Novels like Possessed from the Start, with an Old Demon Inside Me
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- 51 The Immortal Dao Is Unfathomable 仙道莫测 A modern archaeologist ventures deep into the Kunlun Mountains, where he unexpectedly encounters a psychic three-tailed white fox. Following it to a hidden cave, he chances upon a mysterious gray orb and is transported body and soul to a vast world of cultivation. From then on, he leaves behind his life as an ordinary mortal and joins a small sect in the martial world. Step by step, he advances on the path to immortality and breaks through one barrier after another. Watch as he defies the heaven 33Reads—Score—Shelves
- 52 The Hidden Eastern Treasury of the Violet Palace 紫府东藏 A thousand cups of wine amid the mortal world, a pot of tea for an everlasting legacy. True love has never lasted since ancient times; only clever schemes can win people's hearts. The sons and daughters of the Jianghu roam the Jianghu, smiling to fulfill old wishes and burying grudges with a laugh. Even when all paths seem lost, shoot an arrow through the clouds, and thousands of troops will come to your aid! 775Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 53 Dreaming My Way to Immortality in the Cultivation World 我在修仙界衍梦长生 [Ordinary Mortal]+ [Cautious Survival]+ [No System]+ [For Veteran Readers]+ [Solid Logic]+ [Traditional Slow Burn]+ [No Transmigration]+ [Female lead early on, mostly absent later; skip if that bothers you] Zhou Wei unexpectedly discovers that he has a unique ability to “dream.” His dreams can not only foretell danger, but also help him deduce spirit medicines, talismans, cultivation techniques, and more... When people look back thousands of years later, who would ever guess that the True Lord o 7.1kReads8.0Score709Shelves
- 54 The Immortal’s Song Along the Mortal Path 凡途仙歌 [Mortal cultivation, no System, multiple heroines, multiple spirit pets] Great rulers and generals are not born to privilege. Even a nobody can defy fate and forge ahead. Xu Sanqian, a young man suffering from consumption, unexpectedly obtained a mysterious space. He thought it was an incredible stroke of fortune, but never imagined it was part of a scheme laid long ago, countless ages in the past. The young man refused to accept his fate and vowed to fight to the death. I have blades in my hand 4.6kReads8.1Score442Shelves
- 55 I Accidentally Started Cultivating Immortality 一不小心就开始修仙了 Chen Xuan is garrisoning the frontier when he receives a special mission. By chance, he obtains an immortal root for cultivation, leaving his mortal body behind to face life-and-death struggles in the cultivation world, where he eventually becomes an immortal sovereign of his age! 408Reads—Score—Shelves
- 56 Cultivation: I Got a Pair of Eagle Eyes from the Start 修仙：开局获得一双鹰眼 [War-torn xianxia] + [not a wish-fulfillment novel] + [no System] No matter the era or where you go, this xianxia world is full of endless conflict and constant warfare! The male lead is captured and imprisoned in a dungeon. His eyesight is so poor that he can only make out blurry figures. Later, an eagle saves him and gives him a pair of special eyes, restoring his vision. Only then does his journey into cultivation truly begin! Unexpectedly, he gains one golden finger, then another... The key 411Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 Immortal Destiny in Tianling Valley 天灵谷仙缘 Also known as [Cultivating Immortality as a Mortal: Finding a Red Stone Necklace from the Start] [Treasures]+ [Beauties]+ [Leveling Up]+ [Formations]+ [Invincible Treasures]+ [A Life with Cheats] The male lead was an ordinary mortal who happened upon a golden finger: a red stone necklace. Inside the necklace was a special being who could talk and called herself Weiwei! Weiwei wasn’t a soul, yet she had always existed! With Weiwei’s help, the male lead struggled to begin his path of cultivation. 212Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 A Villain? I Forge Sequences into Godhood! 反派？我炼序列成神！ [Book Transmigration] [Han Li] [Magic Bottle] [Fervent Adventure] [Ensemble Cast] [Villain's Comeback] [Sequence Evolution] [Mutant Spiritual Root] [Decisive and Ruthless] > First thing to do after transmigrating into Mo Juren: destroy Zhang Tie's puppet and steal Han Li's opportunity! > No small green bottle under the cliff, but I dug up a rusty demonic bottle instead > From then on, everything took a wild turn: > Mix poison and you get a phantom assassin; refine discarded pills into a mountain 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 Heaven-Swallowing Demon Emperor: From Mortal Warrior to the Supreme Demon Venerable 吞天魔帝：从后天武者到最强魔尊 The Sect Master of the Nation-Guarding Sect shatters his jade cup: “One of our minor hall masters could have his pet destroy our sect ten times over!” The seven great sect masters tremble as they speak: “He's an outer disciple, yet he cuts down Golden Core martial artists like grass!” The Alliance Leader of the Myriad Arts slumps to the ground: “Alone with just one sword, he razed all seventy-two of my branches!” The Demon Realm's Holy Lord falls silent: “Cross him, and your realm is doomed!” L 2.7kReads8.4Score139Shelves
- 60 A Mortal’s Path to Immortality 凡人修仙之仙途 “Roots reaching ten inches, transforming mortals into immortals. Build a foundation with the Five Elements, and form a Golden Core aligned with the Heavenly Dao!” Li An was born into an ordinary rural family. After an unexpected calamity struck his village, he was set on the path of cultivating immortality. 280Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 The Immortal-Burning Chronicle 焚仙记 Not a wish-fulfillment story! Don’t read if that’s not your thing! Traditional cultivation fantasy, with a slower pace! [A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality] [Heaven and Earth Spirit Fire] [Sword Cultivator] [Alchemy] The Heavenly Fire Glazed Lamp, a supreme treasure of the Immortal Realm, was accidentally shattered during a battle and fell into the lower realm. Tens of thousands of years later, Han Fusheng, magistrate of Longming County in the Yan Kingdom, was framed by villains and d 8kReads8.2Score719Shelves
- 62 The Supreme Martial God Art 太上武神诀 A genius young man is tricked by his fiancée into losing his dantian, leaving him crippled. Then fortune falls from the sky: he obtains a mysterious golden core and inherits the cultivation art of an ancient Martial God, the Supreme Martial God Art. He walks the path of martial arts and defies the heavens! He builds the Nine Heavens, treads across mountains and rivers. Across the Myriad Worlds, I alone am supreme. 13.1kReads8.6Score1.1kShelves
- 63 From Immortal Slave to the Dao 仙奴成道 [A true ordinary-protagonist story] [Not a do-gooder] [No brainless characters] [Decisive and ruthless] [Repays kindness and vengeance] [No System] This is the story of an ordinary boy who cultivates his way to immortality… The road to immortality is an ocean, and corpses are its boat! (This is a true xianxia novel about an ordinary protagonist. It doesn’t just emphasize the “immortal” side of xianxia, but also its “heroic” side. The story is full of laughs, tears, ruthlessness, and thrilling mo 14.5kReads8.4Score1.7kShelves
- 64 Cultivating the Dao and Seeking Immortality 修仙问道 Someone asks, “Where does the road lie?” I say, “Beneath our feet.” Someone asks, “What is the Dao?” I say, “I am the Dao.” I embody the Dao to prove it, then look up at the heavens and ask what the Dao is. When I wake from a dream, where is my body? The Dao is me, and I am the Dao... 3.8kReads8.4Score318Shelves
- 65 A Rank-One Mortal Cultivator 一阶凡修 A classic mortal's path to immortality. With a mixed Five-Element spiritual root, the protagonist overcomes one obstacle after another through hard work and fortuitous encounters, rising to prominence in the cultivation world. Stages: Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Golden Core → Nascent Soul → Spirit Transformation → Void Refinement → Body Integration → Great Ascension → Tribulation Transcendence 4kReads6.8Score377Shelves
- 66 The Wrath of the Mortal Immortal 凡仙之怒 New Book: Selling Myself to the Hehuan Sect as a Cultivation Cauldron, Controlling Time from the Start The Chaos-Heaven Divine Cauldron can turn the universe upside down! Nine waters and nine heavenly layers: comprehend the Dao and become an immortal! On the path to immortality, spiritual roots, fortuitous opportunities, and destiny are all essential! Xiao Chentian was born with a useless spiritual root and abandoned by fate. Refusing to accept his lot, he defies heaven, treads his own path, con 20.7kReads8.0Score2.5kShelves
- 67 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 2.3kReads6.6Score223Shelves
- 68 The Hongmeng Heavenly Emperor 鸿蒙天帝 A hundred thousand years ago, humanity reached its peak on the Immortal-Demon Continent. There were nine great holy lands, each in control of one of the nine inheritance tomes. Then a sudden cataclysm struck the continent with devastating force. The heavens collapsed, the earth split apart, and countless lives were lost. Humanity suffered the greatest losses: seven holy lands were destroyed, their legacies lost, and only two of the nine heavenly tomes survived. The young Ling Feng emerged like a 37.6kReads8.5Score4.9kShelves
- 69 I Grinded My Way into a Lord of Ten Thousand Laws 肝成万法道君 Wei Xuan transmigrates to the Star Profound Continent and becomes an outer disciple of the Taixuan Sect, where he obtains the Spell-Stealing System. “Ding! A nearby cultivator has been detected casting the Minor Cloud and Rain Art. The System is stealing it.” “Stealing progress: 1%, 2%…100%.” “Host successfully stole the Minor Cloud and Rain Art.” With the Spell-Stealing System, Wei Xuan eventually grinds his way into becoming the Lord of Ten Thousand Arts. 479Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 The Lazy God Cultivates 懒神修仙 781Reads—Score—Shelves
- 71 Don't Call Me Ancestor, I'm Just a Foundation Establishment Cultivator 别叫我老祖，我只是个筑基修士 [Mortal-style cultivation] + [No heroine] + [No System] + [No golden finger] + [A naturally gifted talent] + [Careful, step-by-step planning] + [Smart characters]. Also known as: "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Xiang Zhili" At the age of six, Xiang Zhili of the Xiang family in Great Jin is found to possess a Metal Heavenly Spiritual Root. From then on, he sets out on a cultivation path, vying with fate itself. Ambushed during Foundation Establishment, he learns that “guarding a 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 The Corrupt Yuan Descends: I Use Blood Jade to Suppress the Heavens 秽元降世：我以血玉镇诸天 In the primordial chaos, the Genesis Azure Lotus perished alongside a monstrous beast representing ultimate nothingness as it created the universe. The Azure Lotus broke into eighteen fragments and scattered, awaiting someone destined to inherit its legacy. The beast’s remaining darkness and corruption, meanwhile, quietly spread. Li Yun, the Blood Spear General, was betrayed by his sworn brother and leapt from a cliff to die for his country. When he opened his eyes again, he had been saved by 1kReads9.3Score—Shelves
- 73 Mortal Cultivation: Refining Qi to Attain Immortality 凡人修仙，炼气长生 [Mortal cultivation] [One female lead who serves as a supporting character] [This book has already been adapted into two animated manhua] [Nearly four million characters so far] Su Chen was born a commoner. After both his parents died, he made a living herding cattle for a landlord. One day, soldiers and bandits came through, killing people and wiping out his village. He barely escaped, and a cultivator who happened to pass by took him into an immortal sect. From then on, he embarked on the path 78.8kReads8.4Score7.6kShelves
- 74 Star Martial Firmament 1 星武苍穹1 In the future Solar System, humanity colonizes the stars, only to accidentally awaken a slumbering martial civilization. To save his younger sister, who suffers from a genetic disease, young Lin Fan resolutely embarks on a perilous journey into astral martial arts. As technology and martial arts converge among the stars, the story takes readers on a tour of the Solar System’s magnificent vistas, lets them experience the boundless allure of martial arts, and shows them the light and darkness of h 329Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Paper Effigies and the Yin Shop (Part Two) 纸扎阴铺(二) Paper Effigies and the Yin Shop (2) 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 A Mortal’s Path to Immortality: From Herb Boy to Master of the Heavenly Dao 凡人修仙，从药童入道，执掌天道 [Multiple heroines + Immortal Realm + Divine Realm + Hongmeng Realm + Chaos Realm + Primordial Beginning] Even an ordinary person can have a great stroke of fortune. After surviving countless brushes with death, he turns misfortune into a blessing. He sets out on a rough and winding path to immortality. He lives each day with his life on the line. The past is too painful to look back on. When he unifies all the worlds, who would ever have guessed? The ruler of all worlds was once an ordinary per 11.5kReads8.3Score1.1kShelves
- 77 Green Origin Immortal Manor 青元仙府 After a famine forces the young Fang Yang to be sold as a servant in the city, a strange ancient seal script character unexpectedly leads him to join a martial sect. By a twist of fate, a mysterious immortal mountain takes refuge inside him. One day in the outside world equals a year in the mountain, and from then on, thousand-year-old spirit herbs and ten-thousand-year-old immortal medicines are his for the taking... Fengyun Star, Azure Ancient Star, Canglan Star, Tianyuan Star, Qingliu Star, P 9.2kReads8.4Score924Shelves
- 78 A Mortal's Immortal Cultivation: Dual Cultivation of Sword and Body 凡人修仙之剑体双修 [Mortal-style cultivation] [Slow burn] [Cautious and careful] [No harem] [Driven by self-interest] [Not a bleeding heart] [No System] [Decisive and ruthless] Chen Xuan was once an assassin in the Darknight Hall. During a mission, he unexpectedly obtained a cultivation technique. He made the assassin's instinct etched into his very bones, caution, his highest principle. He treaded on thin ice with every step of his cultivation, carefully considering every possibility. He watched and waited whenev 852Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 79 Reborn from the Start: I'm Just a Scrap Collector 开局重生：我就一个收废品的 From the start, he collects scrap! Lin Zan, the Eternal Immortal Emperor, wields the Great Dao of Dust, sweeps across the outer realms to crush countless strange beings, personally restrains the Ancestor of World-Destroying Evil, and ascends to the highest peak of the heavens. Though his Great Dao makes him invincible throughout the ages, he cannot protect the loved ones by his side. His wife, children, and kin all perish in the outer-realm calamity. Having seen through the joys and sorrows of m 1.7kReads8.6Score151Shelves
- 80 Han Li: From the Start, a Little Bottle Takes Me All the Way to Dao Ancestor 韩立：开局小瓶，一路爽到道祖境 Lin Feng, a young man from a mountain village, uses his family's ancestral jade pendant to accelerate the growth of spirit herbs, break through bottlenecks, and decipher cultivation techniques, launching a cheat-fueled path to immortality. In the Qi Refining stage, he instantly kills Foundation Establishment elders. In the Core Formation stage, he sweeps aside his sect's enemies. In the Nascent Soul stage, he rides a Kun across the boundless sea. The moment he ascends to the Spirit Realm, he rul 893Reads8.1Score104Shelves
- 81 Immortal Fate Sword Cultivator 仙缘剑修 [Mortal's Journey + Sword Cultivator] A little beggar accidentally acquires the storage ring of a Mahayana cultivator and embarks on the path of cultivation. A single glass lotus can not only bring medicinal herbs back to life, but also contains a peerless sword cultivation technique. Watch as he dons white robes and wields a three-foot glass sword. He travels alone, walking the line between good and evil, seeking truth and discovering his true self. Note: This is not a harem novel. (He only bec 10.4kReads8.0Score1.1kShelves
- 82 Spirit Sword Sovereign 灵剑尊 A powerful expert is ambushed and returns to his youth, becoming the weak, useless young master he once was. He will never spare the enemies who wronged him in his previous life! He will make up for every regret he carried into this life! When his spirit sword cries out, he will reign supreme over the three realms of heaven and earth! Anyone who defies him will die by his sword! 7.2kReads8.2Score1.1kShelves
- 83 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Heaven-Piercing Tower 凡人修仙：通天塔 [The animated series A Great Rogue Cultivator: My Quest to Reach the Heavens is currently a hit on Hongguo Short Drama] [No transmigration, sensible plot, traditional cultivation, mortal cultivator, no System] "Are there really immortals in this world?" "Of course!" "Old man, when are you finally going to take me as your disciple?" The boy has lost count of how many times he's begged by now... After a great upheaval, a boy from Lanxian Town embarks on a long journey of cultivation. A mysterious 8.5kReads7.9Score647Shelves
- 84 Tianyan Divine City 天衍神城 [Xuanhuan] [No System] [Smart Protagonist] [Resolute and Passionate] [One Female Lead] A village boy finds a mysterious divine city in the depths of his mind. By chance, he is drawn into a battle between a sacred cultivation ground and the divine beast Black Tortoise. He tempers his Yin-Yang Dao Body, awakens an unparalleled ancient scripture, and discovers that he carries the bloodline born of the union of Heaven's Dao in the realms of gods and demons. Cultivating both divine and demonic arts, 253Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 85 The Demon Dragon and Diancang 魔龙与点苍 The Demon Dragon and Diancang 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Cultivation: I Have an Attribute Panel 修仙，我有一个属性面板 [Ordinary-person cultivation, cautious early on and bold later, decisive and ruthless] After gaming all night, Zhang Qingxiao suffers a sudden heart attack and transmigrates to a world of immortals and demons. With mediocre talent, he becomes a servant disciple of the small Changsheng Sect, reaching the third level of Qi Refining only in his thirties. He thinks his hopes of immortality are over, but it turns out he brought a status panel along when he transmigrated. Whether he practices cultivat 9.6kReads7.8Score643Shelves
- 87 The Day I Got Out of Prison, I Picked Up a Stunning Beauty as My Wife 出狱当天，捡了个绝色美女当老婆 After a passionate night, he was framed and thrown into prison. What he never expected was that she would give birth to his daughter. Six years later, he emerged from prison as a peerless national hero, his power unmatched. The God of War of the Northern Frontier came to welcome him in person and even offered him his breathtakingly beautiful granddaughter. He could only reply helplessly, “I already have a daughter. Isn't that a little inappropriate?” The blurb can't do it justice. Read the story 3.3kReads9.1Score396Shelves
- 88 Sword Cultivator of the Mortal Body 凡体剑修 [Cultivation, Fantasy] + [Swordsmanship] + [Decisive, Blood-Pumping] + [No System] During the sect tournament, Lin Xuan was publicly humiliated and demoted to an outer disciple. Elder Wu declared that if he failed to reach the eighth level of Qi Condensation in three months, he would be expelled from the Spirit Sword Sect. Everyone laughed at him as a good-for-nothing in the immortal path, someone whose life was worth less than grass. Who could have guessed that as soon as he arrived at the oute 38.4kReads8.0Score2.5kShelves
- 89 The Immortal Clan Begins by Cultivating Swords 长生家族从种剑开始 [Five-Element Spirit Swords] [Astral Sword Formation] [Sword Cultivator] [United Family] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Not a Saintly Hero] [Sharp-Witted] [the Myriad Worlds] [Ensemble Cast] [Sword Seeds in the Dantian] (Cultivation stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deification...) A wandering rogue cultivator, a chance encounter with the Sword Dao, and the rise of a family... A different path to ascension. Fellow Daoists, come take a look inside. 22.1kReads7.3Score1.8kShelves
- 90 Hua Yan, Heaven and Earth 华炎天与地 Huayan Heaven and Earth 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 The Ancient Ring Spirit 上古戒灵 [Mortal cultivation, no System, decisive and ruthless, not stupid] The foremost divine craftsman in the Immortal Realm, Lu Ban, spent his entire life forging the Ring Spirit, an immortal artifact hailed as the greatest of the ancient immortal artifacts. Then, all of a sudden, he vanished along with the Ring Spirit. 5.9kReads8.5Score787Shelves
- 92 Turning into a Butterfly, Transcending the Great Dao 化蝶，超脱大道之外 Of the three thousand paths, mastering any one lets you become one with the Dao and live forever. All things come from nothing, and return to nothing. The Dao, too, will one day be destroyed. But I eventually transformed into a butterfly and transcended the Dao. (No System) 3.5kReads7.9Score266Shelves
- 93 The Legend of Lu Hua and Hua Fei 吕华与华飞传说 The Legend of Lü Hua and Hua Fei 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 94 The Legend of Shushan 蜀山传说 The Legend of Shu Mountain 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Xuanhuan: I Awakened a Heavenly Fire Spirit Body from the Start 玄幻：我开局觉醒天火灵体 (Classic fantasy, Heavenly Flame Spirit Body, immortal cultivation, fantasy, decisive and ruthless, no saintly heroine, no System, satisfying power fantasy) After Lin Chen’s parents met with an accident, he awakened the Heavenly Flame Spirit Body. From then on, he defied the heavens, rose to power, and sought revenge for his parents. 120Reads—Score—Shelves
- 96 The Legend of Tang Xiaoming and Ye Hua 唐小鸣与叶华传说 The Legend of Tang Xiaoming and Ye Hua 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 Striving for Immortality 争仙 [A classic mortal cultivation story + no System + Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Core Formation] Archaeology expert Wang Zheng transmigrates to the cultivation world, bringing with him a double-sided bronze mirror unearthed from an unknown ancient tomb. While tending cattle one day, he spots a block of ice floating down the stream. To his surprise, someone is sealed inside... 16kReads8.5Score1.4kShelves
- 98 Immortal Fate Through Spirit Eyes 灵眼仙缘 [Mortal’s Journey] One step onto the path of cultivation, and after ten thousand years, one becomes an immortal! By a stroke of fate, a country bumpkin stumbles into the world of cultivation, a world beyond the wildest imaginings of ordinary people. He cultivates his power and awakens his spiritual sense, farming as he trains, gradually finding his footing in the complicated and treacherous cultivation world. After thousands upon thousands of years, he ultimately rises above the vast worlds and 4.8kReads8.8Score300Shelves
- 99 The Legend of Hua Xiang and Ling Zifei 华翔与灵子飞传说 The Legend of Huaxiang and Lingzi Fei —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 Rebel Against the Immortals 逆仙 Those who live on despite their age are called immortals, and also thieves. For countless ages, cultivators have pursued the truth, weathered heavenly tribulations, opened the Gates of Heaven, and ascended to the Immortal Realm. Immortals stand above mortals, high and mighty. But now, the Martial Emperor has slain an immortal in mortal form, defying the heavens… Will the future of humanity be bright, or dark? 13.5kReads6.2Score373Shelves
