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- 1 The Shang Dynasty Seals the Heavens 殷商封天 [Orthodox Investiture of the Gods, no System!] I calculate the heavens, the earth, people, ghosts, and even immortals. Nothing under the heavens escapes my calculations. I’m just a little fortune-teller making my way in the city of Chaoge. 1.6kReads8.4Score10314d adds
- 2 I Only Wanted to Make the Investiture of the Gods, But Somehow It Came True! 我只想上封神榜，结果嘛，真！ [Honghuang] + [Journey to the West] + [Investiture of the Gods] + [No System] Xiao Yin was originally a minor character in the novel Investiture of the Gods. The original story devoted less than a chapter to him. He thought he was just an insignificant bit player, until Xiao Yin from a later age unexpectedly transmigrated into his body and discovered a shocking secret! With the Reincarnation Tree on his arm, he came back from the dead again and again. Journey to the West, Investiture of the Gods 1.4kReads7.0Score10014d adds
- 3 Wuyun Xian of the Jie Sect in Honghuang 洪荒截教乌云仙 The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao. The mysterious within the mysterious is the gateway to all wonders. In the primordial heavens and earth, all blood was dark yellow. A young man devoted to the Dao is reborn in the Primordial World and embarks on a journey to transcend and pursue the Dao. As an immortal of Jiejiao, he seeks that one slim chance of survival beneath the Heavenly Dao. 895Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 4 Thanks for Asking. I'm in Honghuang, and I Just Became Tongtian's Disciple 谢邀，人在洪荒，刚拜通天为师 [My take on the Primordial World, with lots of original lore. If that's not your thing, feel free to leave] After transmigrating twice from the modern world to the cultivation world and then to the Primordial World, Jiang Si found herself there from the start. The dragon, phoenix, and qilin clans were locked in a three-way struggle for supremacy. Weakling Jiang Si quietly found a place to improve her cultivation, while keeping an eye out for any opportunities to snag some benefits. As her cultiv 403Reads9.4Score—14d adds
- 5 Honghuang: Becoming Taiyi’s Disciple and Inheriting a Vast Fortune 洪荒：拜师太一，继承大笔遗产 Born in the Primordial World as an immortal gourd, I have never been one to downplay my origins. Once I ascend to the Hall of Clouds, even profound mysteries seem like child's play. Three flowers gather above my crown as I pay homage to the North Sea; the five qi within my chest reach through to the Southern Underworld. I forge the Dao Fruit from primordial unity, and command the Four Symbols and Eight Trigrams in the palm of my hand. 276Reads6.3Score11414d adds
- 6 I, Zhao Gongming, Will Save the Jie Sect 我赵公明拯救截教 Primordial World + transmigration + Investiture of the Gods + Jie Sect + Zhao Gongming + the Three Xiao Sisters + attaining the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal Zhao Gongming is a homebody who enjoys reading novels. One day, while gaming at home, he knocks over a drink and gets electrocuted to death. The Chaos Bead carries him through time and space, and he is reborn as the eldest senior brother of the Jie Sect’s outer disciples. He saves the Three Xiao Sisters, changes the outcome of the Invest 343Reads6.7Score15214d adds
- 7 Tongtian: No Longer a Saint, I Can Kill Whoever I Want 通天：不做圣人后，想砍谁就砍谁 [Host, quickly take over the target's body. Ding! The target is too powerful. Possession failed. The Host and System are about to be reduced to ashes.] The Lord of Heaven, Tongtian, laughed. “Hah, how presumptuous. You actually thought you could possess a Sage?” But soon, he stopped laughing, because he had seen the future of himself and the Jie Sect. In that future, the Jie Sect was almost completely wiped out. Its disciples either had their souls listed on the Investiture of the Gods or were a 26.1kReads8.5Score2k14d adds
- 8 Reborn in Honghuang as the Golden Spirit Holy Mother 重生洪荒之金灵圣母 Understand yin and yang to become an immortal; cultivate for eons to attain the Primordial Unity. Wield the mysteries of heaven and earth to create the world; in a single day, become a limitless Great Luo Immortal. Jin Ling, a student at a Taoist academy in the 21st century, transmigrates into the Primordial World by chance and is reborn as the Jie School’s Holy Mother, Jin Ling. The Primordial World is home to countless great sects, with myriads of cultivators pursuing the Dao and contending f 22.7kReads8.3Score1.3k14d adds
- 9 Honghuang: I Just Married Yunxiao, and You Tell Me This Is Investiture of the Gods 洪荒：刚娶云霄，告诉我这是封神 Su Chen transmigrated to the Great Shang and spent a year lazing around before marrying a beautiful wife. He had hoped to live a quiet life with her, but the very next day she told him her name was Yunxiao and that she was a Jie Sect Disciple. Su Chen was stunned. He had just married Yunxiao, and now he was being told this was the Great Shang of the Investiture of the Gods? He was going to lose his wife! At the critical moment, the System awakened. For his own sake and his wife’s, Su Chen embark 16.8kReads8.4Score1.4k14d adds
- 10 Transmigrating as the Antarctic Immortal: Turning the Tables and Attaining the Dao in the Primordial World 穿越南极仙翁：我在洪荒逆袭证道 [Initial setup: Golden Immortals can enter Chaos; the protagonist won’t start out as a Great Encompassment Golden Immortal; the Lich Tribulation will reach the Quasi-Sage stage; no heroine, don’t read if that’s not your thing] Chang Shou transmigrates into the Primordial World and becomes Antarctic Immortal. He plans to lie flat, but happens to arrive just as Hongjun begins preaching to the myriad worlds. The Primordial World is about to enter a golden age, when Golden Immortals are as common as 6.1kReads6.6Score25814d adds
- 11 EN Primordial Era: My Witch Clan Doesn't Vie for Hegemony, Hongjun is Stunned 洪荒：我巫族不争霸，鸿钧人麻了 This novel has been adapted into a comic drama. If you're interested, check it out on Hongguo by searching for the title. Synopsis: [Honghuang] [Rise of the Witch Clan] [No struggle for supremacy] [Sacrifice the System] After transmigrating to Honghuang, Zhou Ming became the leader of the Witch Clan. With memories of the future, he knew full well that the Witch-Demon Calamity was a death trap. The System? It was refined away by Great God Pangu right from the start, leaving behind only a core ess 62.8kReads7.4Score4.4k14d adds
- 12 Journey to the West Simulator: Becoming a Sage Begins at Flower-Fruit Mountain 西游模拟器：成圣从花果山开始 [Journey to the West + Investiture of the Gods + Primordial World + Simulator] Sun Yuan transmigrated into the world of Journey to the West. He waited on Flower-Fruit Mountain for Sun Wukong to be born and bound himself to a Journey to the West Simulator. From then on, he never looked back on the road to unstoppable power. [At three, you come to gaze at that immortal stone again. It cracks open, and the Stone Monkey is born. You become the first monkey he ever meets.] [At ten, you set out to sea 7.7kReads8.6Score82514d adds
- 13 Honghuang: I Am the Daoist Sect's First Disciple 洪荒：我为道门首徒 Lu Qing transmigrated to the Primordial World and transformed into an innate spiritual root. On the day he took human form, the Six Saints gathered and the Great Dao itself came to celebrate. In the end, he became a disciple of the Three Pure Ones, their shared disciple and the foremost disciple of the Daoist school. In the Zixiao Palace, the Dao Ancestor asked the Six Saints, “Who among you believes is fit to rule the Heavenly Court?” Taishang: “Lu Qing is steady in his conduct and kind by natu 32.5kReads8.9Score2.7k14d adds
- 14 EN Primal Chaos: Even the Three Pure Ones Must Call Me 'Second Uncle' 洪荒：三清也得乖乖叫我一声二叔 At the dawn of chaos, before Heaven and Earth had been formed. Before the Three Thousand Chaos Gods had ever appeared. Hong Yuan had already transmigrated here, and become Pangu's younger brother by the same mother. He also became the only being in all of chaos to survive. Faced with the primeval world transformed from his elder brother, Hong Yuan naturally upheld the fine tradition of a younger brother inheriting from his elder brother. Do you even know where the word “Hong” in “Honghuang” come 50.9kReads8.6Score5.2k14d adds
- 15 EN Primordial Styx: Blood God Avatars Spread Across the World 洪荒冥河之血神分身遍天下 The short drama The Strongest Styx Rewrites the Primordial World is complete. Fellow Daoist fans of short dramas, feel free to click in and check it out. A soul from the future transmigrates to the Primordial World and becomes Minghe. He awakens before anyone else and uses billions of clones to lay down a grand formation that morally coerces the entire Primordial World. He attains the Dao before Hongjun. A golden wheel of Great Dao merit shines across the Primordial World. The Heavenly Dao is so 29.6kReads8.6Score1.9k14d adds
- 16 Honghuang: A Primordial Yin-Yang Flood Dragon, So There Is No More Golden Flood Dragon Scissors 洪荒：先天阴阳蛟，再无金蛟剪 [No System] [Has a Heroine] [Slow-Burn] [Traditional Style] [Sound Logic] [No Conspiracy Theories] [Creative Liberties] I transmigrated into the Primordial World. The good news: I’m a primordial lifeform, and later generations will remember me as a legendary figure. The bad news: the source of that legendary reputation is the treasure made from my corpse, the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, not me while I’m alive, the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon born of primordial yin and yang energy. The convergence of 53.2kReads8.9Score5k14d adds
- 17 EN Honghuang: I’ll Come Clean, I’m the Ancestor of Wisdom! 洪荒：摊牌了，我就是智慧祖巫！ [Primordial World + Investiture of the Gods + Journey to the West + invincible + comedy + scheming + play the pig to eat the tiger] Wu Tian transmigrates into the Primordial World and becomes a member of the Wu Clan. Unlike the others, he has no interest in fighting and killing. He just wants to stay behind the Ancestral Shamans, occasionally offer them advice, cultivate cautiously, and attain the Great Dao. Why fear the Calamity of the Wu and Yaoguang Clans? As long as he can hang on until the 136.3kReads8.9Score19.9k14d adds
- 18 Honghuang: I, Hongjun, Am Really Not the Villain 洪荒：我鸿钧真不是反派 [Comedy + Satisfying Revenge + No Female Lead] Tongtian One: I am Tongtian. I will never found a sect. Tongtian Two: I am Tongtian. I will never become a saint. Tongtian Three: I am Tongtian. I will never confer the gods. King Father of the East: I will build the strongest Heavenly Court. Zhao Gongming: I will expose Hongjun's conspiracy. The transmigrators descend upon the Primordial World, naturally believing themselves righteous and making it their mission to overthrow Hongjun's rule. All Hon 14.2kReads9.3Score91814d adds
- 19 Writing a Diary in the Jie Sect, Tongtian Gets Played for a Fool 人在截教写日记，通天被玩坏了 Ying Yuan woke up one day to find that he had transmigrated to Mount Kunlun in the Primordial World. He had become an evil dragon, formed from the power of wickedness at the dawn of creation. As an innate evil dragon, he was steeped in wickedness and burdened by karma. The Human Religion refused to take him in, the Chan Sect despised him and called for his death, and the Dragon Clan of the Four Seas wanted nothing to do with him. With no other choice, he joined the Jie Sect as an outer sect disc 77.2kReads9.2Score8.4k14d adds
