Novels like The Underworld: I’m the Only Living Person
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Underworld: I’m the Only Living Person, best match first.
- 1 The Old Ones Descend Upon the World 全球旧日 A mysteriously awakened game from the old days is now shrouding humanity across the entire Milky Way… Running two books at once Cthulhu, investigators, tabletop role-playing, global game System 0Votes13.3kRecs82.9kFans
- 2 Mystery Revival: Seizing the Haunted Painting 神秘复苏：夺取诡画 Two families join in marriage, and together they seal their vows. A blessed union, forever matched in name and nature. Today, peach blossoms glow bright, promising a happy home; in years to come, may descendants flourish, their family prosperous and thriving. With this pledge of lifelong devotion, we write upon fine paper and record our red-leaf vow in the register of paired mandarin ducks. Let this stand as witness. My name is Lin Qian. When you read this, I’ll be getting married to my bride.. 0Votes45.2kRecs197.2kFans
- 3 I Love the Bizarre Most of All 我最喜欢诡异了 He transmigrated to another world, only to arrive just as supernatural forces were resurging. Ghosts and monsters roam at night, while even deeper in, evil gods and demonic spirits lie in wait. According to local rumors, a yin person asking for directions, a wild dog howling at a grave, a dead person cooking... If you encounter even one of these... Luckily, He Wenzhi awakened his golden finger. Do 50 push-ups: Strength +1. Run one thousand meters: Constitution +1. Watch something that gets your 0Votes27.6kRecs279.3kFans
- 4 I Know This Old God 这个古神我认识 This is an age when ancient gods are gradually awakening. Evidence of their existence is being discovered on planets across the universe, along with the ruins where they slumber and signs that they are about to awaken. During a history lesson, the protagonist, Tang Xuan, stares at the symbol his teacher draws on the blackboard. He wonders, isn't that the mark of an ancient go 0Votes48.6kRecs122.1kFans
- 5 Building a Nuclear Fusion Reactor by Hand in the Wilderness, Live 直播在荒野手搓核聚变 Serious version: Can the civilization of a single person really be called civilization? This is the story of one person alone in the wilderness, slowly developing civilization and technology, starting in the primitive age by making stone tools, then moving on to iron tools and eventually nuclear fusion. Short version: Which one of you asked for a hand-built nuclear bomb? I've already made it for you. How would you like to receive it? 0Votes36.2kRecs151.6kFans
- 6 I Have a Catalog of Ghosts and Gods 我有一卷鬼神图录 Jiang Zhou is brought to the Great Ji by a scroll of ghostly records. Using half an episode of Journey to the West on his phone, he fools a vicious demoness into complete submission. Claiming to be a disciple of Mount Lingtai Fangcun and the Cave of the Slanting Moon and Three Stars, he sets out on a path to the heavens... Demons run rampant, yet immortals dwell in the mortal world. With one ancient register, he gains the blessings of creation. He commands the execution of ghosts, confers titles 1Votes132.4kRecs494.2kFans
- 7 EN Global Mist Survival 全球迷雾求生 [Misty Apocalypse] [Survival Farming] [Cthulhu-esque]. People wake to find a gray fog descending. Their only shelter is the wooden cabin they woke up in. But to stay alive, they have to light a candle, open the door, and search for supplies. [Mutants] [Suffering Souls] [Sea Demons] [Fallen Skies] [Eldritch Gods]... Everyone struggles with all their might to gather supplies, chop wood, mine ore, and build defenses against one seemingly endless wave of terrifying invasions after another. Amid this 0Votes17.1kRecs141.7kFans
- 8 Honghuang: The Green Snake Attains the Dao 洪荒之青蛇成道 All living beings are sentient beings, while the Heavenly Dao is the Dao of the Forty-Nine Heavens. Sages are Hunyuan Sages, and they are also the Sages among all beings between Heaven and Earth! After transmigrating into the Primordial World as a snake, he enters a great calamity. A tiny ant is lost in the boundless expanse. In this vast Primordial World, a green snake has arrived, and everything has taken on a different flavor! Though the little snake is as lowly and insignificant as an ant, t 0Votes56.4kRecs116.4kFans
- 9 My Daughter Is Just Too Amazing 我女儿实在太厉害了 Luo Er transmigrated to another world, where life treated him rather poorly. But he adopted a sweet, adorable, sensible, and obedient daughter. As she grew up and left home to study, she somehow became a big shot without telling him? “Glorious Star Sword Maiden, a genius young woman who moves the gods, the youngest eighth-tier powerhouse. Are they talking about my daughter?” “My daughter has demigod potential?” 0Votes54.3kRecs87.2kFans
- 10 I Can Modify Black Technology 我能魔改黑科技 Terrifying shadows prowl the streets, while indescribable creatures cast covetous gazes. The apocalypse rages, and disaster spreads. Su Chen unexpectedly gains the ability to modify anything. He alters guns, armor, even heavy artillery and fighter jets. At first, he thinks this will help him establish himself in this era and live carefree. But little by little, he realizes that deeper in the unfathomable apocalypse, even more terrifying shadows lurk... At the end of darkness, the fury of civiliz 0Votes116.5kRecs156.5kFans
- 11 Witnessing the Human World 人世见 The bright moon hangs high, shining down on past and present. The human world is sometimes prosperous, sometimes chaotic. We part with reluctance and cherish every reunion. As the years pass and time moves on, who will be left smiling as they watch this play called life unfold... (This story is a slow burn.) 0Votes104.1kRecs251kFans
- 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 Hogwarts in Another World 异界的霍格沃茨 Matthew Wakefield had always thought he had transmigrated into the Harry Potter world. He believed his true identity was that of a young Muggle wizard about to attend Hogwarts. He was right, but also spectacularly wrong. He was indeed going to Hogwarts, but it was no longer the warm, cheerful, innocent magical school he remembered. Night had fallen. The Dark Lord’s reign continued, mystery and fear spread, and bloodshed and death were everywhere. And the one and only hope had long ago been impri 0Votes92.9kRecs82.1kFans
- 14 Survival Guide to a Bizarre World 诡异世界生存手册 A white fox wails at a funeral, a living corpse digs up a grave… In this world, ghosts eat people, and monsters eat people too. The story is just getting started. 1Votes95.3kRecs315.3kFans
- 15 My Wife Isn't Human 吾妻非人哉 For the sake of her sales figures, Wang Quan had no choice but to spend 698 yuan registering for a VIP membership on her matchmaking site. He then spent another 9.9 yuan to apply for a match. He’d thought it would be an ordinary blind date, but... He looked up at the figure in front of him and fell into thought: Three hundred meters tall, with wings made of countless tentacles... Nine heads, each a monstrous skull with no features, just f 0Votes187.1kRecs523.3kFans
- 16 No One Dies for a Thousand Autumns 千秋不死人 Literary version The stars shine bright, illuminating the written word; I follow idle clouds, leaving the imperial capital behind. I refine a pill beyond the mortal realm, and in drunken rapture I write a hundred wild poems. Within my pot lies a realm of eternal spring; on the sea islands, surely there are halls where night never falls. I tread the road beyond the clouds and azure sky, and on the ninth heaven I look down proudly upon Xi Huang. The dream breaks, and a thousand things come to noth 0Votes209.9kRecs188.7kFans
- 17 The Liaozhai Sword Immortal 聊斋剑仙 In the twenty-ninth year of Yong'an, in the land of Shenzhou, the Great Qian Dynasty had stood for more than five hundred years. The aging emperor, desperate to cling to life, summoned extraordinary talents from across the realm to the capital and established the Bureau of Unusual Scholars, where they refined elixirs and sought the path to immortality. The emperor grew increasingly obsessed and withdrew from governing. Meanwhile, the crown princes of the Eastern and Western Palaces fought fierce 0Votes138.5kRecs301kFans
- 18 Working Hard to Cultivate in Uncle Jiu's World! 我在九叔世界里面努力加点修仙！ “People are divided into good and bad, while corpses are divided into zombies and dried-up corpses.” Uncle Jiu said earnestly, “You should study the Demon-Subduing Spell properly. You’re still young. Practice for five or six years, and you’ll learn it.” Luo Su nodded, silently thinking, Deep Blue, add points, add points, add points. Then he peed a yellow talisman onto the ground, blinked, and looked at Uncle Jiu. “Is this right?” Uncle Jiu: ???!!! 0Votes57.8kRecs270kFans
- 19 Lord of All Spirits 万灵主君 Also known as This World Is Too Brutal, The Fourth Calamity at Work, and The Old Man's Otherworldly Farming Life His soul transmigrates into the body of a dying old man. Fortunately, he survives the ordeal and gains fifty years of life. To keep from ending up in the grave too soon, and to avoid being conquered by players, he might as well become the undying old man of another world first. (Farming, slow- 0Votes46.6kRecs38.6kFans
- 20 The Warden Who Guards the Witches 看守魔女们的典狱长 What’s it like to be a prison warden in another world? Thieves, pirates, assassins, master con artists, terrorists… Werewolves, vampires, witches, necromancers, succubi… This is the Rose Iron Prison, home to the most dangerous witches in the world. “I’m going to turn this place into the best model prison in the world!” So declared a prison guard who had transmigrated to another world. “Warden, someone’s escaped again!” “Bring them back and lock them in solitary.” Another peaceful day at the Rose 4Votes60.9kRecs327.3kFans
- 21 EN Global Wasteland: Shelter Infinite Upgrade 全球废土：避难所无限升级 When disaster strikes, everyone transmigrates to a wasteland world, where they face deadly survival challenges! Terrifying acid rain, catastrophic floods, skies raining fire, a global ice age, extreme radiation... No one is spared! Humanity can survive only by building shelters and enduring wave after wave of disasters. Luckily, Su Mo awakens the Doomsday Survival System! His shelter can be upgraded without limit! [Wooden Door]→ [Iron Door]→ [Alloy Gate]→... [Wooden Spear]→ [Hardwood Spear]→ [El 27Votes143.3kRecs684.9kFans
- 22 The Cursed Ship 诅咒之船 Ship Combat Skill: Chaos Ray! Using the Strange Eye, fire a blast of chaotic energy infused with the laws of chaos, dissolving and destroying all existence until its chaotic energy is spent... A mysterious magic array grants ships the power to evolve. In a strange world, a young man from a fishing village begins his rise to power with a few broken planks... The Evolution Ship is also known as the “Cursed Ship”... (Note: The protagonist begins in modern-day Europe in a parallel world, not in a pu 0Votes77kRecs137.2kFans
- 23 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
- 24 Starting as the Black Mountain Ancestor 从黑山老祖开始 At the end of a dynasty, demons run rampant across the land. In a world that is almost, but not quite, the Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Su Chen awakens from the darkness and discovers that he has become the Old Ancestor of Black Mountain. 0Votes40.9kRecs142.5kFans
- 25 The Exorcist's Self-Cultivation 驱魔人的自我修养 Thanks for the invite. I'm in New York, just got off the plane. Du Wei discovers that he has transmigrated. With no other choice, he returns to his old line of work and opens a psychological counseling clinic. But the patients who come in for help all seem a little strange... Full Subscription Group: Join Group 1 and ask an admin to verify you Note: This book is set in the Conjuring universe. 0Votes125.6kRecs328.5kFans
- 26 Draw the Sword, and Truth Follows 拔剑就是真理 When the evidence falls short, make up for it with firepower! Within firing range, might makes right! For example, if you need to reason with a Golden Core cultivator, you can bring along this two-hundred-megaton hydrogen bomb. If your opponent is a major sect, I recommend buying a ten-kilometer-wide meteorite accelerated to sixty kilometers per second and aiming it at their headquarters. They’ll definitely want to hear you out. Hmm? The enemy controls an entire world and is arrogant and unreaso 0Votes140.4kRecs414.2kFans
- 27 The Evolution of Global Games 全球游戏进化 Chen Anlin transmigrates into a modern game world. Here, everyone must conquer various games to earn incredible rewards. After arriving, Chen Anlin discovers a secret that lets him thrive in the games. My account: 1165471865 Cultivation group: 823…176…624… 0Votes107.2kRecs379.4kFans
- 28 I Transmigrated into a Nation 我穿越成一个国 I've heard of soul transmigration, transmigrating with your body, gender swaps, and body possession... So how come I turned into a country? Wait, don't come any closer! You're a country, and I'm a country too. Have you ever seen two countries roll up their sleeves and brawl hand to hand? Let's be civilized. We can send troops and generals, with our rulers commanding the armies. Wouldn't that be better? Wait... What kind of ridiculous world is this? How can a country have consciousness? And these 0Votes151.9kRecs77.9kFans
- 29 The Ancient God's Eerie Game 古神的诡异游戏 This is Da Ju’s brand-new work, The Strange Game of the Ancient Gods, returning to his classic writing style. A roommate’s bizarre death. A strange and mysterious game. This game can let you win everything, but it can also plunge you into utter ruin. There’s only one question: do you dare to play? 0Votes112.2kRecs122.8kFans
- 30 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
- 31 My Wife Is a Top Student 我老婆是女学霸 I met a top student on a blind date, and accidentally offended her… And it turns out she lives right across the hall! [A slice-of-life story: a little lighthearted, a little funny, and a little heartwarming.] 0Votes215.2kRecs347.1kFans
- 32 Alchemy Notes 炼金手记 I awoke from chaos to the roar of steam in my ears. Soot blotted out the sky, and shadows blanketed the world. Mysticism, spiritual cultivation, the Tower of Babel, fusion, transmutation, the Philosopher’s Stone… To seek the truth, or become the truth: this is the legend of an alchemist. … 0Votes146.1kRecs138.5kFans
- 33 The Supernatural Returns: You Call This Proper Science?! 怪异复苏：你管这叫正经科普？！ Lin Muge transmigrates from a society where strange creatures and humans live in peace to a time when the strange have only just begun to reawaken. With his head full of knowledge, he chooses to become an educational content creator, helping everyone understand strange creatures better. “I call this one Octopus Bro. Look at its cute little cherry mouths!” On a raging sea, Lin Muge stands aboard a tiny boat tossed about by the wind and rain, excitedly pointing his camera at the giant octopus behi 0Votes62.4kRecs311.4kFans
- 34 EN In the Divine Realm, I Became a Humanoid Anomaly 人在神国，刚成人间收容物 I came from the mortal world to the Divine Kingdom, then fell from the Divine Kingdom back to the mortal world. Wherever the light of my lantern reaches, all supernatural things are contained. Who am I? I am the black-eyed outsider whom the people of the Divine Kingdom shun and fear. I am the reality warper whom the people of the mortal world fear and depend on. I am the Keeper of the Lamp. I am ████. (Lovecraftian horror + Lord of the Mysteries, no System.) [Warning: With your SAN below 70, rea 4Votes78.2kRecs387.1kFans
- 35 The Fog City Detective 雾都侦探 This book goes from heaven to earth, sees ghosts and toys with people, and includes counterterrorism, antidrug operations, criminal investigations, espionage, plotting, conspiracies, serial killers, sky-high heists, and more. The story is set in Europe. It involves no discrimination and has nothing to do with our country, so please don’t read anything into it. Also, the Xia-Ou continent may differ in a few minor details from the European continent as people generally understand it. Important: Do 3Votes741.3kRecs271.4kFans
- 36 Drawing Cards to Exorcise Demons in Tokyo 人在东京抽卡降魔 Bare-chested, with blazing red hair and drums of thunder surrounding him, Takemikazuchi roared in fury. “Why are you chasing me?” Shangchuan You Ren had three heads and six arms, and his skin was indigo. The head on the left glared furiously. “You insolent demon! I can tell at a glance that you’re no human.” The head on the right wore a compassionate expression. “Please, benefactor, help me in my cultivation.” The head in the middle looked helpless. “That’s more or less how it happened. Please t 0Votes115.8kRecs248.8kFans
- 37 EN Recording Anomalies with My Wood Carvings 我用木雕记录异常 This world has never been ordinary. Places and objects that seem normal are actually filled with the eerie, the mysterious, the absurd, and the bizarre. They might be a strand of hair, a flight of stairs, or a newspaper... Or perhaps just a thought that suddenly comes to you, though it was actually forced into your mind. Then one day, Shen Xing suddenly discovered that his wooden carvings could contain these things. A real and eerie world opened up before him! The 0Votes118kRecs322.4kFans
- 38 Starting Out as the Best in Jinmen 从津门第一开始 A golden-inlaid saber at my waist, the road to the ends of the earth beneath my feet. Ferrying travelers across the myriad worlds, beginning in Tianjin. 0Votes66.8kRecs145kFans
- 39 EN The Corpse Mender of Autumn Execution Grounds 我在秋斩刑场当缝尸人那些年 [A human face with a ghost’s heart, drawing on the past to speak of the present. I am the master of the martial world.] Lin Shou wakes up to find himself a corpse-sewer at the execution grounds where prisoners are beheaded in autumn. Fallen leaves return to their roots, and the dead must be laid to rest. The corpses of executed prisoners must be sewn back together before burial. Otherwise, they will be buried improperly and bring disaster. Lin Shou discovers that sewing up corpses can earn him a 2Votes300.7kRecs741kFans
- 40 The First-Rank Elixir Immortal 一品丹仙 “Are you Wu Sheng, the assassin?” “I am Wu Sheng, the assassin!” “Then why did you become an alchemist?” “Well... because alchemy really pays!” “Then why are you wanted?” “Because... the academy doesn't allow me to sell the pills I make in private.” “So how are you supposed to make money?” “The more they forbid me from selling them, the more profitable they are!” 6Votes478.4kRecs508.9kFans
- 41 A Handbook for Aspiring Detectives 名侦探修炼手册 New book: "Studying Medicine Can't Save the Great Qin". Go read it now! Remember this: never dig into mysteries that have yet to be solved. You can never know how much people in the past paid to keep them hidden. Beneath the deceptive calm, most truths are cruel... All right, let me put it more plainly. If one day you see a book lying on the ground on your way home from work, keep your curiosity in check and don't touch it. …Sadly, Zhou Yan didn't realize this at first. So he picked up the 1Votes76.2kRecs511.2kFans
- 42 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
- 43 In a World of Gods and Ghosts, I Can Rewrite Fate 神诡世界，我能修改命数 This is a world ruled by a human empire, where those in power command the fate of all! This is a realm of the living and the dead, where the uncanny runs rampant! The ancient immortals and Buddhas have vanished, leaving only Daoist fruits returned to the void. Myths of old are awakening, awaiting the opening of Heaven's Gate. Ten True Dragons, Heaven's Chosen Demon Stars, traitorous factions that bring ruin to the realm, martial saints with sacred physiques... In this magnificent age, where all 0Votes127.9kRecs602.1kFans
- 44 Prince of Tennis: Starting with Breathing Techniques 网王之从呼吸法开始 Hōō Byōdōin, Kunimitsu Tezuka, Keigo Atobe, the Big Three of Rikkai, Ryoma Echizen... This is a golden age of tennis. The stars shine bright! And Uesugi Yuu, who unexpectedly arrived in the world of The Prince of Tennis and inherited the Breathing Style from Demon Slayer, What kind of waves will he make in this world where tennis reigns supreme...? 1Votes141.8kRecs312.7kFans
- 45 I Have a House in the Underworld 我在黄泉有座房 Synopsis: I have a house in the Yellow Springs, with fields and plenty of grain at home. A Guoshui production, not suitable for keeping in captivity. Slaughter it while you can. 0Votes278.2kRecs266.2kFans
- 46 The God of Fishing 垂钓之神 [The new book, The Ghost Ship, is now out. Please give it a home~] This planet is covered by ocean. Humans live suspended above the water. At the coming-of-age ceremony, every child takes a fishing test. Those with exceptional natural gifts may become great anglers. In the endless waters, every form of life is entrusted with a sacred mission. Here are fish that fly through the sky and burrow through the earth, turtles steeped in the essence of heaven and earth, whales that swallow the world whol 3Votes296.8kRecs460kFans
- 47 EN The Heretical Dao of Cultivation 诡道修仙 Demons run rampant, and cultivators worship the bizarre as the Heavenly Dao. For a mortal to cultivate, they must gouge out their eyes, sever their limbs, cut off their wisdom root... Ren Qing, who transmigrated here, discovered that his supernatural ability could exempt him from the cost of cultivation. [Eyeless Art]: Swallow eyes to cultivate. At mastery, 106 immortal eyes grow all over your body. [Poison Bone Art]: Soak your bones in poison for thirty-six days, then put them back in your body 0Votes108.2kRecs678.6kFans
- 48 I Have a Mythical Tree 我有一棵神话树 Across the boundless wilderness, countless giant clans stand tall, hiding innumerable secrets. Humanity is weak, starving, and oppressed by the myriad races. Ji Xia arrives in the boundless wilderness with an undying divine tree. He establishes the Cycle of Reincarnation and the Netherworld, appoints countless deities, and builds a heavenly court for humanity. The divine tree bears fruit, each containing wondrous treasures: [Myriad-Grain Treasure Bottle: Add spirit crystals to produce a huge sup 0Votes1MRecs1.3MFans
- 49 Seeking Immortal Fate 莫求仙缘 Immortality is not something you can beg for. That is how Mo Qiu got his name. 0Votes217kRecs330.4kFans
- 50 Cultivation Begins with Making Fire by Rubbing Sticks 修仙从钻木取火开始 My sanctuary lies on Cloud Mountain, with a hall and fields below. When I have time, I sit beneath the ginkgo tree, gazing at the mortal world through drifting clouds. I hoe the fields and listen to the spring, forge swords beside the furnace. What I eat and wear is up to me, and up to heaven. Winter ends, and I lose track of the years; When calamity comes, I must descend the mountain and watch the world's sorrows and joys. I cannot turn a blind eye to injustice, yet I do not care to show off be 0Votes81.8kRecs111.6kFans
