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- 1 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: It Begins with a Mysterious Little Bottle 凡人修仙：从神秘小瓶开始 [Ordinary-person cultivation + traditional cultivation + no System + no transmigration + cautious protagonist] A bullied country boy unexpectedly obtains a mysterious little bottle. From then on, he sets out on the path of cultivation. Compete for opportunities and prove oneself worthy of immortality! Realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, Void Refinement, Body Integration, Great Ascension, and Ascension 749Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 2 Cultivate in Secret and Become an Immortal! 苟道成仙！ [Smart Characters, Not Mindless + Ordinary Protagonist + No System + Lighthearted + One-Man Journey] The story begins here... Lu Chen was framed and transmigrated to the Star-Moon Continent, a world of immortal cultivation. To survive, he does everything he can to improve his cultivation. No grand declarations... If you can lie low, lie low. If you can't, fight. If you can't win, run, then come back ten years later. Still no good? I'll return in a hundred years. See how an ordinary man lies low 54Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Power of Synthesis 凡人修仙传之合成之能 Zhu Yuan transmigrated into the body of a little beggar and struggled to survive. Then an old man found him and took him to a compound full of children his age, where he had them practice an unnamed technique. The old man told them that anyone who mastered the basics within a month would become his disciple, while those who failed would be driven out. A month later, not one of them had managed to master it. But when Zhu Yuan tried to cultivate, he awakened his golden finger: the ability to synth 1Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 4 I Grow Spirit Herbs in My Dantian 我在丹田种灵药 Lin Xuan, a good-for-nothing outer-sect disciple, is bullied at will by his fellow disciples. From the start, he is beaten so badly that he is left gravely injured. By a stroke of luck, he eats five wild fruits and improves his spiritual root aptitude, allowing him to break through his cultivation limits again and again. Later, he obtains a miraculous space within his dantian. From then on, he grows all kinds of spiritual herbs, plants, tea, and fruit there, refining pills, making spiritual tea, 21Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 A Millennium of Steady Growth: Cultivating Spirit Herbs in the Immortal Realm 稳健发育万年，苟在仙界种灵药 [Immortality + Cautious Survival + Hidden Strength + Invincible Protagonist + No Female Lead + No Tragedy + Farming + Nurturing] In the Era of Chaos and Creation, Han Fang advised Pangu on how to open up the primordial world; In the Era of the War Between Witches and Demons, he made a quiet move, becoming the greatest mastermind of all time and making the Western Sect's schemes falter at every turn; In the Era of the Flourishing Sacred Dao, he casually offered guidance to an ordinary blade of gr 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Transmigrating to Shu Han of the Three Kingdoms 穿越三国蜀汉 Transmigrating into the Kingdom of Shu during the Three Kingdoms —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Psychic's Fleeting Springtime 精神念师的春光乍泄 The Sudden Bloom of a Psychic 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Meow, A Companion for the Soul 喵，心灵的陪伴 Meow, a Companion for the Soul —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Li Feiyu 凡人修仙传：厉飞雨 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Li Feiyu 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Wen Tianren 凡人修仙传：温天仁 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Wen Tianren 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Primordial Chaos Cauldron Breaks a Hundred Schemes 凡人修仙：混元鼎，破百局 [A mortal’s path to immortality, no System] Under the Yin Spirit Banner Formation, a sudden plague strikes Da’an Town, leaving it a slaughtered wasteland. Beichen, an abandoned child, unexpectedly awakens the Primordial Chaos Immortal Cauldron and inherits the Way of Alchemy. Alone, he crosses desolate mountains and poisonous forests, enters the Taixu Sect, and begins his cultivation journey as a menial herb grower. He breaks through a hundred deadly trials, ascends the path to immortality, see 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Conqueror's Monastic Journey 征服者修道记 [Mortal Adventure] An overlooked boy, a rising star of his clan, a war hero, a princess's husband, a live-in son-in-law? No! He sails across the seas to cultivate immortality. A mortal stumbles into the world of immortals, but my fate is mine to decide. Three years in the east of the river, three years in the west: never look down on a poor young man. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 You Idiot System, I Don't Want to Cultivate Immortality! 傻狗系统我不想修仙啊！ Mortal-style cultivation + traditional Eastern fantasy + invincible protagonist + decisive, ruthless action Those incoherent, brainless power fantasies are so weak, okay? I, Lin Li, will make the Myriad Worlds kneel before me!!! I’ll bathe the entire universe in blood, including all of you watching from behind the screen. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Record of a Mortal's Cultivation 凡人修仙录 Record of a Mortal’s Immortal Cultivation 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Something Seems Off About This Cultivation World 这个修真界好像不太正常 (Ordinary protagonist, traditional cultivation, no System!) The spiritual energy of this world is divided into yin and yang. Great powers of the higher realms refine entire worlds, while the Heavenly Dao upholds yang as the orthodox path. Yin cannot thrive alone, nor can yang exist alone. Who gave them the right to define the balance of heaven and earth? When yang reaches its peak, yin is born; when yin reaches its peak, yang returns. Only balance between yin and yang is truly orthodox! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 An Ordinary Man's Mystic Gourd: With the System in Hand, the World Is Mine 凡人玄葫之系统在手，天下我有 [Vast Worlds + Treasures of Heaven and Earth + System + Transmigration + Conquering Myriad Realms + Decisive and Ruthless + Exotic Beasts + Farming] The extraordinary life of a transmigrant, from an obscure nobody to the pinnacle of the world, from surviving while weak to an invincible life. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Reborn as Grass: Eat My Seeds and You Can Cultivate Immortality 重生成草，吞我草种就可修仙 When Lu Ming woke up, he discovered that he had become a blade of wild grass in the cultivation world. Fortunately, he could produce immortal seeds. Once an immortal seed was planted in someone's body, even a mortal could cultivate immortality. Every time the recipient advanced in cultivation, a portion of their gains would flow back to Lu Ming. And if the recipient passed away or died, all of their cultivation would become Lu Ming's. Swallow a seed of grass, and my fate is mine to command, not 9Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 18 Good-for-Nothing Menial Servant: Forced to Rise Through the Farming System 废柴杂役：种田系统，被迫崛起 A burned-out 996 programmer from Earth dies suddenly and transmigrates into the cultivation world as Lin Changsheng, a good-for-nothing with five spiritual roots. After five years of cultivation, he is still at the first level of Qi Refining. Someone sabotages his spirit field and causes it to wither. If he can’t pay the rent, he’ll be thrown out of the sect and sent to the mines to die. Just as he endures one humiliation after another and reaches the end of his rope, the Heaven-Defying Farming 143Reads—Score105Shelves
- 19 Cultivation: If Not for a Lifetime of Loneliness, I’d Have Almost Become an Immortal 修仙：要不是孤独一生，差点成仙 Tired of the same old rebirth stories and reality-intrusion plots? Then give this book a look! This is a pure-blooded Eastern-style cultivation fantasy, with no rebirth and no fantastical elements invading the real world. In this book, you'll enter an ancient, mysterious cultivation continent, where immortal sects abound, demons run rampant, and the righteous and wicked clash without end. At court, various factions scheme against one another; across the martial world, heroic knights roam and up —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Lord of the Reincarnation Dao 凡人修仙之轮回道主 The Heavenly Dao you revere as supreme is nothing more than a prisoner in my palm! I shall make chaos the blazing inferno that burns the world, and reincarnation the furnace that melts all living beings. Today, I will refine the Heavenly Dao into a pill! At the pinnacle of the Great Dao, I alone am enough! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Mingyu's Path to Immortality 明玉仙途 A mortal cultivation story with no System. A country boy born with five “solitary” spiritual roots sets out on the path to immortality alongside a Vermilion Bird after a fortuitous encounter. A world of cultivation filled with wonders and dangers slowly unfolds before him like an ink-wash painting. When he joins a sect, his abysmal cultivation aptitude draws widespread mockery. Little do they know he possesses a True Lotus Dao Physique, one unseen in ten thousand years, and that a five-colored l 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Love and Youth 爱情，青春 After the female lead turns down a blind date, she runs into a high school classmate on the subway. Together with her best friend, she gets caught up in a battle against Tencent over game copyright infringement. What kind of lives will these four young people lead… —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 A Lifetime in Pursuit of Immortality 一世求仙 [Traditional fantasy + mortal cultivation + not reborn + no System + tightly reasoned + no mindless plot + one heroine] This is a world where people can cultivate immortality, but to ordinary mortals, cultivation is a distant dream. In some remote places, people don't even know that immortals exist. The protagonist, Ye Qidong, was born in Dongning, an extremely remote mortal kingdom in the Eastern Region. After a catastrophe struck his family, its members scattered, and Ye Qidong followed his mo 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 I Founded a Republic in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界创立共和国 Leading a small village of five households, he begins buying farmland, opening businesses, establishing schools, and setting up pharmacies. Step by step, he builds a town, then a county, commandery, and province, annexes cultivation sects, sweeps across the feudal states of the cultivation world, and founds a republic that will endure for generations. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Born Toward Death: I Level Up by Trying to Get Myself Killed 向死而生：我的加点靠作死 At the age of sixteen, Fang Hua died once in a blaze of blood and fire. When he opened his eyes again, he had become the most unfortunate boy in a poor mountain village: his parents were dead, his younger sister was frail, and disaster followed him at every turn. Even the fortune-teller shook his head and said he was “born to attract calamity.” Then one day, a ding rang out in his mind [Host is in critical condition. Talent “Born from Death” activated.] [Each time you approach death, you gain 50Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Legend of the Immortal Who Defied the Heavens 逆世成仙传 Mortal’s Journey + Everyday Cultivation + Traditional Cultivation + Spirit Insect Companions + No System + Multiple Female Leads. At nine years old, Ye Chen witnesses cultivators fighting with magic and becomes captivated by the idea of cultivating immortality. At twelve, he loses a cow in an accident and, by a stroke of luck, obtains an ancient immortal token (a jade pendant) and three storage bags. From then on, he sets out on the path of cultivation. On this unknown path, Ye Chen will press o 1.3kReads8.2Score101Shelves
- 27 Two Worlds: I Start Cultivating Immortality by Handcrafting Spirit Pills 两界：从手搓灵丹开始修仙 While the whole world is still reeling from the “spiritual qi revival,” my little pagoda's pocket dimension is already piled high with spirit stones and immortal pills. Geniuses are stepping into the supernatural? Sorry, I've already taken flight on my sword. Other nations are forming supernatural forces to challenge Huaxia? What a joke! Do you even know what it means for divine thunder to strike from the ninth heaven? A nine-story pagoda travels through the myriad worlds! Who would have thought 13kReads6.9Score1.5kShelves
- 28 I Just Reached Foundation Establishment, and a Servant Disciple Brought Me a Golden Finger 刚筑基成功！杂役弟子送来金手指 [Mortal-style cultivation, no System, Foundation Establishment from the start, ruthless and decisive, a sly survivor] After settling in the cultivation world and working hard for decades, Lu Yu finally reached Foundation Establishment. But one day, while passing through a bamboo grove on his sect's grounds, he unexpectedly discovered that a menial disciple possessed a top-grade magical artifact. Curious, he uncovered the disciple's earth-shattering secret. The kid could actually repair magical a 98.5kReads7.4Score11.8kShelves
- 29 Everyone Says Immortality Is the Way to Go 世人皆道成仙好 The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth; the named is the mother of all things. Thus, free from desire, one observes its mystery; ever desiring, one observes its manifestations. These two arise together but have different names. Both are called the profound. Profound upon profound, the gateway to all mysteries... Watch as the protagonist takes one step at a time, leaving the ordinary 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Xiang Zhili 凡人修仙传：向之礼 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Xiang Zhili 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality Fan Fiction 凡人修仙同人 A Fanfic of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Ninth-Heaven Mortal Venerable 九重凡尊 On my ninth life as an Immortal Venerable, I've become the most irresistible man in the mortal world! Zhu Shifan is deeply frustrated. In his previous life, he was the mighty Thunder Venerable of the Immortal Realm, but after being framed in a wrongful case, he was banished to the mortal world and given a mixed spiritual root. The day his memories return, his enemies are already on their way to destroy him... “Had your fun? It's my turn to steal the show!” Ruthless and decisive? That's my tra 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Biding My Time in an Immortal Sect, Seeking Longevity 苟在仙门觅长生 Chen Changsheng transmigrates into a lowly odd-job cultivator of the Qingyun Sect, with the bottom-tier Five-Element Spiritual Roots. He has no heaven-defying treasure or expert to guide him, only a pale white screen that quantifies his cultivation and craft proficiency. With Five-Element Spiritual Roots, he cultivates far more slowly than ordinary people. He even has to pay out spirit stones each season to work the spirit fields, and his lifespan is only sixty-five years. His future seems clear 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 I Use Hair Gel to Stabilize My Spiritual Energy and Outshine Everyone in the Qi Refining Stage 我用发胶稳灵气，颜值碾过炼气期 That's right, this is Gao Yi! A mustard-seed bottle at his waist, a Void Silkworm Silk Armor on his body, Dust-Repelling Lightstep Boots on his feet, and a Cosmic Primordial Fire Helmet on his head! He can command all 112 Reincarnation Peach Blossom Needles at will! The eight-thousand-year-old Di Jiang does his bidding! One dab of hair gel restores all his spiritual energy, and a lift of his lips doubles his cultivation! The righteous path sees him and clings to his leg, green with envy! The dem —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: From Biology Master's Degree to Immortal Venerable of All Heavens 凡人修仙：从生物硕士到诸天仙尊 After transmigrating to the cultivation world, I somehow awakened the Star-Absorbing Art… I ran into Han the Old Demon, had a talk with Wang Mazi, and joined forces to resist the demons, winning humanity a sliver of hope among the myriad races! [Traditional cultivation + slow-burn progression + united sect + decisive killing. Star-Absorbing Art + Ordinary Mortal + cautious and steady + sly schemer + no good-for-nothing protagonist] [Realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core For 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 A Mortal's Path to Immortality: My Dantian Holds a Spirit Herb Garden 凡人修真：我的丹田有座灵药园 (Ordinary Cultivation, No System, Not a Do-Gooder) A young man from the mortal world enters the cultivation realm to repay a debt of gratitude for saving his mother. With a space inside his dantian where time flows a hundred times faster, he grows spirit herbs, thinks carefully, and endures loneliness as he presses onward through the endless river of immortality, despite having a mixed spiritual root. 290Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 37 Bountiful Harvests Bring Big Rewards: I Cultivated from a Mortal into an Immortal 种田丰收爆奖励，我从凡人苟成仙 [Mortal-style cultivation + no System + farming] Wang An transmigrates into the cultivation world and becomes the lowest-ranking spirit farmer in the frontier market of Qingxia Valley. With his five-element mixed spirit root and good-for-nothing aptitude, he can’t even reach the first level of Qi Refining after three years! He stays up all night harvesting spirit grain, while also dealing with crippling taxes and deadly insect infestations. The work is exhausting, and one careless mistake could 105.4kReads7.4Score6.2kShelves
- 38 A First-Rank Mortal Immortal 一品凡仙 Li Goudan is a shepherd boy. Even when someone offers to teach him cultivation, he refuses. All he wants is to marry a wife, have a bunch of kids, and spend generation after generation tending sheep for the landlord... But a stone tablet sends him onto the path of cultivation by sheer chance. From then on, entering the immortal sect is like plunging into an unfathomable sea. Somehow, he attains the Dao, and others say his cultivation is neither mortal nor immortal. So he calls himself a “Mortal 12Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 39 I Grow Spiritual Plants in Seclusion, Quietly Becoming Invincible 隐居宗门种灵植，我悄悄无敌了 “When asked why I dwell on the emerald mountain, I smile and do not answer; my heart is at ease.” Tang Zixian transmigrates to the world of immortal cultivation. After witnessing the deaths of many people, he has only one thought: keep a low profile until he attains immortality. In the third year after his arrival, he finally gets his chance when the Baimu Garden recruits disciples. Awakening water, earth, and wood spiritual roots, he enters the Spirit Plant Garden. Others mock him as a born far 60Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Music: Poison or Soul? 音乐，是毒药，还是灵魂？ Is music a drug, or the soul? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Deskmate, Are You Really Reborn? 《同桌，难道你真是重生的？》 Classmate, Could You Really Be Reborn? 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Woodcutter Boy's Record of Immortal Encounters 砍柴少年仙缘录 At fifteen, Zhao Fei was a woodcutter from a remote mountain village in the Kingdom of Nanchuan. One day, a wondrous object fell from the sky, sending the young woodcutter down the path of immortal cultivation… 8.6kReads7.5Score1kShelves
- 43 A Mortal's Rebellion Against Han: I Choose the Demonic Path 凡人逆韩：宁尊魔途 Ning Zun's Immortal Path: A Salaryman's Cultivation Journey, Carving a Path to Immortality with His Sword When the exhaustion of working 996 hours a week meets the morning light of a cultivation world, overworked salaryman Ning Bufan transmigrates into the world of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality. While everyone else is busy clinging to Han Li, he draws the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword, determined to become the number one sword cultivator in Tiannan and rewrite the regrets of the 3.4kReads—Score447Shelves
- 44 The Immortal Path Through the Sea of Sand 沙海仙路 This book was originally titled Sands of the Immortal Path. It is a cultivation novel in the ordinary-mortal style, not a cautious, keep-your-head-down cultivation story. An ordinary person transmigrates to a vast and mysterious cultivation world, becoming a lowly cultivator in a cultivation clan. In this endless sea of sand lurk giant sandworms that devour everything and terrifying yakshas that fly through the sky and burrow underground. There are also the magnificent, breathtaking sights of th 258Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 45 Soul-Cleansing Jade: Possessed on the Path to Immortality 净魂玉：被夺舍成仙 [Mortal’s Journey] [No System] [No Harem] [Body Tempering] After waking up transmigrated as an ordinary mountain village boy, Lin Mu encounters a rogue cultivator trying to possess him from the start. A special treasure, the Soul-Cleansing Jade, awakens within him, allowing him to devour the other man’s soul and acquire his memories and abilities. Thus begins his journey of immortal cultivation. As he continues devouring the memories and abilities of those who try to possess him, Lin Mu masters 4kReads5.9Score414Shelves
- 46 A Mortal's Path to Immortality: 100,000 Volts from the Start 凡人修仙，开局十万伏特 [Mortal Cultivator Style · No System · Slow-Burn Immortal Journey] The road to immortality is a brutal rat race, with prodigies and monsters everywhere. But who says only those with crippled spiritual roots get to play the protagonist? This time, it’s the turn of “ordinary cultivators” to flip the table! Bai Yu is the first cultivator born in a fallen cultivation family in a hundred years. But on the day he was tested for his spiritual roots, the entire sect fell silent at the sight of that str —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 I'm a Divine Thief in the Cultivation World 我在修真界当神偷 Lying in a crevice deep inside a stone cave, on a bed of thick, soft dry grass and animal hides, Chen Fan drifted off to sleep, content. Chen Fan was a fourteen-year-old orphan. No one knew where he came from or whether he had any family. Today, he had stolen a packet of meat from the kitchen of the Fuman Restaurant. As luck would have it, there was a small piece of Raging Wolf meat in it. Raging Wolves were the fiercest beasts in these mountains, second only to Ironhide Tigers, and their meat w 116Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 Five Thunder Heavenly Venerable 五雷天尊 At twelve, orphan Wang Erniu joins the Flowing Cloud Sect to pursue his dream of becoming a great hero. By chance, he later obtains an inheritance of immortal cultivation. He is accidentally drawn into a conspiracy involving a small Foundation Establishment clan, and survives thanks to a mysterious little white monkey. Through a twist of fate, he joins the Purple Abyss Sect, a major cultivation sect on Yunxi Island, and begins to learn about the true world of immortal cultivation. Though possess 77Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Seeking Immortality Through the Five Elements 五行求仙 Traditional fantasy, a slow-burn cultivation story. No System, no harem, no womanizing. The plot is tightly reasoned, and everyone is intelligent. Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul: every step is taken with care. Talisman-making, alchemy, artifact crafting, formations: their mysteries are endless. Cultivators, demonic beasts, ghost cultivators, the demonic path: all manner of strange and uncanny beings. So what if I have a five-element spiritual root? I will 62Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 50 Transmigrate to Cultivate Immortality: A Life of Endless Fortune with Talismans 穿越修仙之符运绵长 Meng Qi, who possesses a special talent, transmigrates to a cultivation world plagued by demons. With his extraordinary ability, which is practically a superpower, he slays demons and vanquishes evil throughout this cruel world, gradually forging his own path to the pinnacle. 7.8kReads8.0Score690Shelves
