Novels like A Martial World Beginning with a Bandit Stronghold
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- 1 Seeking the Dao and Immortality, I Am the Butcher's Knife 求道长生，我为刀俎 (No female lead, dark tone. Don't read if that's not your thing.) The world is a sea of suffering, and all living things sink beneath its waves, struggling to reach the other shore. Yet the sea of suffering has no end. The other shore is like a flower reflected in a mirror, or the moon in water, visible but forever out of reach. By chance, Su Jingyue gains an immortal opportunity. She fights for fortune and seizes opportunities, wishing only to reach the other shore. 0Votes6.8kRecs6.1kFans
- 2 I Have a Fortune Altar 我有一座气运祭坛 My new book, From Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Disaster to Riding the Tide and Becoming a God, is now available. [Over 20,000 premium subscribers, a top-quality read. Ten thousand words a day during update marathons. Don’t miss it!] Chen Yuan, a constable in Ping’an County, transmigrates into this world with a sacrificial altar of fortune hidden in his mind. As long as he offers up fortune, he can receive the secrets of heaven as guidance: divine abilities, cultivati 5Votes85.5kRecs569.1kFans
- 3 The Great Zhou Dynasty’s Greatest Imperial Preceptor 大周第一国师 I walk alongside ambition and slaughter until I ascend to the summit of the heavens. … My name is Lu Yun. I am the head of the Great Zhou Bureau of Astronomy. Above the imperial authority, a guest of the immortal sects, and the Grand Preceptor. 0Votes11.4kRecs19.6kFans
- 4 One Man Cuts Through the Jianghu 一个人砍翻江湖 What do the people of the world and the fate of the realm have to do with me? None of it concerns me. What do grudges and feuds, and revenge upon revenge, matter? Just wipe them all out, and the score is settled. As for putting the greater good first, I agree. Because I am the greater good! And you ask what the rules are? What I say goes! That year, I carried two blades. With every rise and fall of my hands, I hacked away in a frenzy. I hacked at him for three days and three nights, without 0Votes50.9kRecs234kFans
- 5 EN Max-Level Ruthless 满级狠人 Ordinary Archer, requirements to reach max level: 1. Hit the bullseye at least ten times from a distance of fifty meters or more; 2. 100 jin of any kind of grain; 3. 50 jin of meat. Elite Archer, requirements to reach max level: 1. Become a max-level Ordinary Archer; 2. One eye each from three different animals; 3. 300 jin of any kind of grain; 4. 200 jin of meat. If you’re not ruthless, you can’t hold your ground! If you’re not vicious, you’ll never make it! “I just want to live a peace 0Votes41.5kRecs256.5kFans
- 6 Dungeon Simulator 副本模拟器 Monsters and demons roam everywhere, while the martial world flourishes. Reality is reflected, generating dungeons. A sense of danger forces him to stay alert. Survive. Live better. Climb higher, all the way to the top. The world bustles, with people chasing profit back and forth. From temples to the imperial court, the most terrifying thing in this world has never been monsters and demons, but the unfathomable human heart! 0Votes24kRecs42kFans
- 7 Starting as a Tiger-Jiao 从虎蛟开始 After dying in an accident, he arrived in the underworld, only to be mistakenly judged by a ghost official and sent to the Animal Realm in the six paths of reincarnation. Fortunately, he was reborn as a tiger-jiao, wielding a tiger's might and a dragon's power. He became a peerless great demon and transcended the cycle of reincarnation. 0Votes20.7kRecs69.2kFans
- 8 EN Demonic Sect Player: No Honor, No Rules 魔门玩家，不讲道义 “Senior Brother, is our Du'e Sect... really a respectable sect?” “Of course it is. Hurry up and register in this ‘Disciple Ledger,’ junior brother.” The man in green pointed to a black banner that seemed to reek of sinister energy as he spoke. After transmigrating, Chu Mo became a “provisional foot soldier” in the Du'e Demon Sect. He had thought the door he opened would lead to the path of seeking immortality, mastering the sword, and roaming free, but he never expected cultivation in this w 205Votes28.4kRecs247.5kFans
- 9 The Path of Righteousness and Evil, and Mine Alone 唯我正邪之路 Please support the new book First Love in the Ancient Dragon World Lin Mo, carrying a System, is reborn into a golden age of martial arts. Through completing missions, he can not only learn the various supreme techniques of martial arts characters from the novels, films, and games he knew in his previous life. Lu Xiaofeng, the four-browed man from The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng. Gui Hai Yidao, already deeply corrupted by demonic energy, from The First in the World. Wang Xiaohu, the heroic youth from 0Votes54.3kRecs183.9kFans
- 10 An Unorthodox Taoist in a World of Strange Tales 志怪世界的旁门道士 This is a world of strange tales, where ritual and music have fallen into disarray and ghosts and spirits roam. Here are strange people and eerie ghosts, green corpse demons and immortal beings, mushroom people and grass horses, wicked cultivators and righteous gods. Here are methods of corpse liberation and qi cultivation, alchemy with lead and mercury, divination by spirit writing and summoning gods, paper soldiers and straw horses. With a mysterious golden manual that improves his proficiency 0Votes67.4kRecs322.3kFans
- 11 Players’ Lackeys Are Everywhere 玩家走狗满天下 Zuo Chongming was a veteran gamer, a studio boss, a god-tier power-leveling expert, and a ruthless exploiter... Through a stroke of bad luck, he transmigrated into a game world, even returning to the time before its public beta and becoming an NPC. Monsters run amok, evil spirits devour people, and martial artists roam the land... For Zuo Chongming, who has a status panel, all of this is within the bounds of acceptability. But when he thinks of the players, the Fourth Calamity, about to arrive, 0Votes39.5kRecs164.4kFans
- 12 Attaining the Dao Through Paper Figures 纸人成道 On a pitch-black night, a crowd of figures in garish clothes, their faces distorted and their smiles uncanny, carried a grand sedan chair. With grave soil beneath their feet and demon blood on their bodies, they headed for the lair of spirits and monsters. A folk saying goes: When paper figures carry a sedan chair, ghosts wail and monsters howl. If you see them, stay away. Do not approach. The lost art of paper effigy-making has resurfaced. A reclusive youth controls paper to kill, hunts demons 0Votes27kRecs102.8kFans
- 13 A Few Things That Happened in the Instance Dungeon 副本里的二三事 Raise your head to peer into the depths of the void; bend down to gather the river of stars. Golden light blooms atop the ninth heaven, while eight hundred miles of purple clouds bow in worship. It all began after Wu Mingkong had kept a low profile for eighteen years, when she picked up a kitchen knife, brought along her dog, and hacked the first dungeon boss to death... 2Votes35.6kRecs135.2kFans
- 14 Is Something Wrong with Your Lordship? 你这领主有问题吧 The world is destroyed, the apocalypse arrives, and a new era begins. Everyone is granted the right to survive as a Lord. Territories, heroes, troops, treasures, and resources: the server formed from countless continents is now fully open. Qin Muye looks at his panel, which makes him seem like an expendable extra, and his territory with its damaged suffix. He can hardly keep from crying. No divine talent, no hidden hints, and no absurdly powerful class. “In that case, I'll just have to find anot 2Votes87.5kRecs476.7kFans
- 15 EN Then Let Them Offer Their Loyalty! 那就让她们献上忠诚吧！ [A premium hit with 45,000 top-tier subscribers and an average of 27,000 paid subscribers! Guaranteed quality, read with confidence!] After transmigrating to a disaster-ravaged world in chaos, filled with all kinds of uncanny objects, Qiu Tu discovers that he has somehow slept with a powerful figure's mistress... Since he's already been found out, he might as well... go with the flow? He'll grow stronger, build his own power, recruit beautiful... beautiful and powerful subordinates, and steadily 74Votes353.7kRecs2.4MFans
- 16 EN Immortal Abode, Eternal Life 仙府长生 I am the master of my own fate! I am the commander of my own heart! After stumbling into the world of cultivation, Liu Yu spent decades clawing his way forward. He resolved to pursue immortality by any means necessary, swearing that he would be the master of his own destiny. P.S. Decisive and ruthless, sharp-minded, and careful every step of the way. Absolutely no saintly do-gooder behavior. The protagonist has already reached the Deity Transformation stage, so fellow cultivators can read with c 5Votes16.2MRecs705.6kFans
- 17 The Li Clan 李氏 The bold ride dragons and tigers, while the timid ride cats and sit on rabbits! At the end of the road, the awakening of humanity marks the beginning of divinity. (Seven Deadly Sins Series II: Greed) 1Votes60.2kRecs249kFans
- 18 This Sandbox Game is Unreliable 这个沙盒游戏不靠谱 As a sandbox game player who loves peace and enjoys farming, Chen Xiyi insists he isn’t the kind of Fourth Calamity who brings chaos to the world. He prefers to win over his enemies with truth and justice. “Let’s talk this out. Put away that weapon of mass destruction first. We can work anything out.” These were the last words of a certain red-name NPC. 0Votes59.1kRecs272.5kFans
- 19 The True Immortal of Bright Jade 皓玉真仙 (A feel-good power fantasy with a single male lead, not an ensemble cast. The protagonist has already attained the final great realm, True Immortal, so the slaughter can begin.) Heaven and earth are a chessboard, and all things are its pieces. When I take up the pieces, I’ll sweep them all off the board with a single stroke of my sleeve! A mighty cultivator with a false core seizes a spirit and starts cultivating anew. Armed with a supreme treasure, he becomes the greatest True Immortal in the h 29Votes14.4MRecs1.3MFans
- 20 My Life Simulator 我的人生模拟器 You only get one life, but... a life simulator lets you experience all kinds of different lives. 0Votes497.2kRecs363.1kFans
- 21 Starting in Maoshan, Across the Myriad Worlds 诸天从茅山开始 What would you do if you could travel back and forth to a “special” version of Republican-era China? Become the richest man alive and marry a harem of beauties? Take up your brush to serve the nation and become the greatest writer in the land? Prepare for war, then rise to nobility and command armies? Or... Train until your form is as graceful as a crane, with two books beneath a thousand pines. I came to ask the Way, but found nothing left to say: clouds in the blue sky, water in a bottle. P.S. 2Votes246.3kRecs724.5kFans
- 22 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
- 23 Dragon-Tiger Daoist Master 龙虎道主 The world is imbued with spiritual energy, and all things grow by consuming it. All kinds of creatures can become demons, extend their lifespans, and gain supernatural abilities. Humans are the sole exception. The human body is flawed and cannot contain spiritual energy, but the human soul is pure and naturally close to the Dao. Thus, great minds have forged a new path, cultivating immortality through demons and attaining the fruit of eternal life. 0Votes407.2kRecs828.8kFans
- 24 EN Abyssal Demon of the Myriad Realms 诸界之深渊恶魔 Born in the bottomless abyss, I cast away everything that came before. Amid slaughter and destruction, I ascend to the highest throne, wreathed in blood and fire! I am the Plague King of the Corrupted World, the Doomsday Demon God who burns all things and ushers in the end. I am the wicked source that pollutes the laws of reality and corrupts all living beings. I am the Other-Transforming Great Freedom Demon Lord who slays the Buddha and infects the Heavenly Dao. I am also the antithesis of all 1Votes196.2kRecs368.9kFans
- 25 Evergreen Immortal Path 仙道长青 An ordinary mortal is reborn in the mysterious world of cultivation, becoming a cultivator in a small clan. His elders place their hopes in him, while the family struggles to stay afloat. Faced with one setback after another, Zhang Zhixuan fights his way forward, going against the current to build his clan into a flourishing family and write a life as dreamlike and fleeting as lightning, yet grand and turbulent. VIP group: 815445730 (fans with a score of 2,000 or higher m 1Votes967.6kRecs390.3kFans
- 26 The Ambitious Hero of the Late Eastern Han 东汉末年枭雄志 The late Eastern Han dynasty in Romance of the Three Kingdoms was a tumultuous age of grand drama. There were valiant generals, brilliant strategists, cunning warlords, benevolent rulers, and alluring beauties. It was a world to dream of. But the late Eastern Han in Guo Peng’s eyes was cold. It was neither kind nor just, much less civilized. Danger lurked everywhere. He saw hunger, poverty, war, and plague. He saw bones strewn across the fields and not a cock crowing for a thousand miles. He saw 5Votes408.9kRecs519.5kFans
- 27 EN Martial Sage of the Ten Directions 十方武圣 New book: "Desperate Night", "The Strange World: I Alone Become an Immortal". Search for it if you're interested. In a barren post-apocalyptic world, it is the third year of the Shizong reign. The land is in chaos, and the people are struggling to survive. The central dynasty has collapsed. Powerful factions carve up the land, while sects rule independently. Demonic cults and evil gangs sow chao 18Votes2MRecs1.5MFans
- 28 EN Cultivating Immortality in a Chaotic World of Demons and Martial Arts 苟在妖武乱世修仙 Fang Xi transmigrated, and this is his second time! In the cultivation world, he keeps his head down; in another world, he hits back hard! Who would have thought that thousands of years later, he would become a big shot in the cultivation world too? (Cautious cultivation and longevity + infinite worlds. A Wen Chao production: every book is a gem. Readers, feel free to add this to your library and enjoy.) 38Votes1.2MRecs3.6MFans
- 29 My Simulated Path to Immortality 我的模拟长生路 How difficult is the path to immortality! And all the more so in this cultivation world, utterly transformed by a plague! Mortals carry disease. If immortals come into contact with them, their cultivation may decline in mild cases, or they may return to the heavens in severe ones. Thus mortals and immortals are forever divided. Immortals cannot cultivate together, and the entire cultivation world has become one vast dark forest. Li Fan transmigrated into this world with soaring ambitions, ye 508Votes975.7kRecs2.9MFans
- 30 Sorcerer of the Witching Realm 巫界术士 Leilin transmigrates with an AI chip and becomes a wizard apprentice of noble birth. Making use of his advantages, he studies to become a wizard, obtains a sorcerer's legacy, and embarks on the path of bloodlines. He goes on a series of adventures in the mysterious and uncanny world of wizards, ultimately attaining eternity. Details: 1. One extra chapter for every 100 monthly ticket 6Votes550.9kRecs495.8kFans
- 31 Pay Your Respects to the Lord of the Cult 拜见教主大人 After an unexpected death, Chu Xiu discovered that he had transmigrated into the game world of Great Jianghu, becoming the biggest Boss of the game's third version before he had even come into his full power: the Kunlun Sect Leader! Great Jianghu brings together countless martial arts settings. There is the King of the Eastern Isles, who reads the qi of the heavens and kills with a smile. There is the leader of the Beggars' Sect, whose Dragon Subduing Palms shake the martial world. And there is 10Votes1.9MRecs1.2MFans
- 32 EN The Ultimate Boss System 最强boss系统 What is the martial world? Is it dominating all under heaven and ruling an age, or making enemies of everyone and stirring up the winds of change? Reborn into a new life with the strongest Boss System, Su Xin can obtain the techniques and martial skills of every Boss from the martial arts worlds of his previous life. “My name is Su Xin. I always keep my word.” 7Votes1.3MRecs1.1MFans
- 33 EN Carefree Dream Path 逍遥梦路 A homebody in the mountains spends his days farming, raising fish, and daydreaming, while growing at his own leisurely pace. Huh? How did I accidentally conquer the Myriad Worlds and become the big boss? Could I still be dreaming? 1Votes1.4MRecs492.5kFans
- 34 EN Reincarnation Paradise 轮回乐园 Su Xiao signs a reincarnation contract and enters various worlds to carry out missions. He has witnessed a world collapse into dust, and fought with blade in hand against a forgotten king. Dark ravens whisper, while colossal beasts roar beneath the Black Abyss. Welcome to the Reincarnation Paradise… 1.4kVotes15MRecs7.7MFans
- 35 EN Way of the Devil 极道天魔 New book: Dark Night of Desperation, I Alone Am an Immortal in a Strange World. Search for it if you’re interested. Demons and monsters run rampant, and the people suffer. Divine weapons and demonic blades shine over the land. A game modifier on Lu Sheng’s phone accidentally became a supernatural ability in his mind. It also became his only lifeline in this dark, chaotic age. 29Votes4MRecs2.3MFans
