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- 1 Wuxia Summoning: Creating the Carefree Pavilion from the Start 武侠召唤，开局创建逍遥阁 [Behind the Scenes + Summoning + Invincible + High Martial Arts] Wen Wudao was an ordinary young man in the modern world, but he unexpectedly found himself reborn in another world filled with fantasy and martial arts. On this unfamiliar continent, where the strong ruled and the weak were prey, he discovered that he had acquired a mysterious Invincible Summoning System. With its immense power, he could summon characters from novels, anime, and films to serve him. From peerless masters created by 19.7kReads7.1Score1.1k14d adds
- 2 From the Start, I Was an Invincible Great Emperor, Ruling the Ages Alone! 开局大帝境无敌，一人独断万古！ Mu Chen emerged from Earth, passed through Yinghuo, entered Beidou, reached Ziwei, and battled the Eternal Realm. After tens of thousands of years, he finally perfected the Ancient Desolate Sacred Body. Invincible and peerless for a million years, his physical body ultimately could not withstand the ravages of time. In the shattered Immortal Realm, across the boundless Sea of Boundaries, one ancient supreme being after another, beings once driven away like dogs, awoke and watched him covetously! 1.5kReads6.4Score13814d adds
- 3 The Overprotective Ancestor Has the Myriad Worlds Green with Envy 护短老祖，诸天万界羡慕哭了 [Invincible + Starts as an Emperor + Ruthless and Decisive] Ninety thousand years ago, when the road to immortality opened, Gu Chen, already an Emperor, fought his way to its end, only to discover that it didn't lead to the Immortal Realm, but to the terrifying Demon Realm! Countless evil demons sharpened their blades, and the boundless world stood on the brink of ruin! To protect all of humanity, Gu Chen built the Imperial Pass and stood guard alone beyond the Ninth Heaven, holding back the dem 13.7kReads7.3Score75814d adds
- 4 I Asked You to Bind the Fated Maidens, Not Turn Them All into Dao Companions 让你绑定天命女，你全发展成道侣 Li Xuanfeng transmigrates to a fantasy world and manages to become an outer sect disciple at Hundred Swords Mountain for three years. But his talent is mediocre, and he fails to reach the realm required by the sect. In a month, he will be sent down the mountain. At the critical moment, he binds the Destiny Return System. As long as he binds someone blessed by destiny, any cultivation-related gains they make will be returned to him at a random multiplier of ten to a hundred times! His destined ju 39.8kReads8.2Score4.9k14d adds
- 5 Xuanhuan: After My Death, I Became the Primordial True Demon 玄幻：我死后，化身原始真魔 [Ultimate villain + dark + ruthless + nearly invincible + slaughters his way through the world + no female lead] My name is Zhao Wumian. I'm an ordinary person with little cultivation, yet a lofty divine son falsely accuses me of being a fiend who slaughtered hundreds of millions. Before long, my body will be crushed, my three souls and seven spirits ripped out, and I'll suffer in a soul lamp until I die. My name is Ye Baiwei. I'm the Holy Maiden of Qixia Sacred Land, and I have another i 3.4kReads7.7Score18614d adds
- 6 I Really Don't Want to Cultivate Immortality! 我真不想修仙啊！ [A summary gained from reading is ultimately shallow; to know whether it is good or bad, please read the main story] "What did you just ask me?" "Cultivating immortality is difficult. Are you afraid?" "The sentence before that?" "Do you want to cultivate immortality?" Xu Xian pondered briefly. "Cultivating immortality is fine, but suffering is not!" 118.5kReads7.4Score7.7k14d adds
- 7 Xuanhuan: I Just Ascended the Throne, and You Want Me to Restore the Great Feng Dynasty? 玄幻：朕刚登基，让我复国大奉？ Shen Nan transmigrates as the Crown Prince of the Dafeng Empire and is about to ascend the throne when, to his shock, he awakens a Restoration System. [At age thirty-four, the Dafeng Dynasty falls, and you become the ruler of a fallen nation. The land is engulfed in war and overrun by demons. After months of wandering from place to place, you stand on a cliff atop a mountain in Jiangzhou. Deeply ashamed that you have failed your people and your ancestors, will you leap to your death, or will you 20.1kReads8.4Score1.2k14d adds
- 8 Villain: Forbidden Zone Divine Son! I Hunt the Heavenly Dao 反派：禁区神子！我狩猎天命大道 Villain protagonist + invincible background + overwhelming power fantasy + no pretending to be weak + battles across the myriad heavens + slightly yandere heroine The Forbidden Zone of Time and Space, a graveyard for time and space. Kong Wudao, divine son of the forbidden zone, was unrivaled among the era’s greatest prodigies. Finding life dull, he willingly sealed himself away in the Heavenly Mountain of Time and Space. Countless years later, the Great Dao changed, and the myriad heavens entere 13.3kReads8.5Score1k14d adds
- 9 Good Grief! Ancestor, How Many Ex-Girlfriends Do You Have? 夭寿啦！老祖宗你还有多少前女友 Qin Changsheng transmigrated by accident, but had no aptitude for cultivation. Disheartened, he decided to experience the pain of love, and ended up dating one woman after another. You could say there was an ex-girlfriend within a hundred miles, wherever he went! Ten thousand years later, the System finally arrived, and he became an emperor overnight. Tired of his old life, he wanted only to build up the Qin family, but one unexpected incident after another came his way. They say the Ice God Pal 31.5kReads8.7Score2.9k14d adds
- 10 After Sleeping for Ten Thousand Years, I Was Dug Up by the Great Emperor, My Father, to Be a Villain 沉睡万年，被大帝父亲挖出做反派 [Heaven's Chosen Villain + Cunning + Overbearing + Ruthless + Overwhelmingly Satisfying, Unmatched Domination] Su Jiuxiao transmigrates as the heir of an ancient imperial clan, born with a primordial Chaos God Body. Because the Heavenly Dao is incomplete and he cannot become an Emperor, his father seals him away to sleep within an Ancient Divine Origin. Over the next one hundred thousand years, all the Emperors of the myriad heavens perish. And his father actually becomes the only living Emperor 23.4kReads8.5Score2.1k14d adds
- 11 Maxed-Out Talent: I Make My Mark in the Martial World! 天赋拉满，我在武道世界显圣！ [Invincible from the start + ceiling-level combat power + emperor of a dynasty + powerful lead] Lu Chen transmigrates and is reborn. In this life, he's the fifth prince of the Great Yu Dynasty, blessed with terrifying comprehension and an exceptional constitution. While others are still fretting over how hard it is to reach the ninth level of the Azure Heaven Formula, he's already deduced further improvements to the technique, reaching the unprecedented eleventh level. While others are still str 67.3kReads8.9Score3.6k14d adds
- 12 Reincarnating Through the Heavens, I Bloom Amid Slaughter 诸天轮回，我于杀戮中绽放 [Infinite flow, the Myriad Worlds, original worlds, decisive killing, no female lead] After Chu Yunhan was chosen by the Tower of Guixu, which governs the infinite multiverse, to become a hunter, his talent, Spirit-Slaying, granted him the ability to absorb the power of souls through killing, strengthening himself and deducing cultivation techniques. To survive, he had no choice but to descend into one terrifying world after another and face endless slaughter. When his presence spread across the 82.6kReads8.5Score10k14d adds
- 13 Immortal Martial Emperor 仙武帝尊 Nine thousand years ago, the Immortal Martial Emperor led a million divine generals into the ancient primordial wilderness. Not one of them returned, and only a wisp of true fire remained in the world. Nine thousand years later, Ye Chen, a discarded disciple, was driven from his sect and left with nowhere to go. By a twist of fate, he came into possession of the true fire and set foot on the path of immortal martial cultivation once more. This is a world where gods, demons, immortals, and Buddha 60.5kReads9.1Score14.3k14d adds
- 14 EN Immortality System: I Outlived Everyone 系统赋我长生，我熬死了所有人 Observing the love and hatred of cultivators across the river of time from a perspective beyond life itself. He left a modest little town and entered the wondrous world of cultivation. His journey sped up and slowed down, moving forward or stopping to rest, but he never stopped walking. The Age of Declining Dharma, the Age of Emperors, the Age of Dark Turmoil… He appeared in every age, and the only thing he could do was watch old friends die with his own eyes, then see them off to their grave 581.6kReads9.4Score60.6k14d adds
- 15 EN Villain: My Little Brother is the Chosen One 反派：我的弟弟是天选之子 "Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain 342.4kReads9.5Score38.6k14d adds
