Novels like The Shadow of the Dao
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- 1 Top-Tier Comprehension: Starting with Basic Fist Techniques 顶级悟性：从基础拳法开始 Lu Changsheng transmigrates as an apprentice at the Miaoshou Garden, hoping to work hard and become a great doctor who saves lives. But after he starts practicing martial arts, he discovers that mastering each technique to perfection improves his comprehension. And it seems his comprehension can keep increasing. Lu Changsheng wants to know: just how high is its limit? Unremarkable: A little better than useless. Average: Lost in the crowd without even realizing it. Promising: A lotus just beginni 0Votes83.7kRecs502.9kFans
- 2 Taking Barren Fields Back to the Past 带着荒田回过去 P.S. Yang Xiaole was reborn in the past after an accident. You need a ration coupon for everything? Grain coupons? Meat coupons? Cloth coupons? No problem. I have half an acre of wasteland in my own space, so I can provide for myself. While everyone else eats meat rationed to just a few ounces a month, Yang Xiaole has already started eating healthy meals. Others drink porridge because it’s all they can afford. Yang Xiaole drinks it to cleanse his stom 0Votes130.7kRecs212.1kFans
- 3 EN Starting My Immortal Life by Upgrading Buildings 仙府！ [Farming] [Mortal Cultivation] [Management] Ji Yuan transmigrates into a cultivation world. Though he is lucky enough to become a cultivator, he is still fated to work as a fish farmer for a cultivation sect. With a start like this, he figured he was destined to follow the path of being poor when young, poor in middle age, and poor in old age. But unexpectedly, he awakens a building-upgrade panel. [Fish Pond Lv. 1: Fish fry grow 20% faster; half-spirit fish have a chance to evolve into spirit fi 878Votes144.9kRecs574.7kFans
- 4 I Open Blind Boxes in a World of Demons 我在妖魔世界开盲盒 The author has completed Martial World and True Martial World. This is a passionate, level-up fantasy novel, also known as I Transmigrated into the Young Master of a Demonic Sect, So Now I Can Only Get By Opening Blind Boxes. I thought transmigrating into the young master of a demonic sect meant I’d had a winning hand from the start. In fact, I transmigrated as a beggar, accidentally stumbled into an orthodox sect where anyone could kill me at any moment, and then, through a twist of fate, becam 0Votes17.6kRecs78.8kFans
- 5 EN 40k: Blade of Midnight 40k：午夜之刃 This is the thirtieth millennium of the Imperium of Man. Under the leadership of the Emperor, the Master of Mankind, humanity has finally left its homeworld once more and ventured into the cold, merciless universe. They yearn to reclaim their lost colonies, and hope to bring those suffering in agony back beneath the Emperor’s light. At this moment, humanity still holds bright hopes for the future. At this moment, no one knows what the future will bring. And the story begins on a remote planet ca 31Votes104.2kRecs252.1kFans
- 6 EN Eternal Life: The Bizarre Immortals 长生诡仙 This world is sick. Immortals and mortals alike suffer from a chronic disease called longevity. Under the influence of eternal life, every cultivation method has raced headlong in a bizarre and incomprehensible direction. [Fetal Stage: Newborns have shriveled, weak limbs] [Childhood Stage: After age twenty, the internal organs rot completely] [Coming-of-Age Stage: After age fifty, the flesh withers and decays] [Established Stage: After age one hundred, the blood dries up and mutates] I seek immo 0Votes76.2kRecs438.6kFans
- 7 Demon Slayer: Tanjuro Kamado Returns from Sekiro 鬼灭：从只狼归来的灶门炭十郎 A familiar, frail figure stood at the entrance of the house. He wore a yellow-and-black checkered haori, and his long dark-red hair was unusually tied into a high ponytail. In his hand, he held a katana Tanjiro had never seen before. It was the back of his father, Tanjuro Kamado. And standing face-to-face with Tanjuro was a man Tanjiro had never seen before, dressed in a black suit and wearing a bowler hat. Because Tanjiro had fallen into the snow, he could not see the expression on his fa 1Votes15.8kRecs187kFans
- 8 EN A Door to Another World 致异世界 Swords and magic, gods and dragons, demons and the abyss, humanity and the races. A door appeared in this fantastical, uncanny world, bringing someone who did not belong here. When the consciousness of two civilizations collides, what will emerge between them? A druid stands before a wheat field several meters tall, while the fishfolk chase shoals through their fishing grounds; A rune-lit magic train crosses the plains, and students in the academy chant their multiplication tables; Ogryns and ch 16Votes153.5kRecs590.9kFans
- 9 EN Cultivating Immortality in Twilight Years: I Become the Longevity Dao Venerable 暮年修仙，我成长寿道尊 [Immortal spirit and heroic valor, worldly wisdom, immortal cultivation and longevity. A top-tier xianxia novel with 50,000 premium subscribers, well worth a read] Forever I’ll remember the rivers and lakes, returning with hair turned white; I long to turn back the world and sail away in a small boat. Chen Dengming stepped into a chaotic world of martial arts. Only in old age did he reach the Innate Realm, but martial arts mastery was not the end of the jianghu he dreamed of. Cultivating immorta 2Votes108.8kRecs987.7kFans
- 10 EN My Path to Immortality Simulated in a Chat Group 我在聊天群模拟长生路 One day, Wang Ping joined a transmigrator chat group. The chat group could send each member at random to a different world and let them draw their own exclusive golden finger. Wang Ping thought he was about to reach the pinnacle of life... “Wait, there are 67 members, so why are 60 avatars grayed out?” “Ding! One fewer active member. Chen Kang, who joined the group at the same time as you, has died. He didn't even last ten seconds. Group members, take heed!” Wang Ping was stunned. He instantly r 0Votes39.6kRecs607.2kFans
- 11 EN My Immortal Dad 仙父 “I transmigrated, and so did my dad.” Li Ping'an had already arranged everything. He'd secured a solid livelihood for his old man back in the mortal world and pulled strings to get himself into an immortal sect. Then he planned to dedicate himself to the path of immortality and stake everything on his chance to become an immortal. But on the day he went for an aptitude test in the mortal world, everything changed... [A lighthearted xianxia comedy with an everyday-life feel. The author has comple 5Votes438.2kRecs1.6MFans
- 12 EN On the Path to the Great Dao 大道之上 My grandpa is a strange man. Every day, he burns incense for himself and stands before his own memorial tablet, eating candles. Everyone in the village is afraid of Grandpa. I’m afraid of him too. Later, I realized they weren’t afraid of Grandpa. They were afraid of me. Grandpa is afraid of me too. My name is Chen Shi. Chen as in “honest,” and Shi as in “earnest.” Come read more of my work on Yuewen’s websites! 82Votes3.2MRecs3MFans
- 13 The Immortal Cage 仙笼 In these forests of Phoenix Pools and Dragon Pavilions, I once dreamed the millet dream and had my fill of five thousand years of rise and fall. That Rotten Peach Mountain does not bear the surname Sun. Pigs squeal in Fuling Cave, while owls roost in the ginseng fruit trees. The sun sets over the western mountains. Oxen, horses, snakes, and spirits roam, while a young man becomes addicted to chanting and spins one bizarre tale after another about immortality. A story of cultivating th 9Votes192.8kRecs648.4kFans
- 14 I Studied Abroad in the Modern Era 我在现代留过学 The Son of Heaven is born of Heaven and Earth, and is Heaven’s own son! Some say the Son of Heaven is the father and mother of the people, and rules the world as its king! And I was once the Son of Heaven! I inherited the legacy of six generations and carried forward the late emperor’s ambitions. I punished the western rebels and put the old faction in its place. Whatever I set out to do, I accomplished; whoever I attacked, I defeated. I swept away a century of accumulated ills in the Great Song 152Votes553.1kRecs961.2kFans
- 15 EN Just Became a Celestial God, and My Descendants Beg Me to Leave the Mountain 刚成仙神，子孙求我出山 Reborn as the first crown prince of the Jing Dynasty, Jiang Changsheng was switched at birth by a villain and sent to a monastery, where he became an ordinary young Daoist. From crown prince to an obscure Daoist, his life had taken a sharp turn for the worse. Fortunately, Jiang Changsheng awakened a Survival System with an unlimited lifespan. As long as he survived the trials of life, he would receive survival rewards. He nearly died when a senior disciple accidentally struck him while practicin 0Votes236.3kRecs1.2MFans
- 16 EN Homo Sapiens 智人 The spiral that runs through the evolution of life. The base pairs that hold the secrets of evolution. A mutation at a single moment, millions of years ago, bestowed the prefix “wise” upon an ape beneath the order of primates. But the true power of evolution seems to remain hidden within those pairs of bases. 2Votes185.5kRecs254.4kFans
- 17 EN I Have a Cultivation World 我有一个修仙世界 Chen Mobai, a third-year high school student at the Immortal Sect, was studying hard for the entrance exam to the Great Dao Academy. His biggest dream in life had always been to successfully establish his Foundation, until he gained the ability to transmigrate to another world of cultivation. Then his dream changed... 31Votes1.4MRecs2.1MFans
- 18 How Did I End Up Simulating the Great Villain? 我怎么模拟成了大反派 After transmigrating into a xianxia world, He Changsheng activated the Heavenly Dao Simulation System. He thought he had the standard protagonist template, but who could have guessed he was actually a great villain! For crying out loud! After finally getting the chance to transmigrate, enduring countless hardships and dangers, and spending who knows how many sleepless nights cultivating in secret, was he really only destined to become a stepping stone for the protagonist? Fortunately, he had the 0Votes19.5kRecs240.8kFans
- 19 EN Late Bloomer in the Immortal Cultivation World 我在修仙界大器晚成 Mountains and rivers change, and the world grows old. Wei Tu transmigrated to a world of immortals and awakened the Destiny Trait [Late Bloomer]. [Destiny Trait: Late Bloomer.] [Attribute: Persevere without faltering, and you are sure to succeed.] Seeing this Destiny Trait, Wei Tu, whose rough edges had long been worn away, finally felt hope kindle in his heart. But he still didn't know whether he could rise from humble beginnings to become an immortal patriarch. All he could do was seize the pr 82Votes5.5MRecs1.3MFans
- 20 EN Bastion of Light 光明壁垒 The psychic network known as the Deep Sea connects five continents. Human civilization is advancing at breakneck speed, unaware that an eternal night is about to descend. The extraordinary awaken, and the world teeters on the brink of collapse. Frail flesh and blood: how can one ascend to immortality? The story begins when someone takes up a ruler that bears the truth. Gu Shen, an utterly ordinary young man, uncovers a corner of the truth about this extraordinary world. He also becomes the bigge 10Votes279.7kRecs2MFans
- 21 Shadows Over the Skies 谍影凌云 A makeup artist from a later era transmigrates into the past and absorbs the memories of two people. While tracking down Japanese spies, dismantling countless spy organizations, and capturing spy after spy, Chu Lingyun also disguises himself as a Japanese man, infiltrates enemy ranks to gather intelligence, and maneuvers among Japan’s elite. In that turbulent era, Chu Lingyun uses his wit and intelligence to contribute to his country’s struggle and earn achievements that will never be forgotten. 4Votes21.7MRecs685.1kFans
- 22 Swallowed Star, I Can Simulate Life 吞噬星空，我可以模拟人生 Li Yue was reborn into Swallowed Star. He had planned to keep a low profile until Luo Feng rose to power, then sell his residency rights on Earth and wander the stars. But he unexpectedly activated the System: an Infinite Life Simulator; 0Votes1.4MRecs116.2kFans
- 23 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
- 24 Beyond the Timescape 光阴之外 Heaven and earth are an inn for all living things, while time is a passing traveler from antiquity to the present. The difference between life and death is like the difference between dreaming and waking. Everything changes chaotically, beyond all investigation. Then, having transcended life and death and broken free from heaven and earth, what awaits us beyond time? This is Er Gen's sixth full-length novel, Beyond the Timescape, following Renegade Immortal, Pursuit of the Truth, I Shall Seal 307Votes5.6MRecs10.2MFans
- 25 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
- 26 The Ming Dynasty's Imperial Preceptor 大明国师 After witnessing the end of the Jingnan Campaign, Jiang Xinghuo, marked for extermination of his entire clan and nine relations, finally breathed a sigh of relief. As a veteran transmigrator, he would return to the modern era and gain immortality after transmigrating nine times. Certain he was about to finish the job, Jiang Xinghuo grew so bored that he began giving lectures in prison. But things gradually started to feel off… Ma Sanbao: “What is the Age of Exploration in The Sea Power Doctrine? 29Votes427.7kRecs6.2MFans
- 27 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
- 28 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
- 29 EN Reborn, Who Needs Romance? 都重生了谁谈恋爱啊 After struggling all the way to the age of thirty-eight without being able to afford a home, he is told that getting married requires paying a bride price of three hundred thousand yuan first. He has scrimped and saved for most of his life, worked himself to the bone, but where did all the money go? Who exactly earned it all? Jiang Qin, reborn at eighteen with countless grievances weighing on him, opens his eyes with only one thought: start a business and make money. Step one: take back the lo 275Votes1.4MRecs11MFans
- 30 EN Journey to the Abyss 临渊行 Su Yun never imagined that he was the only human in Tianmen Town, where he had lived for more than a decade. He never imagined, either, that the hundred-mile radius beyond Tianmen Town was a notorious no-man's-land. When the boy opened his eyes, the world he had imagined collapsed. Before him lay the reality of a world overrun by demons and monsters. Journeying Along the Abyss. In the darkness, one must keep one's wits about them when walking beside the abyss, treading as carefully as if on thin 3Votes6.2MRecs2.2MFans
- 31 EN Cultivating Immortality in a Chaotic World of Demons and Martial Arts 苟在妖武乱世修仙 Fang Xi transmigrated, and this is his second time! In the cultivation world, he keeps his head down; in another world, he hits back hard! Who would have thought that thousands of years later, he would become a big shot in the cultivation world too? (Cautious cultivation and longevity + infinite worlds. A Wen Chao production: every book is a gem. Readers, feel free to add this to your library and enjoy.) 38Votes1.2MRecs3.6MFans
- 32 The Mirror Legacy 玄鉴仙族 Lu Jiangxian stayed up all night and died suddenly, but his lingering soul attached itself to a blue-gray bronze mirror covered in cracks. The mirror drifted into a vast, boundless world of immortal cultivation. In the perilous and unpredictable Dali Mountains, beside the Mei Chi River, a small village sat in the shadow of a minor clan. When the clan came across the mirror, it began passing down the path of immortality and teaching its arts, ushering in a magnificent new era. (A family’s cultiva 22.9kVotes7.2MRecs21.2MFans
- 33 EN Who Let Him Cultivate Immortality! 谁让他修仙的！ (The new book, Please Don’t Transcend Tribulation During the College Entrance Exam, is now out.) “I’ve said it again and again: the cultivation world was crooked to begin with. I didn’t corrupt it. They say history is written by the victors, so why are people still framing me when I won?” Sword Immortal Lu Yang said during an interview with reporters, clearly furious. The next day. “I’ve said it again and again: I’m the one who corrupted the cultivation world. History is written by the victors, 359Votes2.3MRecs7.4MFans
- 34 EN Red Heart Patrols the Sky 赤心巡天 The print edition of The Redhearted Path is now available everywhere. In ancient times, the demon race vanished without a trace. In the near-antiquity era, the dragon race disappeared. The age when the divine path flourished has faded like smoke, and the age of flying swords at their peak has finally fallen into decline... What happened to this world? Who will listen to the truth of history buried in the river of time? Across a thousand miles of mountains and rivers, I write of corpses lying low 2.1kVotes8.2MRecs8.1MFans
- 35 EN Unscientific Beast Taming 不科学御兽 This is another world where beast taming is the norm. Animals, plants, elements, undead, machines... Nine-Tailed Flame Foxes, Ancient Trees of Life, Thundercloud Spirits, Skeleton Lords, mechanical shipgirls, even antique swords and blades that have birthed spirits can all become companion beasts. The humans who contract with, raise, and command them are collectively known as beast tamers! Shi Yu, a scholar of mythology and an 97Votes2.6MRecs6.8MFans
- 36 EN I Never Intended to Become an Immortal 我本无意成仙 The new book, Where There Are Immortals, There Is a Name, is now out. I am a stranger in this land, with no intention of becoming an immortal. After twenty years of cultivating the Dao in the mountains, Song You's master sends him down the mountain to witness demons and monsters, the many faces of life, and the famous mountains and rivers, and to seek out the immortals of legend. He says that is what true cultivation is. Who would have thought that after traveling the length and breadth 192Votes1.2MRecs4.1MFans
- 37 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
- 38 EN The Naming of the Night 夜的命名术 Amid neon lights of blue and purple, beneath a dense canopy of steel, lies the frontier of a flood of data: a world transformed by the technological revolution, and the boundary between reality and illusion. Steel and flesh, the past and the future. Here, the surface world and the hidden world coexist. Everything before your eyes seems as close as the wall of time itself. Darkness slowly closes in. But you have to understand, my friend: we cannot face the darkness with gentleness. We must use fi 180Votes8MRecs14.3MFans
- 39 I Really Don’t Want to be Reborn 我真没想重生啊 Who could have imagined that Chen Hansheng, a successful professional and eligible bachelor, would be reborn and wake up as a high school senior? At a crossroads in his life, Chen Hansheng is torn between the treasure of a girl, Shen Youchu, and his first love, Xiao Rongyu. Who should he choose? The pinnacle of urban rebirth fiction, and an essential romance guide for young people! 1.6kVotes4.6MRecs8.3MFans
- 40 Renegade Immortal 仙逆 Follow the natural order, and you remain mortal; defy it, and you become immortal. It all comes down to a single thought... The Renegade Immortal anime premieres on Tencent Video on September 25. New episodes air every Monday at 10:00, with VIP members getting two episodes early. Join us in the anime to witness Wang Lin’s lifelong devotion all over again! 204Votes4.2MRecs5.7MFans
