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- 1 You Audacious Demon! You Dare Come and Bewitch the Holy Monk Again! 大胆妖孽，竟然又来迷惑圣僧！ Health code advertising fees windbreaker just you then you grab blah blah question cards a few words vv aunt calls older sister so awkward method total hot pot household registration oh sleepy jiji ji ji urgent urgent urgent VGH fund —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Mythic World: I Studied Under Fahai, the Mighty Heavenly Dragon! 神话世界：师从法海，大威天龙！ Reborn in a mythical world, he became a young novice monk at Jinshan Temple, studying under its abbot, Fa Hai. Born with a dragon's might and the fortune of a demon, he could grasp any divine power or spell in an instant. He walked the land, opening the way for the world's cultivation arts and the powers of the Buddhas. When an Arhat flies into a rage: the Buddha's palm is compassionate, yet the heart harbors murderous intent; one wrathful act of mercy can subdue mountains and rivers in a sea of 102Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Xuanhuan: An Irreverent Monk 玄幻：一个不正经的和尚 “I'm a handsome monk, not Tang Sanzang. I set off for the Western Heaven to fetch the scriptures, oh no, who knew I'd die along the way…” On a mountain path, a bald monk sang a strange song as he rode on the back of a Taotie. His name was Mo Xun, a promising young man from the twenty-first century. He somehow found himself in a baffling world and began a life unlike any other. 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 From the Start, a Little Monk: One-Stop Buddhist Salvation, Even for Those I Kill 开局小和尚，佛爷杀生超度一条龙 [Little Novice Monk + Proving the Dao Through Killing + Guiding Souls to the Afterlife + Fantasy + No Heroine + Cultivation + the Myriad Worlds + Keeping a Low Profile + Ruthless and Decisive] Xiao Chen transmigrates into Lanruo Temple and becomes a young Buddhist novice. He activates a broken bronze mirror that came with him, only to discover that killing beings grants experience points, which can be used to improve cultivation techniques. He can also gain merit by guiding the souls of the slai 58Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 5 This Humble Monk Is a Buddhist Priest 贫僧是个和尚 The Dharma Continent is a strange and wondrous place, where magical beasts wage war and humanity reigns supreme. After transmigrating, Xiao Lin finds himself in the body of a little monk. He tries countless ways to escape, but every time, he gets dragged back to the temple. Monks must not lie, so Xiao Lin says, “I’m merely seeking to comprehend the truths of Buddhism.” Monks must not kill, so Xiao Lin says, “I was just a little too enthusiastic in defending myself.” Amitabha! Benefactor, your fo 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Corner Spider's Ninth Book 角落的蜘蛛的第9本书 A new story is out! You can read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Fellow Daoist, Please Stay. I Sense You Have a Buddhist Destiny 道友请留步，贫僧观你与我佛有缘 Lin Shi transmigrates to a fantasy world and becomes the lowest-ranking servant at the Qingxuan Sect. With his meager cultivation talent, he awakens the Western Pure Land Buddha Realm Revival System. As long as he keeps recruiting followers and spreading Buddhist teachings, he can earn System rewards and increase his own strength. “Help ten servants carry water, enlighten ten Buddhist believers, and receive: ten years of cultivation.” “Find a spirit herb by chance and give it to an outer sect se 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 This Monk’s Dharma Name Is Tathagata 贫僧法号如来 Getting a marriage proposal all the way in the Western Heaven is probably a first in all of history for Meng Donglai. Even more absurdly, all the Buddhas believe he is the reincarnation of the Tathagata, the forefather of all Buddhas. Oh my, I… no, this humble monk drinks wine and eats meat. My greatest pleasure is squatting by the roadside in summer, enjoying the gentle breeze and watching little skirts flutter in the wind… Are you sure you’ve got the right guy? Fine, if you say so. I’m Meng Do 113Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Zombies Across the Heavens: I Save the World with Fahai's Template from the Start 诸天僵尸：开局法海模板救世 "You dare rise from the dead in front of me, Lord Buddha?" Zhang Xuan glared furiously as the mighty Heavenly Dragon roared forth! After transmigrating, he gained an invincible Fahai template. All demons and monsters became fuel for his merit! Whether you were a centuries-old fox demon with bewitching charms or an ancient imperial corpse with skin of bronze and bones of iron, one swing of his staff would smash you to pieces and deliver you to the afterlife by force! He drank only the strongest l 19.5kReads6.2Score1.9kShelves
- 10 Such Is Our True Nature, Able to Give Birth to All Things 何其自性，能生万法 [A great Buddhist master once said: All living beings inherently possess boundless wisdom and supernatural powers, but delusions and attachments keep them from realizing them.] Shen Yi was born without a spiritual root, condemning him to a life with no chance of cultivation. He thinks a quiet life as a wealthy young master would be just fine, but life is unpredictable. The Shen family is struck by disaster and wiped out, and Shen Yi is hunted down. Just as his life hangs by a thread, an old monk 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Journey to the West: I Took Over a Buddhist Temple and Rebuilt Buddhism? 西游：接管佛寺，我重建了佛门？ Ye Tian transmigrates to the Primordial World and starts out taking over a ruined temple. Bound to the Supreme Buddha Lord System, he can grow stronger and more powerful by gathering believers. When a group of demons comes to join him, they transform into Bodhisattvas, Arhats, and Buddhas, quietly cultivating in the temple. He had planned for them all to lie low together until the end of the Journey to the West. But then the demons leave the temple to spread the Dharma, throwing the entire Journ 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 This Monk Must Return to Secular Life 贫僧要还俗 [Transmigration + Ordinary Mortal's Journey + No System + Lighthearted, Cultivation Stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation] Amitabha! What are you waiting for, benefactors? Come on, come up here and chop me to pieces! That girl has a great figure. This humble monk wants to return to secular life! Little monk, when you decide to return to secular life, tell me. I'll help you break one of your vows! 401Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 13 I Became a Buddha on Arrival, and Now I'm a Bodhisattva in a Temple 落地成佛，我在庙里当菩萨 There are gods three feet above your head! The protagonist, Lin Su, was betrayed by his girlfriend and fell off a cliff. In every novel, someone who falls off a cliff is bound to survive and gain an extraordinary opportunity. The same was true for Lin Su. But the opportunity he received was rather peculiar. He crawled inside a clay statue and became a Buddha. At the same time, he acquired the three great Buddhist mantras. He became the spirit dwelling three feet above all living beings. From the 16Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 14 The Boundless Holy Buddha 无疆圣佛 Beyond the Boundless Realm lie eight Demon Caves, each one a world of its own. For endless ages, the Boundless Realm has stood opposed to the Demon Caves. The human, demon, and sea races of the Boundless Realm have produced countless exceptional figures, and the Demon Caves have never managed to invade. Ten thousand years ago, the human and demon races opened an Immortal Realm at the heart of the Boundless Realm in order to break through to a higher level. But the demon race betrayed them, and t 470Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Reborn at Shaolin: From Servant to Ancestor of Ten Thousand Buddhas 重生少林：我从杂役到万佛之祖 A world of high martial arts and profound mysticism. The jianghu is home to sects; above them stand dynasties and sacred lands, while beyond lie demon clans and demonic realms. Those who cultivate martial arts to the highest levels can move mountains and fill seas, and glimpse the secrets of immortality. Shaolin Temple was once a top Buddhist sanctuary in this world, but it declined after a cataclysm a thousand years ago. It shut its gates and retreated into seclusion, and the outside world now 441Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Mighty Heavenly Dragon: The Supreme Buddha of the Strongest Buddhist Sect 大威天龙之最强佛门世尊 Mighty Heavenly Dragon, World-Honored Ksitigarbha, Vajra Buddhas, divine guardians! Kill, kill, kill! Open the five eyes, attain the six supernatural powers, bear the Heavenly Dragon on your back, overpower mountains and seas! My golden body cannot be destroyed, and no magic can harm me! 1Reads5.4Score—Shelves
- 17 I Practice Buddhism in an Ancient World That Never Existed 我在不存在的古代行佛 Old Xu set off on an impulsive hiking trip that took him tens of thousands of miles from home. Who could have guessed he would transmigrate to an ancient world that never existed, enter a mountain temple, and inherit Buddhist Vajra meditation, gaining the power to deliver demons and monsters to the afterlife and heaven-defying comprehension? He thought he was about to embark on the path to immortality, but in the end, he still had to face everyday concerns: food, clothing, and shelter. After arr 1.8kReads6.9Score148Shelves
- 18 Xuanhuan: As a Cultivation Furnace, I Took Up Buddhism 玄幻：身为鼎炉的我，修佛了 A man believed to be a top-tier cultivation cauldron has actually been rejected from cultivating immortality! Is this a distortion of human nature or a collapse of morality? If I can't cultivate immortality, then I'll cultivate Buddhism! Who could say no to becoming a top-tier Buddhist cultivator? 305Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Demon's Body, Buddha's Heart 魔身佛心 (Buddhist cultivator, with demonic energy in his body but Buddha in his heart, no System, intelligent protagonist, no heroine) “Wuchen, have you really made up your mind?” “Yes, Abbot.” Hearing the old monk beside him voice his doubts, Wuchen nodded and gazed toward the distance at the foot of the mountain. That was where the mortal world lay, with cooking smoke curling into the sky, worldly affairs and the warm glow of countless homes. But there, too, wars raged, and people suffered through eve 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Way of Buddhist Cultivation: In My Next Life, I’ll Save All Beings 修佛之道：来世我要普渡众生 A treasure-hunting spy known as “White Rose” died while trying to obtain a “Buddha’s relic” worth hundreds of billions. By a twist of fate, she was drawn into another fantastical continent, where people revered Buddhism above all else. Those who cultivated Buddhism were known as Buddha Spirits, and “Buddha” was synonymous with the strong. She took over a dead body and lived again. Her past life shaped her next, and with the “Buddha’s relic” inside her, she activated the Buddhist Cultivation Syst 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Third Sage of Buddhism in the Primordial World 洪荒之佛门第三圣 At the end of the Longhan Tribulation, Luo Hou laid waste to the Western Land. Once a place of spiritual beauty, it became a barren wasteland stretching for thousands of miles. Zhou Xuan, a wisp of soul from a later age, awoke amid pain that seared his bones, only to find himself reborn as a superior-grade innate spirit root, the Bitter Bamboo, rooted in this shattered land. Just after taking human form, he encountered the Daoist Zhunti. This destined connection led him to become Zhunti’s disci 39Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 22 I Am the Sweeper Monk, and Eminent Monks Beg Me to Leave Seclusion 我，扫地僧，高僧跪求我出山 As a transmigrator, Qin Feng arrives at Bodhi Temple from the start and becomes a monk who sweeps the floors. He unexpectedly activates a sign-in quest System. Not only does signing in grant rewards, but completing System quests also brings him a wealth of prizes. Watching everyone fight over him, Qin Feng says, “I’m just a monk who sweeps the floors...” 2.1kReads—Score—Shelves
- 23 A Book by Zuo Yi 左一的一本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 58Reads—Score101Shelves
- 24 I’m a Monk, but That Doesn’t Mean I Won’t Kill 我当和尚，但不等于我不杀生 Deng Ru was the inheritor of a Buddhist lineage devoted to killing in the twenty-first century. Unlike other lineages, which prized peace and compassion, this one believed in stopping killing with killing, answering violence with violence, and overcoming evil with evil. It killed, but never saved souls. Unfortunately, Earth in the twenty-first century was a modern, civilized society, where trying to stop killing with killing would get you arrested on the spot. Fortunately, Heaven had left him a 471Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 25 Sailing Across the Sea of Bitterness 苦海行舟 Transmigrating through the Three Thousand Worlds, wandering far and wide, witnessing the daily lives of Buddhist cultivators unlike any others. Going with the flow, following one's heart, amidst mountains, seas, and myths, every encounter has its own fate. (A new journey begins, with a different path of Buddhist cultivation.) 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Ordinary Monk 凡僧 [Buddhist cultivation] [A mortal’s journey] [Tightly paced plot] Suffering from an incurable illness, Xu Xin searches the land for renowned doctors in hopes of staying alive. In the end, he learns that only cultivating immortality can prolong his life. But with a mixed spiritual root, he is rejected by every major cultivation sect. By a twist of fate, a Buddhist order takes him in. From then on, he embarks on a path of cultivation in search of the truth, proving to the world that even an ordinar 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 A Rogue Monk 佛门狂徒 The Ancestral Buddha foretold: eighty-four thousand years from now, Buddhist teachings will vanish and the Dao’s lineage will be severed. This is an age in which demons run rampant across the world. Lu Yang, a Buddhist disciple, is reborn with the "Heavenly Book of Demon Subduing". He tempers his body into an indestructible diamond and cultivates divine arts to vanquish demons within, embarking from then on upon a cultivation path that defies heaven. He points to the sky with his left hand and t 1.2kReads—Score153Shelves
- 28 The Little Shaolin Monk 少林小和尚 [Monk] [No Romance] [Wuxia-Leaning] [Genius Protagonist] [Not Wish Fulfillment] [Exciting Fights] The Shaolin abbot's golden body is boundless, his blood dyes the sky red, and a Shushan sword cultivator cuts the road between two worlds in half with a single stroke. The Daoist Palace studies the stars by night and fears that a great age is about to dawn. A thousand years later, that great age arrives and chaos looms. Su Yubai, who has strayed into a high-martial world, joins Shaolin, attains arha 108Reads5.6Score—Shelves
- 29 I, the Monk Jigong, Am a Living Buddha 贫僧济公，在世活佛 Reborn in a mythical world, he became a disciple of Lingyin Temple and the holy monk Jigong. He could master a thousand techniques at a glance, and the Dragon-Subduing and Tiger-Taming arts protected him wherever he went. Eight hundred Arhats, countless bodhisattvas, and Buddhas across the heavens chanted the name of the World-Honored One. Fahai: “I'll never forget how Jigong took down my mighty Heavenly Dragon with a single move.” Tang Sanzang: “I'll never forget the way Jigong tossed the Mahay 220Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 30 Journey to the West: Xuanzang Becomes a Demon 西游之玄奘成魔 Five hundred years ago, you protected me. Five hundred years later, I'll clear your name! One thought can make a Buddha, one thought can make a demon. If I can't save Wukong, what face do I have to call myself a Buddha? 16Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 31 You Have the Great Vehicle Sutra, but I Have the Giant Vehicle Sutra 你有大乘真经，我有巨乘真经 My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 510Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 32 From the Start, My Sign-In Ability Could Melt a Buddha's Heart 开局签到萌杀佛心 [High Martial Arts + Buddhist Prodigy + Invincible + Sign-In + Romantic Tribulation] From the start, he signs in and obtains the Great Sun Tathagata Sutra. This monk is invincible, so do as you please, good sir. Extended Synopsis: In the long river of history, time is a stern examiner, putting every era and story to the test. A wandering poet sighs: history evolves into epics, epics become legends, and legends turn into myths. Living in this age, can we create a history of our own? Will our exp —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Keeping a Diary in the Western Sect, I Leave Jieyin and Zhunti at Their Wits’ End 人在西方教写日记，接引准提麻了 [Honghuang] + [Investiture of the Gods] + [Journey to the West] + [scheming] + [slice of life] Lin Kun transmigrates to Honghuang and takes human form as an innate Fire Dragon Fruit Tree, then is taken in by the Two Saints of the West and joins the Western Religion. At the same time, he binds himself to a Great Dao Diary. All he has to do is write in it to earn rewards. A Pangu blood-drawing needle, pills, cultivation techniques: all within easy reach. But the more he writes, the less serious Ho 1kReads6.9Score105Shelves
- 34 Shurangama Altar 楞严坛 This book is adapted from the Shurangama Sutra and covers all of its important teachings. The first volume is exactly 500,000 words and serves as a prequel to the novel. The main story begins in Volume Two. If you only want to read the story, start with Volume Two. If anything is unclear, go back to Volume One to learn how it all began. 246Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 From the Start: I Transmigrate as a Monk, Dharma Name Sanzang 开局：穿越为僧，法号三葬 [No System + smart characters all around (except the rabble-rousing commoners) + morally gray + ruthless and decisive] An orphan found by an orphanage in the early hours of the morning, he had no name or family. They hastily named him Ling Chen, meaning “early morning.” On the morning of his twenty-third birthday, just after getting off work, Ling Chen was sent packing by a dump truck whose driver was trying to meet a quota. When he opened his eyes again, well, he was an orphan once more, thi 637Reads6.7Score105Shelves
- 36 Immortal for All Time: Saving People, Ghosts, and All Living Things 万古不死，渡人，渡鬼，渡苍生 [Saving all living beings + cautious survival + no heroine + longevity + scheming + Buddha and demon in one] Qiao Damo transmigrates to a mass grave and becomes a skeleton. In this world, where cultivators are everywhere and demons run rampant, he only wants to keep his head down and survive. Unexpectedly, he awakens the Buddha Lord Development System. As long as he keeps guiding living beings toward enlightenment, he can grow stronger without end. Gradually, he discovers that this world is far 93Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 37 Honghuang: Found the Buddhist School from the Start, Driving Jieyin and Zhunti Mad 洪荒：开局立佛教，接引准提气疯 Since ancient times, Buddhism and the Dao have been one. Only Jieyin and Zhunti in the West broke away to establish their own sect, seeking to claim the human race's fortune. Thus they left the Xuanmen and changed the Western Teachings into Buddhism. Chen Feng transmigrates and becomes Bitter Bamboo, one of the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots. To take human form by force and avoid being refined into a spiritual treasure by Daoist Zhunti, he has no choice but to establish his own tradition. With 550Reads5.1Score—Shelves
- 38 The Buddhist Sect's Biggest Turncoat 佛门最大二五仔 It's not that being a monk isn't a good deal. It's that female benefactors offer better value! Abbot, take a step back. Leave this female benefactor to me! When I'm out in the world, I'm meek and mild. Back at my sect, I hit back hard! Abbot, step aside. Even if the Buddha himself showed up today, he couldn't save you. I said it! 2.5kReads8.0Score154Shelves
- 39 Signing In Before the Buddha, Emerging as the Supreme Demon Lord 佛前签到，出关无上魔尊 The transmigrator Ye Ming fell into demonic ways for love and was besieged by everyone. Just as he was on the brink of death, he was reborn a hundred years in the past, once again a young monk striking the bell and chanting sutras in the Bodhi Temple. He also awakened a sign-in System. [Ding! Sign-in successful. You received the Heart Sutra!] [Ding! Sign-in successful. You received the Tathagata Palm!] [Ding! Sign-in successful. You received the Six Buddhist Mantras!] When he watched his bel 431Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 40 I’m a Hundred-Year-Old Ascetic, and My Hike Stuns the World 我，百岁苦行僧，徒步震惊全世界 Lin Chuan transmigrates into the body of a nameless, hundred-year-old abbot at a monastery. After taking part in the Global Hiking Competition, his Hiking System activates. In this life, Buddhist culture has all but vanished from the world. More and more online scammers are posing as monks, causing people's regard for Buddhism to plummet. Taking on the life of an ascetic monk, Lin Chuan wanders the world, spreading Buddhist culture and redefining its schools for one person after another. [Host h 755Reads8.5Score106Shelves
- 41 I, the Buddhist World-Honored One, Sign In at the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda for a Hundred Years 我，佛门世尊，锁妖塔签到一百年 Lin Fan transmigrated to a xuanhuan world and became an utterly ordinary monk sweeping the floors at the Vajra Temple. By chance, he bonded with a sign-in System. As long as he signed in at the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda every day, he could claim a reward. Ding! Sign-in successful. Reward: [Great Sun Indestructible Body]! Ding! Sign-in successful. Reward: [Tathagata Palm]! Steady and cautious by nature, Lin Fan resolved never to leave the temple until he was invincible under heaven. He kept s 2.2kReads8.2Score101Shelves
- 42 Honghuang: I Joined the Western Teachings and Became One of Buddhism’s Three Sages! 洪荒：拜师西方教，成佛门三圣！ Su Chen transmigrates to the Primordial World and becomes a postnatal treasured lotus, luckily taking human form. With his cultivation so weak, he could die at any moment. Only by becoming a sage's disciple can he stay alive. However, Laozi is detached from worldly affairs, Tongtian is unruly, and Yuanshi accepts disciples based on their origins, insisting they come from impeccable roots. Only in the West are Zhunti and Jieyin both fiercely protective of their own and the sole winners of the Inv 1.9kReads7.1Score104Shelves
- 43 Slaying Demons and Exorcising Evil? This Monk Just Wants to Return to Secular Life 斩妖除魔？贫僧只想还俗 In the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty, demons run rampant and chaos reigns. The Demon-Suppressing Bureau, the Pacification Bureau, and the Inspection Bureau protect the dynasty, but its decline is already apparent. Ten great demon kings are itching to overthrow human rule. A hundred feudal lords fight to seize one another’s lands, while martial arts sects spring up across the land like bamboo shoots after the rain. As chaos approaches, transmigrator Lin Yingxiong binds to the Boundless Buddhist 123Reads7.3Score160Shelves
- 44 Bold Demon! I Am Monk Fahai 大胆妖孽，贫僧法海 Reborn in a vast mythical world, he becomes a disciple at Jinshan Temple and takes on the identity of Fahai. Blessed with heavenly wisdom and extraordinary insight, he instantly comprehends Buddhist teachings and divine powers, opening the Five Eyes and attaining the Six Supernatural Powers. His Arhat’s golden body suppresses every evil under heaven, unmoving as a mountain. With the Great Freedom Contemplation, he beholds the Buddhas and deities of the heavens and comprehends divine powers. The 75Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 45 Journey to the West: Buddha, Look, Tang Sanzang Is Slacking Off Again 西游之佛祖你看，唐僧一直在摸鱼 [No Romance + Journey to the West + Lotus Lantern] Tang Sanzang smiled kindly at the demon about to die and offered a gentle reminder: “This humble monk is Tang Sanzang, not Tang Sansang, the one who buries people…” The demon, dying with eyes wide open: “Like hell I believe you…” Untrusted by the demon, Tang Sanzang turned to his adopted elder brother, Li Shimin, and asked, “Your Majesty, would you like to become the Human Sovereign?” Li Shimin covered his mouth in shock and disbelief. “Can I re 976Reads8.6Score100Shelves
- 46 The Azure Bamboo Way of the Primordial World 洪荒青竹道 [No Female Lead] [No Conspiracy Theories] [Hongjun and the Six Saints Are Not Villainized] After transmigrating into the Primordial World, I became one of the Ten Great Innate Spiritual Roots, the Bitter Bamboo, and took the Daoist name Qing Xuan. Rooted in the barren West, I became sworn brothers with Jieyin and Zhunti, and together we made a grand vow. While others fought to the death amid the Calamities, we quietly farmed in the West. We nourished the desert with Three Lights Divine Water 29Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 47 This Tang Monk Takes Advice Too Seriously, and Journey to the West Has Gone Off the Rails! 这个唐僧太听劝，西游崩坏了！ When the young Jiang Liu'er was starving, he somehow connected to the “Zhihu” System. At first, he only wanted to stop feeling so hungry. But after reading the many answers from Zhihu users, Tang Sanzang developed a new perspective on the world. “To kill in order to protect life, to end karma is not to kill. I will begin by protecting those who are kind at heart.” “This humble monk must keep striving, so that the journey to the West will be effortless.” “It's better to rely on yourself than ask 2.3kReads8.4Score187Shelves
- 48 Honghuang: Bitter Bamboo Takes Human Form, and My Master Calls Me Shameless 洪荒：苦竹化形，家师骂我不要脸 [Slow-burn Primordial World setting] [One female lead] [Witty and humorous] [No conspiracy theories] [Some changes to the original setting] [Traditional-leaning] [The arduous path to the Primordial Unity] Chen Ku woke up one day to find he had transmigrated into the Primordial World as a naturally born Bitter Bamboo. The good news: he was a primordial lifeform, blessed with exceptional gifts. Though he didn’t have some overpowered System, he was found by Jieyin and Zhunti and taken in as their f 390Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 49 A Little Demon Monk Came Down from Foshan 从佛山上下来个小妖僧 “She gave her life for this little monk, and this little monk gave her up for the world.” I, Wang Ziyong, an abandoned prince, became the darling of the whole of Foshan, but I was cursed with a damned destiny: to become the Buddhist Son Hong Shan. I only wanted to muddle through, tease my grandfathers, and escape my fate. Then the day of the selection of the Buddhist Son arrived, and everything changed... Everything in this world is predetermined. Every cause bears its fruit. Every feeling holds 147Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 Mad Monk 狂僧 A monk's heart is empty, and the Demon Palace trembles. He grips a vajra blade. Who dares toy with him? If you turn inward, your raging heart will at once grow still. When the Zen sage arrives, all Buddhas vanish! Buddhist precepts? To this little monk, they're nothing but passing clouds. Watch how this mad monk pierces the layers of fog in a chaotic age, turns the tide, and becomes a grand patriarch of Zen! 450Reads8.6Score102Shelves
