Novels like The Grandmaster Returns
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Grandmaster Returns, best match first.
- 1 The Ultimate Superstar 极品全能巨星 When it comes to singing, I’m a creative genius! “In the Name of the Father,” “Twin Knives,” all those hit songs? That’s right, I wrote them! And I’m a powerhouse vocalist, too! Want to compete with me on vocal tricks? My dolphin notes will make you question your whole life! When it comes to acting, I’m the savior of Chinese-language film and TV! Stephen Chow’s comedies, the pinnacle of cop films, Infernal Affairs, overseas classics like The Truman Show and Inception, the king of sitcoms, My Own 0Votes6kRecs12.6kFans
- 2 My Immortal Realm Mall 我的仙界商城 “Senior Brother Su, give me a dozen of those spirit-vein bracelets that restore energy so quickly.” “Senior Brother Su, this Yaoguang Mirror is amazing! It lets you talk to anyone, anytime, no matter how far away they are. Give me ten more.” “Senior Brother Su, this chameleon-model flying device is incredible. I used it yesterday to spy on Senior Sister Lu while she was bathing, and she didn't notice a thing. I want another one.” Su Can replied with a broad smile, “Everyone, line up. First come, 0Votes5.9kRecs6.6kFans
- 3 I Know Too Much 我知道的太多了 Ye Bufei was unlucky. His bad luck began when his boss casually swung a battered old book and knocked him senseless. But Ye Bufei was also lucky. That battered old book turned out to be a notebook recording the private indiscretions of ordinary people, pop stars, screen queens, business tycoons, martial artists, immortals, and even the Jade Emperor. It was none other than the legendary, mysterious little black book. Not listening, are you? Then let's open the book. Mr. Chairman, you've been keep 0Votes33.1kRecs51.3kFans
- 4 Cultivating Immortality: Ascending on Earth 修仙之飞升地球 The greatest person in the history of the Tianyuan Continent, the sect master of the Brahma Immortal Sect, Emperor Dongyang finally succeeded in ascending after more than three hundred years of cultivation, becoming the first cultivator to ascend in a million years on the Tianyuan Continent! However, after Yang Jingyu ascended, he suddenly discovered that he had not ascended to the legendary Immortal Realm at all. Instead, he had returned to his former homeland, Earth... P.S. A completed premiu 0Votes16.2kRecs16.3kFans
- 5 The Infinite Single-Player Overlord 无限之单机霸主 By chance, he obtained an Infinite System and changed class to become a solo-game reincarnator! Compete for fortune, comprehend laws, battle all under heaven... Walk alone through the affairs of the mortal world, laughing drunkenly at the fleeting beauty of life. Jianghu, immortal heroes, anime, history, mythology, all of it speaks for itself... (Planned worlds: The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Jade Dynasty, The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, Naruto, Sword and Fairy 1, the apocalypse, Sword and 0Votes17.3kRecs36.7kFans
- 6 Immortal Vocational and Technical College 神仙职业技术学院 First year: Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment. Second year: Golden Core and Nascent Soul. Third year: Spirit Transformation and Void Refinement. Fourth year: Great Ascension and Dao Integration! The Supreme Lord Lao? He's a professor of alchemy at the academy! The Buddha Tathagata? He's an expert in philosophy at the academy! The Jade Emperor? He's the academy's honorary president! Yuding, Taiyi, and Antarctic Immortal; the Three Ladies of the Clouds and Zhao Gongming. Erlang, the Stone M 0Votes10kRecs15kFans
- 7 The New Song Dynasty 今宋 The national humiliation of Jingkang: corpses piled high across the land, white bones strewn in the wilderness. Dynasties rise and fall, the heavens collapse and the earth is overturned. The west wind. The red banner. With a long spear in hand, can we bind the dragon lurking beneath the sea? See whose realm rules the Great Song today. 0Votes22.5kRecs15.6kFans
- 8 The Divine Artifact Planting Space 神器种植空间 Ye Tian transmigrates to the Origin Continent in another world. After arduous cultivation, he awakens a Black Earth Space Domain, only to be mocked for having the most useless and ordinary domain around. But he soon discovers that his Black Earth Space is no ordinary place. While other powerhouses risk their lives searching for divine and immortal artifacts in perilous ruins, secret realms, and ancient wastelands, all he has to do is plant things in his space, and he can harvest more than a doze 0Votes102.3kRecs44.5kFans
- 9 Super Divine Martial Arts 超级神武道 In the age of the Earth Federation, unlocking humanity’s genetic potential has become essential to survival. An eighteen-stage basic heart art ushered in an era of comprehensive genetic mutation. A martial arts cultivation System pushed these mutations to their peak. “Having returned to a hundred and thirty years ago, I shall be invincible beneath the heavens!”, Qiu Shaobai. 0Votes52.2kRecs90.5kFans
- 10 Born to Entertain 天生娱乐家 When he was an extra, he got by every day by tricking film crews at the studio lot, earning the bitter hatred of directors everywhere. He landed his first starring role by pretending to be a fortune-teller and conning his way into it. Later, he entered The God of Food Championship and even got into an argument with the judges. He's a master of every traditional martial art, the world combat tournament's champion, and th 0Votes33.2kRecs101kFans
- 11 Invincible Combat Power System 无敌战斗力系统 What, your combat power is only fifty, and you still dare put on an act in front of me? Even with ten thousand points of combat power, I would be too embarrassed to mention it! What, you ask why my combat power is increasing so quickly? Can I tell you that stepping on an ant or squashing a cockroach increases my combat power?! 0Votes29.5kRecs109.3kFans
- 12 Reborn into a Global Entertainment Empire 重生之文娱全球 A struggling writer is reborn in a parallel world, only to find himself still a struggling writer. What should he do? No need to worry. There are no Five Great Web Novel Authors of Zhongyuan, no Jin, Gu, Huang, Liang, or Wen, no MJ, no Twin Chous and One Cheng, no Four Heavenly Kings, and so on. The world has changed, giving him a chance to make a glorious comeback! From then on, his presence can be found in web novels, magazines, music, anime, film and television, variety shows, games, and more 0Votes31.5kRecs54.2kFans
- 13 The All-Purpose Prize Draw System 全职抽奖系统 As the name suggests, the Full-Time Lottery System lets you enter a lottery for every profession, with each profession offering skills related to that line of work. Anyone who gets it will become the top expert in every profession. Since obtaining the Full-Time Lottery System, Chen Ze has drawn the Chef God’s Seasoning as a chef, Persuasion Through Truth as a teacher, and the Golden Keyboard as a struggling writer... Chen Ze: “As the saying goes, there are champions in all 360 trades. But, sorry 0Votes48.2kRecs142.2kFans
- 14 The Era of Super Martial Arts 超武时代 Gao Yuan had finally completed every achievement in the game Legends of the Martial World, and then he transmigrated. He arrived in a parallel world where martial arts flourished. To become a martial artist, you had to pass a series of rigorous exams; martial arts manuals and pills could be patented; and martial arts masters were adored celebrities. With all the abilities and techniques from Legends of the Martial World at his disposal, Gao Yuan realized this was the best of times... “Drink the 0Votes63.1kRecs125.6kFans
- 15 Force Master 原力宗师 A lightsaber sweeps across the stars, striking awe throughout the cosmos and suppressing countless mighty interstellar empires. The Force is with me! 0Votes65.9kRecs20.4kFans
- 16 The Godlike Grandmaster of the City 都市之神级宗师 Ye Tianji, Sect Master of the Celestial Secrets Sect and a supreme cultivation expert, fails his heavenly tribulation and is reborn on Earth, ushering in a new chapter for the planet! Global evolution changes everything. Plants and animals evolve, Western angels appear, the pyramids of Egypt emerge, and Norse mythology and Greek legends come to life... The Tomb of the Myriad Gods, the Land of the End, ancient myths rise again, dead powerhouses revive one after another, and primordial kings loo 0Votes137kRecs128.5kFans
- 17 Supreme Grandmaster 超神宗师 [Super-popular fantasy] Humanity has entered the Galactic Era, a time when martial arts are flourishing. Fists can subdue mountains and rivers; warriors can fly through the skies, burrow underground, and roam the stars... Humanity’s God of War champions possess incredible supernatural powers! Lin Feng, who transmigrated from Earth, relies on an intelligent chip like a cheat to gain one mysterious attribute abilit 0Votes93.8kRecs87.2kFans
- 18 Super Fantasy Descends 超玄幻降临 When a fantasy world descends upon reality, the mortal world fades away and mythology rises. From childhood to adulthood, Zhao Jing has always dreamed a wondrous dream. It depicts a fantasy world filled with countless gods and demons, where powerful beings abound, stars explode with a flick of the finger, and galaxies are annihilated. It is known as the Divine Domain of Humanity. Yet one day, this fantasy world actually crosses time and space and descends upon Earth, proclaiming that it will gra 0Votes66kRecs57.6kFans
- 19 The Leisurely Cultivation System 悠闲修仙系统 He was hit by a System that fell from the sky, and all kinds of skills could be instantly maxed out. Xu Mu’s life was overpowered from that moment onward! (This book mainly has a laid-back style and is fairly lazy.) 0Votes115.4kRecs234.1kFans
- 20 The Magical Blacksmith's Shop 神奇铁匠铺 In the cultivation world, there is a magical blacksmith shop. Every item it makes sends the whole world scrambling to get their hands on it... Cultivators wait outside for years on end, hoping that when the blacksmith shop takes out the trash next time, something will land on their heads... “Hahaha! After waiting in line for ten years, he finally agreed to forge a magical treasure for me!” A Daoist sect patriarch was so overjoyed he went mad and ran naked all across the cultivation world... “Put 0Votes57.8kRecs166kFans
- 21 The Ultimate Medical Sage 最强医圣 He returns in triumph, armed with extraordinary skills. He can heal, tell fortunes, brew elixirs, set up formations, draw talismans… “There’s nothing in this world I can’t do!”, Shen Feng 0Votes597.8kRecs310.8kFans
- 22 The Mage in Marvel 漫威中的法爷 That year, Captain America had just fallen asleep beneath the Arctic ice cap, awaiting the day he would return. That year, the future S.H.I.E.L.D. had barely established an office and had begun its frenzied pursuit of advanced technology. That same year, Su Ming claimed a plot of land on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the busiest part of New York. A mage tower rose into the sky, and a magic web System enveloped the Earth. “Since this completely nonsensical sci-fi world has turned magical, why not ju 0Votes46.4kRecs46.8kFans
- 23 Traversing the Super Martial World 超武穿梭 Earth has entered the interstellar age. With advanced technology, ancient martial arts and mechs combine to sweep across the stars. The Qianyuan Continent is a world devoted entirely to martial arts, where powerful warriors soar through the skies, burrow through the earth, and roam the stars. A mysterious crystal of space and time gives Yun Fan the ability to travel between Earth and the Qianyuan Continent. He learns the martial arts of Qianyuan and pilots the mechs of Earth. Combining the stron 0Votes417.5kRecs93.7kFans
- 24 The Calligrapher and Painter from the Mountain Village 山沟书画家 New book: The Peerless Sage of Calligraphy is now out! Masters of calligraphy and painting from every era teach and pass on their skills, while he shoulders the responsibility of reviving traditional martial arts. A brush technique unchanged for millennia, lost to history until now: the Nine Divine Gestures make their return. The legendary life of an unknown country bumpkin transformed into a master of calligraphy and painting will be written by me! Readers’ group: 458448029 0Votes66.2kRecs66kFans
- 25 The Entertainment Industry's Big Mouth 娱乐大喷子 Born in a parallel world where entertainment is booming, Mo Zhuosi finds that most productions are shoddily made and terribly low in quality. As a result, critics have become an enormously popular profession. From that day on, Mo Zhuosi swears to heaven that he will never lie again. To his superiors, the media, and online commenters, he speaks his honest thoughts. “If the judges weren’t out of their minds, how did The Tomb Raider get nominated for an Oscar?” “You say this is a singing variety sh 0Votes80.8kRecs44.3kFans
- 26 My World in the Apocalypse 末世之我的世界 Wang Haoyu transmigrates to the apocalypse and obtains a “My World” System. It can not only modify buildings, but also exchange for items. He travels constantly between the real world and the apocalypse, fighting to create a paradise of his own. “Hello, I’d like to book a room. What? 88,000 magic crystals? That’s outrageous! No, wait, go ahead and book it.” The prince of a certain federation base. “Help! We’re under attack by a horde of mutated beasts! We need backup! Money is no object, just ge 0Votes61.5kRecs207.2kFans
- 27 Super Science and Technology Library 超级科技图书馆 "Hello, Golden Finger Recycling Center? I think I got a fake golden finger!" "This Super Library app can download every kind of technology data, but why does it only show up at midnight and last just one hour?!" "Are you listening? Hello? Hello... beep..." 0Votes47kRecs61.9kFans
- 28 Universal Trading System 宇宙交易系统 What did you say? Your phones have octa-core processors, 6G of RAM, 256G of storage, and can be fully charged in an hour and a half? You think that’s impressive? Our phones have sixteen-core processors, 12G of RAM, and 1T of storage, and they only need ten minutes for a full charge! What did you say? Your power banks have a capacity of 30,000 mAh and support two-way fast charging? Sorry, our power banks have a capacity of 100,000 mAh. As for two-way fast-charging technology… our phones with 10, 0Votes104.5kRecs194.4kFans
- 29 The Entire Universe Is My Friend 全宇宙都是我好友 In the middle of the night, WeChat gets an upgrade: fish bottles from across the universe and add friends from across the universe. Once you offend me, it won't matter whether you're in heaven or on earth. Nobody anywhere in the universe will be able to save your sorry hide! Jiang Daoli fishes up bottles and adds friends, bringing the Immortal Realm, the Western gods, a super-technological civilization, and otherworldly demons into one group. What kind of result will that produce? The Jade Emper 0Votes32.1kRecs108.2kFans
- 30 The City's System Lottery 都市之系统大抽奖 Ye Qiu, a college senior, unexpectedly obtains a miraculous lottery System, one that specifically draws other people's Systems: Old Yao in the Soul Ring: From Battle Through the Heavens, an unparalleled alchemist. Library System: From Library of Heaven's Path, all-knowing and all-powerful. Gourmet System: From Gourmet Food Supplier, a feast for the senses. Chaos Origin: From Martial God, no bottlenecks in cultivation. Red Envelope System: From Red Envelope Group in the Three Realms, grab red env 0Votes43.8kRecs91.1kFans
- 31 Reaching the Pinnacle of Qi Refining 登顶炼气师 The new novel "This Goblin Knows Cultivation" has moved to a different author account What can one do after becoming a qi-refining master? Manipulate qi to strengthen the body, cure illnesses and defend oneself, gain immense strength and astonishing speed, become a grandmaster, and rise to become Earth's number one... This was what Chu Feng initially imagined. However, as his cultivation realm advanced, he increasingly realized how naive he had been. The true power of a qi-refining ma 0Votes281.4kRecs254.7kFans
- 32 True Martial Arts Across Two Worlds 两界真武 Jiang Zhenwu, who has practiced martial arts since childhood, suddenly gains the ability to travel to the continent of Valoran, the Land of Runes. From then on, he sets out on the path to becoming a powerhouse in both worlds! This is a land of snow and frost, where ferocious beasts roam. This is Freljord, on the continent of Valoran! Here lies the Fields of Justice, here stands the Institute of War, and here are more than a hundred champions... At first, however, Jiang Zhenwu is even weaker than 0Votes193.2kRecs141.5kFans
- 33 Super Sports Expert 超级运动专家 I’m a professional sports expert. I own a world-class third-rate research institute and a fifth-rate sports stadium, yet all the big-name actresses come to me for fitness and weight loss, and all the star athletes come to me for professional training. It’s such a headache! Even worse, people have started asking me to be their godfather... I’m only in my twenties! A supposedly famous boxing champion comes in for a consultation: “How much do you charge for training?” “Our gym is running a promotio 0Votes136.9kRecs93.8kFans
- 34 Eternal Martial Arts 永恒武道 In the vast world, the true self stands alone: this is eternity! Shatter the stars with a finger, shake the universe with a fist, stride across the heavens. The martial path can lead to godhood! This is the path to greatness of an ordinary young man named Lin Feng! Lao Yue's latest masterpiece since The Mage's Secret! Absolutely thrilling! 0Votes424.7kRecs357.7kFans
- 35 Invincible Awakening 无敌觉醒 The earth split and the sky collapsed. The world was transformed, and ferocious beasts ran rampant! The human race on Earth, descendants of sinners, bore seals that had lasted ten thousand generations! In the East, they were called secret treasures; in the West, genetic locks. They had shackled humanity for millions of years. After the disaster, a living substance filled heaven and earth, stimulating humans to unlock their secret treasures, break their genetic locks, and awaken their hidden pote 0Votes96kRecs88.9kFans
- 36 One-Punch Tang Monk 一拳唐僧 I transmigrated into Tang Sanzang and became invincible. No matter how powerful the demon, one punch is all it takes!!! But this Journey to the West seems a little different? With four adorable disciples to lead on the road, and all kinds of demons and fairy maidens to watch out for, Tang Sanzang feels the pressure mounting. One day, when he reaches the Western Heaven, Tang Sanzang stands before the Buddha and calmly says, “Your disciple Sanzang, carrying the wishes of all living beings in the T 0Votes40.2kRecs111.2kFans
- 37 The Transdimensional Chat Group 超位面聊天群 From Battle Through the Heavens to The Sun God, from Wang Chao to the Ruthless Empress. In the Three-Body world, a single scroll of the Feathered Ascension Chart captures countless stars; on the Dou Qi Continent, a wisp of primordial yellow energy cuts down countless foes. After obtaining a cross-dimensional chat group, Du Ze embarked on an unrivaled path no one had ever taken: sweeping through Dragon Snake, waging war in the Primordial World, discussing the Dao with Wu Shi, and opening the heav 0Votes45.9kRecs66.3kFans
- 38 Reborn as the King of Real Estate Speculation 重生之炒房王 Ning Feng has been reborn! As a real estate agent, he can predict every market trend to come! From there, he embarks on the path to becoming the king of real estate! (All people, place, and company names in this book are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental!) 0Votes54.9kRecs62.2kFans
- 39 Logging In from Fantasy to the Modern City 从玄幻登录到都市 This book is about a native of a fantasy continent who can log in to a modern city. While others shut themselves away to cultivate, Shanyu shuts himself away to play video games. Hit a bottleneck and unable to break through for ages? Shanyu levels up in a game, then breaks through as soon as he gets back. Badly injured and forced to rest for a week or two? Shanyu is left wondering: Should he drink a red potion and recover instantly, or level up and restore himself to full health? In the city: “W 0Votes42.4kRecs42.9kFans
- 40 When Games Invade Reality 游戏降临现实 The Great Dao Game, where the world is the server! One day, Earth was chosen as the game's “new server.” With it came terrifying monsters bent on endless slaughter. Modern civilization was destroyed within days, and all of humanity faced the threat of extinction. Only by accepting the new age of gaming could people gain power from the game and fight back. Gao Ang was one of the lucky ones. Blessed with boundless fortune, he rose rapidly and forged his own myths and legends! (P.S. This is a strai 0Votes47.4kRecs70.8kFans
- 41 Return Three Hundred Years Later 重返三百年 When Ning Ye's hair has turned white, his face is weathered, and his lifespan is exhausted, he personally buries himself in an ancient coffin. When his body sinks into endless darkness, he opens his eyes once more, only to find that he has returned in a dream to three hundred years earlier. At that time, this great era had yet to begin. At that time, the people who had once died for him still retained their former faces. For him, this was the best era. As myriad worlds are destroyed and planes s 0Votes151kRecs124kFans
- 42 A Daring Life 彪悍的人生 My name is Lin Fan, and I have an encyclopedia that lets me know a little bit about everything. At the first International Bragging Championship, every contestant was utterly defeated. Everyone: Big brother, how are you so amazing at showing off? Lin Fan: I never show off… P.S. My old book, The Strongest System, is currently being serialized. I also have two completed older books, I Am a Tycoon, So What Am I Afraid Of? Volumes 1 and 2. Updates 0Votes497.7kRecs564.1kFans
- 43 EN Heavenly Tech 仙界科技 “Lord Laozi, why are you guarding that golden elixir? I won't take it... I'll just take this furnace, okay?” A cultivation mobile game Shen Bing was playing suddenly connected to the immortal realm. Cultivation and all that was just window dressing. The items he obtained from the immortal realm could be analyzed to reveal cutting-edge technology. One novice teleportation talisman led to quantum teleportation technology. This was going to let him crush the whole world! Over-the-horizon telescope 1Votes306.4kRecs262kFans
- 44 My Phone Connects to a Game Vault 我的手机连接游戏仓库 One day, Chen Zhengqian suddenly discovers he can bring items from his in-game inventory into the real world... 0Votes118.8kRecs219kFans
- 45 Legendary Clan Leader 传奇族长 Here's the blurb... There is no true cruelty or brutality between races. All there is is a clan's struggle to survive and reproduce. A strange soul, carrying a supreme cave-heaven treasure, arrives in this vast wilderness and becomes the chief of a small tribe. Leading the tribe to rule over an entire region, he rises from weakness to strength and embarks on a long road of conquest. 1Votes257.5kRecs189.3kFans
- 46 Boundless 无疆 Eagles soar through the sky, fish leap over the Dragon Gate, bears roar and tigers howl. All things possess a spirit. At the end of the Age of Dharma Decline, the magnetic poles shift and the world transforms. The familiar world of the past has become unrecognizable. When myths become reality and legends lose their mystery, the world knows no bounds, and passion lasts forever. 0Votes32.6MRecs573kFans
- 47 God-Tier Reading System 神级阅读系统 Read books and become a god... Everything is in the books. New book: The Daily Life of a Cat I Transmigrated Into 0Votes36.9kRecs65.2kFans
- 48 The Fire Banyan Dao of the Primordial World 洪荒火榕道 The martial path arose among humanity in ancient times, and the Human Sovereign, Shennong, carried on its legacy. Yet in the primordial age, before humanity had even emerged, mighty beings had already created divine arts of the flesh. One such art was called Law of Heaven and Earth: it gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body, granting the power to pluck stars, seize the sun and moon, and move mountains and rivers, to contend against the Wu and Yao clans. It was the True S 0Votes98.8kRecs147kFans
- 49 From Prince to God of Wealth 从王子到神豪 New book: This Transmigrator Doesn't Follow the Usual Playbook. Your support is appreciated! Reborn as a rich prince, what's the first thing you should do? Spend a hundred million. Laid-back Ling Zhou is reborn as a prince. He plans to enjoy a life of luxury, but everything changes after he extracts his first “glimpse of the future.” Before long, he goes from a spoiled playboy prince to the world's richest tycoon. P.S. 1: This book has a relatively lighthearted tone. P.S. 2: I've started a reade 0Votes84.1kRecs164.7kFans
- 50 Super Plane System 超级位面系统 Capital says that when profits reach three times the investment, capital will trample every law in the world. If someone told Li Mu that he had invested one million and made ten million in a year, a tenfold profit, Li Mu would slap him right across the face. A tenfold profit? Does he have any idea how much of a loss that would be for me? Ever seen someone turn a hundred yuan into a hundred million? What are you staring at? I'm not talking about the lottery!!! I said I'm not talking about the lot 0Votes121.5kRecs192.4kFans

















































