Novels like The Immortal Cultivation World's Great Lie: They Said It Was Difficult
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- 1 High Martial: From the Start, I Called a Little Girl Mom 高武：开局叫小萝莉妈妈 Reborn into a high-martial-arts world, Li Mo awakens what seems to be the worst talent of all. Just as despair sets in, the Dungeon System activates: he grows stronger by challenging martial arts schools! In an ancient city of martial arts, he sweeps through the schools with his modern knowledge. Meanwhile, in the real world, a stunning silver-haired girl knocks on his door and stubbornly insists, “I'm your mother.” This time, the whole world is what he plans to kick down. 246Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 National Fate Battlefield, but I’m Just an Ordinary Person 国运战场但我只是一个普通人 No System, smart characters, ensemble cast, international cooperation, one heroine The National Destiny Battlefield. Sometimes I can't help thinking that it would be better if the National Destiny Battlefield didn't exist. Unfortunately, a reality like that is far beyond our reach. We race across the battlefield, hoping to slow the disasters' arrival. Every failure brings disaster closer, while our successes seem insignificant by comparison. We can't bring our strength back, and we can't prevent 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 To Blue 致蓝 After Chu Zhanyu died for the first time, the whole world forgot him. But that wasn’t the worst part. The worst part was that he remembered everything: how he had taken the lives of those closest to him, and how he had failed to end his own life on the Antarctic ice sheet. From then on, he abandoned his name and lived in a prison of guilt. When the apocalypse came, that “ghost” forgotten by the world became humanity’s only... As he lay dying, he remembered his father’s words: “You have to give s 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Temple of Mars 火星神殿 On a foggy Paris morning, a routine technology demonstration suddenly goes off the rails, ending with the founder’s blood on the floor and an investor left paralyzed. But that is only the first domino. The world of technology prodigy Cheng Ming comes crashing down around him. His career, family, and former life are shattered in the disaster’s aftermath. As the chain reaction spirals out of control, countless seemingly unrelated lives become bound together in ways they can neither foresee nor res 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Youth Without a Speck of Dust 青春之莫染尘埃 I am Mo Chen. Nothing earth-shattering ever happened in my life. No one ever liked me, and I never liked anyone else. Because of my family, I was always insecure. Sometimes I was even afraid to speak up. I dropped out during the first semester of ninth grade. There was no strange reason behind it. No one beat me up or bullied me. I was just lonely. Whenever I saw other people walking around in groups of two or three, I would feel inexplicably empty. Then I went to a vocational school. Life there 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Damn System! A Million Points in My Account, but I Still Can’t Afford Pork Rice 坑爹系统！余额百万点不起猪脚饭 [No Romance] [Ensemble Cast] [Making Money] [Subverting Expectations] [Everyday Warmth] [Selfless Heroine] Jiang Yue is a low-level accountant in Haicheng’s financial district, earning just 4,200 yuan a month while juggling six jobs. Until one late night, a notification suddenly rang out on her phone: [Alipay received: 1,000,000 yuan]. But this “miracle fund” belonged to a merit account and could not be used for personal expenses. Only when the total reached 100 million yuan would she be allowe —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Devour the Heavens 天道吞噬 The male protagonist from Earth transmigrates to another world and obtains the supreme Devouring Art. From then on, he lies flat and cultivates, advancing entirely by devouring: devouring chaos, the Heavenly Dao, all things, Swallowed Star, the myriad paths, physiques, and martial souls. He devours the heavens and devours the earth, achieving supreme supremacy. 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Nuo Mask: I Can Devour Ghosts and Monsters Without Limit 傩面：我能无限吞噬鬼怪 Chen Mo, a college student, takes on odd jobs dealing with “family inheritance,” such as rewriting the script for a ghost opera troupe from 1943, reasoning with shadow puppets made of human skin from the Qing dynasty, and dropping into an old painting to fish out his father, who has been missing for years. His support tools are a little dubious: a rogue app that keeps pushing “nearby anomalies” and a Taotie mask that gets hungrier the more he uses it. Then the Veil shatters across the globe, t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 A Mortal in the Modern World, Seeking Immortality 人在现实，求仙问道 [Behind-the-Scenes Style] [Almost Invincible] [A Fake Immortal Cultivation] Do you often feel that life has no meaning? If everything in the world can be predicted, what can prove that “you” exist? “Turns out not using my phone makes it easy to overthink. How to prove I exist? Is that really something I should be thinking about?” Like a boulder dropping into water, ripples suddenly spread across his once-peaceful life. System binding complete. Newbie gift pack: Growth Path 1 Yang Linxian: Isn’t 1kReads5.5Score123Shelves
- 10 My Name Is Jiang Yating 我叫江亚霆 "Jiang Ting was my benefactor, and he's the only family I have left. He's disappeared, so I'll carry on his will and finish what he couldn't. That's why my name is... Jiang Yating." —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Turning the Tables! The Midnight Courier's Rules 逆袭！午夜快递员守则 [Rule-based horror + mystery and suspense + one female lead + smart characters + not a power fantasy] Enter at your own risk. A rule-based horror story revealing the truth of the worlds of the living and the dead through the eyes of a midnight courier. It begins with the first red parcel he is forced to deliver, then takes him through an eerie city twisted by the System, into contact with all kinds of dead souls and their obsessions, face-to-face with the elders’ merciless oppression, and towar —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Transmigrate to the Dark World of Cultivation and Rise from Slavery 穿越暗黑修真界，从奴隶开始逆袭 Fantasy + transmigration + System + growth + conquest + invincible protagonist + pseudo-ensemble cast This is a world of rigid class divisions and strict hierarchies. Immortals will always be immortals. Even those with mediocre talent can embark on the path to immortality if they have powerful enough backing. Mortals will always be mortals. Even with talent that could shake Heaven and Earth, they are still nothing but playthings for immortals to enslave, forced to grovel in the dust just to surv 3.1kReads6.6Score238Shelves
- 13 The Holy Beast’s Allure 圣兽倾城 [Beast taming + illustrated encyclopedia appraisal + pet raising + evolution + adventure + warm interactions with multiple heroines + thrilling action] A young man, Zhou Yuhao, transmigrates and rises from ruin to the pinnacle of life. From the start, he has a Crow of Misfortune that specializes in bringing bad luck to others. Watch him build everything from nothing and gather seven battle beasts, each with a unique ability: causality, healing, control, holy light, destruction, assassination, a 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Tales of the Ming Dynasty: The Loyal Marquis Qin Liangyu 大明演义：忠贞侯秦良玉 Qin Liangyu is reborn, twelve years before the Cataclysm of 1644. The court is eight months behind on military pay, more than half the White-Pole Soldiers have scattered or died, the Jianzhou Jurchens are attacking the passes in Liaodong, and rebels are rising across the Central Plains. In her previous life, she died of illness in the army, breathing her last as she listened to the wind outside her tent. This time, the first thing she does upon opening her eyes is gather five hundred men and hea 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 A Golden Branch Falls to Dust, Yet the Clear Wind Still Comes 金枝坠尘，自有清风来 He Ya was a beloved heiress from a wealthy family, but a sudden upheaval brought her household to ruin. Her fiancé called off their engagement, his words cutting and cruel: “You have nothing now. You’re no match for me. Stop deluding yourself.” His gleaming leather shoes brushed past He Ya... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 The Curious Adventures of Iced Red Tea 冰红茶的奇妙冒险 [Absurd humor + memes + lighthearted comedy + battles + mind games] After his best friend dies unexpectedly, Ice Red Tea Lao Da sets out to bring him back to life. Along the way, he meets all kinds of weirdos. Some become friends, others enemies. Can Lao Da resurrect his best friend? After successfully bringing Teacher Qiaolezi back to life, everyone is caught off guard by an even greater threat that is still taking shape. Teacher Qiaolezi’s former colleague, the one who killed him, is plotting 184Reads—Score115Shelves
- 17 Global Beastmasters 全球御兽师 Synopsis: [Beast Taming + Spiritual Qi Revival + No System + Characters Don't Get Dumber] A thousand years ago, spatial rifts suddenly appeared across Blue Star. Countless monsters poured through them and launched frenzied attacks on humanity, driving people back at every turn. Just as humanity stood on the brink of life and death, beast tamers appeared. They held back the beast tides and led humanity in establishing one base city after another. From then on, humanity entered an era belonging to 59Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 18 I Guide Souls in Traditional Mythology 我在传统神话度人 Transmigrating into a world of traditional mythology A bond among four that transcends the mundane An ancient divine lamp with boundless magical power A cultivator of compassion, devoted to saving the world and guiding others A peerless genius who perfectly combines the logic of science and cultivation Join Yang Jingyan, Lanlan, Wang Yichi, and Li Chengen as they train and cultivate in a mythical world, ultimately attaining the Great Dao A mythic tale of defying fate and changing one’s destiny 239Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Respectfully Behold the Man in Black 敬见黑衣 [Sword and Sorcery + Slow-Paced + No System + One Female Lead] [Choice, paths, ambition, concealment, rivalry, acceptance, memory, burden, inversion, renewal, and unity]: the mysteries of the eleven tenets remain buried in hidden corners of history. The Holy Ring, which descended a thousand years ago, still towers behind the White-Robed Holy Father. The Holy Court atop the mountains still casts its sun-bright radiance over every believer in the eight dioceses. A returning stairway to heaven rise 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Guan Xiuying 管琇莹 Hello! This story is based on the Zuo Zhuan. It tells of how, during the Spring and Autumn period, Sheng Bo, a nobleman of the State of Lu, married off his younger sister to Shi Xiaoshu, then forced her to remarry Xi Chou, a nobleman of the State of Jin. Classical Chinese history books rarely record women's feelings in this way, so the story left a deep impression on me. I wanted to use a novel to imagine what things might have been like back then. In the Zuo Zhuan, Sheng Bo's maternal half-sist 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 A Supernatural Journey: Beginning in a Medieval World Without Magic 超凡之旅：从无魔中世纪开始 [Myriad Worlds] [Transcendent Lord] [Red Revolution] Starting out as the son of a medieval lord, he transmigrates through the Myriad Worlds and becomes the Emperor of Mankind! “They say... I am the leader of the Red Tide, the founding father of steel, the two-faced Ghost King, the Primordial Anomaly, the progenitor of the Dragon Clan, a cybernetic immortal, and the source of all evil spirits...” “They also say I am the only god of humanity...” “All I know is... humanity has nowhere left to retre 3.6kReads5.9Score290Shelves
- 22 The Last Sky Fox 最后的天狐 [We were young and carefree back then, always thinking the road lay at our feet. We never knew that some paths can’t be changed and offer no choice.] "Traditional Fantasy" "Ensemble Cast" "One Female Lead" Creatures like us are always waiting for a great rain. Even if it may never come, we keep waiting. We need that rain to put out the raging fires in the mountains and save all living beings. We need that rain to find our way home. This is a road I don’t want to take, but I have no other choice. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 The Great Desire Hunt 欲望的大逃杀 Desire must be held in balance by other desires. When any one desire grows too powerful, it gives rise to something warped and uncanny. The student Su Qing and his close friend Wu Ji are dragged against their will into a battle royale born of desire. Beings from another era descend and charge them with saving the world, promising that if they complete the hunt, their deepest desires will be fulfilled and their fates rewritten. This isn’t a game show watched by an audience. It’s a crisis spawned 117Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Vegetable-Based Powers: Conquering the Universe 菜之异能，玩转宇宙 The apocalypse is here, and I’ve awakened the most useless vegetable-based ability? Watch me trade fruit and vegetables for a villa and use spirit plants to save the world. A gentle campus beauty treats my wounds, and her fiery best friend takes a knife for me... But is all of this actually part of a mastermind’s shocking scheme? Watch this nobody turn the tables and become the one and only true god of the apocalypse. 12Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 25 Miss Green Dragon Watched Me for Five Years, Only to Find I'm a Being She Can't Understand 绿龙小姐观察我五年，却发现我是她无法理解的生物 The Green Dragon Lady Watched Me for Five Years, Only to Discover I’m a Being She Can’t Understand 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 The Peerless Beauty Everyone Loves 绝色万人迷 [Universally Beloved Tendencies + Corruption + Beauty + Unhinged Characters] Yan Luo is a novice mission-taker who specializes in playing the annoying characters in story worlds. This includes, but isn't limited to, the money-hungry ex-girlfriend, the fiancée who looks down on the poor, the wicked young lady, the drama queen supporting character... and a whole host of other characters everyone hates. Yan Luo works diligently, playing every role even more exactly than the original. When it's time 227Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 27 Falling Star Trajectory 陨星轨迹 (I'm a new writer, so please feel free to point out anything I haven't done well.) On his eighteenth birthday, Wei Ni awakened a spatial ability. He thought his future was bright, but one problem after another soon arose. What do you mean my mother, who disappeared five years ago, is coming back to kill my dad? What do you mean I'm the product of a biological experiment, and there's a second consciousness inside me? People with ulterior motives approached Wei Ni, setting off one vortex after ano 62Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 May the Blessings Endure: From the Start, I Become Fan Xian’s Disciple 留余庆：开局成了范闲的徒弟 Modern-day corporate drone Jiang Xue transmigrates and suddenly realizes: A job is a job, wherever you do it. Why not fight for an empire instead? She refuses to be a pampered young lady. She studies under Fan Xian and trains in the Thirteen Forms of the Clear Breeze until she reaches the peak of the ninth rank. The throne of empress falls to her, but to her, the imperial palace is simply another arena. Its walls cannot confine her vision, and the phoenix crown cannot bend her pride. Trouble br 156Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 29 Modern-Day Ghost Reaper 现代鬼差 For millions of years, the Three Realms have turned in an endless cycle. The Heavenly Court and the Underworld, beings from myth, have quietly maintained the world's order. But as the age moves forward, necessary reforms are quietly on the way, and the once silent, frigid Underworld is growing lively. Chen Peng, a conscientious ghost constable who has served in the Underworld for three hundred years, has finally made it through the ranks and is about to become a great judge serving the ghostly p 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 [Male-Oriented Short Story] After the Elf Queen Collected Me, She Told Me to Call Her Su Xiaoxue 【男频短篇】我被精灵女皇收藏后，她让我叫她苏小雪 [Male-Oriented Short Story] After the Elf Empress Collected Me, She Told Me to Call Her Su Xiaoxue 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 31 Beneath a Cruel World 恶世之下 Vicious ghosts run rampant, humans and ghosts coexist, and rules become deadly traps... See through the rules, use ghosts to fight ghosts, banish the supernatural, but never underestimate the human heart... The ghosts in this book follow fixed patterns when they kill. Some humanoid ghosts retain the consciousness of the living. It follows the rule that only ghosts can deal with ghosts. Ghosts can be killed, but it's very difficult to kill them... The Headquarters in this book is the most righteo 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 The Nonexistent Teacher Xu and Auntie Wu 不存在的徐老师和吴阿姨 The Nonexistent Teacher Xu and Auntie Wu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Older Sister Who Exists Only in My Mind 只存在我脑海中的姐姐 The Older Sister Who Exists Only in My Mind 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 To Hell With Your Family Tree, We're All Outstanding Volunteers 去你的族谱，我们全家都是优秀志愿者 Forget Your Family Tree, Our Whole Family Are Outstanding Volunteers —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 I’m the System, and My Host Is a Husky 我是系统，我的宿主是条二哈 When other people transmigrate, they either become the protagonist and rule the world, or become a powerful big shot and stir up trouble. Even at worst, they can be a good-for-nothing who shouts, “Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river!” before showing off and getting revenge. And me? I became a System. A virtual one, with no body, that can only blabber away. I could put up with that. But! The System’s rules forcibly bound me to a Host: A dog. A purebred husky that wrecks 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 36 That Summer, I Was Reborn 那个夏天，我重生了 That Summer, I Was Reborn 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 My Parents Transferred Me Ninety Thousand Yuan, and the Zombie Horde Broke Out the Next Day 父母给我转了九万块，第二天丧尸潮爆发 My Parents Transferred 90,000 Yuan to Me, and the Zombie Horde Broke Out the Next Day 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 That Summer, I Healed Myself 那个夏天，我治愈了自己 That Summer, I Healed Myself 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 After Turning Into Zombies, We Started Living Our Best Lives 变成丧尸后，我们开启了真正的快乐人生 After Turning into Zombies, We Started Living Our Truly Happy Lives 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Tower of Dark Dust and Bright Moon 暗尘明月楼 He spent his whole life achieving nothing, made it to the age of forty-nine, and then transmigrated. As if transmigrating weren't strange enough, he transmigrated into someone his own age. The average life expectancy in this world was only forty-eight, so he'd already lived to a ripe old age. Worse still, he had a whole family to support. In his new life, he had no official position or power, no land, and no money. He was dirt-poor, with nothing but the title of marquis to his name. The title wa 18Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 Gu Yuan Rescued My Sister, but I Became the Master of Her Blood-Robed Sister 【男频短篇】古渊救下姐姐，我却成了她血衣妹妹的主人 [Male-Oriented Short Story] Gu Yuan Saved My Older Sister, but I Became the Master of Her Blood-Robed Younger Sister —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 Kill That Tomato Writer 杀死那个番茄作家 [Many years later, facing the firing squad, Kareni Na Ka will recall the afternoon when I dragged him into the book.] “Can I really write the blurb like this...?” “Tsk, I’m imitating One Hundred Years of Solitude.” “Who even reads One Hundred Years of Solitude these days? Do you read it?” “Then... should we change it?” “Never mind, let’s keep it. Nobody reads blurbs anyway.” 1.7kReads—Score155Shelves
- 43 Building Terraced Fields on the Loess Plateau 黄土高原开梯田 [No System] [Period Novel] [Upright Values] He carved out a place for himself with his own hands. He made the yellow earth bloom with his sweat. This is a farming novel about changing the whole world through hard work! 4.1kReads8.2Score211Shelves
- 44 Strange Tales of the Mountain Village: The Drought Demon and the Drought 山村异闻录之旱魃与旱灾 Strange Tales from the Mountain Village: The Drought Demon and the Drought —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 [Male-Oriented Short Story] I'm a Lazy Shut-In, Yet the Magical Girl Senpai Rings My Doorbell Every Day 【男频短篇】咸鱼家里蹲，却被魔法少女学姐天天按门铃 [Male-Oriented Short Story] A Lazy Homebody, Yet the Magical Girl Upperclassman Rings His Doorbell Every Day 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 The Legend of the Zhongnan Sword Immortal 终南剑仙传 Gu Zhaoran, the Sword Immortal Qingxuan, was reborn after surviving a tribulation. He braved a serpent's lair, battled demonic cultivators, and encountered an evil monk. His path was fraught with danger, and he narrowly escaped death time and again before returning to Zhongnan and rejoining his sect. When his immortal master ascended, Gu Zhaoran was entrusted with leadership in a time of crisis and became the sect's new head. He repelled enemies at the rear cliff, joined the Five Elders in elimi 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 The Mary Sue Empire 玛丽苏帝国 Mary Sue, the sole legitimate heir to the Mary Sue Empire, has many identities. All she wants is to find a suitable man and provide the empire with an heir. After her ten brothers put in a great deal of effort, they finally found such a man. But at a single matchmaking meeting, two men ended up fighting over her. Her heart shattered into a cold salad. With her stunning beauty, can she ensure that the Mary Sue Empire has a future heir? Is that wickedly charismatic man her true love? But why did h 333Reads—Score102Shelves
- 48 Spirit of the Great Void 太虚灵 Divine-mortal forbidden love + powerful heroine + bold and spirited + national crisis in the mortal realm + a god undergoing tribulation + no System, no transmigration. “The Taixu Spirit has emerged from the Three Realms. Is this fate, sin, or tribulation?” Shui Qiong grew up in the forests of the mortal realm, surrounded by wild beasts, eating wild fruit and grains, and drinking from countless springs. Arrogant and unruly, free as the wind, she kept her life on the line, challenged a one-horned 19Reads8.6Score—Shelves
- 49 I Helped My Relatives Escape the Zombie Horde, But They Still Keep Pressuring Me to Marry and Have Kids 我帮亲戚们躲过了丧尸潮，但他们还是催婚催生 I Helped My Relatives Escape the Zombie Horde, but They Still Keep Pressuring Me to Get Married and Have Kids 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 You Lured Home a Little Wife with a Bottle of Soda? 你用一瓶汽水拐回一个小老婆？ (One heroine + mutual salvation + lighthearted comedy with no angst + gradual yandere development + sweet everyday romance + happy ending) Rest assured, this one's guaranteed to be sweet. (This is a brand-new book, so please, everyone, don't let it pile up in your reading list. It'll get buried to death (ToT)) The first twenty years of Gu Hui's life were shrouded in an endless rainy season, but he fought to become a ray of sunshine breaking through the clouds of Hangzhou's plum rains. Then, one 32Reads—Score103Shelves
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