Novels like The Mad Daoist in the Age of Dharma Decline
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- 1 Dominating the Cultivation World with Video Game Gear 用游戏装备制霸修真界 One day, I woke up to find that the world had changed overnight. Reality had become a game, and the vegetable seller, my landlady, my classmates, and my teachers had all turned into mobile NPCs with visible health bars. What? I go to the zoo, and you want me to fight three wolves? I go to the bathroom, and you want me to swat a fly monster? System, could you at least act human? I became an oddity in everyone else's eyes, hiding in the bathroom to grind experience while showing off in the cultiva 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 This Zombie Can Cast Spells 这个僵尸会法术 He came from the blood-soaked years of war. The young Taoist Zhang Chujiu entered the secular world with the desire to serve his country, but died unexpectedly. Decades later, through a twist of fate, he returned to the world of the living. In a world where everything had changed, where could he go from here? Watch Zhang Chujiu take the mortal world by storm, ascend to another realm, and fight his way through the three realms of the primordial world. 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Soul Returner 回魂人 Report, we’ve found a young man. Where? In the coffin the archaeological team excavated today. Is he alive? Yes. We found his ID. He’s a university student. Professor, who put him in there? No one. This coffin hasn’t been opened in at least a thousand years. Th-this can’t be possible! A mysterious soul from the river of history inexplicably arrives in the body of a modern university student. Is this a ghost possessing a corpse, or a reincarnated soul awakening? He explores ancient tombs, raises 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Zhang Wei’s Adventures Through Time and Space: A Blind Date 张伟的时空奇遇—相亲记 Zhang Wei’s Adventures Through Time and Space: The Blind Date 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 I Transmigrated in My Sleep 我睡梦中穿越了 An ordinary man transmigrates after neglecting his sleep and scrolling through Douyin before bed. He finds himself in a world of hopeless romantics, then in the Republic of China era, a martial arts world, and eventually a world of immortal cultivation. Watch as he gradually transforms into a chuunibyou middle-aged man. Of course, his greatest wish is to transmigrate back home, where he can enjoy a warm bed with his wife and children, earn good money without working too hard, and live a lie-flat 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 The Ultimate Comeback: From the Start, I Devoured an Immortal Emperor's Divine Soul 最强逆袭：开局吞噬仙帝元神 The AI live-action animated drama based on the novel of the same name, The Strongest Comeback: Starting by Devouring an Immortal Emperor's Primordial Spirit, is now available on Tomato Novel and Hongguo Free Short Dramas. [Urban Doctor + Cultivation + Showing Off and Face-Slapping + Lightning-Fast Pace] When you're unlucky, even drinking water can make you choke. He'd just been cheated on when he was struck by lightning. Being struck by lightning would have been bad enough, but he nearly had 13.6kReads8.2Score1.5k14d adds
- 7 The Heavenly Coffin Comes to Town: Living Must Keep Away 天棺出巡，活人回避 The year Jiangnan suffered a terrible drought, a coffin was dredged up from the river. From that day on, torrential winds and rain battered the region for a month. Floodwaters surged, swallowing countless towns and cities. I was ten that year. More than a dozen red Hongqi cars with Beijing plates, along with rows of luxury cars, arrived in our little town. I don’t know how many important people knelt outside my home, begging my grandfather to stop the floods... [Folk customs, feng shui. A coffin 8.6kReads8.8Score76514d adds
- 8 Everyone Picked the S-Rank Saintesses? Then I'm Taking the Female Demon Emperor 都选S级圣女？那女魔帝我带走了 In a High Martial world, ferocious beasts run rampant. When people come of age, they can awaken their spiritual talent and form contracts with saintesses and witches in the Divine Throne Dimension, gaining immense power. [Intermediate spiritual talent awakened. Contracted an A-rank Purification Saintess. Acquired the spirit skill: Purifying Surge!] [Advanced spiritual talent awakened. Contracted an S-rank Radiant Saintess. Acquired the spirit skill: Radiance Descends!] [Top-tier spiritual talent 5.1kReads9.0Score53514d adds
- 9 EN Dream of the Red Chamber: The Strongest Imperial Guard—The World Is Mine! 红楼：最强锦衣卫，我只手遮天！ [You can enjoy this even if you've never read Dream of the Red Chamber] After transmigrating into the world of Dream of the Red Chamber, Jia Huan becomes an unloved son born to a concubine. The dynasty is nearing its end, officials are corrupt, martial artists flout the law, and court factions scheme for power. Fortunately, Jia Huan awakens a golden finger and joins the Embroidered Uniform Guard, rising through the ranks. If anyone crosses him, he slaughters them, while also taking the opportuni 112.9kReads8.9Score11.8k14d adds
- 10 EN High Martial Arts: Infinite Clones, Starting by Stuffing an S-Rank Beast to Death 高武：无限分身，开局撑死S异兽 “We transmigrated to a world where martial strength reigns supreme and countless races stand side by side.” “There are also exotic beasts.” “Original body, you have to keep us alive. Our lives are in your hands.” “Ha! Just some exotic beasts. Watch me take them down with a sliding tackle!” “I’ll tackle them too!” “Huh? Looks like we stuffed it to death.” “Nice.” … “Could you all be quiet for a minute? My head’s about to explode.” Qin Ze looked at the countless versions of himself surrounding hi 51.1kReads9.1Score5.3k14d adds
- 11 EN Impostor of the Langya Clan 冒姓琅琊 (Also known as “The Matter of Me Pretending to Be a Nobleman of the Southern Dynasties”) To transmigrate isn’t a dinner party. It’s a deadly game at every turn. The south is beautiful, yet lofty ambitions often fade away. Since ancient times, the Southern Dynasties have been weak, their heroes short-lived. No golden finger, no System, and no second chance at life. Everything starts from zero! Original owner’s memories: none! Identity: none! Supplies: none! When transmigration becomes reality, ho 497.6kReads9.7Score72.9k14d adds
- 12 Awakened by Heavenly Treasures: I Can Engrave Anything 天物觉醒：我能刻印一切 [Publication Contract Signed, Safe to Read][Tales of Youth][Everyone Has Common Sense][Absolutely Wonderful][Magic][Distinctive Characters][No Female Lead] My name is Jin Feichen. Draped in the twilight of my youth, I once thought I would muddle through life, relying on taxpayers to support me forever. I thought that would be my fate. However, all of that came to an end on a rainy afternoon. Youth is a grand stage. On that evening when rain poured down in torrents, the stage reached out to me, a 266.5kReads9.5Score22k14d adds
- 13 I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死 From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While 168.8kReads9.8Score19.3k14d adds
- 14 EN Once Upon a Time, There Was a Demon-Suppressing Pass 从前有座镇妖关 Once, there was a pass like this. Once, there was a group of people like this. Every inch of this pass was stained with blood. These people would not return until they were dead. All so that, amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, in their final moments, they could turn around and see the lights of countless homes shining behind them, with peace and safety year after year. 160.2kReads9.6Score18.1k14d adds
- 15 EN A Freshman Internship, and You Go to Bureau 749 to Contain Monsters 大一实习，你跑去749收容怪物 [Decisive killing] [How could any monster be good?] [All monsters deserve to die] [Ruthless] During his sophomore summer vacation, Lu Ding had planned to use the time to take an internship and earn some living expenses. Who could have expected that the construction site where he interned would excavate a bleeding stone? The workers fled one after another, but Lu Ding charged in with a rotary hammer. After transmigrating to this world nearly twenty years ago, Lu Ding’s golden finger, the Monster 513.4kReads9.5Score39.7k14d adds
- 16 EN The Gods' Foolish Game 诸神愚戏 I have two principles in life: 1. I never lie. 2. I never believe anything anyone says, including myself. “Sir, I would like to point out that your second statement conflicts with the first.” “How so?” “If you never lie, why don’t you believe what you say?” “Oh, sorry. I forgot to mention that I don’t consider myself human.” “?” Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi who never lies. What, you’ve never heard of me? That’s all right. You simply haven’t been deceived by m 519.6kReads9.7Score67.5k14d adds
- 17 EN The Creatures That We Are 异兽迷城 Gao Yang was an orphan. At the age of six, he transmigrated to a parallel world and began living in a warm family of five. When he turned eighteen, Gao Yang accidentally discovered the truth about the world: this was not a parallel world at all, but a mysterious realm, and all the relatives and friends around him were terrifying Beasts! Gao Yang nearly lost his life 478.1kReads9.7Score66.6k14d adds
- 18 EN I'm Not a God of Theater 我不是戏神 The brand-new masterpiece by San Jiu Yin Yu, author of Slay the Gods | Winner of the Best Science-Fiction Web Novel Award at the Macau International Science Fiction Awards | A Chinese grotesque epic that turns the tide of an era After a scarlet meteor streaked across the sky, human civilization ground to a halt. From that day onward, humanity could no longer build a rocket, a nuclear bomb, an airplane, a car... The pyramid of civilization built upon modern science collapsed with a thunderous roa 1.7MReads9.9Score178.8k14d adds
- 19 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score206.4k14d adds
