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- 1 What? You Want Me to Go Home and Inherit the Immortal Realm? 什么？让我回家继承仙界？ Lin Fan stands clutching his phone at a crowded campus job fair. Around him, banners touting "Fortune 500 Companies" and "Management Trainee Salaries Starting at 200,000 Yuan" fill the air with noise. He has just handed in his thirty-eighth resume, and his voice is a little hoarse from repeating his self-introduction over and over. On the other end of the phone, his mother's voice is as gentle as ever, yet carries an unquestionable seriousness. "Fan, as soon as you've finished your graduation pa 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Immortal World of the Great Dao 大道仙世 [the Myriad Worlds + Fantasy and Xianxia + Hilarious Supporting Characters + No System + A Touch of Ensemble Cast + Scheming Protagonist] You say I devoured trillions of beings in an entire world? Why don’t I remember that? It definitely wasn’t me! I overturned the Jade Springs of the Thirty-Three Heavens? Some backstabbing villain must have framed me! I bathed with the gorgeous Lin? Uh... I don’t quite remember. Let me think it over again! I like to kidnap other people’s spirit stones for no re —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Transmigration: A Golden Core Clan from the Start! 穿越：开局金丹家族！ [Point-Allocation System] [Power Progression] [Childlike at Heart Despite His Age] [Family Clan] Luo Yang transmigrates to a cultivation world where humans and demons stand opposed. For special reasons, the highest cultivation level anyone has reached in this era is Nascent Soul True Lord. The world is full of danger, where the strong rule, and demonic beast hordes roam unchecked. But he isn't worried. He was born into a good family: a Golden Core clan! And after awakening a System, he improves 5kReads—Score267Shelves
- 4 Clan Cultivation: A Mirage Dragon Painting from the Start 家族修仙：开局一幅蜃龙图 [Family] + [Pseudo-ensemble] + [Farming] + [Genius] + [Not a wish-fulfillment story] Golden-green scales cover the true form of the dragon. It has deer antlers, four claws on its belly, and a red mane down its back. This is a Mirage Dragon! With the power of the Mirage Dragon art, Chen Xuanlin forces open the door to becoming a powerhouse. Taming beasts, farming, raising livestock, training his clansmen: he steadily grows stronger and builds up his family. Countless years later, one mighty figur 27Reads—Score154Shelves
- 5 EN The Book of Profound Immortals: Family Cultivation 玄仙命书：家族修仙 Clan cultivation, slow-burn, ensemble cast. No System. At the end of the Immortal Dynasty, the reborn protagonist takes the last immortal pill in the human world, awakens the Book of Fate within him, and sets out to build a family of his own. When the previous dynasty fell, the Demon Suppression Hall was opened, and the sealed demonic spirits began roaming the world. The spirits in the north's Demon Locking Pagoda have long since been put to use; The Daoist sect returns, the scattered academies 102Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Adding Points with the System to Become the Family’s Hidden Ancestor 系统加点，成为家族幕后老祖 [Family System] + [Spend experience points to improve stats] + [Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core...] “Fellow Daoist, I can see your lifespan is nearly over. Would you mind if I cut you down?” With that, Qin Dali drew his blade and swung. “Shameless human! I haven’t even agreed yet! Wait... Stop! Please let me live a few more years before you kill me!” “If you don’t want to die, then become my spirit beast.” Though the divine tortoise lives long, its time must still come. Thoug 297Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 7 Clan Cultivation: The Qingyun Wang Clan 家族修仙：青云王家 [Family saga] + [System] + [Beast Taming] + [farming novel] + [one heroine] + [ensemble cast] In his previous life, Wang Lin worked like a beast of burden and died suddenly from working overtime. In this life, he was reborn in the world of cultivation. The good news: he became the young master of a Foundation Establishment family. The bad news: the family had just been wiped out by a tide of demonic beasts, leaving only Wang Lin and a dog. In his previous life, he worked like a beast of burden h 767Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Mortal Cultivation: Starting as a Spirit-Plant Farmer 凡修：从灵植夫开始 After suddenly dying on a rainy night, delivery driver Lin Mu wakes up as a farm boy in Qinghe Town. In this world, mortals and immortals are worlds apart, and demons run rampant. Faced with a destitute home and the bullying of Blackwind Stronghold, he has an adult's soul but feels utterly powerless. He thought he was doomed to repeat his father's miserable, unremarkable life. Then a brush with death quietly awakened a mysterious scroll in his sea of consciousness. The path to immortality is h —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Clan Cultivation: From the Start, I Contracted a Flood Dragon 家族修仙：开局契约一条蛟龙 [Clan + Cultivation + Beast Taming + Corpse Refining + Thunder Spiritual Root] [Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation…] Seeking truth through Qi Refining, I search for immortal mountains, Climbing cloud steps through mist, I knock upon the mystic gate. The alchemist's fire tempers my golden bones, A thought amid the pine wind breaks free of the mortal realm. With nine turns complete, I swallow the sun and moon, The five energies return to their so 632Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Cultivation Begins with the Family’s Move South 修仙从家族南迁开始 An ordinary life, until fate brings him into the mortal world. When heroes gather and ascend to the Immortal Realm, he will outshine them all and reign supreme! The protagonist, Li Changsheng, transmigrates to the Tianyuan Continent. After his clan is struck by disaster, the whole family migrates to the Southern Wilderness. With no System to help him and no benefactor to support him, he relies on a copy of the Daodejing from his previous life to defy fate, despite being born with a fifth-grade, 398Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 The Flowing Cloud Immortal Clan 流云仙族 In his previous life, Pei Youyuan was exploited by a heartless boss and died suddenly after working too much overtime. By a twist of fate, he was reborn in the womb into a minor cultivation clan. Fortunately, the Pei family had upright traditions, and its members stood united. Pei Youyuan displayed extraordinary talent and insight from childhood. Once he had made progress in cultivation, he had no choice but to inherit the position of clan head. For years, he searched in vain for a golden finger 482Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 12 I Paved the Way for My Family 我为家族铺好路 [Clan-focused story + powerful golden finger + no heroine or just one + beast taming + artifact crafting and alchemy] A story of developing an oasis. The protagonist, You Shaolong, transmigrates with an immortal-travel cheat. Better to share joy than enjoy it alone: he paves a great path to immortality for his clan and leads them to a carefree life. [Deduce a secret art: Fivefold Spirit-Raising Art, to purify spiritual roots.] [Deduce a five-element cultivation method: Five Spirits Chaos Scriptu 3.5kReads7.5Score207Shelves
- 13 I Bought the Cultivation World, Starting with Farming 买下修仙界，从种田开始 [Farming + Management + Family + Ensemble Cast + Slow Burn + Not a Saint + Not a Power Fantasy] Zhen Shifu, a young man from Blue Star, transmigrates into the world of immortal cultivation and becomes a low-ranking cultivator with all five spiritual roots. Most cultivation techniques and resources in this world are monopolized by sects and great clans, leaving those at the bottom struggling to survive. The family Zhen Shifu belongs to has just gone bankrupt, and his own aptitude is terrible. To —Reads5.2Score—Shelves
- 14 The Rise of the Cao Immortal Clan 长生仙族：曹氏崛起之路 Cao Jingyan, an Earthling, was reborn into a vast and mysterious xianxia world, where he became a member of a Foundation Establishment clan. In the face of countless hardships, he led his clanspeople forward one careful step at a time. Together, they built up the family and brought it to prosperity, until it became an immortal clan destined to endure forever. This book portrays the brutal xianxia world from a clan's perspective, striving for realism. It depicts the growth of a clan's overall str 230Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 15 Cultivating Immortality with My Clan, Thriving for Eternity 修仙，带着家族万古长青 Clan-centered cultivation + dual cultivation in talismans and formations + one female lead The ancestors laid the family’s foundations; their descendants made its name renowned. An immortal clan that endures through the ages is not the achievement of one generation. It takes the unshakable faith of countless clan members, each following those who came before, to forge its reputation in blood and defend its honor with their lives. An Changsheng, a cultivator from a small clan, came upon a piece o 3.1kReads6.7Score131Shelves
- 16 The Rise of the Ten Thousand Beasts Clan 万兽世家的崛起 [Family Development] [The Heroine Is a Mere Tool] [Panel] [Beast Taming] [Talisman Crafting] [Spatial Storage] [Alchemy] A proficiency panel, a Heavenly Dao realm, and a spiritual-plant realm. In the immortal realm, in the Myriad Beasts Immortal Domain, the Nine Dragon Ancestor stands in the void, with nine divine dragons of different colors blotting out the sky behind him. “The development of our Zhou family begins with the Dragonrise Oasis in the Daoxuan Realm...” This is a slow-burn story, a 2.5kReads7.6Score165Shelves
- 17 Cultivating Immortality as a Clan, Soaring to the Ninth Heaven 家族修仙，凌云九天 A family-centered story featuring a pocket dimension, farming, alchemy, formations, and crafting. In a world where the strong prey on the weak, a small cultivation clan rises step by step from obscurity to the pinnacle of power. Follow Lin Zufeng as he leads his family to grow stronger, journeying from the cultivation world to the spirit world and finally to the immortal world. 11.9kReads7.8Score820Shelves
- 18 Immortal Fate: From Lowly Talisman Painter to Grand Ancestor of an Immortal Dynasty 造化仙缘：从画符小修到仙朝太祖 Lin Feng, a young man from Earth, transmigrates into a brutal world of immortal cultivation and becomes a beggar on the verge of death in the winter streets. At his darkest moment, a dormant fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation in his sea of consciousness unexpectedly awakens, granting him a small pocket dimension that can speed up spirit-plant growth and improve spiritual energy. The catch is that it has a ravenous appetite for spirit stones! With a four-element spirit root and good-for-nothin 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Big Hippo Family 大河马家 [Family clan + mortal cultivation + farming + not a power fantasy] Among the teeming masses and beneath the boundless Great Dao, demons run rampant across the Tian Xuan Continent, slaughtering all under heaven. Clans also rise everywhere, protecting the people. Ma Chao Feng wields a Red Dust Sword, battles peerless prodigies, and concocts astonishing pills. He covets a gentleman's wealth and delights in beautiful scenery. Can he lead the Heng Lang Ma Clan to triumph over its rivals, stand proudl 6.8kReads8.1Score415Shelves
- 20 Clan Cultivation: Our Ancestor Is Far Too Cautious 家族修仙：我家老祖太稳健了 [Family cultivation + invincible among peers of the same realm + multiple heroines + plenty of chapters to binge] [Foundation Establishment in three years! Ascend in a hundred! Attain the Dao and become the Supreme Immortal Emperor in a thousand!] [The neighbor has a treasure-gathering basin, but I have a treasure-exchanging basin!] [The imitation Heaven and Earth Cauldron will help me reach the Heavenly Palace!] A Qi Refining family from the start? And a destitute family with barely a few membe 17.4kReads7.5Score1.7kShelves
- 21 The Immortal Cultivation Chronicles of a Rogue Cultivator Clan 散修家族修仙记 Synopsis: The clan is united, ambitious, and guided by strict family values, but even that cannot stop its decline. With the family on the brink of collapse, he returns after three years away. In his frail body, he shoulders the fate of the entire clan, turns the tide, and pulls them out of the mire. Taking one careful step at a time, he leads them toward prosperity and builds the foremost immortal clan. The road to rising is thorny, but he takes life and death in stride and fights anyone who re 11.8kReads7.5Score1.1kShelves
- 22 The Cultivator Family's Azure Jade Immortal Gourd 修仙家族之青玉仙葫 He transmigrated to the cultivation world and became a member of a minor cultivation family. The path to immortality was arduous, but he had the precious Azure Jade Gourd, was skilled in both formations and artifacts, and loved the treasures and divine formations of the Investiture of the Gods. See how he uses these things to lead his family to become a great clan of cultivators. 10.5kReads8.4Score867Shelves
- 23 Clan Cultivation: I Can Upgrade Magical Artifacts 家族修仙：我能升级法器 Across the vast sea of stars, demons devour the heavens, while humanity struggles to survive. Chen Qingyun transmigrates into this world and becomes a Qi Refining cultivator in a tiny family among the stars. He thinks the path to immortality is hopelessly distant, and that he is destined to live an ordinary, unremarkable life. Fortunately, he gains a talent for enhancing magical artifacts. He can dismantle, enhance, and fuse artifacts that belong to him... Dismantle the Azure Condensation Mirror 28.5kReads8.0Score2.5kShelves
- 24 Clan Cultivation: From the Qingyuan Chen Clan to Ascension as One 家族修仙：从青元陈氏到举族飞升 [Family cultivation + no System + partial ensemble cast, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul...] Chen Qingyuan often sighed, “The path to immortality is hard to tread; one must pursue the Dao for a lifetime.” The Qingyuan Chen Clan had once been a Foundation Establishment family, founded upon the Qingyuan Immortal Bamboo. But now the clan patriarch, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, was nearing the end of his lifespan. How could the clan preserve its status as a 4.5kReads7.8Score194Shelves
- 25 Clan Cultivation: The Li Immortal Clan 家族修仙：李氏仙族 [Ensemble Cast] [Clan] [Farming] [No Transmigration] [One Female Lead] [No System] [Genius] In the 420th year since the founding of the Li clan, it welcomes the first member born with a spiritual constitution in its history: Li Changsheng. Li Changsheng cultivates immortal arts, tempers his spiritual body, raises spirit beasts, cultivates both magic and body, and excels in both alchemy and crafting. This is the story of a small clan that gradually becomes an immortal clan under the leadership of 22kReads8.1Score1.4kShelves
- 26 Rise of the Wang Clan: Starting with a Portable Farm 我在修仙世界开农场 Wang Hao, an illegitimate son of the small Wang family, was a despised Five-Spirit-Root cultivator whose miserable life seemed set in stone from the moment he was born. But everything changed with the arrival of another soul. See how Wang Hao uses modern knowledge to make waves in the world of cultivation! 5.4kReads8.3Score384Shelves
- 27 The Immortal Path of Qingyuan 清源仙途 I’ve been an avid reader for twenty years, especially fond of cultivation novels about ordinary people. Of all the books I’ve read, my favorites are A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, Renegade Immortal, The Path of a Cultivation Sect Leader, Xuanchen Daoist Path, True Spirit Nine Transformations, and Qinglian Peak. On a sudden whim, I decided to write the kind of xianxia story I’ve always wanted to read: no overpowered cheat or mysterious old master, just an attempt to portray a cult 13.5kReads8.2Score1kShelves
- 28 Marry a Dao Companion and Cultivate the Truth: Faithful to the Great Dao and to You 既娶道侣又修真，不负大道不负卿 After transmigrating to the cultivation world and becoming a low-level rogue cultivator, the protagonist finds that his predecessor was attacked and lay unconscious for three months. Having taken over someone else's body, he is about to be kicked out of the market because he can't renew his lease when the Cultivation Arts System appears! Whatever you know, I know. Whatever you don't know, well, I know that too. In short, I know everything. From then on, the protagonist begins his rise to success 9.1kReads7.8Score467Shelves
- 29 The Wu Clan's Path to Immortality 吴氏家族成仙路 The story of an ordinary person who grows stronger step by step in the cultivation world with the help of the Ghost Valley Eight Desolations interface. (The golden finger isn’t very obvious and doesn’t come up often.) A new writer and a new book. I’m not good at writing blurbs. 2.5kReads6.4Score111Shelves
- 30 The Immortal-Passing Spirit Diagram 通仙灵图 Without an invincible System or a mysterious little bottle, with demons surrounding them from outside and a weak clan within, how can a small Foundation Establishment clan weather one crisis after another? Gu Changhuan opens the map: spirit treasures, spirit herbs, and mineral veins are all laid out before him. With this golden finger, what is there to fear about the hardships of cultivation? Still, he has to keep a low profile. Lower and lower. After all, playing the pig to eat the tiger and qu 48.5kReads8.7Score3.8kShelves
- 31 The Ninth-Rank Artifact Crafter 九品炼器师 [A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality] [Artifact Refining] [A Young Man’s Rise] [Industrialization] [Fantasy Warfare] [Ensemble Cast] [Comedy and Satire] [Slow Burn] Young Qian Duoduo transmigrates through space! As a mortal, he starts from scratch! Thrown into prison, he’s facing certain death from the very start! If he doesn’t want to die, he’ll have to fight! To make matters worse, his bargain-basement master, a skinny old man, puts him over the fire to roast! If you want to read abo 23.5kReads9.1Score1.9kShelves
- 32 EN Mortal Bones, Immortal Destiny 凡骨 (The print edition is now available to buy online) The world's spiritual bones are divided into four grades. First grade: Heavenly Spiritual Bones. Second grade: Golden Spiritual Bones. Third grade: Mystic Spiritual Bones. Fourth grade: White Spiritual Bones. All the rest are ordinary bones, unfit for cultivation. Xu Taiping is an ordinary man with ordinary bones, yet he swears to prove to the cultivation world that ordinary bones can slay demons, ordinary bones can vanquish evil, and ordinary b 557.8kReads9.3Score70.2kShelves
