Novels like The Sword Sect’s Unorthodox Branch
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- 101 The Cult Leader's Retired Life 教主的退休日常 The greedy owner of an inn turns out to be the retired leader of a demonic cult, while the lowly errand boy is secretly skilled in Buddhist powers. As a once-invincible figure, Wang Ye must hide his identity and abilities to get by in the tumultuous jianghu. He doesn’t care about the status, martial arts, or fame that ordinary people pursue. All he wants is to lounge around and live off others until the day he dies. Taking on the greatest gang in the land, offering advice to a drunken, down-and- 0Votes110.3kRecs504.9kFans
- 102 My 1980s 我的八零年代 If you had the chance to start over, what would you do in the sweeping decades of the eighties and nineties? The past is as good as dead; today is a new beginning. Reborn, Guan Xiaojun has long since stopped worrying about love and the like. What matters most to him are his family. If his family is doing well, then everything is well. He fights only to put their lives back on the path they should have followed. And, along the way, he hopes to indulge a few modest desires. 0Votes49.6kRecs35.7kFans
- 103 Awakening: My Era 觉醒，我的时代 0Votes100.4kRecs266.9kFans
- 104 The White-Haired Demon Master 白首妖师 A cruel and utterly inhuman person is called a “human fiend”! A worldly, smooth operator who understands the ways of people is called a “people person”! A vicious, bloodthirsty killer is called a “butcher”! Then what would you call someone whose schemes are as unpredictable as shifting clouds and who is as cunning as a demon...? … … 0Votes1MRecs279.1kFans
- 105 My Dreamlike Years 我的梦幻年代 Shen Mengxi’s motto was, “I’ll just muddle along!” He never imagined that someone like him would become a big name in the entertainment industry. 0Votes357.9kRecs193kFans
- 106 The Ming Dynasty: Starting with Caution 大明从慎重开始 In the eleventh year of the Hongzhi era, the Hongzhi Restoration was declining after its period of prosperity. Worthy ministers were retiring in old age, the three members of the Grand Secretariat were growing frail, and despite Emperor Hongzhi’s tireless efforts to govern, he could not lead the Ming Dynasty into an even greater age of peace and prosperity. At that time, in a dilapidated courtyard in the northwest corner of the capital, a scholar was poring over historical records, checking whet 0Votes146.6kRecs158kFans
- 107 I Am the Curator of a Spirit Hall 我是灵馆馆长 In the shadows of the city, the supernatural has never disappeared. As technology advances, more and more of it is revealed to the world. Ever since arriving in this world, all I wanted was to quietly run the spiritual clinic passed down through my family. But those who call themselves "players" received quests from mysterious supreme beings, and they keep coming in droves to conquer me. Even as a Primordial Spirit powerhouse, I'm feeling the pressure. 2Votes178.8kRecs110.5kFans
- 108 Magic Cards Across the Heavens 魔卡诸天 My Entertainment Era in 1980 A period drama + showbiz story, with multiple female leads In a world ruled by cards, everyone can enter the "otherworld" to obtain them. Wei Yuan wonders: Why do these otherworlds seem so similar to the movies, anime, and games I know, yet somehow not quite the same? 0Votes211kRecs186.7kFans
- 109 The Cultivating Programmer 码农修真 Zhang Deming transmigrates with an editing panel, but his golden finger says it has no functions at all. He'll have to code everything himself! When his golden finger activates, he sees familiar code: if(){Rainmaking Spell succeeds}else{Spell fails} Zhang Deming lets out a sigh of relief. As a veteran programmer who worked himself to death at his desk from overtime, he figures that if you give him an editor, he can code himself a whole world. No System 0Votes163.6kRecs376.2kFans
- 110 EN Jade Palace Golden Seal 玉宸金章 Jade signifies harmony through the four seasons, with the unity of three as its meaning. Those three are Heaven, Earth, and humanity. Chen means the innermost chamber of a house. Later, it came to refer to an emperor’s residence, since emperors lived in the Northern Palace, where Heaven and Earth converge. This is the story of someone who transmigrates to the southern wilderness of the Shaman Xia Divine Dynasty, carrying the true meanings of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Powers and Seventy-Two 0Votes173.6kRecs156.2kFans
- 111 EN The Sword Saint Should Go Tank 剑圣就该出肉装 The false Sword Saint: an ethereal body technique, peerless swordsmanship, killing one man every ten steps and leaving no trace after traveling a thousand miles. The true Sword Saint: overwhelming vitality, invincible strength, using endless vital energy to hack everything apart. This is the story of a Sword Saint who stacks defensive gear and hacks everything apart. 0Votes284.4kRecs329.5kFans
- 112 I'm Not Foolish, I'm Just Purehearted 我非痴愚实乃纯良 “My name is Wang Xiao. The Xiao is not a joke.” With the realm on the brink of collapse, thirty thousand cavalry rode into Liaodong. The land was shattered, and the realm divided into five. Could anyone stand by and watch the Central Plains sink into ruin? 5Votes153.9kRecs792.6kFans
- 113 I Think This Is Pretty Reasonable 俺寻思这挺合理的 That day, you got home and realized you'd forgotten your keys, so you paid a locksmith to open the door. While you waited, you thought how great it would be if you knew how to pick locks. Then you wouldn't have to waste money whenever you forgot your keys. So you began to study the craft… “How can that wire of yours even open a phone's fingerprint lock?!” “A fingerprint lock is still a lock, isn't it? Seems perfectly reasonable to me.” Your friend thought it was absurd. “What’s absur 0Votes59.3kRecs442.9kFans
- 114 EN Please Don't Disturb My Cultivation 请不要打扰我修仙 To reincarnate and cultivate immortality, Lin Wen is forced to work in the mortal world. But before he knows it, he becomes the only light in this vast sea of humanity. This is the story of a man who seeks immortality and sweeps across the mortal realm, conquering every direction. - 3Votes114.7kRecs283.7kFans
- 115 EN Opening a Hospital in Another World Isn't That Hard, Right? 在异界开医院没有那么难吧 The story of an emergency room doctor who died from overwork and transmigrated to another world. The sails of the Age of Exploration have been raised. The steam engine has yet to roar to life. The glory of the Lord of Radiance shines across the continent. On the island nation across the sea, the churches of the gods and the mages together uphold royal power. Dwarves walk freely through the kingdom's cities. Werewolves, vampires, elves, dragons... their legends have never faded. And Wu Zhou, an e 3Votes199.4kRecs444.9kFans
- 116 Fortune Across the Myriad Heavens 诸天福运 The path to power of a duke’s illegitimate son! What should you do when you’re confined to the inner household and can only be a nobody? What should you do when you’re pushed toward becoming a wastrel as soon as you reach your rebellious years? What should you do when, the moment you come of age, your own father throws you onto a frontier estate to fend for yourself? And it all happens just as spiritual qi revival brings upheaval to heaven and earth… Luckily, your buddy has a golden finger: the 0Votes411.7kRecs210.9kFans
- 117 EN The Primordial Wizard 最初的巫师 [Winner of the 2019 Fantasy Newcomer Award in the “Imagination and Creativity Writing Contest.”] In a world of gods and heroes, Ace uses logic and mathematics as his tools and objective, impartial research as his guiding principle. By studying and imitating supernatural creatures, he becomes the first wizard. Traveling through the myriad heavens, he plunders the resources, knowledge, and even paths 1Votes105kRecs181.1kFans
- 118 The First Saint of Kunlun 昆仑第一圣 The Great Wilderness is teeming with gods and demons. Jiang Lan becomes a disciple of Kunlun. Knowing how dangerous the outside world is, he decides to stay inside the sect and cultivate in seclusion. He'll be a low-profile Kunlun disciple. But one time, when he emerged from seclusion, his master brought him some news. Kunlun had found him a fiancée. A thousand years later. Kunlun is surrounded by enemies, and the Great Wilderness is on the brink of destruction. At that moment, Jiang Lan's voice 0Votes96kRecs736.7kFans
- 119 EN My Master Only Breaks Through at the Brink of Death 我的师傅每到大限才突破 “Master, this disciple has failed you. I couldn’t help you break through before your time ran out.” “Don’t worry, my disciple. I’m not going to die.” Xu Fan smiled at his distraught disciple. “This disciple has failed you. I couldn’t get you a few more Foundation Establishment Pills. Otherwise...” The sect’s prodigy knelt on the ground, sobbing so hard he could barely speak. Xu Fan looked helplessly at his eldest disciple, took out a Foundation Establishment Pill, and casually popped it into his 0Votes137.6kRecs618.8kFans
- 120 I Train the Big Shots Behind the Scenes 我在幕后调教大佬 New synopsis This is a story about turning the false into the real. In a world of cultivation where danger lurks at every turn, one must tread carefully. Familiar myths become reality. In an unfamiliar golden age of cultivation, the Heavenly Court becomes the central power of the Three Realms, and the Underworld rules the netherworld. The Human Emperor wields Xuanyuan’s sword to protect all living things, while scholars at Jixia spread the teachings across the Nine Provinces. When I look back, t 2Votes378.2kRecs521.8kFans
- 121 A Journey Through the Mysterious World 诡秘世界之旅 “Little monk, what are you doing before the Buddha?” “Listening to the Buddha explain the path to refuge.” “The Three Refuges?” “The Four Refuges.” … The Buddha saves all living beings. I’m here to save you. [A childhood-sweethearts story woven through an eerie, mysterious atmosphere.] 0Votes124.8kRecs162.4kFans
- 122 EN My Scientific Cultivation in A Mortal's Journey 我在凡人科学修仙 Luo Hong stood before the mountain gate of Huangfeng Valley. At last, he had to admit that he had transmigrated into A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality. He pushed up the glasses he no longer wore and declared with conviction, “I have the same fourth-grade pseudo-spiritual root as Han the Old Devil, but no little vial. Looks like scientific cultivation is my only way forward!” Why does a bottleneck appear every four levels in Qi Refining? How can the odds of reaching Foundation Establi 14Votes488.9kRecs406.4kFans
- 123 Red Sandstorm 赤之沙尘 “I'm a big shot who even gets a romantic scene in the finale…” “Calling me a weakling who dies on a C-rank mission? Slander, pure and simple…” “There's nothing to worry about when it comes to being rivals in love with Nara Shikamaru. Childhood friends can't beat someone who shows up later? Nonsense. I'm right next door, so I've got the home-field advantage. I've got this…” “Having two troublesome brothers-in-law has kept me, their brother-in-law, on my toes…” 0Votes285.3kRecs185.1kFans
- 124 The Great Jianghu: The Trending Hero 大江湖之热点大侠 Thirty-three years ago, Yang Dingtian, leader of the Ming Cult, died, and the Ming Cult began to decline. Thirty years ago, the Persian Sacred Fire Cult entered the Central Plains, split from the Ming Cult, and established the Sun Moon Holy Cult. Twenty-eight years ago, the Exquisite Chess Game at Drum Mountain was first initiated. Twenty-five years ago, during the Sword and Qi dispute of the Mount Hua Sect, Qi Sect leader Mu Renqing defeated more than ten experts of the Sword Sect before withdr 0Votes187.5kRecs154.9kFans
- 125 This Big Shot Is a Little Too Cautious 这个大佬有点苟 The moment Lin Chuan transmigrated, he felt the deep hostility this world held toward him. Not only had he contracted this world's terminal illness, but he also had no powerful family to rely on. After graduating from the academy in four years, he was set to become another corporate drone in the new world... Yet everyone else saw this young man with narrow, smiling eyes very differently... Lin Chuan's classmates: He's a second-rate cripple with a chronic illness, destined never to achieve anythi 1Votes270.1kRecs300.6kFans
- 126 EN The More They Oppose, The More I Know I'm Right 他们越反对，越是说明我做对了 “The more the Church supports me, the more it proves I’m doing the right thing. The more the heretics oppose me, the more it proves I’m doing the right thing.” “Even when the heretics praise me, it proves I’m right. If they say nothing, that proves my work is beyond reproach!” “If the Church opposes me, that proves they’ve all fallen into heresy. The more the heretics oppose me, the more it proves I’m doing the right thing.” In 681, Ansu, the youngest pope in the history of the Church, was crown 42Votes135.6kRecs1.1MFans
- 127 Your Majesty, Those Wonders Will Ruin the Country! 陛下，奇观误国啊！ Bruno transmigrated to another world and acquired the Wonder Construction System. The Hanging Gardens are used to grow vegetables, The Colosseum is used for playing football, The Great Lighthouse heralded the dawn of the Age of Exploration, The Ruhr factories proclaimed the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Actually... I'm just an utterly ordinary wonder mover. N years later, "Your Majesty, please reconsider. Wonders can bring ruin to a nation!" 0Votes63.6kRecs251.6kFans
- 128 EN Proving the Dao from Shrouding the Heavens 证道从遮天开始 Transmigrating into the world of "Shrouding the Heavens", he seeks to prove the path to immortality. An infinite-world adventure. The first world is a little longer. 0Votes237.5kRecs409.1kFans
- 129 Don't Call Me the God of Songs 别叫我歌神 Gu Xiaobai doesn't want to be a singing god. He only wants to become a great physicist. But the System won't agree. No matter, he can pursue both dreams at once. Original songs are available in the bonus chapters for the chapters where they appear. They've been gradually released. Uncle Ha still hopes you'll read the story before listening to the songs, since what you imagine yourself is always best. All the songs will gradually be uploaded to a certain music platform later, once Uncle Ha has so 0Votes405.4kRecs139.6kFans
- 130 Invincible from the Moment My Fist Art Reaches Perfection 无敌从拳法大成开始 People have souls, and fists have spirits. Some say the times have changed, but there are always people searching through hardship. Zhou Yuanjue, having mastered Red Falcon Fist, set out on the path to pursue the limits of humanity. In the currents of the age, through the long sweep of history, in ancient myths, At the edge of life and death, in the interstices of the ordinary, Cast everything aside in search of a miracle that might not even exist. The human spirit can transcend every shackle. T 0Votes141.5kRecs183.4kFans
- 131 Outdoor Livestream 户外直播间 (A popular slice-of-life novel with over 10,000 subscriptions! Relaxing and leisurely! Come give it a read!) He starts out with a run-down temple and gets an outdoor livestream System. So he starts broadcasting, gathering lingzhi mushrooms, raising falcons, and showing off his skills. When he finally looks around, he realizes the whole world is watching him. He appears on "Back to Field". Viewers ask, “Is this streamer cultivating immortality??” He joins "Adventure with Bear Grylls". Fans say, “ 2Votes282.8kRecs369.8kFans
- 132 The Chat Group of Fortuitous Encounters 机缘聊天群 Your group member 'Giant Spirit Crystal Mine' has shared their location. Would you like to start navigation? Your group member 'Tenth Dao Principle' uploaded a group file, Forbidden Art: Heaven Mending Technique. Would you like to download it? Your group member 'Ten-Thousand-Year Star-Origin Fruit' has described its properties and provided the best guide to obtaining it. Would you like to pick it? All unclaimed opportunities in the world that lack the trait of 'being alive' have formed a chat gr 0Votes52.9kRecs109.2kFans
- 133 The Wolf of Los Angeles 洛杉矶之狼 In North America, there are many paths to power and wealth. Hock heads straight for Los Angeles and chooses the entertainment and media industry. The media is like sunlight: it doesn't just illuminate the bright side. Every word and every image that appears in the media is carefully designed to shape public opinion and manipulate the public. 9Votes339.9kRecs269.6kFans
- 134 EN Immortality Starts With Alchemy Dao Grandmaster 长生从炼丹宗师开始 A hermit becomes an immortal, coming and going among the azure peaks. Yin and yang are forged in the furnace; the Great Dao lies within the heart. Luo Chen transmigrates to the cultivation world. With a proficiency panel, he practices alchemy and breathing techniques, studies spells and arts, and advances step by step along the path to immortality. (Skips the Mortal World and begins directly in the cultivation world.) 51Votes97.5MRecs1.4MFans
- 135 The Sleepless Doctor 医者无眠 Geniuses have their own troubles. Wu Mian, who seems to suffer from hyperthymesia, reluctantly returns to his hometown to become the head of the medical department. The story begins in the summer he goes back home. 0Votes602.3kRecs179.2kFans
- 136 Conquest Paradise 征战乐园 [New book out now: Lord of Ten Thousand Calamities] Welcome to the Warzone. In this playground for the strong, Wang Wei cuts down powerful enemies, tramples the Six Directions beneath his horses, and sweeps across the Eight Wastelands! This is the story of a legion-based powerhouse who crushes one reincarnation realm after another with his army. A semi-stat-based infinite-reincarnation story. Thanks to all the pioneers of the genre for the inspiration. 3Votes284.8kRecs255.1kFans
- 137 The Grand Treatise on Transforming into a Dragon 太虚化龙篇 One day, the dragon will rise to the Ninth Heaven and roam across countless worlds. The dragon is me, and I am the dragon: Zhuang Ming. 0Votes226.8kRecs354.8kFans
- 138 The White-Robed Chancellor 白衣卿相 Clad in white, he entered Bianliang; half a lifetime as a minister, and he shaped the realm. 3.9kVotes302kRecs573.4kFans
- 139 EN The Fate Hunter 猎命人 The court of gods and demons, its fortunes in ruins. The martial world seized the Ministry of War, the Demon Sect controlled the Ministry of Justice, heretics occupied the Ministry of Revenue, the Underworld took over the Ministry of Works, and the demon race usurped the provincial governments. The throne hall was packed with nobles in crimson and purple robes, demons, puppets, and monsters. The assembled officials were a den of fiends and specters. The fate diviner Li Qingxian forged a Fate Pal 2Votes531.6kRecs613.8kFans
- 140 The Bionic Era 仿生纪元 Lu Wen is reborn as a housekeeping android. He thinks he’ll spend the rest of his life doing chores. But on his first day in his employer’s home, he receives two instructions: “Don’t go to the third floor.” “Dig a hole in the backyard big enough to bury an adult. Make it deep.” 0Votes31.3kRecs80.2kFans
- 141 A Martial Artist Across the Myriad Heavens 纵横诸天的武者 Roaming the Myriad Worlds in pursuit of the true meaning of martial arts! A modern young man named Lei Hu accidentally transmigrates through the Myriad Worlds, seeking the martial path and striving to become the strongest! 0Votes371.4kRecs194.4kFans
- 142 EN Swarm of Heavy Cannons Annihilates Immortal Cultivators 集群重炮轰杀修仙者 Artillery shells are flying swords, too! The fake Qi Refining cultivator: casts water and fire spells, commands a flying sword to take an enemy’s head from dozens of paces away, and carries a shield artifact for both offense and defense. The real Qi Refining cultivator: drives a Type 99 main battle tank equipped with a 125 mm artifact main gun guided by divine sense, two 12.7 mm dual-purpose anti-aircraft and ground-attack artifact machine guns guided and aimed by divine sense, nine assorted ele 78Votes375.6kRecs642.8kFans
- 143 Tracing the Current of the Literary Era 溯流文艺时代 Yu Dong is reborn from 2019 into 1991, returning to the time just after graduation, when he was assigned to work as a counselor at Jinling Arts College. Starting out by writing novels, he takes things one step at a time, gradually building an empire in the entertainment industry. 0Votes108.1kRecs171.1kFans
- 144 Celestial Venerable Qingwei 清微天尊 The land of the Ten Continents is vast and boundless. The Three Immortal Isles remain hidden, and immortals and gods are difficult to find. Above the vast azure heavens and beneath the endless Yellow Springs, what kind of places might there be? This book is also known as The Peaceful and Happy Path to Enlightenment of Daoist Master Qingwei and The Life of Qingwei, Wasting Away His Golden Finger in Obscurity 1Votes152.4kRecs193.8kFans
- 145 EN I Can't Die, So I Pretend to Be a Vampire 不死的我只好假扮血族 Fang Cheng had his head chopped off. His heart was pierced. His mouth was stuffed full of garlic. He was dragged into the sunlight and left to burn. His furious enemies hacked him to pieces. Fang Cheng came back to life and spread his hands toward his enemies. “I'll level with you. I'm not actually a vampire!” The crowd roared, “Like we'd believe a word you say!” 5Votes184.9kRecs946.4kFans
- 146 EN Eerie Immortal Cultivation Game 诡异流修仙游戏 The new book Invincible from the Moment I See the Boss's Health Bar is now serializing in grand fashion. You are welcome to read a sample! … A unique cultivation game launches, and players flood into it. Fang Yue is one of them. But soon, he discovers that the game is strange everywhere and extremely difficult. Large numbers of players quit during the early stages, but Fang Yue stays and discovers that this game is no ordinary game! Three months later, the strange descends upon reality, and the 0Votes146.8kRecs1.1MFans
- 147 This Is My Planet 这是我的星球 Casual observation, a search for one's true self. A theme of clashing civilizations across multiple universes, with a little time spent in gaming cities. Please don't come at this with the usual approach of a God of War's return or an Immortal Emperor reborn. And stop asking why the protagonist doesn't kill people and search their souls, know everything with divine sense, destroy heaven and earth, or wrap the whole story up in one chapter. 0Votes919.5kRecs798.1kFans
- 148 The Immortal Path of Dharma Forms 法象仙途 A modern young man is reincarnated by chance into a world of immortal cultivators. He has no astonishing talent, no powerful background, and even the golden finger he happens to acquire is riddled with flaws. How can he rise above the rest? “What makes you think you can transcend countless living beings?” “Science.” “Science and technology? Immortal cultivators can destroy the heavens and the earth. Technology can’t defeat them.” “No, the scientific way of thinking. It’s about discovering, resea 0Votes98.3kRecs103.1kFans
- 149 The Immortal Register 仙箓 From a young age, I was a scholar of the Dao, and I loved xianxia above all else. I love spirits and monsters, evil entities, demon boys, beautiful women, alchemy, talismans, spirit pets, Daoist soldiers, goddesses who visit in night dreams, and white bone skeletons. I also willingly offer myself to demons, plant demons in my Dao heart, and spend half my life wandering, seeking only the Great Freedom. The story of a young Daoist who refines qi in pursuit of eternal life. 1Votes237.1kRecs593.2kFans
- 150 The City's Shapeshifting Druid 都市的变形德鲁伊 Beneath the bright afternoon sun, interlaced tree shadows traced sharp patterns on the ground, where an orange cat lay sprawled in lazy repose. A few female students walked by. One bent down, holding her breath, ready to give the roadside orange cat a pet, but it darted nimbly away... Listening to the girls’ laughter fade into the distance, the orange cat shifted position and lay down on the wall... Please don’t disturb an orange cat resting during the day, because it might have saved a world th 0Votes258.8kRecs171.6kFans
