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- 1 EN Decree of the Immortal Official 仙官有令 A dynasty spanning a thousand years has enshrined countless immortals. The imperial court is filled with ministers of immense talent. Across the vast martial world, heroes possess the lofty spirit to reach the heavens. The land of Jiuzhou is caught in a turbulent time. Beneath the prosperous age, hidden currents surge like the sea, while gods, ghosts, demons, and monsters loom above. The three teachings and the mysterious sects descend into the mortal world in the guise of immortal officials 17Votes254.7kRecs730kFans
- 2 Are You Seriously Making Cards Without Following the Rules? 您完全不按套路制卡是吗 “Why is this fireball spell green?” “Uh... because I added poison gas to it.” “What about the ice spike spell? Why does one hit leave you flat on the ground? Is there poison in that too?” “No, it's just a powerful anesthetic.” “Then what about the magical girl apprentice you summoned? Why does she know taekwondo?” “That's perfectly normal. A girl needs to learn a few skills to defend herself...” “??? So you don't follow the usual rules at all when making cards?” 0Votes33.1kRecs304.8kFans
- 3 Was I Expelled from Hogwarts? 我被霍格沃茨开除了？ “Detected one Professor McGonagall in tabby-cat form. Pet her vigorously for thirty seconds. Reward: Transfiguration talent!” “Detected one disabled Voldemort. Help him install a nose. Reward: Parseltongue talent!” “Detected one domesticated phoenix, Fawkes. Complete its taming. Reward: Phoenix Rebirth!” Staring at the one outrageous quest after another issued by the System, Rolf Scamander fell silent... He really didn't want to get expelled from Hogwarts! 0Votes70.1kRecs233.5kFans
- 4 EN Cultivating Immortality Alone in the Apocalypse 混在末日，独自成仙 [Sci-fi apocalypse setting + a lone cultivator protagonist. Not a mindless power fantasy.] This is a shattered world. Humanity's civilization is barely surviving on a planet devastated by the Blade-Beast cataclysm. The flame of civilization in underground fortresses flickers on and off, while humanity's elite in space are plotting the ultimate counterattack against the Blade Beasts. Yet the road ahead for humankind looks dim… “So…” A Mahayana cultivator who had spent 125 years in arduous cultiva 22Votes2.9MRecs2.5MFans
- 5 Farming and Training in Martial Arts to Pacify the World 种田练武平天下 The world is harsh, and all the family has is three acres of poor farmland. Yet Chi Qiaosong manages to cultivate a brilliant world from it. A new story for 2022, painstakingly conceived by Bai Yuhan. Please enjoy. 2Votes154kRecs330.1kFans
- 6 Without a Heroic Spirit, I Have to Take the Field Myself 没有英灵的我只能亲自下场 In the Spirit Summoning Age, people can form a bond with a heroic spirit and contract one from another world to fight for them. Jiang He transmigrates into this world, unable to contract with any heroic spirit, but awakens the [Book of Heroic Souls]. With the Book of Heroic Souls, he can travel to the worlds of heroic spirits and, drawing on his own experiences, inscribe myths and legends to shape one invincible heroic spirit after another! He once beheaded a dragon at the execution grounds, its 1Votes78.9kRecs518.1kFans
- 7 This Daoist Truly Doesn't Want to Make Money 贫道真不想搞钱啊 This poor Daoist slays demons and vanquishes evil only to uphold Heaven's justice and protect peace in the mortal world. Making money has absolutely nothing to do with it. “Daoist Master Baoshou, we've only built half the temple, and we're out of money again.” “Ha! Then this poor Daoist will go slay a few more demons and bring back the reward money!” What harm could there be in a Taoist who earns money to build houses? Slay demons and vanquish evil for reward money; build the Qingyun Temple aga 0Votes98.7kRecs429.9kFans
- 8 EN Tales of the Mortal World 细说红尘 At a teahouse by the road, silhouettes drift in and out. A couple of cries ring out along the street. Before the crowd, a fan flutters; a wooden clapper strikes the table. Ladies and gentlemen, lend an ear as I tell my tale. The fan opens, and all things blend into the Dao. The heavenly stars and earthly fiends reveal their wondrous transformations. The clapper strikes, and waves rise a thousandfold. All living beings, with their passions, roll on through the mortal world. 8Votes271.6kRecs610.5kFans
- 9 EN My Fierce Dao Companion Has Also Reborn 凶猛道侣也重生了 As the only male heir of the Lu family, Lu Shui received an order from the family elders today: go to the Mu family and break off his engagement. He’d heard that the Mu family’s heavenly daughter had lost all her cultivation overnight and become a cripple, leaving the Lu family elders deeply dissatisfied. They wanted to call off the engagement and find another match. Ordinary Lu Shui didn’t refuse. But when Lu Shui arrived at the Mu family and saw his fiancée, he was dumbfounded. It turned out t 4Votes261.1kRecs788kFans
- 10 Half-Immortal 半仙 Deep in the mountains stands a Taoist temple, its incense long since dwindled. I’m nothing special, just nineteen years old, and I’ve been a Taoist priest since childhood. I have more than a dozen senior brothers, and I’m the youngest, known as the last disciple. Our sect was desperately poor, and my senior brothers couldn’t bear the hardship. Fortunately, our broad-minded master let them all go their separate ways, though three later saw the error of their ways and returned. My master favored m 19Votes2.5MRecs1.1MFans
- 11 You Take the Immortal Pill, I’ll Take the Poison 仙丹给你毒药归我 Lu Jing transmigrated to an era that closely resembled the Song Dynasty. He initially thought it merely had a martial world, but never imagined that another mysterious and unknowable world lay hidden beneath it. To resolve the problem of the inner force in his body growing more abundant by the day, Lu Jing resolutely stepped through that door. Yet he discovered that not only had the problem failed to be resolved, it seemed to have grown even more severe. Also known as I Have Ten Thousand Swords 0Votes296.8kRecs358.2kFans
- 12 EN I Have a Two-World Seal 我有一枚两界印 A jade seal lets Lu Zheng transmigrate freely to another world. At first, he thinks it is an utterly ordinary ancient world. With no great ambitions, he plans to become a carefree traveling merchant, enjoy the life of a wealthy man, find a few lovely companions to keep him company, and spend his plain, dull days eating and wandering around. Until... he gives a meal to the beggar at his door, and the jade seal gains a few strands of fortune... Fox women come by day, alluring ghosts visit by night 2Votes406.2kRecs663.3kFans
- 13 EN The Immortal Craftsman's Creation 仙工开物 Deep inside a volcano, an immortal palace of mechanisms left behind by ancient sages awaits its successor. His mother risked her life to obtain its immortal seal, entrusting it to Ning Zhuo with her dying breath. The Buddha’s Heart-Demon Seal! Save yourself and become a Buddha; save others and turn them into demons. With the seal in hand, one can lightly imprint the heart and command mechanisms as easily as feathers. Others grow weary and burdened when controlling them, but Ning Zhuo can command 550Votes3.6MRecs4.4MFans
- 14 EN Secretly Cultivating Beside the Demoness 苟在女魔头身边偷偷修炼 Jiang Hao transmigrates into an ordinary family, is forced to be sold to a demonic sect, and becomes one of its disciples. He only wants to focus on cultivation and grow stronger bit by bit, so he can survive in the world of cultivation. But a female demonic cultivator “humiliates him in every way.” Outmatched by a vast difference in strength, all he can do is endure and stay alive, hoping never to encounter her again. With no one to rely on, he earns the favor of the demonic sect’s leader and i 24Votes846.1kRecs1.6MFans
- 15 EN Please, Young Master, Slay the Demon! 请公子斩妖 [Nonsense] [No Shame] [No Clichés] … The vast human world, the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands. A world of flowers and delights, where cultivating immortality is pure fun. When Chu Liang opened his eyes to find himself a disciple of the Mount Shu Sect, with a strange pagoda inside him, he embarked on a path he had never imagined. Smoke rises at dawn from thirty-six peaks. Eight thousand miles away, he returns after slaying a dragon! … “Please, young master, slay the demon!” 27Votes734.7kRecs3.5MFans
- 16 EN The Sage of Idle Tales 我用闲书成圣人 A coffin from the start. Chen Luo's transmigration begins in a mourning hall. This is a world where reading can grant extraordinary power. Read the Confucian classics, and you can cultivate righteous qi; read Daoist scriptures, and you can generate innate source qi; read Buddhist sutras, and you can comprehend the true meaning of reincarnation. Yet Chen Luo's golden finger is a pile of frivolous books that the Heavenly Dao forbids from existing in this world! … What? The Demon Kingdom considers 17Votes805.7kRecs3MFans
- 17 EN This Is How Immortality Cultivation Works! 修仙就是这样子的 In the world of Jiuzhou, players seething with resentment gathered together, swore a blood oath, and vowed to make the great demon lord vanish forever. In no time, people from every corner joined in. The winds were rising, the clouds were gathering, and everyone could see a brighter future ahead. Everyone except Lu Bei. He was the so-called demon lord. “You call me a demon lord and blame me for screwing you over? I’m an NPC. How could I possibly screw you over? That’s just how cultivating immort 16Votes861.1kRecs1.7MFans
- 18 EN The Immortal's Unyielding Seriousness 这个人仙太过正经 A demigod's body, standing shoulder to shoulder with mortals! A proper human immortal, harvesting gods in the wilds of mountains and seas! (Serious synopsis) The sky stretches ninety thousand miles high, and the earth is home to countless kingdoms. The human path is fraught with hardship, while the mountains and seas are nothing but desolate wastes. 8Votes12.6MRecs3.3MFans
- 19 EN The Unremarkable Senior Brother 平平无奇大师兄 Lu Changsheng was having a hard time. He had transmigrated into an immortal-hero world with the face of a protagonist. His extraordinary presence captivated everyone. Whenever he broke through a cultivation realm, the heavens and earth filled with visions. One poem from him could astonish the scholars of the land. Even casually reciting a few lines from the Dao De Jing, the Zhuangzi, or the Huangting Scripture would bring flowers raining from the sky, rays of light stretching for thousands of mi 0Votes4MRecs4.2MFans
- 20 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
- 21 The Doomsday Jigsaw Game 末日拼图游戏 You wake up and find yourself in a tower-apocalypse, where humanity lives inside towers and monsters roam outside. Your eyes can see strange annotations: [Two Fallen Ones are hiding 1,600 meters away. When you're furious, one sliding tackle will feed them until they're full.] [Before you think about steaming, boiling, or frying it, you'd better check its left pocket. Don't ever get into the bad habit of killing monsters without looting them.] [Someone actually staring at their own face? I'll adm 21Votes439.8kRecs1.6MFans
- 22 EN I Am an Eternal Immortal 我为长生仙 Immortals, gods, demons, and monsters; princes, marquises, generals, and ministers. Dragon maidens hold the lamps, while the sea fills the cups. Wild foxes contemplate Zen, fierce tigers comprehend the Dao. They roam the North Sea by morning and traverse Cangwu by evening. Immortals and gods exist in the world, while demons and monsters establish kingdoms. Originally, none of this had anything to do with Qi Wuhuo. Qi Wuhuo, who always saw square characters in his dreams, only wished to take part 30Votes491.5kRecs2.3MFans
- 23 EN What If My Heroine Escapes Her Novel? 女主从书里跑出来了怎么办 Chu Ge writes harem novels. As he was writing about one of the world’s most powerful women, a sect leader, beginning to fall in love... A woman appeared in his room and held a sword to his throat. “If you dare write that I fall in love with that man, I’ll kill you.” 14Votes466.1kRecs1.5MFans
- 24 Five Hundred Years of Time Stop 时停五百年 God plans to turn Earth into a game. To prevent humanity from dying during the game's creation, God paused time for everyone on Earth, but Wei Huo's time alone was not stopped. Five hundred years later, the game Humanity's Rise launched. Demon players descended, legendary humans appeared, and Wei Huo had already gained a five-hundred-year lead over them in this game. New book: After the Moon Landing 0Votes151.8kRecs238.3kFans
- 25 EN Ascension on a Chosen Day 择日飞升 As a snake catcher, Xu Ying had always been honest, diligent, and conscientious, until one day he caught a very unusual snake… On the first day of the third month, incense smoke rose across the land of Shenzhou. The statues of the gods who guarded villages, towns, cities, and provinces all awoke to receive offerings from the common people. But from that day onward, all under heaven fell into chaos. This book is also known as "996 Cultivation", "007 Cultivates the Truth Too", "The Rat Race", "Wor 61Votes5.3MRecs4.2MFans
- 26 Museum of Demon Suppression 镇妖博物馆 What defies the natural order of the world is a yao. What possesses the spirit of a living creature is a jing. What lingers after death is a ghost. What is abnormal in an object is a monster. The Commandant of Retainers, once known as the Crouching Tiger, was an office established by Emperor Wu of Han to investigate witchcraft and capture treacherous criminals. As spiritual energy and the supernatural revive across the globe, humanity gropes its way toward cultivation. The yaoguai, spirits, ghos 42Votes1.2MRecs6.9MFans
- 27 EN Record of Mortal Cultivation's Demise 灭运图录 Cultivation means discarding the false and preserving the true, seeing one’s own nature clearly. Those who achieve this are called “Perfected Ones.” They attain the Primordial Spirit and transcend life and death. The Record of Fate’s Demise, the Dao Seed of Fate’s Demise? The cultivation story of a transmigrator who happens upon an ancient immortal art and journeys through the Myriad Worlds and countless vast realms. Group numbers: Group One: 213933048 (full) 34Votes473.8kRecs642.3kFans
- 28 EN My Senior Brother is Too Steady 我师兄实在太稳健了 *The annual Youku season of the animated adaptation, My Senior Brother Is Too Steady, is about to conclude.* Reborn in ancient times, before the Investiture of the Gods War, Li Changshou became a minor Qi Refiner. He had no great fortune bestowed upon him, nor was he a chosen one destined to face a catastrophic tribulation. All he had was a cultivation dream: to live forever. To make a living in 120Votes11.5MRecs9.8MFans
- 29 The Great Mischievous Monkey 大泼猴 There are always people in this world who are brave and fearless, stubborn to the point of being single-minded, unruly, proud, and arrogant. Even when they’re pushed to the brink, they refuse to compromise. They would rather die than lose. P.S. 3Votes323.7kRecs1.4MFans
- 30 A Mortal's Cultivation of Immortality: The Immortal Realm Arc 凡人修仙之仙界篇 A mortal cultivates immortality, and the storms rise again. Travel through time and space, reverse the cycle of reincarnation. Golden Immortals and Supreme Unity Immortals, Grand Luo Dao Ancestors. Three thousand great paths, supreme laws. The Immortal Realm arc of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: the story of Han Li making his mark in the Immortal Realm, and the undying legend of an ordinary boy's path to immortality. A note for readers who haven't read the previous story: it won' 141Votes30.1MRecs10.7MFans
- 31 Contending for the Great Dao 大道争锋 … … Let not the heart fall into the cycle of rebirth, but enter the boundless world, Let the heart pass down the Way among humankind. May I raise my sword and slay ten thousand calamities, And trade ruthlessness for a heaven of compassion! … … Regular reader groups: Great Dao Contention (217929481) (old group) Ming Cang Sect (124680866) (old group) … … 270Votes4.3MRecs1.8MFans
- 32 EN The Game of Fate 烂柯棋缘 Fallen leaves beside the ancient Go board, an old tree where no one plays. A move at the center of the board, made on a whim; look back, and mountains and seas stretch into the distance. … When Ji Yuan woke up, he had become a half-blind beggar in a dilapidated mountain god temple. A sword in the hands of a true immortal, a glib tongue in the hands of a charlatan: these are Ji Yuan’s means of making a place for himself in this terrifying world. VIP verification group: 72Votes4.1MRecs3.5MFans
- 33 EN Daoist Sovereign 道君 The story of an earthling, a god-tier tomb raiding master, who ventures into the world of cultivation... In the Peach Blossom Spring, a song can be heard. Beyond the green hills lies another green hill, then a mountain of bones. Five-flower horses, thousand-gold furs, a Heaven-Piercing Sword. Answer my passion: ghosts chirp and wail, while beauties pout in displeasure. Heaven and earth stretch without end; whose banners and drums resound? The Azure Vault and Yellow Springs, towers that have stoo 28Votes9.9MRecs2.8MFans
- 34 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
- 35 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality 凡人修仙传 An ordinary country boy accidentally joins a small local martial sect and becomes a nominal disciple. With that status, how can he establish himself in the sect? How can he, despite his mediocre talent, enter the ranks of the cultivators and make a name for himself across the Three Realms? Fellow cultivators, the new edition of the print book is now available. Feel free to purchase a copy if you’re interested. Thank you for your support! 979Votes16.2MRecs8.5MFans
