Novels like Above the Sword Scabbard
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Above the Sword Scabbard, best match first.
- 1 Gods and Buddhas of the Three Realms 三界神佛 [Traditional xuanhuan + No System + Coming-of-age + Ruthless] My name is Wang Ye, and my Buddhist name is Juexing! At last, my master has agreed to let me leave the mountain and begin my cultivation. But the Three Thousand Worlds are full of twists and turns... You call me a demon, and I am a demon! You call me a Buddha, and I am a Buddha! The path I walk needs no approval from all living beings! Fate is made by oneself; appearances arise from the heart! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 I Stand for All Living Beings 苍生有我 Through the storms that batter Huizhou City, wherever monsters and evil spirits appear, Zhang Xiaofan is sure to be there. With a single gesture, he wipes out a beast tide. One city, one region, ten thousand arts. One world, one domain, all living beings. With the power of laws and the rules of space, all things are me, and I am all things. I decide whether the people live in peace, and I protect every realm. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Starting at a Street Art Stall: I Made the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Regret Everything 从画摊开始：我让天机阁追悔莫及 Eastern fantasy, play the pig to eat the tiger, comedy, power fantasy, sweet teasing, and mutual devotion After the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion destroyed my Dao heart, I hid outside Lingyue City, posing as a timid painter to stay alive. The blue stone inkstone at my stall was carved with mysterious sigils no one understood. A casually drawn character meaning “trip” could make a brawny bandit from Blackwind Stronghold smash his face into the ground. Even the scruffy little puppy at my feet was desc —Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 4 Cultivation: The Young Know Nothing of Sorrow 修仙：少年不识愁滋味 [Young protagonist + coming of age] [Genius-focused] [the Myriad Worlds] [No System] Some playful references Youmi Village is a tiny, tiny place, yet it produced an unparalleled genius. Shining like the sun, moon, and stars, he crosses the Myriad Worlds and shatters the three thousand boundary steles. He wanders through mazes in search of truth, and moves across the chessboard without regret. A young man's growth is never smooth sailing. Wouldn't a life without joy and sorrow be terribly dull? T 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 The Word Devourer: Supreme Across Ten Thousand Realms 吞文者：万境独尊 Amid the ruined earth of the Lost Lands, Wen Yuan clutches half of a jade pendant engraved with the character “Wen,” surviving for ten years through roguish swagger and cunning. An abandoned orphan, he unexpectedly awakens twin talents: “Devour” and “Rewrite.” He devours source scripts to grow stronger and alters laws to break through impossible situations. A tattered copy of The Illusory Chapters of the Three Realms lays out a journey spanning the Three Realms. In the Desire Realm’s whirlpool o 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Dreams Lost in Chang'an 长安遗梦归 The hundred schools of thought endure, their flames never extinguished. A disciple of the Novelists travels through the splendid mountains and rivers of the magnificent Tang Dynasty, pen in hand. The bustling splendor of Chang'an, the exotic customs of Western Regions merchants, and an ancient relic of a foreign race open a fantastical realm of the Ba Snake, where time and space surge and a thousand years pass in a single dream. This time, will the Novelist's pen once again record events as they 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Records of the Divine Beasts of Mountains and Seas 山海神狩录 The Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties coexist? Humans, gods, and demons all live together? The peerless Demon King is nothing but a prisoner, and the god who guards the world is merely a jailer. With Bixiao entering the Azure Vault and spiritual roots planted in the Great Void, this lowly fallen noble keeps surviving against all odds. He masters the spiritual roots, ascends the imperial throne, breaks through the Azure Vault, subdues the ancient gods, raises an entire world to greatness, and looks 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 What Do You Mean There’s a River of Time Inside Me? 什么叫我体内有一条时光长河 My spiritual root was formed from the River of Time. Not only can it foresee the future and turn back time, but its fruits can produce all kinds of items. The problem is, I’ve never seen any of them before. [Hextech Augment], From League of Legends. What do these options mean? [Heavenly Creation Dew], From the Heaven Palm Bottle. It can speed up plant growth. At least that one’s from the world of cultivation. [Mark VII Armor], From Stark Industries. How am I supposed to use this thing? [Nuclear 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Gods Yield: A Rashomon After Reaching Shore 诸神退让：上岸后的罗生门 Kongwang is an aloof, top-ranked scholar and divine lord. His knowledge is simply too advanced, and the Immortal Realm ostracizes him. He falls from star lecturer to an unwanted outcast, and in his fury turns to demonic cultivation, triggering the Kongwang Calamity! Watch as Immortal Venerable Ye and Immortal Venerable Tuntan are dragged into the maelstrom. A heavenly marriage spanning ten thousand years becomes a deadly trap of reincarnation through time and space! Wielding the Boundless Umbrel 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Fate and Calamity 神煞 This is an educational work about the “deities and malefic influences” in Four Pillars of Destiny. It does not teach you how to calculate your fortune. Instead, it explains how these influences in a destiny chart shape a person’s life. Anyone who achieves great things must first have their destiny tested by baleful forces. [Eastern mysticism + no System + nontraditional xianxia + plot-driven + a touch of ensemble cast] This is a world where deities and malefic influences coexist with ordin 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Life as an Errand Runner in the Immortal Realm 仙界杂役的生活 I was a menial worker at a tiny immortal sect. My aptitude was so poor that I had no spiritual energy, and no sect would take me in. My father had to trade five oxen just to get me this job. One of the elders had once shared drinks and boastful stories with him. That was how my life as a menial worker began. Every day, I did nothing but serve tea, pour water, sweep floors, chop wood, and cook. I thought that was all my life would amount to: work here for a few years, then go home, marry a wife, 2.5kReads7.4Score358Shelves
- 12 Clouds Over You 君有云 Ten Li Langdang was home to the Academy, where the Confucian Sage held sway. Beneath him were nine Gentlemen and three hundred Confucian scholars, making it the place in the world with the greatest concentration of scholarly refinement. Whenever an Academy disciple was elevated to Gentleman, they had to proclaim a single phrase aloud as the maxim of their life. They would devote their whole lives to striving in accordance with that phrase, which was known as a “Gentleman's Word.” Su Baiyi, Feng 1.7kReads9.4Score227Shelves
- 13 A Mortal's Path to Greatness 凡人的通天之路 An unknown mortal finds a rare treasure and embarks on a thorny path of cultivation. The road to the heavens is never easy. It must be forged through endless conflict, step by step toward worlds without end. He has seen the splendors of the world, yet never forgotten who he was. 13.3kReads8.5Score1.3kShelves
- 14 From the Start, I Found a Divine Cauldron That Will Help Me Live Forever 开局捡到神鼎，伴我一路长生 One sword severs worldly ties; one cauldron hides a profound mystery! Seeking the path to immortality, the young Chu Tiange takes up his green-edged sword, carrying a fragmentary cauldron within, and sets out alone on the road of cultivation. Along the way, he travels across mountains and rivers, witnessing countless wonders of the world, and ventures into perilous places, facing the wicked schemes of the human heart. In this world filled with powerful cultivators, how will he rely on his own ab 557Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 15 Past, Present, and Future: Renegade Immortal Defies the Heavens 古今未来：仙逆乾坤 “I have a dream that can draw immortals into it! No matter how many tricks you have or how mighty your powers are, they’ll all be useless.” The Five Elements Celestial Body has a cultivation history of less than three thousand years. The modern cultivation system has never produced a “Divine Venerable” at the Deity Transformation Realm. “Immortal” is merely a title, not a measure of strength, and certainly no promise of living as long as heaven. In the end, they die too! The protagonist, Li Yuan 9Reads8.7Score—Shelves
- 16 Tales of the Dark River 暗河传 The Dark River can assassinate imperial relatives in the capital and destroy powerful clans and sects in the wilds. It is the foremost assassin organization, feared by all martial world figures. But the Dark River's leader, the Grand Patriarch, is growing old, and his control over the organization is gradually slipping away. After the Grand Patriarch is gravely wounded during a mission to kill Tang Er, the second master of the Tang Clan, several family heads within the Dark River send assassins 7.1kReads9.3Score893Shelves
- 17 I Was Just Playing a Cultivation Game, I Didn't Mean to Cultivate for Real 只是玩个修仙游戏，没想真修仙啊 This book has been adapted into two animated dramas, so you can count on the quality. [Slow Burn] [Cultivation Sects] [The fiery spirit of youth, gifted rivals, laughter and tears. There are always things you have no choice but to do, and people you have no choice but to say goodbye to.] [The further you read, the better it gets. If you don't believe me, try the latest chapter first, then decide whether to keep reading.] [This book won't have Foundation Establishment cultivators cutting down Nas 15.3kReads8.1Score1.8kShelves
- 18 The Blood of Youth 少年歌行 The live-action adaptation of The Blood of Youth premieres exclusively on December 26. A passionate young man dressed in red, a penny-pinching owner of a dilapidated tavern, and the first disciple of a powerful martial clan: the three seem to have nothing in common, until they meet one snowy night. Each with their own agenda, they set out together to escort a coffin made of gold to the frontier city of Bilo. Along the way, they are hunted by forces from every side: the elite assassin duo Yue Ji 5.3kReads9.5Score649Shelves
- 19 Dashing Youth 少年白马醉春风 The long street was steeped in danger, loud and chaotic. A butcher wielding a cleaver brought it down, carving flowers into bone. An old woman selling embroidered shoes teased a flame from her candle with a needle. Not a soul could be found a hundred feet away. Then there was the oil seller, with eighteen swords hidden in his sleeves, always watching the steamed-bun shop across the street and its little beauty, whose hands could tear away one face and give her nine new ones. At the end of the st 11.5kReads9.4Score1.3kShelves
- 20 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 9.4kReads9.2Score662Shelves
- 21 Spring Returns to the Branches of a Sick Tree 病树枝头又逢春 [Print edition now available] Sang Nian accidentally climbs into the world of cultivation and becomes the vicious supporting female character who meets a tragic end in the book. System: Your mission is to marry the male supporting character, Xie Chenzhou, abuse him, humiliate him, and then get killed by him. Sang Nian: OK (brandishes little whip) (hits herself) (collapses with a thud) System: (silence) (stares at the sky) System: Mission changed. Win him over, or go mine coal. Sang Nian: (smiles 183.4kReads9.5Score25.3kShelves
