Novels like Shadowbone: The Strange People's Lost Records
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- 51 The Swordplay Legend of a Free-Range Youth 放养少年的剑道传奇 Lin Feng was born in a humble mountain village. He thought the greatest upheaval in his life would be protecting the cool, moonlike woman by his side. Then powerful enemies descended, and with death moments away, the power sleeping within him suddenly awakened. He learned of the Profound Dao and heard of the Sword Domain for the first time. Only then did he discover that he was the only son of the ruler of a sword domain stretching across millions of miles and the sect master of the Myriad Sword —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 Poetic Dreams, Heaven's Lament 诗梦尽天殇 On a night when twin moons wept blood, seven young people, each burdened by their own flaws and inner demons, met amid a savage beast horde. The cool and solitary sword cultivator Gu Shiyan, the timid healer Liu Mengyao, the reckless body cultivator Shao Xiangtian, the arrogant martial artist Bu Ningshuang, Mu Duanyun, who bore a blood feud for her clan’s destruction, Yin Ruoshuang, whose origins were a mystery, and Su Xueqing, who protected her people: seven people, seven pasts they dared not 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 The Heartbell Record of Withering and Flourishing 心钟枯荣录 [Good-for-nothing's rise + a golden finger that borrows laws at a price + intertwined hidden and open storylines + overturning the old order that devours people + fiery happy ending] [Boy with a Withered Bell × The Eye Above | Play the pig to eat the tiger, every step a peril] In the eyes of outsiders, Shen Yan is a good-for-nothing with no hope of survival. When he was five, a fine bell, the kind seen only once in a century, inexplicably withered and died. For eleven years, its laws remained —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 No Sorrow in the Mortal World, but My Sword Has Feelings 人间无殇剑有情 A young man bears a forbidden bloodline and traverses between reality and illusion with a spectral immortal palace. The Sword Sect's grand tournament conceals murderous intent, while a key to an ice coffin sets a thousand years of karma in motion. As a curse becomes an ice lotus on his chest and his closest friend turns into a chain binding him to fate, the truth spanning time and space begins to tear the Nine Provinces apart: the Dark Nether Cult's black sun altar, the Spirit Saint Palace's hea 5.7kReads9.4Score736Shelves
- 55 White Jade Capital: Beginning as the Lord of Longevity 白玉京：从长生主开始 [Lighthearted Humor] + [Ensemble Cast] + [Political Intrigue] + [No System] There’s nothing wrong with being a lazy nobody, but wouldn’t life be even more wide open if you became the one in charge? This book is also known as “You’ve Made Life So Hard for Me” and “Who Put the Imperial Robe on Me?” Some are born in the White Jade Capital, while others are born to toil like oxen and horses. This is a story of redemption... 6Reads—Score154Shelves
- 56 The Dragon Ascension Rankings 登龙榜 (No clichés, no System, no brainless protagonist, and no wish-fulfillment. If that bothers you, proceed with caution.) One day, his name was listed on the Dragon-Tiger Roll; ten years later, he found himself in the Phoenix Perch Pool. There is a roll in this world, and it decides people's fates. Those listed on it can seize the fortune of Heaven and Earth, enjoy the offerings of their sects, and command the attention of all living beings. Those left off the roll may have their own edge, but in t 27Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 Immortality Won't Keep Old Promises 长生不赴旧约 The protagonist, Shen Sui'an, transmigrates into a world of immortal cultivation. Born immortal and imperishable, he has no System, no wise old mentor, and no heaven-defying divine artifact. He possesses the exceptionally rare top-grade Five Virtues Spiritual Root, but because all five elements must advance in tandem, his cultivation is far slower than that of ordinary prodigies. So he chooses the simplest path to immortality: Endure. Outlast his enemies. Outlast the sect. Outlast the dyna 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Zero Star Energy: I Dominate the World with My Body 零星能：我靠肉身横推天下 [The protagonist combines intelligence and strength, with plenty of satisfying moments and no mindless power fantasy. The author’s writing is right in step with the times!] When you play games, do you like late-game characters or moves that keep evolving? That feeling of stacking up power and evolving early on, then steamrolling everything in the late game, is incredibly satisfying! Then this book is just what you’re looking for! On a continent where star energy is the mainstream path of cultiva 11Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 59 Legend of the Beast Spirits 兽灵传说 [Power Evolution + Passionate Young Hero + Farming and Conquest + Multiple Heroines + No Idiotic Characters + Carefully Crafted Cast + Intertwined Emotions + Ensemble-Style Story + Detailed Battles + Epic War + Fantasy Adventure] I, Chu Yingchuan, am the youngest prince consort in the history of the Wolf Kingdom, and its most heavily accused traitor. They say I sold out the border defenses to save my own skin, leading to the annihilation of an entire army. But they don’t know that the place I in 263Reads9.4Score185Shelves
- 60 Journey to the West: Liu Bei Reborn as Tang Sanzang 西游：刘备魂穿唐三藏 [Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, Liu Bei, Xuanzang, dual male leads, debating the Dao, ensemble cast, subduing demons.] The soul of Emperor Zhaolie has forced its way into my body. With no other choice, we set off west to fetch the scriptures, two souls sharing one body. I uphold the Buddhist precepts, show compassion, and save all living beings. He follows the benevolent path of a king, helping those in danger and punishing the wicked. The demon kings became my disciples, and his brothers 38.4kReads9.5Score4.4kShelves
- 61 Chronicles of Demons Across the Four Realms 四方妖魔录 [Pure-blood Eastern fantasy + starting from zero + no System + no harem + slow burn] The cicadas' song always arrives on cue with a carefree summer day, but the peaceful life young Cheng Lie has always taken for granted is about to quietly change. He was born with “zero spiritual power,” the most useless person in the world. Only when a celestial crane brings calamity and his utopia is reduced to scorched earth does he learn the truth of this world, which is far more terrifying than any demon. F 20Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 62 The Years I Spent Undying and Immortal 我不死不灭的那些年 [Cultivation] [Everyday Life] [One or a Hundred] [Fun-Loving] [Lighthearted Meme References] An immortal body, eternal youth, even Sidan is afraid...! Ah, sorry, that's not part of this one! While everyone else is driving themselves to the brink in pursuit of immortality, Mu Xiaolin is already immortal and laughing about it! Unfortunately, this isn't a wonderful ability. When people who came into contact with her blood mutated and swelled into a mountain of flesh, Mu Xiaolin knew she was done fo 3.1kReads8.9Score358Shelves
- 63 Nan Jingchun 南景春 A princess who commands armies and wields great power X a poor-born statesman who claws his way to the top Lu Nanjing is the Great Xi’s Goddess of War, a princess who rides through the imperial city with a mighty army at her back and the world beneath her feet. Du Ruolan is a statesman from a humble family, ruthless and cunning, who fights his way into the heart of power with sheer courage and ingenuity. One spring day on the street, she casually tossed him a fortune and rescued him from the mud 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 My Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Sect Lives a Lazy Life, and I Turned the Dao Ancestor into a Goose 万年宗门做咸鱼，道祖被我变成鹅 [No System + laid-back male lead + ensemble cultivation sect + pretends to be useless but is actually a big shot + lighthearted comedy + heartwarming and healing + angst later on] Other people cultivate immortality to seek eternal life. Li Yongning cultivates only for free food and lodging. The Spirit Sword Sect is a shabby little outfit, home to a bunch of unlucky, unwanted people who have ended up together. Li Yongning is widely regarded as the most useless senior disciple in the sect. He doe 957Reads—Score182Shelves
- 65 Sword Washed in Frost and Splendor 剑洗霜华 [Plot-Driven + No System + Xuanhuan + Martial Arts + Transmigration + Ensemble Cast] A soul from another world transmigrates into the heir of the Hidden Sword Manor. Heaven grants him no golden finger. Instead, he is born with the Nine Yin Severed Meridians, condemned to endure the bone-eroding pain of being frozen solid every midnight. Then, at the age of sixteen, he witnesses his family slaughtered by a mysterious force. With his dying breath, his father entrusts the fate of the entire clan to 896Reads9.3Score108Shelves
- 66 Something’s Not Quite Right in This Cultivation World 这修仙界有点不太对劲 ([Chinese-style horror · eerie cultivation · not for the faint of heart] The immortal world is a lie. Beneath it lies a man-eating hell. If you like stories like Dao of the Bizarre Immortal, come on in. If you're looking for a power-fantasy progression story, this isn't for you.) Li Changsheng has a Heavenly Spiritual Root. He is the personal disciple of the Qingyun Sect's leader, the foremost talent of the younger generation, and everyone's envy: the future Daoist heir. His only flaw is that hi 70Reads8.2Score569Shelves
- 67 The Laws? One Sword Is All It Takes 法则？一剑破之 My spiritual roots are destroyed? No problem. I have a sword that cuts down laws. A cultivator’s divine ability? Cut. An artificer’s array patterns? Cut. The laws of heaven and earth? Cut those, too. Three heroines, one sword, one pet, and one sharp-tongued sword spirit. From scavenging in a ruined city to becoming a god with one sword. Lu Chen can solve anything with a single strike. If he can’t, he just needs to charge up for a little while. 9.9kReads9.4Score1kShelves
- 68 I’ve Lived for Millions of Years, and I Don’t Want to Prove Myself and Become an Emperor 长生千万年，我才不想证道成帝 [Longevity + ensemble cast + rise to emperorhood + traditional xianxia flavor + epic style + no System] (Also titled: "Ten Million Years of Life, and I Still Don’t Want to Ascend to Emperorhood") Jiang Mu was the most dazzling prodigy of his era. He defeated every contender favored by Heaven’s Mandate, and should have attained the Great Dao and become an emperor. Yet in the end, the Great Dao did not acknowledge him, and he was denied the throne. Could living forever really be a sin? Unwilling t 42.4kReads7.8Score2.9kShelves
- 69 A Mortal's Quest for Immortality 凡骨求长生 [Mortal Cultivation] [Traditional Wuxia] [Witty and Humorous] [Logical Deduction] [Lopsided Genius] [One Female Lead] [Ensemble Cast] This book has no fast-food-style, three-chapter hook, no exhilarating face-slapping from the start, and focuses on plot, careful buildup, and deeply rooted characters. The protagonist is an ordinary mortal, an undocumented resident of the immortal realm. His talents and shortcomings are sharply defined. He is no transmigrated or reborn overpowered hero, with neith 835Reads8.1Score232Shelves
- 70 The Witch Initiated Me from the Start, So I Applied to Become Her Cultivation Cauldron 开局被魔女开光，我申请成为炉鼎 A new work is here! You can read my stories on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy them. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 11.4kReads8.8Score1.2kShelves
- 71 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 66.3kReads8.5Score4.5kShelves
- 72 I'm Just a Eunuch, So What's Wrong with Having a Few More Beautiful Women? 我一太监，红颜多点很合理吧 [Hunt down transmigrators] [Ensemble cast] [No saintly heroine] [Three empress sisters] [Rebellious disciple] “Anyone who inexplicably plagiarizes poetry shall be executed without mercy!” “Anyone who makes soap, cement, or gunpowder shall be executed without mercy!” “Anyone who writes simplified characters or speaks strangely shall be executed without mercy!” “Any good-for-nothing whose cultivation suddenly skyrockets and who claims that even the heavens can’t block his sight shall be executed w 66.6kReads9.0Score8.4kShelves
- 73 EN Reborn as the Firstborn of a Concubine: My Legitimate Brother Is an Immortal Emperor! 穿越庶长兄：嫡弟竟是仙帝转世！ [Signed for print publication | Brothers standing shoulder to shoulder, no romance, lighthearted and funny with a touch of ensemble cast, satisfying and never groveling, both brothers become top-tier powerhouses later on] After transmigrating, Yun Qing became the eldest son born of a concubine in one of the cultivation world's most powerful families. The good news: He possessed a Chaos Dao Embryo and an ancient double pupil. He could seize the sun and pluck the stars, with a boundless path to im 191.3kReads9.6Score15.6kShelves
- 74 Seven Days of Possession 七日着魔 Demons are temptation and desire, chaos and disorder, destruction and upheaval. Demons dwell in the obsessions of all things; anything can become demonic. So long as all things endure, the demonic path will endure. After the protagonist’s corpse lay unclaimed for seven days, he awoke on the seventh day and forged a demonic body. Since Heaven has given me this chance to live again, rather than remain one of the numb masses in this mortal world, I would rather become the one and only primordial de 2.5kReads9.2Score300Shelves
- 75 The Ancestral Sage of Ten Thousand Demons 万妖圣祖 A half-demon youth obtains the Demon Clan's sacred tome. He transforms into a Heavenly Wolf, devours the moon, and keeps female ghosts as servants; becomes a Vermilion Bird, burning the heavens and boiling the seas; takes the form of a White Tiger and slaughters his way across the world; cultivates into a Divine Dragon and roams the seas and skies; becomes a Kunpeng and soars through the Nine Heavens; devours heaven and earth and transforms into myriad demons. He rules the three thousand worlds, 14kReads9.1Score572Shelves
- 76 Blessed Beyond the Heavens 仙福齐天 What is cultivation really for? To strengthen the self and seek the path to immortality? Or to break free of fate’s shackles and grasp life’s true meaning? Perhaps to find a sanctuary for the soul and gain the power to challenge the heavens? No. None of those. At least, not for Li Chuan. He’s here to enjoy the blessings of an immortal… 30.9kReads8.3Score2.4kShelves
- 77 Aspiring to the Imperial Throne 问鼎皇尊 [Growth-Focused | No System | Fresh Setting | Expansive Worldbuilding] When chaos first stirred and the world was born, how many ages passed in the endless struggle for supremacy? In the Chaos Realm, gods and demons came into being, only to vanish into the river of history after countless ages. In the Beast Star Domain, savage beasts roamed the wilderness, yet even they could not escape fate, disappearing from heaven and earth. The Icebound Era began, and no life remained in the world. In the Pr 8.9kReads9.2Score621Shelves
- 78 The Cheat-Wielding Lad Takes the Cultivation World by Storm 开挂小子玩转修仙界 [Funny and lighthearted + Upgrade spirit stones + Refine pills + Humorous cultivation + No System] You rascal, you can upgrade spirit stones and pills? Confess everything and I won’t hit you! Yuan Xiao, a country boy, accidentally saves a divine thief from the immortal realm. With nothing but shameless audacity, he snatches the heaven-defying treasure, the Tianqi Pearl, and becomes a rich cultivator. Making money and upgrading are no problem at all! With two absurd, troublemaking spirit beasts a 44.8kReads9.0Score5.1kShelves
- 79 Elm Immortal 榆仙 The new book, “The Age of Demons: Cultivating the Unorthodox Path to Immortality, Starting with the Livestock-Creation Method,” is now available. [No System, no harem, traditional xianxia, decisive and ruthless, mortal cultivation.] Cultivation is about questioning your own heart. Yu Xian, an orphan from Dayushu Village, formed a bond with a great elm tree. Before dying, the Elm Tree Matriarch opened his spiritual root, and from then on he embarked on the path of cultivation. Using the elm’s spi 162.2kReads9.1Score18.7kShelves
- 80 Against the Meridians: Liar, Stop! 逆经：骗子住手 [Original novel for the animated series This Taoist Is Not Quite Right] Life is unpredictable. The fit thrive under Heaven's law, Those skilled in force become generals, those skilled in strategy become kings. Born into the lowest of professions, he refuses to live like a nobody, He waves the yin-yang banner and sees through the Six Lines of Divination. Watch him play at being a spirit medium, watch him swindle and deceive, Watch him make ruthless decisions, watch him rise like a hidden dragon f 43.3kReads9.4Score4.5kShelves
- 81 EN The Netherworld Scholar Immortal 通幽小儒仙 “Where is this?” “Perhaps... the River of Forgetfulness...” “Who are you?” “Wuchang...” “I've never heard of anyone called Wuchang in this world.” “From now on... that's who I'll be!” The soul crosses the River of Forgetfulness, while its thoughts remain on the other shore. What is gained from all beings must be returned to all beings. When Su Mo woke up, he was no longer in his former life. He went to the capital to sit the imperial examinations, but accidentally stumbled into an immortal schem 63.7kReads9.4Score6.7kShelves
- 82 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 561.4kReads9.3Score72kShelves
