Novels like The Gavel and the Rose
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Gavel and the Rose, best match first.
- 1 Cultivation Begins with the Azure Lotus 修仙从青莲开始 Li Muge was originally a high school graduate who, in an instant, became a disciple of a minor family in the Qingyun Sect of the Xuanyuan Realm. After beginning his cultivation, he discovers that he is a genius with incredible comprehension. Talismans, formations, artifact crafting, alchemy, and every other cultivation skill: only children have to choose. As an adult, of course, I want them all. 7.1kReads6.7Score62314d adds
- 2 EN Immortal Martial Arts: I Can Epiphany Every Day 长生武道：我每天都能顿悟 When Chen Mo woke up, he had transmigrated to a world at the end of a dynasty, where demons and strange creatures ran rampant. With only six years left to live, he discovered that he could gain one chance at sudden enlightenment every day. Not much time left to live? Gain sudden enlightenment in a life-nourishing technique and add hundreds of years to your lifespan. Interested? Your aptitude is terrible? Keep gaining sudden enlightenment in health and fitness techniques, and you can improve your 4.3kReads8.3Score22614d adds
- 3 After the System Ran Off, You Cleared a Fantasy World in Seven Days? 系统跑路后，你用七天速通玄幻？ After transmigrating into a fantasy world, Ye Fei was abandoned by the System, which tossed out the line, “Your talent is too high,” and ran off. Furious, Ye Fei swore he’d track down that damn System. I may not want it, but you can’t just refuse to give it to me! You brought me here, and now you’re trying to run? Not a chance! He joins a sacred land from the start, but before he’s even taught any cultivation techniques, a secret realm suddenly opens? To search the secret realm for the System, Y 13.9kReads7.9Score1.2k14d adds
- 4 EN The Whole Nation Steals the Skills I Created 全民偷师我创造的功法 After thousands of years of development, humanity entered the interstellar age and joined the ranks of the myriad races. With technological progress unable to make any significant breakthroughs, humanity gradually shifted from offense to defense in the struggle among the races, confined to the Milky Way. Public discontent grew more and more intense, while various forces stirred beneath the surface. Amid both internal and external crises, people were astonished to discover that a peerless genius 3.3kReads8.4Score25614d adds
- 5 Turning into a Butterfly, Transcending the Great Dao 化蝶，超脱大道之外 Of the three thousand paths, mastering any one lets you become one with the Dao and live forever. All things come from nothing, and return to nothing. The Dao, too, will one day be destroyed. But I eventually transformed into a butterfly and transcended the Dao. (No System) 3.5kReads7.9Score26614d adds
- 6 Honghuang: I Attained the Great Luo Dao, and Only Then Did My Golden Finger Arrive 洪荒：证道大罗了金手指才来 After transmigrating to the primordial world, he became the first breeze between heaven and earth, took human form as Zhao Gongming, and became Tongtian’s disciple. Just thinking about the miserable fate awaiting him in the future Investiture of the Gods calamity sent a chill down his spine! Without a golden finger, he could only tread carefully and cultivate with all his might. Having long since resigned himself to fate, he finally attained the Daluo Golden Immortal through sheer effort! And th 39.5kReads8.5Score2.3k14d adds
- 7 Tenant Farmer of the Immortal Sect 仙门佃农 [Mortal cultivation] + [Farming] + [One female lead or no female lead] Mu Jiuxiao, a tenant farmer in an immortal sect, unexpectedly awakens the wisdom of his past life. At the same time, he awakens his own talent: diligence can make up for a lack of aptitude! After ten years of cultivation, his cultivation talent increases by one! After cultivating the Everlasting Spring Art for ten years, his cultivation speed with the art increases by 200 percent! After growing Golden Spirit Rice for a hundre 12.5kReads8.3Score1.2k14d adds
- 8 The Divine Fire Path 神火大道 Mortal-style cultivation, no female lead, no golden finger Zhuang Yu, a boy from an ordinary fishing village, gets the chance to join the Qingyang Sect, a cultivation sect. There, he obtains a crude cultivation manual called The Divine Fire Ascension Art. Through countless dangers in the cultivation world, he gradually rises from a kind and honest young man to a ruthless overlord in his own right. [Lower Five Realms]: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Trans 6.1kReads8.5Score43014d adds
- 9 EN The Unconventional Path to Immortality 一本不正经的修仙感悟 [Fantasy] [Xianxia] [Xuanhuan] [Comedy] [Urban] After three lifetimes, I finally attained the Dao, Roaming the mortal world, laughing at its vicissitudes. I ferry souls across the River of the Underworld, following fate, But whoever the hell dares lay a hand on my people, I’ll beat you to death, you little bastard... 1.7kReads9.2Score12014d adds
- 10 Seeking Immortality in the Strange Realm: I Have a Divine Ability Tree 诡界求仙：我有一棵神通树 [Masterful survivalist cultivation + eerie cultivation + Tiangang divine powers + ruthless and decisive + no harem + not a bleeding heart] Born as the master of divine powers, I am the Dao Lord of the cosmos! The eerie invaded, the Heavenly Dao collapsed, and the cosmos was left in ruins… The gods and Buddhas of the heavens, the great powers of the Immortal Dao, all vanished overnight. The path to immortality was severed, the divine path fell silent, and demons and monsters ran rampant. Where ar 72kReads8.3Score6.6k14d adds
- 11 The Immortal Path Without Dao 无道仙路 [No female lead + ordinary mortal protagonist + brutal cultivation; From the Start: A Broken Piece of Jade Reveals the Secrets of Immortality, The Terrifying Road to Immortality, Mystery, Immortal Paths, and the Angler, The Strange Path to Immortality are updated simultaneously] There was no road in the world to begin with. A road appears when enough people walk it. Wudao found a mysterious piece of fine wood glowing with purple light and arrived in the world of cultivation. It was a brutal plac 18.4kReads8.6Score1.1k14d adds
- 12 EN The Harsh Road to Immortality: Built on White Bones 仙路难行，白骨筑长生 “Rules? On the road to immortality, my rules are the only rules!” [Mortal Cultivation of Demonic Arts] [Founding a Demonic Cult] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Profit Above All] (Already at the Nascent Soul stage, with plenty of content to enjoy) Protagonist Qing Chen: He knows when to yield and when to stand firm, is utterly self-serving, greedy for money and women, and will stop at nothing to achieve immortality! He will found a demonic cult, dominate the world, and climb step by step to the very to 81.5kReads9.1Score7.5k14d adds
- 13 Who Said You Could Really Cultivate Immortality? 谁让你真修仙了？ [Lighthearted] [Invincible protagonist] [Comedy] Qin Luo transmigrates to a cultivation world overrun by monsters and demons. To protect himself, he goes to the Longhu Temple to study under a master, only to discover that his teacher is a fake Taoist who makes a living by swindling people. In the first year, his master tells Qin Luo to meditate and cultivate. He gazes within himself and integrates the foundation of the Great Dao. In the second year, his master tells Qin Luo to scrimp and save. H 29.5kReads8.9Score2.4k14d adds
- 14 EN Avoiding Peril: My Low-Key Path to Eternal Life 我靠避凶天赋苟道长生 [Low-key cultivation + cautious path to immortality + avoiding danger] In the cultivation world, Lu Qing relies on his danger-avoidance skill to escape one deadly predicament after another. He keeps a low profile. All he wants is to cultivate cautiously and live forever. While peerless prodigies flourish, Lu Qing keeps cultivating. While unparalleled experts burst onto the scene, Lu Qing is still cultivating. Eventually, the geniuses of his generation, peerless monsters, and unparalleled experts 65.5kReads8.5Score4.4k14d adds
- 15 Infinite Life: Trapped in a Lifetime 无限人生：被困在了一生的时间里 He had once been an explorer, a war correspondent, a business genius, and the king of investment. He had also been a notorious war profiteer, a world-famous charlatan and prophet. He was also the greatest composer and novelist of the century. And a materials scientist, a physicist, a giant in the history of science... Countless times, in countless different ways, he had stood at the pinnacle of the world. Only he knew any of it, however, before he broke through the limits of a single lifetime. U 23.6kReads9.4Score2.2k14d adds
- 16 EN Junior Brother, Don’t Cultivate Immortality Like That 师弟，别这么修仙 By a stroke of fate, Lu Changsheng is brought into a sect and becomes the junior disciple of Qingyun Peak. Having seen how brutal the path of cultivation can be, he decides to keep a low profile and hide his true abilities. While his senior brothers cultivate, he sleeps. While his fellow disciples take part in trials, he slacks off. Under countless watchful eyes, he does the same thing day after day for ten years, never wavering in his commitment to being a quiet schemer. Until one day, everyone 59.6kReads9.0Score5.3k14d adds
- 17 EN Starting as the Peak Master: Signing In for an Ultimate Emperor Armament! 开局成为首座，签到极道帝兵！ [Lighthearted daily life + invincible + Backer Sect + call for reinforcements when unable to win + schemer + no martial ethics + longevity] Because he had died once before, Hua Yunfei always put staying alive first. He had hidden away on Daoyuan Peak for a hundred years, performing sign-in for a hundred years. [Beep, congratulations to the Host on completing one hundred years of sign-in and obtaining the Ultimate Emperor Weapon: the Chaos Bell] The Dark Blood Era arrived, plunging Heaven an 136.9kReads9.2Score7.8k14d adds
- 18 EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 515.8kReads9.7Score69.9k14d adds
