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- 51 I’m Already at the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, and You Still Dare Bully Me? 我都渡劫期了，还敢欺我 [Fantasy, imaginative premise, one heroine, chosen by fate, immortality, invincible protagonist] University student Chu Yang accidentally transmigrates into the world of a fantasy novel while reading one, only to become the bootlicker whose cultivation is crippled and whose life ends in the original story? A mere Foundation Establishment cultivator dares to bully me, a Tribulation Transcender? He's asking to die! “You bully me? Insult me? Then go to hell!” “Chosen-by-fate hero? Chosen-by-fate he 193Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 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
- 53 Scarlet Sacrifice 猩红祭品 The Scarlet Offering 71Reads—Score214d adds
- 54 Cultivation Begins After I Get Hit on the Head 修仙从被人敲闷棍开始 Zhou Bufan is a fortune-teller in a park, a man at the very bottom of society who barely scrapes by through scams and deception. After making an unwanted advance out of lust and getting knocked out from behind, he unexpectedly transmigrates to a corner of the Jiuzhou Continent. There, he finds a cultivation manual and a storage pouch, and accidentally activates the space inside his ancestral jade pendant. From then on, he begins a carefree life of immortal cultivation. See how this former con ma 17Reads—Score114d adds
- 55 Snowy Night on the Tianshan Mountains 雪夜天山 [Eastern fantasy + play the pig to eat the tiger + comedy + revenge] On a snowy night ten years ago, I was in my mother’s arms, watching with my own eyes as a group of men in black hunted her down! Ten years later, I descend the mountain and enter the Academy of All Life. Then one day, I unexpectedly discover that I have half-demon blood. Me: “I’m a demon? What kind of demon am I?” When demon calamity strikes, an elder of the Academy of All Life points at me and curses, “Half-demons are the root 1kReads6.7Score10114d adds
- 56 The Myriad Forms of the Netherworld 幽墟万象 A shroud of mist blankets the world, and technology lies in ruins. Humanity, eking out a living within lighthouses, never imagined that beneath the shadows at their feet lay a secret buried for countless ages: the present world is merely a phantom of the Ruin Realm. A devouring cycle that repeats once every 129,600 years has already ground countless eras to dust. Every 129,600 years, the Ruin Realm devours the world, and the cycle begins anew. The bones of countless civilizations lie buried deep 63Reads—Score1214d adds
- 57 The Supporting Character Who Transmigrated into a Book: The Empress Is Always Eavesdropping on My Thoughts 穿书配角：女帝她总在偷听我心声 Supporting Character After Transmigrating into a Book: The Empress Is Always Eavesdropping on My Thoughts 2Reads—Score114d adds
- 58 Rule Horror: The Red-Lacquered Building 规则怪谈：红漆楼 Rule Horror: The Red-Painted Building 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 59 A President Arrested a President 总统抓了一个总统 A President Captures a President 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 60 After I Transmigrated, I Activated the Spirit-Devouring Gene System 穿越后，激活噬灵基因系统 After Transmigrating, I Activated the Spirit-Devouring Gene System 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 I Found a Pocket Dimension and a Medicinal Herb Garden, and Now I'm Doing Research in the Immortal Realm 捡到空间药田，我在仙界搞研发 [Portable pocket world with medicinal fields + solo cultivation + building a faction + no female lead + no harem] Lin Feng came across a portable pocket world with medicinal fields that accelerated the growth of spirit herbs. Combining Blue Star technology with the world, he cultivated technical talent and got into product research and development. Later, he discovered that the pocket world’s laws were complete enough to let other people enter, so he moved his people and laboratories inside. Pro 163Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 62 Thunder Crashes Through Time, and I Make a Contract with a Panda 惊雷穿古，契约食铁兽 Thunder Crashes Through Time, and the Iron-Eating Beast Becomes My Contracted Partner 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 Reborn as Liu Yu: From the Start, I Refuse Han Li's Apprenticeship 重生柳玉：开局拒绝韩立收徒 [An unconventional story from the start] + [Seize a spiritual vein] + [Devour true spirits] + [Mastermind behind the scenes] + [Cultivation equal to the combined strength of the sect] + [Refine the entire sect into a pocket world treasure] + [Ascend as a group] Reborn for a second life, Liu Yu tore up the script before she ever met Han Li. She refused to be a well-behaved disciple and instead devoured her own spirit pet, the Six-Winged Frost Centipede! It was because Han Li had once revealed tha 457Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 Cultivation: I Hold the Universe and All Things in My Palm 修仙:我掌中有乾坤万物 Gu Changqing transmigrated into a cultivation world and became an unaffiliated cultivator with a worthless spirit root. After years of cultivation, he still couldn't break through! By chance, he obtained a small jade bead, only to discover that it contained a pocket space with a spiritual field... 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 I Played a President, Then Became a Real One 我这个总统演员，成了真总统 I Played a President on TV, Then Became a Real President 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 The Sky-Mending Immortal Gourd 补天仙壶 [Mortal Cultivation] [No System] [Cautious and Slow-Burn] [No Mindless Power Fantasy] [Logical] [Engaging] Lin Feng is a low-ranking laborer disciple of the Xuantian Sect. With a worthless spiritual root and no backing, he can only struggle to survive at the bottom of the sect. By a stroke of luck, he obtains a mysterious, evolving immortal gourd. Put snake bones into the gourd, and they can become spirit snakes; put incomplete cultivation arts into it, and the techniques will complete themselve 14kReads7.7Score2k14d adds
- 67 Growing Immortality in an Acre of Spiritual Fields 一亩灵田种长生 [Mortal’s Journey + No System + Farming + Unusual Farming + Upgradable Pocket Dimension] The story mainly focuses on developing a sect, so the setting won’t change constantly! The jade pendant’s black soil boosts the growth of spiritual herbs in stages: tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold, ten thousandfold! Chen Ping was an errand disciple of the Qingyuan Sect. He did the hardest, most exhausting work and ate worse than livestock. One day, while cleaning out an abandoned alchemy room, he foun 44.2kReads7.6Score4.2k14d adds
- 68 Reborn to Restore the Three Realms 重生之重整三界 (Modern urban cultivation, traditional xianxia, upright values, decisive and ruthless, no idiocy, no System, lighthearted power fantasy) The carefree Immortal Emperor Gu Changsheng had just ascended to the Divine Realm when, during a fight, he unexpectedly got his wish and was reborn on Earth. Now he can make up for the regrets of his past life. From the mundane world to the cultivation world, then the Immortal Realm and finally the Divine Realm, he’ll dominate every step of the way... 5.7kReads8.3Score47214d adds
- 69 A Hundred Wasted Meridians? I Have a Hundredfold Cultivation Space 百脉废灵根？我有百倍修炼空间 [Mortal Cultivation | Space Upgrades | No System | No Harem] Shen Qing, a good-for-nothing with a hundred-spirit-root constitution, unexpectedly acquires a mysterious space where time flows a hundred times faster: the [Tortoiseshell Cave Heaven]. Time passes a hundred times faster inside, and it also holds the immortal cultivation art "Evergreen Art". Plant a spirit herb for ten years, and it becomes a thousand-year-old immortal herb; Raise a spirit beast for a hundred years, and it becomes a te 12Reads—Score10014d adds
- 70 A Mortal's Path to Immortality: The Rogue Cultivator Cao Yan's Road to Ascension 凡人仙途：散修曹琰的登天路 (Sword cultivator in the early and middle stages, mortal cultivation, no System, starts out in a marketplace, traditional cultivation, slow burn, cautious, decisive and ruthless, talismans) The road to immortality is elusive. I walk it alone. Cao Yan is a bottom-rung rogue cultivator with four spiritual roots in a marketplace. No talent, no backer, no inheritance. Others cultivate immortality through talent. He relies on careful scheming. Someone tries to kill him and steal his treasure? He 5.6kReads6.6Score28814d adds
- 71 The Path to Immortality 步道长生 (High-IQ protagonist + decisive and ruthless + no female lead + no bleeding-heart heroics + ordinary-person cultivation + merciless) Why has no one ascended in hundreds of thousands of years? Why have those who became immortals fallen? In pursuit of the Great Dao of Immortality, Chen Changsheng discovers that the road to eternal life is full of lies, schemes, and betrayal. In the end, he abandons mercy and uses ruthless methods to tear open the cultivation world's secrets, slaughter all who stan 887Reads6.5Score10014d adds
- 72 I Rely on a Deduction System to Cultivate Immortality Safely 我靠推演系统稳健修仙 [Cultivation] [Cautious] [No female lead] The key to the Deduction System is the word “deduction.” Deduction can be performed in two directions: upward and downward. Upward deduction raises the rank of any skill you can learn, such as cultivation techniques and spells, making it more powerful and effective. Downward deduction analyzes and breaks down any skill you can learn, such as cultivation techniques and spells, allowing you to master it quickly and thoroughly. The Deduction System is an ou 2.7kReads6.4Score12114d adds
- 73 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Beginning the Nine Heavens of Reincarnation 凡人修仙：从九天轮回开始 [Mortal cultivation, no System, pocket dimension, medicinal garden, immortal pets, wildly satisfying] Begging you, dear readers, to leave a good review. The author is a maniac who just keeps grinding away. Even mortals can have great opportunities: he gains the ability to return to nine days earlier after dying and creates the Myriad Laws as One technique. Captured by an evil cultivator and used as a cauldron to test a cultivation technique, he unexpectedly turns misfortune into fortune and emba 517Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 74 Yin-Yang Finger 阴阳指 Yin and yang are the way of Heaven and Earth, the guiding principles of all things, the parents of change, the origin of life and death, and the dwelling place of the divine. The power of life and death begins with yin and yang. The Five Elements generate and overcome one another; yin gives rise to yang and brings death, while yang gives rise to yin and brings destruction. This is the natural way of things. As the old saying goes: A doctor doesn't call at your door, the Dao is not lightly passed 100Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 75 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Cultivating the Body with the Qiankun Gourd 凡人修仙：从乾坤葫芦养身开始 [Mortal’s Journey + No System + No Transmigration + Decisive and Ruthless] (Reaches the God Realm arc) When primordial chaos first emerged, it gave birth to myriad worlds. Beneath chaos are the Saints; beneath the Saints are the Gods; beneath the Gods are the Immortals; beneath the Immortals are the Spirits; beneath the Spirits are mortals. To make a living, Ye Feng sets out on the path of cultivation with a little gourd and his dog, Wangcai. [Realms]: Mortal Realm, Spirit Realm, Immortal Realm, 2.5kReads7.4Score19414d adds
- 76 Dao Gui's Path to Immortality 道癸仙途 A country boy gains a fortuitous opportunity and sets sail for adventure, then returns in triumph. He catches a glimpse of the colorful world of immortals, yet sees bones littering the path to the Dao. Let’s see what kind of wonders Lin Xuan, a lad from a mountain village, can accomplish in this vast and turbulent world of cultivation~ 555Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 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 8.5kReads7.9Score64714d adds
- 78 Immortal Journey Through a Sea of Blood 血海仙途 A mortal cultivation story, no System, no female lead, with a touch of Lovecraftian style later on. With both parents dead, persecuted by his relatives, and blessed with poor aptitude, Shen Miao is on the brink of despair when he discovers an inheritance treasure left by his father in their ancestral home, along with an ancient demon who dwells within it. To survive and attain immortality, Shen Miao resolutely steps onto the demonic path. He proceeds with caution, never shying away from killing, 1.9kReads8.2Score16314d adds
- 79 From the Start, I Refined the Demonic Matriarch of the Hehuan Sect 开局炼化合欢宗女魔头 Grab it and refine it in an instant. It sounds like a meme. But for Lin Shuo, it's a cheat ability. Lin Shuo can refine anything he grabs, with no exceptions, once a day. As long as it counts as being grabbed, no matter how briefly, Lin Shuo can instantly refine it completely. And wouldn't you know it, just after he transmigrated, he got the chance to use his refining ability. Who could blame him? He had transmigrated into a human furnace kept by the female demon of the Hehuan Sect. Today was ju 588Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 80 The True Immortal of the Five Elements 五行真仙 After waking up, an ordinary mortal finds himself reborn in a dangerous, mysterious world of cultivation. From the start, he is a minor rogue cultivator with five spiritual roots. By chance, he finds a mysterious little gourd at the market, setting him on an extraordinary path to immortality... [Mortal cultivation, rogue cultivators, spiritual roots, pills, magical treasures, roaming the immortal sea] 1.7kReads6.1Score14014d adds
- 81 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—14d adds
- 82 The Legend of Creation 开天传说 [No System + No Transmigration + Spatial Realm + Alchemy + Slow-Paced, Traditional Cultivation] As spiritual energy dwindles, the immortal realm is forced to close the passage through which cultivators from the lower realms ascend. Yet of the fifty ways of the Great Dao, Heaven derives forty-nine, leaving one way to escape. When the immortal realm closed the passage, it also left behind a glimmer of hope. Xiao Yang has a mixed Five Elements spiritual root, but unexpectedly acquires the Five Elem 11.2kReads8.4Score1k14d adds
- 83 Beyond Immortal Cultivation 修仙之上 Beyond cultivating immortality, is there still a path to becoming an immortal? A young boy from a mountain village stumbles into the world of cultivation after a brush with danger. From that moment on, he embarks on a twisting, treacherous, yet extraordinary path of cultivation... 3.7kReads8.3Score25014d adds
- 84 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. 205Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Crossing the Star River: A Mortal's Path to Immortality 星河渡，凡人修仙 [Qi Refining... Deity Transformation... Tribulation Transcendence] [Traditional Cultivation] [A Weak Golden Finger] [Thunder, Darkness, Fire, Metal, and Water Spiritual Roots] Ning Zhe, a person from Blue Star, possesses mutated spiritual roots of all five elements. Three mighty cultivators who had drifted into the Solar System chose him as a medium for locating the cultivation world, setting him on the path to immortality. While being transported from Blue Star to the cultivation world, Ning Zh 74Reads—Score714d adds
- 86 Ning Rongrong's Soul Transmigrates Into a Mortal, Making Her Han Li's Little Sister 宁荣荣魂穿凡人成韩立小妹 [Farming]+ [Secret-realm exploration]+ [Conspiracies and power struggles]+ [Robbery and leveling up]+ [Scheming young lady Ning Rongrong]+ [Ten-thousand-year-old expert at keeping a low profile, Han Li] Who could have imagined that Ning Rongrong, the pampered young lady of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan in Douluo, would wake up in the body of Han Li’s own little sister in the Mortal World? Even more absurdly, while everyone else has to rely on luck when testing their spiritual roots, she tu 204Reads—Score—14d adds
- 87 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. 5.9kReads8.5Score78714d adds
- 88 Immortal Fate of the Flowing Clouds 流云仙缘 [Cultivation] + [Pocket Dimension] + [Family] + [Power Fantasy] Across the boundless seas, countless sea beasts roam. The strong can turn the world upside down, while the weak struggle even to meet their most basic needs. Everyone has to fight against heaven and earth. Follow an ordinary young member of a small family as he travels farther and farther along the path of Cultivation! 272Reads7.3Score2014d adds
- 89 Certain Death from the Start: I Become a God Through Dual Cultivation with the System 开局必死：我靠系统双修成神 [Multiple heroines + System + thrillingly satisfying] Jiang Ping, a transmigrator, accidentally transmigrated into the body of a dying man. Soon afterward, the System arrived too. With the System’s help, he defied fate and sparked a series of romances with one beautiful heroine after another. But a towering tree catches the wind. As his strength continued to grow, trouble kept coming his way. He had no choice but to grow ever stronger. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to protect all the beaut 25.7kReads8.4Score2.8k14d adds
- 90 Creator of a World United as One 世界大同缔造者 [Urban cultivation + traditional techniques + students and campus beauties + no System + humorous comedy + Immortal Realm + Divine Realm] Tang Yixuan saved a fox that had failed its tribulation. Its lingering soul took up residence in his spiritual platform. It was Tang Xiaowan, a Great Enforcer Golden Immortal from the Immortal Realm, who had escaped to Earth as a fragment of her divine soul during the war between gods and demons. Tang Yixuan’s family was bullied by a local tyrant. He couldn’t 1.4kReads9.1Score18214d adds
- 91 Chronicles of the Mystic Origin Dao 玄元道途录 Watch how Lin Xuan grows from weak to strong. Welcome, everyone! If you spot any shortcomings, please point them out. I’m grateful to you all. Your encouragement is the source of my inspiration. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 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 4.8kReads8.8Score30014d adds
- 93 The Cultivator Boy Comes Down from the Mountain 修仙少年下山 The highest virtue is like water: it benefits all things. The spring breeze brings rain, quietly nourishing all life. Heaven is a master craftsman, shaping all things as one. Thus, human nature is good from the beginning, and righteous energy nurtures all living beings. Heaven and earth are imperfect, yin and yang complement each other, and the five elements counter one another. Only righteousness endures. When heaven and earth first opened, energies were in chaos, corroding one another until 469Reads6.9Score10014d adds
- 94 The Strongest Cultivation Method: Stellar Evolution 最强修仙法星辰衍变 A new kind of high-IQ cultivation novel, bringing together the best elements of the genre. After tens of billions of years, the universe gradually evolved from primordial chaos into a world imbued with spirit and suitable for life. In their quest for power and immortality, living beings embarked on the long path of cultivation. By the Primordial Era, the cultivation world had reached its peak. A cultivator accidentally obtained a divine treasure born of nature. It recorded the universe’s creati 294Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 95 A Mortal’s Immortal Destiny 凡人仙命 [Mortal’s journey] [Traditional xianxia] [No System] [No harem] Ding Dali, an orphan from a mountain village, happened to find a white porcelain bottle in a river, and thus began his path to immortality. The white porcelain bottle can refine ordinary things into supreme treasures: Pour river water into it, and it becomes Primordial Jade Liquid; put in weeds, and they become top-grade spirit herbs; keep ordinary iron inside, and it becomes a divine weapon capable of slaying immortals; throw in r 5.2kReads8.1Score60514d adds
- 96 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. 13.1kReads8.6Score1.1k14d adds
- 97 Divine Emperor of the Heavenly Tomb 天陵神帝 A new work is out! Come read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 345Reads8.8Score—14d adds
- 98 Xu Xian 许仙 [Mortal cultivation, no System, traditional xianxia, careful planning at every step, ascending to immortality and honoring the ancestors] Mu means tomb! The universe has entered the end of the Dharma age, and the Great Dao is severed. Heaven and earth are a tomb, ready to bury the path to immortality. A young man from Xu Family Village accidentally embarks on the path of immortality. He steps onto the road to eternal life, obtains an innate spiritual treasure, defeats the Demon Ancestor, slay 33.7kReads8.8Score3k14d adds
- 99 Qi Cultivation Art 练气决 The Qi Cultivation Method is a cultivation manual that guides beginners into the mysterious world of qi refinement. Starting with the most basic search for a sense of qi, it gradually delves deeper, explaining in detail the many secrets and techniques involved in qi cultivation. In this book, readers follow carefully designed steps to shut out the noise of the outside world and calm both body and mind. Through specific postures, breathing techniques, and concentration exercises, they learn to s 620Reads7.0Score12914d adds
- 100 The Mortal's Path to Immortality 凡人修仙途 An ordinary country boy happens upon half a cultivation manual and a mysterious bracelet, setting him on the path of immortal cultivation. Rising from humble beginnings, the young man cultivates the Five Elements arts and practices secret divine abilities. He masters the seventy-two transformations of the Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends, proves his Dao, and roams free on the path to immortality... 1.5kReads8.0Score14114d adds
