Novels like A Guide to Cultivation Civilization: Prologue 1, The Prelude to the Mystic Thunder
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- 51 Hehuan Sect: Deep Blue Lets Me Add Points Until I Become the Demonic Path's Leader 合欢宗：深蓝加点被逼成魔道魁首 Everyone condemns those who practice the Yin-Yang Dual Cultivation Art as depraved and lecherous. But no one knows that I was born less gifted than others, and can only sustain my life through the union of yin and yang. As a disciple of the Hehuan Hall of the Hehuan Sect, I awakened a Deep Blue enhancement panel. The righteous sects close in, my fellow disciples turn on one another, and the ambitious Gu Yue Fang Yuan waits for his chance to strike. To find a chance at survival, I travel far to Q 1.2kReads—Score211Shelves
- 52 The Capital’s Young Master Is at Her Feet 京圈太子爷是她的裙下之臣 The Capital’s Crown Prince Is Her Devoted Suitor 97Reads—Score107Shelves
- 53 The Gods Bow Low, While the Wind God Shines Alone 诸神折腰，风神独美 The Gods Bow, but the Wind God Stands Alone 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 The Prince’s Abandoned Consort: The Useless Brats’ Mother Teaches Military Strategy 王府弃妃：废崽他娘教兵法 Female-oriented: discarded consort / cast-off kids / System / a thousand-year-old destiny Su Wanqing, a company’s finance director, transmigrates into a discarded princess consort and binds herself to a past-and-present System. From the start, she has four hopeless children to raise. Her eldest son is an idiot, her youngest son is a good-for-nothing, and her two daughters are the laughingstock of the capital. Instead of teaching them poetry, she teaches them military strategy, political schem 47.6kReads8.4Score4.6kShelves
- 55 I'm Already the Lord of the Universe, and You're Still on Earth? 我都宇宙之主了，你们还在地球？ Xu Que awakens his golden finger and gains the ability to draw talents! Talent One: [Immortality] Gain one year of life every day, with no limit. Talent Two: [Heaven-Defying Insight] Gain one point of insight every day, with no limit. Talent Three: [Hundredfold Critical Hit] Your cultivation progress gets a hundredfold boost every day! Talent Four: [Your Life Is Mine] Kill someone and gain an extra life, with no limit. Talent Five: [I Carry a Healing Spring] Recover 1% of any injury every second 433.6kReads8.5Score51.8kShelves
- 56 Reborn in 1990: From Having a Baby to Making My Way in the World 重生九零，从生娃开始闯荡江湖 [No goody-two-shoes] [Period] [Underworld] [Passionate] [Decisive and ruthless] [Multiple heroines + wish fulfillment] Xu Lin is reborn in the 1990s and activates the More Children, More Blessings System. 11.2kReads6.9Score822Shelves
- 57 Back to 1996: Taking Down the Supply and Marketing Cooperative 重回1996：干翻供销社 [Reborn] [Period] [Lighthearted Comedy] [Ensemble Cast] [Sweet Romance] [Modern Romance] At forty-eight, seasoned old hand Meng Qiheng touches an old mirror and returns to rural northern Jiangsu in 1996! From the start, he stops his father from signing away everything for a brick and tile factory. With just 2.5 yuan in startup capital, he uses his insider knowledge to catch and sell eels, sell rainproof tarps, and crush the state-run supply cooperative! He teams up with his buddies to open a vid 487Reads—Score—Shelves
- 58 Madness Is Great: I'm a Medicine Vessel from the Start! 癫点好啊：开局就是药人圣体！ [Fantasy Brainstorming] [Unhinged] [Unorthodox Cultivation] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Shameless] While everyone else transmigrates and gets to be a genius from the start, he transmigrates into the cultivation world's biggest pyramid scheme: the Myriad Medicine Sect. Here, every disciple is short-lived, the elders are leading the charge in going crazy, and the slogan is, "Cultivate with pills, reach the top of the world." Just as he's about to grab his bucket and run, the System awakens. He sw 221Reads—Score153Shelves
- 59 I, King Zhou, Have Already Become a Sage. Why Are You Still Trying to Deify Me? 我纣王都成圣了，你还封神？ Also known as I Am the Sun in the Great Shang. Those who know, know. It’s really good, and I can’t say more than that. I guarantee it’s a great read! Di Xin’s vision of a glorious legacy for the ages will shine forever. Loyalty! 44.7kReads7.3Score3.7kShelves
- 60 The Legend of Hua Fei and Hua Xiaoyao 华飞与华逍遥传说 The Legend of Hua Fei and Hua Xiaoyao 99Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 Hua Yan: Storm and Strife 2 华炎风雨2 Hua Yan: Storms and Strife 2 11Reads—Score—Shelves
- 62 Spiritual Qi Revival: Starting to Slay Evil in a Mountain Village 灵气复苏，从山村斩邪开始 As spiritual qi revival swept the world, night grew unnaturally dark and ghostly flames spread across the land. A hundred ghosts roamed at night, and myriad races descended upon the world. Lin Fan happened upon a rusty sword that passed on its power to him. He unearthed ancient cultivation manuals and shared them with his village companions. Wild boars mutated, skeletons crawled from their graves, and ghosts attacked at night. A hundred ghosts slaughtered the village as the myriad races fought f 3.3kReads—Score362Shelves
- 63 The Legend of Tang Xiaoming and Ye Hua 唐小鸣与叶华传说 The Legend of Tang Xiaoming and Ye Hua 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 64 Innkeeper, Don't Think You Can Escape: The CEO's Runaway Pregnancy 民宿老板别想逃：女总裁的“带球跑” The B&B Owner Can't Get Away: The CEO's "Pregnant and on the Run" Romance 183Reads—Score—Shelves
- 65 Born to Make Them Laugh 转笑生 Turn to Laughter —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 The Legend of Lu Hua and Hua Fei 吕华与华飞传说 The Legend of Lü Hua and Hua Fei 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 67 Everyone, Aim at the Idea King and Take the Safety Off 全体都有！瞄准点子王打开保险 Jiang Chen transmigrates to a parallel world and signs up for the reality show Three People Walk Together, One Can Teach Me, ready to stir things up. From the start, he awakens the Three People Walk Together, There’s Bound to Be a Mastermind System! The Mastermind, the Man of Action, and the Whatever Bro. In the low hills and foul waters, kindred spirits meet; in the barren mountains and harsh lands, the three big shots make their home! Three people, three schemes, and Jiang Chen is the lunatic 206.2kReads8.5Score22.4kShelves
- 68 The Fanfic I Wrote Actually Replaced the Original!? 我写的同人文竟然代替了原著！？ The fanfiction I wrote actually replaced the original work!? 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 69 Legends of Wind and Rain in the Nine Provinces 九州云华风雨传说 Legends of Wind and Rain in the Cloud-Kissed Lands of the Nine Provinces 223Reads—Score—Shelves
- 70 Zeng Guofan: A Distinguished Statesman Who Revived the Late Qing 曾国藩：晚清中兴名臣 Written in an accessible style, this book recounts the remarkable life of Zeng Guofan, the foremost statesman of the late Qing revival. It begins with a baby's cries in a farming household in Xiangxiang in 1811, then follows his grueling path through the imperial examinations. He fails four times but keeps studying until, at twenty-seven, he finally enters the Hanlin Academy. As a capital official, he adheres to the principles of self-cultivation and holds fast to his convictions amid court intr 8.5kReads7.9Score371Shelves
- 71 Sequel to the Carefree Tale of Yunhua in Jiuzhou 九州云华逍遥记续 A Continuation of the Carefree Chronicles of Yunhua in the Nine Provinces 106Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 Reborn from the Start: I'm Just a Scrap Collector 开局重生：我就一个收废品的 From the start, he collects scrap! Lin Zan, the Eternal Immortal Emperor, wields the Great Dao of Dust, sweeps across the outer realms to crush countless strange beings, personally restrains the Ancestor of World-Destroying Evil, and ascends to the highest peak of the heavens. Though his Great Dao makes him invincible throughout the ages, he cannot protect the loved ones by his side. His wife, children, and kin all perish in the outer-realm calamity. Having seen through the joys and sorrows of m 1.7kReads8.6Score151Shelves
- 73 The Legend of Hua Xiang and Ling Zifei 华翔与灵子飞传说 The Legend of Huaxiang and Lingzi Fei —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 74 The Cangyun Calamity 沧云劫 Ye Yi travels through the myriad worlds of the Cangyun Continent, battling demons and evil forces. Across the four seas lies a world of immortals and mysticism. Calamities and fate are unpredictable, and legends unfold across Cangyun Dazhou and the Immortal Realm. 299Reads—Score—Shelves
- 75 Reborn, Yet Still Unable to Escape That Freak 重生了还是摆脱不了那个变态 Even After Being Reborn, I Still Can’t Get Away from That Freak 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 76 Hua Yan, Heaven and Earth 华炎天与地 Huayan Heaven and Earth 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 77 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Ring of Time 凡人修仙之时光戒指 [Mortal's journey + fantasy cultivation + power fantasy + multiple heroines + treasure appraisal + playing dumb to catch a tiger + ruthless decisiveness] With eight stars aligning, Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival. Li Feng, an antique shop owner carrying a time ring, unexpectedly embarks on another path to immortality. So what if I have five useless spiritual roots? I have a time ring, and I can appraise treasures to earn spirit stones. I have a golden mask, so I can play dumb and cat 7kReads8.7Score984Shelves
- 78 We’ll Break Up Eventually. Who Are You Talking About? 迟早要分——你说谁？ We’re Bound to Break Up Sooner or Later, Who Are You Talking About? 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 79 Godhood for All: There's Something Off About My Divine Realm 全民神祇：我的神域有点不对劲 [Godhood for All] [Farming] [Mutation] [No CP] [Multiple Cultivation Systems] [An Increasingly Unhinged Zoo] In the era of divine domains for all, everyone awakens their own divine domain in high school. Tang Shi awakens an A-rank talent: [A Wild, Chaotic Explosion of Growth]. Its effect is simple: the plants and animals in his divine domain mutate at random. The good news is, they might get stronger. The bad news is, they might grow in all the wrong ways. Luckily, he also has a special building 170kReads8.3Score23.9kShelves
- 80 The Tale of Yun Yao 云遥传 The Tale of Yun Yao 113Reads—Score—Shelves
- 81 Remembering the Years as the Seas Changed 沧海桑田忆年年 My father and Uncle Wang Si, whom he had begged for help from among the neighbors, rode along an unknown little road dusted with snow, just as dawn began to break. Their whips cracked through the silent morning with a crisp, swirling sound. One cart carried the last of our corn kernels in burlap sacks, a few battered water jars, and four large geese. The other held pots and pans, the furniture that was still usable, and some clothes that had been worn by who knew how many children. All the quilt 1.8kReads8.9Score154Shelves
- 82 I Turned My Sister into a Doll, Now I Challenge the Gods Above 把妹妹制成人偶，我剑指漫天诸神 [Dystopian + dark comedy + grand worldbuilding + thrills and heartbreak] In the summer of Year 1048 of the Pillar Calendar, Luo Li once again pushed open the glass doors of the Civil Affairs Application Bureau. To obtain a license to kill a girl and use her flesh and blood to awaken a sleeping puppet. “Public Safety Bureau of Laiyin City reminds you: kill without a license and lose everything; kill with a license and benefit your whole family.” “Want to kill someone? Getting a license is har 121.5kReads9.4Score14.4kShelves
- 83 The Great Azure Tribulation 太苍劫 Prologue: Dao Fire Ten thousand years ago. Fire, Dao fire filling the skies. Crimson flames erupted from beneath the earth, turning the entire Divine Capital the color of a hellscape. The bronze palaces that had once towered into the clouds collapsed one after another in the blaze. The dragon carvings on their upturned eaves warped in the heat, as if they had come alive to let out silent cries of agony. The man on the imperial throne had not left. He sat alone amid the collapsing palaces and bur 2kReads—Score207Shelves
- 84 The Village: Carefree Divine Healer 村野，逍遥神医 [Feel-Good Rural Fiction + Farming Your Way to Success] The meek old farmer Niu Dagen unexpectedly awakens the cultivation techniques from his past life! From then on, Niu Dagen coasts to success in the countryside, growing crops, building wealth, curing the sick, and face-slapping bullies. He lives a carefree life and turns a poor mountain village into a paradise on earth! See how Niu Dagen uses his heaven-defying cultivation techniques to enjoy a happy rural life that even the immortals envy! 500Reads7.7Score111Shelves
- 85 A Carefree Tale of Yunhua in Jiuzhou 九州云华逍遥记 Ye Yi and Ling Ziyuan cultivate and wander through the mountains and rivers of Yunhua's nine provinces on the Cangyun Continent. The sect's people lend their full support to the Yunhua Dynasty, as heaven and earth together share life across the four seas of Yunhua. 309Reads—Score—Shelves
- 86 Sixty Years of Demon Slaying: This Taoist Gets Stronger with Every Kill! 甲子荡魔：这个道士杀怪就变强！ [Animated adaptation now airing] There are only fake tragic twists, no real ones, so enjoy without worry! [Decisive and ruthless] [Dark cultivation] [Slow burn] [Gender equality] [No female lead] [Sword immortal] War and calamity rage across the land, monsters run rampant. The human world is a furnace, and its people are mere weeds. Shen Hui transmigrates one day and becomes a Taoist priest at Qingfeng Temple on Qilu Mountain. He intends to spend each day meditating and cultivating qi, pursuing 274.5kReads8.5Score35.5kShelves
- 87 A Portable Women's Prison: Taming a Goddess from the Start 随身女子监狱，开局驯服女神 Fresh out of college and already a corporate drone, Lin Yi is more exhausted than a donkey. Then he awakens the Beauty Prison, a portable prison! The rules are simple and ruthless: it only holds stunningly beautiful female villains who have committed all manner of wicked deeds. Cold-blooded romance scammers, icy and heartless female CEOs, ruthless top assassins, gods who control life and death... Any peerlessly beautiful woman who breaks the rules gets thrown in prison overnight for reform! Wh 5.4kReads—Score496Shelves
- 88 Disaster-Magnet System: I Flee to Neon, While the Lighthouse Creates an Apocalypse 招灾系统：润去霓虹，灯塔造末世 [Exchange System + endless supplies + urban rise + tech emperor + sacrifice the great powers] If even Iron Man's “memories” can be exchanged for, who needs a job? Copied supplies could fill in the ocean, so who needs money? The points need “rat lives” as sacrifices, is that it? “Mr. Baka,” a super typhoon and an extreme-cold apocalypse... Wouldn't it be a waste of all this “spectacle” if I didn't sink your whole country? And as for your “daddy,” the Lighthouse Nation... The brand-new “zombie kil 1.9kReads5.9Score209Shelves
- 89 Yunhua's Memories 1 云华忆1 Memories of Yunhua 1 52Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 Wind and Rain in Huayan 华炎风雨 Huayan Through Wind and Rain 55Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 After Graduating from a Top University, I Turned Around and Took a Security Job 从985名校出来，转头扎进保安岗 Graduated from a top-tier 985 university, then turned around and took a security guard job 63Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 The Little Sunshine Is Selfish and Sharp-Tongued 小太阳她自私又毒舌 The Little Sun Is Selfish and Sharp-Tongued 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 93 Undercover: Lost in the Shadows 潜伏:暗影迷途 While searching for his missing older sister, Chen Feng is silenced by those who want him dead. Reborn for reasons he cannot explain, he finds himself with an extraordinary range of abilities: medicine, mystic arts, feng shui, face reading... Even his luck with women takes a strange turn. By chance, Chen Feng saves a powerful underworld woman. To find his sister, he uses her trust to infiltrate a deeply concealed criminal organization. Circumstances force him to climb its ranks, step by step, un 2.3kReads7.0Score284Shelves
- 94 Yunhua's Memories 2 云华忆2 Memories of Yunhua 2 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 95 Urban: A Beautiful Mature Woman Sets Her Sights on Me from the Start 都市：开局美妇赖上我 [Urban dual cultivation + all the beauties + exhilarating plot + decisive and merciless + multiple heroines] Xu Xiaofan is devoted to his girlfriend, but one day, an alluring married woman unexpectedly invites him into her car. Inside, she tells him that his girlfriend has been sleeping with her husband. After learning that his girlfriend has betrayed him, Xu Xiaofan breaks up with her for good. No one knows that he is actually a hidden cultivator. After suffering heartbreak and humiliation, he 60.2kReads7.8Score5.6kShelves
- 96 Surviving the Ordeal 熬过劫难 First, be certain that you can reach the summit. Then believe this book can rewrite your fate, and believe in the power of belief. By the time you read this book, the identity you have now will already have begun to loosen its grip. The moment you choose to begin, you have already left mediocrity behind. Can my story help you find your own path to salvation? May words reveal the power they truly hold. 60.7kReads9.2Score12.7kShelves
- 97 Turn Sorrow into Song 斩悲伤为歌 [Ensemble cast + youthful heroes + tragic beauty + wuxia style + not a power fantasy + no mindless characters] He was once a spirited young prodigy, the greatest talent in his sect, blessed with the fortune of an ice dragon and the bloodline of an ancient demon emperor dragon. Yet hardship after hardship befell him. His senior brother died saving him. The person who loved him died because of him, and he then killed the one he loved with his own hands. He even became a sinner in the Xuan Zhen Rea 71Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 98 The Demon Lord Is Here to See His Junior Disciple Again. Quick, Shut the Door 魔尊又来找小师弟了，快关门 The Demon Lord Is Here to See Our Junior Brother Again. Quick, Shut the Door! 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 99 The Strange Events of Yunjing 云京诡异事件 Strange Incidents in Yunjing 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 100 It All Started with a Chili Pepper Trade 从辣椒交易开始 On modern-day Blue Star, in a coastal village in the southwest of Huaguo, the countryside was poor and remote but rich in produce. Chen An, 22, had graduated from high school and spent several years working away from home, but couldn’t make ends meet. He returned to his hometown to help his parents grow chili peppers. That year, they had a bumper crop, but buyers drove the price down to just a few cents per jin, and nobody wanted to buy them. Just as he sat worrying on the ridge between the fiel 3.5kReads6.2Score206Shelves
