Novels like Forging a Peak on a Cold Journey
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- 1 Hooves Across the Nether Ruins 幽墟马踏 In the first lunar month of the Bingwu year, 2026, a construction site on Mount Mang in Luoyang suddenly collapsed, revealing the tomb of a Tang dynasty “Tomb-Guarding General.” Lin Yan, a graduate student in archaeology, is assigned to take part in the emergency excavation. Inside the tomb, he discovers a jade horse talisman engraved with the words, “Bingwu opens the path to the netherworld; the scarlet steed tramples the ruins.” That night, a strange cave-in strikes the site, and the jade tali 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Advancing to the Source 源进 Apocalyptic fiction + no pocket dimension + multiple heroines + all-new setting + decisive and ruthless + rigorous logic + a wide range of skills A green bird comet, the likes of which appears only once in a thousand years, passes Earth. Emerald-colored unknown matter falls from its tail across the globe, shattering the world's peace. Green points of light continue to rain down worldwide, and the genes of countless living things begin to mutate. The apocalypse, sweeping across heaven and earth, —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Bone Locust's Secret Rune 骨槐秘符 There are more clues than there are lives to spare, the logic is more complicated than light, and by chapter ten the story has only just begun. You say you don’t know what the author is writing about? Well, that’s right. The author doesn’t know either. Clues are welcome... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 The Bond of Truth 唯真之绊 This is an epic saga of bonds spanning from the Primordial Beginning to the Ultimate End, reaching across the myriad universes and heavens. A glimmer of steadfast light in the prison of Forgotten River ignited the beginning of a connection through true intent. The warmth of symbiosis at the Spirit-Link Source wove bonds that crossed space and time. From the myriad forms of symbiotic life in the Boundless Star Sea to the return to essence in the Realm of True Reality; from the gathering of the co —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 A Staggering Journey 踉跄行 Parallel world + wild ideas + martial arts + bloodline inheritance The son of someone who transmigrated starts a revolution in a parallel world. Watch him plant red flags everywhere and shout at the top of his lungs. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Path of Seeking Truth in the Heavenly Abyss 天渊问道路 Path of Inquiry Beneath the Heavenly Abyss is a dark cultivation epic blending cybernetic machinery with Eastern fantasy. In this eerie world ruled by the Observer Protocol, sugar-sand storms scour the shackles of reincarnation, bronze inscriptions record a corrupted Heavenly Dao, and the frailty of flesh and blood collides with mechanical ascension, igniting brilliant flames on the path to godslaying. Abyss Walkers - Tang Yichen: His Chaos Dao Body bears the sins of godslaying across t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Science Fiction: Selling Your Life 科幻小说《卖命》 Sci-Fi Novel: Selling Your Life —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 Shattering the Neural Brambles 打碎神经荆棘 In 2075, people on Earth live in all sorts of ways. Ordinary humans, cyborgs, and virtual beings coexist. New forms of crime have emerged. Li Datao pilots her spacecraft across the skies and, alongside her battle squad, wages fierce battles against treacherous and dangerous criminals. And so begins a series of wild, tangled, and utterly bizarre stories... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 The Trader Reborn in Eight-Dimensional Space 重生于八维空间的交易者 My new work is here! You’re welcome to check it out on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 This Time, I Won't Let You Die 这一次，我不会让你死 This Time, I Won't Let You Die —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Black Myth: The Mind Monkey 黑神话：心猿 Black Myth: Heart Ape —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 Heaven's Mandate Shines Bright: I Conquer the Three Realms by Growing Trees 天命昭昭：我靠种树卷翻三界 —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Supreme Lord of Guanghan: The Rise of the Divine Realm 广寒至尊之神界崛起 After ascending to the divine realm, the ascendant Lin Guanghan is drawn into a quest to uncover the truth behind Emperor Lin's death when an envoy from the divine realm comes to reclaim the Frost Sword. During his investigations, he arrives in a village on Blue Star, where he meets village chief Wu Youfa and his adopted daughter Wu Taoqin. He gradually uncovers the mystery of Wu Taoqin's origins and their connection to the Zhou clan's thousand-year bloodline. When the Five Elements Spirit Pearl —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Lord of the Blazing Sun 炽阳衡主 (Western fantasy + steam civilization + multiple heroines) Steam and the mysterious intertwine as fate turns its wheel. Evil gods gaze upon the material world, and an immortal epic is about to unfold. After living a peaceful life for eighteen years, Melina, who had inexplicably transmigrated, formally entered the mysterious world under the church's guidance. Chosen by the ancient Sun God and destined for greatness, she must shoulder the responsibility of saving the world. "What? You say I'm the 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 The Immortal Dragon Falls 不朽龙落 This is an ancient and mysterious continent. 3,661 years ago, it received a gift from the heavens: a strange creature as enormous as a whale, wrapped in a ball of fire, plummeted at incredible speed onto Dimo Kui Mountain. The moment it hit the ground, its flesh and blood scattered, its bones strewn everywhere, and its remains quickly rotted away. People called it the “Rotting Dragon,” and named the legend of its descent “Dragonfall.” That year was later designated Year One of the Dragonfall Era —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 Delay 延宕 Li Yandang, a wretched slave in an iron cage, refuses to live like a beast of burden! He boldly shatters his chains and fights his way out, drenched in blood. The road ahead is piled with corpses and soaked in blood, but he slaughters his way forward, carving a path with his sword. His enemies are everywhere, yet he turns every step into a move on the board and cleverly breaks out of hopeless traps. From the mire of the abyss to the divine throne in the highest heavens, he fearlessly cuts down t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Starbound Journey 途星 Are meteorites from beyond the heavens an opportunity or a threat? And what is the stellar power inside my body? Even if thorns choke the road ahead, I, Lin Tian, can move the rivers of stars and cleave heaven and earth! I seek the secrets hidden among the stars. —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 18 Endless Vastness 1 无尽浩瀚1 No System, cultivation story. Please ignore the “1” in the title. This is my first upload. I deleted the previous version, and now the title has to have a “1” in it. Sob... A cultivator of the Mystic Sun Dao should be like the great sun: blazing in the sky, never to be extinguished. Carrying a supreme legacy treasure, he accidentally falls into a star-sea prison, where an Emperor Spirit from the God Realm forcibly seizes his Dao body, and he fathers a child of the bloodline, Di Yang. He shatters —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 The Divine Merchant Empire 神商帝国 Fantasy, sci-fi, business, and a Black Hole martial soul He could have grown powerful by devouring everything, but instead he chose to do business. Wu Ming is a young man with twin Black Hole and White Hole martial souls. He could have grown stronger by using his Black Hole to devour everything. But his parents told him that in this “speed-limited universe,” where Black Holes exist but White Holes do not, and no one can become a god, he should avoid using his Black Hole martial soul whenever pos —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 A Record of the Realm United 江山一统志 In the final years of the Tang dynasty, regional warlords carve up the land, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms wage war and replace one another, leaving the people in misery. The elite of the human, demon, ghost, and immortal races descend into the mortal world for trials. Qin Feijian of the human race travels through the world, determined to save it and bring peace to its people. He meets elites from every race along the way, battles demons and evil spirits, and helps unite the realm and 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 Schemes in the Dustlight 尘光之谋 Born in Xichuan, the source of the Chu River, she went to school in the ancient city of Jingzhou, searched for a path in Wuhan, and made her way in Yiwu. In the end, exhausted, she returned to her homeland, only to have to leave again. As a rural girl with a college diploma in nursing, she once believed that escaping the countryside was her only way out. It was only after getting battered in the cracks of city life that she understood how important it was to have roots. Back in Xichuan, with few 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 Return to the Source 归源 [No-Frustration Story, Dual Protagonists, Otherworld Adventure, Ensemble Battles] An off-road vehicle plows through the fog. Yang Chun and Lin Su pass through the Five Elements Stone Gate and enter an otherworld hiding ancient secrets, seeking a way to prolong their lives. The two flee and face off in the dark wilderness, tear away false beliefs, pursue the source of the world, and search for a way back to their original world. The secrets and dangers of every dimension are theirs to explore. Re 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 All Living Things Are Unpredictable 众生无定 In the 80,417th year of the Xuan Calendar, heavy snow blankets Beian. Twelve-year-old Su Chang’an is on the brink of death, but manages to snatch one last breath back from the gates of hell. He awakens with the memories of a female teacher’s thirty-year life in another world. From then on, the unsolved case that has haunted the Su family, the mystery of his father’s disappearance, and the duty of guarding the frontier, passed down through generations, all fall on his shoulders. He has no god-giv —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Mountain City, River City: After Daybreak 山城，江城：天亮以后 “Wait for me a year.” That was the promise her first love made to her. A year later, he married someone else. “You’re not your father’s biological daughter.” Those were the words her husband hurled at her when he dropped the pretense. He used that secret to blackmail her father for five whole years. Divorced, left with nothing, raising a child alone, and with her ex-husband’s pregnant mistress showing up at her door... Everyone thought Lin Xiao’s life was over. But she refused to give in. She st 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Iron Besieged City 铁围城 A world ravaged by war, where living conditions are incredibly harsh. Zhang Hao, a drifter who survives by scavenging, is determined to become a sky rider. Hu Naonao, a rich kid who loves to fool around, is determined to become a thief. Liao Huiwen, a descendant of an empress, enjoys collecting scrap. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Searching for Serenity 寻找安宁 Zhao Xiangping transmigrates to an era where might makes right. The System grants him tremendous strength, then takes off, leaving him to survive alone in this world. In the end, he carves out a place of peace with the sword in his hand. No heroine. He kills only so he can retire. 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 Jade Feathers, Startling Grace 翠羽惊鸿 In the final years of the Tang dynasty, rebel leaders Huang Chao, Wang Xianzhi, and Lin Mo are driven out of Chang’an by a counterattack led by Li Keyong’s Tang army. Exhausted and outnumbered, they are defeated in Tiger-Wolf Valley. Before they die, Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi give Lin Mo a jade pendant carved as a phoenix in emerald, telling him it is the key to a hidden treasure cave on Yulong Mountain. Then they take their own lives. Heartbroken, Lin Mo secretly buries them where they fell, 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 The Unruly Empire 桀骜江山 On the day the beacon fires of the You Shi clan were extinguished, Mo Xi was pushed into a carriage to be presented to Xia Jie. She was no longer the most honored girl in her tribe, but a razor-sharp blade in the palace of Xia. She used her beauty as armor and love as a trap, sowing discord between ruler and ministers and draining the people and the treasury. She would cast Xia Jie, a man who cried “Conquer the world!” every day, from his throne and grind his magnificent realm to dust, all to co 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Immortal Emperor of Creation 造化仙帝 [An early work by Guan Shanyue, a once wildly popular fantasy epic, now a collector's classic. Come and enjoy!] From time immemorial, countless peerless figures have met the same fate, turning to dust. The path to immortality is ethereal, its traces hard to find; beauties become bones and eventually return to dust. After enduring seven years of tribulation inside a Heavenly Coffin, the mysterious young Han Yi awakens and embarks on an extraordinary path that defies the heavens. Spring and autumn 107Reads5.9Score—Shelves
- 30 Trash Spiritual Root? I Mine My Way to Becoming an Ancestor of the Dao 废灵根？我靠挖矿逆袭成道祖 Also known as The Mine Slave's Path to Immortality. The protagonist, Mu Feng, was a 996 programmer who died suddenly and transmigrated into a mine slave in the cultivation world, with an utterly worthless spiritual root. But he unexpectedly activates a mining System that lets him grow stronger by mining. As he works hard to cultivate, demonic forces discover the secret of his System and send assassins after him, hoping to steal it. Meanwhile, the Demon Venerable is about to break free of his sea 3Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 31 Lone Voyage 孤航 To obtain the ultimate intelligence, Lei Jiansheng leads his fleet deep behind enemy lines as “bait.” Every glorious victory brings them one step closer to hell. When the young officer Eric sees through this cruel truth, he faces not only an enemy encirclement but also the ultimate question of what war means: In the name of civilization, what are we really fighting for? —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Conquering All Worlds 问鼎万界 [Good Fortune] The myriad races stand tall as calamity approaches. Who will rule this vast world and decide its fate? A young man emerges from the icy wasteland and ventures into a dazzling, multifaceted world. It all begins now... “Hey, young man, all alone. Are you afraid?” “Though a million demons stand in my way, I shall press on.” 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Abolished from the Immortal Register from the Start? I Turn Around and Sue the Thunder Bureau! 开局被废仙籍？反手状告雷部！ Ding! Your “Number One Legal Office of the Three Realms” has received a new case! VIP Client: Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong Case Description: After becoming a Buddha, the Buddhist sect withheld a thousand years of incense offerings. He demands back pay and compensation for emotional distress! VIP Client: Third Lotus Prince, Nezha Case Description: Because he was reborn in a lotus body, he requests to sever his “father-son relationship under the Celestial Rules” with Li Jing, the Pagoda- —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 Wouldn’t It Be Better to Stay Alive? You Just Had to Make Me Angry 活着不好吗？非要惹我生气 [Lighthearted Comedy + Anti-Trope] Xia Yuan is a spiritual energy null who transmigrates into the cultivation world. Every day, all he does is chop wood to gain experience. His System is otherwise completely useless. When the Starwood Peak Master strikes him with a palm, Xia Yuan somehow comes away completely unharmed? Sect Master: “A prodigy of our sect! Invest every resource into him!” Peak Master: “He took my palm strike without a scratch and didn't even flinch? What terrifying power! Could h 9Reads8.9Score—Shelves
- 35 God-Burying Tower 葬神塔 [Traditional fantasy + decisive and ruthless action + thrilling and exhilarating + read by a million fans!] Jiang Ruochen, a seasoned explorer, ventured deep into an underground ruin, only to be transported to another world by a mysterious ancient tower. There, he became a useless prince of the Zhen Nan Dynasty, born weak and unable to awaken a martial soul mark. At his tenth awakening ceremony, Jiang Ruochen finally awakened a martial soul, but it was a worthless mudfish, earning him mockery an 14.5kReads8.3Score1.7kShelves
- 36 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: From Being Sold to an Evil Sect 凡人修仙：从被卖到邪宗开始 [Mortal Cultivation Style, No System, Cautious and Steady, Scheming and Deception] Ye Changqing takes the entrance exam to join an orthodox sect. After failing, he is sold to an evil sect instead. Step by step, Ye Changqing makes his way up from the bottom with the help of a stone bead that has a variety of uses. On the thorny path to immortality, Ye Changqing becomes an elder of the evil sect, a leading figure in the demonic path, and a leader of the orthodox path... (The evil sect is the evil 3.9kReads7.7Score243Shelves
- 37 A Villain? I Forge Sequences into Godhood! 反派？我炼序列成神！ [Book Transmigration] [Han Li] [Magic Bottle] [Fervent Adventure] [Ensemble Cast] [Villain's Comeback] [Sequence Evolution] [Mutant Spiritual Root] [Decisive and Ruthless] > First thing to do after transmigrating into Mo Juren: destroy Zhang Tie's puppet and steal Han Li's opportunity! > No small green bottle under the cliff, but I dug up a rusty demonic bottle instead > From then on, everything took a wild turn: > Mix poison and you get a phantom assassin; refine discarded pills into a mountain 37Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Chang'an of This World 此间长安 A lifetime in a frail body, half a life among books. After an unexpected long sleep, he wakes in the Tang dynasty, during the Zhenguan era. Young Lin Chen has nothing to his name and a life as insignificant as a blade of grass. The moment he opens his eyes, he falls into a deadly predicament. In his previous life, he was confined to a sickbed, unable to live freely. In this life, even if he must walk through the mud, he will make every step shine. He will neither curry favor with the powerful no 29Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 Don't Call Me Ancestor, I'm Just a Foundation Establishment Cultivator 别叫我老祖，我只是个筑基修士 [Mortal-style cultivation] + [No heroine] + [No System] + [No golden finger] + [A naturally gifted talent] + [Careful, step-by-step planning] + [Smart characters]. Also known as: "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Xiang Zhili" At the age of six, Xiang Zhili of the Xiang family in Great Jin is found to possess a Metal Heavenly Spiritual Root. From then on, he sets out on a cultivation path, vying with fate itself. Ambushed during Foundation Establishment, he learns that “guarding a 16Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 Dust at Dusk, Returning to the Ruined Tower 尘暮归残楼 A tale of love and hate, a lament for the tragedies of the mortal world. Shen Yichen, a man everyone under heaven believes to be a mere pawn, ventures alone and boldly into the world of cultivation, then roams the martial world in a drunken haze, repaying both kindness and enmity! Love between a human and a demon, romance between a human and a monster, bonds forged by fate, love in this life, rivalry between father and son, loyalty between brothers... A different martial world, a different morta 222Reads6.3Score100Shelves
- 41 Han Li: From the Start, a Little Bottle Takes Me All the Way to Dao Ancestor 韩立：开局小瓶，一路爽到道祖境 Lin Feng, a young man from a mountain village, uses his family's ancestral jade pendant to accelerate the growth of spirit herbs, break through bottlenecks, and decipher cultivation techniques, launching a cheat-fueled path to immortality. In the Qi Refining stage, he instantly kills Foundation Establishment elders. In the Core Formation stage, he sweeps aside his sect's enemies. In the Nascent Soul stage, he rides a Kun across the boundless sea. The moment he ascends to the Spirit Realm, he rul 893Reads8.1Score104Shelves
- 42 Cultivation Begins with Falling into a Trap 修仙，从掉入陷阱开始 [Xuanhuan] + [Taking disciples] + [One heroine] + [No System] + [Has a pocket dimension] + [Founding his own sect] + [Deriving cultivation techniques]. The protagonist was once a mountain boy who grew up in the twenty-first century. After accidentally falling into a trap, he found a gray book containing three chapters, the Three Scrolls of the Heavenly Book, each with its own remarkable use. After arriving in the cultivation world, he goes from cautiously struggling in weakness to gradually re 12Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 43 Where Is My Sword? 吾剑何在 No transmigration into a book! No System! Pure xianxia and fantasy! No mindless power fantasies, no instantly reaching level 999 with one slash. Every battle tests one's character, strategy, and will. The protagonist has faced failure and doubted himself, but he will surely rise again from the ruins and reclaim the Dao in his heart. He will wield conviction as his sword, resolve as its edge, his flesh and blood as his shield, and an unyielding spirit as his bones. He will break through every dem 1.7kReads8.7Score—Shelves
- 44 Lord of the Desolate Firmament 荒穹之主 [Traditional fantasy + multiple heroines + no System + satisfying battles + slow-burn] When chaos first took shape, heaven and earth were one, and countless sacred artifacts were born. Donghuang Taiyi, leader of the Donghuang clan, used the foremost sacred artifact, the Donghuang Bell, to bring the Primordial Wasteland to an end and divide the two realms. After that, heaven and earth were incomplete, and no more sacred artifacts came into being. Donghuang Hanyu was just born, yet a “Primordial S 5.3kReads9.2Score511Shelves
- 45 The Human Emperor's Chronicle 人皇纪 “I will not hand this world over to people I despise!” And so Wang Chong trampled across a sea of blood and bones to claim the throne of the Human Emperor. He turned the tide when all seemed lost, shored up the collapsing empire, and forged an unparalleled legend! 2.7kReads8.6Score314Shelves
- 46 Our Sect Is Dirt Poor, but the Disciples Are Rolling in Money 宗门一贫如洗，弟子富得流油 [Transmigration + no System + no harem + lighthearted + martial world] “Want to become an inner sect disciple? With free room and board?” Unable to resist the temptation, Jin Xiaochuan charged straight into the Nine-Story Tower, only to discover that it was a demonic sect officially registered with the authorities. 62.7kReads8.7Score4.4kShelves
- 47 Breaking the Bag, Defying Fate: Cultivating Immortality with a Mixed Spirit Root 破袋逆灵：杂灵根的修仙 In a brutally harsh world of cultivation, Zhu Bu'er is an ordinary man who stumbles into the cultivation world. With a mixed spiritual root and a broken sack as his only tool, he scavenges for scraps and rummages through rubbish, forging an unconventional path to immortality. 4.2kReads8.6Score334Shelves
- 48 Aspiring to the Imperial Throne 问鼎皇尊 [Growth-Focused | No System | Fresh Setting | Expansive Worldbuilding] When chaos first stirred and the world was born, how many ages passed in the endless struggle for supremacy? In the Chaos Realm, gods and demons came into being, only to vanish into the river of history after countless ages. In the Beast Star Domain, savage beasts roamed the wilderness, yet even they could not escape fate, disappearing from heaven and earth. The Icebound Era began, and no life remained in the world. In the Pr 8.7kReads9.2Score586Shelves
- 49 The Legend of Qin: Trails of the Dream Immortal 寻秦记之云梦仙踪 Transmigrated into the Warring States era, only to become an ingredient for immortal cultivation? Why keep this Heavenly Dao around until the New Year? Watching the "immortal seed" squirm in his dantian, Xu Shenwu finally understood that ascension was all a lie. The spiritual energy ordinary people painstakingly cultivated for a thousand years was nothing but fertilizer for the great medicine grown for the immortals of the Upper Realm! The year he transmigrated to Yunmeng Mountain, he spent a wh 7.9kReads9.5Score705Shelves
- 50 Six Paths of Reincarnation: The Prison of Heaven and Earth 六道轮回：乾坤牢笼 [Traditional Fantasy] [Overpowered Protagonist] [Eastern Elements] [The Myriad Worlds] [No formulaic tropes, no System, no mindless plot, no wish fulfillment] The gods moved their pieces, burying one dazzling golden age after another. Emperors who had reached the peak of the Great Dao were toyed with like ants, right in the palms of their hands! The gods schemed against those who dared defy heaven, slaughtering their entire clans and leaving only the legitimate heir alive, his Rinnegan gouged ou 5.8kReads8.9Score513Shelves
