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- 1 Incense Fills My Soul: I'm No Useless God 香火入魂，我不是废神 No female lead. The road to godhood. Lin Haotian had a happy family, a fulfilling life, and success in both his career and love life. Just as everything was going his way, he unexpectedly transmigrated to a world in chaos, where immortals, demons, and gods roamed, and inexplicably found himself inside a divine statue. The happiness he’d finally found was gone in an instant. Lin Haotian couldn’t accept it! To return to his old world, he worked hard to complete missions issued by the suddenly a 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Gods Have Fallen from Grace, So I'll Prove My Dao Through Incense! 神灵失格我靠香火证道！ Gods Disgraced: I Prove the Dao Through Incense tells a unique story. In an age when cultivators rule the world and gods have been forgotten, He Qingxuan, once a wild god, awakens from his slumber. The gods have long since lost their believers, and the incense offerings have all but vanished. Cultivators borrow the laws of Heaven and Earth to rule this godless world. However, He Qingxuan obtains an ancient divine System. With its help, he has a chance to rekindle the incense, reclaim his divine 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 I Became a Deity Statue in an Abandoned Village 我在荒村当神像 What's it like to transmigrate into a clay statue in a ruined temple in a desolate village? Lin Mo says, “Thanks for asking. I'm about to crack apart.” He can't move or run, his incense offerings are down to a flicker, and evil spirits are running rampant outside the village, knocking on doors in the middle of the night. Open the door, and someone dies. Luckily, he's bound to the Incense-to-Godhood System. As long as the villagers offer incense, he can manifest, lay down rules, and bless his fol 7.1kReads6.9Score641Shelves
- 4 Horror Revival: From a Ruined City God Temple to the Supreme Divine Hall 恐怖复苏：从残破城隍庙到无极神殿 As horror returns and ghosts run rampant, Li Mu is on the verge of being killed by monsters when he unexpectedly transmigrates to Ancient Yuan. He helps Zhu Yuanzhang unify Ancient Ming and gains the status of a City God. Returning to the apocalypse, he awakens the City God Upgrade System and powers his way up: Ninth-Rank City God, Eighth-Rank City God... all the way to the Boundless Great Emperor. He saves the post-apocalyptic world and builds a new era. 29Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 5 Sign-In at the City God Temple: I Can Recruit Ghosts in the Underworld 城隍庙签到：我能在地府招聘鬼魂 Ghosts aren't the only things behind strange occurrences. Don't believe it? Read on! A country boy with a special constitution that attracts demons and ghosts receives guidance from an expert and worships at the City God Temple for ten years, without missing a day. When he leaves his village, he is sucked into the underworld and becomes the head of recruitment at the City God Office. At his first recruitment drive, five souls show up! Every one of them is extraordinarily powerful, yet they all c 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Age of the Gods: The City God Protects China 神祇时代，城隍之身护佑华夏 Faith has vanished, and China has no immortals. That is the verdict of the nations. Ghosts and evil spirits run rampant, while incense smoke curls skyward. Li Mumu, a newly appointed City God, has a shattered divine body and is already on the brink of reincarnation. But then comes a blessing imbued with immortal power. A sincere offering of incense. The incense of the human world rekindles. Foreign barbarians, savage gods, demons, and immortals: how dare you lay a hand on China? Behold my City G 90Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Global Revival: I Became the River God of Luoshui from the Start 全球复苏开局成为洛水河神 Li San transmigrated to the Tang Dynasty, expecting an overpowered golden finger that would help him marry a beautiful, wealthy woman and reach the pinnacle of life. But he lived his entire life and died without ever seeing one. However, because he had been charitable and made many friends during his lifetime, after his death Li Shimin petitioned Heaven to appoint him the River God of the Luo River. Later generations raised a stone stele and built a shrine in his honor. Several centuries later, 555Reads—Score111Shelves
- 8 The Divine Path of Incense and Offerings 香火启神道 [Investiture of the Gods] [No System] [Not a Wish-Fulfillment Novel] [No Female Lead] [Slow-Burn Growth] This world is in utter chaos. The Heavenly Way is hidden, and the Earthly Way has crumbled. Countless races vie with one another in endless conflict. The hundred races of the myriad heavens are the strongest of all, oppressing humanity as they please. Adrift in another world, all living beings suffer. Have mercy, have mercy! Song He transforms his true self into three forms, opening the divin 10Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 You Were Put in Charge of a Funeral Home, So Why Did You Summon the Underworld? 让你代管殡仪馆，你竟让地府降临 [Hot-blooded action + ruthless decisiveness + no goody-two-shoes + invincible protagonist] After transmigrating to a modern city overrun by demons and haunted by resurgent horrors, Jia Wen becomes a crematorium worker, thinking he is destined to live a lazy, uneventful life. Unexpectedly, he becomes an underworld constable. As long as he captures evil ghosts, he earns rewards. He rises to become a Soul-Binding Officer, patrolling at midnight to seize and capture spirits. He rises to become the C 64Reads6.4Score—Shelves
- 10 Rising to Godhood Through Incense: I Got an Apprentice Godhood from the Start 香火成神：开局喜提见习神位 Lin Rui and his girlfriend of five years are forced to break up because her mother demands an exorbitant bride price. After leaving his girlfriend's place, Lin Rui wanders without realizing it all the way to the rooftop. Looking down at the bustling traffic below, he can't help feeling the urge to jump and end it all. Suddenly, he hears a voice beside him: “Mortal, do you wish to become a god?” 102Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 A Rustic Shrine Deity from the Start: I Become a God Across the Heavens Through Incense Offerings 开局乡野茅神，我靠香火诸天封神 During a red-haired downpour, Zhang Daoyan accidentally transmigrates into a world of strange beings across the heavens and turmoil among immortals and gods. He even becomes the lowest-ranking wild god. Spirits and monsters run rampant in the human world, ghosts wreak havoc, and demons stir up chaos, leaving the people in misery. With the System in hand, the world is mine. The more worshippers I have, the stronger I become. I race along the divine path, slay demons, suppress evil, kill gods and 238Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 12 Strange Tales of Liaozhai: Slay Men, Ghosts, and Demons for Merit 诡异聊斋，杀人杀鬼杀妖取功德 [System] [Eerie] [Ghosts and Monsters] [Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio] [Gods] Ye An transmigrates to an eerie world of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, teeming with ghosts, monsters, and demons. From the start, he takes the City God examination. The top scorer can become the City God. But who ever became the City God by taking an exam? Fortunately, he has a Merit System: killing ghosts and demons earns him merit points. The City God examination, bookworms crawling into ears to control 45Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 13 The Incense of Faith Endures, I Alone Am the True Lord Beichen 香火传世，唯我北辰真君 [Slow burn + Building a faction + No female lead + Divine followers + Incense-based divine cultivation + Heavenly Court and Underworld] This is a strange world where gods and Buddhas have vanished, evil spirits run rampant, and heretical cults flourish. This is an age when divine authority has fallen, imperial power reigns supreme, the royal clan is as fierce as a tiger, and commoners are treated like grass. Demons wreak havoc without restraint, and people no longer believe in the gods. Templ 98Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 14 I'm Just a Wild God, Why Is the Heavenly Dao Kneeling Too? 我只是野神，天道你怎么还跪了？ [No Female Lead] (The rating was just posted, so it's very low. Don't pay too much attention to it.) After an accident, Lin Chuping transmigrated to a world where the Great Dao had fallen into decline and demons ran rampant. Divine authority had fallen away from the gods. People no longer worshipped them, temples had fallen into ruin, and faith had collapsed. The common people struggled to survive under the claws of monsters and ghosts, gradually becoming livestock raised for blood and flesh. Li 802Reads6.8Score103Shelves
- 15 When Ghostly Horrors Run Wild, I Become a Saint on Incense Offerings in an Abandoned Temple 鬼异横行：我在破庙靠香火成圣 System + ghosts and monsters + incense offerings + survival + temples + growth + comeback The gates of hell have swung open, and the world has become a playground for demons and monsters. A dilapidated temple is on the verge of collapse, ghosts loom on every side, and barely any incense is offered. With the temple's reconstruction starting at hellish difficulty, how will Li Qingxuan turn things around?! Starting as an ordinary mortal, Li Qingxuan rebuilds the temple until its incense offerings f 5Reads6.1Score—Shelves
- 16 City God from the Start, I Prove My Dao Through Results! 开局城隍爷，我靠业绩证道！ [No Female Lead, Slow Burn] If nothing unexpected happened, Leng Chen was in for a surprise! He transmigrated to a world full of figures from mythology! Demons and monsters ran wild, ghosts lurked and devoured people, and the common folk lived in constant fear! Fortunately, Leng Chen came with a “City God Promotion and Enlightenment System”! As long as he completed his duties, he could grow stronger! 5Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 17 Spiritual Qi Revival: I Am the Ten-Direction Earth God, Guardian of Great Xia 灵气复苏：我十方土地，守护大夏 Su Yi accidentally obtains the Chaos Treasure, the Ten Directions Land Seal, and becomes an innate Earth God. Within his divine realm, his power is limitless. From now on, I will protect the Great Xia Kingdom. Ancient martial artists, supernatural abilities, demons, ghosts, and gods from beyond this world are all nothing but weaklings before me. The Great Xia Kingdom is all land, and Earth is land too! The protagonist is invincible, crushing all who stand in his way. 246Reads8.8Score—Shelves
- 18 High Priest, Please Stop Worshipping! I'm Your Son 大祭司，求你别拜了！我是你儿砸 [Behind-the-scenes story + subverting expectations + decisive and ruthless + hilarious flights of fancy + scheming System + hard-core mom + physical exorcisms + invincible power fantasy] What does a textbook example of a hard-core spirit medium look like? First: She claims to believe in science, but whenever trouble arises, she silently recites the twenty-four-character motto of prosperity, democracy, civilization, and harmony. Second: If a vicious ghost can be physically exorcised, she won't wa 73Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 19 From the Start, I Became a Mountain God 开局成了山神 The Celestial Court had fallen into decline, and the gods of the Three Realms had vanished for no apparent reason. Lin Chen became the only mountain god left in the world. The ruined Celestial Court seemed worthless, but it was actually packed with treasures. Thousand-year-old ginseng grew everywhere, top-grade immortal stones covered the ground, and even the abandoned mining slag was perfect material for making fishing bait. With just a little work, he could build a Fortune Global 500 company. 1.1kReads8.1Score104Shelves
- 20 Chronicles of the Broken God 残神录 The Heavenly Court has fallen, and the gods have perished. Chen Mo, the sole surviving deity of the great battle at Ziwei Palace, is on the verge of having his divine soul shattered when the Jade Emperor's remnant soul appoints him the Land God of Fu'an Village, granting him an official ninth-rank divine post. When he awakens, he is no longer a second-generation deity, but a lowly local god with only a wisp of a remnant soul. The village he protects is dilapidated, its people starving and freezi 1.9kReads—Score211Shelves
- 21 The Laid-Back Little Temple Keeper: My Gods Are Way Too Ambitious! 躺平小庙祝：我家神明太卷了！ [Two male leads (romance) + cultivation + slow burn + not a power fantasy + no System] What exactly is a shrine keeper's job? Shu Yang wasn't sure. But he knew that if he didn't come down the mountain to find food soon, he'd starve to death. After all, the general's statue in the General's Temple didn't need food or water; a couple of incense sticks were enough to get by. But that wouldn't work for him. After praying for more visitors, he planned to go to bed early and head down the mountain to 1.1kReads8.9Score199Shelves
- 22 Land God from the Start: Who Could Be Better Than Me at Taking Down Fraudulent Mediums? 开局土地神：干半仙谁能比我强！ The only god in the world + no female lead + no livestreaming + becoming a god through merit + solving supernatural cases + guiding true spirits In the Age of Dharma Decline, the Heavenly Dao collapsed and the gods perished. I, Zhang Ren, graduated straight into unemployment. When I woke up, I had become the only living true god in the world. I won’t take the civil service exam or work in a factory. I’m going back to my village to play the part of a half-immortal. No dating, no livestreaming. I 11kReads7.5Score851Shelves
- 23 Fengdu's Black Code: Let's See Who Dares Make Trouble! 酆都黑律，我看谁敢造次！ [Fully Handwritten, No AI] [Summoning] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Underworld] [System] [The Myriad Worlds] [No Female Lead] [Half Behind the Scenes] [Mythology] The Heavenly Dao of this world has collapsed, yin and yang are in disarray, and reincarnation has been severed! Ye Xiao transmigrates here and awakens a System, gaining the status of the Great Emperor of Fengdu. He establishes the Underworld, summons the ghosts and gods of the nether realm, and restores reincarnation across the Myriad Worl 25kReads7.1Score2.1kShelves
- 24 The Earth Goddess Has Arrived 土地奶奶驾到 Zhang Xiaoshao used to be the captain of an esports team. At the celebration banquet, a mysterious force whisked her away, and somehow she inherited the position of the Earth Goddess. The path to godhood that came out of nowhere completely overturned everything she knew about the world. Fortune and misfortune go hand in hand. This thorny road also sent her and the friends she had grown up with down different paths in life. The immortals aren’t necessarily happy and carefree. When faced with unkn 153Reads9.2Score104Shelves
- 25 A Wild God from the Start? I Prove the Dragon Clan's Sainthood Through Incense Offerings 开局野神？我以香火证道龙族圣人 Ao Dong transmigrates into the Great Qian Dynasty, into the mud statue of a snake demon in the Dragon King Temple of Qinghe Village. On the verge of having his soul scattered, he receives incense offerings from believers and activates the Seventy-Two Transformations Incense System. Starting with the path of proving his Dao through incense, he protects Qinghe Village, gathers believers, builds his strength, and fights evil forces such as wicked gods and ghosts, gradually establishing himself as a 636Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Ghosts Resurge: Sign In at the City God Temple 鬼怪复苏：从城隍开始签到 Xu Mo transmigrated to a world where ghosts had returned, only to discover that this world had ghosts but no gods. Ghosts ran rampant, leaving the living world devastated. While staying in a dilapidated City God Temple, Xu Mo encountered ghostly blue flames that set it ablaze one night. Luckily, he awakened a sign-in System! Daily sign-in rewards: City God Merit-Golden Body, Netherworld Patrol Officers, the Bridge of Helplessness, the Book of Life and Death... Special sign-in rewards: Black and 294Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 27 I’m a Wild God Who Specializes in Farming Heaven’s Favor 我，野神，专刷天道好感度 [Lighthearted and fun] [Farming] [Chinese Immortal System] [Divine Office Promotions] [No Female Lead] Hey! Reader, hold it right there! Tired of overpowered heroes from the very start? Want something with a fresh new style? Other people transmigrate with powerful backers. Me, Han Mo, started with nothing but a broken stone and the title of a poor little local god. I thought my whole life would be about leading the village to prosperity, earning merit, and working toward the title of “Model Work 369Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 28 Land God of Journey to the West: I’m in a Chat Group, and the Myriad Worlds Are My Followers 西游土地公：人在聊天群，万界都是我信徒 [A smash-hit Myriad Worlds novel set in the Primordial World in 2022] Lin Xuan becomes the Earth God enshrined on the Investiture of the Gods. With his primordial spirit listed on the scroll, he is fated to cultivate by accumulating incense offerings. But in the Primordial World, Great Encompass Golden Immortals are a dime a dozen, and quasi-sages roam everywhere. How could Lin Xuan compete with the powerful disciples of the great sects for incense offerings? After activating the Infinite Incens 1kReads6.3Score104Shelves
- 29 The Divine Way of Incense 香火成神道 Lu He drowns while saving someone, but Heaven takes pity on him and lets him transmigrate to another world. Thanks to his kind heart, he becomes a ninth-rank mountain god. Yet even after becoming a mountain god, he still finds his life in danger at every turn. Fortunately, the mountain god temple he brought with him comes with a System. All he has to do is gather merit to grow stronger. From then on, collecting merit, slaying demons, and guiding the people become Lu He's sole goals. With a mount 1.3kReads7.4Score132Shelves
- 30 Enshrined by Incense: From Wild God to Supreme Deity 香火封神：我从野神登临至高神座 A sudden accident swept Lin Lezhi into a fantasy world plunged into chaos by demons and monsters. This was a desolate land abandoned by the gods, turned into a terrifying hell where evil spirits ran rampant. Lin Lezhi found herself transformed into an obscure “false wild god.” She might be called a god, but she was pitifully weak. Any evil spirit could swallow her whole. Fortunately, she gained a golden finger: a worship System. As long as she gathered worship, she could grow stronger without en 2.5kReads7.9Score250Shelves
- 31 Me: From a Little Mulberry Tree to the World-Piercing Fusang Tree! 我：从小桑树到通天扶桑树！ When he opened his eyes, he had become a little mulberry tree beside Lanruo Temple. Yan Chixia: “Monster! Stay away from the sacred tree!” “That's right, I am a sacred tree who has attained immortality!” Jiang Bo quickly caught on. The Tree Demon Grandma was dumbfounded. “Wait, why is he a sacred tree while I'm a monster?” [Ding! You plundered and devoured a locust tree with a thousand years of cultivation and gained 1,103 evolution points.] [Ding! You spent 1,000 evolution points, and your spir 1.4kReads8.3Score125Shelves
- 32 The Conceptual River God Leads His Nation Beyond the Galaxy 概念河神，带领国家超脱星河 (New novel: Island Survival: I Awakened the River God's Conceptual Ability from the Start!) After transmigrating and becoming a River God, he gained a conceptual ability. Once the country discovered him, they started tossing all kinds of high-tech equipment into the river as if it cost them nothing. “Hey, kid, did you drop this 5-nanometer lithography machine, this 3-nanometer one, or this 1-nanometer one?” “Hey, kid, did you drop this nuclear fission reactor, this nuclear fusion reactor, or thi 1.1kReads7.6Score100Shelves
- 33 Keeping Watch Over the World, Fearless of Every Taboo 默守人间，百无禁忌 Xu Yanping transmigrated to the end of the Yuan dynasty. He never got a golden finger, not even by the time he died. After his death, the Hongwu Emperor posthumously ennobled him, built him a City God temple, and had the people offer him worship. There are “anomalies” in this world that people cannot see. Seven hundred years later, anomalies became increasingly frequent, and it seemed they were slipping out of control. Keeping them secret was becoming difficult. One day, Xu Yanping woke up i 5.9kReads8.3Score260Shelves
- 34 Traveling Between Two Worlds, I Become the Strongest Earth God! 两界穿梭，最强土地神！ (A new book with a low rating, by an author with over a decade of experience and more than twenty million words published) Every three li has a Land God, and every ten li a City God. Every mountain has a Mountain God, every stretch of river a River God, and even every well has its own Dragon King. This is a world teeming with deities. The faith of ordinary people has already been divided up, with a corresponding deity ruling every territory. The mighty gods named in the Investiture List are reno 4.8kReads8.1Score728Shelves
- 35 A Civet Cat from the Start? I Become Immortal by Playing a God! 开局成狸猫？我靠扮演神明成仙！ [Incense-Based Cultivation] [Beast Taming] [No Female Lead] [Cat-Demon Protagonist] [Protecting Humanity] He transmigrated into an age without gods. While everyone else was reborn as a big shot, Lu Jue Ming became a... kitty!? Demon beasts roamed rampant, evil spirits devoured people, and plagues, floods, and other disasters ravaged the land. The common folk struggled in the darkness. In this chaotic age, the fortunate thing was that although Lu Jue Ming was a cat demon, he had unexpectedly obta 2.2kReads8.6Score307Shelves
- 36 A Wild River God from the Start? I Become a Venerable God Through Offerings! 开局野河神？我靠供品成就尊神！ [River God + No Female Lead + Ascending to Godhood Through Offerings + Light Ensemble Cast + Later Shifts Toward Behind-the-Scenes] Shen Mingxuan transmigrates to a world ravaged by monsters and demons, where the gods vie for supremacy. The good news: He isn’t an ordinary person, but a god in charge of a river. The bad news: After half a year of severe drought, the river has dried up, and the villagers have nearly forgotten him. Luckily, he binds to a System that grants godhood through offerings 4.5kReads8.3Score433Shelves
- 37 Exorcising Ghosts on a Supernatural Livestream: How Did This Cultivator Become a Tycoon? 灵异直播捉鬼，邪修怎么变土豪了 [Urban fantasy | Supernatural livestreaming | Yin Merchant System | Workplace in the underworld | Get rich and extend your life | Black and White Impermanence | Rule-based horror | Survival mystery] He owed 9,800 yuan, was two months behind on rent, and had only seven days left to live. Lin Ping'an bound himself to the Yin Merchant Livestreaming System and embarked on a dangerous path to riches! A red maple wedding-dress ghost: his first job brought in 2,577 yuan and added two days to his lifesp 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 I Built the Heavenly Court and the Underworld, but I Just Want to Survive 打造天庭地府的我，只想活下去 [Mastermind + spiritual qi revival + impersonating immortals + feel-good power fantasy + fictional world] Bad news: from the start, I’m about to be fed to a tiger! Good news: I still have my items from my immortal heroes game! I, Li Yan, have game items and mounts at my disposal, along with countless secret identities. I’m pretending to be the immortal Xuanqiong Yunze Zhenjun! The cultivation system I made up on the spot is actually revered by a thousand-year-old Daoist sect as the supreme path 196Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 39 The Yin Son of Heaven: From the Start, I Summon Black and White Impermanence 阴天子：开局召唤黑白无常 [System + passionate action + feel-good power fantasy + invincible protagonist + Underworld + Yin Heavenly Son + adventure + wild imagination] Shen Lian transmigrates to a fantasy continent and awakens the Yin Heavenly Son System. He slays vengeful ghosts, eradicates demons and evils, revives myths, and descends upon the mortal world. He obtains the Black and White Impermanence: vengeful ghosts are seized by the soul, and the Impermanence spirits claim their lives. He obtains the City God’s divi 2.7kReads7.6Score210Shelves
- 40 I Begin My Path to Godhood by Worshipping Myself in a Temple 成神从庙里供奉自己开始 Synopsis: [What would happen if I built a Taoist temple or Buddhist monastery to worship myself?] “You’re already worshipping an image of your own body. You feed it well every day, keep it spotless, dress it up beautifully, and think about nothing but making the temple it lives in bigger and more comfortable. You want everyone else to treat it with respect, to have crowds flock around it when it goes out and throngs of admirers waiting when it comes home.” “Who could be more devout?” “And yet, h 4.3kReads7.9Score281Shelves
- 41 Forging My Path to Godhood with a Shattered Divinity 以破碎神格造我成神之路 [Divine Authority + Words Become Law + Supernatural Powers] Ye Chen is transported to another world by a meteorite. It is a world teeming with gods, rife with danger and overrun by horrors. He discovers that here, you die whether you believe in the gods or not. On the brink of despair, he learns that the meteorite is a fragment of a divine essence and gains the supreme power to make his words reality! “If I'm going to die either way, then why shouldn't I become a god myself?” So he takes his sea 419Reads—Score—Shelves
- 42 The Wild and Sweet Intangible Cultural Heritage Expert: The Conservator's Favorite 非遗大佬野又甜：修复师偏宠 [Intangible cultural heritage restoration | Sweet romance | Wilderness exploration | Mutual doting | Wish-fulfillment | Strong female lead] Su Qingran is a reclusive master of intangible cultural heritage restoration. Her skill at restoring antiques is unparalleled, but she prefers to keep a low profile and hunt for treasures in the wild. After an unexpected encounter brings her together with a refined, aloof powerhouse, she plans to work on restorations and explore secret realms on her own, onl 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Sailing the Apocalypse: My Compass Can Analyze Ancient God Relics 末世航海我的罗盘能解析古神遗物 [Apocalypse, Survival, Sailing, System, Treasure Hunting, Sea Monsters] The tsunami struck in a single day, sinking all the land on Earth and turning the world into an endless ocean. My name is Lin Che. I was trapped on a rickety raft, waiting to die, when I accidentally activated an ancient Analysis Compass. Analyze ancient relics, and you can obtain fresh water, food, weapons, ship blueprints, and more! Starting with the crudest wooden raft, I’ll upgrade it step by step into a fishing boat, a 31Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 The 1960s: Educated Youth in the Great Northern Wilderness, With Plenty to Eat and Drink 六零：知青北大荒，都吃饱喝足 (Period Drama · Rebirth · Educated Youth Sent to the Countryside · Beidahuang · Spatial Storage · Stockpiling Grain · Reclaiming Wasteland · Career Advancement · Seizing the Opportunities of the Era · Brotherhood · Production Corps System) Lin Jianjun is reborn in the famine-stricken 1960s. His gambling-addicted father bleeds the family dry, while his biased mother abandons him. He and his three younger siblings are driven to the brink of death. This time, on his third day after being sent to Be 283Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Bell Shakes the Mountains and Rivers 铃动山河 Hardcore worldbuilding: the Maoshan Taoist ghost-hunting tradition, the secret Shaolin art of guiding ghosts to the afterlife, Seven Star fate-reading, the Wu people’s shamanic medicine, and their logical integration with modern technology. Urban setting, supernatural mysteries, ghost hunting, schemes, corpse retrievers, corpse-carrying teams, corpse drivers, zombies, curses, and Southeast Asian horror stories. *Modern military life × ancient metaphysics*: Secret lineages and supernatural crises 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 When the Supernatural Arrives, I Summon Black and White Impermanence from the Start 诡异降临我开局召唤黑白无常 [Supernatural Revival + Decisive Killing + Summoning + Behind-the-Scenes Manipulation + Invincibility + No Female Lead] Ye Yu transmigrates into a world where the supernatural has revived and ghosts roam everywhere. He thinks he is as good as dead, but then he binds to the Underworld Summoning System and becomes the Underworld's supreme ruler, the Yin Emperor. He summons Black and White Impermanence to slaughter their way through a mass grave. He summons the Ox-Head and Horse-Face to pacify the 19.1kReads8.2Score1.7kShelves
- 47 I'm a Wild Mountain God. From the Start, a Female Follower Offered Herself to Beg for Rain 我，野山神，开局女信徒献身求雨 [Farming + slow burn + System + building the Underworld + building the Celestial Court + divine offspring] Li Qingshan transmigrates to a world without gods, where collecting incense offerings is all it takes to keep growing stronger. An ordinary villager's offering gives +3 incense points; a devout villager's offering gives +30; a fanatically loyal villager's offering gives +300! Spend 100 incense points: Break through to the Wild God Realm! Spend 1,000 incense points: Break through to the Eart 7.9kReads8.4Score781Shelves
- 48 Become a God and Prove the Dao, Starting as a Ghost 成神证道，从做鬼开始 [Traditional Cultivation + Slow Burn + Character Growth + No Romance + Lovecraftian] Fu Ruo transmigrated, becoming the corpse of a woman who had lain dead in the muddy bottom of a pond for three years... She was a ghost now. This world was overrun by monsters and ruled by evil spirits, while the people lived in misery. Fu Ruo discovered by chance that protecting the townsfolk and driving off evil spirits could strengthen her ghostly form. Later... As a lone ghost, she entered the divine path of 5.3kReads8.4Score667Shelves
- 49 As a Descendant of Nuwa, What's Wrong with Having a Few Skills? 作为女娲后人，有一点技能怎么了 As a descendant of Nuwa, she knows beauty treatments, wellness, and music, and can even identify the Five-Colored Divine Stones. She slept for so long that people mistook her for a mountain god. What's wrong with blessing the people of the region? When faith faded, it was only natural for her to disappear. But she still had a few final believers, and to help them live out their natural lifespans, the little mountain god had no choice but to roll up her sleeves and help the villagers build up the 5kReads9.0Score554Shelves
- 50 From the Start, I Transmigrated into a Deity Statue and Was Worshipped as a Goddess in a Year of Famine 开局穿成神像，我在荒年被奉神女 [No CP] [Mountain God] [Infrastructure Building] [Transmigrators Helping Each Other] From the start, she transmigrates into the statue of a god in a ruined temple on a barren mountain. No problem: she’s also bound to a Godhood System! When Yu Luo gives a roasted chicken to a mother and daughter who have long been bullied, they become incredibly strong and turn the tables on their tormentors. The black soil she gives them makes crops grow at astonishing speed. Cotton, sweet potatoes, and potatoes 4.1kReads8.9Score371Shelves
