Novels like Borrowing Future Realms: I Begin My Martial Arts Journey at the Docks
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- 1 The Supreme Martial Saint: Hard Work Pays Off, and One Proof Lasts Forever 极道武圣：天道酬勤一证永证 [A slightly slow start + extreme martial arts + status panel] These are the best of times, and the worst of times. With the development of white coal and red oil, and the invention of everything from the steam engine to the internal combustion engine, humanity has entered a new era. Trains, fertilizer, electric lights, and ships have ushered in a boom in global industry and commerce. But a century later, humanity is afflicted by an incurable disease of mutation, while beasts develop aberrant for —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Chinese Martial Arts: Daily Rewards Take Me from Dockworker to Saint 国术：每日结算，从码头苦力成圣 The late Qing dynasty is collapsing, and the dragon's energy is scattering. Within, warlords carve up the land and wreak havoc on the people. Without, Western powers watch hungrily. They destroy ancestral temples, sever dragon veins, and ban martial arts, seeking to extinguish the countless martial arts traditions of China! Yin forces rise, demons and ghosts run rampant, and foreign occultists exploit the chaos to harvest living souls. The land of Huaxia becomes a living hell. Court officials kn 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I Bloom Late in a World of Martial Arts 我在武道世界大器晚成 [Cautious survival, feel-good, cool-headed, careful, invincible] [Fate: Greatness Comes Late] [Trait: Learn from everything, master whatever you practice] Wei Lin transmigrated to a martial world where human lives were cheap as grass. From the start, he was a dock laborer, struggling to make ends meet under the dual burden of government taxes and gang extortion. Fortunately, he awakened a System. Heaven rewards diligence: cultivation had no bottlenecks, and every effort brought a reward. Years l 445Reads5.9Score100Shelves
- 4 Martial Artist: Tenfold Martial Arts, Starting as a Dockworker 武者：从码头苦力开始十倍武道 Year Twelve of the Tongfu era, Linbo Wharf. Every day, Du Yu opened his eyes and hauled cargo, then closed them and went to sleep. The laborers said the world was in chaos: warlords were fighting, foreigners ran rampant, and gangs bullied everyone. But what did any of that have to do with them? Whoever won, they'd still have to haul cargo and get exploited. Unless they were martial artists! As the saying goes, the path of martial arts makes the martial artist extraordinary! Then one day, Du Yu's 344Reads5.7Score—Shelves
- 5 Chinese Martial Arts: Daily Rewards, Starting as a Porter with a Shoulder Pole 国术：每日结算，从挑夫棒棒开始 In the chaotic years of the Republic, warlords carve up the country, and foreign guns and cannons blast open its gates. Beneath Chaotian Gate, Lu Zhen, a human porter, is treated worse than livestock! With the [Daily Settlement Panel] in hand, Lu Zhen pierces the darkness and opens his eyes in this desperate world. [Today’s settlement: Carry 800 jin of iron on a shoulder pole and climb 3,000 steep steps at Chaotian Gate.] [Reward: Silver dollars +3, physical conditioning experience +10, general 814Reads—Score105Shelves
- 6 High Martial: I Attain the Divine Through the Martial Way 高武：我以武道通神 [High martial arts + System + genius + no romance for the protagonist] This is an era when everyone practices martial arts, the martial way flourishes, and the strong reign supreme! She suddenly woke up in the middle of her senior year classroom and awakened a point-allocation System. On top of that, her talent was astonishing, and her understanding of martial arts far surpassed ordinary people’s. She could quickly grasp the essence of any technique or skill. Then, in a life-or-death battle, she 664Reads—Score105Shelves
- 7 Iron Shirt: My Fascia Can Evolve 铁布衫：我的筋膜能进化 Applying modern science to analyze the methods behind traditional martial arts conditioning! Iron Shirt, Titanium Golden Body, Nine Revolutions Profound Art, Chaos Heavenly Art... Huang Hao keeps pushing further down this path... In a city of steel and concrete, he stirs up a new wave of martial arts jianghu legends. The complete outline is ready, so come on in! 4.1kReads—Score403Shelves
- 8 A Bajiquan Martial Artist Transmigrates Across a Thousand Years 八极武道穿越千年的武者 As time passed and technology advanced by leaps and bounds, modern combat sports such as boxing, taekwondo, and sanda swept the globe. Yet even in an era that worshipped strength and speed, a group of people quietly upheld ancient martial arts passed down for thousands of years. They called themselves practitioners of traditional martial arts. As the saying goes, all martial arts under heaven originated at Shaolin. But what came before Shaolin Temple? On this land of China, with its five-thousan 930Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Chinese Martial Arts: My Clones Can Cultivate! 国术：我的分身能修炼！ On a blood-soaked night at the docks, a single club shattered Huang Qifan’s eighteen years of mediocrity. As he hovered on the brink of death, his perception was forcibly torn apart: half clung to his battered body, while the other half hung suspended in the cold air. From then on, he possessed a “split consciousness,” utterly calm and able to see through every weakness. In this turbulent era, where fists and kicks decide life and death and martial arts are made for killing, others hone their s 361Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 EN Too Many Dead in Chaotic Times? My System Activates! 乱世死人太多？那我面板启动！ (Heaven Rewards Diligence: Starting with Selling Hooks) [Extreme Muscles] [Power Fantasy] [Survivalist] [Women Are Worthless in Chaotic Times] [Slow Burn] In the final years of the Great Jing dynasty, demons and monsters emerged, the realm descended into chaos, and the people were plunged into misery. A foolish emperor and treacherous ministers brought the dynasty to ruin, while warlords divided the land among themselves. Gangs ravaged the regions under their control, treating the people like pi 43.5kReads7.9Score2.9kShelves
- 11 Longevity: I Reincarnated as a Prison Guard and Kept a Low Profile Until I Became Invincible 长生：穿成狱警，我苟到无敌 [Republican Era in Another World + Martial Arts and Daoist Cultivation + Decisive and Ruthless + Not a Fast-Paced Power Fantasy] In the parallel world's year 913 of the Republic, Lin Mo transmigrated into this world. He became a low-ranking prison guard at Kyoto's Evil Dragon Prison. It was a time of great turmoil. Foreign powers surrounded the nation, watching hungrily from all sides. At home, warlords carved up the land, and flames of war blazed everywhere. And remnants of the old regime 23.2kReads7.8Score1.9kShelves
- 12 I'm Just a Coolie, and You Want Me to Become the King of Shanghai? 我一个苦力，你让我当沪上王？ Original title: Republic of China: I'm a Big Tough Guy [An impassioned war of resistance! No System, no ripping Japanese soldiers apart with bare hands! Just bayonets in, blood-red blades out!] The protagonist, Lu Yin, transmigrates to Shanghai and joins the Paoge Society. With his three styles of internal martial arts and formidable skills, he takes on the Green Gang, the Hongmen, and other organizations in the glittering world of Shanghai... He navigates the underworld and battles warlords. Af 9.9kReads8.9Score759Shelves
- 13 I Use the Golden Bell Shield to Crush Internal Martial Arts 我以金钟罩横推内家拳 If you transmigrate to a parallel-timeline Republic of China and are given a manual for the Golden Bell Shield, would you dare to train in it? Huang Fan would. While others practice martial arts for their health, he trains to get himself killed, seeking out places steeped in killing intent, like execution grounds, battlefields, and mass graves. That's because he has discovered that his body is anything but normal. Judo, boxing, kendo: no matter what kind of expert he faces, he asks just one thin 121Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Never Underestimate an Old Man: From Dockworker to Martial Saint 莫欺老年穷，从码头搬工肝成武圣 [Republican Era] + [The Dynasty’s Final Years] + [Monsters Run Amok] + [Extreme Martial Arts] + [Elderly Protagonist] + [Patriotic] + [Cautious] In the dynasty’s final years, the rulers closed the country off from the world. To preserve their rule, they burned martial arts manuals and killed martial artists, causing the nation’s martial arts to decline. Eventually, foreigners used their powerful martial arts and advanced weapons to blast the country’s gates open, and the nation was thoroughly d 414Reads—Score108Shelves
- 15 EN National Martial Arts: Daily Settlement, Starting as a Rickshaw Puller 国术：每日结算，从黄包车夫开始 [Republican-era martial arts, demons and martial arts running rampant, ultimate-path cultivation, leveling, and a style like Gun Kai] At the end of the dynasty, warlords carved up the country from within, while Western powers circled from without. Their ironclad ships and cannons devoured the nation's fortune. Foreigners destroyed ancestral temples, severed dragon veins, and banned martial arts. The nation was on the brink of ruin and its people faced extinction! In the imperial court, nobles bo 340.1kReads8.4Score35.4kShelves
- 16 The End of Martial Supremacy 武极之末 The pinnacle of martial arts breaks through the void. It is the end of the martial path, the threshold to a higher world where one can seek the Great Dao and pursue immortality! Only when Liu Muyun reached that endpoint did he discover that the path to martial supremacy had only just begun! 6.3kReads6.4Score396Shelves
- 17 Growing Strong with the Help of Beautiful Women 成长之红颜助我 Beauty helped me succeed, and I repaid her with ten thousand taels of gold… 962Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Exiled from the Start, I Changed My Fate by Grinding for Experience 开局被流放，我靠肝经验逆天改命 From the Start, Exiled to the Frontier: I Defy Fate by Grinding Experience Lu Chen was a top student in the modern world, but after waking from a nap, he found himself reincarnated as a disgraced heir in a world of immortal cultivation. Exiled to the frontier from the start, with his spiritual roots destroyed, he was also saddled with a frail fiancée and a fallen family. He smiled calmly. “Perfect. Let me show you what scientific cultivation looks like.” While others were still struggling throug 2.7kReads—Score240Shelves
- 19 The Doomsday Blade Abyss 末日刀渊 He begins with the game Blade Abyss and steps into the Myriad Worlds! From low-martial-arts jianghu to mid-martial-arts rivalries, then shattering the high-martial-arts firmament; next, sweeping through the Small Thousand Worlds and roaming the vast Middle Thousand Worlds, until he finally takes command of the Great Thousand Worlds' Heavenly Dao and reaches the supreme realm of the primordial chaos! 🌙 In the Gu Long world, he becomes Li Xunhuan's disciple! ⚔️ In the Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber 24.5kReads7.9Score2.2kShelves
