Novels like Seeking the Dao and Immortality, I Am the Butcher's Knife
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Seeking the Dao and Immortality, I Am the Butcher's Knife, best match first.
- 1 The Tsar Has Arrived 沙皇降临 A strange world teeming with all kinds of talents, where the strong rise one after another. The six at the summit: the Black-and-White Holy Hall, the Blood Angel, the Heavenly Sword, the Ghost Blade, and the Asura. A transmigrator carries the bloodline of Azir, the Emperor of the Sands. Rebuild the glory of Shurima? That is our duty, without question. No female lead. Decisive and ruthless, with profit above all else. 0Votes229Recs0Fans
- 2 Uncle Nine’s Zombie World: I’m Immune to All Damage 九叔僵尸世界：我能免疫所有伤害 [You have been attacked by sticky rice. You are now permanently immune to sticky rice.] [You have been attacked by a peachwood sword. You are now permanently immune to peachwood swords.] [You have been attacked by Captain Awei’s matchlock 35 times. You are now permanently immune to matchlock attacks.] [You have been...] [Nothing in the world can harm you. Congratulations, you have achieved every accomplishment and unlocked the ultimate trait: Immortality.] Straightforward synopsis: A reborn 0Votes153Recs1Fans
- 3 I Became a Legend in a Crossover Zombie World 我在综僵世界活成神话 Lu Feng transmigrates into the world of Mr. Vampire, becoming a royal zombie from the start! After killing Taoist Priest Qianhe and Master Yixiu, he follows Taoist Priest Simei to Renjia Town, where he meets Uncle Jiu, Qiusheng, Wencai, and the others... Only then does Lu Feng realize that this is a world combining multiple Mr. Vampire stories. The Red and White Fiends gather in the desolate woods! The fake flying corpse Rentian, who loves listening to music! A Western church hides vampires with 0Votes891Recs5.8kFans
- 4 The Eternal Punishment Dragon in the Prison 监狱里的永罚龙 “Baator once had nine layers. Now it has a tenth.” “Where is the tenth layer?” “In my stomach.” Murphy beat his dark green wings as he soared over the skies of Catherly, looking down at the empty prison road, once the most hopeless and darkest place in the multiverse. He was over a hundred meters long, with the supreme crown resting upon his head. Set into the crown were five dazzling gems. One shone with the colors of chaos, a divine art embodying the disorder of law and order. One gleamed with 0Votes2.2kRecs31.3kFans
- 5 A Different Kind of God 不一样的神明 [The world is a game, and life is just numbers] Believer No. 1: "Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva, bless me so I can pull off a theft tonight." Gu Nan: "Consider it done." Believer No. 2: "Great God of Death, please take away my ugly, elderly husband." Gu Nan: "Consider it done." Believer No. 3: "Compassionate Bodhisattva, would you be my wife?" Gu Nan: "Consi... Wait, you've got a death wish!" 0Votes875Recs58Fans
- 6 The Path to Godhood for the Lord God 主神的神之路 Book Club: (291934284) For Tute, who grew up in an orphanage, the world has no right or wrong, only problems that keep cropping up and need to be solved. What will happen when someone born with little emotion and a high IQ gains access to the Main God Space? There is no romantic harem here, only a path to power littered with countless bones! 0Votes3.1kRecs5kFans
- 7 The Lord God Begins in the Wasteland 主神从废土开始 What, I’ve become a low-budget version of the Supreme God? No big deal! Summoning reincarnators to become my wage slaves? Sounds pretty tempting! But before you start making promises, could you find someone to get me out of here? 0Votes6.8kRecs8.2kFans
- 8 Deep-Sea Giant Octopus: I Can Evolve Without Limits 深海大章鱼：我能无限进化 Reborn as a gigantic octopus in the deep sea, Su Hao has barely had time to figure out what kind of world this is before he senses an indescribable terror looming above him. Thus begins Su Hao's journey through myths. Norse mythology, Hebrew mythology, Greek mythology, Celtic mythology... Throughout his endless travels, he brings countless calamities in his wake. Until, at last, He is known as the source of turmoil, the origin of disaster, the symbol of the apocalypse, the final end. PS: This is 0Votes7.7kRecs79.9kFans
- 9 The Yin-Yang Lantern Bearer 阴阳提灯人 Light a candle, raise a lantern, and beneath its glow, the world will reveal its true side. [This book takes a dark direction.] Chen Ning’an, a divination genius, was reborn after death. With divination, he can communicate with ghosts and gods, predicting fortune and misfortune as he makes his way through a world of lanterns. The beams of an abandoned old house, mysterious books, extraordinary keys… “The hexagram says to head south today. Great fortune.” “The hexagram warns against water today. 0Votes5.1kRecs54.1kFans
- 10 The Damn System Says I Have to Strike First 狗系统让我先发制人 System Evaluation: The Host is despicable, lies through his teeth, has no manners, and has questionable intelligence. He's the latest low point in morality, and his mental state is seriously concerning. 0Votes15.7kRecs39kFans
- 11 Mad Immortal 疯仙 I transmigrated, and even found a “little bottle” that could gather spiritual liquid and use it to accelerate the growth of spirit herbs. Hmph. A classic mortal-cultivation story from the start... I'm bound to take off, right? The corners of my mouth lifted slightly as I began cultivating. - I sit cross-legged: I'm circulating my cultivation technique. I take deep breaths: I'm absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. I look nothing like a human: these are the signs of my ascension to 0Votes10.3kRecs52.2kFans
- 12 The Demonic Path to Immortality 极道长生魔 If the gods and Buddhas are useless, then I’ll do it myself and demand the heavens answer for their crimes! … This is the story of a person with a terminal illness who steals a soul to be reborn, cultivates the ultimate path, slays Buddhas who stand in his way and gods who oppose him, and seeks eternal life. 0Votes5.2kRecs12.6kFans
- 13 Conquering the Heavens with Bajiquan 从八极拳开始横推诸天 I began from humble origins and rose through the sword and spear. In this life, I ask nothing of the future, only that it be lived in blazing glory. Surrounded by countless powerful enemies, all that remains is a past stained with blood and fire. Millions of years from now, the roots of Tianyuan will stand firm. Let’s see who will have the last laugh across all the heavens. On this long, shadowy road, Jiang 0Votes7.3kRecs42.4kFans
- 14 The Storyteller: Endless Reincarnation 说书人：无尽轮回 Throughout an endless journey, everyone struggles simply to stay alive. Some break through every hardship and danger, stepping over the corpses of others on their way to the summit. Others collapse halfway and die unnatural deaths, becoming stepping stones for others. How to survive has become a question no one can avoid. 0Votes6kRecs12.5kFans
- 15 Mortal Power 凡力 Mechanical life is awakening, flesh is spreading, and the indescribable whispers in my ear. Calamities and disasters plague this world. Ordinary people can barely survive, and even cultivators are never safe. Fortunately, I'm fine. Because I am the calamity itself. - - 0Votes10.8kRecs64.3kFans
- 16 Dragon of Calamity 天灾之龙 If you had the chance to be reborn, what would you want to be? A dragon! A mighty dragon! Would you want to be a benevolent metallic dragon, a neutral gem dragon, or an evil chromatic dragon? Of course I want to be an ancestral dragon with invincible power, free to do whatever I please! I will become the god of all living things! The one and only ruler! Their progenitor! No creature will be able to defy me! 0Votes17.6kRecs225.7kFans
- 17 A Martial World Beginning with a Bandit Stronghold 从山匪开始的武侠 This world is terrifying. Daoist masters can block rivers with a single sword; Buddhist vajra warriors can shake the void with a lion's roar; imperial ancestors who have lived for a thousand years can unleash cataclysms; and demonic powerhouses... After transmigrating here, Zhang Jing relies on his extraordinary appetite for devouring spiritual treasures to climb step by step toward the 5Votes43.8kRecs225.2kFans
- 18 Those Who Steal from Heaven Shall Die 盗天者死 This is a terrible world, where heaven and earth hold the power of life and death over all things. Human lives are born unequal, and cultivators gain a destiny and call themselves Fate Cultivators, reigning unchecked over the age. There is Shen Qing, the great thief who can steal other people's fates. Sect prodigy: “When I was born, dragons and phoenixes appeared in auspicious harmony, and purple qi stretched thirty thousand miles east!” Child of destiny: “When I emerged from obscurity, golden l 0Votes18.6kRecs21.1kFans
- 19 EN Breaking the Human Limit 从打破人体极限开始 “Flesh and blood alone: how can one become king?” “To rule over all beings, first devour the Buddhas, dragons, and elephants!” It all begins when Wu Dao breaks through the limits of the human body. 0Votes30.1kRecs207.2kFans
- 20 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
- 21 Embracing the Moon 抱月 I ride the flying immortal on a carefree flight, and embrace the bright moon for all eternity. 0Votes57.7kRecs190kFans
- 22 EN The Black Count of the Sea 海贼之黑伯爵 Francis Lovett, a great mage of the necromancy school given the title “Black Earl,” arrives in a world belonging to pirates. March of the dead, resurrection of the bones, curses of blood! What kind of turmoil will the spells of the mage world stir up here? But first, there’s one condition. Glancing at his arm, which was steadily bleeding, Lovett thought calmly, “I’d better figure out how to survive first!” This is the story of a necromancer stirring up trouble across the seas. The author ha 0Votes56.1kRecs81.1kFans
- 23 EN Infinite Horror Game 无限诡异游戏 Rules feed on gods, and gods offer all living beings as sacrifices. The eerie game is a trap, and the resurgence of the occult is its medium. Beneath the austere veneer lies an indescribable terror. Unwilling to be shackled by fate, Si Qi leaps beyond his restraints. He shreds morality and dances alone on the boundary between black and white; he breaks free of the rules and builds his own 7Votes55.7kRecs233.6kFans
- 24 I Have a Boss Template 我有BOSS模板 Fake Boss: Sets out to rule the world, appears at max level, but only works behind the scenes. His countless minions keep feeding themselves to the heroes, and in the end, he dies at the hands of a hero two major tiers below him. Real Boss: An HP bar long enough to make you despair, massive-area AOE skills, immune to control effects and impossible to kill outright. The corpses of the heroes who come to die every day can pile up into a mountain… … Xu Xian transmigrated, with a Boss template in hi 0Votes102.3kRecs171.2kFans
- 25 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
- 26 Qingyun Immortal 庆云仙 In a vast world where the sky is round and the earth square, Birds carry cloud cities on their backs as they roam the Great Wilderness, While humanity struggles to survive among the countless savage beasts on the ground. The path to immortality begins with a bird, Rising into the white clouds above, to sit as an immortal of the Great Wilderness! 2Votes73kRecs128kFans
- 27 EN Crafting Immortality: Starting by Turning Myself into a Puppet 诡道求仙，从将自己炼成傀儡开始 “Looks like I have no choice but to refine myself into a living puppet.” This is another world of sinister cultivation, where the Great You Dynasty is ruled by bloodthirsty tyrants. The Daoist sects worship Outer Gods, seeking immortality and the path to the celestial through rituals of sacrifice. Demons dwell among the remote mountains; ruined temples and ancient monasteries conceal evil spirits and strange creatures; fox immortals and monstrous cats wander city streets and alleyways. Acros 3Votes41.3kRecs175.8kFans
- 28 My Taoist Magic Comes from a World of Myths and Strange Tales 我的道法来自神话志怪世界 The Five Turbidities descend upon the world, and demons run rampant. Holding a copy of Strange Tales Illustrated, Song Lin transmigrates into the body of a young acolyte at a remote, unorthodox Daoist temple on the frontier. He sees that the ancient evil miasma of the Six Heavens still lingers in this world, where shamans and ghostly arts run wild. Demons and monsters claim official titles, the Three and Five have lost their order, and the worlds of humans and ghosts have become jumbled together 0Votes61.6kRecs345kFans
- 29 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
- 30 A Paradise of Infinite Dimensions 无尽维度的乐园 Traveling through the heavens, roaming across myriad worlds, the paradise of infinite dimensions. Yin Changsheng has no real objection to the Dimension Paradise that forcibly hired him as a Dimension Apostle, but he strongly objects to being sent to kill the Great Sage Ventilating Monkey King before he’s even finished probation... 8Votes42.7kRecs192.5kFans
- 31 The Pinnacle of the Heavens 诸天顶峰 The Flying Dagger of Li: First destroy Shaolin, then crush Wudang. Let our demon cult reign supreme over the martial world. The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng: The sword rises from Emei, the blade cleaves Kunlun. Claim the throne in the Forbidden City and unite the martial world. The Bad Kids: Pacify the Five Dynasties and sweep away the Ten Kingdoms. Through an age-spanning calamity, shatter the void. Pili: Cataclysm strikes the Divine Land, and the Nine Dragons return to Heaven! Tell me, beneath all th 0Votes78.4kRecs121.6kFans
- 32 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
- 33 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
- 34 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
- 35 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
- 36 EN The Splendor of Netheril 耐瑟瑞尔的辉煌 The protagonist is a pure mage: cold-blooded, cautious, dark, and ruthless. There is no heroine from beginning to end, no playing the pig to eat the tiger, and no sudden power-up at the brink of death. He only advances steadily, faces no powerful enemies everywhere he goes, and is always the formidable enemy of others. His whole heart is set on advancing the glory of Netheril. 1Votes69.6kRecs118.8kFans
- 37 Peninsula Prosecutor 半岛检察官 Xu Jingwen transmigrates into South Korea and, from the start, kills his twin brother, who was plotting to murder him. With their identical faces, he assumes his dead brother's identity and takes his job as a prosecutor, his house, and his fiancée. Having taken the place of one man with another, he decides to be a good person and wipe out every corrupt official and criminal. But on his very first day at work, he discovers that the corrupt official is... himself. PS: The protagonist is a playboy 0Votes184.4kRecs800.1kFans
- 38 The Dragon That Devours the World 吞噬世界之龙 In Norse mythology, the Vikings revere me as Jormungandr, the World-Encircling Serpent. In Christian mythology, Christians loathe me as the ancient dragon, the ancient serpent, Satan. In Greek mythology, the gods fear me as Typhon, the hundred-headed dragon. In Kunlun mythology, shamans fervently call me Zhulong, the Torch Dragon, Zhuyin… Mayan mythology, Buddhist mythology, Slavic mythology, Celtic mythology, Nahuatl mythology, Japanese mythology, Assyrian mythology, Egyptian mythology, Finnish 2Votes192.5kRecs299.3kFans
- 39 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
