Novels like The Left-Hand Path to Immortality, Starting with Killing My Master
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- 1 Terror Across the Heavens: I Slaughtered the Worlds with Unorthodox Methods 诸天恐怖：我以旁门左道杀穿万界 In his previous life, Zhao Yang was an evil heretical demon who committed every kind of crime. After being taken out by a single bullet, he embarked on a journey through the myriad heavens. In the world of Double Vision, he obtained the unorthodox corpse-liberation art, The True Treatise of Turbid Remains. In The Curse, he claimed the fearsome Ghost Mother’s Dharma Form. In Zombies: Reborn in Seven Days, he even brought the patrolling ghost soldiers under his command. The Yin-Yang Road, The Omin 345Reads5.8Score103Shelves
- 2 The Wicked Occult Path 邪门诡道 Ever since I ran into a van full of vengeful ghosts when I was twenty... encountering ghosts and running into demons has become part of my daily routine. To stay alive, I had no choice but to learn Taoist arts from an unreliable Taoist priest who was also a dried-out corpse... Of course, these demons and monsters aren’t the only ones who want my life. The Ten Kings of Hell are after me too. But... do you really think it’ll be that easy to take my life? 64Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Lord of Demons in Republican-Era China 民国之诡妖之主 During the Republican era, a demon-suppressing museum holds the secrets of the Three Realms. The protagonist, Shen Yanqiu, guards it with his extraordinary bloodline. As he gradually masters the power of ten thousand demons, he eventually becomes their lord and, in the name of demons, protects all the people of the world. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Patriarch of the Unorthodox Way 左道祖师 The Left-Handed Dao Ancestor —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Republic-Era Mysteries: I Rule the Turbulent Times with Dark Arts 民国诡闻：我靠邪术横行乱世 I woke up in the Republican era, branded with the “Three Corpses Curse” of a Nanyang evil god and turned into a living test subject for three dark forces: head curses, poison arts, and vengeful spirits! I thought I was doomed, but then I discovered that the curse mark could absorb the resentment and wicked karma in the world, making me stronger and granting me effortless command of dark arts! Flying-needle curses, Five Poisons Gu, driving out souls and commanding ghosts… The forbidden arts that 17Reads—Score102Shelves
- 6 The Heavens Begin with Refining a Kuman Thong 诸天从祭炼古曼童开始 A city boy is forced into one supernatural ordeal after another, facing Southern Witch, Evil Fetus, The Haunted House, Ghostly Grasp, The Road to Hell, The Raging Female Ghost, The Lustful Vengeful Ghost, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dark Invasion, Shocking Encounters, Centipede Curse, Demon Fetus, The Haunted Cop Shop, Final Destination, and more. All just to stay alive. 9Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 7 Border Waters: An Evil Sorcerer? Call Me the Evil God 边水：邪术师？请叫我邪神大人 [Tales of the Borderlands] [No Female Lead] [Evil God] [Ruthless] [No System] After the sorcerer Qin Shiyue was surrounded by his enemies and killed, his soul destroyed, he transmigrated into the world of Tales of the Borderlands. He became a coworker of the male lead, Shen Xing. He discovered the astonishing fortune surrounding Shen Xing, as well as the abundant spiritual energy in this land. Qin Shiyue used the male lead’s fortune To seize chicken-blood red stone and refine magical treasures, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 I Transmigrated into a Heretical Cultivator 我穿越成了旁门左道 Yi Han was the sole heir to the Yi family, Earth's most prestigious tomb-raiding clan in Huaxia. After entering an ancient Western Zhou tomb rumored to house an immortal's remains, he unexpectedly transmigrated to the Tian Nan Continent of the Yuan Yang Realm, becoming a corpse puppet belonging to an ordinary female disciple of the Corpse Yin Sect. Fair-skinned and beautiful, curvy in all the right places, still as a maiden, and moving like... Ever since he got a female master with the mind of a 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 High Martial: They Call the Asura Weak? But I'm Righteous to a Fault! 高武：修罗弱？可我正的发邪啊！ [Invincible + high-martial world + comedy] [The blurb falls short, but the story is insanely satisfying!] A parallel high-martial world. Everyone can awaken a spiritual treasure. But Li Xie discovers that these treasures seem a little off. The one that lets you soar freely through the sky: Doraemon’s Bamboo Copter! The one that grants special powers: the Twelve Talismans! The one powerful enough to throw an entire city into chaos: Squidward’s clarinet! These so-called spiritual treasures are act —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 As an Evil Cultivator, I Built the Underworld with My Bare Hands and Racked Up More Merit 身为邪修，我手搓地府，公德加深 What is evil, and what is righteous? There are three thousand unorthodox schools and eight hundred heterodox paths. Those who take the unconventional route are branded heretics and rejected by the orthodox. The orthodox way is the glorious Great Dao, leading straight to immortality. It establishes a tradition, passes on its teachings, and upholds righteousness for all under heaven. Little do they know that for those with no door through which to seek the Dao, an unorthodox school is still a door —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 A Taoist Priest Ventures into the Heavens, Accompanied by Corpses and Ghosts 道士闯诸天：尸鬼相伴 Amid the vast mortal world lives an extraordinary Taoist. He commands formidable martial arts, possesses miraculous medical skills, and wields mysterious, unfathomable magic. Though fierce ghosts and zombies accompany him, his presence is not grim or frightening. Instead, he brings hope and new life. He travels through the worlds of the heavens, where he heals those who've suffered from chronic illness and calls down rain upon drought-stricken lands. His good deeds are not without reward. Each 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 A Minor Taoist in Nanyang 南洋小道 When Li Si was ten, his master adopted him from an orphanage and took him to live in a Southeast Asian country. From a young age, his master taught him to cultivate mysterious techniques and study unorthodox arts, also known as the Lesser Way. His master was highly respected among the wealthy in those countries, and Li Si witnessed the dark sides of many celebrities and rich businessmen. They raised spirit children, changed their fortunes, and cast curses. Then, when Li Si was twenty, his master 732Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 13 A Blood-Fed Path to the Ghost Realm 血饲鬼途 At a mass grave, I raised a ghost. It was nothing but a tool to help me survive. The essence blood of my clansmen, the flesh and blood of geniuses, the souls of the entire clan... All became fuel for refining ghosts! The stronger the ghost, the fiercer its backlash? Then I’ll use stronger restrictions and deeper schemes to keep it my slave forever! I’ll rob cultivators, slaughter cities, go undercover, kill my master, and refine ghost children... I’ll stop at nothing. With demonic arts that reac 168Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 14 Unorthodox Paths: The Road to Immortality Begins with a Shaman 左道旁门，从巫祝开始的长生大道 Ye Feng, who can travel freely between two worlds, arrives in the strange realm of Yin and Yang. Here, people practice a unique form of shamanic cultivation. But Ye Feng soon discovers that something seems wrong with the way people cultivate in this world. “How can something as serious as cultivation be handled so carelessly?” “I thought I was the only one messing around, but the people of this world take things even further.” “Is my mission after transmigrating here to whip this ramshackle Yin- 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Founding the Unorthodox Path: I Refine Zombies in Another World 旁门做祖：我在异界炼僵尸 There are eighteen kinds of zombies: blood zombies, stone zombies, wood zombies, cotton zombies, armored zombies... Chu Shan inherited the art of corpse refinement from a black jade tablet. He refines countless zombies into an army and becomes the founding patriarch of a forbidden school! The supernatural realms of the otherworld: Apprentice, Official, Master, Legendary, Calamity... 160Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 16 Unorthodox Rogue Cultivator 旁门散修 [Unorthodox Methods] [Decisive and Ruthless] The clash of cannon fire and blades The interweaving of old and new ideas What are called unorthodox arts are also the arts of the left path. Blazing Sun Fire Talismans Tiger Summons the Heavenly Ghosts Great Art Northern Lodging Demon-Slaying Qi Formula Those who follow unorthodox methods may not belong to the orthodox Daoist schools, but their path can still lead to the Great Dao. The methods are the foundation, the techniques the nature. When natur 540Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 17 I'm Not Joking, the Other Side Really Has 1.4 Billion Demon Cultivators! 没开玩笑，对面真有14亿魔修！ [Spiritual Qi Revival]+ [Everyone Cultivates Demonic Arts]+ [High Martial]+ [Myriad Races Descend]+ [Overwhelming Power]+ [Conquering the Universe] After ten thousand years of reincarnation, Spiritual Qi Revival begins. Blue Star, one of the universe’s ten ancient civilization planets, dormant for ages, finally welcomes the return of a golden age of cultivation. However, when Gu Yan awakens the “Humanity: Kindling System,” he sees not a glorious future, but a blood-soaked calamity... Six mon 1kReads8.4Score101Shelves
- 18 I Work at a Funeral Parlor as a Bone Demon, Looting Corpses and Practicing Evil Arts 我在义庄做骨魔，摸大尸，练邪功 [An unconventional path to longevity + folk legends and strange tales + the world of martial heroes + everyday cultivation] Chen Sinian opened his eyes and discovered that he had become a rotting corpse, nothing but bones. In a world full of supernatural weirdness, if people can bully you, even dogs can bully you, right? Luckily, he stumbled upon a stroke of good fortune and found that he could retrieve all kinds of rewards from corpses. Bone cultivation arts, skin-painting techniques, Bian Que 165Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 19 Demons Lay Waste to the City, and I Establish the Heavenly Court Through the Unorthodox Path 妖魔屠城，我以左道立天庭 Demons and monsters run rampant, and the people suffer. Great clans and sects treat humans like livestock. After transmigrating to such a world, Xiao Yi has only one thing to rely on: the Left-Handed Path Longevity System, which reverses the price he must pay. Across endless ages, the lowly grass will ultimately rise to the very top and cast every inhuman creature into the dust. 932Reads6.8Score112Shelves
- 20 I Know a Few Ghost Tricks 我会点鬼术 A hundred years a ghost, ten years a good man. My name is Bai Yaoyao. In this world overrun by vengeful ghosts and monsters, all I want is to tend my little paper funerary shop and live in peace. But my meager ghostcraft seems to keep getting me into enormous trouble. With no other choice, if I want to survive, I’ll have to hone this little bit of ghostcraft to perfection! 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Cultivating the Uncanny Dao: I Can Trade Away the Price of Cultivation 诡道修仙：我能置换修行代价 [Demonic cultivation + cold-blooded and ruthless + decisive killing + loss of humanity] [Women appear, but there is no female lead] Cultivation comes at a price! A pretty young girl clutches a stinking corpse and gnaws at it. A swordsman in white sniffs the long strips of cloth used to bind a village woman’s feet. Rotting flesh lurks beneath the golden body of the Buddha, while writhing maggots dwell beneath the skin of immortals. Cultivators are neither free of worldly attachments nor pure of e 10Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 22 Collecting Yin Spirits in Hong Kong's Haunted World, I Become a God Through Deconstruction 港诡收阴人，我靠分解成神 The protagonist transmigrates into a Hong Kong supernatural world and gains a Disassembly System. While others hunt ghosts, I take them apart. Spiritual energy, skills, supernatural objects: I get it all. My cultivation rockets ahead. Let every ghost come to me. 300Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 23 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] + 223Reads6.8Score100Shelves
- 24 The King of Hell Returns: Not to Become an Immortal, but to Cultivate the Ghostly Way 阎君归来，不为成仙，只修鬼道 A hundred years ago, the Lord of the Netherworld disassembled his body and passed away. The laws of the underworld collapsed, and reincarnation fell into chaos. A hundred years later, the Nine Stars aligned and the Big Dipper hung upside down. Yan Chuan, a good-for-nothing young clan lord who had been humiliated and jilted, had his spiritual platform shattered by a tribulation of lightning, and memories of his past life came flooding back! He had once been the Netherworld Yama who held power ove 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Righteous Energy from the Unorthodox Path 左道正能量 I gaze up at the world from hell, and glimpse the path of slaughter that swallows all living things! I do not seek enlightenment through contemplation of white bones. I strip away flesh and blood to ascend to the heavens! Ascend to the heavens, prove the Dao through white bones, and roam free! Alas, the immortal path is distant. Smash open its gates and claim the golden robe! 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 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 3.9kReads7.2Score250Shelves
- 27 I Use Wicked Sorcery to Pursue Goddesses and Become an Unrivaled Evil Fiend 我用邪术追女神，成为绝世邪魔 Lin Feng, an ordinary college student in the city, suffers his girlfriend's heartless betrayal and public humiliation at the hands of a rich second-generation heir. Then, by chance, he acquires a forbidden demonic art. His life changes completely. Once timid and helpless, he becomes a dark cultivator wielding soul-stealing seduction arts and curse-based killing techniques. Using this dark power, he exacts the ultimate revenge on those who once humiliated him, revels in controlling the fates of o 1.8kReads6.4Score118Shelves
- 28 Hong Kong Crossover: Good Can't Overcome Evil 港综：正不胜邪 How can an ordinary human survive after transmigrating to a supernatural anthology world? There is no System in this story. If that's not your thing, please move along! Uncle Jiu: You evil creature! I could tell at a glance that you're not human! Qianhe: Fellow Daoist? Daoist my foot! Simu: Good heavens, why is this monster so powerful? Ma Danna: Pah! Who are you calling Miss Ma? Jiang Chen: What in the world is this thing? 22Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 29 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 2.3kReads6.9Score238Shelves
- 30 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—Shelves
- 31 I, the White Ghost Emperor, Cultivate the Unorthodox Path. So What? 我，白鬼帝，修的诡道又如何 Shen Qingyu was once a true gentleman, but because he possessed the Jade of the Ghost Emperor, he spent years hated and hunted by the people of the Shen Kingdom. Others insulted him, hurt him, and abandoned him, but he always let it go with a smile, never holding it against them. Then one day, Shen Qingyu's temperament changed completely, and he began practicing forbidden arts to fight back. “White Ghost Emperor, help me...” “Heh. After all these years, you've finally remembered me? If you want 65Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 32 My Brother Refines Corpses, I Cultivate Ghosts, and We Slaughter a City from the Start 兄弟炼尸我修鬼，开局屠城 Coming from Blue Star to the world of cultivation, Sun Mu and Feng Chuan, brothers who would lay down their lives for each other, plunge headfirst into a world ruled by immortals and demons, where the strong prey on the weak. While others seek immortality by joining prestigious sects and mastering orthodox techniques, the two take the darkest and most sinister path of all. Sun Mu cultivates the lost forbidden art, the Ghost Fiend Scripture, feeding ghosts with his soul and flesh. At a grand cere 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Unorthodox Path 正道旁门 Life itself is a form of cultivation. Even after enduring hardship and upheaval, or straying onto an unorthodox path, as long as one keeps the righteous way in one's heart, one will find one's way back to it. Laozi said: Know glory, yet keep to disgrace; be the valley of the world. Be the valley of the world, and constant virtue will be fulfilled; return to the uncarved block. This is a relatively traditional fantasy novel, with a style and story structure closer to classic martial-arts fiction. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Demon Cultivator: Heaven and Earth Are My Cauldron, All Living Beings My Elixir's Catalyst 魔修：天地为炉鼎，众生为药引 [Demonic outsider + Decisive and ruthless + No female lead + Fighting evil with evil + Demonic antihero + Satisfying read] An ancient cauldron from the primordial era can absorb the essence of heaven and earth and seize the fortune of all things. If this world devours people, then I'll devour this world. The young Ning Lu was once an ordinary student from China. By a twist of fate, he transmigrated into a world of cultivation at the age of twelve, his soul entering the body of another boy with t 223Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Oh No! I Refined the School Beauty into a Gu Insect 完蛋！我把校花炼成了蛊 The campus belle bullied me, so I turned her into a gu. That’s perfectly reasonable, right? But as this secret comes to light, more mysteries emerge, and the truth about the world gradually unfolds... Faced with a barefoot glass-skinned bodhisattva, a beautiful Daoist priestess consumed by infernal flames, a cute girl who uses electronic music to summon spirits, a seductive little green tea who charms souls with love spells, a cat-eared girl who communes with spirits through curses, a qipao-clad 213Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 Ten Thousand Insects Shroud the Heavens 万虫遮天 From bait for the insects to lord of all insects! A brutal immortal path paved with blood and tears, a struggle for survival amid insects and schemes! Han Qing, a farm boy, sees his fate shattered while serving alongside his father. The cold and ruthless cultivation sect treats mortals like grass, abducting him and his fellow villagers to serve as blood food for spirit insects! Devoured by countless insects and surviving by the narrowest margin, he becomes a lowly insect-feeding slave. After wit 11.6kReads7.7Score1.1kShelves
- 37 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—Shelves
- 38 A World of Strange Tales: Cultivating the Unorthodox Path 志怪世界，左道修行 [Monsters] [Gods and Buddhas] [Unorthodox Cultivation] [Supernatural Powers] Spiritual energy has dried up, Mount Buzhou has collapsed, and heaven and earth have fallen into chaos. This world is no longer the immortal mountain paradise of ancient times. It has become a slaughterhouse where unorthodox practices run rampant and humans, ghosts, and monsters live side by side. The path of cultivation is broken, and the sages of old have gone far away. Only a group of unwilling pioneers remain. Under 16.4kReads6.6Score1.5kShelves
- 39 Jiangshi: A Gu Cultivator in Uncle Nine’s World 僵尸：九叔世界里的蛊修 No System + no transmigration + slow burn: an ordinary man’s all-or-nothing path to immortality. Meng Hai, a nominal disciple of Uncle Jiu, has poor cultivation aptitude. In this Age of Declining Dharma, he can’t cultivate orthodox Daoist arts. By chance, he obtains the inheritance of Gu cultivation and becomes a practitioner of unorthodox arts. From then on, he sets out on his unorthodox path, refining Gu to harvest spiritual power and attain immortality! 760Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 40 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 1.4kReads6.6Score100Shelves
- 41 Honghuang: The Daoists and Buddhists Don't Need Me, a Rogue Cultivator 洪荒：道门佛门，不差我一个旁门 [Honghuang] [Unorthodox Path] [Divine Ability Cultivation] [No Female Lead] [Traditional Xianxia] [Slightly Slow-Burning] In Zixiao Palace, ghostly lights flicker, green mist billows, blood curses ring out, and sinister winds howl! “Dao Ancestor, I, Qing Geng, deserve a chance to become a Saint too!” Laozi: “If this person becomes a Saint, Honghuang may never know peace again!” Yuanshi: “Teacher, you mustn’t! This creature, born from dampness and an egg... I mean, this evil fiend, must not becom 1.2kReads6.8Score—Shelves
- 42 A Boat of Flesh and Blood, Ferrying All Gods and Buddhas 血肉为舟，渡尽神佛 (Demons) (Gods and Buddhas) (Incense Offerings) (Fortune) (Corpse-Liberation Immortals) (Cultivation Through Flesh and Blood) (No System) (Decisive and Ruthless) Three thousand continents, humans, demons, and monsters coexist, sustaining the gods and Buddhas... In troubled times, demons and monsters seek cultivation, devouring countless people. Gods and Buddhas coexist and enjoy the incense offerings, indifferent to the world. 76kReads9.1Score7.8kShelves
- 43 The Outcast: Master of Maoshan Dark Arts 一人之下：我为茅山邪术师！ He transmigrates into The Outcast and becomes a Maoshan outcast who has just joined Quanxing. In this turbulent era, Qin Yifan evades the righteous factions hunting him while using forbidden arts to kill Japanese invaders, becoming a master of dark arts! 2.5kReads7.3Score102Shelves
- 44 Cultivation: I Can Analyze and Perfect Techniques 修仙：我能推演功法 The world is mired in the Five Turbidities, and spiritual energy is dwindling. Living beings suffer, and all under Heaven endure hardship. Lin Yuan possesses a Heaven-Peering Eye capable of improving cultivation techniques, and transmigrates into this world of cultivation. Here, unorthodox paths flourish, demons and monsters run rampant, and even sects treat their disciples as human ore to be mined. With mediocre talent, he constantly improves and strengthens his cultivation techniques to surviv 448Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 45 I Worship Ghosts, Not Gods; I Honor Evil, Not People! 拜鬼不拜神，尊邪不尊人！ (The prequel to Ye Ran is coming soon) [Evil Cultivator with No Bottom Line] + [Unorthodox Methods] + [Supernatural Power Fantasy] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [No Female Lead] + [Corpse Refining and Ghost Controlling] + [The writing may be disturbing, and the protagonist is no hero.] When the justice people believe in cannot be served, unorthodox methods find their way in. “Unorthodox methods” has always been a derogatory term. They may not deliver justice, but they can soothe the anger burning 8.3kReads8.4Score691Shelves
- 46 Raising Corpses and Ghosts, Enjoying Wealth in the Mortal World 炼尸养鬼，红尘富贵 [Raising Corpse Ghouls and Ghosts, Living in Worldly Luxury.] [Iron-Clad Corpse, Bronze-Clad Corpse, Silver-Clad Corpse, Gold-Clad Corpse, Corpse Demon.] Ordinary people are born, grow old, fall ill, and die, struggling through the pain of reincarnation. Why should immortals live forever, watching the world change? With his miraculous Yin-Yang Cauldron, Xin Meng absorbs the turbid qi of heaven and earth and turns yin back into yang. He refines zombies and raises female ghosts, embarking on the p 669Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 47 The Unorthodox Path: Patrolling the Heavens and Slaying Gods 左道旁门巡天弑神 52 Heavenly Laws + multiple worlds + return from death + exploiting bugs + immortal cultivation + martial arts Fang Han transmigrated into a chaotic, eerie world and became a lowly novice monk at Puxian Temple. Here, the gods and Buddhas had no faces, his senior brothers were inhuman, and his master... was a monster who had to replace his “skin” regularly. Fortunately, he could return from death. The first time, his senior brother strangled him, and he returned to the morning water-carrying c 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Two Mouths, One on Each Side: I Am the Immortal Who Devours Demons 左右两张口，我乃食妖仙人 [Unorthodox cultivation + no female lead + xianxia treasures] I may be a transmigrator, and before I transmigrated, I might even have been descended from an immortal or a god. I was born with a supernatural gift, but my natural talent is mediocre. So I resolve to hunt demons. In doing so, I lose an eye and an ear. A left-handed cultivator saves me and takes me on as his disciple. Later, he dies... upholding the principles he believes in. As he lies dying, I ask, “Could you just not save people?” 2.5kReads8.5Score223Shelves
- 49 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. 1.6kReads6.7Score105Shelves
- 50 How Did I, an Evil Cultivator, Become a Confucian Grandmaster? 我一个邪修，怎就成了儒家大佬？ [Slow burn, not a power fantasy] [Not an invincible protagonist] “I really am a wicked cultivator. Why won’t anyone believe me?” Xu Ze is reborn as the ninth-generation heir of the demonic Xuantian Temple, shouldering the great task of restoring his sect to its former glory. Because he read so many books in his previous life, he somehow cultivated the Confucian supreme art, the Righteousness of Haoran. Because he read Daoist classics in his previous life, he casually mastered the Daoist supreme 5.7kReads8.5Score519Shelves
