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- 1 The Heavenly Dao Has Me All Wrong 天道对我有误解 The day Li Wuwei was expelled from Qingyun Sect, he burst out laughing. For three years, he'd wanted to do only two things: eat and sleep. Now he could finally enjoy a lie-in without anyone waking him up early. But after a nap under an old locust tree at the foot of the mountain, he woke up and discovered he'd reached Foundation Establishment. The sect leader called him a master who had hidden his true abilities. The elders said he had returned to simplicity. A registered disciple turned his yaw —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Five-Element Spiritual Roots: I'm a Good-for-Nothing, but I Can See Stolen Lifespans 五灵根废柴：我能看见偷来的寿命 Jiang Zhaoye has the least valued Five Element Spiritual Roots in the cultivation world. All he wanted was to look after the family medicine shop and live peacefully with his younger sister. But during the Lantern Renewal Ceremony at Huishi Town’s Longevity Shrine, they announced that eleven-year-old Jiang Xiaoman had only three years left to live. Everyone said she had been born with a short life. What the hell, how could he accept that? The ancestral lamp in Jiang Zhaoye’s arms told him that t —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 The Real Heiress, Little Lucky Star: Killing It in the Great Northern Wilderness 真千金小福宝：在北大荒杀疯了 [A local born in the 1970s + blessed with good fortune + the real and fake heiresses + family squabbles + building wealth + the whole family’s beloved darling + career-driven heroine] In 1970, Su Yuanhe was switched at birth. She should have been a pampered heiress from a wealthy family in the capital, but instead she ended up in the bitterly cold Great Northern Wilderness, as the youngest daughter of the third branch of the rural Su family. Her parents were proud and tough, and fiercely protect 91.5kReads8.6Score8.9kShelves
- 4 Primordial Chaos Womb: Hailed as a Useless Wretch in Both Worlds 鸿蒙浊胎：两界皆称我废材 Bai Mu, a poor boy from the borderlands, has made a living gathering herbs in the wilderness where humans and demons meet since childhood, with only his old father for company. A demon core wraps around his Dao embryo in his dantian. Yin and yang energies blend into a murky pearl, and the sect’s spirit-testing jade platform reflects a hazy gray pillar of light. The humans judge him to have a useless mixed spirit root, while the demons consider his impure core just as worthless. Ordinary cultivat 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 On Duty in the Outhouse, the Whole Sect Kneels and Calls Me an Immortal 茅厕当值，全宗跪喊我上仙 After transmigrating into the Qingyun Sect as a menial disciple with no spiritual roots, Shen Wujiu spends every day scrubbing the latrines and gnawing on stale buns, while the chief enforcer keeps him under his heel. At the end of his rope, he brushes his palm against a latrine floor tile and somehow awakens an ancient seal that has lain dormant for a thousand years. The Foundation Establishment chief drops to his knees on the spot with a thud. A death-defying elder sheaths his sword and bows —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 The Spine of Mountains and Seas 山海脊 There is a mountain in the heavens. Nine layers of mountain shadows weigh upon the sky. In three thousand years, the shadows that fell have crushed nine dynasties. There is only one path of cultivation in this world: Bearing the Peak. The more weight you can shoulder, the stronger you become. Great clans pile on the weight with pills, while the privileged use secret arts to lighten the load. But Shi Dai, a young porter from Qingya Town, has only the shoulders that have carried cargo for ten year 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 Edict of the Immortals, Shatter the Demons 敕仙破魔 [Beast Taming + Swordsmanship + Spirit Root Affinities + Demon Refining + Awakening + Power Fantasy] Command the power of spirit beasts; Master the way of the sword; Draw upon your own spirit root; Defeat the demons threatening every corner of the world. In this land, cultivation realm is not the only measure of a person's strength. The true key to terrifying power is raising powerful spirit beasts and cultivating the unique talents of your own spirit root affinities. 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Immortal Lord’s Pride 仙君这个得意 (New author here! Please give this kid a chance, I’m begging you 𖦹ࡇ𖦹 .ᐟ ~) The protagonists appear midway through Chapter 2. [One heroine] + [brotherhood] + [just having fun] + [no golden finger] + [strict genius father] The White Phoenix, the Angry Emperor; the Crouching Dragon and Hidden Tiger; Changji and Taibai. “Where the hell did Kunpeng dump us?” “Nothing for it, boys. We’ll just have to roll with it.” Heavens, you’ve got to be kidding! We’re scions of the Five Surnames and Seven Great Cl 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Abandoned by the Gods 神弃之 After surviving a brush with death in the Land Abandoned by the Gods, paper-cutting artisan Li Liluo and her Dao companion Zhang Jiuyang think they can retire to the countryside and establish a sect. But scattered fragments of the “Heavenly Book” are silently corrupting the world, spawning strange monsters and ghost servants. From a plague in Jiangnan and a shadow-puppet troupe to a demon woman in a mirror and a painted-shadow gentleman, danger swirls beneath the calm of everyday life. Armed wit 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Phoenix Song Above the Clouds 云上凤鸣 Everyone says the Cloudtop Everjoy Sect is the greatest immortal sect beneath heaven. All who seek immortality and the Dao yearn to join it! The youth Lin Ming and Qing Feng, an ancient spirit beast who can take human form, pretend to be siblings and join the Cloudtop Everjoy Sect. But when it comes time to choose a master, Lin Ming decisively turns down the former sect leader's invitation and instead joins the long-abandoned Mount Phoenix Cry. From then on, perilous missions and trials brimming —Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 11 Can't Immortality Be Achieved Another Way? 长生难道就不能换一种方式 Lin Chen's unknown origins, his brother's family being bullied, and one hardship after another have tormented him. Looking back on this life, Lin Chen feels a little lost. Cultivators may pursue immortality, but does that really mean they must ignore the bonds of friendship and everything else?... This novel won't follow the usual route of alchemy and beast taming. Instead, it begins with Lin Chen's sincere treatment of his brothers and the schemes he trades with each enemy. You may think Lin Ch —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 You're Using My Photo to Date Online, Do You Really Think You're the Protagonist? 拿我照片网恋，真当你是主角啊？ (Slow-paced + absurdist + multiple heroines + everyday romance + no System and no golden finger) Li Qing died in his previous life after being suffocated by a freak accident. When he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated into the body of a handsome freshman with the same name. Before he could even celebrate, his roommate Zhao Ming’s greasy face loomed right in front of him. This fat loser had secretly taken photos of him and used them online to pose as a rich, handsome bachelor, swindling three 13.7kReads5.7Score1.6kShelves
- 13 If You'd Told Me I Was on the Demonic Path, My Mental Illness Would've Vanished in an Instant 早说我是魔道啊，精神病一下好了 [System + Invincible + Adorable Pets + No Female Lead + Pure Fun] Heh heh heh, the cultivation world is far too rotten, so Xiao Ming chooses to evolve through brute force! He is absolutely not the System's slave. He's the System's dad. No saintly do-gooder act here. He's either courting death or on his way to court death. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 This Old Ancestor Lies Flat, and All His Descendants Are Children of Fortune 老祖我躺平了，子孙都是气运之子 (Family + Ensemble Cast + Lighthearted + One Female Lead + Lie Flat + Not a Saint) After transmigrating to the world of immortal cultivation, Lu Jing spent ten years reaching Foundation Establishment, only to have his foundation destroyed and his cultivation halted there. With no other choice, he established a family in a remote mountain range. When his eldest son was born, the ancient cauldron that had brought him here awakened. It could gather the family's fortune! It could repair his own foun 652Reads5.5Score102Shelves
- 15 The Road Ahead, Lit by Fire 火照来时路 [Traditional xianxia + overpowered protagonist + one heroine + a touch of political intrigue + fighting aliens] The path illuminated by fire, a cycle of reincarnation reaching the heavens The apocalypse postponed Between the jianghu and the imperial court Chivalry and political intrigue clash, faith and survival grind against each other A plan laid over millions of years, all for the ultimate battle What brought about the apocalypse? By the banks of the Underworld River, fire shines up to the he —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 From Street-Side Con Man to the Pinnacle of Fortune-Telling! 从街头神棍，到卦神之巅！ This is a savage land from the Old Stone Age, with no years or calendars, no dynasties or eras. Only the changing cycles of the seasons mark time, while all living things fight desperately to survive. The laws of nature are crude and cruel, and survival of the fittest is the only law of heaven. Ordinary people live short lives, spending half of them eating raw food and drinking blood. Most die from bitter cold, ferocious beasts, famine, or natural disasters. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Defying Heaven to Become an Immortal 逆天成仙 With one finger, he levels mountains and shifts seas. With one stomp, he shatters the void! A roar shakes heaven and earth, and a laugh makes all living things bow their heads! He vies with the sun and moon for brilliance, and lives as long as heaven and earth! This is a world where if you don't kill others, they'll kill you. There's no fairness and no justice. All you can do is conquer everything! See how the young Chen Tian laughs beneath the vault of heaven and defies it to become an immortal 390Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 18 The Dragon-Burying Seam: Records of Mending Heaven 葬龙缝天录 Sixteen-year-old Wen Deng is the most unremarkable apprentice at the funeral shop in Wu Lin Town. Every day, he dresses the dead in burial clothes and washes their bones, always keeping his head down. The only strange thing about him is that he can hear sounds no one else can. Up in the sky, water is dripping. One day, a captive demon girl was brought into town. As her cage passed him, she suddenly looked up, stared at his chest, and smiled. “The heart in your chest... isn't yours.” That ni 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Records of Seeking the Dao 问道笔录 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Xiaobai’s Journey to Seek the Dao 小白的问道之旅 Jing Qi, the son of a wealthy merchant, has loved cultivation since childhood. By chance, he joins the Xuanqing Sect, but after being persecuted by his fellow disciples, he is forced to leave and become a rogue cultivator in the martial world. After enduring many trials, he eventually returns to the sect to take revenge. 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 21 After Being Reborn, I Became a Ghost 重生后：我变成了鬼 [Longevity] + [Slow burn] A hundred years ago, spiritual qi revival began. Various factions started to emerge, including Daoists, Confucians, and Buddhists, as well as demons, spirits, and ghosts. The protagonist was reborn as a ghost who had only just awakened its intelligence, with immortality from the start. Many years later, Ji Qi looked back. The little girl who had once been by his side had long since become the founding ancestor of a great sect, while the little demon whose life he had on 764Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 I Took a Wrong Turn into the Cave of the Spider Demons, and It's Full of Beautiful Female Monsters! 误入盘丝洞，全是女妖精！ I stumbled into the Spider Cave, and it’s full of female demons! Help! The eldest sister has a System, the second sister is reborn, the third sister transmigrated, the fourth is an alien insect, and the fifth transmigrated into a book… They all want to cling to my coattails! System + reborn + transmigrate + aliens + transmigrate into a book + sworn father + demon cultivators + … Potato: Come on, come on, here’s the keyboard. You write it! Xiao Jiu: I have five Spider Generals who can slay all 20Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 23 I Just Arrived in the Primordial World to Help the Poor, and You Want Me to Take on a Saint? 刚来洪荒扶贫，你让我敲圣人？ In his previous life, he worked overtime every day until he dropped dead at his desk. Reborn, he became a mine slave in the Western Church, only to find that the overseer still wanted to squeeze every last bit of work out of him. Zhou Xuan's Dao heart turned black on the spot. “We're all cultivators, so why am I the only one with the stench of a corporate wage slave?” If the rules of this prehistoric world are cruel, then no one gets to live! Armed with an old, patinated black walnut that can gr 46Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Xuanhuan: As the Heavenly Emperor, I Return to Blue Star! 玄幻：天帝的我，重返蓝星！ After striving to make his way in another world, an unexpected battle sent him back to Blue Star, rekindling the regrets in his heart, along with love, hate, and old scores. “Dad! Mom! I’m home!” Watch him take charge of the tides of fate and blast his way through everything! 142Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Heaven's Mandate Projection: The Protagonist Has Great Stuff? Now I Do Too 天命投影：主角东西好？我也有了 Xiao Che became a member of the Xiao family! At first, Xiao Che never thought his small clan would have one of those “thirty years east of the river, thirty years west” stories. After all, this wasn't a novel. Where would such a standard plot come from? Then! After their young master, Xiao Nitian, was dumped by his fiancée, who had caught the eye of an elder from a sacred land, Xiao Che was stunned, and the [Heavenly Mandate Projection System] activated. He could create projections just by meeti 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 After the System Failed to Erase Me, I Became Invincible in the World 系统抹杀失败后，我独自无敌世间 [Invincible protagonist]+ [Cultivation world]+ [Laid-back slice of life]+ [No female lead]+ [No angst] After wandering the world for tens of millions of years, Li Mo refuses a mission from the System. The System attempts to erase him, but fails. From then on, the System is unbound, while Li Mo carries the strength and accumulated experience of tens of millions of years as he wanders the world in search of a place to call home. 5.8kReads6.2Score671Shelves
- 27 Commanding Puppets Beneath the Firmament, Sword Breaking the Morning Star 傀御苍冥，剑破长庚 Cultivation realms: Spirit Awakening -> Form Condensation -> Soul Fusion -> Spirit Transformation -> Domain Control -> Heaven-Piercing -> to be expanded later Bearing endless regrets, Li Mu transmigrates to the Xuanqiong Continent and becomes Yun Chen, a fisherman’s son. Just as in his previous life, his elder sister Yun Yao has worn herself out caring for him, leaving her frail and gravely ill. At the Spirit Awakening Ceremony, he appears to awaken a broken and battered “Desolate Ancient Batt —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 28 One Sword Subdues Ten Thousand Strongholds, Immortals and Demons Give Way 一剑压万寨，仙魔皆绕行 This is not a hot-blooded tale of a young man stumbling upon an extraordinary opportunity and crushing every obstacle in his path. It is the story of someone searching for the truth amid the ruins, finding his way through deception, and gradually stepping into the heart of a storm set in motion a century ago. With a sword in hand, he must cleave apart the colossal lie that someone carefully buried for an entire century. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 Record of the Awakening of the Mystic Bone 玄骨觉醒录 Xiao Jin was once a discarded disciple, driven from his sect and left on the borderlands of the Great Yan Dynasty. With his spiritual meridians dried up and his channels blocked, he could not even manage the most basic task of drawing qi into his body. He should have been eking out a miserable existence in a deserted village, but by chance he activated the “Profound Bone System,” an ancient relic from a foreign race. Its mission was to gather a hundred thousand strands of “human resentment” to a 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 30 Honghuang: Saving Yunxiao from the Start, Then Snatching Di Jun from Under His Nose 洪荒：开局救云霄，反手截胡帝俊 [Honghuang + Cautious Survival + Invincible + Lighthearted + Multiple Heroines] [The Witch-Demon Tribulation has ended] [The Investiture of the Gods Tribulation has ended] [The Journey to the West Tribulation is underway]... Zhao Changge transmigrates to Honghuang, where a ridiculous System dumps him on Penglai Island from the start, complete with a “turtle shell” formation. The System stays offline for countless epochs. With nothing else to do, Zhao Changge can only level up. By the end, he dec 17.9kReads7.0Score1.6kShelves
- 31 The Good-for-Nothing Prince: From Border Soldier to Lord of the Six Wastes 废柴皇子：从边军到六荒共主 That year, nothing much happened in the primordial world, and the Three Pure Ones got into another argument with the Twelve Ancestral Witches. The shockwave swept across the mortal realm, and a wage slave who'd stayed up until the early hours simply died. Daoist Ancestor Hongjun couldn't be bothered with the trouble. He took that one sliver of life hidden in "Fifty in the Great Dao, with one escaping," tucked it into a Chaos Pearl, and tossed it into the blood and fire of the Great Zhou Dynasty' 2Reads—Score291Shelves
- 32 The Daoist Jiangshi 道僵尸 What is a Dao zombie? One who follows the Dao through a corpse, neither human, immortal, demon, nor ghost. Beneath the boundless heavens and along the endless river of time, they fight for the place of one among humans, the seat of an immortal, the title of a demon, and the station of a ghost. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 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
- 34 What Is the World Like? 人间何似 Think all transmigrators go it alone with cheat powers? Wrong. What you're looking for, political intrigue, the martial world, schemes, and the treacherous workings of the human heart, is all here. This time, it's an entire group of people, carrying answers from two worlds. Some want to build an empire, some want to bring peace, some want to defend their homeland, and some want revenge for bloodshed. No heaven-sent golden finger, no brainless face-slapping, no protagonist single-handedly slaught —Reads7.7Score—Shelves
- 35 The Misty Immortal Path: The Human Realm Arc 缥缈仙途传人界篇 [Mortal cultivation, no System, slow-paced, traditional xianxia] The road to immortality drifts through mist and haze, while worldly ties and mortal affairs teem with danger. The seasons turn and storms rise; seas change into mulberry fields as the journey home awaits. 430Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 36 Is the Demonic Path All That’s Left in the Cultivation World? 修仙界只剩下魔道了是吗 Zhuang Jia transmigrated to Xia Liu County and became a young Daoist at Shouchong Temple. After overhearing Master Meng Yi speaking next door, he began awakening enlightenment skills. Sky-Piercing Staff: Gather your blood and energy into a staff, allowing you to raise it high for a short time. Deals bonus damage to female demons and ghosts; Sage's Mind Method: Visualize in your mind someone who cannot refuse you. If you firmly reject her, you can increase your mental power. Successfully reject W —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 37 The Rebellious Sword Emperor 逆剑帝尊 The Martial Emperor is reborn. Lin Yi takes up a world-shaking cultivation method and martial arts techniques to cultivate martial arts anew. Watch him defeat the supreme prodigies of ancient and modern times and once again reach the peak of the martial path! He governs heaven and earth, defies life and death, commands reincarnation. I rule over all! 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 38 Proving the Dao Through Chess 证道棋局 On the Tianyuan Continent, people cultivate the Dao through chess, and millions of cultivators abound. Lu Xuan and Qin Lie, two youths from Cangwu Town, are born with a natural chess sense, but their spiritual roots are incomplete. Everyone considers them useless, incapable of cultivating immortality. In the year they turn seventeen, the mysterious elder Master Xuanji appears at their chess club and opens up an unprecedented path of chess cultivation for Lu Xuan: using his chess sense to compre —Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 39 The Day I Returned from Battle, Having Slain the Enemy, My Family Turned Against Me 战场杀敌归来日，父母亲友反目时 A generation of Demon Kings fell and was reborn in a fantasy world as the young master of the ancient Lin family. When the Merit Battlefield descended, Lin Yuan entered it for the sake of his family's future. After a century of fighting and countless wounds, he finally returned. He had thought he would receive a hero's welcome back home, but after a hundred years, everything had changed. His parents claimed that his cultivation had been completely ruined and demanded that he extract the precious 4.7kReads7.5Score339Shelves
- 40 The Rebirth Notes of a Cool and Aloof Daoist Lord 清冷道君的重生手札 [Reborn + Multiple Heroines + Cold and Aloof Male Immortal + Nine Provinces and Four Seas + Dao Lord] Above, the thirty-three celestial courts hang high in the heavens. Below, seventy-two demonic realms tear open the abyss. The Nine Provinces and Four Seas, the ancient Jade Pool realm: all paths lead toward the Great Dao. The struggle between immortals and martial cultivators, the divide between the mystic and the demonic, Daoism and Buddhism, north and south, great calamities, killing calamitie 12.3kReads7.2Score954Shelves
- 41 You’re the Rowdiest One Here? Come Out and Fight! 最猖狂那小子，就你，出来碰碰！ [Absurd comedy and wish fulfillment + no frustrating setbacks + character growth] My name is Cheng Tiankun, and my dream is to live as carefree as my name sounds. Even though I'm a useless, stupid, incompetent lazy bum, I just know I'm destined for greatness, damn it. I should be one of the most powerful people in the world! Now my chance has finally come. After a year of suffering, I finally got my Cosmic Invincible Bloodiest-Mom Strongest System God King. It's simply amazing, and using it does 174Reads—Score117Shelves
- 42 The Zombie Sect 僵门 Jiang Ye, son of a drought demon, founds the Corpse Sect to clear the name of the zombie kind. He risks everything to save his mother, sealed away in the Celestial Realm. At the same time, he announces to the world that the life of a zombie is about more than drinking blood and eating corpses... 117Reads—Score220Shelves
- 43 Peering into the Spirit Realm, Seeking the Dao and Knocking on the Door to Immortality 窥灵问道叩长生 Deep in the tunnels of the Qingshi Spirit Mine, a sixteen-year-old mine slave was chipping away at the stone. His name was Lin Mo. He had five spiritual roots, considered the worst possible aptitude in the cultivation world. He'd been here for ten years and had seen what the mine slaves looked like when they were carried out: old, sick, or with their legs crushed by cave-ins. He'd never imagined he might make it out alive. Until one day, the dark stone he'd worn around his neck since childhood b 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 44 Conquering the Cultivation World, Starting with an Evil Cultivator Girlfriend 称霸修仙界，从捡个邪修女友开始 [Tech Cultivation] [Lighthearted Comedy] [Multiple Heroines] Wu Nai never imagined that the robot girlfriend he built with his own hands would slap him straight into the cultivation world. Even more absurdly, an evil cultivator ancestor took over his robot girlfriend's body, and he gained a life mentor! While other cultivators meditate and breathe their way toward greater power, Wu Nai uses his data core to master technology and cheat his way through cultivation. His dignified and beautiful sen 321Reads7.2Score109Shelves
- 45 After Failing My Tribulation, I Was Reborn in a Martial Arts World 渡劫失败后，我在武侠世界重生了 [Not a wish-fulfillment novel; no System; no female lead; no romance; ensemble cast; don't read if that's not your thing] Jiang Yuchuan, a Nascent Soul patriarch who once shook the cultivation world, failed his tribulation to become a Deity and unexpectedly transmigrated to another world because of a spirit pearl. Spiritual energy is so scarce in this world that cultivation is nearly impossible. Fortunately, the spirit pearl that came with him contains its own space, complete with abundant spiri 131Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 46 Lost in the Classic of Mountains and Seas: I Bring My Alien Sidekicks to Slay Gods 误入山海经：我带着外星小弟弑神 [Cosmos + Primordial Wilderness + Classic of Mountains and Seas + Power Fantasy + Spatial Powers + No Harem] The wealthy Bei family is attacked by mysterious assailants. Mr. and Mrs. Bei disappear, and the only survivor, Bei Silu, is rescued and taken into a bizarre virtual world. He thinks that escaping this strange world will let him find his parents, only to discover that entrances to the virtual world are everywhere in reality. It turns out that everything in the world is both real and unrea 5Reads—Score119Shelves
- 47 The Fake Junior Uncle 冒牌小师叔 [Shameless + no decorum + absolutely no limits] A nobody with the combat skills of a weakling impersonates a peerless prodigy, joins a sect, and even becomes the junior martial uncle everyone admires! The sect’s bigwigs practically put my shoes on for me. The sect’s geniuses all bow at my feet. Even the beautiful senior sister’s pomegranate skirt is at my disposal… Ahem. About all this, the swaggering Ning Xie has just one thing to say: Pretending to be a prodigy is freaking exhausting! 3.5kReads8.1Score236Shelves
- 48 The Tales of the Hundred Schools 诸子传 [The Hundred Schools of Thought] [The Way of the Literary Dao] [Decisive and Ruthless] [A Vast World] [Plot Twists] (Also known as From the Start, I Was Assassinated, So I Used the Classics to Become a Sage and How a Sage Is Made) The Zhou dynasty declines, and nine kingdoms stand against one another. Here, swordsmen can cleave mountains and rivers with a single stroke, while scholars can decide life and death with a single word. Confucianism, Mohism, Legalism, and Daoism vie for supremacy, as y —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 49 Fate and Calamity 神煞 This is an educational work about the “deities and malefic influences” in Four Pillars of Destiny. It does not teach you how to calculate your fortune. Instead, it explains how these influences in a destiny chart shape a person’s life. Anyone who achieves great things must first have their destiny tested by baleful forces. [Eastern mysticism + no System + nontraditional xianxia + plot-driven + a touch of ensemble cast] This is a world where deities and malefic influences coexist with ordin 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 50 The Heaven-Piercing Stele 通天碑 Xie Xuan, a young man from the Canglan Continent, was regarded as a good-for-nothing in cultivation. By chance, he obtained a fragment of the Heaven-Connecting Stele. This peerless divine artifact, said to have sealed the Chaos Demon God, shattered and scattered across the worlds when the path to immortality was severed ten thousand years ago. It split into ten pieces, each containing one of the ten forces of origin. Rising from the mire, Xie Xuan made formations the foundation of his strength, 17Reads—Score—Shelves
