Novels like Steel, Gunpowder, and Spellcasters
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- 51 EN Prison of Alien Dimensions 异维囚笼 As the firelight slowly died, Xia Lun watched nervously as the leader of the evil spirits twitched incessantly in the cold, gloomy cell. In the next instant, the leader spun around, hooked its fingers into its eye sockets, and slowly lifted off its own skull. “I will grant you a new perspective.” Xia Lun was overjoyed. He hurriedly pulled the grimoire of forbidden arts from an eyeball, eager to share his knowledge as well. A few seconds later, the leader, its mind shattered, wailed as it crawled 435Votes95.2kRecs438.1kFans
- 52 EN I Am Louis XIV 我乃路易十四 What could be worse than realizing, while you’re still in swaddling clothes, that you’re none other than Louis XIV? Well, there’s this: it’s a fantasy version, too. 1Votes287kRecs126.4kFans
- 53 The Daoist Scripture Reciter 道门念经人 The spiritual qi tide is surging across the Qingming Realm. All things are growing abnormally, and all kinds of demons, monsters, ghosts, and evil spirits are awakening as the world undergoes a great upheaval. A great demon sealed beneath the Immortal Spirit Temple is stirring, on the verge of breaking free. Zhang Wenfeng, the temple's abbot, is still busy trying to fill his empty, oil-free belly with three meals a day. The black-haired donkey plowing the fields mutters curses under its breath: 0Votes107.1kRecs271.5kFans
- 54 My Everyday Travels with Beautiful Girls, Despite My Hatred of Women 厌女的我和美少女旅行日常 Song Wenbin is a well-known online streamer with a fear of women. After a mishap during a livestream got his channel banned, he thought he was about to lose his job and die of idleness. But a strange job interview dragged him into an extraordinary series of adventures. These adventures include, but are not limited to, selling used cars in Africa, searching for treasure in Indonesia, eating hot pot in space, riding a motorcycle across the Indian subcontinent, flying a plane over China, taking a s 4Votes44.5kRecs95.4kFans
- 55 EN Harry Potter and the Old Ones 哈利波特与旧日支配者 When Harry Potter meets the world of Cthulhu. When scientific thinking collides with Magical Theory. When… P.S. This story has no pairings and no romance. Readers who enjoy this book are welcome to join group chat 514105437 to discuss writing ideas or vent about real life and let off some steam. 0Votes37.5kRecs99.5kFans
- 56 The Titan Is Silent 泰坦无人声 In the distant depths of space, no one can hear you scream in agony. (The print edition is now available for preorder! On sale at all major online retailers!) 0Votes116.3kRecs201.1kFans
- 57 EN Devouring Evil Through Martial Practice, Vanquishing Demons Across the Heavens 噬恶演武，诸天除魔 “Paper talismans, wooden swords, and scriptures: the old-fashioned methods of exorcism just don’t cut it anymore. These days, even a sorcerer has to carry a two-hundred-pound incense burner for protection. If you don’t train in martial arts, you can’t even lift the thing. As the saying goes, better to spend ten years without drawing a talisman than to skip training your iron-hard qigong!” “But can martial arts and exorcism really go hand in hand?” “Heh. Go ask around, far and wide. Who dares cla 65Votes223kRecs356.1kFans
- 58 EN Cyber Hero Chronicles 赛博英雄传 What is martial skill? Martial arts have nothing to do with music, chess, calligraphy, or painting, nor with treasured artifacts or secret manuals. And there aren't all that many unrivaled champions, either. Martial arts are a skill, a way for the weak to seize an opportunity and turn their blades on the strong. What is chivalry? Chivalry isn't romance or traditional culture, and it has nothing to do with being gentle, kind, courteous, and frugal. Chivalry is violence, a bayonet forged for a tyr 628Votes1.8MRecs549.6kFans
- 59 EN Wulong Mountain Cultivation Chronicles 乌龙山修行笔记 A day-to-day chronicle of a rogue cultivator from Wulong Mountain, recording the little moments of a cultivation life... A woman fears marrying the wrong man; a man fears choosing the wrong career. Since Liu Xiaolou became a lowly rogue cultivator from the start, one from Wulong Mountain, notorious for its bandits, he can only accept his lot and struggle to survive in a world ruled by prestigious sects. He busies himself for a single spirit stone, pill, artifact, or spirit herb. The daily necess 1.4kVotes981.3kRecs619.4kFans
- 60 The Charlatan Mage’s Thirteen Trials 诳言法师的十三试炼 [90% of campus life is a romantic comedy, and the other 10% is a heroic legend!] 1. Shamelessly impersonate a descendant of an immortal 2. Make the evil organization eat its fill 3. Reveal your divine nature in broad daylight 4. Drink the entire school under the table 5. Steal the imperial jade seal of the magical world 12. Shoot down the maddening Sun of the Apocalypse 13. Confess to the girls who like you, like you, like you “Of these New Era’s Thirteen Trials, twelve are just idiots doing 3.2kVotes146.2kRecs353.2kFans
- 61 EN Trenches, Bolt-Action Rifles, and Magic 堑壕大栓与魔法 After someone punched Morin awake, he discovered he was a prisoner of war. He had thought this was a world much like the one on the eve of World War I, but the reality was worse than he’d imagined. And why was an imperial soldier like me fighting alongside volunteers from the International Brigades as an ally?! Assault troops wielding swords and shields like tin-can armor, diesel-and-magic-powered armored knights, and military mages... Everything was telling Morin that something was very wrong w 752Votes170kRecs472.6kFans
- 62 EN Beneath the Fist 拳之下 What is martial prowess? The exertion of strength. What is the martial-arts spirit? The exertion of will and courage. … With a raised foot, victory and defeat are decided; beneath a fist, life and death are settled. "I am Lian Youming. Please enlighten me!" 327Votes136.3kRecs507.2kFans
- 63 EN Superhuman Extinction Guide 超人灭绝指南 Ke Mingqing transmigrated. When he looked up from the dinner table, he discovered that his family members were an extremely complicated bunch: “superheroes,” “magical girls,” “alien invaders,” “mythical vessels,” “Containment Bureau agents,” and “mutants.” Every member of the family was doing their best to keep their secrets, trying to act as ordinary as possible around one another. And he was a player. This is a story of making choices, struggling, and growing between life and family. 2.7kVotes91.8kRecs470.9kFans
- 64 Lord of the Desolate Sands 荒沙主宰 Many readers have said that compared with the actual story, this book’s blurb is complete garbage. The author can’t think of how to introduce it either. Anyway, the story’s quality is absolutely guaranteed. That’s it. (Original blurb) A mechanical engineer transmigrates to a world where martial arts reign supreme, gaining control over the powers of fire and sand. Water cutters, hang gliders, firearms, aircraft engines, powered armor, floating cannons... Using the knowledge he has 109Votes124.4kRecs180.4kFans
- 65 Heavenly Father 天父 A streak of blue light cut through the night, and dazzling auroras descended like a divine miracle. Beneath their glow, the city lights went out, and a series of deafening collisions erupted across the roads. “It’s here.” On the aircraft carrier’s deck, an aging general watched the clouds. The people in the city couldn’t see what was happening. But the fleet had locked onto its target. Beyond the aurora, a huge, dragon-shaped shadow swept across the sea of clouds. Three months ago, this ancient 3.7kVotes62kRecs214.6kFans
- 66 EN The Immortal of the Aztecs 阿兹特克的永生者 An epic history of the ancient American tribes, beginning in the fifteenth century. It opens the door to a dreamlike age of exploration, brimming with vitality, and follows the wars and trade between Western Europe and East Asia as the indigenous peoples of the Americas establish a mighty empire. What does it mean to live forever? Is it an individual, or a civilization? Why did Europe rise to power? Why did it gradually bring its cannons to bear and place itself above the entire world? And why d 52Votes458.6kRecs348.3kFans
- 67 EN Adventurer with the MC System in Middle-earth 带着MC系统到中土 In the year 1340 of the Shire Reckoning, one year before the company sets out on the Quest of Erebor, the wizard has yet to visit the Shire, Thorin is still wandering, and the dragon sleeps in the mountain... That year, a human carrying an MC System arrives in Middle-earth. And so, towering fortresses spring up overnight, alongside golden fields of wheat stretching as far as the eye can see. Legends of the Block Wizard begin to spread across the wilderness. Years later, when an army of orcs lays 0Votes74kRecs350.5kFans
- 68 The Young Eagle’s Glory 雏鹰的荣耀 On the day disaster struck at Waterloo, a transmigrator arrived in this world and became its unfortunate heir. He will change the course of fate and history, break free of his cage and overcome every obstacle, ultimately ascending the throne as Napoleon II. What drives him is not his father's name, but a glory that belongs to him alone! 0Votes289.2kRecs243.3kFans
- 69 I Wandered the Pokemon World Until I Lost Contact 我在精灵世界浪到失联 To liberate the elven world from its dire plight, Chi Zhi, a transmigrator with a Rotom-branded magical dating System, decides to first recruit a hundred female trainers to help him... P.S. The strongest, fiercest, most thrilling, most fiery Pokemon fanfic ever! You'll regret reading it for ten minutes, but regret not reading it for the rest of your life! 1Votes37.5kRecs265.1kFans
- 70 EN Hound of the Immortal Dynasty 仙朝鹰犬 The Great Yu Immortal Dynasty has endured for a thousand years. A wise ruler sits on the throne, and a court full of powerful ministers serves him. Beneath this age of prosperity, undercurrents swirl. Gods and demons watch from the shadows, while monstrous beings creep through the land. Born into a momentous upheaval unseen in a thousand years, Lianshan Xin enters the game with his own life, rising above the dynasty to hunt emperors and their ministers, and subdue the true dragons of the mortal 3.6kVotes142.4kRecs703.1kFans
- 71 EN In the Name of Divine Abilities 以神通之名 In the lunar year 3230, the Cataclysm erupted. Humanity fell from its position as ruler of the world, and Shenzhou became its last refuge. In 3255, Marquis Lu Zhao was under investigation. “By rights, an extraordinary like you, at your level, has no authority to investigate me.” 11.3kVotes377.1kRecs2.1MFans
- 72 Everyone Is a Sword Saint 全民剑圣 Standard blurb: The times change, foreign races invade, the old technological order collapses, and the world is turned upside down. After a devastating war, human civilization endures under a new supernatural order and even flourishes. In a dawn age where everyone is a high-level martial artist and everyone can become a dragon, the young Zheng Li arrives in another world. With a sword spirit at his side, he ultimately sets out on the path of self-reliance and perseverance. Not-so-serious blurb: 0Votes265.7kRecs171.2kFans
- 73 Hogwarts' Pacifist Necromancer 霍格沃茨的和平主义亡灵巫师 Henry Anthony was an utterly ordinary supermarket cashier. Until one day, a strangely dressed person showed up at his door and demanded to know why he hadn’t replied to a letter from the Misuse of Magic Office. Anthony: What have I misused? Magic? No way. I’m just an honest supermarket clerk. Anthony: Wait, you’re not talking about my pet, are you? Or the fact that I crawled out of a coffin? Dumbledore: Perhaps, Mr. Anthony, you’d be willing to take a position at Hogwarts? And so Hogwarts welcom 102Votes260.6kRecs353.3kFans
- 74 Psychics Don't Die by Gunfire 灵能者不死于枪火 Song Shi, a free bounty hunter and Fourth-Ring psionic, opened his eyes after dying and discovered that he had been reborn twenty years in the past. The megacorporations of the [Corporate Alliance] look down on all living beings, taking even air and sunlight into their hands and quietly putting a price on them. They are turning the idea of a cybernetic nation into reality, greedily eyeing the free markets they have yet to enter. The [Vanpusta Empire] follows a system in which church and state ar 31Votes103.7kRecs407.9kFans
- 75 EN Crown of Souls 灵魂冠冕 His soul arrived naked in this world, beginning with a werewolf bloodline and setting out to crown it. P.S. P.S. 2: If you want more to read, check out the author's other books. 0Votes165.4kRecs157.3kFans
- 76 EN The Three Towers Game 三塔游戏 A madman’s journey up the tower. The ironclad rules of the Three Towers game, according to everyone else: 1: Killing is forbidden in the Desire Tower. It is a tower filled with love, so climb it with love. 2: Killing is the only pass into the Slaughter Tower. All its creatures are humanity’s enemies. Don’t try to talk to the monsters. 3: Stay away from the Strange Tower. May happiness reach every home. The ironclad rules of the Three Towers game, according to Wen Xishu: 1: The Desire Tower is fu 642Votes231.2kRecs546.6kFans
- 77 The North American Gunfighter Detective 北美枪侠警探 A story about a firefighter reborn in America who becomes a detective. Nothing says romance like a revolver. A slow-burn American police story, and definitely a complete one. 2Votes146.5kRecs231.9kFans
- 78 EN The Mad Demon of Myriad Lives 万生痴魔 Get a bowl, fill it with soil, count one, two, three, four, five. Plant a toad and grow a train, plant a soybean and grow a tiger. Cultivate a fine craft, and you'll enjoy a life of ease, free from hardship. There are three hundred and sixty trades among all living things. Which path is the one to rule them all? That carpenter has real skill, snapping a chalk line to divide yin from yang, joining mortise and tenon to subdue the eight wilds. This blacksmith has a knack, making iron and fire ring 5.3kVotes400.6kRecs723kFans
- 79 The New Shun, 1730 新顺1730 What would it be like if the dynasty that followed the fall of the Ming were a Han Chinese dynasty? After transmigrating, Liu Yu discovers that he has arrived in Dashun, a dynasty at a turning point in history. He starts out as the son of a duke, with parents, maids, plenty of money, plenty of people, and plenty of connections. With life growing dull, Liu Yu has to find something to do. And so... 14Votes297.3kRecs300.8kFans
- 80 The Road to Klimasa 迈向克里玛莎 “Humility! Honesty! Compassion! Courage! Justice! Sacrifice! Honor! Faith!” He is a lich, yet he upholds the spirit of chivalry! He is a lich, yet he remains devoted to the faith of the Light! “Facing powerful foes, we stand without fear! Bold and loyal, we bring no shame to the Holy Spirit! Upright and true, we would rather die than yield! We protect the weak and never defy what is right!” Standing atop the world, no storm, however fierce, can stop him from following in the Holy Spirit's footst 1Votes195.8kRecs159.9kFans
- 81 I'm Not a Literary Giant 我不是文豪 (This is not a copycat novel. No transmigration, no rebirth, no System, and no golden finger.) Many years later, when Wang Zixu stood at the Nobel Prize in Literature ceremony, he would remember that distant afternoon when his wife cut her hand. Back then, he was a clerk at a public institution in a small city. He had little money, and the literary world was a door he could find no way into. Now, he was the literary world's undisputed leading figure across the lands of three rivers, four lakes, 271Votes149.6kRecs183.3kFans
- 82 Invading the Mortal World 侵入人间 ~ Xu Xiangyang has two close friends: the girl next door who lives in the same alley, and the class monitor from the class next door. Xu Xiangyang has a secret he cannot tell anyone: he knows that one of his two friends is raising a great demon capable of destroying the world... ~ Set at the end of the last century, this is a story of boys and girls who rely on one another, find comfort in one another, and make their way toward happiness togeth 17Votes238kRecs414.1kFans
- 83 EN Blade of Reckoning 泼刀行 Martial arts, folk customs, strange tales, taboos, the imperial court, the martial world, grandmasters, magical duels, journeys to the underworld, spirit mediums, invoking gods, Nuo opera, esoteric sects, immortality… The martial world is a winding road, filled with all kinds of people and schools. Within the arcane tradition, folk legends and strange tales come in countless forms. This is a turbulent age, one where danger and opportunity go hand in hand. Li Yan strides forth with his blade in h 98Votes425.9kRecs708.7kFans
- 84 EN After Work, I Become a Magical Girl 下班，然后变成魔法少女 Lin Yun is thirty-six years old. His wife died young, and he works as a middle manager at a private company. A single father, he has recently begun to feel that he is going through a midlife crisis. His career is going badly, he and his fourteen-year-old daughter are locked in a cold war, and he suffers from frozen shoulder, making every day miserable. Then, just a few days ago, he discovered a secret: his daughter is a magical girl. A hero who, in the bloom of youth, fights extraordinary monste 639Votes603.3kRecs527kFans
- 85 The Rise of the Middle Ages 中世纪崛起 His soul travels back to the Middle Ages, where he plots his rise once more. A medieval setting, a quasi-historical world, a slow burn, and satisfying wish fulfillment. From a forest hunter struggling to survive to a humble official carving out a place in troubled times; from a trainee knight sent as cannon fodder to a celebrated military upstart; from regaining a baron's title through war to being granted a viscount's rank thr 1Votes139.7kRecs155.3kFans
- 86 EN Crimson Dragon Emperor 红龙皇帝 New book: The Evil Dragon's Divine Cultivation Record I've transmigrated into a despised evil dragon. What am I supposed to do? Original blurb: A red dragon! The leader of the five-colored evil dragons! The big boss of the evil faction! A creature everyone wants to kill! Jose doesn't want to get beaten up, so he revives his people's natural talent for farming: keep a low profile and quietly build up his strength. Once he's strong enough, he'll come out and make his dreams a real 0Votes102kRecs275.4kFans
- 87 The Mysterious Inland Sea 诡秘地海 Beneath a pitch-black, uncanny underground sea lie mysterious islands and horrifying, deformed monsters. Humanity is not the protagonist in this godforsaken place. Madness and death are. Praying humbly to the things beneath the sea will only let the poor wretches linger in the dark, slowly becoming more twisted. If they want to reclaim humanity’s former glory, their only choice is to steer a steamship int 89Votes172.6kRecs1.3MFans
- 88 EN Wizard: Starting with Synthetic Gems 巫师：从合成宝石开始 [White Wizard Opening] [Complete Demon Plant System] Explore the unknown, pursue the truth, transcend life and death, and control people's hearts: that is what it means to be a wizard. In this wizarding world, where resources are desperately needed, transmigrator Locke Augustine relies on his golden finger, a synthesis cube, to continually transform low-grade materials into high-grade ones. He sets out to explore every path toward the truth, including breeding, potion-making, and alchemy, develo 1.8kVotes229.1kRecs660.5kFans
- 89 EN Super Sorcerer: The Weave Crashes Again from the Start 超魔术士：开局魔网又崩了 [Dungeons & Dragons] [Faerun] [High Magic] [Adventure] Anse accidentally transmigrates to Toril, and the Goddess of Magic has run into trouble yet again! Has the Spellplague struck again?! When the claws of the Underdark tear through the night over Baldur's Gate, the never-quiet Faerun erupts into chaos. But this is only the beginning. Elements include: Dungeons & Dragons, the Weave, dragon-blood sorcerers, wizards, leveling up, twenty-sided dice, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter, the Underdar 196Votes116.2kRecs378.1kFans
- 90 EN Turns Out I'm a Cultivation Prodigy 原来我是仙道天骄 July, 14994 of the Immortal Calendar. Chen Zhuo was admitted to Taiqing City's Vocational Technical College of Alchemy. Approved for an artificial spirit root, he became a cultivator with a single wood-aspected artificial spirit root. At first, Chen Zhuo could already see his future clearly: spend a hundred years or so cultivating honestly, work for a company on an assembly line, and maybe reach the peak of Qi Refining and collect a little retirement money. But not long after his spirit root was 6.9kVotes115.3kRecs754.5kFans
- 91 The Demon Sage 恶魔贤者 0Votes114.8kRecs161.9kFans
- 92 EN Dragon Zang 龙藏 Wei Yuan had never harbored great ambitions, but the tide of the times forced him onto the path of conquest and expansion, until he had crossed every mountain pass without ever turning gray. A less serious blurb: Even immortals fear industrialization! This is the story of an Industrial Revolution in a fantasy world. 2.7kVotes2.3MRecs1.5MFans
- 93 Real-World Programming Association 现实编程协会 [A literary IP recognized by the China Writers Association as having the greatest adaptation potential in 2026] [The 37th Galaxy Award’s most valuable science fiction IP] [Shortlisted for the Galaxy Award for Best Online Literature; award-winning entry in the Galaxy Project and Human World Theater writing competitions] Heavy rain has been falling over Jiangcheng for months, concealing many things that aren’t right. Yu Xian thinks he’s sick. People around him are disappearing one after another, s 865Votes302.1kRecs465.6kFans
- 94 EN Our Journey Through Warhammer 这是我们的战锤之旅 (A completed, high-quality work on Qidian. Read with confidence.) This is a dark and despairing age. In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, the Emperor has long since departed the mortal realm, and the children of the gods no longer walk among mankind. Humanity's future holds nothing but endless darkness and war. Its fate seems destined to slowly rot away beneath the bloated, stagnant Imperium. That is, until souls from another world arrive. “Guys, I’ve got good news and bad news. Which do 127Votes339.4kRecs458kFans
- 95 The Tower of Collapse 倾覆之塔 In a cyberpunk world ruled by seven mega-corporations, seven floating islands that are prisons unto themselves, an immortal race that has governed the world for a thousand years, and a future on the brink of resource exhaustion... In a world without hope, people yearn for the birth of a “hero,” while coldly waiting to watch that hero fall from grace. Once someone is hailed as a hero, any crime can be forgiven. People obsessively hang on their every word, and even the haughty elves dare not chall 0Votes121kRecs571.2kFans
- 96 The Fourth Spirit Stone Financial Crisis 第四次灵石金融危机 This is a highly realistic high-magic society. Even after its civilization weathered three social crises, its socioeconomic system has yet to reach a stable equilibrium. With a fourth crisis looming, the radical reforms of the cultivation world's overlord, the Boundless Sword Sect, have struck at the interests of everyone, from ordinary mortals to cultivators. Yang Lu, an Earth fund manager, transmigrates to the cultivation world on the eve of the crisis. Drawing on Earth's advanced knowledge, h 0Votes61.9kRecs144.5kFans
- 97 Lord of Hailansa 海兰萨领主 Imperial soldier Suldak joined the 57th Heavy Infantry Regiment of the Bena Legion and served for four years on the Warsaw Plane. While clearing a battlefield at a logging camp, he rescued a young man who had been injured and was also mute. Suldak brought him back to the barracks. This is the story of that young man, whose origins were unknown... 23Votes687.9kRecs438.4kFans
- 98 Banishing the Dragon 黜龙 There are dragons in this world. Dragons take countless forms: some roam rivers and seas, some soar over mountains, some hide in the deepest abysses, and some race among the clouds. When roused, they can swallow the wind and summon snow, divert rivers and carve waterways, summon lightning and breathe fire, split mountains and part seas. There are dragons among mankind, too. The greatest among men have lofty ambitions and brilliant plans. They hold the secrets of the universe within them and aspi 111Votes1.9MRecs1.6MFans
- 99 EN Goblin: Severely Dependent 哥布林重度依赖 “Bro, why did we become adventurers?” “A goblin’s bounty is three silver coins.” “No, you’ve got me wrong, mate. I mean, what’s the ultimate goal of this line of work? We toil away all day long, but what’s it all for?” “One goblin. Three silver coins.” “…” “Three silver coins.” “All right, there’s a job to clear out a goblin nest. You…” “I’m in!” Elements: [down-and-out adventurers], [mash-up setting], [DND-inspired] 1.8kVotes631.9kRecs1.3MFans
- 100 EN The First Wizarding World War 第一次魔法世界大战 Charlotte Mecklenburg transmigrates to the Fars Empire and only wants to be a civil servant on another continent. He isn’t even a combatant... But who would have thought that even civil servants have to go to war! Announcement: The physical edition of The First Magical World War goes on presale on May 24. 5Votes347.2kRecs1.6MFans
