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- 101 I Began Immortality by Using My Disciples as Corpse-Refining Fodder 从把徒弟当做练尸耗材开始长生 [Handcrafted from scratch + self-interest + no brainless protagonist + definitely not abandoned midway + decisive and ruthless + no saintly heroine + dark style + multiple female cultivators as pawns] Qin Yu transmigrates to the cultivation world and becomes a rogue cultivator who barely survived a body-snatching attempt. But this is a world that devours people. As long as saints live, thieves will thrive; mortals are like grass, and cultivators are no different. Fortunately, he has an Eight Tri 1.5kReads6.0Score11514d adds
- 102 I Pursue the Dao of Evil in Hollywood 我在好莱坞邪修证道 [Satisfying power fantasy] [Villainous protagonist] [Decisive and ruthless] [Fast-paced] [Horror movies] After transmigrating to a parallel-world Hollywood, Cao Xiang becomes a no-name Chinese actor. He discovers that horror films in this world have become reality, and terrifying ghosts and monsters are roaming the real world. At a critical moment, he awakens the Evil Cultivator System and becomes an evil cultivator. From then on, corpse refinement, ghost raising, curse magic, and venomous insec 1.3kReads8.2Score10014d adds
- 103 Chasing Stars! My Support Helps Me Win the Championship Again! 追星！辅助我沾再夺冠！ Stanning! Help me get crowned champion again! 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 104 I Crashed into a Female CEO While Delivering Food, and My Wonderful Life Began 2 送外卖撞了女总裁，我的美好人生开启了2 I Hit a Female CEO While Delivering Food, and My Wonderful Life Began 2 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 Biyang Cultivation Realm 碧阳修仙界 [Decisive and Ruthless + Profit Above All + No System + No Fortuitous Opportunities + No Cheats + No Heroine + Ensemble Cast + Slow Pacing + If It's Not for You, Please Don't Read. Thanks!] In the Biyang Cultivation World, everyone has their share of hardships, and everyone ends up behind bars. Protagonist Chu Yuanyu: Neither righteous nor demonic, selfish and self-serving. He'll stop at nothing to grow stronger. Warning: The protagonist may not be to your liking. If you're not into this kind of 302Reads—Score10114d adds
- 106 Hong Kong Crossover: Reborn as Yang Feiyun 港综重生之杨飞云 He unexpectedly wakes up reborn as Yang Feiyun in his youth, from Mr. Vampire. His father says someone has taken their family's hidden dragon lair. Yang can't accept it. Wait, does that mean his father is the mysterious feng shui master from the Mr. Vampire world? (A Hong Kong supernatural crossover world. The story begins eighteen years before Legend of the Maidens. Legend of the Maidens is an old movie. If you've seen it, you know it; if you haven't, I recommend giving it a watch. It's worth s 12Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 107 Seeking the Moon, Calling It Not 寻月不唤 [Dual worlds] + [Repeated soul transmigration] + [Sequences] + [One female lead] + [Ensemble cast] + [No saintly protagonist] + [The author is an idiot] Alternate title: Awakening the Abyssal Moon Sequence, Beneath the Blood Moon, I Am the Law Every meeting feels as if it were destined. Every parting feels like a thousand arrows piercing the heart. When I see your figure, I don't dare raise my eyes to meet yours. When I gaze at your back, I hide the love I'm too afraid to confess. “Transmigr 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 What Do You Mean This Fly Is the Black Dragon King? 什么叫这只苍蝇是黑龙王 [Cultivation for All | Pet Mechanics | Upgradable System | Worlds Merging | Decisive Combat | Deduction and Rules | Defying Fate] When Chang Ye woke up, the gods had descended, and the entire world had entered the age of cultivation. The System handed out free mystery boxes containing divine pets to everyone. Chang Ye opened his with high hopes, only to find a single fly inside? Wait, what do you mean this fly can talk? And claims to be the sealed Black Dragon King? And says a whole bunch of ene 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 My Beautiful Sister-in-Law 漂亮的弟妹 My Beautiful Sister-in-Law 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 I Save the Goddess in the Apocalypse 我在末世救女神 I Save Goddesses in the Apocalypse 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 I Found Love 我得到了爱情 I Found Love 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 An Excellent Woman 优秀的女性 An Outstanding Woman 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 I Hit a Female CEO While Delivering Food, and My Wonderful Life Began 送外卖撞了女总裁，我的美好人生开启了 I crashed into a female CEO while delivering takeout, and my wonderful life began. 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 Oh No! I Refined the School Beauty into a Gu Insect 完蛋！我把校花炼成了蛊 The campus belle bullied me, so I turned her into a gu. That’s perfectly reasonable, right? But as this secret comes to light, more mysteries emerge, and the truth about the world gradually unfolds... Faced with a barefoot glass-skinned bodhisattva, a beautiful Daoist priestess consumed by infernal flames, a cute girl who uses electronic music to summon spirits, a seductive little green tea who charms souls with love spells, a cat-eared girl who communes with spirits through curses, a qipao-clad 213Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Now That I'm Reborn, Who'd Still Go Along With Your Fake Divorce? 都重生了，谁还陪你假离婚 Only after dying did she understand: in her previous life, she had trusted the wrong man and suffered the horrific loss of her family. Reborn in 1985, Li Hui decisively cut ties with the disastrous relationship and kept away from her ex-husband's family. This time, she meets the steady, reliable Wu Ziyuan. Together, they ride the tide of the times: running freight between Sichuan and Hubei, opening a workshop to make affordable chairs, preparing to launch a Wuhan storefront, and investing in sto 180Reads8.2Score11414d adds
- 116 Demon Ashes: The Magic Mirror Emerges 魔烬：魔镜出世 The ultimate demonic path, no transmigration, no brainless characters. A battle of wits and courage, surviving in the cracks. The young Zhong Ji grows up fast and matures, gradually uncovering this desperate, ashen world and its sweeping historical narrative... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 I Shattered James's Nomadic Dynasty 我击碎詹姆斯的游牧王朝 I Shattered James's Nomadic Dynasty 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 The Demon Lord Is Back: I Crawled Out of My Own Grave 魔头复活了：老子从坟里爬出来了 Xuanhuan, revived demon lord, wish fulfillment, ghosts and monsters, comedy, dark tone, no female lead, gender transformation, ensemble cast, court politics, martial world, mystery, transmigrate, reborn, no System, antihero protagonist (Also known as The Ghostly Genius of a Thousand Years) Ten years ago, Chen Changqing was hunted down by twenty-three masters, to the delight of the world. Ten years later, two tomb raiders opened his coffin. There were no bones inside, only a yawning young man. “T 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 Becoming a Top-Tier Talent While Studying in the Land of the Free 留学霉国成为高端人才 Studying in the United States and becoming a high-end talent 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 I Found a Manual for Evil Cultivation, and Now I Draw Talismans and Refine Corpse Puppets in the City 捡到邪修手册，我在都市画符炼尸 [Raising Corpses and Ghosts] [Urban Cultivation] [Unorthodox Cultivator] [Ordinary Protagonist] [Read It as Cultivation, Not the Supernatural] Dissect a ghost mother, use forbidden arts to seek wealth! Down on his luck, Feng Jie taught himself forbidden arts using a notebook left behind by an unorthodox cultivator. After capturing a "ghost mother" alive, he became a ghost dissector! He used ghost blood to draw a wealth-attracting talisman, but accidentally stumbled into a ghost market and embark 33.9kReads8.0Score3.8k14d adds
- 121 Infinite Flow: A Fateful Anime 无限流：命运番剧 Dual female leads / Infinite loop / Two powerful leads / Comedy Huo Jin, an antisocial code goddess × Gu Nian, a sharp-tongued film critic One day at noon, every screen in the world abruptly switched channels and began streaming an anime called Infinite: Twin Souls. 51Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 The Eternal Imprisonment of Sinful Souls 永锢罪魂 [BE] [Tough on the outside, gentle within; a humble, unloved heroine] [No CP] [Heartbreaking] She was the orphan of a hero. After transmigrating, she fell into the abyss, betrayed time and again. To save her companions, she willingly allowed herself to be imprisoned in hell forever, sentenced to two hundred million years. When the underworld trembled and sinful souls were deified, the tiny shackle around her wrist still seared her soul for eternity: the mark of her eternal sin. They owed her far 53Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 Republican Era: One Broken Regiment from the Start, Points Can Buy Anything 民国：开局一个残团，积分换一切 Eastern Sichuan, 1920. After his father is assassinated, he takes command of a ragtag force fewer than a thousand strong, surrounded by enemies on all sides. Bound to the Empire-Building System, he earns points by killing enemies and exchanges them for rifles, machine guns, artillery, soldiers, and formidable generals. Yang Sen sends two regiments to "absorb" his force. He just smiles. 2.2kReads6.6Score21414d adds
- 124 Bang Bang, If This Place Won't Have Me, There's Always Somewhere That Will 乓乓，此处不留爷自有留爷处 Clang, clang! If this place won't have me, there's always somewhere else that will. 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Lord of the Divine and the Strange: From the Start, I Grew a Scorpion Tail 神诡之主：开局长出一条蝎尾 [Multiple transformation forms] + [Friends and family sacrificed to the heavens] + [A brand-new version with no imitators anywhere online] + [No female lead, no harem] “What matters most after you transmigrate? Talent? Background? A golden finger? No, no, no. Friends and family matter most. If you don’t sacrifice them to the heavens, your magic will never know bounds. I’m Gu Xin. Don’t call me a jinx. I’d die for my friends and family.” Gu Xin transmigrates into the body of a lowly knife sla 27.5kReads8.1Score3k14d adds
- 126 Skip, Skip! Just Tell Me Who to Kill! 跳过跳过！告诉我杀谁就行！ [Player Talent: I Love Killing, Born Expert] [I Love Killing: You are a devil by nature. Killing is as natural to you as eating and drinking. Only after killing enough people does your mood improve.] [Born Expert: You possess the makings of a master. No martial art is too difficult for you. You can learn any technique in an extremely short time and cultivate it to the highest level just as quickly.] Qin Muyuan accidentally transmigrated into a fantasy world. But because he could see players' 47.1kReads8.6Score5.9k14d adds
- 127 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: I Can Fuse Anything! 凡人修仙：我能融合一切！ [Mortal cultivation + demon cultivator turns into a monster + golden finger + no holier-than-thou protagonist + ruthless killer + a little twisted] [At readers' request, the protagonist's starting age has been changed to ten. Everything else remains the same, and it won't affect the reading experience.] A naive young boy has a sunflower with two heads. It can fuse two identical objects into one, doubling its quality. By a twist of fate, the boy embarked on the path to immortality. He treasures t 1.2kReads7.8Score11214d adds
- 128 Extinction: From Beginner to Expert 灭绝世界从入门到精通 [Villain + villain + villain + no female lead + ruthless and decisive] “Li Yuan, you’re a madman! I can’t comprehend your malice toward life. I can’t even imagine how cold and dark your heart must be. Your actions are appalling. I simply believe that killing you is more urgent than killing any other enemy.” “Li Yuan, are you trying to play God? You want to turn the world into hell, etching your crimes into every corner. You want to make life your plaything, with everyone’s survival hanging on yo 6kReads7.5Score49314d adds
- 129 What’s Wrong with Slaughtering a Village to Improve My Talent? 为提升资质屠个村怎么了？ [No female lead] [Not a naive protagonist] [No System] [Villain] [Slow burn] If you want pure wish fulfillment, this isn't for you. The world is in turmoil, and the age is in chaos! Is immortality the end of cultivation, or a lie told by the Heavenly Dao? A young man arrives from another world. Whose design lies behind his arrival? Mighty figures make their moves, while righteous and demonic factions face off. Who is right and who is wrong? Chen Cheng doesn't know. All he wants is to pursue immo 264Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 130 Reborn in the Apocalypse: I Scrounge for Supplies and Become the Boss 重生末世：白嫖物资当老大 (Apocalypse + rebirth + spatial ability + stockpiling supplies + revenge + ruthless decisiveness + building a faction + livestreaming + multiple reborn characters) “In my last life, I took the fall for my brother and spent eleven years in prison. I awakened a spatial ability, but they treated me like a human refrigerator. Then they killed me!” Reborn 102 days before the apocalypse, Xiao Lin has tens of millions in startup funds, and his spatial ability has awakened earlier and grown stronger t 59Reads—Score214d adds
- 131 Tokusatsu's Values Are All Wrong, So I Beat Up the Godlike Protagonist 特摄三观不正，我暴打神人主角 [Original work] [Tokusatsu] [Live comments] [Urban fantasy] [Transmigration] Zhou Chang transmigrates into the world of the Tokusatsu series Holy Armor Warriors, where every character is so softhearted they can't bring themselves to hurt monsters. Some even put monsters' right to live above humanity's. “Alien beasts have dreams too. You can't kill them!” “The Jama are not at fault. The world that won't let them eat people is!” “I believe humans can coexist peacefully with Soul Eaters. We just ne 8.1kReads8.6Score68814d adds
- 132 I Worship Ghosts, Not Gods; I Honor Evil, Not People! 拜鬼不拜神，尊邪不尊人！ (The prequel to Ye Ran is coming soon) [Evil Cultivator with No Bottom Line] + [Unorthodox Methods] + [Supernatural Power Fantasy] + [Decisive and Ruthless] + [No Female Lead] + [Corpse Refining and Ghost Controlling] + [The writing may be disturbing, and the protagonist is no hero.] When the justice people believe in cannot be served, unorthodox methods find their way in. “Unorthodox methods” has always been a derogatory term. They may not deliver justice, but they can soothe the anger burning 8.3kReads8.4Score69114d adds
- 133 Unrivaled in Immortal Cultivation 独步修仙 The new novel, Refining Myself into a Corpse, is currently being serialized… Visit the author's homepage to read it. The path of immortal cultivation is about seizing opportunities and fortune, defying yin and yang and life and death, and mastering heaven and earth. Watch as the protagonist, through a twist of fate, enters the path through blood and gradually uncovers the truth about this world. (No heroine, no goody-two-shoes, a dark story with ruthless, decisive violence!) 374Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 134 Calamity Gu Master: Starting with Living Human Gu Feed 灾厄蛊师：从活人蛊粮开始 [Not a saint] + [Decisive and ruthless] Mo Chen claws his way out of the desperate plight of being “food for living Gu.” With cunning and ruthlessness, he advances step by step through the cruel world of cultivation, seizing resources and refining, cultivating, and mutating calamity species, until he becomes the “Calamity Gu Master” who makes the entire Great Calamity Era tremble. 80Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 My Little Hong Kong Devil Can’t Possibly Be This Cute 我的香江小恶魔不可能这么可爱 [Not-So-Classic School Life]+ [Loli]+ [Everyday Life]+ [Urban]+ [Mystery]+ [Could Be One Heroine, Could Be Several]+ [Ensemble Cast]+ [Basically, Who Knows What Elements] [This isn’t the story of one person or one couple. It’s a story universe.] [Fans of different pairings are welcome.] [Brief and Straightforward Synopsis] Li Longji is an eighteen-year-old man. He shares his name and birthday with Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Longji, who ushered in the Kaiyuan Golden Age and brought about the 40Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 136 The Great Desire Hunt 欲望的大逃杀 Desire must be held in balance by other desires. When any one desire grows too powerful, it gives rise to something warped and uncanny. The student Su Qing and his close friend Wu Ji are dragged against their will into a battle royale born of desire. Beings from another era descend and charge them with saving the world, promising that if they complete the hunt, their deepest desires will be fulfilled and their fates rewritten. This isn’t a game show watched by an audience. It’s a crisis spawned 117Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 A Boat of Flesh and Blood, Ferrying All Gods and Buddhas 血肉为舟，渡尽神佛 (Demons) (Gods and Buddhas) (Incense Offerings) (Fortune) (Corpse-Liberation Immortals) (Cultivation Through Flesh and Blood) (No System) (Decisive and Ruthless) Three thousand continents, humans, demons, and monsters coexist, sustaining the gods and Buddhas... In troubled times, demons and monsters seek cultivation, devouring countless people. Gods and Buddhas coexist and enjoy the incense offerings, indifferent to the world. 76kReads9.1Score7.8k14d adds
- 138 Fellow Daoist! Join My Imperial Banner and Plot for Eternal Life 道友！入我人皇幡共谋长生 Mortal cultivation + killing-focused + no heroine + dark themes +++ the protagonist is extremely cautious For Mu Changsheng, anything is fair game if it makes him stronger. He wouldn’t hesitate to slaughter every world in existence. Mu Changsheng uses a mortal body as cultivation material and his soul as a magical treasure. To grow stronger and live forever, he can cast everything aside. (Dark themes: he uses souls and flesh as fuel to grow stronger.) 41Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 Black Otherworldly Immortal 黑异恒者 Across countless universes, gods run rampant and overlords clash for supremacy. The Black Prison finally erupts. … Lu Jun, male, twenty-six, single, with no home or savings. A ruthless Black Adept who cares only about profit. One day, a white-haired girl suddenly appears out of nowhere in his shop. “Miss, what do you want?” “This humble one wishes to experience the most complex emotion in the world… love.” “Any special requirements?” “The love I desire must be pure as a lily.” Lu Jun understood 2.4kReads8.2Score14614d adds
- 140 The Servant’s Rise: I Want Both a Career and Romance 杂役逆袭：搞事业和谈恋爱我都要 [Female-led + cultivation comeback + concealed identity + mutual devotion + character growth] A Xu, a demonic cultivator's servant, has endured endless hardship and is dismissed as a good-for-nothing with no spiritual roots. No one knows that seven years of struggling in the demon caves have made her highly capable, or that she possesses rare Five Elements spiritual roots that have simply been misidentified all along. To escape her miserable life, she changes her appearance, takes the name Yan Q 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 141 Master of Ghostly Fate 鬼命之主 With a useless System and a ruthless Host, Mo Li, born a villain, will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. He has always believed in one creed: either be forsaken by everyone or ascend to the very top. 3.2kReads6.7Score25514d adds
- 142 Lord, the Human Race Is Weak. What Does That Have to Do with Me, a Cultivator? 领主，人族弱，关我修仙者什么事 [A Little Dark] [Power Fantasy] [Immortal Venerable] [Behind-the-Scenes] The proud dragons are stripped of their scales and fur, and the holy angels have their wings torn off. From then on, another world passes down tales of a band of executioners. Guided by the principle of harming the heavens, but not Wen He, a group of cultivators set out on a campaign of conquest under Wen He’s leadership. Demon: “Compared to them, I’m practically a raw recruit.” Angel: “I have no idea. They said they envied 1.1kReads8.1Score10214d adds
- 143 Lone Star at the End of the Road 末路孤星 The scroll of absurd wishes is covered in the foolish fantasies of lambs. Black isn't black, white isn't white, cats aren't cats, and dogs aren't dogs. So is what seems real actually fake, or is what seems fake actually real? It shook its head and crushed those ridiculous pigments... 23Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 Immortality in the Demonic Sect: A Fated Bond with a Spirit Corpse Immortal 魔门长生之灵尸仙缘 Lin Xuanqing accidentally entered a demonic sect, only to discover that it was nothing like the brutal place of legend. From then on, he refined spirit corpses, sought immortality, and cultivated the sword. A thousand years later, he looked back, having reached the pinnacle. No matter how chaotic the Azure Heavens or shattered the Yellow Earth, all things mourn with the changing seasons! Loneliness like falling snow! My heart endures forever. 784Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 145 T-800's Guide to Medieval Travel T800的中世纪旅行指南 No Dragon King returning, no levels or realms, no tragic romance. Just a traveler who transmigrates to another world with the body of a T-800 Terminator, setting off on a spur-of-the-moment journey. For the sake of travel, the T-800 becomes a wandering bard, in a story about one man and one dog, bound together by their ties. 125Reads6.3Score10014d adds
- 146 Look Out! The Hamster Girl Protagonist Is Surrounded 危！小仓鼠女主被包围啦 [Coming of Age + Healing + Everyone’s Favorite + Fantasy] Peng Yuxin is a student at Gallidon University, working hard and growing throughout her studies. Wait, what’s going on? Why is everyone looking at her so strangely? The cool, top-ranking student. The gentle older girl. The gloomy, clingy girl. What, a rift in space and time? And even her own little fox is a handsome man! 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 Human Survivors: A Collection of Fairy Tales 人类幸存者【童话集】 Who is the true survivor? The ageless performer onstage, or the audience that lives on forever below? Seen from above, the audience becomes part of the story too. In the very end, who is the survivor in this dreamlike illusion? This is an original work by Rabbit Vampire, now authorized for publication on Royal Road. Reproduction is permitted. All rights reserved. Infringements will be prosecuted. 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 The Otherworldly Plantation Lord: My Summons Are a Little Strange 异世界种植园领主：召唤物有点奇 [Otherworld] [Western Fantasy] [Comedy] [Weird Stuff] Wei Li'an, a homebody born and raised on Blue Star, stayed up all night playing games until he suddenly died. When he opened his eyes, he had landed in the Western-themed game world he used to play. There, he was a down-and-out, concubine-born lord with a fief in the dangerous, remote Xingluo Forest. Three years in this world! He waited a whole three years for his world and his System to activate. After spending those three years hoeing the 354Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 Lord of the Oak 橡木之主 My name is Oak, and I’m seventeen. My ducal father is very open-minded. He always calls me “the little son who likes running off into the woods.” My older brother and sister are hopeless romantics who spend every day thinking about dating handsome men and beautiful women. My only wish is that nobody discovers the oak grove to the east is my secret domain. There’s an ancient oak tree there, the oldest of them all. I named it Wood. Today, as I leaned against it and daydreamed like I always do, I h 3.6kReads8.0Score37314d adds
- 150 The Heavenly Master of Reverse Fortune 逆运天师 [Originally titled The Reversed-Fate Celestial Master and Those Years of Helping Ghosts Harm People] [Multiple Female Leads] [Supernatural Evil Cultivation] [Controlling Paper Dolls, Consecrating Yin Compasses, Refining Copper-Coin Ghost Treasures, Making Corpse Puppets, Raising Ghosts, Practicing Yin Fiend Arts] [Cultivation Ranks: New Ghost - High-Grade Ghost - Yin Soldier (Yin Soldier Ghost Path) - Ghost King (Ghost King Evil Path) - Ghost General (Netherworld Ghost General) - Great Demon - F 2.5kReads8.1Score20314d adds
