Novels like Creepy Cultivation, but I Can Turn Side Effects into Benefits
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Creepy Cultivation, but I Can Turn Side Effects into Benefits, best match first.
- 51 You Accuse Me of Demon Cultivation? Why Panic When I Really Turn to the Demonic Path? 诬陷我魔修？真转修魔你们慌什么 [Decisive and ruthless] [Overpowered protagonist] [Demonic cultivator] How do you prove your innocence when you’ve been framed? Easy… Just make the accusation come true. Then you weren’t framed in the first place, which means you’re innocent, right? … You accused me of cultivating demonic arts, and now I really am cultivating demonic arts. What are you so afraid of? Come on, come on, gather in my Banner of Ten Thousand Souls. “We Only Accused You of Demonic Cultivation, So Why Did You Make It Re 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Lord of the Unorthodox Path 左道之主 I’m hard at work on my new unorthodox-cultivation novel, which is guaranteed to debut next month. Next year, I plan to finish a million-word unorthodox-cultivation novel. Even if it’s not good, I’ll keep writing!!! Don’t ask why. Let’s just say I have the Gu of Perseverance (Yaksha grinding its teeth). [Using evil to stop evil] + [Not a traditional power fantasy, don’t read if that’s not your thing] + [If you won’t work hard at cultivation, let’s be brothers in my Banner of Ten Thousand Souls] + 223Reads6.8Score10014d adds
- 53 The Strange Immortal Records: The Whole World’s Memories Have Been Altered 诡仙录：全世界都遭到认知篡改 [Eerie]+ [Cultivation]+ [Lovecraftian]+ [Warhammer]+ [The Foundation]+ [One Female Lead] Sight, hearing, smell, and touch are merely the brain's interpretation of sensory signals. If cognition itself is compromised, how can you be sure that anything you perceive is real rather than an illusion? This is a tainted world. The pills that cultivators eagerly seek are actually living insect eggs, while the beautiful, aloof sword pavilion immortal maiden was long ago refined into a long sword of twiste 452Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 54 Cultivation? I'm Here to Beat You Cultivators! 修仙？我打的就是你们修仙的！ [Simulation + multiple heroines + passionate action + original world] Li Wubing once thought there were no fairies with sheer veils and ample bosoms in this world, but on the day his golden finger arrived, the fairies came, and so did the demons. When dealing with demons like these, you have to hit hard! A little cheating doesn’t count! Fate simulation, activate! Roam the heavens, inhabit simulated lives, and turn every experience into his own talent: [On the chessboard of a world divided betwee 1.9kReads7.3Score12914d adds
- 55 Raising Ten Thousand Ghosts with a Corpse, I Cultivate the Dark Arts on the Black Market 尸躯养万鬼，我在黑市当邪修 As the blood of his parents cooled in the cracks between the bluestone slabs, Li Feng understood: if he wanted to survive, he had to be filthier than the wicked and more worthless than mud! Grovel before the Black Tiger Gang? Volunteer to practice the life-shortening Five Poisons Palm? Treat his subordinates as sacrificial offerings? Sell his devoted partner off as a cultivation furnace? As long as it helped him climb higher, he wouldn't blink! His body is on the verge of collapse? Refine it int 2.3kReads6.9Score23814d adds
- 56 The Dark Immortal Venerable 黑仙尊 [Uncanny cultivation] + [Chinese-style cosmic horror] (Not invincible, not a wish-fulfillment story, not mindless, no System) War clouds surge across the land of Tianmu, All the people grieve, weeping by the wild graves. Heaven and earth are a true prison, binding immortals, gods, and the uncanny; Alone, I hold up the sun and moon and defy the order of the world! 818Reads6.9Score10814d adds
- 57 The Demon Returns 魔归 Mortal + No System + No Golden Finger + No Female Lead (but there are women) + Corpse Refining + Ghost Commanding + Demonic Cultivation … How does human nature change, and how is it preserved, in a cruel environment? Does the distinction between good and evil lie in power itself, or in the purpose of those who wield it? The conflict between survival and morality, and the choices it demands; the journey of revenge and the struggle to move beyond hatred. … All to recreate the cultivation world i 106Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 The Secret Creator 秘密创造师 A fresh take on supernatural power sequences + an eerie, villainous protagonist + ruthless killing + no dumbing down + no invincibility + no wish fulfillment + dark themes + cautious early game + outlaw protagonist Eight Divine Lodgings, Taiyin Demon Lodging, Three Corpses Ghost Lodging, Greedy Wolf Demon Lodging! Mystical constellations influence everything in the world. Those who earn their recognition can become Fate-Bound. Wang Tianfeng transmigrates into Ai Wen, a resident of Pig Cage Villa 103Reads8.9Score—14d adds
- 59 Uncle Nine: Why Is Your Human Emperor Banner Smoking Black! 九叔：你这人皇帆，怎么冒黑烟！ You raise ghosts and refine corpses, and you tell me you're from the Maoshan Sect? Su Jun stared at his cheap master in shock, his face full of disbelief. His eyes seemed to say, Are you messing with me? Master: “Wild Maoshan is still Maoshan!” After transmigrating into Uncle Nine's world, he becomes the disciple of a villainous feng shui master. The feng shui master plots against him, making him a cannon fodder pawn in the scheme to take down Uncle Nine. See how Su Jun defies fate and changes h 136Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 60 Immortality in the Demonic Sect: A Fated Bond with a Spirit Corpse Immortal 魔门长生之灵尸仙缘 Lin Xuanqing accidentally entered a demonic sect, only to discover that it was nothing like the brutal place of legend. From then on, he refined spirit corpses, sought immortality, and cultivated the sword. A thousand years later, he looked back, having reached the pinnacle. No matter how chaotic the Azure Heavens or shattered the Yellow Earth, all things mourn with the changing seasons! Loneliness like falling snow! My heart endures forever. 784Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 61 Rule Horror: I Mend the World with Cause and Effect 规则怪谈：我用因果缝补这个世界 Rule Horror | Urban suspense | Smart protagonists | No mindless power fantasy | Growth at a steep price | Ensemble cast | Philosophical mystery The world isn’t falling apart. It’s simply, coming undone at the seams. The First Hospital at three in the morning, Bus 444, which only runs at night, Horror worlds where following the rules is the only way to survive… While everyone else memorizes rules and gambles on luck, Lin Mo sees something else breaks in causality. He cannot cultivate, nor does he 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 62 Heaven-Defying Comprehension: From the Main Soul of a Soul Banner to the Netherworld Soul Emperor 悟性逆天：从魂幡主魂到冥魂大帝 After transmigrating to the Tianlan Continent, he thought he might get to live as a carefree immortal. But, as luck would have it, he became a lone ghost trapped in a Blood Robe Sect disciple's soul banner. From the start, he wasn't even human~ Fortunately, Chu Yuan gained the heaven-defying comprehension cheat, and at last things started looking up! [You watch souls fade and grow stronger, and gain an insight. Combining this with your memories of a past life, you create the "Yellow Springs Divi 668Reads7.2Score10414d adds
- 63 Eerie Revival: I Can Avoid the Side Effects 诡异复苏：我能豁免副作用 Note: The motion comic adaptation of the same name is now available!!! [Heh heh heh, this System has met its performance targets. From here on, you're on your own, Host. Bye-bye!] Su Che had just transmigrated into a high school student's body when the System's AI core ran off. To make matters worse, everyone on campus went berserk after being infested by strange creatures. Relying on the immunity trait the System left behind, Su Che embarks on a journey to grow stronger in this world of the 8kReads7.1Score1.3k14d adds
- 64 Forced to Drop Out from the Start, Now You're Afraid of My Rise 开局被迫退学，我崛起你们怕什么 [High Martial Arts + Achievement System + Stat Allocation + X-Rank Talent + Martial Arts College Entrance Exam + No Saintly Hero + Prodigy + Decisive and Ruthless + Power Fantasy] Xiao Feng was born into a high-martial-arts world. After eighteen years of relentless effort, he finally earned a chance to turn his life around by studying in a higher-tier city! Unexpectedly, a powerful family’s heir intervened, and the principal became his accomplice. They stripped Xiao Feng of his place and forced 3.8kReads7.6Score38914d adds
- 65 Dark Arts: The Ten Courts of Hell 邪术：十殿阎罗 (No System, no heroine, crooked and sinister methods, ruthless and decisive) In this world where good and evil have been turned upside down, is it really so wrong for me to use a little dark magic? And if I use dark magic without suffering heavenly punishment, is that really so wrong? Mount Mao offended me, so I’ll wipe out Mount Mao. China’s Special Affairs Department offended me, so I’ll wipe out your entire family. Japan offended me, so I’ll wipe out the whole country! If the world offends me 1.4kReads6.6Score10014d adds
- 66 Ben 10: Summoning a Yandere Fire Girl from the Start 少年骇客：开局召唤病娇火焰女 [Ben 10 + Omnitrix + Glitch Watch] Lin Fan transmigrates to the world of Ben 10, where he gets the Omnitrix and the Glitch Watch from the start, and becomes bound to the Wrong Love System. As long as he completes the System's missions, he can earn Wrong Love Points and unlock more aliens. He can even fuse the two watches to get the “Glitch Omnitrix”! Heatblast: “Master, I'm hungry~” Four Arms Queen: “Princess Tetrax seems to have a thing for you, Master. I'm not happy about it... so I'm going to 3.4kReads8.1Score30314d adds
- 67 Fellow Daoist, Help Me Ascend to Immortality 道友，且助我飞升 [Dark] [Cthulhu] [No System] [Uncanny and Mad] The Xuanhuang Heavenly Venerable, covered in tentacles; the Mother Goddess of Life, a mass of seething chaos; and the Emperor of the Abyss, who transcends dimensions, presiding over the Immortal Heaven. Mortals twisted by chaotic evil, cultivators driven mad, a lower world where reality and illusion are tangled together: the myriad beings and images of the Three Thousand Great Paths are all a feeding ground for the indescribable. Mu Feng, a transmig 206Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 68 Master, You Shouldn’t! Why Are You Getting Closer? 师尊不可以，您怎么越靠越近？ A bunch of chosen ones have you so spooked that you won't even dare set foot in your own sect? To ensure our sect lasts for all eternity, we have a duty to act! My junior sister doesn't dare break off the engagement? I'll do it! My junior brother doesn't dare kill the demon? I'll kill it! My senior sister doesn't dare take in the monster? I'll take it in! My senior brother doesn't dare provoke that person? I'll provoke them! Let me make this clear: if my fellow disciples can handle it, I'll hand 1.2kReads8.1Score10414d adds
- 69 My Evil Arts Are Fully Mastered, and You Want Me to Descend the Mountain and Save All Beings? 邪法大成，你让我下山普渡众生？ [Decisive and ruthless] [Invincible] [Unorthodox methods] [Gu magic] [Dark arts] Yin and Yang are reversed, morality has collapsed, and monsters run rampant. In this chaotic age, bones litter the wilderness and no rooster crows for a thousand miles. Xu Xuan transmigrated into a strange world. He mastered the dark arts at Qingfeng Temple, then awakened a Merit System. Determined to fulfill his master’s hopes, he set off to travel the mortal world and save its people. Taking on the identity of a s 30Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 70 This Daoist Strikes, He Pulls Up the Roots 贫道出手，斩草必除根 Feng Shui and the Supernatural ☞ Daoist Arts and Witchcraft ☞ If it can be killed, leave no survivors ☞ Ghosts and monsters ☞ No female lead I am Tian Jiu, a Daoist priest nicknamed the Heretic... Ageless and undying, beyond the cycle of reincarnation, I walk beneath the sun, driving out ghosts and subduing demons... Whether you’re a demon, monster, ghost, or fiend, I’ll reduce you to ashes... If I, Tian Jiu, cannot ascend among the immortals, then I’ll protect the mortal world... Countless immo 1.3kReads7.1Score10514d adds
- 71 A Hundred Years of Ringing the Bell at a Taoist Temple: The Empress Asks Me to Come Forth and Slay Immortals 道观撞钟百年：女帝请我出山斩仙 [Eerie Primordial World + Play It Safe from the Start + Invincible Power Fantasy + Decisive and Ruthless + Overpowering All] Lu Changqing transmigrates into an eerie world of immortal cultivation. Just as his master is about to refine him, he awakens the Chaos Treasure, the Eastern Emperor Bell! The treasure's origin is incomplete? No problem! [Strike the bell and refine it every day: spiritual resonance +1, origin +1] But this world turns out to originate from the [Ancient Primordial World and 529Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 72 Cultivation Is Seriously Toxic 修仙真有毒 [Uncanny cultivation + team expeditions and treasure hunting + super-handsome sword immortal + no saintly do-gooder + ruthless and decisive + no female lead + painfully bizarre + this world is far too dangerous] The old beggar raised two fingers in a sword gesture and cried, “Draw!” Blood spurted from his back. A bloody spinal column shot out of his flesh with a slippery hiss, turned into a streak of white light, and flew into the woods. Bai Xiaoyi stared, dumbfounded. Cultivation really is pois 2.5kReads8.5Score17714d adds
- 73 The Dao Hides, the Gods Vanish 道隐神匿 [Cultivation]+ [Cthulhu Mythos]+ [Supernatural Powers and Spells] From the twisted shadows looking down on all living things atop Baiyu Jing, to the bizarre feast of writhing flesh in Kunlun's Jade Pool, to the enormous pupils prowling and spying in the weak waters of the Yellow Springs: when the gilded splendor of Taoist temples and Buddhist monasteries fades, and the gods of the heavens no longer heed the prayers of mortals, when the moral codes of the court and the martial world fall away, th 145Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 74 The Most Realistic Cultivation 最真实修仙 [Heartbreak + Hellish Trials + Weak Beginnings + Cultivation + Realism + Most Miserable Protagonist + Immortality] Qin Feng has no protagonist aura, no golden finger, and no so-called heavenly luck. In this cruel world of cultivation, he lives worse than a dog every day. A man’s knees are worth their weight in gold, but Qin Feng has none to spare. He can only beg for his life to eke out a wretched existence. This is the most realistic story of an ordinary man cultivating immortality, seeking ete 168Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 75 Fellow Daoist, Lend Me Some Spirit Stones to Spend 道友借点灵石花花 [Villain] [Demonic Path] [No Saintly Goodness] [No Golden Finger] [Establishing a Dark Forbidden Zone] Fellow cultivators stockpile food, while I stockpile guns. My fellow cultivators are my granary. In this cultivation world where human lives are as worthless as grass, Lu Ji happened upon demonic cultivation techniques and became a demonic cultivator hated by all. He betrayed his master and ancestors, slaughtering living beings to break through to the next realm. To survive in this world of the 1.7kReads7.0Score11814d adds
- 76 The Strange Immortal Judge’s Record 诡仙判官录 [Dark + Unhinged + Lovecraftian Cultivation + Judge of the Underworld] The Heavenly Dao has come alive. The gods feast on incense offerings, while the court runs the human world like a pasture. And I, keeper of the Book of Life and Death, was torn apart, soul and all, and sent back to the Three Realms for declaring the Heavenly Dao unjust a thousand years ago. I have seen: The souls of loyal subjects nailed into ancestral shrines to serve as lamp oil, chaste women turned into frost on the tiles 27Reads8.0Score214d adds
- 77 Myriad Worlds: Starting by Blowing Up the American Horror Story 诸天：从打爆美恐开始 Li Ye transmigrated into the world of American TV dramas and awakened an Attribute-Picking System. He soon discovered that this world was more than it seemed: not only were the Winchester brothers here, but so were Constantine, witches, werewolves, vampires, and more. God was nowhere to be found, angels had begun fighting for power, and demons wanted to take over the human world. (Supernatural, Jason vs. Freddy, Van Helsing, American Horror Story: Coven, The Originals, The Vampire Diaries, The F 2kReads7.3Score14814d adds
- 78 Practicing Heretical Arts on the Unorthodox Path, I Refine Longevity with the Dao Fruit 人在旁门修邪术，我以道果炼长生 [Classic Xianxia + Xian Hu Style + Unorthodox Cultivation + Taoist Style + Strange Tales Style + Primordial Spirit Cultivation + Ruthless and Decisive + Steady Cultivation] Thanks for asking. I’m in the unorthodox cultivation world, and spiritual energy is running dry. Taoists herd the masses, devour souls to refine qi, and great cultivators treat their disciples like sheep. The land is steeped in blood and filth. Young Jing Yuan is an aspiring cultivator who dreams of flying swords, spirit p 35.5kReads7.7Score3.7k14d adds
- 79 Heterodox Arts: Beginning My Cultivation by Refining the Entire Village 旁门左道：从炼化全村开始修行 I'm working on a new novel in the same genre. My grand goal for 2026: finish my first million-word novel. Longtime readers, stay tuned. [Corpse Control, Cursecraft, Raising Little Ghosts]+ [Eight Hundred Schemes Up His Sleeve]+ [Master of Disguise]+ [Sneaky Schemer]+ [Voldemort] My name is Chen Xiu. If you become my enemy, it's to the death. That's why people in the business like to call me “Daoist Wuyou.” I always say: pay me, and I'll solve your problems… A child lights a lamp, a vengefu 3.9kReads7.2Score25014d adds
- 80 Uncle Nine: You're a Taoist, So Why Are You Covered in Dark Arts? 九叔：你一道士，怎么满身邪术？ Ning Yu transmigrated to a zombie-infested world. Adopted by an old Daoist priest and entrusted with Qingyuan Temple, he embarked on the path of cultivation. But with the Dharma-Ending Age making cultivation difficult, and his own aptitude nothing special, he had no choice but to take the unorthodox path. Fortunately, the Book of the Underworld appeared. All he had to do was record demons, monsters, ghosts, and spirits to gain spells and divine abilities! But... why were the spells he gained 49Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 81 I Destroyed My Cultivation and Left Home, So Why Are You Crying Now That I’ve Become a Demon Cultivator? 自废修为叛出家，我成魔修你哭啥 Three years ago, Lin Yang left home to seek experience after his family treated him with cold indifference. Three years later, when he returned to the Lin family, he was accused of colluding with demonic cultivators. Unable to prove his innocence, Lin Yang had no choice but to cripple his own cultivation to clear his name. After that, he left the Lin family. His hair turned white overnight, and he fell into demonic cultivation. From then on, his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds. One by o 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 Reborn in the Era of Abundance? Take a Seat in My Human Emperor Banner 年代重生极品多？人皇幡里坐一坐 [Return of the Demon Patriarch + Pocket Dimension + Everyday Life + No Romance + Ruthless + Behind the Scenes + System] A generation's Demon Patriarch fails his tribulation and returns to a special era. Can't get enough to eat? Nothing warm to wear? Too many awful people around? Don't worry. I'll deal with whoever needs dealing with, take care of whatever needs handling, and send those who deserve to die into the Human Emperor Banner. 1.6kReads6.7Score10514d adds
- 83 Becoming a Demonic Cultivator from the Start: Fellow Daoist, Enter My Ten Thousand Souls Banner 开局成为魔修，请道友入我万魂幡 [Demonic Cultivator + Major Villain + Cunning + Wildly Satisfying + Reincarnated Empress + Ruthless + Prodigy Showdown.] Chu Chen, the senior disciple of the Tianxuan Sect, devoted himself wholeheartedly to the sect, only for the Xuantian Sect to make him the scapegoat. After awakening the strongest demonic cultivation System, he gains the Myriad Souls Banner from the start. This time, he chooses to become a demonic cultivator, one who won’t let morality be used to manipulate him. With the My 272Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 84 Stay Away, Ice-Cold Sword Immortal. I’m Really Not as Good as You Think 清冷剑仙勿扰，我真没你想那么好 [Lighthearted] [Upbeat] [Plot-Driven] [Multiple Female Leads] [Tsundere] [Unexpected Contrasts] [This book focuses on romance, with a lighter main plot. Please don't read if that's not your thing~] Fang Yao transmigrates into the large-scale open-world cultivation game, A Path of Immortal Companions, and becomes a spoiled outer disciple of the Jiuxiao Sect, a cultivation sect in Qingzhou. His predecessor was an ignorant, greedy womanizer! Right from the start, he is framed and nearly violates Yu 16.4kReads8.0Score1.7k14d adds
- 85 Ancestral Master of the Strange Realm 诡境道祖 A parallel world, overrun by the supernatural. Cities may sleep through the dead of night, but the supernatural invasion never stops. You can’t tell whether the person beside you will still be themselves tomorrow. You can’t know whether the terrifying dark gate will open beside your bed tonight. And you can’t imagine the endless, terrifying unknown that awaits every eighteen-year-old in the “college entrance exam.” In this horrifying world, Ye Bai discovers, “Huh? I have a golden finger!” … A c 829Reads8.4Score10014d adds
- 86 The Immortal Fetus Mutant 仙胎异种 This is a grotesque world controlled by “immortals.” There are immortal pills grown in hearts, where flesh and blood serve as the soil; bone-ash baby formula made by burning corpses; and rich-blood immortal fruits growing from flesh. This is a savage immortal realm that is disgusting, diseased, ugly, and deformed. “I am an aberrant immortal fetus, an apocalyptic calamity that feeds on immortals. My name is Chen Yang, and I’ve had the good fortune to arrive in this filthy, sinister savage immorta 1.7kReads8.8Score12414d adds
- 87 Forced into a Demonic Sect from the Start, I Rise Straight to the Celestial God Realm 开局被逼入魔宗，我直升天神境 [Reborn] + [Utter remorse] + [Explosively satisfying] + [Absolutely no forgiveness] Chu Yuan, the senior disciple of the greatest sect under heaven, is falsely accused of practicing demonic arts. His master and the others humiliate him, then seal his cultivation with a demon-banishing spell, leaving him powerless... To prove he never practiced demonic arts, Chu Yuan starts cultivating again from scratch and climbs back to the peak. On the eve of the Demon God’s sacrifice of the world, he offers 203Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 88 Mutating into a God, I Became the Strongest Aberration 畸变成神，我成为了最强诡异 [Eerie cultivation + scheming + no saintly heroics + ruthless and decisive + Cthulhu] It’s gone mad! Everything’s gone mad! This world has gone mad! This is a world of the eerie and the twisted, filled with indescribable monsters. These ubiquitous abominations have tormented Fang Sheng until he is “barely human.” If that’s how it is, then he’ll become one of them too, and see who truly deserves to be called the “God of the Eerie”!!! [The further the story goes, the more twisted and “inhuman” the 1.9kReads8.4Score14314d adds
- 89 I Pursue the Dao of Evil in Hollywood 我在好莱坞邪修证道 [Satisfying power fantasy] [Villainous protagonist] [Decisive and ruthless] [Fast-paced] [Horror movies] After transmigrating to a parallel-world Hollywood, Cao Xiang becomes a no-name Chinese actor. He discovers that horror films in this world have become reality, and terrifying ghosts and monsters are roaming the real world. At a critical moment, he awakens the Evil Cultivator System and becomes an evil cultivator. From then on, corpse refinement, ghost raising, curse magic, and venomous insec 1.3kReads8.2Score10014d adds
- 90 The System Treats Me Like a Puppet, So I Cling to the Heavenly Dao Goddess 系统拿我当傀儡，我抱天道娘大腿 [Heavenly Dao Is Supreme Beauty]+ [Nurturing]+ [Trickster]+ [Comedy]+ [Invincible] The System treats me like a puppet, so I turn around and get on Heaven's good side. After transmigrating here, I bind myself to the Manifestation System. “Ding! Newbie quest issued. Deadline: one day. Failure to complete it will result in a mild punishment.” Lu Jin is stubborn to the bone, and he just has to find out what this so-called mild punishment is like. He never expected it to be excruciating. If the Syste 111Reads7.9Score—14d adds
- 91 Transferring Side Effects: From the Start, I Practice the Evil-Repelling Sword Manual 副作用转移：开局修炼辟邪剑谱 [Feel-Good Power Fantasy] [Face-slapping] [Lighthearted] [Swordsmanship] [Lightning-Fast] With both parents dead and a considerable inheritance, you want to leave me penniless? Pah! Luo Xiu transmigrates to a fantasy wuxia world and awakens the Side Effect Transfer System, which lets him transfer side effects to other people. From then on, his path of cultivation gets more and more outrageous... “I’ll cultivate the Sunflower Manual from the start. I get stronger, you get castrated. Fair, right?” 2.2kReads7.7Score10114d adds
- 92 Survival Rules for Demonic Cultivators 魔修生存守则 Decisive and ruthless, no female lead but there are women, and no saintly protagonist. Fang Han, an office worker from the twenty-first century, died unexpectedly and transmigrated to the world of immortal cultivation. In this cruel world, he rose from a lowly Qi Refining ant to become the number-one demon who looked down upon the entire realm. 293Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 93 Hong Kong Crossover: Reborn as Yang Feiyun 港综重生之杨飞云 He unexpectedly wakes up reborn as Yang Feiyun in his youth, from Mr. Vampire. His father says someone has taken their family's hidden dragon lair. Yang can't accept it. Wait, does that mean his father is the mysterious feng shui master from the Mr. Vampire world? (A Hong Kong supernatural crossover world. The story begins eighteen years before Legend of the Maidens. Legend of the Maidens is an old movie. If you've seen it, you know it; if you haven't, I recommend giving it a watch. It's worth s 12Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 94 I Start with Gu Refining and Grind My Way to the Dao of Ten Thousand Arts 从炼蛊开始肝成万法道尊 [Gu cultivation] [Decisive and ruthless] [Invincible] [Demonic cultivator] On the Eternal Continent, demonic cultivators rip out souls to make banners and use young girls as furnaces. The righteous sects may seem noble and upright, but in truth they refine the common people into powerful medicines in hopes of ascending to immortality. Reborn in a cultivation world where mountain foraging is the foundation of training, Bai Yu unexpectedly becomes an errand disciple at the Gu Refining Peak of the 35.5kReads8.1Score3k14d adds
- 95 A Mortal’s Path of Demonic Cultivation 凡人修邪传 [Mortal Cultivation] [Unorthodox Path] [Corpse Cultivation] [No Female Lead] [Careful Planning] Can't cultivate without a spiritual root? The protagonist turns himself into a half-corpse, then cultivates techniques meant for corpse refiners and becomes an unorthodox cultivator. From then on, he refines corpses, drives ghosts, commands beasts, raises poisonous insects, and controls souls, doing whatever it takes to cultivate. [This isn't a story built around wild ideas. The early chapters take th 98Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 96 EN Immortals of the Eldritch Path: I Begin by Sacrificing Myself 诡道异仙：开局献祭我自己 [Lovecraftian Cultivation + Mystery + Supernatural Folklore + Instance-Based Plot] [Instance Progress: Paper Puppet, Evil God Temple, River God’s Descent, Former Dynasty Tomb…] From the start, I was set up. I didn’t want to pave the way for someone else, so I sacrificed myself! I never expected that, after losing my physical body, I’d open up a new, sinister path to immortality. But the further I cultivate, the more I can’t help wondering: are immortals even real in this world? Ye Qianfan looks 11.9kReads8.4Score1k14d adds
- 97 Strange Creatures: I Transmigrated Into a Paper Effigy Maker 诡怪：我穿越成了纸扎匠 [Supernatural horrors + an uncanny family + play the pig to eat the tiger + behind-the-scenes scheming + an army of paper effigies] Su Yu wakes up to find he has transmigrated into a semi-industrialized world where supernatural horrors are part of everyday life. (It's roughly equivalent to the Republican era: big cities are bright and bustling, while villages are still stuck in ancient times.) Lost and alone, he is taken in by Uncle Seven, the owner of a paper effigy shop. During a supernatural 7.9kReads8.8Score73214d adds
- 98 I Found a Manual for Evil Cultivation, and Now I Draw Talismans and Refine Corpse Puppets in the City 捡到邪修手册，我在都市画符炼尸 [Raising Corpses and Ghosts] [Urban Cultivation] [Unorthodox Cultivator] [Ordinary Protagonist] [Read It as Cultivation, Not the Supernatural] Dissect a ghost mother, use forbidden arts to seek wealth! Down on his luck, Feng Jie taught himself forbidden arts using a notebook left behind by an unorthodox cultivator. After capturing a "ghost mother" alive, he became a ghost dissector! He used ghost blood to draw a wealth-attracting talisman, but accidentally stumbled into a ghost market and embark 33.9kReads8.0Score3.8k14d adds
- 99 The Book of Buried Ghosts 葬诡经 Most people know about Thailand's black magic, but few realize that China's own Jiangmen tradition is the true source of all such sorcery. As the saying goes: “A master of sorcery has no ancestors in the Southern Seas; reverence for the Three Teachings is the true tradition.” Let me tell you all about the Chinese sorcerers and their craft… 3.3kReads8.4Score42614d adds
- 100 Slay Demons to Earn Simulated Lifespans: I Put Every Point into Quick-Draw Swordsmanship 斩妖得模拟寿命：我全加点拔刀术 When Ling Du was six, the bronze mirror suspended above the spirit altar passed down two cultivation arts to him: one called Heaven-Slaying Draw, the other called Soaring Flood Dragon, Rising Phoenix. The village elders all said they were just the commonplace Draw Sword Art and Serpentine Steps, but Ling Du always believed these two arts had to be the greatest in the world. After ten years of hard training, he had barely made it past the entry level. Just as Ling Du began to think he was simply 83Reads7.0Score—14d adds
