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- 1 The Long Road of the Corpse Immortal 尸仙途远 Also known as: Great Love Immortal Venerable? I'm a Corpse-Refining Demon Venerable! A chaotic age. An abandoned infant. An old beggar picked him up and gave him a bowl of rice gruel and a surname. Grandpa said: As long as you live, that's enough. But Grandpa died beneath the hooves of the powerful. Grandpa taught me how to survive. The world taught me not to be human. He repaid life with his own, leaving himself for the grave. In this world, there's only one kind of fairness: anyone can di 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Invincible on Dirt: Starting with a Wasteland Body 吃土无敌：从荒古废体开始 [No System, mortal cultivation, ruthless, demonic cultivator, fast-paced, hard as nails] “You’re nothing but a worthless Ancient Desolate Physique. You think you can prove the Dao and become an immortal?” “Exactly. Go back where you came from.” … While everyone counted Su Chen out, he discovered that his Ancient Desolate Saint Body was no ordinary one: it was a mutated Saint Body! 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Xuanhuan: The More Ruthless I Am, the More Invincible I Become 玄幻：我越凶残越无敌 [Decisive and ruthless + no System + no harem + ordinary mortal cultivation + traditional xianxia] Cruel Second Uncle: Kill. Gentle Senior Sister: Kill. Sworn brother: Kill. … Lu Yun inherits the legacies of Xuan Ku, a Buddhist master who survived the tribulation, and Blood Demon, a demonic master who survived the tribulation. Their legacies let him avoid the side effects of bloodlust, allowing him to step into the world of cultivation. What he doesn’t know is that he has long since fallen into 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Demonic Cultivator: The Spellcraft Prodigy Who Fell to the Dark Side 魔修：堕入邪道的术法天才 Xu Yi transmigrates to the Xuanwu Realm, where his mixed spiritual roots trap him at the first level of Qi Refining. He scrapes by with spirit-storing talismans. As the natural order falls into chaos, one day his obsession turns into a calamity. He willingly embraces demonic cultivation, defying heaven with a mortal body, and becomes an outcast to both immortals and demons. 1Reads—Score122Shelves
- 5 The Extreme Yin Demon Cultivator 极阴魔修 [No female lead, decisive and ruthless, demonic cultivator, cultivation in the seas] The path of cultivation means competing with heaven for longevity, wresting treasures from the earth, and fighting people for supremacy! Ascending to immortality is a merciless trial. Of tens of billions of cultivators, only one can attain the Dao. Zhang Ling'an carries a deep blood feud. He clawed his way out of a mass grave and raced up the cultivation ranks with the help of a mysterious crystal that can impro 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Deathly Mandate 死天令 The Heavenly Dao died completely ten thousand years ago. The "heavens" now hanging over all living beings are a gigantic disk that draws from them. Cultivation: The "Dao heart" and "pure spiritual energy" that cultivators pursue are no ladder to ascension. They are "high-concentration fuel and patches for the heavens," cultivated by the upper realm to keep the dead heavens from collapsing. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Nascent Soul Rogue Cultivator from the Start: Watch Me Bully the Younger Generation 开局元婴散修，看我如何欺辱小辈 Below the Nascent Soul stage, all are ants. Yet rogue Nascent Soul cultivators are always short on resources. Lin Xuan died suddenly while reading a novel and became a rogue Nascent Soul cultivator in the world of cultivation. Now that he had arrived in this cultivation world, he was determined to reach the summit and see what awaited at the top. Watch as I venture alone into secret realms, kill for treasure, and bully juniors. 968Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Spirit-Gathering Bronze Bowl 凡人修仙：聚灵青铜碗 [Mortal Cultivation] [No System] [Traditional Xuanhuan] [Eastern Xuanhuan] [Ongoing] [Fantasy] First piece of information: At his lowest point, the male lead accidentally finds a bronze bowl. It can refine blood essence, extract bloodlines, refine spiritual energy, and grant him a chance to cultivate. In a daze, he embarks on the path to immortality. Second piece of information: This treasure, the bronze bowl, can refine the spiritual energy of all kinds of creatures. It seems like a demonic tec 1.1kReads—Score101Shelves
- 9 Starting as a Menial, I Conquered the Cultivation World with My Mixed Spiritual Roots 杂役开局，我靠杂灵根横推修仙界 One day, I awakened and rose from a menial servant to a cultivator destined for immortality! Lin Chen was cast aside by the Xuantian Sect and mocked for his mixed spiritual roots. At the brink of despair, he encountered a peerlessly beautiful master who taught him supreme arts and bestowed upon him an inheritance that defied the heavens! With shadowless stealth, heaven-burning fire control, and the Nine Forms of Clouds and Mist, he would roam the world! At the seventh level of Qi Refining, he cr 20Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Path to Demonic Cultivation Begins with Murder and Plunder! 凡人修仙：入魔从杀人夺宝开始！ [Decisive and ruthless + shameless scoundrel + demonic cultivator + no System + no heroine + no saintly protagonist] “I stole a pair of Demon Eyes that See Through Illusions.” Why should I be fated to live an ordinary life? Why must I be content with living beneath others from the moment I was born? Why should I be a green leaf that serves only to set off the flowers? After more than eighty years of hardship in another world, faced with temptation and a rare opportunity, Hei Fan crossed the line 304Reads—Score117Shelves
- 11 You Were Supposed to Test the Poison, So Why Did You Make the Aloof Fairy Cry? 让你试毒，你把清冷仙子虐哭了？ [Cultivation + Demoness + Fairy + Saintess + Dual Cultivation + Extreme Contrast + Take Everything and Leave Nothing + Live Off Others While Keeping the Upper Hand + Tread Carefully at Every Step + Smart Characters + Decisive and Ruthless] In the Blissful Demon Sect, a pill slave’s life is worth less than a dog’s. When Lu Changqing is forced by an overseer to swallow a third-grade defective pill, he should have suffered a ruptured gut. Instead, he unexpectedly awakens the Yantian Jade. The poiso 111Reads—Score102Shelves
- 12 Immortal Path of Ten Thousand Arts: I Have a Yin-Yang Mirror 万法仙途：我有一面阴阳镜 A Yin-Yang Mirror deduces every law under heaven. Tame beasts and spirit insects, master spells and spirit arrays, refine pills and forge artifacts... In the end, become an Immortal of Ten Thousand Arts. The rating just came out, so it's a little low. The first three realms, Spirit Disciple, Liquid Condensation, and Crystal Transformation, are inspired by the great Wang Yu's The Magic Record. 31.4kReads7.9Score2.7kShelves
- 13 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Immortals Should Cultivate Secondhand! 凡人修仙：仙就要修二手的！ The rating has just been released, and it'll rise later! [No AI, entirely handmade] [Mortal-style cultivation + spear-focused cultivator] (Traditional immortal cultivation, slow burn and not a wish-fulfillment story, rising from mortal to immortal, with an exciting later arc) Chen Tuo is reborn in the cultivation world with the ability to repair secondhand goods. He can mend worn-out straw sandals and piece together broken porcelain bowls, but he lacks the one thing that matters most: a spiritua 1.2kReads6.4Score100Shelves
- 14 Undercover in the Hehuan Demon Sect, I Capture the Senior Sister Fairy 卧底合欢魔宗，我抓到仙子大师姐 I went undercover in the Hehuan Demon Sect, never expecting to capture my former senior sister, the once-revered fairy. Day one: “My cultivation has been crippled, and I was captured by mistake. Junior brother, you've become a demonic cultivator? Get on your knees and apologize at once! How dare you! What do you think you're doing?” Day two: “Senior sister, don't come any closer!” Day three: “Senior sister, what happened to those three thousand blond-haired demonic cultivators from the sect outs 159Reads—Score128Shelves
- 15 Myriad Worlds Treasure: The Second-Generation Immortal's Comeback 万界通宝之仙二代的逆袭 [Traditional Xianxia + Not Invincible + No System + Golden Finger + Cultivation Story + Playing the Fool While Secretly Outclassing Everyone] My name is Fang Jingqing. My mother is an Immortal Lord. When I was thirteen, she cut down the entire beast tide with a single sword, then was forced by the Heavenly Dao to ascend to the Immortal Realm. But she didn't take me with her when she ascended. From that day on, I went from being the most cherished young master of the Su family to an adopted son w 14Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: From Age Sixty, I Forge a Sacred Body 凡人修仙：从六十岁开始肉身成圣 [Mortal Protagonist + No System + Utterly Calm + Wits and Strategy] “Now that this old man has gotten close to you, fellow Daoist, don't you think it's too late to leave?” Zhang Tie was once an old “fixer” at the Xiuchun Brothel in Qingshi City. He was over sixty, his vitality waning, and should have been little more than a pile of bones in the ground. With an identity like his, how will he make his own path to immortality in a cultivation world full of deception, uncover the secrets of the immo 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 The Chronicle of Heavenly Evolution and Reincarnation 天衍轮回录 [Mortal's Journey] [Native] [No System] [No Female Lead] [Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment] The pacing is a little slow in the first 20 chapters, and the plot is relatively calm. Fellow Daoists, I hope you'll give it a chance and read a few more chapters 🙏 I humbly thank you all. [Qi Refining - Foundation Establishment - Golden Core - Nascent Soul - Deity Transformation - Soul Separation...] He was the Profound Ancestor of the Upper Realm, once standing above all cultivators. After a sudden calamit 261Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Biyang Cultivation Realm 碧阳修仙界 [Decisive and Ruthless + Profit Above All + No System + No Fortuitous Opportunities + No Cheats + No Heroine + Ensemble Cast + Slow Pacing + If It's Not for You, Please Don't Read. Thanks!] In the Biyang Cultivation World, everyone has their share of hardships, and everyone ends up behind bars. Protagonist Chu Yuanyu: Neither righteous nor demonic, selfish and self-serving. He'll stop at nothing to grow stronger. Warning: The protagonist may not be to your liking. If you're not into this kind of 299Reads—Score101Shelves
- 19 Slay Immortals, Slaughter Gods 弑仙戮神 This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is coincidental, and I accept no responsibility. No System, no transmigration, and no mindless plot. The story may be a slow burn. If it’s not for you, feel free to move on. Chu Chen, a demonic sect leader who slept for a thousand years, is awakened a millennium later by his surviving disciples using the Blood Refining Sacrifice to the Saint. A modern city? The Age of Decline? Spiritual qi revival? An Eastern orthodox c 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 The Heavenly Theft Record: All Living Beings Build My Dao Foundation 窃天录：众生筑我道基 Xuanhuan + dark fantasy + no System + ruthless and decisive + ungrateful + no moral constraints + self-interest above all + no female lead + a new premise you’ve definitely never seen before The rating just went live! It’ll go up! Spiritual roots are brands stamped on livestock before slaughter. Ascension is the final ceremony that delivers them to the platters of those above. Lu Jin was born without spiritual roots, yet he is the only “loophole” in this immortal-cultivation farm. He can see 38Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 The Mortal's Immortal Legend 凡人修仙神传 [Mortal Cultivator] [No System] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Transmigration] [Not a Do-Gooder] [Fast-Paced] The path to immortality is vast and endless. How insignificant is the mortal world? Billions of lives can vanish in the blink of an eye. A mountain village boy, caught between life and death, has no choice but to trust an unreliable old man! With the cultivation technique he inherits, how can he rise from an ordinary mortal, forge new horizons in the cruel world of cultivation, and carve out a 132Reads—Score161Shelves
- 22 The Immortal Who Seeks Good Fortune and Avoids Misfortune 趋吉避凶仙 [Mortal Cultivator] [No System] Transmigrating into the vast world of cultivation, Chen Jun becomes a low-born, untalented menial disciple of the Lingxiao Sect. He thought his path to immortality was hopeless, but by a stroke of fortune, he obtains a bronze divination disc capable of revealing omens and helping him avoid danger: [Heavenly Divination: Auspicious] Tomorrow at 12:45 p.m., torrential rain will fall. Go to the peach grove twenty li east of the sect in advance and wait for lightning t 1.4kReads7.5Score186Shelves
- 23 Proving the Dao as the Thunder God 证道雷神 An ordinary mortal’s journey to immortality. This is not a power fantasy: no harem, no transmigration, no System, and no cheat artifacts. The path of cultivation is full of thorns, and one careless step can leave you utterly broken. The protagonist is like a modern-day wage slave, giving everything he has and ending up covered in scars, yet never giving up. Like a blade of grass, he endures hardship after hardship and stubbornly keeps growing, until, without even realizing it, he becomes a tower 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Young Master of a Powerful Family: The System Sends Me After the Chosen Protagonist 豪门少主：系统让我围猎天命主角 Villain + System + Hunting the Children of Destiny Ling Chen, a wage slave, transmigrates to a world of immortal cultivation and finds himself transformed into the young sect master of a top sect with power over an entire region. With a Heavenly Spirit Root and endless resources at his disposal, he thinks he can lie flat and spend his life enjoying fine wine and beautiful women. Who knew the [Strongest Villain System of the Myriad Heavens] would suddenly activate! Only then does he learn that he —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 I Died of Old Age, Only to Learn My Ancestor Was Han the Demon? 寿终正寝，告诉我祖先是韩老魔？ Han Tian transmigrates to a small world of immortal cultivation, hoping to use his knowledge from another world to cheat his way to the top. Reality promptly slaps him hard across the face. After sixty-seven years of cultivation, he still can't gather a single trace of spiritual energy. Han Tian gazes dazedly at his frail, aging body and lets out a quiet sigh. He has spent most of his life using the advanced ideas he brought with him to turn the Han family from a struggling minor clan into one o 2.2kReads7.1Score162Shelves
- 26 I Can Cultivate by Having a Good Time 爽了就能修炼 Multiple heroines + transmigration + System + power fantasy. Overworked wage slave Mu Xiaochuan dies from the strain of his miserable job. When he wakes up, he has transmigrated to a cultivation world. He intends to train hard and reach the pinnacle of life. But his aptitude is terrible, so he continues to live a miserable life in the cultivation world. Just as his lifespan is about to run out, he awakens a power fantasy System… 65Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 27 I Destroyed My Cultivation and Left Home, So Why Are You Crying Now That I’ve Become a Demon Cultivator? 自废修为叛出家，我成魔修你哭啥 Three years ago, Lin Yang left home to seek experience after his family treated him with cold indifference. Three years later, when he returned to the Lin family, he was accused of colluding with demonic cultivators. Unable to prove his innocence, Lin Yang had no choice but to cripple his own cultivation to clear his name. After that, he left the Lin family. His hair turned white overnight, and he fell into demonic cultivation. From then on, his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds. One by o 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 You Accuse Me of Demon Cultivation? Why Panic When I Really Turn to the Demonic Path? 诬陷我魔修？真转修魔你们慌什么 [Decisive and ruthless] [Overpowered protagonist] [Demonic cultivator] How do you prove your innocence when you’ve been framed? Easy… Just make the accusation come true. Then you weren’t framed in the first place, which means you’re innocent, right? … You accused me of cultivating demonic arts, and now I really am cultivating demonic arts. What are you so afraid of? Come on, come on, gather in my Banner of Ten Thousand Souls. “We Only Accused You of Demonic Cultivation, So Why Did You Make It Re 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 From the Start, I Returned to Age Eleven and Cultivated My Body to Sainthood 开局回到十一岁，我炼体成圣 [Reborn + Body Refinement + Temperament + No System + Traditional Xianxia + Everything Earned the Hard Way] Cranes bid farewell to the clouds of Yanyun; dragons rise from Baixi. Qi Jing was a menial servant of the Yanyun Sect. When his term of service ended, he was supposed to retire, but instead he returned to the age of eleven, before his cultivation had even begun. He thought he was merely a servant, watching the sun rise and set over the Yanyun Sect. But he was wrong. His life was never mean 42.6kReads8.1Score5.7kShelves
- 30 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: The Long Road to Immortality 凡人修仙：漫漫仙路 (Traditional cultivation) (No System) (Not a transmigration story) (Slow burn) (No female lead) Lu Yuan is an ordinary boy from a mountain village. When he is ten, his father is injured by someone and dies unexpectedly, leaving him a fragment of an immortal cultivation manual and an ancestral iron piece before he passes away. By cultivating according to the fragment, Lu Yuan escapes the clutches of the wealthy Li Youcai. The iron piece brings him an unexpected “immortal opportunity.” From then o 91.4kReads8.5Score8kShelves
- 31 The Legend of Ding Chen 丁辰传 Ding Chen was an ordinary beggar on the street. By chance, he met Perfected Jiang, an elder in charge at Dongxuan Palace, and embarked on the path of immortality. But with his poor aptitude, he struggled for years, only to see time slip away… Just as he had lost hope and decided to lie low within the sect for the rest of his days, he unexpectedly obtained the legacy of an ancient mystical art. This dragged him into the secret history of Dongxuan Palace’s founding patriarch, forcing him to flee t 4.5kReads8.4Score470Shelves
- 32 The Demonic Cultivator Sacrifices All Living Beings 魔修祭众生 [Dark story + blood-path demonic cultivator + no female lead + modern technology combined with demonic cultivation + not mindless + pursues eternal life by any means necessary + everyone is smart] In troubled times, heroes rise up everywhere. I had no intention of fighting for dominion over the world, but the people are suffering. So when the realm descends into chaos, a demonic cultivator emerges. 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 The Fool Cultivates Immortality and Becomes the Demon Lord 傻子修仙成魔尊 [No System] [Demonic Cultivator] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Space] [Beast Taming] [Insect Taming] [Bird Taming] Armed with seven crows, a black panther, and a swarm of armored poison cannons, the male lead sweeps through the cultivation world, demon realm, ghost realm, and netherworld. If I become a demon, what can Heaven do to me? A good-for-nothing fool endures every kind of humiliation. Everyone thinks he's a worthless weakling they can push around. No one knows he has top-tier combat technique 130Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 The Qingxuan Qin Clan’s Cultivation Chronicles 青玄秦氏修仙录 [Family Cultivation] [No System] [Ensemble Cast] [Management and Growth] The protagonist is a genius with dual spiritual roots, and his clan starts out with four Foundation Establishment cultivators. The tides of the world surge onward like a mighty river. Its twists and turns, its shifting fortunes, give rise to countless tales of love, hatred, and sorrow. Watch as the Qin clan of cultivators rises from a small clan with a single Foundation Establishment cultivator, growing step by step into a 23.6kReads7.3Score2.1kShelves
- 35 Cultivating Immortality as a Mortal, with a Celestial Grotto from the Start 凡人修仙，开局一个仙洞 [Mortal cultivation, traditional cultivation, no System, slow burn, gets exciting later, starts in a small mountain village] A pebble, a cave, and an orphan: together, they begin a legendary journey of cultivation. Wang Shitou finds a small stone by the river and enters a cave. Gradually, he discovers the cave's remarkable uses and names it the Immortal Cave. Items placed inside the Immortal Cave never deteriorate, and the cave can also increase spiritual energy. Spirit herbs planted there grow 29.1kReads8.5Score3.5kShelves
- 36 I Betrayed the Sect for the Demoness! 为了魔门妖女，我叛变了！ "You demoness, I'm a disciple of the righteous path. You want me to join the demonic sect? Dream on! I'd rather die!" Lu Yunchuan declared righteously. Three days later, gazing at the demoness in his arms, Lu Yunchuan shook his head. "What righteous path? Never heard of it. In this life, I'm sworn against the righteous path!" Lu Yunchuan, a disciple of the righteous path, had intended to vanquish demons and uphold justice throughout the land. But he was accidentally captured by a demones 20Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 37 Immortality in the Demonic Sect: A Fated Bond with a Spirit Corpse Immortal 魔门长生之灵尸仙缘 Lin Xuanqing accidentally entered a demonic sect, only to discover that it was nothing like the brutal place of legend. From then on, he refined spirit corpses, sought immortality, and cultivated the sword. A thousand years later, he looked back, having reached the pinnacle. No matter how chaotic the Azure Heavens or shattered the Yellow Earth, all things mourn with the changing seasons! Loneliness like falling snow! My heart endures forever. 895Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 38 Bro, Stop Simping. You're Already at the Nascent Soul Stage 兄弟别再舔了，你都元婴了 [Multiple female leads] [Not mindless] [Forbidden master-disciple romance] [Tormented love] Lin Qiu and Guo Chong are the best of brothers. They transmigrate together to the cultivation world of Cang Xuan Continent, where they both awaken Systems. Lin Qiu awakens the Get-Beaten System: taking a beating makes him stronger, and the harder the beating, the stronger he gets. Guo Chong awakens the Simp System: win over one cultivation partner, and become invincible within one major cultivation realm. 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Kill the Protagonist, Seize His Fortunes, and Become an Immortal! 杀主角，夺机缘，道爷我成了！ “My name is Lin Shen. Shen, as in cautious.” “You dare oppose me? I won’t be able to sleep until your whole family is dead.” Other people cultivate immortality through years of hard work. I, Lin Shen, do it by seizing what I want! By taking it! Children of Destiny? They’re my walking blood banks! The protagonist’s golden finger? That’s my exclusive spoils of war! On this journey, I kill everyone I meet and take everything from everyone I meet. What order and rules? In the face of overwhelming st 136.6kReads8.2Score14.9kShelves
- 40 Raising Pigs in a Cultivation Sect on the Sly 苟在修仙宗门养猪 After transmigrating to the world of immortal cultivation, Chen Mo is guided by a five-colored pearl and begins in a lifeless space of yellow earth. While others toil in cultivation and fight over resources, he quietly raises flower spirit pigs in Spirit Beast Valley. In his space, spiritual springs bubble, spiritual herbs grow in lush patches, and spirit pigs fill the pens. One drop of Origin Spirit Liquid can evolve a village dog into a spirit beast. A hundred-year-old spiritual herb, somethin 18.7kReads—Score2.9kShelves
- 41 The Nine-Dragon Cup 九龙杯 [No System] [No Transmigration] [Traditional Fantasy] A traditional fantasy and xianxia story. Zhang Qingshan goes from being a good-for-nothing to embarking on the path of cultivation. He seeks not immortality for himself, but fulfillment of the obsession in his heart. The greatest Heavenly Spiritual Root is hidden beneath the outward appearance of the weakest Five-Element Spiritual Root. The supreme sacred treasure, the Nine-Dragon Cup, is hidden inside an ordinary walnut carving. An unrealis 351Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 42 Complete the Cultivation Techniques, and Let Their Traits Help Talents Become Venerables 补全功法，词条助力人材成尊 [Farming + Proficiency + Traits + Cautious Progress + From Menial Servant to Sect Patriarch] [Traditional Fantasy] [Pioneering a New System from the Golden Core Stage] (The rating will rise as more people rate it.) “Have you heard? The Yaoxuan Sect is trying to make artificial spiritual roots! They're tricking ignorant mortals into falling for it!” “That’s called letting the willing take the bait.” “Why is there another tree behind the mountain today?” “It’s a fellow disciple they just planted. 43.5kReads7.6Score4.8kShelves
- 43 A Mortal Finds a Spirit Ring, and His Alluring Master Knocks on His Door at Night 凡人捡到灵戒，冷艳师尊夜敲门 Traditional fantasy, no System, multiple heroines, and a satisfying power fantasy. He was just a villager from the countryside, with no chance of ever leaving his home. But after an accident sent him tumbling into a cave deep in the mountains, he was possessed by someone who had transmigrated and found a strange ring. The ring contained nine layers of spiral spatial seals. Each layer he unlocked had an internal time flow ten times faster than the outside world, increasing in increments of ten un 113Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 44 Laying Low at a Coffin Shop, Collecting Wandering Spirits 苟在棺材铺收取阴魂 The moon was dark, the wind was strong, and the cold wind howled! A mass grave!! In front of a grave, Zeng Niu clutched Jiang Xiaobai's pant leg and glanced at the yellow-faced old woman holding a “weapon.” He wailed, “Brother Jiang, I can't go through with this. You have to take me with you!” “Your promise to me, brother, is granted.” Jiang Xiaobai then took a blank heavenly book from his clothes. As he said, “May Buddha show mercy,” a stream of fluent, professional jargon followed. The black a —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 Calamity Gu Master: Starting with Living Human Gu Feed 灾厄蛊师：从活人蛊粮开始 [Not a saint] + [Decisive and ruthless] Mo Chen claws his way out of the desperate plight of being “food for living Gu.” With cunning and ruthlessness, he advances step by step through the cruel world of cultivation, seizing resources and refining, cultivating, and mutating calamity species, until he becomes the “Calamity Gu Master” who makes the entire Great Calamity Era tremble. 71Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 A Mortal’s Demonic Cultivation: The Profound Yin Chronicles 凡人修魔：玄阴传 [Mortal-world setting + satisfying read but no overpowered, arrogant hero + genius protagonist + decisive and ruthless + demonic cultivation + technical approach to cultivation + creates his own techniques and secret arts later on + slow burn + Xuanguxian template + skips the mortal-world opening] Xiao Qing is reborn in the cultivation world carrying a mysterious jade pendant. After testing as a three-element spiritual root, he unexpectedly joins a demonic sect. Once there, Xiao Qing relies on h 49.6kReads8.6Score5kShelves
- 47 Becoming a Demonic Cultivator from the Start: Fellow Daoist, Enter My Ten Thousand Souls Banner 开局成为魔修，请道友入我万魂幡 [Demonic Cultivator + Major Villain + Cunning + Wildly Satisfying + Reincarnated Empress + Ruthless + Prodigy Showdown.] Chu Chen, the senior disciple of the Tianxuan Sect, devoted himself wholeheartedly to the sect, only for the Xuantian Sect to make him the scapegoat. After awakening the strongest demonic cultivation System, he gains the Myriad Souls Banner from the start. This time, he chooses to become a demonic cultivator, one who won’t let morality be used to manipulate him. With the My 286Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 48 Cultivating Immortality as a Mortal: My Clones Awaken and Train Alongside Me 凡人修仙，觉醒分身一起修炼 [Mortal Cultivation] [No System] [Alchemy] [Farming] [Play the pig to eat the tiger] Ye Chunyang, a humble chef, is brought into the world of cultivation by the young lady of his household. The young lady he thought he could rely on has other plans for him. Caught in mortal danger, Ye Chunyang, whose aptitude is considered worthless, awakens a gifted clone. He powers up by taking pills, and his original body can benefit from the clone’s progress, too. Ye Chunyang also discovers that the big spoo 2.8kReads6.8Score242Shelves
- 49 Forced into a Demonic Sect from the Start, I Rise Straight to the Celestial God Realm 开局被逼入魔宗，我直升天神境 [Reborn] + [Utter remorse] + [Explosively satisfying] + [Absolutely no forgiveness] Chu Yuan, the senior disciple of the greatest sect under heaven, is falsely accused of practicing demonic arts. His master and the others humiliate him, then seal his cultivation with a demon-banishing spell, leaving him powerless... To prove he never practiced demonic arts, Chu Yuan starts cultivating again from scratch and climbs back to the peak. On the eve of the Demon God’s sacrifice of the world, he offers 208Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 50 EN A Commoner's Path to Immortality 布衣仙途 No treasures that can turn back time, no miracle tools that can make herbs grow faster, and no powerful backers! Just an ordinary country boy, relying on his grit, intelligence, caution, and resolve, without cheats or pills, rising step by step from humble beginnings to greatness and forging his own path to immortality! 14.3kReads9.0Score1.6kShelves
