Novels like Lord of the Desolate Sands
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as Lord of the Desolate Sands, best match first.
- 1 Cultivating Immortality the Witch's Way 魔女流修仙 At first, Li Yu wanted nothing to do with cultivation. Meditating, expanding his meridians, lighting up his acupoints... It was all too much trouble! But when faced with the alternative, a potion from the “Witch” pathway, Li Yu decided that maybe cultivating immortality wasn’t so bad after all~~ PS: This is a world that blends xianxia and the occult. It is not fanfiction. 1Votes10.3kRecs32.1kFans
- 2 EN Forge of Ascension 铸命升途 The world is an immense, empty sea. The world is a tiny mote of dust in that sea. Above the heavens hangs the abyss; beneath the dark moon, beings from beyond covet our world. Ancient life forms hack their way through the brambles, using the candlelight of civilization to illuminate the path to ascension. Martial cultivation, Heart Remnants, and Precepts; natural disasters, immortal insects, and Truth... Danger lurks everywhere, but extraordinary encounters and opportunities are just as abundant 3Votes76.9kRecs118.3kFans
- 3 The Wild Man's Blade Records 野夫提刀录 The sun rises over Fusang, a yardstick high; all the affairs of the world are fine as strands of hair. When a country bumpkin sees injustice, he rages and wears down the ancient blade in his heart! In this world, supernatural arts are handed down through countless ages. Monsters that hold pearls in their mouths and breathe out candlelight dazzle all who see them. They regard ten thousand years as no more than a morning and compress countless eons into an instant. In this dazzling, wondrous world 0Votes64.7kRecs199.3kFans
- 4 EN Evolution of the Metaverse 元宇宙进化 What is the ultimate form of life? The Yanhuang Federation tears open the void and peers into a higher-dimensional world. By cultivating through big data, it builds a Cosmic Brain and achieves pure data life. The first layer of big data: genes. But this act provokes retaliation from the higher-dimensional world. The golden 3Votes72.6kRecs139.7kFans
- 5 Martial Arts: The Era of True Qi 武道：真气时代 After the Steam Age came a great upheaval, and the Era of True Qi followed in its wake. Unwilling to give up, ordinary people with poor aptitude drove the Electric Age forward, step by step. Yet the diversification and convenience of energy sources did not leave the Era of True Qi far behind. In fact, it still receives far more attention than electricity! The power and terror of True Qi have a profound influe 0Votes17.7kRecs82kFans
- 6 Han Descendants of the Jin Court 晋庭汉裔 The mountains we look back on again and again, the sea we never forget. On the day Jiang Wei died in the flames at Chengdu, the last light of the Han Empire vanished for good. The men of Jin stood beside his corpse and picked up a gallbladder as big as a bucket. They stared at one another in bewilderment. The Western Jin Empire was founded on this victory, but the answer to where the future would lead was a terrible one. Forty years later, mourners would fill the land, the Nine Provinces would l 301Votes131.5kRecs144kFans
- 7 The Ascension of Spirit Companions 眷灵飞升 [New Book: Beast Taming Begins with the Broken-Winged Frost Butterfly] [Beast Taming] [Summoning] [Pets] [Evolution] [Cultivation] Demons, savages, ghosts, prisons, machines, soldiers, medicines, hybrids, witches, immortals, fiends... This is a world of monsters, filled with countless and varied [Familiars]. But humanity also commands the power of [Professions]. Once awakened, a person can obtain a contract sigil, sign contracts with monsters, and form entirely new bonds with them. [For example 0Votes57.5kRecs159kFans
- 8 The Unorthodox Rules of Cultivation 非正常世界修仙法则 Li Feihu has an IQ of seventy-five. He is the smartest person in the world. To be fair, this isn’t exactly a proper world, and none of its people are exactly proper either. Still, since you’re here, go ahead and click to take a look. Who knows? You might learn how to glow, and how to glow even more brilliantly. 4Votes10.2kRecs51.3kFans
- 9 Origin Paradise! 起源乐园！ Across the vast cosmos, the extraordinary has returned. The Blue Star Origin Battlefield has reopened. This is a death game where everything is absolutely real. Hounds devour the sun, crows bring down the curtain, and giant serpents coil around the Middle Court. Worlds beyond the world, frontiers beyond the present realm. Old and new gods, an eternal war of blood, the Candle Dragon Project, frontier exploration, the Ten Great Stars, wars for control of the world... The land is once again plunged 0Votes103.3kRecs212.9kFans
- 10 Half-Demon's Path to Immortality 半妖养仙途 A sea of tribulations has forged me into an immortal. In a cultivation world where humans, demons, and half-demons live side by side, Lu Tong repeatedly risks his life in pursuit of the Way, seizing treasures from the flames. In the end, he rises to become a great power in his own right, despite being a half-demon. 0Votes57.6kRecs78.6kFans
- 11 EN I Cultivate Immortality with a Progress Bar 我修仙有进度条 … Cultivating immortality means shedding the false to find the true, and becoming an immortal! Everyday life while cultivating immortality. More precisely, the daily life of a transmigrator with a cheat. See the world through the eyes of a righteous cultivator, and rise step by step to become the leader of the righteous path. No traditional evil cultivators or troub 4Votes87.1kRecs485kFans
- 12 Adventure Addict! 冒险者重度依赖！ In the world of light, I had just arrived in this fantastical realm when they said I was starting too late, had no talent, and would struggle to become an adventurer. In the world of shadow, I scraped by around the town. They called me a rookie adventurer, one who only took low-level commissions and didn't dare challenge powerful monsters. In the world of darkness, I fought my way through the Underdark, gathered every treasure and relic, and sought the truth of the world. They call 5Votes22.7kRecs131.9kFans
- 13 Wanderer of the Abyss 深渊漫游者 After accidentally blowing up the global internet with one slip of the hand, Jiang Zhou became the worst criminal in human history and fell into a long slumber. When he wakes again a hundred years later, he finds himself in an out-of-control age where the primitive and the civilized intertwine, and control and resistance collide. In the abyss, countless out-of-control AIs run rampant. Above Olympus, supercorporations that consider themselves gods look down on the masses. In baseline reality, ord 33Votes64.2kRecs116.4kFans
- 14 Overthrowing Qin 覆秦 In the final years of the Qin Dynasty, the empire was exhausted. The land was rife with the people’s anguish and resentment, while the remnants of the Six Kingdoms plotted against Qin. At this moment, heroes rose up in rebellion and rallied the people. “The realm has suffered under Qin for too long!” “Strike down the unjust and destroy the tyrannical Qin!” “Are kings, nobles, generals, and ministers born to their stations?” 0Votes48.7kRecs153kFans
- 15 As a Mage, I Only Want to Pursue the Truth 身为法师的我只想追求真理 A mage accidentally ends up stranded on Blue Star. The intelligent life there cannot use their will to manipulate dark matter and affect reality, so the mage loses the ability to cast spells. To regain his powers, the mage has no choice but to bring out all kinds of cutting-edge technology to acquire resources. The metaverse, brain-computer integration, and biological computers bring tremendous changes to Blue Star's technology. Note: This is a pure sci-fi tech novel, with ideas you've absolutel 0Votes31.9kRecs126.8kFans
- 16 Heavenly Mage 通天法师 “Magic is the road to heaven. Only by devoting yourself to magic can you live forever.”, Great Mage Fen Tian Ge Ruimaien “Compared with a young, beautiful woman, magic is worth nothing!”, Count Xia Bolai of Silvermoon Keep. “Mortals live in the earthly realm. They need to eat, drink, and answer nature's call, and they have love, 1Votes37.2kRecs410.3kFans
- 17 The Age of Anomalies 异常纪元 The laws of physics are dying, and the world is becoming a draft gone mad. Everything we know as common sense is slowly failing. Sudden cancer, a whale carcass on a mountaintop, snake eyes on the highway… As reality falls apart, can reason lead us to the end? 6Votes27kRecs98.7kFans
- 18 Come at Me, You Wicked Witch! 妖女看招 When he was six, Su Zhen, frail and frequently ill, adopted the village’s old banyan tree as his godmother and prayed for her protection. The next day, the tree, which had lived from the Qing dynasty to the present, mysteriously withered and died. “How do you know about that?” Ten years later, Su Zhen, now a high school student, hears someone recount the strange incident. “I’m your godmother.” The ghostly young woman smiles at him. In October 2000, unprecedented torrential rain sweeps across 39Votes111.9kRecs171.4kFans
- 19 The Holy Maiden Comes, and No One Pays Grain 圣女来时不纳粮 [Medieval fantasy + Taiping Heavenly Kingdom + clockpunk + peasant uprising] The Holy Pope, a golden scepter. The Knight King, a silver-embroidered bed. Those who sow the wheat eat the husks; those who weave the cloth have no clothes. While Eve and Adam toil in the fields, do noblemen and gentlemen sit in high halls? You take my wife and seize my home, you butcher my dear parents! Heads roll beyond counting; blood debts must be paid in blood! Slay the priests! Slay the Pope! Slay the knights! Sl 29Votes173.1kRecs443.3kFans
- 20 EN The World of Demons and Monsters I Designed 我设计的妖魔世界 After being reborn, Chen Qing found himself a poor farming scholar in ancient times. After ten years of hard study, he finally passed the imperial exams and thought he was about to join the ranks of the gentry, marry a beautiful, wealthy woman, and reach the pinnacle of life. Instead, he was suddenly caught up in a bizarre fantasy incident. Only then did he realize that this world was far from ordinary. There were man-eating demons, mind-bending fiends, and the legendary immortals, who could liv 0Votes67.7kRecs553.4kFans
- 21 EN The Final End 最后结局 A person's end is death. So what is death's end? 11Votes482.3kRecs421.4kFans
- 22 I Attained Immortality in the Real World 我在现实世界得道成仙 Heaven and earth shift and change; the five elements turn upside down. The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors came first, then the mysterious ways of the Shang and Zhou. Qin and Han rose, the Two Jin fell into chaos. Tang and Song forged new paths, while Ming and Qing severed the dragon veins and cut off the road to heaven. Who wields the axe to cleave the Five Sacred Mountains? Crimson, black, white, azure, and great yellow skies. The road to immortality ends, the mortal world is stained; the m 1Votes26.7kRecs132.8kFans
- 23 EN The Immortal Devourer 食仙主 The mysterious and uncanny swords scattered across the land await swordmasters whose names will shake the world. Who can comprehend the wondrous arts and lost scriptures passed down through the ages? Among the hundred wards of Chang'an, people who can raise fire and swallow the sun lie hidden. In the Central Plains stand vast and decaying thousand-year-old clans. In the north, the silent and battle-hardened barbarians sharpen their blades, while the southern kingdoms revel in song and dance amid 860Votes523.6kRecs874.9kFans
- 24 Gourmet Beast Taming 美食系御兽 This book has been discontinued. Please check out Spirits of the Culinary World instead. This is a world with wondrous supernatural powers. Spirits born from dishes, the contest between flavor and power, journeys beneath the stars, challenges held together by bonds... A young man arrives in this world, full of courage and dreams, carrying memories of his past life as a top-tier chef. “Gourmet food imbued with mysterious power, reveal your true form before me! In the name of Qin Lang, your spiri 0Votes53.1kRecs141.4kFans
- 25 Twenty-Seven Years 二十七载 The world stands at the turbulent turning point between old and new societies, as clashes in politics, economics, ideas, and culture grow ever more intense. Moste Vilak, a photographer from the slums of Zivode City, is reborn two months into the past. Starting by once again posing as the son of a conglomerate, he stirs up everything and turns the world upside down amid rapid industrial growth and wildly expanding ambitions. [This is a fictional world. Please don't compare it to reality.] [The al 4Votes84.8kRecs146.5kFans
- 26 Simultaneous Transmigration: Is My Golden Finger Really Myself? 同时穿越：金手指竟是我自己？ After transmigrating, he had no System and no old master to guide him. Just as Locke was feeling helpless about his own talent, he encountered versions of himself from other worlds in his dreams. The Locke in each world could share his talents! Hogwarts Locke: "Bro, this is the one favor I'll ask in my whole life. You have to evolve into Angewomon!" Agumon Locke: "Are you in your right mind?" Soul Reaper Locke: "You're right, but Angewomon is a..." Pokemon Locke: "My verdict is that she's not as 0Votes33.4kRecs206.2kFans
- 27 The Bizarre Wizarding World 诡异巫师世界 A mysterious journey into the world of wizards! * * * He transmigrates to a world of wizards. “But... weren’t wizards supposed to be seeking the truth?” “Why are they all greedy bastards chasing power?” I’m aiming for 9,000 average subscriptions. If you’re passing by, come lend me a hand! 0Votes77.5kRecs388.3kFans
- 28 EN Myriad Lives of Cultivation: Talent Lock-On 百世修仙：我能固定天赋 Chen Sheng transmigrates to a cultivation world and becomes a worldly prince with no spiritual roots. He thinks he'll spend his whole life achieving nothing, enjoying a century of wealth in vain. Unexpectedly, he awakens the supreme treasure, the Book of a Hundred Lifetimes. It allows him to cycle through a hundred lifetimes within his own bloodline without losing his true spirit. As long as his bloodline endures, he can seek immortality for a hundred lifetimes! Chen Sheng no longer hesitates. I 49Votes92.1kRecs455.5kFans
- 29 The Qin General 秦将 The King of Qin swept across the Six Kingdoms, his gaze as fearsome as a tiger! At the end of the Warring States period, with the age of chaos nearing its end, he was reborn as a member of Jing Ke’s entourage. The wind sighs, the Yi River runs cold. The hero departs, never to return! Having taken part in the legendary assassination attempt on the King of Qin, what will he choose? 0Votes75.4kRecs348.1kFans
- 30 Psychics Don't Die by Gunfire 灵能者不死于枪火 Song Shi, a free bounty hunter and Fourth-Ring psionic, opened his eyes after dying and discovered that he had been reborn twenty years in the past. The megacorporations of the [Corporate Alliance] look down on all living beings, taking even air and sunlight into their hands and quietly putting a price on them. They are turning the idea of a cybernetic nation into reality, greedily eyeing the free markets they have yet to enter. The [Vanpusta Empire] follows a system in which church and state ar 31Votes103.7kRecs407.9kFans
- 31 Pirate Sovereignty 海盗王权 Kings are crowned, rising from blood and fire; all bow down and sing beneath the throne! Fate is never merciful out of love, nor fair because of greatness. The strong prey on the weak: that is the way of kings! The sole purpose of cannons is to measure a nation's borders! Everything within their range is truth! And in this Age of Sail, ruled by mighty ships and cannons, the only truth is... Hand it over! “Wait! What are all those things overseas? Retreat, retre... Aah!” The great beings of the p 4Votes173.9kRecs696.5kFans
- 32 Black Sails 黑帆 By the time I came to my senses... I was already an outlaw. Far beneath azure skies, black sails billowed. Gold and silver treasures, blades clashing in blood. Pillaging and slaughter, with no reverence for the gods. Youth fades quickly, all turned to wine and meat. [Daily Life] [Romance and Relationship-Building] [Simulation Management] This book is also known as “How I Transmigrated to Another World and Started Worshiping Guan Yu.” 8Votes112.5kRecs593.6kFans
- 33 The Outcast: You Asked Me to Cultivate Qi, and I Became an Immortal? 一人之下：让你炼气，你成仙了？ After transmigrating into the body of Li Muxuan, a young ruffian, he planned to join the Three-One Sect and become an ordinary Qi practitioner. He never expected that, as he continued practicing, he would actually become an immortal. 0Votes78kRecs571.6kFans
- 34 Mastering Evil Sha 御煞 The rootless tree, its flowers in bloom and shade, who would cultivate while still attached to the mortal world? The affairs of this fleeting life, a boat on a sea of suffering, tossed about with no freedom. With no shore in sight, it is hard to find a place to moor; forever sailing through waters where fish and dragons lurk. If only you would turn back, the shore is there; don't wait for the storm to wreck your boat. Open your eyes and see the fleeting world. Control baleful f 0Votes69.7kRecs313.1kFans
- 35 Cyber Ming 赛博大明 Ordinary people with poor constitutions can implant artificial Dao foundations to reshape their spiritual roots. Believers whose Buddhist resolve is wavering can upload their consciousness into the Buddhist realm and cultivate in seclusion on autopilot. Even dull-witted commoners can install the Six Arts chip and become Confucian scholars overnight. Across the Three Teachings, Nine Schools, and Twelve Sequences, no one is willing 2Votes94.5kRecs642.5kFans
- 36 Senior Brother Is Right 师兄说得对 “Disciple, you have the makings of a great immortal!” When his master said this and sent Song Yin into the alchemy furnace, Song Yin understood... Reviving the righteous sect is our bounden duty! 0Votes67.4kRecs481kFans
- 37 EN Dragon Zang 龙藏 Wei Yuan had never harbored great ambitions, but the tide of the times forced him onto the path of conquest and expansion, until he had crossed every mountain pass without ever turning gray. A less serious blurb: Even immortals fear industrialization! This is the story of an Industrial Revolution in a fantasy world. 2.7kVotes2.3MRecs1.5MFans
- 38 EN Martial Saint! 武圣！ Mysteries and the supernatural have never left this world. Those who break the shackles of life with bodies tempered through a thousand trials and an indomitable will, pursuing the limits of humanity in modern cities, are known as martial artists! Beneath neon lights, blades clash. Atop towering skyscrapers, fists meet in friendship. Across the great mountains, heroes debate the Dao. Here, martial arts masters who have broken the “seven limits of the human body” carve out names like those of god 27Votes278.4kRecs927.5kFans
- 39 I Am an Immortal 我是仙 Here you’ll find the Cloud God, who forecasts the weather with a radio; the Ghost God, who carries an electric baton; the Fire God, who wears a flamethrower on his back; a Daoist adept who uses a pistol as a palm-thunder weapon; and the Dragon King of the Yangtze, who guards a dam. When you possess technology and power beyond your era, you are a god or immortal in the eyes of ordinary people. 2Votes140.5kRecs764.5kFans
- 40 EN From Mortal Flesh to Planet-Crusher 从肉体凡胎到粉碎星球 What does it mean to always win? What does it mean to be invincible? No one can remain number one forever in this world. Anyone can be defeated. Including me. I've been waiting for someone to appear, defeat me, and tell me that my path is wrong. Unfortunately, that person still hasn't come. Fake martial arts: Strengthen yourself, break the limits of the human body, and withstand bullets with nothing but flesh and blood. Real martial arts: Use your life magnetic field to command the magnetic 0Votes219.2kRecs733.8kFans
- 41 The Great Demon Holmes 大恶魔福尔摩斯 God is creating a legend!!!!! A little faith, so people have someone to lean on; then a few man-eating demons to get everyone fighting! Add some love... then some hate... rebellion, and impulsiveness. Finally, throw in a familiar protagonist. Give him just a touch of darkness, or it won’t be any fun. Damn... that’s too much! And so, in a narrow alley off a London street, Sherlock slowly emerged from the shadows, carrying a head. Blood trickled from its spine onto the ground, drip, drip. Good 3Votes81.7kRecs516.9kFans
- 42 EN The Death Mage's Diary 死亡巫师日记 Suo Er transmigrates to a wizarding world filled with the bizarre and dangerous. To stay alive, he resolves to overcome every obstacle and become a wizard. But in this terrifying world, both apprentices and full-fledged wizards must face layer upon layer of deadly danger. Suo Er is an especially favored target for persecution. Fortunately, he obtains a diary that can predict the future. However, every prediction o 0Votes57.7kRecs349.6kFans
- 43 The Shadow of Great Britain 大不列颠之影 “Next, please welcome the most distinguished recipient of the Order of the Garter, the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, the Victoria Cross, and the Order of the Companions of Honour; leader of the anticolonial cause; bell-ringer of the East India Company; hero of the Crimean War; Fellow of the Royal Society; lifelong friend of literary giants such as Dickens and Alexandre Dumas; steadfast supporter of scientific luminar 390Votes289.6kRecs610.1kFans
- 44 Seizing the Yuan 扼元 In 1213 AD, the Jin Kingdom is beginning to weaken, while the Southern Song remains in decline. Western Xia, Dali, Goryeo, and Japan are even less of a force to be reckoned with. An unprecedented power is rising on the plateau, ready to drench the Eurasian continent in the blood of hundreds of millions. With calamity looming, a young man grips his bow and blade, determined to seize fate by the throat. 6Votes283.9kRecs301kFans
- 45 EN The Mage: Grinding Experience from the Knight's Breathing Technique 巫师：从骑士呼吸法开始肝经验 After transmigrating to another world, he becomes the lord of a fallen noble house. With the help of a proficiency panel, he starts grinding experience with his family's ancestral knight breathing technique, following in the footsteps of wizards as he embarks on a mysterious, fantastical journey. 29Votes397kRecs952.8kFans
- 46 Astartes of the Bear School 熊学派的阿斯塔特 In a fantastical medieval world, holding on to your convictions... or even just minding your own business, is no easy feat. The commoners here are anything but simple. They’re ignorant, greedy, and cruel. The nobles here are anything but noble. They’re cunning, vicious, and tyrannical. But... people’s physiques can’t all be judged by the same standards. Lane touches the two hearts and three lung sacs beneath his chest. He figures that not only can he maintain a healthy sense of right and wrong i 257Votes247.6kRecs494.6kFans
- 47 EN Starry Sky Professionals 星空职业者 In Year One of the Starry Sky Calendar, humanity entered the interstellar age. Space migration, starships, alien races, outer gods… They arrived one after another. In Year 717 of the Starry Sky Calendar, Fang Xing gazed at the dense army of alien races beneath the cosmic backdrop. “Whatever you’ve got, alien armies, cultivators, tentacles, cults, outer gods, I’ll cow you all with my supreme talent and smash you to pieces with my iron fists, dammit…” Well, actually, it’s a story about a transmigr 2Votes806.5kRecs1.5MFans
- 48 EN The Fated Embers 天命皆烬 Tread the path to heaven, defy the road of fate. In a murky, benighted age, one sword reduces all to ashes! Elements: Martial chaos, cyberpunk cultivation, a portal between two worlds Completed works totaling 15 million words and reaching one million paid subscribers: Soul of Burning Steel, Monsters Die When They’re Killed, and Above the Firmament 286Votes537.1kRecs906.5kFans
- 49 I, Uchiha Giyu, Am Not Hated! 我，宇智波义勇，没有被讨厌！ A Naruto × Demon Slayer fanfic. Two years after Muzan Kibutsuji was defeated, Water Hashira Giyu Tomioka dies of old age. He thought he would be reunited with his family and comrades in the afterlife, but when he opens his eyes, he finds himself a newborn in the ninja world, and the twin brother of Sasuke Uchiha. With no enemies or goals left to pursue, Giyu grows up slowly. He has no desire to become a ninja and no taste for fighting, so he decides to spend this life looking after his family an 3Votes107.3kRecs218.7kFans
- 50 The Han Dynasty's Lingering Smoke 汉鼎余烟 The great Han Dynasty is gradually nearing its end. Over the course of decades, the human world has become a land of ghosts, its plains shrouded in bones. Dragons and serpents rise throughout the realm, each vying to seize the throne. Amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood, a young warrior rises with a blade in hand and gazes around in bewilderment, only to see that heroes still stand tall. The Han Dynasty’s cauldron still smolders. Who will carry on its legacy? 11Votes316.9kRecs229.8kFans
