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- 1 The Ultimate Path to Immortality 极道问仙 While gathering herbs in the mountains, young Ye Xuan accidentally unlocks a small world. He absorbs the bloodline of Qiongqi and obtains part of the inheritance from a cultivator who died when two rivals fought over their prize. A series of changes in his fate sends him soaring along the path of cultivation. But the road to seeking the Dao is long, and progress cannot happen overnight. The young man still has to grow and temper himself, so he steps out of the wilderness one step at a time, disc 3.1kReads8.3Score292Shelves
- 2 I, Fan Jin, Am Retiring in Great Ming 老夫范进，在大明退休养老 (Already published under the title Madcap in the World of Scholars) (Third Prize in the “Reviving Ancient Books, Passing Down a Love of Reading” writing contest) Good heavens! I passed! Fan Jin from The Scholars is traveling through the Ming Dynasty. “Would you like to live a different life? Want to avoid thirty years of detours? Step out of The Scholars and begin your own journey.” At seventeen, Fan Jin opened his eyes and found himself fifty-four. The next time he opened them, he was thirty. H 5.3kReads9.5Score520Shelves
- 3 Years of Illness Made Me an Immortal, One Sword to Conquer the Ages 久病成仙，我一剑独断万古 [Mortal Cultivation] [Multiple Identities] [Ruthless] The sickly Jiang Xiaobai goes up a mountain in search of medicine and, by a twist of fate, becomes a menial beast keeper at an immortal sect. He accidentally obtains a strange black sword, which cleaves his soul into separate paths of cultivation. The soul of a demon-slayer cultivator swallows mountains and rivers, beguiling as a demon. The soul of an alchemist cultivator opens the furnace and brews pills, healing with a master’s touch. The s 8.7kReads8.7Score737Shelves
- 4 The Laid-Back Life of a Marquis’s Bastard Son 穿成侯府庶子的摆烂生活 [Transmigration + historical setting + non-virgin male lead + ordinary protagonist with no golden finger] Chen Heyu, a fine young man of the modern age, transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing ancient playboy. He is a middle-aged widower with children, a low-ranking son born to a concubine, and not a single money-making skill to his name. He does, however, have plenty of ways to spend money and a mountain of debts from his romantic escapades. To avoid another beating from his father, 37.1kReads9.3Score4kShelves
- 5 The Immortal Path of Qingyuan 清源仙途 I’ve been an avid reader for twenty years, especially fond of cultivation novels about ordinary people. Of all the books I’ve read, my favorites are A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, Renegade Immortal, The Path of a Cultivation Sect Leader, Xuanchen Daoist Path, True Spirit Nine Transformations, and Qinglian Peak. On a sudden whim, I decided to write the kind of xianxia story I’ve always wanted to read: no overpowered cheat or mysterious old master, just an attempt to portray a cult 12.8kReads8.2Score979Shelves
- 6 High Battle Clouds: Heroes Languish in Solitude 阵云高：英雄寂寞 Genius protagonist, no System, ruthless and decisive. Li Chengfeng, a genius formation master, uses formations to cultivate all kinds of mutated spirit insects. At last, he achieves a first-grade Golden Core. Just as everything seems to be going his way, he encounters a genius of the Ghost Clan. After a fierce battle, the Ghost Clan Golden Core cultivator dies, while Li Chengfeng, gravely wounded, is swept into a spatial black hole. A new legend is about to begin. 1kReads—Score132Shelves
- 7 Lingyun's Journey: Rising from Humble Beginnings 凌云行之起于微末 Beyond the Three Realms lie hidden worlds; within the Six Paths dwell countless peoples. There is no absolute opposition, only a world of myriad wonders. An ordinary mortal sets out on the journey! She breaks through desperate situations, changes her fate, seizes opportunities, and sees through people's hearts. With sheer grit and resilience, she shatters the heavens and defies immortality! After transmigrating, she finds herself in the body of a poor little girl about to be sold. After finally 3.4kReads9.1Score455Shelves
- 8 After Daybreak 破晓过后 I walk across the land. Passing through this world, where roads stretch far and horses hurry by. I hold all things in the world lightly. After hello comes goodbye, and after goodbye comes silence. Life is vast as the sea, with mountains rising one after another. 30Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 My Sect Ordered Me to Marry, So I Activated an Infinite Exchange System 宗门强令娶妻，激活无限兑换系统 [“Good-for-nothing’s comeback” + “System exchange” + “Marriage and growth” + “Play the pig to eat the tiger”] The sect orders an old man in his seventies to take a wife, and he activates the Marriage and Longevity System! A different kind of System, a different kind of thrill! While everyone else has to grovel to survive and grow, the protagonist insists on fighting back, soaring through the skies on his sword. Immortality is no longer a dream. 3.4kReads6.4Score304Shelves
- 10 From the Start, I Drew a Barren Field: I Rise by Slaying Insects 开局抽到废田：我靠杀虫逆袭宗门 [Cautious cultivation + farming + earning spirit stones + no System + no harem]. Important things bear repeating: this is a cautious cultivation story, a farming story, and the protagonist is the sort who will keep hiding and playing it safe until the end of time. If that's not your thing, please don't click in. The heavens collapse, countless realms sink into ruin, and all living beings are but ants swept along by the tides. Even the Supreme Immortal Emperor cannot escape the fate of being cons 2.5kReads—Score192Shelves
- 11 Ten-Thousandfold Gift Returns: I'm the Number One Simp in the Immortal Realm! 赠礼万倍返还：我，仙界第一舔！ “Gave away a Qi-Gathering Pill, received a ten-thousandfold return: rewarded with a Nine-Turn Golden Pill!” “Gave away a Fireball Spell, received a ten-thousandfold return: rewarded with a World-Destroying Buddha Lotus!” “Gave away a low-grade magical artifact, received a ten-thousandfold return: rewarded with an Axe of Creation!” After Ye Chen obtained the System, giving gifts to female cultivators was all it took to earn rewards. All Ye Chen wanted to say was, I never meant to be a simp. But t 160.4kReads8.6Score15.7kShelves
- 12 EN The Mortal's Cultivation Journey: Ancestor of Talismans 凡人修仙之符祖 [Mortal's journey, no System.] Xu Changshou, a young cowherd, is brought into the world of cultivation after saving an errand disciple of the Green Immortal Sect. He later awakens a bloodline jade talisman and obtains a legacy in the Dao of Talismans. Starting with the art of drawing talismans, he steps onto the path of cultivation, ascends to immortality, slays demons, attains eternal life, questions the heavens, creates the Great Dao of Talismans, and achieves the rank of Talisman Ancestor. 223.9kReads8.8Score16.8kShelves
- 13 Strange Tales from the Civil Affairs Bureau (Complete in 8 Volumes) 民调局异闻录（全8册） The Strange Tales of the Bureau of Investigation series creates an entirely new world of suspense: a mysterious organization dedicated to uncovering the truth behind bizarre, uncanny, and supernatural events, and the world it faces. The stories are wildly strange and utterly captivating, with a witty, playful style and one suspenseful twist after another. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put them down. Throughout history, strange cases and evil monsters have always been dealt with by 37.4kReads9.6Score5.8kShelves
- 14 A Hound of the Imperial Court? You’ve Never Faced the Six Fan Gate’s Blades 朝廷鹰犬？没挨过六扇门的刀 Also known as: Six Doors: Confiscating Estates and Wiping Out Clans [Transmigrate into a book + ruthless and decisive + single or no heroine] Reality isn’t a game, nor is it a storybook. Reality has rules, and breaking them brings retribution. My name is Li Jun Su. I paid the price for breaking the rules. After that, I was reborn. Unlike the real world, this world was dominated by martial arts, and the path to immortality flourished. Power mattered more than authority. The Great Qian Dyna 65.9kReads9.2Score4.8kShelves
- 15 Grandmaster Zun 大师尊 A seasoned old hand from the martial world transmigrates into the cultivation world. Thanks to his wife's connections, he gets into an immortal sect. Senior sisters, junior sisters, saintesses, grand elders, sect masters... Pure wish fulfillment, utterly invincible, but not brainless. Overwhelming combat power, a sharp mind, devious beneath a good-guy exterior, and full of schemes. He borrows the tiger's skin to wave a great banner, winning people over with virtue. He throws lime in their eyes a 3.3kReads—Score223Shelves
- 16 EN I Only Wanted to Destroy My Sect, So How Did I Defy Heaven and Become a God? 我只想毁灭宗门，咋逆天成神了 Reborn into the number one sect under heaven: it should have been a perfect start. But Chu Xinghe discovered that his cultivation path was a little unusual. Could he become invincible under heaven just by destroying his own sect? Building the number one sect under heaven wasn’t easy, but surely destroying it wouldn’t be hard? Chu Xinghe soon discovered that it really wasn’t easy. He racked his brains trying to bring down his own sect, but why did every attempt only make it stronger? Countless ye 79.7kReads9.3Score5.6kShelves
- 17 Back to the Beginner’s Village? No! I’m Here to Retire! 重回新手村？不！我是来养老的！ After completing 9,999 repair missions in minor worlds, Hua Yi decisively retires and chooses a world to spend her remaining years in. She seems like a fresh-faced newcomer who has just entered the world of cultivation, but behind the scenes, she’s a powerhouse who dares to go head-to-head with the Heavenly Dao! Along the way, she plays the pig to eat the tiger, picks up strays, and enjoys the gossip and drama. There’s the Child of Misfortune, sealed away by a powerful cultivator. There’s also t 9.8kReads9.2Score1.2kShelves
- 18 Longevity: A Well-Connected Immortal Court Official Slacks Off in the Mortal Realm 长生：仙庭关系户下界摸鱼 [Immortal cultivation + no System + not a power fantasy + slow-paced + no female lead + pseudo-ensemble cast. Read with care if this isn’t your thing.] The mighty will of Heaven shines like a mirror, illuminating the causes and effects binding immortals and mortals alike. The countless living beings are like grains of sand, ground into the ashes of tribulation beneath mountains and rivers. A mysterious mirror hangs among the highest heavens, reflecting the lives of all beings in the Three Realm 216.4kReads9.0Score15.4kShelves
- 19 I Feed Demons with My Own Body in the Demon Suppression Bureau 我在镇魔司以身饲魔 [Get stronger when attacked by monsters + Transmigration + System + Invincible + Comedy + Villain + Demon Suppression Bureau] After transmigrating to a fantasy world overrun by monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a prison guard in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty’s Demon Suppression Bureau. From that day on, strange cases begin piling up in the prison, once known as a living hell and feared for its eerie, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the monsters in the prison scream every night? 69.1kReads9.3Score6.8kShelves
- 20 EN Path to Immortality Among the Stars 星路仙踪 In the modern world, a passage to another realm appears on Blue Star. Wang Yu is among the first people to enter a cultivation world through their dreams. In a daze, he embarks on the path of cultivation in order to survive! The Great Dao is merciless. On the path of cultivation, failing to advance means falling behind! By becoming a supreme cultivator, one can enjoy endless longevity and bring the power of cultivation back to Blue Star, saving its future. The cultivation world faces an apocalyp 180.1kReads9.1Score16.5kShelves
- 21 The Snake Heavenly Emperor 蛇天帝 An old snake from the village accidentally swallowed a human elixir and gained intelligence, setting out on the path to immortality. With a mysterious little cauldron and a cultivation technique that can transform it into a dragon, the snake has only ten short years to live, so it must seize every moment. This is the story of an old snake becoming an immortal. [Original title: The Old Snake’s Path to Immortality (Snake Ancestor). A manga adaptation is currently being serialized.] [No System, tra 95.1kReads9.2Score6.8kShelves
- 22 The Cultivators We Used to Chop Up Together 那些年，我们一起砍过的修仙者 (Everyman’s cultivation + no System) Unlike traditional xianxia, don’t read if that’s not your thing. That year, a seven-year-old boy took his little sister into the cultivation world. Then all the cultivators went crazy! When you set out to cultivate, it doesn’t matter if you have talent, treasures, or lucky opportunities. But there’s one thing you must remember: there’s one person you must never provoke. Even though this person isn’t a cultivator at all. His blade is faster than light, so fast 162.2kReads9.3Score17.1kShelves
- 23 Ten Realms: I Was Ordinary 十界：我本平庸 (We are all ordinary people. Some say they don’t understand what I’m writing! The truth is, I simply want to tell the story of an ordinary person who keeps growing, improving, and learning. He feels lost and helpless, never knowing what to do. His life is full of stumbles, but through repeated setbacks and lessons, he slowly grows! Some people are born in Rome, while he is stuck in the mud. In Rome, it’s easy to cross the finish line. But there’s something all the more inspiring about perseverin 6.5kReads9.1Score529Shelves
- 24 The Mortal's Immortal Gourd 凡人仙葫 Er Gouzi is an honest, hardworking farmer. His greatest dream is to save up enough to buy a few acres, become a small landowner, and marry a buxom, strong-legged wife. Then his life would be perfect. But after an accident leaves him with a gourd and an old swindler talks him into it, he blunders into the path of immortality and gets dragged into conflict. Even so, he never forgets his original goal: he just wants to farm... 228.4kReads9.0Score15.9kShelves
- 25 Game Invasion: I Became Emperor Before the Players Transmigrated 游戏入侵：我称帝了玩家才穿越 [Transmigrating ahead of time + political scheming + dynastic power struggles + succubus + worlds merging] This book is also known as [I, the Empress's Fiancé, the Strongest Villain Behind the Scenes]. After waking up, Xia Chen finds himself logged into the mysterious game from his previous life ahead of schedule, starting out as the legitimate son of the Marquis of Zhendong. What? I have a younger brother named Xia Hao, who seems to have a mysterious bone inside him? It looks just like the lege 467kReads9.1Score47.2kShelves
- 26 EN My Junior Disciples Are All Overpowered, So I Have to Cheat! 师弟们都是大佬，那我只能开挂了 The second junior brother is the chosen one of the plane. The third junior brother is reborn. The fourth junior brother is an ancient Sword Immortal reincarnated. The junior sister is the future Demon Empress. Everyone from top to bottom is a hidden powerhouse! Ouyang, the eldest senior brother, gives a crooked grin. “Well, then I guess I'll have to use cheats!” 123.8kReads9.4Score12.1kShelves
- 27 A Blossom, A Cup of Wine, An Immortal Life 一花一酒一仙人，亦眠亦醉亦长生 [This book is also known as The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring] [The print edition of The Nine Tales of Peach Blossom Spring goes on sale at 7 p.m. on November 15!] [Immortality + taking disciples + no female lead + lighthearted comedy, no tearjerkers] When your master serves food, you spin the table; when your master chants a spell, you chatter away. When your master rests, you sing; when your master sleeps in, you bang on a pot. Your master is immortal, but your life is short; your master 199.2kReads9.5Score24.5kShelves
- 28 EN Immortality System: I Outlived Everyone 系统赋我长生，我熬死了所有人 Observing the love and hatred of cultivators across the river of time from a perspective beyond life itself. He left a modest little town and entered the wondrous world of cultivation. His journey sped up and slowed down, moving forward or stopping to rest, but he never stopped walking. The Age of Declining Dharma, the Age of Emperors, the Age of Dark Turmoil… He appeared in every age, and the only thing he could do was watch old friends die with his own eyes, then see them off to their grave 575.4kReads9.4Score59.5kShelves
- 29 I Have Three Months Left to Live, So Let Me Die in Peace 还剩三个月命，请让我从容赴死 From childhood onward, Zhuang Zi'ang was the kind of kid everyone called “the child other parents wish they had”: a model student every year and always first in his class. But after his parents divorced and his father started a new family, he became a child neither parent loved. At just eighteen, Zhuang Zi'ang is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given only three months to live. With his final three months, he decides to let out his rebellious, wild side and be truly himself for once. While 164.3kReads9.8Score18.9kShelves
- 30 God-Tier Choices: This Beast Tamer Is a Little Too Fierce 神级选择：这个御兽师有亿点生猛 [Beast taming + choices + comedy + nonsense + one female lead (no female lead) = ?] When Chen Shu wakes up, he finds that he has transmigrated to a parallel world where beast taming reigns supreme, and he has bound himself to a Divine-Level Choice System! Every choice he makes earns him all kinds of rewards! With the System’s help, his pets grow increasingly monstrous: a slime that can sit on a dragon and crush it to death, a husky that can blast a phoenix to tears with elemental skills, and a.. 179.3kReads9.7Score21.4kShelves
- 31 EN Villain: My Little Brother is the Chosen One 反派：我的弟弟是天选之子 "Lovably awful villain + wish fulfillment + scheming + lighthearted + sly trickster + shameless + not an invincible protagonist" Qin Feng transmigrated into the ancient wilderness as the eldest young master of the Qin family. His twin younger brother was the legendary Chosen One, and possessed a one-in-ten-thousand Supreme Bone. He thought he could ride his brother’s coattails to the peak of life, but then an unprincipled System showed up and told him there was a bright future in being a villain 343.1kReads9.5Score39kShelves
- 32 Heavenly Abyss 天渊 (The print edition has been published and is available to buy online) A hundred years ago, Chen Qingyuan entered a forbidden zone called the Heavenly Abyss. His soul lamp went out, and everyone believed he was dead. Today, Chen Qingyuan has emerged from the forbidden zone alive, but his cultivation has been destroyed and his spiritual roots severed. With his beloved breaking off their engagement and the various sects bullying him, what is Chen Qingyuan supposed to do? “Chen Qingyuan, you have tw 981.4kReads9.4Score102.3kShelves
- 33 EN Starting with a Street Stall Selling Super Strength Potions 开局地摊卖大力 [Qingfeng's new novel, This Player Has a Problem in the Head, is currently serializing and has plenty of chapters ready to binge] Earth enters an era of spiritual qi revival, and humanity begins awakening supernatural abilities! Jiang Nan awakens the strongest street-stall System from the start. Potions of Strength? Detoxifying Yellow Beans? Lucky Cherries? They're flying off the shelves! The world's top tycoons, richest man, popular streamers, and peak powerhouses all come to buy them. Jiang Na 336kReads9.7Score45.7kShelves
- 34 EN From the Start, Immortal for Eternity, Laying Low Until the End of Time 开局长生万古，苟到天荒地老 [Published in print] [Not a wish-fulfillment story + tranquil daily life + lighthearted humor + no female lead + no tragedy + survival expert] Enter with caution. A longevity story told from the perspective of an immortal, spanning several great eras of cultivation. It begins in an ordinary mountain village, moves into a small domain, and then enters the vast world of cultivation, passing through the eras of flourishing development, golden prosperity, the collapse of the rules, the great dark up 563kReads9.7Score72.5kShelves
- 35 Everyone in the Sect Is Love-Brained, Except Me, a True Lunatic 全宗门都是恋爱脑，唯我是真疯批 The complete print edition of A Double Crossing is now available on all platforms. Relationship blogger Lin Du died of a broken heart after being driven crazy by hopeless romantics. After death, she transmigrated into a tragic romance cultivation novel, becoming the beautiful, powerful, yet doomed junior uncle who paved the way for the protagonists' great love with her own ashes. After reading the script, she slowly typed a question mark. “Have they dug up every wild vegetable on this sect's mou 235.3kReads9.7Score27.5kShelves
- 36 I Saved the Entire Sect by Giving Up 我靠摆烂拯救了全宗门 (The second physical volume is out) Ye Qiao woke up one day to find she had become the second senior sister, a tool character in a novel about a girl adored by everyone. In the novel, whenever the junior sister was in trouble, the second senior sister stepped in. If the junior sister wanted a divine artifact, the second senior sister fetched it. If the junior sister lacked a spiritual root, hers had to be dug out. Ye Qiao was at her breaking point. She fled the mountain in the middle of the nigh 217.1kReads9.6Score24.4kShelves
- 37 EN Learning to Slay Gods in the Psychiatric Hospital 我在精神病院学斩神 A must-read hit on Tomato Novel | Original novel of the hit anime Slay the Gods | IP influence on the China Online Literature Influence List | 2023 China Good Novel Have you ever wondered whether monsters from ancient myths lurk beneath the neon-lit city? Have you ever wondered whether gods stand watch over humanity atop the moon hanging high above us? Have you ever wondered whether extraordinary people walk among us in our bustling modern cities, acting in the gods’ stead? In the society ruled 1MReads9.9Score162.2kShelves
- 38 EN Ten Days to the End 十日终焉 2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat 1.7MReads9.9Score209.2kShelves
