Way to Dao Ancestor 韩立：开局小瓶，一路爽到道祖境 Lin Feng, a young man from a mountain village, uses his family's ancestral jade pendant to accelerate the growth of spirit herbs, break through bottlenecks, and decipher cultivation techniques, launching a cheat-fueled path to immortality. In the Qi Refining stage, he instantly kills Foundation Establishment elders. In the Core Formation stage, he sweeps aside his sect's enemies. In the Nascent Soul stage, he rides a Kun across the boundless sea. The moment he ascends to the Spirit Realm, he rul 893Reads8.1Score104Shelves
- 88 A Mortal's Cultivation of Immortality: Portable Space 凡人修仙之随身空间 An ordinary village boy stumbles upon a portable space, and from then on, Wu Fan embarks on the path of cultivation. He grows spirit herbs and medicines, makes pills, and trains inside the space. Watch as he rises step by step to become the strongest of all, unrivaled across the Three Realms. 33.6kReads8.6Score2.5kShelves
- 89 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Heaven-Piercing Tower 凡人修仙：通天塔 [The animated series A Great Rogue Cultivator: My Quest to Reach the Heavens is currently a hit on Hongguo Short Drama] [No transmigration, sensible plot, traditional cultivation, mortal cultivator, no System] "Are there really immortals in this world?" "Of course!" "Old man, when are you finally going to take me as your disciple?" The boy has lost count of how many times he's begged by now... After a great upheaval, a boy from Lanxian Town embarks on a long journey of cultivation. A mysterious 8.7kReads7.9Score660Shelves
- 90 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: From Servant Disciple to Sword-and-Talisman Dao Ancestor 凡人修仙：从杂役弟子到剑符道祖 Spiritual roots are ranked from highest to lowest, and the lives of menial disciples are as insignificant as dust. Chen Mo is the lowest-ranking menial disciple of the Qingyun Sword Sect. His spiritual root is poor, and his fellow disciples mock him, saying he will never achieve immortality. While cleaning the old Scripture Pavilion one day, he discovers a fragmentary secret manual of sword talismans. Others draw spiritual energy into their bodies and diligently cultivate their dantians; he uses 5.3kReads—Score445Shelves
- 91 The Spirit Eye That Sees Every Detail 秋毫灵眼 [Mortal’s journey + no System + no harem] Li Changsheng stumbled upon the Spiritual Eye of Fine Detail and began his path of cultivation. The road to immortality was as difficult as climbing to the heavens, like rowing upstream, where failing to advance meant falling behind. The cultivation world was full of deceit and treachery, its fortunes as unpredictable as the tides. Li Changsheng had no choice but to tread carefully, as if walking on thin ice. Though he had an ordinary three-element spiri 373Reads8.1Score106Shelves
- 92 The Chaotic Divine Cauldron 乱神鼎 [Mortal’s Journey style, no System, traditional xianxia, decisive and ruthless, one female lead, frequent updates.] Zhao Wuji, a herdsman, dreams only of getting a full meal. His grander ambition is to have meat to eat... One day, while herding cattle, someone falls from the sky. Before dying, that person is concealed in Zhao Wuji’s palm by a mysterious cauldron! Yet on that very day, the entire village is inexplicably crushed and razed to the ground! He must survive. He must take revenge. By a 22.1kReads8.2Score2.4kShelves
- 93 A Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Legacy Immortal Mansion 凡人修仙之传承仙府 [Mortal cultivation, no System, one female lead, decisive and ruthless.] An ordinary country boy stumbles upon an immortal manor containing a legacy, and from then on, Yang Hao embarks on the path of cultivation. Inside the manor, he can grow spirit crops, craft artifacts and pills, raise spirit pets, and access an unparalleled legacy. See how he rises from humble beginnings, slays demons and vanquishes evil, and steadily becomes the strongest, roaming freely across the Myriad Worlds. 1.1kReads8.0Score—Shelves
- 94 The Laid-Back Her Got Her Boss's Attention 咸鱼的她，被老板盯上了 The Laid-Back Woman Caught Her Boss's Eye 88Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 I Became the Immortal World's Richest Man by Selling Talismans at a Stall 靠摆摊卖符混成仙界首富 I Became the Richest Man in the Immortal Realm by Selling Charms at a Street Stall 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 Wind and Rain on the Path of the Dust-Mote Immortal Abode 微尘仙府风雨道途 The path of immortality comes like wind and rain, then passes like dust. Even with ambitions soaring to the clouds, one still needs fortune's favor. See how a mere junior steward of a sect, aided by an Immortal Lord's estate, stirs up wind and rain and gathers dust, rising from humble beginnings to turn the tides in the heavens. 955Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 The Xuantian Bracelet 玄天镯 Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core... Zhang Yan, an ordinary mortal, obtains the Xuantian Bracelet, which can accelerate time within its spatial realm. Ran Tian, a powerful figure from the True Immortal Realm, uses the spatial treasure Xuantian Bracelet to battle the Dragon King of Ten Thousand Demons and seal him away. But Ran Tian is gravely wounded as well. On the verge of death, fearing the demon dragon might obtain the treasure and break the seal, he tears through space and 21kReads8.2Score2.4kShelves
- 98 The Path to a Thousand Dao 万道成神 With a sweep of his sleeve, he stirs the clouds and turns the rain; with a single punch, heaven and earth crumble! This is a magnificent world, a world of martial artists where the strong rule supreme. An ancient battle to confer the gods enraged the heavens, unleashing celestial thunder and earthly fire. The continent shattered into nine regions and eighteen provinces, ushering in an era of decline. After the battle, the peak experts vanished without a trace, and the cultivation and development 3.6kReads8.5Score433Shelves
- 99 A Monthly Salary of 3,500: I Cultivate Immortality in the Mortal World 月薪3500：我在凡世修仙 Also known as: Chu Er Is Extraordinary! This is a slow-burn, leisurely paced urban cultivation fantasy about the fierce collision between technology and cultivation, after the modern world becomes connected to the spirit realm through the Peach Blossom Cave. Chu Fan is an ordinary young man with a meager monthly salary and a quiet life. Amid the everyday bustle, he quietly embarks on the path of cultivation. Neither arrogant nor impatient, and with no interest in quick results, he tempers his D 220Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 100 Blood Ancestor's Path 血祖道 [A traditional cultivation story about an ordinary person. No transmigration from Earth, no System, no golden finger, and no heaven-defying treasures!!!] The struggle between outsiders and the clan: if you are not a direct descendant of the clan, you cannot establish a foundation. The struggle between lower and upper sects: if you are not a Golden Core cultivator of the sect, you cannot form a Nascent Soul. The struggle between humans and demons: if you are not a living being of the same race 465Reads—Score—Shelves
