Novels like The Dao Ancestor is Cthulhu
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- 51 Demon Painter 画妖师 This Buddhist disciple treads the earth and makes lotuses bloom, changes in size, exhausts his afflictions, and wields wondrous supernatural powers. This Taoist travels a thousand miles with sword in hand, roams in spirit and commands the vital energy, flies free of all traces, and practices marvelous arts. But I have only one brushstroke, with which I portray the human heart and paint across heaven and earth! 1Votes146.1kRecs184.6kFans
- 52 EN Rise of an Esoteric Academy Monk 从密修学院僧开始 [Nonsense] [Forced connections] [Far-fetched interpretations] [Poorly expressed] An ancient scripture with no words, a timid monk, centuries of chance encounters, and enlightenment in a single lifetime. It all begins at a scripture academy called the Endless White Pagoda Temple, with a monk from the Esoteric Cultivation Academy 18Votes222kRecs307.5kFans
- 53 I Have a Fate-Binding Die 我有一枚命运魔骰 An ancient demon god cast a die that could change fate into the mortal world. Whoever obtains it can roll the die and have three wishes granted for free, depending on the number rolled. Over the ages, countless owners of the die have altered their destinies and changed the world time and time again. Some wished their way onto the throne of the gods, while others wished for immortality. Chen Qi, at the lowest point in his life, was lucky enough to find the die. His first wish was to become a bill 1Votes153.9kRecs573kFans
- 54 EN Notes on the Aberrant Studies of Kraft 克拉夫特异态学笔记 “Imagine that in the world we live in, people spend their entire lives facing a white wall...” “But a rare few get to glimpse the vast world beyond it, and enjoy colors ordinary people couldn’t imagine in a lifetime?” “Yeah, exactly. That’s what I’m getting at. They all died or went mad.” 260Votes313.8kRecs308.7kFans
- 55 The Chancellor from a Poor Family 寒门宰相 Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin once said, “A prime minister must be a scholar.” Put simply, this is the story of a poor student who rises to become prime minister. P.S. The author has completed three novels of several million words each. You can count on my integrity. 0Votes623.1kRecs366.9kFans
- 56 EN Mysteries Make Me Stronger 神秘让我强大 Mysteries make me powerful. I will keep exploring the unknown, searching for the truth of the Void World. 0Votes216.5kRecs342.4kFans
- 57 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
- 58 Tales of Immortality 长生志异 Changsheng Dynasty, Year Nine of the Mandate. The land of China is in chaos, and the people are destitute. The imperial court’s rule is crumbling, while barbarians from the West arrive with their pantheon of gods. New-style warlords rise up and carve out territories of their own. Taiping rebels run rampant, leaving the land devastated. Floods, severe droughts, earthquakes, sandstorms, tornadoes, acid rain, blood moons, falling meteorites, and other disasters descend one after another. Countless 7Votes405.1kRecs859.3kFans
- 59 Soul Painter 灵魂画手 When Gao Fan tried to paint a picture of what “God” looked like, madness descended. It surged up from the sea, rose from the earth, and fell from the sky… From the beginning and the end of time, it came toward all living things, bearing despair. 0Votes65.8kRecs356.5kFans
- 60 EN This Text Adventure Game Is Seriously Cursed 这个文字冒险游戏绝对有毒 It all begins when the protagonist downloads a game called The Fool (Beta). From that moment on, his life takes a completely different turn. It's a text adventure game so crude it has no graphics or music, just lines of text and countless choices. Yet every choice in the game affects the player's fate, because on the other side of the game lies a real, unknown world! Players cannot enter the other world or see what it looks like. They can only experience what the game character sees and hears at 1Votes178kRecs920.5kFans
- 61 EN Are We Destroying the World Today? 今天毁灭世界了吗？ “So you're saying the world is about to end, and that's why you want to steal a rocket?” “This is a first. I've arrested people for robbing jewelry stores and banks. I've even arrested someone for hijacking a train, but never anyone trying to steal a rocket.” “What were you thinking? Even if you actually managed to steal it, could you fly it?” Lin Xu slowly nodded from across the table. “I can.” “Really. I've flown it countless times already.” “Also, you really need to hurry. I'm out of time.” “ 64Votes261.1kRecs951.9kFans
- 62 The World Enters the Age of Myth 全球迈入神话时代 In the midst of an ordinary life, Lu Yiming suddenly gained superpowers. He had thought he was about to reach the pinnacle of success, only to discover that the whole world had undergone a drastic transformation! Ancient legends became reality, mysterious prophecies were repeatedly proven true, and all kinds of supernatural phenomena appeared before the public one after another: martial arts, magic, cultivation, demons, ghosts, and monsters. The old order collapsed, and humanity was about to ent 6Votes295.8kRecs503.3kFans
- 63 Exploiting Hollywood, 1980 剥削好莱坞1980 Hollywood has come up with plenty of formulas... What makes a movie a hit? And yet plenty of big-budget films that follow the formula still bomb at the box office. Ronald Lee transmigrates to Hollywood in the 1980s. Can he discover the secret to making a hit movie? After all, he can dream about scenes from movies he watched in his previous life... His knack for making box-office hits and helping actors win awards brings Ronald plenty of friends, enemies, and beautiful women... Let the author tak 3Votes484.8kRecs199.1kFans
- 64 EN Green Mountains 青山 In this age, fame and fortune have stripped the world of nine-tenths of its chivalry. Everyone, this is the story of the last remaining tenth. 9.4kVotes3.5MRecs5.4MFans
- 65 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
- 66 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
- 67 EN Twilight Divide 黄昏分界 Dusk divides the world in two, yin and yang. When the flesh of evil gods forced its way through cracks in the earth, flesh as vast as mountains appeared everywhere. Some were afraid. Some worshipped it. Some burned incense and made offerings. Others took a taste and thought, Huh, not bad. And so the flesh became crops, greedily harvested and fought over by people who consulted spirits and worshipped their ancestors. Hu Ma was reborn out of fear. He ate taixui, tended his furnace, and endured cou 67Votes705.1kRecs3.8MFans
- 68 EN The Equation of Heaven's Path 天道方程式 This world is home to demons, ghosts, spirits, and monsters, as well as strange arts and political intrigue. But in the eyes of a transmigrator with a modern education, exploring the unknown always comes first! (Dead serious.) I joined the Privy Council for academic research. I flirt with female demons for academic research. Everything is for research; research is everything! Princess: So having a baby with me, is that for research too? Xia Fan: That's to create an environment for research and r 10Votes788.7kRecs691.3kFans
- 69 EN Lord of Pro 普罗之主 His name is Li Banfeng. Feng as in mountain peak, not as in going crazy. His doctor has told him he isn’t insane. To save a friend’s life, he went to Platform 96, boarded Steam Train 1160, and arrived in Puluo Province, where the world had been stuck in the age of steam. He met a confidante in an old gramophone, peerless beauties on calendar posters, a swaying lady in an antique clock, and a worldly master in a wine gourd. Here, food cultivators grow stronger the more they eat, smoking cultivato 145Votes729.7kRecs2MFans
- 70 Endless Debt 无尽债务 “Hello, my name is Borogo Lazarus. I'm a debtor.” The wounds on Borogo's face were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. The blood still on his face flowed back into the wound, and his skin joined together again, as if time were turning back. Facing the demon, who was dying in terror, he spoke softly. “This is my ‘gift,’ the ‘debt’ I owe.” … Sixty-six years ago, with the end of the Scorched Earth War, Ophis, the Oathbound City, rose from the ruins of the Holy City. Sixty-six years later, 44Votes285.4kRecs1MFans
- 71 Han Si Becomes an Official 韩四当官 A beautiful woman and a golden mansion await within the pages of a book. Once you have mastered your studies, you can be a humble farmer in the morning and enter the emperor's court by evening. Han Si knows nothing of the classics or histories, nor the works of the philosophers, and has no chance of passing the imperial exams. If he wants to bring honor to his family, his only option is to buy an official post! 0Votes701.9kRecs161.2kFans
- 72 Returning to the Heart of the Mountains and Seas 山海归心 The road to immortality is full of twists and turns; seeking the Dao is a hard and arduous journey. What is an immortal? What is the Dao? Let me tell you all about it... 0Votes754.3kRecs0Fans
- 73 EN Tribulation of Mysteries 神秘之劫 With mystery returning and the dawn of the gods, is it really a good thing? Along with the revival of spiritual qi came something else… an unsolvable terror! An unusual surname, a soul traveling between two worlds, and a mysterious epic… 5Votes588.3kRecs1.1MFans
- 74 From the Dragon Clan, I Fight My Way Across the World 从龙族开始打穿世界 A strong young man arrives in the world of Dragon Raja. Faced with the entrance exam prep at Cassell College, Lu Chen is freaking out. The whole bus is full of little dragon people, and he's the only one who isn't a mixed-blood... How is he supposed to pass the 3E exam? Asking online, it's kind of urgent! This is the story of a boy who gradually becomes the top dog at Cas 7Votes277.8kRecs893.4kFans
- 75 Fist of Imagination 空想之拳 My name is Liang De. I'm twenty-seven, not a student, and after transmigrating I live near the university district in Xiangbei City. I'm unmarried. Before I transmigrated, I had to work overtime every day until nine at night before I could go home. If I slacked off, I'd have to work through the night. I smoke and get perms, but I don't drink. I only swear online. I don't spend money on games, and I don't use pirated copies. I always watch the anime every hot-blooded guy should see. When I decide 22Votes287.8kRecs261.5kFans
- 76 This Curse Is Too Wonderful 这个诅咒太棒了 Chen Yu transmigrated to a high-martial-arts world, only to be branded an invader by the “Will of the World” and cursed. [Curse effect: Status Reversal] [While cultivating: Vital energy -1, -2, -1, -1...] [While exercising: Obesity +1; Weakness +1; Constitution -1; Strength -1; Stamina -1...] Chen Yu: “This is too much! I’m done training!” [While being lazy: Vital energy +1, +2, +2, +1...] [While staying up late: Health +1; Immunity +1; Cardiopulmonary function +1; Fatigue -1...] [While indulgin 2Votes269.8kRecs1.6MFans
- 77 The Main God Hunter 主神猎手 Everyone understands why this book ended. I never expected to return from the Netherworld, but my new book [Only After Eating Your Fill Can You Become the Demon King] has already been released. Everyone is welcome to read it! In a martial arts world, he transforms into a muscular powerhouse, suppresses the martial world with sheer strength, sweeps through thousands of troops, and becomes an unrivaled supreme figure of the grasslands; In a wizarding world, he keeps company with 0Votes199.8kRecs208.4kFans
- 78 Heavenly Official of Blessings and Virtue 福德天官 When the false is taken for true, even the true becomes false; when nothing is mistaken for something, even something becomes nothing. A fake Earth God: I shall become the cycle of reincarnation! A real Earth God: Once I kill you, I’ll set up a grand feng shui formation and give you a nice-looking burial mound. A fake Earth God: Great virtue bears all things. A real Earth God: Not bad. I’ll take that. Heavenly treasures belong to whoever has the virtue to claim them. Fake Earth God: Honest and s 4Votes180.5kRecs446.1kFans
- 79 EN The Book of Strange Tales 志怪书 The new book, Where There Are Immortals, There Is a Name, is now out. The pine wind scatters the tea smoke. Amidst piles of white clouds, immortals sleep. A dream of the past rises without warning: beneath the village entrance tree, an old man tells tales. The stories of immortals, ghosts, fox spirits, and mountain monsters that once left children wide-eyed are neither wholly true nor wholly unreal, both eerie and romantic, and still as marvelous as ever. How many have dreamed of traveli 86Votes1MRecs1.3MFans
- 80 Technological Cultivation: Leading Humanity Out into the Stars 科技修行：带领人族杀出星际 A cliched story about someone who awakens with the weakest talent, trains step by step to the highest level, and saves Earth and the universe. 0Votes111.2kRecs29kFans
- 81 EN I Really Didn't Target the Mages 我真没针对法爷 Ten years after transmigrating. [You killed 1 Mana-Burst Frog. Total Mana-Burst Frogs killed: 164,250.] [Your spell resistance has increased to 100%.] By the pond, Roger rubs his aching lower back and mutters: “Finally... I think I've gotten just a tiny bit stronger.” This is a fantasy wasteland world that has been repeatedly nuked into submission by nineteenth-circle spells. Roger transmigrated here with the [Wandering Hero] class template. He has only one wish: To grow just a little strong 0Votes306.5kRecs1.3MFans
- 82 The Skeleton Warrior 骸骨武士 The story of a skeleton swordsman, crossing blades with supernatural forces from around the world and making friends through fistfights. 0Votes49.6kRecs40.4kFans
- 83 EN Mysterious Daoist of Madness 道诡异仙 An uncanny Heavenly Dao, strange immortals and Buddhas: are they real or false? Lost in confusion, Li Huowang cannot tell. But these aren’t the only things he can’t distinguish. He can’t even make sense of himself. He’s sick, and very seriously so. 650Votes1.8MRecs13.2MFans
- 84 The Peerless Duo 盖世双谐 Wandering the martial world, stopping and starting, I turn back through memories of my wandering youth. Now I've traveled across this world, with so much still to leave behind. The peak stirs up the past. 742Votes3MRecs1MFans
- 85 Supreme Fortune, Cultivating in Secret for a Thousand Years 顶级气运，悄悄修炼千年 Reborn into a world of immortal cultivation, Han Jue discovers that he has game-like attributes and can roll dice to refresh his spiritual root aptitude and innate luck. So he spends eleven years rolling for innate luck. [Peerless: Immortal appearance, top-tier charm] [Heaven's Chosen Sword Enthusiast: Top-tier swordsmanship aptitude and comprehension] [Peerless Movement: Top-tier movement technique aptitude] [Descendant of an Immortal Emperor: Obtain a peerless cultivation technique and one tho 14Votes452.1kRecs2MFans
- 86 EN Cultivation? Ain't Got No Money For That! 没钱修什么仙？ The old man asked, “You want revenge?” The boy replied, “I’ve been humiliated again and again by the powerful, and my master considers me trash. How could I not want revenge?” The old man patted the boy’s head and sighed. “Good boy, let me pass my cultivation power on to you.” The boy exclaimed, “Senior! How could I accept that?” The old man held out his hand. “Give me your phone.” Watching the changes on his phone, the boy cried out in shock, “Senior! Where did all this hundred-year cultivation 17.7kVotes4MRecs7.2MFans
- 87 EN Who Isn’t a Cultivator These Days? 谁还不是个修行者了 The new book, Where There Are Immortals, There Is a Name, is now out. He transmigrates into a fantasy world, only to find that... Cultivators with advanced ideals have just ended the long, drawn-out war that brought the old era of cultivation, long past its prime, to a close. The age of imperial oppression is gone, and the era when cultivators stood above everyone else has vanished. This is a vibrant new age in which cultivation is accessible to all. Welcome to the dawn of a new era. These d 28Votes296.9kRecs787kFans
- 88 EN Lord of Shenxiu 神秀之主 This is a meticulously crafted cultivation novel spanning the heavens! Watch as Zhong Shenxiu roams the heavens, pursues immortality, beats the System to a pulp, and becomes the ruler of the heavens. Here you’ll find modern martial arts, classical cultivation, a Lovecraftian martial world, horror realms, steampunk… Infinite worlds, infinite possibilities, all in Lord of Shenxiu! 4Votes428.9kRecs504.1kFans
- 89 EN The King 国王 Many races coexist, and swords and magic shine side by side. Humans, sea folk, elves, dwarves, beastfolk, and more all vie to let their civilizations shine, composing an epic tale of tragedy and glory! (A slow-paced, warmongering lord story. A little patience is recommended.) If you’re out of books to read, please check out Following the Dao Across the Heavens, The Holy Roman Empire, and The Path to Hegemony in the Mediterranean. Group 1: 906082865 (newly created) Group 3: 8Votes612.3kRecs1.7MFans
- 90 Hidden Dead Ends 隐秘死角 New book: The Desperate Night: I Alone Am Immortal in a Strange World. Search for it if you're interested. Have you heard? If, late at night when all is quiet, you open a music player, put on your headphones, curl up under the covers with your head tucked in, and listen to the same song on repeat, then fall asleep after the forty-fourth play, you might wake up somewhere other than your own bed. You will have entered a strange space completely cut off from reality. That space... at first glance, 11Votes812kRecs2MFans
- 91 Heaven's Arrival 天阿降临 Chu Jungui was a top-secret experimental subject, cultivated through forbidden methods by the Great Tang Dynasty in an attempt to create a deep-space warrior capable of waging war in every corner of the star ocean. But after an accident, he escaped the laboratory, broke free of his restraints, and gained an independent personality. From then on, in this great age of interstellar expansion, he battled across the stars and traversed the galaxy, ultimately ushering humanity into a whole new era. 2Votes7.4MRecs754.6kFans
- 92 EN Stepping into the Unscientific 走进不科学 (This book currently has over 15,000 average monthly subscribers and more than 50,000 peak subscribers. Come join the story!) I once sat with Newton and debated the principles of the universe, and I once walked shoulder to shoulder with Einstein. I messed up Planck's hair, and gazed at the stars with Deng Jiaxian deep in Lop Nur... In short, this is the story of a top student traveling through time and space, past and present, East and West, and using the wisdom of those who came before to open 41Votes401.6kRecs918.4kFans
- 93 EN I Can't Possibly Be the Sword God 我不可能是剑神 [Overpowered Protagonist] [The Sword God of Ten-Mile Slope] [Absurd Comedy] … Li Chu transmigrated to Ten-Mile Slope and became a little Taoist priest. In this world where gods and ghosts ran rampant and demons wreaked havoc, the weak and helpless Li Chu had originally intended to survive quietly on Ten-Mile Slope for the rest of his life. It was not until one day, when he had no choice but to enter the martial world, that he discovered... There was nothing in this world that could not be solve 29Votes731.5kRecs1.7MFans
- 94 EN Embers of the Gun 余烬之铳 This is a damned Victorian fantasy novel. Add a spoonful of steam engines to get that damned tech tree moving! Add a spoonful of love and hatred to give everyone a good reason to fight! Add a spoonful of insanity to make this dark world a little lighter, then finish with a spoonful of calamity for the main boss... Wait! Damn it, I added too much! Year 931 of the Yin Erwei Ge calendar. The city I live in has been named the most advanced city in the West. The main reason? World-changing steam 13Votes220.3kRecs612kFans
- 95 EN Calamity of Tomorrow 明日之劫 A meteor streaked across the sky, shattering the world's tranquility. Supernatural powers descended upon the mortal realm. Who lurked in the darkness, and who whispered in my ear? When roars shattered the firmament, when power crushed the abyss, when every life and death was under my command... they called me a god. 7Votes1.3MRecs1.1MFans
- 96 EN Becoming a Weird Tale Counts as Success 成为怪谈就算成功 Urban legends are uncanny things that feed on cognition, wield information as weapons, and use data as currency. They are neither living nor dead, existing in human rumors and dwelling in the shadows of the world. “So this means I’ll become an urban legend?” In ancient times, they were worshipped as gods, growing stronger through faith. “Then I’ll be a god!” In more recent times, they were feared as demons, nourished by fear. “I’ll become the Lord of Urban Legends!” But swept along by the tides 0Votes212.8kRecs675.3kFans
- 97 EN Protect Our Patriarch 保护我方族长 Transmigrate into a clan leader in a fantasy world, and portray that world as realistically as possible from the perspective of a family. Grow spirit crops, raise spirit fish, and develop all kinds of family businesses. Support the laid-back elders until they become ancestors who can serve as a protective umbrella, and encourage the younger generation to venture into sacred sites and academies, making a name for themselves. The family members in this story are close-knit and united, working toge 10Votes16.6MRecs1.4MFans
- 98 Players Are Super Just 玩家超正义 The long night has come, and the blood moon hangs overhead. Hoarse whispers drift through street corners, while brass steam engines spew clouds of blood mist. Your brain is singing, your eyes are chanting. Your skin cracks, and lumps of flesh swell beneath it. In the gray mist, a wall of flesh that has devoured thousands of corpses howls day and night... “Don't cry. Our players don't bite. They just want to play with you.” The lonely, underhanded game planner; the top player; savior of the Mist 7Votes676.9kRecs1.2MFans
- 99 I'm a Director, and I'm Not That Bad 我是导演，我不比烂 In 2006, Xu Xin had a dream. In it, he saw an entertainment industry where everyone was competing to be the worst. People would do anything to stand out and go to great lengths to chase traffic. “If that's how things are, why can't we live like a beam of light?” (High-definition, uncensored, no angst or melodrama. The author's character is guaranteed, so feel free to jump in.) 23Votes893.8kRecs1.1MFans
- 100 The Witcher in the Game 游戏之狩魔猎人 I crave no wealth or fame, No status or power. I want a steed, black as night and swift as the wind. I want a sharp sword, bright as moonlight. I will ride my black horse through the night. I will use the sword in my hand to cut down all evil. That is what my heart desires! Friend, will you pass the flame? The Night's Watch can't hold the line anymore, Slaanesh's army has already crossed the border, and Isengard has risen too. I really can't pass you the flame! 1Votes352.2kRecs255.7kFans
