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- 101 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—14d adds
- 102 Mending the Broken Cauldron: The Lu Family's Rise in Cultivation 残鼎复元：陆家修仙崛起路 Traditional cultivation + slow-burn progression + cautious protagonist + family-focused + mortal's perspective + no System + pseudo-ensemble cast Realms: Qi Refining → Foundation Establishment → Core Formation → Nascent Soul... On the Tianyuan Continent, sects monopolize resources, leaving little room for small and mid-sized clans to survive. The Lu family, on the remote frontier, is one such clan: spiritual energy is scarce, cultivation methods are incomplete, they are trapped at Qi Refining, a 29.2kReads7.7Score2.1k14d adds
- 103 Cultivating Immortality Begins with Inheriting a City 修仙从继承城主开始 (The protagonist’s soul transmigrates to another world, no System, a steady-paced cultivation story about an ordinary person, with humor, a slow build, and plenty of schemes) Tour guide Tao Yiming transmigrates to another world and becomes the son of a city lord. By chance, he gains an opportunity to cultivate immortality... After learning the Heavenly Thunder Body-Refinement Art, Tao Yiming searches high and low for charging stations, luring down lightning to recharge. A hundred-year-old spirit 2.1kReads—Score12114d adds
- 104 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Starting as a Pig-Farming Servant 凡人修仙：从养猪杂役开始 [Spatial Storage + Farming + Beast Taming + No System + Illustrations in the Final Chapter] The little beggar Li Changqing was hoping to get a decent meal when, by a stroke of luck, he became a pig-raising servant in the Xuanming Sect. By chance, he activated the Beastskin Scroll of Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers, a gift from an old beggar. Time inside the scroll passed a thousand times faster than outside, and its spiritual energy was twice as potent. From then on, Li Changqing rais 603Reads6.4Score5814d adds
- 105 Wind and Rain on the Path of the Dust-Mote Immortal Abode 微尘仙府风雨道途 The path of immortality comes like wind and rain, then passes like dust. Even with ambitions soaring to the clouds, one still needs fortune's favor. See how a mere junior steward of a sect, aided by an Immortal Lord's estate, stirs up wind and rain and gathers dust, rising from humble beginnings to turn the tides in the heavens. 978Reads—Score—14d adds
- 106 I Have a Spirit Ring That Can Grow Crops 我有灵戒能种田 [Mortal’s Journey] [Inspirational] [No Female Lead] [Clever Protagonist] A strange illness in a mountain village and a peculiar ring changed Ye Qing’s life forever. The world is full of surprises. Who says an ordinary mortal can’t become an immortal? 237Reads—Score—14d adds
- 107 My Phone Came With Me When I Transmigrated, and Somehow It Still Has Signal 手机随我穿越后，居然有信号 My Phone Came with Me When I Transmigrated, and Somehow It Still Has Signal 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 108 The Universal One-Hit-Kill System from the Start: I'm Taking Off 开局万能秒杀系统：我直接起飞 [System + Ruthless + Unrivaled + Never Takes Insults + Both Righteous and Evil] After transmigrating into the body of a deposed crown prince, Jiang Chen gets a System that arrives late but gives him so much that he takes off at once! The instant his mind-reading ability spreads, a flood of thoughts surges into Jiang Chen’s mind! “Oh no, oh no, Senior Sister’s coming to see me. Could she have found out I took her intimate clothes?” “Hmph! He’s usually so quiet, but he actually dared to steal m 593Reads7.5Score10114d adds
- 109 Hehuan Sect: I Rewind Time to Turn the Whole Sect Against Itself 合欢宗：我读档反推全宗门 At the Hehuan Sect, if you don't die fast enough, you'll never marry the strongest immortal beauty. Chen Lun awakens the [Reincarnation Cultivation System]. As long as he completes achievements bizarre enough, he can trade them for peerless talents and items. Others cultivate by meditating. I cultivate by courting death and stirring up trouble! He dances wildly on the edge of death, and his cultivation keeps climbing! Before long, he has completely changed the Hehuan Sect's way of doing thin 2.8kReads6.9Score23514d adds
- 110 Cultivation Begins in a Mine 修仙从矿洞开始 A pure-mortal cultivation story: no System, no transmigration, a return to the traditional essence of cultivation! The protagonist is an ordinary mortal with no spiritual roots who enters a sect to mine spirit stones for a living. By chance, he survives a deadly disaster and awakens the Five-Colored Spiritual Marrow buried underground. This rare treasure, unseen in ten thousand years, reshapes his spiritual roots from within, unexpectedly condensing the rare Five-Element Spiritual Roots! From th 2.3kReads8.7Score18814d adds
- 111 Demon Refining the Nine Heavens: The Abandoned Cat Devours the Sky 妖炼九霄之废猫噬天 Wang Feng was reborn, only to become the most ordinary little kitten. Watch as he sheds his demon form, rises against the odds despite his mediocre aptitude, and enters the ranks of the top cultivators. The name Wang Feng resounds throughout the myriad worlds as he looks down on the Five Elements and roams freely across the nine heavens! Realms: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Deification, Void Refining, Body Integration, Mahayana... 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 One Hundred Thousand Years of Qi Refining 炼气十万年 A hundred thousand years ago, he was a founding disciple of the Tianlan Sect. His master ascended, while he was still refining qi. Ninety thousand years ago, his grand-disciple ascended, while he was still refining qi. Fifty thousand years ago, even the old dog guarding the Tianlan Sect ascended. He was still refining qi. Thirty thousand years ago, the old tree at the foot of the mountain became a demon. It failed its tribulation and perished, while he remained in the qi-refining stage. Ten thou 3.2kReads6.8Score61314d adds
- 113 Surviving the End of the Dao: Building Infrastructure in a Fantasy World 道末求存：我在玄幻世界搞基建 A modern corporate drone's soul ends up in the body of a good-for-nothing disciple in a fantasy world. He cultivates his heart, comprehends the Dao, masters the laws of chaos, and joins forces with his team to save the Blue Star! Break through the dimensional wall! Save the multiverse! Create a new era! 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 Reborn to a Bright Future 重生后前程似锦 A Bright Future After Being Reborn 43Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 The Dao Diagram's Path to Immortality 道图升仙录 [4.8 million words, complete. A long cultivation novel with a satisfying ending and no abandoned plotlines] [A hundred cultivation instances for you to explore] [Traditional cultivation + clan cultivation + spiritual herb space + alchemy + weapon forging + Ancient Desolate Dao Diagrams] A poor young man from Immortal Cat Valley has no parents and is a humble spirit farmer with only three mu of spirit fields. He awakens the Eight Ancient Desolate Dao Diagrams: the Immortal Zhi Medicine Diagram, w 10.6kReads8.0Score99514d adds
- 116 She’s a Laid-Back Slacker Who Refuses to Join the Rat Race 咸鱼的她，不想卷了 She’s a Couch Potato and Has No Desire to Compete 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 The Pure Farewell: Better to Shatter Like Jade 清辞诀：宁为玉碎 The Pure Song Art: Better to Shatter Than Bend 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Lights in the Distant Mountains 远山的灯火 Lights in the Faraway Hills —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 Sect Founder from the Start: Building the Supreme Dao Tradition 开局宗门老祖，打造无上道统 [System, Sect Ancestor, cultivation, no female lead, no suppression of cultivation, rapid advancement, feel-good] From the start, he is the sect ancestor, forging an unsurpassed Dao lineage. The Profound Realm, Qing Province, the State of Chu. Lin Sui, ancestor of the Dao Xuan Sect, one of the State of Chu’s five great sects, awakens the Unsurpassed Dao Lineage System from the start. Based on Lin Sui’s current cultivation level, it returns cultivation improvements and insights to the sect member 82Reads5.3Score13614d adds
- 120 I Have an Infinite Spirit Stone System 我有无限灵石系统 (Transmigration + System + daily life in the cultivation world + a smart protagonist + many love interests + spirit pets + decisive killing + laying low and developing early on + going on a killing spree later) The protagonist transmigrates from Earth to the cultivation world and acquires an infinite spirit stone System. What, you can’t win? Buy a mountain of spirit talismans and blast your enemies to death. Cultivation is too slow? No such thing. Just keep feeding it top-grade spirit stones. So 141Reads—Score1314d adds
- 121 The Secrets of Feng Shui: The Green Crow's Dragon-Seeking Scroll 风水秘术：青乌寻龙卷 The Secret Art of Feng Shui: The Qingwu Dragon-Seeking Scroll 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 My Secret Weapon Is a Mosquito 我滴杀手锏是只蚊子 [Urban High Martial Arts + Urban Fantasy + Supernatural Powers + Scheming Protagonist + Spatial Ability] Not long after graduating from college, Luo Feng was hoping to follow in his father's footsteps when his sworn brother and childhood sweetheart joined forces to betray him. A blow to the head left him mentally impaired, then his parents were murdered and his family fortune seized. Fleeing for his life, Luo Feng collapsed in a ruined temple, his blood staining the wooden fish-shaped stone. A s 164Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 After Becoming a Cannon-Fodder Character, I Rose to Become the Great Zhou State Preceptor Through the Plot 穿成炮灰后，我靠剧情登顶大周国师 After Reincarnating as a Cannon Fodder, I Rise to Become the Great Zhou State Preceptor Through the Plot 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: It Begins with a Broken Stone 凡人修仙：从捡到破石头开始 [Mortal cultivation + no System + traditional cultivation] In a village where no immortal had ever been seen, a group of men in black suddenly appeared, seemingly searching for something. By the time they left, the village had already been burned to the ground. Lin Yuan, the sole survivor, set out to hunt down the men in black and take his revenge... 8.1kReads7.5Score60114d adds
- 125 Cultivation: What Do I Do with Too Many Spirit Herbs? 修仙：灵药太多怎么办？ [Transmigration + pocket dimension + ordinary-person cultivation + invincible among peers + body tempering + swordsmanship] A menial disciple gets a pocket dimension from the start. It evolves whenever it devours spirit stones, and time inside passes ten times faster than outside. He can speed up his cultivation and grow medicinal herbs faster, so he never runs short of pills or spirit stones again. An ordinary-person cultivation story. The early chapters are somewhat subdued, and progress is sl 2kReads8.2Score14714d adds
- 126 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 9.2kReads8.4Score92414d adds
- 127 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—14d adds
- 128 Guardians of Civilization: The Journey Home from the Sea of Stars 文明守望者：星海归途 When human civilization was sentenced to death, he was reborn with its last hope. In 2023, the Galactic Council delivered its final verdict: human civilization’s health score was 47%, a failing grade. The countdown to reformatting: 72 hours. Lin Che died in his wife’s arms, only to be reborn in 2018, on the day of their divorce. The System bound him to a task: within 25 years, raise civilization’s health score from 52% to 85, or seven billion people would perish with it. This time, he would n 9Reads—Score114d adds
- 129 Saving Money Is a Spiritual Practice 存钱即修行 Saving Money Is a Form of Cultivation 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Return of the Venerable One 逆界归尊 Ling Chen, the supreme prodigy of the cultivation world, was once the reincarnation of an ancient Heavenly Emperor. In his previous life, he was betrayed and ambushed by treacherous foes in the Immortal Realm. They seized his throne as Heavenly Emperor and destroyed the Heavenly Court, sending his soul back to Earth. One day, he awakens the remnant soul of the ancient Heavenly Emperor and inherits its complete legacy. Armed with supreme treasures such as the Chaos Dao Orb, he is reborn in the mo 81Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Vial of Divine Light for All Spirits 万灵神光瓶 [Traditional Cultivation + Thoughtful Plot + No Harem + No System + Comedy + Cautious Cultivation + Cunning Hero + Decisive and Ruthless] The main story is a slow burn. Thirteen-year-old Han Dachui is cutting grass on a mountain when he accidentally discovers a porcelain bottle, without knowing what it is. As he investigates it on his own, he gradually uncovers its purpose and slowly sets foot on the path to immortality. Traditional cultivation: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core 17.2kReads8.6Score1.9k14d adds
- 132 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 893Reads8.1Score10414d adds
- 133 Divine Emperor of the Nine Heavens 九霄玄天神帝 [The male lead awakens to cultivation after being betrayed by his girlfriend + ascends from the mortal realm to the celestial realm + the divine realm + play the pig to eat the tiger + face-slapping twists + multiple heroines] Ling Xiao was just a college student. His first love, Ye Muqing, mysteriously vanished during his freshman year... After failing to find her, he met Su Yao, who entered his life as his new girlfriend. But just before graduation, she betrayed him... The path of cultivation 802Reads5.6Score10214d adds
- 134 The Immortal Path of the City: A World at My Side 都市仙道之随身世界 The Supreme Immortal of the Immortal Realm is ambushed by a traitor. His body and cultivation are destroyed, and a wisp of his remaining soul transmigrates to the mortal city, where he is reborn and awakens the divine artifact from his past life: the Heaven-Earth Chaos Tower. He opens up a world of his own. Seek treasures, glimpse the heavens, devour all things, refine all things, claim secret realms, gather spiritual materials... Take them all! All of them! The protagonist, Lin Tian, brings his 13kReads7.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 135 Reborn from the Stock Market Crash: Clawing My Way Back to the Top 股灾重生：从地狱爬回巅峰 Reborn After the Stock Market Crash: From Hell Back to the Top 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 You Can Cultivate Immortality While You Lie Flat 躺平也可以修仙 These are my personal insights and experiences in cultivating the Dao and refining qi, woven into a novel that creates a strange and eerie supernatural world through both dreams and reality. If you enjoy supernatural mysteries and immortal cultivation, give it a read. It’s unlike anything else, and the opportunity is rare. When this old man achieves a perfected Golden Core, you’ll all be disciples of my Qingfeng Sect. 651Reads6.6Score10014d adds
- 137 The Black Blade Ghost Slayer 黑刀斩鬼人 No System, no clichés, not a naive protagonist, and no livestreaming. Mysticism, the Hetu and Luoshu, yin-yang, the five elements, the eight trigrams, and the nine palaces. Fantasy and supernatural events include a ghostly flood dragon in Changbai Mountain’s Heavenly Lake, a water spirit in the Peach Blossom Spring, a black dragon in Heilongjiang, a serpent transformed in the bamboo forests of southern Sichuan, an ancient tomb in the Qinling Mountains, a wormhole in Ailao Mountain, an underwater 156Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 The Crazy Botanical Garden 疯狂的植物园 The Crazy Botanical Garden 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 139 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: From Servant Disciple to Sword-and-Talisman Dao Ancestor 凡人修仙：从杂役弟子到剑符道祖 Spiritual roots are ranked from highest to lowest, and the lives of menial disciples are as insignificant as dust. Chen Mo is the lowest-ranking menial disciple of the Qingyun Sword Sect. His spiritual root is poor, and his fellow disciples mock him, saying he will never achieve immortality. While cleaning the old Scripture Pavilion one day, he discovers a fragmentary secret manual of sword talismans. Others draw spiritual energy into their bodies and diligently cultivate their dantians; he uses 5.8kReads—Score48714d adds
- 140 The Spirit Eye That Sees Every Detail 秋毫灵眼 [Mortal’s journey + no System + no harem] Li Changsheng stumbled upon the Spiritual Eye of Fine Detail and began his path of cultivation. The road to immortality was as difficult as climbing to the heavens, like rowing upstream, where failing to advance meant falling behind. The cultivation world was full of deceit and treachery, its fortunes as unpredictable as the tides. Li Changsheng had no choice but to tread carefully, as if walking on thin ice. Though he had an ordinary three-element spiri 367Reads8.1Score10614d adds
- 141 The Scarlet Rose and the Snow in Her Palm 炽焰玫瑰与掌心雪 The Blazing Rose and Snow in the Palm 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 After Becoming a Good-for-Nothing, I Activate the Spirit-Bearing System and Rule the Cultivation World by Having Babies 穿成废柴后，激活孕灵系统我靠生崽称霸修真界 After Becoming a Good-for-Nothing, I Activated the Spirit-Bearing System and Conquered the Cultivation World by Having Babies 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 Late Qing’s Farewell: I Won’t Lose Myself in the Mortal World 晚卿辞：不赴红尘错 Evening Song: I Won’t Make the Same Mistake in This Mortal World 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 I Picked Up a Flower Spirit to Be My Wife 捡个花妖做老婆 I Picked Up a Flower Spirit to Be My Wife 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 The Dragon Fang Returns to Guard the Fishing Village and Strike Fear into All Enemies 龙牙归来守渔村慑万敌 [Battle God from the Start] [One Female Lead] [Urban Cultivation] [Cultivation Begins in Chapter Five] [Action-Packed Revenge] The Dragon Fang Battle God, whose name strikes fear overseas, lays down his arms and returns to his hometown, a seaside fishing village. All he wants is to protect his neighbors and the woman he loves, and live a peaceful life. But trouble comes one wave after another, and powerful enemies from every direction keep coming for him. A chance encounter brings him an immorta 122Reads—Score1114d adds
- 146 Clan Cultivation: Our Ancestor Is Far Too Cautious 家族修仙：我家老祖太稳健了 [Family cultivation + invincible among peers of the same realm + multiple heroines + plenty of chapters to binge] [Foundation Establishment in three years! Ascend in a hundred! Attain the Dao and become the Supreme Immortal Emperor in a thousand!] [The neighbor has a treasure-gathering basin, but I have a treasure-exchanging basin!] [The imitation Heaven and Earth Cauldron will help me reach the Heavenly Palace!] A Qi Refining family from the start? And a destitute family with barely a few membe 17.4kReads7.5Score1.7k14d adds
- 147 Where the Sands Meet the Phoenix 风沙遇凤 Where the Sandstorm Meets the Phoenix 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Jade Fields in Famine Years: Reborn as an Abandoned Daughter, I Hold the Power of Life 荒岁玉田：穿成弃女掌生机 Jade Fields in a Year of Famine: Reborn as an Outcast Daughter, She Takes Charge of Livelihoods 12Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 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 9.4kReads7.8Score64114d adds
- 150 The Cat I Picked Up Is a Divine Beast 捡个猫咪是神兽 I Picked Up a Cat, and It Turned Out to Be a Divine Beast 4Reads—Score—14d adds
