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- 1 A Cultivation Worker's Guide to Getting Promoted 修仙界打工人升职记 A cultivator from Lijia Village with a "waste spiritual root," he is optimistic, resilient, and blessed with an unconventional way of thinking. He has all the practicality and snark of a wage earner. After binding to the System, he steadily improves his cultivation by completing missions, and uses workplace skills to defuse crises in the cultivation world. He may seem ordinary, but he always manages to deliver a surprise. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 I'm the Biggest Schemer in the Cultivation World 我，修仙界头号老六 This is a feel-good cultivation novel built around comedy and growth that defies convention. It follows Li Hao, a protagonist who cannot cultivate but uses his wits to thrive in the cultivation world. With a lighthearted, humorous style, it tells the tale of how he rises to the top through “sneaky” tricks and finds profound bonds along the way. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 At 14, I Became the Head of the Household: Dream Comes True Borrowed Money to Start a Business 14岁当家，”梦成真”借钱做生意 Running the Household at Fourteen: 'Meng Chengzhen' Borrows Money to Start a Business —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 The Fun-Loving Survivor: Every Team Member Is an Attention Seeker 苟道乐子人：队员全是显眼包 [Anti-trope survival tactics + silly mind games + a cast of jokers] Reborn in the cultivation world as a penniless pauper, with creditors at the door and half a flatbread to last three days. While others cultivate by charging in headfirst, Gouqie survives through careful planning, even drawing escape-route maps and precisely calculating the “probability of being bitten by a dog.” Teammate Jiang Yao, a pure-yang calamity: “Why does everything belonging to whoever I get close to explode?!” Su Ta 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 I Don't Want Anything from You 我不稀罕你这里 I Don't Want Anything from You —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 What Kind of Job Is That? 啥差事 What Kind of Job Is That? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 This Damn System Isn’t Human, It Wants Me to Call It Daddy 狗系统不当人，要我喊爸爸 Pure, mindless comedy, with no dull moments and one laugh after another. The plot moves fast. Friends, if you’re willing to read it, just don’t curse me out. I may update a little slowly because I have to think up the plot, and I’m aiming for less than 100,000 words a day. The story is about the protagonist activating a Dad System. System novels all follow the same formula, and I didn’t want to go down the same path as everyone else, so this is a bit of an unconventional take. Just have fun, giv 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 A Golden Core Fully Formed from the Start, and Now I Have to Survive the Supernatural? 开局金丹大成让我诡异求生？ [Comedy and Absurdity] + [Infinite Flow] + [Single Female Lead] A Golden Core cultivator has appeared in the eerie world? Eerie Fifty-Fifty: Have fun playing games, and keep smiling! Eerie Banana Guy: This is way too freewheeling! Han Xin, Top Player on the Chinese Server: Even a little drink won't help Han Xin recover from this. This guy is unbelievably awesome. Grandpa Niu from Turning-Over Garden: Are you cosplaying Louis XVI? Interesting. Three Spoons: No time to mourn Wang Qi. This guy is t 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 I'm a Spider Now. Is It Really So Wrong to Set Up a Honey Trap? 都成蜘蛛了，玩个仙人跳合理吧？ [Monster cultivation + no simping + play the pig to eat the tiger + lighthearted comedy + a touch of harem + multiple heroines] This book is also known as: Monster Cultivation: Starting with a Backstab Against an Immortal Maiden Qu Yiren transmigrated into a spider demon, only to suffer the further misfortune of being born male. His mother favored girls over boys, his elder sister was a lunatic with a rebellious streak, and his four younger sisters were still crying to be fed. Then there were hi 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Ghosts Celebrate New Year 鬼过年 Ghosts Celebrate the New Year —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Xuanyuan Sword Cultivator 轩辕剑修 “A Heavenly Spiritual Root?!” “A Heavenly Spiritual Root with Earth affinity? An outer disciple of the Qingyun Sect?!” “Are you kidding me? How could someone with a Heavenly Spiritual Root be overlooked as an outer disciple?!” The clearing erupted in an instant! Every cultivator, no matter their sect, stared at Wei Qing in shock, their eyes filled with disbelief, curiosity, greed, wariness, and all kinds of other emotions. A Heavenly Spiritual Root was a once-in-ten-thousand-years talent, destin 6Reads—Score114d adds
- 12 Five-Element Root Good-for-Nothing: From the Start, I Make the Sect's Heavenly Spirit Root Regret Everything 五灵根老六：开局坑哭宗门天灵根 [Mortal Cultivator Style] [No System] [Hilarious Cultivation] [Cheeky and Adorable Old Fox] [Multiple Heroines] [Satisfying Novel That Defies the Usual Tropes] Li Bie Lang accidentally transmigrates to the cultivation world and becomes a disciple of Qingyun Sect with five spiritual roots. The sect leader refuses to take him in, and the peak masters all reject him, calling him a five-root good-for-nothing with no qualifications! But in his previous life, he watched so many short cultivation dra 2.1kReads—Score11914d adds
- 13 Stop Rushing Me, I’m Already Teaching the Demon Lord How to Behave 别催了，已经在教魔尊做人了 A good-for-nothing at the Qi Refining stage, yet the world-destroying Demon Venerable holds him in the palm of his hand! With useless spiritual roots and pitiful cultivation, Lu Junmo says: Sorry, my spiritual sense is maxed out, and my logic is god-tier! Reincarnated as a good-for-nothing in Tianyan, he is grabbed by the throat from the start by the strongest Demon Venerable in the Three Realms. At death’s door, he speaks up: Boss, I’ll help you make the Demon Sect bigger and stronger! Demon Ve —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 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—14d adds
- 15 Transmigrate into a Fantasy World: I Slay My Way Through the Heavens from Good-for-Nothing to Legend 穿越玄幻：我从废柴杀穿诸天 (Comedy, punchlines, and a goofy cast, all in a lighthearted and cheerful story. I'm just starting out as a novelist, so I'd be very grateful if you could leave me your valuable feedback. And if you could spare a moment to rate the book, I'd be much obliged! Many thanks! Many thanks! Many thanks!!!) Lin Feng, a 996 wage slave from the 21st century, transmigrates to another world at the worst possible moment. In his past life, he bowed his head and toiled through life's hardships. In this life, h 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Heaven-Defying Asura Scroll 逆天修罗卷 “What? You’re saying I was reborn? Hahaha! I was reborn, I was reborn, hahaha! This time, I absolutely refuse to coast to victory. I’m going to win MVP.” “I have good news and bad news for you.” “Let’s hear it!” “The good news is that you were reborn. The bad news is that your save file was deleted.” “Uh... You’re messing with me! I’m the famous survival expert Bear Grylls Black. You can call me Little Blackie. I come from a lower plane of the Extreme Region, beneath the Gilded Immortal Domain, 4Reads—Score114d adds
- 17 I Conquered the Cultivation World by Watching Ads 我靠看广告称霸修仙世界 This story features silly humor, a lighthearted and comedic tone, cultivation, a System, a golden finger, farming, and an ensemble cast. If that's not your thing, this isn't for you. When a master con artist transmigrates to another world of cultivation and binds himself to an advertising System, he meets an inexperienced female cultivator, a kindhearted buddy, a resourceful subordinate, an energetic and quick-witted sect maiden, and a dazed old monk. What kind of unconventional cultivation adve 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 18 The Spoiled Young Master Wants to Cultivate Immortality 纨绔少爷要修仙 (Comedy, traditional fantasy, coming-of-age, wish fulfillment...) Transmigrated as Kyoto’s biggest young wastrel, he lives it up to the fullest! The emperor actually arranges for him to marry an enormous princess. He has to run away! To win the heart of a fairy, he decisively takes up cultivation! What? This young master is a good-for-nothing at cultivation...? —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 The Cultivation World's Biggest Scoundrel 修真界第一大烂人 [System + loopholes in the rules + comedy + comeback] Li Huaishui has zero cultivation, no spiritual root, and only a “Scoundrel System.” Substitute fighters are forbidden in the sect tournament? He pulls out some itch powder: “The rules don’t say you can’t use it.” The inner sect exam measures cultivation? He smears on some electric shock powder: “The rules don’t say you can’t glow.” An elder uses a blood test to check his background? He sneers: “Red blood cells burst when they come into cont 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 A Mortal's Immortal Cultivation: The Long Road Ahead 凡人修仙，长路漫漫 (Mortal cultivation, no System, no harem) An ordinary village boy embarks on a long journey of cultivation, pursuing the Great Dao and immortality as he advances through Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Deity Transformation, and beyond... 84Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 21 A City Youth’s Journey to the Immortal Realm 都市青年仙界行 Synopsis: No System + scheming male lead + traditional cultivation + ruthless and decisive A sudden upheaval on Mount Tai sent me to the bottom of the cultivation world, where I became a lone cultivator. With the help of a heaven-defying spirit beast, I found an unparalleled opportunity. I endured for thousands of years, all for the chance to return to Blue Star!!! 15Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 My Real Life as a Post-80s Kid 80后现实中的我 The Real Me in My Eighties-Era Life 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Mortal Bones, Sword Heart, Slaying Ten Thousand Demons 凡人修仙：凡骨剑心斩万魔 Everyone says that those born with mortal bones lack spiritual roots and will never break through to Foundation Establishment in their lifetime. But Lin Jingchen refuses to believe in fate! After unexpectedly awakening his Sword Heart, he comprehends the “Unyielding Thunder Sword Intent” in the depths of despair and forms the “Heaven and Earth Thunder Prison Sword Domain.” With a mortal body, he carves out a path to the heavens through sheer force. He slays a Demon Emperor on the Outer Battlef —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 24 The Dao-Seeking Gate 问道阙 [Cultivation] [Good-for-Nothing] [Female Master] [Face-Slapping] Zhang Shiyi was an orphan abandoned in the mortal world. At the age of ten, he was rescued by Tang Yanran, a personal disciple of the Seek Dao Sect's leader, and brought into the sect, where he was assigned as a menial servant at Hidden Cloud Peak. He had no spiritual roots and was regarded as a born good-for-nothing in the cultivation world. For eight years, he endured bullying, beatings, and framing. He nearly died several times, 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 25 Fate, 缘分， Fate, 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 Daoist Friend, Your Fortune Is Meant for Me 道友，你的机缘与我有缘 Lin Yao, a modern-day office drone, gets hit by a car one day and transmigrates into an old-school cultivation romance full of angst. The good news: she rolls a Chaos Spiritual Root right off the bat. The bad news: it came from getting struck by lightning. The even worse news: the System ran off from the start… In this cultivation-novel world, where Qi Refining cultivators are as common as hairs, Foundation Establishment cultivators are everywhere, and Golden Core and Nascent Soul cultivators ar 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Long Road to Immortality 凡人修仙：漫漫仙路 (Traditional cultivation) (No System) (Not a transmigration story) (Slow burn) (No female lead) Lu Yuan is an ordinary boy from a mountain village. When he is ten, his father is injured by someone and dies unexpectedly, leaving him a fragment of an immortal cultivation manual and an ancestral iron piece before he passes away. By cultivating according to the fragment, Lu Yuan escapes the clutches of the wealthy Li Youcai. The iron piece brings him an unexpected “immortal opportunity.” From then o 90.8kReads8.5Score7.8k14d adds
- 28 If I Have No Shame, Ascension Is Just Around the Corner 只要我不要脸，飞升指日可待 System + absurd comedy + invincible, mortifyingly embarrassing antics After transmigrating to the cultivation world, everyone else meditates, comprehends the Dao, and bitterly cultivates for ten thousand years. I, Hao Xian, get bound to a ridiculously unscrupulous System that trades public humiliation for merit! The System shop lists only the names of its wares, never what they do. Before buying: What a bargain! After buying: I want to die. Spirit-Gathering Pill? Makes you fart all day. Ligh 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Defying Fate: Li Feiyu 逆天改命之厉飞雨 After finishing A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, did you still want more? Like me, do you have too many lingering regrets? Mo Caihuan, who loved but could never be with the one she loved; Zhang Tie, reduced to a puppet; or Venerable Xuangu, whose grand ambitions were never fulfilled? This story seamlessly continues the original's setting. There is no transmigration or rebirth, no golden finger and no spiritual roots. See how Li Feiyu, an ordinary man with his life hanging by a thr 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 A Vice Raid at the Hehuan Sect? I Flew Off on My Sword with the Escorts 合欢宗扫黄？我御剑带技师跑路 The world has mutated, and all of humanity has put on an immortal-cultivation filter! Taking the bus is now “riding a mechanical spirit beast,” buying a lottery ticket is “competing for a Heavenly Dao token,” and taking the civil service exam is a “spiritual aptitude assessment.” More absurdly, foot-bath shops call themselves the “Hehuan Sect,” and anyone caught by the Enforcement Hall gets locked up at the Reflection Cliff, aka the detention center! Recently dumped Lin An watched these delusion 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 31 Win Her Heart with Cunning, Reach Immortality with a Dark Heart 以心机抱美人，以腹黑登仙路 Morality, conscience, principles? Can they put food on the table? Can they make me stronger? Can they help me win the beauty of my dreams? No. Then I’ll throw them all away. With my cunning and ruthless nature, I’ll outwit cultivators across the land, claim every beauty in the world, and climb step by step to an unreachable peak. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 The Supreme Trash Talker 嘴炮至尊 The Mouthy Supreme is a hilarious xianxia novel. From the start, Chen Pi, a streetwise hoodlum, swallows the Nine-Aperture Stone, a divine artifact for cursing people, and turns the human world upside down with his tongue: he scams people out of flatbreads, blows up a sewage truck, and curses a captain of the guards unconscious, earning himself the nickname “Even Dogs Hate Him.” Burdened with a debt of affection sealed by candied hawthorns, he becomes a disciple and founds the Mouth Cannon Sect. 51Reads—Score214d adds
- 33 Technology Brings a Little Shock to the Cultivation World 科技给修仙界带来亿点点震惊 [What Even Is Fantasy?] + [Wild Imagination] + [Absurdist Humor] + [I’m Done Pretending. Here’s the Truth: I’m Just Here to Make You Laugh to Death] Xia Fan, a hardcore shut-in from the future, gets by on games and anime. Then one day, he transmigrates to a parallel world of cultivation! He thought he’d get the power fantasy of cultivating with one hand and taking disciples with the other. Instead, he transmigrated into the body of “Xia Erdan” and discovered he couldn’t cultivate at all! Just 170Reads—Score—14d adds
- 34 Chen Ping's Tale of Immortal Cultivation 陈平修仙传 [Posing as an Immortal’s Heir, Almost Got Caught] [Guest Appearances: Han Li, Xiao Yan, Li Changshou] [Mortal’s Journey] [No System, Not Invincible] [Characters with Their Wits About Them] Chen Ping, an orphan from a mountain village, joins an old Daoist’s sect for ten copper coins after the man examines his pulse, setting foot on the path of immortal cultivation… 103Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 35 Mortal Cultivation: I Found a Chaos Spirit Pearl from the Start 凡人修仙，我开局捡到混沌灵珠 (Traditional fantasy, mortal cultivation, Chaos Spirit Pearl, multiple heroines, an underdog’s rise, immortal cultivation) Ye Chen of Qingshi Town was gathering herbs in the back mountains when he was unexpectedly pushed off a cliff by a Zhao family disciple. By sheer luck, he obtained the Chaos Spirit Pearl and began his rise against the heavens. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Stop Cultivating, You Have a Spirit-Extinguishing Root 别修仙了，你绝灵根 [Ordinary Protagonist] [Earth Teleportation] [Cultivation] [Comeback] [Worldbuilding] Before the Spirit-Testing Stone, I made a thousand-year-old crystal pillar glow in all five colors before it shattered. The whole place fell silent. The elder announced with a trembling voice, “A spiritless root... an outcast of Heaven!” The sect humiliated me, my fellow disciples bullied me, and I became the biggest laughingstock in the Cultivation world. But they had no idea The chaotic vortex spinning in my —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 The Nine-Dragon Cup 九龙杯 [No System] [No Transmigration] [Traditional Fantasy] A traditional fantasy and xianxia story. Zhang Qingshan goes from being a good-for-nothing to embarking on the path of cultivation. He seeks not immortality for himself, but fulfillment of the obsession in his heart. The greatest Heavenly Spiritual Root is hidden beneath the outward appearance of the weakest Five-Element Spiritual Root. The supreme sacred treasure, the Nine-Dragon Cup, is hidden inside an ordinary walnut carving. An unrealis 336Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 38 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Mortal Bones, Sword Heart 凡人修仙传：凡骨剑心 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Mortal-Boned Swordheart Lin Jingchen, a borderland youth, was born with four spiritual roots and a mortal body. He has no System, no exceptional talent, and no heaven-sent treasures. The cultivation world unanimously considers him a "waste." After his parents are killed by demon beasts, he enters Qingfeng Sect with an unwavering desire to seek immortality, only to be made a menial disciple. He struggles at the bottom, short on resources and con 6Reads6.4Score214d adds
- 39 This Script Doesn't Seem Quite Right, Does It? 这剧本不太对吧？ After transmigrating into the world of cultivation, he decisively chooses the “Flame Art” from the start, only for the old man to call him a complete idiot. Apparently, it was just there to fill out the selection... Looking at the heavenly art he got, no matter how he reads it, it seems downright improper. Why does this cultivation method require self-mutilation? And why do you all think I know how to make pills? Master! Can this possession of yours really take out a loan? As he sets out on his 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 From the Mud to the Immortal Path 出淤泥而入仙途 No farming, no pills, no System, no transmigration, no rebirth. A cultivation novel whose protagonist is weak as can be. A revolution in traditional cultivation! Even in the world of cultivation, there are feelings, love, and everyday life. 31Reads—Score214d adds
- 41 The Great Path of Immortal Cultivation 修仙大道 [A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality] [The dark side of human nature] [No System] [No transmigration] [No female lead, but there are women and romance] [Cultivation] [Geniuses and good-for-nothings] [Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul...] A real journey in search of immortality and the Dao. Are you ready? Then take the plunge! There is no end to the realms of cultivation. The supreme rulers of this era: are they truly at the very top? In the eyes of cu 394Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 42 The Five-Element Waste Spirit Root: I Have a Treasure-Gathering Golden Toad 五行废灵：我有一只聚宝金蟾 [Mortal Cultivation] [Smart Protagonist] [One Female Lead] [Decisive and Ruthless] At eighteen, with a fake Five-Element Spirit Root, was his path to immortality already doomed? Wang Han was a hunter from the countryside. By a twist of fate, he entered Leiyang Pavilion, only to be made a nominal "Core Disciple" and, in truth, reduced to chopping wood in the back hills. His poor aptitude earned him the label "useless spirit root," while the declining sect's leader treated disciples like disposabl 2.3kReads6.6Score22314d adds
- 43 Cultivation Begins as a Medicine Boy 修仙从药童开始 After the death of the grandfather who raised him, Su Yun, a village boy, leaves his mountain home with the family heirloom, the Desolate Cauldron, and enters the wondrous world of immortal cultivation. He begins his training as a lowly medicine apprentice. Put medicinal herbs into the Desolate Cauldron, and it can produce whatever pill you need. Step by step, the humble apprentice finds his own path to immortality in a world of scheming cultivators, a path unlike that of any other ordinary mort 272Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 44 I Have a Cautious Senior Brother 我有一个苟师兄 Lin Xiaogou's ultimate goal in cultivating immortality is to lie flat and live forever. If he can avoid lifting a finger, he won't overwork himself; if he can dodge trouble, he won't get involved! Unfortunately, fate insists on making things difficult for him. His eldest senior brother is a workaholic with obsessive-compulsive tendencies, watching him train every day. Miss even fifteen minutes of practice, and he'll lecture Lin Xiaogou until his ears ring. His second senior brother is a professi 201Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 The Way of the World 这世道 This World 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Ugly Deity Returns to Earth to Cultivate, Hunted by the Police 丑尊地球重修被警追 Zhang Quanliang is an unbelievably ugly, sleazy Immortal Venerable. After robbing the mischievous old boy Taishang Laojun, he goes on to rob a gang of fraudsters from the Western Buddhist Sect. After an accident leaves him sealed off from his cultivation, he arrives on Earth with the Howling Celestial Dog he stole and kicks off an unconventional, hilarious journey of cultivation. 40Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 47 Technician No. 88: The Saintess of Yaochi 88号技师瑶池圣女 [Heavenly Orbit, Part Two] [Comedy] [Corruption] [Ensemble Cast] [Everyone Is Evil] [Sin and Calamity] In this world, every sin has its price, and every calamity has its master. And every calamity stems from a sin that can never be repaid. Hello, sir. Technician No. 88, the Holy Maiden of Yaochi, is delighted to serve you... 199Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 With the God of Wealth’s Treasure in Hand, I Lay Low as a Genius in the Demon Sect 携财神元宝，苟在魔门当天才 [A mortal's journey to immortality. No System. Read the first ten chapters, and then roast it if you don't like it.] Zhao Yang, a street-stall vendor, transmigrates to the cultivation world carrying a golden ingot belonging to the Martial God of Wealth, and inherits his father's secure job as a prison guard. Who could have guessed that a dying, scruffy old man, unable to pay him for his kindness, would pull out a tattered book called the Eternal Spring Art and offer it in exchange for a meal… —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 The Bandit Bull's Reeducation Through Labor 牛拦山匪劳改记 [Goofy and Unhinged] [Shameless to the Core] [Swindling and Deceiving] [A Cast of Maniacs] [Master of Twisted Logic] A model young man of the new century, disgusted by the decline of worldly morality, slapped his thigh and transmigrated to the cultivation world, determined to find a paradise where "everyone serves me." Dayi soon found debating the Dao with his fellow disciples exhausting, until he stumbled upon a flock of lost lambs on Niulan Mountain, all about to stray down the wrong path. 157Reads—Score10314d adds
- 50 Red Hare Rides Across the Starry Han: Lu Bu Cultivates Immortality and Forges a New Han 赤兔踏星汉：吕布修仙铸玄汉 Red Hare Treads the Starry Han: Lü Bu Cultivates Immortality and Forges a New Han —Reads—Score—14d adds
